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351. Proper 17

Hebrews 13:1-25, Jeremiah 2:1-3:5, Luke 14:1-14

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... sins, we are guilty really of only one: "They have forsaken me." Because we have forsaken God, we build cisterns that leak. Instead of drinking from God's fountain of life, we are content with stale water that eventually dries up. We do have innumerable sins of thought, word, and deed, but each comes from our rejection of God. That is why the first commandment, "I am the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods before me," is the most important of the 10 Commandments. Outline: If we have forsaken God a ...

352. And Then Came The Angel

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... is that when we are weighing the options carefully in the midst of difficult decisions, we are in the presence of the one true God who is always for us and always with us. One of these days we will find ourselves telling a friend about the time when we thought we wouldn't make it. The path was too difficult. The decisions were too hard. The journey back was so rough it wasn't worth it. We will tell them about how we trapped ourselves by deciding in favor of self and against God. We will tell them there was ...

353. Proper 16 & Pentecost 14

Matthew 16:13-20, Exodus 1:1-22, Exodus 2:1-10, Isaiah 22:1-25, Isaiah 51:1-16, Romans 11:33-36

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... ). God continues to bless those who exert themselves to extend life rather than destroy it. 2. Sermon Title: Children On Loan. Sermon Angle: Imagine going to your local rental store and renting a baby for two or three years and then having to return it. When a monstrous thought! Yet babies are not ours to keep; they are lent to us by God. We had better be sure we return them to their Maker in good condition. We must answer to God for carelessness or abuse of one of his little ones. Old Testament: Exodus 6:2 ...

354. Justified By Greed: Biography of a Pharisee

Micah 5:1-4, Zechariah 9:9-13, Isaiah 9:1-7, Matthew 27:45-56, Mark 15:33-41, Luke 23:44-49

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... and they believed in eternity with him, also. I do not understand them, and consider them inadequate and lost as people. I don't need to dwell on their problems or think about them. Since Jesus of Nazareth always eluded us when we tried to capture him, we thought of a plan. We decided to employ legions from the Roman army to take him prisoner during the night. The night would be the best for us because then none of the man's constituents would be able to interfere. We found a willing follower of his, Judas ...

355. Evergreen Wreath And Faded Leaf

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... which will one day fall from the tree. As the ability to concentrate is lessened and the latter days become less comfortable, perhaps many a senior citizen is tempted to toast the next generation with the words: "We hope you will be as happy as we thought we would be forty years ago." And, as long as we view the physical life as moving inexorably toward a grand anticlimax, it matters little whether the leaf falls from the tree in a violent storm or gently floats down from an old forsaken limb. The faded ...

356. Times Of Refreshing

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... to as Original Sin. That's not a reference to the sexual origin of our lives, or to something some first persons on earth are thought to have done. It refers to the universal inclination to think and act always in terms of our own welfare, our own best interests. There' ... eroded what I felt, my "self" got in the way. My "needs" cried out "take care of me," and joy dimmed day by day. I thought, "There must be more than this, I've spoiled what seemed so true And now I'm where I was before, Oh God, what did ...

357. No Particular Place To Go

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... Pat was in jail. "I have found God in my life stronger than I ever imagined," she claimed. Pat realized that God had been with her to help her face the wrongs and to deal with them. While in prison Pat made new friends with people she never thought possible. "The love of God and these friends make each day bright," she said of her experience. Slowly Pat's relationship with her family was also improving, with a lot of hard work on everyone's part. "Because of my total fall I have learned total dependence on ...

358. Flesh For Our Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... astounding to be himself in the flesh? "What is a good God like me doing in a place like this?" If he did, if ever he thought like that about his overlay of flesh, might he also have concluded, "This flesh, my flesh, is given to me so that I can give it ... -- how attractive even as it causes us to weep bitterly, how it draws us even though each detail grieves us. Could it be that our Lord thought in some way as the nails were driven into his hands, "This is my flesh, given to me that I can give it for the life ...

