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2976. The Good, The Bad, And The Justified

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... 't been crooked, he wouldn't have been a tax collector in the first place, for the Romans couldn't get honest people to be their lackeys. The only people who would serve as tax collectors were people who were interested in enriching themselves with little concern for how they did it. The contrast in the parable is not between the real, but hidden, goodness of the tax collector and the real, but hidden, hypocrisy of the Pharisee. Such a construction misses the point. If that were the case, it would not be ...

2977. Out On A Limb

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... had, is nothing less than a miracle of grace. It is, in fact, what salvation is all about. When Jesus says, "Today salvation has come to this house," he is responding to this "blurted out" new self that Zacchaeus has just discovered -- this self that is concerned about justice and restitution. Salvation is becoming who we really are in Christ, and then living that new self out in concrete ways that manifest God's redeeming work in the world. The crowd of good people who grumbled at grace that day don't seem ...

2978. The Importance Of Asking The Right Questions

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... our fasts and our mourning and our moaning about the good old days. Can't we keep on doing this?" But God let them know in no uncertain terms that they had asked the wrong question. "Was it for me you fasted? No, you did it for yourselves. Your concern was not with what I require of you, but with your own agenda. Your religion is a religion designed to make yourself feel better, not a religion designed to please God and enable you to do what God requires. And then comes God's pointed commands about the sort ...

2979. The Lord Is Our Wisdom

Proverbs 1:20-33

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... seek God's will in all we are about day in and day out. Leader: For the more God's light shines in us the greater is God's blessing. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You are the Creator of the Universe, yet Your concern and love for our well-being and Your desire to bless and lead us if we will but follow is wonderful. Use us as a blessing, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have not sought Your will and guidance for our lives because ...

2980. Speak, Lord; We Are Listening

1 Samuel 2:12-26, 1 Samuel 1:21-28

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... of us to serve and be a part of Your kingdom. Lord, help us have the ears to hear Your call and the courage to respond to all that You ask. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, so often we have lived our lives with no concern for any personal call You might have for us. Too often, Lord, we have kept ourselves busy in the world so we would not have time to hear You. Forgive us, Lord, and help us have the courage to stop and listen and seek out Your word. And then, O ...

2981. Praise The Lord!

Psalm 148:13

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... to lose control of at least one "Amen!" or "Halleluia!" or "Praise the Lord!" The difficulty was that she was a perfectly charming person in every other way. When her family joined the church, she took an immediate role in Sunday School, the Social Concerns Committee and the Women's Service Society. She volunteered tirelessly to serve at dinners, help put out mailings, and work at the mealsite for the homeless. Everyone came to know and like her. Many tried, directly or indirectly, in gentle and not-so ...

2982. Love In Action

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

... teenager. It cost him dearly to love the Lord, because his family disinherited him. They did not want a Christian in their traditional Japanese family. Yet, Kagawa persevered in his newfound faith. After years of study in Tokyo, he returned to his hometown of Kobe. He was concerned for the poor of Kobe, so he lived in a six-foot by six-foot hut in one of the worst slums in the world. He worked to establish the first labor union in Japan among shipyard workers. He also founded the Farmer's Union. His efforts ...

2983. Prayer Clothes

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

... question for you is: How do you get from here to there? How do you find your way into the future? Are you going into the future? Maybe the prospects don't look that encouraging to you, just like they did not look encouraging to Jesus. Are you concerned about your health, your very life? Does aging have its grip on you? Is there a medical prognosis that casts the shadow of a cross over you? Do you have financial struggles, either because you have too little or because you want too much? Is money becoming the ...

2984. Made New By Getting Lost

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... holiest of gifts we receive in worship. That is what we do here: give new perspective to problems that have existed from the beginning. Glenn Adsett was a minister in China. He was under house arrest in the late 1940s, waiting to receive word concerning what the communists were going to do with him, his wife, and two children. They said, "You can only take 200 pounds with you." The family went home and began arguing about what to take. The conversation got heated around typewriters, vases, and toys. Finally ...

2985. The Best For Last

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... it up." It is indirect but effective communication. When Mary said, "There is no wine," Jesus was to translate that into: "Do something." Now Jesus does something that truly irritates some people. He answers a question she did not ask. Jesus answers by saying, "What concern is that of yours? My hour has not come." It must have been difficult to communicate with a son whose mind was not present at the party, but was thinking constantly about the inclusive banquet of God. I imagine Mary giving Jesus the look ...

2986. Love One Another (or Strike Up The Band)

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Lee Griess

... God's love, living God's love, loving one another happen when we are connected to God's love, when we allow God's love to surround us, to shape and mold our lives in Jesus' image. In a world all too often filled with people concerned about themselves first, characterized with an impersonal "what's in it for me" attitude, we are called to witness to something more important -- love that gives of itself for others; love that cares about others; love that makes our lives meaningful and significant in giving to ...

2987. Overcoming Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lee Griess

... is the key to dealing with temptation. There is a legend about Monica, the mother of Augustine. She prayed that God would block her son's trip to Italy. Monica, a devout Christian, was worried about her son. She saw him throwing his life away and was concerned that the trip to Rome would only harm him further. She was sure that there he would fall further from God into sinful living and never come to believe in Christ. But while she was praying that God prevent him from traveling there, Augustine sailed off ...

2988. God Doesn't Ask A Fig Tree To Produce Bananas

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lee Griess

... . Even Saint Paul found himself trapped. In Romans 7 Paul writes: It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love to do God's will so far as my new (redeemed Christian) nature is concerned; but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind, I want to be God's willing servant, but instead I ...

