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3201. Free At Last!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... one of her fellow church members. "How are you feeling?" the visitor asked. "Oh," said the lady, "I'm just worried sick!" "What are you worried about, dear?" her friend asked. "You look like you're in good health. They are taking care of you, aren't they?" "Yes, they are taking very good care of me." "Are you in any pain?" she asked. "No, I have never had a pain in my life." "Well, what are you worried about?" her friend asked again. The lady leaned back in her rocking chair and slowly explained her major ...

3202. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... magazine a couple of years ago concerning Audrey Kishline, author of the book,- Moderate Drinking: The New, Option for Problem Drinkers. This book purported to set guidelines so that people with alcohol problems could continue drinking--as long as they were careful. Audrey Kishline wasn't careful. She left the program for moderate drinking that she had founded saying it wasn't working for her. Two months later she drove the wrong way on a Washington state highway and smashed her pickup truck into a two-door ...

3203. Son of Man; Son of God

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... struck shepherds happened on the secret and three astrologers from the East, but most people were totally oblivious to what was happening. Be careful when you judge by appearances alone. You may get a surprise. This past May one of the most remarkable men in the ... first job at the age of 14, cutting grass at the University of Cape Town. In 1954 he was promoted to helping care for laboratory animals. Soon he progressed from cleaning cages to more advanced lab work. After a professor at the university noticed ...

3204. Like Parent, Like Child

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... have to do would be to look at our check book and our calendar. Where we spend our money and our time is what we really care about. Many of us value our cars more than we do God. Many of us value our leisure time more than we do God. Some of ... in all kinds of activities, but we need to continually ask ourselves, “what is most important in my life? What do I really care about?” When we answer those two questions, it will show in our stewardship of all of life--including our material possessions. The late ...

3205. God's Witness Security Program

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... the U.S. Marshals Service. Before a person is absorbed into the Program, he or she must settle any debts and take care of any other obligations. They need to leave as few “loose ends” as possible from their old life. Then, they are reassigned ... am more than healthy, I am whole. I am more than alive, I am radiant. I am more than successful, I am free. I am more than caring, I am loving. I am more than tranquil, I am peaceful. I am more than interested, I am involved. I am more than adequate, I am triumphant ...

3206. More Than "Turkey Day" (New) Thanksgiving

2 Chronicles 9:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Paul knew about Thanksgiving even though he did not live in a culture that celebrated it. Paul was continually giving thanks. He had a gratitude attitude. But St. Paul did not believe that gratitude was a solitary attribute for the believer. Gratitude is to be linked to caring for others. If God has blessed us, then we should seek to be a blessing to others. In our lesson from the Epistle, he is writing to the believers in the church at Corinth, asking them to take up a collection to give to their poorer ...

3207. Why Cheerful Givers are Cheerful

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... giver. Cheerful givers are cheerful because they are reflecting the character of God. God is a cheerful giver. I was reading recently about one of our better known billionaires--Daniel K. Ludwig. To say that Ludwig--who could buy and sell us all--is careful with his money is a gross understatement. According to writer David Frost his strict observance of the maxim "Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves" has led him to enjoy a less than open-handed reputation. To look after the ...

3208. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... out of that greed that flourishes when self-control and essential righteousness are tossed out, and no one cares about right and wrong any more. Newspapers have reported that market analysts and financial traders and academic observers ... lack of self-control, of sin in life, but there is hope. In that beautiful passage in Isaiah we are reminded of God''s gracious care, when he says, "he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, upon him was the chastisement that made us whole and ...

3209. On Not Losing Heart

2 Corinthians 1:1-11

Eulogy

Edward Inabinet

... as Christians. WE WHO ARE IN THE SPACE BETWEEN HAVE A SERVICE TO GIVE ONE ANOTHER. THAT IS THE SERVICE OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT. The old Greeks discovered that if a person really cared for another he might enter into that person''s experience. They call this sym-pathos, meaning "with sympathy." From that came our word of caring, the word sympathy. By sympathy we enter into the heart and mind of those who grieve, and we share with them. There is another word from the Latin language that describes how ...

3210. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... speaks to Jesus, saying, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” It is a careful, probing statement, trying to give neither too much nor too little away, but unmistakable in its hope. Jesus is neither careful nor probing in His response, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” A pointed conversation follows about second birth, water, Spirit, and the wind ...

3211. Hope in the Shadows

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... me. Watching means we have not forgotten the one who has come, is coming, and will come again has given us a task. To be found sleeping at the post of our calling given by this Master would be tragic. But we don’t maintain that post by careful religious observance. The crossing of all our religious “T’s” and the dotting of all our religious “I’s” is not what the Master is looking for upon His return. The parable about servants left in charge of the household and left to watch the door for the ...

3212. What Happens When I Die?

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... faith which we find in Whittiers familiar lines: I know what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life or death, His mercy underlies. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. O Lord, support us all the day long of this troubled life, Until the shadows lengthen and evening comes, And the busy world is hushed, And the fever of life is over, And our work is done, Then in Thy great mercy Grant us a safe lodging, And a ...

3213. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... want to describe God. The Bible is much more concerned that we obey God. I have a rabbi friend who says that “God doesn’t even care whether or not we believe in Him; just so we obey Him.” That is a very Hebraic way of putting it. The Bible tends to use ... simple terms that a lay person could understand. Einstein replied that he could not do as the man requested, but if he would care to call on him in person at Princeton University, Einstein would play it for him on the violin. God replied to our human ...

