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3251. A Sword and a Sacrament

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... . Suffering in the hand of God is a mighty sword that he can use to slay the enemy. Suffering is a sacrament - a means of grace through which God can give us more than victory. He can give us his holy peace, and a joy that passes all understanding. Look at the palm branches in our church today. They are so delicate that they can be moved by the slightest breeze or the effortless wave of the hand; but, palm branches which are waved in conjunction with the Word of God become a sacrament in and through which ...

3252. God is About to Strike

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... converted. The explanation of this strange fact is that Paul's conversion was not a moral or ethical conversion; it was a theological conversion. It was a conversion from death under the Law to a birth of life in the Gospel. In order to more completely understand the theological dimensions of Paul's conversion, let us review the story of our text. A man, whose Greek or Roman name was Paul and whose Jewish name was Saul, had dedicated his life to the persecution and the actual killing of Christians in an all ...

3253. The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of Home. Part 2 we could call: Home Sick. And part 3 could be: Going Home. It was Thomas Wolff who warned us: you can’t go home again. That, of course, is true. It’s not that home is different. It’s that the prodigal is different. He now understands that a life that begins and ends only in self is a life of unfulfillment. Home is found only in relationships and the ultimate relationship is God. We can’t go home the way we left but you can go home once you have come to yourself, once you have ...

3254. Hermon: The Camel Who Was Humbled

Matthew 19:24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . It was about then that Hermon saw that the gates to the city were closed. He was going to be taken captive and the next thing would be work, hard work for those who captured him. "What was that?" Hermon asked almost in such a way that the owner could understand him. "That is the eye of the needle and we must enter the city on our knees through the little opening in the great door," said his owner. Sure enough there was a very small door in the big door where a camel could get through if he crawled on ...

3255. The Box

Drama

Cynthia Mercati Prigge

... not because of what we've done - but because of what Jesus has done. SECOND PERSON: So what? FIRST PERSON: Don't you see? That means that Jesus has already earned our points for us! SECOND PERSON: How could he? FIRST PERSON: On the cross ... THIRD PERSON: I don't understand. FIRST PERSON: I could never do enough to earn God's favor. No matter how much I did, I could never be good enough to deserve God. But I don't have to worry about that - I don't have to worry about earning enough points. Jesus died on ...

3256. A Father Looks at His Son - Joseph and Jesus

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... born. It was I, Joseph, who knelt at the side of his wife in a Bethlehem stable and helped her give him birth. It was I who watched as he grew from childhood into adulthood. When he laughed, I laughed too. When he cried, I cried with him. You must understand that for thirty-some years I thought about him night and day, as only a parent can think about his child. So whatever else history might say about him, whatever else might need to be said about him, I was his father and Jesus was my son. When he was ...

3257. Epilogue: Some Early Witnesses to Christ

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... woman at the well related her conversation with Jesus to the people of her village. She called him a prophet - not a fortune teller - but a "forth teller": one who proclaims the Word of God. She said in effect, "Come and see a man who helped me to understand myself and see myself in a new light." And then, there was the demon-possessed man on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus and the disciples had just landed their boat at the shore after enduring a storm at sea. And here came this naked, screaming ...

3258. Waiting for Jesus

Romans 13:11b

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... When my hand is shut with only a little hole it is like our trying to make a judgment. We think we see and think we understand, but we don't have enough information. The next time you get ready to judge a friend or think of him badly, remember what it ... us to tell everyone everything that we know about God because He is everybody's Father. We should all know what you know. Do you understand why it is important that we tell everyone what we have seen and heard about Jesus so they will know him as we know him ...

3259. Roadblocks to Jesus

2 Corinthians 6:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... people that he is a Christian and loves God, but look at the way he acts and thinks. When people see him, they don't want to have anything to do with his Jesus or God. Do you understand what I mean? We can keep people from wanting to be Christians if we don't remember that wherever we go and whatever we do we are watched by others to see if we really believe in our ... not be a sawhorse with a detour sign. But instead we want you to be wide open roads that lead people to Jesus and a better understanding of God.

3260. When The Cheering Stopped

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Brett Blair

... some events we might count as miracles but no miracles are done for the people. On the face of it this may not seem significant but when you consider that nearly one half of the Gospels is devoted to the last seven days of Jesus life, you then understand the significance of this. Open your bibles and see if that is not true. But listen to this: While there are no miracles recorded in these chapters what you will find is a persistent call to commitment. Consider a few of the events after he enters Jerusalem ...

3261. Service for Death through Miscarriage

Psalm 23:1-6

Eulogy

Stan Richards

... , even as we hope in you. (Psalm 33:20-22) Prayer: Dear God, you are both father and mother, creator and nurturer. You watched earth's first parents miscarry your hopes for the human race, and understand us when the hopes placed in ___________ life miscarry. You watched the execution of your son Jesus, and understand our pain at watching __________ die before giving birth to the hopes invested in them. We lift the grief of _________ and ________ before you. We ask for your healing presence, for they have no ...

3262. God, The Enemy

Luke 12:1-12

Sermon

... kill. Henley had a long, close friendship with the great author, Robert Louis Stevenson, who in fact, based part of the character of Long John Silver in Treasure Island on his one-footed, hearty friend. Stevenson wrote of Henley's poem that, "[Henley] wanted me to understand that 'I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.' not my teachers, family, friends, money, or the 'powers,' that may be. To come 'out of the night that covers me,' I must be 'unafraid,' 'unbowed,' and 'unconquerable'."2 As ...

