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3576. Herod and Jesus

Drama

Jon Joyce

... the kingdom of God. HEROD: [Again unconsciously wrapping his arms around his chest] Enough of that. You are insubordinate as well as a blasphemer. JESUS: I am only trying to save your life, Herod. HEROD: Ha! It is your life that you ought to be concerned about, carpenter. I understand that the Sanhedrin asked the death penalty for you. JESUS: It is the Father’s will. HEROD: Some Father who would want his own son to lose his life. JESUS: Do you remember Abraham and Isaac? HEROD: Yeah, but Abraham didn ...

3577. Annas, Caiaphas, and Judas

Drama

Jon Joyce

... again gone] The poor ... with us always ... but he’s gone. I can’t stand it. I CAN’T STAND IT! [He rushes from the room, panting and gasping, and stops just outside the palace drawing room. ANNAS and CAIAPHAS watch in some amusement, but with some concern. JUDAS falls to his knees outside the door, sobbing, and remains in that position until ANNAS and CAIAPHAS complete their dialogue and exit] ANNAS: Age must be telling on me, for I’ve had quite enough for one day. I must get my rest for the Sabbath ...

3578. Men of Distinction

Acts 11:19-30

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... Here were people who demonstrated honesty, integrity, and worth. There was a quiet joy about them that neither death, adversity, nor difficulty could dim. They had moral standards which would not bow or bend to the immoral customs of the time. Compassion, concern and a spirit of peace and good will toward all persons, marked their behavior in an ill-behaved society. Good use of time and talents as gifts of God evidenced a productivity unknown in that day. Unselfishness, generosity, God first, others second ...

3579. Only Love Can See the Star

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... come. "Tis the season to be jolly," to be sure. But it is the season to be holy first, so that in tune with God’s purpose we can rejoice in his promise of eternal hope through Christ. Only love can see the star. From a world of confusion and concern, from a world of war and of wantoness, from a world of tension and trauma, we come before the simple elements that dramatize a coming on our behalf, a living to show us how to live, a dying to assure us that there is forgiveness with God, and a rising ...

3580. To Hoist a Sail

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... individuals. But the same quickening, kindling, glowing, nerving power is as present in our times as it was in the first century church. We live in a revolutionary age, full of frightening phenomena. These are days of turmoil, fragmentation, frustration, and sickening concern over the ills of our times. Like captives in a jungle, much of our own making, we feel trapped and frantic over dilemmas that reduce us to victims of fear, rather than being creative change agents in a suffering society. Fair-weather ...

3581. The Unexplainable Reality

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... . Soon they became known as the people who turned the world upside down ... or better yet, right side up. Whatever it was, Pentecost had set in motion a force that could not be deterred. Soon the loose-living, immoral, corrupt Roman Empire became frightened and concerned. Here was a new morality ... so compelling that men were willing to leave all and follow ... willing even to die for what they believed. But a man’s highest allegiance was to Rome and its god-men. How could anyone be so blasphemous as to ...

3582. On Being Able to Be Sorry

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... man’s mouth. He said what had to be said. It was acknowledged. And a great healing took place. He grew very tall that day. When a barrier is built, a wrong committed, an estrangement established, then one needs to say out of genuine concern: "I’m sorry." When uttered, the sorrowful one opens his life to the peace of forgiveness, the joy of reconciliation and, fully as important, finds release from the burden of wrong. Saying, "I’m sorry," begins the process of re-establishing relationships. Without ...

3583. The Cunning Craftsman, God

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... churchman, devout in his religious duties and astonishingly generous in supporting the church budget. Yet in reality, his prayer had a hollow ring. In it we find every shibboleth of superiority and sanctimony. There is no compassion, no love, no sympathy, no concern for his poor brother standing by in obvious and abject misery. There is no humility. He seeks nothing from God except an ear to hear his accredited achievements. Unconscious of defect, he raises no cry to that completeness "which flows around ...

3584. To Be Perfectly One

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... we have never seen of every color, race, and background. The unity we sense and share is centralized in the cross. It is our common humility before the grace of God revealed in the love of Christ. I think that too long we have been concerned with form, organization, structure, programs, and projects. But we really need to identify with individuals even as Christ identified with individuals. His cross was an individual cross. It was for you as an individual and for me as an individual. Even as the cross was ...

3585. When The Cheering Stopped

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... didn’t believe her. They said that President Wilson was coming and they knew that everything would be alright. The cheering lasted about a year. Then it gradually began to stop. It turned out that after the war the political leaders in Europe were more concerned with their own agendas than they were a lasting peace. At home Woodrow Wilson ran into opposition in the United States Senate and his League of Nations was not ratified. Under the strain of it all the President’s health began to break. He ...

3586. Burrs on the Apple Tree?

Matthew 7:15-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... tell me what kind of a tree has this kind of fruit? [Hold up each kind of fruit that you have and let them name the tree.] That’s very good. You sure do know your fruit. I hope that you can tell people the same way. Jesus was concerned that we know which people are true followers and which ones are just the pretenders. Some people like to talk a lot about what good Christians they are, but they never act like Christians. Jesus says that a Christian is someone who does Christian things as well as talks ...

3587. Little Things Affect Little Minds

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... cycle of panic. Anxiety over little problems and incidents leads to apathy, to increased hatred, to isolation of the person from his fellowmen. Suspicion toward the neighbor in such times becomes acceptable in quite horrifying ways. Jesus of Nazareth was quite concerned that his followers get beyond being upset over little things. He feared that too much focusing on little things would result in little minds. Jesus’ clearest teaching on the matter is found in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6). Here ...