359. Resist Temptation

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... the presence of both. The wilderness was a huge set where the desert storm of the battle of the godly and the demonic could take place. That is precisely why Jesus was driven by the Spirit into the wilderness. The battle lines had to be drawn between the one who thought he was holding sway in the world, the pretender to the throne of God, the Evil One, and the One who had come not only to challenge him but to empty him of his false powers. The Forty Days Mark cites the fact that Jesus was in the wilderness ...

360. What’s Inside Comes Out!

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... got up, ran downstairs, came back, knelt and prayed the entire prayer, ending with, “If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” As mother tucked him into bed, she asked him why he interrupted his prayer and went downstairs. He said, “Mommy, I thought about what I was praying. I had to stop and put all of Jim’s wooden soldiers up on their feet. I had turned them on their heads just to see how mad he would be in the morning. If I should die before I wake I wouldn’t want ...

361. The Robe

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... day Josh found himself once again standing in the middle of The Hub with his credit cards just burning holes in his pocket. Fortunately, he was the only one in the store and David noticed Josh's anxiety. He saw that Josh was flushed and kind of nervous. He thought that maybe Josh was getting sick. "Are you all right Josh?" David questioned. "Oh, I'm okay, David. Well, now that you ask I've got something that's really bugging me but I can't talk here. Can we get together some time and talk after work?" "Sure ...

362. A Formula For Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... promoted to supervisor in his department. He worked darn hard to put me and my brother and two sisters through college. But there was never quite enough money so we all had to be on work study programs in order to make it through school. For a while I thought I was going to have to drop out my junior year because my classes and my job didn't integrate together. Remember I came to you for help? And you took such a personal interest in my predicament. You helped me work things out and I finally graduated with ...

363. The M And M Factor

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... how lucky they are." It wasn't anything he had to do! There was no must about it! It was a may, a response to the goodness that he had experienced in life - even in his present blindness! It is more than money. Giving also involves the resources of thought and experience and prayer and time - all those resources over which we are stewards. You may teach a church school class or you may sing in the choir. You may help with meals on wheels. You may build a house for another person or visit an elderly shut-in ...

364. Where's The Treasure?

Luke 1:5-25, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Thomas Long

... anticipatory touch of the treasure. An angel appeared to Zechariah and told him, "Do not be afraid, your prayer has been answered. You will have great joy and gladness. Your wife will become pregnant and bear a son." It was then that Zechariah, who thought holy thoughts, and handled holy things, and performed holy deeds, showed that he was not the place to leave the treasure. Zechariah, so familiar with the holy, finally could not believe the presence of the holy when it intruded into his life. "How shall I ...

365. The Resurrection Of Our Lord

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Mark 16:1-20

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... to eternal life. Sermon Title: Don't Hold Back The Dawn. Sermon Angle: When Mary finally realized that Jesus was raised to life, standing beside her, she reached out to Jesus in joy as she cried "Rabboni!" Jesus told her to not hold him back (v. 17). Mary probably thought that things would be like they had been. Not so! God was doing something new! Instead of returning to the old days, Mary was to tell his disciples of a the dawning of a new day. It was her mission to lead others into the light of that new ...

366. Show Us The Father

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... he was teaching. It would be years before we really began to understand so much of what he had said. "So, I made what I thought was an obvious request. If Jesus could only show us a little glimpse of God, then we would have been able to be sure that ... . When the women came that day to say he was risen, we had forgotten all about his being one with the Father. You would have thought we had never even met him, much less have lived with him all those months. "And then when he ascended, we were lost again. I ...

367. Sermon In A Word

John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... !" First Person: They turned to her as she rushed over to Peter. The glaze of depression was still over their eyes. Only John stood and went to Mary. "What happened?" Second Person: "I went back to the garden and he came up to me as I was sitting there. I thought he was the gardener. But when he spoke, I recognized his voice. It was Jesus." First Person: Peter put his hand over his face. If Jesus was alive, how he must hate them all for the way they had failed him and each other. What was the use of having ...

