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3326. The Joy Of God

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... Christian Bible. There were many Bibles available in Japan even if there were very few Christians. So young Mr. Ishida began to read the Bible. It was a whole new world for him. At first he couldn't understand much of it at all. It didn't make that much sense. He couldn't figure out the point. One day that all changed. The "scales fell from his eyes" we might say as he was reading Luke 15. It was the joy of God that really spoke to him. "My heart was caught with the fact that the parables portrayed the ...

3327. Doubters All, Part II

John 13:31-38

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... do it. GERRIE: I agree. We talked about that. No slave can buy himself out of slavery. There must be someone not a slave to do it. TOMMIE: The only other person, with enough love to want to do that, must be God. GERRIE: That makes sense. TOMMIE: Other religions follow teachings of their founders, people who died. Christianity teaches that Jesus is the Son of God and is alive now. GERRIE: Your "Savior," right? But he is also human, right? TOMMIE: Right. GERRIE: There are myths, pagan myths, about saviors of ...

3328. Waltzing With Coyotes

Luke 6:27-36

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... meeta." Whet in blue blazes is "Tika meeta"? BART: It's a plain as tha ugly honker on yar face. WILLIE: Well, whet than? BART: "Tika meeta" means "take me." She wants me to hitch up with her -- now. WILLIE: It does not! BART: Anyone with a lick of horse sense knows whet "Tika meeta" means. It means "take me away from this place.' She wants me to take her away from that likes o' yo. WILLIE: The likes o' you, morin likely, I reckon. BART: She's a strong hankerin' fer me, thet's whet. WILLIE: Wait just a ...

3329. Talk Show I

Luke 10:38-42

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... , not a religious duty. MARTHA: Speak for yourself, brother, dear. LAZARUS: I was. PHIL: So, Martha, you view your Christianity as more of a duty? MARTHA: "It is better to obey than to sacrifice" (1 Samuel 15:22). PHIL: So, you're saying that doing your duty, in a religious sense, is more important than giving time to prayer? MARTHA: No, I'm not saying that. I pray while I work. Do I have to go to church to pray? No. I can get more done if I am working along, and when the Lord brings needs to my mind, I ...

3330. Reward Time

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... we just get my information now, so I can be \nprocessed? I am hungry. Do you know how long I've been waiting \nhere? \nRAY: We've all been here a long time. Well, then, that proves \nit. This can't be heaven. There's not supposed to be any sense \nof time in heaven. \nKAY: Definitely not heaven, then. My watch is working. It says \nit's 10:35. What time does yours say? \nRAY: Actually, it says 10:41, but I keep it five minutes fast \njust so I'll get to my appointments on time. So I imagine ...

3331. Which Way To Jesus?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... . It is a good guess to say that these were people from Greece who were proselytes. That means they were Gentiles who had espoused the Hebrew faith and had come to observe the Feast of the Passover. They were not Hebrews who spoke Greek. However, they did have the good sense to seek out a disciple of Jesus, who had a Greek name and who came from a region where the Hebrews did speak Greek. We all know how that works. Quite commonly we say, "It's not what you know. It's who you know." That is true whether you ...

3332. The Spice of Death

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... meaningful, how beautiful, and how confessional this act was from the Nicodemus and Joseph side of things, it was irrelevant to doing anything for Jesus or contributing to what had to be done to finish or complete his work. We should not be surprised. In that sense it is highly symbolic of the fact that there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do for God. We cannot contribute anything to God's needs. As helpless as the dead Christ was, Jesus had already accomplished what had to be done for the salvation ...

3333. Easter Jogging

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... on his head. They might have dropped it in their haste to get out of there. Nor would they leave the linen cloths. They would have simply run out with him. So John gives the evidence that the rumor about stealing the body of Christ just does not make sense in face of the facts. The empty tomb together with the neatly arranged burial linens with the Word are the evidences that Jesus is truly risen. It is through the Word that the Risen Christ still comes to us. He is that lively Word by which He still comes ...

