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3801. This Spirit Is Not Spooky

John 14:15-21

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

These words were spoken just hours before the greatest act of love in world history, the death on a cross of God's incarnate Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He died in our place so that everyone who believes on him (Mark you, not in, but on him -- and there is a difference. To believe in something can be seen as nothing more than an exercise of intellectual assent for we remember that we are told, "Even the demons believe -- and shudder" [James 2:19]. To believe "on" him means to lay our whole lives on him and ...

3802. Called to Bigness

Isaiah 58:1-12, Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

James L. Killen

Lots of Christians think of Judaism as a worn-out, rigid old religion that needs to be replaced. Apparently Jesus didn't think that way. When Jesus gave the teachings that are parts of the Sermon on the Mount, he was speaking as a Jew to Jews. He apparently thought of himself as part of a vital religious tradition through which God had been at work for centuries and through which God was just about to do something new and even greater. When Jesus spoke of fulfilling the law and the prophets, he was calling ...

3803. Playing One Hand

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

Tom Garrison

In the beginning of any really significant human endeavor, be it a marriage or parenthood or a business venture, there is usually a high level of idealism and hope. We expect to do the thing we are beginning with great success. This was certainly true of Jesus' ministry. Who can read how he emerged out of Galilee saying, "The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of heaven is at hand, repent and believe the good news," and not sense the excitement and anticipation that was present in that act of beginning? And ...

3804. To Drown Hell and Burn Heaven

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

My dad was a good storyteller. He grew up on a farm in southern Minnesota in the days when there were no movie theaters or other kinds of entertainment, so my dad and his friends made their own fun. Judging by his stories, their entertainment involved a lot of pranks. Their imaginations really went wild at Halloween. Some of his stories I can't tell in public, but here's one I can tell. One Halloween night, my father and his friends snuck over to Uncle Ludwig's farm. They proceeded to systematically take ...

3805. Hallelujah! Come On, Get Happy

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

David G. Rogne

At the entrance to Disneyland is a sign that reads: "Disneyland — the happiest place on earth." Millions of people have come from all over the world to visit and partake of the happiness it was designed to create. Happiness is something that humans seek naturally. We are all on a pleasure hunt. We Americans even wrote the pursuit of happiness into our constitutional rights. Yet the more earnestly we pursue happiness, the more elusive it becomes. June Callwood, in her article "One Sure Way to Happiness" ( ...

3806. Good-Bye Mardi Gras, Hello Lent

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

Lent, the season of preparation for Easter, begins today. Traditionally, Lent is marked by prayer, fasting, self-reflection, and repentance. Lent is sufficiently serious that some Christian calendars have installed a season to prepare for it. It is called Mardi Gras. Whereas Lent projects a somber, almost lugubrious mood with a theme of denial and self-discipline, Mardi Gras is just the opposite. It is a time for parades, parties, and dancing in the streets. The celebration called Mardi Gras is, of course ...

3807. Setting His Face Toward Jerusalem

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

King Duncan

I’ve got a question for you this morning, a quick opinion poll. How many of you believe that current technology makes certain tasks easier? For example, how many of you prefer a washing machine to a washboard when doing laundry? How many of you like keeping in touch with family and friends on Facebook or Instagram? But how many of you also believe that we can misuse technology in ways that the inventors of these various technologies did not even think about when they invented them? For example, there was ...

3808. Get the Garbage Out!

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

For those of you who are parents or grandparents, I bet you remember your baby’s first words. Were you surprised by what those first words were? You spend the first six to nine months of your baby’s life just babbling at him and making all kinds of words and sounds. And one day, he or she suddenly responds! It’s a great feeling. Unless your baby’s first words are something unexpected. A parenting website asked parents to submit stories of the strangest first words their babies ever said. Laura Conaway from ...

