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4201. Leading a Friend to Jesus

Luke 5:27-32, Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... ." The Pharisees and teachers of the law were watching for Jesus, like Democrats watch Republicans or vice versa. Jesus’ claim to forgive sin outraged them. "Only God can forgive sin," they fumed. "This man is talking like he is God. That is blasphemy!" Jesus sensed the outrage of the Pharisees. So, he asks in verse 23, "Which is easier, to forgive sin, or to enable this man to walk again?" No contest! Jesus could heal paralysis without even breaking a sweat. But to forgive sin would cost Jesus the ...

4202. Celebrating with Jesus

Luke 5:33-39

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... all rushed over to the ex-Methodist’s house to remind him of his new diet. They found him standing over the cooking steaks, sprinkling water on the meat and saying, "Born a cow, raised a cow, now a fish!" We Christians are joyful because, in a sense, the Lord has sprinkled Holy Water on us and has declared, "Born sinners, raised sinners, but now forgiven children of God!" He has changed our hearts and we are heaven bound. Meanwhile we live in the hollow of God’s hand. Nothing can separate us from his ...

4203. A Fool’s Tools

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

... no one could either find his tools or knew how to use them. It was almost as though the tools never really had existed. Now all that was left was the gray, shapeless uniformity of Act III. The tools that could make a difference were lost. Also lost was any sense of individuality and uniqueness. And so it was that the one-act play, "The Gifts," had become the three-act tragedy "A Fool’s Tools." Parts of this play have been lived by each one of us, and over the years a number of able writers have given us ...

4204. Mugwumps

Luke 6:1-11

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... these has its place, and a very important place. Tradition and rules help give a necessary order, structure, and continuity. Without them we could be like leaves blowing aimlessly in a wind. Our familiarity with these traditions and rules can lend us a sense of comfort, and I doubt that any of us could function very efficiently without some comfort and assurance. But Christ reminds us that each has its subtle dangers - dangers which claimed the human need sensitivity of the scribes and Pharisees and could ...

4205. The Yestermorrow Eclipse

John 10:1-21

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... quite a bit about the solar eclipse and when it will occur. It’s all figured out down to the minute of the day. All that’s left to do is to sit back and snicker a little bit at the Medes, Lydians, Greeks, and all the other peoples who sensed fear in midday. We know what’s going on, and no eclipse is going to frighten us. It’s helpful to have a scientific understanding of an eclipse. It saves us needless fear and allows us to walk confidently through any midday shadow, secure in the fact that we know ...

4206. Oaks in the Shadows

Job 12:1--14:22

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... t have to be. The Son shone through Dilly. Names were never mentioned by my wheelchair friend Bill or my stroke-ridden friend Gwynn either. Again, they didn’t have to be. The Son shone brightly there, too. Through these experiences and their caring, I began to sense what Luther meant when he said we were called upon to be little Christs to one another. He, too, must have known what it meant to experience oaks in the shadows. There was an oak tree here once. You wouldn’t remember it because you hadn’t ...

4207. Striking Silversmiths Start Riot

Acts 19:23-41

Sermon Aid

CSS

... people. The Ephesus city clerk, clearly a respected community leader, therefore made his way through the crowd and onto the platform in the amphitheater. He managed to get the assemblage to quiet down long enough to listen to a few words of common sense. His speech was clever and almost reads like a defense of the rights of Christians. He warned the mob that continued noisy rioting might lead the Roman legions to take punitive actions that nobody wanted. He pointed out that the silversmiths had free access ...

4208. To Know He Cares

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Sheldon B. Kopp

With a sense of longing, Don spoke up. "Gee, you had something and you threw it away. If my father had whipped me just once, so I’d known he cared what became of me."

4209. Self

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Elizabeth O’Conner

... anyone else but me." Recognition of the division in ourselves begins when we shift the attention we have been giving to the mote in our brother’s eye and fasten it on the beam in our own. In an age, however, when so many suffer because they feel no sense of self-worth, it is equally important to become aware of the light in us - that part of us which is based on truth. Light and dark - they are both there, and each has many children, the children of darkness and the children of light. "My name is Legion ...