368. Reuben: I'm Not A Sandwich

Genesis 37:12-36

Drama

Dr. Raymond Bailey

... argued over who was more responsible for what had happened to him. We kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. Finally, it did. A severe famine struck the whole area. Our crops didn't grow. Our sheep didn't fatten. Their wool lacked luster. At times, we thought that we ourselves may have caused the wrath of Almighty God to come down upon us, and the entire region. Surely not -- but we wondered. In the time of famine, Father sent us to Egypt to buy grain -- the only group of people around us who foresaw the ...

369. Lent 5

Luke 21:1-4 · Psalm 36:5-9

Bulletin Aid

Jack Brownlee

... , the light and gentle breeze; she thanked God for the rain of the week before, which had helped the flowers grow. She even thanked God for the ragged and tattered old basket in which she so gently placed the flowers to bundle. God had indeed been good to her, she thought. It had only taken five hours to pick and sell the 15 carefully bundled bouquets: "A ha'penny each or three bunches for a penny." As she went back to her home she stopped at the market to buy some rice and bread (it would go well with the ...

370. Tears And Ointment

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Larry Powell

... Refusing the offers, he toed the mark and awaited the signal to run. When the signal was given, he was the first away. At the finish line, he was the first to cross, well ahead of the rest. When it was all done, someone asked the young man if he thought the flowers were worth as much as the money and property he had refused. He replied, "I did not enter the race for the flowers. I ran so that I could stand beside my king!" Again, the woman who "intruded" into the Pharisee's house apparently had one thing on ...

371. Christ the King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... , well, I'll just know God has other plans for me." "Have you managed to sell your house yet?" "Oh, no, God hasn't sent me a buyer yet." So he wants you to continue to make two payments? If that is his will, it is indeed mysterious. Have you thought of changing realtors?" "Your daughter was killed in an accident? Just leave her to God. He had his reasons for taking her." Please don't say that to people in the agony of grief. It's like a knife. You are telling them their grief is illegitimate, and so they ...

372. Elijah and the Widow of Zarapheth

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... , mama." Subjected to careful theological critique, such faith we'd probably judge naive, perhaps even superstitious. But it is real. There is no way you'd ever get such a person to doubt that she speaks to God and God listens, and God answers. My grandfather, we all thought, had a good chance to live to be ninety. He missed it by a bit. He enjoyed remarkably good health. The last time I saw him, he had just come down the ladder from the roof which he had been repairing. He had all his teeth, save one. He ...

373. The Conversion of Saul

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... you are right, I have more to smile about than you. I have hope even when things seem hopeless, and I am not shattered at the thought of death, for I look to a brighter future. The fact is, right now, I'm happier in my faith than you are without faith!" ... don't even know their names. But they were the bridge over whom Saul passed from the old life to the new. It is a sobering thought to know that when a life of great potential fails, it is not the shining light of God which is lacking, for he is always ...

374. No Need For Weeping Anymore

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Erskine White

... Jesus through the city to Herod's palace and then to Pilate's court, the mockery and the vicious whipping He received from pitiless soldiers who seemed to treat it as sport. She remembered how the disciples deserted Him and she groaned even more deeply as she thought to herself, "How hard it must have been for Jesus to watch His friends deny Him and run away." She remembered the raw hatred in the crowd, the way they spat upon Him and cheered His pain. Most of all, she recalled His hanging on the cross ...

375. A Voice Out Of The Cloud

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

James Garrett

... shrugged a little and left my class and my life. Later, I heard a report that Tom had graduated, and I was duly grateful. Then a sad report, Tommy had a terminal illness. Before I could search him out, he came to see me. “Tommy, I’ve thought about you so often. I hear you are sick.” “Oh yes, very sick.”… “Can you talk about it?” “Sure. What would you like to know?” “What’s it like to be only 24 and dying?” “Well, it could be worse.” “Like what?” “Well, like being 50 and ...

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