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3076. Worthwhile Arguments

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Richard Patt

... elevator up to the seventh floor at St. Joseph Hospital. An elderly couple were already aboard. During our entire ride they were arguing about whether the person they were going to visit had entered the hospital a week ago on a Monday or Tuesday! I thought to myself, "What a worthless argument!" "What were you arguing about on the road?" Much of our arguing reminds me of a little syndicated column in our daily newspaper, called "Trivia Corner." It’s a list of five questions each day, designed to have you ...

3077. Then He Went Home

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... would get better. They got worse. The friends and relatives tried to explain to the people, "He is beside himself" (3:21). The scribes said, "He is possessed!" (3:22). "Perhaps he will just ignore this insult and let things quiet down," his friends and relatives thought. Jesus hit the criticism head-on with special words which have affected us ever since he spoke them. "How can Satan cast out Satan?" Jesus asked. "I have come to clean up the house of the human soul," he said in effect. "The first thing to ...

3078. The Kingdom And The Seed

Mark 4:4-20; 30-32

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... again I tried to break through it because, if I did not, there would be no chance for the roots of the tree to spread. I thought I had broken through the rock well enough for the tree to grow. Unfortunately, a year after planting it, the tree shriveled and died. Some people ... categories, but to encourage openness for the Word, to be good soil. Chances are that as I retold this parable, you thought of people you know, perhaps in your family or among your friends, who are like * the hard path; * the rocky ground ...

3079. Divine Alka-Seltzer

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

... suffering. He says in our passage, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." The implication is very clear: Jesus suffers, and so must his followers. Jesus suffers to serve, and we must suffer to serve, too. The thought is not exactly thrilling. But things get worse. When we turn to Paul’s words for this day, we read that we are to rejoice in our sufferings. Paul says that he boasts in those things which press in upon him and make his life miserable. If a ...

3080. God's Verdict Upon The World (Looking At The World Through The Eyes of God)

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... ahead. The age of enlightenment promised through science, medicine, industry to usher mankind into a utopian society. Indeed it looked like it might actually happen and then WWI slipped in to dash these hopes. Nationalism reared its ugly head and brought man’s head down in shame. The thought then after the war was that it was the war to end all wars. One last final dying breath of man’s inhumanity to man. We had gotten it out of our soul. We had washed our hands of the dirty business of war. Now we were ...

3081. Cultural Revolution or Spiritual Problem?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... no meaning at all if we do not also preach sin. To fail to preach sin is to place an obstacle in the way of the Gospel. It’s a mistake to make light of sin. Our Lord Jesus thought it was pretty serious stuff. In fact, from some of his miracles one gets the distinct impression that he thought it was our greatest problem. Jesus always forgave sin first and then healed sickness. As bad as infirmity is, sin is far worse, because sin kills. Instead of addressing the real problem of sin, we have developed a ...

3082. Jesus Knows Everything! Jesus Is God!

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... knows all our needs even before we ask him (Matthew 6:8). King David was very much aware of how personally and completely God knew him. He confessed, "O Lord, you have examined me and you know me. You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts. You see me, whether I am working or resting, when I rise up and when I sit down. You know all my actions. Even before I speak you already know what I will say ... Your knowledge of me is overwhelming; it is too deep for me to understand." God ...

3083. How Can You Tell When People Are Religious?

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... into someone’s heart? For this reason, Jesus told us to be very careful about judging others. Religion that happens in the heart first and then on the sleeve was a very new teaching for the people who heard the Lord. It required changes in the way they thought about their religion and some people hate it when changes are made. Jesus admitted it was a new teaching. He called it, "new wine for fresh skins." It was all part of the new covenant, the new agreement, he came to make between God and humanity. Our ...

3084. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ’t let anyone disturb me. I am going back to the storeroom to worry." After locking himself in, he would get out his worry cards. This one had already solved itself. This one was not important. These he discarded. There were always a few cards that needed some thought. He worked through these and went out, a free man ready to do one thing at a time. But worry can go much deeper than this. During the Second World War many of the young men of my congregation were overseas. Some of them lost their lives. I ...

