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3201. Christmas Snapshots

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Son of the Most High. She could not foresee that his birth would be in a stable with cattle and sheep as witnesses. Through the centuries Christians have kept a consciousness of Christ’s humble birth as well as a sense that we, as his people, should have a sense of responsibility for those who do not share in the affluence we enjoy. Mike Slaughter in his book, Christmas Is Not Your Birthday, tells us that in medieval times, “Christians would place candles in their windows to welcome the Christ Child ...

3202. Rule of Love

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... of it in the midst of this modern world in which God has put us. As is true of most Christian churches, the Presbyterian Church has had a long colorful history trying to make sense of the Bible and then interpret and apply it to life. Admittedly, this has been a source of tension within the denomination. In 1976, some thoughtful Presbyterians formed a task force to seek answers to a vexing question: “Why do Presbyterians fight with each other so much?” Perhaps, you’ve ...

3203. Faith in the New Frontier

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ghost stories and witnessing to strange phenomena they have experienced in their own lives –things that occurred that just didn’t make sense and couldn’t be explained away. We are fascinated by ghosts. No doubt you share stories of your own. Why is it ... know, that all things are possible in God. “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, said the Lord.” (Zech 4:6) In a sense, the church today is on the cusp of a new frontier. And the church must decide who and whose it wants to be. For no church ...

3204. Blessed to Be Among the Company of Mourners

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... to help others with their grief, I was wandering through a grief-filled wilderness of my own. One of our members, a retired physician, sensed my sorrow and sent me a beautiful and comforting email. Here in part is what he wrote to me (he has given me ... in its wound. Now I think of him every day; before, I did not. Of the five, only he has a grave” (p. 59). You get the sense, don’t you, of the breadth and depth of that father’s pain? You wonder whether he will ever make his way through his wilderness of ...

3205. Reagan's Reaction

Humor

... was, “Honey, I forgot to duck,” a reference to a one-liner used by boxer Jack Dempsey. There were many other attempts by the president to make light of the tragic attempt in order to try and give those around him a sense of ease and the country a sense of calm. Here are some other reported quips by the president: To surgeons, as he entered the operating room: “Please tell me you’re Republicans.” In a written note, upon coming out of anesthesia in the recovery room (paraphrasing Comedian W.C ...

3206. Are you a G.O.A.T.?

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... The Shepherd may not be able to tell them apart from their physical looks, but they can tell them apart by their personalities and their flock (or anti-flock) behavior. Some of the earliest stories we have in scripture attribute differing personalities in this sense to attributes of sheep and goat. In the story of Cain and Abel, Cain is described as a farmer, attached to his land, jealous, rough, and challenging of God, while Abel is described as a shepherd, easy-going, humble, gracious, and relational. In ...

3207. The Lighted Path

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... The dark water looked ominous and their clothes felt slimy and salty. The night felt tedious and hard and long. Yet they pushed on, certain that eventually, day would come and their job would be made easier with the light. This season of coronavirus has in a sense put everyone into a dark kind of wilderness place the like of which we haven’t experienced before in our lifetimes. We feel alone. We feel isolated. We feel sad. And we feel afraid. A few months ago, we felt that nothing would ever change, that ...

3208. Driven to Their Knees

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... an emotional breakdown.” For another astronaut, however, the moon visit meant something totally different. In his autobiography, To Rule the Night, James Irwin wrote, “As we flew into space, we had a new sense of ourselves, of the earth and of the nearness to God. We were outside ordinary reality; I sensed the beginning of some sort of deep change taking place inside of me.” Irwin continued, “The ultimate effect has been to deepen and strengthen all the religious insight I ever had . . . On the ...

3209. Abba! Father!

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

Ron Love

... , know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” All of the mothers and fathers seated in the sanctuary are evil only in the sense that we are imperfect sinners. We are not evil in the sense in that we deliberately abuse our children. Despite our faults as individuals, as parents the care, love, and devotion we have for our children cannot be measured. We are happy when our children are happy. We are sad when our children ...

3210. Sacrifice Leads to Life

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... want to do. For the betterment of the whole, the common good, we must put our own desires on the “back burner,” at least for some time, to make certain that the needs of all, or at least the majority, are served first. Lastly and probably most importantly, a sense of self-sacrifice must be the way we live our faith. If we truly seek to be followers of Jesus, then the life he lived, and the sacrifices he made should be what we seek to emulate in our life. It’s often not easy to share your faith with ...

3211. Under the Fig Tree

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... things that are not based in fact or proofs or logic. When we fall in love. When we pick up the phone to call someone just as they were thinking of us. When we have a sense of something wrong and then hear the news. When we look at someone and get a feeling about them. Although animals may have this sense to a greater extent, we humans have it too. And for many, it guides their lives. John Wesley would say that we can’t be a true Christian without that relational, intuitive, spiritual encounter with Jesus ...

3212. Fever Pitch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... must have been aware of the scant time he had in order to fulfill his mission, the vast numbers of people he would need to reach, the urgency of his message, and the vital importance of his salvation potential as messiah and Son. In a sense, Jesus was the “vaccine” for his society’s sin, and his mission had to proceed with an urgency his disciples had never before seen. For God, the state of humankind had reached a “feverish state.” Corruption was rampant. The faith had been corrupted. Thousands ...

