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3801. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... anything that''s been sprayed," he said forcefully. "Nor do I eat anything with chemicals added to it." "How do you feel?" asked an interested listener. With a sad look on his face he replied, "Hungry!" This morning we are dealing with a ... preserve it for your children and love it--as God loves us all." In the second place, just as we can change the way we feel about the earth''s resources, we can change our behavior in using them. To hear some environmentalists, you would think the solution is just to ...

3802. Maturity in Stewardship

2 Corinthians 9:6-15, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... Booth Luce was appointed U.S. ambassador to Italy, she rented a 17th century Italian villa. Soon she noticed she was not feeling well. She was tired, lost weight and had little energy. She got worse and worse. After intense medical tests doctors determined ... can tell the difference between necessities and luxuries. A Christian steward’s lifestyle and giving will reflect the responsibility he feels for the blessings God has bestowed upon him. And his lifestyle will show that he seeks contentment in doing ...

3803. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... they scoop out what they need, then put one scoop in a bag. By the end of the week they have fourteen scoops of rice, which they put in the offering to be distributed to the needy." Wow! They do not consider themselves needy. Some of us feel life has cheated us if our neighbor drives a nicer car than we drive. No wonder there is no joy to our lives. A small girl visited around her neighborhood and acquired cookies, candy, and a collection of trinkets. When her mother reproved the little lady for bothering ...

3804. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... the end of their rope, someone whom life has treated badly, someone who finds that every direction they turn is a dead end, someone who feels that they are a failure in life and there is no hope, and say to them, "Dear one, with Jesus Christ there is always ... s not too late to make a fresh start with Christ. Maybe you've lost that spiritual excitement because of a sin that has made you feel separated from God. Don't be afraid to confess it. Allow God to cleanse you of it and fill you once again with His joy ...

3805. Every Exit an Entrance

Isaiah 20:1-5

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... to perfect calm! Of waking and finding it Home! (2) ______________ has now found herself Home. In his book THE BEST IS YET TO BE, Henry Durbanville told the story of a man who lay dying. He was fearful, even though he was a Christian. He expressed his feelings to his doctor. The physician was silent, not knowing what to say. Just then a whining and scratching was heard at the door. When the doctor opened it, in bounded his big, beautiful dog, who often went with him as he made house calls. The dog was glad ...

3806. WHERE DO I GO FOR A REFILL?

Drama

Angela Akers

... ''t know. I used to think I was pretty good. I used to be fired up to do this kind of thing. But I haven''t felt that way in a long time. Now I''m just tired. I don''t have much left to give to anybody. I feel like a badly managed bank; I just kept giving and giving without putting anything back, and now I''ve been cleaned out. Total bankruptcy." Waiter: "Sounds like you should fire your board of directors." (They both laugh.) Man: "I wish I could fire me. Just let somebody else ...

3807. FLESH AND BLOOD BEINGS

Drama

Angela Akers

... Mom: "Oh yeah. Somewhere along the line these guys were taught that they are not all that great on the inside. Someone taught them that they''re no good unless they prove themselves in some way. So that''s how they feel about other people too. I kind of feel sorry for them." Son: "Oh, thanks Mom! Sympathize with the enemy." Mom: "Just think about it. Are you ready to leave cyberspace for the real world now?" Son: "I guess. But cyberspace is pretty cool. Someday we''ll be able ...

3808. ONE SHRED OF SOUL

Drama

Angela Akers

... long time. I guess I should catch you up on some stuff. Last time I saw you was when I was fourteen, the year before Stan left for Vietnam. Tell him hi'' for me. I was a regular back then. But then I got older, and church just didn''t feel right. I mean, the world was going crazy, and the church just...stayed the same. They didn''t even seem to notice. "Mom and Dad broke up a few years later, and I went to stay with Dad. I started going to a new school. That''s where I got ...

3809. CLEANING IT ALL OUT

Drama

Angela Akers

... -made. It''s just the way we order our calendar." Husband: "I disagree with you there. I think it''s much more than that." Wife: "What do you mean?" Husband: "I think humans created the idea of a new year because we need to feel that we can start over. We need to feel that we have another chance to re-create ourselves, our lives. If nothing else, New Year''s gives us a chance to look back at the old year and decide what in it is worth keeping and (holding up the Thighmaster) what is definitely ...

3810. Making Sense of the Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in the Temple (see Isaiah 6). Such metaphorical use of language ought not to bother us; we use language that way all of the time. We say that the sun rises and sets, but in our reflective moments we know that it does no such thing. We speak of feeling up and feeling down, and we understand what we mean. A few years ago in Sweden, a friend told me of a conversation he had with the manager of the hotel where we were staying. The manager inquired about my friends wife, and he told him that she was a bit under ...

3811. To Hell and Back

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... said, “O.K., now you hold the gun on me, and I’ll take a drink!” That is the way a lot of people seem to feel about the Christian life. Who in his right mind would choose it, unless forced to do so? But that isn’t what Jesus said. He didn’t ... . It’s like visiting a foreign land where we don’t know the language very well. How like a breath of fresh air it feels when we arrive back to our home country, where we can speak and understand the language! Well, according to Jesus, Love is the language ...

3812. What on Earth Is the Trinity?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... As good Jews, they believed in One God. But they had experienced the presence of God visiting them in the person of Jesus, who they called the Christ—God’s anointed One, (the Revealer of God). And when Jesus was no longer with them in the flesh, they did not feel that God had left them. Indeed, Jesus Himself had told them: “It is to your advantage that I go away, (for) I will send the Counselor to you. . . the Holy Spirit. I have been with you. He shall be IN you.” (see John 14:16) Jesus Christ, we ...

