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3501. Stand Up for Jesus

John 2:12-25

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... you are doing and watch who you're singing about. SALLY: (RISING AND CROSSING TO PODIUM) May I say something? I'm a little confused, as I'm sure many of my friends are. I just feel we should defend our Lord, somehow. Now, I'm not a Bible scholar and I can't quote the scriptures ... I don't know. I just feel someone should say something. SMITTY: I agree. You people, won't you say something? Can't someone defend Jesus? Isn't there anyone here who will stand up for Jesus? (THE HOPE IS THAT SOMEONE FROM THE ...

3502. In The Heavenly Places

Ephesians 2:1-10

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... His heaven? WILY: I'll just say, "Because I've become a better person than I used to be. I've climbed the ladder of spiritual holiness, learning to be better every day." DICK: Very good. You see, you don't have a thing to worry about. WILY: I do feel better. DICK: Good. Now, remember the scales? WILY: Yes, yes, the scales. Let me see. Ah, yes, I remember. I could answer that I have done a lot of good things in my life and when God weighs those things on a scale that they will far outweigh the bad ...

3503. Everyone Is Searching For You

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Every family has these proverbial pearls that they pass down to their children. Have your parents ever told you, “Idle hands are the Devil’s toolbox”? Work. Hard work is good for the soul. To have a goal, to apply yourself and accomplish that goal, there is no feeling like it. That’s what I see when I look at Jesus in this passage. Look at what kind of day he has: First, Jesus is just getting started on the job. It’s the beginning of his ministry. Mark tells us that after one of his first sermons ...

3504. Out of the Wilderness Comes New Life

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

George Bass

... intends things to be for us. And Jary Vajda catches that intention in Jesus’ "Because I live, you will live also!" He puts the words of culmination of the Lent-Easter experience in our mouths: ... I feel my heart beating with a new pulse, My blood throbs with a happy surge, I am already somebody new: I think new, I feel new, I see new, I react new, I love new, I live new.6 That’s what the wilderness-temptation experience of Jesus holds for us during Lent. We have been made new again - through baptism ...

3505. Report of a Secret Meeting

John 3:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... death of Christ was not in vain. But all of that doesn’t make contemplation of Christ’s cross - and facing up to his death - any easier. The renowned English preacher, W. E. Sangster, once said, "I never go to Aber Fall in North Wales, without feeling the pathos of something that occurred there three years ago. A brilliant young lawyer, of whom I knew, was climbing the mountain near Aber Falls with a friend. His friend noticed the green slime on the rocks as they climbed and called out: ‘Do be careful ...

3506. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... summer house perusing the Wall Street Journal. It is likewise a shout in the wind to speak of repentance to one who feels not the slightest need to repent. It is a concept and an experience not easily brought into focus and, strangely enough, ... God can love an ugly old woman like me? And if God can forgive me for all that I have done, I can forgive the way you feel about me." There are always those who are wont to take the cream off one’s religious experience. Why? Because they have not heard the trumpet ...

3507. Come Home!

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... and Bethlehem and all Judea, waiting for the Lord. Israel, it must have seemed, felt like one big hospital waiting room. Except, for Israel no one was sure whether the wait was for death or birth. There was just the waiting. Some of us know how that feels ... to wait like that. Some of us have been given the privilege of that burden. We have learned the suffering of patience, longing ... the unfulfillment of it. In some cases, there was an end-time already built in. There would be the reunion at the end of ...

3508. Mary Ann Was Born Again

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... close had just died. Part of it was that the old language of her religious background no longer worked. It no longer had power for her. It was all still there, woven into the patterns of her thinking. And yet it was obsolete. It’s much like the feeling we get when using the expression, the "four corners of the earth," after seeing photos of the earth taken from the moon. The rituals of her old religion were obsolete as well. For a time after she "lost the faith," she was still a practicing member of the ...

3509. Whom Do You Sit East Of?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... before him, he gets right on with the task. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days journey in breadth. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" Do you know how good that feels, being on a crusade for God? All moral ambiguities are behind and the really bad guys ahead. When you are the one who must do what has to be done - axe a few saloons, seize an embassy, or highjack a plane - well, that good is how Jonah ...

3510. "Job" Is Our Name Too

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... his power? No he would give heed to me. If Job could only get the Lord God subpoenaed into court, there would be acquittal for Job. More than anything, he wants vindication from his God. But at the same time, Job is torn by the anger he feels towards his accusers and their "wisdom." He calls them "worthless physicians" and then levels a further insult: "Your maxims are proverbs of ashes ..." Job is in a fury because of the "prescriptions" of his friends. Yet at the same time he is counting on that wisdom to ...

3511. Celebration As Worship

2 Samuel 6:1-23

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... for good intentions gone awry. 3. Celebration as Worship And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the Lord with all their might. - 2 Samuel 6:5 In the midst of all this joy over bringing the Ark to Jerusalem - amidst all the good feeling of consolidating a people - great happiness was shown. And David danced before the Lord with all his might ... So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn. - 2 Samuel 6: 14-15 Such ...

3512. A Prayer of Wonder

2 Samuel 7:18-29

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... good about things and it was a proud time of his life. Grateful humility, not boastful arrogance, was his response to it all. He recognized that it was God who had brought him this far. In our own prayers humility is needed. But feeling and showing humility are difficult. Our human condition moves us in the direction of thinking it’s mostly up to us. Oh, we know that God has created us; "but the important thing is what we do with it." We’ve all heard the appealing slogan, "If it is to ...

