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351. Obedience Is An Ugly Word!

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... they'll kill his followers. Yes, we'll have some problems if we walk with obedience to our Lord. Not everyone will like us and talk about how nice we are. Sometimes, in spite of all we can do, things will go awry. Where did we ever get the distorted notion that we, as Christians, have a right for things to always go well for us? Why would we expect life to be a bed of roses without thorns, why would we expect to have no sickness or pain for ourselves or our loved ones, why expect that those who are ...

352. The Preaching Ministry

Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:29-34

Sermon Aid

Wayne B. Keller

... healing miracles, but rather on verse 38, "Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also; for that is why I came." (R.S.V.) Stewardship Challenge Consider this: The stewardship of expectation: When we come to God, do we come with our preconceived notions about how God is supposed to respond to us; or are we willing to listen in silence long enough to discover what God has in mind for us? Charge to the Congregation Suggestion: Are you so open to God's will that you are willing to wait upon God ...

353. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Steven Burt

... But nothing significant has happened. Things have pretty much gone on as before. Nothing changing, no uprisings, no upheavals, maybe not a whole lot of religious conversions. So Peter, maybe feeling a bit useless and down-in-themouth, decides to abandon the silly notion of preaching about the Kingdom of God, and to return to what he knows best. He says to the others, “I’m going fishing.” Apparently the others were feeling down and useless, too, and needed something familiar to do. They declare, “We ...

354. Luke’s Beatitudes And Woes

Luke 6:17-26

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James Garrett

... . Well, it was little, but it’s growing like a weed now. It’s the third one planted in the same spot. Upon moving into the parsonage at College Station, someone convinced his wife there ought to be an oak tree in that spot. She never gave up on the notion. Bob managed to mangle a couple of her efforts with the lawnmower. She threatened him about this third one, even as Bob told her over and over the tree wasn’t going to grow in that spot. The tree took root. It grew broad and leafy after a couple of ...

355. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... African-American preaching tradition. While other traditions might have similar forms and functions in sermonizing, I believe these depictions represent a significant component of African-American sermonizing which has thus far not been thoroughly explicated. 1. The notion here is that texts have primary and secondary propositions. The primary ideas are those which are readily disclosed by the text in any cursory reading. The secondary ideas are the deeper psychological, spiritual, or practical truths not ...

356. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... Israelite culture would be to affirm the positive influence of black people in the development of these world religions. This explains why scholars and historians still ridiculously attempt to speak of Egypt as a Middle Eastern rather than an African nation - to divorce any notion of the nation being authentically black - African. Even in the creation story of the Hebrews in the book of Genesis, particularly 2:10-14, the Garden of Eden is mentioned as being near a river that runs through or near the area of ...

357. Holy Diet

John 6:24-35

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Donald Macleod

... day he had fed the five thousand on the Galilean hillside. He and the disciples had crossed the lake, but the people followed them. Uppermost in their thinking was the human cry for bread. Moreover, behind it all was their misconception of Jesus' mission and their notion that life was a matter of performing certain things, in order to qualify to receive what they wanted. Jesus undertook now to set them straight. For him, life was a matter of being, not merely of doing. By so saying, he sorted out for them ...

358. Holy Believing

John 6:25-59

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Donald Macleod

... . Now Jesus cut straight across these confused and confusing perspectives and declared, "He who believes has eternal life." Should he say this today to our generation, what would we understand by it? Would it satisfy us who, in our own day, bring notions before the bar of the Christian faith that are equally perplexed and confused? "He who believes" - believes what? Or whom? "Eternal life" - what meaning can the average person put into this phrase today? "Live forever" - did Jesus mean endless existence or ...

359. On the Art Of Listening To Sermons

Matthew 13:1-23

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Larry Goodpaster

... spirits. In contrast, a good listener is one who is open, sensitive and receptive. A good listener is eager to learn, ready to grow, anxious to have new seed planted within, and excited about receiving something, even if it does challenge previously held notions and opinions. Guideline Number 2: Do not be swept away with emotional ecstasy. We often fail to pay attention, to really listen because we are on some mountaintop high on emotions and feelings, either before we come, while we are present, or after ...

