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4126. Hear, Hear

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... Philip asked was what God gave him, "Do you understand what you are reading?" I can guarantee that people are more ready to talk about spiritual things than we are ready to initiate it. Dr. Waylon Moore encourages us in witnessing "never to presuppose a negative response" in speaking to people about Jesus! 3. Listen to them and then answer them with Jesus: You don't have to have all the answers. Just listen and then tell them about what the Bible says about Jesus. "Then Philip began with that very passage ...

4127. To Have And To Hold (Your Tongue)

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... never gives up. He keeps on knocking! A nurse on the pediatric ward, before listening to the little ones' chests, would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own hearts. Their eyes would always light up with awe. But she never got a response equal to four-year-old David's. Gently she tucked the stethoscope in his ears and placed the disk over his heart. "Listen," she said, "what do you suppose that is?" He drew his eyebrows together in a puzzled line and looked up as if lost in ...

4128. God Is Down To Earth

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... to yield noble and joyous music. God Became Domesticated in Jesus By means of the incarnation, God becoming flesh, God has come into the midst of life. Jesus knew life as we know it. He was raised in a family as the elder son was eventually responsible for caring for his widowed mother. He knew what it was for one's friends to turn against him, to be falsely accused and to suffer rejection and finally a cruel death. E. Stanley Jones has suggested that in Jesus Christ God became domesticated. He knew ...

4129. Buying Swamp Land For God

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... millions of human beings to be killed before they are born. Some thought this demonstration was foolish. But those who lined the streets felt called to speak out and let their voices be heard. We may feel called to invest some of our money in socially responsible companies, even though the return may not be as great as with other companies who have no respect for the environment or workers' rights. We may feel called upon to befriend someone in school or in the neighborhood who is despised by others. God's ...

4130. The Other Resurrection

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

If you ask most Christians who Jesus raised to life, the most common response you would get would be "Lazarus." How could we miss the story of the raising of the brother of Mary and Martha? The three days in the tomb caused the sisters to warn Jesus that Lazarus would "stinketh." What a great word, "stinketh"! It sounds like something you would say ...

4131. Ya Can't Make Me

Luke 9:57-62, Luke 9:51-56

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... Jesus. We can refuse to let him in because of our fears. We can avoid his presence by saying, "Not yet." We can even prevent a relationship from developing because we aren't ready to put away the past to deal with the future. Whatever the reason, the responsibility lies within our control. What we need to remember is that when we are ready, Jesus is there for us to discover. He didn't destroy the Samaritan village because they refused to let him enter. He didn't forever ban those who had excuses when he ...

4132. The Last Days

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... And why will there not be many more such days? Because the day of the Lord is nigh! CONGREGATION: Amen! PREACHER: The day is coming that is revealed in the scriptures, the day of our Lord's second coming! CONGREGATION: Amen! PREACHER: And what should be our response to such a glorious day? We should be alert, alert at all times, praying that we may have the strength to escape all the horrors that are about to take place, and to stand up and raise our heads before the Son of Man! CONGREGATION: Amen! PREACHER ...

4133. Paring Down Our Pantheons

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... given all we have to the poor. How much is enough? Who of us doesn't have many more luxuries than we need? Who of us isn't aware of what seems to be an endless need for food and help? We all wrestle with the challenge of sacrifice and responsibility. All of our lives we'll be struggling to know what is the right choice, what is the faithful course, what is the loving thing to do. Indispensable gifts are the knowledge and the fear of God, as we live in awe of his holy and selfless jealousy, and trust ...

4134. Close Quarters With A King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

It was quite unusual for Susan to do something so frivolous. Perhaps it was the combination of depression and stress that prompted her to take a break from her daily responsibilities. There was quite a bit of tension in Susan's relationship with her husband. Also her teenage children seemed to have become almost completely out of her control. She felt frustrated and helpless. She felt that she needed something. In fact, when she tried to think of a word to ...

4135. The New Life

2 Corinthians 5:17-19

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... I'm going to show you something that no human being has ever seen before! Can you believe that? I have something in my hand that no one in this place has ever laid eyes on, and yet it is a very simple thing. Any guesses this morning? (Responses will be wild, maybe funny. Go on with it as long as you feel comfortable. Respond positively to reasonable suggestions.) Well, if you're ready, here it is! (Produce a nice plump peanut. Surprise and maybe a little disappointment will be registered.) Oh, you thought I ...

4136. All The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... to play just one song. And that was it -- "All The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise." It's a good Easter Sunday title. Deep in our hearts, it is one tune we all know -- waiting, longing, yearning for the sunrise, the dawning in our lives. Easter holds God's response. The dawn has come. The Son has risen. We're not stuck in yesterday. All the promise of tomorrow has broken into our lives. We have God's love, power and grace to fully live in this moment. And the next. And the one after that. We have grace to ...

4137. The Christmas Cactus

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... desert, where they thought they had to earn the love of an angry, far off God through rituals and sacrifices, came Emmanuel, "God with us," who taught that God already loved them with an everlasting love, and called them to love God, their neighbor and themselves as a response to that love. There came streams of water in their religious desert. Isaiah wrote to exiles who wanted to go home to Zion, thinking that that was the only way to get close to God. Do you think that you need to be in some other place ...