3263. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

... has garnered such a following. But I do not think that the answer to why this church is dying is to be found in heresy. II There is some evidence that the former pagan life was starting to look a little better to them. I suppose that that is understandable also. When we become a Christian our faith does not resolve all of our problems, and indeed, it may create new problems, new burdens to bear. We tell people that all they have to do is believe, and so often we forget to tell them that once they believe ...

3264. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

3265. Partners With the Eternal

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

... . Partnership with God! It is here that all of life's good qualities are at their best, that all of life's assets are worth their most, that life's joy of achievement reaches its highest summit. Not mere pupils, but participants! Not just receivers, but givers! This understanding of who they were began to come clear to the first disciples of Jesus long ago. May it be so clear to us today that it will take possession of us, mind and soul. Workers together with God! This is who we are - in every kind word we ...

3266. The Importance of Believing

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

... , but it doesn't. You may try to change it, but you can't. Why? Because this is the way things are. It is an obligatory truth. He who would deal with the world of things and material substance is obliged to reckon with it. You understand, in dealing with space and substance, there are some beliefs which are mandatory. If we are to live compatibly with the physical universe, there are some things we must believe; we have no choice. In some areas, belief is essentially a matter of acceptance: we must accept ...

3267. The Two Fires

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... New Testament insistence upon grace and gift, not work and merit. We cannot make ourselves into the sort of persons who are recognizable as sons and daughters of God; the heart of the Christian testimony makes this clear. Not even a courageous and serious understanding of the first fire, Christ’s judgment, can remedy our impoverishment before God. It takes the second fire of Christ’s spirit to inspire and sustain the growth of love and grace within us. Of course, there is something we can and must do ...

3268. Barefoot in the Palace

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... their claim. In fact, or in anticipation, the present and future are signed by the bare feet that scurry through the palace corridors, or threaten to do so. I So we stay with this truth. The image of bare feet in the palace is a way of understanding our times. In so many places we see the oppressed and under-privileged who are asserting themselves. One thinks of the gallant Solidarity movement in Poland. This is what we find happening in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and it is beginning to re-play itself in ...

3269. Lovers Never Ask, 'What's the Least I Can Do?'

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

... as long as we’re in love with the Lord. — The duty to set a good example; — The duty to be forgiving; — And then also, the duty to have a positive outlook. I take that from these words: The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" (We can understand why that request: to set a good example and to keep forgiving seven times a day - who doesn’t need strength for that?) And the Lord said, "If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamine tree, ‘Be rooted up, and be ...

3270. The Freedom To Be Wrong

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

... wrong, we’re free to let others be wrong as well. The same atonement covers their mistakes too. So we can relax with our friends and neighbors and dear ones. We don’t have to account for their mistakes. Jesus has done that already. The more we understand that, the more we realize that the church, the communion of forgiven sinners, is the safest place in the world to make a mistake. Some of us are slowly catching on to the pain of our friends on the farm. Films like "Country" and "The River" are bringing ...

3271. Is The Gospel Only For Women?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

... , to justify their speaking up for black people’s rights. I find another remark by Dr. Weatherhead to be insightful: An amazing thing that, although Christ was a man, and though most women think that no man can ever understand them, yet no woman has ever felt that Christ could not understand her womanly feelings. He goes on to observe, "It is one of the glorious facts of our religion that womanhood finds all its ideals realized in him." That leads me to dare to say that if these are "womanly" - these ...

3272. Is Christianity An Escape?

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

... that they weighed more than 100 tons apiece. The "offerings" Luke mentions were probably the permanent memorials, such as a table from the Egyptian ruler Ptolemy and a grape vine of solid gold, each cluster as tall as a man, given by Herod the Great. We can understand why the disciples were fascinated. Jesus tells them: As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down. And so it was. Jerusalem fell to the Roman army ...

3273. The Witness and the Witnesses

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

... them!" She could not be comforted. But Grandma was not dead; she was able to adjust a few circuits and she was "alive and well" again in what was more resurrection than resuscitation. And she said to Agatha and her brothers, reaffirming her promise, "Do you understand, I shall always, always be here?" And she was until the youngest went away to college and no one needed her any longer. That sounds much like the promise made by another - the Man, Jesus Christ - long ago, doesn’t it? - "Lo, I am with you ...

3274. The Spirit and the Truth

John 16:5-16

Sermon

George Bass

... , Son, and the Holy Spirit - comes to us by divine revelation in the world, in Word, and through the work of the Holy Spirit. We don’t arrive at the truth of God by philosophical systems or mystical experiences, though both of these might be helpful in understanding and growing in the faith. God shows us what he knows is necessary for a living faith by revealing himself in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - but as one God. How easy it is to rattle off the beginning of the Nicene Creed, "I ...

3275. Tomb for Sale

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

George Bass

... to arise from the dead. Best of all, the young man did sit up, began to speak, and Jesus "gave him back to his mother." God is present when death stalks us and our loved ones, however they may die - and it gives us comfort just to know that God understands and cares about our pain and anguish in life, especially in the face of death. We may dare to live and look death in the eye - if not with defiance, certainly with assurance and comfort and hope. Wouldn’t you like to know the rest of the story? What ...

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