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3526. We Can't Afford It! Oh, Really?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... that couldn’t be so--they had plenty before lunch. She checked the cooler: empty. She checked the refrigerator: empty. Not even the extra bottles were left. She contemplated their predicament, but only briefly, since they were on their way to the restaurant. Her thoughts returned to their water dilemma as they drove back from dinner. They were stuck. They couldn’t get any more bottled water. Then she remembered that she had ½ a bottle left in her room as well as ½ a bottle from dinner. So she came ...

3527. Putting the Puzzle Together

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... tearing a page out of the magazine, then cutting it into pieces. Then he had the little boy try to put the pieces back together. He thought this would occupy the boy for a long time, but he was wrong. In a short time, the boy had the page reassembled. His Dad asked ... passion that eventually he was ordained, and later became a bishop. His writings have had an enormous impact on Western thought. (2) Augustine discovered what Simon Peter discovered: the key to the puzzle of life is Christ. Millions of people of ...

3528. Clean Hands

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... as a barrier between other people and God, they no longer are a good thing. It's a scary thing to think about, isn't it? What's really scary is how far the church of 2006 is from what Jesus means for it to be. Just a thought. The Pharisees were really good people. They really were. They were a lot like us. They wanted rules that are set in concrete. They wanted to know where the boundaries are. These people are bad, these people are good. These people are acceptable; these people are unacceptable. These ...

3529. Concerning Miracles

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... child, "Do you know what God says about children?" The child lowered his eyes in shame and replied sadly, "I know." Then he added, "They are evil." Someone had poisoned this child's mind and his self-image by teaching him that God thought children were evil. He carried a load of shame with him because he thought that not even God could love him. He desperately needed to hear the good news of a God who valued and loved children as the prize of His creation. (3) God loves all of us. Here's God's will for us ...

3530. The Divine Opportunity

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... to do more than simply say, "I'm sorry." Repentance needs some means of action. I still remember an anonymous note which I found on a bulletin cover one Monday morning. "We all want to have a more victorious life," someone had scribbled, following what I had thought was a pretty good sermon. "But, Dr. Kalas, how do we get it?" John the Baptizer got down to specifics. When the people asked, "What then shall we do," John answered with line-on-line counsel. If you have two coats, he said, give one to someone ...

3531. Songs of the Season

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... or pen? I've noticed that often a minister will note, in a preface to a book, that he or she feels indebted to the people of the parish for the help they have given. The ebbing coals of inspiration are often blown into a bright flame by someone's thoughtful word or attentive ear. So it was, it seems, with Elizabeth and Mary. When the angel spoke to Mary, she answered only with questions; but when her cousin spoke to her, Mary cried, "My soul magnifies the Lord!" I hope I am not exaggerating the point when I ...

3532. Epiphany:The Joy of Fulfillment

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... the good news. Some of it we do through our part in the work of the church, which, even at its weakest, is still in the forefront of relieving human pain. And some of it we can do personally, one to one, as we extend kindness, love, and deeds of thoughtfulness to people in need. Those people in need may be closer than we sometimes think, because only a few of life's needs are measured in dollars and cents. Luke knew why he was writing his book. He had been a secondhand witness to the blessed fact of Jesus ...

3533. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... crowd, right? -- who is standing there with shorts on. He's wearing no shirt and no shoes, no coat, no gloves, no scarf. It's obvious that he is shivering and miserable. And his misery is soon compounded by some folks' pointing and taunting. A few thoughtful persons in the crowd, meanwhile, express concern for his health and well-being, and they offer him some of their winter wear. "Would you like my gloves?" asks one man. "I could just keep my hands in my coat pockets." "I've got an extra scarf," offers ...

3534. On Defeating the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... renounces the devil, as far as I can tell. Maybe you've picked these out already. First, Jesus encounters the devil in the strength of forty days of fasting. And I use the word "strength" in a way that has surprised me this Lenten season. "I have always thought," writes Mark Buchanan, "that the devil was coming to Jesus at his weakest moment: Jesus gaunt, raw-boned, wild-eyed, ready to scavenge any moldy crust of bread or scrape any meat shreds off a lamb's bone ... But I'm not so sure anymore. The more I ...

3535. Growing with God

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... 's parents had abandoned him. Every year when his mother Hannah and his father Elkanah made a pilgrimage to Shiloh to worship the Lord, Hannah took along a new robe that she had made to give to the growing boy. Always Samuel was in her thoughts, as she stitched and embroidered that special robe. And every year she lovingly garbed her son anew. But Samuel is a special child, dedicated to God from the beginning, growing up in the sanctuary of God, serving in the worship of the Lord, learning the traditions ...

3536. The Glory of Christ

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... people in his "glory" (vv. 1, 2) to restore the life of his people and to make them honored among all the nations. The central thought is stated in verse 10: "In my wrath I smote you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you." Israel does not ... the peoples see that God has visited his people and saved them, all nations will be drawn to Israel's light, to worship that saving God. (The thought is the same as that found in Isaiah 52:13--53:12 and Zechariah 8:22-23.) So to be true to the text, the preacher can ...

3537. Thorns and Thistles

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... him sternly (cf. 15:19). In the same manner, our tasks done for the Lord are made possible by gifts given to us. In the Epistle lesson of 1 Corinthians 13, the faith, hope, and love that Christians are to manifest in their lives are not products of their own thought and work, but gifts of the Spirit, as Paul makes very clear. Apart from God's equipment of us, we cannot do the Lord's work. The task given to Jeremiah is fearful. He is not only to "build and to plant," not only to comfort and give hope to ...

