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3551. Do Children Like You?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Richard Patt

... be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love ... We share our mutual woes, our mutual burdens bear, And often for each other flows the sympathizing tear. It is not our mastery over life that finally attracts children (or anyone else); it is our vulnerability and understanding that woos them. So all the world is drawn to the cross, for here finally is our true Brother, who knows our woes and suffers with us. And by his cross he also cleanses us, so that, washed from sin and the burden of its guilt, we ...

3552. The Kingdom And The Seed

Mark 4:4-20; 30-32

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... for us to diagnose such cases properly. Jesus never says that these labels are permanent. A more proper reading of this parable is to realize that there are elements of all four kinds of soil in each of us. Thus, we should be more understanding and Christ-like in our treatment of people who are hard, shallow, or worldly. Those who are like good soil "hear the Word, accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and a hundredfold" (4:20). This faithful reception and production is at the very heart ...

3553. Heal the Sick; Cast Out the Demons

Matthew 10:5-8

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... . Healing is a ministry of God. Jesus commanded that we do this for one another by his power. He also told us to cast out demons - as he himself did repeatedly. Cast Out the Demons We do not know all that this command means. We do not fully understand the nature of demons or their arenas of activity in the interior dimensions of the human being or the exterior dimensions of what Saint Paul calls "the powers of the air" (Ephesians 2:2) or "the Principalities and Powers" (Ephesians 1:21; 6:12; Romans 8:38 ...

3554. No Huggies

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

... and abused, but on the surface, at least, we are a society of persons devoted to the child. By no means was that the case during the time of Jesus. In the Old Testament the general judgment on the child was a negative one. The child was without understanding and was self-willed. More to the immediate point of our gospel lesson is the fact that, according to the teachers of Jesus’ own day, it was a total waste of time for a rabbi to be with children. Believe me, there was no children’s sermon in ...

3555. When The Cheering Stopped

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... some events we might count as miracles but no miracles are done for the people. On the face of it this may not seem significant but when you consider that nearly one half of the Gospels is devoted to the last seven days of Jesus life, you then understand significance of this. Open your bibles and see if that is not true. But listen to this: While there are no miracles recorded in these chapters what you will find is a persistent call to commitment. Hungry one morning Jesus stops by a fig tree and finds no ...

3556. It’s not what you know, but who you know!

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... to know what is happening in the world and what is going on in our neighbor’s house. But unless we also know Jesus, we might as well know nothing at all. The prophet Jeremiah wrote, "Let him who glories, glory in this: That he knows me and understands me that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth" (Jeremiah 9:24). There is no greater good than to know Jesus. There was a young man long ago who thought he knew everything. He knew all the Commandments of God. He ...

3557. Just Follow The Signs

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... their salvation. Herod (shame on him) responded to God’s sign in his life negatively. Instead of going with the Wise Men to worship Jesus, he made plans to kill his Savior. Our text tells us that Herod was bothered by the news of a new King. Herod didn’t understand who Jesus was at all. He thought the Baby was a threat to his throne. Herod was a wicked man. No matter how hard God tried to reach him, how clear a sign God gave him, he refused to follow, choosing instead to reject God and to die in his ...

3558. Where’s the Power?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... power over all flesh, power to give eternal life to all who believe in him (John 17:2). Confessing the almighty power of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ is not really hard to do. There is much evidence to support our confession. What is hard, however, is to understand why God doesn’t use his power the way we want him to, to do the things we want him to do. If God has all power, then why do things that we consider evil still happen? Even the children are able to grasp this difficulty because they ask, "If ...

3559. Why Fear Growing Old?

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... 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 had the same vivid experience. But I didn’t tell you. I thought you might not understand." Neither of us forgot this experience. It was real. Someone was there. Who? My mother who was in heaven? My father, who was probably praying for us early in the morning? Or a sense of the presence of God, who is always with us, and makes his ...

3560. A King - A Kingdom

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). Where, O Jesus, is your tomb, that we may come to honor you - as we honor all the kings of the earth? What? No tomb? No grave? No spot on earth where your mortal remains now rest? We have been given to understand that all monarchs - the likes of Rameses, Shih Huang Ti, Louis XIV - all had royal mausoleums. "Ride on, King Jesus." is a glorious Spiritual, which says it all. Indeed, we say, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16). We exclaim, "My Lord ...

3561. Twenty-First Century Reformation

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... day trying to work its way to heaven. More, Luther himself was trying to do the same. We are still trying to work our way to God, a "works-righteousness" which ends in frustration and sense of hopelessness. Have we not learned from Paul what Luther came to understand, "The righteous live by faith"? (Romans 1:17). We are not saved by our own efforts, goodness, or gifts. Salvation is never earned or deserved. It is given by a gracious God. Yet we persist in our thinking: we go to church; we give to the United ...

3562. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... remember The Terrable Meek? The meek are those who have made a complete surrender of self to God. How the world uses or abuses the meek is quite beside the point. They are used of God, and that is all that matters. We just do not understand meek people any more. Today we are taught to be aggressive, demanding, assertive. Speak up, with authority, when you have a complaint, and complain often, until your demands are met. Come to the bargaining table with firmness. Do not let other people walk over you - walk ...

3563. The Heart of The Gospel

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... might enjoy the crown of life. He wore the purple robe of mockery to give us robes of righteousness. He suffered the defeat of death to share with us the victory of eternal life. We cannot comprehend that either, can we? He doesn’t really ask us for our understanding. He asks our faith. God hangs his Word on this - his Promise. "His blood be on us and on our children?" Yes! "The blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sin." "It was the will of the Lord to bruise him?" Yes! "He was wounded for ...

