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4101. A Place at the Table

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

... home in the household of God, in the body of Christ, in the communion of the saints, in the church, or even in the world. This season of so many challenges, so much acrimony, and such relentless hurting, reveals the need to expand our tables and show the limitless love of God. Just like those church suppers, we need to trust without a doubt that there is enough for everyone, that there will be baskets left over, that we have plenty to share; so much, in fact, that we need to go out and invite others to the ...

4102. Investing Our Inheritance

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... come running up alongside of him. Tenderly she would slip her hand into his and she would hold on tightly for as long as he would allow. The minister came to understand that even more than the food he bought for her, this little girl hungered for the love and affection he offered. Now, when the minister prays, he often thinks of that little girl. He thanks God for the opportunity to minister to her. Even more, he thanks God for using that little street child from Bombay, India, to teach him of the many ways ...

4103. Deep Depression Or High Hope?

1 Kings 9:1-9

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... will be just as hopeless. Indeed, in our time "hope" has become a bad word. When the doctor calls us in to say of our sick loved one, "At least we can still hope," it doesn't seem to cheer us up, but rather depresses us. When we sigh, "Well, here's hoping ... an all-time high; he would never be "down" again! But it isn't many hours until Jezebel, the queen, is hard on his heels. She loved the prophets of Baal, and was angry at their defeat, and sent word to the prophet that she was out to get him, to kill him ...

4104. Unusual, To Say The Least!

Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... his wayward children, and our tears of repentance move him to promise us forgiveness and restoration. God warns and entreats, and sure doom is foretold and judgment will fall, but if we repent, he will restore. Such a wondrous promise ought to make us fall deeply in love with the One who cares so much for us. A remarkable lady named Minnie Pearce had the lead in the senior play during her college days. She worked hard on the part, and after the performance she was startled when a strange man came up to her ...

4105. Unfair - The Prodigal Son

Luke 13:1-9

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... he were home. I wish I could see him, at least for holidays. I just know he's not taking good care of himself. You know how boys are. HOST: Jane Miller, an old friend. Jane lives in John's hometown. JANE: (HOLDING A BABY AND LOOKING AT THE SNAPSHOT LOVINGLY) Johnny was ambitious. We had some great plans. We were going to get married and have our own little farm. We wanted to raise turkeys and Johnny had the idea he wanted to raise minks, too. As it all turned out, I got pregnant and I guess Johnny couldn't ...

4106. Noah

Luke 12:22-34

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... ALONG WITH MRS. NOAH) Is he gone? SHEM: Yes, hurry. MRS. NOAH: Did you remember to bring the kumquats? SHEM: Yes. They're right here. Where are the others? MRS. NOAH: They're on the way. MRS. SHEM: I made Noah's favorite. Rutabaga pie. MRS. NOAH: Oh, he'll love it. Oh, here they come. (NOAH, JAPHETH AND MRS. JAPHETH ENTER ALONG WITH HAM AND HIS WIFE) ALL: Happy Birthday! (ALL HUG AND KISS) NOAH: I'm so surprised! MRS. NOAH: (PRODUCING A BIG CAKE) I'm so sorry I couldn't get all 600 candles on it. NOAH: That ...

4107. Noah

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... .\nMRS. NOAH: You didn't eat any breakfast again.\nNOAH: I was anxious to get started. It's almost finished.\nMRS. NOAH: You really love it, don't you? The ark, I mean. \nNOAH: It's the Lord's work. I get tired, but it's a good tired. \ ... when we went to the zoo. \nNOAH: Okay, let's go.\nMRS. NOAH: (AS THEY EXIT) Happy birthday, dear.\nNOAH: (AS MRS. NOAH KISSES HIM) I love you too, dear. Thanks \nfor the surprise ... so this is rain, huh? \n(ALL FREEZE IN ATTITUDES OF WONDERMENT)\n Chorus:\n It's gonna rain ...

