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3751. Christ Has Set Us Free

John 8:31-41

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... fruit, we gag on it, and we’re left with the same brown aftertaste that whoopee always brings. Just like Adam and Eve we feel a sense of being exposed and we also try to cover up. But alibis and passing the buck don’t work any better than fig leaves. To all who are slaves without realizing it, Jesus serves notice that "everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin." The big lie captures us so smoothly we don’t see it coming. Judas must have slipped just a few coins into his pocket only now and then, but ...

3752. The Footwashing

Luke 7:36-50

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... the verge of divorcing her husband. She even contemplated suicide, saying "Perhaps that would be best. I have nothing - except my sons - to live for." But she didn’t and she wouldn’t give him up. She said, painfully, "I love him too much to leave him, no matter what he has done to me." She suffered through the situation for almost three years before a change came. Her husband returned, sought forgiveness and reconciliation, and she was ready and able to say, "I forgive you" and mean it. Their marriage ...

3753. The Beginning of the End

Luke 9:57-62

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... go." And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head." To another he said, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." Another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home." Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and ...

3754. Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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... , with his self - well, death is nothing to be afraid of.’ " And when Sifford asked if his birth had not complicated his life for his mother and father, he replied, "Nobody ever loved a son more than I loved you." Sifford said, "Pop and I didn’t leave anything unsaid." And, in his turn, he told his father, "You and Mom are responsible for making possible everything I can achieve in life. There is no other way I can thank you enough for what you have done for me." And his father answered, "Only a father ...

3755. Time to Get Ready

Luke 12:32-40

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... April 17 - pointing out that, in a recent survey, 61 percent of the people surveyed called for, or were in favor of, a freeze on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. But more people than that were opposed to any unilateral action that would leave the Soviet Union with overwhelming superiority in nuclear missiles and warheads. But protests have largely gone unheeded, haven’t they? In the middle sixties the people of Scotland raised a hue and cry over the nuclear submarines that the United States based and ...

3756. The Man, the Message, and the Mission

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

George Bass

... and then there will be hope for our homes and families to survive the problems that beset them. But isn’t Jesus expanding the horizon of our familial relationships when he calls for loyalties that supercede our narrow familial boundaries? He calls for us to leave behind our family loyalities - if necessary - and follow him. He is the one to whom the highest forms of commitment are to be made - regardless of the cost. And he expects us to make that commitment - and pay that personal cost at all times - if ...

3757. Heaven Can’t Wait

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

... from the government where our security is vested, beyond the coronary, or the cancer, or the hospice, or the other dreadful possibilities. Heaven is our home. "We believe in ... the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting." While those we leave behind cash in our insurance policies, liquidate the assets, sell the house and clear the mortgage, distribute furniture to antique shops, hold a public auction, and divide the spoils, we will have joined another company, those saints of God who served ...

3758. Advancers Over Decliners

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

... thorns. As for the Kingdom of God, we have been enroute in that direction for 2000 years, but there is little sign of its appearance. But the Purpose Has a Point A certain nobleman, the story tells us, called his servants to a meeting, announced that he was leaving for a distant country to receive a kingdom, entrusted to each one of them a pound, then left with no return date set. At his ultimate return, he called his servants in for an accounting. Two were able to report advances in the value of his stock ...

3759. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... you with the gift of everlasting life, you will bring the royal diadem to crown him Lord of all, and your Lord, your king, too. "There they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left." And we recall before we leave this crucifixion scene that we, too, have been crucified with Christ. We died with him. The hopelessness of our bad situations, the guilt of sin, the power of death, the fear-filled future - these have all been stripped of their destructive powers by the Power on ...

3760. Christ Is King

John 12:12-19

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... like to claim as friends. They were from the ranks of the poor, the oppressed, the captive. His attendants were selected from the fisher folk and tax collectors in a province the important people scorned. When he died, he had nothing but a rag to leave behind. But is there evidence of royal trappings in his reign today? Is there anything to suggest that Christ is in control - in the world of war, or in this imperfect church, or in the pain and pressure and disaster of our personal empires where foundations ...

3761. The Man Who Came to Dinner

Luke 14:1-14

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Carveth Mitchell

... neighbors, lest they invite you in return, and you be repaid. Invite the poor, the maimed, the lame and blind and you will be blessed because they cannot repay you." (verse 14) One Sunday when this passage was the Gospel for the day, a woman leaving the early service met a friend who was arriving for the later service. She asked, "Are you still having the family and your husband’s friends for his surprise birthday dinner?" "Of course," her friend replied. "Well," the first woman said, "you’re going to ...

3762. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

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... the comfortable. If Micah were teaching in one of our theological seminaries today, or speaking in one of our retreats for pastors, we can imagine the direction of his challenge. It is not at all likely that he would leave the impression that ministerial responsibility is adequately discharged in the stereotyped processes that have been described as "hatching, matching, patching, and dispatching." An especially insightful and frustrated preacher of whom I know must have taken his cue from Micah. What ...

3763. Weed-Pulling

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Richard Patt

... mercy of his Son, Jesus Christ. So let God be the judge. Let him act! He knows all. He sees all. He does everything the best. Let us be faithful workers and believers in his vineyard. Let us be the strong, healthy, best wheat that he can make us. And leave the rest to him.

