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3451. Thorns and Roses

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... heals in three ways. The first and most common means of healing is through the regular medical channels that God has given us. Penicillin is a gift of God. So is by-pass surgery. A second way God heals is beyond our understanding. Some healing is just beyond our understanding; we call these "miracles." They are rare and wonderful. Almost every veteran physician can point to a few of these he has witnessed. I pray for miracles frequently. A third way God heals will be experienced by all of us Christians. I ...

3452. Needed: Fidelity Insurance

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... wife said to a sympathetic neighbor, "My husband doesn't show any interest in what I do. All he cares about is whatever it is that he does at that place-~wherever it is--that he works!" Christ teaches us to listen, to be more flexible, to be more understanding, to be less demanding, to say the right thing at the right time, and at the proper time to be quiet. The poet Ogden Nash said, "If you want your marriage to sizzle with love in the loving cup; whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right ...

3453. Our Inclusive Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... America. Often we attended a Baptist church there. We could not have been more different from the members of that little congregation. They were smaller than we. Their skin was darker. They were poorer by far. Because of the language difference, I could not understand much of what their preacher said. But then, folks tell me that can happen even where everybody speaks the same language! But despite all that, I felt totally at home among those people and was blessed by their services. And I know why. When ...

3454. Breaking News: Thomas Doubts Jesus Alive

John 20:24-31

Sermon

CSS

... doubt. We are all like Thomas. We have our doubts. We need proof. And it’s important to recognize that doubt is not the enemy of faith. Alfred, Lord Tennyson said there lives more faith in honest doubt than in half the creeds. All of us understand why it is so difficult for the world to accept the message of Easter. We are asking people to believe in the supernatural, that there is life after death. Thomas Jefferson ranks as one of our nations greatest intellects but not many people know that he rejected ...

3455. The Cross In My Pocket

Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... history, he alone was free from indictment for his own sin. Therefore, he was a worthy offering or sacrifice for the sins of others. As God in human form, he was great enough and good enough to be a sacrifice for the sins of all humanity. That much I can understand but no further. The cross is bigger than my puny mind and limited vocabulary. But, praise be to God, though I can't get my mind around the cross, my heart was won by it long ago. I can identify with the little boy who had been giving his mother ...

3456. Glorious Surprises

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... drawl." Increasingly we are living in a pagan culture that regards faith and church as strange. Listen to verse 14 of our text: "The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned." If a person's spiritual dial is set on the channel of the world rather than the channel of the Spirit, he or she will regard the doctrine of the cross as nonsense. One professor has referred to it as child ...

3457. God Stood Up

Sermon

James Bjorge

... the frontline trenches of life where we live and love and laugh; and also worry and sin and finally die. He actually came to live on earth. When God stands up and we see the real Jesus, we know him to be a person we can love and understand. He walked in our shoes and shared our meals ... yes, and even heartaches and medical bills and suffering and car accidents and happiness and pay raises and fun and parties and temptations and triumphs. Johnny Cash has recently made a film about Jesus set to country music ...

3458. Samson, the Bully

Judges 16:1-22

Sermon

Don Yocom

... . Samson had to realize his need, and so must we. Just to be strong physically isn’t enough. We need God. God is not dead, but is ever willing to help us if we will accept His help. The call is for obedience. We may not understand why things go as they do, but we can understand who is the Divine Ruler over all. We do not have to be strong or successful or famous; we do have to obey God. We must forget ourselves for a greater cause. In the case of Samson, his death was greater than his life, though ...

3459. Abraham and the Meaning of Consecration

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Don Yocom

... faith. He accepted Christ and began to have a vision of peace in our world. This is one of the cardinal teachings of the Friends (or Quaker) Church. Years passed and, in February 1972, that man helped bring in an era of world peace and better understanding as he traveled to China and later to Russia. He helped reestablish relationships between the East and the West. His name: President Richard M. Nixon. Who knows what further vision could come if more people were true to their inner light from God! God told ...

3460. Last Ditch Stand

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... JOHN: This "ridiculous" stand? Probably not. But I’ve got to do it. I’ve tried everything else I know. This seems the only other course. Whatever the cost, I’ve GOT to do it. Do you understand? HELEN: No, I don’t! Think what you are doing to Nancy. To Rodney. Our friends and your colleagues - they won’t understand either. John, you’ll fail, you know. All this will be for nothing! You’re ONLY ONE MAN! JOHN: Yes ... That’s why I have to try, Helen. No matter what. I AM - one man. ***** TO TALK ...

3461. Treasures You Can Share

1 Corinthians 14:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... that you may not have heard a lot about but something that has been a problem in the Christian church for a long time. Have you ever heard about people who speak in tongues? That means that they can speak in a foreign language that even they don’t understand, but they believe that it is a gift from God. St. Paul knew about it and, as a matter of fact, he could speak in tongues. But Paul said that we must be careful about the way that we use the gift. Sometimes people are more impressed about what ...

3462. The Foolishness of God

1 Corinthians 1:25

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: An aspirin. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to show you something that I am sure is difficult to understand, and must have been very difficult for people a long, long time ago to understand. Let’s suppose that you have a headache. The pain is fierce and you think that your head is going to drop off if something isn’t done. Show me where you think that it would hurt if you had a headache. [Let them show you.] It would hurt your ...

3463. Open Ears

Acts 7:57

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... softly.] The last item that I brought with me is a pair of ear plugs. I know that a lot of you have worn these when you have gone swimming. You can almost shout, and it sounds like you are far away. It is pretty hard for a person to understand what other people are saying when he has ear plugs in his ears. But why do people do things like this? Why don’t they want to hear certain things. I can tell you a story about a man called Stephen who was one of the early followers of Jesus ...

