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376. The Question That Will Not Go Away

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... out of bed, weeks to decide what to do next. Students would never graduate, and faculty meetings, deacon meetings, and all kinds of other meetings would go on for months. Chances are, we'd be as bored as the ancient Greek gods and up to their same silly tricks. Death cannot be the enemy if it is death that brings us to life. You see what I'm after; just as without leave-taking, there can be no arrival; just as without growing old, there can be no growing up; just as without tears, no laughter; so without ...

377. WHERE DO I GO FOR A REFILL?

Drama

Angela Akers

... Man gulps down the coffee and motions for more) Man: "Refill, please." Waiter: "You must have a late night ahead of you." Man: "Oh yeah. I can''t let up for a few more hours at least." Waiter: "Well, our coffee''s strong enough to do the trick." Man: "Feels like it''ll take more than coffee to keep me going." Waiter: "Well, it''s the only thing that''s legal, if you know what I mean." Man: "Oh yeah, I didn''t mean that. No, I just need something more lasting than coffee right ...

378. To Hell and Back

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... I might, I cannot seem to discover just when and where Methodists dropped the phrase from their rituals, but I surmise that it happened sometime during the early part of our century during the heyday of Theological Liberalism. It must have been a neat trick: getting some General Conference to abolish hell. Oh, well. Our new United Methodist hymnal (which we will get to see in a few weeks), remedies the deficiency by putting the phrase back in, but in a slightly altered fashion. The new Ecumenical Version of ...

379. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... literal, unimaginative minds. Of course I am not talking about the devil as depicted on tins of canned meat or in popular paperbacks: the fellow with the red skin, pointed ears, pitchfork and pointed tail. Such a comical creature might be one of Satan’s favorite tricks to get us to dismiss him out of hand. The Devil we meet in the Bible is much more subtle. St. Paul spoke of the devil and the sinister powers operative in this world in nearly every letter he wrote. He spoke of “elemental spirits” which ...

380. So Who Needs A Shepherd?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... before Him. But it is the most important thing, isn’t it? In Jesus we see a God who does not simply write off His losses, but goes out to seek and to save the least, the last, and the lost. In fact, according to Jesus, God will use every trick in the book to win us over short of beating us over the head and dragging us kicking and screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven. In the 19th century a mystical poet named Francis Thompson, whose life had become a shambles until he was finally reduced to living off the ...

381. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... only Son for the redemption of the world. The real question is: what are we willing to give in return? Love is extravagant. Mary cared enough to give her very best. And Jesus honored her for that. Do you remember O Henry’s famous little story with a trick ending titled “The Gift of the Magi”? It is a Christmas story of a young couple named Della and Jim, very poor, but very much in love. Each wanted to give the other the very finest Christmas present. But each had only one unique possession. Della’s ...

382. It’s Hard to Eat While Lying

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of evil. The Greek “ho satanos” means “The Adversary.” It refers to that unruly power in the universe which works at cross purposes to God’s purposes. I believe that there is such a power. I agree with Luther who once said that the devil’s most devious trick was getting folks to believe that he doesn’t exist. On the other hand, I do not claim to know much about that power. Some people seem to know a lot more about Satan than I do, and they seem to delight in talking about him. Sometimes it ...

383. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... White Queen? When Alice complained that the Queen’s tall stories were hard to believe, the White Queen replied, “Nonsense! Take a big breath and you can believe anything. I frequently believe six impossible things before breakfast!” She is not alone in that trick. I think we live in a White Queen sort of world. We pride ourselves on our sophistication and rationality, but from where I sit it seems that many people are quite willing to believe almost anything that comes down the pike, from channeling ...

384. On Getting the Gospel Out

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... by James Russell Lowell says: “New occasions teach new duties.” And there aren’t that many church-oriented coffee houses left around. I can’t even think of one. In the 70’s and 80’s the strategy for winning new disciples has changed once again. The trick now is to get them into the church - “our turf” - by offering people that which meets their needs. And then inviting them to come. By now most of us are familiar with the statistics which tell us that most people who come to join a church do ...

385. God’s Strange Arithmetic

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... it out of the materials in the old town hall. But they also decided to go right on meeting in the old town hall while the new one was being built! (Carl Michalson, FAITH FOR PERSONAL CRISES, New York: Chas Scribner’s Sons, 1958 p. 136) A nice trick if you can do it! Michalson says that is emphatically NOT what happens in a good marriage. In a good marriage, something NEW is added: the grace and presence of God. That grace is not something thrown up from the outside, like a buttress holding together walls ...

386. Holy Tuesday

Mark 11:27-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the principle of interpretation laid down by Mark Twain: “Get the facts first; then you can distort them as you wish.” Jesus was not here giving His sanction to any and all governments for all time. Indeed, His reply itself may have been an ingenious trick answer. “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God, the things that are God’s.” What things are God’s? His listeners knew their Bibles. What things are God’s? Everything! According to Psalm 24, “The earth is the Lord’s ...

387. A Friend in High Places

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... Parvin writes about an even more insidious form of body worship: I buy the market's products because I've bought the market's definition of my self and beauty. Dear God, sit with me when I look in the mirror. Forgive me for falling for the market's cheap tricks, for I have given them my sense of worth along with all my money. Help me believe again that I am beautiful, that you have made me good, and that there may be a little bit of loveliness in me to linger even when I'm gone.2 The ascension ...

