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276. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... her hands together nervously] Yes - yes, I will. Jesus just caused a disturbance in the Temple and ... MB: [Alarmed, but with the air that she expected something of this sort] What sort of disturbance? MJ: The men selling, you know, oxen and sheep and pigeons ... feeling something awful is going to happen. MJ: [A deep, long sigh, then a pause before she speaks] Yes, it’s in the air. There’s talk here, even among the pilgrims, that something is brewing about my son. MB: The master seemed so - so lonely, even ...

277. The Hard-to-Believe Promise

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the daughter of a farmer who had become very prosperous, who went into the village store. The storekeeper, trying to make friendly conversation, asked: "And how are your hens laying? Are they laying well?" "They can," the girl replied, with her nose in the air, "but in our financial position, they don’t have to." And so, we are obsessed with our own power, our own wealth, our own affluence. I shudder, again and again, when I hear the witnesses before our Congressional Committees report that we are still ...

278. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... magazine. It shows a man leaping up from his pew in the middle of a worshiping congregation. He is waving his arms in the air. His mouth is open with a shout of joy and glee. And beside him, his wife is frantically trying to pull him back into ... , you cross yourself and have done with it, but if you prayed from your heart and you listened to the trilling of the bells in the air long after the bells have stopped ringing, then you would hear the voices as well as I do." Joan is a vivid example of Christian truth ...

279. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... School has been dismissed, and the children are at home, and it’s a festive time. There is all the excitement of a big show as the water covers the tops of the fence posts, and the children excitedly say, "See how high it is!" There is an air of excited emergency, with adventure and dramatic activity. Save the haystack! get the pigs out of the lower barn! and the machinery out of the shed. Then - there is a slow dawning of truth, and the festive mood turns into crisis. After the lower barn has washed away ...

280. No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... tells them and us three things about Christian discipleship: the costs are high; the time is now; and the way is forward. Let's look at each point. First, The Cost Are High. In verse 58 of Luke, chapter 9, Jesus says, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head." Jesus and his disciples could not even stay at a Motel 6 or Econolodge. Often they slept out under the stars. Discipleship is not for the soft or pampered; it involves sacrifice and self- denial ...

281. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... to his wife and children. Then this young man of 28 folded his hands and prayed the Lord’s Prayer. When he said, "Amen," he breathed his last. And at this time I am sure that the door of heaven opened and a little breath of heaven’s fresh air swept over many of those involved, strengthening them until their turn for the good journey arrives. It is all just a matter of trusting God. Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives ...

282. With What Shall I Come?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

James Bjorge

... of the Jesus bag. Once a guest at a dinner party given in honor of Marshall Foch was behaving rather rudely and as a matter of rationalization he said to the Marshall, "There is nothing but so much air in French politeness." Quietly the Marshall retorted, "Neither is there anything but air in pneumatic tires, and yet they ease wonderfully the jolts along life’s highways." Voltaire once said, "We cannot always oblige, but we can speak obligingly." So we can. And we must. Being kind is a great gift, and ...

283. LENTEN LITANY TO BE USED PRIOR TO ASH WEDNESDAY SERMON.

Drama

Michael J. Anton

... ) Congregation’s lines are marked "R" [response] V: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. There is the smell of death in the air. R: It is death we smell. Jesus, our Lord, is walking toward his death. V: It is a slow walk, a heavy walk ... still have the people problem. R: We all need help. V: We play around with life. We play around with God. We play God. R: We cut off the air from each other. We stop up our ears; we don’t hear God. V: We disagree and stop trying to understand. R: We cover up our feelings and buy ...

284. POTTER

Jer. 18:4; Rom. 9:21

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... levels. After the lowest vat’s contents were strained through cloth, it was spread out on a hill for "weathering." Next, it was made plastic by treading on it with the feet and mixing it with water. The clay was next tossed up into the air to drive out air bubbles. The potter would then knead the clay for many hours. Finally, the clay was "thrown" onto the potter’s wheel to be shaped. The potter shaped his clay into its desired form while the wheel revolved counter-clockwise. By jabbing his forearm into ...

285. Right on the Money!

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... or she pays the minimum amount each month on credit card debt. The number one cause of marital friction in America is financial pressure and disagreement. We live in a culture that is seeking the kingdom of things and trying to spray a little religion on it, like an air freshener. God did not intend for us to be financially distressed. God's for his people is prosperity. If you don't believe me, let me take you to the Word. In Psalm 1, the writer says of those who love the Lord: "They are like trees planted ...

286. Creatures of Worth

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Illustration

Larry Powell

... matters of low self-esteem and a consciousness of worthlessness must certainly be taken into account. Genesis is but the first affirmation that God not only created persons, but persons of worth. In Matthew 6:26, Jesus said, "Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow or reaped or gather in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" Although his primary intent was to direct his hearers beyond an anxiety-ridden life, the affirmation of worth is again underscored ...

287. Song of a Stargazer

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... well be in the best interest of both the tamer and the tamed. It is rather that one must exercise dominion over them with compassion. ... thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea. (Psalm 8:6b-8) Implicit here is the concept that we are stewards to whom God is entrusting his world. However the poet came by the concept, it nevertheless speaks to an area of distinctive ...

288. You Always Have a Choice

Illustration

Dale E. Galloway

... opportunity to demonstrate his newfound hitting ability. When they got in the backyard, Tommie’s dad said, "Go ahead and show me what you can do." With a confident grin, Tommie threw the ball in the air, swung at it, and missed. "Strike one," said his dad. Knowing he could hit the ball, Tommie threw it in the air again, and missed. "Strike two," laughed his father. And again, "Strike three." Not to be beaten, Tommie said, "Boy, am I a great pitcher." No matter what happens to you, you still have a choice ...