3588. The Poor - With Us Always?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... attitudes of the disciples with the inspired offering of the woman. She did the only thing available in her power, and Jesus commended it. When I hear people holding up the statement, "the poor will be with us" as an excuse for neglecting benevolent concerns, I am reminded of the following story. A Christian layman was asked to bring a devotional message to a tennis class that was being initiated at the local YMCA. Immediately the layman began searching the Scriptures for a peg to hang his thoughts on ...

3589. Christianity Can Be Fun

Sermon

Harold Warlick

A man nervously sat in the chair in his doctor’s office. His bouncing feet indicated a certain anxiety concerning his fate. For months the man had been fatigued almost to the point of depression. At last his doctor looked up at him in a sympathetic gesture. The doctor looked him in the eye and rendered the verdict: "Boredom!" "Boredom!" retorted the man. "How do I deal with that? I ...

3590. A Higher Form of Love: The Good Neighbor

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... ?" Christian love is more than kindness. It is more than sympathy. Christian love is loving those who do not love you. It is affirming those who need affirmation. I hope that you will join me in praying that our churches will never become solely concerned with those of their fellowship who respond positively to life and to the churches’ ministry. The highest end of the Christian life is not love, but unreserved love. After all, we love others because God loved us even though we were undeserving. Yes, love ...

3591. God Made Me Do It!

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... in it and nothing can touch him but that God will ultimately work it out for the best. Things did not always go easily and well for Joseph. He was sold into slavery in Egypt by jealous brothers. He was as good as dead as far as they were concerned. He wound up in charge of things at Potiphar’s house, and then was unjustly imprisoned because of Potiphar’s wife. He was in prison for two years, and while there the governor of the prison put him in charge of the other prisoners. There he interpreted dreams ...

3592. Cross-Bearing

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... . So much of the church’s appeal is for coins and used clothing instead of providing an opportunity to really adopt a life-style - a way of life - which bears the cross, which calls for sacrifice on our part. The Christian life is a life which is always concerned with others more than itself. It is not hard to understand the mood of Henry Watson Fowler, when at the age of forty-one he retired from his position as a school-teacher and said, "I’m never going to do a useful thing again." Sooner or later ...

3593. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... Barclay feels, "This parable states implicitly two great truths - the right of every man to work, and the right of every man to a living wage for his work." I think it’s a lot more profound than that - it pictures our God as concerned, caring about our welfare. When we are embarrassed, unable to support ourselves, feeling frustrated because of helplessness in our situation, God hurts for us and wants to help. There is a basic kindness here that is beautiful. There is also encouragement in this story ...

3594. When Yes Means No and No Means Yes

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... in merely knowing what Christ would want us to do, but in actually doing it! This son faced the facts of life and conscience - he laid his pride aside, and he did that which he vowed he’d not do. I like him because he wasn’t concerned about losing face among his peers and friends. Even though he’d vowed one thing, he was willing to swallow his pride and do the other that he realized was right. Perhaps you, too, ought to consider, or reconsider, the request of service of the heavenly Father. Perhaps ...

3595. On Being a Tenant

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... We ought to look at our community and our church in the frame of mind that says, "How can I properly respond to this great privilege given me?" Rather than ask how well we might be entertained, and how well the church tickles our fancy, we ought to be concerned about how well we are serving the Christ of the church because we are privileged to be in his vineyard. Did you notice here the human freedom that the tenants have? The master left those tenants and went away and allowed them to do their job as they ...

3596. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... god. The Herodians were loyal to Herod, King of Galilee, who had joined the Romans and owed their power to them. They forgot their differences for a while and joined together to attack Jesus. They both wanted to eliminate him. Any person who is self-centered, concerned only about himself and his own power, will hate Jesus and want to get rid of him. Remember Matthew wrote this story in a day when the temple had been destroyed and Jews were forced to pay the temple tax anyhow. The tax went to Temple Jupiter ...

3597. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... been locked! We are often that way with our Christian discipleship. We come to worship, we receive forgiveness, and we leave with the same long face and guilt that we came in with. It is such glorious freedom to get out of that slavery and worry and concern about pleasing everyone and trying to keep up with everyone. God becomes much more important than the Joneses. There is a greater freedom, not only from fear, from self, and from others, but also from sin. We often sin not because we want to, or try on ...

3598. While We Watch for the Coming

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... city, you men who have today elected school leaders would be the first to join every patriotic civic group in the community and bend every effort to drive these leaders out of town!’ " The country that fails to take God into its strategy and concern is bound to fall, says Jesus. In the United States Senate, Peter Marshall prayed: "Help us, our Father, to show other nations an America to imitate - not the America of loud jazz music, self-seeking indulgence, and love of money, but the America that loves ...

3599. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... throughout the world are now convinced that we don’t care for the sheep, that anything that we do, no matter how benevolent it might look on the surface, is still motivated by our own lust for profit or prestige or world power, that our only real concern is the preservation of what we like to call our "American way of life." This means being a millionare in the world when everyone else is starving, if necessary. Well, aren’t they right? Let’s be honest. Aren’t they right? The only impression we’ve ...

3600. The Hard-to-Believe Promise

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... coming of the Holy Spirit and the power that would be thereby transmitted to them and through them, he repeated a promise which he had made before. He was attempting to reiterate the power that we have at our fingertips, if we only believe it. Actually, it concerns the subject of prayer, because any petition addressed to Christ is a prayer. So when he says: "Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it," we have the whole key to the power of prayer. The reason many of our prayers go apparently unanswered or ...

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