3513. Paul of Tarsus

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... felt very hopeful, getting beaten up all the time like Paul did. LECTOR: The Lord said to me, "Paul, my grace is all you need: for my power is strongest when you are weak. I am most happy, then, to be proud of any weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ’s power over me. I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and difficulties for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong." ANNOUNCER: In news from around the Roman Empire, we have this note out of Greece this ...

3514. Francis of Assisi

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... Fernando - It was good to hear from you. Certainly I was delighted to learn that your vineyards have been thriving and that you are prospering. To think that you donate the sacramental wine for worship in the churches all over the district! That must give you a feeling of satisfaction. You asked if I had any regrets or second thoughts about having chosen the life I have. When I was young, I might have. But no longer. There is much to do. I’m more and more persuaded that the world will change when people ...

3515. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... which I cannot escape. Now black people all over the south look to me to give them hope and to lead the way to a better future. Now they’re asking me to move to Atlanta to help organize things more broadly. I feel torn in two directions. I owe a lot to Dexter Avenue Church. But I feel a need to keep the movement spreading. When I saw how the white citizens of this city finally began to give us their support and sympathy, I realized miracles were possible after all. I don’t know where it all will lead. I ...

3516. It Felt Good

Matthew 21:12-17

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... brother. The older girl kicked her little sister. Then the little brother and sister began to cry and also punch and kick. Mom and Dad didn’t like the hitting and kicking. All the children were very unhappy. Mom and Dad wanted to talk to them about how they were feeling, so they asked the children to sit down in a circle on the floor. The older boy wouldn’t sit down with the rest of them. He stomped off to his bedroom and slammed the door, so mom and dad just talked to the other three children. What do ...

3517. Full Stomach, Empty Stomach

Acts 2:42-47

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... ice cream? pudding? Now pretend that you’ve just eaten all that food you wished for and that your stomach is very full. Does that feel good? Now I want you to pretend again that you’re hungry. You’re very hungry and all you’re going to have to eat ... with no meat and only a few pieces of vegetables in it. That’s all the food some children have to eat and their stomachs never feel full, as ours do every day. How do you think you could help children who don’t have very much to eat, so they would have ...

3518. He Came Back

Luke 24:36-49

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... have some friends who go away for a couple of days sometimes. Maybe you have some friends who go away for a while and then you can’t play with them, as you usually do. At those times you may feel a little sad because they’re gone. When someone we love has been gone for a day or two, we feel happy when that person comes back to be with us again. That’s how Jesus’ friends felt when he came back to them on the first Easter day. Jesus had died and his friends were sad to have him gone ...

3519. You CAN Take It With You

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

... nations. "All nations" is a very large area! But "all nations" begins here in our own community. Our neighbors and friends have the same needs as we do. They have lives that are broken in many ways. They have wounds that need tending. They have feelings that are unresolved and relationships which are uncertain. And, most importantly, they have us! They have us who have shown our scars to the Lord and received his forgiveness. They have us who have shared our scars with one another while being made whole as ...

3520. When A Grain Of Wheat Falls

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Brett Blair

... why, so they commissioned a study which brought back a surprising answer. It seemed that people weren’t buying the cake mix because it was too easy. They didn’t want to be totally excluded from the work of preparing a cake; they wanted to feel that they were contributing something to it. So, Betty Crocker changed the formula and required the customer to add an egg in addition to water. Immediately, the new cake mix was a huge success. Unfortunately, many people make the same mistake when it comes to ...

3521. The Chief Miracle of Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... the world does not know him. He came; he is here; but the world does not receive him. What John wrote so long ago we see to be true in the way most people celebrate Christmas: they rejoice in everything but Jesus Christ. Sometimes one gets the feeling that Christmas is still a pagan holiday. December 25th used to be a pagan holiday, you know. This is the date of the Roman Saturnalia, a bawdy celebration of the return of the sun. To "Christianize" this date and to remove the pagan customs, Pope Liberius, in ...

3522. All I Need Is A Little Rest!

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... which we can all relate. So many demands are constantly made on our time, our energy, our selves, that we regularly feel overwhelmed and worn out. Job, home, kids, marriage, other people, hobbies, telephones that keep ringing all the time: we want ... us, able to sympathize with us in our experiences of life. Like Jesus, we like to get away also when it gets to be too much. It feels good to leave all the pressure behind and go someplace. Unlike Jesus, however, we don’t get as much out of our get-aways as he ...

3523. "I Don’t Hate Any More!"

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... in the midst of your tension? Can you open yourself to it?" She opened herself. She received. The whole situation began to be different. The tension relaxed. The old irritation didn’t bother her any more. She found she could forget it. The spiteful neighbor began to feel the lack of tension. She began to ease up. She began to open up. Friendship developed across that no-man’s land. They began to do things for each other. The spiteful neighbor began to go to church with the neighbor who had now become a ...

3524. Why Fear Growing Old?

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . At times we were hungry and lonely. Early one morning, while sleeping on the ground in the "Bad Lands" of the Dakotas, my friend and I had a strange experience. I woke up with a strong feeling that there were three of us there rather than two. The perception was vivid and real, perceived not as a threat but as a feeling of peace and protection. Later we packed up and resumed our journey. Both of us were unusually quiet. Then I revealed to my friend my strange experience. He was shocked, and said to me. "I ...

3525. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... people now." And another, in the same vein: "I can sense the needs in other individuals’ lives ... I have been with people in the elevator ... I can almost read their faces, and tell that they need help, and what kind." And another with new insights: "I don’t feel bad at funerals any more. I kind of rejoice at them, because I know what the dead person is passing through." A man, who had adopted his nephew who was on drugs, heard the Person in the Light say, "Since you are asking for someone else, I will ...

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