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401. Is It Too Late?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

George Johnson

... oil and national autonomy. I wonder if we would be willing to wave our flags and blow our trumpets if we would decide to spend 50 billion dollars to prepare for and wage war on the threat to Mother Earth. Is it too late? There is differing opinion on how serious the ozone crisis and warming trend really are. We all agree that is a problem. But how serious is it - 70 percent serious, 90 percent serious? Perhaps this example will help. Your two-year-old is outside playing. Someone comes and reports that your ...

402. Let Freedom Ring!

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... political framework to enact legislation. One of the other things that Christians can do is to bind themselves together and issue resolutions which promote the common welfare. These not only act as guides for other Christians but also inform politicians of public opinion. As the Christ was sent, so he sent his followers to “proclaim release to the captives… to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” Though freedom needs to be checked against such values as love, justice and order, still God favors ...

403. Beyond Togetherness

John 17:20-26

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... your family is like my family, your day-today operation is not marked with constant good will and cooperation. Parents can disagree with each other, or the children, or the youngsters with each other. There are so many possibilities for dissension - goals will vary, opinions often differ and wills may clash. I think the reason for the popularity of the television cartoon "The Simpsons" is that it lays bare some of the battles which are fought in the arenas of many homes. Apparently there is some comfort in ...

404. The Story Of The Scandalized Neighbors

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... was asking to be cut off from his family forever. In fact, the family would grieve as though he had died and, from that point on, he would always be referred to in the past tense. It wasn't merely a matter of running away from home. Contrary to public opinion, I'm sure Eli tried to talk him out of it even though Judah did very little around the farm and was more trouble than help. But it was no use, the lad was probably tired of being hassled by everyone so, determined to free himself from the last ties ...

405. God's Love Is Deep

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Alan R. Lindberg

... to know and love and _________ all the more, the more they selflessly gave of themselves. They both gave to the causes and concerns that they felt were important. had a passion for wanting to have contemporary worship at Trinity, and was eager to give her opinions and be the mover of some great experiences. She spent many hours in Bible study - questioning and pondering the meaning of life and of her Lord, She experienced a renewal of life by the Holy Spirit, and continually reassured all of us that he is ...

406. The Secret Of Effective Living

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

Robert Allen

... it is restful to be sure of one man’s integrity.” Moral integrity is needed by those who would discover the secret of effective living. We can never make this discovery as long as we allow ourselves to be blown to and fro by the prevailing winds of public opinion. There are some issues which are not at the mercy of popular vote. There are some issues upon which we must stand firm. There are some issues which demand that we do not waver if we are to maintain any sense of moral integrity. Once I had an ...

407. Can You Dig It?

Genesis 26:1-35

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... , must take back the power to define for ourselves the direction of our lives despite what others do to stop us! One reason why so much strife infests our communities is because we are too gullible, too open and vulnerable to other folks' opinions and solutions about how to keep our own families together and how to solve our own problems. We have abandoned our own spiritual, familial, and cultural traditions for the sake of identifying with other folks, when we need to look to ourselves for solutions ...

408. When Is It Tolerable to Be Intolerant?

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... tone to our whole system." Here is implied, moreover, that for you and me to be truly Christian we must have strong convictions about what we believe and about how we act and why. They must not be wishy-washy and tolerant of all fuzzy opinions and attitudes. Jesus said, "Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." This is the happy combination of an informed intolerance and a balanced tolerance. An open mind is a tolerant one, but it cannot tolerate that which prevents us from becoming ...

409. On the Art Of Listening To Sermons

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... . In contrast, a good listener is one who is open, sensitive and receptive. A good listener is eager to learn, ready to grow, anxious to have new seed planted within, and excited about receiving something, even if it does challenge previously held notions and opinions. Guideline Number 2: Do not be swept away with emotional ecstasy. We often fail to pay attention, to really listen because we are on some mountaintop high on emotions and feelings, either before we come, while we are present, or after we leave ...

410. Living By A Hunch

2 Kings 4:8-37

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... in Shunem and apparently the woman didn’t ask him for an answer. But Elisha kept coming back to visit her and her husband. It appears that Elisha was always welcomed. So he began to become a part of her life and she was forced to form some kind of opinion of him. Just how she did it we do not know. Perhaps it was in Elisha’s demeanor that he was so confident a person, so compelling in the way he stated his beliefs about God, that this woman could not help but believe he was a holy man. Imagine ...

411. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... dimensions of life which deals with the mysterious and ministers to our inescapable loneliness. If you can conceive of God opening God's own hands and showing them to you and saying, "Behold, I have tattooed your name on my palms," you've got power. You can have a high opinion of yourself in the midst of the stormiest of times. If your name is tattooed on God's palms, you can stand alone and become your own best friend. You do not have to live by illusion. And if you can be a friend to yourself, you can be ...

412. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... we may have to be religious guides to one another in a time when religion itself has lost its lofty place in the repertoire of human imagery. The signs may be limited, if there at all. No Signs The so-called experts tell us that we often form our opinion of someone in the first five seconds after we first meet him. Consequently they teach that the signs one gives off in the first five seconds of a job interview determine whether he or she will get the job. They contend that a person is greatly judged by ...

