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3626. Surprise! Surprise!

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

A wealthy architect, whose self-designed rambling lake home was the envy of the entire city, was given to hosting lavish dinner parties. They were always the event of the social season, and the folks who were invited always knew they were on a special list. One year the architect changed tactics. Instead of mailing special invitations, he simply ran an advertisement in the personals column of the Sunday classifieds in the metropolitan newspaper. "Masquerade Party!" the heading read, in type no larger - and ...

3627. The Lacking Christian?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. As he went ashore he saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said, "They need not go away, you give them something to eat." They ...

3628. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

"Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near." By videotape, a Bishop heard and saw a stranger deliver a sermon. When the sermon was over, the Bishop remarked, "There is a man who knows the Lord." When the preacher was told what the Bishop said, he remarked, "That is the finest compliment I have ever received." Could the same be said of you? Would you like to have it said of you? It cannot be said unless you know God. To know God is to find him and to find him is to seek him. Thus, ...

3629. Stephen’s Stones

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

The sermon is based on the words of Stephen recorded in the 7th chapter of Acts, beginning at the 59th verse: "And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’ And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them.’ And when he had said this, he fell asleep. And Saul was consenting to his death." It takes quite some imagination to go way back - back to the time when persons could be legally stoned to death on the street. In this country of ...

3630. Hiltgunt Margaret Zassenhaus

Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

One of the members of our congregation recently underwent eye surgery. When I visited her, she commented favorably on the gentleness, the compassion, and the concern of the surgeon who had performed the operation. She commented further on the number of people he helped and yet, at the same time, was never too busy to carefully explain what he would do in the course of surgery. Furthermore, the parishioner continued, every other month the surgeon went to Puerto Rico to work for one week in a free clinic. ...

3631. "Lite Beer by Miller"

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

I am sure that all of us at one time or another have witnessed verbal battles between other people. I am sure that we have seen the people whom we love draw lines between themselves and others as they proclaim their position. We may have seen these battles as children as we watched our parents fight. Or, we who are parents have witnessed the verbal battles between our children which seem to go on incessantly without end. In these battles we want to scream, "Stop it! I can’t take anymore. If you are going ...

3632. "American Express Traveler’s Cheques ..."

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

Parables - short stories - are very effective ways to communicate ideas. Again and again we read in the Scriptures parables which are used to communicate God’s message to us. Jesus is a master at the short story. He tells us that the kingdom of God is like a father who had a son leave home with his inheritance. The son is welcomed home after a disastrous journey. Or, the kingdom of God is like a woman who lost a coin and celebrates when she finds it. Or, the kingdom of God is like a field with a treasure ...

3633. A Person Approved by Christ

John 1:43-51

Sermon

George Bass

Jesus, according to the information that John gives us in the beginning of his Gospel, had a strange system of recruiting his disciples. Two of John’s disciples left the Baptizer when he identified Jesus for them as "the lamb of God" and spent the rest of the day with Jesus. Andrew was one of the two, and he recruited his brother, Simon, whom Jesus immediately labeled "the Rock." The next day Jesus encountered Philip and said to him, "Follow me!" - and he did. Philip went out and found Nathanael, or ...

3634. WASHED ANY FEET LATELY?

Illustration

John H. Krahn

As Jesus and his disciples gathered in the upper room, something seemed to be wrong. Although it is not explicitly stated in the narrative, we can surmise what it might have been. But first let us set the stage. In the Lord’s day when people gathered for a meal, it was the slave’s duty to wash the people’s feet before the meal began. The Lord and his disciples were poor; therefore the disciples probably took turns washing off the dust of the roads from the sandaled feet of the little brotherhood. Normally ...

3635. THE MOST WONDERFUL GIFT

Illustration

John H. Krahn

One of the things that most young children fear are monsters. Unlike the imagined monsters of children, the early church had a real monster of its own. It was a most deadly enemy that roamed about. The monster was the notion that Christ alone was not adequate for a person’s salvation. And this monster gave birth to another monster, the monster of uncertainty over our own salvation. Both monsters were real - both were inspired by the devil. Unfortunately, they are still very much with us today. Many of us ...

3636. The Only Fact That Really Matters

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

Two weeks before his first heart attack in 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower summoned evangelist Billy Graham to the presidential retreat at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. After nearly four hours of conversation, the President suddenly looked Graham squarely in the eye, and said, "Billy, I want you to tell me why you believe in heaven, and why you believe in the afterlife." Dr. Graham declares President Eisenhower talked with him many times on the subject after that, including his last conversation with him in ...

3637. John the Baptizer

Isaiah 40:1-31, Luke 1:67-80, John 1:19-28

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

Any great event requires preparation. Significant movements do not merely appear. There must be necessary groundwork, anticipation. The Bible sublimely illustrates the way God raised up heralds who announced the coming ministry and message of Christ. Chief among them is John the Baptizer. We seldom associate John with the birth of Jesus. This is understandable. He was but an infant himself at the time Mary and Joseph journeyed to Bethlehem. Yet, he is so much a part of the announcement and the expectation ...

3638. Mary of Nazareth

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

"Behold the handmaid of the Lord ..." Mary is very much a part of the gospel story. The mother of Jesus is one of six women so named in the New Testament. Mary is the Greek form of the Hebrew, Miriam, meaning exalted. Moses’ sister bore that splendid name. Mary of Nazareth - has any individual in Scripture suffered more at the hands of the church? Rome has elevated her to goddess - Mariolatry. It really was late in being officially established, not until December, 1854 when Pious IX promulgated the dogma ...

