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326. Proper 17

Matthew 16:21-28

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... disciples have more to learn about the mission of Jesus as Messiah. Matthew 16:21-28 CALL TO WORSHIP Leader: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. People: And also with you. Leader: Persist in prayer. Let love for our community breed warmth of mutual affection. People: With unflagging energy, in ardor of spirit, we will serve the Lord. INVOCATION We come to you again, Holy God, in this holy place, to receive your view of things and to offer continued service to you as you call us to mission ...

327. One Nation Under God

2 Chronicles 7:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... elected him in a landslide. It was overcast, dark and cloudy. But an amazing thing happened. As Reagan took his place behind the podium and looked at the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the sun burst through the clouds, and what Reagan remembered later as "an explosion of warmth and light." He could feel the heat on his face as he recited the Oath of Office. His left hand was on his mother's Bible which was open to the text of my message—2 Chronicles 7:14, "If my people who are called by My name will ...

328. Jesus, The Light of the World

Revelation 21:10, 21:22-22:5

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... not stop there. Not only is Jesus the center, the temple, he is also the light of the city. No more will there be a need for sun or moon, for Jesus will provide all the light one could need. The light provides a sense of security, warmth, and welcome. Everyone prefers to walk in the light; it makes us feel better. But Jesus, the light, more importantly provides direction. The light illuminates the path we must follow; it shows us the proper way. On a broader scale, in this eschatological image, Jesus, the ...

329. Room at the Inn

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... and lead you out there. (Innkeeper leads them off right. Shepherds enter from stage left and sit in a semicircle, center stage.) Narrator: That same night shepherds were out in the fields nearby, watching over their flocks. Many were nodding off to sleep. All were huddled for warmth by a fire. One shepherd was staring up at the skies. He nudged his friend sleeping next to him. Shepherd 1: Hey, look at that star. Shepherd 2: You woke me up to see a star? Believe me. I’ve seen them all already. Shepherd 1 ...

330. Rehearsal for Christmas Eve

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... : (reading much too rapidly) Our story opens in a small field in which shepherds were looking after their flocks. Director: Slow down! Narrator: Sorry. (slowing down to a normal speaking pace) They had built a small fire and were huddled around it for warmth. Stage Manager: Shepherds, that’s your cue. (Stage Manager brings the shepherds in from stage left and seats them in the center. One little child hangs back. Stage Manager gestures to child) You, too. Young Shepherd: No. I don’t want to. Director ...

331. A Squirrely Holiday

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... map on the back of this amusement park coupon.' 'Are you hoping to hire on there for awhile?' 'No, I just figure I should go there. I figure someone under that star right there needs a Bible, so that's where I'm going next.' He smiled, and the warmth of his spirit radiated the sincerity of his mission. I drove him back to the town-square where we'd met two hours earlier, and as we drove, it started raining. We parked and unloaded his things. 'Would you sign my autograph book?' he asked. 'I like to keep ...

332. I Am the Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... there are occasions in her life when she sinks into depths of depression because of extreme insecurity. She developed slowly as a teenager, was very unattractive during her high school years, and therefore did not date. Her mother and father did not provide for her the warmth and the acceptance that helped her from developing a low self-esteem. She went to college and didn’t start dating in college until she was mid-way through that time in her life. And yet after all these years of having been loved and ...

333. Walking First Class

2 Corinthians 3:12-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine to ease some of the pain of my guilt. I don't want enough of God to change my heart or make me love someone different than me. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want just enough to make church folks think I'm O.K. and enough to hide some for a rainy day. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please ...

334. John 2:1-11

John 2:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... meant layers of warm winter clothing were necessary just to survive. Layers help us in two ways. First, they block cold air from penetrating to our skin. Second, they keep skin-warmed air trapped next to our body, which is the real source of the warmth. Not the layers, but the heat from our bodies keeps us warm. Layers help us create natural insulation, our own personal environment, encircling and protecting us from a harsh world. John’s gospel creates a new world layered with divine intention. It’s a ...

335. Hope in a Plain Brown Wrapper

Luke 1:47-55

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... they felt it and headed back to the barn, thus saving many of their lambs. Sometimes our hearts get all warm and woolly. It's not wrong; we like that warm fuzzy feeling, and we get comfortable with it. Sometimes the wool around our hearts builds, not for warmth, but for protection. It acts as a cushion against the blows of the world, the crushing sorrow we feel, that compassion fatigue. At times it gets so thick that we need to get it sheared, like the ewes. And that's exactly what the stable and manger do ...

336. Transmitting Love

John 13:34-35

Illustration

King Duncan

... we sometimes convey the wrong message. A teen-aged boy informed his father of a wonderful activity that they were going to do at his church's youth group. They were going to hand out blankets to the homeless. This was in Cleveland, Ohio where warmth is a necessity during the ruthless northeast winter. The young man exclaimed with fervor, "We're passing out blankets so that we can tell them about Jesus!" His father, simply and with certainty, corrected him. He explained, "We don't give blankets to the ...

337. Human Porcupines

John 17:20-26

Illustration

Randy Smith

The German philosopher Schopenhauer compared the human race to a bunch of porcupines huddling together on a cold winter's night. He said, "The colder it gets outside, the more we huddle together for warmth; but the closer we get to one another, the more we hurt one another with our sharp quills. And in the lonely night of earth's winter eventually we begin to drift apart and wander out on our own and freeze to death in our loneliness." As humans we have ...

338. Power for Today

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... we save the Holy Spirit for those inside the church who are most mature. Van Dusen says this is wrong, that we should begin with the Holy Spirit himself. The outsider can understand the Spirit of God loose in people . . . As people respond to the warmth of the Spirit in other people, they can then be taught about the Son, and finally, as they mature, grapple with the doctrine of God the Father.” (4) That is interesting, and true, particularly in what is often called a “post-modern world.” People today ...

339. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

It glows with light and power today as we turn to verses 1 through 4 of the second chapter of this Philippian letter. “If then our common life in Christ yields any thing to stir the heart, any loving consolation, any sharing of the Spirit, any warmth of affection or compassion, fill up my cup of happiness by thinking and feeling alike with the same love for one another, the same turn of mind, and a common care must be no room for rivalry and personal vanity among you, but you must humbly reckon others ...

340. Freedom to Set Free

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... tenderly accepted and carefully led her to a new understanding of her need to fill the gnawing emptiness of her life. Jesus recognized that she was going from one man to another, seeking love and belongingness - but he wasn’t condemning. With a warmth and love she so desperately needed, he pointed to a satisfying water of relationship that would quench her deep thirst. To them both Jesus was seeking to give the personal identity which had been distorted, destroyed, or never discovered. Keith Miller speaks ...

341. On the Road with Zacchaeus

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... essence he said this to him: “Zacchaeus, I know who you are. I know all about you. I know what you’ve done, but I want to spend some time with you. Hurry and come down and let’s have lunch together.” Zacchaeus felt the warmth, the love, the acceptance, the forgiveness… and he was so touched in that moment that his whole life was changed. It was turned completely around. By the way… the original Hebrew word for “repent” was “Hashivenu”… and it literally meant “turn around.” It was ...

342. Let Everything That Breathes Praise the Lord

Psalm 150:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... front of her began turning around and smiling at everyone in the pews behind him. He was not gurgling or spitting or kicking, nor was he tearing the hymnal pages, nor was he rummaging through his mother’s purse. He was just smiling happily and spreading his warmth to those all around him. All of sudden, said Erma, his mother realized what he was doing and jerked him around angrily. In a stage whisper that could be heard several pews away she said, “Stop that grinning! You’re in church!” And then she ...

343. Some Second Thoughts about Giving

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , curly hair and wide, blue eyes. The boy clung tightly to the attorney’s leg and, looking up into his face, asked “Who do you belong to Mister? Can I go with you?“ The urbane lawyer confesses “My heart melted. It had been some years since I had felt the warmth of little arms around my legs. I put my hand on his head and tousled his curly hair, and I told him I wished he could go with me. Then I noticed that he and the rest of the children wore T-shirts with the name of some orphanage on ...

344. The Burning Bush

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... soul or to disturb my sleep, But just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of Him to make me love a black man, or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not the new birth. I want a pound of eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy three dollars' worth of God please.” (Wilbur Rees, “Three Dollars Worth of God,” When I Relax I Feel Guilty. Tim Hansell, Elgin Illinois; David C. Cook Publishing co ...

345. Illustrations on the Trinity

John 16:12-15; Mt 28:19

Illustration

Brett Blair

... the light most clearly when it pierces through the clouds as a sunbeam. When we are sitting in a room and the light shines in and touches us, we are warmed and can feel the light. So, the sun is like the Father, the beam like the Son and the warmth like the Holy Spirit. What each of these illustrations has in common is that they are all analogies, God isn't the tree or the stream or the light but like them. All our language about God can only hint at the reality never grasp or contain God in one ...

346. Come Forward to God's Throne Where There Is Grace (Relief for Guilt)

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... his family triggered a brief convulsion of distress and pain. He was estranged from his son. He’s done everything he could, so he thought, to bring about reconciliation, but there was still the tension, the strain, the cold, formal relating without genuine warmth. The fellow told me he dreamed about his son, and would awaken in the middle of the night and remain sleepless for hours, thinking about the painful estrangement. “And the guilt is wearing me out,” he said. “Despite my efforts, I am plagued ...

347. My Name Is Legion

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... turn in their life. He smiled. “Ah, no, my wife is the one who led me to Christ in the first place.” I got out of his car in front of the air terminal in Lexington, and walked to my plane with a joyous stride. I can still feel the warmth of that joy four weeks later. His story is now How encouraging it would be if all of us were quick to share the story of Christ working in our life; if we would respond to what Jesus said to the demonic: “Go home to your friends, and tell them ...

348. Household of Faith

II Timothy 1:3-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . In the simple activities of life they make all the difference in the shaping and the formation of a life. David Alshire writes, I don't remember a single lesson that Shirley Knapp taught me, but I do remember the word of life that she lived. Her smile and warmth told me Sunday after Sunday, “I care about you and Jesus loves you." I don't remember more than one thing that Louis Belek, who was my youth Sunday School teacher, said. In fact, the one thing I remember I no longer agree with in terms of his ...

349. Furnishing It with Love

1 John 4:7-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... WHEN IT’S HARD Somebody is surely saying by now, “Yes, Howard, but your enemies didn’t show up at your healing service.” You don’t get cards from people who despise you and criticize you. Are you asking us to be patient with people who have the warmth of a vulture and the tenderness of a porcupine? How can we forgive the money grubbers and the back stabbers we meet, love, marry and divorce? I’m not asking you to do anything beyond the grace given to you. I just need to remind you that John says ...

350. We Believe in Jesus Christ

John 20:19-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... what it is to be pardoned? Several springs ago, I was fishing one Saturday morning on the lake behind my cabin. The sun was bright, the sky was blue, for a few moments it seemed I had nothing better to do than enjoy the beauty of the earth and the warmth of a beautiful spring day. As I basked in the sunshine with a fishing line in the water, a game warden stepped from the woods. Somehow, I knew I was in big trouble. No, I had no identification. No, I had not yet purchased my current fishing license. Yes ...

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