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276. Which Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

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... get to know the folks incarcerated in the nearest jail or prison. Groups have organized to go into the cells, to get to know the inmates, learn to know their story, learn to listen to them, share themselves with them. Sometimes the first reception given the outsiders has been filled with anger, scorn, hostility, or stony silence. But as time goes by and as the volunteers persist, the quiet miracles begin to happen. Barriers begin to drop. Acquaintances are made. New friendships form. Forgivenesses are asked ...

277. Are There Two Baptisms?

Acts 2:14-41

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Barbara Brokhoff

... was asked, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" Those people betrayed their ignorance by saying, "No, we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." That’s right where a lot of people are, ignorant of when the Spirit’s reception occurs. In this text for today, Luke is relating Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost, and this is the high point of the message in this second chapter of Acts. The hearers of the sermon were invited to repentance, faith, baptism, forgiveness, and ...

278. Forgive To Be Forgiven

Genesis 50:15-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... forgiveness. The reason we must forgive first is because if we have an unforgiving heart, God cannot forgive us. When we hold spite, when we hate, when we want retaliation, our hearts are closed tight with anger and fear. For God to forgive us, we must be open and receptive to God’s love and mercy. If we have our hands clenched into fists, there is no way we can receive a gift. It is said that one time Leonardo da Vinci had an argument with a certain man. He lashed out against the fellow with bitter words ...

279. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... , are we commanded, "Seek the Lord while he may be found"? Seeking on our part indicates an openness and yearning for God to become real and personal to us. It is not that God is lost, but we lost God. Seeking him allows God to find us because we are receptive and sensitive to his presence. The whole matter of salvation involves God’s seeking us and our seeking God. Why, you ask, is it necessary to seek God? If God is seeking us, why is he not seen and heard without our going on a divine treasure hunt? It ...

280. As Good As God

Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... are perfectly content with our lives, and we are having fun in our sinful ways. We do not want to repent or change. We are satisfied with the present style of living. To be holy is to nave God in us. This means we must work on ourselves to be receptive to God’s Spirit. It calls for meditation and prayer. Reading the Bible gives us a God-consciouness. In worship we open our lives to God and we give the Spirit an opportunity to invade and infiltrate our beings. So, it is not so bad to be a holy person ...

281. Peter’s Net

Luke 5:1-11

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Richard F. Bansemer

... commit ourselves to his way. When we do, everthing is changed, even ourselves. Our prayers soar to heaven like rockets because we no longer wallow in self-pity. Our love may still be rejected, but it’s their problem now, not ours, and we find new persons receptive to our sharing. Our faith grows strong like the oak because our roots grab hold of rocks, not sand, and among those rocks, like Peter, Christ builds his Church of the chosen, his church of the changed. It was a beautiful swarm of fish that were ...

282. How’s Your Appetite?

Matthew 5:6 · Luke 14:1-14

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Wallace H. Kirby

... good neighbor, he said, is not like the two who passed by, but like the one who stopped to help. The lawyer remembered that story, and so do we so well, in fact, that we have given the third man a memorable title. In another sermon, to show us how receptive God is to our approaching him, Jesus assured his listeners, "Regardless of what you have done, God is like a father, standing at the door every day, waiting for you to come to him. And when you do come, he treats you like royalty." This may well be the ...

283. Journey To The Cross II: Jesus And The Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

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James W. Moore

... lease on life… He doesn’t chastise her for interrupting him. He doesn’t critique her theology… or her superstitious expectations. He doesn’t rebuke her for seeing Him as a “sort of last resort.” Rather, He gives her act the most gracious possible reception. And although we know the healing came from Him, He gives her the credit… “Your faith has made you well,” He says to her. Now, the rest of the story is even more remarkable. They tell Jesus that Jairus’ daughter is gone. It’s too ...

