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351. Winners, Losers and the Gospel

Mt 16:25

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... Very obviously a church, for example, cannot call twenty-five ministers. One must win the job and the others lose the job. Also part of the picture is the matter of ability. People vary with respect to their skills, and what we strive for in our country is equal opportunity under the law, realizing that everyone will bring to that opportunity varying abilities. Not everyone who takes a crack at a job will get it, but it is a goal worthy of a democracy that within reasonable bounds all who are qualified get ...

352. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... might. The Christian incorporation of darkness into light also serves to defuse darkness. Just as in medical science the inclusion of antibodies into the body enhances the body’s ability to cope creatively with those antibodies (natural immunity), so too the inclusion of our darkness into the light of consciousness enhances our ability to control that darkness. The most rampant and destructive form of darkness is that darkness perpetrated by one who denies that it’s happening. In the twelfth chapter of ...

353. Annas, Caiaphas, and Judas

Drama

Jon Joyce

... . JUDAS: A kiss on the cheek ... a kiss on the cheek ... the kiss of friendship ... and I made it the kiss of death. [He wails and sobs uncontrollably] CAIAPHAS: Stop this nonsense or I’ll have the guards throw you out at once. JUDAS: [With the unexplainable ability of the mentally distraught, he immediately acts and speaks normally] I want you to take back this money. I made a mistake. Can’t I be forgiven for one mistake? ANNAS: It is not up to us to forgive. CAIAPHAS: We are through with you. You have ...

354. God, Help Us to Laugh

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... lies a person who has a good sense of humor. In fact, most good organizations or teams hire a "humor man" who keeps everyone loose. Frequently the humor man commands a higher salary then some of the team’s better performers. We should never underestimate our ability to laugh at ourselves. At a meeting of young adults, I took the initiative to ask those present what they would do if they were allowed to do anything they wanted to do during Sunday worship. The response varied from wanting to walk on the ...

355. Manufactured Christianity: Jesus Sells, Jesus Sells!

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... numbers but could not read letters. Someone asked Charlie if this presented problems. Charlie answered, "Well, when he’s traveling down the highway and sees the road signs he can tell you how far it is but he doesn’t know where to!" Sometimes this ability we Christians have to read numbers but not letters prompts us to reach out and add people without ever asking where we are taking ourselves. Where are we going? When we give in to Satan’s temptation to presumptuousness, we indeed sell our souls to ...

356. Forgiving Is Forgetting

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... answered, "Not seven times but seventy times seven (Matthew 18:21-22)." The essence of Jesus’ statement is that forgiveness is beyond calculating. Jesus went on to tell Peter a parable about the Kindgom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is a place for people who have the ability to forgive and forget. According to the parable (Matthew 18:23-35) a man owed the king 10,000 talents, roughly $1,000. He went in to the king, fell on his knees, and begged the king to have patience with him. Out of pity the king ...

357. Achieving An All-In Victory - 1952

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... And who of us has not tried to do so over and over again? We make our good resolutions. We set our teeth and clench our fists and determine to carry through. But how many succeed? Very few, if any. And why? Not because of insincerity, lack of ability, cowardice, or weak will. Character control is not like driving a car, building a house, solving a mathematical problem, winning a race, or even like attacking the enemy to capture a certain objective. It is a fight all right. No doubt of that. But it is not a ...

358. Christmas Concern

Sermon

James Bjorge

... He could feel the deep intense agony of bereavement which gripped the family and friends. He joined them in crying. It is a beautiful picture of the way in which God enters with us into our helplessness and despair. Goethe confesses in his autobiography that he lost the ability to weep as he grew older. Some of us are like that. It is easy to become calloused and hard and a bit indifferent to the tragedies of human existence. But Jesus never did allow that to happen in himself. He was too much a man to weep ...

359. Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... boy goes to college - TEACHER: Mr. Horton, don’t you see that James is not college material? Now there are other schools, special schools - FATHER: [angrily] My son is going to a COLLEGE and then to LAW school! TEACHER: [pleading] What’s to become of his unique abilities, his inventive brain? Mr. Horton, don’t you know James is quite extraordinary in his OWN way? It has nothing to do with making grades in English or math or history. FATHER: I WILL NOT have my son a - a LABORER! In this town our family ...

360. Whispering The Lyrics (revised)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Thomas Long

... Sacks tells the story of Jimmie, a former sailor, now a patient in a nursing home, whose severe neurological disorder had left him with a profound and permanent amnesia. He simply had no memory of anything from 1945 on. Having no ability to retrieve the past and no ability to construct a meaningful present, Jimmie lacked the continuity that makes for a sense of the self. He was, wrote Sacks, a person who "wore a look of infinite sadness and resignation." However, when Sacks asked the Sisters who ran the ...

361. Good News For Good Parents

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

... work. He announced as much to the teacher. She and the whole class laughed. Whereupon, he became indignant, strode to the blackboard, and worked the problem much to their amazement. In doing so, he realized that he could understand arithmetic. He felt a new confidence in his ability, and went on to become a good math student. We need to encourage our children. We need not only to surround them with love but we need to help them feel competent as persons. I wish every one of us had inscribed on the walls of ...

362. Aiming at Perfection

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... a prayer warrior like Pauline Hord! Could you lead a Bible study group or adopt a shut-in or give one Saturday per month to housing reconstruction! How could you become more useful for Christ! Let me ask two questions: First, what you are best abilities! Second, is the Kingdom of God benefiting from your gifts! THE THIRD COMPONENT OF CHRISTIAN PERFECTION IS TO BE PERFECT IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL HOLINESS. John Wesley often talked of being happy and holy. The two adjectives were for him one reality. "Why are ...

363. Humankind: The Climax of Creation

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... night and get on a stew, And use a gun or club or knife To take some other monkey's life. Yes, man descended, the onery cuss-- But, brother, he didn't descend from us. " We have mentioned two signs that we are made in the image of God: our ability to reason and our conscience. A third one is our longing for eternity. Deep in our psyche, we know that we are transients here on earth. We can't ever really settle down here. All human beings ponder eternity. Some yearn for it; some are terrified by it. But none ...

364. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... ) have discovered the Spirit’s presence in simple calm quietness, perhaps because they have cultivated to a rather high degree the ability to listen to the inner spirit, or to the voice of God. There are renewal movements and retreats and the like ... Our best efforts at renewal are not in tinkering with structure and worship, or messing with people’s emotions, but in cultivating the ability to hear the word of Jesus, and then to do it. John Wesley was a powerful dynamo of spiritual power who started ...

365. Abide In Me

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... . Will Power. As you might expect, Mr. Will Power had an iron will. He could do anything he set his mind to. He was the champion of mind over matter. People loved to challenge his powers of will. One of the ways he first caught people’s attention was his ability to withstand hot and cold. They dared him to walk through a bed of fiery coals. They dared him to expose himself to the bitter cold for a full day. They dared him and he did it. "Just a case of simple willpower," he would say. "You can do anything ...

366. Proper 17

1 Kings 2:1-12, Mark 7:1-23, Ephesians 6:10-20

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... Almighty God, we confess that we are rarely the formidable opponents of sin and evil that we should be, and that we do not know how to use our faith effectively in fighting Satan and the forces of evil. Forgive us, we pray. Give us the ability and the courage to use the truth, righteousness, faith, and Word that you have given us against the evil powers and principalities that threaten us all. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Gospel: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Theme: Human customs versus divine commandments ...

367. Proper 27

1 Kings 17:7-24, Mark 12:35-40, Mark 12:41-44, Hebrews 9:11-28

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... of Confession Merciful God, we confess our failure to believe the power inherent in your redeeming Word, and our tendency to trust our own devices, even when they are woefully inadequate. Forgive us, we pray. Give us the faith to believe in your ability to provide miracles, especially in the face of human suffering and need. In the name of the greatest miracle worker, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen Second Lesson: Hebrews 9:24-28 Theme: The ultimate sacrifice of Christ Exegetical Note This passage builds the ...

