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4001. Grampa Noah And When The Flood Came

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... be as bad as theywere. Ellie: Did you ever talk to the Lord again? Josh: My folks said God promised that while the earthremains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer andwinter, day and night, shall not cease. Peter: But only if we continue to bring offerings toGod. Noah: God did an interesting thing. He not onlypromised regularity in nature without our having to make theburnt offerings, Peter. He set a rainbow in the clouds aftereach storm to remind Himself that He would never do a floodagain. Ellie ...

4002. Paul, The Great Missionary

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... According to recent studies by scholars, it appears that the apostle Paul was put in prison during his ministry in Ephesus. It was during the winter of 54-55 A.D., about a quarter century after the death of Jesus of Nazareth. While in prison, he continued to maintain contact with friends in the churches he helped start. He wrote a number of letters to places all over the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, and up into Turkey, a seaport area, across the Aegean Sea, southeast of Philippi, which is in Greece ...

4003. Children

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... , all the men of my family have made the annual trip to the Temple since the beginning of time. This time, I had Birdie on my back. That's my daughter. A year ago, as she was being born, my wife died. I'm sorry. I find it hard to continue. This is Birdie's first trip to Jerusalem. She watches everything as we walk with the other pilgrims. And they watch her. There are very few women among the travelers. Someone has to stay home and tend to the children, the chores, the gardens, even the flocks in some cases ...

4004. Children

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... emperors or governors would blame Christians for all the world's problems. Things would get rough. People would disappear and not be seen again. Or their bodies would appear at a particular stone pile outside of town. They didn't touch my dad, because he continued to collect taxes. The revolutionaries apparently decided to let him alone because he was fair, even after they had killed his workers. I was about 35, and living in Antioch, when I heard that my parents had disappeared. I don't know what happened ...

4005. The Poor In Spirit

Sermon

John A. Terry

... present said that they felt their spiritual lives were inadequate. In one sense, it is troublesome to think of spiritual leaders who feel spiritually inadequate. But being able to admit you are poor in spirit is a blessing. Billy Graham's biographer notes the quality of a "continuing sense of inadequacy" and dependence on God as a key to Graham's success. Billy once said, "The Lord had always arranged my life so that I have had to keep dependent on Him. Over and over again I went to my knees and asked the ...

4006. Those Who Mourn

Sermon

John A. Terry

... they that share their neighbor's pain and who mourn their pain as Jesus did, weeping over the sins of Jerusalem. We all know people, and there are probably some here today, who mourn and are not comforted. We all know people whose grief seems not just to continue but to grow. What is missing? Have they gotten stuck in one of the first four stages of grief? Perhaps. We need to remember that this promise of comfort was made by Jesus. God is the source of comfort. The Messiah is the messenger of comfort. The ...

4007. The Pure In Heart

Sermon

John A. Terry

... . He will listen to you if you tell him to stop eating foods with so much sugar." The teacher listened sympathetically and said, "Please come back in a week and make the request again." The mother agreed and returned seven days later. "My son's problem continues," she said. "I am greatly concerned about his health. He rarely eats vegetables or fruits. Please, won't you talk to him about the danger of eating too much sugar?" The teacher again said, "Please come back and see me in a week." Though the mother ...

4008. The Peacemakers

Sermon

John A. Terry

... God, peacemakers have often been called cowards while soldiers are called heroes. There is a cost to being a peacemaker. There are statues of military heroes. They are justly acknowledged. But where are the statues to the peacemakers? We honor and continue to honor those who served in battle, people of courage who fought for our freedom. A grateful nation thanks them. Successful military leaders are promoted and given titles. For the peacemakers there is one reward and one title. God calls the peacemakers ...

4009. The Persecuted

Sermon

John A. Terry

... God's will, and way through eternity, and the final promise that God's kingdom will come. One night after the porch of his home was bombed, Martin Luther King wrote, "To our most bitter opponents we say ... 'Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you ... throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and ...

4010. Grampa Noah And When The Flood Came

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Genesis 9:1-17, Genesis 9:18-29

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... ever be as bad as they were. Ellie: Did you ever talk to the Lord again? Josh: My folks said God promised that while the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. Peter: But only if we continue to bring offerings to God. Noah: God did an interesting thing. He not only promised regularity in nature without our having to make the burnt offerings, Peter. He set a rainbow in the clouds after each storm to remind Himself that He would never do a flood ...

4011. Evergreen Wreath And Faded Leaf

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to the forefront. All the proper symbols of hope were present in the room: the greenery, the gifts, the invocation from the preacher, the wedding photograph (touched up as only a professional earning top dollar can effect), and the round of toasts. As the toasts continued, from the humorous to the meaningful to the absurd, the clanging of utensils on glasses ceased when the mother of the bride rose. She was a graceful woman. She exuded charm, beauty, and class. For forty years she had hung together with her ...

4012. On Not Being First

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... young man, a recent winner of the God and Country award in his church, went over to the referee and explained that he, being closer to the ball than anyone else, saw it clearly safe. The serve, he said, had been a winner and the match should continue. The referee, knowing true sportsmanship when he saw it, declared that the point would be replayed. It doesn't matter who won that match. A very proud mother had a story of victory far greater than any tennis game to warm her heart forever. And somewhere in ...

4013. Wonderful Story

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... his life for the people he loved." Again the old magistrate reflected for a long time. Finally, he said: "This religion of yours, this Christianity, it is a strange faith indeed. Case dismissed. You may all go." So Adoniram and his friend were allowed to continue their heroic missionary work in Burma. So it is -- what began so very long ago with Abraham and all he stood for has come down through the centuries, growing, transforming, culminating in a faith which teaches this: we are to give our lives for ...