284. GUTS TO BE CHICKEN

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John H. Krahn

... hammer on nails as flesh parted and pain began. On the cross the other cheek was turned, and a man’s man as well as the God-man died. As we feel the impact of Christ’s death for us, we are moved by his love. Our hearts then become receptive to a power from God that can cause us to do extraordinary things - like offering a cheek and thereby demonstrating we have the guts to be chicken.

285. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

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Robert Noblett

... often fall into the post launch slump. This happens in virtually every area of life. It happens in marriage. A young couple have a glorious courtship; they are married in a large church before a large congregation; they have a lavish banquet-type reception; they go on a honeymoon to end all honeymoons; then twenty-four months later they are divorced. It happens politically. A man aspires to high office and is successful in that aspiration; his campaign is covered closely by the press; there is much hoopla ...

286. How Fares Your Christian Sight?

Is 6:8-10

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Robert Noblett

... he consistently opened people’s eyes, including - perhaps most especially - those whose eyes were biologically sound but nevertheless perceptually impaired. He opened people’s eyes to the fact that religious health lies not in a posture of supposed righteousness but in a posture of receptivity to God’s grace. "Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 7:21) He opened people’s eyes to the truth ...

287. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12

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Robert Noblett

... . All she wanted to do was touch the hem of Jesus’ garment, for she was of the faith that if she did so, she would become better. That brief touch saw that women moved from the darkness of assumed divine rejection to the light of incarnated divine reception. I think of the misguided and persecuting Saul whose darkness was permeated by a blinding light that led to his new life as a divinely impassioned Paul. I think of the woman by the well and how, in the presence of Jesus, she was moved from the darkness ...

288. WE ARE THE BELIEVERS: TESTIMONIES

Drama

Marcia Miller

... ’s cousin’s son - Jesus - and that he was a prophet or priest or something like that. We invited Jesus and his mother Mary and his brothers and sisters. He brought several friends, too. Everything was going along fine until we ran out of wine at the reception. We hadn’t really planned on the extra people. Mary quietly came to our table and said she would take care of the problem. I thought she meant she would have the waiters go to buy more wine. But before anyone could stop her, Mary went to Jesus ...

289. The Unexplainable Reality

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Allan J. Weenink

... be that those who made such predictions don’t really reckon with God. "The kingdom cometh without observation," said our Lord. His spirit of power is just as real in the world as it was to those at Pentecost. They were tuned in. They were waiting. They were receptive. And it came. What of us, here gathered? What of you who cherish the name Christian? Has the power got to you? Have you tuned in? Have you let it come? But some say ... in a world of science, it doesn’t really happen like that anymore. It ...

290. Running With Patience

Hebrews 12:1-13

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Allan J. Weenink

... creative waiting, the sound assurance that "this too shall pass;" and on the other side of the mist the sun still shines and God still cares. Patience means staying in step with self-capacity without trying to out-distance God. It is the art of receptivity, the ability to sort out the useless from the meaningful, the quietness to listen. Yet it is also the determination to maintain a steady course, the stabilizer when panic threatens, the resolution to stay alert for the best signs in the worst times and ...

291. The Good Samaritan Didn’t Leave His Name

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... , bedraggled traveler. Perhaps a beautifully engraved invitation will come in the mail one day. The invitation will read: "You are cordially invited to attend the 10th anniversary of John Q. Samaritan, Ph.D., Th.D., D.D, as helper of beaten travelers." The reception probably would be held at the Willie Leper room in the Samaritan Inn, named after the one out of ten healed lepers who came back and thanked Jesus. Such frivolity is sheer fantasy, of course. Those people in life who truly deserve monuments ...

292. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

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Herchel H. Sheets

... a question we need to ask in regard to God’s searching of our hearts: "What if what he seeks in me is not there?" If we are concerned about this, if we are anxious that God find in us what he is seeking, and if we are open and receptive to God, his grace will be able to enter our lives and to create in us that for which God seeks. But if we allow the faults of others to occupy our first attention, we will obstruct the flow of that grace and thereby deprive ourselves of that upon which ...

