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326. Love Lavished On You

Ephesians 1:1-14

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... with every spiritual blessing. Blessings go to you who chooses to give us Jesus. You save us with your forgiveness. You open us with your kindness. Blessings to you, O giving and merciful God. Amen. Prayer of Confession We find it easier, O God, to love people in theory than to practice loving. We find it less complicated to respect others and to be kind from a distance than when we see them every day. Dear God, let the strength of your love encourage us to decide to greet those close to us with a loving ...

327. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... a common problem in human history. We westerners came out of the nineteenth century patting ourselves on the back at our own proud achievements. In every way and in every day our world is getting better and better, we told ourselves with our theory of inevitable progress. The twentieth century, said some, would be the "Christian Century," the century when many of the highest Christian ideals would come to fruition. Arrogance and optimism were high in those days. Perhaps the confident, arrogant mood is best ...

328. The Next Step

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... evil. Throwing away an old and unclean garment is, indeed, necessary. The real kicker is putting on the virtue of love which Christ gave to us. And this love is something which must bind together every virtue, for it is not just in theory but in deed. Some years ago a rather enterprising and effective public relations expert came up with the “What Would Jesus Do?” bracelet. Many Christians wore it as a trademark around their wrists. McDonald’s had its “golden arches.” Budweiser had its talking ...

329. Even Our Business Belongs to God!

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... of purchase was given to next-of-kin to hold the property on the kin’s behalf [Leviticus 25:25-28].) It was not smart business. But it seems that God has his own business strategies. He is going to turn a profit, even if it defies our economic theories. All our Bible lessons for today make that point. What we think is our business, ultimately belongs to God. No, it did not seem to be a very good investment for Jeremiah to buy that land, what with the Babylonian conquest of the region on the horizon. The ...

330. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... someone a name like Moloch or Baal or Jupiter or Zeus, but if it supplants the God of Heaven as the Lord of the moment, the first commandment is broken. We need that reminder because, as one commentator has it, "We are monotheists in theory but polytheists in practice."(6) Really? Who is your God? Some offer their allegiance to the great God Mammon. Ancient mythology did not actually have one of those, but we can identify him: Money...Possessions... Things. There are probably more Americans today that serve ...

331. The Voice

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... with the Presbyterian Youth Fellowship to ski in Vail. Will said, "You're the one who introduced her to Jesus, not me." "But all we ever wanted her to be was a Presbyterian," said the father, meekly. Hmm. Dr. Willimon writes, Some of you have heard my theory of church design: I think the reason why we pad our pews, and bolt the furniture down to the floor, print up the service in a bulletin, and carefully, deliberately plod through the prescribed acts of worship is an inner fear. We tie everything down, we ...

332. Thank God, We're Not Alone!

Psalm 133:1-3

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... they need to live. Listen to what Habits of the Heart has to say: Both [the Old and the New] Testaments make it clear that societies sharply divided between rich and poor are not in accord with the will of God. Classic republican theory from Aristotle to the American founders rested on the assumption that free institutions could survive in a society only if there were rough equality of condition, that extremes of wealth and poverty are incompatible with a republic. Jefferson was appalled at the enormous ...

333. When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough

Ecc 2:1-26

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , skeptical man who doubts that there is permanent value in anything. Have you ever wondered about that? We must give the ancient Teacher credit though. Despite his opening hypothesis that there is nothing in this life that has any enduring worth, he at least tests his theory. He decides to see if wisdom and knowledge will do the trick and resolves to become the wisest in the world, but he notes that both the wise and the fool end up dead, so why bother. He checks to see if pleasure will offer meaning ...

334. The Pleasure of Your Company

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... you dry your hands on your apron and take what the man hands you. It is a personal letter. There is an emblem on the envelope and your name is written, not typed, in elegant cursive. The stationery is the heavy expensive type, which blows the Cousin Alfred theory; he's too cheap to buy this. Que pasa? You open the letter and, well, yaba-daba-doo, it IS indeed from the man himself. An invitation: The President of the United States requests the pleasure of your company... You look up at the fellow who brought ...

335. Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... name of Lyall Watson has written a book called Dark Nature(8) in which he discusses an idea which suggests that just as genes are the units which transmit biological characteristics from one generation to the next, so also there may be "memes." The theory says memes are units of transmission of culture, and they are spread between us by being caught, by leaping from brain to brain. They are ideas. Memes are like cultural viruses which affect us all. They may be such things as catchy tunes which everybody ...

336. Now Is The Day Of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... claimed that people with surnames late in the alphabet have an increased tendency toward "alphabetic neurosis," a mental illness brought on by "the constant strain of waiting for one's name to be reached in the classroom and in other situations." He derived his theory from a scientific article that actually found little evidence to support the idea. (1) I believe we will all agree that is an unique defense. I can remember being stressed out in class when the teacher was calling on people. I can remember ...

337. Two Parades

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

King Duncan

... know what it is to fail. It's sad. We don't appreciate how important failure is. ANYONE WHO ACCOMPLISHES ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT IN LIFE IS GOING TO FAIL. That's a given. Attorney Edward Bennett once spoke humorously about what he called the Zeke Bonura Theory of Government. Zeke Bonura was a clumsy first baseman for the Washington Senators, who each year contrived to end the season with the best fielding average in the majors. He did so by recognizing an obscure baseball rule. The rule is that you cannot be ...

