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3526. Proper 13

2 Samuel 12:1-31, Ephesians 4:1-16, John 6:25-59

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... wisdom to see the life beyond death and the strength to live accordingly; that even in the loss of acquaintances and loved ones, we may see the future hope that is a part of your eternal promises. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Understanding God, we confess that we are scared to death of death, and that we ignore it, deny it, and camouflage it in every possible way. Forgive us, we pray. Help us to see every death, however tragic and untimely, as a part of life and an occasion for ...

3527. The Gift

Drama

Esther Lense

... , so you must love one another." The youth choir sings Love Come Down at Christmas. READER: Saint Paul said: "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. "Love is patient and ...

3528. As It Was Told

Drama

Ed Irsch

... while she calms down) OK. The shepherds saw some angels who told them - the shepherds - that they - the shepherds - should tell everybody what they - the angels - told them - the shepherds. Martha: (joins in exact timing) - the shepherds. (finally understanding it) That’s nice. (calmly) Now I understand you. Phoebe: (excited again) That’s nice?!? That’s great!!! They told them that the Savior was born. Our Messiah has come! As a baby! Martha: (it’s dawning on her) Our Messiah has come. Phoebe: Yes ...

3529. THE MARRIAGE GAP

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... possible for relationships to be restored. He indicated God’s acceptance, love, and forgiveness of us, thus making it possible for us to fulfill our creative purpose by accepting, loving, and forgiving one another. The marriage gap, then, is bridged initially by our understanding and standing under the God who created male and female in his own image. We begin to bridge the gap when we realize that our purpose in creation is not to stand alone, but to live together and love. II The SECOND THING NECESSARY ...

3530. What’s Going On in Your Orchard?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... grows colder, the wolves prowl, looking for food. Their hunger is a terrible thing, and anything that moves, or is warm, is their food. Hunger sharpens their sense of smell. They catch the scent of blood carried by the wind for miles around. But the eskimos understand the wolves, and they have found a way to deal with them. They melt small patches of ice, then set the handles of their hunting knives down in the water which quickly hardens into ice again around the handles, until they are set as firmly as ...

3531. What's Mine Is Yours

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... sit, sir," exploded Barnes. "Next you’ll be telling me to embrace the philosophy of ‘What’s mine is yours.’ That’s the creed of the bandits who infest our hills and prey on the haves. I work for my possessions. Let them work as I do." "I understand," Godson said. "But that cannot be accomplished in a trice. That will require a new order of justice. God has been working toward that end from the beginning of creation. It is called the Kingdom of God. It is gradually being inaugurated as men come to ...

3532. OUR LORD DENIED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... moving among shadows on the dark streets. A few short hours before his life had held purpose. Now, it was as aimless as his wanderings. All life’s meaning and design had crumbled in an instant. His mind was clouded, too filled with sorrow and disappointment to understand the events that had led to that horrible moment. Could it have been as he pictured it? He strained to recall. It seemed that he, with Jesus and the others, had gone to the hillside to pray. There had been an air of expectancy. Oh, it was ...

3533. OUR LORD TORMENTED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... Christ?" The crowds exploded in an angry tumult of shouting. At that moment a servant whom he recognized as a part of his wife, Procula’s, retinue, pressed a note into his hand, bowed low, then hurried away. He glanced at the note, frowned, trying to understand its meaning. "Have nothing to do with that righteous man," it said. "For I have suffered much over him today in a dream." But even as he was studying the message, the priests were inflaming the mob. Again he held up his hand. And the mob shouted ...

3534. HERE O MY LORD, I SEE THEE FACE TO FACE

John 6:1-15

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

... bread from the common store, the minister repeated the familiar words, "Lift up your hearts." "We lift them up, unto the Lord." "Let us give thanks unto the Lord, our God." There if what men would have called a God-forsaken place, the peace of God that passes all understanding descended, and God’s own presence was almost palpably felt. Yes, "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. My cup runneth over." Let us give thanks for this gracious gift. 3. COMMUNION. In a way, passing our ...

3535. Commanded By Example

John 13:31-38

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." These Lenten days let us ponder the love of Christ and then seek his help to reflect his love to those around us. We are quick to judge other people, but we are slow to love, accept, and understand them. A pastor with a heavy heart went to a clergy friend. He told him he had officiated at a funeral the previous day for a woman he had misjudged and mistreated. He said when he first came to the church he saw her name on the church membership rolls ...

3536. Blessed With Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... It is a kind of mental blackout which gives "peace" when there is no genuine peace. It is a kind of peace which prompted a troubled worker to place a note on the bulletin board of his shop: "If you like it here, thank God you don’t understand what is going on." Worldly peace is basically temporary and varies among people. To a lazy person, peace means freedom to loaf. To one who is active, peace gives an opportunity to work without interference and interruption. "Leave me at peace," says a man as he walks ...

3537. Waiting

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... will come. But for now, the people of God must wait. There is special kind of waiting that many of us at some point in our lives will experience and that is the birth of the first-born child in your family. I remember going to Lamaze classes fully understand what was happening. How excited we were when we got to see that first ultra sound picture. I insisted that it was a boy. But I had to wait. There was an appointed time and nothing I could do would make that day come a single minute closer. And ...

3538. Surprise, It's Christmas!

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... at all in admitting that God created all things in heaven and on earth but when it comes to Mary’s pregnancy they say, well, that’s impossible. I will admit that we do not understand it. Many of us, adults included, do not know what we are talking about when we discuss the virgin birth. There is a lot of mystery there, but as I understand it, it means that Jesus came from God. He is God’s Son. Yes he was born of a woman but his father is God. The emphasis is not primarily on Mary, but on the ...

