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3351. Can Anything Good Come out of Our Town?

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Robert J. Elder

... me, I'm the king, not you." Joan responds, "They do come but you do not hear them."2 Nathaniel listened to the voice of Jesus instead of the voice of his own prejudices and small thinking. The greatest gift any of us has to give another is just this view of who they are — not as the result of some deep inward search, but in the twinkling of an eye, the turn of a phrase, to tell someone who they are and what they are meant to be in this world. This is a gift beyond measure. It is a ...

3352. Time’s A-Wasting

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Robert J. Elder

... his family, should laugh or cry, none of these are the main concern of the call of Christ. None of these is the last word, and none of them is a believer's ultimate concern. None of the things we are accustomed to using to calibrate our view of the world have the final say. From the fleeting to the profound, from marriage to singleness, from baseball to fishing, none of these states by which we are accustomed to measuring reality is ultimate any longer. A new reality has expressed itself, the reality of the ...

3353. On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

John Smylie

... terrain is brown and beige and very rocky. The hills are more like small mountains and the land is treacherous. After several hours in the bus, our leader invited us to join with one another and to have a quiet time of meditation. We were told to always stay in view of each other so that none of us would be lost. Underneath the hot sun we carried our water bottles and enjoyed some quiet time, none of us were stung by scorpions and we all made it back to the bus safely. We drove a bit farther and then found ...

3354. The Elephant in The Living Room

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

John Smylie

... and difficult realities in our families, in our communities, in our schools, in our nation, and in the world. Our Lord, Jesus, stands for truth. Our Lord knows that unless we face the whole truth we will be stuck in our own thinking and our own narrow view of life. Jesus invites us to set our minds on divine things, things that are likely beyond our human capacity, things that don't appear natural to us, things that stretch us beyond our limits, things that our Lord himself will assist us with through the ...

3355. We Wish to See Jesus

John 12:20-33

Sermon

John Smylie

... ; each one would know the Lord for himself or herself. But that is a very scary transformation to imagine — to have surgery done upon one's heart, to have to face God on a one-to-one intimate level is an awesome proposition. It is much easier to view God's law as something on stone, something "out there," some ideal that we all strive for but never quite make, or even a demand which seems a bit unreasonable. It is much safer to live within a "religious system" than to enter into a relationship with the ...

3356. For the Life of Betsy D. I. Smylie

John 12:20-36

Sermon

John Smylie

3357. Looking for Jesus?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

John Smylie

... sunset. Two thousand years ago, Israel didn't have funeral homes to prepare a body for burial. The mortuary did not come to the cross with a cart or a hearse to pick up the body to take it to a solemn location where it would be prepared for a viewing. In Jesus' time, friends would gather to wash the body and to wrap it up in sweet-smelling spices, but on this Friday, the day of our Lord's crucifixion, there was not enough time to prepare his body properly so they had to wait until the Jewish sabbath was ...

3358. Family Values

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

... of us, when we think of family, think of more ordinary things, like clusters of dog hair on clothes and hot dogs with everything smushed in the glove compartment and peanut butter on the television screen and aging grease on the hood over the stove. Whatever your view of the family and its values might be, Jesus wrecks it all. Jesus' words are like answering the doorbell and getting a bucket of ice water in the face. Reports coming to Jesus' family make them think he might be losing his mind. Jesus has been ...

3359. When the Impossible Becomes Imminently Possible!

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father" (John 14:12 NRSV). With Christ, there are no impossibilities! In his power through us, there are no insurmountable difficulties and no final defeats! Those mountains that block our view are often opportunities in disguise. Third, believe in your future. "For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope" (Jeremiah 29:11 NRSV). God, through Christ ...

3360. Calling Out in the Darkness

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Steven Molin

... else saw. But the real miracle that day is that, when the man gained his sight, he chose to follow Jesus. He was not satisfied to merely see the sights, to find familiar faces and places in his hometown. He wanted to see the world from Jesus' point of view ... to see the people and the places and the problems and the possibilities that Jesus saw. So he chose to leave behind what would have certainly been a notorious reputation ("I once was blind, but now I see!"). And we never hear from this man again in ...

3361. Agony and Ecstasy

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Steven Molin

... it surrounded with grief-stricken people, and he is overcome with emotion. Here is the shortest verse in the Bible, and many a preacher has made the joke of taking time to memorize it, but that's unfortunate, because these two words provide for us a view of the empathy of God. "Jesus wept." That's how the gospel writer describes it, and no more words are even necessary. God — the creator of the cosmos — God cried when a man died. And even then, there were the nay-sayers standing by, asking "He gave ...

3362. The Thing about Laws

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Steven Molin

... for the twenty-first-century Christian church? What impedes our focus on that commandment to love? If measured by volume alone, I would rank these five: homosexuality, abortion, drunkenness, adultery, and pedophilia. But doesn't the opinion of Jesus count for anything? Did his view of love change over the last 2,000 years? Of course, it didn't. Doesn't it stand to reason that the greatest commandments in Jesus' mind would still be "Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and love your ...

3363. Flesh and Spirit

Romans 8:12-17

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... by turning away from our true calling as children of God and turning toward the answers from the idols of the world. And, though flesh involves the human will, it is much more than the will, much deeper. It involves our imaginations, our very view of ourselves and of God and of the world. It becomes intertwined with our very identities as individuals and as communities. Are we totally depraved, to use language from another theological era? Are we powerless — unable to know life, unable to know ourselves ...

