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3351. Jesus Rewards the Just

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... and his ability. Because of his faith, Jesus cured the man born blind (John 9:1-41). In another incident Jesus encountered two blind men and asked, " ‘Do you believe I am able to do this [cure blindness]?' They said to him, ‘Yes, Lord.' Then he touched their eyes and said, ‘According to your faith let it be done to you' " (Matthew 9:28b-29). Jesus cured the woman with a hemorrhage. He told her, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well" (Matthew 9:22a). Jesus raised people from death, for ...

3352. My Earlier Life

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

John Jamison

... he went. He became the Sadducees' and Pharisees' worst nightmare. Now, how cool is that? Over time, Saul became known as Paul. He traveled thousands of miles preaching, teaching, and leaving a trail of churches behind him wherever he went. His story was one that touched lives. If someone like Saul could start over, maybe we can, too. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite that neat and clean. There were many in the church who just didn't trust him. After all, he had often pretended to be a Christian just to ...

3353. Unlocking the Power of God

Hebrews 11:29 – 12:2

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... when we have faith and pray, trusting God to answer. There is a story about a U.S. Marine that was separated from his unit on a Pacific island during World War II. The fighting had been intense, and in the smoke and the crossfire, he had lost touch with his comrades. Alone in the jungle, he could hear enemy soldiers coming in his direction. Scrambling for cover, he found his way up a high ridge to several small caves in the rock. Quickly, he crawled inside one of the caves. Although safe for the moment, he ...

3354. God Is Rock Solid

Hebrews 12:18-29

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... will always be there when needed to praise, glorify, and worship God. To the author of Hebrews, the church was not a place. The mountain of God was where the people came to worship. In verse 18 he says, "You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire ..." for God is not in the mountain. God is everywhere. The point being that it was the assembly of the people that made it possible for worship to happen. That is what Jesus was affirming at Caesarea Philippi when he lifted up Simon Peter's ...

3355. The Promise that Won’t Be Broken

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... them free to be what God intends them to be." If you have ever watched a young child at play, you get a sense of what it means to be fully alive. Just go to the playground and you will see boys and girls filled with a desire to see, touch, and taste everything that life puts in their paths. They look at life as something to be experienced. As we get older, we try to become more sophisticated about things, but many of us are still looking to get the most out of life. As a result we are often ...

3356. Think on these Things

Philippians 4:4-9

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... forgotten to think on the good things. I'll blame email. I am so programmed by its speed that sometimes I go home and enter my password in the microwave. I have a list of fifteen phone numbers to contact my family of five. My reason for not staying in touch with certain friends is that they don't have email addresses. When I make calls from home, sometimes I add a nine to get the outside line. Sometimes, when I like a poem or joke someone sends me, I send it to my so-called friends. Well, this particular ...

3357. Preparing the Way

Malachi 3:1-4

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... in meeting new situations and various people. You and I are here today because someone else prepared the way for us. That may well include several different individuals and span many years, but we usually can pinpoint one or two special individuals who have touched our lives, making the path easier to travel. Those who have prepared the way for our faith walk may include the biblical characters whose stories we identify with, as well as the saints throughout history who have built and reformed the church on ...

3358. What's in a Name?

Isaiah 43:1-7

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, into this great adventure of following Christ. Your ministry is to be explicit, visible, and active in the world today. Your ministry is both a blessing and a responsibility. In our baptism, the holiness of God touches us as God comes to each of us in a special and personal way. God initiates the beginning of a relationship with us, bringing us into God's family. God says to you today, “I have called you by name. You are mine. Child of God, through ...

3359. Risky Business

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... out in faith in response to God's call, God will direct your steps, no matter how difficult the path we are to follow. 1. Charles Hutzler, "Mixing Religion and Noodles Lands Ms. Su in Hot Water," The Wall Street Journal, 245:107, June 2, 2005, A1. 2. Erik Weihenmayer, Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See (New York: Dutton, 2001), p. 72. 3. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994), p. 60.

3360. Abraham Believed God

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... can no longer sin? They claim whatever they do is not a sin, whether it's ignoring a parent's medical condition, looking down with contempt on people of other races, or simply living in callous disregard of the sufferings of others around the world, they cannot be touched by reason or argument. They are never wrong. On the other hand, haven't we met those who are so dedicated to the work of Jesus yet would be hard pressed to quote a single verse of a gospel outside the Sermon on the Mount? Jesus becomes a ...

3361. Essentials

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... is true and then some. But it's not what they think. Jesus is even more than they imagine. He's not just their king. He's Lord of the universe, creator of all that is seen and unseen. Yet he has made himself accessible. He can be touched — and killed. We who know the story remember that the crowd quickly turned, calling for his death — watching, mocking, reviling him. If we had been there, what would we have done? Are we fair-weather Christians? Are we Christians only when it's easy, and not when it ...

3362. Wisdom's Delight

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... the world's major religions. In fact, when I met him, he had a copy of a Hindu text with him and was working his way through it. I talked to him some about Christianity as we rode, and he listened respectfully, but without being persuaded. I've stayed in touch with David since then, and it doesn't sound as if he has kept up his reading of other religions, or has found the wisdom he seeks. Perhaps most of us can identify with David, at least at some point in our lives. There may have been a time, especially ...

