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376. Christians Die Well

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... an "inner security force" that had convinced him that God was his refuge and strength in every time of trouble. Stephen Had the Gift of "Wisdom" (verse 3) The Holy Spirit which gave Stephen power also gave him wisdom. It was a God-inspired insight, sensitivity, discernment, and understanding that directed his life. He could see the long view of things, as God sees them. His reasoning and logic were not as shortsighted as the man who decided to manufacture dog food. He said, "I’ll use all the selling arts ...

377. Jesus Gives Us Tomorrow!

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... they could have a closeness that physical being could never allow. My John and I are blessed with a oneness of spirit in our marriage, so that no matter what words are said, there is a sense of "knowing" each other beyond all externals. Far more sensitive than our relationship is the Holy Spirit to the believer. Abiding in him, God is nearer than tongue can describe. Jesus gave them ... The Promise of the Second Coming (Acts 1:11) The disciples are still standing there. Can they be hoping for a chance sight ...

378. When You Follow A Star and Find A Stable

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... they saw that their journey was to end in a stable. Perhaps, though, the thought came to them that the wonder and majesty of God and his purpose could be just as potent in the stable as in the palace. As one reads the Scripture, if he is sensitive, he will note that the Scriptures are quite realistic about the stables that come to even God’s people. The difference between the Biblical man and other men is that the Biblical man never gave up on God. Take the Old Testament figure, Joseph, for example. You ...

379. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... , "Seek the Lord while he may be found"? Seeking on our part indicates an openness and yearning for God to become real and personal to us. It is not that God is lost, but we lost God. Seeking him allows God to find us because we are receptive and sensitive to his presence. The whole matter of salvation involves God’s seeking us and our seeking God. Why, you ask, is it necessary to seek God? If God is seeking us, why is he not seen and heard without our going on a divine treasure hunt? It is because ...

380. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... church takes on some controversial social issues. Our commitment to liberty is the reason, for example, why many clergy of mainline denominations favor freedom of choice in the matter of abortion. We are not indifferent to the moral issues of abortion, but we are sensitive to the moral issue of freedom. God has made us free, and it is a dangerous matter to permit government policy to usurp God’s gift of freedom. This is also why so many religious leaders are opposed to religious observances in our public ...

381. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... hemisphere. But United Brands had to compete in Latin America, and the time came, when, in order to compete, it had to make an illegal payment to an official of the Honduran government. It was something other companies were doing, but Eli Black was too sensitive to live with this procedure, and it claimed his life. With agonized conscience, he jumped to his death from the forty-fourth floor of the Pan Am building in Manhattan. Then, too, some of us have been participating recently in a series of workshops ...

382. Jacob’s Jabbok

Genesis 32:22-32

Drama

Richard F. Bansemer

... the family not only toward men, but also to God. Esau really could hardly care less. Jacob could hardly care more. And there were other differences. Esau was bold, hot-tempered, strong, and somewhat controlled by the advantages of the moment. Jacob was sensitive to the unseen and spiritual. He could envision long distant goals and had great determination to reach them. Two brothers, twins of Rebekah and Isaac, but as different as a Volkswagen and a Rolls Royce. Scripture says that they struggled with each ...

383. A Glimpse of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

George Bass

... deaths. Their experiences - and Jesus’ Word - sustained them to the end of their days as martyrs. Gerard Sloyan once wrote that martyrs must have been surprised at what was happening to them: "It must be strange to see martyrdom overtake you. If a person has any sensitivity at all, I can imagine him saying before they set a torch to the pyre or walk him up the gallows hill, ‘This whole performance is so stagey, so unreal, so impossible’ - yet the fact is that in another ten minutes the course of one ...

384. Who Has Everything?

Matthew 5:5

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... ; we don’t glory in ourselves; we don’t think of how fortunate the world and society and church are to have us. It means that we are not always asserting ourselves, or demanding position, privilege, or status. It means that we are not overly sensitive about ourselves, watching out only for ourselves and our interests. Meekness means that we are not consumed with self-pity, saying, "I’m having a hard time, people misunderstand me," or "I’m wonderful, if only other people would give me a chance, they ...

385. What Is Your Mercy Quotient?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... impossible to climb up out of ourselves and see the world from someone else’s point of view. It requires an enormous capacity for imagination, and yet, how important the effort. That’s what the college president did to some extent through his sabbatical. That is what some sensitive people are able to do at rare moments in their lives. But too often, the machinery of our modern life is so self-oriented that we just can’t do it. This machinery runs so fast and furiously that a lot of us topple out of it ...

386. Do We Want to See?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... worth more than a thousand words." Isn’t this so because what we see gets hold of us, and sight is the sense that makes things real to us? Blind persons have developed other senses to compensate for loss of sight. The tips of their fingers are much more sensitive to touch than ours, and their sense of hearing is keener, but for most of us the sense of sight is the predominant sense. The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was once asked what he would request if he could be granted a wish. "I would ask for a clearer ...

387. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... have suddenly come alive, and Dr Karl Menninger, of the great Menninger Clinic of Topeka, Kansas, writes a book with the blaring title: Whatever Became of Sin? It is a helpful book and tends to shock us back into our moral senses. Other sensitive psychiatrists are making a significant switch. They are saying that it is not the repression of the basics instincts, sex, self, etc., that is causing the tidal wave of neurosis and psychosis; but the repression of basic reality, recognized in our higher nature ...

388. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... into life; our lives may not have the best focus; our talents may not be used at the highest level; we may not be fully alert to what God is calling us at this moment; we may not be fully aware of the needs of others; we are not totally sensitive to God’s purpose in our lives. Ever since that seventh day, God has been working through people. How much have we lent ourselves to God in building his world, in creating his kingdom among us? If the world is off course, it is because we have refused to work ...

389. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... by faith, in the day by day living relationships: There are those who make life have a different dimension. They have larger thought and deeper feeling, they have got hold of something - or something has got hold of them - which makes them more sensitive both to the joy and the pain of human existence, more understanding, more sympathetic, more outreaching in their helpfulness. It is not as though they were trying to manufacture some peculiar quality in themselves. Rather, it is as though they had been open ...

390. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... kingdom of Christ as something above mere humanistic manipulation, as well intentioned as that might be. It reveals the coming kingdom of Christ as the business of the Holy Spirit, who will build his kingdom, generation by generation, using willing and sensitive and committed human beings as his agents in the actual consummation of the coming kingdom. Christians are called to be, in their time, links in the coming of that kingdom - his kingdom. Thus Paul’s dream will be joyfully realized: "All history ...

391. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... , "There are hundreds of people around you, Lord, and you ask, ‘Who touched me?’ " Jesus insisted that someone in great need touched him. He paused, until the woman came forward, and she was healed. We cannot hold to the excuse that we are too busy to be sensitive to God’s presence. An English pastor spoke to his membership class on this problem. "Don’t tell me that you have no time to say your prayers. Pray as you shine your shoes. While you rub the right one say, ‘Glory be to God the Father and ...

392. PERFECT LOVE

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... I love you because you need me, and I need to give myself away to people who need help." Jesus Christ is perfect love. When Jesus Christ is the master of our lives, then perfect love dwells within us. Perfect love is a force within that enables us to be sensitive to the needs of others and to desire to fill them. It is a motivating power that enables us to give strength and peace. It is "you" love before "me" love. With a child it says, "I love you and as you grow older, I will constantly be loosening the ...

393. A Thinking Person’s Thankful Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... him to say: "Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything." Christian love is love which grows more and more in the knowledge of Christ. It is love which always seeks to become more and more sensitive, more and more discerning. Christian love is love with its eyes as well as its arms wide open. One of the most popular programs ever on television was "All In the Family." Many of us watched it because we like to laugh at other people who have the ...

394. Genuine Imitations

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... man do something like that? The answer is that my friend believed in God as "one who is able to do far more abundantly than all we can ask or think" (Ephesians 3:20); and because he put his faith to work, he is now a competent, loving, sensitive pastor in Mississippi, his wife still adores him, and all three of his children have graduated from college. What was true for my seminary classmate must become true for all of us who seek to become genuine imitations of Christ. Like him, like St. Paul, like the ...

395. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... is strongest when you are weak." That all boils down to the fact that often our weakness can well serve us. It is not worthy of the abuse we like to heap upon it. Our weakness can teach us about the fruits of patience. Our weakness can sensitize us to the pain of other people. Our weakness can make God more visible to us. Moreover, weakness can teach us the strength in passivity and the folly in aggressiveness. On that day of the original triumphal entry, there was more strength in the weakness of Jesus ...

396. Phoebe

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... did not leave her business-like resolve and know-how at the door. As the sermon is preached, she does not send her mind home to tend the roast in the oven. She brings to her church all her faculties: energy, business acumen, sensitivity, creativity, ability to get things done. Church life means more than just activity. Phoebe knows this. She is neither satisfied with surface dedication nor superficial relationships. She is the one who carefully studies the Church school lesson - whether she teaches or not ...

397. The Guy With The Donkey

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... was building toward a crescendo, Jesus needed a day off, a quiet day, a 24-hour relief from the crowds. Mary and Martha and Lazarus, long-time friends of Jesus from Bethany, gave him their home and hospitality. Mary especially honored him with her sensitive listening and caring conversation. Jesus was blessed by a family of donkey-givers. Then, on that momentous crucifixion day when the skies were darkened at noon in a heartbreaking spasm of the solar system, Jesus dragged a heavy cross toward the place of ...

398. Annas, Caiaphas, and Judas

Drama

Jon Joyce

... cunning. Annas is more subdued, mostly by age, for he, too, was fierce and cunning in his day. Judas should be made up to appear severely distraught, almost deranged. Judas A special note is required about Judas. He should be an actor of the most sensitive nature available to you. The range of emotions and the madness required in his acting ability demand a person who can be seemingly controlled and normal, at times, as well as bizarre and off balance when required. His final soliloquy, the Lord’s Prayer ...

399. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... Then is it surprising that God who knows us so much better than we ever know ourselves should come to us in the way we all could understand? If it had been by an intellectual system, some of us would not find our way. If it required a specific artistic sensitivity, some would find their way, but some wouldn’t. If it came only by some mystic sense that could know the presence of God by direct contact, some of us never would have access. But everyone can say, I met a man! "The word was made flesh and dwelt ...

400. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... was supposed to go, and opened the apartment door. He walked into the wide-open death trap. The audience in the theatre had palpitations of the heart as he moved toward the drop-off point. Just in time, he felt the slope of the floor and his sensitivity detected the lack of echo quality, so he stopped at the dangling edge. I have never forgotten the scene because that picture was a mode of thinking, a symol of our understanding of how much we know about God and the universe, or, more poignantly, about our ...

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