3809. The Weeds

Matthew 13:30

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: weeds Is there anyone here who has a garden? What do you grow in your garden? Do you have any corn, peas, potatoes, pickles, tomatoes, strawberries? Sounds like a wonderful garden. Maybe you have flowers in a garden. Does anyone grow roses, petunias, daffodils or flowers like that? I think that people who have flowers around their houses have some of the luckiest houses in the world. A house has to feel dressed up when someone takes the time to plant flowers and make it look pretty. There is one ...

3810. What Kind of Sheep Are You?

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments. (Psalm 119) Animation: “What Kind of Sheep Are You” Online Test: http://selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=baaa Animation: Live Lamb (you can rent a lamb at your neighborhood 4H club or a nearby farm) Animation: Shepherd’s staff (any large natural wood staff will do) We love the Christmas story for its simplicity. Simple shepherds, simple sheep, simple message, simple mission. It all seems so simple. Hence ...

3811. Wicked

Luke 20:9-19, Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Prop: plant with fruit (olive tree or fig tree or grape vine) ”Then God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply.” (Genesis 1:22) "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) Most of us today are not much familiar with the idea of “tenant farming.” But it was a popular practice in many countries up until the 20th century. The term referred to a landowner who hires tenants to live on and ...

3812. Jubilaeum

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Genesis 2:4-25, Leviticus 25:8-55, Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

[If you can, sound a ram’s horn, or you can use a French Horn] [Sounding of the horn!] Hallelujah! The Lord be praised! This is the day of the Lord! And the people proclaimed…..Hallelujah! This is the day of the Lord! This is the day of the Lord! The day of Pentecost. The day we reaffirm our baptism in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit of Christ in our hearts and minds, lives and church. Praise the Lord! For you are God’s favored among God’s people. It’s a day of celebration! A day of utmost joy! I ...

3813. Serpentine Soul

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Prop: rubber snake (preferably a horned viper –warning, do not use a live viper) “I desire mercy, not sacrifice….I have come to call sinners.” (Matthew 9:9-13) I have here a snake. I can see the wrinkled-up noses, yes! That’s the reaction we usually have, most of us, to snakes! There’ something about a snake that just strikes discomfort or terror in the best of us. They are unusual looking, have sharp teeth. They are fast-moving and most of all unpredictable. In the holy land, especially in the desert ...

3814. When Someone Disagrees with You

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

Sometimes I run across a story that is so bad that I can’t resist telling it. A man walks into his doctor’s office and says, “Doctor, I’ve eaten something that disagrees with me.” Suddenly there is a voice from the man’s stomach. The voice says, “Oh no, you haven’t.” Oh, well. I warned you it was bad. I don’t know whether you have encountered any food that has disagreed with you but there are surely times in life when you have run into people who are, shall we say, disagreeable? It happens wherever there ...

3815. Measure for Measure

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“Poetic justice!” we say, when we feel a certain “punishment” exactly meets the “crime.” A bad guy in a movie ends up falling into the trap he set for someone else. A thief ends up losing everything. A murderer who prepares a poison ends up drinking it himself. While these make for great plots in fiction, they seldom apply to real life. Or do they? How about the overprotective mother who in her smothering loses the very daughter she seeks to shield? Or what about the wealthy woman who values accumulating ...

3816. Hungering for Some Time Off

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

King Duncan

How many of you have a hard time taking a vacation? We all want a vacation. We all need a vacation. But do you have trouble finding the time for one? Do you have trouble leaving work back at the office when you go on vacation? Do you feel like your vacation is re-charging you or draining you? Futurist and author Faith Popcorn claims that, compared to the rest of the world, Americans suffer from a condition called “vacation starvation.” The average employee of a large business gets about two, maybe three, ...

3817. Our Need and God's Provision

John 6:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

What’s your favorite food? The food you could eat once a day for the rest of your life, if you had to? At this time of year, you can find food festivals all over the U.S. that celebrate just about any kind of food you might enjoy. There’s a Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. Waikiki, Hawaii hosts a Spam Festival every year—if Spam is really what you long for. Atlanta, Georgia holds a Chomp and Stomp Festival every year that features a chili cook-off and bluegrass concert and dance. If you Google your ...