3539. Something Good Can Come From Nazareth

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Brett Blair

... who made the first invitation to his brother and Phillip who made the second to a friend. They were watching as people began to place their lives in the hands of this Nazarene. They listened as Jesus spoke to people in a way that made them understand their lives better than they understood them themselves. They had seen souls redeemed just as they had seen their own redeemed. So when Phillip asked Nathanael to come and see he knew Jesus would redeem Nathanael as well. Come and see, he said, just come and ...

3540. Father -- Son

John 15:1-17

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... selfishly sometimes. SCOTT: I guess that's true. DAD: Well, what do you think? SCOTT: I think Lonnie and I have some more talking to do together. DAD: Let's pray together first. SCOTT: And then I could just tell Lonnie what you told me. Do you think she might understand? DAD: She says she loves you. She just might understand. It's a place to start. SCOTT: I'll do it. Thanks, Dad. DAD: Sure. (SCOTT EXITS)

3541. The Need for A Community of Healing

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... call to a nobler humanity. We come to you, our God, out of the anguish of a broken world -- of broken bodies and hearts and souls. Even now our hospitals minister to those in pain, those whom disease and accident and quirks of nature overcame. We do not understand why so many should be ill, but we do know it is your design that we be whole and well and therefore holy. Grant, we pray, the blessing of healing and wholeness to those close to us. We pray for all ministers and agents of healing, especially those ...

3542. When God Is At Work

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... front in gym shorts and a tattered basketball shirt with the arms ripped out, and on the other side of the security screen was this tiny woman who looked 100 years old. Yes, it was Mother Teresa. This hardened prisoner wrote about his experience, he said, "You have to understand that, basically, I'm a dead man. I don't have to observe any sort of social convention; and as a result, I can break all the rules, say what I want. But one look at this Nobel Prize winner, this woman so many people view as a living ...

3543. Love - A Christian Imperative

John 15:1-17

Sermon

George Bass

... fox) has done you no good at all!" The fox protests: "It has done me good ... Go and look again at the roses. You will understand that yours (the rose he discovered and watered and sheltered) is unique in all the world. Then come back and say goodbye to me...." The ... - and someone finds my skull, may this skull preach to him as follows: I have no eyes, yet I see Him; I have no brain or understanding, yet I know Him; I have no lips, yet I kiss Him, I have no tongue, yet I praise Him with all you who call upon ...

3544. A Thimble Full Of Ocean

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Larry Powell

... we whine, "There is no hope for a sinner like me." See what a paltry grasp we have of God’s majesty when we declare, "My sin is too great for God to forgive." See how our little minds attempt to reduce God’s omnipotence to our restricted understanding when we refuse to forgive ourselves for something which God has already forgiven. Can we take it all in? No, we cannot, and because we cannot, it is gloriously wonderful. We may as well attempt to empty the ocean with a thimble or catch the wind in our ...

3545. A Royal Lament

2 Samuel 1:1-16

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... ! - 2 Samuel 1:25, 27 Those of us in our "middle years" know of this vulnerability. We have lived long enough to see all sorts of accidents, illness, and just plain surprises. And our bodies grow tired a lot quicker. But our "middle years," given a realistic understanding, can free us up for a recovering of creativity. Ric Masten writes: I turned forty a while ago and came dribbling out of the locker room ready to start the second half glancing up at the scoreboard I saw that we were behind 7 to 84 and ...

3546. Celebration As Worship

2 Samuel 6:1-23

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... Uzzah had the best intentions, but he died anyway. To lay a casual hand on the sacred ark was considered to be a sacrilege. Holy things must not be handled by anybody except those specially appointed and dedicated as "holy" men. So strong was this understanding that, conceivably, Uzzah was horrified at his own actions - so much so that he was overcome by fear and suffered a heart attack or something like it. The Old Testament writers saw God’s hand in things which we might attribute to natural causes. God ...

3547. A Prayer of Wonder

2 Samuel 7:18-29

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... for later generations to read, in times when the blessings in verse 29 seemed rather dim. Humility, praise, and acknowledgment. Three great responses to what God has done for us all. The next time you pray, why not try doing all three? Conclusion The key to understanding this chapter is the play on the various meanings of the word house. According to the footnotes in my Oxford annotated Bible ... • in vv. 1-2 it means "palace." • in vv. 5, 6, 7, 13 it means "temples" • in vv. 11, 16, 19, 25, 26, 27 ...

3548. Human Nature Revisited

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... , and let the nice things of life come out. Listen to one of the grand nature writer/philosophers of our day. She writes of a summer home and what it has meant to her: If I were a wise woman, I should understand many things about life which I do not now understand. Maybe I would know why there is so much evil walking the highways, why (we) must suffer, why the governments operate like kaleidoscopes instead of like good blueprints for living, why gentle people must die too soon. I think about all these ...

3549. What Would We Do Without Friends?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... ’t we all want to belong to church like that? A church that doesn’t block the doors but opens itself up to all who would come in. That’s the kind of church I want to go to. III The third personality in the story is the cripple, to understand his plight, we must first realize that in the world of Jesus health and theology were viewed as inseparable. If you were sick it was because God was angry with you because of some sin. This was demonstrated in that scene in which Jesus confronted a blind man. The ...

3550. What’s Happened To My Dear Old Church?

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Richard Patt

... the whole front of the church is remodeled." While she never said it aloud, I imagined that she was probably asking this question inside of herself, "My church, my church, my dear old church: what’s happened to my dear old church?" While we can understand how anyone might be sentimentally stirred by a number of things that change in their lives, it seems as though in today’s Bible story Jesus is talking about something deeper than that. He’s pushing the Pharisees here - and us as well - to ascertain ...

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