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326. Rally or Rail?

John 18:28-40

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Leonard Sweet

... a part-time king? Christ is no King if His reign is only for a few hours on Sunday morning. Have you enthroned him 24/7, or just 1/1? When you tour the Imperial Palace in Seoul, South Korea, you are told how Kings used to have one Queen, but many wives. We may have one hour a week with Jesus as King, but the rest of the week we’re consorting around. Second, are you flying another flag rather than the one that only flies to wave the King of Kings and Lord of Lords? Or to put it differently, is someone ...

327. I ... Oh ... U

Luke 18:9-14

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... enhances our image and we can feel that much more superior. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone stepped on someone else verbally in the interests of self-image building. If such verbal enterprises could build empires, I suspect every one of us would have one by now. There is probably no more common international pastime. But the fact that it is common doesn’t make it healthy. In his book entitled I’m OK, You’re OK, Dr. T. A. Harris comments that the desired level of individual well-being has ...

328. The Awful Grace of Amazing Grace

2 Corinthians 5:16-17

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Leonard Sweet

... overused and amazingly misunderstood and amazingly trivialized — it is “Amazing Grace.” [This might be a time for you to play on the screen one or more of your favorite renditions of “Amazing Grace.” It has become almost obligatory for every artist to have one. For my favorite one by bass player Victor Wooten, see the URL below. Probably the most beloved rendition of the song today is the “My Chains are Gone” version by Chris Tomlin at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJsBRFdrA0]. This song ...

329. Easter 5

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... " "In Heaven Above" "Jesus, Still Lead On" *"Lord, Take My Hand and Lead Me" *"Thou Art the Way, to Thee Alone" "Victory in Jesus" "When We All Get to Heaven" *"You Are the Way" Reading the Scripture Recruit three people to read the gospel lesson. Have one person stand by himself or herself to read Jesus' words. The other two people should stand together a little apart from the other reader. (One at the pulpit and the other two at the lectern?) The two readers standing together will read the questions asked ...

330. A New Vision

Matthew 2:1-12

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King Duncan

... for more than a day, scouring terrain and relaying video to a ground station 3000 miles away. A few years back one of these planes was lost in a freak accident. No, it didn’t crash into a mountain. It didn’t run out of fuel or have one of its parts malfunction. Rather, it committed suicide. It shut its engines down, erased classified material from its computer, set its flaps in a death spiral and smashed at 400 mph into the desert. Here’s what happened. More than 100 miles away, a team of Air Force ...

331. The Unity Of The Church

Ephesians 4:1-16

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Erskine White

... came back and saw the Christian world as it is today? Today is World Communion Sunday, when we are meant to celebrate the common bonds of our faith. But let's be honest about it: where is there unity in the Christian church? Yes, we have one Lord, as Paul says in our text from Ephesians, but we have many faiths, many bodies, many baptisms. Moreover, churches seem to be moving even further apart today and there is a growing intolerance among Christians for differing points of view. This is the great tragedy ...

332. Doing the Splits

Matthew 20:1-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... pretty good. Now for the second exercise. I want you to jump in the air and click your heels. [Again follow the same procedure giving to the ones who were not able to do it a penny before you have given to the ones who did do it.] Now we have one more exercise that is really hard and I know that only a few will be able to to it. This exercise is called the splits. [Follow the same procedure as before.] I notice a little dissappointment on some of your faces. The ones who were able to do the tricks ...

333. God Never Gives Up

Luke 15:1-10

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Mark Trotter

... keeps coming.” Relentlessly, God seeks after us. It is not because we have repented that God comes to us. It is because God comes to us that we find the grace that brings repentance, genuine repentance, change of life. That is Paul’s testimony. We have one version of it in the epistle lesson that was read to us this morning, the First Letter to Timothy. He also wrote about it elsewhere, especially in Galatians. And, of course, we have that dramatic version of it in the Acts of the Apostles, the Damascus ...

