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3326. Faith isn’t Easy - But it Works!

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... or does. But God, the Promiser in this text, cannot lie, and not one of his good promises has ever been known to fail. We trust the promise because of the Promise-maker. Even though the promises seem outlandish and impossible to fulfill, Abraham trusts them because he feels he can trust the God who made them. That’s what faith is all about. Faith in a doubtful promiser is foolishness, but faith knows that the Word of God is dependable, and to base one’s trust in his sure, true Word is to stand on solid ...

3327. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... insensitivity to the wrongs that we do, and we figure we don’t "need" to be troubled with a guilty conscience. It takes the "joy out of life," so why don’t we just get on with celebration? We affirm that we "feel good about ourselves" and about God - and claim we feel "close to Jesus." All of this is fine, but, nevertheless, the measure of authentic repentance, returning, and revival is always manifest in our godly sorrow for sin and in the resultant change in the quality of one’s life. It is ...

3328. God Can’t Keep a Good Secret!

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... sits you bolt upright in bed, drenched in a cold sweat and scrambling for a light to drive the "nearly-scared-to-death-feelings" away.) Then the trance continues as God asks the prophet, "Son of man, can these bones live?" Ezekiel is not about to be ... his mother. Two Korean women sat behind him. One of them was weeping. Her companion asked her why she was crying, and she replied, "I feel so sorry for the missionary who sits there. He lost both his wife and boy is such a short time." The other woman said, "Don ...

3329. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... stay home and rest?" we’d ask. Her reply was always the same, "Why, child, it RESTS me to go to church. I always feel so much better by the time the service is over." The personal presence of "this Jesus" literally invigorated her. What would it do for ... you would ask, "Barbara, ‘Which Christ’ is yours?" I’d have no trouble at all responding, "This Christ." Part of the depth of my feeling is expressed in the words of this Gospel song: "All my life was full of sin when Jesus found me, All my heart was ...

3330. The Spirit - For Me Too?

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... Rome, which is run by nuns, the Mother Superior went up to him and introduced herself. "Most Holy Father, I am the superior of the Holy Spirit," she said. "Well," replied the Pope, "I must say you’re lucky. I’m only the vicar of Christ." Some of us may feel so superior to the Spirit that we do not need him. For those of us who may fall in one of these categories, we still have not received the promised gift. This Pentecost Sunday is the acceptable day to get the gift. Are You Aware of the Spirit? As a ...

3331. What’s God Going to Do With You?

Hosea 5:1-15, Hosea 6:1--7:16

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... world but the people of God. Ezekiel compared his people to a valley of dead bones that needed to be resurrected by the Word of God. When we return to God, the Author of life, we will have new life and feel we have been born again like the man, who was released from prison after sixty-six years, said, "I feel like I’ve been born again." If and when we return to God, our faith will come alive again. For many, faith is not what it used to be. For some, there is no faith at all. Our paucity of ...

3332. Forgive To Be Forgiven

Genesis 50:15-21

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... So Jesus gives the moral of the story: "So also my heavenly Father will do to everyone of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart." At another time, Jesus emphasized the need of our forgiving each other when he said that if we have any ill feeling about a person and come to the altar with a gift to God, we should leave the gift at the altar, get reconciled with our brother, and then come and offer the gift which would be acceptable. Why, you ask, do we have to forgive before God will forgive ...

3333. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... hours a day a diet of godless secularism and humanism involving morals that do not conform to divine standards. If not in the world, where are we to look for God? One place is to see God’s handiwork in nature. Whenever we see a person’s product, we feel close to the maker, and we learn certain things about him/her from the beauty and quality of the product. Dorothy Gurney’s poem is inscribed at the Bok Singing Tower in Lake Wales, Florida: The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the bird for mirth ...

3334. Heart To Heart

Ezekiel 18:1-32

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... ?" The Spirit gave Saul a new heart of faith and love, and he was a new man. If you are not satisfied with your life, if you feel you need to be a better person, then take a look at your heart. Maybe you will decide that you need a new one. Again, why did ... us is described by Charles Wesley: O for a heart to praise my God, A heart set free from sin! A heart that always feels Thy blood So freely shed for me. A humble, lowly, contrite heart Believing, true, and clean, Which neither life nor death can part From ...

3335. As Good As God

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... he is no respecter of persons. He loves everyone alike. He treats everyone fairly. This may not be acceptable to some of us who feel God is not giving us a fair deal. We may be victims of suffering and tragedy. It may be a terminal illness in the middle ... family. Like Jesus on the cross, we may cry out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" We can get mad at God. We may feel he has been unfair, even cruel, to let things happen to us that hurt or deprive us of the basic joys of life. A father went to ...

3336. Out of the Barnyard

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... point some five miles through the hot sun back to New Haven. Now Daggett seems almost a funny, pathetic figure, taking on the British force singlehandedly as he did. Sometimes, when it looks at the forces of darkness in this world, the Church must surely feel as he did, nearly overwhelmed. But I do believe that if we could muster something of Dr. Daggett’s indomitable spirit, we could give those forces quite a beating. To be sure, we find in our world, as the Israelites found in ancient Canaan, "giants ...

3337. Peter’s Net

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... chosen to do. Peter could be accused of almost anything, the least of which could be stupidity in fishing that way. If the nets came up empty, as they certainly would, it would be a long time before he lived it down among his friends. That feeling is as real as ridicule. That feeling of hopelessness is as common as the fear of failing, the fear of an empty net again, the fear of an empty faith after working so long and so hard. We get good at self ridicule after a while. Our knees get sore and our minds ...

