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3601. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spake by the prophets." Or in Luther’s explanation of the Third Article of the Creed concerning the Holy Spirit, we dutifully recite: "I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ my Lord or come to him. But the Holy Ghost has called me through the Gospel, enlightened me by his gifts and sanctified and preserved ...

3602. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... , immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." And in the following verse, with the echoes of the last trumpet still reverberating, he proceeds to give practical instruction concerning contributions for the relief of the poor. The Christian hope is faith with vision, faith with courage, faith with strength to carry on even when the situation appears hopeless. It provides the perspective of eternity in which grace, redemption, and salvation ...

3603. Voluntary Blindness

Matthew 6:1-15

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... ’s view. Then one is unable to see one’s own deeds in the light of the excellence of Christ’s deeds, and fails to see his or her spiritual attainments in comparison to the stature of Christ. It is no wonder that Francis Asbury was concerned about the praise of people. He wrote once in his journal, "... some of my friends were so unguarded and imprudent as to commend me to my face. Satan, ready for every advantage, seized the opportunity and assaulted me with self-pleasing, self-exalting ideas. But the ...

3604. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... compared to this engineering by faith! But this could create problems. Suppose a person was unhappy with the location of a certain mountain and decided to move it somewhere else. Who could guarantee that its relocation would be in the best interests of all concerned? Even assuming the good will of all, it would be rather risky business for persons to be able drastically to alter the landscape simply by speaking a word! We are not bothered about this, however, because we don’t believe it can be done ...

3605. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... chamber when we lay awake at night. They have all gone - with Santa Claus. And we miss them. It is not the spectral apparitions, the hobgoblins and spooks that gave our youth such weird excitement and spine-chilling fright, that need cause us much concern. We soon discover their unreality, and they are dispelled by our disillusionment. It’s the far more deadly ghosts that haunt most of us all our lives, that cause and cultivate such widespread havoc in so many diverse ways, and that manipulate mankind by ...

3606. EPISODE 3: THE THIRD WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... with us, even if they don’t like us. JUDAS: I had no idea ... BISHOP: The church still offers positions of influence. JUDAS: But you said yourself ... while Jesus is active, the church is in danger. BISHOP: That is true, and this is why we are concerned. We know that he must go, but how to lay our hands on him without provoking a public uproar? An uproar which would give the government an excuse ... JUDAS: He could be seized alone somewhere. BISHOP: Is he sometimes alone? JUDAS: He goes to some deserted ...

3607. EPISODE 5: THE FIFTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... are disguised. GOVERNOR: He has told the people to pay their proper taxes, and he has been careful to do so himself. That takes care of his obligation to the state. BISHOP: But surely ... GOVERNOR: As for his other activities, he seems mainly concerned with the people’s physical well-being. Much more, incidentally, than your own organization ... or so it would seem, Bishop. BISHOP: We are not a welfare agency. We are the appointed ministers of God. GOVERNOR: And jealous of your office. BISHOP: Rightly ...

3608. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... somewhere is something he must be ready for, and he is working on it. He believes in a gloriously wonderful eventuation of things, and he is working toward it. He hears Jesus say, "Occupy until I come," and he is therefore occupied. Someone wrote concerning a certain woman: "Fourscore years this life she led: in the morning she arose, and at night went to bed." What a career! Day-to-day existence; alive, perhaps, at least biologically, but not living. No sense of interim occupancy. A man who had retired ...

3609. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... authorities at Jerusalem arrested Peter and John. Examining their prisoners, the key question the officers asked was this: "By what power or in what name did you do this?" Peter’s answer rang like a bell: "Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed, be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by ...

3610. Why Did The Cheering Stop? - Sermon Starter

Matthew 21:1-11

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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 ...

3611. To Receive or Worship?

Matthew 22:1-14

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Jon L. Joyce

... ’t want to hear my voice." I probably wouldn’t, but maybe Almighty God would. He gave you the voice. And so, Kierkegaard says: "We gather together for worship and pray together ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’ without the slightest concern for God’s will except as it happens to coincide with our will." Why are we here fellow palm wavers? We are like the elderly black gentleman who appeared at the gate of the White House shortly after the Civil War. He was carrying an empty basket ...

3612. He Came to His Senses

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... been!" When he came to his senses, this young man, who might have been a first century Palestinian playboy, suddenly realized and said aloud to himself - a point to remember - that he had been living in an unreal world; that, in his total self-concern, he was not really himself; that, isolated, he was simply non-human, incomplete, and alienated from that which gave his life meaning: his father’s household. No wonder, then, that his first thought when he came to his senses, was the thought to return home ...

3613. Lo, I am with You Always

John 20:1-9

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Jon L. Joyce

... people seem to know less and less of the glorious things on those pages of holy writ. But they are there for us to read, and to realize that they apply to us. It is God’s personal message for each of us. A most interesting incident is told concerning a Chinese man whose first name was Lo. When he became a convert to Christianity and read the Bible he became greatly excited when he read his name in various places, "Lo, I am with you always." He thought the message was to him, personally. And he was right ...