334. Three Men Changed by God

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

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King Duncan

... sinful man!” Again, what a beautiful and memorable story. Now you have two verses I want you to remember, “Woe to me! . . . For I am a man of unclean lips,” and Simon Peter’s words, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” But, I have one more. Paul relates it to us in I Corinthians 15. It is the story of how the resurrected Christ appeared to the disciples‑‑first to Peter and later to the rest of the twelve, and then to five hundred more followers‑‑most of whom were still alive when ...

335. The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

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Brett Blair

... . In the midst of all of our diversity we still have a common bond. We are a family. I don’t know what kind of a relationship you have with your brothers and/or sisters Did you know that in China today under law a family can only have one child. That means that in China there will be no more brother—sister relationships except for multiple births. It will be interesting to watch and see what the implications of that will be decades form now. Well, one day the younger son went to the father and made ...

336. A Winsome Witness

Acts 8:26-40

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David E. Leininger

... 23:1). Very graphic. Very explicit. Very harsh, and especially since such a situation would not normally be of an individual's own choosing. A male, but not quite a man. A sexual misfit. The issue in the Jewish mind was family — a eunuch could not have one, so, they were thought of as under some sort of divine curse, an obvious disqualification for participation in temple observances. I give credit to this fellow. He could have thumbed his nose at the Jews and their God for treating him so shabbily, for ...

337. “Be Exalted, O God, above the Heavens; Let Your Glory Be over All the Earth”

Psalm 57:1-11

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... great that he should be exalted above all humans and powers of the earth. Yet we should point out that our exalted God is not so high that he cannot reach us, nor so exalted that he cannot understand our plight. Here we have one of the theological wonders of the Hebrew Scriptures: they bring together the transcendent and immanent portraits of God, holding them in delicate and affectionate balance (compare Gen. 1, God is transcendent, and Gen. 2–3, God is immanent; this comparison sets the stage ...

338. New Tendons for Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... him immediately no matter what answer he gave, so he had to answer carefully. “I do not know when I will die,” he answered. “I only know that whenever I die, the king will die three days later.” (4) Guess what? Moishe lived a long life. Prophets have one job: to speak for God. And sometimes God has some uncomfortable things to say to us. Pastor John W. Ritenbaugh says, “When a person is freezing to death, he feels a pleasant numbness that he does not want to end. He just goes to sleep as he is ...

339. Decisive Battles With Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Allen

... over and over again. When the writer of the Gospel of Mark told the story of Jesus’ battle with temptation in the wilderness, he wrote: "... the angels were helping Him ..." Jesus was not left to fight his battle with temptation alone and neither are we. We have One with us who never leaves us alone. There is a young woman whom I know you would not call attractive. She is rather plain looking and consequently never really had a boyfriend during high school. When she got out of high school, she took a job ...

340. Easter 2

Acts 4:32-37, 1 John 1:5--2:14, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... into a communal sharing of all goods, with the result that need within the community was eliminated by the disciples’ distribution of the shared wealth. Call to Worship Leader: The spirit of resurrection is a spirit of community, for those who believe have one heart and soul. People: FOR WE ARE ONE IN FAITH IN THE RISEN LORD, AND FELLOW RECIPIENTS OF NEW LIFE THROUGH HIM. Leader: Before the resurrection power came into our lives we had nothing in common, for selfishness and self-interest stood ...

341. God, Or the World?

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... This morning, out of my forced habit, I accidentally drove by my favorite bakery. There in the window were trays of the most delicious goodies. I felt that it was no accident that I happened to pass by, so I prayed, 'Lord, if you really want me to have one of these delicious coffee cakes, let me find a parking place in front of the bakery.' Sure enough, on the ninth trip around the block, there it was!" Temptation is strong, but we must be stronger. We should not tempt fate and we should not rationalize our ...

342. Pontifex

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... He- brews the author writes, “Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” Jesus, our great high priest ...