2989. Forgiven!

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Lee Griess

... of forgiveness -- forgiveness for what we have done -- and the strength to forgive others. All too many Christians operate with an Old Testament view of God. For them, God is a God of judgment, a God of vengeance and wrath. As far as these Christians are concerned, Jesus need never have come. For they do not need his forgiveness, they do not need God's grace. In one of his books, Alan Paton, the great South African writer, tells a powerful story which takes place before the recent changes in South Africa ...

2990. Same Old, Same Old

John 8:31-41

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... Artist's Look Out, sketching a sunset ... George: Twenty-three years? (Rolls eyes. Telephone rings. George answers.) H'lo. George. George Blankly, Oh, it's you, Tom. Fine. How are you? Trip? With you and Gladys? Bill and Mary? Fishing, eh? Alma: (Looking concerned) When, George, when? George: First weekend of September? That'll be great. Let's do it. Thanks, Tom. Bye. (Hangs up receiver; excitedly) It's all planned! Alma: (Skeptically) What's planned? George: A fishing trip to Montrose in Canada. We're ...

2991. A Man of One Book

Illustration

Michael B. Brown

... ) no book but the Bible." In his preface to Sermons On Several Occasions (1746), he proclaimed again his intention to be "a man of just one book." This, of course, does not mean Wesley decided to become illiterate or uninformed where other writings were concerned. His personal records indicate that he had read from at least 1,400 different authors (with nearly 3,000 separate titles among them). What it did mean (as Albert Outler put it) was that "Wesley lived in the Scriptures and his mind ranged over ...

2992. A Quiet Man · Andrew

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... , fatigued though he was, he could not bring himself to disappoint them. So he preached to them. It was late when the sermon ended, (Mark 6:35) and by then the crowd was hungry. The place where the people had gathered, however, was barren and, genuinely concerned, the disciples urged Jesus to send them away to such villages as they may find to obtain food and lodging before darkness overtook them. (Luke 9:12) Andrew, meanwhile, had struck up an acquaintance with a boy in the crowd; and, learning the lad had ...

2993. A Wilderness Prophet · John The Baptist

Jn 1:6-8 · Mt 3:1-12

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... , until the skein ran out for John. Undoubtedly, there were two reasons for it. First of all, as John's followers multiplied, Herod Antipas became increasingly uneasy. For he saw in John's growing numbers the threat of an insurrection. The concern was not totally groundless, not because John was politically minded but because the times in general were uncertain marked as they were with numerous uprisings stemming from various messianic claims. Consequently, so far as Herod saw John's activities, far from ...

2994. A Woman Of Substance · Mary Magdalene

Lk 8:1-3

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... mystery plays portraying Mary "in league with Lucifer" until the Savior miraculously snatched her from the Evil One's clutches. As a consequence Mary's name became a synonym for the word prostitute. Nothing Jesus ever did or said where Mary was concerned justified the charge. Equally to the point, during the church's first 300 years the Magdalene was highly regarded in its circles. Indeed, wherever scripture or other early Christian writings speak of her she is saluted as one whose presence would grace ...

2995. A Patriot · Dysmas

Mt 27:38 · Mk 15:27 · Lk 23:32

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... ' last earthly hours. (Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27; Luke 23:32) Tradition treats him more kindly. It dignifies him with a name. "Dysmas," it whispers. Nor does tradition stop there. Instead, it presses on to portray Dysmas as a man of great compassion, deeply concerned for the distressed and the downtrodden, who "despised the rich, but did not give to the poor, even burying them" -- no common mercy for the times. I A robber in the eyes of Rome, Dysmas was actually a revolutionary -- a freedom fighter, if you ...

2996. Living In The Resurrection Age

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

... will not be defeated by human sin and evil. The empty tomb is our assurance that God stands in and behind our world, and that God is there to strengthen and uphold anything that is good. The truth of the matter is that God in his great love and concern for us does not give us signs, miracles if you want to call them that. God gives us signs of his presence and work in the ordinary events of our everyday lives. Think of the birth of a child; reflect upon a Sunday school teacher's commitment and enthusiasm ...

2997. The Return Of The Lost

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

... we are confronted with issues that do not touch us personally. We may feel badly about the unemployment and poverty in our community, but if it does not touch us personally, we probably will not try to do very much about it. Of even less concern are starving children in Africa or the working conditions of migrant farm workers. They simply do not attract very much of our attention. And so we remain detached and aloof, responding only to those needs which touch us personally. It seems obvious that modern-day ...

2998. Two Are Better Than One

Ecclesiastes 4:1-12

Sermon

Sandra Herrmann

... of the stories of Jesus, or one of the Psalms, or some story of the Old Testament. And then join your hands and your hearts together, and ask God to guide you, to teach you how to uphold one another. Ask God to bless your partner, and pray for the concerns of your partner. It only takes a few minutes each day, and it will make your marriage strong. You will have that unseen third partner to lean on, and you will grow strong as a result. You will find in time that you will be more accepting of your partner ...

2999. Love Promises: The Eternal Dimension

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Michael L. Thompson

... to your husbands in the same way you submit to the Lord. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. -- Ephesians 5:21-22, 25 Paul had caught the vision of how relationships work best ... always showing concern for that other person's needs and wants ... loving that other person enough to listen and perhaps change to make things better. Paul knew from Christ's example that love in all its beauty has an eternal dimension which we can enjoy. __________ and __________ ...

3000. Answers To Consider

Job 19:1-29

Eulogy

James W. Addy

... that broad sense, we knew that this day would come for ____________. We knew that ____________ would die someday. She faced death by warding off a form of cancer. More recently she confronted the dangers of a stroke. Had any one of a number of health concerns caused her death, we would be gathered as we are to mourn her loss, to cherish fond memories of her, to share our grief, to lament her death. The violent nature of her death has heightened our emotions, and given us new ones. Bewilderment, anger, shame ...

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