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301. A Time To Remember - Memorial Day

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... no longer be bothered. It would take time away from the beach, the backyard, the ball park. (1) At the National Cemetery on Long Island, one of the nation's largest, it has become necessary to advertise for volunteers to place flags on the graves of veterans ... WORLD. J. Wilbur Chapman used to tell a story of a soldier who was mortally wounded. His buddy Jim stayed by him through his long and lonely illness to the very end. "Jim, I'm going to die," Charlie whispered to his friend. Knowing Jim had no family of ...

302. Freedom's Year

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... ever after! We're like her, aren't we? We all want our freedom. And we don't want anyone to take it from us! But freedom is such a slippery thing. You crave it one day. You have it the next. And then it becomes your worst nightmare. Not long ago, a family in the Maritimes won big in a lottery. For years they had struggled with a heavy debt load, financing a mortgage. Each member of the family had a job, and each one was expected to contribute toward paying off the loans. Now, suddenly, they were free! They ...

303. Body Language

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... take over the whole place." "You should talk!" the lungs exploded. "Do you ever march to a different drummer? No! All you do all day long is beat your own drum. The noise is driving me crazy. Come to think of it, I'm sick of it and I'm ... lungs told its story to the stomach. The stomach became very upset and agreed not to feed into the heart's monotonous monologue. Before long all the other organs began taking sides the nose with the mouth and lungs, the liver and spleen with the stomach, while the kidneys ...

304. Entitlements

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... special interest, we deserve a special hearing." (2) Entitlement. "There was a certain rich man," Jesus said, "who was splendidly clothed and lived each day in mirth and luxury." One day Lazarus, a diseased beggar, was laid at the rich man's door. As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man's table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores. Finally Lazarus died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham in the place of the righteous dead. The rich man also died and was buried, and his ...

305. Family Survival

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Stephen DeFur

... aware of but kids can smell a mile off, Jacob's favoritism for Joseph just leaked out of him, until one day it took a very concrete form. Jacob gave Joseph a robe--a very famous robe. The Hebrew word to describe it is a little uncertain. It's translated "long sleeves" in my Bible. The old King James is maybe the most famous--it calls it "the coat of many colors." Jacob bought it at Saks. It was hand-tailored. The rest of the boys got their clothes off the rack from K-Mart when the blue light was flashing ...

306. Like A Big Happy Family

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... from him what he was prepared to give. That is what a worship service is all about. We have been pushing and surging all week long in the marketplace, at schools, among friends and foes alike. Now it is time for us to sit down and wait in readiness for what ... the top of the window it hit, trying to escape its captivity, but could not find its way out. The struggle went on for a long time. "Then in utter exhaustion, giving up, the bird fell to the floor. He was not dead, but he must have felt half- dead. I ...

307. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in 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 longing for a glimpse of God by playing it on a human life. “And the Word became flesh and lived among us....” When Martin Luther was asked just how Jesus Christ could be both God and a real human being as the Christian creeds affirm, he replied that he ...

308. Let the Son Shine In

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , or he is a deluded dreamer who should be dismissed without a second thought. As that great and controversial American preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick once said, What, then, do we make of this most amazing, potent, spiritual life that has visited this world? In the long run we make of him one of two things: either an accident or a revelation. One or the other. 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 ...

309. Life Begins at Thirty-Eight

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... for that wonderful moment when the angel’s wing would touch the water’s surface. No doubt Jesus had been conversing with some of them. Then it was that this most pathetic case of all was pointed out to Him. There was a fellow who had been there as long as anyone could remember. Thirty-eight years! A lifetime! Longer than our Lord Himself would live! And yet he still came to the pool, day after day. You’d think that he would have given up by now. But no, he was still there, after nearly 14,000 days ...

310. Tired of Trying?

James 5:7-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , as redeemed persons bore witness to the power of God in their lives through Christ. (3) Jesus knew that when people were engaged in service to their Lord, the Christian faith would always win out. There may be pleasure in sin for a season--but NOT for the long haul. God''s truth will always expose the darkness and defeat it. Just like wealth, which is exposed in verses 1-6, anything but the truth will not last. Love can be crucified--but it cannot be defeated. This gives us the balance we need to live in ...

311. Waiting

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Brett Blair

... up and down the aisles, writing furiously. There was peace on earth, no more war, no hunger or poverty. There was peace in families, harmony, no dissension, no more drugs. There careful use of resources. By the time she got back to the counter, she had a long list. Jesus looked over the list, then smiled at her and said, "No problem." And then he bent down behind the counter and picked out all sorts of things, and finally stood up, and laid out the packets on the counter. "What are these?" the woman asked ...

312. Up and Running

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... not go unnoticed, issuing in a question like this: Is the place of the church above and beyond the world, or in the world? It is, I believe, both. There is a problem in both directions: Stay in the world too long and you can lose your way; but stay in the church too long and you can become, as the old expression puts it, "so heavenly-minded that you are no earthly good." Theological educators, as well as educators in other disciplines, know that the academic must be tempered by the practical. The late Roy ...

313. A New Look for a New Year

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... of the room yelled, "Who cares about that worthless thing? It's just a picture of the old man's son. Let's forget about it and move on to the treasures of his collection." The auctioneer responded, "No, we have to sell this one first." After a long silence, a trusted long-time household servant of the old man who was attending the auction out of respect to the family he had loved and served said, "All I have is ten pounds. I'll offer that. I knew the young man, and I would like to have the painting." No ...

314. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , superficial commitment to Christ. What he called his dutiful performance of religion. The love of God was almost unbearable in its depth, in its pristine, parent like simplicity. His climactic word in trying to recall the experience verbally was - I feel that I’ve had a long desperately needed shower bath, all inside. And I recall the word of a teenager to me, who had the same kind of experience, and she said - I feel as though the sun has risen inside me. That’s it. If we confess our sins, Christ is ...

315. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... concerned. But it changed even more because we learned to patiently live with one another. If we are going to love close up, we are going to have to be patient. Not I know there are those who are ready to criticize the over-patient and the long-suffering for putting up with more than they should tolerate. Modern psychological theory often places great emphasis on the need to show one's anger and acknowledge one's impatience. My own belief is that there is too little patience in the world today and too much ...

316. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... an account of history; I'm looking in a mirror! This is not Adam I'm reading about; this is myself. This is not a tower built long ago in a faraway country: this is my own society in action, and I am part and parcel of that society." (William M. Logan, In the ... day we will see. God is love therefore one day we will be satisfied. Now it may not come immediately in fact it may be a long while, but it's worth the waiting for. In the beginning, God created and it was good it was very good. III A third point in ...

317. The Rest Of The Story

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... food at the cost of disobeying God. When business says, we'll make our profits rather or not our products are of real value, or whether or not it can be done honestly," that is sin. It is, of course, just as much sin for a worker to say, "As long as I collect my wages and can get a raise, I do as little real work as possible." (Fetter, p. 50) Evil gets at us by appealing to legitimate drives within us -- sex, profit, risk, knowledge -- to mention just a few. And getting us to use them selfishly and in ...

318. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I give him: give my heart. That's our question today. What, now, does Jesus want of us? I can't line that out in completion -- but I can get us started in reflecting generally in order that you can do that personal work of responding to Jesus' desires and longings in relation to each of us. So, what does Jesus want? I. One, He wants you to be a person of compassion. Here is a picture of it. Walter Wangerin, Jr., tells us of a Christmas Eve day when he had to conduct a funeral service. Believe me, that's ...

319. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... shaped more by the gospel than by any of the myths of the culture is what spiritual maturity is about. It is a life-long sifting process to make us useful on earth and prepared for heaven, and it is intellectually and morally painful. This message was painful to ... and hoping to get someone’s attention in the divine realm. No, you are speaking to your Father in heaven, and heaven is not long distance; it’s always a local call. So if prayer is not to impress others, and if it’s not like pulling the lever ...

320. Uncle Abraham

Romans 4:13-25

Sermon

William G. Carter

... special events that happened years and years ago. Capon observes that, for a lot of people, faith is a memory of past events, like the crossing of the Red Sea, or the death of Jesus, or the high school prom. If some of us hang on to those events from long ago, we think we can get through life. But Capon says that is a dead end. Remembering the past does not always get us through troubles here and now. By contrast, consider the ticket window. You go up to the box office, make a purchase, and then you are ...

321. The Paraclete Is Not a Bird

John 14:23-29

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . What was apparent to the Christians was that they had to cope day by day with all the dangers and difficulties of this life. It was no longer sufficient to say to them, "Just hold on, Jesus is coming soon." Jesus was not coming, not for a long, long time. As he, himself, told us, "Nobody knows the hour or the day; only the Father knows." Then John remembered other things. "I will send the Paraclete, the Counselor, to be with you forever." It's like that ending in the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus says ...

322. In The Darkness of Oppression, There Is the Light of Salvation

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... basement, where we keep the animals. I’m sorry, that’s all I have. But this time of the year, it’s really the warmest place I have, being below ground.” I listened intently and heard steps as they went around the corner of the building. I lay awake a long time, knowing a little baby could be born here, and early in the wee hours I fought sleep, wondering if I might be able to hear a baby’s cry. Here on the third Sunday In Advent, we are getting closer to the celebration of the Savior’s birth. We ...

323. What Is Success?

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... how it pains me to learn you've lost your character, your church, your friends, and your God, Christ!" The man protested, saying he'd lost none of those things I'd mentioned. "But I thought you said you'd lost everything!" The man sobered, and it wasn't long before he realized that he'd actually lost none of the things that matter most in life. After all, money can buy a bed, but not sleep; books, but not wisdom; a harlot, but not love; food, but not appetite; sin's pleasures, but not salvation's peace. It ...

324. Los Posadas

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... medical science has taught us to help control and limit. Think all the variables medical science has taught us we can't control or limit. Nine months seems nothing like nine months. More like an eternity, and then suddenly, it doesn't seem nearly long enough to prepare for the biggest change life can bring - new life. The Thessalonian community to which Paul was writing was gestating as well. It was a new community of faith. Its faith newly gestating, still developing, still growing. Paul's advice was both ...

325. The Insight of Eyesight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... reality and then used that fresh vision to change our old habits, our old expectations, our old convictions. We hold our new baby and know our perspective on everything will now be through our child's eyes. We come back to our childhood home after a long absence and realize it wasn't the center of the universe that we thought it was. We visit a country where fresh water is a luxury and death and disease an everyday companion. Yet how many of us have also glimpsed tremendous truths, mind-altering insights ...

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