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3026. And Now For Something Completely Different

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... read, and then wad up the pages representing the things they wanted to get out of their lives, and to place them in a large ceramic pot which someone brought around to each one. It was interesting to note that some dropped in their wadded paper thoughtfully - almost reluctantly. A few did so with some self-conscious tears. A few slammed their wad into the pottery jar with energy and determination. Then the worship leader stood before them and held aloft the heavy ceramic jar in both hands, and led the group ...

3027. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... other universities was that, if possible, a cap belonging to the subject of the study - in this case John Knox - would be given to the person being honored, if such a cap could be found. In that way the honoree would have something personal, imbued at least in thought, by a sense of the man who had once worn it. But the only cap of John Knox that anyone knew about had already been presented to someone else years before. However the university did possess a pair of trousers that had once belonged to Knox, so ...

3028. The Tree of the Cross

Mark 15:33-41

Children's Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... as the last piece of our banner? Right it tells us how Jesus died. The other signs on the banner are all pictures of creatures who were there, creatures who in some way help us to think about Jesus’ life, suffering, and death. (If time permits, briefly review the thought behind each of the six symbols). But now we add the Cross because it was the thing on which Jesus died. Yes, he loved us so much, he went to the Cross to die for us, so that God would forgive our sins. That makes the Cross very important ...

3029. When God Was Nothing

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... form of human flesh. What was the attitude of God's Son when Christmas was conceived in the mind of the Father? Paul wants to use this thought but he doesn't know how to say it. So what does he do? He turns to one of the Hymns of the church. If you will ... Edward bought a camera and took 50 photos. Only one turned out -- a portrait of his sister at the piano. Edward's father thought that was a poor showing. But his mother insisted that the photograph of his sister was so beautiful that it more than compensated ...

3030. The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , because it suddenly dawned on him that he had broken two commandments. He had murdered, committed, adultery and coveted the possessions of his neighbor. We think the things that we covet will bring us happiness, but they will not. I would conclude this sermon with these thoughts. The Law was a gift from God just as the Messiah was a gift from God. Jesus himself said that he did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill the law. Jesus affirmed the Ten Commandments time and again by defining their original ...

3031. The Ten Commandments - Part 4

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... it suddenly dawned on him that he had broken two commandments. He had murdered, committed, adultery and coveted the possessions of his neighbor. We think the things that we covet will bring us happiness, but they will not. I would conclude this series with this thought. The Law was a gift from God just as the Messiah was a gift from God. Jesus himself said that he did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill the law. Jesus affirmed the Ten Commandments time and again by defining their original intent ...

3032. Peter Becomes the Rock

Drama

G. Franklin Gray

... Come in, John. Lock the door. John Have you heard from Jesus? Peter No, not yet. Most of us have seen him. John We were hard to convince. We wouldn’t believe Mary of Magdalene. Peter At first, she thought he was a gardener. And on the country road, Cleopas and Simon thought he was just another traveler. They told him all about the trial and crucifixion before they recognized him. (Spotlight on Jesus, standing on riser, stage left. Peter moves into the light and kneels before Jesus.) Jesus Peace be with ...

3033. Nazareth: The Hidden Years

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... It’s a good place to raise children." What do you think they said about Nazareth? Joseph and Mary might have reasoned that they had family nearby - kin who would make life secure. And perhaps there wasn’t much more to say, and I doubt that they thought much about it. If they had, they might have felt uncomfortable about raising Jesus in Nazareth. As we read on in the New Testament, we discover that it was one of those towns that evoked laughter. "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" the saying went ...

3034. The Jericho Road: Where the Action Is

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... for thirty years before I ever saw it for myself. And when I did see it, it was just a little bit of a letdown. I thought of the Jericho Road as the place where Jesus was confronted by a blind beggar, or where, on the edge of the city, He met and ... Jericho Road was such a place. Life was teeming along this road, and some of it was pretty ugly. God was not often in people’s thoughts, except as a curse or a desperate prayer. It was a place where there was so much of earth’s action and of hell’s action ...

3035. What God Requires of Us

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... we weighed them down with the keeping of the Law and we did nothing to help relieve that burden. Caiaphas: Why, keeping the Law is the way men earn Yahweh’s favor. It is a great honor and privilege to keep the Law. Am I not right, Nicodemus? Nicodemus: (thoughtfully) Perhaps there are some misguided leaders who have turned the Law into a burden. But I am not sure. Obed: Listen, that man is dangerous! He has to be stopped! He told all the people that our style of dress and the keeping of the Law of Moses ...

3036. Jesus Christ, the Truth

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... I was saying, he is to come offering peace and justice to all men, Jew and Gentile alike. He doesn’t want to set up some kind of earthly kingdom, but he wants all the kingdoms of the world to rule in justice, in mercy, and in compassion. Pilate: Noble thoughts. Grand ideas. But we already have that with Rome, don’t we? Ruth: May I speak freely, my Lord? Pilate: Please do. Ruth: If Rome stands on the side of justice; if it stands for mercy; if men are to be governed fairly; if the bonds of slavery are ...

3037. Jesus the Hope of the World

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... All right, give us the password, and then we can give it to you and then you can let us in. Thomas: (He goes to the door, reaches out to open it, and stops suddenly.) Pretty tricky. Thought you would get me. I know; you have to answer the following questions. First, which one of the apostles was so arrogant, so cocky, and thought he was so full of faith that he could walk on water, but wound up having to be saved by the Master? (Thomas laughs out loud.) Peter: It was me - Peter. Thomas: Okay. Now, which of ...

