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3676. Talk Show I

Luke 10:38-42

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... to our studio audience. You, sir, what view is correct? (AN AUDIENCE MEMBER REACTS TO THE QUESTION) We haven't heard from Rev. Ames yet. Rev. Ames, do you favor one of these views over the other? Who is right, Mary or Martha? (HANDS THE MICROPHONE TO THE PASTOR, WHO CONTINUES WITH THE SERMON)

3677. Noah

Luke 12:22-34

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... 't you take some time off and come to the wedding. You need the rest. I'll even let you tell the "rain" joke. "Rain," huh? That's a good one. (AS HE EXITS) Flood the earth. Rain! Water that comes down. (HE LAUGHS. NOAH TURNS THE RADIO ON AND CONTINUES WORKING) Chorus: It's gonna rain and rain and rain some more and rain and rain some more. Verse: God said to Noah, "This is my plan. This is what I want you to do. When you build the ark you better put in some stalls. We're gonna have ...

3678. Noah

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... you take some time off and come \nto the wedding. You need the rest. I'll even let you tell the \n"rain" joke. "Rain," huh? That's a good one. (AS HE EXITS) \nFlood the earth. Rain! Water that comes down. (HE LAUGHS. \nNOAH TURNS THE RADIO ON AND CONTINUES WORKING) \n Chorus:\n It's gonna rain and rain and rain some more and rain and \nrain some more. \n Verse:\n God said to Noah, "This is my plan.\n This is what I want you to do.\n When you build the ark you better put in ...

3679. Guilt And Shame

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... this is the result. \nSAM: I know. I know. It's all true. Sometimes I think I might \njust change, but then I never do. I'll never change. I know \nthat now. \nRENA: Well, then, I'm through. (BEGINS TO EXIT)\nSAM: (FOLLOWING HER) No. No, Rena. Wait. (SHE CONTINUES TO \nEXIT SLOWLY)\n"\n

3680. Mr. Roberts Meets The Master

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... no, I didn't fall then. We went to \nmy house and we ate. \nMR. ROBERTS: And then what happened?\nZACCHAEUS: Then Jesus and I became good friends. \nMR. ROBERTS: What a nice story.\nZACCHAEUS: Oh, it's not over yet, Mr. Roberts.\nMR. ROBERTS: Oh, sorry. Please, do continue, Mr. Zacchaeus.\nZACCHAEUS: Thank you, I will. Well, I was such a changed man \nthat I gave half of all the wealth I had to feed the poor and \nthen I paid back all the money I had stolen. \nMR. ROBERTS: That was very nice, Mr. Zacchaeus ...

3681. The Spice of Death

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... was buried. We do take note with considerable concern and care the manner in which friends and dear ones are buried. It is rather striking that, with the wave of criticism that was aimed at the practices of the undertaking profession a number of years ago, people continue to spend as much as they ever have for the burial of their dear ones. The reason, of course, is that people want to pay the highest respect they can for loved ones. Or sometimes it is guilt that prompts relatives to become lavish in doing ...

3682. The Agony And The Ecstasy Of The Family

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... that came from his lips. "Isn't this Joseph's son?" they asked. Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: 'Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' " "I tell you the truth," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of ...

3683. When The Odds Are Against Us

1 Samuel 1:1-20

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... only you will look on the misery of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death ..." (v. 11). However as Hannah continued to pray she had to overcome the odds that were stacked against her in the temple worship. Maybe she got too emotional for the staid worship to which the priest Eli was accustomed in the temple. Maybe she became so filled with God's spirit that she shook her ...

3684. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... in a plane crash on August 7, 1989, while he was on a famine-relief mission in Africa. As chairperson of the House Select Committee on Hunger he visited Ethiopia and Sudan at least six times in six years. His access to the so-called Third World continued and even Marxist leaders allowed him to help free political prisoners in Cuba, a jailed American aviator in Angola, and children who wanted to leave Vietnam to be with relatives in America. When he was criticized by some for spending time away from his home ...

3685. Look How You Listen

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... ), do you not feel the Spirit's urging to perceive, to hear, to understand, to receive him as your Savior, not only in your head but in your heart? When Paul lost his head for Jesus' gospel and testimony, the Christians in Rome buried his body. And they continued as faithful followers even though he did not rise from the dead. When John's disciples heard about their teacher's death, "they came and took his body, and laid it in a tomb." And they believed John and followed the Lamb of God even though John did ...

3686. Cheers For The Healed

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... for us. What happened to Jesus after that death has also happened to us, in our different situation, of course. He was resurrected. We have been regenerated. By his word in the water of baptism, with his word, we have been given new life. By the word which is continually being spoken to us our ears have been opened, and we have heard, we hear. By his speaking to our hearing we are strengthened and sanctified. God has opened our ears to hear. Let's hear it for all who have heard the word of the Lord! It is ...

3687. The Taught Can

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... they understood the definition of "Messiah" any better than Peter did is rather doubtful. It was still the time for being taught. Jesus did not want them going off proclaiming some half-truths. "He strongly ordered them not to tell anyone about him." As he continued to teach them, he spelled out how "the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again." Then Peter again -- and Peter's attitude makes ...

