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3651. Lean on Me

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... that history does not go in circles. The Bible teaches us that time is moving ahead, like it or not. Time is proceeding toward a goal. Not just some random event, not some cosmic happening; no, time is moving toward a goal. That goal has been carefully planned and determined by the sovereign will of God. The widow in our parable has no visible means of hiring a competent attorney to plead her case. We are so used to seeing high-profile people with high-profile representation. From O. J. to Michael Jackson ...

3652. Minding the Store of Our Lives

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... bread. Power is not necessary for Jesus; concentrating on God's Word is more important. Prestige is the second great temptation seen in the challenge to throw himself from the temple. Satan chides Jesus saying that he is an important person and thus his angels will care for him. Christ responds by saying that he does not need to show such prestige. The fact that Jesus is God is all the prestige that is necessary. The final temptation is wealth in the offer to grant all the kingdoms of the world to Jesus ...

3653. Wearing the King’s Clothes

Colossians 3:1-11

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... and found ways to make them look acceptable, but Paul reminds us that they are to be dealt with by the wrath of God. You see, we can make all kinds of excuses for what we do. We lie to each other and pretend that God doesn't care. Paul tells us otherwise. God cares. I heard a story about a man who went with some friends to an amusement park on a hot summer day. They decided to go on a white water rafting ride so they could cool off. Lo and behold, they got soaked. As they got off the ...

3654. The Cost of a Priceless Gift

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... didn't stop Catherine! When the first prison basketball game was held, she went ... walking into the gym with her three beautiful children, she sat in the stands with the inmates. Her attitude was: "My husband and I are going to take care of these men and I believe they will take care of me! I don't have to worry." She insisted on getting acquainted with them and their records. She discovered one convicted murderer was blind, so she paid him a visit. Holding his hand in hers she said, "Do you read Braille ...

3655. We Are One in Christ

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... been more interested in debating sociological ideologies and theological positions than in reaching out to the world with good news. While the church has been talking about keeping its buildings heated and preserved for the future, the government has been taking care of the poor and the disenfranchised. While the church has been talking about sin and pointing fingers at those who live in the shadows of society, AA groups and mental health agencies have been providing counseling and support groups to provide ...

3656. Developing a Glad Attitude

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights." That is why we can say with the psalmist, "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." We are content and actually happy because we have a God who cares. He has made us, and he has made our world. He has blessed us beyond our wildest dreams, and out of the gratitude we feel toward God for all his faithful goodness, we want to share the blessings. That brings me to my third point. Paul suggests to Timothy that ...

3657. Weary in Well Doing

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... biological response, being given more evolutionary attention now, is to tend and befriend. Biologists tell us that this response to nurture, care, lick, cuddle, and touch is also a natural one. We who have been hurt by conflict also know about its ... it means to be touched on the shoulder and allowed back into the meeting our anger just removed us from. We know what it is like to care so much for someone or something that we can't bear its hurt. We stand close to the one who is hurt. We tend and befriend. We ...

3658. The Hard Sell

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... While living out our lives among others, we are continually reminded of this state of affairs. In short, there is a difference — even qualitative — between committed followers of Christ and those who are minimally interested or not interested at all. Those of us who listen carefully to his voice have a struggle with this and it has a lot more to do with our lives than on Ash Wednesday once each year! We must learn to be content with our “alien” status. The Master told his disciples it would be that ...

3659. Operation Omega

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . That little local coffee shop had it wrong. But it is not the only one. No wonder 75% of the churches in America are going out of business — either declining or dying.” Out to Lunch” says it all. We’re so busy feeding our faces, taking care of our own needs, that we’re ignoring the hungry and thirsty who are being sent away empty. Jesus challenges his disciples to embrace a “theology of lastness.” The church, the Body of Christ on earth, isn’t called to be “the first.” It is challenged ...

3660. What's in a Name?

Isaiah 43:1-7

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... people that God was with them as they passed through the waters of the Red Sea (Isaiah 43:2). Baptism is tenderly personal, but it is also communal, taking place in a much broader context. You are baptized into a community, the church, into the company of people who care for and about you as well as one another. This is the family of God. Symbolically, you are buried with Jesus in your baptism, and raised to new life with him. Baptism is a drowning, a putting to death of the old self, and a raising up of a ...

3661. Sowing Eternal Seeds

Isaiah 55:10-13

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... . Their story is our story, too. The people and places may have changed, but the scenario is the same. God's people forget God, and rebel against God. We forget to set aside a time to read scripture and to talk with God. We forget to care for the poor, the marginalized, and the disenfranchised. We rebel by not being good stewards of God's creation, by living beyond our means, by accumulating much more worldly wealth than is necessary for sustaining life, and by wasting our excesses. In spite of humanity's ...

3662. Past, Present, Future

Isaiah 43:16-21

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... in the Old and New Testaments is not limited to humanity, but includes all of creation. That's one of the reasons we should care for creation now. If Jesus is the heir of all things, then we must recognize that the heir will return and expect to receive that inheritance ... from the stewards. We are the stewards of creation, and if we do not care for what is put in our charge, and which does not belong to us but is entrusted to us, then we will prove to be ...

3663. Song of the Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... many for the forgiveness of sins. And as often as you drink it — remember me." What kind of song is best sung to a cheating lover? Many a wounded heart might respond with the title made famous by Travis Tritt, "Here's A Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares." But through Jesus, God has taken away our "beatin' and cheatin'" lyrics and has sung to us instead a most amazing love song. Regardless of the time or language, music has an almost supernatural power to affect the human soul and even change the course of ...