4108. The Spice of Death

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... that was aimed at the practices of the undertaking profession a number of years ago, people continue to spend as much as they ever have for the burial of their dear ones. The reason, of course, is that people want to pay the highest respect they can for loved ones. Or sometimes it is guilt that prompts relatives to become lavish in doing the best they can for the deceased. Whatever the motives of the living are for sending the dead to their graves in style, we do take note of the results. We draw our own ...

4109. The Silence Broken, The Bride Restored

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... Yahweh never retracted the wedding vows. Although Yahweh had been silent toward his wayward bride for a long time, now the love song resumes. ... for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries ... ). This faithfulness of the Lord to his people is continued in the image of the church as the bride of Christ. We read in Ephesians: ... Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word, so as ...

4110. Kneeling And Redirection

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... them about God and self-esteem, and nurtured their reading and writing abilities. Many years later those young people come back from leading successful lives and proclaim that the difference was in this wonderful woman who backed her car out of the garage and gave her love to kids who needed it. The other woman not far away wanted to feed the homeless in the neighborhood and could not get a permit from the city. Watching the people needing food daily, she decided to go the way of the Nike slogan and "Just ...

4111. An Idea Wearing Bid Overalls

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

James E. Sargent

... many times. He'd even practiced in front of a mirror. But when the time came to speak he stuttered again. For months he had been dating the same girl. For the past few weeks he had been building up his courage because he wanted to tell her that he loved her. Those words didn't come easy for him. They especially didn't come easy because he didn't always get his words exactly as he wanted them to be. Maybe, he thought, it was because he had watched too many movies. He thought that because the stars of the ...

4112. Taking The Good With The Bad

Job 1:1-5

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... his children, his possessions, it was all gone. What good is left? But Job is saying goodness is not to be calculated in things. Is there a meaning to faith beyond possessions and family? George Mattheson was engaged to a young woman whom he deeply loved, and they planned to be married. In the meantime, Mattheson lost his eyesight -- he became totally sightless. His fiance told him that she could not marry him. She could not marry a sightless man. The marriage was asking more from her than she could give ...

4113. Do You See What I See?

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... of ordinary Christians, to help us to see what is ordinarily hidden. God uses them to help us see the most important thing in the world: his love for us in Jesus. But there is a problem in all of this. We live in a world where no one seems to be able to make ... every reason not to believe that he was important, in spite of all this evidence to the contrary, Bartimaeus "saw" in Jesus the love of God for him. And that faith was not in vain. What Bartimaeus "saw" in Jesus by faith and not by sight, Jesus ...

4114. The Waiting Place

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

William L. Self

... ; it's exile now; but what we expect on the other side, God's presence, his revelation, his salvation, determines how we wait. The Christian in winter can wait for God to do what God has promised, knowing that nothing can ever tear us away from the love at work on our behalf. By waiting patiently and being open to the movement and processes of God rather than stubbornly refusing his offer of spirit and vision, we hear the boom bands playing and become receptive to his gifts of himself. We are fully alive in ...

4115. Failure Is Not Final

Hosea 2:2-23

Sermon

William L. Self

... of our own making. Today you must hear the word of God to you: failure is not final. There is a door of hope wherever you are in the valley. This valley of Achor is the door of hope for everyone who longs for the tenderness of the Father's love. One of my favorite stories of failure not being final is the one about Babe Ruth, the home-run champion of the world. The other part of that story is that he also led in strikeouts! Thank goodness there is no award for strikeout champion. Babe Ruth said, "Anybody ...

4116. Our Jealous Husband

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... 's okay to steal from a widow, but not from the church? How morally confused our world is! Who is the god of your relationships? Are you like God in forgiving those who hurt you or do you have your own standard? God says, "I have loved you with an everlasting love!" Is our love never lasting? Jesus never opened his mouth when accused ... oh, forget it, we won't go there. Who is the god of your desires? Someone gets a new car. Is your reaction, "Nice car. I'm glad God blessed you with it," or, "Nice car! Why ...