4014. Standing Firm

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... which others won't agree. At times we'll be opposed, often criticized. Sometimes our critics will be right, sometimes not. As Christians we should not be turned away from our honest convictions out of fear of criticism or controversy. Through our prayer life we can find the courage to continue on. If we're in the right, God will sustain us and help us. But Jesus taught that while we are to act with courage, we are to do this also with respect for and love for others.

4015. Saul, The Tormented King

1 Samuel 8:1-22

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... joy and sorrow. Saul is like us in our humanness. He lives, hurts, breathes, makes mistakes, suffers from his liabilities, cries, laughs, and gets angry. He is a mirror of ourselves. Saul, in deep anguish and distress, withered under the flinty stare of Samuel. Parents continued to name their children after him. A thousand years later a baby lovingly named Saul, of the tribe of Benjamin as his namesake, was born in Tarsus in Asia Minor. He too would break under a load. But he saw something Saul did not see ...

4016. Lyrics For The Centuries

2 Samuel 1:1-16

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... tied many to events in the life of David. In Israel the many-faceted David became the representative of all of us who face threats from enemies within and without, sin and suffer for our sins, hope against hope and despite our contradictions and frailty seek to continue living before God. Do you recall the film, Amadeus, that won praises several years ago? It was the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's music was much better than he was. That is true of us also. Our music and our hymns are much better ...

4017. When All Is Said And Done

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

William G. Carter

... live as if the times have changed. We wait for the Son of Man to come again because we have seen the Son of Man in the power of the cross. We watch for his future kingdom because, in the death of Jesus, God's kingdom is already here. We continue to wait, because the kingdom is not yet here. Not completely. We live in the tension between "already" and "not yet." It isn't easy standing on one foot and then another. We trust God's will ultimately, yet we cope with unfinished suffering. The stakes are high and ...

4018. Invitation To Community

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

William G. Carter

... fifty percent of all marriages will fall apart. The statistics are skewed. As any divorced person will tell you, there are many more married people than divorced people. That is one reason why so many divorced people feel so alone. The fact such myths continue is evidence of how difficult it is to be married these days. We live in a fast-paced society that undermines our ability to know one another deeply and intimately. Our culture worships self-fulfillment over patience, mercy, and steadfast love. It's ...

4019. Something To Do While The World Falls Apart

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

William G. Carter

... people in the church have taken that to mean, "Get as many people in the church as you can. Scare them if you must." Every few years, someone writes yet another religious best-seller about the end of the world. The world never ends, but the books continue to be published. Each claims to be a work of "prophecy," and strings together random Bible verses that try to prove Saddam Hussein is the Great Beast, or some wild idea like that. Each chapter warns the Second Coming of Jesus will take place at any time ...

4020. Liberating Truth

John 8:31-41

Sermon

William G. Carter

... 's this nice ordinary American who works hard all day and is watching his six hours of TV and his wife is reading The National Enquirer and is more likely to set store by astrology and psychics than by science or God. The slaughter and the terror of the century continues. And people are, by and large, nicer than ever ... It is a peculiar time, indeed, when a writer doesn't know who the enemy is, or, even worse, when he can't stand his friends.2 Is there a way out? Is there some truth that will make us free ...

4021. A Taste Of Life

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

William G. Carter

... us tempers the Easter life with the reality of the cross. Even in the assurance of the resurrection, we cannot be glib or naive. The gifts of this supper are given in the midst of suffering. They are signs of grace, signals of love, pieces of evidence that God will continue what God alone has started. They are promises of Christ's life, given to us in the midst of a world of suffering and death. Maybe that's why we often take such a little piece of bread and sip a tiny cup. We have only a taste of what ...

4022. Water Won't Quench The Fire

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

... life infuses our lives. Through us, his life extends into the life of the world. After Hugh Kerr retired from a distinguished teaching career at Princeton Theological Seminary, he moved to a small apartment in a retirement community. To pass the time, he continued to write articles and read books. He also volunteered to deliver mail. One day he was delivering letters in the health care clinic attached to the community. A black woman attendant was playing "Amazing Grace" on the piano in the social room. She ...

4023. A Blessing Behind Locked Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... were called to lay down their lives for their friends, and speak as witnesses for eternal life in the face of certain death. The greatest challenge for the disciples was not embracing the resurrected Lord. Nor did they deny the open commission he gave them. Rather, the continuing task that Jesus set before the church was to extend his simple greeting to others: "Peace be with you." Do we really want to pass the peace? There's a church that said, "No, we don't want to do that." Their pastor tried to get them ...

4024. How To Plant An English Garden

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

William G. Carter

... the Pope. Yet he would always conclude by saying, "But Angelo, Angelo, who governs the church? You or the Holy Spirit? ... Very well, then. Go to sleep, Angelo."4 What is most striking about that story is not that Pope John withdrew from his work. No, he continued to pray and serve and sow the seeds of the gospel. He never withdrew from his work. But he was willing to let God be God. 1. As retold by Charles Rice at the annual meeting of "The Homiletical Feast," Princeton, NJ, January 1994. 2. Robert Farrar ...

4025. Shouting At A Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

William G. Carter

... . Our destiny is intertwined with his. Through baptism, we have been fished out of a sea of despair and destruction. Now we belong to Christ. We put our hands in the hand of the man who stilled the water. Yet as familiar as this story has become, it continues to have a dark and mysterious quality. Try as we might to grasp its full meaning, the story slips out of our grip. In fact, I have known people who quickly jump to a conclusion about what the story means, only later to have all certainty battered about ...

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