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276. One For All

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... sea. The dog jumped overboard after it. In distress the dog's owner begged the captain to turn the ship around and rescue the dog. "Stop the ship for a dog! I can't do that," said the captain. "Then you will stop it for a man!" shouted the dog's owner, as he jumped overboard. Of course the ship stopped, and both man and dog were rescued. The point here is that the man knew the ship would stop. He was not really sacrificing his life for his dog. (2) What I long for us to see is the divine absurdity of it ...

277. Getting Your Attention

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... the post office. No one had ever thought of it. She decided she would start a recycling program. In no time at all hundreds of pounds of paper that before had been thrown into dumpsters and landfills were being recycled each week. She did not stop there. She became interested in environmental issues. She wondered what else she could do to encourage others to be more responsible toward our world and its resources. She began sharing her concerns with others she worked with. Earth Day was only a few weeks away ...

278. Help Wanted, Dad. Ask For Calvin And Hobbes.

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Lowell D. Streiker

... , explains as best he can, and we try again. It is after dark when we quit. A few days later we try again. He rides the bike for several minutes, and has me try. He steadies the bicycle again. I manage a few yards on my own, become frightened and stop. Then we try again. I add a few more yards to my range. We try again. Finally, to his surprise and mine, I am riding alone. I am frightened and excited. I glance back over my shoulder. Dad is waving at me, smiling, and shouting encouragement as he recedes into ...

279. A Message From Above And Beyond

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... sand near the ocean at Waikiki. His father "looked old and tired, and his brisk walk was by now a slow, pained gait." As they were walking along the shore, writes Buscalgia, "I had an uncontrollable urge to stop right there and take him into my arms and hug him. But Papa, always the nurturer, spared me the trouble. He stopped and reached out to me, took me into his arms and spoke the very thoughts I wanted to express. `Don't be sad,' he said. `We've had a nice life together.'" (3) We remember those special ...

280. Body Language

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... will die! The most important gift, Paul tells us, is love. Even more important, the love of Christ is what we have to offer the world. James Hewett tells about a family that had gone to the movies, and on the way in the young man of the family stopped by the refreshment stand to pick up some popcorn. By the time he got into the theater the lights were already dim. He scanned the theater and evidently couldn't find his family. He paced up and down the aisles looking for a familiar face. When the lights began ...

281. Like Everest Without Oxygen And Wimbledon Without A Racquet

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... . She gave him a month to settle in, and then called him. "How do you find the English students, Donald?" she asked. "Oh Mother," he said, "they are strange and noisy people. The one on this side bangs his head against the wall all night and won't stop. The one on that side screams and curses until the sun comes up at dawn." "Oh Donald," said his mother, "How do you put up with such rude, noisy, people?" "I ignore them, Mother," said Donald. "I just sit here quietly each night, playing my bagpipes." (1) In ...

282. Family Survival

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Stephen DeFur

... equally, but they need to be treated uniquely. What if Zebulon, who was one of Jacob's twelve sons, had come to Jacob one day and said, "Do you love me as much as you love Joseph, Dad? Do you love me that much?" And what if Jacob had just stopped whatever he was doing and taken Zebulon into his arms . . . held him on his lap . . . and said, "You're my only Zebulon. Nobody else has your Zebulon little thoughts or your Zebulon smile or your Zebulon personality or your name--and I'm so glad you belong to me. I ...

283. Building A Church

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... was four years old at the time. David was puttering around in the garage and his son was busy pounding nails and pulling nails out of a board. A while later David told his son that he had to go to a church board meeting and he would have to stop pounding nails. David said he noticed the wheels turning in his son's little head. Suddenly his son asked, "Daddy do you use that hammer on the church board?" "Needless to say," says David Bissell, "when I shared the story with the board members, we all had a good ...

284. The Grateful Samaritan

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." Have you ever asked Jesus for mercy? Have you ever knelt in the darkness and lifted your voice to Heaven in a desperate plea because there was no where else to turn? Then you can relate to these poor lepers. Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and he stopped at a village. We don't know its name. Just a village. But on the outskirts were these ten lepers standing off to the side. They did not even approach Jesus. They knew they dare not. Leprosy was such a dread disease that those who were inflicted with it ...

285. What Are You Afraid Of?

Matthew 10:1-42

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... ringing church bells. They thought the noise would cause the hailstones to shatter in mid-air. Unfortunately, since we often have lightning with hail, those ringing the bells sometimes were struck by the lightning. But it didn't stop the hail. They also fired cannons with the same intent. Do you imagine I could stop a hailstorm by firing a cap pistol? No, it wouldn't bother the storm at all. There are some unpleasant things in life that we simply can't do anything about. All we can do is use our brains ...

286. Hungry For God

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... people's plight in Isaiah's time. Had God forsaken them? Isaiah longed for some sign of God's presence and power. The absence of God speaks almost as loudly as does God's presence. When you have been separated from the presence of God for too long, you either stop caring about it, or you hunger for a move from God that is so earth-shaking that it leaves no room for doubt or apathy. IN THIS PASSAGE, ISAIAH IS REACTING TO THE ABSENCE OF GOD AMONG THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. You and I can appreciate that. Many of us ...

287. The Shy Member of the Trinity

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... that needs to be said about God and Jesus. In this regard, I have a hunch that a large number of our church members are really binitarians, not trinitarians. They accept the Fatherhood (or Parenthood) of God and the Saviorhood of Christ, but they stop there. It is as though God stopped acting on the stage of human history in the year 33 A.D. (Or 27 AD, or whenever it actually was that Christ died on a cross.) For them, the question is: What has God been doing lately? And because Christians during the first ...