3813. What Happens When I Die?

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a little salary. When a person’s dreams and goals and purposes in life are destroyed, that person is destroyed. We not only need something to live on, we need something to live for. A young woman said to a prominent minister: “I have a terrible feeling of frustration that leaves me with fits of depression, and I’m scared, because sometimes I find myself wishing that there was an easy way to end it all..... That’s why your Christian teachings about immortality sound so silly to me. Why, I can’t ...

3814. Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blond

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , Sang hymns whenever they could. What the words were about They could never make out, But they felt it was doing them good. There is a hymn in the hymnbook of many churches titled “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” which contains language that I feel is bound to cause confusion. It starts out great: “Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.” So far, so good. But then comes the second verse which begins ...

3815. What about Spiritual Healing?

John 4:43-54

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... and thoughts for the strengthening of others. None of this discounts our need for doctors, nurses, and medicine. God works His healing power through all of these. We are expected to cooperate with the laws of nature which God has put in our world. I can only feel sorrow for those misguided people who refuse medical care for their loved ones under the mistaken impression that to use human means to heal is to deny our faith in God. No, I think that God has given us doctors and nurses and medicine, and I thank ...

3816. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is my Father’s world, O let me ne’er forget; that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet!” In other words, the old excuse “The devil made me do it” is a cop-out! Belief in the devil thrives when people feel overwhelmed by the complexity of life; and that certainly describes our kind of world. But the New Testament message is that the demonic forces which so often hold our world in slavery have already been defeated in principle through Jesus Christ. When we forget that fact, it ...

3817. Is Suffering Punishment for Sin?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to us: “Come unto Me. Come with all of your complaints and cares and worries and woes and shout them out to the God who loves you more than you will ever know. This God does not mind your honest doubts, or even your protests about His absence when you feel the need of Him the most, for all of these things are but proofs that you are serious about God. God can even handle your anger. I know, I have been through the dark and lonesome valley. Come with all you’ve got; come on, fighting, angry, cursing God ...

3818. How Do You Explain the Resurrection?

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... words sound! What more can be said? Death seems to have the last word. When we are on the receiving end of such words, they smash our hopes and tear at our hearts and gouge great holes into the fabric of our being. In that moment, we begin to feel real grief. Someone we have loved is dead. What more can be said? Lazarus is dead, and nothing more can be said. Unless Lazarus is a friend of Jesus. Without Jesus, death is terribly final. With Jesus...well, let us see. Jesus goes to Bethany, the home of Mary ...

3819. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in Hades forever to roll a huge stone up a hill only to have it roll down again on nearing the top. And then he would have to roll it back up again, whereupon it would roll down once more, etc. and etc. That's the way the average preacher feels each Monday morning. There's that doggone stone which has to be rolled up the hill one more time! Where do sermons come from? Well, this one came from one Greek word in our Scripture lesson which I came across a number of years ago and which has always fascinated ...

3820. God Doesn’t Take Vacations

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... folks who have been working hard, day in and day out, putting their faith into practice the best way they know how, and who once in a while grow a bit weary in well-doing. By all means, take a vacation. And when you do, don’t feel guilty about it. I am afraid that sometimes preachers lay guilt-trips on parishioners by putting little “blurbs” in the Sunday bulletins admonishing them: “Don’t take a vacation from God!” (As though God were not with us wherever we go.) I think a better approach would ...

3821. The Saint Who Played Second Fiddle

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is so called in the list of the twelve in both Matthew and Luke (Matt. 10:2; Luke 6:14). And, in the incident of the feeding of the five thousand, when he brought the lad with the loaves and fishes to Jesus, (John 6:8) the author seems to feel that people might not know who Andrew was, but everyone knew who Peter was, and the best way to identify Andrew was to call him the brother of the more famous Peter. But if it were not for Andrew, there would have been no Simon Peter. Interestingly enough, in the ...

3822. Philip the First

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... bills when the money isn’t coming in for the current year, and the pledges aren’t coming in for the coming year; and in the midst of all this, I am supposed to climb into a pulpit and say, “Ho-ho-ho!” To tell the truth, sometimes I feel like saying, “Bah! Humbug!” instead. But somehow it always comes in, and we pay our bills, and sometimes we even have a little left over to help us get started with the New Year. But every year, like Philip, I am fearful. Barclay says that Philip had “a warm ...

3823. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... overlooks the fact that the madman, after meeting Jesus, grew calm, not excited. There are a lot of things about this strange story that I simply do not understand. II. BUT I AM FASCINATED BY THE REACTIONS OF THE TOWNSPEOPLE - How did they feel about this remarkable event taking place in their midst? William Barclay, the great Scots Biblical commentator says that “One would have thought that they would have regarded the whole matter with joy; but they regarded it with terror. And one would have thought ...

3824. On Talking to Oneself

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , take a detour.” And sometimes we never get off the detour and back on track. Nouwen asks, “Don’t we often look at the many events of our lives as big or small interruptions, interrupting many of our plans, projects and life schemes? Don’t we feel an inner protest when a student interrupts our reading, bad weather our summer, illness our well-scheduled plans, the death of a dear friend our peaceful state of kind, a cruel war our ideas about the goodness of man, and the many harsh realities of life ...

3825. Childish or Child-like?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... enemies to ever stop preparing for war.” Goodman concludes that this so-called realism of adults may be the true “junk food” of our time. “We instill ideals in our children, resent it when our children challenge us for not living up to them, and then feel reassured when our kids give up their ideals like sleds or cartoons.” (Quoted in a sermon by David W. Schreuder in Master Sermon Series, Cathedral Publishers, 9/83, pp. 467-468) Can this be what Jesus had in mind when he asked His disciples not ...

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