3334. Sent From The Mountain

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

William G. Carter

... . Go into the world and serve God as missionaries." As I remember back, that five-day convention was a mountaintop experience in my life. It happened at a time when I felt the first stirring of a call to ministry. The pastor of my church had sensed my interest, and encouraged me to go to the convention. I returned home exhausted from the trip and enlivened by the emotional experience. I tried to explain to my very patient parents that I was thinking about becoming a missionary. I was going to go out and ...

3335. The Advocate

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... of firsthand knowledge and out of conviction. A Spirit-filled witness also speaks and acts with integrity. Al Glotfeldty was a Christian witness, a man of integrity and one of the finest Christian lawyers I have known. Al was an advocate and witness in the best sense of the term. He advised me legally on personal and church matters. He counseled and coached me as a young pastor about dealing with difficult people. He served on the executive committee of the large 4,900 member church I served at the time. He ...

3336. The Open Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... worship or pray. Stubborn resistance to the spirit of forgiveness inhibits our worship and our prayers. In clenched fists we hold tightly to wrong ideas about God, other people, and ourselves. We refuse to let go of bitter feelings. These bitter feelings give us a false sense of security. To let go of bitterness, we think, would mean that we will be unguarded. It may be self-defeating to hold onto these ideas, but if we let them go, we will be vulnerable, go out of control, and possibly get hurt. We sit ...

3337. The Parables About Response

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... what only God can do -- produce the growth. I knew very little about farming as a boy growing up in Chicago. This city boy grew up thinking that food was stuff you bought at a supermarket, not seeds you planted which grew into a crop. God had a sense of humor. In my first call out of the seminary, God put me in Lebanon, Indiana, a small farm town. I had to get educated quickly about planting and nurturing crops. In my third call, my education about agriculture increased considerably. My third call was to St ...

3338. The Little Boat

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... turbulent storms of life by the power of the Mighty Lord. That's what happened on the Sea of Galilee. That's what happens to believers. David Adam goes on: Once we believe in Jesus, we do not escape the storms and troubles of life. In fact, in some strange sense more storms than ever seem to come our way. Perhaps we should expect this. If there is any power of evil in the world, we should expect it to oppose anything or anyone that is trying to do what is right and good. However, all of us will meet with ...

3339. We Can't Contain God In Our Cups!

Job 38:2-7; Job 40:4-5; Job 23:6-7

Illustration

Zan W. Holmes

... ?" she asked. "Yes," her father said. The little girl hesitated and then asked, "Is God in this cup?" Her father said, "Yes." Upon hearing this the little girl quickly covered the cup with her hand and exclaimed, "I've got Him!" In Job's attempt to make some sense out of his suffering, he tried desperately to figure God out by confining God to his own narrow conception of God. In other words, Job was trying to get God to respond within the limited confines of Job's own theological cup. In fact, Job was so ...

3340. When It's Hard To Give Thanks

Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... get a full view of it." After their repentance and return to the Lord, the people were able to see that more was going on in the midst of their crisis than they could originally see. They now saw that God was using their crisis to bring them to their senses. God was seeking to prepare them for the Day of the Lord which was an even greater challenge than the plague of locusts. It is a reminder that God does not bring us through the waters to drown us, but to save us. And God does not bring us through ...

3341. Himself The Real Presence

John 6:25-59

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... strategy for our salvation? It hinged on putting flesh on God. God would appropriate our human nature and "be found in fashion as a man." Human nature consists of more than flesh and blood, of course. But for us who are sensible, who depend upon our five senses to understand, flesh and blood are the things which we can touch and see, the things by which we recognize humanity, the things that sum up for us living beings. God, therefore, just as he gave us his Son in our human nature, and made him visible ...

