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4126. Passion Sunday

Mt 26:14–27:66 · Phil 2:5-11 · Is 45:21-25; 50:4-9 · Ps 31

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... the grief of another but we can make it bearable by sharing it. By listening, we demonstrate that we care. That is what our Lord needed. That's what we all need when we enter the valley of the shadow of death. Sermon Title: Which Jesus Do You Want? Sermon Text: Matthew 27:15-26 Sermon Angle: Most people meet death with a whimper or a sigh. Jesus met death with a shout. Jesus didn't meet the grim reaper with resignation but with confrontation. He confronted the painful loneliness of death head on and ended ...

4127. End times

Mt 24:1-14 · 1 Thess 3:7-13 · Jer 26:1-6 · Ps 105:1-7

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Russell F. Anderson

... may actually be endeavoring to hide part of the truth, if it detracts from their case. Pastors may withhold disclosing the whole truth for fear of being rejected by parishioners. Lovers may do the same thing for the same reasons. God wants his people to disclose the whole truth not because he wants to hurt or destroy us but to save us. Outline: 1. God told Jeremiah to relay all his words to the people (v. 2). - so they might realize their dire straits - so that they might repent 2. Withholding the truth ...

4128. Proper 20

Philippians 1:12-30, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Exodus 16:1-36, Matthew 20:1-16

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Russell F. Anderson

... commandment in the Lord's Prayer. Christ taught us to pray for that which we need now, not to ask for a storehouse of bread. God wants us to trust in him for our needs and not in the things of the earth that we have stored away. Bread from heaven or of ... :10--4:11 Begrudging God's goodness. Jonah was angry that his mission was successful and that the people of Nineveh repented. He wanted them to roast in the caldron of God's judgment. Jonah is resentful at God's softness toward sinners. It's obvious that ...

4129. Proper 26

Joshua 3:7-17, Amos 5:18-27, Micah 3:1-12, Malachi 2:1-9, Matthew 23:1-39, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

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Russell F. Anderson

... the sharing of the gospel with the giving of ourselves. The gospel is always incarnational. The gospel is free. The apostle reminds the church that he worked long hours so that he might not have to ask for money from them (v. 9). He didn't want them to think that they were paying for the gospel. Worker-priests. Following World War II, the worker-priest movement started in France. These priests were committed to working out in the secular world, so that they might bring the gospel to people where they were ...

4130. Proper 7

Mt 10:16-39 · Rom 5:12 – 6:11 · Jer 20:7-13 · Gen 21:8-21 · Ps 86

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Russell F. Anderson

... entered the world through the one man, Jesus Christ, bringing life to many. Gospel: Matthew 10:24-39 Realistic expectations. Jesus wanted his disciples to have realistic expectations about how the world would receive the Gospel. They would meet with a good deal ... this ring really; but it was given to me by my dad and it means a lot to him because it was from his father. I don't want to hurt my dad by telling him I was so careless as to lose his ring. Please, Lord, help me find it. In Jesus' name. Amen." My ...

4131. I Am Coming Soon

Sermon

Ronald Lavin

... them what a good job they had done. Before a council meeting at which the leaders were talking about the process of getting a new senior pastor, Clyde asked Jim for "a few minutes to talk about something personal." "Sure," Jim said, wondering what it was that Clyde wanted to talk to him about. "Maybe it's about the lumber yard," Jim thought. As the two men walked to Clyde's car after the council meeting, Clyde said in a broken voice, "Ida Mae has asked me for a divorce." Jim was shocked. He was more shocked ...

4132. God, The Father

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... come by yours?" "By learning from the teachers at the school for rabbis." "That is a good place to learn about our faith. While I could not get to the school, I learned from rabbis around here." "Which of them taught you about prayer? Surely the Lord God wants us to pray. But if He already knows our needs before we ask, as I heard you teaching a few moments ago, then we don't need to pray at all." "You have spoken correctly," Jesus said, surprising everyone. "What is your understanding?" "Well, God is our ...

