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3576. A New Look at an Old Treasure

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... from a loved one, and felt pain so deep it seemed your life was being wrenched asunder. It may have been a dark night of doubt, or a spell of uncontrolled anxiety or fear. Saint or sinner, we have all been there. In all such experiences, it is common to feel utterly alone and cast off, to think that certainly the world cannot possibly know what we are going through. The message of the Psalm is that the shepherd IS near at hand, even if we fail to sense it. And it might even be in the person of a shepherd ...

3577. The Shepherd Psalm

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... will dwell in the house of the LORD forever." My destiny is sure. My present, my past, my future...secure. And all because "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD." We need that reminder from time to time. After all, in a world as frantic as our own, it is easy to feel as if we have marched off life's map, and we are at the mercy of the monsters and dragons. But now, we find ourselves in this sacred space. We hear again the familiar phrases of the Shepherd Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd..." And we hear an invitation to ...

3578. God Bless America

Psalm 33:1-22

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... would agree that patriotism has its place. There are times we need to recall our national heritage, to remind us of our roots and to help us reaffirm our priorities. And for the sake of our own national self-esteem, we need to feel the sense of pride that only citizenship can bring...to share the feeling of the poet when he wrote: Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land.(1) I love this country and I know you do too. And on this weekend, if ...

3579. Beyond Despair

Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the challenges of raising children in this day and age? And, by the way, Dad, a University of Connecticut study of scientific reports on the relationship between family and child development notes that fathers are not even mentioned half of the time!(1) Ever feel irrelevant? Meet my Pop - Rodney Dangerfield! It is a tough world out there - in a word, depressing. "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?" Three times in these two psalms (and scholars say that the two psalms should be ...

3580. Of Rubble and Trouble

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... house shall be greater than the former." (7) We have reason to be sad when our temples are destroyed. But the message of Christ is that there is a REASON that the temples are destroyed. History has a progression. This is not simply an occasion to feel sorry for ourselves. He says, in the midst of the ruins, is an "opportunity to testify." Even though we are surrounded by rubble and trouble, even though we suffer abuse and persecution for our efforts, we proclaim the Gospel to a new generation and even in ...

3581. Good Medicine

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... that was inspired by that passage. He says, The germ of the idea which has finally led to the writing of this book was planted many years ago when our eldest son was four years old. We were reading to him from the seventh chapter of Matthew's Gospel, feeling very serious, when suddenly the little boy began to laugh. He laughed because he saw how preposterous it would be for a man to be so deeply concerned about a speck in another person's eye, that he was unconscious of the fact his own eye had a beam ...

3582. The Nightmare before Christmas

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , we hear, "Peace on earth...Goodwill." Something is oddly out of place. Is there any word from the Lord in all this? You bet your life! I find it in this story of Joseph from our gospel lesson. If there is anyone in the Christmas story who could feel the kind of removal from reality that we experience in our mess, it would be Joseph. Put yourself in his sandals. A simple man, a carpenter. He is about to get married. It would be the normal Jewish three-step procedure.(1) There was the engagement, which was ...

3583. The Lord's Prayer: "Our Daily Bread"

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , confident that the Lord would take care of it. Early the next morning, a knock came on the orphanage door. It was a neighborhood baker with a load of bread and rolls. The man said that, during the night, he had gotten the feeling that the children needed some food, and the feeling was so overpowering that he simply HAD to go down to his shop and bake something for them. A few minutes later, another knock came on the door...this one from a local dairyman whose cart had broken down right near the orphanage ...

3584. The Lord's Prayer: Please Forgive Us as We Forgive

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... one particular evening, Stevenson suddenly left the group before the worship was over. He had not been well, so his wife was concerned and went after him to see if he was all right. As Mrs. Stevenson recounted it in the book, her husband WAS all right, but he was feeling a sense of shock and anger at learning of some unexpected treachery on the part of one whom he had every reason to trust. He told her, "I had to leave. I am not yet fit to say, `Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.'"(1) Have you ...

3585. Stay in the Boat!

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a difficult time in the life of the new church. There was persecution from both political and religious establishments. Some apparently were feeling abandoned. Now, they hear a story of the faithful few in a little boat and a wild ride on a stormy ... saw. That's my day.' "What could I say? "'Which,' he continued, 'helps explain why I'm in your church on a Sunday morning.' "'I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed,' I said, 'thinking what on earth I have to say in a sermon which might be helpful to you on a Sunday.' "'It ...

3586. The Forgiveness Factor

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... were extremely proud of their little man. As the reporter interviewed them about the incident, Karen sat on the couch hugging her boy and saying, "He was calm as could be." Then there was this from Branden to Mom: "Did you feel someone bounce on you?" Mom says she didn't feel anything. "It was me," answers Branden. How many times? "Ten or fifteen times." Ah, yes, the kindergarten version of CPR - bounce...over and over and over again. What a hoot! As we say, the good news is that everything is now all ...

3587. Ephphatha...Be Opened

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... more of Jesus' parables, this time, come to life. Possible. Still a stretch, though. How about the language of the encounter? At first glance, Jesus sounds awfully rough. "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." Mom knew the ill-feeling between Jews and Gentiles. But calling her a DOG to her face? Umm! Again, folks explain that away, and they had BETTER! After all, calling someone a dog, even a pet puppy dog (as the Greek here suggests) is a term of abuse, if ever there was ...