4138. Too Light A Thing

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... I read it. What a challenge to those of us who call ourselves servants of God. We struggle with little things so long that they fill our lives and become the big things. Isn't that one of the dangers of retirement? You spend your life wrestling with heavy responsibilities on a job, whether it's in the home with the impossible challenge of raising children, or out in the business world, where the bottom line looms as the be all and end all. And then you retire, and the little things can easily take over. The ...

4139. God Works Wanders

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... promise is told in so few words. There's nothing of what they felt, what they thought. That would be the fascination of a modern writer and reader. It's enough to tell of God's command and promise, and of Abram's and Sarai's obedient response. Still, we can easily imagine Abram and Sarai some weeks later wondering whether they were being faithful and wise, or whether they were just foolish and deluded. Sarai wakes, reaches for her husband, but he's not there. She peers outside the tent and sees him sitting ...

4140. Our Champion Rides Into Battle

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... treasury and their skill at manipulating the sacred law. The Romans had their legions of soldiers with chariots and swords and spears. The court officials wielded the authority of the Emperor and power over life and death. Still, there was something unsettling about the response of the crowds. They were singing and shouting, "Hosanna!" Some were climbing the trees and cutting palms to place in his path. Others took off their coats to muffle the dust on the road before him. But this was a crowd which had ...

4141. Focus On The Son

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... on to amidst all the glitter and trimmings of the holiday. Do we have a focus, a center, that keeps us from disintegrating in the middle of this beautiful but precarious season of the year? During the Advent season we have been noting our responses to God's great beginning. On the first Sunday we began with the theme "Awake, Christ Is Coming," and reminded ourselves that Christ was present with us now and that the most unsuspecting moment might be filled with creative potential. On the second Sunday the ...

4142. Accepting The Call

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... in the dark, went down a hallway that reeked, and found this guy's room. They went in, despite receiving no reply to their knock, and found the guy half passed out on the bed. They tried talking to him, telling him their own stories of recovery, but got no response. One of the fellows pulled out a pocket testament, and laid it on the table beside the bed. "I'm leaving this Bible for you," he said to the man, "because maybe you'll come to and read it in the morning. My number is on the inside cover. I ...

4143. Down A Garden Path

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

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... 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 offering to be our Lord? That's the faithful and needed response in both the garden and the desert: to let God be God. To let God be our God. With God's 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 ...

4144. Learn To Wait Creatively

James 5:7-12

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... story about a monk who prayed for many years to receive a vision from God. Just about the time that he was certain the vision would never come God visited him in a remarkable way. As he was enjoying his rapturous moment, suddenly the monastery bell rang signaling his responsibility to take a turn at the gate to feed the poor. The monk was in a predicament. He did not want to leave his treasured vision, and yet he did have this job to do. Finally, he left his cell and gathered up food to feed the poor. About ...

4145. Say Goodbye -- Say Hello

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... Alexander, in the hit Broadway play The Sisters Rosensweig, starred as a brilliant but eccentric banker who learns to accept the messy and unpredictable aspects of life. Such a performance undoubtedly was good preparation for her as she soon after assumed the responsibilities of head of the controversial National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. Richard Feigen, a well-known New York art dealer, tells of visiting her backstage after a performance. Jane had just been told the day before that her ...

4146. What's The Point?

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... Now the word of the Lord came to me (said Jeremiah) saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations' " (Jeremiah 1:4-5). Think about that, Jeremiah! Jeremiah did. His response is my second point. But first, you and I need to think about that. Think about it! The God of all creation knew you and me before we were created. He had intimate knowledge (that's what it means "to know") and intimate understanding of you and me ...

4147. Where Are You?

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... important thing and the hardest thing about good communication is being where the person you're talking with is. If you aren't there with them communication doesn't happen. If, instead of listening to what they are saying, you're busy planning what you're going to say in response, you aren't really there. So where are you as you listen to this sermon, as you worship God, as you live your life? One way to get at where you are is to look at where you were: where you've been. We got where we are from somewhere ...

4148. The Drawing Power Of Christ

John 12:32

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... (Note: Be prepared with a magnet and several objects that will be attracted to it. Little metal figures would be very helpful!) Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever experimented with a magnet? Do you know what a magnet does? (Responses.) Do you understand how a magnet works? Well, without being too technical, a magnet is a piece of metal -- usually iron, steel, cobalt or nickel -- which has been charged with a magnetic field so that it attracts other particles of like metals. I have ...

4149. Don't Blow Your Own Horn

Matthew 6:1-4

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

Object: Toy trumpets or trumpet stickers Lesson: When you give, do not announce it with trumpets. Good morning, boys and girls. Do you know what a braggart is? (Response -- Allow some free expression here.) I suppose we have all known someone at some time who spent too much time telling us all about his or her accomplishments, haven't we? Maybe we can even remember a time or two when we bragged a little too much ourselves. We often ...

4150. What Is A Lie?

Romans 13:10

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... probably hurt someone else. If we love one another we cannot do that. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: When your child has told a lie. When someone in the family has been hurt by someone else telling a lie. When your child has failed to take responsibility for something that he or she has broken.

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