289. Why Don’t You Send Somebody?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... be said about the ruin of a beautiful cathedral? The ruins of tragedy are there for anyone to see. There beside the new ultra-modern cathedral is the burnt-out shell of the once glorious medieval gothic church burned to the ground by fire bombs during the wartime air raid. That was certainly no "act of God," nor was the destruction of that great church viewed at that time as in the most remote sense "to the glory of God." It was indeed a tragedy mourned not only by that city and the English people, but by ...

290. Dual Citizenship I - What Do We Owe To Our Country?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... will talk about what we owe to God.) Let me conclude with a word about the toast of July 4th, 1995. He is a young Air Force pilot named Scott O'Grady. He may never realize how much his country needed him and all he stands for. After a daring and ... a humble hero unashamed to give God glory. Time magazine ran a two-page picture of our hero as he lifted both fists in the air. The large caption up top read, "All for one." Indeed, for six agonizing days Americans were one in our concern for our missing pilot. When ...

291. Authenticity vs. Showmanship

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... kind of devotees who would be a sort of sub-college or group, just a couple steps below the status and station of scribe and Pharisee. They would fashion their own sense of security, set their own level of life station, and thereby have their own airs of superiority over others Ironically, though all this Law-devotion was to bring people closer to God, it actually made it difficult for many to experience God. As Dr. Carl Jung, who was far more spiritual in his understanding of the human being than was Freud ...

292. Knowing the Secret

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Thomas Long

... come for the wrong reason. "There ain’t but one river, and that’s the River of Life, made out of Jesus’ blood," he says. "It’s a river of pain itself ... to be washed away, slow, you people, slow ..." Suddenly Mrs. Connin lifted the boy up in the air and asks the preacher to pray for the boy’s mother, who has been ill. Mrs. Connin tells Summers that she suspects that the boy has never been baptized, and Summers commands her to hand the boy to him. Summers asks the boy if he wants to be baptized ...

293. A Tempting and Lonely Place

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Thomas Long

... of us search eagerly for such a location. For some of us, the lonely place is actually a place, a spot high in the mountains where the air is hushed and the world below seems serene, a rock on the edge of the ocean where we can lose our thoughts among the restless waves ... of a place where crucial and risky decisions are being made. It is out in the heramos that John the Baptizer fills the air with a cry for repentance. John is, in Isaiah’s words, the "voice of one crying in the heramos." Jesus is driven by ...

294. In Control

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... relation to God and the world which he has given us to occupy, care for, and enjoy? He is the head of the household, but we have treated his property with disdain and disrespect. He granted us "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth" (Genesis 1:26b), but we have taken that as license to level our forests, waste our soil, wipe out wildlife, and pollute the water we drink and the ...

295. Inevitabilities and the Last Days

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... of inevitability nearly makes us cringe and cower and run for cover. I. Jesus speaks of the inevitability of change. It seemed to his disciples that the temple at Jerusalem would endure forever. There was an impressive air of permanency about it. It had been erected on a massive platform, supported by piers of sturdy stones, some of which, according to the ancient historian, Josephus, were forty feet long and twelve feet high by eighteen feet wide. It was sheathed with gleaming gold. If it existed today, it ...

296. OUR LORD BETRAYED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... It was a spring evening. The hot summer sun later would burn off the green and leave the hills barren, but now the grey-tan of their rocky slopes was mottled with sparse vegetation and bright patches of spring flowers. There was a cool edge in the air as the sun drifted toward the far horizon and the company of men walked briskly along the trait that wound northwestward from Bethany to Jerusalem. There were eleven in the group, two having gone earlier in the day to arrange for a room where the Passover meal ...

297. OUR LORD SMITTEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... raised by the feet of thousands of pilgrims entering and leaving the temple compound. It clung to the skin and caked the nostrils, and the centurion longed for the day when he would be pensioned home to the clear, cool air that flowed over the mountains of Italia. He had been patient through the night with a forbearance born of military discipline, but now that the sentence had been passed and the routine or punishment begun, he was anxious to have it over and done with. That his soldiers welcomed diversion ...

298. Crowned With Victory

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... gives new life to us today. Several years ago a funeral director called me to a home where some young parents had just lost a little son. He said they were bitter, and it was impossible for him to make the necessary arrangements. When I arrived, the air was blue as they condemned God, mocked his church, and bad-mouthed those who believed. They called out every foul name in the book of verbal garbage, and by any human standards I was a fool to stay, an innocent victim of their uncontrollable rage. But God ...

299. Bonhoeffer of Berlin

Acts 5:17-42

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... a professor at the University of Berlin, made bold to ridicule the Nazi party by making fun of its use of the term "fuehrer" or "leader." In the middle of the broadcast, Dr. Bonhoeffer’s message was suddenly cut off and the station went off the air. The government claims there was a power failure. ANTAGONIST: Sounds like a good way to bring a promising academic career to a screeching halt. Didn’t Bonhoeffer know what kind of trouble he was asking for by making fun of Hitler on the radio? PROTAGONIST: He ...

300. Let Us Cross To The Other Side

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... run again on the same spot - savage ship stoppers going nowhere but all 100 percent against one. In storms at sea there is a hellish concert in the rigging, a universal roaring in the air. "All hell breaks loose," they say. Sailors cannot hear one another except by shouting directly into one another’s ears. The air is grey with flying water. Mountains of water ... screaming winds ... and weariness. "What are we doing here?" sailors ask. The raging sea, not the raging ocean storms of Cape Horn, but a nasty ...

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