3038. A Reed Who Became a Rock

John 1:35-42

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... of the beggar arose. Peter looked down and said, "Silver and gold have I none ..." Imagine the man’s heart beginning to drop: "If you don’t have any silver or gold, why did you bother to stop?" He didn’t say that, but I’m sure he must have thought it. Then Peter added, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, give I unto thee." And stretching forth his right hand, he continued, "in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up - and walk!" And he who had never walked, who had never even stepped ...

3039. John Wesley: Religion of the Heart

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... be a preacher. Still, there was no heart in it! It was stiff, formal, and cold. There was no connection between the words read in the Bible and said during worship and what happened out in the world. Wesley even began to doubt he was saved. He thought he might just be going through intellectual exercises. He feared his faith was not whole-hearted. So this man added to Luther’s "justification by grace through faith only" heart and action. He saw the need to feel religion and do religion as evidence that he ...

3040. Repentance and Forgiveness

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... . That is my commission, too. And so I come to you with a message of repentance and forgiveness. I do not know about you, but I grew up with the idea that repentance was a kind of deep sorrow over my sins. "I have sinned against you, dear Lord, in thought, word, and deed." That is how my prayers of repentance often began. "I’m sorry," I continued. "I promise I’ll do better. I promise I’ll change." That is how many of my prayers of repentance went. I said I was sorry and I counted on my willpower to ...

3041. Finding the Truth That Makes Us Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... you will know the truth ..." III. "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." Martin Luther was a diligent seeker after truth. Unfortunately, truth and the freedom it brings eluded him, because, at first, his search took him down the wrong path. He thought to find it through the practice of good works, like other devout Christians of his day. When a bolt of lightning felled him, he called on Saint Anne, patron saint of miners, for help and made a vow to become a monk. He selected a monastic ...

3042. When Things Don’t Work Out, What Then?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... in Christ, this narrative about David’s child brings home to us two insights most clearly: for one thing, deeply imbedded in Old Testament thought is the idea of the God whose sense of justice causes him to repay every man for his deeds; for another thing, sin takes ... ; but as soon as he died, you got up and ate!" "Yes," David answered, "I did fast and weep while he was still alive. I thought that the Lord might be merciful to me and not let the child die. But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Could ...

3043. What Is God Like?

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... you use the word God, you mean power, creative power, then there is no argument about the existence of that. Everywhere you can see the evidence of creative power sweeping through our universe and out beyond the margins of the stars and the frontiers of thought. The haunting questions that confront us when we look into the face of a newborn baby or into the blackness of an open grave is this: Does that power care about us? What is that power like? In answer to that question, Christian faith accepts Christ ...

3044. How Can We Foretell the Future?

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... that he was the architect, the chief builder, of the Temple in Jerusalem. Solomon realized that each person is the architect of his own future. In a collection of proverbs ascribed to him are these words: "Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts" (Proverbs 4:23, TEV). To a larger extent than we often realize, each of us walks into his dreams. Those dreams are the dominant concerns in our minds. As John Burroughs said: "If you have a thing in mind, it is not long before you have it ...

3045. You Can Depend on It

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... together in our cars. Behind them are the thousands of workers who made them. And we could hardly count the millions of other parts in other cars that pass by. We know why we depend on them. Sit back and reflect. All the things we depend on without any thought given them make our lives models of trust. To keep our country running we all keep faith in the dollar. We do not stop to think, but we depend on a few important people not to push the panic button and start a nuclear war. Scientists depend on nature ...

3046. Noise Is Anything That Corrupts the Integrity of a Message

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... to read and evaluate. He kept it for a long time. Finally, we met for lunch so I could hear his comments. Naturally, as a writer I was eager for a critique. We talked about the weather for quite a while. Finally, I said, "Well, tell me what you thought of my manuscript." He said, "I read a few paragraphs and since I couldn’t figure out where you were going with it, I didn’t read on." He tried only to see in the material what he could read easily and understand readily. When this was not forthcoming ...

3047. Who Knows?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... was there. What a surprise when he found himself right in the belly of the whale, as if he were swallowed up by his problems. I wonder what went through his mind. Prayer for one thing, a beautiful prayer. But other than that, what about his more nearly human thoughts. "Well, Jonah, you didn’t get very far, did you?" "This is it." "Don’t you wish you had ..." No doubt he had once felt secure in managing his own life. What control could he bring to bear inside a whale? Who could imagine there would be a ...

3048. Confronting Hypocrisy With Humility (I)

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , on the night he took the bread and broke it, took a servants apron, tied it upon his waste, knelt before the disciples and washed their feet. That was the incarnation of full humility. And so let me caution you that humility does not negate critical thought or moral clarity. Christ called the actions of Judas that evening an act of betrayal. He did not allow treachery to go unnoticed. Let me settle for you once and for all that Christians are not supposed to be judgmental; rather, we are to judge rightly ...

3049. The Parable of the Talents - Sermon Starter

Matthew 25:14-30

Illustration

Brett Blair

... all the same. There are some people who can handle five talents, there are some who can handle only one. There are some persons who have great intellectual capabilities, and some who do not. There are some who have the ability to project and articulate their thoughts, and there are some who cannot. There are some who have physical prowess and attractive looks, and there are some who do not. The important thing to remember is that each servant was given something. No one was left idle. You may not be a five ...

3050. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... gifts, start giving some of our one talent sums of money. Simply stirred up what we already have. III To me, however, neither of these reasons really gets to the heart of the issue. I really think that the one talent man did nothing with his talent because he thought to himself: Well, my one little talent won’t make any difference anyway. There are a lot of people who feel that way today. I dare say if you took a poll of why people don’t vote, that would be the answer given most: Well, my one little ...

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