3338. Solomon’s Search

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... bath water and soaked in the hottest temperature you could stand, but there’s no one to tell how good that made you feel. Finally, it’s time for bed. Lights are switched off, doors locked, clothes are placed in a hamper. Everything seems so strange, ... taken your temperature? How much did you drink last night? Did you have somebody in? You should have called me if you weren’t feeling well. Darling, whatever you do, don’t tell anyone else about this. I knew I shouldn’t have gone off. I knew it." That ...

3339. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... from God and that disobedience to these leaders is a sin against God? What are you to do if you are forced to conclude that that same authority is demonic and stands as the very antithesis of the Christian ethic? What are you to do if you feel that that anti-Christian regime must be overthrown, and you are opposed to the use of violent means to accomplish the overthrow, but you have no hope that the Christian message could penetrate the perversity of the anti-Christian government? What are you to do if you ...

3340. Father Damien

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... and with no priest to minister to their spiritual needs. Though he had the authority to do so, Bishop Maigret did not feel that he could order a priest to Molokai. The Board of Health had decreed that once someone went to Molokai, he could ... ago, I said basically what I’ve just shared. I believe we often take one another for granted. We should tell each other how we feel. We should tell people that we love them. The morning after I had preached that sermon, one of the parishioners called and said that she ...

3341. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams

Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... half years, sustained multiple fractures, and died the next day. Although we live in a world which is so violent that we have become almost impervious to human suffering, we cannot help but be revolted by the recital of these events. Any revulsion you may feel is as nothing when compared to the anger which flared in the streets of Belfast when word spread of the disaster. Within hours of the tragedy, fifty mothers marched to the hospital, pushing baby carriages before them. They were to serve as a nucleus ...

3342. Who Keeps Getting in My Way?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... little big. Then I began to face reality ... with the help of my coaches. I began to grow up ... and I learned to become humble." He was beginning to get himself out of his way. That’s what it means to be poor in spirit. It is not to feel big, but to feel humble. It is not to be self-promoting, but self-renouncing. It is not to be self-centered, but self-circumferenced. To be poor in spirit is to be able to admit that: "I need thee every hour." It is to be like the second man in that ...

3343. The Joy of Sorrow?

Matthew 5:4

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... was once asked what he did with the suffering of Jesus on the cross. And he answered, "I just unsee it." Can there be joy in denial? The second solution is that of the Stoic. He gets rid of suffering and heartache by getting rid of the capacity to feel for others. Once he succeeds he suffers little, but he destroys himself because he does violence to his humanity. Can such violence bring joy? Then there are those who regard suffering as God’s will and submit to if, submit to it with the hope that in the ...

3344. An Altered State of Consciousness

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... will pass beyond death into life. We perceive and love people, all kinds of people, and we are amazed. It’s a new world! We are born again! We can’t go on fighting wars, dealing unjustly, worshiping money until we lose all meaning in life. No more do we feel defeated in life; we are now adequate for the full life God calls us to. Intuitively we enter into a new state of life; we are a part of the kingdom of God. When humanity is drawn into this new awareness of life - the kingdom of God is here; and ...

3345. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... he unintentionally overheard this conversation on the inside: "Son, we can’t do that. We are trying to live the Christian life style here." That’s the secret of a great Christian family - commitment to a life style, because of the love of Christ. We have an instinctive feeling that God is righteous, that God demands righteousness of us, for our own good, that he loves us enough to refuse to give us up to evil, that he seeks to help us see the evil and resist it, so that he can help us overcome it. This ...

3346. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... let him. In the book, Born Again, by Charles Colson, we can look in upon the tug of war between Colson’s spirit and the Spirit of God working within him: "I felt a terrible emptiness ... There was a big hole in my life ... something made me feel I needed a personal relationship with God." And again, "My self-centered past was washing over me in waves. It was painful. Agony. Desperately I tried to defend myself." He said to himself, "I’ve got to answer all the intellectual arguments first."3 Next comes ...

3347. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... with an older member of our church. The older man cursed. He was vulgar. He acted with complete unconcern for the feeling of others. The new Christian was almost destroyed. The older Christian (?), called to be a shepherd, had become a wolf. ... to me in Christ and how I see myself relating to others? Where do I see discrepancies between who I am and how I relate, and what I feel Christ calls me to be? "At what point would I say that Christ has less than full priority in my life? What are some of the means by ...

3348. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... Nor is it unity. Unity is nearly always held in the midst of diversity. It is a bringing together of many ideas, perspectives, personalities, and thoughts around a common, unifying, over-arching concern or theme. There is room for much variation of opinion and feeling when one is seeking unity, so long as all that variation is given over to the achievement of the common goal, the adoration of the common center of all these variations. Artists, for example, may have great differences of opinion about how to ...

3349. Discerning the Way of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... sin, but on the other hand he releases us for service to him and the glorification of his name. It is at this point that we feel the real pinch. If God would give us a rigid set of rules and laws to live by, directing, as it were, our every waking moment ... might want of us. He gives us considerable leeway for living, a "freedom" that leaves us "on our own" far more than we sometimes feel comfortable with. How ought we to live if we are to "glorify his name"? That brings us full circle back to our original ...

3350. Journey To The Cross V: Jesus and Simon Peter

Mark 14:66-72

Sermon

James W. Moore

... didn’t know those people very well… so I kept my silence. But, later as I walked to my car, I was kicking myself. I was feeling sad and ashamed that I hadn’t seized the opportunity to stand tall and speak out for my friend. Why didn’t I speak up? Why ... because of a basic insecurity. The scriptures tell us that a simple “yes” or “no” is sufficient… and yet some people feel so insecure within themselves… and with their words that they find it necessary to color what they say with profanity to ...

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