3363. Song of the Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... the charts one last time only months before his death with a music video on MTV of all places, inspiring a new generation of fans while confronting the darker side of life and death. Regardless of the culture or the language, music has the power to touch both mind and heart, literally at a different level. Studies indicate that music stimulates a different part of the brain than the written or spoken word alone. That's why songs like "We Shall Overcome" have such power even today. It is also why church folk ...

3364. Tales of the Spiritually Stupid

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 18-22

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... she was solidly against paying such mission askings. She did not want her dollars going to support such a thing. Hello! Wonder where this church got such a notion? Could it be from someone who ate with tax-collectors and healed lepers with his touch? Tales of the spiritually stupid: We've all heard them, even witnessed them. Rest assured these stories are not fiction. We have experienced such things in our own congregation. Could be we've been the source of a few "stupid church behaviors" ourselves — like ...

3365. Listening for the "Ching-ching"

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... the prophet's plea: There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul. That balm, we profess, is none other than Jesus the Christ, the Great Physician. His was a ministry of touching the untouchable, embracing the social outcast, healing the bent-over, and forgiving the unforgivable. His was a death of suffering for the cause of the kingdom so that the unredeemable might find redemption. And, his was a resurrection which proved God's own commitment to ...

3366. Song Sung Blue

Lamentations 1:1-6

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... them underwater for centuries. Then he described how these fallen trees had been transformed into timber of such strength and beauty that modern loggers would brave the perils of the swamp to mine this underwater treasure. He reflected with awe and a touch of sadness upon the magnificent beauty of the swamp he had visited and how those very trees had tumbled into the depths of the bayou. Then he finished with this profound observation: "And then the wind blows — and the present is decimated — and ...

3367. Good News about Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... by false messiahs. But at least believers are open to the possibility that there is more to life than what they can see and hear. Many people today are settling for sterile lives, lives with no real power because they have limited themselves to what they can touch and what they can see. It was faith that caused Bartimaeus to seek help. It was faith that caused him to speak up and it was faith that caused Bartimaeus to leap up and come to Jesus. And it was faith that healed Bartimaeus’ eyes. So-called ...

3368. No Room for Jesus

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” “No room for them in the inn.” Those words have touched hearts for two thousand years. “No room.” Is there room for Christ in your world this evening? That’s the simple question we need to ask. Do you have room for him? So many things can crowd him out. For example, the busyness of this season of the year can ...

3369. Clergy Playing It Safe

Mark 12:41-44

Illustration

... with a distinct aversion to conflict and to having to deal with money issues. Our culture seems to reinforce them in that behavior. So long as clergy are cowed and anxious in the face of money and wealth, they will remain silent about the spiritual issue that touches our culture more deeply than any other. The more I steeped myself in this book and looked at churches around me, the more I became convinced this behavior is the way a culture controls a challenge to itself. A money-driven culture seems to want ...

3370. The Good News about the Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... narrowly escaped. After hiding in the bush for two days, he was able to find his family and escape to a neighboring country. The escape cost him dearly: two of his children lost their lives. The stark cruelty unleashed on an unsuspecting, undeserving population had touched Fisher deeply. He also saw flashbacks of the beggars that he passed each morning on his way to the office. Every day he saw how poverty destroys dignity, robs people of the best of what it means to be human, and sometimes substitutes the ...

3371. Enough

Mark 13:1-31

Illustration

King Duncan

3372. Love Finds a Way

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... song. (hands music to first choir member, who passes it on to the others) Austrian Choir Member 1: You expect us to learn a new song for tonight? Austrian Choir Member 2: That’s crazy! Austrian Choir Member 3: Besides, what are we going to sing with? Gruber: (touching guitar) This. Yeah. I know its crazy, but it’s all we’ve got ... Mohr: Please, just try it. Austrian Choir Member 4: I’ll try it, but I don’t like it. Austrian Choir Member 1: Shut up and sing. (Gruber plays the introduction and the ...

3373. The Greatest News Of All

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... you know, God promised us a Savior. Well, as hard as it is for even me to believe, this child is that Savior. Look at my hands. See, these are the hands of a carpenter. A working man. I’m not the type to believe in what I can’t touch or see, either. And yet, I swear to you it all happened as the shepherds said. Mary: Look at him. Can’t you see God’s love? (The Reporter looks from the baby to his notebook. Gradually the truth dawns on him. He closes his notebook and runs off the ...

3374. Home By Another Way

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... dinner in several days. Servant 2: He still won’t. Servant 3: Be quiet. There’s nothing wrong with my couscous. Wise Man 3: So, tell us. What’s the news from the outside world? We’ve been on the road so long; it’s been hard to stay in touch. Merchant: Well, the biggest news I’ve heard is that Herod is tearing his hair out about some tot. He’s called in every mystic, soothsayer, and would-be prophet asking about this child, born a year or so ago, that’s supposed to be king. He’s even ...

3375. If We Do It, It Will Work

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... Christ the Lord. Angel 3: And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger. All Angels: Glory to God in the highest, and Peace on Earth, good will to men. God: Not bad. That was a nice touch. Gabriel: Thanks. I have my moments. Michael: Well, it was my idea to have the little angels. God: Now, now. We don’t have time for this. Michael, the little angels were good, too. Michael: Thanks. Angel 3: Can we go now? Gabriel: Oh, yeah. Good job. Take a ...

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