388. Martyrs, Monsters, and Miracles

Acts 9:19b-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... their homes and hauled them off to prison. They remembered how he stirred up mobs against them. Most of the Jerusalem church, except the apostles, had been dispersed to other towns in order to avoid Saul's wrath. What was this monster up to now? Was this a trick? It's hard to live down a bad reputation, isn't it? You may be familiar with the story of a prosecuting attorney in a small town who called his first witness--a grandmotherly, elderly woman--to the stand in a trial. He approached her and asked, "Mrs ...

389. Courage Me!

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in good shape, but then all hell breaks loose. What we suspected is clearly revealed. A teenage son or daughter is chemically dependent. The pressure of this tears at the very fabric of our family life. Enters now the evil one. He plays all sorts of tricks on us. He sets wife against husband; fills their minds with questions about love and fidelity, finds a hint of doubt and enlarges it to have his victims question the faithfulness of God. Then he drives a wedge in the love relationship of the parents. He ...

390. The Future You Hope For

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... asked and he would point to a sign on the wall of the oyster house that gave the answer. Then he started cooking food, and it was so lousy he had to do something to keep their minds off of what they were eating, and he said signs did the trick. In the beginning, a lot of his customers gave him signs, but he discovered that if they gave him a sign they expected to see it on the wall the next day. That didn't work because some of the signs he couldn't use -- they were the x-rated ...

391. The Baby Leaped

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... me about yesterday?" he asked. The old woman motioned toward the baby and said, "This is the great one I told you about." The great chief was not amused. He yelled angrily at the old woman and shook his finger at her. "What do you mean? Don’t try to trick me. This is just a baby!" The baby frightened by the sudden loud, angry voice began to cry. The chief became flustered. He didn’t mean to make the baby cry. He forgot about his anger and got down on his hands and knees. He pulled his eagle and hawk ...

392. Standing In the Gap: The Work of Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of you who have known me a while would know that I might do that. Lucy is the meanest character of all the Peanuts characters. She’s the one that is always taunting Charlie Brown and Linus—in fact, she’s the one that is always pulling tricks on everybody. In one cartoon, the artist, Charles Schultz, has Lucy kneeling beside her bed praying. This is her prayer: “I would pray for greater patience and understanding, but I’m afraid I might get it.” That’s the way it is with me sometimes. I know ...

393. A Thousand Years Of Ashes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... account of the drowning of an eight- year-old boy in a small pond. The boy was with three friends and together they were looking for golf balls. The friends reported that when Chris had slipped into the pond they thought he was playing a trick on them. But that story was not true. Two years later the boy who pushed Chris into the pond finally confessed his transgression. However, by then it was too late for healing. Each of the boys suffered long term emotional and psychological damage from the secret ...

394. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... , "He seemed paralyzed. Only his face and the tips of his boots were above water. I decided to start casting." His homemade lure hooked Ovesen's rubber waders on the first cast of about ten yards. But Oveson weighed nearly 250 pounds. Wilhelmsen used every trick he knew to reel in the big man without breaking his light line. He landed the half-conscious Dane and hauled him onto the shore. Oveson survived the ordeal.15 Fishers of men! Catching people and saving them. It’s what disciples learn in the ...

395. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... case the care of a father for the needs of his child. “Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?” A round loaf and a rounded stone look alike; the one will fill your belly and the other break your teeth. Tricking a hungry child is cruelty, and this is not what God does. God is not a cosmic sadist. The one who created us needing food delights to meet the need. No parent should mock the trust of a child, and God does not mock the needs of those who ask ...

396. The One Who Came Still Comes; The One Who Spoke Still Speaks

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... One who came still comes, and the One who spoke still speaks.[1] How did Jesus come then and how does He come today? He Comes Intentionally Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem was orchestrated. I did not say “manipulated” because the Lord did not have to trick anyone for these things to happen. When I say that He orchestrated the entrance into Jerusalem, I mean that He providentially moved human beings and circumstances so that He could enter the way He did. It was deliberate, right down to the owner of the ...

397. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother. —Larry I didn’t think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool. —Eugene Are you really invisible or is that just a trick? —Lucy Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident? —Norma Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you got now? —Jane I don't ever feel alone since I found out ...

398. Identifying a Christian

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... How do you tell the difference between an Arab bus and a Jewish bus? A big plastic sign in the windshield. But back to our primary question, how do you identify a Christian? I guess we could wear plastic signs. But would that really do the trick? (1) This is an important question. A few years, the Barna Research Group released the findings of a nationwide survey of people who do not consider themselves to be Christian. They were asked to provide their impressions of 11 groups of people ranging from military ...

399. Those Parentheses

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... , hippie, pig, imperialist [and the like], the one so labeled may be reviled, imprisoned, tortured, killed or exiled because he is no longer a human being, but a symbol. He does not bleed when pricked; his heart does not cry in the night. By this conjuring trick, conscience is made to disappear. It is, perhaps, the profoundest corruption of our time.1 Eric Severeid is saying that we are not our brother's keeper, because that makes our brother less than human. We are our brother's brother. Peter puts it this ...

400. Blinders

Acts 17:22-31

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... way -- they can't see when or if they've been sidetracked to go where they don't want to go -- if they've been trapped by death instead of reaching for life. I hate it when I'm looking for something, maybe looking straight at it, but by some trick of perception I just don't notice it. Maybe looking too hard to find it, keeps me from seeing it. Usually, it takes somebody else coming along to point to it so I can see it. And you know what they say? "If it was a snake, it would have ...

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