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3351. Journey To The Cross VI: Jesus And Pontius Pilate

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

James W. Moore

... . I have a fine home, three luxury cars... money to do anything I want to do. I have a lovely wife... wonderful children... a respected profession... I’m in good health. Despite all that I am miserable. I feel empty inside, unfulfilled... I am bored to tears! People call me a success, but I feel like a failure.” Now, what that man was saying was that he has everything but a cause... everything but a dream... and without that... his life is an empty shell. When Man of La Mancha opened on Broadway ...

3352. Journey To The Cross VII (Easter): Jesus And The Women At The Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... warm in his hand, and before he realized what he was doing… he threw it into the sea! That’s a good parable for Easter, isn’t it? Because that can so easily happen to us. We can come upon a miraculous moment like Easter… we can feel it turn warm in our hands… but then (so dulled by the routine) before we realize what we are doing… we throw it away. Absentmindedly, mechanically, nonchalantly… we toss it aside and miss the miracle of Easter. Listen! Please don’t throw it away this year. Please ...

3353. A MIRACLE AWAITS YOU EVERY DAY

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John H. Krahn

... shocked to learn that he had a disease which would claim his life in less than a year. A month later, the doctor realized he had made a mistake in his diagnosis, and my friend, Art, was told he would live. Although the doctor’s error caused many negative feelings during the month after the initial diagnosis, it also had its positive side. Art later reflected, "I began to see the beauty of God’s creation in a way I hadn’t seen it before. With the length of my life now limited, I began to make the most ...

3354. GOD’S CURE FOR LONELINESS

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John H. Krahn

... you are bragging. There is the loneliness of standing up for what you believe is right and finding that you are only a majority of one. There is the extreme loneliness of not feeling loved. Everyone seems to have friends but you, and you would guess that even your death would not cause anyone to break stride. Confronting all of these feelings of loneliness is the shrill cry of the Newborn from Bethlehem. And as we listen to the God-Babe now born, we discover that he is the Father’s cure for loneliness ...

3355. I AM THE CHURCH

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John H. Krahn

... . I am usually constructed with the finest materials, and my cost per square foot is often quite high. I think this is appropriate because I make a visible statement to the world about the feelings of my members towards the Lord. I am a visible witness to the community. When I am allowed to look run-down, my appearance reflects how you feel about me. Although many folks see me mainly as a building, this is only a small part of my personality. For the most part, I am people, people like you who are reading ...

3356. REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM

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John H. Krahn

... ,000 per carat. Can you imagine what the Burmese Ruby, weighing 1,184 carats, would be worth? To have in our possession one of these jewels would be to have one of the most beautiful and most valued jewels in the world. Imagine how it would feel wearing the Hope Diamond set into a ring. Well, most of us already possess a jewel of even greater value. In his Large Catechism, Martin Luther makes this concluding statement about Holy Baptism: "No greater jewel can adorn our body or soul than Baptism: For through ...

3357. THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: I LOVE YOU

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John H. Krahn

... the power to stop time’s endless march - suspend it momentarily - most of us would do it Christmas Eve. For this is the night when peace pervades our hearts, as hands extend to greet friends and arms reach out to embrace family. How wonderfully good we all feel. We love and are loved. We forgive and are forgiven. We give only to receive in return. Years ago, many years ago, there was a Christmas much unlike our own. The world didn’t stop for the first Christmas - hardly anyone even noticed. The scent of ...

3358. AMAZING GRACE

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John H. Krahn

... at all, will be able to stand in God’s presence. This causes us problems, big problems, for none of us qualifies. If I were to ask you whether you were sure of your salvation, I wonder if every one of you could honestly say, "When I die, I feel certain that I would be with God in heaven." Anyone who loves the Lord and cannot state that conviction does not understand how amazing God’s grace really is. The reason that many of us are uncertain about eternal life is because we are so aware of our faults ...

3359. "I Don’t Want to Be Perfect - Or Do I?"

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... on his sixtieth birthday wrote this statement to himself: "Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual because we feel we have violated another life, a life which we have loved or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure ...

3360. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... Like seeing the flashing blue lights and hearing the scream of a siren - we don’t know what we’ve done but feel we must be guilty of something. The parents in their panic admit their son was born blind, but they refuse to elaborate ... last scene of our miracle story Jesus hears that the young man he healed has been thrown out of the synagogue. There must have been a feeling of kinship here, because just before our story begins Jesus himself had been stoned out of the temple. Our Lord goes to the young man ...

3361. What It Takes to Stay Christian

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... exercising regularly. My weight now stands at 170 pounds, my muscles are flabby and out of tone, and there are days when I do not feel well and have to force myself to work. I sleep fitfully and some nights not at all. Although I am gradually working back into ... my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34). There were those moments when Jesus knew the turmoil of heart which we feel today as we, too, seek to be faithful, to stay Christian. Recently a young matron in our congregation shared a letter with me ...

3362. A SUNDAY OF THE PASSION [PALM SUNDAY] SERMON-DRAMA

Drama

Tom Eberle

... this flaw out to him? Judas: The more I pushed it, the more insistent he was about his position; so it was dropped. We are trying to improve crowd security to limit this kind of undesirable contact in the future. I would also like to say that I feel this problem is partly a result of his upbringing. He came from a poor village family. Fortunately he had the intelligence to pull himself up from that; but I am afraid that the kind of associatians he had as a child did not properly instruct him in maintaining ...

3363. Are You Exercising Your Faith?

Mt 4:1-11 · Phil 3:12 · Gen 32:3

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... - our reading of the Scriptures, our understanding of mission and our understanding of the person and work of Jesus Christ. So profound and utterly creative was the life of Jesus that I think I shall study his teachings and examine his life all of my life and still feel at the end that there is so much more to be known. How sad, then, when we take Jesus and try to cram all that he was and is into one or two Scripture verses. How unfortunate, then, when we ride one doctrine or notion until it is threadbare ...