338. The Cross: A Gift Of Life

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the torpedo being ejected. In the 11th chapter of John, the high priest Caiaphas is quoted as saying that it is expedient that one man should die for the people rather than that the whole nation should perish. Christ died for us. No one theory of the atonement is sufficient to explain fully how Christ giving his life freely changed the whole dynamic between humanity and God, but it did. Millions of changed lives through the ages give radiant testimony to the saving power of the cross. There is something ...

339. Reality Maps And Rolling Stones

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... her treatment. They issued a 300page document denouncing her, and denying her funds for new clinics and training. Sister Kenny eventually had to leave Australia and take her cure to the rest of the world, where it was gratefully accepted. Her theories revolutionized the treatment of polio in the U.S. While today the Salk and Sabin vaccines are available to prevent polio, those who become afflicted are still treated with Kenny's methods. (4) The reality maps of the Australian doctors prevented them ...

340. Are You Going Down?

Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... darkness and the least and the lowly have been exalted. ONE THING MORE. BECAUSE HE HAS COME DOWN WE ARE OFFERED ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE GOD'S GRACE. In its deepest meaning, this is what Christmas is really all about. It is an event. It is not a theory about life. It is not a propositional statement or a mystical insight. It is an event. "Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea." He has come down and he offers us a new opportunity to enter into the joy of his kingdom. A woman visited a tourist town ...

341. The Greatest Good News Of All

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... a truth fundamental to everything Christians believe. God emptied Himself. Oliver Goldsmith wrote a play entitled, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. There is a sense in which that phrase can be said of God. He stooped to conquer this world. Theologians call this the kenotic theory of the Incarnation. The Greek verb KENOUN means to empty; the noun KENOSIS means an emptying. God emptied himself and took up residence in the manger of Bethlehem. It is said that Henry David Thoreau once spent a whole day in Walden Pond up ...

342. Flight To Egypt

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... to his needs." That sounds so Christian, does it not? No more billionaires living it up on lavish yachts, while the poor live hungrily on the streets. Provide everyone with a decent standard of living regardless of how much he or she contributes to the common good. In theory it's great. The only problem is that it doesn't work. People at heart are greedy. They are lazy. If they do not have to work, they will not work. Not everyone, of course. But enough so that the entire economy of a nation is crippled ...

343. Would You Like To Hold The Baby?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... toys of success, the ornaments of the good life, with position and prestige. But inside we're like those cheap chocolate Easter bunnies--hollow and empty. Dr. Maxwell Maltz has gained quite a bit of notoriety through his popular self-help book titled PSYCHOCYBERNETICS. The theory of psychocybernetics is based on Dr. Maltz's work as a plastic surgeon. This is how he describes how he became interested in the human personality: One day a number of years ago a woman in her mid-twenties came to his office. She ...

344. The Ultimate Evidence of God

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... everything about Christ before we commit ourselves to his kingdom. That day will never come. As J.S. Whale once put it, “The trouble so often is that we sit around the fire with a pipe in the mouth and feet on the mantelpiece and discuss theories of the Atonement instead of bowing down before the wounds of Christ.” On the Mount of Transfiguration Peter discovered what it was to stand on holy ground. He also had affirmed what he already believed about Jesus of Nazareth--that he is the Christ, the Son ...

345. Christ Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... great sense of confidence and boldness that would display itself after Pentecost. Even though they did not know what the future held, they knew who held the future. It is said that the wife of Albert Einstein was once asked if she understood her husband’s theory of relativity. She replied, “No, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.” The disciples knew that Christ was with the Father and that Christ could be trusted. They believed that he was in charge and that made all the difference. I ...

346. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... the weeds? What about the evil within the hearts of men and women--the hatred, bigotry, envy, bitterness, lust, anger, greed, etc. A young woman in one of our public schools was asked to write an essay on Evolution. She wrote, “According to this theory man descended from the apes and has been descending ever since.” There is some truth in that little piece of humor. In our appetite for evil, human beings are still descending. Apes are not capable of the extraordinary evil to which humans will resort ...

347. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... in their path. After running for weeks the lemmings finally reach the seashore, and then, row upon row, plunge headlong into the water! For a short time the frantic rodents remain afloat, but soon the creatures tire, and one by one sink to their doom. Many theories have been offered about this mass suicide. Some zoologists argue that the fatal plunge of the lemmings is just an error of judgment. Perhaps the creatures think the ocean is just one more wide river to cross on the way to a larger food supply ...

348. Finding Our Way Back Home

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... understand, though, will make a difference in their lives. There is an old story about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the great English poet. He was once talking with a man who told him that he did not believe in giving children any religious instruction. His theory was that the child's mind should not be prejudiced in any direction. Children should be permitted to choose their religious opinions completely for themselves. Coleridge said nothing, but after a while he asked his visitor if he would like to see his ...

349. The One Thing That Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the politicians, the soldiers, the priests, a milling crowd, and the frightened, discouraged disciples. What makes the mural unusual is that members of the congregation posed for the faces in the picture. (3) We WERE there when they crucified our Lord. There are many theories about how the death of Jesus Christ atones for our sin, but one thing is for certain: the cross says to us that sin is serious business. The cross is significant, first of all, because of what it says about sin. THE CROSS IS CENTRAL ...

350. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... soaring language of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You do not have to make your noun and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love... "When evil men plot, good men plan. When evil men bomb and burn, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout words of hatred, good men must commit themselves ...

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