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3401. Elijah’s If

Mark 9:2-13, 2 Kings 2:1-18

Drama

Richard F. Bansemer

... we are now. We have not gone far enough. The pivot should not be set. We are his chosen, not only to listen and to see, but also to grow and to move. Our Lord has new disciplines for us, and greater discipleships to fill. There are new experiences of understanding, new suffenngs to shoulder, new witnesses to make, and we have not exhausted his love. If we want, we could try to build a booth about our faith. We could try to wall in what we know, what we’ve had, what we liked. But the shack won’t stand ...

3402. Job’s Joy

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... ? He who argues with God, let him answer it." Then Job answered the Lord: "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand on my mouth ... I know that thou canst do all things ... I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know ... therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes." Job has been humbled, but instead of sorrow, joy results. Life is deeper than he thought. All does not revolve around the fortunes and misfortunes of man ...

3403. Doctor Thomas Dooley

Matthew 9:1-8

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... t have to tell them we love them. They know we love them ... because we (are) ministering to their pathetic needs.5 On another occasion, Dooley noted: We have seen simple, tender, loving care change a people’s fear and hatred into friendship and understanding.6 Thomas Dooley met the Master in the hordes of Vietnamese refugees, and the refugees met the Master in Thomas Dooley. Together they learned that the Master was - and is - love, and they shared love with one another. The wise men ask, "What language ...

3404. Hiltgunt Margaret Zassenhaus

Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... you, good Master." "When they wished to share my ‘throne’ I asked them if they were able to share my ‘baptism’ and my ‘cup.’ Very lightly they declared that they were able! And you have wished to meet me. Are you able?" "I do not understand," I said. "Here you are, Master, and we have met." "Then you have met fire. Are you burned?" "Master?" "You have met pain. Do you suffer?" "Master, what...?" "You have met the lightning, the earthquake, the whirlwind. You are shaken, riven, if you have met ...

3405. "Lite Beer by Miller"

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... a stupid thing to fight about!" There should not be issues at all for the people in that congregation, and yet, as we look at the text, the lines are very sharply drawn. The people are locked into a position. If we were there, we would begin to understand that the issue being discussed is every bit as important to those people as some of the pressing moral issues of today. It is every bit as important as the issue of abortion. It is every bit as important as our present day argument over how to interpret ...

3406. "American Express Traveler’s Cheques ..."

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... possibly be done? The odds of bringing a dead Jesus to a living Lord are nil. Life comes to a crashing halt. It is the same feeling as that which the young couple had when they realized that what they had depended upon for a vacation was gone. We can understand the feelings of these disciples. We have them too. We too have a very difficult time combining the things in which we believe with the realities that we experience. For example, how do we proclaim a God of love as we live in a world that is full of ...

3407. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

Sermon

George Bass

... to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." That message rounded out her greeting, "I have seen the Lord," and was the good news that the disciples needed to hear. They finally began to understand what it was that the Lord was trying to teach them during his three-year ministry in Palestine. And they, too, were soon caught up in Jesus’ mission to all the people of the world. Some years ago, Robert T. Smith, a featured columnist for the Minneapolis ...

3408. Who Keeps Getting in My Way?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... clean slate. It does mean that, but it means more. To get right with God means we have to make him sovereign over our lives. It means that in any situation our first thought is of God and not self. I suppose we could come closer to understanding this first Beatitude if we were to substitute the word "ego" in its earlier meaning for the word "spirit." Blessed are those who are poor in ego. Ego means self in the sense of too much emphasis on self: self-satisfaction, self-seeking, self-centeredness. Words like ...

3409. The New Covenant

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... over their bales of cotton cloth and trinkets, but now they could be left open and yet undisturbed. For anyone to steal from a blood brother meant the death penalty. The old chieftain couldn’t do enough for his new found brother. Stanley couldn’t understand the sacredness of it, and years later still wondered about it until he read of the covenant between God and Abraham in Genesis 17 and Genesis 22. There he saw the striking parallel. And when he read further of various covenant renewal ceremonies in ...

3410. Faith A New Potential for Life

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... I could have written anything as beautiful as this on my own ... He comes amongst us armed with Love with Truth with Power. Why do we not understand? His love we scorn believing we need it not, for we are strong in pride and blindness is our code. But still he gives and gives ... white; being my enemy for a moment, my enemy being me for a moment. God was in Christ, being us! He was understanding us, suffering with us, loving us. By the mystery of our faith, God makes us righteous, loving persons. We sense a new ...

3411. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the way? Not too long ago, I was preaching for a week on one of our United Methodist campuses where a part of the program was a talk-back session with faculty members and students. In one of these sessions a young lady asked: "How can I understand values in a world like this, how can I tell the difference between what is right and what is wrong?" "The Ten Commandments," I answered, "are a basic help in this problem, a very helpful standard of guidance." But, before the girl could respond, a professor of ...

3412. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... wanted. I have a big practice, plenty of money, a beautiful home, a wife I love, and three children. I have the house at the beach, the boat and all that. Why do I want to blow my brains out?" My son looked at him and was inwardly praying for understanding. He answered: "You’ve achieved every goal you ever set for yourself. You’ve lived your life; there’s nothing else to live for. Go ahead and take your life. But there is one thing I want to tell you before you do. "You’ve been living only for ...