4133. Children

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... experimented with in the earlier stories. Luke 19:1-10 Bible stories are stories to be told, not just to be talked about. Today, I want to tell the story of Zacchaeus, the small tax collector who climbed a tree to see Jesus. I'm going to tell it as if ... capital city. We had a beautiful house, a pool, a garden, and trees. We had trees! To tell you more about my dad, Zacchaeus, I want to share one incident that happened when I was eight years old.2 In the neighborhood there was a bad kid. He was a bully. ...

4134. The Pure In Heart

Sermon

John A. Terry

... of his heart, he could see what to others was a horrible distortion. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. This is a wonderful promise, but it may also seem like the least accessible one of the beatitudes. We can be poor in spirit without wanting to be. We often mourn and feel meek. We can hunger and thirst for things to be right. We can act mercifully. But how do we go about being pure in heart? One pastor said that his reaction to this beatitude was not very positive. He said, "To tell ...

4135. The Warrior And The Shepherd Are One!

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... popcorn. The obvious conclusion my friend drew was that if you own something, all you have to do is show up occasionally and take what you want. Since you own it, you don't have to pay for anything. The way is prepared for you. Armed with that logic, it seemed to ... is sweating. He is bundling up his guts and laying them in prayer at the feet of God and saying, "Help me!" If we want to walk on the Way God has prepared through our earthly wilderness, we must prepare to have faith in the Divine Liberator and a ...

4136. Repentance: A New Relationship

Joel 2:1-11

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E. Carver McGriff

... tricks to a puppy his parents had bought for him. Of course, the puppy, though trying to cooperate, had no real idea what was wanted of him, and the boy soon became so frustrated he kicked his dog with all of his might. The dog fell, injured. As the ... around me so that hurts I may inflict on others also, in a sense, compound his suffering as well, it makes me realize I don't want to be that way. Then change takes place, not because we are told we should, but because now we can never go back to being what ...

4137. Here Is Where It Happens

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... it would have no practical value." Then he went on to share these comments: "It's all a matter of the range of choices you want open to you in later life. Do you, for example, want to be in the position of having to choose between attending a concert or going to a ball game in any one week, or do you want to have enough money in order to do both? In other words, do you want enough money to extend your range of options?" There it was, a vision of tomorrow in terms of what this world has to offer. I ...

4138. Clear Channel Voice

Proverbs 1:20-33

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Timothy J. Smith

... ." "But," the Russians sputtered, "surely there must be something you could share with us, a technique, a certain kind of approach, some kind of trick that would make this all a little easier?" "No," came the reply. "What you see in this room, what you want to take home with you, is spirituality, and if there is one thing that all alcoholics discover, it is that there are no shortcuts to spirituality, no techniques that can command it, and especially no 'tricks.' That's what we tried to find in the bottle ...

4139. Liberating Truth

John 8:31-41

Sermon

William G. Carter

... pervasive are the illusions we live under. When we think we have a corner on the truth, our words and deeds may be opposed to God. If we dare to tell one another, "I know what I'm doing," there's always evidence that we don't do everything God wants us to do. We think we are free, yet we really aren't free. As someone once quipped, "Those who believe they are liberated may merely be unzipped." We live under a lot of illusions. One illusion in our time is that a good education will make us better people ...

4140. It Is Blessed To Receive

Sermon

William G. Carter

... . He had every reason to press on to see the priests, for that would hasten his return to society and his reunion with loved ones.2 Why did he turn back? Luke says the man was singing from the top of his lungs; maybe the other nine wanted some peace and quiet, and asked him to leave. Since all ten lepers were healed, perhaps the ugly divisions returned between Jews and Samaritans when they were no longer bound together by a common illness. Perhaps, as a foreigner, the tenth leper discovered on the road he ...

4141. The Final Questions

John 6:60-71

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... go?" Would we be shocked if we heard the Lord interrupt and say, "You can go to hell"? But that alternative is right there in John 3:16: "perish," remember? God loved the world so that not everyone would perish, not be lost. That's not the answer we want to hear or to give. Try some other "go" phrases. "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see what has taken place." The shepherds were wise men. And so was Simon Peter and so were all these disciples. They were "wise unto salvation." They could say, "We have ...