4210. Christ the King Sunday

Luke 23:26-43

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Theodore F. Schneider

There was a sense of anxiety as our seminary classmates gathered that day. To a person they had been surprised when the professor announced that there would be a final exam. Everyone was asking, "How can you have a final exam in preaching?" How could one prepare? What sort of questions might be asked? ...

4211. Let Yes Be Yes!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

... a lot of those who came did not affiliate with them, a goodly number of those singles (and, in some cases, couples - having found one another through that organization) began to frequent the worship and the life of that congregation. They sensed a Christian congregation had said "Yes!" to them, without condition and without expecting something in return. This congregation faces a like challenge. There’s a world of distraught "Canaanites" outside our door. Some of them hear God’s "Yes!" through us ...

4212. Which Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

... orchestrated by his Father. It was a power play, a strategy designed to bring the war with Satan to a head, much as a raging fever in the human body brings the issue to a climax after which the evil is dispersed. The cross makes no sense until it is seen for what it really was - a strong, decisive, cauterizing stroke administered by God himself to lance and heal a cosmic wound. The resurrection ratifies and guarantees for every follower of Christ that cruciform existence really works. It is the way, The Way ...

4213. You Figure It Out

Matthew 22:15-22

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... he strengthens me, that he wills my victory over the Evil One and his purposes, and that there is a final destination at which I am promised an eventual arrival. - In addition, God has given us something the animals do not have - reason, intellect, a mind, common sense, a well-developed brain. Christians are cast into a strange and fascinating paradox when it comes to the use of reason and the powers of our minds. Such resources do not assist us in our quest for God. God is beyond and above and in many ways ...

4214. Let’s Face It

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... . The bridegroom is expected by sentries with their lamps, but nobody knows precisely when he will arrive. He will usher in a time of celebration, but only those on hand and ready to go in with him will share in it. These themes would have made good sense to a Jewish Christian in Jesus’ time, when weddings were celebrated first at the bride’s parents’ home and then at the groom’s. The whole party would move from one house to the other, very possibly in the middle of the night, and the festivities ...

4215. Candlelighting and Prayer

Isaiah 9:1-7

Bulletin Aid

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... the new year that is dawning. Into this new year may we take something of Christmas with us. Bless those of our church family and community who have special problems. Be with those who are sick and in sorrow. Help them and be the Great Physician for them. Bring some sense of hope, peace, and goodwill to this earth, and may we find those things in thy well-beloved Son, for we pray in his name. Amen.

4216. Taking the Fun Out of Christmas

Matthew 3:1-12

Illustration

We prepare for Christmas by repenting. Repenting in the Biblical sense is more than having a change of heart or a feeling of regret. It is more than a New Year's Eve resolution. Repentance is a turning away and a turning back. A turning away from sin and a turning back to God. Bishop Joe Pennel of the Virginia Conference ...

4217. Mary's Revolutionary Song (Sermon Series No. 3)

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... that she had been chosen to be the mother of the long-awaited Messiah. Gabriel told Mary that her aunt Elizabeth, well past the childbearing age, had become pregnant. Immediately Mary went to visit Elizabeth. Under the influence of the Holy Spirit, both women sensed that God had chosen them for special tasks and would do great things through their children. Mary was then given by the Holy Spirit insights far too profound for a simple teenager to originate. She declared the impact that her son would have ...

4218. The Controlling Emotion of Fear

Matthew 11:1-19

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Johnny Dean

... ago H. A. Williams was one of the leading preachers and theologians of the Church of England. He titled his autobiography, Someday I'll Find You. That may seem like an unusual title for an autobiography, but if you read the book it begins to make sense. You see, there was a period in Dr. Williams' life when he was almost totally incapacitated by phobic anxieties. He was afraid to go into the streets and marketplaces, afraid of elevators and escalators, afraid to ride on trains or buses or subways, afraid of ...