368. All Saints’ Day

Revelation 21:1-27, Colossians 1:1-14, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... : THOSE WHO BELIEVE ARE ABLE TO SEE THE GLORY OF GOD! Leader: Jesus’ contemporaries beheld God’s glory when their Master called Lazarus forth from the dead. People: GOD GRANT US THE ABILITY SHARED BY ALL THE SAINTS: TO DISCERN THE DIVINE GLORY ACTIVE IN HUMAN HISTORY! Collect God of wonder, who have given your saints in every age the ability to behold your glory, open our eyes as well; that seeing the life-giving miracles that you work in the world, we may be moved to perform glorious acts in your name ...

369. The Good News of Easter

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... or the joy of liberty. World health organizations are working around the clock to stem the tide of SARS a disease which if not fought might become another black plague. An unprecedented ability to communicate ideas and beliefs to any part of the world and to any person in the world is quickly becoming commonplace. And the ability to move produce and goods around the world makes it possible as never before to bring significant relief to regions of the world that suffer. These world-shaping events are so ...

370. The Gospel for Labor Day

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... of heaven is like a householder who went out to hire laborers." It is God’s will that every man be given the opportunity to work. A man must have the chance to provide honestly for himself and his family by performing such service as his natural abilities and training equip him to perform. It has been said that the spirit of our Lord’s teaching may be expressed by still another beatitude, "Blessed are they who give us back our self-respect." Certainly the old dog-eat-dog economy with its slogan, "Each ...

371. No Fifth Wheels in God’s Economy

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... no one else is crowding in. It is a lowering of the noise level of life so that we become more sensitive. It is sensing myself as unique in God’s sight and appreciated for the difference. It is feeling accepted by God in quietness and an ability to move from that acceptance to reach out in accepting ways to others. Aloneness is our willingness to sense God as one’s ultimate friend and confident, to give up illusory demands made on spouses or friends, and to discover the autonomy to make decisions that ...

372. The Man Who Couldn't Hear

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... what we lack is the first step in securing it. Christ can fulfill our needs -- needs that are to some extent physical, but, more so, the deepest needs of heart, mind, and soul. The man in Mark 7 lacked the physical ability to hear. But many of us lack the spiritual ability to hear. We suffer a kind of a spiritual deafness. The affliction of not listening to people, or, to put it another way, the affliction of physically listening to people, yet failing to comprehend, to understand, and come to grips with ...

373. All Is Calm, All Is Bright

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

William G. Carter

... fighting and start working together.” If only it could be that easy. If peace were merely a matter of being nice to people with whom we disagree, maybe we could do it. Yet disagreement and discord seem inevitable. If the peace of Christmas refers to the ability to find some serenity within our own souls, we are ready for it. There are hidden wounds from childhood, which re-emerge this time every year. Life can fracture us. Maybe that’s why we have come to church tonight. Perhaps we hope the old stories ...

374. Your Sins Are Remembered No More! You Are Free!

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... that we have been married to Jesus in faith. This is the new covenant about which Jeremiah spoke. God has written his Law on our hearts by wedding us to his Son, the One who perfectly fulfilled the Law. Jesus’ characteristics, his righteousness, his love and his ability to fulfill the Law, are rubbing off on you and me. How long have you been a Christian? How long have you known Jesus? Over the years his passion for the Law has gotten to you. Just as he fulfills the Law without anybody having to teach ...

375. What If What They Say Is True?

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... them. God does not call you and then abandon you. God’s faithfulness empowers and equips us to respond to God’s call. So lack of ability is no excuse. And age isn’t either. Just as Jeremiah is not too young to do God’s work, neither is a teenager I met ... ’m not very well equipped to do such a work on my own. I’m wondering if I can muster enough faith to trust God’s ability to bring forth new things? What might God be calling you to build or to plant? Like me, you won’t know how to respond to ...

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