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3701. Song of a Poet Laureate

Psalm 2:1-12

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... of the sovereign for whom he writes - has been lost in the swirl of events. Nor are the international happenings to which he addresses himself identifiable. Thus, we have no way of knowing who he is, when he writes, or for which monarch. One thing is clear, however, concerning the psalm. It is as much prophecy as it is poetry. For it is built upon dreams rather than facts. He speaks of Israel as if she were a world empire, which, of course, she is not. Nor has she ever been. In addition, he pictures her ...

3702. Song of an Exile

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... of him, and he will tread its successive stages in the on-going company of the Lord. Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fullness of joy, in thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. (Psalm 16:11) So a song that opens with concern closes heroically with its singer throwing himself unconditionally into the arms of the Lord.

3703. Song of a Churchgoer

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... knows this, he can trust the Lord for what lies ahead, confident that God wills only the best for those who believe. So he can bow before the Eternal in reliant adoration. Others might be struggling to find or to hold a faith, since their concern for worldly things has dulled their spiritual acumen. For the psalmist there is no such battle with doubt (Psalm 92:4, 5). Neither is the psalmist disturbed over an issue that vexes a goodly number of his neighbors. Evildoers, they complain, flourish while the just ...

3704. Song of a King

Psalm 101:1-8

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... to lead. Yet not for a moment does this king flinch from doing so. Temptations of pomp and power notwithstanding, he is determined to pursue the ways the Lord has set before him without compromise or caprice. Indeed, he will begin the pursuit with the concerns of his court, knowing only too well that people are what they allow in private. The monarch will engage in no clandestine activities, therefore. Nor will he take part in any proceedings of which the Eternal cannot approve. Moreover, he will see to it ...

3705. The Reality Of Sin

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Robert Allen

... house. Doctors said that her frostbitten legs were so damaged after being in the extreme cold for five days that they would have to amputate both legs. The girl’s mother was on drugs and she had simply abandoned the little girl in her search for a fix. Her concern was not for a nine-year-old daughter who needed her, but for a drug-induced high which would black out the reality of the world. I don’t suppose there are many sins in our world which are more pervasive than the use of drugs. The illegal use ...

3706. Rules For Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Robert Allen

... . We live in a world where some have abandoned the idea of fairness and replaced it with the goal of winning, even if we have to lie and cheat and steal in order to win. We live in a world that is caught in a whirlpool of change - and concern for the have-nots and helpless people of our society has been replaced with our own selfish desires "to make it" no matter what it costs. Into this world of upheaval and change, the Ten Commandments still ring true. Close to 3,000 years have come and gone since ...

3707. A Season Of Joy

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Robert Allen

... changed. There is a great difference between talking about or observing joy in the lives of others, and being a person whose life is filled with joy. Joy is within you or you don’t have it. If it is not within you, as far as you are concerned, it is nowhere. Joy is something you experience in an inward way. Some time ago, someone asked me, "Robert, if your house caught on fire, what one thing, after your family, would you want to save?" What would you save from your house? I thought about some expensive ...

3708. The More Excellent Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Robert Allen

... of Christ within our lives when jealousy, and hatred, and greed, and arrogance, and rudeness, and unkindness, seem to be the dominant influences in our lives. We cannot claim to be followers of the carpenter from Nazareth when we do not have an active concern for the good of another person. In that beautiful hymn of love in 1 Corinthians 13, the Apostle Paul speaks of the method of excellence for the Christian. This is the Apostle Paul at his creative best. This is the Apostle Paul describing the Christian ...

3709. What To Give The God Who Has Everything

Psalm 50:1-23

Sermon

Erskine White

... wants from us. He who has the whole world in His hands has been gracious enough to tell us what we may give to the God who has everything. Amen. Pastoral Prayer: O Good and Gracious God, who continually holds us in the loving arms of Your divine concern, we praise You today for all the gifts You so freely bestow upon us - spiritual gifts which can never be counted or repaid. We praise You for the gifts of love and life, for visions of faith and hope, for stirrings of compassion and charity, for the promises ...

3710. Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... strong." That certainly has more meaning here than the ease and relaxation that we might better describe as "comfy." "To be made strong." Is that one of the ways our prayers are answered? On a very personal level, a great many of our prayers concern illness. How earnestly we pray to "change" that situation of illness for ourselves or someone else. What we want is for it to go away, but it doesn’t usually happen that way. Certainly there are occasional spontaneous remissions or reversals of illness, but ...

3711. Send Me!

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... ’t be afraid. Answer the call. Open up your life to the new thing God is about to do with your life. God’s will for us only happens with our cooperation. Might God be calling you from too self-indulgent a lifestyle to one of helpful concern for the plight of people less fortunate than yourself? Might God be calling you from isolation from the world to involvement in real life? Is God asking you to encourage those who because of handicap or poverty struggle against overwhelming odds? Do you hear a still ...

3712. Break Through

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... as to whether this is a house for God or for the ark is, I think, central to the controversy. While David’s idea of building a house - later called a temple - for the ark is a well intentioned idea, God does not need the house. Surely there was a concern that in the minds of the people the mere housing of that sacred reliquary would be mistaken as a residing place of God, as in some of the other indigenous religions of the area. Then after reminding David of his call from being a shepherd boy to become a ...