3464. He Rescued Us

Galatians 1:4

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... like. [Take out the net and display it.] It still seems dangerous jumping that far, but when you have the choice of either burning up or jumping I think that you would jump. We call that being rescued. If we understand how important it is that someone can rescue us from a fire, then maybe we can also understand how important it was for Jesus to do what he did. The Bible teaches us that Jesus died for our sins. Sometimes that doesn’t make sense to people. What Jesus really did was rescue us from dying. God ...

3465. THE MARK

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... good God in heaven - unless you don’t even deserve that much, not even justice. Nothing but sleeplessness. CAIN You could help me. EVE Escape? From what? CAIN I don’t care what word you use. I want to live. EVE What I can’t understand, Cain - or maybe it’s what I don’t want to understand - that you’ve made everybody into a mirror to reflect your own image. And when you happen not to like what you see, you think it’s quite all right to destroy. Or else you shut your eyes. But it isn’t all in ...

3466. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... JAREL Well, what about the card game? No bets. Just a simple game. SETH Don’t you want to find out about the futures? JAREL I want to get the game over with. And if I win, you get the hell out. SETH You sound downright anxious. JAREL I can understand a game of cards. And I can spot a cheater. So watch yourself. SETH Well, I happen to know the simplest game of all - it’s impossible to cheat. JAREL It’s never impossible to cheat. SETH Is that another one of Cain’s lessons? JAREL Maybe, maybe not. Let ...

3467. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... that it has a kind of double-barreled implication. Of course, it does mean that all who are in the Church should try to live in a unity of mind and spirit. But let’s take it out of that framework and place it in the field of our understanding of the human mind and personality, and it could easily be applicable to a single person. Being of one mind is what the psychiatrist means by an "integrated personality." A mature and well-adjusted personality is one that is at peace with itself. It is a mind free ...

3468. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... yadah to describe sexual relations between husbands and wives. In its root sense yadah means "to know," "to experience," "to understand," and "to commit oneself to another." The term commonly is used to describe the whole range of emotions and ... that I am waiting for! I wonder if I am not missing out on something important. Maybe I am too much of a prude!" Her father, an understanding man, as well as a wise one, wrote back, "I think that I can tell you in one sentence what it is that you are waiting for ...

3469. Chapter VIII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... , "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all" (Mark 9:35). In other words, the greatest man is the one who uses his life to enrich the ones he touches. Such a lifestyle shows that the one who lives it understands just how valuable people are. That understanding of what life is all about turns a person around and away from the direction laid out by the "I’ll take it," or "I’ll keep it," crowd. It sends us out into the world with a desire to invest our lives in it and its ...

3470. Loud and Clear

Luke 8:14-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... You have a nice voice. Do you think that if everyone was very quiet you could say something that the last person in the church could understand? You do? Fine. Let's see, will you say, "It's fun being here"? and we will ask the last person in the church to ... saying, "God is love." You were saying it, weren't you? Our experiment worked just great. Some people tell me that they can't understand why they don't hear God talking to them like other people they know. Is it because God doesn't like them, they ask? ...

3471. A Real Pepper-Upper

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... and tranquility. All at once the words of Jesus, "Lo, I am with you, even to the close of the age," meant something very real to us. The dead lava in our hands began to get warm. We had a new breath of life. Anyone who has had that miracle understands the miracle of Pentecost. A word, the Word, can come alive; it can reach me and become a creative, transforming power in my life. When I am burdened by my guilt and weighed down by my own repentance and I hear, "Your sins are forgiven," I know what Pentecost ...

3472. Crossing the Great Divide

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... by a little handwashing, to you and to me, we have become quite accustomed to passing the buck and shifting the burden of our responsibility to someone else. Our society has not helped us here. While our social scientists have opened doors of understanding how our environment and background shape our behavior, somewhere in the muddle of circumstances we have decided that individuals are no longer responsible for their actions. We can lay our burdens at the establishment’s door or my cranky old man or the ...

3473. BUTCHER

1 Corinthians 10:23--11:1

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... undergone a radical change from the days of our mothers. But - the cutting of the meat itself is still done by men. Meat has been one of the most ancient of man’s foodstuffs - even, presumably, when he had to eat it raw. There is an instructive understanding in man that meat contains the elements that he needs to make him strong and healthy. There is even some sympathetic magic at work here - if I eat the blood and flesh of a strong, healthy animal, I will imbibe some of that strength. With this thought ...

3474. SHIPBUILDER

2 Chronicles 20:36

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... Tarshish, and they built the ships in Eziongeber." Although many of us enjoy the sea and a great many Americans own and sail boats of many kinds, if we stop to think about the contrasts between our country and Palestine, perhaps we will be able to understand the reasoning behind a statement that the Jews were not a sea-minded people. Look at a map of Palestine, and compare it with our own country, and look at the differences in coastal area! And, with little experience, or necessity, to use ships, the Jews ...

3475. Good News For Good Parents

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

... and which none of the other pupils could work. He announced as much to the teacher. She and the whole class laughed. Whereupon, he became indignant, strode to the blackboard, and worked the problem much to their amazement. In doing so, he realized that he could understand arithmetic. He felt a new confidence in his ability, and went on to become a good math student. We need to encourage our children. We need not only to surround them with love but we need to help them feel competent as persons. I wish every ...

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