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376. Another Tricky Question

Matthew 22:15-22

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Johnny Dean

... children - is leaving home and heading for California to make a new life for herself and her children. Naturally, Mother objects. And as mothers sometimes do, she tries to lay a load of guilt on her daughter in order to force her to reconsider this foolish notion. The daughter, however, has learned a few tricks from mother dearest over the years. She tries to turn the tables and put mom on a guilt trip for a change. She accuses her mother of never being interested in what was going on in the daughter’s ...

377. Making Christmas Last

Luke 2:21-40

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Brett Blair

... tradition breaks with the facts. For the Angels do not say “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will toward men.” That is the way I had always heard it. That is the way we would like it to read. It produced in me a romantic notion of Jesus’ Birth. But here is what the Angels actually say: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men, with whom he is pleased.” It is one thing to believe in a God who comes to earth to bring peace for all mankind. None ...

378. Some Assembly Required

Luke 2:21-40

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Johnny Dean

... Simeon started talking about how this infant would be the cause of the rising and falling of many, and how he would be opposed by many and would cause great pain to His mother. "THIS is a blessing?" Mary must have thought. And Simeon’s words DO rearrange our notions about blessings, don’t they? "This baby I hold in my arms may be your salvation, but it certainly won’t come cheap," he seems to be saying. If we are to be saved, if God is going to intervene in our behalf through this infant named Jesus ...

379. Trying to Face the Strain

Genesis 28:10-22

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Johnny Dean

... and bad days, hard days and easy days, interesting days and boring days. But at least there was a familiar pattern to my life, a pattern to which I had become accustomed, even though I was not content with it. And now? Now I had only a vague notion of what lay ahead for the family and me. I knew that there was a world of possibilities awaiting us here in Virginia, but nothing definite. There was an abundance of question marks. I was in transition, "trying to face the strain" of the changes that were taking ...

380. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Larry Powell

... and having a grand time. Why can't we have something like that here in heaven?" The Lord replied solemnly, "I can't hire a band for just three people." As modern day pilgrims, we don't know very much about heaven, but somehow, we do have the notion that overcrowding will not be a major problem. Even those who insist that only a certain magical number of believers will be admitted to Paradise, do not attribute it to lack of space, but to the difficulty in qualifying. And the little story about the rabbi's ...

381. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

... occupied, there is a clock which strikes every hour on the hour, day and night. Its striking is accompanied by chimes. Also taking part in the hourly concert is every resident dog in the neighborhood and any others which chance to happen by. I have a notion that if the great clock should one day malfunction, the dogs would still go off on schedule. The regularity of that clock was for me a constant reminder of the steady, ongoing procession of time. Often at night I can hear the ticking of my wrist watch ...

382. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... , opera, theater, science - one by one she fended them like so much child's play. Then came the chance for the $12,000 grab. All she had to do was correctly answer five questions in succession. The first four, of which I have not the foggiest notion, were snaps for this young lady whose broad sweep of knowledge appeared unfathomable. Only one to go for the big money. At last, the question: "The Queen of Sheba visited him in Jerusalem; who was he?" She couldn't miss! Or could she? Hummmmmmmmm, she pondered ...

383. Encounters With Christ I: Jesus & the Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... : Who sinned? Was it this man or his parents? Why was he born blind? Was it his fault? Or did someone in his family do something wrong to cause this? There is an interesting theological point here. The religious leaders of Jesus’ time had the mistaken notion that the persons who were down on their luck were in that fix because they had sinned… and this was God’s judgment upon them for their wrongdoings. So these blind people, or lame people, or leprous people, or poor people were looked down upon by ...

384. Encounters With Christ VI: Jesus and Caiaphas

Matthew 26:57-68

Sermon

James W. Moore

... in the eyes of Caiaphas, Jesus associated with the “wrong people”… questionable people, sinners, tax collectors, the blind, the lame, and the sick – even lepers. There is an interesting theological point here. The religious leaders of Jesus’ time had the mistaken notion that the person who was “down on his luck” was in that fix because he had sinned, and this was God’s judgment upon him for his wrongdoing. So these blind, lame, leprous people, these tax collectors and poor people, were ...

385. Encounters With Christ VII (Easter): Jesus & Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:1-20

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James W. Moore

... together, Bill Bryson said to the man: “You must be a real fan and follower of Mark Twain. Would you say the house is just like Mark Twain described it in his books?” “O, I don’t know,” said the tourist… “wouldn’t have the foggiest notion. I’ve never read any of his books!” (Thanks to Rod Wilmoth for this illustration 1-17-93) Visiting his shrine, but ignoring his books. Sadly, that may be a pretty good description of how many people deal with Jesus Christ. They visit his shrines, but ...

