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3051. Liking the New and Improving the Old

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... Jesus was a failure and that he, Moon, is the new Messiah. New age would have you believe that they have really good news, "God is within you; inside you and outside you - or wherever you want him to be." Unitarians would boast that theirchief concern is to save bodies, not souls, as Jesus taught. The fact is, there are today those who would push Jesus into antiquity as being outmoded, outdated, and unnecessary; and would attack those who cling to him and his "old truths." They would accuse Christians who ...

3052. Not

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

There is no use in worrying needlessly. Some things you absolutely cannot change. And some things are too ridiculous for us to be concerned about. A Peanuts column shows Charlie Brown saying, "I couldn't sleep last night. I kept worrying about school, and about life, and about everything." Snoopy, the dog, walks away thinking, "I didn't sleep well either. All night long I kept worrying that the moon was going to fall ...

3053. Of Backs and Cracks

1 Corinthians 8:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... that we teach boys and girls about Jesus. We teach about Jesus by doing good for them and not by trying to prove everything that we think is right and making them angry. St. Paul had things like this happen to him. He told all the Christians to be very concerned about people who did not know Jesus and to help them learn without making them mad. You and I have to do the same thing. Don't try to always be right about everything when you know it makes others mad. Listen to them and try to understand them and ...

3054. For Thine Is The Kingdom, And The Power, And The Glory For E

Matthew 6:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... knows everyone and knows them better than their best friends do. That is the reason we feel so great when we finish talking to God. We say, "Thine is the kingdom, power and glory." That is especially why we say, "Amen," because we mean that as far as we are concerned we are willing to leave it all up to God to see that everything turns out okay. Can you imagine what it might be like to stand in front of God someday and wave a banner and tell Him how much you love Him and what a great job He ...

3055. Sight And Insight

John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... against him. He healed on the sabbath and he kneaded dust and saliva. Both of these were violations of Mosaic law. Of course, they were legally correct, but they were blind to the need and to compassion. For them the law was more important than human concerns. Give God the Praise (v. 24). The Pharisees ordered the healed man to "give God the praise." This was a customary oath taken before giving testimony. It is similar to our asking witnesses "to tell the truth, the whole truth. So help me God." Too (v ...

3056. Fish Miracle

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... long and eight miles wide, 680 feet below sea level. Jesus' Galilean ministry was centered around the lake. Capernaum, his headquarters, was located on the sea. The gospels tell us that Jesus often crossed the lake as he pursued his ministry. Today's miracle concerns Peter, who is known through church history as "the Big Fisherman." It was the occasion for him to have a change of career, from catching fish to catching people for Christ. To this day restaurants located on or near the Sea of Galilee serve ...

3057. It's A Small World After All

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... of the former Yugoslavia, but do we know what the Serbs are like or the Croats? It is a small world, and getting smaller, but that does not automatically mandate keener knowledge of other people, nor build a deeper interest in other nations, nor sensitize a concern for much beyond our own family and tribe. Yet there is in the faith surrounding Jesus Christ a universal-mindedness. It does not come naturally, for we frighten too easily. But Jesus Christ calls us to be a single body of humanity created in the ...

3058. How To Become What You Are

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Erskine White

... 5:1-2). Imitate God as best you can. Keep playing your role in life like Christ, as you continue to become the Christian God has already made you to be. What does this mean in practical terms, in terms of daily living? It's very simple. Be concerned for your neighbor and not just for yourself. Do not return evil for evil, but forgive those who hurt you. Be generous toward others, seeking to serve rather than be served. Do you store up riches on earth, but store up treasures in heaven. As you pass through ...

3059. A Letter From Paul

Sermon

Erskine White

... is not just a season for personal repentance and renewal, it is a season for national repentance and social renewal as well. In such a great and prosperous society as yours, can not selfishness surrender to community? Can not callousness be replaced with concern? Can not the ravages of rapacious greed be overcome by the power of redeeming love? I will show you a still more excellent way. If I create riches beyond antiquity’s wildest dreams; if I span the globe with my corporations, employing thousands ...

3060. The Strength To Wait

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Erskine White

... succumbed to that seductive siren song and gone deep in dept. Now they will spend years digging themselves out from under their debts, all because they had a hard time waiting. Having to wait can also be a problem in our spiritual lives, which is what I'm more concerned with this morning. We come to God in prayer, and we want instant communion with Him. We ask God for something, and we want it from Him immediately. We seek God's direction for our lives or God's guidance on a decision we have to make and we ...

3061. Who Is Your King?

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... from the teachings and example of Jesus. But it isn’t Jesus’ tactics in the temple or His tactics against the priests and lawyers that get Him killed. It isn’t even the controversy over whether He is the Messiah. Those are Jewish religious questions which are of no concern to Rome. No, what sends Jesus to the cross is one question, and one question only. It is asked by Pilate later in the week when Jesus is on trial for His life: "Are you the king of the Jews?" To claim oneself king of Israel is to ...

3062. Is It I, Lord?

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Erskine White

... and true. His will endures forever and His love will never die. Even tonight, Jesus is singing a hymn as He leaves the Upper Room, and tomorrow, He will forgive those who put Him to death. No, I'm more worried about you and me tonight. I'm more concerned that we live with the question the disciples asked so long ago. We have come to the time of shadows, the night of darkness. This is no time for easy promises or selfcongratulation or glib claims of glory. It is a time for soul searching. "One of you will ...

3063. A Chosen Race?

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

Erskine White

... was not helpful to her to think of God as Father because her own father had been cold and distant from her as a child. She said she was closer to her mother and that therefore, she preferred to think of God as Mother. The second objection concerned the picture of heaven Jesus painted. One pastor criticized the passage because he said he really doesn't know if he still believes in heaven. Finally, there was firm objection to Jesus' saying, "I am the way ... no one comes to God but by Me." Several ministers ...

