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276. Victory Over Evil

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Harold G. Skinner

... of the time in a coma. It is good to see this large crowd here. It shows your support for the family of __________ . Yet most of you, even as you reach out in support, are echoing the question of St. Paul in some form. Paul had great insight and sensitivity. He poses the question for us, "What then shall we say to this?" And we are asking with Paul: Why? What then shall we say? Certainly none of us has all the answers. But of some things we can be sure. During the last seven months we have participated in ...

277. Marked For Ministry

Sermon

George Bass

... Duehring, who is living like a “canary in a coal mine.” She is dying from “environmental illness” (El), which “is not something you are born with; you get it from the 20th century.” It is also known as “multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) or total allergy syndrome or chemical hypersensitivity.” Most people who have it don’t know it; their illnesses are frequently misdiagnosed. Cindy is the wife of a Lutheran pastor, who lives with her husband outside Williston, North Dakota. Her illness ...

278. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... , moving between their homes, the mall, and the country club. George Bernard Shaw presented an interesting notion of what hell is like. Instead of the traditional notion that hell is a place of torment and torture, Shaw described it as a place where comfortable people lose their sensitivity. An old woman boasts to Don Juan that she just knows she is not in hell. She assures him that since she feels no pain she can't be in hell. Don Juan assures her that this is the guarantee that she is indeed in hell. He ...

279. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... call a Holy Man by his first name." The television switchboard immediately lit up like a Christmas tree. That's all we dealt with the whole show: the mystique embodied in what you call or don't call a supposed Holy Person. I never knew how many people's sensitivities were offended or affirmed by calling someone by his first name. From Chicago to East Lansing the viewers were at it. Who is this person who declares God can speak through him or her? Is the person a man, woman, or a myth? Is the person a saint ...

280. Of Seeing and Hearing

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... cannot see Jesus at work in us. Deafness and dumbness can be either literal or figurative. We may not be able to correct a physical defect, but with or without a physical handicap, we can all open ourselves to the understanding that makes us sensitive, caring human beings. We are all deaf and dumb in a figurative sense. The significant prospect for us is to be helped to hear so that we understand. Then we can grasp opportunities, recognize consequences, and draw inferences. Life can become richer, deeper ...

281. “You Did That for Me!”

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... mentioned a problem facing me. Without being overtly aware, I realized that the nature of our conversation had changed. He was skillfully leading me along, question by question, interspersed with attentive listening, to discover the how and why of my needs. I became sensitive to the fact that he was really listening to me. When we parted, I was careful to say, “Thanks for listening to me.” Active listening is rare. When listening does happen, we part company with a quiet singing in our souls; “You did ...

282. Enter God

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... want of security and self-worth, the child is lost. In most churches I’ve known, members find it quite easy to pass a youth by; they are more timid to engage a child than a stranger in conversation. Frequently, when youth are on committees, little sensitivity is expressed toward making them comfortable and enabling them to contribute. How do we get to the point where we begin to do the right thing for our children? Since we started our inquiry into our text with God and worked our way back to the child ...

283. A Road Map to the Kingdom

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... ? 2. Children trust. They are therefore able to find and enjoy new opportunities with new people. To have this trust taken away is a life-scarring event. 3. Children are adaptable. I learned this well when reading on the subject of adult education. Adults are more sensitive to correction than children. A child, when he says he cannot do it, is told quite firmly “Oh, yes, you can.” Pressure is applied to make the child keep trying. An adult, when spoken to this way, may reply, “I’ll show you. I quit ...

284. Competition In The Kingdom?

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... Perhaps they were just becoming hardened. Or perhaps they were beginning to believe it. Is not that the way it is with us? At first we are stunned by the shocking news. We hurt with the one afflicted. But eventually we become hardened and not so sensitive. We really are fickle people. Perhaps the disciples were not so fickle according to Matthew's account. Perhaps their silence was an indication that they had begun to come to terms with God's will. Perhaps their silence was a testimony to their faith in God ...

285. Previews Of Coming Attractions

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... a God-driven man, fearlessly denouncing the idolatry of his day, perpetual backsliding (Jeremiah 8:5) and religious laxity, and inordinate self-centeredness.1 He warned of the impending disaster that would come from the sins of the people. This lonely and sensitive young man began to speak for Yahweh fearlessly and dramatically. Fearlessly, Jeremiah denounced the false idols of wisdom, human strength, and money: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not ...

286. Everything Except God

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... them. Do we see the oppressed people of our own day? Or, do we simply ignore them and go about our own religious observances? Do we see persons who are hurt by racial and religious prejudice? A recent movie treats this theme with great sensitivity. It is Driving Miss Daisy -- the story of a Jewish widow living in Atlanta. It is a moving story with lots of humor and light moments. These two people have a difficult time understanding each other and communicating with each other. Eventually, they learn that ...

287. Where You Go — I Will Go.

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

Robert A. Kramer

... ____ and ____. Each of you is fortunate to receive one who shares your faith, hope, and love. Be gentle to each other. May I close with this word collage of love which I share with you from my thoughts: Love is a gift! When we respond to it sensitively ...it rises within us like the dawn or declines with the dusk to grant rest. It may enhance our best, or make us smug in possessiveness — Unless it is shared and watered, it will wither and crumble ... Most delicately we need to discover the gift to open it ...