3818. How to Beat a Stress Test

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

If you have ever spent any time in an airport then you know how busy, crazy and complicated they can be. And think about all the things you don’t see—for example, the inner details of doing intensive security checks . . . or matching up thousands of pieces of baggage with the right traveler and the right airplane . . . or monitoring weather conditions all over the world. It’s pretty incredible that millions of people fly all over the world every year with few disruptions. How do airports do it? Well, did ...

3819. Meeting Jesus

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

My friend, Phil, had his vision checked regularly when he was a kid, just like most of us Baby Boomers did. The vision tester would come to the elementary school every year and everyone would go to the nurse’s office and read the eye charts. Then he went to junior high and high school and they didn’t test his vision any more. He went to college and graduated and started his career, got married, had a family and raised them and then, when he was in his mid-fifties he got Type-2 Diabetes and his physician ...

3820. When Table Talk Won a Super Bowl

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

King Duncan

Welcome to the Lord’s Table on this Maundy Thursday evening. This is a special place and a special time. It is, hopefully, a time when we as the family of Christ draw closer to one another and closer to God. Recently, in an unexpected place, I ran across an example of the closeness that can develop around a table. Football fans will remember that in the 2018 Super Bowl the Philadelphia Eagles pulled off a stunning win over the New England Patriots 41-33 in Super Bowl LII. According to writer and ...

3821. They Should Have Fired That Shepherd

Luke 15:1-3 (8-32)

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

Not too long ago I had the privilege of being invited to preach at a conference in a different part of the country. I had a great conversation with the organizer of the conference, bought my plane ticket, and headed to my destination. After landing safely, I retrieved my luggage and went to meet my host. I had seen her photo before, and she gave me a description of her and what she would be wearing. No sweat,right? Then, after a few minutes I saw her. I stuck up my arm and waved, calling her name. Her face ...

3822. When What You Signed Up For...

Acts 16:9-15

Sermon

King Duncan

I want to ask you a question this morning: how do you respond when God—or life itself—changes your plans? This question is relevant for everyone in the congregation because at some point in your life, God or life, if you will, will suddenly and unexpectedly change your plans for your day, maybe even for your life. There is an old “Peanuts” cartoon strip that I suspect we all can relate to. In the first panel Charlie Brown says, “I learned something in school today, I signed up for folk guitar, computer ...

3823. A Life-changing Question

John 9:1-41

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

Have you ever noticed how many questions you ask each day? We are constantly learning from our environment, and asking questions is a big part of that. It’s the best way to learn. Usually. But you have to ask the right questions too. Not every question leads to greater knowledge. Some questions lead to greater frustration. A few years ago, when the internet was fairly new, a woman named Nancy wanted to teach her elderly mother how to use it. So she introduced her to the website “Ask Jeeves.” Before Google ...

3824. You Can Talk the Game, but Can You Play the Game?

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

That's the rather impudent query that sprouted on tee-shirts after Duke's back-to back basketball national championships. Talk is cheap, but can you do what it takes to get in the game? Richard Hays, in his commentary on Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, says that sums up today's epistle, First Corinthians 9:24-27. One of you once congratulated me, during one of Duke's winning seasons for “never once mentioning basketball in a sermon. “I can see your point. At this time of year, around here, the ...

3825. Keep On Moving

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. Why did the rooster cross the road? He had something to cock-a-doodle dooo! We laugh at these “old as time” chicken jokes, but think about it. The chicken is kind of wise! Look here, he’s not going to let anything stop him from getting to the other side of that road. He’s a chicken with a purpose, and his goal is to get to the other side of the road no matter what comes his way! Now that’s a chicken with a mission! I’ve seen a lot of animals not ...

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