343. Eyes To See, Ears To Hear

Matthew 13:1-23

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James McCormick

... experience God among the pots and pans of his kitchen just as surely as his brothers did in the blessed sacrament. May I share with you some of the unconventional ways God has appeared and spoken to me? God spoke to me through a letter from a friend. I was having one of those “down days”. I don’t know what caused it, I was just depressed. I went to the office to begin the day’s work and found on my desk a letter from a friend of mine. He didn’t know I was having a down day and the ...

344. Gratitude Not Platitudes

Matthew 6:25-34

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... reflected in the focus of our lives. B. Charles Dickens once visited America and gave some lectures across the country. He told one audience that we, here in this country, are a bit mixed up. He said we shouldn't have one Thanksgiving Day, but that we should have 364 Thanksgiving Days. Then have one day just for complaining and griping; the other 364 should be used to thank God. (3) That's what I mean by a thankful focus. III. Thankful Living A. And a thankful focus leads to thankful living. When our boys ...

345. Empty Prisons Without Walls

Acts 5:17-42

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Carl Jech

... within limits the "demonstration in the street" is just as valid a tool for social change as is the letter to the senator. What I do not admire or respect is the "mutiny-minded" attitude which is simply the childish desire always to have one's own way masquerading under the guise of moral righteousness. 1. Prisons With Walls There are many reasons why people find themselves in very real prisons with very real walls. The apostles offended those whom they accused of misunderstanding Jesus, and they landed ...

346. Of Rubble and Trouble

Luke 21:5-38

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David E. Leininger

... . Czechoslovakia followed at 43.6 percent, and then United States at 41 percent - two out of five of us afraid to go out at night. (4) At the heart of those problems is our national understanding of what is right and what is wrong. We no longer have one. At our monthly Presbyterian ministers' breakfast this week, Z. Hollar [a local PCUSA minister, now retired] told of a friend of his, an AT&T executive, who has received a great deal of fulfillment in acting as a "Big Brother" for the past three years to a ...

347. A Man Of Character And Generosity

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... people who ever lived--in spite of tremendous obstacles. He had all kinds of setbacks in his life--none of which he brought upon himself. Joseph is a role model for all of us. He never let any situation, no matter how grave get him down. Some of us have one bad thing happen to us and we are finished. But not Joseph. He kept his head. He kept his values. He kept his faith. And he succeeded. You see, Joseph was a man of character. Think about what has happened to Joseph so far. His own brothers nearly killed ...

348. Community Discourse: Lavish Forgiveness in the Kingdom

Matthew 18:21-35

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... off this kind of debt is an impossible feat and thus magnifies the graciousness of the forgiveness. 18:25 the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold. The practice of being sold to pay back a debt or having one’s children sold for the same purpose is attested in the Old Testament (2 Kings4:1; Isa. 50:1). That there is no way that a family’s indentured servitude could earn the huge amount owed only heightens the servant’s plight in the story line. 18:26 ...

349. The Great Omission

Mark 1:14-20

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Charley Reeb

... painfully true cartoon in the Leadership Journal. The church secretary is holding the phone, hollering to the pastor in the adjoining room. She says, “A man from Ripley’s Believe It or Not wants a picture of someone on fire for the Lord. Do we have one?” Where is our love for God and our passion and love for people? This is what translates! When you forgive while everyone else wants revenge, that translates. When you are loving while everyone else is hateful, that translates. When you don’t give up ...

350. OK Boomer

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... this was the actual reason he was such a terrific swimmer—his moustache. Spitz was just joking, but the Soviet coach took him seriously. The following year, the entire Soviet team grew moustaches. (2) All because a coach told Mark Spitz he couldn’t have one. Maybe you have a member of your family who has a little streak of stubbornness in them? We all know people whose first response to anything is always “No!” Fortunately, many of these somewhat ornery people have good hearts, and if they have time ...

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