3085. Overcoming Loneliness

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... student was lonely and his heart was heavy. His mind was divided, one side at war with the other. Good and Evil were in a constant tug-of-war for the possession of his soul. Suddenly Jesus was sitting there in the room. Quietly he spoke, saying, "You thought of me, and so I am here." The student could see that Jesus really believed that he had great potential, and that he would back him up. Thinking deeply, the student whispered, "I will begin again; it’s all right now." The next day the vulgar pictures ...

3086. Faith As Healing Energy

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... such impeccable logic that if I had started where he started I would have come out where he came out. But my presuppositions were quite different. After speaking for an hour and a half, Dr. Ayers paused, took off his glasses, and looked at us. A new thought seemed to enter his mind. He said, almost in a whisper, "But I cannot compete with you. I have no hope." Imagine declaring one’s life commitment so forcefully, and then admitting that it is no good. "I have no hope" is a devastating admission. Look at ...

3087. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... " Peter had already received a reprimand from Jesus (8:32-33). Now the brothers - maybe to spite Peter - came forward, emboldened to ask for special appointments in the Kingdom: "one at your right hand and one at your left." It was a modest request (they thought). Leadership Before us is a case study in leadership models, especially leadership in the church. As a member of a seminary faculty, I see the issue daily. Jesus made it clear to James and John: Special appointments are not handed out as though by a ...

3088. And It Came To Pass

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... history. This is the frame of reference within which the early church lived and breathed. In the end it was the parousia, the event of Christ coming in glory. Things of earth would pass away. This would be the final reckoning, the ultimate judgment. I always thought, as have most Anglo-Saxons, that the powerful Spiritual ran, "My Lord, what a morning, when the stars begin to fall." It was not until a few years ago that I heard the actual words explained: "My Lord, what a mourning ..." Far from the idea of ...

3089. And He Shall Reign

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... Physician, nor as a Gentle Shepherd as the lead theme of a pastorale, nor even as a Savior. The people he addressed denied God’s claim on them and went their own way, belied the covenant that God had made with them, sold out to belly interests that they thought more satisfying, and expected God to bless them for it. How often, like the spiral of a cycle, history is repeated. The nightly news in those days was as bleak and dismal as the nightly news in ours. But Jeremiah doesn’t want us to forget it. The ...

3090. Son Shine Inn

John 6:25-59

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... MARY BETH: Me, too. What are you going to have? BILL: I don't know. I'm ready to celebrate. I know that. MARY BETH: I thought we might have some champagne. BILL: Right. Champagne it shall be. Where's the waiter? MARY BETH: I've been looking forward to this all ... lamb of God. BILL: This wouldn't be, by any chance ... JESUS: It is. I am the lamb of God. MARY BETH: You are? But I thought you were the bread of life. JESUS: I am -- both. BILL: Look, Jesus, this is getting to be a bit much. JESUS: The Father sent ...

3091. Power

Mark 10:35-45

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... superior CARL: (ENTERS ALONG WITH TIM) So, how's it working out? TIM: With the new division? Not bad. CARL: I thought it might. TIM: I appreciate the promotion. CARL: Well, I think I picked the right person for the job. TIM: Thanks. ... see that they do their work. CARL: True enough, you are, but you're also in the position to help them. TIM: Help them, how? I thought they were being helped by getting their paycheck and by their benefit package. CARL: No. That's what they work for. They earn that. TIM: What ...

