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3876. For One Who Worked With Disturbed Children

2 Corinthians 12:11-21

Eulogy

William Luoma

... exactly what to say or how to say it. Today is one of those times. But we remember that God's Spirit intercedes for us with sighs that are too deep for words. Today we leave it up to God's Spirit to put those letters together and make some sense out of them. God hears what is too deep for words, and he understands and weeps with us. He hears the frustration, the anger, and the despair that you feel. He hears the agonized questions, and the inevitable "Why?" You know, as do I, how important it is to have ...

3877. Death of the Unchurched For a Recovering Alcoholic

Eulogy

Alan Bacon Bond

... a picture of a person you loved very much, and who obviously loved you very much. Some of that love was tender ... a daily offering of greeting cards, a love for old cars fixed up and given to the children, love expressed with a certain sense of humor. Some of his love was tough love, and sometimes tough love is stubborn. It says a strong and unequivocal "No!" to unacceptable or self-destructive behavior. If that caring sometimes cathe out with a slightly perverse desire to blast the more thoughtless ...

3878. For a Cancer Victim

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Eulogy

James W. Robinson

... we are throwing for God. Mary Sand is going to "tie one on" at that party before God's throne; and God won't object in the least, because she'll be drinking the wine of gladness, drinking to her heart's content. The wine she drinks will make her senses keener than they have ever been before. And her drinking song will be this: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me; I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now can see. When I've been here ten thousand years, bright shinging ...

3879. Death Following Lung Cancer

Psalm 55:1-23

Eulogy

Alan Bacon Bond

... her comatose. "We don't think she will live another forty-eight hours," the nurse had said on the phone. "It would be helpful if you would come today." Doug seemed resigned to the inevitable, caught between the prayer that she be released from suffering and his sense of losing his beloved. Let me dwell in thy tent for ever!O to be safe under the shelter of thy wings"Psalm 61:4 "At a time like this, anointing is appropriate," I said. "Do you have any olive oil?" There was none, but "God understands corn ...

3880. Ludwig Nommensen Missionary To The Bataks

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... see his dream come true. Once the Batak people themselves had been trained to be pastors and teachers, the church grew by leaps and bounds. When Nommensen had begun his work among the Bataks, it was their strong family ties and sense of corporate identity that made those earlier conversions so difficult. Now it was those same solid family ties which converted whole villages to Christianity. Recalling Jesus’ words about making his disciples “fishers of men,” Nommensen remarked: Reader 2: “Now it was ...

3881. Our Time Will Come!

1 Samuel 16:14-23

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... that he made an oath only a tyrant would make: no one could eat until the battle was over! After he learned it was his son who ate, Saul was too proud to recant his vow. It was the people who kept Jonathan from death. It was when Saul sensed that he lost the confidence of the prophet of God who had anointed him, that he became more and more melancholy. It was when he learned that he lost the support of his people that he became paranoid. Other world leaders have had similar histories, such as Adolf Hitler ...

3882. Walking the Valley of the Lost

2 Samuel 1:17-27

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... the valley of the lost! Nature does that sometimes for us. It shares in the depth of the human experience of grief. It asks for all the people of the world to stand together silently in the face of natural disasters. Visitors to Pompeii catch a sense of the great loss that came suddenly upon it at the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. So also we can stand helpless before the reruns, on television, of incidents like the explosion of the first atomic tomb, or the explosion of the spacecraft "Challenger." We can ...

3883. Blessed To Be A Blessing

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Justin Tull

... , that kind of commitment? At first it seems like a rosy future: a great nation, a new land, blessings promised to those whom Abram blesses, and curses on ones whom Abram curses. What could Abram have to lose? Several things come to my mind: a sense of stability, worldly comfort (such as it was in those days), family ties. Gone now were Abram’s retirement plans -- no 42 parties, no bridge games, no 18 holes of golf three days a week, no playing the stoc_esermonsk market with retirement funds, no evening ...

3884. Spirit Full Or Foul?

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

Sermon

Justin Tull

... are not saved by winning the lottery or the Reader’s Digest Sweepstakes. Our faith reminds us that worldly power is never complete or guaranteed. We have learned that worldly power has no defense against death or meaninglessness. Our faith understands that work gives us a sense of accomplishment but we know it does not form the total basis of our self-worth. If we believe it does, then retirement is void of any real meaning and an individual is stripped of all worth as an individual. But of all our gods ...

3885. Thanksgiving

Ephesians 1:1

Sermon

Brett Blair

... all circumstances the victory is ours through faith in Christ Jesus. I found out something this week as I was doing my study for this sermon. I discovered that in the Bible the words for gratitude and faith are interchangeable. If one has faith he will also have a sense of thankfulness. If one is thankful he must also be a person of faith. You show me a person who is not thankful, whose attitude is that life has somehow shortchanged him, and I will show you a person who does not have a complete faith in God ...

3886. The Bread Of Life

Psalm 121:1-8

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... elder in an open church. He and others came to the table and with their prayers asked God's blessing on the communion service and the congregation. "It's the most awesome thing I've ever done," he told me. "I never step up to the table without a sense of my own inadequacy and a certain fear." Sometimes it is easy to forget that God fed the people in the wilderness, not because they were faithful, but because they needed food. "Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in Egypt ...," the hungry people ...

3887. Recollections of Reuben, Uncle of a Young Bethlehem Shepherd

Matthew 2:13-18

Drama

Robert A. Morgan

... that the baby had been born in the stable, what with space in Bethlehem at such a premium, and these people obviously so poor. But it was the visitation in the middle of the night by angels that the shepherds told their friends about. And nobody could make much sense of what the angel said about the baby. All they knew was they had been told it was a baby in a manger, and behold, there was a baby in a manger! It never occurred to Nathanael and his friends that being involved with the baby might put them ...