3538. The Two Ways of Life

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... :14-23). If the heart is sound, life and good action flow out naturally, but if the heart is corrupt, out of it come evil thoughts and deeds. Thus, in his judgment on the Judeans, Jeremiah can say at the beginning of chapter 17 that the sin of Judah is engraved ... his vitality, or to live for ourselves and meet the inevitable death that comes from our own meager resources. Jesus encapsulated the thought of our text when he set before us those two ways: Whoever saves his own life, relying on self and the world ...

3539. Return to the Father

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... (cf. 2:11). Joel has been reminded of that final Day by the devastating locust plague and drought that have devoured Judah's life in the last quarter of the fifth century B.C. (ch. 1). But those were only God's provisional warnings about sin, in the thought of the prophet, and Judah may recover from those. That from which no one can recover, however, and that which no one can escape is God's final judgment on his day of "darkness and gloom" (v. 2). Some Ash Wednesday liturgies of the church remind us of ...

3540. Responding to the Story

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Christians through the ages have looked at the natural world and decided that there must be a God who created it. They have not thought up a picture of God and designed worship to go with the picture. Nor have they adjusted to their changing cultural and social ... we respond and say, "I believe." God's acts always come first. We did not construct our faith out of our own thoughts and desires. Rather, God did particular deeds and said particular words, and we say, "Yes, I believe God did those things and ...

3541. Suffering Servant Song

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... . That is the dialogue that is carried out in this song. The Lord speaks in 52:13-15. Then the foreign nations take up the speech in 53:1-10, and finally God ends the speech in 53:11-12. The foreigners are utterly amazed that the people whom they thought had been rejected by God were instead delivered by that God and raised on high. Israel was as good as dead in exile, and yet God gave her new life. Surely God must have had a purpose for doing such a thing, and the nations realize that Israel went through ...

3542. We Must Obey God

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... , however. They are beaten and then released, only to go on preaching and teaching (vv. 33-42). "We must obey God rather than men," the apostles have said (v. 29), and so nothing can stop their witnessing for the Lord. The passage affords many pertinent thoughts for us. First of all, it is quite clear that religious bureaucrats may be wrong. The church receives lots of directions from the "higher ups" in its structure these days, and those directions may be wise, or they may be unwise. The question is: How ...

3543. The Conversion of Saul

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... conversion on the road to Damascus, he saw the Lord. For Paul, that made him an apostle, equal to the twelve. An apostle, in Paul's thought, was one who had seen the risen Christ and had been sent to announce that good news. No mention is made of seeing the Lord in ... the letter. It was not his own spiritual or psychological inner state that led to his conversion. We should give up that thought. Indeed, Paul's story shows us rather clearly that we do not convert ourselves. There is nothing that we can do to ...

3544. Escape from the Island of Spiritual Sloth

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... the clergy, by the way.) After pulling a muscle on a bike ride, I once jokingly complained to a doctor friend that I was getting older. My friend replied, ever the clinician, "You're not getting older, you're rotting." A nice, comforting thought, don't you agree? But, in truth, a helpful thought if taken seriously. As is this: Remember that you are dust. That's why we're here tonight, isn't it? To remind each other that the worms will go in and out soon enough. Remember that. Even have somebody rub your ...

3545. Alive In Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... day-long workshop, only that they were a part of a prayer group that met every Tuesday morning at 6:30 for study and sharing and praying together. After that conference, one of these women wrote me a letter. Listen to a part of it: “I thought you might be interested in our group of six -- obviously thoroughly enjoying the Lord and each other. One, an alcoholic, given the simple medicine of love -- last drink November, 1973. One, whose husband left her with two boys -- he living here with a “fancy lady ...

3546. If You Get Too Close to the Cross, You Will End Up Carrying It

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... picture when I lift the cross to my shoulder.” But he couldn’t lift it from the floor. It was made of heavy iron oak beams. Mr. Lang was standing by. The businessman said to him , “I don’t understand it. Why do you carry such a heavy cross? I thought it would be hollow and light and easy to carry.” Mr. Lang looked at him and said with deep, deep conviction: “If I did not feel the weight of His cross, I could not play His part.” Well, that is it. That is Jesus’ call – to bear our cross and ...

3547. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to see this man, with shabby clothing and matted hair, standing in the center aisle about four rows back and waiting for permission to approach me. I nodded and gave him a weak little wave of my hand. Look at how this Easter Sunday is gong to end, I thought to myself. He’s going to hit me up for money. That happens often in this church. I’m so tired… When he came close I saw that his two front teeth were missing. But more striking was his odor – the mixture of alcohol, sweat, urine, and garbage took ...

3548. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... tombs. He called himself “legion” because he said, “I am many.” He knew there were powers within him that really were not himself. He would often bruise himself with stones because the demonic darkness in which he was brought on nightmares from which he thought he could never escape. These forces within him were so powerful that the chains with which his friends bound him in order that he might not hurt himself, or hurt someone else, could not contain him. He would break free of those chains. And ...

3549. Oh Taste and See

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the psalmist. As he faced his own death, he argued boldly with God in verse 9: “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness?” I had what first felt like an irreverent thought: What would God have done without David McKeithen? I was not only thinking of what David had meant to me, but of the countless people who had come to Christ and tasted of the kingdom through him. I realized that not only is our relationship to God of value ...

3550. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it.” The Hubble photos showed, for the first time, the violent details of the formation of stars. Wow! The birth of a star! A telescope that can see something 1,500 light years away -- capture in its scope something 3 million miles long. I thought of Psalm 8, “When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the stars and moon which thou hast ordained. . .” and I reflected. God is omnipotent -- all-powerful. God is omniscient -- all-knowing. God is omnipresent -- there is no place where God is ...

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