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3126. Why Did Jesus Do That?

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... Sunday after the Epiphany and learned that the gospel selection for that day was Matthew 3:13-17, the Baptism of Jesus. So I opened my Bible and began reading at the beginning of the thirteenth chapter, since I like to go back a little and get a feel for the setting of the text. I read, "In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of God has come near.’" Then a few verses later I read, "Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to ...

3127. Dealing with the Devil

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... on the other hand, there’s that enticing little voice which whispers, "Hey! Enjoy yourself, friend! It’s later than you think. You only go around once on this ride called life. Go for the gusto! Grab all you can get before somebody beats you to it! If it feels good, do it!" On the one hand, God’s word is clear: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as you love yourself." But on the other hand, there is that testing spirit among us and within us who holds ...

3128. The Upside-down Kingdom of God

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... that they will catch some grief from their peers about it. They, too, must understand that life in the upside-down kingdom of God is not easy, but it IS worth everything that has to be endured. Frederick Buechner wrote, "Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside someone else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too." So it is our joyous but risky task as a congregation ...

3129. See the Light, Be the Light

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... to impress you, so that you leave God’s house saying, "I’m telling you, that Johnny May not be much good for anything else, but he sure can preach, can’t he?" Compliments do have a way of over-inflating the ego, you know? But every time I start feeling smug or over-confident, I remember a story a friend of mine told me. I’ll customize it a little and tell it to you. I dreamed that several members of this congregation and I arrived at the pearly gates at the same time. Saint Peter told us we would ...

3130. Are You the One?

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... John the Baptist was in the grip of the kind of fear we’ve been talking about. Wouldn’t you be afraid if you were alone in a cold, dark, damp prison cell, not knowing what’s going to happen next, but keenly aware of the animosity your captor feels for you? How did that fear affect John the Baptist? Did he wake up in the middle of the night, drenched with perspiration, horrified by some nightmare of the fate that awaited him? Did he fear for the lives of those who followed him? What inner resources did ...

3131. The Pop Quiz

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... said, "Jesus is the answer." And she couldn’t help thinking to herself, "Jesus is the answer to what – my loneliness, my feelings of failure as a mother, my fear of cancer? Exactly what is Jesus the answer to? And if Jesus IS the answer, ... is the answer. We wouldn’t want anyone to think that our faith is anything less than strong and secure. As people of God, we feel that we need to know all the answers to questions of faith, when in reality we have trouble answering the one question that Jesus asks ...

3132. Life on the Roller Coaster

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... not exactly the truth, is it? The reason we don’t like the roller coaster ride is we don’t like the way it makes us feel, not because we think that it’s inevitable that the thing is going to jump the tracks and it’s just waiting for us to get ... a sudden turn or twist you didn’t anticipate, and all of a sudden your stomach is in your throat and you don’t feel so good. And there are accidents, times when the roller coaster jumps the tracks and life is in turmoil. Sometimes these events are caused ...

3133. Reality Check

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... And when we look to Jesus, what do we find? On the one hand we find a Jesus who takes us up to those dizzying heights of the mountaintop, those intense moments in the hospital room or at church camp, or when we fall in love, or when we feel that we are forgiven. Fred Craddock tells a wonderful story about a young minister, newly graduated from seminary, serving his very first church. He gets a call telling him that a church member, elderly woman who has just given her life to the church, is in the hospital ...

3134. Use It or Lose It

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... Kingdom. Not everyone has more than one gift, but we all have at least one gift to be used for the glory of God. Now some folks feel that since they don’t have one of those major, dramatic gifts that someone else might have, it’s okay for them to sit back and do ... not the five-talent people who bury their talents, but the one-talent people, discovering they don’t have five and maybe feeling a little bit intimidated and inadequate, who bury the one talent they do have. Because they figure they can’t do ...

3135. Here Comes the Judge!

Matthew 25:31-46

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Johnny Dean

... half-breed, part sinner and part saint, a jigsaw puzzle of odd-shaped pieces, some centered and others receptive and generous. And I have a feeling I’m not alone in that. Maybe Jesus will have to form a third group on that day and have them stand in the ... have too many calories or too many fat grams in it. Many people think that the Christian life is based on the premise, "If it feels good, don’t do it because it’s got to be sinful!" There’s no excitement, no surprises in that kind of life. If that ...

3136. Don't That Just Beat All?

Mark 2:1-12

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Johnny Dean

... to dealing with the day to day problems of life. So when the Bible or the preacher or a friend tells us that God loves us, we say, “That’s nice, but it doesn’t pay any bills. It doesn’t relieve my physical suffering. It doesn’t make me feel better about myself.” How wrong can we be? The truth is that the forgiveness offered to us in Jesus is the single most important thing in life. Without it we have nothing; with it we have everything! Hard to believe, you say? Only if we fail to realize that ...

3137. Making Christmas Last

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... reaching in his stocking to be sure that there is no more candy. In the background we see a table with a thoroughly picked turkey still sitting there. The caption on the cartoon reads simply: The morning after. Well, perhaps we feel a little that way. Perhaps we felt somewhat let down. If you feel that way it is quite understandable. Over the past weeks our emotions have been wound tighter than a toy doll. Our festivities have led up to near fever pitch. And then, suddenly, it is all over. Is it any wonder ...

3138. Lent 1

Sermon

Betty Lynn Schwab

... do just that. And God did - through the birth and life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Youth: Let us pray. All: Holy God of the Booths, we are like the people in Jesus' day. We confess our imperfect church, our political and economic oppression, and our own feelings of guilt. So we cry out to you, "Hosanna! Save us!" Yet we know Jesus is already with us. By His life and death and resurrection Jesus shows us the Way. So we pray help us be faith-filled people of decision and action in our day. In ...