4219. A Brand New Page

Matthew 2:1-12

Children's Sermon

Edward G. Hunter

Object: A blank piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser We are still at the beginning of a New Year and many people like to think in terms of getting a fresh start. In a sense, starting over again. Something like a blank sheet of paper, such as I hold in my hand this morning. There is nothing written on this paper. Let's say we haven't done anything in the New Year yet. Most of us would like to put down some very good ...

4220. Obedience and Compassion

Matthew 1:18-25

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Joe Pennel

... gift for every relative, friend, and acquaintance. To be sure, all of these contribute to our cultural understanding of Christmas. But the answer to "What makes a real Christmas?" must be found in human history. That is what Joseph did. And, in a very real sense, it was the theology of Joseph which made possible the first Christmas. If Joseph had not cooperated with God's action in human history, the birth of Jesus would have been quite different. The witness of Joseph calls us to cooperate with God's work ...

4221. Faith isn’t Easy - But it Works!

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... gives me such a life of blessing that it overflows to those around. So, like Abraham, because we are blessed, we can be a blessing! The Precious Presence - (verses 7-8) No matter how faithful the Promise-maker, nor how marvelous the promises, we could not live without a sense of the precious presence of God in our lives. I have a special "Missouri friend," Dr. Arnold Prater, who loves God as deeply as anyone I know. One morning, in a phone call, I said to him, "Arnold, how are you?" His answer was a gem. He ...

4222. Christians Die Well

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... He did all these things, but the dog food barely sold at all. So he went to a pet store and asked, "Why doesn’t my dog food sell?" The store manager answered, "Because the dogs don’t like it!" Sometimes the wisdom of God is just good, common sense, and Stephen knew it. We’ve been talking about Stephen in the glowing terms that Luke used to describe him. Let us look at some of the events that led up to his death: Stephen’s Story Being a Christian with faith, grace, power, wisdom, and the Holy Spirit ...

4223. Jesus Gives Us Tomorrow!

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... than he had ever been before. The Spirit would mean they could have a closeness that physical being could never allow. My John and I are blessed with a oneness of spirit in our marriage, so that no matter what words are said, there is a sense of "knowing" each other beyond all externals. Far more sensitive than our relationship is the Holy Spirit to the believer. Abiding in him, God is nearer than tongue can describe. Jesus gave them ... The Promise of the Second Coming (Acts 1:11) The disciples are still ...

4224. Sinners Anonymous

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... eat with sinners?" The Pharisees first asked the question, but in this case, they speak for all of us. "Is Christ unaware of what he is doing? Doesn’t it mean anything that there are decent people with whom he can associate? His judgment and sense of values must be all wrong." Christ wouldn’t startle us anymore than he did them, if having a choice this afternoon to lunch with U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, the peacemaker, or Soviet President Yuri Andropov, the subtle rocket rattler, he ...

4225. Laborers Needed for the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... of evangelism and mission work, we are inclined to think of hardships and difficulties. The Bible says, "but the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him." (1 Corinthians 2:14) In one sense it is true that sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ does take perseverence, effort, and sacrifice. For example, that great missionary to Greenland, Hans Egede, preached the gospel for thirteen years before gaining his first convert. (Yet later, the entire Island turned ...

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4201. Leading a Friend to Jesus

Luke 5:27-32, Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

4202. Celebrating with Jesus

Luke 5:33-39

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

4203. A Fool’s Tools

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

4204. Mugwumps

Luke 6:1-11

Sermon

4205. The Yestermorrow Eclipse

John 10:1-21

Sermon

4206. Oaks in the Shadows

Job 12:1--14:22

Sermon

4207. Striking Silversmiths Start Riot

Acts 19:23-41

Sermon Aid

CSS

4208. To Know He Cares

Illustration

Sheldon B. Kopp

With a sense of longing, Don spoke up. "Gee, you had something and you threw it away. If my father had whipped me just once, so I’d known he cared what became of me."

4209. Self

Illustration

Elizabeth O’Conner

4210. Christ the King Sunday

Luke 23:26-43

Illustration

Theodore F. Schneider

4211. Let Yes Be Yes!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

4212. Which Way?

Matthew 16:21-28