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3426. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... time of religious upheaval, but like Eareckson as well, her final words were words of acceptance and liberation. I see now that God has arranged the whole course of events from my conversion up to this point of crisis, to teach me to trust him, to appreciate and understand better what he has done, is doing, and will do, and to be more sensitive to others’ sufferings. This particular crisis was one of temptation, though I did not think of it in that way. Thus in my six years as a Christian, I have come 360 ...

3427. Leah

Genesis 49:29--50:14

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... love; Rachel, for holding the chief place in Jacob’s heart; God, for having permitted her prayers to go unanswered. Yet, here we see the greatness of Leah. Rather than bitterness, she holds kindness; in place of hate, there is love. Hers is the patient, understanding devotion that Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians. Her love, indeed, suffered long and was kind. A little girl who, admittedly, was anything but beautiful was told by her mother, "My dear, God did not give you good looks. You will never have a ...

3428. Manasseh

2 Kings 21:1-18

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... . Our good health becomes a sign of our evil living. "It is all God’s will." So, the God who loves all humankind snatched away my five-month-old baby. What kind of love is that? Quit blaming God. "We are never to question; it is not for us to understand." Then why did God give me an inquiring mind? Please do not be so pious. "Satan is the cause of it all." Then we had better worship the devil and try to make friends with him rather than God. Obviously, he has the upper hand. "Your husband is in heaven ...

3429. IN THE BEGINNING ... THERE WAS LOVE ...

Drama

Marcia Millerf

... down and gotten it? BOY: No, I don’t think so. GIRL: You didn’t try? Didn’t you even try? [THE BOY shakes his head.] Why not? BOY: Aw, you wouldn’t be interested in knowing. GIRL: Go ahead and try me. I might surprise you. I might even understand the situation. BOY: At first I thought that book was the most important thing in the world. It seemed to have all the answers. That is why I chose it in the first place. But then ... [He stops suddenly, as if he hears something or someone.] GIRL: But then ...

3430. THE WITCH OF ENDOR

Drama

Marcia Miller

... . RECOS: Today he is king. ENDORA: This experience should help you learn an important lesson: Do kindness to all, even if you can’t expect anything in return. DARCY: Kindness? Since when? ENDORA: Always do kindness to all. DARCY: I understand. ENDORA: Then you’ll understand when I say it’s time to get back to work. Do those dances ... exercises. [She looks intently at DARCY.] They are relevant. [ENDORA exits. The GIRL WITCHES dance.] RECOS: One - two - three - four. One - two - three - four. CURTAIN

3431. Three Witnesses

1 John 5:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... He wants us to be. That was a good thing to learn, wasn't it? Let me show you something else that we don't always understand but is very important to know. The Bible says there are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water and the blood. These three witnesses say that ... and what are witnesses? I have brought some of my friends with me again this morning and I hope they will help us understand. First of all I brought my friend, Davey Dishpan. Davey can hold water, but he can also hold vegetables to be cleaned. I ...

3432. A Matter of Life and Breath

John 20:19-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... same ability because he is the third person of the Trinity. To have the Spirit is to have the power of almighty God at our disposal. Thus, Paul could write, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Let us be sure, though, that we understand the difference between power and force. God’s power at our disposal is not the power to send a man to Mars. A son who was a chemist working on the development of rocket fuel called his father, a Seminary professor, after the successful launching of the ...

3433. Converting the Converted

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is in the condition it is! How can this be so? It may be due to the fact that most of us were baptized as infants. As in my own case, I was baptized on the thirteenth day after my birth. What can a two week old baby know or understand about a great spiritual experience that baptism involves? This is normal and a child cannot be expected to be aware of his baptism. However, the child upon reaching proper age usually responds to his baptism at the time of Confirmation. At this time he is to know what he is ...

3434. Jesus ... Who?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... that pride is suggested as a reaction, because you usually think of pride as being a cardinal sin. Well, it is if it is the wrong pride. When you are proud of yourself, it is a sin. A businessman was interviewed by a newspaper reporter. The reporter asked, "Did I understand you to say that you were born in a log cabin?" "No," said the businessman, "you have me confused with Abraham Lincoln. He was born in a log cabin; I was born in a manger." But, when you are proud of others, it is a good kind of pride ...

3435. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... forcefully, but with an awe that makes her speech almost a dream relived] Jesus’ birth was not an ordinary one, Mary. Some people know of this, but it is something that I personally have talked about with very few others. Now, I will tell you and you will understand. Nine months before Jesus was born, an angel came to me and addressed me as God’s favored one. MB: [Astonished] Mary! MJ: Then he said to me, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your ...

3436. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... any joy, I met a man or a woman, and they gave me access again to life. Isn’t it true with you? Then is it surprising that God who knows us so much better than we ever know ourselves should come to us in the way we all could understand? If it had been by an intellectual system, some of us would not find our way. If it required a specific artistic sensitivity, some would find their way, but some wouldn’t. If it came only by some mystic sense that could know the presence of God by direct contact ...

3437. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... the drop-off point. Just in time, he felt the slope of the floor and his sensitivity detected the lack of echo quality, so he stopped at the dangling edge. I have never forgotten the scene because that picture was a mode of thinking, a symol of our understanding of how much we know about God and the universe, or, more poignantly, about our husbands and our wives. You may have been married for thirty or forty years, but you still don’t know your partner fully. You may never completely know him or her, for ...