3564. The Lord Has Saved His People

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... on the bondage that refuses to give up its opposition to the Lord of heaven and earth, he concluded rightfully that it is simply not within our power to determine our own way, nor could an attempt to cleanse ourselves be more successful. Jeremiah’s understanding of the human situation is the predecessor of Saint Paul’s lament, "O wretched man that I am," and of our own confession that "we are in bondage to sin and cannot free ourselves." But the Lord has saved his people. The prophetic word was ...

3565. Calming Of The Tempest

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Brett Blair

... for their lack of faith in his ability to calm the storm. What I believe is that Jesus is disappointed that they do not yet understand who he is. If they understood that, then they would not fear the sea. When you find yourself in the midst of a storm and ... And that brings us to our third and final point. Storms can come suddenly. They can make you lose direction. And if we do not understand who it is that is in the boat with us then our fear of the storm has the power to paralyze. When Jesus awakened, he ...

3566. Give Up?

John 6:60-71

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... you would stay with Jesus. MESHULLAM: I can't accept some of the things he says. JUDAS: Oh, that last thing he said about eating his flesh -- is that it? MESHULLAM: Yes, that's exactly it. JUDAS: Your trouble is you're trying to understand it. MESHULLAM: Of course I'm trying to understand it. I'm one of his disciples. JUDAS: I told you when we started following Jesus not to listen to him. MESHULLAM: I remember you said that, but I thought you were just joking. JUDAS: I was not joking. I never joke. This is ...

3567. The Holy Trinity

John 16:5-16

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... . It is not easy to believe that God can be one and three at the same time. A contemporary theologian has said of the Trinity, "While one may be in danger of losing his soul by denying it, he is in danger of losing his wits in trying to understand it." We are dealing here with a paradox and a mystery, and the church has always rejected easy ways of trying to solve it. I lectured once on this subject to a group of religious educators, and in the discussion that followed, one teacher said, "I have had no ...

3568. Paul's Thorn In The Flesh

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... heals in three ways. The first and most common means of healing is through the regular medical channels that God has given us. Penicillin is a gift of God. So is by-pass surgery. A second way God heals is beyond our understanding. Some healing is just beyond our understanding; we call these "miracles." They are rare and wonderful. Almost every veteran physician can point to a few of these he has witnessed. I pray for miracles frequently. A third way God heals will be experienced by all of us Christians. I ...

3569. When Jesus Speaks Your Name

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... that set her free - "Mary!" 3) Finally, even after she found Christ, she was not totally free. Her new life had been given a new orientation - yet plenty of the old remained. We see this in her response to Christ. She exclaimed, "Rabboni" - "Teacher." She uses, understandably enough, an old, familiar Hebrew category to try to comprehend a novel event in the history of the world. She is trying to place new wine in old wineskins. So she calls him, the old term, "Teacher," when he is now so much more - Jesus ...

3570. The Struggle of Faith

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... a seagull. Illness will pass, the trouble will resolve itself, the deliverance will come. At the same time, there will be times for all of us when, "it doesn’t get any better." Then it is that we are blessed when we take no offense. Then it is we understand the true struggle of faith, the faith that is able to sustain us and to enable us to transcend the vicissitudes of life, knowing for certain that "he that hath begun a good work in us will continue it till the day of Jesus Christ," and that "the Lord ...

3571. No Fifth Wheels in God’s Economy

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... and another in that. But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them that they remain (single) even as I." Paul understands singleness as a gift. The state in which you are living now, if you are single, is a gift from the Lord. Why does Paul regard ... or her singleness; to realize that it just may be a gift from God. I think it is important for us to understand that BOTH marriage and singleness are levels of experience through which God calls us to be servants. We have spoken previously of ...

3572. The Family Was God’s Idea

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... the light of God, the more it raises the hopes of the world; turning our feeble lights through the gemstone Jesus Christ into lasers that cut through the carbon steel and the diamonds and all the tough things in our world in a way that we won’t understand but that is real. We are meant to be a part of the world’s cure, not a part of its sickness by pointing beyond ourselves to Jesus Christ. What does that mean concretely? Certainly it means faith-oriented love. I think this is a way of talking about ...

3573. Prayer Advocate

James 5:13-20

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... at prayer in behalf of one who suffers. We come in trust to God, who hears us when we care enough to intercede. We come in wonder to God, whose ways of healing far surpass our understanding. Amen. Prayer of Confession When we need an advocate in prayer, O God, let us not refrain from asking. Help us understand that by taking others into our confidence, we show not weakness but strength. Keep us ready for change so we might fully participate in the mystery of praying for each other. In the spirit of Jesus ...

3574. With All Your Heart

Mark 12:28-34

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... with lip service words but with wholehearted energy. Leader: Love God with all your soul; People: Not with a little corner of your soul but with your whole being. Leader: Love God with all your mind; People: Not with emotion only but with your fullest capacity for understanding. Leader: Love God with all your strength; People: Not with what is left over at the end of the day, but with rested, morning vigor ready to sprint into action. Collect When we put you first in our lives, O God, the rest of our living ...

3575. Lord, I Want To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Brett Blair

... hid from them. On the third occasion Luke records: But they did not grasp what ha had said. Thus the disciples suffered from a kind of blindness. They were blind as to the nature and person of Jesus. They loved him passionately, but they did not understand him. They were spiritually blind. They had sight, yet they failed to see. They were blind as to the meaning of the events that were happening around them. This blindness effected their behavior. Look what they did. They tried to keep this poor beggar from ...

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