3713. Call Waiting

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... take a car load of us when we needed transportation for some youth event. And there was a high school principal who over the years gave up not just hours but days and weeks of his life to lead a YMCA club and often to talk to us about our concerns and the things that were going on in our lives at that age. Those kinds of images are especially important to us when we are young, but we never get past needing someone to lead us into some new way, or the need to see an image in someone else ...

3714. We Know Jonah

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... to rats which spread disease. Of that film and the others he produced he said, "We didn’t know what the effect would be - what was going to happen. We did our job." How easily and conveniently one can sidestep responsibility. As Moyers said concerning the people that film was intended to influence, "Not much imagination was required to think of what to do with the Jews." And Hitler readily admitted that the propaganda he produced played upon the anti-Semitism that already existed among people - the ideas ...

3715. A Prophet Like Me

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... the same thing. Not many critical voices are heard very near presidents or monarchs or other heads of state. But the great prophets of the scriptures were not professional prophets. Their call to their prophetic task rose out of faith in God and genuine concern for the welfare of the people and the nation. These were not always popular. Nathan, the prophet, risked his neck when he confronted King David about his affair with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband. King Ahab called the prophet Elijah, "you ...

3716. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... loved one, cancer, AIDS, you name it - we may find ourselves at that moment unprepared, denying, resisting, and unable to immerse ourselves in the earthy river of God’s love. We need somebody. And God sends us somebody. For Naaman it was a servant girl, a concerned king, a prophet, and a common soldier. For the Galilean man, it was Jesus alone. When I was just a young boy, my sister, fourteen years older, was killed in a plane crash. Our family was devastated. My parents each tried to deal with the grief ...

3717. And Now For Something Completely Different

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... their sorrow. To everyone’s surprise, and even their own, they went to visit this young man in jail. It was a tense meeting at first as you might expect, especially on his part. Despite their immense grief these two parents were able to express not only their concern for him, but the fact that they had already forgiven him for what he had done. While nothing could ever erase from his mind the memory of what he had done to their daughter and to them, he was forgiven by them. They continued to visit him ...

3718. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... , by his own admission, he went very unwillingly. In what we might call a study group today, someone was reading a tract by Martin Luther, called "Preface to the Epistle to the Romans." Not very dramatic material, it would seem, but Luther’s words concerning "the change that God works in the heart through faith in Christ," touched Wesley deeply and he felt his heart "strangely warmed." Still rather tame, as mountaintop experiences go. Not the kind of thing people mean when they want the church to be more ...

3719. Paul - Persecutor, but Participant

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... human body. It has many different members, but there is only one head, Jesus Christ. Each member has different capabilities, and each has different functions to perform, but the Lord wants all to work together in love, sharing each other’s concerns, accepting and forgiving one another. Sharing in Holy Communion should remind you of that, so that instead of being persecutors, you are participants, people who draw strength together from Jesus, and being refreshed by his love, serve him together. When you ...

3720. The Ten Commandments - Part 1

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... society, we never seem to have fathomed the depth of their meaning. We have not grasped their intensity. We are not interesting in following the Ten Commandments, but rather the eleventh Commandment——thou shalt not get caught. Illustration……….. I am deeply concerned that there is an ever increasing number of young people who are fuzzy when it comes to values. The Ten Commandments raise the question: are there some values that are ageless and universal. The problems that beset us today are at heart ...

3721. The Ten Commandments - Part 3

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... is God calling out to your spirit. There is grace even in the breaking of a commandment. The second issue that must be considered is that of suicide—the murder, so to speak, of one’s self. This is an ever-growing matter of concern in an industrialized society. During my ministry, I have had to perform the funeral services of several individuals who committed suicide. I am convinced that even though we cannot understand the actions and depressions of some people, God always understands. I think that we ...

3722. Dual Citizenship I - What Do We Owe To Our Country?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... on the radio." America needed a humble hero unashamed to give God glory. Time magazine ran a two-page picture of our hero as he lifted both fists in the air. The large caption up top read, "All for one." Indeed, for six agonizing days Americans were one in our concern for our missing pilot. When he was found, the entire American family celebrated. Captain O'Grady helped us catch a glimpse of "one nation under God."

3723. Dual Citizenship II - What Do We Owe To God?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... be the only conduits God has to certain persons. We must help him reach them. THERE IS A THIRD OBLIGATION WE HAVE TO GOD: TO RENDER A MINISTRY TO HURTING PEOPLE ON OUR DOORSTEP. When Jesus declared his mission statement in Luke 4, his first words concerned the poor: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor." The world perceives us as pious and self-centered in our protected sanctuaries and multi-million dollar church complexes-- but that is simply not ...

3724. Authenticity vs. Showmanship

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... exemplary piety.2 The fringes or tassels referred to the borders of the Pharisees' garments, serving to remind them of God's commandments. They too could be made large enough to display piety all the more. Many a scholar will say that Jesus is concerned in these verses with the scribes and Pharisees drawing attention to themselves through the size of these objects, as well as the choosing of places of honor at banquets and synagogues (v. 6), expecting respect in the marketplaces (v. 7) and being called ...

3725. The Path of Integrity

Drama

William Grimbol

... of washing feet. Dirty, dung encrusted, smelly feet. Repugnant. Repulsive. Revolting. Yet, the image of Christ washing his disciples’ feet remains a crystalline portrait of integrity, a picture that clearly portrays Christ’s own lack of care or concern for the standards and expectations of the world. Jesus Christ, the footwasher, stands before us in the glory of his unbloated status ... his deflated image ... his stale flat-looking life, and reveals the incredible integrity of standing stripped before ...

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