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3476. 2 + 3 = 4?

Luke 16:1-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... passed the cheat notes about what God teaches and how little good it does for us to make friends by cheating. She thinks that the boy learned a lesson, and I pass this on to you so that you can learn also. These notes would not help anyone for very long, and they could hurt for a very ...

3477. How to Get to Heaven

Luke 10:25-37

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Money, vitamin tablets, books. Good morning, boys and girls. This morning I would like to test you with the same question that a man tested Jesus with a long time ago. Here is the question: "What does a man need to do to live forever in heaven?" How would you answer the question? [Let them answer.] I have some things with me that we might use so that we could live forever. I have a vitamin tablet to build ...

3478. An Overflowing Heart

Luke 7:11-17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... village to another with his disciples. The village that they were going toward was Nain. While they were walking, they saw a group of people coming toward them looking very sad. It didn’t take them long to see that this was a funeral passing them, and the person who had died was the only son of a woman whose husband had died a long time ago. Just imagine how sad that woman must have felt. She was now all alone, for both her husband and her son had died. The Bible tells us that when Jesus saw this woman he ...

3479. Attitudes in the Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of the United States with me today. It talks about how the people should be free to think and act, as long as they do not hurt any other persons. The Constitution of the United States was written by men who knew what other men wanted and hoped ... for, for their country and mankind. The Constitution is not very long, but it is the most important paper ever written about and for our country. I have some other words today that I would like ...

3480. Our Search for Intimacy - The "Father" God

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... , the Love Story type of move blew across the horizon and was gone. As one who stood in a line two blocks long to see the movie, I contributed to the phenomenal financial success of Love Story. Oh, I did not relish the personal characterizations ... abruptly shattered. They discover that they have absolutely nothing in common. In fact, they despise each other. Before long these wealthy, powerful, cultivated people become openly the superstitious, malicious, savages they have always been. Our parallel existence ...

3481. A Higher Form of Love: The Good Neighbor

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to ask if she had one! We were so happy with our efforts that little items like that slipped by our state of consciousness. In addition, her shack and belongings were so filthy and crawling with bugs that I doubt the cake and perishables lasted very long. In fact, to my knowledge she did not have a refrigerator. Yet we left our boxes of groceries and departed the shack feeling very good inside. Surely, God was pleased with the actions of his two servants. I shall always remember the comment of the stately ...

3482. Hooray for Humility!

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... thing" as servants. And yet, Christ, the Divine Son of God humbled himself and became a servant, obedient unto death, the terrible death of the cross. Can we ever think we are above our Lord? Martin Luther said, concerning humility: "God created the world out of nothing. As long as you are not yet nothing, God cannot make something out of you." Humility is hard to attain - the moment we think it is ours - it is gone. Did you hear about the student who was awarded a gold pin for being the most humble man in ...

3483. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... only proves how perfectly fair Christ 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 ...

3484. While We Watch for the Coming

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... schools of the nation, or we will perish.’ There was a general agreement with the logic of his thought. ‘But,’ he paused long and ominously, ‘if ever the school authorities attempted to teach this in your city, you men who have today elected school leaders would ... fair play, honest dealing, straight talk, real freedom, and faith in God. Make us to see that it cannot be done as long as we are content to be coupon-clippers from the original investment made by our forefathers. Give us faith in God and ...

3485. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... not among the rushing electrons, and he is not visible in outer space." This is the serpent in the garden again, whispering to Adam and Eve: "You will be as God." But, like all of the other gods of our generation, science doesn’t satisfy the deep longings of the human soul. The more a man knows, the more he is aware that he knows nothing. I’m amused. Right in this moment in our history in this country, we have all of the best economists, financiers, business leaders, and everyone working on the problem ...

3486. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... individual. And, as we pray, we are assured that we are not talking to thin air. We are in conversation with the eternal Father in heaven. Of course, no proof is possible, but then, no proof is necessary. What do I know for sure? Well, the list isn’t very long. But all the important things I know. I know not by sight, not by induction or deduction. I know by faith, by experience. I know because I am sure. I am certain, because I know. Does that sound like double talk? It isn’t. This is the truth for all ...

3487. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... to the attitude of one citizen who is asked his opinion about the two candidates for mayor of his town. He replied: "Well, all I can say is I’m grateful that only one of them can be elected." Paul O’Neil, in a long-past issue of Life magazine, called the conventions "Nomination by Rain Dance," and he wrote: "No American institutions so fascinate and so appall the citizenry of the Republic (and so absolutely flabbergast foreigners) than do those vulgar, those quarrelsome, those unspeakably chaotic rites ...

3488. The Return to Catholicity

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, can you possibly understand the overwhelming sense of joy that possesses my heart and soul at this moment? I have just completed a long, long journey. It has taken me 460 years to walk one block - from St. John’s to St. Ambrose - because this Year of Our Lord 1979 is the 460th Anniversary of the greatest revolution that have ever shaken this globe. This marks the beginning of that Reformation ...

3489. Salvation as Hope

Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... ." Furthermore, Paul cannot conceive of a protracted existence of the departed soul in a disembodied state. "For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens ... We long to put on our heavenly dwelling, so that by putting it on we may not be founcd naked" (2 Corinthians 5:1-3). The soul moves at death into a new dwelling to continue its life there. The new dwelling resembles the glorified resurrection: body of ...