288. Secretary to Saint Peter

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... odd passage he has left behind his signature.It is a possibility. III. MARK’S FAVORITE WORD IS IMMEDIATELY. It occurs in the Gospel some 36 times. Mark was always in a hurry. Mark’s Jesus was always in a hurry (save when he took time to stop to heal and to bless little children.) As Frederick Buechner says, in this Gospel Jesus himself races by, scattering miracles like rice at a wedding. (Peculiar Treasures, New York: Harper & Row, 1979 p. 97) Jesus is in a hurry. Mark’s disciples are in a hurry to ...

289. On Not Knowing What to Say

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Publishers, 8/85, p. 361) We have all had those kinds of experiences. Everything is “just right.” It seems as though it simply cannot get any better. We have a good experience in our religious life, and we want to hang onto it. The problem is that if we stop here, we won’t grow much. And we will be totally useless in meeting the problems of life. It is tempting to try to make the church a safe haven where we might find seclusion from the storms of life. But we aren’t supposed to stay in the church ...

290. Joy: The Echo of God's Presence In Us! (Part I - Introduction)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... a white heat, and still it increased. There was a sense of weighing, crushing time. As the dream continued Deborah seemed to feel the suffering of the coal within her own body, almost beyond the point of being borne. At last, she cried out to the hand, `Stop it! Will you never end it? Even a stone cannot bear to this limit. Even a stone...'' "After what seemed like too long a time for anything molecular to endure, the torments of the fist relaxed. The fist turned slowly, and very slowly opened. "Diamonds ...

291. The Marvelous Message of Easter

Mark 16:1-20, Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... There is nothing to fear." You are looking for Jesus and He is not here. He has been raised from the dead even as He said He would be. If you are responding to the power of the resurrection with your life, you won''t be afraid. Stop being a victim of a Good Friday world and enjoy the victory of the Easter message. Second, the Easter message teaches us as a faith community that God alone transforms awful realities into awesome opportunities. There is a true story about a kindergarten teacher in a Christian ...

292. Chosen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... better equipped to spare the time to help the woman. After all, the peace rally was important. It is important that Christians grow in the faith, learn to pray, become familiar with the Bible, as were those students, but if that is where it stops, we are no more than ornamental decorations -- bonsais -- healthy in ourselves, but stunted and unuseful. We are to bear fruit. William Penn, who was eventually to become the founder of Pennsylvania, was once asked by an acquaintance to take him to a Quaker meeting ...

293. Too Good to Miss

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... Mere Christianity, tells the story of a school boy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was "the sort of person who is always snooping round to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it!" Those who see God as that kind of a deity would then most likely see Lent as one long God-filled forty days, when we are to make room in our hearts and our homes for this fun-bashing divine guest, who checks out every nook and cranny of ...

294. Grace in the Midst of Unanswered Prayer

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... of the experience of their struggle with suffering. Remember that it was Jesus' friends who pleaded with him not to go to Jerusalem to die, even though his death was crucial for them and for us. Remember that it was Job's wife who said, "Curse God and die! Stop trying to trust God when it's clear he has no intention of answering your prayers." It is vitally important for us not to run away from the challenges of our suffering, but to let God's work be carried through to completion -- even when we have no ...

295. Pentecost: The Neglected Factor

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Jesus Lord except by the Holy Spirit. We can’t do it in our own power. The Holy Spirit moves into our lives when we’re open to Him and He gives us the power to come down off the throne of our life and make Jesus Lord. You may stop just a moment and ask yourself, have I surrendered my will to Christ? Am I still occupying the throne of my life? Or have I yielded my self to Christ, willing to allow Him to be Lord? Here is the Holy Spirit’s first work of power, the power to ...

296. At Home In The Daylight

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... an effective device in our life -- it's really a gift of God -- but it's like a rocking chair. It will get us nowhere unless we stop doing what's making us feel guilty. We can't be at home in the daylight, if what we do does not have Jesus' approval. Now ... is pleasing to the Lord. Do you remember Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager? They were the pilots who completed a globe- circling, non-stop flight without refueling. People said it couldn't be done, but they did it. More than 50,000 people greeted them at Edwards ...

297. Faith for Troubling Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... sixteen. Her Dad was in a nursing home in another city. He had broken his hip and wanted her to come visit him. She didn’t have the money, or the time. Still, she felt the guilt. She had contracted the flu at Thanksgiving, but had not really stopped to get over it. Now she feels lousy, tired and worn out. Then one evening, she discovers drugs in her son’s bedroom and there’s a terrible fight. She cries miserably through the night. The next day at work is a total disaster. She has a confrontation with ...

298. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... gift of $50. When God sends my reward, I'll have $5000 and buy my car." When he realized his son was serious, the father responded, "God is already sending your reward. It comes every two weeks, and it is called salary." Shell comments, “It is time that we Christians stop and assess what we really believe about prosperity. A life lived for the glory of God is its own reward.”16 And if you do not believe that, you have much to learn about the secret joys of knowing God. I’m at a place in my life that ...

299. The One Who Came Still Comes; The One Who Spoke Still Speaks

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... , he was crossing the German border in the back of a truck with a bunch of other GIs. They were headed for the frontline. The life expectancy of a soldier was not great during this part of the war. Ted thought this could be it for him, but the truck stopped. Ted was told to get off right there. An NCO led him to see a captain of a company. He had no idea what was going on. The captain said, “Soldier, you are being transferred to be with me. You are now in mortuary affairs. You will prepare reports on ...

300. When Fisherman do Strange Things

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... does "at hand" mean? Imminent? Close enough to touch? There for the taking? "Repent, and believe this good news." If the fishermen's strange behavior is a model of anything, it is a model of repentance. It is what the Bible says repentance ought to look like. It means this, stop living the way you are, and start living the way you are going to be. It is not here yet, it is "at hand," so you are to start living the way the world is going to be, and live that way until it becomes that. And, you start living ...

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