3364. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... peace and meaning in creatureliness, we will be happy and contented people. Reading Ehrenfeld reminded me of a recent trip I made to the oculist. After the examination, he told me that with glasses my vision was better than 20/20. Naturally, that made me feel good, but it does not alter the fact that my eyes are slowly deteriorating. Without my glasses everything beyond a foot is a blur, and the oculist tells me that sometime after forty years of age I may have to wear bifocals. Technological improvements ...

3365. The Circus and My Faith

Ps 139 · Mt 22:37

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... is that; but it is no less a peril encountered as one sits in the pew. Our worship of God is far less than total when we leave our brains at home and bring into the sanctuary only our hearts. The Psalmist, too, must have known that both thinking and feeling are important to God because he cried out - Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! (Psalm 139:23) This theme came to me in a Civic Center, of all places, as I watched the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus some time ...

3366. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... are not puppets. God has given us minds to use or not use, and I told the man that we would probably find out that the fire began because someone was smoking in bed and not using wise judgement or for some other like reason. The fire department now feels that the fire was due to arson, and arson is related to human sin and folly, not to God. Or take the building that collapsed in West Virginia many years ago killing so many workmen. Some undoubtedly called it the will of God, but investigations have clearly ...

3367. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... it possible for us to separate what is peripheral and what is central. A sense of purpose enables us to order our days and so use them that come nine o’clock in the evening we can have a clear sense of having contributed to what we feel is important. It is reported that Abraham Lincoln once attended a camp meeting led by a famous evangelist. During the services the evangelist said to his listeners: "All who want to go to heaven stand up." When Lincoln failed to stand up, the evangelist directed a question ...

3368. MIRIAM’S BABY BROTHER

Drama

Marcia Miller

... we didn’t have to play these tricks. I wish your brother was free to crawl about on the floor; free to go riding in the stroller; free to be a normal baby. MIRIAM: Poor baby has never even felt the sunshine. But I suppose babies can’t feel anyway. MOTHER: That’s what you know. Babies are very much aware of what is going on around them. That is why Brother hasn’t cried out during the day. Somehow he senses there is danger. MIRIAM: I hope he keeps on sensing it. [TWO SOLDIERS enter without bothering ...

3369. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... they be inhibited. Parents sometimes think that their children are always right and can do no wrong. A grandmother once wrote to Ann Landers about the way her daughter allowed her children to express themselves and not to hold anything back. If they are angry and feel hostility and fury, they are told to go to a "scream room" and let it out. The grandmother said she was taught to control herself and she wonders whether she was brought up the wrong way. Lack of self-control implies that a person is nothing ...

3370. It Takes Two to Preach!

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... say, "Don’t preach to me because I already have my mind made up about that subject." You can be smug and self-satisfied, and even feel that you know it all. There is a Flat Earth Society which believes that the earth is flat. Even when astronauts went to the moon and ... being said. When God’s Word is proclaimed, for those without the Spirit, the Word is only man’s opinions. He does not feel God’s presence. Nor does he hear God’s Word coming in a man’s words. In Shaw’s play, Saint Joan, an ...

3371. Food for Faith

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... results. The children went to sleep in the security that they would have something to eat the next day. It gave them a sense of security and peace. Without God we are insecure and afraid of the darkness of the world. If we had the Bread of Life, we would feel secure. Our spiritual hunger takes the form of needing love and friendship. Some time ago there was a youth wearing a T-shirt with this legend: "Luv Me." This is the cry of many, many people who do not wear T-shirts but whose hearts are crying out with ...

3372. Nag, Nag, Nag!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... from asking for help. She absorbed the insult and said she would, like a dog, be willing to take only crumbs. No one can be insulted when he is humble enough to consider himself nothing. You cannot say anything that is downgrading about a humble person, because he already feels he is that. Our appeal to Christ is based upon our need of him, not on our praise. We are humble enought to admit we are in need and that we are not self-sufficient to take care of our problems and needs. Like the woman in the text ...

3373. Jesus ... Who?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... the worship service? Is God not here with us? Is Christ not present? Or are they here but we are too stupid to sense their presence? It is a universal experience that when men and women stand in the presence of the Holy, they are overcome with a feeling of awe. Jimmy - Who? That is no longer the question, because the world knows Jimmy Carter is president of the United States. Jesus - who? Is that an unnecessary question, too? No, the world does not really know Jesus. That is proved by the world’s lack of ...

3374. Annas, Caiaphas, and Judas

Drama

Jon Joyce

... be getting on to do what you said you’d do. VOICE OF CAIAPHAS: When we arrive, go to him, and kiss him on the cheek. We will know that it is that man. JUDAS: [Control gone, he writhes on the ground and/or rises and paces, as he feels the scene] Kiss ... kiss ... the kiss of friendship ... VOICE: "... betray me." JUDAS: [Screams in agony] How was I to know? I couldn’t stop it, once it got started. I didn’t mean ... Forgive me, Master, forgive me, tell me what you told that thief. [He pauses, looks up ...

3375. Incalculable Riches by Bishop Roy C. Nichols

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... : "I know you are one, but please be fair!" God is a Spirit. And they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. Some of you may have read Charles Merrill Smith’s interesting book titled How to Pray to God When You Are Not Feeling Religious. I follow him pretty carefully, because he’s the same one who wrote the book, How to Become a Bishop Without Being Religious. In one of the sections in his book he makes an effort to desocialize our concept of God. It’s great to sense the immanence ...

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