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2951. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... may be overlooked or forgotten. Arthur Miller has two lovers talking one night. The man has experienced failure in marriage, and the woman has been through the horrors of the Third Reich in Germany. Miller gives us not only their conversation, but some of their secret thoughts as well. The man says to himself, "I don’t know what I’d be bringing to that girl." Then the woman he had previously loved appears on the stage, and he says, "I don’t know how to blame with confidence."2 Sometimes we blame with ...

2952. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... been settled. It is not still an open account; it has been settled, and no longer stands between the two of us. Then we who have done the forgiving are ready to seek a relationship of healing, creative love with the, person we have forgiven. We are filled with thoughtful concern for that person, with loving favor toward him or her. We want the best for him or her. Resentment is gone from our heart so that we do not secretly wish for harm to that person. We want our own life to contribute to the other’s ...

2953. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... mountains. Bishop James A. Pike was trying to help his son, Jim, through a drug trip once. In his delirium, Jim was traveling on a dreadfully dangerous and unpleasant road. Hoping to relieve his misery a little, his father asked him if he saw any crossroads. He thought he might be able to direct him down one of them and ease his pain some. But Jim answered solemnly, "No crossroads."3 Life appears that way at times, but the person of faith keeps looking and hoping, believing he or she will come to another ...

2954. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... flesh and blood, forever wounding each other, dismembering ourselves, destroying the family ties, breaking the bonds of our human brotherhood. We enter, then, upon a hag-ridden world. Ghosts make our clothes. The words we speak are not signs of our thought, but the signs of dead men’s thought. We go to church not to pray but to repeat dead men’s prayers. Artists, musicians, writers fight their way through swarms of extinct ideas. Long gray arms reach out of the past and enfold the minister in the pulpit ...

2955. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... you know? That’s their style, the way they do it. No one else does it quite that way. We had quite a controversy some time ago when somebody gave two wonderful Rembrandts to the art museum in Detroit. So we all went and ooohed and ah-h-d and thought they were wonderful. Then a couple of Philistines came in and said, "Fakes." What do you mean fakes? "They are not originals." How do you know. So the press had a great time and we all took sides. Then they sent for a couple of experts. Now, an expert is ...

2956. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... , destructive leap, and he knew that leap would be the tidal wave. He also saw that his neighbors working in the low fields must be speedily gathered to his hill or swept away. Without a second thought, he set fire to his cherished rice-ricks and then furiously rang the temple bell. His neighbors thought his farm was on fire and rushed to help him, only to discover that he had deliberately started the blaze himself. They were very angry and berated him roundly, saying that he was insane thus to jeopardize ...

2957. EPISODE 2: THE SECOND WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... away from me, you devil! To speak that way to me, Peter, is to become my worst enemy. You’re thinking only of what you want, not of what God wants. PETER: What does God want of us? What does he want? JESUS: He wants you to deny yourself ... every thought, every action, every passion that is rooted only in yourself ... and to follow me. PETER: It’s hard, Lord. JESUS: It’s very hard. But I’ll show you the way. MARY MAGDALENE: But, Lord ... you don’t have to die? JESUS: I’ll die, but on the third ...

2958. EPISODE 6: THE SIXTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... he was doing me some good. Put away your knife, Peter. This is God’s plan. Will you keep me from going through with it? [JESUS touches the CAPTAIN who rises, expecting to find a wound, and finds none.] SOLDIER: I thought he’d got you for sure, Captain. CAPTAIN: [To PETER] Give me that knife! [PETER surrenders the knife.] Now, all of you ... get out while the getting’s good ... or I’ll throw the whole pack of you in jail! [PETER, JOHN and THOMAS run away.] CAPTAIN: Now, put the ...

2959. In The Nick of Time

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... paying any attention to prayers is not very real any more. Religion has shrunk from the electric companionship that Abraham enjoyed to a routine; religion to most men is not a consciousness of God, but a method of thought, a policy. A minister was once asked if the Holy Spirit had ever spoken to him. He thought a minute, then finally volunteered, "Yes, I believe he did once. I heard him just as I was leaving the pulpit." He said, "Klaus, you have been lazy again." At our worst, the visible power of the Holy ...

2960. Significance in Life

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... who is unhappy. I remember one time I was walking along Times Square in New York, and I passed a little bar that had a sign hanging outside which read: "Come on in. There is never any dull lull in here." Well, that was quite a claim. I thought I ought to investigate, so I went in. What did I see? A picture of human happiness? The customers were sitting along on the bar stools staring at themselves in the bar mirror with obvious distaste. The bartenders were looking back at them with the same expression. If ...

2961. God is Laughing at Us

Zechariah 9:9-13

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

... show! Just about as exciting as a couple of dozen hippies engaged in a march on Washington, and I’m sure that it caused just about the same amount of stir in the City of Jerusalem. Never did a story build up to a bigger letdown. The palm wavers obviously thought that Christ was riding in to take over the government of the Jews. The Kingdom had come at last! And here they were right in the front pew! They watched him as he stopped the procession and went into the Temple, and when he was inside, they waited ...

2962. Getting Under Your Neighbor's Skin

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... once said, "No man can pull me down so low as to make me hate him." That must be our philosophy because it was taught to us by Jesus. Only when we understand the history through which other people have come can we truly get inside their thought-world. Our tasks are these: to use our creative imagination, to engage our African American brothers and sisters in candid conversation, to question our own prejudices, to refuse to return evil for evil, and to pray that Jesus will help us see others as he sees them ...

2963. The Level Ground Beneath The Cross

Romans 3:21-31, Romans 3:9-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to the front and gave her heart to Christ. She happened to be the madam of one of the most notorious brothels in the city. Ed talked with her and assured her that he would help her find a church home. That turned out to be harder than he thought. His own pastor refused to receive her. Ed found another church that had more of the heart of Christ than his own. In this Christian fellowship, this transformed woman forged a new life. Before her death, she had won 56 young women from the brothels to the Kingdom ...

