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351. Everybody Loves a Parade!

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... recall that Max Baer was a heavyweight boxer in the 1930s. His name was familiar to all who lived in that era. Max fought Max Schmelling from Germany, Primo Canerra of Italy, and the great Joe Louis. For a short time he was heavyweight champion of the world. Quite an achievement! After retiring from the ring, he had a series of heart attacks and lived his life apart from the spotlight. On the day that he died, he was sitting on the side of his bed when he was suddenly gripped with severe chest pains. He put ...

352. Congratulations, You've Made the Team

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... who informs us that Principal John Cairns once wrote to his teacher, Sir William Hamilton, "I do not know what life or lives may lie before me. But this I know, that to the end of the last of them, I shall bear your salutary mark upon me." I'm quite certain it did. Perhaps this is also what Rudyard Kipling meant when he wrote of the inspiration he found whenever he thought of his mother. If I were hanged on the highest hill, I know whose love would follow me still Mother o'mine, o mother o'mine! If I ...

353. Look Inside and Discover Life

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... away at all, but rather he tells Moses to make the bronze serpent and to tell the people who have been bitten that they must look upon this image in order to be healed. This seemingly subtle, but actually very profound action by God demonstrates quite clearly that Yahweh expects the people to make an overt gesture in order to be healed. God wishes the people to do something in order to correct the breech in their relationship with the Creator. The people are generally hesitant to act; their stubbornness has ...

354. The Reality of the Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to me. If your dad could come back to life for five minutes and be right here with us… and if he knew you were worried about that, what would he say to you?” “He would tell me to quit worrying about that,” Jim said. “Well, all right,” the minister said, “then you quit worrying about that right now. Do you understand me?” “Yes sir,” he said… and he did. That minister was saying: “You are forgiven. Accept the forgiveness… and make a new start with your life.” The young boy did make ...

355. Excited!

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We need to be shaken from a nominal faith to one that has a real impact in the world. Here is where a wild goose Pentecost can help us most of all. Many of us are in a rut spiritually. Our faith has become routine or, perhaps, even quite anemic. We're going through the motions, but our heart is not really in it. We need to reclaim the fire of that first Pentecost. When the Holy Spirit came upon the followers of Christ in Jerusalem on that first Pentecost, they were totally shaken out of their complacency ...

356. Led by the Spirit of God

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... near death. He's just down the hall, the third room. Maybe you should go in and visit him. He's unconscious, though." The deacon walked down and went into the room. There were tubes. You know how people are when they are just about gone, and lying there was quite an ugly scene. The man went over and took hold of the hand of the gentleman in the bed. Instinctively, led by the Spirit, he said a prayer. And when he said "Amen," the old fellow squeezed his hand. The deacon was so moved by that squeeze of the ...

357. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... away, I will find ample cause to walk away from a whole lot of people and situations in my life. I will walk away from my family, from my friends, and from my church. I may try to find ways to walk away from myself, as well. Quite the opposite from walking away, however, Jesus tells his followers to hang in there: to stay in that situation, that relationship, where we have just been hurt or offended or bruised. He not only denies us the seeming pleasure and satisfaction of retaliating, it appears that he ...

358. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... Phil is capable of great moral and spiritual evil. Evil crosses my imagination and makes its appeal every day. The seven deadly sins of lust and greed and sloth and envy and pride and gluttony and envy are weeds that grow in my garden, and if I ever quit pulling them up through the grace of repentance, they would take over. Left unattended, human life goes to seed. But, on the other hand, none of us are wholly given to evil, which is why we remain capable of genuine but partial good. Evil has its limits; it ...

359. Torn Curtain

Luke 23:44-49, Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... a brief stay. The man in Bed B was going through a terrible time. He had been hospitalized for fourteen weeks at that point, for any number of problems. He was writhing in pain behind the curtain that separated the two beds. He was ranting and raving quite loudly. This was quite an interruption for the man in bed A. His plan was to enter the hospital for surgery, heal, and go home, with no fuss or bother. It was impossible for him to ignore what was happening in the bed next to him, however. In his ranting ...

360. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong” (Mark 12:18-27). The Futility of Self-diagnosis Not too long ago I had a physical ailment. Like any red-blooded American male, I knew ... They were versed in the first five books of the Bible, but they just did not get it. So Jesus sumed it up, “You are quite wrong.” How sad-you-see. How sad to miss the resurrection. How sad to be so rational that you miss the central truth of ...

361. A Time of Grief

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... this life are inevitable: death and taxes. The Bible doesn’t give us any good news about taxes, but it does give us good news about death. Both our Old Testament lesson and our lesson from the Gospel of Luke for this day are about death, and they are quite similar. In the story from I Kings, the prophet Elijah is a lodger in the home of a widow. This widow has been very kind to Elijah. Tragically her only son becomes ill. He grows worse and worse, and finally stops breathing. The poor widow strikes out at ...

362. Chimps, Mount Saint Helens, and the Holy Gust

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... us the church is more of a spare tire in the trunk that we never see until an emergency, than of a steering wheel that we use every time we get in the car. At Pentecost the Spirit came on the newborn church like a mighty wind. We don't quite know what to do with a Holy Gust, do we? But every once in a while God will gust; God will blow a mighty whirlwind through our lives, more powerful than a tornado, and when he does, things will never be the same. Abraham Lincoln appreciated humor in his life ...

363. Seeing Just Enough of God

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... her genuine, but naïve prayer, she and her husband moved to a new state. A friend had started an "innovative" ministry, and needed her husband's help to handle the staggering work load. So, they packed everything up and moved across the country. Well, the workload wasn't quite as full as the friend had led them to believe. Her husband had to get odd jobs around town just to put food on the table. With her husband coming home dirty and tired every night, she didn't find life as sweet as she had a few months ...

