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1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... bulletins for the day. In each bulletin was inserted a leaflet which contained the Resurrection account from the Gospel of Luke. At the end of the day, he was able to gather up only forty bulletins, but the number of discarded Scripture inserts amounted to almost double that number. Apparently, the words typed on a church bulletin were of more interest to many people than the Word of God. The Bible is the revealed Word of God, a record of God’s self-giving, a statement of the actuality and factuality of ...

402. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EPIPHANY

Drama

Tom Eberle

... . What we are looking for cannot possibly be found inside this house. Voice: What you think you are looking for cannot be found inside. But if you wish to find what you are truly looking for, it may be located inside. Two: That sounds like a bunch of double-talk. Three: Who wants to find anything in a house without a sun deck? Voice: Only people who wish to find what they are truly looking for. All these years I have been watching my people chasing stars. And I have asked myself why. The trees and mountains ...

403. Joseph

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... borrowed from apocryphal books. Unfortunately, this view has persisted. Common sense tells us that heavy labor in a carpenter shop required a man of vigorous, prime years. I see Joseph as a man of strength, a proud descendant of King David by a double lineage (Matthew 1:1-16 and Luke 3:23-38), taking the hand of Mary. Word reached Joseph that his intended was expecting "... before they came together ...", and he naturally assumed she had been unfaithful. Jewish law required death by stoning; Joseph could ...

404. Can a Christian Go to Hell?

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... found him, took him home, washed him, and put him to bed. The next day while the priest was conducting mass, Ugolin went to the river and drowned himself. When his sister found it out, she committed suicide. Though they were suicides, the priest planned a double funeral in the church, for he said, "Those children were not suicides. They have been murdered by society without mercy." The day came for the funeral and the priest went to the pulpit. While looking at every one, he waited to begin the sermon. He ...

405. Converting the Converted

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... . These two brothers, through preaching, writing, and hymnody, were responsible for the great movement of revitalized Christianity institutionalized in the Methodist church. Partners in Conversion "Converting the converted" - how can the converted convert the converted? This seems like double-talk, but the truth is that God uses the converted to convert "the converted" in the church. In his mercy God uses Christians as partners in converting. This is the third reason for saying that the first mission ...

406. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... you are worth the billions of a Paul Getty or a Howard Hughes. Do you go to the other extreme when you would sell yourself for a nickel and give three cents change? Are you like the young lad who wore a football t-shirt with the letters 00, a double cipher? Was this the way he was telling the world that he felt he was less than nothing? It is not only what you think you are worth but what others think you are worth. What are you worth to your club, to your friends, to your employer, to God ...

407. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... when all the time there is much more to be discovered in new and deeper modes of Christian living. I have noticed lately in my ministry a greater cynicism among retired and older people. The burden of the years is heavy - the loss of loved ones, double cataracts, shrinking retirement funds, and higher taxes. There is a certain bitterness that can come to a man who may have been a plant manager, but who no longer has any buttons to push, anyone to say "Good Morning" to him, none of the privileges, but ...

408. Christianity Can Be Fun

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... -god God; to be a Christian is not to be pious but to be joyous." The early Christians called the teachings of Jesus "Good News." In fact, the early evangelism of the church focused on spreading the "Good News." In a direct way, this "Good News" had a double meaning. It meant salvation, of course. But salvation from what? Salvation from death? To be sure, this was a part of it. Yet "good news" was preached to men who were in good health and had the bulk of their life span before them. In a very direct way ...

409. When Love Runs Out of Breath

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... all the violence and killing and bombing and fighting in Northern Ireland?" "Well," the man responded, "You know, it’s really not so bad. You can’t trust the press. The newspapers exaggerate. True, we’ve had some people driving through red lights. Some people double parking, a few arguments in pubs, but nothing very bad." The interviewer said: "Well, I’m awfully glad and relieved to hear you say that. We Americans thought it was pretty bad over there. By the way, what is your job in Northern Ireland ...

410. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... s love. "We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19). All religion begins here - loving our God totally - a complete commitment to him - with our energy, our cash, our self, emotions, talents, time, and brains. To try to straddle life with a double loyalty - the things of the world having equal or more importance than the love of God - causes us emotional schizophrenia. That kind of cleavage in personality is tragic - our mental health is at stake as well as our spiritual well-being. The worst danger ...

411. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... for sure? Well, the list isn’t very long. But all the important things I know. I know not by sight, not by induction or deduction. I know by faith, by experience. I know because I am sure. I am certain, because I know. Does that sound like double talk? It isn’t. This is the truth for all of us. I think of how limited Helen Keller was in obtaining provable certainties. She could not hear. She could not see. She could not speak. When, finally, they developed that system of communicating with her, they ...

412. Salvation as Hope

Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... . Man is thus saved from sin and death, from slavery to law and the bondage of corruption. But the full consummation of salvation is in the future. It awaits the cosmic fulfilment of God’s redemptive purpose. Salvation thus has the double aspect of "already" and "not yet." Futuristic and Realized Eshotology Both exegetical and systematic theologians are generally agreed that Pauline theology is thoroughly eschatological, but debate still goes on over the question of which of the two aspects, present or ...

413. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... strategy of agape by which God won back his lost creation and to which belongs the future. The Last Things Finally, is Paul’s eschatology relevant to the present day? We have seen that the apostle’s teaching on "the last things" has a double aspect, the realized and the expected, the "already" and the "not yet." Through the resurrection of Christ a "breakthrough" of God’s eternal kingdom into the present world has already occurred, the power of a new creation is already at work, and Christ’s people ...