3092. Single Mom

Mark 12:41-44, Mark 12:35-40

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... A TANTRUM, CRYING AND THEN COLLAPSING LIFELESS ON THE PAPER) EVIE: (ENTERS, STARING AT HER MOM) Mom? Mom are you...? (NUDGES HER WITH HER FOOT) SARAH: (RAISING HER HEAD) What are you doing? EVIE: (JUMPING BACK) What are you doing? SARAH: What? EVIE: Mom, I thought ... SARAH: What? EVIE: I thought you were dead. SARAH: Dead? No, I'm not dead. I don't have Time to be dead. It's not on the calendar for today. I have a report to do for Professor Winslow's class and it's due tomorrow. After my statistics class ...

3093. The Exalted Christ

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... this insight gives to the mission of the church! Our task is nothing less than the restoration of every area of life and thought to its rightful Lord. As we engage in this task we have his promise, "I am with you always." He works with us ... to stand. He could not sit still even at God’s right hand when his witness was meeting death. Finally, the gospel of the Ascension directs our thoughts to heaven, where our Lord has gone to prepare a place for us, so that where he is we may be also. Now we hear his voice ...

3094. True Freedom

John 8:31-41

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... of living, but I am afraid I am not a big enough person to live in such liberty." The same ideas was expressed by an American missionary who was long imprisoned in a Japanese camp during World War II. When he was asked what he thought about during his imprisonment, he replied, "The thought that was uppermost in my mind was whether I would be worthy of freedom when I got it." As slaves to sin we are not big enough or worthy enough to live in liberty. A slave may speak about life in responsible freedom but it ...

3095. How Life’s Pressures Affect Good Judgment

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . The king didn’t like a desert preacher calling him a sinner so he had him beheaded. Simple enough. But life is not always simple. There is usually more to a story than meets the eye. And in this case we learn that Herod actually liked to listen to John, thought he was a holy man, and protected him. Perhaps, in Herod’s mind, putting him under lock and key was a way of removing him from harms way. So if the king was offended by John’s outbursts, it was not enough to warrant death. The king feared the ...

3096. Letting Go

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... free to be free to run ... leap ... sing ... dance ... express move ... develop ... reach ... Hold ... and let go. "Letting Go ..." "But one thing I do, letting go of what lies behind and straining toward what lies ahead ..." (Philippians 3:13) Each of us may be thought of as a living philosophy of life in the sense that each of us is an interpretation of his experiences, a summation of his beliefs about himself, others, and his world, a way of being in the world. Critical moments in life are those which ...

3097. The Gifts of the Left Hand

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... only arrive at excellence by using our least developed gifts. That is another evidence of the importance of the left hand that I want to suggest to you. I remember that when I tried out for the junior high school basketball team back in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, I thought I was pretty hot stuff after my years of experience in driveway scrimmages. So I suited up and took a few practice shots and then the coach said, "All right, let’s see your left-handed layup." I couldn’t even dribble with my left hand ...

3098. The Flow of Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... we do not measure up to our expectations. If we are, it may be that we can change those expectations and accept ourselves as we are a little better, in much the same way that that woman did when she was ready to change. Sometimes it is our feelings or thoughts or behavior that are unacceptable to us. There are other times when we are simply unhappy or miserable with where we are now. We have entered a dry period in our lives, or a time of personal crisis. I am intrigued by the popularity of Gail Sheehy’s ...

3099. In Praise of Feeling Guilty

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... and learning and by the reinforcements of the environment. However, another part of it is voluntary, and therefore under our control. The lessons of biofeedback, for instance, demonstrate that we do have the possibility of control over even body processes formerly thought completely involuntary. This leads to the third element in why feeling guilty went out of style: c) Rebellion - a complex interplay of changing technology and the very human propensity of, "I’ll see for myself." "To some extent all of us ...

3100. Be At Peace With One Another

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to himself, "Four centuries after Christ and they are still killing each other, for enjoyment?" He ran to the coliseum and heard the gladiators saying, "Hail to Caesar, we die for Caesar" and he thought, "this isn't right." He jumped over the railing and went out into the middle of the field, got between two gladiators, and tried to stop them. The crowd became enraged and stoned the peacemaker to death. When the Emperor of Rome, Honorius, heard about the monk he declared him ...

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