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3126. Incalculable Riches by Bishop Roy C. Nichols

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... are saying we are approximately thirty percent. But as the population of the world increases geometrically and the church grows arithmetically, by the year 2000, at present growth rates, we will be reduced to approximately sixteen percent! It isn’t that the church has stopped growing; it is growing. But the rate of the increase of the people on this planet is such that we simply are not keeping pace. And it is not simply a question of numerical statistics that concerns us, but "Christian influence" in the ...

3127. It Is Really Something New by Dr. Frank Bateman Stanger

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... God in spirit and in truth. In contrast to philosophy which limits itself to ideas, Paul declares that the Christian faith is centered in a person - Jesus Christ. Read carefully his sermon on Mars Hill. He began with the creation but he did not stop there. He moved through creation to incarnation. He announced Jesus Christ as a person, a new person, a new humanity, revealing the true nature of God. He announced an incarnation which was climaxed in a resurrection from the dead. The Christian faith transcends ...

3128. Men of Distinction

Acts 11:19-30

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... refreshment of the body, mind, and soul. Immoral rites and practices were rejected. These Christians could not be easily coerced, shamed, or enticed into the base and common behavior of unrestraint. They would not compromise. There was no half-way allegiance which stopped at the point where it came to cost or to clash with the reigning codes. They had elected to choose God’s side and there was no wavering from their stand, no looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah. Their conduct, character, and conscientious ...

3129. God Is No Gentleman

Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... to the outcaste people, almost divine. As he drew near the Delhi Gate on one of his journeys, 25,000 outcastes awaited his coming. They only expected to see a car flash past, and with luck, to catch a glimpse of him. But Edward, Prince of Wales, stopped the car, stepped out, and heard a spokesman for the sixty million outcastes beg that they might never be abandoned and left to the tyranny of those who despised them and would keep them slaves. The Prince listened patiently and then did an unheard of thing ...

3130. Braggers

John 8:48-59

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... understand that you are boasting about whatever product you are selling.] Have you ever heard someone on television or radio sell something so that it sounded as if he were boasting? When people talk in a loud voice about themselves or about something that belongs to them, we stop listening or turn them off so that we do not have to listen. No one likes to hear someone brag or boast about himself. On the other hand, I am very interested in hearing about a tire or a kind of soap if the person talking about ...

3131. Boomerang Words

Luke 6:37-42

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A boomerang. Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever wished that people would mind their own business and leave you alone? Maybe that is too strong a way of saying it, but have you ever hoped that people would not notice what you did wrong, or stop picking on you for every little thing? I am sure that you have felt like this, but I wonder if you ever thought that other people sometimes think about you in the same way. Let me show you something that all of you have played with or seen someone ...

3132. Tee-Shirts for Sinners

Luke 15:1-7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the time had run out and there seemed to be no chance for him to live, an airplane spotted him and reported him to a ship that picked him up. What joy there was on the part of everyone that they had found this man of courage. The whole world stopped to praise God for his being found. Isn’t that wonderful? We love to hear about people and things that are lost and finally found. That’s the way Jesus explained it to us about God’s feeling toward us. When we sin and become separated from God, we are ...

3133. Is Jesus a Road Map?

Mark 8:1-13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... imagining that, I would also like you to think about walking there and not having any restaurants or motels to eat or sleep in on the way. The roads are hot and dusty for there is no concrete or blacktop, and there are very few houses along the way to stop in to get a cup of water. Not only that, I would also want you to know that on this trip you are taking there are several thousand other people walking with you and they are as hungry and thirsty and tired as you are and you all need help ...

3134. Worrying Is No Fun

Matthew 6:25-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... life that he has given us. My friend misses part of every day just worrying about what kind of weather there will be. Boys and girls can miss part of their lives by worrying about things they can’t do anything about. Jesus teaches us to trust God and to stop worrying, because when we do as he teaches, we are happy, and we have more time to do the things that we like to do. Let God take care of his world and enjoy every moment that he gives you to live in it. I hope you will all do ...

3135. In Which Direction Do You Travel?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... hand side of the interstate in the wrong direction. Apparently, its driver, in wanting to head East, had gotten confused, missed a ramp, and entered the westbound flow of traffic. The immediate reaction of the cars heading in the proper direction was to slam on brakes and stop. We expected the driver of the approaching car to pull over to the side of the road and ease into the westward flow of traffic until a ramp off was reached which would allow it to enter the eastbound side of the highway. Much to our ...

3136. It’s Not So Bad To Be A Beggar

Acts 3:1-10

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... to us. Beggars are sometimes lame - as the man in this account - so are we, for man took that fall in the Garden of Eden and has been terribly crippled ever since. So you see! No doubt about it! We are the beggar in the story. Sounds bad, until you stop to think about it a bit, and then you suddenly realize: IT’S NOT SO BAD TO BE A BEGGAR IF YOU GO TO THE RIGHT PLACE. Just because you are a beggar doesn’t mean you have to be stupid. This beggar is really pretty smart. He has found ...

3137. What Gives You Away?

Judges 12:1-7

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... ," the number of calories in a slice of bread, soap opera events, and other "major" matters of minor importance. There was a man who sought a divorce. He told the judge his wife was driving him crazy, that she talked all the time. "She never stops talking," he complained. "What does she talk about?" inquired the judge. The man replied, "You see, that’s just it, your honor, she ain’t said nothin’ yet!" Sometimes when we talk it is not just "nothings" - it is worse. It is gossipy, critical, judgmental ...

