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4151. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... to fate. Waiters are subject to many forces which undermine their faith. My first experience of coon hunting taught me an important lesson about waiting. It was a cold November evening after Jack Frost had already nipped the pumpkins and shaken the autumn leaves off the trees. The refrigerated air filled the lungs and made a person desire to step briskly. The moon was kissing the earth with soft beams, and occasionally a great horned owl would pierce the silence of the night with his melancholy hoot ...

4152. Here Comes Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Bjorge

... , but with sharp, two-edged ones. The Word will cut; but it will also comfort. It may hurt; but it will also heal. John the Baptist knew this full well. Burton Hotvedt has said, "I feel deeply that we Americans are slowly but surely leaving the Ten Commandments out of our personal life. We bear false witness without batting an eye, we subtly have other gods, and we covet another’s belongings internationally, nationally and individually. We act as though we regard the Ten Commandments merely as ten good ...

4153. God Stood Up

Sermon

James Bjorge

... be kidding. Maybe this Christmas season we had better take a better look at this Jesus who claimed to be God. The first thing that sort of shakes us up is that this Jesus was very human. God really became man. To some this is a take-it or leave-it kind of concept. In the early church it was very serious business. In fact, there was a group of folks who practically denied the humanity of Jesus and at the Council of Constantinople they were declared heretics. John puts it this way, "In the beginning was the ...

4154. Christmas Concern

Sermon

James Bjorge

... as a person is given priority. A teacher who teaches students a subject finds the subject matter important only as it enhances and enriches the student. A teacher can blindly teach material without caring one iota for the student. In such a take-it or leave-it style there is no concern and no relationship which makes for great learning experience. In the church of Jesus Christ we may sometimes be guilty of proclaiming without caring and then we wonder why we aren’t making much progress in Kingdom building ...

4155. No Withdrawal

Sermon

James Bjorge

... " (2 Peter 1:16-18). Christmas can be a mountain top as the Good News is proclaimed, carols sung, love spread all around. And as we head back down into the valley the terrain is a bit different, but the vision and the spirit of those days never leave us. There is no withdrawal from the impact of it all. In that great adventure story, "The Call of the Wild," by Jack London, Buck the wolf dog was a creature of the wild. The urge of his wild heritage frequently pulled against his loyalty to John Thornton ...

4156. Naaman, the Leper

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Don Yocom

... to stay." She answered, "I am delighted!" Then, producing some keys, she gave one to Jesus and took Him to a room. "This room can be yours," she said. He turned away, answering, "I am sorry you do not trust me. Goodbye." "Wait!" cried the lady. "Why do you leave?" Jesus looked at her and said, "You have other keys." The woman agreed. "Well, yes," she said, "these are keys to my own room, to locked drawers of valuable things that no one but I can see." "Then, if that is true, I must go," was the Master’s ...

4157. Solomon and the Outline for Renewal

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Don Yocom

... we have and let God use them in a better way - as in using pieces of an erector set, you can dismantle a wagon and make an airplane out of the same pieces. So God uses what we give Him for a higher purpose. There is too much religion that leaves out conversion. It is like the histamine drugs which may alleviate the symptoms of disease but may not help in the cure of the disease itself. Jesus pointed out to His disciples that we do not put patches on worn-out cloth. The better way is to use new cloth ...

4158. Remember Lot’s Wife

Luke 17:20-37

Sermon

Don Yocom

... are constantly being judged. Jesus was most popular when he fed the multitude, in his earlier ministry; but as he began to bear down in his preaching, people turned away to the extent that, at one time He asked His disciples if they, too, were going to leave Him. Jesus showed His knowledge of the Bible (the Old Testament in His day) by His reference to the story recorded in Genesis 19, the story of Lot and his wife. He was talking about the days of judgment to come and illustrated His talk with references ...

4159. The Drop Out

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... , does it? For the past four days you've been on my back. I haven't done one thing right, according to YOU! Well, Dave can knuckle under if he wants to, but I'm not putting up with it! That bike can wait till tomorrow! And I'm not leaving this lodge until day after tomorrow. I need a REST. DAVE: [trying to make peace] Maybe we all could use - PHIL: [interrupting, calmly] Very well, Danny, have it your way. I'm sure you are old enough to find your way back home without your cousin's help. Or are ...

4160. Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... first class mechanics as much as inventors or teachers - or lawyers. Can you keep thinking about that and maybe let time help solve your problem? SON: [doubtfully, turning away] I don’t know. I just don’t know. [Teacher also turns. Actors wait a moment, then leave.] ***** TO TALK ABOUT 1. Did the teacher have the right to interfere? 2. Is it possible the father was right and James might eventually have been a good lawyer? 3. Should James oppose his father or go along for a while? 4. How would you advise ...

4161. Measure of Success

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... . [Picture off. Spot on interview.] REPORTER: My paper is grateful to you for this interview, Mr. Magnate. We appreciate the time from such a successful man. We’ll be watching your new bank go up. Goodbye, sir. MAGNATE: Goodbye. Remember your promise. [Reporter leaves. Magnate is alone.] MAGNATE: [thinking with pleasure] My new bank! I can hardly wait. Who knows where this will lead? Nothing can stop me now! ***** TO TALK ABOUT 1. Did this reporter have the true information about Mr. Magnate? 2. What is ...

4162. When a Child ...

1 Corinthians 13:11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... about God and what he is really like. Now we know a little but when we go to live with God forever we will understand more, much more. That is why everyone here on earth is like a child to God, and our grown up days are all after we leave this earth and go to live with God forever.