288. Rejoice In The Lord

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... ." But the way they were living, it seemed as if their chief end was to irritate God and annoy him forever! Isaiah, however, believed in a God who cares, and who never stops caring even when we turn our backs on God. In ancient Rome, sensitive and cultured people for years had protested in vain the butcheries that took place in the arena. The bloody contests continued until one day, a Christian monk by the name of Telemachius leapt into the ring, and pushing himself between two gladiators, cried out, "In ...

289. The Baby Who Changes Everything

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... all live." The One who changes all things can change you and me for the best, if we will open our hearts to meet him. As a photographic plate exposed to light bears the image of that reflected light upon it and so is changed, you and I, open, sensitive, receptive can face the light of Jesus Christ until God's own likeness is imprinted on our souls. This is the deliverance foretold so long ago by the prophet Isaiah in the coming of Emmanuel, God with us now! "0 holy child of Bethlehem, descend to us, we pray ...

290. A Lesson From Prayers Overheard

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... offered are not always offered to God: Jesus makes an interesting observation. "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself." While I do not believe or intend to suggest that this is a major point of the parable, it does touch upon a sensitive nerve for this pastor. More than once I have wondered whether our public prayers are summaries of the morning sermon or lectures to the conscience of the worshiping community rather than intercessions to our Father. Wilham Barclay quotes an account of a Boston ...

291. Wounded Glory

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Erskine White

... , "I've often wondered what it would have been like to meet Christ and study His hands. There were the hands of Christ the carpenter, rough and bruised from working with saw and hammer. There were the hands of Christ the healer, radiating sensitivity and compassion." "Then there were His crucified hands. It hurts me to think about the soldiers driving nails through His hands because I know what would happen to the nerves and tendons. His healing hands became crippled and gnarled, twisted shut on the cross ...

292. Chosen For Good News

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... no one else can hear or see, where we can get by with a lot of cruelty because we are in command, we fail to practice God’s love at the very place it ought to be practiced the most. “Love one another,” says Jesus. That means being sensitive to hurts and joys, to needs, to frustrations, to our spouse and children. We need to be concerned for the welfare of each other. One little girl became angry at her mother, ran to her bedroom and locked herself in her mother’s closet. The mother, being concerned ...

293. One Flock, One Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... easiest ways to gather a large congregation and insure plenty of money for yourself and your own church is to tell people what they want to hear, to reinforce their old prejudices, to rant and rave about everyone else and thus stay off the really sensitive spot: our own shortcomings. When a devoted old black man applied for membership in a fashionable church, the minister told him to give added consideration to his desire to join. The old man said he would go home and pray about it. When the minister saw ...

294. For a Man in His Sixties

Philippians 4:2-9

Eulogy

Louis M. Pratt

Dealing With Suicide Philippians 4:4-13 This funeral was for a man in his sixties who committed suicide. The message is an attempt to deal with the subject in a sensitive and caring manner. The death of a loved one is always a tragedy. It is doubly so when that loved one has taken his own life. Today, we have come together to share the sorrow of all the Carpenters at the suicide of their husband and father, L. T. Not ...

295. Stairways Of Heaven

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Justin Tull

... vulnerability of experiencing an illness that could not be quickly diagnosed or quickly treated, the uncertainty of surgery, the psychological and mental anguish of taking an M.R.I. test while being claustrophobic. Through these many experiences and feelings, I gained a new sensitivity to the plight of others, a new fervor for prayer and a renewed compassion I hope I will never lose. The second blessing was a most pleasant reward. I received something in my struggle that Jacob was denied: the gift of loving ...

296. The Time Is Coming

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... to say what God had asked him to say. Whether he wanted to speak or not, so he must speak. It seemed to be of no concern, at least to God, that he asked a prophet to speak in ways out of harmony with his personality. Let shy, sensitive Jeremiah say and think what he will, God has him speak harshly over a longer period of time than almost any other prophet. To know how shocking that is, place it against our culture's virtual adoration of harmony of the integrated personality. A man of some wealth, Jeremiah ...

297. Strangers at the Manger

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

... with the responsibility to create and maintain a sense of order feel threatened, it’s not a pretty sight! We don’t normally fly into murderous rages, but you really wouldn’t want to be there when it happens! Throughout history, kings have had sensitive noses for snooping out anyone who might challenge their authority at some future time. They have even murdered sons and daughters if those offspring gained too much influence over others. In Herod’s case, it was not the fact that a child had been ...

298. It Just Doesn't Work That Way

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... or God’s love, either saying that evil exists because God is not powerful enough to overrule it, or because God is not loving enough to use God’s power in this way." If God or God’s church could just clean up the act, think of all the morally sensitive people that we could get to come to church! But you know what they would find here? Things are in just as big a mess in the church as they are in the farmer’s wheat field! Saints and sinners share the same pew, and how can you tell just ...

299. Reality Check

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... . But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you cannot be ugly, except to people who don’t understand." "I suppose YOU are real," said the rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled. "The boy’s uncle made me real," he said, "but that was a great many years ago. But once you are real you cannot become unreal again. It lasts for always." You and I are truly loved. That’s what happens when there ...

300. Lent 1

Sermon

Betty Lynn Schwab

... . Reader 1: For Jesus and his disciples, the etrog was a reminder of the sweet fragrance of life lived in close harmony with God and of the fragrant spices wrapped around Jesus' broken body. Youth: Let us pray. All: Holy God of the booths, help us to be sensitive this week to your presence everywhere. May we honor you in our home, our school, our places of work and in our times of relaxation. As we grow in our faith, help us to sense the sweet fragrance of a life lived in a healthy close relationship with ...

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