414. Is The Social Gospel Out Of Date?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

Is the social gospel out of date? That, obviously, is a loaded question. In fact, it is double-barreled. First, it is charged with combustible emotionalism that is liable to explode whenever the trigger-term "social" is used. To the fear-conditioned conservative, "social" smacks of socialism. And what could be more dangerous than communism which, they’ve carefully taught, is nothing but socialism in a hurry? To ...

415. EPISODE 5: THE FIFTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... man Jesus has come to town with some of his people, and there are thousands lined up to cheer him. It caught us off guard, sir. Shall we clear the streets? GOVERNOR: No, that might provoke more trouble. Perhaps it will run itself out peacefully. Double the guards and keep a close watch. CAPTAIN: Yes, sir. [He exits.] [Outside, the chant begins, "King Jesus! King Jesus!"] BISHOP: Do you hear what they are shouting, Governor? "King Jesus!" GOVERNOR: I must confess it is a complete surprise. BISHOP: It is a ...

416. The Wonderful "T" Word

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Lord Of Hosts, If I Will Not Open Up The Windows Of Heaven FOr You And Pour Down For You An Overflowing Of Blessing." Here is what the Bible promises about tithing: if you tithe in hopes that the Lord will cause your stocks to split and your sales to double, forget it. It won't work. If you tithe in hopes of buying your way to heaven, forget it. Those tickets are not for sale. They are free, paid for on Calvary's cross and received by us through faith. But if you give 10 percent of your income off ...

417. Do Wrinkles Hurt?

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... for breakfast and prayer two mornings per week. Then they go out and do carpenter work on houses of disadvantaged or elderly persons. If we could get every healthy retired person into a significant ministry for about five hours per week, we could double the outreach of Christ Church. The great English preacher Watkinson tells of a time when he and his young grandson were down by the seashore. They met an old retired minister who was terribly disgruntled and crotchety. To make matters worse, he had suffered ...

418. That Hallowed Name (The Third Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... other men and feeling Paul Anderson beneath us, using his broad shoulders to lift us, men and platform, about a foot off the ground. Paul is about 5'10" and weighs over 300 pounds, and there is no fat on that frame. He is a sawed-off, double-wide Arnold Swartzenagger. One day Paul was in a drug store looking for a particular magazine. A man beside him was leafing through a magazine looking at pictures. That man must have seen something outstanding because he said out loud, as an expletive of surprise, the ...

419. MR. CAIN

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... d ever notice it. CAIN I wish I was a bullfighter, that’s what. Just me and the bull charging toward me. Attacking me. And then out with the sword. "Graah! Graah!" goes the bull; and here he comes. (He draws an imaginary sword, thrusts it, and then doubles over) Whoosht! JAREL You got him? CAIN (Grimacing with pain) Right in the belly. Just like a knife. Die like a dog. JAREL (Repeating the mistakes he made in the lyrics) "Happy days are here again, No more skies of gray again, Happy days are here again ...

420. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... is at peace with himself. I have always been fascinated by that line in the Epistle of Peter: "Finally, be you all of one mind." And I don’t think that we have to distort the meaning of that text very much to discover that it has a kind of double-barreled implication. Of course, it does mean that all who are in the Church should try to live in a unity of mind and spirit. But let’s take it out of that framework and place it in the field of our understanding of the human mind and personality, and ...

421. Well, What's for Sure?

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... know for sure? Well, the list isn’t very long. But all the important things, I know. I know, not by sight, not by induction or deduction, I know by faith, by experience. I KNOW BECAUSE I AM SURE. I AM CERTAIN, BECAUSE I KNOW. Does that sound like double talk? It isn’t. It’s at the heart of every human life. Think of how limited Helen Keller was in obtaining provable certainties. She could not hear. She could not see. She could not speak. But when they were finally able to communicate with her and the ...

422. Our Father Who Art on Earth

Proverbs 1:8-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... tell of him? "He goes on Sunday to the Church And sits among his boys He hears the pastor pray and preach And hears his daughter’s voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice." Our children should hold us fathers in a double attitude - fear and love. I remember an ideal Christian father in another parish who was a kindly but stern ruler of his home, his household and his children. He set for them the best kind of example of industry, morality and godliness. But despite all this ...

423. Chapter I

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... is the conviction that man is the highest form of God’s creation. Because he is this, each person is to be treated with the reverence he or she deserves by virtue of his humanity. There is a basic equality of all men assumed by the Commandments. There are no double standards written into them, so that one value is placed on this life and a lower one on that one. Each man, king or pauper, priest or layman, is of equal dignity. We have this worth not because of what we own, or can do, or the connections we ...

424. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... know that, and our children should know that, too. And children should value and give consideration and weight to what those parents try to help them do with their lives. They should value those stewards as they usually so richly deserve. Hence, this Commandment is double-edged. It cuts in two directions at once. To us as children it says, "Give primary authority to the parent. They should carry the most weight with you." To us as parents it says, "You are God’s appointee for the nurture of those lives ...

425. Showing the Power or God

John 1:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Need at least a double socket and if possible a three-way outlet, then and electric light bulb, a toaster, or maybe an electric razor.** Happy New Year, boys and girls! Did you all welcome the new year in the other day with shouting and whistle blowing? New Year’s is sure fun time, isn’ ...

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