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3051. God of the Weekday

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... grinding machinery of the factory, among the clinking coins of the bank. God is now, on Sunday. We’ve assigned the day to Him. But He is not there on Monday. Of course, when we pause to think and get rational about it, we know that God is present, thought of our thought, light of our light, life of our life. He is the sum total and source of our existence. But, beloved, how often do we pause to think? For most of us, God is still God of the hilltop and not God of the plain of daily living. And the ...

3052. Everyone Has a Somebody

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... out, and pulled the car up to the grocery pick-up area, waiting for the young man to bring our groceries for loading. We had no more than pulled up to wait when an impatient fellow parked behind us, and began honking his horn. I paid little attention. I thought he was honking at someone else. He kept it up. Finally, I looked through the rear-view mirror and saw him shaking his fist at me. I stuck my head out the car window. "Hey!" he yelled. "Can’t you read signs? Get that (expletive deleted) car of yours ...

3053. Mission Accomplished!

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... the dead, where is he now?" The Ascension is proof positive that our Lord’s mission impossible was completed. He is with God. The Bible talks about heaven. Christ talked about heaven, too. His Ascension is the final sign and seal to us that heaven is not just a thought-up pious daydream. Pie in the sky, bye and bye. Heaven is for real. Our Lord announced it himself. "Let not your hearts be troubled, believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have ...

3054. Joseph

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... too much new wine. I lay upon my bed, my face hot with tears, my body racked in agony and sweat. Over and over again I asked: whose child? whose Child? ... I could not even pray! God was making a fool of me. Jehovah, God, had tricked me, I thought. Whose child? If Mary’s unbelievable story was true, she and the child belonged in Jerusalem, the Holy City, her home the very Temple; not in the home of a carpenter. If it was not true, if I had some earthly rival, there was still ... still ... the child, the ...

3055. Mary, the Mother of Jesus

John 19:17-27

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to me. "Woman, behold your son." That meant that I should take care of John and then he said to John, "Behold, your mother." I will never forget how much I loved Jesus right then. He was dying a terrible death and still he thought about others like John and me. That’s the way that Jesus always thought. I know that God had a greater plan. God’s son was Jesus and he wanted to show the world how much he loved everyone in it. He wanted to show men that death was not the end of life. He wanted people ...

3056. The Crowd That Mocked Him

Matthew 27:27-31

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... here. Ask me and I will tell you. The reason that we have brought Jesus with us is because someone said that he was a king. I thought that all of you would like to see what a king looks like. [Say it in a very mocking tone.] This is a king. How many ... told them to beat him, so they beat him. The commanding officer told them to take him away, so they brought him to us for what they thought would be a little fun. Did you have fun? Did you make fun of Jesus? People still do this today with the way they talk and ...

3057. The Preparers

Luke 1:57-66

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... will have any lasting effect. John definitely used the bold approach on many occasions. Often it bordered on intrusion. His truth was sharp and pointed. His words hammered to the very heart of the matter, He would not be brushed aside. He thought bold new thoughts and spoke forcefully of his beliefs. He was a disturber, an intruder. He waded into the stagnation of the status quo. He arrested the attention of those he brushed against. John’s very presence left others with an uneasiness about themselves. By ...

3058. The Forgotten

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... was beyond any hope of repair. We were all sad. It was almost as if we had lost an old friend who could not be replaced. There would no longer be a Joseph in this scene, but then, as someone remarked, he really wasn’t a central figure anyway. I thought about that for a while and became a little upset over just how easily we have forgotten and ignored this very special man of the Nativity. He could indeed be absent from most of our scenes at Christmas and few would even miss him. I suppose this fact is ...

3059. The Testing Law Man

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... would not involve the public’s arousal. And the sentence was meted out per the custom of this day. I really had not meant to say so much. Perhaps you are a strong Christian - and my words offend you. It seems that so many are turning to the revolutionary thoughts of this man. But, no matter. I am a loyal citizen. I condemn those who are not. Yet - I must admit that in the moments of my deepest reflections, I wonder. When I am alone - with only my conscience and my training, I ponder. Is the intricacy of ...

3060. THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

... some unfulfilled wants of his own for his children - their growth and development in lives of holiness. "This is the will of God, your sanctification." 1. THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD: THE SANCTIFICATION OF YOUR THOUGHTS. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." "Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication. These are what defile a man." Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep the birds of the air from flying overhead, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair." The ancients ...

3061. Crowned With Victory

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... and life’s meaning changed completely. The words Jesus spoke to his disciples only a few days earlier in the Upper Room were now stamped indelibly across every person’s life: "Because I live, you will live also." Let us try to capture the feelings and thoughts of those first disciples prior to Easter morning. It is hard for us to imagine what it would be like to see our closest and truest friend seized as a criminal, condemned to death unjustly, and then nailed to a wooden cross. What chills must have ...

3062. Back To Basics: The Three R's of Baptism

Mark 1:1-8, Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... in elementary school. Our parents and teachers understand the importance of building a strong foundation for a child's future. So, we were taught the basics, the three R's: Reading, writing, and arithmetic. Ever notice that only one of those begins with an R. I always thought the fellow that came up with that one needed to go back to school. As parents and teachers and leaders today we would do well to remember that life is still composed of basics. That is why, when Mark chose to open his Gospel, he did so ...

3063. Something Good Can Come From Nazareth

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Brett Blair

... sooner had they fallen asleep than a big fat cat snuck up and gobbled them up. As he sat washing his face after his meal, he thought, "I love baskin' robins." Will we be people who have eaten so much of God's good food that we sit and bask? Or, will ... read his map. So, he said he would escort me to the Catholic Church. I hurriedly dressed, thinking all the while what an unusually thoughtful person he was. I wondered what church he belonged to. "As we walked along I asked him about his church. He said that his ...