3138. God Made Me Do It!

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... long as we can set the schedule, so long as he does things in the time we allot him? We say: "God, this is my need. I need it by Tuesday noon. Amen." Then, if we don’t have what we’ve ordered by Tuesday noon we stop believing in Divine Guidance! But remember: Joseph waited for two years. John Bunyon languished in Bedford jail for twelve years. Monica prayed for that sinful, licentious, profligate son of hers with tears and prayers and moanings and beseechings for 32 years before God made him the saint ...

3139. When Yes Means No and No Means Yes

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and the many other times we make promises before God and to each other, we often are like this young man who says yes, but doesn’t do the work. Clarence E. Macartney tells: "When the Pennsylvania westbound train on which I was traveling stopped recently at Altoona before beginning the ascent on the mountains, I saw in the yards there many powerful engines, their bunkers filled with coal, steam up, smoke issuing from the stacks, fires glowing under the boilers, and engineer and fireman at their posts. The ...

3140. On Being a Tenant

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... do for us. No other appeal had worked before or would work in the future. Alfred Adler, a psychologist and a Jew, in answer to the question of a Los Angeles pastor, "What do you think of Jesus Christ?" said, "Whenever I hear his name, I stop for reverence to the greatest character of human history." If Jesus can call forth such a response from a Jew, certainly we who are Christians, and tenants of his abundance, ought respond in a greater fashion. Leslie D. Weatherhead has declared: "Life will work only one ...

3141. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... s will, we must resist, oppose, bring our influence to bear, that it shall not be done. J. B. Priestly once said: "We should behave toward our country as women behave toward the men they love. A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing and trying to improve him. We should cast the same affectionate, but sharp, glance at our country. We should love it, but also insist on telling it all its faults. The noisy, empty patriot, not the critic, is the dangerous citizen." A good citizen ...

3142. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... the way he returned to his heavenly father - all this to demonstrate how important we are. In dealing with ourselves, we are not dealing with rubbish; we are dealing with precious pieces of well-made machinery, copied after the Creator of the universe. When we finally stop putting ourselves down and respect who and what we are, there are many side benefits: we can much better be able to live with others; we have a new-found peace with ourselves; we can better live with ourselves because we are often our own ...

3143. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and his Scripture. When we decide we now "know it all," that we have arrived as a Christian, then we have ended our discipleship. Being a disciple means keeping an open and inquiring mind. It is arrogant and presumptuous and certainly not good discipleship to stop our growth anywhere along our chronological progress in life. This study, this being continually open to growth and learning, will lead us to see the truth. Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (John 8:32). And ...

3144. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... this way, "God, I guess you know what you’re doing, but won’t you please let Grandpa out of that box?" Well, don’t blame the children. You know where they get their attitudes - right from us. Our lack of faith is reflected in them. We have to stop sometime long enough to realize that all of this concerns me. It concerns my life and my attitude toward life. It concerns the mother who stood by her baby’s crib in the hospital last night, and the physician shook his head. It concerns the wife who turned ...

3145. Life: Sacred or Stupid?

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , comes to her with a message that he has found Christ’s tomb empty. Procula asked him: "Do you believe that he is dead?" "No, my lady." "Then where is he?" "Loose upon the world, my lady, where neither Jew nor Roman nor Greek nor anyone else can stop his Truth and his Life." That’s where the Risen Christ is now - loose in the world! Yes, in many places, his presence causes conflict, but everyplace, his presence means hope. I know, through the Risen Christ, that my world and my life in it are real and ...

3146. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... name." Every week, I am told in the news that a certain kind of salad oil, or shoe polish, or soup has caused cancer in rats. Well, now, it’s only a relatively few people who ever called me a rat, and so I don’t know whether I should stop using these items or not. It is these differences that cause many people to ask: "Of what can I be sure?" Certainly our first difficulty is that most of us start out with the mistaken assumption that there is only one roadway to truth - the scientific method. You see ...

3147. Embalmed Alive

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... once replied to a letter from one of his dull, conventional friends, who had written concerning his worry about his own health and the various diseases that he suspected he had contracted and what dire results they might have, and Thoreau wrote and said: "I would stop worrying about your health. I suspect you’re dead already," intending to shock him out of what he knew was a lifeless kind of existence. But such persons are legion. Such dead lives are common among all of us. What is the advice of the world ...

3148. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... have not sat in the field at evening, listening for them. Oh, yes, when the angelus rings, you cross yourself and have done with it, but if you prayed from your heart and you listened to the trilling of the bells in the air long after the bells have stopped ringing, then you would hear the voices as well as I do." Joan is a vivid example of Christian truth that ordinary men and women gain the strength of giants and the power of miracle workers when they wait on God for the empowering of his Holy Spirit. But ...

3149. Minute Accounting

Matthew 12:22-37

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... the words we speak when conventional restraints are removed. What do we say when our speech is unpremeditated? What do we say when anger loosens the controls we ordinarily hold over our tongues? What about our impulsive speech, the words we utter before we stop to think? What about our words spoken in confidence? It is ourselves which we are uttering with these words, our spirits which we are making audible. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the King is writhing in guilt, and he says: In the corrupted currents of ...

3150. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... for eye, tooth for tooth" program for dealing with offenders. One was to forgive three times - not four times, but three times! But Peter had listened too closely to Jesus’ teaching and had caught too much of his spirit to believe that he wanted one to stop forgiving on the fourth offense. Maybe one should forgive seven times; that ought to be generous enough. So he asked Jesus if that would do. But Jesus replied, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven." Peter made his living catching ...

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