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3401. Mission Accomplished!

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... we were really created. And whatever the Father has in mind and store for us will be more than enough to take care of all our questions concerning heaven. Christ’s Ascension has another dimension. As he is now with God in glory, he is now with us in spirit. Did he not promise us, "Lo, I am with you always"? Through faith’s certainty, we know life is more than our bodies. We know our citizenship and destiny is the Father’s House. But life in this body, this world, is also God’s gift. Life from God ...

3402. COMMAND TO SHARE

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... In one year the giving to the United Methodist Committee on Relief has increased by 224%, from $1,418,302 to $4,602,656. Nearly every denomination has similar achievements. You cannot help but believe In the miraculous working of the Holy Spirit when the rise and expansion of the organization "Bread for the World" is considered. Immediately after the war the Evangelical Church in Germany, though its churches and cities were in ruins, started collections for the starving victims in the countries overrun and ...

3403. THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH

Drama

Norman D. Dow

... nothing, sitting in the lap of his sweet mother. Yet all that is belongs to him, that your conscience should not fear but take comfort in him. Doubt nothing. Watch him springing in the lap of the maiden. Laugh with him. Look upon this Lord of Peace, and your spirit will be at peace. See how God invites you in many ways. He places before you a Babe with whom you may take refuge. You cannot fear him, for nothing is more appealing to man than a babe. Are you frightened? Then come to him, lying in the lap ...

3404. Broken Bread, Shared Cup

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... ! The breaking of the bread is the willing of God that we care for more than self. The drinking deeply of the cup is the willing of God that life is more than what is seen and touched. That was the lesson in the upper room in simple things of spirit. Do not let it be ritual to you except that it speaks of God’s love for you and your love for one another. Let the word or song or act be reminder that Jesus lives - through the common things of everyday, the simple words, the usual actions, the gentleness ...

3405. Gentle Light

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... beautiful hymn, "Lead, kindly Light ..."? I can’t believe the Epiphany Star was a flaring flame, a "shooting star." No, I am certain that God’s light is warm and gentle. It releases our sin, relaxes our drives, calms our confusions, gentles our spirits. And this is the very light we are in this world to help God radiate. The truly Christian personality Saint Paul commended to us all is not aggressive, argumentative, quarrelsome. Christians seek unity, not division. They don’t take sides. They don’t ...

3406. Reinforced With Joy

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... , why is it that there is so little joy in people’s lives today? I walk through my shop and everyone looks glum, down in spirits. We pay them well, have better than average benefits, and try to do all we can to encourage and help our people. But even so, ... for the day, courage for the task, and hope for tomorrow. When we cling to that faith, nothing, not even a cross, can destroy the spirit of joy. Secondly, Jesus believed that we find our true joy when we live in obedience to the will of God. Do you know ...

3407. Advent 3: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Peace of Christmas

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Ye faithful, and Silent Night. · Then there are pop songs like “Jingle Bells,” “Winter Wonderland,” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” Recently, I was in a department store doing some Christmas shopping. Christmas music was playing and I was getting into the spirit of it all… when suddenly I realized that I was singing along with Natalie Cole. Natalie and I were singing her new Christmas song. It’s a big hit. It’s called “My Grown-up Christmas List.” Have you heard this? In the song ...

3408. Standing Room Only Religion

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... when there are genuine faith and forgiveness, you never have to worry about roof repair. I have a hunch the healed paralytic was back the next day with his four friends fixing Jesus' roof. Prayer: Eternal God, whose Mind is beyond our knowing, but whose Spirit penetrates to the farthest reaches of the universe and searches out the inmost secrets of our hearts, you know us better than we know ourselves. From you no secrets are hid, and in your presence all illusions and pretensions are done away to come face ...

3409. A Prayer for the Faithful

John 17:6-19

Sermon

George Bass

... the hallowing of our deepest longings. And for those who think their strength is in themselves, he adds: We have no power to raise ourselves by our own willful bootstraps. If the resurrection depended on our will to die with distinction and significance, the spirit of it all would be desire, not hope. But desire can only run madly in pursuit of its compulsions. Desire centers on the self, the private being, with capacity for pleasure and happiness. The object of desire is the individual self. Desire is all ...

3410. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... burned the standing shocks (he did this to get even with his father-in-law who had given his wife to another man); he killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (it was a kind of get-even stunt, which he attributed to the Spirit); he carried away the gates of Gaza; finally, he pulled down the pillars of the temple of Dagon, killing not only the people within but also himself. To Samson, life was apparently one fun-filled, irresponsible frolic after another and, in a word, he tragically "wasted ...

3411. We May Have to Change Our Name

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... ’s people, it may be time for a new name. When righteousness and praise are beginning to spring forth in the community of faith, we may need to take Isaiah’s admonition to heart. If we are being changed, conformed more fully to the mind and spirit of Christ, our name may have to change. All across this land, in almost every community, there is at least one church that calls itself "First." Very few that call themselves "Second" or "Third" or "Last." But open the phone book yellow pages and look at the ...

3412. Childs of Center Point

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... a few of them give him some grief. I’ve talked to him. I know he’s willing to come back. Especially now that the new spirit that’s been growing has been starting to show itself. EVIE CHILDS: You know, Bill, it’s really amazing. At one point you and I ... - people they had never met - or even heard of - before. The congregation has come together more solidly. There’s a new spirit. And a new understanding of the meaning of the cross that stands on the steeple of our building. EVIE CHILDS: Sometimes ...