3139. The Empty Tomb

Matthew 28:2-6

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... man had been killed for the wonderful things that He had done. But He was dead and there was nothing that they could do but feel sorry. Some of the women who had loved Jesus, like His mother and some other very close friends, wanted to do the kind of things ... trip would be worthless. Still, they wanted to go, and if nothing else just sit outside the tomb and pray where they could feel closer to Jesus. It seemed like the least that they could do. While they were walking toward the place of the tomb there ...

3140. Faith -- Abraham and the Centurion

Luke 23:26-43

Drama

Martha L. Leach

... returns to his tent and prepares to sleep, Abraham approaches. Abraham: Greetings! It seems I've been walking for days. Do you have time for a weary traveler? Centurion: I can see that you are very tired. Come into my tent. I've just checked out my troops and feel rather like a weary traveler myself. When we're on maneuvers, this tent is my home. It's not exactly a place to entertain visitors. Abraham: I lived in a tent all my life. My wife, Sarah, and I traveled a great deal, and tents were our home. Our ...

3141. When You Least Expect It...

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... the bread, the strangest thing of all happens. In the blink of an eye, we recognize him! It’s Jesus! Lord, forgive us! We didn’t know it was you! And in the next instant, he’s gone – vanished! Moments of true revelation, those sacred times when we feel the presence of God so strongly, are more often than not ordinary moments, part of that 80% of life that just involves showing up. If we look only with our eyes, or listen only with our ears, then we see only a gardener, or a stranger on the shore ...

3142. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... – not some weirdo who claims to be Jesus, but the real thing. Maybe you came because you have a sense that something is missing in your life, that your life is somehow incomplete or lacking in purpose or direction or meaning. And you feel that if you can just find Jesus, that feeling of emptiness will go away. But you know what? Stories like this one we’re looking at today from the Gospel of John, the story of the Samaritan woman’s encounter with Jesus, tell us that it doesn’t work that way. We ...

3143. What You See Is What You Get

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

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... like to take medicine, even Tylenol. Maybe that’s why I have such difficulty remembering to take it. At any rate, I really want to feel as young as many of you have told me I look, and in order to accomplish that, I have to make some changes, both in ... revealed and hidden, present and absent, known and unknown. Sometimes we are more keenly aware of God’s presence. At other times, we feel as if God must be a million miles away. In either case, the ultimate question we must ask ourselves is, "Do you ...

3144. We Don't Know How To Pray

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... t know what to say, I said nothing. I just held her and we cried together. And maybe that was all right, as far as it went. But because I had known her all my life, I knew that crying with her wasn’t enough, that she wouldn’t feel right about leaving him until a prayer had been offered. And she expected me to pray. But even though I am a seminary-educated, ordained preacher, a professional prayer, a designated prayer at every community function, in the face of the death of my stepfather, I didn’t have ...

3145. The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel." Paul feels an overwhelming need or desire to deliver the good news of Christ to others. He is compelled, driven to do this, out of his love for Christ. "Woe to me if I ... do not preach the gospel." Paul feels it would be a disservice to himself, to others, and to God to keep it all inside him. I envy Paul - that he had the ...

3146. When the Tie That Binds is a Slipknot

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Johnny Dean

... what has been misunderstood. We must be willing to LISTEN to one another in order for that to happen, and we must be willing to have our mind changed. Nothing gets resolved until people risk saying what they really feel, as long as it is said in love and with respect for the other person’s feelings. Angry words spoken in an argumentative tone of voice resolve nothing. And nothing gets resolved until someone takes the risk of saying, "I think I see what you mean," or "Let me show you another way of looking ...

3147. In the Beginning, God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... back to the surface, even on a pleasant spring evening, in a clean, modern dairy barn, when the secret door swings open and we are reminded once again that things are not always as they seem, and the waters rise. Genesis talks about how this world sometimes feels to us. You’re just bopping along on some pleasant, sunny summer day. Your world is in order, life is good, things are really going well for you. Then the telephone rings. The voice on the other end is a familiar one, so you can tell right away ...

3148. Back to the Basics

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... Well, every day we face new challenges, new situations. If everything our parents taught us was wrong, what does that mean for us? It means we’re going to have to make up the rules as we go, to make situational ethics our way of life, to do whatever feels good and right at that moment in time. Do you really want to live that way? Is it true that the past has nothing to teach us about morality? Are we the first generation in history to encounter lust and greed and prejudice? Is there nothing to be learned ...

3149. It Dawned on Me

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... was to come. Jesus took Peter, James and John with him further into the Garden to pray. "I had never seen him like this," Peter said later. "He was struggling with something that agonized him like no man has ever agonized." "My heart is so full of sorrow I feel I may die," Jesus said. Then he prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, take this cup away from me! But not what I want, but what you want." Three times he returned and found the three apostles asleep. "The spirit is willing," he said, "but the flesh ...

3150. "Oh Yeah, Thanks a Lot" -The Grateful Leper

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ... gone. It has been years since I smelled fresh air. My God! I am clean ... We are all clean. Clean. Are we really clean? Feel. See. Touch. Smell. Everybody is clean. "What to do next? There are different opinions. 'I must run home and see my wife.' 'I'll ... talk about something like that? I lay prostrate at his feet. What could I say? But he knew. I sensed that he knew that my feelings were too big to come out. He knew. Then he spoke. "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has only this one who ...

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