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3351. The Call Of The Tradition: Remember And Return

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... word, forgetting its stories and tradition and failing to live according to its laws. It is easy to understand how that could have happened. The people knew that Judah was no longer a great nation, but nothing more than a province of another empire. For many, it made no sense to fight it. Why not adapt to the new situation, learn new manners, a new culture, a new mode of life? Why not make one's home in Babylon. Why not adjust and adapt the religion of Yahweh to a new time and a new place? Unless a religion ...

3352. Made New By Taking A Different Road Home

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... to say, a little gift is on the way!" Three men were running through an airport in San Diego and knocked down the small apple stand that was being run by a boy in tattered clothes. Two men kept running to meet the plane and the third had the good sense to stop, help the boy stack the apples, buy two of them and leave him a nice tip. The boy looked at the face of this man who took the time to help and asked, "Are you Jesus?" The road to Bethlehem is hurried. The road from Bethlehem is slower ...

3353. Echoes

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... me of a childhood where he did not receive the same attention as those around him. He talked of late summer evenings when one by one the children were called home, and then began to sob uncontrollably as he said, "No one ever called me home." His sense of abandonment still lingers. The echoes of abandonment are the chief pain that haunts the human family at every age. Echoes of scripture can be a blessing and a burden. We are burdened by those parts that make us confront ourselves as we are with the view ...

3354. Why Did Pastor Hypnotize Jenny?

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Tony Everett

... world's problems and challenges as if we really are in a helpless and hopeless hypnotic trance. As we begin this Advent Season just a few short years from the twenty-first century, we are painfully aware of a growing sense of disillusionment in our society. Basic values are questioned. Optimism for the future is rare. Cynicism and pessimism abound. A persistent skepticism exists regarding personal, political, and corporate integrity. Three years ago the National Opinion Research Center released data stating ...

3355. Named And Claimed

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Tony Everett

... . God will. "For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior," says the Lord (v. 3). Why does God promise this to a people that consistently rejected covenants and abandoned commitments? Why does God promise this to us? It does not make sense. It just isn't rational. The only answer God gives is one from the heart, not from the head. "Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you" (v. 4). We are baptized into this amazing, overwhelming, irrational love made visible in the ...

3356. Anything But Trivial

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... life for nothing. I could be bitter, but I'm not. God is present and has given us the strength to go on." At one level, Tiemeyer's identity was shattered. At the level of faith, his relationship with God was strengthened. The closer a problem is to our sense of identity, the more pain we experience, the more difficult it is to resolve, the more we need to rely on others for support, and the more dependent we are upon God's presence. Each of us has our own memories of major losses. Each of us has experienced ...

3357. Dabar Adonai

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Tony Everett

... us in everlasting relationship. Notice how the Lord reminds Jeremiah of a loving relationship that began even before birth. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you" (v. 5). Here, "knew" in the biblical sense describes a deep and profoundly intimate relationship of love. Before Jeremiah was born, God took the initiative in beginning a loving relationship with him. God set apart Jeremiah for a holy mission, and the word of the Lord was the force that would see ...

3358. Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide

1 Kings 9:1-9

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... we have done. We can run from others, but we cannot escape ourselves and our own responsibility in the matter. We experience our fall from grace through the burdensome realization that what we have done has hurt others and hurt them deeply, and in a larger sense brought sorrow and tragedy upon them and upon ourselves. In his book The Fall, Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus tells the story of Jean Baptist-Clamence, who falls from grace in his realization that he is not the man he has pretended to be to ...

3359. A Tale Of Two Cities

Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... have to be lived with head and heart, body and soul. One must do more than give mere lip service to the sacred but must live life out within these realms of reality and possibility. The religious and political establishment had lost their sense of the sacred. They abandoned those precepts, concepts, and beliefs which allowed them to live consecrated lives. That's why God chose an outsider, a most unlikely person to prophesy unto the people. Living life sacramentally means maintaining the vertical spiritual ...

3360. God's Going To Bring His Children Home

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

James McLemore

... , then I loved him, and I called my son, out of Egypt." Hosea was speaking to kings, to governors, to priests, to soldiers, to the military academy of Israel, to the board of Israeli education, to organizations, and to institutions. And his words didn't make much sense, "When Israel was a child." How can a nation be a child? With all of its land and institutions, how can a nation be a child? With the vast multitude of its people, how can a nation be a child? With its government, its political institutions ...

3361. Casting the Net on the Other Side of the Boat

John 21:1-14, Matthew 4:18-22, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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John R. Steward

Since many of the followers of Jesus were fishermen, it made sense for Jesus to use fishing as an example of the Christian life. In Matthew 4:19, as Jesus is walking by the Sea of Galilee, he sees Simon Peter and Andrew in the process of fishing. He says to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." ...

3362. A Python in the Hut

2 Thessalonians 2:1-17; 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

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John R. Steward

... home in shambles. This is often the case with the enemies of God. The victory has been won in Jesus Christ and until his return the battle continues. Let us rejoice in the knowledge that Christ has won the battle. Adapted by Dr. James Dobson, When God Doesn't Make Sense (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.), p. 194.

3363. The Blind Guiding The Blind

Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 6:46-49, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Isaiah 55:1-13, Luke 6:37-42

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... else does not adopt these traditions, they can be looked upon as not fully Christian. It is the peculiar sin of the Pharisees. The second type is those who have had a severe struggle to overcome major sin in their life to become Christian. Their sense of liberation and joy gives them an exuberance that others may not share because becoming Christian would not have been such a contrast for them. As it is sometimes expressed, they never knew a time when they were really not Christian. The peculiar temptation ...