3438. Miracle On Main Street by Dr. George A. Buttrick

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... more real to me than I am to myself. In fact my life is real only because he is real. I have no tape recording or affadavit of his appearance after death. I don’t want such crutches. In any event they would be in Aramaic, and I couldn’t understand them; and anyone could pronounce them forgery. Every word he spoke is to me both judgment and mercy. If I were an atheist, and began to ponder his empty Cross worse than a gallows at the first, how it crossed an ocean, found this new land, made its way to ...

3439. Five Grains of Corn

Psalm 111:1-10

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... ? The servant with one talent was denounced ... not because he had stolen it, or gambled with it, or misappropriated it, but because he had done nothing with it. Roger Shinn, writing in the November, 1974, issue of A.D. Magazine calls for an understanding of what small units of society can do in the light of these critical times. He urges individuals to move from careless extravagance to a new asceticism. He says: "Individuals often feel helpless in the face of global problems. But individuals and churches ...

3440. When The Cheering Stopped

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... some events we might count as miracles but no miracles are done for the people. On the face of it this may not seem significant but when you consider that nearly one half of the Gospels is devoted to the last seven days of Jesus life, you then understand significance of this. Open your bibles and see if that is not true. But listen to this: While there are no miracles recorded in these chapters what you will find is a persistent call to commitment. Hungry one morning Jesus stops by a fig tree and finds no ...

3441. For Losers And Cowards

Judges 6:1-40

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... by saying: "Oh, well, I’m only human" or "Everybody does it, I’m no worse than anyone else," or, flippantly: "The devil make me do it!" When we do wrong we sin against a holy God and we need to repent. One of the terrible things we need to understand is people are sinners - but even worse than that is that we are sinners and refuse to admit it. The most basic fact about humanity is that we are sinful, born in sin. Our most desperate need is for a Savior. Nothing else will do. We’ve tried all kinds ...

3442. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... always was. For had the same action been evidenced in a man, as it was in this case in a woman, his reaction would have been exactly the same. It is certainly not the "point" of this lesson, but it goes a long way toward teaching Christ’s understanding of equality of men and women). Here, a woman named Mary, we call her now Mary of Bethany, is defended, judged and aquitted by none other than Jesus Christ, the Divine Son of God. He defends her actions - and calls them good. But back to the beginning - The ...

3443. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the Lord appeared to him also and gave him the evidence he wanted: "Go ahead, Thomas, stick your linger in the scar. Plunge your hand into my side." And so our hearts go out to Thomas, and all who share his skepticism and doubt. We have to understand that he was rejecting - and he knew it - not only his friends, but he was rejecting life. He was doing away with the only possibility of making any sense out of human existence. John makes it eminently clear as he says: "He who believes in the Risen Christ ...

3444. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... your opportunity and will yet believe." Certainly, science is not the only way of finding truth. Our daughter was once a volunteer in a summer day camp for the blind. And through her, we found out a great deal about the lives, the habits, and a greater understanding about the blind. For instance, they know that the sky is blue and that trees are green, but they still don’t know what the sky or the trees really look like, because they haven’t experienced them. And yet, one young blind man who visited our ...

3445. Embalmed Alive

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... our fellow men. Love, joy, and deep abiding peace - these are the fruits of such a life. Oh, that we might understand that as our life grows. Michelangelo once came into the studio of his student, Raphael. He looked at a painting that ... eternal truth that you will not find life here within yourselves. As one modern play has it: a poor, sick man is dying, and nobody understands his malady, dying in the rat race. Finally, they operate, and they make an incision as long as his body; and they are all surprised ...

3446. The Return to Catholicity

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... on our ministry. So we wear our medals in their honor, not ours. Oh, yes, our theologians, you see, had a joint commission studying the Eucharist, but we have to be very patient with them. You always have to be patient with theologians. But you’ll understand why, when I went to a Catholic church in Rome, or Notre Dame in Paris, or a church in Spain, or a pretty parish church in Central America or Mexico, or the cathedral in Saigon in Vietnam, or Hong Kong, and felt no strangeness whatsoever in receiving ...

3447. Minute Accounting

Matthew 12:22-37

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... justice of such a policy. Are there not so many other things more important than the careless words one speaks that one may become guilty of majoring on the minors by concentrating on keeping inappropriate careless words from slipping out of one’s mouth? We can understand why we should have to do some accounting for our speech, but is this not going too far? It leaves us no leeway at all. It puts us under the continual responsibility of guarding our speech. There surely ought to be some time when we could ...

3448. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... . To be sure, we are all tempted to practice this art - particularly when we do not know how to answer intelligently and convincingly certain upsetting questions propounded by our opponents in a controversy. In times like these, we need above all else to try to understand each other and to get the other person’s point of view. For obviously no one person or group of persons has all the truth; nor is any altogether devoid of some. Each has a certain amount of illumination to give the others, and God ...

3449. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... necessary to use. when we attempt to communicate spiritual truth. And I’m convinced it’s quite all right, so long as we understand that it is indeed metaphor which we are using. So let me now use the metaphor to create a drama - to illustrate the ... know, I’m sure that word was enough. For in that one word is a world of faith and trust and meaning. And for one who understands there always is. Now let me add just one thing more. In our four Gospels Jesus is quoted as saying a good many things about ...

3450. God is Laughing at Us

Zechariah 9:9-13

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

... Scripture that we fail to recognize. We don’t see when Almighty God is making fun of us. We can’t seem to understand when God is laughing at us. The Word warns us: "He who sits in the Heavens shall laugh. He shall hold you in derision." But when it happens, we don ... ’t catch it at all. We don’t get it. We don’t understand the satire. Why do you think God allowed his only-begotten Son to be born in a livery stable? Why was he born in a one-horse ...

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