3413. Do Children Like You?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Richard Patt

... well as far as Jesus’ future was concerned. In fact, later in this same chapter we read how Jesus unloaded to his disciples about the impending disaster of the cross and crucifixion. The disciples had a heart for Jesus as these mental tensions began invading his spirit. So it is all the more impressive that under the strain Jesus still had a heart - and the time - for these little children. Sometimes we claim that we can’t be bothered about anything, because we’ve got things on our mind. But when don ...

3414. God's Verdict Upon The World (Looking At The World Through The Eyes of God)

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... service was established in the United States. The 19th Amendment gave American women the right to vote. Gandhi emerged as India's leader in its struggle for independence. Charles Lindbergh flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" from New York to Paris. The world was indeed getting smaller. But another spirit had landed in Europe: The spirit of fascism. Hitler was building his Third Reich, and with it death and horror on a scale which mankind had never known. Entering into that war almost too late, the United States ...

3415. A Good God and the Problem of Suffering

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ’s eyes. There is a great truth here. What do you see in your Heavenly Father’s eyes when you hurt? That’s where trust comes in. On a cross Christ looked up into his Father’s eyes. He was content. He whispered, "Into thy hands I commend my spirit." Job, in his agony, looked up into the eyes of God. There he caught a glimpse of love, and something deep within him cried out, "I know that my Redeemer liveth." God is working something out. All this will make sense some day. My Father loves me. An angry ...

3416. And It Came To Pass

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... Queen told Alice, "Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." There is an exuberance in the Christian Life, an exaltation which passes logic. Why? Because we belong to Christ. Listen to Leo Tolstoy: I believe in God, who is for me spirit, love, the principle of all things. I believe that God is in me, as I am in Him. I believe that the true welfare of man consists in fulfilling the will of God. I believe that from the fulfillment of the will of God there can follow ...

3417. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... which he alone could achieve. If this be the case, why are we taking time to study them? How do the Beatitudes relate to the saints? To us? We have in Matthew 5:1-12 the outline for Christlike living. It begins with recognition of one’s poverty of spirit. Augustine taught us that Pride is the first of the deadly sins. From pride all other sins flow. When an individual comes face to face with that individual’s need, that person is in a position to grow, to change. Who is the helpless student? The one who ...

3418. Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... faith in Christ, that the belly of the soul might be filled. Come, let us approach God with hopeful hearts. Collect Great Sustainer, who gives life to this world, who sees that we have food for the body, who opens the way to nourishing the spirit, we give you thanks. We receive your life-sustaining gifts as we receive your gift of Christ. Amen. Prayer of Confession We become so engrossed in pursuing the work that supplies nourishment for the body that we neglect putting energy into finding spiritual food ...

3419. Unless...

John 6:25-59

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... , we will have no life in us. People: Unless we accept what Jesus offers us freely, we will have no lasting life within us. Leader: Unless we recognize the sacrifice of life Jesus made for our well-being, we will be without the life of the spirit that endures. People: When we take the spiritual nourishment that God provides through Christ, we gain eternal life. Collect Our physical and spiritual energy comes from you, O God. Jesus gave up his life so our world might become a better place. We would live as ...

3420. What?

John 6:56-69

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... to take your words literally and that is not what you meant at all. We become discouraged and move closer to disbelief. Your symbols and parables and metaphors are at once confusing yet clear as they point us toward truth. Move us toward better understanding so we will respond from spirit as well as from the head to your Holy Spirit. Amen. Hymns "Abide With Me" "God Of Wisdom, God Of Grace" "Holy ...

3421. All God's Children

Proverbs 10:1-32

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... this world a better place. In the name of Jesus the Christ. Amen. Prayer of Confession We prefer to hoard our belongings and to focus on matters of self-interest. Move your Spirit among us, O God, so we might notice and then protect those who cannot manage by themselves. We prefer to think we have little influence on world matters. Move your Spirit among us, O God, so we might become aware of the hurts of those close to us and resolve to help. In the name of Christ. Amen. Hymns "Now Is The Time Approaching ...

3422. Clear and Clean and Good

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... be put right with God through his own saving action means that the tree is made good. The relationship with God, broken by sin, has been restored. That little branch of humanity, your life, has been grafted into God’s life so that the power of his Spirit can flow into it to produce fruit that pleases God. Our own determination to turn over a new leaf is never enough. A businessman may find, upon taking inventory, that he is bankrupt. But he cannot simply say, "Let bygones be bygones, from now on I shall ...

3423. The Dynamic Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... bringing of deliverance and new life. The wicked and the unrighteous receive mercy and pardon, they are lifted up into life in God. In the New Testament the dynamic character of the Word receives even greater emphasis. "The words that I have spoken to you," says Jesus, "are spirit and life" (John 6:63). Or recall Paul’s statement in Romans 1:16-17, the text that triggered the Reformation, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith ... for in it the ...

3424. Dealing With The Dividing Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

James W. Moore

... God meant us to be… and we need to be redeemed and converted… by the beautiful sacrificial love of Christ. Christ breaks down the dividing walls of pride… and the dividing walls of prejudice. III THIRD AND FINALLY, THERE IS VENGEANCE. Vengeance… the angry, bitter spirit that will not forgive, that nurses its wrath to keep it warm, that broods and festers and looks for a chance to get ‘em back… what a dividing wall of hostility that is! There was a sign in a business window that read like this ...

3425. Letting Go

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... the search for our essential being and to discover the ways we have of relating to the world, yet in the final analysis we are alone, and we risk being totally alone. Yet in that risk we find that spirit meets spirit, that we are not cast into outer darkness but responded to, supported, affirmed. So may the Spirit of God hover over the darkness and void within us to bring light and form. Letting go may be viewed as self-surrender, a self-surrender which results in death to be sure, but a death followed by ...

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