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4101. God’s Great Chalkboard

Luke 18:9-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... that they are there just as God sees them and knows that they are there. But we pray to God and ask him to forgive us for our sins. Since God knows that we really hate our sin, he answers our prayers by forgiving them. [Erase the marks again, but leave the impressions.] He wipes them away, and we are forgiven. God says that we are free from sin, and that we are with him in love. But even though our sins are forgiven, we can still see the mistakes that we made. That’s good. We are forgiven, but we ...

4102. Worrying Is No Fun

Matthew 6:25-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... and coat, but when he gets to the door, he sees the sunshine. Now he worries about being too hot, so he takes off his hat and coat. [Take off hat and coat and put on sunglasses.] So he puts on his sunglasses. Then just as he is ready to leave the house, he sees a black cloud and, thinking it may rain, he takes off his sunglasses, [Take off glasses and put on raincoat and open umbrella.] and puts on his raincoat and gets the umbrella. But suppose it snows? Now he must have his boots. Off comes his raincoat ...

4103. Our Search for Intimacy - The "Father" God

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of our society in another of his movies, The Exterminating Angel. This imaginative movie revolves around eighteen wealthy, influential people who attend an eloquent dinner party. During the course of the evening they discover that, for some inexplicable reason, they cannot leave the room. As the days pass, they run out of food and water. The tinsel facade of their social existence is abruptly shattered. They discover that they have absolutely nothing in common. In fact, they despise each other. Before long ...

4104. Love of God and Love of Country

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... He is a patriot. He believes that if we just left everyone alone, this country would straighten itself out and show peace to the world. He turns his back to the poverty and prejudice that exist and proclaims that we should either love America or leave it. To Henry, George Washington was Moses, Jesus was an American, and the United States is the New Israel. Henry is an avid believer in church-state separation and contends that prophecy and other calls to national accountability are the domain of the churches ...

4105. What Gives You Away?

Judges 12:1-7

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... air. Would it not be great if our tongues could be as dedicated as was the tongue of Jesus? It was said of him "Never man spake like this man." He spoke words of tenderness, "Come unto me and I will give you rest;" words of peace, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you;" words of hope, "In my Father’s house are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you;" words of forgiveness, "Father, forgive them" - each time Jesus spoke, people saw God. Whom do others see when you speak? God tells ...

4106. How To Be A Saint In A Storm

Acts 27:13-26

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... be flying at a speed of about 650 miles per hour - we will be flying at an altitude of approximately 35,000 feet - we will take off just as soon as I get up nerve enough!" My friend was in a panic, unfastening his seat-belt, and preparing for instantly leaving the plane - only to realize they were now airborne! He said, "So I prayed, Oh, how I prayed! There was nothing left to do but pray!" We all react differently in life’s crises, in the storms and stress that come to each of us. Some of us try to ...

4107. The Most Misunderstood Gift

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... , but never to think we are better. Christ quickly withdraws himself from the person who claims a piety above and beyond someone else. In a church where the chancel window, depicting Christ, had been removed for repair, a pastor asked a little child who was leaving the service one morning how she liked the worship service. She said: "Okay, but I sure did miss having Jesus with us!" That’s what we miss when we see a "holier-than-thou" Christian. Jesus with him! The other question involved with the valid ...

4108. Hooray for Humility!

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... Barclay says "it is the greatest and most moving passage that Paul ever wrote about Jesus." This really is the climax of humiliation - the cross! But it started long before the cross. Christ was always doing the humble thing. He started out by God becoming man - by leaving heaven to come down to earth. He was born in a barn instead of a palace. He lived on earth without a home of his own. Even in the parade in which he was the principal character (We Christians call it Palm Sunday), he was unbelievably ...

4109. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... would be paid more than those who worked only a few hours. The difference was that the first who came, the Scripture says, had an agreement. The last ones merely worked because they were delighted to have a job and a chance to earn something. They were willing to leave the remuneration up to the master. The big difference here is motivation. If we go about our work asking "What will I get out of it?" that’s one reason to work. Another, is to do the work of the kingdom for the joy of working and the joy ...

4110. While We Watch for the Coming

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... , and with it I can work my way into hearts otherwise inaccessible. When I get this tool into a person’s heart, the way is open to plant anything there I may desire." The legend embodies sober truth. Discouragement is a dangerous state of mind because it leaves one open to the assault of the enemies of the soul. Napoleon used to say of his famous marshall, Massena, that he had a remarkable reserve strength, and that he was never himself until the tide of battle began to turn against him. He took new life ...

4111. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... and made of him a hero. And it occurred to me that that is exactly what we do with the story of Easter, the first morning of the Resurrection. I have read, and heard, and even preached sermons that started out with that little embalming party leaving their homes in the cold light of dawn and hurrying to the Garden of Joseph of Arimathea to the tomb where the body of the crucified Christ had been hastily buried. Bent they were on their sad and somewhat gruesome mission of preparing that body for permanent ...

4112. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... echo in my mind: "Not much, and that’s for sure!" Look in God’s Word for sureness, and you find a typical example. Some of the disciples were turning away from the hard sayings of Christ, and he spoke to the chosen twelve, asking, "Will you also leave me?" And Peter, as was customary, replied, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, for we know and we are sure that you are the Christ, the Son of God." That sounds like a great affirmaton, doesn’t it? Here was the confession ...

4113. Salvation as Hope

Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... of the dead. The metaphor which Paul uses most often in speaking of death is sleep. The idea of soul-sleeping, however, is foreign to him and to the entire New Testament. The apostle shares instead the conception prevalent in antiquity that in sleep the soul leaves the body and has conscious experiences outside it. The same pattern of thought appears in Paul’s references to his ecstatic visions: "whether in the body or out of the body I do not know" (2 Corinthians 12:2-3). Falling asleep in Christ or ...

