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3501. Kindness That Makes You Sorry!

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... ’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s guns. Besides, if your need is so great you have to steal, then you must need my things more than I do." She not only gave him what he was pilfering, but shoved money into his hand, all the while expressing concern for the circumstances he must be facing. The next day she found all her possessions in her box, along with a note which read, "Lady, I can face anger and danger and death itself, but I was powerless before your kindness!" The kindness of God is the basis for ...

3502. The Blessing Of Bondage

Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... tree appear). If we ask why such special attention is paid to these two trees, we have to finally say we don’t know. God doesn’t answer all of our questions - down here. But this story is not so much interested in trees, as in the command of God concerning them. That’s the serious part! The Rules Are Simple God gave Adam some rules to be obeyed, and they were very simple. He was to work and tend the trees of the garden (v. 15), the fruit of the trees were to be eaten for food (v. 16), and ...

3503. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... God? Was it all just a "wordy" ruse to escape judgment for their sins, and hopefully they could still live as they jolly well pleased? The aim of Israel was not really to return to the Lord, but to remove the inconvenience that God’s anger had caused them. Their concern was to "get what they could" from a rich and powerful God. A man went to an old friend to ask for a loan of some money. He didn’t have any collateral, and he didn’t want to be charged any interest. The friend said he didn’t think ...

3504. The Triune God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." (RSV) Perhaps you are familiar with the poem, "The Blind Men and the Elephant," by John Godfrey Saxe. It concerns six men who decide to satisfy their curiosities as to what an elephant is like. Upon arriving where the elephant was, each man approached him from a different stance. The first man, as he encountered the side of the elephant, said it was like a wall. The second ...

3505. Religion at a Minimum

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... belief in God, and approximately sixty-four percent of the population claim church affiliation somewhere. However, when you get down to the performance level of religion, the figure drops, percentage-wise, into the thirties. Apparently there are many who are religiously concerned but not spiritually committed - a great many whose consciences are stunted and quieted by an occasional contact with religion. The only real solution to their problem will be found in an encounter with Jesus Christ such as the one ...

3506. Suffering for Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... not lose his reward." Many of the lasting, important and significant things accomplished in this world require considerable suffering and sacrifice! This is true regarding our salvation and the suffering Jesus endured to make it possible, and it is true also concerning the lesser values and treasures in life. A few of you perhaps have had the privilege of visiting Rome to view some of the world’s most splendid artistic productions in sculpture, canvas, and architecture. While there, perhaps you saw what ...

3507. The Sin of Judging

Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... ... by pretending to know the motives of the person doing the acting." It is this action that Jesus scorned when he said, "Judge not." He was condemning the common act of appointing oneself a committee of one to be the judge and jury in matters concerning which only partial knowledge or evidence is available. As Byron J. Langenfeld has said, "Where is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scale?" This morning we want to cite several reasons why the sin of judging ...

3508. Do you know exactly how I feel?

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Illustration

Frank Luchsinger

... place. Finally she broke from the group. Down the hallway she fled, trying not to be noticed, pretending to read a bulletin board, flushed with tears, mortified, wishing she had never come. Soon footsteps approached from behind. It was Cash Box. The youth pastor edged closer to the scene, concerned over what Cash might say. "Hey, I saw you in there. Don't worry, this song's kinda hard; don't really know it myself. But we can't learn it standing out here. C'mon, let's go back in. You won't be alone. I know ...

3509. Bad Good News Won’t Sell!

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... of telling bad news to the people of Judah, but he also had good news for the day after judgment. He brought the good news that God was going to make a new covenant with his people. He wrote a letter to the exiles and assured them that God was concerned about their welfare. They had a future and reason for hope. To substantiate his words, he bought a field in Anathoth where he planned to live in the future because he was sure that Judah would once more be a nation. If today we accept the bad news and ...

3510. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... the security of a home. In a turbulent world, many of us have always felt that the one place that was sure and where we knew we were loved was home. Children of divorced parents no longer have the security of parental love. While today we are concerned about the financial structure of the Social Security system, we need to be even more aroused about our spiritual security. As our Rock, God is eternal. In our text, God says about himself, "I am the first and the last." He is from everlasting to everlasting ...

3511. Count Me In!

Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... times. Then God was for the Jews only. God was restricted to the land of Israel. Accordingly, Jonah thought he could escape God’s directive to preach to the Ninevites by fleeing the country. The point of the book of Jonah is that God is concerned about all people, even Israel’s enemy, the Assyrians. It is the same as saying that God loves Russian Communists as well as American Capitalists. It is not difficult to understand how the Jews came to the conclusion that they had a monopoly on God. They ...

3512. Two Bodies for Two Worlds

Isaiah 26:1-21

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... shall live and their bodies shall rise. Like the people in Paul’s day, we ask, "How are the dead raised? With what body do they come?" In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul tells us that God gives us two bodies: a physical and a spiritual body. Are we as concerned about our spiritual bodies as we are our physical bodies? Since the physical body is for a short time and the spiritual body is for eternity, maybe we ought to give more thought to our spiritual bodies. A Body for This World It is obvious that we could not ...

3513. Separation of God and State?

Isaiah 44:24--45:25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... . Cyrus was not a believer in God, for he had a pagan religion. Yet, God knew him and chose him to be his agent. Is it not wonderful and comforting that though we may not know God, he knows us? In spite of our ignorance of him, God still is concerned about us and calls us to be his servants. Why does God choose a nation to do his will in the world? God needed a nation that had power to do what he wanted done. He chose Cyrus, king of Persia, because he was the greatest leader of the strongest ...