3364. Proper 10

Luke 10:25-37, Colossians 1:1-14, Amos 7:10-17, Psalm 82:1-8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... inn. CONTEMPLATION Issues and Insights 1. Who is My Neighbor? It is interesting that we naturally assume that the person who is the neighbor is the man who was in need. Yet the lawyer says that it was the Samaritan who showed mercy. In a certain sense we would therefore conclude that our neighbor is one who shows mercy toward us. So the question put to the lawyer is not really, "Who is my neighbor?" The question put to him should be, "When do you act neighborly?" It was the neighborly outcast, the Samaritan ...

3365. Proper 13

Luke 11:1-13, Hosea 11:1-11, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalm 107:1-43

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... also entrusted to persons to glorify God and serve the neighbor, not just for fulfillment of pleasures and desires. CONTEMPLATION Issues and Insights 1. Jesus as Judge. Jesus did not want to become encumbered with the problem of settling secular disputes. He had a sense of divine vocation. His calling was to proclaim the kingdom of God and to bring people to salvation. Thus he went about preaching, teaching, and healing. If he took upon himself to serve as a judge or arbitrator, he could, like Moses, find ...

3366. Proper 19

Psalm 14:1-7, 1 Timothy 1:12-20, Jeremiah 4:5-31, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... and the church to maintain strong ties to the fellowship with other Christians and Christ. The harder issue to deal with is deliberate rebellion. Sometimes all persons can do is to wait and watch, ready to extend acceptance and recovery when such persons come to their senses. For oneself, the person needs to consider what is of real worth, what one's life is about, and the dangers to which one's rebellion may be leading. 3. Who Are the Lost? Christians and the church need regularly to take stock as to who ...

3367. Proper 22

Luke 17:1-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Lamentations 1:1-22, Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... It is our acceptance and love that is its own reward. Obedience to God should not arise because of the possible reward or the fear of punishment. The reward in knowing the presence of God's love and power in our lives is its own reward. It is the sense of the absence from God and being alone in the universe that is its own punishment. When all our activity in faithfulness to Christ is added up, we are still unworthy. We have, at best, only done what is right for ourselves and that is good enough reward for ...

3368. Proper 24

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 119:1-176

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William E. Keeney

... they are entrusted with responsibility for upholding the law. They are charged with assuring fair treatment of people according to the standards which the society has set. When the enforcement of laws and the administration of justice are capricious, people live with a high sense of insecurity. They have no way to seek redress for injustices. The abuse of the power of the court and of law enforcement happens in all cultures to some degree. It is more serious in some than in others. The parable Jesus tells ...

3369. Love And Resurrection

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

Only those who love can understand the resurrection. It is primarily love which makes any sense of this experience. Paul said that the three greatest virtues are faith, hope, and love. While everything else will pass away, love will remain constant. Here now we find a clue to our understanding the resurrection. But it's more than just understanding it. I understand the principles of basic ...

3370. The Results Of Resurrection

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... outside brought terror. And then Jesus came and stood in their midst. His presence with that group was like that of a parent with a frightened child. The very presence brought peace and security. What a trenchant word -- Peace. Peace in the biblical sense is a condition of being whole and complete. It is much more than a mere absence of conflict. Those disciples were whole again, because the Master was back. You and I may experience this feeling of wholeness by accepting this result of Jesus' resurrection ...

3371. A Spear, A Nail, A Cross

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... 2,000 years and have heard them as church bells pealing out this word: "People have done their worst! God has done his best! And the scales have tipped in God's favor." We know the story of Good Friday from looking back over 2,000 years. But in a sense, we do not know all of the story, for we do not know what we would have done had we stood in the crowd as they began to shout, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" It is that uncertainty which makes this day necessary for us. You see, you and I must ...

3372. What To Do With A Self-willed Child

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... man." A veil descends over his life. We do not see him again until he comes by the Jordan River and is baptized by John. We can only guess that in the ensuing years he did pretty much what his peers did. Yet there brooded in him something else; some sense that God was going to use him, that he had been chosen for a special task. And he never gave up being curious about what that task was. I wonder if he ever realized it would end on a Roman cross? How do you handle a self-willed child? Take ...

3373. Bowing Before The Mystery

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... are. You see, the most important issues of life are not, cannot be solved by all the technological competence, gadgetry and wisdom we have presently amassed, or ever will. For these things are part of the mystery before which life must be lived, and once we have mislaid our sense of awe, of the Holy, we are lost; as lost as if all the computers in Houston had gone out and we were hurtling into the abyss of space at 5,000 miles a second, doomed to move on that dead-cold trajectory forever. How is it that the ...

3374. A Promise Is Given

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... or at train terminals and kissed loved ones goodbye with tears and waves and fears? But the Festival of the Ascension is upbeat, with the focus more on Jesus' enthronement at the Father's right hand rather than on the disciples' separation anxiety. A sense of parting, of losing what they had just so joyfully found, seems inevitable. Yet, the evangelist does not mention tearful farewells, last-minute pleas for Jesus to "stay just a little bit longer," or the numbing of grief setting in afterward. Luke writes ...

3375. Fire Wood

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

John G. Lynn

... or father and son so much as there will be distinction; each will have a proper share of the kingdom of God. God's Word burns off the ice of mutual identification and kindles the fire of proper identity over and over again. No, it is not peace in the sense of placidity or tranquility that God's Word brings. It is fire: the fire of each person's identity and each person's proper share of the kingdom of God. Thus, set ablaze by God's Word, we fan the flames for one another and keep God's love burning ...

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