3213. He’s Not Who We Thought

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... serious reader of the New Testament is left to ask: What happened to Mark? Why didn’t he give us a better Resurrection story? Again, the scholars have a suggestion, one that makes good sense. Mark actually does have a resurrection story. It’s in chapter nine. It’s the Transfiguration account. Does that make sense? Yes, when you think about it. Even though it interrupts Mark’s narrative and seems jarring to those of us who like a logical progression in the stories we hear and read, the gospel writer ...

3214. Wrong by Association, Right by Jesus

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’ve trusted all your life? Do you trust in someone’s promises, even despite the way things look? As much as we like to think we are all about it, caring what others think is a part of our vital social DNA. We all have a sense of honor that is mostly defined by our culture, our social context, our families, even our churches. We all follow unwritten “codes” of decorum, behavior, thought, even identity. When we defy that “honor,” we can not only begin to doubt ourselves, but we can be ostracized ...

3215. It's Worth the Wait

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: “Conversational flow is associated with positive emotions, and a heightened sense of belonging, self-esteem, social validation and consensus. Disrupting the flow by a brief silence produces ... Christ in their communities and in the world. There is no sadder thing that can happen to a person or a group of people than to have a sense of powerlessness. “There is nothing that we can do,” we whine. Often we can do more than we think. If God is with us we can say ...

3216. Good Show

Revelation 5:11-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... God is the admiring audience and we--choir, preacher, musicians, congregation--are on stage doing our best to make it a show worth watching. But we're at a show in a twofold sense. For we are not only performing for God: God is also performing for us. The Germans have a word for worship- Gottesdienst. It means "God's service" in the twofold sense of the service we render to God and the service God renders to us. There are many Sundays when you are busy singing, praying, listening to God only to find that ...

3217. Walking with God

Acts 2:1-21 · John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... time, we are blinded by a thousand distractions that keep us from staying on the right path that leads us to the kingdom of heaven. Just as Jesus’ disciples worried when he was leaving them, because they felt lost without him, without guidance, without their sense of mission, without their compass for right and wrong, without a strategy or goal for the future and what they were called to do, and Jesus assured them that an advocate would come, who would walk beside them just as he had, we too are granted ...

3218. Will the “Real” Jesus Please Stand Up

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... like each other no matter how far we push the envelope. In fact, Tiktok celebrates pushing the envelope. Tiktok is a reactive media that celebrates a different kind of diversity –one that educates us in who we want to be. Tiktok creates connections that feed our sense of self and make us essentially feel good about who we are in a world that seems to criticize us at every turn. Now that’s catnip. Who doesn’t come from a dysfunctional family? Who doesn’t do stupid things sometimes? Who doesn’t feel ...

3219. Like a Phoenix

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... , every time I went to a patient’s deathbed, whether in the hospital or at home, I remember my sense of failure — the feeling of I don’t know what I have to say; I don’t know what I can say; I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. And ... out of that sense of failure, I remember, I would always examine the patient. I would pull down the eyelids. I would look at the tongue. I would percuss the chest ...

3220. Christ and the Magic Cloak

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we know it. And when we open ourselves up to the presence of God, the presence of Christ, we become filled with that sense of well-being, peace, love, and fullness that reminds us that God is working through us, that Christ is living His resurrection Life ... the week, to find those ways that bring you close to Christ, that fill you with the Holy Spirit and create in you that sense of well-being, peace, love, and generosity, and carry God with you into the world. I guarantee you that everyone you meet will see ...

3221. The Gospel Ship

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... what lies ahead, the joy of the salt air and open seas, the starry skies above, the wind and the waves. This is the church’s definition of mission and what it means to be an apostle of Christ. Many churches have forgotten what that feels like, that sense of adventure. Some churches today may feel more like an abandoned shipwreck on the shore rather than a hardy ship on the open seas. But this is who you are. You are adventurers. You are seafarers. You are discoverers on a mission in the world to chart new ...

3222. Seeing with Eyes Closed

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... do we recognize that Jesus is with us and among us? How do we learn to see the miracles all around us? The blessings in our lives? The signs God is giving us? We need to pay more attention to our inner eyes, our intuition, our super-natural ability to sense what we believe to be true, even if we cannot see it, or cannot prove it. How do we focus more with our inner eyes? Our spiritual eyes? Well, let’s think for a moment about some other things we do to “train” ourselves to be more aware of ourselves ...

3223. Sword of the Spirit

John 6:56-69 · Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a gospel of peace –one who holds a shield of faith, wears a helmet of salvation, and wields the sword of the Spirit (the word of God). Christians are spiritual knights to the worthy and true spiritual king, Jesus the Christ. This imagery is continued in a sense in the gospel of John, in which Jesus describes himself as the Son of Man, and again the Bread of life. And no one can come to him unless it is granted by the Father. While most refuse to recognize him as the rightful “king,”Jesus’ inner ...

3224. Uncontainable Faith

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’t even talk to them about religion. He recognizes their pain, their desperation, and he recognizes that their approach of him, their curiosity and their faith and trust of him, their courage to come to him, despite their culture and their position in life, are in a sense, their prayers. We are called not to minister to people like us, the people who already know Jesus. We are called to minister to the people who are not like us, who don’t know Jesus, who are suffering and don’t know where to turn. We ...

3225. Now That's Rich

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... blotted out the importance of the people around us. Marjorie Holmes was a best-selling Christian author who wrote a prayer many years ago asking God to help her deal with her desire for possessions. I want to quote a couple of lines from this prayer: “My senses are tormented by the dazzling world of things. Lord, cool these fires of wanting. Help me to realize how futile is this passion for possessions.” She goes on to say in the prayer that recently one of her best friends died “in the midst of her ...

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