3364. Bothered and Bewildered

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... gospel helps to focus on what is important, and it is a reminder to believers and preachers in every age of our own limits. We need one another for edification, for comfort, and for caring. When we begin to see the gospel as confined to our point of view, we are proclaiming ourselves, not Christ. These words from Paul are both astonishing words of grace - God's work is not confined to us or totally dependent on us - and careful words of caution to us - don't try to capture God. He reinforces this with his ...

3365. Eyes on the Prize

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... to give him hope. After all, it was the resurrection that fired that first group of men and women disciples. After the crucifixion of Jesus, they had been filled with fear and despair, and they were in hiding. The resurrection changed everything about the point of view of that first generation of disciples. It fired their bodies and their spirits and their imaginations to see a whole new way of life. It was only later that the church went back to reflect upon the meaning of the cross and on the death of ...

3366. Time for the Offering

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... for many years from Columbia Theological Seminary, Johnson C. Smith Seminary, and Candler School of Theology. They have been all varieties of cultures, genders, ages, outlooks, and approaches. As a multicultural church, we like to think that we have broadened their view of themselves and of ministry. I know that they have greatly enriched our lives. We ask our interns to lead all parts of worship over the course of their time with us. Some parts obviously can be intimidating — the sermon, the time ...

3367. Welcome to the Center of Life

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... original purpose of glorifying and enjoying God, to gather up everyone and everything in Christ for the restoration of all things. What this means for the final judgment in Revelation or for the doctrine of universalism, we do not know. From the point of view of Ephesians, however, God in Jesus intends to restore all of creation — things in heaven and things on earth. The second part of the mystery that is revealed here is stated explicitly in 3:6: "the Gentiles have become fellow heirs, members of the ...

3368. Love That Surpasses Knowledge

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... never be completely filled ... They tolerate loneliness very poorly."3 There are occasional instances in which human acts become the conduits for what the Bible calls agape love. But normal human behavior finds us standing behind barriers of political opinion, religious views, and personal differences. We take offense at how some dress. We cling obsessively to personal hurts. We allow our bitterness to separate us not only from neighbors, but from the closest family members. "She hurt me and I can't forget ...

3369. Yielding to Spiritual Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23, James 2:1-10 (11-13) 14-17

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... riches or adoration of the body. Faith opens our eyes to see beauty in our differences. Much of prejudice is based on the inability to accept that which is different from oneself. Subconsciously we are thinking, unless you have the same political and religious views, unless you are the same skin color, unless you on the same socioeconomic level, you will be unacceptable. This is sad, because there is so much we can learn from our differences. There is a broadening enrichment that can come to us when we ...

3370. Romans 12:9-21

Romans 12:9-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... to in v.11 is the human spirit or the Holy Spirit. But as this spirit is called to be zealous for serving the Lord, it is not hard to imagine that both of those spirits are at work. Lest one think Paul had a rose-tinted view of daily community life (hardly!), the apostle next lists a series of imperatives that acknowledge the ups and downs, the hopes and horrors experienced by all people of faith. There will be times to “rejoice” in the hope of faith. There will be times that call for “patience ...

3371. Romans 13:8-14

Romans 13:8-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... by Paul as the difference between those “works of darkness” and living “honorably” or “decently” (“enschemenos”). Although the apostle does not present an itemized list of “decent” behavior, behavior that is acted out in broad daylight in plain view of all, the call to “love your neighbor as yourself” is still the apostle’s all-encompassing guide. Pulling from a common “list” of bad behaviors, Paul does cite a series of “dark works” reveling and drunkenness, debauchery and ...

3372. Make a 119 Call

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... feature ceremonies honoring Pat Tillmon, the Cardinals player who left a lucrative pro-football career to join the military after the 911 attacks and who was killed in action in Iraq. *Finally the Dallas Cowboys will play the New York Jets just across the Hudson River in full view of where the Twin Towers fell. Whatever game you see it is a good day to hold hands with your loved ones as you enjoy the simple act of being together and watch a football game. There is only one way to get through the horror of ...

3373. Philippians 3:4b-14

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... me his own” (v.12). For Paul the only direction his life can now take is forward. His past life, his past “gains,” are wholly lost to him. He is fully focused forward to “what lies ahead.” Seeing that Paul writes this from prison, awaiting a possible death sentence, this view might not seem very uplifting. But Paul sees only one goal, one achievement worth pursuing. That is the “high” or “heavenly” call of God that has come to him in Christ Jesus.

3374. Gummy Old Men

Matthew 3:1-12

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... a new addition — Norb: — didn’t need that — Earl: — raise the teachers’ salaries — Norb: — they were too high already — Earl: — add a music and drama coach — Norb: — foolish — Earl: — seemed outlandish at the time— but now lookin’ at it from the long view, I’ve been thinkin’ ... Norb: Well, Earl, I admit I was with that group, too, you know — that’s quite a few years ago now. I know we were wrong and we behaved badly. We actually believed some of those crazy rumors ...

3375. Joy To the World

John 1:1-18

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... yes, ah, er, your father was in the news ... Issac: (interrupts) I don’t want to talk about it — good-bye. Reporter: No, no, we all know your father was in prison for a good reason. Many of us know he was a dissenter for his religious views and really unjustly jailed. Issac: You’re not doing an exposé, are you? Reporter: No, no — I want to interview you — they say as a small boy you amused your parents by writing rhymes. Issac: (visibly relieved at the subject) That I did. Reporter: They say you ...

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