3490. Drastic Surgery

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... of sin? What would we have left? Our hands? Have they never reached out in sin? Our feet? Have they never carried us into the wrong paths? Our eyes? Have they never fed evil into our hearts? Our tongue? It would have been torn out by the roots long ago. What mutilated bodies we would have if we had been taking this command of Jesus literally and seriously! But here is our very trouble: Because Jesus so obviously did not mean for these words to be taken literally, we don’t even take them seriously. We say ...

3491. Voluntary Blindness

Matthew 6:1-15

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... Jesus’ parable implied, God ought to consider himself fortunate in having such a fine person as this on his side. Walter Bagehot said, "So long as men are very imperfect, a sense of great imperfection should cleave to them."8 But letting one’s left hand know what ... a carter whose cart was stuck in the mud of the ditch. He laid aside his instrument and went to help the man. It was a long job to get the cart out, and when he finished he was covered with mud. When he arrived at the house of his friends, it ...

3492. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... the High Altar." The King replies impatiently, "Bishop, I like playing games, but only with boys of my own age! Do you take me for one of your sheep, holy pastor?" Then he says, "The One that little red lamp honors read into your innermost heart and mine a long time ago. Of your cupidity and my hatred. He knows all there is to know."10 When one realizes this, one realizes, too, how much he or she needs the grace of God, God’s unmerited good will. But if one looks too intently at others’ wrongs, one may ...

3493. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... our clothes. The words we speak are not signs of our thought, but the signs of dead men’s thought. We go to church not to pray but to repeat dead men’s prayers. Artists, musicians, writers fight their way through swarms of extinct ideas. Long gray arms reach out of the past and enfold the minister in the pulpit and waving weirdly, they hypnotize the occupants of the pews. Viewless but potent monsters brood over the senate, manipulate the market place, parade through the Pentagon, stir up trouble in the ...

3494. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... - that is his style! But consider a second significant fact: the one way in which Jesus almost invariably sought to authenticate himself was by directing attention to his style. It was not easy for Jesus to convince his contemporaries that he was the long-looked-for Messiah. Even those who seemed to be most staunch in this belief had their dark hours of dismal doubt, for the Master himself refrained from making any dogmatic declarations on the subject until the conviction was expressed by Peter at Caesarea ...

3495. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... which anything must go to come to its fullest development. Here is this thing we call electricity, for example. So long as that giant force went down the broad way, how apparently useless it was, or rather, how frightfully destructive it was with its ... lightning flashes smiting the earth and setting the stricken areas on fire. Long centuries ago certain men began to search for the way, hunted for that particular set of conditions down which they might ...

3496. EPISODE 2: THE SECOND WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... which is to fill you. I haven’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. JOHN: Lord, how can you save people from suffering, hunger and misery if you’re dead? JUDAS: We’ll show them yet, Lord. Those long-nosed churchmen will take orders from us. JESUS: Those long-nosed churchmen will cause me much suffering. I’ll be betrayed into their hands. JUDAS: No! JESUS: They’ll turn me over to the government, and I’ll be beaten and executed. JOHN: Lord! MARY MAGDALENE: No! No! PETER: We won’t ...

3497. EPISODE 8: GOOD FRIDAY

Drama

Robert Clausen

... ’s not that simple. WIFE: Why? GOVERNOR: There are ... WIFE: Tell me! GOVERNOR: Complications. WIFE: You’re the Governor! GOVERNOR: As long as I perform my job ... WIFE: Properly, I suppose. GOVERNOR: Yes. WIFE: I can guess what that means. GOVERNOR: I’ve ... ... JESUS: It was orders. CAPTAIN: That’s right. It was the Governor’s idea. I’m sorry we had to do it. JESUS: How long ... CAPTAIN: You have a couple of minutes. I’ll get the guard [He exits.] JESUS: So, Father, this is the hour. I think of ...

3498. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... supply. Two lunch pails had been saved. There were a few sandwiches, four or five candy bars and some cake. That wouldn’t last long among six men. But the chances were the water would get us before we got very hungry. And then I remembered the story of ... for the waves I had created to die down, for the specks of coal dust to stop moving about. It seemed to be taking too long. Why was it that the coal dust, instead of settling down, was now running together as it pulled by a little current? I picked out ...

3499. Something That Will Last Forever

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of Cleveland to buy supplies. Just before they got to town the father gave Charles a dime, the first dime the boy had ever had. His father told him he could spend it any way he liked. What a time Charles had in Cleveland with a whole dime! He shopped long and hard. What a difficult choice he faced! He could buy a toy, or lots of red-striped candy, or a big red tablecloth with the Constitution of the United States printed on it. In those days a dime would buy a lot. Charles saw oranges for the first time ...

3500. Getting Under Your Neighbor's Skin

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... said, "Sir, let me apologize for my husband's drowsiness. He is undergoing chemotherapy. The doctors have given him a medication to control the side-effects, but it makes him very sleepy. I tried to persuade him to stay home today, but he said, "I must go as long as I'm able. I never know when I will no longer be able to gather with God's people." Suddenly that speaker's attitude toward the drowsy man was transformed. Why? The wife had enabled him to get under the skin of her husband and really understand ...

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