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3901. A Watery Grave

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... few strokes. “He was in the wilderness forty days,” Mark reports, “tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.” Mark’s writing style is not a lyrical as Luke’s, but he does have a poet’s touch for economy of words and effective imagery. For here, in just one verse, we are given a powerful portrait of Jesus’ temptation experience. It lacks the dialogue of the other two synoptics, but it does set the stage: wilderness, Satan, wild beasts, and angels. Taken ...

3902. Starting Over

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... deadline arrived, three papers were missing from the pile of student productions. The student who had previously asked for an extension was back, and so were two others with him. As before, all the reasons expressed for failure to complete the assignment were touching and moving and tear-jerking, and the professor again allowed some latitude. The deadline was set aside, and the papers were required by the end of the week. A veritable chorus of praise filled the professor’s small office, and blessings were ...

3903. Getting to a Teachable Moment

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... right in front of them. The saving moment comes from one who has the tongue of a teacher, the mind of one who puts himself in the place of others rather than puts them in their place, and who, in the selfless taking up of the cross of justice touches the hearts of others. The lessons for Passion Sunday affirm that this is what it takes if there will be a teachable moment. Isaiah 50:4-9a The prophet begins with the experience of being given the tongue of a teacher. Do you remember the voice of your teachers ...

3904. An Annual Reminder

John 20:1-9

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... and the self-absorbed are in hiding, and consequently they miss out on God’s great work. It is those who boldly step out in love, if not in faith or understanding, who witness and share in what God is doing. Mark adds a marvelously human touch to his Easter narrative. As he describes the women coming to the tomb, recites their wondering about the stone, and reports that it had already been rolled away, he inserts this descriptive phrase about the stone: “which was very large.” It is a charming detail ...

3905. Je Suis Jesus

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . How many of you can sit in the pew today and still taste the sweetness of your grandmother’s cookies? How many of you can still hear the cheers from the crowd in that basketball game you starred in? How many of you can still feel the touch of a parent, sibling, spouse or friend, even though their death occurred decades ago? The past is never “past.” The past is forever present — either empowering or encumbering us as we move into the future. It’s amazing what church signs can reveal about who we ...

3906. Have You Checked Your Love Levels Recently?

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... who in his confessions brought love into the realm of ecstatic, celebratory beauty. Listen as Augustine speaks of the relationship between humans and God as that of “lovers:” “you were radiant and resplendent, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you - you touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace that is yours.” Augustine had an awareness of how the beauty of God shines through us as a transfiguring vision. So what do we do with this gift from Jesus of radiant love? Humans ...

3907. Spiritual Marines

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... they discovered he had power over disease. In that same chapter, beginning in verse forty-one, we are told of a woman who had an issue of blood pouring out of her for twelve years. She had been to every doctor, visited every hospital, but then she came to Jesus; touched the hem of his garment, and immediately she was healed. I’m sure there were a lot of people then who thought to themselves: “This man can not only cast the devil out of my heart, he can keep disease out of my body.” But then they had ...

3908. Satisfied Customer

John 6:25-59

Sermon

James Merritt

... never bring security, significance, and satisfaction to the eternal. No matter how much money you have you will always want more. We all have the same experience at Thanksgiving. You sit down about three inches from the table and you start eating until you are finally touching the table. Then, you get up from the table and say, “I’m so stuffed I don’t care if I never eat anything again.” You are totally satisfied for about three hours and then you go back to the refrigerator looking for that turkey ...

3909. What Are You Waiting On?

John 11:1-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem not far from the Mount of Olives about two miles walking distance. This family had adopted Jesus and this is where Jesus would stay whenever He went to Jerusalem. Lazarus is sick and it’s not just a cold or a touch of the flu, he’s deathly ill. So the sisters send for Jesus and it’s interesting that they describe Lazarus as, “The one whom you love”. Jesus did love Lazarus. He was literally like a brother to Jesus and outside of Peter, James, and John they ...

3910. The Messed Up

John 4:1-26

Sermon

James Merritt

... to the time of Jesus and because of their inner-marriage and idolatry Samaritans were so gross to Jewish people they were seen as even lower than Gentiles. Between the Jew and the Samaritan was a fire of hostility and hatred that was so hot that to touch it meant a first-degree burn. For Jesus to be in Samaria at all was not only unusual, but it was bordering on scandalous! Samaria was considered a filthy, unclean area and the Samaritans were considered filthy, unclean people and a decent Jew wouldn’t be ...

3911. Welcome Home

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... out there in the pigpen and don’t want to come into the church? They see a church full of older brothers who don’t want them to come and are afraid if they do come they will be slapped with the cold hand of judgment rather than touched with the warm hand of love. Self-righteous people think that unrighteous people can never be forgiven and should never be forgiven. But while the older brother is into punishment, the father is into pardon. The older brother is into guilt, but the father is into grace ...

3912. What Do You See?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... would have been obligated to help him, but the man was naked and unconscious and there was no way to tell whether he was a Jew or a Gentile. Furthermore, the wounded man could have been dead and if he was, the priest, if he had touched him would have become ceremonially defiled and he would have had to gone back to Jerusalem and undergone a weeklong process of ceremonial cleansing. He would be away from his family without any explanation and would be quarantined from everybody else. In addition, what if ...