3639. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

I have always sensed there was something strange about the original Palm Sunday celebration in Jerusalem. A huge question mark looms in the background. There is a glaring discontinuity about the whole event. Think about it...A crowd estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 lines the roadsides to cheer an itinerant preacher from Nazareth named Jesus; yet they are not really sure why they are cheering. They are not even sure who Jesus is. What if a ticker-tape parade were held down New York's Fifth Avenue ...

3640. It Takes Two to Preach!

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

Pentecost VIII That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not much soil and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil but when the sun rose ...

3641. It’s Not So Bad To Be A Beggar

Acts 3:1-10

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

Nobody wants to be a beggar. They used to come to our door, when I was a child, and my mother always fed them. They must have had a special language among them, for it seemed to us children that every hungry, needy beggar finally found his way to our house. Mother never turned one away. We were very poor ourselves, and when we would protest her constant kindness to them in giving them a free meal, our mother had a standard reply: "Now children, you know the Bible says ‘Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least ...

3642. The Return to Catholicity

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, can you possibly understand the overwhelming sense of joy that possesses my heart and soul at this moment? I have just completed a long, long journey. It has taken me 460 years to walk one block - from St. John’s to St. Ambrose - because this Year of Our Lord 1979 is the 460th Anniversary of the greatest revolution that have ever shaken this globe. This marks the beginning of that Reformation and ...

3643. A Vital Night Call

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

One of the things that pastors, doctors, fire-fighters, and police have in common that they all receive occasional night calls. And most pastors would agree that some of our most significant opportunities to help people have come in response to night-time calls, usually of an emergency nature. However, not all of our night calls are that significant. Dr. Robert Ozmont of First united Methodist Church in Atlanta received a call one night about 2:00 AM. He did not know the lady who called; she had found his ...

3644. Getting Under Your Neighbor's Skin

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

I have a friend who used to be a city judge. One day he said to me, "I want you to come to my courtroom and watch our next dog case." "What in the world is a dog case?" I asked. He smiled and replied, "Periodically a person is charged with having a dog which because of its incessant barking is a public nuisance." "But what," I asked, "could be interesting about that kind of case?" "It's more than interesting," he said. "It's fascinating. I will have five or six neighbors present sworn testimony that the ...

3645. That Hallowed Name (The Third Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

The coming Olympic Games to be held in Atlanta remind me of an Olympic gold medalist from Georgia. He is Paul Anderson of Tekoa, Georgia. Paul is the only American to ever win a gold medal in the heavyweight division of Olympic weight lifting. He is a dedicated Christian who for many years operated orphanages allover the Southeast. He traveled widely, putting on weight lifting demonstrations and witnessing for Jesus Christ. I recall some twenty years ago sitting on a wooden platform with ten other men and ...

3646. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

There used to be a great teacher of the Old Testament at Duke Divinity School by the name of Elbert Russell. Dr. and Mrs. Russell usually spent Christmas holidays in Greensboro, North Carolina with their daughter and her family. On one Christmas morning they opened presents at sunrise as usual. They sat down to a sumptuous breakfast. Dr. Russell's grandson Rusty was 8 then, and he had learned lots of things since he was 7. "Grandpa," he said, "I have made a discovery." "What is that?" his grandfather asked ...

3647. Is Someone Knocking?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

Have you ever been blamed for something that was not your fault? It's not pleasant. I heard about a retired Admiral who had such an experience. He was taking his six-year-old grandson on a tour of the great Plaza Hotel in Detroit. They were riding the elevator to the top when suddenly a young woman turned and slapped the Admiral sharply across the face. The Admiral, with great restraint, kept his dignity. As a true gentleman he said nothing. Up a few floors the young lady got off the elevator. Then the boy ...

3648. A Warm, Steamy bath

Galatians 3:26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A big bath towel. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you took a bath last night? [Let them raise their hands.] Was it hot and steamy? I just love to take a bath and feel the hot water roll over me. I don’t know if I always liked to take a bath, but I sure do like it now. How many of you can remember a time when your mother put a big bath towel like this one around you after your bath and gave you a big hug? [Take a big bath towel and wrap it around one of the children so that they can ...

3649. Thy Kingdom Come

Luke 17:20-37

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

I usually read that section of the newspaper called "Letters to the Editor." It is always interesting though not always noble or edifying. For example, someone from another section of the country will suggest some way to improve Memphis. Then for the next two weeks, local folks will write in, declaring that if that foreigner doesn't like the way we do things, he can go back where he came from. Some time ago a letter appeared which sparked my interest. At that time a local Christian named Carolyn McKenzie ...

3650. A Personal God in an Impersonal World

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

The late Bishop Gerald Kennedy used to tell a story about a census taker who was going door to door. He knocked on the door of a small, unpretentious house and was met at the door by a weary mother. "Lady," he said, "I want to know how many there are in this family." "Well," she said, "There's Johnny, Matilda, Reginald, Charles..." "No, no," he interrupted, "I don't want their names, just their number." with much indignation, she replied, "They ain't got no numbers. They all got names." When God Almighty ...

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