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3801. The Season of the Holy Spirit

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon Aid

Wayne B. Keller

Theme: Thanksgiving THE COMMUNITY GATHERS One pastor began this way: We meet to praise, in a sense, to "Cheer for God." The amen literally means, "hip, hip, hurray!" Call out some praise words; and ask the people to respond with "hip, hip, hurray!" Then, conclude with Iranaeus statement, "The glory of God is man/woman fully alive!" so, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, as thanksgiving, thanksliving people! You may ...

3802. Living Sacrifices

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

William J. Carl

... mood in the country. “No,” the chaplain replied, “they’re very anxious and unsure.” They knew that they may have to sacrifice their lives for their country or was it for our way of life? Whatever the case, perhaps they, too, felt the sense of incompleteness the country feels over Vietnam, but like the commander over all the troops of Operation Desert Storm who also fought in Vietnam, they understood his comment when he said to a reporter: “Everyone loses in war. Everyone.” It is true, isn’t ...

3803. What's In The Final Exam?

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

George Johnson

... good news, especially for the victims. This story of the great judgment is also meant to give us something on which to focus as we guide the ship called the church through rough waters. When you take another look at this list, repeated four times, you sense a central focus on people - on certain kinds of people. Their needs all touch the heart and call for a life of compassion. In other words, in all of our theology, our music, our worship, our programs and budgeting, there needs to be a focus on compassion ...

3804. Have You Accepted Jesus' Invitation?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

George Johnson

... love that will transform you, not your promise to be good. It is God's love that will wash your eyes. It is GOd's love that will empower you to follow, not your down payment of a good life. It is God's love that will give you that sense of being forgiven, not your good grades in behavior. The hymn says it so well, "Just as I am, I come." 4. Take hold of someone's hand as you come. To accept the invitation to the marriage feast is to come into a fellowship with others. We don't ...

3805. What Is Servant Leadership?

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

George Johnson

... of saints. It is, rather, a hospital for sinners." What binds us together is not our accomplishments but our common brokenness, our need for love and forgiveness and our allegiance to Jesus Christ. To be a servant church or a servant leader means to model a sense of love and acceptance toward others. People look for models to follow. A child looks for a model in learning how to live as a baptized child of God. If the church and its leaders talk about love and acceptance but do not practice it, then we ...

3806. How Does One Prepare For The Unknown?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

George Johnson

... and the temptation is strong to express oneself in a selfish, exploitive, destructive manner. In a very quick moment, the beautiful becomes ugly because we weren't ready for such an encounter. Greed is often masked as progress, growth or good business sense. We may be riding the wave of success - reaping the rewards of hard work when suddenly and subtly, prosperity turns into greed, wanting more than we need, more than our share, what belongs to someone else. Greed is a powerful temptation that uses ...

3807. Is It Too Late?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

George Johnson

... neighbor 10,000 miles away whose survival is connected to our use or abuse of natural resources? How do the millions of cars we drive affect countries where almost no cars are used? As Jessica Matthews, who monitors global ecology, says, "We need a new sense of shared destiny." And finally, what can we do to be better stewards? What can we do as individuals, as a community, as parents, as employees, as first world citizens? We will explore some options, some practical steps, some questions that we need to ...

3808. Beyond Bread and Butter

Luke 12:42-48

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... neighbors as ourselves. “Bread for myself is material,” wrote Berdyaev, “but bread for my neighbor is spiritual.” Labor has a contribution to make in the field of human welfare. Starting within its own folds it needs to help workers feel a deeper sense of calling. It needs to seek out ways of training and using humanpower creatively, leaving the routine to the machine. Even though much progress has been made in this country in securing justice for all, many challenges lie ahead. The United States ...

3809. The Strength of the Master

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... for them to return to their homes for their evening meals, he took his responsibility as a leader seriously. Dividing them into groups of fifty he saw to it that they were fed before they began their journeys home. On the Cross Jesus still felt a sense of responsibility for those whom he left behind and commended them to care for each other as he had cared for them. The Master took his human responsibilities seriously. Like us, Jesus was fully human. Suppose you had been rowing all day and had just pulled ...

3810. Trumpets on the Other Side

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... universe a mad, haphazard one composed of billions of atoms swirling everywhere, going nowhere. It makes it a scramble of old elements thrown together with unexplainable origins and meaningless destinies. If this view be accepted, growth, progress, and evolution make no sense. Even the ideas of past, present and future are nonsense. Many of the best scientists cannot accept such a world view. “But,” some will assert, “I believe in God but I cannot believe in eternal life.” Such a view portrays God ...

3811. The Kingdom of God Is Like… a Joke!

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Steven Burt

... experiences with strangers who became our family in France, we know that goodness also comes from unexpected places.2 I’m not sure just what might give us that sudden flash of understanding, that Aha! moment which unexpectedly and almost violently fills us with a sense of possibility, of the presence of the Kingdom of God. After all, we may believe, as those pious Jews who were listening to Jesus believed, that we are the brothers and sisters of the household of faith, that we are the chosen people, the ...

3812. The Still Small Voice

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Steven Burt

Paul Tillich, the great American theologian, said: “Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone and it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” That’s elegant. And it rings true. Haven’t we all, at some time in our lives, ...

3813. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Steven Burt

... beckoning with his hand, “Come and have breakfast.” And what of Peter’s sin? What of three denials in the courtyard? Maybe Peter needed to be able to act something out to counter the three denials which were so sharply etched in his memory. Maybe Jesus sensed that. That passage continues: When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” A ...