3064. Ashamed Of The Gospel

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Erskine White

... 't even know all the questions. Nor am I ashamed of the simple good news of Jesus Christ; I find in Jesus the wisdom of the ages for our world today." Some of us are ashamed to talk about what we believe, at least insofar as religion is concerned. Why, we'll tell anyone who will listen what we think about politics or Hollywood divorces or the behavior of the neighbor down the street, but we are silent on the subject of faith! When was the last time you shared your Christian faith with someone else? When ...

3065. When God Is Silent

Psalm 35:1-28

Sermon

Erskine White

... pressures of events in our lives can create spiritual barriers. Our minds are too distracted to pray and our ears are too full of noise to hear God when He speaks. Sometimes the barrier we face is our own worldliness, the sheer weight of our worldly cares and concerns. Other barriers to God can be of our own making. I mean: we can't constantly be doing evil things or thinking evil thoughts and then suddenly turn to hear God's voice in prayer. Communion with God is not something we can turn on and off like ...

3066. Pie in The Sky

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... act. He doesn't want us to use our faith in Him as a reason not to act. He will take care of the future in His own time and only God can know the day or the hour. In the meantime, we have the "here and now" to be concerned with and Jesus wants us to get busy. In every nation and every era, there must always come a time when "pie in the sky" religion is shown to be the unChristian religion it really is. Such a time came to Italy in the early 1950s, when the country was ...

3067. Our God Delivers!

Daniel 3:1-30

Sermon

Erskine White

... or Americans or Iranians just decide one day to lay down their weapons in the name of survival? Any student of human nature has to say "no." Any student of history has to know that human rationality is not our salvation. My concern is that as Christians, we have too often let secular points of view determine our attitudes toward peace. Conservative Christians adopt the secular view of "Peace Through Strength." Liberal Christians adopt the secular view of "Peace Through Disarmament." We cannot do this ...

3068. The Vanities Of Work

Ecc 2:1-26

Sermon

Erskine White

... work is our common lot in life, our legacy as children of Adam and Eve. It is so basic that the Preacher's question can speak to every restless heart and hungry spirit: "What do we gain from our labors under the sun?" I. The world offers various bargains concerning work and the Preacher says that he tried them all. He started with the first and most familiar one: "Work to buy the good life. Do your own thing, because after all, life is to enjoy." The Preacher's first reason for working is old, yet very new ...

3069. God's Gift Of Life

Psalm 139:1-24

Sermon

Erskine White

... lives deserve? Do we give all people the love they deserve - born and unborn, friend and foe, neighbor and stranger? Do we love justice, practice mercy and walk humbly with our God, who gives each life its worth? "Respect for life" is more than a slogan for people concerned about abortion. It is an ethic for all of life, from the womb to the tomb. Who are we but witnesses in awesome wonder to all the worlds God's hands have made? Who are we but grateful recipients of a mystery we cannot grasp? What can we ...

3070. Good Soldiers, Bad Wars

Joshua 11:1-23, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Erskine White

... trusted in your chariots,and in the multitude of your warriors,therefore the tumult of war shallarise among your people, and allyour fortresses shall be destroyed.(Hosea 10:13) III. Our nation has it all wrong insofar as things military are concerned. We should be celebrating our soldiers and condemning war. Instead, we condemn our soldiers and celebrate war. Oh, I know we often hear politicians and business leaderspraising the courage and sacrifice of our soldiers. But wheneverI hear those speeches, I want ...

3071. A Thankful Heart

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Erskine White

... have a lot to be thankful for and a lot of "thank yous" to give away, when we think about our lives like that. We also have a larger lesson to remember - a larger reason to give thanks -- because every time we receive a gift of caring or concern from someone else, we receive that gift from God. The friendly smile from the stranger, the cheerful service at the crowded checkout counter, the doctor who goes out of her way to make you feel at ease, the loved one who makes an important sacrifice for you: these ...

3072. Together In Christ

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Erskine White

... here in nature, or on the golf course! I can worship God by watching the preachers on television." Just the other day, as I was in the gym lifting weights, I heard someone say that working out in the gym is like going to church as far as he is concerned. "I can worship God right here," he said. Of course, many people are shut-in or home-bound and cannot get out to church, so they very well can worship God privately at home, perhaps even in front of the TV set. But if seventy-five percent of the American ...

3073. Sing A New Song

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Erskine White

... beliefs about God and our salvation in Jesus Christ. These are under attack today, from a secular society and even from within the church! We should cling to the foundations of our faith and see that they are never changed. But too often, Christians aren't concerned enough about basic issues like that. Instead, what do many churches really get upset about when it comes to change? They don't want a new color carpet in the sanctuary. They don't want the communion changed. Why? Because "We've never done it ...

3074. Let Your Light Shine

2 Corinthians 4:6

Children's Sermon

... certain that they had all the things they needed. They took snacks. They wore good shoes for hiking. They took water in canteens. Finally they began their hike. It wasn't a very long hike. It was just on the edge of town in a woods, so they weren't concerned that they would get lost. They walked and walked. They came to the woods. They entered the woods. They stopped for a snack. Then they continued to walk. Before they realized what time it was, the sun set. It started to get dark. Soon it was so dark that ...

3075. Dirty Hands! Clean Heart

Mark 7:2

Children's Sermon

... about today's lesson. It is important to clean up after we get dirty playing. Jesus wants us to know that there is something even more important than cleaning our hands. It is making sure that our hearts are clean. Our hearts are clean when we love others and are concerned for others. The old woman in my story wasn't always clean on the outside. She was clean on the inside. That's the way Jesus wants us to be - clean on the inside.

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