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3851. A Friend in High Places

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... hedging -- all these are reflections of our hope to be connected to what is permanent and our disquietude when we are disappointed because that permanence can be so evasive. How many children really believe -- and feel -- that the love of their parents is unconditional and will always be there? How many adults really believe -- and feel -- that the love of a mate or best friend is unconditional and will always be there? This hope we all have, and our despair when it is promised and then either not given or ...

3852. Presented to the Lord

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Does it make a difference when people love you and believe in you and encourage you? Of course, it does. I feel for children brought up by negative parents--critical, demanding, quick to admonish, slow to praise. I see people every day who are ... --not as a person of worth, of value, a person who deserves to enjoy abundant life. Is it too late? Are you doomed to always feeling a terrible sense of inadequacy? Are you doomed to a lifetime of being on the outside looking in at the lucky people who did receive ...

3853. God Help the Fish

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... how those closest to us will react. If we do change, our relationships will inevitably be affected. Other people are involved. We have responsibilities. If we change, how will our spouse react? How about our friends? It’s easier to stay in our comfort zone if we feel that others will regard us negatively if we seek to change. However, probably the greatest fear we have about beginning a new life is that we will backslide. Isn’t that true? What if we don’t succeed with our new life? We tell our friends ...

3854. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!” What do you do with a person who is tortured like this? Maybe you’ve been around someone who is in such mental anguish. It is a helpless feeling not knowing how to respond. Jesus responded, “Be quiet! Come out of him!” The evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek. Jesus knew exactly what this troubled man needed. But we are not Jesus. Sometimes we don’t know how to respond ...

3855. He Came by Night

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... A Pharisee is a member of a very select group. There are only about 6,000 of us in Palestine at any one time. We are a strict religious party that stands for all that is good in Judaism. We are not much interested in politics because we feel that politics tends to corrupt people. We are the "separated ones." That is what the name means: separated from the sinful ways of the ignorant and uninformed people who do not keep the law. We take our religion seriously. Our scribes have for centuries been working out ...

3856. The Fox

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... marry his brother's wife while his brother is living. Nor did they like the fact that Herodias was my niece. But I didn't feel that I was bound by Jewish laws. When I brought her back to Palestine, my first wife departed and complained to her father in Nabatea. ... pressured by the Jewish authorities to find Jesus guilty of some matter of Jewish law. As a Roman, Pilate apparently didn't feel that the charges against Jesus called for the death penalty. He was looking for a way out, or looking for someone else ...

3857. The Dangers of Being Religious

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... , one eye on his neighbor, and no eye on God. Aren't we perfectly capable of hearing a good sermon and thinking, "Boy, he really gave it to them today, didn't he?" 9. Are you constantly wallowing in guilt? Do you have feelings that you can never measure up? Are you driven instead of called? Do you feel compelled to work for God? To be clever? To be a super star instead of a super servant? Are you trying to go out and take Billy Graham's place? Paul, writing of his days as a Pharisee trying to earn salvation ...

3858. Waiting for Godot?

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... look to Godot for enlightenment. Unfortunately their waiting is futile, Godot never arrives, and we are left with the uncomfortable feeling that perhaps MacBeth was correct in his assessment, "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and ... flow May richer, fuller be. O Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, and feel the promise is not vain, That morn shall tearless be. O cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from thee; I lay ...

3859. The Road Less Traveled

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... 't lost your reason. You have lost your husband or wife: be thankful you didn't lose him or her by desertion or unfaithfulness. Your child is in the hospital: be thankful he isn't in a prison or reformatory. Never mind if, to start with, you don't feel the gushing of gratitude. Thankfulness is one of the disciplines of the Christian journey; it grows as we grow. When a day arrives in which you find it difficult to "put on a happy face," recall the words of a poet who, looking out on God's wonderful world ...

3860. Don't Fence Me In!

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... in connection with our personal living. An increasing number of Americans have espoused the notion that no one has the right to put any restraints on their liberties. "Don't fence me in" is their catchword. "It's my life, isn't it; if it feels good, I'll do it." Some time ago, a teacher, writing in one of our education magazines, spoke of the rejection of discipline, the vandalism and general disorderliness of the students in her large suburban high school. She quoted one of the seniors as saying, "This ...

3861. Who Can Ask for Anything More?

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... universe is One whom we, too, may call Father, One who calls us son/daughter. We marvel, do we not, that so many we know feel they cannot lay hold on this transforming relationship? For some, Walter de la Mare's "The Listeners" is a vivid description, "Is there anybody there?" ... Who is so low that I am not his brother? Who is so high that I have no path to him? Who is so poor I may not feel his hunger? Who is so rich I may not pity him? Who is so hurt I may not know his heartache? Who sings for joy my heart ...

3862. The Face that Launched a Thousand Lives

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... the God-man, the friend of man, and says, "We are orphans." Then Browning speaks and declares: That one Face, far from vanished, rather grows, Or decomposes but to recompose, Become my universe that feels and knows.1 Who could put it more eloquently? Christ has become our universe. It is he who makes us feel and know and understand. While being interviewed in Hamburg, Germany, Helmut Thielike spoke of the Christian response to the grandeur of Jesus. "Once it happened. Once in the world's history it happened ...

3863. Too Good to Miss

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... families' can cause great stress in a home. Can any of us relate to that? Such a constant struggle can become truly burdensome over time and the author of this letter knew that. So what did these folks need to hear? What do we need to hear today when we feel like exiles, aliens in our own land, where most of what we proclaim as faith is either mocked or tolerated or undercut in the society in which we live? The writer of 1 Peter in the third chapter wrote this: "For Christ also died for sins once for all ...