3064. Everyone Is Searching For You

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Brett Blair

... have been healed. When he was in the wilderness, people back in town were suffering. Jesus didn’t even meet the needs of one percent of the people in Palestine during his three years. Why? It wasn’t his goal. But Simon thought it was. At least at this moment, Simon thought it was the goal. Charles R. Swindoll, in his book “Dropping Your Guard” tells of Flight 401 bound for Miami from New York City with a load of holiday passengers. As the huge aircraft approached the Miami Airport for its landing, a ...

3065. Confrontation in the Temple

John 2:12-25

Sermon

George Bass

... challenging the very system of religion that had evolved in the worship that occurred within the Temple, had to be the work of a religious fanatic or a madman. Those who saw Jesus go into action that day when he cleansed the Temple must have thought him mad. Many of the onlookers would have concurred with Mother Miriam Ruth. When Dr. Livingston, the psychiatrist, said, "But you can try, can’t you? To be good (and thus attain some measure of sanctity)," she replied "Oh, yes, but goodness has very little ...

3066. When the Guest Becomes the Host

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

George Bass

... is their job, not the government’s, and were deeply distressed by poor people, and, in the future, would give part of their salary to charity. But 80 percent of them did not understand the "emphasis of forgiveness in Christianity;" only about 50 percent of them "thought that forgiveness is meaningful to them." Perhaps they have no consciousness of sin in their lives or the role that the cross has to play in the forgiveness of sin. And so, it is at the Table of the Lord, through Mark’s story of that ...

3067. The Passing of the Peace

John 20:24-31

Sermon

George Bass

... Star Trek" to move people from one place to another. One moment they were talking to one another, trying to understand what had happened, and the next thing they knew Jesus was standing there in their midst. They couldn’t believe their eyes; they must have thought that they were seeing a ghost. This just couldn’t be happening - but it was. Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Peace be with you." They not only saw him, they heard him speak. Their ears confirmed what their eyes had told them - Jesus was actually ...

3068. The Man Who Asked For Dinner

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

George Bass

... episode) invited him to stay for supper." Webb asked him his name and he answered, "Mr. Immanuel." As we know, Immanuel means "God-with-us." Wheaton Webb concludes the story this way: "Presently he said his thanks and was off on his lonely journey that has no ending. And I thought: He still goes on his way, the hungry man, Mr. God-with-us, in his shabby coat, and always a look in his eyes as if he would go further. But when he had gone, my heart began to burn within me, and I had no doubt that Cleopas and ...

3069. The Final Farewell

Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

George Bass

... for catalogues, searching for something that was permanently lost. It was the last of the dream that had finally perished under the yellow cloud. I use the word ‘failure’ in a worldly sense only. He was not a failure as a man. He reared a son ... He was kind and thoughtful ... I will merely say he had had a great genius for love and that his luck was very bad. He was not fitted for life under the yellow cloud. He knew it, yet played out his role there to the end...." In his turn, Jesus said of himself ...

3070. On His Way

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... to the point of tears. As Weatherhead spoke to him as tenderly as he knew how about God and religion, he was interrupted by these words: "Preacher, I have led a very busy life. I have never had time for that sort of thing." Weatherhead thought to himself, "You have had over 4,000 Sundays." We all have time. Did we turn back because we do not have answers to some difficult questions? Martin Niemoeller was a German pastor who was confined to a concentration camp for eight years. Shortly before Christmas ...

3071. Advent: Lament, Repent

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... of a manger scene, what if were visited by the Ancient of Days? We lit the first candle on the Advent wreath, but did not think of the consuming fire of God’s anger. Our thoughts leap ahead to evergreens, while the more appropriate sign this day is a barren fig tree. Isaiah’s question remains at the center of our life together - "... In our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?" How, then, shall we be saved? It is a ...

3072. All Together

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... and visualize the Spirit being present. Community can be wonderful! These first two concepts (the difficulty and wonder of community) are captured in just a few words by Richard John Neuhaus: The best understanding, of course, is that which holds in one thought the majesty of the Church catholic and the troublesome little band of people at Third Methodist. The communal intuition on which they act may not be legitimated by the Christian teaching they hear. As mentioned before, in that teaching the Church may ...

3073. A Prayer of Wonder

2 Samuel 7:18-29

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... uniting and beginning to prosper; and now Jerusalem had become the religious center. David now ponders it all. This portion of the narrative - 2 Samuel 7:18-29 - is referred to as "David’s Prayer." It is a chance to reflect, a chance to pause for thought, a time to sort everything out. Good prayer - nourishing prayer - will do that. All of us need to take time to pause and reflect, to "center ourselves down," and really listen to our lives. David’s prayer is a natural response to the promises that had ...

3074. Francis of Assisi

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... delighted to learn that your vineyards have been thriving and that you are prospering. To think that you donate the sacramental wine for worship in the churches all over the district! That must give you a feeling of satisfaction. You asked if I had any regrets or second thoughts about having chosen the life I have. When I was young, I might have. But no longer. There is much to do. I’m more and more persuaded that the world will change when people in it know and listen to the teachings of our Lord. There ...

3075. A Mountain Of Meaning

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , came the replies. “But who do you say I am?” Jesus asked. You remember Peter’s answer? “You are the Christ. The Son of the living God.” Also at this time Herod had learned about Jesus and he thought Jesus was John the Baptist back from the dead. Herod had John beheaded and now thought he was coming back to get him. So all these questions are surfacing about the identity of Jesus. There should be no question that his disciples are having their doubts. And so, Jesus takes his inner circle up a ...

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