3588. A Story Worth Sharing

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... No. People care. They have heard that part of the Christian calling is to witness to our faith, and, even though there might not be much evidence, they do want to do it. Most folks, I think, are just plain scared. They do not feel comfortable sharing their faith because they do not feel COMPETENT in sharing their faith - they do not want to get the story WRONG. On top of that, our culture says that religion is a private matter, so we all have a wonderful excuse to just keep quiet about it. That ought not to ...

3589. The Apostles' Creed: I Believe

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

That fellow [the father in the lesson] has always been one of my heros. I can identify with him as much as anyone in all of scripture. He is a man who loves his son - I know how that feels. His boy is sick - an epileptic, subject to violent seizures. I know how it feels to have a sick child. Dad has heard the neighborhood scuttlebutt about a certain Nazarene rabbi who had been touring the countryside with a reputation for being able to heal all sorts of diseases. He is not quite sure what to make of the ...

3590. Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... exploring the kind of rationalizations used to justify such common trespasses as pilfering offices supplies or quietly pocketing a cashier's overpayment. People are more likely to give in to temptation when they can remain passive, the study finds, and when they feel no one is being harmed. In his research to be published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Bersoff had University students take part in what they were led to believe was a product test. The participants were then overpaid $2.00 for ...

3591. The Church Should Go to Hell!

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in the ancient and historic words of the Creed, "He descended into hell." There are any number of hells out there awaiting us. The hells of the homeless, the hungry, the hurting, the hells of the addicted, the afflicted, the convicted, the hell of all those who feel abandoned and alone. The list could go on and on. Yes, the church, the body of Christ, despite all the temptations not to, should go to hell. In a moment, we will be nourished for our journey. Then, next week, as we gather again for worship ...

3592. The Good Samaritan: A New Look at an Old Story

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... southern Jews. By the time of Jesus, the animosity toward Samaritans was so great that some Jews would go miles out of their way to avoid even walking on Samaritan soil. The hatred between Jew and Samaritan in Jesus' day was at least as deep as the feeling Jews and Arabs have toward each other today. Enough history. But necessary. After all, if Jesus were just trying to say we should help the helpless, supply the needs of the needy, he could have talked about the first and second men who passed by and the ...

3593. A Fool and his Money

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Apparently the man's older brother refused to give him what he felt he was due. The laws of inheritance in that day stipulated that the elder brother would receive a double portion of the legacy,(2) then the balance distributed. For whatever reason, this fellow was feeling cheated and he wanted Rabbi Jesus to act as Probate Judge, just as Moses had done centuries before.(3) But Jesus would have none of it. As is so often the case when families gather for the reading of the will, the issue is not justice, it ...

3594. The Danger of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... hostile toward one school or the other, but simply that one of those was my first choice. In Jesus' day, the way you stated a preference was by pairing two things and saying you loved one and hated the other. It had nothing to do with feelings. The issue here was priorities. Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem. He knows what lies ahead. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Luke knows even more. "When he wrote his gospel, Christians were already being persecuted for following Jesus. To have a Christian in the ...

3595. Is God Like Daddy? - Father's Day

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . I was tired of church, tired of the people, tired of taking orders, tired of everything. I wanted to get as far away from Baltimore as I could, so I took a bus to...Seattle, 3,000 miles. I know now that it hurt my folks terribly that I would feel that way. It disappointed them that I would not go off to college like the rest of those my age. But they let me go...and I stayed away for almost a year. We kept in contact. There were letters and phone calls...collect of course. Then finally, after tiring ...

3596. Leaping Lepers - Thanksgiving

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... thoughtfully on the issues that he now faces due to declining health. Coffin says: I am less intentional than 'attentional.' I am more and more attentive to family and friends and to nature's beauty. Although still outraged by callous behavior, particularly in high places, I feel more often serene, grateful for God's gift of life. For the compassions that fail not, I find myself saying daily to my loving Maker, 'I can no other answer make than thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.'(9) May it be for all of us ...

3597. About Kissing

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... each other a peck on the cheek. The reason for this, says Dr. Sazbo, is that the kissers begin the day with a positive attitude. A kiss signifies a sort of seal of approval, and those who don't experience it, for whatever reason, go out the door feeling not quite right about themselves. (3) Which reminds me of a wonderful true story. A man tells of depositing his wife and three-year-old daughter in a taxi during a torrential thunderstorm in New York City. He turned to run back to his office. But he stopped ...

3598. No Time for a Knapsack Faith

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... effective and successful in our living because of inner conflicts that are tearing us apart. A war is going on inside of us. We are being pushed and pulled from within. We desperately need the Spirit of God to come into our lives and take those warring thoughts and feelings and bring them together. To achieve such a unity of mind and heart requires a surrender of all we are and all we hope to be to the presence and power of God. The sad truth is that many of us want only a partial experience of God’s ...

3599. God's Plan For Empowerment

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Think what a difference it would make in your life and mine if we were willing to stake our lives on this truth? For example, what kind of new year might you have if you walked out of this room absolutely fearless? What if no one could make you feel rejected because you are a child of God? How would that affect your work? How would it affect your personal life? What if no one could intimidate you? What if you knew it was impossible for you to fail at whatever dream lay in your heart ” because you knew ...

3600. True Excellence

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... one hand on a lamp and the other hand holding a glass of fresh cold water ” to hold a glass for a boy ” and the same hand, so warm, holding the dripping of water under the boy's chin ” `Thank you daddy' ” No kissing, not necessary ” only a warm feeling of being loved." (3) That is love, isn't it? Love is more than an emotion. Love is found in concrete acts of caring. A woman visited a newspaper editor's office, hoping to sell him some poems she had written. "What are your poems about?" the editor ...

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