3413. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... work? Or am I a blank? A friend of mine, Dr. Tom Stockton, asks, "Does your golf foursome know you are a Christian?" "Do the girls with whom you play bridge realize you have a relationship with God?" "Do your neighbors, or the people with whom you work, understand that when they have problems they can come to you and you will seek to help them to find the answer?" Chaucer helps us with his word picture of a good priest in ancient England: He was shepherd and no mercenary, And tho’ he holy was and virtuous ...

3414. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... for our individual lives and for our family lives and for our community lives. For in each instance we are called on to show forth the glory of God in Christ by the way we handle our gifts and opinions and ideas and hopes. If they are shared with the understanding that no one person has the ability to see all angles, no one person has the gifts to do all things, no one person can hold him/herself up as the model for what ought to be, we will know that in our common life together a richness can he ...

3415. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord." Not those who in their haughty pride think they possess so much by way of strength or wealth or nobility shall hold the future of Israel, but those who understand how little anyone can ever own will be the future of the people of God. We are called, then, by the text before us to examine again how much our possessions possess us, whether they are actually the snags by which our affections can be bought and held ...

3416. The Need for Transfiguration

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... properly is to be his power for the way now set before him. So also is it to be the abiding vision by which the faith of the disciples which would be so sorely tested would he sustained. That is what makes the words of the Gospel so difficult to understand as Jesus warns them, coming down from the mountain, "Tell no one the vision, until the Son of man is raised from the dead." One would think that a major reason for coming down from the mountain would be to share this revelation of God’s glory with the ...

3417. The True Nature of Happiness

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... mind saying that it hit me hard. To this day I still think of them often. But the truth is that because I experienced that sorrow in my life, I can more effectively minister to those who are in sorrow. Perhaps before those events I did not fully understand, but now I truly know how people feel when I go to minister to them about the loss of their loved ones. Blessed are those who mourn, for they have the potential of being more sensitive, more open to God, more caring individuals. What about you? What loses ...

3418. Journey To The Cross VI: Jesus And Pontius Pilate

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

James W. Moore

... of worshipping in a Christian Church in Guilin, China. It was packed with worshipers. They had gone to the church unannounced... and the people accepted them warmly in the Spirit of Christ. The minister preached a three-point sermon in Chinese and though they couldn’t understand all of what he was saying, they got the drift of it. He was lifting up Jesus Christ as the Lord of Life and the Savior of the world. Then after the sermon, evryone stood and sang the closing hymn “More Love To Thee O Christ ...

3419. Prophets Of The Lord

2 Peter 1:12-21

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... God's word is heard in our time. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, in Your wisdom You have always sent us Your prophets that we might hear Your word afresh. Lord, keep Your Word before us and give us the wisdom to hear and understand. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have rejected Your prophets, and often we have even put them to death to silence the words we did not want to hear. Forgive us, Lord, and help us take the time to listen to Your messengers and ...

3420. I AM THE CHURCH

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... church. In the same way that the building part of me gives an image to the community, the people part of who I am makes a statement to the community also. We reflect God’s importance and love to the community we serve. Because of the inability to understand clearly what God teaches in the Bible about what we should believe and how we should be in ministry, there are many denominations that make me up. This hurts me. It hurts me because God wants us all to be one. It hurts me because the non-believing ...

3421. IN DOUBT? FAITH IT!

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... right here, I believe, is the crux of the problem. They see themselves as God. For to be wiser than God is to be God. If we really want to get to know God, it is better to begin with faith. What we really need is a faith that seeks understanding rather than an understanding that seeks faith. To put it another way, "In Doubt? Faith It!" No matter how little our faith might be - even if it is smaller than a mustard seed - God is saying to us today that there is great potential for its growth.

3422. HOW TO KNOW THE WILL OF GOD

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... . To have said, "I believe in Jesus Christ as my Savior" is to have taken the first step. Our second step in knowing the will of God is to be Spirit-filled. In Ephesians 5:17 we read, "Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is." To not be willing to understand the will of the Lord is to be foolish. Now what is the will? We continue to read in verse 18, "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit." Now most of us are at ...

3423. The Miracle of Christ

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... that which lives. In the book Terminal Man, Chrichton suggests that no system can explain nor create itself.1 No machine can understand its own workings. A human brain might, after years of work, decipher the brain of a frog, but never itself. For ... back - not to Africa as Alex Haley discovered, but to God. To God, the living God; and I was at home. I really began to understand what Paul was saying when he declared: "I live; I live." And then, checking himself, he cried out: "No! No! Not I, Christ lives in ...

3424. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... Paul’s Greek; but J. B. Phillips’ paraphrase gives a truer insight by interpreting Paul as saying, "Do make my best hopes for you come true! Live together in harmony ..." It is well nigh impossible for any group of Christians to agree on everything, to understand everything alike, but it is not impossible for Christians to live together in harmony. In fact, if any human being is to be the person God created him to be, he must be in harmony with his God, his neighbors, and himself. Norman Vincent Peale ...

3425. A Liturgical Drama For Advent

Drama

Tom Eberle

... light of men. The light shines on in the dark, and the darkness has never mastered it." [John 1:4-5] One: I want to be a believer in the light, but I am afraid that some strong gust of wind will come upon me and extinguish it. Light: I understand your fears, but take heart. The light I give you is given freely, never to be removed from this world again. My light I offer you is the very power of life over death. Congregation sings: O come, thou Rod of Jesse’s stem, From every foe deliver them That ...

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