4114. Minute Accounting

Matthew 12:22-37

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... one speaks that one may become guilty of majoring on the minors by concentrating on keeping inappropriate careless words from slipping out of one’s mouth? We can understand why we should have to do some accounting for our speech, but is this not going too far? It leaves us no leeway at all. It puts us under the continual responsibility of guarding our speech. There surely ought to be some time when we could take our guard down and not have to be careful of our speech. Is it really fair for us to have to ...

4115. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... faults and sins of others. There is deception in that fascination. We can become so engrossed in tabulating or weighing the bad in another’s life that we forget even the possibility of there being anything bad in our lives. And that leaves the way open for evil to spread like a cancerous growth. Blinding specks are barriers to honesty and to discovery and acknowledgement of the truth about ourselves. Obstacles To Understanding Blinding specks are likewise obstacles to understanding. It would be foolish to ...

4116. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... soul; but with me it is quite otherwise: If I have any strength at all, (and I have none but what I have received), it is in forgiving injuries: And on this very side am I assaulted, more frequently than on any other." Then he added, as a prayer: "Yet leave me not here one hour to myself, or I shall betray myself and thee!"4 Perhaps our feeling is closer to that of Aunt Chloe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin as she talks with her husband about the way so many slaves are treated by their masters. Many masters, she ...

4117. Strained Gnats

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... deeds will come and go Unchallenged, while ye follow wandering fires Lost in the quagmire!8 We cannot do much about challenging the "chance of noble deeds" if we spend our time and energy straining out gnats and swallowing camels. Christ calls us not to leave our places vacant at his side, but to be there, sharing his interests and seeking to see things from his perspective, not only that we may find meaning and fulfillment, but also that our lives may make the difference they are meant to make. 1. Margery ...

4118. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... , they hypnotize the occupants of the pews. Viewless but potent monsters brood over the senate, manipulate the market place, parade through the Pentagon, stir up trouble in the United Nations, agitate, terrify, and pervert people all the world over. Ghosts, ghosts, ghosts, thick as leaves, fall from the past to cover us, to smother us, in their rotting mold. Whoever cares for life must struggle. Straight is the gate to life, and narrow is the way, and few there be who find it. Obey, yield to the ghosts, and ...

4119. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... place to live in, than the latter, for he and Congress and in fact most everybody said there was not anything else to do but to go to war. That sounded so realistic and practical and sane and sensible - then. So I went, the first one out of my town, leaving my church, my six-month old son, my mother, and my wife to look out for themselves. I went and found out that the sun does not go around the earth after all, despite appearances to the contrary. I found out that the earth is not flat, even though it ...

4120. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... all orthodoxies. For he knows perfectly well that nothing human is infallible or final. This is the contrast between the liberal and either of the extremes. You discover that a radical reactionary or a rabid radical is so cocksure of himself. There it is. Take it or leave it. A liberal may never say that. He may say, "This is what I really believe. This is what I think. Will you test it? Will you try it? Will you examine it?" That’s what we mean by intellectual humility. When there begins to reveal itself ...

4121. EPISODE 5: THE FIFTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... own life, you will lose it. But if you lose your life for my sake you will find it. JUDAS: I’m not waiting any longer. I’ll find my own life. [He exits.] THOMAS: Judas! JESUS: Let him go. Another spirit is in him. Are you also going to leave me? PETER: Lord, where can we go? We don’t understand, but we’ll stay with you. JESUS: Oh, good Peter. You are both my burden and my support. How badly Satan wants you. But I have prayed for you that your faith doesn’t fail. JOHN: We’ll all ...

4122. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... a going somewhere good, and when you are going to a good place, yes, you may enjoy the journey, but the best thing about it is getting there, reaching the goal. Who wants to be forever traveling and never arriving? The only way to get anywhere is at last to leave the traveled roads behind you. Suppose you take a map of America and choose a wonderful place you want to go, a place a long way off. There are many roads. In the beginning of your journey you may choose this way or that. But every time you pass ...

4123. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... in his hands." Christ trampled in the Christmas rush! It’s a terribly disturbing picture. But I’m afraid there are elements of truth in it. In The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley, the narrator sees his guest to the door as he is leaving on Christmas Eve, and his parting words are: "Drive carefully; this is a Christian country, and this is the Savior’s birthday; practically everybody you meet will be drunk." It is, of course, a matter of record that in our country, in the three weeks around ...

4124. Faith and Obedience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

These two virtues, faith and obedience, are very closely related. Each one is incomplete without the other. In Abraham’s life and work, he illustrates these virtues admirably. When God called him to leave his home where he had lived for 70 years and go out to another land, the land of Canaan, many miles away, "by faith he obeyed." (Genesis 11:9) And when God told Abraham to offer up his dearly beloved Son, Isaac, as a human sacrifice, that seemed terribly unreasonable, ...

4125. Illustrations for Lent Easter Old Testament Texts

Isaiah 42:10-17, Isaiah 42:18-25

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

... 42:16] A blind beggar walking down a street on a day in spring carried a sign saying, "It is April, and I am blind." How pitiful that he was blind at any time. But on a spring day it was even worse; he could not see the newly formed leaves on the trees, or the beautiful flowers blooming on every hand. He could not see the earth bathed in sunshine or the glow of a sunset in the western sky. But another blindness is even worse. It can come to those who have retained their physical sight. There is a ...

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