3688. Children, Just Forever

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... sin, from all error, from all evil; from the cunning assaults of the devil; from an unprepared and evil death," we pray in the litany, "Good Lord, deliver us." Our Lord has. But evil still is, within and without. Our prayer, "Deliver us from evil," seeks continual help against the forces that would fell us and against our own weaknesses that would cause us to fall. What chance do we have, we whose hearts fail for fear, whose strength wanes, who shuffle along the way, scarcely getting one foot in front of ...

3689. Love And Money

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

William G. Carter

... us until we finally relinquish our grip on money and possessions. Once we say yes to God, we can expect holy disruptions in our lives until the day when God alone shall purge and possess our hearts. 1. Stanley Hauerwas, Center for Continuing Education, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, 1 May 1992. 2. Abigail Van Buren, "Religions need money too, for heaven's sake," The Scranton Tribune 30 March 1994: C-2. 3. Jacques Ellul, Money and Power (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1984), p. 81 ...

3690. When All Is Said And Done

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

William G. Carter

... live as if the times have changed. We wait for the Son of Man to come again because we have seen the Son of Man in the power of the cross. We watch for his future kingdom because, in the death of Jesus, God's kingdom is already here. We continue to wait, because the kingdom is not yet here. Not completely. We live in the tension between "already" and "not yet." It isn't easy standing on one foot and then another. We trust God's will ultimately, yet we cope with unfinished suffering. The stakes are high and ...

3691. Tears At The Tomb

John 11:17-37

Sermon

William G. Carter

... once again. This is the good news: in all of our deadness and death, God-in-Christ raises us up and fills us with the life of eternity. Our hope is not merely a dream of resurrection on the last day, but eternal life that begins today in faith and continues on the other side of the grave. Such life is a gift. Receiving the gift is easy. All we need to do is trust the One who says, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who believes ...

3692. All Stirred Up

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Richard Patt

... . He is dropping in on friends. God's "got the whole world in his hands," as the old folk song puts it, yet God never loses interest in each one of us. God's willing to spend time with us. You and I are part of God's continuing concern. Now I suspect, however, that it was Martha who initiated this encounter. The Bible writer leaves the fact open by saying "a woman named Martha received him into her house." No doubt the news traveled that Jesus was in the area. Martha enjoyed entertaining in her house ...

3693. Rich In God's Sight

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Richard Patt

... at an early age about the sacredness of the land. They will implement their sense of values about the creation by sometimes casting their vote with those political candidates who share similar values. They will, in short, not allow lesser souls to continue painting the world into a corner until its fatal condition becomes irreversible. Yes, to be "rich toward God" means ultimately standing as sentinels over the riches of the earth God made. May the day never come when God will be forced to stand ...

3694. Sabotaging The Sabath

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Richard Patt

We wish the story here would have ended another way. Yes, it was the sabbath (always meant to be a beautiful day for God's people!). And even on the sabbath people become sick or continue to be sick. Jesus notices a woman, all hunched over, obviously one who had been ill for a long time. He is a merciful Lord, so he takes the initiative to call her over and lay his hands on her. In these gracious acts, the woman is healed on the ...

3695. The Crux Of Being A Christian

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

... Philemon, and a servant who worked in Philemon's house with the interesting name, Onesimus. Now this servant Onesimus was really less than a servant; he was a slave in Philemon's household. Despite the fact that Philemon was a Christian, he continued the Roman practice of having slaves in his household. Throughout the Roman empire there were millions of such slaves. They were totally at their masters' mercy. It seems that Onesimus was accused of stealing something valuable from Philemon's house. Fearing the ...

3696. God's Passionate Concern

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

3697. Keep Things Flowing

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Patt

... fell from the rich man's table" (vv. 20-21). Surely part of the reason Jesus tells this story is to appeal to us to keep things flowing in our lives. Today Christ wants every Christian to pray, "Lord, as your blessings flow to me, may they continue to flow through me, for the good and encouragement of others!" Life in general suggests flowing rather than stagnation. We want the blood and air to travel through our bodies; we try to avoid those things that cause a buildup of plaque and clogged arteries. In ...

3698. People With Power To Forgive

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... end of his earthly ministry in his post-resurrection appearance to his disciples, Jesus is passing on to his disciples the ministry of preaching, teaching, healing and forgiving sins. Through the gift of the Holy spirit they are to be empowered to continue the work he inaugurated. We often overlook in the gospels the connection between forgiveness and healing -- healing that is both physical and spiritual. Consider, for example, the story of Jesus' healing the paralytic who was lowered through a roof to the ...

3699. How to Rise above Discouragement

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , had compassion for her, thinking perhaps of his own mother reputedly widowed at an early age. "Do not weep," he told her. Her tears for her son no doubt now intermingling with the endless salty tears shed for her husband. And in the continuing drama risking ceremonial impurity, he reached out, touched the bier and possibly the body, and the procession halted. Can you see the modern setting -- someone halting the hearse, opening the door of the limousine, telling the widowed mother in mourning black not to ...

3700. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... possible and preferable futures. Rather than ridiculing new ideas we must remember, "the essence of creativity is a willingness to play the fool, to toy with the absurd, only later submitting the stream of ideas to harsh critical judgment .... We need," Toffler continues, "sanctuaries for social imagination."[3] And I ask, what better sanctuary than this and tens of thousands like it around the earth where we can dream dreams and see visions for the better future into which God would lead us? After all, for ...

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