3888. Recollections of Mary -- Dramatic Monologue

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Robert A. Morgan

... out and play for just a little longer, and then Mother will call you, and we'll sit down together in the corner, and I'll tell you the story. Strange how you always want to hear it especially at this cold dark time of year, just as if you sense that is when it all happened. Actually, there is something special for me as well to think about it all, and to go over in my mind again the details of that baby and that night. Maybe that's part of why you like to hear me tell the story ...

3889. Charlie Used To Do That

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... from the reality and love of God. The bread of life would be to know that the bread of un-life, the bread of death, Satan himself, this illusion, can really have no lasting effect upon us. That is if we continue to eat the bread of life. In a sense, Jesus is saying here that if we partake of the bread of un-life, of death and illusion, we will become part of that very death and illusion. We will become partners with it and therefore co-inflictors of it. So Jesus says, "Come to me, I am the bread ...

3890. Saved By Water: The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... it isn't very long. A baby who can't keep down fluids will dehydrate and die in just a few days. Adults last only slightly longer. The only life-sustaining substance that we need more frequently than water is air. Water, then, is essential to life. In one sense, water is life. Where there is no water, there is no life. Cactuses and camels and gnarled trees and grasses of the desert can adapt to conditions of low water, but there isn't any living thing on this earth that can adapt to no water. "Water is life ...

3891. Herod

Matthew 2:1-12

Drama

Dale Bringman

... my own mountain tomb, Herodium, named after me. To this day when you visit Israel, you can see reflecting pools which I had built there, and you can reflect on my life and on yours. You cast me as a monster in your Bible story. But is there not a sense in which you, like me, are a kind of king? You are in charge of your life. You rule your activities and your actions. You do what you want to do. You think what you want to think. You believe what you want to believe. You "do your own thing ...

3892. Seek Good, Not Evil (That You May Live)

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... to die for us the wrongdoers that we might be justified in the eyes of God through his death. Christ did just the opposite of the people of the text. He did not make justice bitter but made it richly sweet. What a way God chose to make clear his sense of justice - to give us that which is too good to be true, to give us that which we do not deserve. He has given us the gift of life, that is the gift of himself. That is life to give oneself for the other as he has given himself ...

3893. The Least of These

Matthew 25:31-46

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... chance.It makes us wonder, doesn't it? What was noble about this man? Anything at all? Or was he simply no one at all? Do we not all feel a little joy today, that his strife is over and the battle is won? Don't we all begin to sense what Jesus was saying to us about the man who needed pajamas, or something to drink, or a visit? Perhaps this man was not whom we thought he was. He looked and acted and sounded like ___________ But, at the very least, he was an opportunity for Christian compassion and ...

3894. Temples within the Temple

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... heart be troubled."God had to tell that to ____________ a few times in this life; he even used this voice to say it. "Let not your heart be troubled," God says. "Don't worry, I'll take care of all you who are left; see these people who love; sense these spirits present. My Son, Jesus, has invited himself into your heart. Please let him in."God wants in because he has some secrets to share with us. They are secrets that the world cannot hear, for the world drowns out the voice of God with mighty engines and ...

3895. Opposites

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... that no one saw God working until later. No one saw the opposites; the other Power at work.If you were able to listen to the meditation text you heard four sets of opposites, each having a direct bearing on the future of _____________. In a sense, our sister has "gone to seed." That means, in the language of the faith, that her work is done and now she becomes sow~i, like a seed planted in the springtime.These were the four sets of opposites in our meditation text:perishable and imperishable; dishonor ...

3896. Opposites

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

3897. The Last Laugh

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... of stories to tell. She would make us happy. She would laugh that deep and hearty laugh that made you smile, whether you thought her joke was funny or not. You never left her home without something; at the very least, you knew that she had not lost her sense of humor, and didn't take life too seriously.We are directed by Holy Scripture, now, not to grieve asse who have no hope. Of course, we grieve. It would be nonsense to pretend otherwise. We do not have to pretend thai we will not miss _____________. Yet ...

3898. Commencement

Revelation 21:1-27

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... .Yes, ______________ loved a lot of these former things, "our" things. She liked the freshness of a pretty day and the smell of a flower. She noticed the brightness of a blue sky, and enjoyed the comfort of her own home. However, ____________ also sensed something wrong about these things we now hold and love and cling to. These "former things" tempt us to treasure them above all things. The former things, like lessons learned at school, are good only for a while. Hear that well. There is always another ...

3899. Living Life Gratefully

Romans 11:33-36

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... your care; we let her rest, and ask you to use your power over death and the grave to bring us all to the day when our "thank yous" are spoken as one voice." Then the words of St. Paul, like the words from ___________ will make more sense.The day will come when we can speak words of celebration and appreciation not with the conviction of hope or faith (of things not yet seen), but rather with the certainty of fact, the sureness of history, and unquestionable and irrefutable living truth. Then we shall be ...

3900. Step Four - Courage

Mt 26:69-75 · Acts 9:1-9 · Ps 139:1-6

Sermon

John A. Terry

... were explaining. This was not, I am sometimes told, a religious experience. Their entire life changed, but they did not see God in charge. Paul could have done that. He could have analyzed what happened. "I guess I have a phobia with lightning and I lost my senses." "It is just hysterical blindness." "It was just exhaustion. The trip wore me out." "I have been under too much stress." No. What happened was God spoke to him and he listened and he let God forgive him and he let God change his life. This brings ...

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