2964. A Courtroom Confrontation

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of the years that we yearn to pay back with interest, all our angry yearning that so-and-so get what's coming to him. When the poet Edwin Markham reached the age of retirement, he discovered that his banker, who he thought was his friend, had defrauded him. Markham thought he was financially secure for retirement; instead he was horrified to learn that because of the fraud he was almost penniless. He was also bitter, so bitter that he could no longer write poetry. One day Markham was sitting at his desk ...

2965. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... generally have brought to America. Last Sunday we noted that Jesus pointed to lust as the real source of adultery. Lust is that process by which an innocent attraction is nursed and cultivated and incubated until it leads step by step into adultery. Jesus said that the lustful thought is as sinful as the actual deed. Today, in part II, I want to talk about the cure and prevention of adultery. At the end of this sermon I am going to offer all of us married folks a chance to renew the sacred vows of matrimony ...

2966. God's Best Gift in the Worst Times

Micah 5:1-4, Micah 5:5-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Ian opened the top of the cooler proudly, displaying thousands of pennies that his family had been saving since he was two-years-old. Ian handed the cooler to Scott and said, "I want you to use this to buy a Christmas present for Victoria." At first Scott thought he must decline the gift, but something in Ian's eyes just wouldn't let him. The boy's expression was so full of love. So Scott hugged him and said, "Thank you very much." Thankfully, most of us have not experienced the horror of burned-down houses ...

2967. One Good Word - Thanks!

Lamentations 3:1-66

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... go out on the veranda to talk. She said, "I have never been out on the veranda. I have a spinal condition which prevents my being moved." This seemed a cruel condition to Mr. Wallace. He asked her how long she had been there. "Twenty-six years," she answered. He thought of twenty-six years and of all that had happened in his life in so long a time. "Do you mean to tell me that you have never been out of this small room in twenty-six years?" She nodded. He was speechless. It seemed that anything he could say ...

2968. You Have Been Subpoenaed!

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... turned to him and said, "Well I want you to find out. And if he is not, I want you to lead him to Christ. That is your church job." The engineer shuffled uncomfortably and said, "Sir, that's not exactly the kind of job I had in mind. I thought you would put me to work on some church board or committee." Spurgeon replied kindly but firmly, "No Christian is ready to serve on a church board until he knows how to lead another person to Christ." My friends, the most important work we can do for Christ is to ...

2969. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... for the great banquet when the Bridegroom and his Bride, the Church, cross the threshold into the Eternal Kingdom. The second trap that lures the waiter is the one of timetables. We presume to work out the time of the Lord’s coming and then build our thoughts and life styles around it. It works in two ways. The overly zealous person tries to discover what not even the angels of heaven have had revealed to them. He sits down with biblical prophecies and works out a neat time schedule for the Lord to follow ...

2970. Here Comes Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Bjorge

... , "I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children of Abraham" (Luke 3:8). I am reminded of the old Scottish lady who referred to a young man as obviously fitted for the ministry because he was a "right harmless laddie." The Bible never thought of religion as a discussion of nice, cozy and harmless table talks. The Word rather is spoken of as a sword, piercing and laying bare even the secrets and intentions of the soul. From the Bible we get the idea that the proclaimers of the Word are not ...

2971. Christmas Is Coming

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

James Bjorge

... faith, it, too, shall go stale, flat and wearisome. Maybe Christmas is the time to have a new birth of wonder. Do you remember when you first heard the story at your mother’s knee? How real it all seemed. Bethlehem seemed so close that you thought the wind in the trees was the rustling of angels’ wings, and the star that shone through your kitchen window was the great star that led the wisemen to the manger. As you heard the Christmas carols and viewed the church scene, the little figurines would ...

2972. God Is a Giver

Sermon

James Bjorge

... god-like, fulfilled and satisfied if he, too, becomes a giver. As Paul urges the people to help one another he says, "Remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘it is more blessed to give than to receive’ " (Acts 20:35). At Christmas man turns his thoughts toward loved ones and there is a profusion of gifts. And man seems to be extra merry and happy during these festive days. Could it have anything to do with the fact that a bit of that image of God comes to life and that is very becoming to ...

2973. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... Catholics and a sprinkling of others. So we all divided up and went to four main places of worship. My wife and I entered a large old Roman Catholic Cathedral. It appeared lonely and a bit dreary. Many thoughts from my childhood danced through my mind. They were suspicious thoughts for we grew up with the idea that Catholics would barely qualify as Christians. The service began. The liturgy was contemporary in English and scripturally oriented. The texts were read with simplicity and clarity. My spirit was ...

2974. With What Shall I Come?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

James Bjorge

... else, while the husband merely turned around with his back to the altar as he gazed at the vastness of the catheral nave. It happened that many devout people were now entering the church and as they approached the altar, they would bow solemnly. The husband thought they were curtsying to him so he bowed in return. This went on for some time until his wife noticed what was going on. She rushed rapidly to him, tugged his sleeve, and said, "My dear, you are suffering from an omnipotence complex." Most of us ...

2975. Lying Makes It Easy

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... mother just doesn’t understand and she acts this way because she’s strict and old-fashioned. FATHER: Elise, I don’t like this. Where did Sandra and this Carl go? ELISE: I don’t know, Dad. But she’ll be back before eleven. She PROMISED! FATHER: If I thought you’d ever try to pull something like this on us - ELISE: [reproachfully] Daddy! Of course not! MOTHER: Very well. We’ll let it go this time. But you tell Sandra she is not to use you this way again. Or I’ll tell her mother myself. [FATHER ...

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