3764. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

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... pity for them, and he healed their sick. That evening his disciples came to him and said, 'It is already very late, and this is a lonely place. Send the people away and let them go to the villages and buy food for themselves.' 'They don't have to leave,' answered Jesus. 'You yourselves give them something to eat.' 'All we have here are five loaves and two fish,' they replied. 'Bring them here to me,' Jesus said. He ordered the people to sit down on the grass; then he took the five loaves and the two fish ...

3765. Saving Sinners

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

... we are laid low. With the Apostle Paul we shake our heads at our own failure and exclaim, "The good that I would, I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do. O wretched man that I am!" Such awareness of moral and spiritual failure can leave us feeling deflated and depressed. It must have been that way for the ancient psalm writer when he prayed, "Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord hear my prayer! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If you, Lord, should ...

3766. The Yoke of Christ

Matthew 11:25-30

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... of Christ and thus the more spiritually satisfying way, in the counseling process. A person comes to a counselor - some minister or medical person, or other trained listener - and the glory of such sessions is often to witness the troubled person leaving the heavy yoke of concealment and repression and unreality, and choosing the lighter yoke of creatively dealing with personal shortcomings or inadequacies. People have often told me, even after an initial counseling session, that they feel a burden has been ...

3767. Life is Like a Seed

Titus 3:4-7

Children's Sermon

... ? How many of you remember God saying something like that? Last summer I had some tomatoes that I grew in my back yard. How many of you know what a tomato plant looks like? It has a long stem, kind of looks like a fuzzy piece of celery and has leaves that are rough and kind of pointed in places but the best part is the round red ball that we call a tomato. Well, inside of that red ball called a tomato are seeds. Now my plants got brown and finally gray after they died and they no longer stood ...

3768. Important People

Philippians 2:9

Children's Sermon

... something called a name tag and when you get back to your seat you have your mother or father write your name on it and then put it on your shirt or blouse so everyone can see it and we will all get to know each other. But before you leave I have a picture here. I want to see if everyone knows who it is. Hold up your hands if you know. (Show them pictures of Jesus). Even the adults should hold up their hands if they know. Look children! All the adults know who it is, too. Who is ...

3769. God Is Like a Key

1 Corinthians 10:13

Children's Sermon

Object: Padlock and key, box or something to which you can attach a padlock to hold it fast. Well, here we are, boys and girls, getting ready for the last month of vacation. It’s funny how we get into things so easily and then they are so hard to leave. I know that I sure like to start my vacation and I sure am sorry when it’s over. You know, that’s almost the way it is with sin. You know what I mean. It’s so easy when we start, but it becomes so hard when it’s ...

3770. Fixing The Fox!

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to his word. He will honor all men and respect the person of every man to the extent that he will not harm but only help the neighbor. A Christian will continue his interest and support of the church in a day when it is fashionable to leave the church for some esoteric movement. Now the church seems to be on the decline. Membership is falling. Attendance is dropping. While all this is going on, the true Christian will remain loyal to the church because he believes in her. The church is of God. The church ...

3771. Cross Purposes

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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John R. Brokhoff

... power of the cross to cleanse. Power to Change The cross has also the power to change. Here again, man probably is not impressed by this claim of the cross's power. We see changes all the time. Churches often find themselves the victim of changing neighborhoods. Leave town for a year and when you come back, you are so impressed with the changes that you say it is not the same place. Man's environment and conditions change, but man does not change. He does not have the power to change himself. if man changes ...

3772. BALLOONS!

1 John 5:1-12

Children's Sermon

... . But really those people are more like a balloon, because once the pen is without ink you just throw it away and the light bulb you just break; but with a balloon you can always put more air into it. People sometimes forget what Jesus wants of them, and they leave him out of their lives; but, even though that is bad it is not the end of the line like a broken light bulb. We need Jesus to be alive just like the balloon needs air, the pen needs ink, and the pencil needs lead. But Jesus says to us ...

3773. If Only We Would Do The Obvious ...

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... she had had a "disgusting" letter, another time a "manipulative" telephone call. She viewed an invitation to come home for a visit or a holiday as an interference. When her parents sent food or money, Ann said that was their way of trying to control her. "Why can’t they leave me alone!" she would cry, as her face twisted into a frown. "Don’t you know why they can’t?" I asked. "I know what you want me to say," she would respond. "You want me to say that they love me. But they have to because any decent ...

3774. If Only We Would Hold On ...

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... eastern prairies during the early settlement of our country. In her struggles against the hardships of a settler, she developed a sturdy noble character. Her son, relying on the money she had accumulated, sought an easier life. He tried first one thing and then another, leaving each job whenever he got tired of it. One day the mother confronted her son openly. She told him that if he had stood up to things when they were hard, his resistance would show in his hands and his face, but because he always took ...

3775. If Only We Would Accept Responsibility ...

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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Wallace H. Kirby

... call usually meant critical illness or death, but this call was from the police. The church’s security system had alerted the police, and they asked the pastor to meet them at the church. By the time he arrived, a "visitor" had been apprehended as he was leaving the building. He was carrying a bag of tools and one door showed the marks of his crowbar. "What were you doing in there?" a police officer demanded. Holding his bag of burglar’s tools, the thief replied, "I broke in to pray. That’s what God ...

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