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376. Who Has Everything?

Matthew 5:5

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... of when I say the word ‘meek?’ " I asked. My nineteen-year-old daughter came out with "timid, weak, spineless." We all agreed that this is our basic concept of meekness. I thought about a little man I used to watch in the movies. I remember he was a character actor. He played the part of a clumsy butler, or a valet, or a tasting-judge at the county fair, or a hen-pecked husband, or a frightened school principal. In comedies, he was always the proper little man who got pie thrown in his face. He was ...

377. Journey To The Cross IV: Jesus and Judas

Mark 14:43-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... has a story to tell… and when you hear their story you will feel differently toward them!” A couple of years ago there was a new movie about the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus. It was a bit overdone for my taste, but I remember how dramatically the character of Judas was portrayed. He was the heavy! From the very first moment, you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was the bad guy. When he betrayed Jesus later in the movie, you expected it. And when he took his own life, you were easily ...

378. "I Don’t Want to Be Perfect - Or Do I?"

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . They were "going on" to perfection. They were getting closer to it day by day. The early Methodists "knew they were ignorant and imperfect - but they knew they had a clue to life," in their new experience of Christ. They went on to a greatness of character and to a dynamic expression of Christian love. They continued to change England. These early Methodist fathers were working out their salvation by grace in the midst of life. They knew that God had given them a new spirit and that it was to be developed ...

379. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... the loss of our sense of awe and wonder in worship. How much awe is there in the average worship service in the average church today other than a child saying, "Aw, do I have to go?" We need to hear again the testimony of biblical characters when they experienced the majesty and greatness of God. The Hebrews of the Old Testament were so overcome by God’s greatness that they would not speak his name aloud. They took the vowels out of his name, leaving only four unpronounceable consonants: YHWH. They felt ...

380. A SUNDAY OF THE PASSION [PALM SUNDAY] SERMON-DRAMA

Drama

Tom Eberle

... is definitely a mistake. Toga: If you can understand that so clearly, why can’t the man you call Messiah see it? Is he not aware of their reputations? Judas: He is aware, because we have discussed it several times. If there is a flaw in his character, I would say it is his rather uncritical acceptance of people without first requiring a certain standard of behavior from them. Toga: Have you pointed this flaw out to him? Judas: The more I pushed it, the more insistent he was about his position; so it was ...

381. Our Three-Faced God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... guide us into truth, to motivate us to do good, and to give us gifts by which we serve God. In 1 Corinthians Paul tells us what those gifts of the Spirit are. In Galatians he lists nine fruits of the Spirit. By virtue of those gifts and fruits of character, you have God in you. You have the Spirit. Speaking in tongues is not the only way to tell whether the Spirit is present. It is far more important to have the Spirit in terms of gifts of service and fruits of virtues than to be able to speak gibberish ...

382. The Bible, Your Mirror? by Dr. Lawrence L. Lacour

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... ground rule number one. But if they eat the forbidden fruit, they are responsible for their choices - ground rule number two. With relationship as the purpose of life, and with freedom to choose and responsibility for their choices, what do Adam and Eve do? Another character now enters the drama, the snake. Approaching Eve with the fundamental temptation - to doubt the authority of God - the serpent says to her, "You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you ...

383. Virtue Won’t Hurt You

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... changed, she reasoned that she would be a better person. Now, Becky is not a sinner. She is what Jesus would call a fool. Anyone knows that put her anywhere, with any income, in any circumstance, and her problems would still be the need of a change in character. You see, Becky Sharp’s chief problem is not her circumstance but her system of values. Many people so fool themselves. So many young adults feel that when they get to the level of a more stable income they will be better about giving to the church ...

384. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21). "For God has done what the law ... could not do, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin ... (that is, as a sin-offering)" (Romans 8:3). This proclamation of the vicarious and substitutionary character of the death of Christ recognizes the gravity of sin as guilt which must be expiated and the immeasurable depth of the divine love revealed in the atoning sacrifice on the cross. It is faithfully retained by Anselm in terms of feudal justice and by the ...

385. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... . The significance of this idea finds its most ovious validation in the person of the Master himself. To be sure, the historicity of Jesus has been questioned by some scholars who have contended that Jesus never was an actual historical character, that everything written about him derives from an ingeniously concocted myth. This "myth theory" apparently arose from the fact that we have comparatively little data concerning Jesus’ physical appearance - his size, his weight, the color of his hair and eyes ...

386. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... passionate creatures, who are driven by great forces, have an enormous amount to overcome. They are easily overcome. I suppose Abel was a sincere and good man and I like him and he did great good, but (if it isn’t too unfair) there isn’t much color in his character. On the other hand, Cain was a colorful man. He was a multitude of many selves. In the second place, he was a tiller of the soil and that is a major value. The Bible gives us the suggestion that he was the original tiller of the soil. We do ...

387. It’s About Time!

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... . TIME PRESENT: A time to embrace TIME PAST: And a time to refrain from embracing. TIME FUTURE: A time to weep TIME PAST: And a time to laugh. TIME PRESENT: A time to love TIME FUTURE: And a time to hate. NON-CHRISTIAN: It’s about time you characters get down to real cases. What time really is - time is money! Basically and at rock bottom, time is always money! CHRISTIAN-WITH-EXCUSES: In any case, I don’t have time to think about it now. I have something important cooking. I’ll take some time later ...

388. Whispering The Lyrics (revised)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Thomas Long

... forgetfulness again and again, preferring the oblivion of amnesia to the sharp accountability of remembering the commandments. In his book Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy describes a frequent device of soap operas, movies and novels. A principal character will develop amnesia. He or she is in a new place, with a new job, a new set of friends, perhaps a new lover. This plot device, says Percy, is endlessly fascinating since it feeds our fantasies about a risk-free forgetting of ...