3614. The Old and the New

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

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Jon L. Joyce

... make no mistake about it, dear friends, Christian ethics goes much higher and much deeper than that. They are more sensitive and they are more social. Too many people, even today, live their lives on the level of pagan morality. Pagan ethics was most concerned about a man’s relationship to himself. "Know thyself," said the ancient philosophers. Christian ethics, on the other hand, have to do with man’s relationship to God and with his fellow man. So when wise old Paul writes to his young friend, Timothy ...

3615. When Your Sister or Brother Stumbles

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... has stumbled morally, there is a biblical pattern to follow. You take a trusted and confidential friend and the two of you go visit that brother. Can't you imagine sitting in the office of a Christian friend and saying, "Bill, Jim and I are here because of a report concerning you that disturbs us. It disturbs us because we love you. We want to share it with you. If it's a lie, you tell us and we will shut it down as near the source as we can. If you tell us to mind our own business we will ...

3616. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... me I couldn't move the fence." We Christians must always be moving fences for the glory of God. We are compelled to break down barriers. We are bridge builders between persons, groups, and nations. Always, we try to enlarge the circle of understanding and concern. I had a sixth grade teacher who had an intense dislike for people from north of the Mason-Dixon line. She was an elderly lady with a long, seething memory of 19th century injustices. Truly, she was an unreconstructed rebel. When she talked about ...

3617. The Wonderful "T" Word

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... that we will know the joy of giving and have the privilege of designating how it will serve his kingdom. But if we take part of that 10 percent and use it for our own purposes, that is called stealing. When my late father was a pastor he became concerned about an elderly widow who had no income other than her social security check. Yet she gave 10 percent of that check to the church each month. Papa went to her and said, "My dear friend, I know you are hard pressed financially. If you feel that tithing is ...

3618. Family Reunion

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... growth not only for us, its members, but for the entire city as well. During the six years since I became a member, I lost my beloved husband of fifty-four years and a precious grandson, age 25, in a tragic automobile accident. The love and concern shown me during this tragic period was completely overwhelming. Both sad and happy experiences have been shared with my brothers and sisters of Christ Church. Welcome to the family." As you come to this holy table, I bid you welcome to this family reunion!

3619. Laying Hold On God's Willingness

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... way to evade work. God does not subsidize laziness. He will not do for us things we ought to do for ourselves. Because I like golf, one of my favorite prayer stories is about the golfer who was facing a shot over water of about 170 yards. He was concerned about being able to make it, so he lowered his head and said a little prayer. Instantly, a voice from heaven replied, "I am willing to help you, but you must think positively. I noticed that you picked up your new Titlest golf ball and replaced it with an ...

3620. Do Wrinkles Hurt?

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... becoming a burden for family. And that problem must be addressed by state and national governments regardless of which political party is in control. It is obscene that retired people who have labored for thirty or forty years have to live under a cloud of fear concerning long-term illnesses. The good news is that only 5 percent of us will ever spend time in a long-term nursing facility. However, 100 percent of us are going to die and spend eternity somewhere. Doesn't it make sense to prepare for what we ...

3621. Our Unmanageable God (The Second Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... there are some Christians who make a God-substitute out of a PASTOR OR PREACHER. St. Paul found this problem long ago in the city of Corinth. Some of the Christians were saying, "We belong to the preacher Apollos." Others said, "We belong to Paul." Deeply concerned about this, St. Paul wrote to them, asking, "Has Christ been divided? Was anybody baptized in the name of Paul or Apollos?" Of course not. Don't let the preacher be a God- substitute. In this age of TV religion, it is possible for preachers to ...

3622. Straight Talk With A Young Adult

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

One of my favorite stories concerns a young man who was working in a grocery store. A lady came in and asked for half a grapefruit. Thinking that request rather strange, the young man went to the back of the store and said to the manager, “There is some nut out front who wants to buy ...

3623. Wimps Become Warriors

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Recently I received a marvelous letter from one of our members. A few months ago she accepted my challenge to the nine- step prayer adventure. She went through the steps each morning as she rode her stationary bike. Listen to what she discovered: "I came to the part that concerned me the most: 3 minutes of silence, listening to God. I reset the timer for exactly three minutes. As soon as I punched the start key, I closed my eyes and the wind found me. I could feel the touch on my face, my arms, my back. My ...

3624. Because He Lives

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... humanity was entrapped by the heritage of sin from the First Adam, now in Christ, the New Adam, all believers share in the eternal liberation which he has won for them. There is much about heaven I don't know. Whether the streets will be paved with gold doesn't concern me in the least. I hope that I'll be smarter there than I am here. I won't complain if my golf game is better. But things like that don't matter. I know that I will see God face to face, that I will be with loved ones ...

3625. Honoring Parents

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 15:1-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you." Some have referred to the Fifth Commandment as the bridge commandment. You see, the first four commandments deal with our relationship with God. The remaining six concern our relationships with each other. The first commandment in that second part relates to family relationships, suggesting that unless people learn to live together in families, they will not be able to get along elsewhere. "Honor" means to esteem, to reverence, and ...

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