293. Cheering Stones

Luke 19:28-44

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Herchel H. Sheets

... not cheering from their hearts, but others were. They were presenting their hearts to him, and he welcomed their cheers. Principal James Denney wrote once of hearing a certain man speak. He said, "He was in remarkably good spirits, spoke wisely, and wittily, and had a great reception: but there was not enough momentum in it." Then he went on: "Indeed there was no momentum at all. He spoke like a man who was happy in having an excellent case, not like a man with a cause."5 The cheer for which Christ listens ...

294. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

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Kent Moorehead

The principle wrapped up in that text would seem to be quite obvious - that the most important thing to remember in dealing with all ambiguities, controversies, uncertainties, is that there is a spirit of truth available and if we keep our hearts and minds receptive, attentive responsive, we shall be led into all truth. Now that’s the core of the liberal’s approach to life. Keep that in mind as we proceed to discuss this very interesting and important issue: What Are Christian Liberals? I shall never ...

295. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

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Kent Moorehead

... infinite value, their matchless worth in the sight of God. Then I try to love them with compassion and consecrated concern. To the degree that I cleanse my spirit with such a flood of affection for my people, I find them almost invariably-willingly receptive. Not that they always agree - they don’t. But they listen attentively, appreciatively, creatively - and whether they agree or not, they show me in a thousand ways that they want me to preach whatever I believe to be true without fear or compromise. If ...

296. EPISODE 6: THE SIXTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... : Come in, Mary Magdalene. Are you all right? MARY MAGDALENE: No ... MARY: Why, what’s the matter? MARY MAGDALENE: I can’t explain it. MARTHA: Try to tell us. MARY MAGDALENE: I should be happy after today ... the crowds, the cheering, the wonderful reception they gave the Lord. You heard about it? MARY: Yes. We heard. MARTHA: Lazarus was there. He’s gone to tell some others. MARY: It must have been exciting. MARY MAGDALENE: It was, except ... MARTHA: Except what, Mary Magdalene? MARY MAGDALENE: I don ...

297. He Came to His Senses

Luke 15:11-32

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Jon L. Joyce

... the father’s house during the party he gives for the returning son. The two brothers are in a discussion of what has taken place - and the elder is self-righteous, even vindictive or just hurt and stung by a perceived wrong. The younger is bewildered and overwhelmed by the reception. The father comes out and, upon verbal attack by the older brother, talks about his love for both. I did this once, quite successfully; but a warning: it does take careful preparation.

298. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... a negative factor in the thinking of some of our young people, often signifies more than the accumulation of years. It also includes accumulated experience, and, frequently, valuable lessons learned in the process. These lessons should, and often can, be transmitted to receptive people, including our own offspring. Animals can’t do that in a very great degree. Most of them must relearn the many lessons of living generation after generation. Some things are taught to their young by their sires, but for the ...

299. HERALD

Daniel 3:4

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Stephen Stewart

... In reading 2 Kings 18:18, we find that Sennacherib’s envoy, who was himself a high ranking official, was received only by the master of the palace, the secretary and the king’s herald. And there is no indication that he was at all affronted by this reception committee, so it must have been an appropriate and customary one! From the root meaning of the work in Hebrew, we find that the herald is a man who calls, names, reminds, reports. And that very neatly sums up the herald’s duties. He made state and ...

300. The Kingdom of God Is a Party

Matthew 22:1-14

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Bill Bouknight

... to Him with excitement. The title of this sermon, "The Kingdom of God is a Party," is borrowed from a book by Tony Campolo. Let me share several truths I find in our scripture of the morning. First, The Kingdom of God Is As Joyful As a Wedding Reception. In verse 2 Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son." Now, let me remind you about wedding customs in ancient Palestine. A wedding was a veritable roof raiser. The wedding began with a huge feast ...

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