360. Moving Words

Matthew 10:1-42

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Larry Goodpaster

... and apply its words of inspiration to their daily living. a’Kempis begins this gem by noting that “we must copy [Christ’s] life and conduct, if we wish to be truly enlightened and to be delivered from all blindness of heart.” This notion of imitating Christ is a rather lofty goal, and one that could easily become self-centered piety or spiritual narcissism. Consequently, Jesus adds a word to keep us from being too elated and carried away with the imitating of the teacher. Jesus includes with ...

361. Give Me A Break!

Matthew 11:25-30

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Larry Goodpaster

... no longer the physical loads, but rather are the mental anguish and the fear that somehow we will not measure up to what we are supposed to be and do. We load ourselves with emotional baggage carried over from previous relationships, from childhood, or from some notion of what “they” tell us we “ought” to do. Such baggage presses down and keeps us from living full, rich, whole lives. And then we wonder why we are weary. A case could easily be made for the fact that the activities and the busy-ness ...

362. The Majesty Of God's Love

John 17:1-11

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Mark Ellingsen

... , which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one (John 17:11b)." Make my followers one, as we are one. A whole cluster of themes jump out at us. Jesus wants his followers to be one, like he and the Father are one. This notion of the Father and Son being one, especially at this time in the church year when we celebrate the ascension, is bound to lead us to consider God in all his glory and majesty (the Triune God). Not just the Father and the Son, but along with the Holy Spirit ...

363. No One Enters The Kingdom… Save With Empty Hands

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... the spring cleared up, and life returned to this Alpine village as they had known it before.2 The story of the keeper of the spring comes closer to Jesus’ concept of authority. Though standing in the Davidic tradition, Jesus re-cast the notion of kingship into the image of the servant. To exercise real power in Jesus’ kingdom is to serve others. Such power is greater than political clout or military might. Paradoxically, though it may seem, there is power in weakness. Those persons who submit themselves ...

364. Everything Except God

Amos 5:1-17

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Richard Hasler

... was more concerned with a saving knowledge of God and with ethical righteousness as a sign that their religious experience was genuine. Could it be possible that our worship, habitual as it may be, includes everything except God? We are undoubtedly shocked at such a notion, but the prophet’s words ought not to be taken lightly. If we are prone like the Bethel worshipers to glory in entertainment, excitement and ecstasy rather than in an encounter with the true and living God what can we do about it? Amos ...

365. Wedding: Remember the Wine!

John 2:1-11

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Richard Kraiger

... ourselves now — a wedding. I like this story because it tells us many important things. I would like to share three of them with you now. 1. God is present in our celebrations. God wants you to be happy. That’s the first point. It’s a false notion that to be a Christian you can’t have any fun. Those who boil Christianity down to a stiff legalism that allows no celebration have misunderstood our Lord’s intentions. So often we are like the farm boy whose grandma would not allow him to engage in what ...

366. The Illusion Of Neutrality

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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Robert Beringer

... , cleared his throat, and said to the catcher, "Mister, until I calls it, it ain't nothin' at all!" Of all the illusions nursed by we modern people, none is more pathetic or dangerous than the illusion of neutrality. Neutrality is that notion that human beings can detach themselves from all crucial choices and decisions in life. Social neutrality straddles the fence of public opinion and refuses to come down on either side of the great social issues. Moral neutrality shows itself in broadminded tolerance ...

367. A Second-place Finish

John 1:29-34

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John Jamison

... , he knew why it had happened. He said, "but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel." He knew why he was here and that made all the difference. Sometimes I forget why I am here. Sometimes I forget and get the ridiculous notion that the reason God gave me a child was to make me happy and meet my needs. Sometimes I forget and get the foolish idea that the reason God gave me a wonderful wife was to keep me happy and see that I want for nothing. Sometimes I forget and ...