386. Six Nails of the Cross VI: The Nail of Cruelty

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . I am not altogether sure that we can accept such a doctrine of atonement. I am not altogether certain that we are big enough to accept it. If we make any attempt to affirm such a belief in atonement, it will stagger many of the cherished notions that we have held about ourselves, both as individuals and as a Christian community. Can we accept an understanding of atonement that insists upon reconciliation with all persons? This is a stern test indeed of our life together in this place. Can a community that ...

387. Quantum Leap

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Carl Jech

... and Covenant are all about. Take another look at what the idea of "Messiah" means. Maybe Messiah is more like "the Suffering Servant" of Isaiah than like King David. Or could it be that Messiah is like both images? Such a complex and paradoxical notion would be hard to comprehend, to "see." There is a thin line between a genius and a moron. (The word "sophomore" comes from the Greek sophos, meaning "wise" and moros which means "fool." A sophomore is halfway between stupid and smart.) Almost every founder ...

388. Some Illusions (Symbols) Are Better Than Others

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Jech

... push us to and beyond the limits of our understanding. The idea of such a Living God moves beyond being a mere illusion, to being a Symbol. Surprisingly, Freud admitted that his own ideas were also illusions! He recognized that his notions, like the "Oedipus Complex," were what psychologists call artificial constructs. They are, in other words, a symbolic, shorthand way of describing certain complex patterns of human behavior that cannot actually be simplified. As an attempt to simplify that which cannot be ...

389. Winning Isn't the Only Thing ... It's Irrelevant

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Carl Jech

... authors of Bible and Mission (Augsburg, 1986) point out: Mission is not "roping and branding" but loving, serving, learning, and forgiving. Does all this talk of grace water down the Gospel to a message of cheap grace rather than free grace? Does it destroy the notion of the "saving work" of Christ? Of course not! Clearly there is nothing dainty or cheap about the grace shown to us on the Cross at Calvary. Hemmingway once defined courage as "grace under pressure" and theologian Paul Tillich saw Jesus as the ...

390. The Ambiguity of Life, Deciding for Christ

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... any of the harsh or ambiguous realities of life. To them it seems as if enjoying a TV show like "Murder, She Wrote" is tantamount to endorsing murder. The attitude is that we shouldn't even think about such things. Similarly, we can become upset at the notion of teaching drug users to use clean needles, as if to do so is to encourage drug abuse, when, in fact, the real purpose of this kind of educational effort is to prevent the problems of drug abuse from being compounded and made worse than they already ...

391. The Real Jesus is Channeling Grace

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Carl Jech

... to view the church as a loaf of white bread, he preferred to think of the church as more like a fruitcake, where there is always room for a few nuts! The point is that the followers of Jesus should always be expanding their notion of what unity means. The recently-coined term "inclusive ministry" challenges us to join together under the grace of God to celebrate our diversity in ethnic backgrounds, lifestyles, theological traditions, and a host of other areas. Rather than making demands and claims upon one ...

392. An Uncompromising King

Luke 22:54-62

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... uncompromising man became King of all history. Of course, there are many things that we do have to bend on. On strategies we can compromise, but not in principles. There must come a time when we ask: Is this the way it is--Yes or No? Palm Sunday challenges the notion that all of life is but a part of the compromising process.

393. Never Read Any of His Books

John 20:1-18

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James W. Moore

... together, Bill Bryson said to the man: “You must be a real fan and follower of Mark Twain. Would you say the house is just like Mark Twain described it in his books?” “O, I don’t know,” said the tourist...“wouldn’t have the foggiest notion. I’ve never read any of his books!” Visiting his shrine, but ignoring his books. Sadly, that may be a pretty good description of how many people deal with Jesus Christ. They visit his shrines, but fail to accept Him and follow Him and fail to read ...

394. Independence Day - The Mission of the Mighty

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... possibly sing. Nor are the words particularly obnoxious. The only words that anyone knows -- the first stanza -- talk about bombs bursting in air and the rocket's red glare, which 90% of our citizens have never seen and don't have the foggiest notion about what they are singing. No, I concluded that the real reason that I switch off the National Anthem, and the reason it turns me off, is the pictures that are frequently shown with it: jet fighters streaming contrails, maneuvering against the skies, great ...