3913. It's All Good

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” (Revelation 21:3, ESV) For the first time all of God’s people will live in the immediate perfect presence of God. Our eyes will see Him. Our ears will hear Him. Our hands can touch Him. Our lips can kiss Him. We will never leave His presence. He will never be out of sight. He will never be out of mind. He will literally be everyone’s next-door neighbor. Don’t we live in God’s presence now? Isn’t He always with us ...

3914. Seismic Shift

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... my church.” In case you are wondering what I preached on that day, it was a hot controversial topic that was dealt with biblically and compassionately, but firmly. But, like the message we are going to hear today it was a topic that most churches today won’t touch. Today, I am going to talk about a word that is very rarely heard in churches anymore. I am going to speak on a topic that is very rarely spoken about in churches any more. Yet, I am in good company, because the first word Jesus ever used in ...

3915. Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... “Unearthing Truth.” In this little 3-week series we are going to be answering questions like, “How did we get the Bible? Why should we believe the Bible is reliable? What are some specific proofs that the Bible, indeed, is reliable in every area that it touches?” More specifically, today we are going to deal with what is known as the “canon” of scripture. Every book has a text, but not every book has a canon. Only a book like the Bible, which is in reality a collection of books, has a canon ...

3916. About Getting Drunk

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... are inevitably filled with gratitude for all God has done in their lives. In one of his many books Chuck Swindoll tells a moving story of a man he visited one day in what he describes as a dismal veterans hospital. The day he arrived to visit, he saw a touching scene. There was a man in this hospital who had a young son. During his long confinement in the hospital, the man had made a little wooden truck for his boy. Since the boy was not allowed to go into the ward and visit his father, an orderly had ...

3917. Poem: Break Break Break

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... that arise in me. O well for the fisherman’s boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill! But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

3918. A Man Named Many

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... seashore ring with the expression of his agony. Most people wouldn’t go anywhere near Many. They were afraid. Besides, people who were thought to be possessed by demons were considered ceremonially unclean in Jewish culture. According to Jewish Law, no one was to touch, talk, or interact with this demon possessed man. We can be grateful that where the law says people may not go, Jesus goes. What the law declares off limits, Jesus barges in anyway. When the law ignores the marginalized, Jesus makes it a ...

3919. Pride Is a Noxious Weed in the Garden of Life

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... prayerful confession did not transform him into an ideal citizen and person of abiding faith. The tax collector was simply a lying, conniving, cheat who happened to have had an insight into what he was really like. The peripheral message from this story touches the righteousness of the tax collector. The story's center of meaning focuses on the flaw in the Pharisee, that is, his pride. That religious leader simply did not grasp the significance of Paul's admonition: “Do nothing from selfish ambition or ...

3920. "Gotcha" Questions from Mean-Spirited People

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... turning the crowd against him. Imagine their surprise when Jesus gives a serious, even compassionate answer to their disingenuous question. Let me paraphrase, not so much the words of Jesus' answer, but the ideas the Lord uses. My brother Sadducees, your question touches on something important in understanding the relationship between marriage and eternity. You do not believe in the resurrection, yet you asked me, "Whose wife will the woman be after she dies?" Your concern rises from the fact that she had a ...

3921. A Dance in the Desert

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... feelings inside. Pleasure, for instance, reflects our delighted response to sensations that stimulate us. Happiness surrounds us because of certain happenings in our lives. And then there's joy. In a sense, pleasure is an "it" word; it mostly has to do with things that touch our senses. And happiness is a "me" word; its primary focus is my response to events that come and go in my life. But joy is really a "we" word; it usually reflects what happens between persons, between me and you, between me and God ...

3922. Tranquil: The Blessed Village on a Hillside

John 6:25-59

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... of "It's all about me and what I want." The Tranquil village motto was eventually changed from "Where Contented People Have Their Needs Met" to "Dwelling Place of the Disgruntled." There are several lessons that might be learned from this little tale. The story touches on the dangers of greed and selfishness. It says something about the importance of being a thankful people. It is also a warning. Take care lest you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. For today, let us focus on what it teaches about ...

3923. Getting at the Truth

John 14:16-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... to berate him and tear him down. However, other people have experienced something different. The twelve-step groups such as AA know that when they entrust their lives to a higher power and bare their souls to that power, they sense they are beginning to get in touch not only with themselves but with ultimate reality. One young man told me about a small group of men from his church who meet once a week to share whatever is on their minds and hearts. They must agree to hold nothing back and to tell no ...

3924. The Wrong Gift

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... what we have look as much as possible like what we think "home" should be, until we can finally see our true home, and like Luke, bring our friends along with us. No matter where we go, no matter what we do, there must live in each of us a touch of that homesickness, or we die a horrible death. Our trips "home" are only a pale imitation of the place we belong and merely a wayside rest stop on a restless journey to the real home of God's love and God's eternity. More than we know that is ...

3925. Two Kinds of People

Jeremiah 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... or reality that requires sacrifice, patience, generosity or love. Continually put up your guard against anything that might have a commitment in it--or a cross. It’s easy to be a low bush in the desert. Live only for today. Believe in nothing that you cannot touch, or taste, or measure in a test tube. Shut your mind and your heart to any possibility that there might be more to life than that which can be seen by the physical eye. Allow your mind to be filled with negative assumptions about life and death ...

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