3814. Small Church Communion

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Steven Burt

... or others struggling to believe or to search out their faith -- who all share together, pray together, live together, and eat and drink and give thanks together. They’re active, not passive, in their ministering as the Body of Christ. They have a sense of who they are together as the “family of God.” William Willimon and Robert Wilson don’t pull any punches in their book, Preaching and Worship in the Small Church (Nashville: Abingdon Creative Leadership Series, Lyle Schaller ed., 1980). In a section ...

3815. The Gospel Of Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

James Garrett

... a Jewish delicatessen, who sent him into the kitchen to wash dishes. He was so hungry that he sneaked scraps of food off the plates he was cleaning. And no one said as much as a kind word to him. “Finally, on the day before Christmas, he came to his senses. ‘How often,’ he thought, ‘have I seen my father set hired help down to a steaming meal at my mother’s table, and I am stuck here eating this garbage! I am going to hightail it out of here and return home as fast as I can, and I will ...

3816. The Proof Is In The Fruit

Luke 6:39-49

Sermon

James Garrett

... dwells. This indwelling experience results in a new lifestyle. In the sixth chapter of Luke, verses 39 through 49, Jesus underscores the inseparable union of what one is and what one does. Here is an example of the humor of Jesus. If you have any doubts that God has a sense of humor, look in the mirror! It must have been with a smile that Jesus gave the parable of a person with a log in his eye trying to extract a speck of dust from someone else’s eye. We have no right to criticize unless we ourselves are ...

3817. The First Christmas Message

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James Garrett

... and said, “I can see a family resemblance. You are a child of God.” Then he put his hands on the boy’s shoulders and straightened up and said, “Boy, you’ve got quite an inheritance. Go out and claim it.” God made Christmas for us. But there is a sense in which all of us have to make our Christmas. All the salvation of God is finished and complete, but it is not mine until I claim it. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him still The dear Christ ...

3818. Good News From A Graveyard

John 20:1-9

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... it all during Lent. We expect it. We plan for it. For example, we already know the day on which Easter is going to be celebrated next year and perhaps even know where we are going to be. And because we expect it, we tend to lose the sense of amazement and surprise. But while Easter's revelation of resurrection is anticipated by us, it took the disciples completely by surprise. A person who has been dead for three days doesn't just get up and begin living again; that would violate all the accepted laws of ...

3819. A Farewell Gift

John 14:15-31

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... they are all quiet. What is the music, the theme that is played? It is a recording of a mother's heartbeat as heard by the fetus within the womb before it was born. Apparently the infant's cry of terror in a new environment is stilled by the sense of security evoked by the sound of a mother's heartbeat. So it is with the Christian. Amid the struggles, great and small, which we face every day, we need to stop our frantic activity and take time to let our Lord embrace us through the Holy Spirit. Through ...

3820. Not Defeated But Victorious

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... ; not to pry but in loving concern. When difficulties arose, regardless of what they were, you could always count on ___________. He would never let you down or betray you. We are all thankful today for a loyal and true friend whom we cherish in tender memory. His sense of humor was always evident even in his dying days. One noon during lunch he wanted to talk about this service which we now share. He said, "_______, don't make it sad. In fact, why don't you get some dancing girls for my friends to watch ...

3821. Doing Battle With Death

Romans 8:1-17

Eulogy

Laurence A. Wagley

... sent his only son into a cruel and purposeless world. The sign of the cross reminds us that God knows and understands the grief of a parent. This caring God who suffered the death of a child is here with us in our grief. In our gathering there is a sense of impotence, of helplessness. We reach out to ________ and ________, but we also turn away in the agony of knowing there is nothing we can do or say to put things right again. Who can do battle with death? Who indeed! Yes, it is a word to speak today ...

3822. For of Such is the Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 19:13-15

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... brain during the next minutes and suffered ninety percent irreversible brain damage. Had he lived he would never have been the normal active fun-loving boy well known in church and school activities. He lingered unconscious for several days before he died. In the usual sense there was no funeral. His body was immediately cremated. The family preferred a worship service at church on an evening. If a funeral can ever be a joy this service of worship was exactly that. God's spirit was there, and felt by all ...

3823. God's Everlasting Love

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Stephen Youngdahl

... the bridge, the son was frightened as he looked at the swirling water below. He worried all day because he knew they had to come back the same way and by then it would be dark. It was late in the afternoon when they started to return home. The father sensed that his son was nervous, so he picked him up and carried him. Soon the boy was fast asleep. When he awakened he was surprised to find he was home, it was morning, and the sun was shining brightly. With his father he had gone safely on his way. And ...

3824. Hope In Christ

Sermon

Tom O. Miller

... memories, we also do much in sharing faith. For in sharing memories, we also share that portion of our life that gives us meaning and hope in the middle of our feelings of loss and grief. We share what gives us hope in the middle of a sense of hopelessness. Over the centuries, people have shared their faith. They have shared it in words rich in imagery. They have shared it in literal language, and in picture language. They have shared it even in the words of scripture just read, which is simply a piece ...

3825. There Is a Season

Romans 8:28-39

Eulogy

Mark P. Zacher

... of our season, of time with our wife and mother and sister. Rather, even in death, there is a time for hope and promise. There is for _____________, and for you and me, resurrection and new life. No, we cannot understand this time of death. For us it makes no sense. For us it is frightening and tragic. But, we have the promise and the assurance of God that this time of death is not the end. There will be a time for life and for love. __________ will rise to new life. We have God's promise. For everything ...

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