395. The Lord's People Together

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

... bears a responsibility to the body. If a hand puts poison into the stomach, the whole body will die. The hand cannot always behave by direction of its own whim; it must do what is best for the body of which it is part. So it must surrender all notions of doing as it jolly well pleases. At the inception of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry stirred the fervor of Virginia's patriots by shouting, "Give me liberty or give me death!" A noble sentiment this is; but you cannot run a baseball team on that, or a ...

396. To Be Somebody

Luke 19:1-10

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... to be a blessing. And so salvation - wholeness - had come to his house. I’m assuming some of us - perhaps most of us - haven’t reached the top as Zaccheus had. I’m assuming some of us - perhaps most of us - still have the illusion (and I’m afraid the notion haunts me too much) that if we’d rise to the top, then we’d really be somebody. Zaccheus proves this "ain’t necessarily so." No matter on which rung we roost, would that we can find joy in knowing Christ has accepted us and that’s why we ...

397. No Little Bit

Luke 19:11-27

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... over more money on soldiers than on physicians, against all this, what can I do? By the time my little gift might reach them, they’ll have had so many more babies, they’ll be just as hungry as before. I feel like I’m nothing. This notion was rife during the Vietnam War. No matter what your opinion about that conflict, what could you do? The frustration of the individual against great odds was even felt - yes, it was especially felt - by youngsters in the ghetto. We recall that Eartha Kitt said things ...

398. The Day You Were Healed

Luke 17:11-19

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... Or how do we account for this when we are healed, that God gets little more than casual recognition, an incidental "Thank the Lord," while our personal fitness or the skill of medics or our high tech progress draw the commendation? Or how do we defend the notion that the good gifts of the Father’s kindly hand are listed as our human right, while the Giver of the gifts is thoughtlessly ignored? Someone has said that God is credited with every hook and slice along life’s fairway, while we take credit for ...

399. Formula for Life

Amos 5:1-17

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... unspecific in orientation. Too often we have cheapened our profession of faith into a perfunctory ritualistic exercise of giving verbal assent to a creedal statement of beliefs. Another evidence of our great confusion on the subject is represented in the utilitarian notion that faith will enable us to get what we want. The business entrepeneur expects faith to help him get rich. The physically afflicted expect faith to help them get well. The persecuted expect faith to deliver them from their persecutors ...

400. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

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... for us as surely as it has been for persons in the past. Are we taking the option seriously? Shall I ask each of us personally: Do you want to be a saint? If not, why not? Some of us may be deflected from such an ambition by the notion that a saint has to be perfect and surrounded by a certain aura of ghostly supernaturalism. If so, we should be reminded that Jesus said no human being is perfect, and we should remember that his obvious concern was for the fulfillment of the highest potentials in the natural ...

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376. Another Tricky Question

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Johnny Dean

377. Making Christmas Last

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

378. Some Assembly Required

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

379. Trying to Face the Strain

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Johnny Dean

380. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Larry Powell

381. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

382. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

383. Encounters With Christ I: Jesus & the Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

384. Encounters With Christ VI: Jesus and Caiaphas

Matthew 26:57-68

Sermon

James W. Moore

385. Encounters With Christ VII (Easter): Jesus & Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

386. Six Nails of the Cross VI: The Nail of Cruelty

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

387. Quantum Leap

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Carl Jech

388. Some Illusions (Symbols) Are Better Than Others

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Jech

389. Winning Isn't the Only Thing ... It's Irrelevant

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Carl Jech

390. The Ambiguity of Life, Deciding for Christ

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

391. The Real Jesus is Channeling Grace

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Carl Jech

392. An Uncompromising King

Luke 22:54-62

Illustration

393. Never Read Any of His Books

John 20:1-18

Illustration

James W. Moore

... together, Bill Bryson said to the man: “You must be a real fan and follower of Mark Twain. Would you say the house is just like Mark Twain described it in his books?” “O, I don’t know,” said the tourist...“wouldn’t have the foggiest notion. I’ve never read any of his books!” Visiting his shrine, but ignoring his books. Sadly, that may be a pretty good description of how many people deal with Jesus Christ. They visit his shrines, but fail to accept Him and follow Him and fail to read ...

394. Independence Day - The Mission of the Mighty

John 8:31-41

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395. The Lord's People Together

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

396. To Be Somebody

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

397. No Little Bit

Luke 19:11-27

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