3864. So Great a Love

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... fully all the world's joy might be a sensory overload and short out all of a person's nerve endings and brain parts! But however you may come down on that question, one thing I know: experiencing the birth of a child by your child is not a feeling you can fully anticipate. The long months of hoping and wondering about health, is it a boy or a girl, the long hours of waiting to hear what is happening in that hospital thousands of miles away across the ocean after you have heard that the process of birth ...

3865. The Amazing Holy Week Equation

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... the goads." -- Acts 26:12-14 (RSV) It was Palm Sunday for Paul, and he became the first and greatest missionary of the gospel who ever lived. And then there is you. And there is me. And there is today, Palm Sunday. Anything perking in your life that you feel God has been calling you to do or to be, perhaps for years -- perhaps for a few months, or weeks or days? This could be your Palm Sunday. It could be mine. Listen to Saint Paul again. The scripture we read today helps to put Jesus' actions on Palm ...

3866. Do You Hear What I Hear?

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... Mir was one great adventure. I want my children to be able to read about it someday, to know what their father did, stood for, and was willing to sacrifice. I want them to be able to feel what it was like up there. My goal was to take them there with me. Mr. Linenger wanted his children to hear what he heard, to feel what he felt. It was that life-changing for him. This is the kind of enthusiasm Saint Paul was calling for among the Corinthians. It had changed his life and he couldn't stand the thought of ...

3867. Grace in the Midst of Judgment

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... their visual reference points. It may seem an odd way to put it, but it takes courage to rely on instruments more than intuition. It takes courage and supreme good judgment to rely more on unchanging standards and measurements than on personal instincts that we feel certain are telling us what to do next. For pilots that's a matter of life and death -- and it happens to be doubly true for anyone contemplating an authentic spiritual existence. One of the great dangers of moving forward with God is that our ...

3868. A Song, A Dance, A Savior

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... speak of an historical event in the life of Israel, but they speak also words of hope, encouragement, and comfort to those of us who feel like exiles and need somehow to find our way back to God. Notice what Jeremiah does ... He Leads Us in a Song It seems very ... he also wants the people to ... Dance a Dance of Praise Dancing a dance of praise was part of Israel's heritage. Many scholars feel that the real beginning of Israel's history is not found in Genesis, but in the exodus from Egypt. When the people of ...

3869. Have We Kept Our Contract with God?

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... an option. Through the traditional Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving we have the opportunity to renew and strengthen our contract with the Lord. We at times, like the man in Anthony de Mello's story, may not feel like meeting our commitments; we may even feel like running away. But such an attitude is inconsistent with our Christian life and demonstrates no trust in God who is ever faithful, always present, and ready to renew his side of the bargain. As members of the Christian community ...

3870. Teammates in the Cause of the Lord

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... once again team players. The Riddle of the Sphinx demonstrates that the majority of our life is spent in a mode of autonomy and self help; we feel we are a burden if we seek assistance or play as a team. We will do all that we can ourselves for as long as it is ... else does, to proverbially get our hands dirty in our daily tasks, whatever they may be. Those on a team should not feel that others are too important to "lower themselves" to do tasks assigned to others. Should we not be willing to do anything ...

3871. The Reality of the Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . He said to himself, “What a terrible son I am! I have caused my dad great pain.” It seemed that was all he could remember after his fathers death—the pain he caused his dad. Finally, the young boy went to see his pastor and told him about the deep feelings of guilt and about breaking his dad’s thumb. The young boy… well, let me tell you in the boy’s own words, he said: I’ll never forget how my pastor handled that. He was so great. He came around the desk with tears in his eyes. He sat ...

3872. Excited!

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Dr. Anders contrasts the image of the Holy Spirit as a wild goose with the image of the Holy Spirit as a dove. "When you hear of the Spirit descending like a heavenly dove on you, you hear harps and strings softly playing and get a peaceful feeling. The image of the Holy Spirit as dove has become so familiar and domesticated an image we pay little attention. The image of a wild goose descending upon you is a different matter altogether. A wild goose is one noisy, bothersome bird, jarring us out of our ...

3873. Sowing Good Seed - Father's Day

Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... showed me the crumpled photo were the very same emotions I felt that February night in a college dorm room when I first believed in a God of love. Someone is there, I realized. Someone is there who loves me. It was a startling feeling of wild hope, a feeling so new and overwhelming that it seemed fully worth risking my life on." (7) Philip Yancey is one of the most important Christian writers living today. Obviously his mother's influence was powerful. But his father's love, even though he cannot even ...

3874. Waiting for God

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... 90:4) Actually, the Psalmist was probably understating the situation, but even if we take his words literally, it means that the 2,000 years we have been waiting on Christ would only be two days according to God’s clock, which means no time at all. Hurting people feel the slowness of the clock. What may seem a long time to us may seem much longer to people who are suffering. Have you ever noticed how slowly time passes when we are hurting? We have an expression for it: “Time flies when you’re having a ...

3875. Breaking The Negative Cycle

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and see its place in life, and when we gain this perspective, we can deny in order to affirm. Our no saying, if it is healthy, is really another way of saying yes. A young person for instance, at a particular period in the maturing process, begins to feel the need to get away, and we parents chafe under that expression. The apron strings are no longer comfortable. His dependency becomes a drag, so he musters all the courage that he has to say no to the comforts of home, no to the security of the cozy ...

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