3664. Calamity and Hope

Joel 2:23-32

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... toward the southern kingdom, and God's people everywhere. The book itself is one of the literary gems of the Hebrew Scriptures. It is written and built up with care and dramatic effect. There are surely other prophets who write with greater passion and greater power; but there is hardly a writer in the Hebrew Scripture who shows proof of such careful and detailed and exquisite pains to give his work literary polish as does Joel. We know very little about Joel. We know, as mentioned, that he was a prophet ...

3665. Saintly Visions!

Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... past generations who have contributed so much in helping to fashion a healthy church, a healthy body of Christ. It may seem as if the vision of Daniel is a strange book to be cited by the church on such an important day. However, our generation needs to be careful to look back and recall how much hope this book gave to those struggling in the vineyards of God's creation so long ago. Daniel's book has many visions that may seem out of place, but the promise at the end of today's reading, specifically verse ...

3666. A Voice in the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... our lives and fill us with His love, but without our willingness to repent, God is kept out. It’s like a little girl named Stephanie who was orphaned after both of her parents died. With no other relatives to care for her, she was put into foster care. Eventually she came to live with the Weavers. Mrs. Weaver found Stephanie sullen, withdrawn, and uncommunicative. She asked to see her records. The first foster family wrote, “Stephanie is a quiet, shy girl.” The second family wrote, “She obeys, but ...

3667. A Day of Singing

Zephaniah 3:14-20, Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... third Sunday of Advent is a day of singing. The LORD, the King of Israel, is with us. Sing, “O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart . . . Verse 17 of this same chapter says something even more interesting. Listen very carefully to this: “The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” Did you get that? God takes such delight in us that God sings ...

3668. Show and Sell or Show and Tell?

Hebrews 9:11-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Main Street. But now it’s intermission. The lights have come up. Suddenly we see that a “show” doesn't care about providing jobs, saving homes, or building small businesses. The Wall Street “show” is the financial entertainment for only a ... . To serve the present age, My calling to fulfill: O may it all my powers engage To do my Master's will! Arm me with jealous care, As in Thy sight to live; And O Thy servant, Lord, prepare A strict account to give! Help me to watch and pray, And on Thyself ...

3669. Clergy Playing It Safe

Mark 12:41-44

Illustration

... time, she is giving with purpose and meaning, she understands what she has done. Like the woman in the poem, "When I am Old I Am Going to Wear Purple", she gives with freedom, abandon, boldly, bravely, with the sure knowledge that she will not eat, but not caring. She is in control, and has decided to pick her destiny. The other possibility, and it is a dark one, is that Jesus walks out of the Temple, condemning it to destruction, because he has seen with his own eyes the final straw: the devouring of a ...

3670. No Small Parts

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... , then reenter to side room. Joseph sits down and stares at the script. He climbs onto stage and crosses his arm, trying several different ways of “looking concerned.” Disgusted, he drops the script and sits on the edge of the stage.) Joseph: Well, I don’t care what anyone says. There are small parts and this is the smallest. Even Vin Diesel couldn’t make this look big. This guy’s a loser. He never talks and he doesn’t do anything. Mary does all the work. (From stage left, the “Real” Joseph ...

3671. Matthew 6:25-33

Matthew 6:25-34

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... to expand his view (no doubt recalling Isaiah 40:6-8) to even the more basic “grass,” whose life and lushness last for but one day before they become simply fodder for the oven’s fire. If such a transitory existence is nevertheless carefully attended to by God, “will he not much more cloth you?” Jesus concludes by defining those who continue to worry as “you of little faith” (v.30). The term “oligopistos,” “little faith,” is a moniker Jesus repeatedly uses to describe his disciples ...

3672. Preparation for Christ's Coming

Luke 21:25-36

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

... his mother's favorite piece of sculpture on the mantel. It was a beautiful rendition of the Madonna, the mother of Christ. The boy perked up and ran out of the room. He came back with a towel and a shoebox. He walked over, carefully picked up the Madonna, gently wrapped it in the towel, carefully put it in the shoebox and then hid it in the closet. He immediately went back to the table and wrote: "Dear God, if you ever want to see your mother again . . ." It's time the Church took back Christmas. And we do ...

3673. A House for Our Home and a Home for Our Faith

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for her call, but that call would never come. She said, it makes me feel so good that someone wants me to come in, that I came in early. Now that’s what families are for. To let us know that we are wanted, that we are important, that somebody cares about us. Something that really only the family can give us in the kind of power that we need it to be given, and that is that we really belong, that we are in a relationship with others that are important. And that leads to the next big point – Rewards ...

3674. What the Lord Does Best

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... response to some of the pressing issues of our day? Issues like family life, fidelity in marriage. Issues like the valuing of human life, life so precious that Jesus said, not even a sparrow falls to the ground unless I take note of it. Values like the care for the poor, the homeless, and prisoners. The measure by which Jesus said we would be eternally judged. Inasmuch as you’ve done it unto the least of these, my brothers and sisters, you’ve done it unto me. Are you the person in your neighborhood who ...

3675. Jesus Is with Us Forever

Luke 1:39-56

Illustration

David E. Leininger

... gave the children three small pieces of cardboard to make a crude manger. Each child was given a small paper square, cut from yellow napkins I had brought with me. (No colored paper was available in the city.) Following instructions, the children tore the paper and carefully laid strips in the manger for straw. Small squares of flannel, cut from an old nightgown, were used for the baby's blanket. A doll-like baby was cut from tan felt. The orphans were busy assembling their manger as I walked among them to ...

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