368. The True Story of The Magi (Old Title: Just The Facts)

Matthew 2:1-12

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John Jamison

... many have come? Were there 12, or three, or what? We don't know that either. Scripture never says there were three wise men. They gave three gifts, and from that we have supposed there were three gift-givers. And I'm not sure where we got the notion that they were kings. It must have come from that hymn. Word of their arrival from the east made quite an impression around Bethlehem. The greatest impression was made upon Herod. He was so impressed that he threw an open house for them as a "Welcome to Judea ...

369. Saints Alive!

Matthew 5:1-12

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Theodore F. Schneider

... nature makers of peace. In Saint Augustine's Summa Theologica he has written: Peace is the work of justice indirectly, insofar as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.1 Confident in God's promises and with a clear hold upon what is promised to come, Christ's disciples endure persecution, slander, and alienation for the sake of the kingdom. Though one is a victim of such activities, a disciple accepts ...

370. Death of a Nineteen-year-old

Philippians 4:2-9

Eulogy

Louis M. Pratt

... in the cities, dangers in the wilds, dangers on the high seas, and dangers from false friends. In the midst of his trials, Paul experienced God's presence in such a way that he found the strength to go on. It was not a shallow strength based on the notion that his faith guaranteed him a smooth life. With Job and Paul, we are promised no easy answers. Life can be tough, and, as Jesus said, "God sends his rain on the just and the unjust." However, the unjust are left without the presence of Christ to sustain ...

371. Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... the lowest form of railroad accommodations. He continued to struggle with his sense of debt, this idea that he owed something for the great satisfaction that life brought him. One hot summer day he attended a mission lecture which had as its theme the notion of debt or expiation. Later Schweitzer wrote: Reader 2: “It was there that I was struck for the first time by this idea of expiation. It had an extraordinary effect on me. Till then, in Dogmatics and New Testament commentaries, this word “expiation ...

372. Water Boy

Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Justin Tull

Today’s scripture provides for many sermon possibilities. I could have dealt with Moses’ swift departure from Egypt and preached about running from our foes and our fears. I could have taken the second half of our story and played with the notion that here shepherds are not the honored guests of the Christ child but bullies who mistreat all seven of Reuel’s daughters. And a most tempting choice would have been to speak of the “spoils of hospitality.” Just for defending women’s rights, Moses is ...

373. Doing Love

Revelation 21:1-27

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... to do, what to wear, what to say, what to eat. Dad, himself, is vulnerable. There are other men stronger than he; other men are faster or more handsome. He even gets the flu, like everyone else.All of us here have probably survived those early notions of ours about our parents. The thoughts that mom, dad and God were equals, all powerful, and all wise are replaced with reality. We move into an adult world with one another, but sometimes we leave our thoughts and feelings about God ata childish level. Today ...

374. Step Six - Willingness

Jn 5:2-9a · Heb 4:14-16 · Is 1:12-20

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John A. Terry

... listed the best pizza, the best athlete, the best country road. And it listed the best sermon. I do not know how many of the members of this congregation were involved in that vote. I just know I did not win. Aside from that offense, I found that whole notion of voting for the best sermon an extremely inappropriate measure of the life of a Christian church. Isaiah looked at all of the ways by which worship was judged, and said that the things that get you listed as "Best in the County" are not what God is ...

375. The Upside-down Kingdom of God

Matthew 5:1-12

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Johnny Dean

... most surely cannot save ourselves. Somewhere along the road we’ve become convinced that the appropriate goal for our lives is to be comfortable, secure, proud, and above all happy. If that were true, why in the world would we look to Jesus to confirm this notion? In particular, why would we look at the Beatitudes for confirmation of the "Don’t Worry, Be Happy" lifestyle? Even a quick reading of this passage (which is about all many of us give any passage of scripture these days) tells us that if we’re ...

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