4117. Open Grave, Open Hearts

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... her attention first. It had no return address. Inside it was a one page letter with these few words written on it: "Dear Ruth, I'm going to be in your neighborhood Saturday afternoon and I'd like to stop by for a visit." And it was signed, "Love always, Jesus." Her hands were shaking as she placed the letter on her kitchen table. "Why would the Lord want to visit me? I'm nobody special. I don't have anything to offer." With that thought, Ruth remembered her empty kitchen cabinets. "Oh my goodness, I really ...

4118. Simply Simon

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... fifty. Neither of the two guys could pay, so the loan shark canceled the debts of both of them. Now, which one will love the loan shark more?' "I had heard that Jesus was always putting people on the spot with his tricky questions, but this one was ... who are only a little bit dead. They miss the point. They are so caught up in being good that they fail to respond to the love that has been shown them. They do all the right things without meaning or purpose beyond doing the right things. It is as though their ...

4119. Standing and Understanding with the Apostles

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... is revealed and the God who is hidden. We will always only ever know that fraction of the reality of God which he reveals to us. Thanks be to God that he has shown himself to us in Jesus Christ! In Christ we know him as a God of love, who desires holiness, justice, mercy and peace for his world. The ways and purposes of God will always be beyond our full understanding. There will always be mystery and a need to accept our inability to understand. This is most painfully true in our times of anguish, when we ...

4120. An Unfamiliar Place For God

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... the good news. We could also call it: the good example. We, like the exiles who first received Jeremiah's letter, are understandably looking for a word of peace. God's word to us is the same word that the exiles received: Get to work. Reach out actively and in love both to those who are easy to like because they are like us and to those who are unfamiliar, uncomfortable and unsettling to us. It is there that we will find the peace that is promised. For the promise is true. The peace of God, which passes all ...

4121. Adjusting To The Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... believe an awareness of that one fact will help to give us patience and gentleness in our Christian witness. Some of that adjusting to the light, I believe, is already happening. In some places, in some cities, in some communities, in some schools, the bright truth of God's love and way of life that brings meaning and joy is coming to be seen through squinted eyes. The church must not lose its courage to witness even when it takes decades for people to catch on, to adjust to the light. I am glad that I am a ...

4122. In The Eyes of God

Isaiah 20:1-5

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... may be confident that in the morning "when I awake, I am still with you, O God" (Psalm 139). The eyes of God, searching our hearts, do more than see us as we really are. God's eyes see in us the person each is becoming. God sees us more loving, more whole, more forgiving, more hopeful, more kind and joyful than ever we have been. And, we pray, by God's grace, that is the person we are becoming. This Christ lives in us. Through him, we also can do more than see others as the world sees them. We ...

4123. Down A Garden Path

Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... pain within us. Let it be the task of our Lenten journey this year to seek by repentance, fasting, prayer, and the works of love to surrender our lives. Why should we seek to be in control of our lives when we have such a good and gracious God ... help, let us unravel ordinary events, test familiar impulses, unmask our habits and routines and learn whether our lives are growing in the love and grace and goodness of God, or whether we're drifting or driven somewhere else. Our faith is meant to guide and keep ...

4124. Surviving The Present Trials

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... a casual question. Often those who are asking ask out of deep personal pain, trying to align their faith that God does, indeed, love us, with some horrible accident, or worse, some deliberate act of mayhem, such as a rape or a murder, or a birth- ... answers to this question. Some are simplistic and ignore one end or the other of that equation of God being both all-powerful and all-loving. Or they side-step the question altogether, as in, "We don't know what God had in mind when He allowed your wife to be murdered, ...

4125. Say Goodbye -- Say Hello

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... is rich in stories that speak to our condition today. One of these stories is about a beloved rabbi known for his learning and piety who is approached one day by one of his most devoted students. In a burst of emotion, the young man exclaims, "My Master, I love you." The elderly rabbi gazes at him and asks, "Do you know what hurts me, my son?" The young disciple is taken aback. He confesses that he does not understand his teacher's question and bemoans, "I am trying to tell you how much you mean to me, and ...

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