3342. Tears At The Tomb

John 11:17-37

Sermon

William G. Carter

... resurrection and the life" (John 11:25). Every page has three or four important truths compressed like brilliant diamonds. In every chapter, the eternal Word of God is revealed not only in stories but in memorable one-liners. By memorizing these verses, in some sense those Junior Highs were learning the gospel. At least it looked that way. Soon it was time for the last youth to speak. Jonathan was the minister's son. Grinning from a successful Bible study, Betsy said, "Jonathan, tell us what verse you have ...

3343. It's OK To Stir Up God

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Richard Patt

... more than it is a daily ritual of words. The apostle Paul affirmed such an approach when he wrote the famous brief sentence, "Pray without ceasing." Part of what he meant by that involves the thought that all of our lives ought to be a prayer to God. The sense of living in God's presence should be an ongoing reality in our lives. Most of us have heard something about learning how to pray when one finds oneself in a foxhole. The expression arose out of the Second World War, when many a soldier had to take ...

3344. The Fear Of Taking The Plunge

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Richard Patt

... are in younger years, the more joyous will be memories of them as we grow older. We will then have few regrets and will rest in the satisfaction that earlier days were filled with achievement and pleasure. We will grow older with a sense of fulfillment, not frustration. This positive kind of storehousing in earlier years will serve us well in later years. Whether we realize it or not, our minds are automatic storehouses, not unlike any computer with the capacity for memory storing. For instance, things ...

3345. Clever Christians

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Richard Patt

... activity. They consider themselves religious -- even Christian -- but they regard most of it as being something for a few who are attracted by "that sort of thing." There are still other types of believers who are active in the church in the sense that they frequently attend services but otherwise practice a fairly "private religion," assuming that, after all, religion, like politics, is a private matter. They are in favor of something but never engaged in it, really. There are yet other believers who go ...

3346. Nobody Owes You Anything

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Richard Patt

... -- a time to live in total gratitude to a host of forces outside ourselves. It's true: nobody owes you anything. In turn, you owe everything to God and others. Beyond this obvious interpretation of the parable, perhaps Jesus also told it in a deeper sense -- a parable to confront us with the spiritual truth about our eternal salvation. Again, Jesus would be saying that nobody owes us eternal life. The flip side is surely that you and I cannot claim or accomplish one single thing that would be considered a ...

3347. A Tale Of Two Cities

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... profit from the example of those heathen, who took no offense when directed from Jerusalem, the great city, to little Bethlehem.1 Still, in Luther's mind, it was not easy for the magi to cling to faith. He wrote: This was a grievous cross to the Wise Men. Common sense said to them: "You are fools to have made this long journey at the behest of a star. Everything at the capital is still. No one knows anything about it. The people tell us to go to Bethlehem and we do not know whether we shall find him there ...

3348. Homecoming

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... . "They shall come and sing loud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord" (v. 12). They will return to the holy of holies, to the sacred center, to the place where God is close and very real, where the world makes sense again, where there is community. From those heights they will be given a renewed vision and a restored hope. They will look out and see all the signs of God's goodness, the grain, wine, and oil, the flocks, and the herds (v. 12). There will be such a ...

3349. Arise! Shine! For Your Light Has Come

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... . They believed the promise, "Arise, shine, for your light has come." They saw the star and followed it. They went first to Jerusalem, where they were disappointed. The newborn king was not in the capital city. As Luther says, "This was a grievous cross to them." Common sense said, "You are fools to have made this long journey at the behest of a star, no one here knows anything about it." So now they must go on to Bethlehem, but what will they find there? Still, Luther says, "Faith pays no regard to what it ...

3350. The Silence Broken, The Bride Restored

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... figure. Each day they expect him, and each day they are disappointed. Their lives are a picture of futility. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful! In addition to the seeming silence of God in the midst of a modern, scientific, self-sufficient world, we also sense the silence of God when we do not feel so self-sufficient, when we are helpless in our suffering. Shusaku Endo speaks of that absent God in his novel Silence, set in a time of great persecution for Christians in Japan. Christians were hung upside ...

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