3514. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... in the temple, or like Peter before Jesus’ arrest. We thank God we are not like other men and women. We do not understand that we are indeed like others! We may not be robbers or cheats, but we are incurved, more preoccupied by our own plans and concerns than with God’s purposes. You know, a man once approached Jesus with the words, "Good teacher," and Jesus rebuked him. "Why do you call me good?" he demanded. "Only the Father who is in heaven is good." "If we say we have no sin," writes St. John ...

3515. Isaiah’s Interruption

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... : "Am I a flower? A big flower? A pretty flower? Am I blooming? Done blooming? Ever going to bloom? Ever going to bloom again?" It’s that nagging doubt in each of us that makes us measure ourselves to see if we’re succeeding, blooming, producing. We become so concerned about the character of our petals that we stunt our own growth by anxiety. Why else does Christ say: "Look at the lilies of the field" unless he’s trying to say, relax, at ease, God is still God, and he’ll make you bloom when he’s ...

3516. Abraham’s Promise Perpetuated

Romans 4:1-25

Drama

Richard F. Bansemer

... were. However, our benefactor, having received some sincere requests for your well-being, has extended your life for an indefinite period of time. Congratulations, and God bless. Person number three shall be called Van. Van, you are unaware of what decisions have been mode concerning your life. You are about to enter into a long period of testing. You will not like what is happening about you, nor what is happening to you. You must be brought very low, not because you are especially proud and haughty, but ...

3517. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... where is the final authority for life ...? (5) At the same time he realized that if he failed "to act in a danger-ridden moment, the result is nothing other than the sacrifice of my neighbor." (6) The aforementioned concerns would have been troublesome enough, but his difficulties were further compounded by the stringent biblical, Evangelical tradition, Lutheranism. He had been inculcated with the Pauline exhortation, "You must all obey the governing authorities." (Romans 13:1, Jerusalem Bible) The Basis ...

3518. Father Damien

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... so that the latter could avoid contact with the infected person. Their wives or husbands were considered as being widowed. Their children were orphans. Their property was divided as with a natural death. During the Middle Ages - as evidence of concern for lepers - hospices were developed for them, largely under the auspices of Christian religious orders. The hospice development meant that, even though lepers could not live freely and openly in society, at least they need not wander aimlessly and hopelessly ...

3519. General William Booth

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... might think of individuals quaintly garbed in uniforms which are seemingly anachronistic for our day and time. Or, we might think of Christmas when Salvationists appear on street corners and in shopping centers with bells, buckets, and tambourines. Or, we might remember the concern shown by members of the Salvation Army in wartime or during natural disasters. When I think of the Salvation Army, I recall a young woman and her two children who were stranded without money or shelter as the result of a domestic ...

3520. "When E. F. Hutton Talks"

Jeremiah 26:1-24

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... hymnal, the right paraments, the right lessons, and the right time of the year, they had fulfilled their obligations to God. Yet it is not on these things that God fudges us. Our God is a social God, and he judges us on our social actions. God is concerned about whether we lie, cheat, commit adultery, how we treat our neighbors, our business ethics, and so on. We need to take care of the poor and the hungry. We need to watch out for those who cannot protect themselves in the legal system. We need to support ...

3521. A Tale to be Told

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

George Bass

... attempting to propagate the gospel through preaching and witnessing to the world. Stephen, you see, might have been safe and sound - out of the limelight - if he had only done what he had been appointed to do as a deacon. It wasn’t his care and concern for the poor that got him into trouble, as was the case with Lawrence two centuries later, but Stephen preached the Word and worked miracles. He must have been among those present on Pentecost, because he certainly was "on fire with the gospel." He preached ...

3522. Telling the Right Story

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

George Bass

... had really become his story. About a year ago, John Pekkanen published a story about Dr. Paul Adkins called simply, "Death of a Surgeon." Dr. Adkins has been called "one of the nation’s top chest surgeons" and, more importantly a man who had deep concern and compassion for his patients. John Pekkanen writes: "He understood as well as anyone the implications of smoking up to a pack and a half (of cigarettes) for close to 40 years. He had removed some 2,000 cancerous tumors of the lung in surgery." But ...

3523. A Glimpse of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

George Bass

... to the hospital by ambulance, desperately ill. "I had always felt awkward calling on the dying. Now I realized how welcome death can appear," writes Coffin ... I might gladly have died had it not been for an intern named Joe Bizazzero ... The concern his face registered the several times I passed out in his presence kept me repeatedly thinking, ‘Coffin, you can’t die on Bizazzero.’ " Through the care he received - and prayer - he did recover. Later he wrote: That experience in the hospital convinced ...

3524. Born to Play Second Fiddle

Luke 1:57-66

Sermon

George Bass

... ..." That God’s love managed to reach his heart is announced in his crowning work of love in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel. That he learned where "the door opens to grace" is affirmed in his knowledge of the Scriptures. Michelangelo was so concerned about "the anguish of sin and the sublimity of God" that he turned to the Word of God for comfort and enlightenment. Michelangelo’s spiritual struggles led him to reject the relative luxury he could have enjoyed in the sixteenth century and to live ...

3525. Epiphany 3

Mark 1:14-20

Bulletin Aid

CSS

... Confession We love your church, O God, and are glad to be a part of it. But we fail so often to be in mission. Too many people are not receiving the ministry of your church because of our reluctance. Forgive us for our poor discipleship. Revive us with renewed concern for the lost in the world, that we may join hands as one church with new fervor to share Christ with our world. In his name we pray. Amen. Hymns Christ for the World We Sing Heralds of Christ Jesus Calls Us O Zion, Haste

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