4142. A Breeze In The Dark

John 3:1-21

Sermon

William G. Carter

... And it was night" (John 13:30). Why does John say that? He has already implied that this event took place after supper. The writer wants us to know: Judas Iscariot, a beloved friend of Jesus, was in the dark. Or even later, in chapter 19, a woman named Mary ... the womb of our Mother who art in heaven. So it is, with everyone who is born of the Spirit." In his striving for faith, Nicodemus wants to know how this can be. He is grabbing for what can only be received as a gift of grace. The good news is that all ...

4143. The Power Of A Rumor

Mark 2:1-12

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John A. Stroman

... , and lived together. When we left, we left all of our belongings, except for what we were wearing. For the two weeks that we were there, the people realized that we were concerned about them and their welfare and so they came, especially for our last night. We wanted to have a time together with the people, so we invited them to come on our last evening to a service that would be held in the building that we had just completed. It was just like the house in Capernaum; they crowded into the small building ...

4144. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 14:1--15:47

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Harry N. Huxhold

... and love. As Jesus dealt with the reality of humanity's sin and the judgment of God upon that sin, Jesus was the catalyst for both. At this very moment God was exposing the futility and the inability of humanity to save itself. For that moment Jesus wanted to be fully conscious, fully aware, and fully cognizant that he might save the world from itself. With the full resources of all his senses, Jesus was offering himself to God in faith and to the world in love. The pain that surged through his extended ...

4145. Light

John 12:35

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... to have me take your picture move over to this side of the steps." I motion them to move to their right. "The rest of you come over to this other side." The children move to their new places. As I point the camera towards those who want their picture taken, I suggest that they smile. Then I snap the shutter. With mock surprise I look at the camera and back at the children. "Did the flash go off?" I ask them (knowing it hadn't because the film speed was fast enough to cope with indoor light). " ...

4146. Crumbs

Matthew 15:21-28

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... to eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table.' "What she meant by saying that to him was that she didn't need very much. All she was asking for was what no one else would want or miss -- just a crumb. So Jesus gave her what she needed. "You know, sometimes we have things in our lives we don't want -- not crumbs exactly, but toys we don't play with anymore, clothes we've grown out of and don't wear anymore, things we might throw away that someone else might use. Things that seem like trash to ...

4147. Listening and Paying Attention

Matthew 13:1-23

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... look shocked at this suggestion, but others nod agreement. "How do you feel when someone doesn't listen to what you're trying to say to them?" The children agree they don't like it. "It's important to pay attention when someone wants us to listen, just as we want people to pay attention to us when we want them to listen. And it's the same way with God. God always listens to us; sometimes we don't listen to God. If we don't listen, we are like the hard ground, or the rocks, or the soil growing thorns; if ...

4148. The Pure In Heart

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

John A. Terry

4149. Zacchaeus

Luke 19:1-10

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... time dimension only lightly experimented with in the earlier stories. Bible stories are stories to be told, not just to be talked about. Today, I want to tell the story of Zacchaeus, the small tax collector who climbed a tree to see Jesus. I'm going to tell it as ... capital city. We had a beautiful house, a pool, a garden, and trees. We had trees! To tell you more about my dad, Zacchaeus, I want to share one incident that happened when I was eight years old.2 In the neighborhood there was a bad kid. He was a ...

4150. Feeding The 5000

John 6:1-15, John 6:16-24

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RobertT D. Ingram

... takes us to the mountain with him, where we may be directed by God's will. Congregation: Jesus is a heart king. And when we make him king in our hearts, all who hunger will be satisfied, with plenty left over. For Jesus is a heart king, who wants to reign in our hearts forever. COMMISSIONING AND BLESSING In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, may the compassion of Christ satisfy your hunger, may the power of Christ come to you in stormy times, may the living bread of Christ nourish your soul, and ...

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