364. Life, Death, and Judgment

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... following the rightful orders of one's master. The key point is that we are all servants of Christ. Thus, it is very dangerous to question the actions of someone who is the servant of another, not subject to us. In the military the idea is quite easy to understand. Everyone in the military is somewhere in something called the chain of command. This is the pattern that lawful orders normally follow. The person in charge gives an order, and the people who are under that person carry out the orders. There are ...

365. Plain Talk

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... Dan, the two versions of the Beatitudes, one in Matthew and one in Luke, and that they are very different. Matthew is really quite lovely, and Luke is quite hard. Dan said, "Well I've got an idea. I will write an anthem on Matthew's version, and you preach a sermon ... like little adults. And they are happy. And they are well behaved. You can see the love that binds these families together. It is quite lovely. It is wistfully attractive. "Tis a gift to be simple, Tis a gift to be free, Tis a gift to come down ...

366. Million Dollar Christmas

Matthew 19:21

Drama

Matthew Powell

... the world were they? Edgar 1: One by one they began to come back to me. I had wished that my housekeeper Mary's nose might be a half an inch shorter than it was. Another thing was that my sister-in-law would stop her exaggerated boasting about her quite average children. And, oh yes, I remembered another thing I had often said to myself that I desired more than anything in the world: that my sister Jane might have a sense of humor. Well, I am a millionaire now and can have anything I wanted. Edgar 2: I will ...

367. Building Our Foundation on God

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , and he can play for the Senators, but when the season is over Joe's soul belongs to him. After a moment of thought, Joe agrees and he is instantly transformed into a young man again. Joe manages to get a try-out with the Senators and the manager is quite impressed. Soon Joe is making newspaper headlines as a star and the Senators begin to win games and move up in the standings. As the season begins to draw to a close, the Yankees and Senators are neck and neck for the pennant and a chance to go to the ...

368. Things to Come!

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... church and what ministry would be like, eh? Oh, the frustration of wasted seed, the galling bitterness of a mixed harvest, the bureaucratic nightmare of a proud and savorless denomination and the evil right inside the church! Like I said at the outset, I'd quit if this is all there was to the crucible of ministry! But it is not! For Jesus, having finished these four parables before a mixed multitude on the seashore, walked into a house with his apostles, then told three more parables. Check it out in verse ...

369. Once More with Feeling!

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father." What is the first thing we should do when something upsetting happens? When we feel like the blessings have quit flowing? If you are driving down the road and you have a flat tire, do you curse and fume at your delay? What's the ... was the pastor of a growing church. Things were great! He had plenty of food to eat. He was safe, healthy, and quite satisfied. Then came a call to Macedonia. And Paul went. But what should happen? Paul was rejected by the Macedonians. He was ...

370. A Life Well Lived

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... St. Paul. We don’t know how old Paul was at his death. In Philemon 1: 9, though, Paul refers to himself as an “old man” as well as “a prisoner of Christ Jesus.” We may not think of his being old, because he was still quite active--writing letters, traveling (when he wasn’t in prison for his preaching), encouraging churches. Yet, of course, none of these activities require youth. Paul’s last letter may have been to his young protégé Timothy. Listen as St. Paul reflects on his life: “For I ...

371. The Problem with Busybodies

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... sensed that the little cat ran with her. She writes, “I walked past dozens of potted flowers, under a sky as blue as one of God’s own dreams, and I opened the door to my house and stood there a minute. Then I hung my head and said, ‘I quit.’ Then I swore and said, ‘All right. You can come in.’ This was the beautiful moment of my conversion.” This wasn’t the end. She got pregnant again, and she still had to go into recovery, but she was hooked. She was in love with Jesus, and Jesus was in ...

372. Advent 1

Matthew 24:36-51, Romans 13:8-14, Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 122:1-9

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... 13:35 parallels Matthew 24:42. Mark 13:34 is omitted by Matthew at this point in his Gospel, but he has similar, though more elaborate, material at 25:13-15 (possibly derived from a "Q" tradition, since there is a parallel in Luke 19:12-13 that is also quite different from Mark in its development, but similar to Matthew 25:13-15 to a degree). There is strong similarity between Matthew 24:37-41 and Luke 17:26-35 and between Matthew 24:43-44 and Luke 12:39-40. Thus, for study, the comparisons are: Matt. 24:36 ...

373. Epiphany 4

Psalm 15:1-5, Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... priest, Christ blesses the hearers. Structure. Verses 1-2 introduce the well-known Beatitudes in vv. 3-12. The material is quite deliberately structured, as can be seen from a careful comparison of this passage with the comparable text in Luke 6:20- ... came originally through the concern of pious Jews to avoid using God's name or even referring to God directly. Verse 6 is quite similar to this line, though its sense is more straightforward. Fourth, the reference to the meek in v. 5 recalls Psalm 37:11. " ...

374. Changed Lives - The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... we have a problem? “I have no husband,” she replies. Jesus says to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” “Sir,” the woman says, “I can see that you are a prophet.” He was a prophet, all right, but he was different than any other prophet she would ever encounter. He was breaking all the cultural taboos. He was reaching out to a woman, a Samaritan woman ...

375. Give Thanks in All Circumstances

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

James W. Moore

... reach is by a terrifying ride in a swaying basket, pulled by a single rope by several strong monks. One day an American Tourist was about to ride up in the basket. However, he became very nervous when he noticed that the rope was quite old and quite frayed. Timidly, he asked: “How often do you change the rope?” One of the monks replied: “Whenever it breaks!!!” Many people today treat faith like that. They never turn to faith until something breaks. But, thank God, there are others who realize that ...

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