4163. MR. CAIN

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... . He spoke to God as a friend. And apparently God heard him. So Abel claimed. At least he was continuously giving thanks. Continuously. Without ceasing. And I told him: "You are an offense to me, a stink!" And he prayed my forgiveness. And I told him to move away, to leave me alone. And he said it was not right that brothers should be apart. And next I thought I saw a hint of tears in his eyes. He held his hand out to me; and I plunged my hand into his heart. JAREL It was self-defense, of course. CAIN ...

4164. THE RECEPTIONIST

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... . GRACE Everything in moderation. SETH Nothing to excess. GRACE No entangling alliances? SETH No entangling alliances. GRACE All right, so long as we can keep everything neat and uncomplicated, I’ll get your ticket. One-way of course. To the Land of Nod. The bus leaves tonight. At eight o’clock. (Making out the ticket) Still I can’t make up my mind; do you think it’s really necessary for you to learn all that your brother knows? SETH That’s beside the point. The whole problem is that nothing ...

4165. But Men Loved Darkness

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... He did not come into the world to judge the world, but, in coming, He cannot HELP but judge the world, because He is light. But even as He judges it, He must redeem it, because of all of the darkness that His light reveals. The light leaves no secrets. It exposes all of the deceptions, all of the sinful contradictions, all of the bitter meanness within us. The light is there, and it always, somehow, gets through. Be sure of that! Hide in the darkness all you want to. Cling to your precious little darknesses ...

4166. Hungry for Anything?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... is full of booze. The hunger to be somebody drives others to crime. A waitress was stealing money out of a cash register. When she was asked what she was doing with the money, she reported that she went around eating in fancy restaurants and leaving big tips for the waitresses there. It was her way of achieving importance. The first thing that many criminals do after being apprehended is to ask to see the newspapers so that they can read about themselves. Well, our Lord knew our desire for significance ...

4167. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... because He thought that Lazarus was lost forever. He wept because of the physical companionship with Lazarus here and now; and that loss was very real. In the Gospel, Christ pointed out the same reaction in His disciples: "Now, because I have told you that I am leaving, a new sorrow has filled your hearts." Emil Camertz, the sensitive Danish poet, lost a son in World War II. It dealt him a crushing blow. In his book, "On This Rock," he tells of his fight to rise above this loss. He believes that he came ...

4168. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... there is no way to get rid of him. Try as we may, we have no grounds for divorce from ourselves. Your pursuing self will keep popping up, crying: "Don’t forget me!" tagging along behind us, shrieking: "You can’t do this to me! You can’t leave me behind! No matter where you go or what you do, you can’t escape. I’ll be here, brother. I’ll be right here with you." Remember the frightening story of the "Portrait of Dorian Gray," how Dorian, obsessively, always wanted to remain just as handsome and ...

4169. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... fixed the lip, and my mother took care of the tears, but I carried the mark from the spring for years. How lucky I was that the scar from that lesson was so insignificant. Some refusals to learn from others’ experience can destroy a person, or leave the kind of scars that can mar him for life. Parents, generally, try to use their knowledge and experience positively. They are called by God to do just that - to transmit their experience to their children and save them from the pitfalls that can cripple them ...

4170. Let's Go To God's Party!

Luke 15:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... that much? When you tell him that you're sorry for the things you did wrong and tell him that you love him, he has a party to celebrate. Well, that's what he says. Do you know what? I think that we'll have a party too. When you leave this morning and go by the door to shake hands, I think that I'll have something for you to help celebrate my finding my watch. Isn't it wonderful that you made me so happy! Well now, just think - if you made me this happy, you can make God ...

4171. Willing Servants

Luke 22:26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... me show you a picture of a huge tree in my front yard. Isn’t that a beautiful tree? It works so hard, though, and it’s always working to help me. Let me show you what I mean. In the hot summer, it makes its big branches and many leaves stretch out so that when the sun comes down, I have shade. Besides giving me shade, it will even let me build a house among its branches if I want to. Do any of you have a tree house? Sure is fun, isn’t it? But a tree also is ...

4172. God Bless America! Well ... Uhh

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... a pinko. If you criticize too much, you are suspect and possibly the target for a hard-hat. If you seem to enjoy life too much, you’re not aware, you’re not awake, not with it. If you say too many negative things, take your choice, love it or leave it. If you aren’t willing to carry a four-letter word on your protest sign, you’re soft, copping out, not cool. If you voted for Nixon, you’re against bussing which means you’re against blacks. If you voted for McGovern, you want to sink the whole ...

4173. Like a Mother’s Trust

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... to the nitty gritty - we take him at face value or we do not. It is like a mother who nurses and nurtures, caresses and cares for, cooks and cleans, speaks to and prays for her child as he grows up. But there comes a time when that child must leave the nest she has carefully and lovingly built, and he proceeds to build his own life. At that point Mom must let go. She has helped prepare and create the foundation, and now she must allow her child to move on his own. The bird must fly by himself. At ...

4174. GARDENER

John 20:15

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... ! Herod’s rose garden was famous through out the East for its magnificence! To accomplish the wonders of beauty, the gardeners used a fertilizer that wasn’t too different from some that we use today. They used dung, sand, animal blood, chaff, ashes, straw, leaves, scum of oil, and the left-overs of the field crops as compost. And it certainly was effective! The Hebrews also used their gardens as burial plots. The field of Machpelah, Abraham’s burial ground, was a garden with trees in and around it ...

4175. TANNER

Acts 9:43

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... them in lime or another abrasive substance and then washing them in running water, all the while scraping off dirt, impurities, and any other foreign objects. The hides were then sundried and treated with sumac pads, oak bark, pine bark, or leaves. Having completed all this, the tanner had now produced leather, from which a great many articles in every day use were made. Scribes often used it for writing material; the military used it for shields, helmets, slings, quivers, and chariot sides; everyone ...

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