389. Good News For Good Parents

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

... see good parents who create faith in their children as Eunice Did for Lois, and Lois did for Timothy. Do not be surprised years from now that in the cradle of your home you raised a Bishop for the church. II Secondly, good parents help shape the character of their children. If you think that the school and the church is the place where your children should learn morality then you are wrong. That represents only the reinforcement. The basic values are always taught first in the home. It is in the home where ...

390. The Voices Of Christmas

Drama

Jerry Nordstrom

... Young ski enthusiast (male) MERCHANT - Toy store owner (male) TRADITIONALIST - Sentimental Swedish-American grandma (female) CORPORATION MAN - Heavy-drinking party-goer (male) *CHILD - Greedy little girl (female) WORKING WIFE - Frazzled victim of the Christmas rush (female) *May be read, in character, by an adult. Presentation time: about half an hour Using irony and humor, this work is designed to reveal the realities of Christmas - both the detrimental and the divine. This is not a play with scenery and ...

391. Will Names Never Hurt Us?

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... 25). Whenever in the biblical record an important change happened in a person’s life, often his name was changed: Abram became Abraham; Jacob became Israel; Simon became Peter; Saul became Paul. The phrase "the Name of God," then, stands for the nature, the character, the revealed personality of God. "The average man," said Dale Carnegie, "is more interested in his own name than he is in all other names on earth put together." Because of this fact, Carnegie advised: "Remember that a man’s name is to him ...

392. Dying to Become

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... by the idea of "kill and survive." There are sound reasons for the emergence of such thinking. Despite many of the gross injustices to people and the rape of the "new world" environment, there was some healthy reality to the forming of the American character. The pioneer was involved in killing any animal that threatened the survival of his crops. People were often killed without "due process of the law" when they stood in the way of establishing order out of chaos. Hanging a horse thief is brutal by ...

393. Advent 1: Won´t You Let Him Into Your Heart?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn." That’s all it says – "no room in the inn" and out of those five words we have over the years performed a character assassination on an innkeeper, on a man, on a person, on a child of God we know nothing about. Now, there’s a sermon there somewhere, a valuable lesson we all need to learn and I think it is this: It is dangerous and destructive to judge people and events ...

394. The Temptation To Pass By On The Other Side

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... is to be understood and lived out in the most difficult of relationships. I am convinced that apathy is just a word until you see it in action. That’s what the Seinfeld show did so well over the course of its nine years. It hid the apathy of the characters behind the mask of humor. In that final episode Jerry Seinfeld unmasked it and the critics couldn’t stand it. The show wasn’t trying to get a laugh it was trying to make a point. It is the point of Jesus’ parable: Anytime we refuse to stop and ...

395. All I Want for Christmas is a Savior

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , unchristian tightwad. His now famous response to Christmas, “Bah! Humbug!” has become the sad symbol of such disillusioned spirit. As the story unfolds, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited one night by some ghosts who subject him to a haunting the likes of which few characters in fiction have experienced. Scared out of his wits by the ghosts, Scrooge is forced to see himself as he really is. The visits of the ghosts and the Christ-like unconditional love of the Cratchit family, who keep on loving him even ...

396. Our Magnificent, Mysterious, Mischievous God

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... saying, the suffering and stigma were bad enough for the mighty Naaman to be desperate for help. ANY help. No giggles there. We sympathize. But how ironic: the apparently powerful so powerless. Another irony. A major role is about to be played by a minor character, Naaman's wife's Israelite slave girl. A bit of a surprise here - someone so inconsequential in the grand scheme of things that she is not even named. The captive helping the captor? SHE has advice? Actually, yes. She tells her mistress, "If only ...

397. Regis and Jesus

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... only do so if he could stay in a home of the Law. His rationale was "In the hour of a man's departure neither silver nor gold nor precious stones accompany him, but only his knowledge of the Law and his good works."(2) Good deeds...good character. Those are the stuff heavenly treasure is made of. There is the old story of the rich and famous man who died and went to heaven. As he was being guided to his celestial home, he passed through one magnificent neighborhood after another and thought to himself how ...

398. What's in a Name?

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... or bad, means something; it is your REPUTATION. As you can see, a name, even in our society, MEANS a great deal more than a way of distinguishing one person from another. In a very real sense, we look to the name to tell us WHO a person is: character, ability, reputation. What's in a name? A lot! In baptism, you are named - in some traditions, for the very first time. Baptism also sets each of us apart as a particular kind of person - one owned by God, one called to live out the meaning of this remarkable ...

399. The Good Samaritan: A New Look at an Old Story

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... care-giver. As attractive and winsome is the behavior of this man, as much of a helper/hero as he obviously was, that WOULD be the temptation. But no good Jew could do that. He would not want to be like the Priest or Levite either, so the only character left with which to identify would be the man in the ditch. Hmm. Now Jesus concludes, "Go and do likewise." What? Be the guy in the ditch? Perhaps that is not so far-fetched as we might think. We never hear if this poor victim recovers, but my assumption ...

400. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... can't hear him knocking." Some of us need to get our thoughts out of the basement. Hope means, first of all, that we do not shut the door on the possibility of a favorable outcome. HOPE ALSO MEANS THAT WE DON'T LET OUR PROBLEMS DESTROY OUR CHARACTER. You may be familiar with Edgar Jackson's "The Message of the Maples." Jackson had a stroke and for a while lost his speech. But he eventually regained it and then moved to a farm near Corinth, Vermont. There he met a writer named Edward Ziegler. Ziegler went ...

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