3214. What about Spiritual Healing?

John 4:43-54

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of this discounts our need for doctors, nurses, and medicine. God works His healing power through all of these. We are expected to cooperate with the laws of nature which God has put in our world. I can only feel sorrow for those misguided people who refuse medical care for their loved ones under the mistaken impression that to use human means to heal is to deny our faith in God. No, I think that God has given us doctors and nurses and medicine, and I thank God for them. Without them, many of us would not ...

3215. Let the Son Shine In

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... He might be an accident, a fortuity in a materialistic world, the chance product of blind forces that never purposed him and never cared. He might just have happened. Or it might be that those first disciples were on the trail of the everlasting truth when ... into a dark, solitary place and shout one’s own name three times! I have never tried it, but I am not sure that I would care to do so. Our imaginations tend to work overtime in the dark. Our reason may tell us that everything is the same in the dark as ...

3216. Doors Are for Entering

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... over. In one of the walls there is a space a little larger than a man’s body. The shepherd precedes his sheep, stands in the gap in the wall, facing outward, and calls his sheep by name as they come over the hillside. He examines each sheep carefully for bruises and briars. If a sheep has bruised his head from hitting a rock, or being butted by another sheep, the shepherd rubs oil into the wound. “Thou anointest my head with oil.” If a sheep is thirsty, the shepherd gives him a drink. Only after the ...

3217. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?" (Psalm 8:3-4) What, indeed? H.L. Mencken said that man was "a sick fly on a dizzy wheel." ... to help us to remember that we have forgotten! "You are not orphans!" He said. By no means. We are children of a Divine Parent who cares for us infinitely. "Even the hairs of your head are numbered," was His hyperbolic way of saying it; and God has an easier task doing that ...

3218. Slippery Rock

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... novel CATCHER IN THE RYE, fifteen-year old Holden Caulfield gives us this profound theological reflection: “I like Jesus and all, but I don’t care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance...They were all right after Jesus was dead and ... , but people with cold feet. My friends, the Christian Faith is always within one generation of extinction. If we do not care enough to pass it on to those who come after us, there will be no Christian Faith in the 21st century. I ...

3219. The Thirteenth Apostle

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , and Matthias. And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.” (Acts 1:23, 26) But Matthias was never heard from again! Evidently some sort of mistake was made. Perhaps the apostles were not as careful as they ought to have been. Perhaps the hour was getting late, and they were getting tired. Perhaps they had been sitting through meetings all day.....and by the end of the day they would have settled for almost anybody. “Let’s just get a warm ...

3220. Wining and Dining with Jesus

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... left to commune, how many communion cups do you have? I said “16.” He said, “Get some more grape juice.” I said, “Where?” He said, “That’s your problem.” I tried to excuse myself unobtrusively, and went to the church kitchen where the attendants had carefully prepared the cups and bread cubes. It was closed down tight. What to do? Then I remembered that I had a half-empty bottle of grape juice left from a communion which I had a couple of months previously. What had I done with it? Oh, yes ...

3221. Family Reunion

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... .There is no family to carry on their work. Their movement ends with them. As I said in my recent letter to the congregation regarding “Miracle Sunday,” the Church is always within one generation of extinction. If we, who are trustees of the faith today, do not care enough to keep the faith alive and to pass it on, there will be no Church for succeeding generations. That is why we need the family of God called the church. And why we need to be faithful to our commitments to it. At the conclusion of our ...

3222. Losers Keepers

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... souls” flitting around, with bodies temporarily attached to them. “Soul” is a synonym for “self.” The New English Bible translates these words of our Lord: “Anyone who wishes to be a follower of mine must leave self behind; he must take up his cross, and come with me. Whoever cares for his own safety is lost; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake and for the Gospel, that man is safe. What does a man gain by winning the whole world at the cost of his true self?” (MARK 8:34-37 NEB ...

3223. God’s Greatest Gamble

Mark 12:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... not specify just who the “others” to whom the vineyard is given are, but the first readers of this Gospel had no doubt. The earliest Christians saw this clearly as a reference to the Old Israel and the New. (The Church) But note very carefully: ISRAEL (the vineyard) is not rejected in this story: its current custodians are. The multitude, according to Mark, is very favorably disposed toward Jesus. We cannot lump them all together as Christians have been wont to do over the centuries, and say “the Jews ...

3224. Jesus and the IRS

Mark 12:13-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... but humanity bears the image of God. Therefore, a Christian’s highest priority is humankind. Nothing is sacred in God’s good world except persons. When we are called to “love our neighbor” that does not mean feeling a gushy sentiment about them, it means caring deeply about the welfare of persons - other persons, all persons, and not just our own selves. They gave Jesus a trick question; and He gave them a trick answer. “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that ...

3225. The Lord's Prayer: Hallowed be Thy Name

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the greatest golfers of all times had been. People did not throw their cigarettes down and grind them into the ground; they carefully placed them in the proper containers. People arrived on time and stayed until it was over. If a player had trouble ... new world order--from God''s point of view. For our Hymn of Preparation today, we sang, "Take Time to be Holy." If we don''t care to be holy, there is only one other option. Let me close with this story to show the importance of holiness. Long ago in a small ...

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