413. Trusting In The Lord

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... also wrote, "The gospel is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe (Romans 1:16)." The gospel is the good news that we can trust God in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Lord. Paul had trusted his own religion and his own opinions prior to his conversion. Saul had a man-made religion before he became Paul of the Christ-centered faith. Man-made religion is upward and inward. Christ centered religion is downward and outward. The difference is immense. It is the difference between idolatry and true ...

414. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... to us the Scriptures?" They knew they had been in his presence. Their thinking was gripped by that conviction. That is what we need today - some great convictions to live by. Like all times this is a time when we do not need any more people who merely have opinions. What is needed today are people who have great convictions. In a church's Easter pageant there was a scene where a large cardboard box was used for the tomb. There was a boy inside the box playing the part of the angel. At one point he was to ...

415. Wedding: Five Cs Spell Marriage

John 2:1-11

Sermon Aid

Hollis A. Miller

... break down simply because they do not know how to handle conflict constructively. You will have conflict. No two people can live together as closely as you two are going to live together, without some conflict. So what if you disagree or have different opinions? You’re human. This is normal. The important thing is to be able to talk your conflicts out, to talk things through, to try to better understand each other. If you will work through your conflicts, rather than ignoring them or refusing to talk ...

416. A Second-place Finish

John 1:29-34

Sermon

John Jamison

... ? I mean, sure, I promised to make her needs and wants at least equal to my own, and, sure, I know what those needs and wants are, and could meet them if I wanted to. But what about me? I've had a hard week, too. In fact, in my opinion, my week was a bit harder than hers, and that ought to put me in position number one and her in number two. You know it happens. We have all seen marriages that continually arm wrestle over first and second position. It doesn't work either, does it? It happens ...

417. A Lesson From Prayers Overheard

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... deceivers of the people who cared more for the praise of their peers than they did for the providence of God. Similarly the publican, honest and forthcoming in his confession, strikes us as a rather decent sort of fellow whose sincerity, in our opinion, outdistances the deceit of his sideways-glancing neighbor in the temple on that day. Moreover, it is something of "our thing" to root for the underdog. Isn't it so! Because of our stereotypes, the parable fails to challenge us. We find Jesus' conclusion ...

418. For One Who Came to Faith While Dying

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Palmer L. Gedde

... a number of reasons that would be so. Your personal understanding of God is based on a number of different factors: your attitude;what you have heard and learned from parents and teachers;your own experience of God, however broad or limited;your study;your opinion. For example, there are some folk, and some of you here today might be counted among this group, who believe that God created the world but then went off into some far corner of the universe to let the world run by itself. God is, therefore ...

419. For a Cancer Victim

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Eulogy

James W. Robinson

... all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength." (Mark 12:30) and, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Mark 12:31) The Methodist belief in Christian perfectibility allows for mistaken intentions, judgments and opinions. But if a person genuinely intends to love God with her whole heart and soul and mind and strength, and her neighbor as herself, that person is close to the goal of Christian perfection. Indeed, in God's judgment, she may have reached that ...

420. "Because I'm God"

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

John P. Rossing

... authority. So Job gets what he wanted, in a way. God finally appears and speaks to him, just as Job has been demanding. But the result is not a victory for Job. It's not even a fair fight. Instead, God comes and teaches Job a harsh lesson. Job's opinions have outpaced his understanding; he has set himself up as judge of things he has no competence to judge. Job has been playing God, and when God shows up Job's game is ended. In ancient drama, when a writer wrote such a complicated plot he couldn't come up ...

421. See the Light, Be the Light

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... to pick which ones you want. It’s just too HARD to keep up with 10 of those things!). And of course, our ability to influence society for good can also be compromised if our over-inflated ego at being salt and light causes us to present our agenda, our opinion, as the only one acceptable in the eyes of God. To paraphrase the words of Ruell Howe, as Christians we must learn to follow Jesus out of the weakness of our understanding of the Gospel and of life, as well as out or our strengths. If we could learn ...

422. Are You the One?

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... are "invincible," male or female. Every one of us, at one time or another has felt the cold grip of fear and felt helpless to do anything about it. One of the premier spiritual writers of the 20th century – or any other century, in my opinion – was the late Henri Nouwen. Regarding fear, Nouwen wrote, "Fear is the single most important and tragic emotion in our lives." I think he’s absolutely right about that. Every day, people play on other people’s fear, using fear to manipulate others to achieve ...

423. The Pop Quiz

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ’s never happened to any of you!) Here’s the story: For many months Jesus had been traveling through the countryside, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, teaching in parables, and proclaiming the good news of the love of God for all God’s children. If opinion polls had been taken in those days, I’m sure Jesus would have had a very high acceptability rating at this point in his ministry. Large crowds were gathering to hear him preach. Still more folks were coming to him seeking healing, both of the ...

424. Epiphanies and Training Wheels

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... of women – if they can get past the fact that he was, after all, a MAN! And the so-called "Jesus Seminar" isn’t really sure if ANYTHING the Bible says about Jesus is accurate, so we really don’t know enough about him to form an opinion one way or another. I think the predominant image of Jesus today is Jesus, the good friend. Jesus is the kind, empathetic, nonjudgmental friend who comforts and consoles and rarely, if ever, criticizes or condemns. Folks today want a 24-hour-a-day, on-call Savior ...

425. The Youth

Drama

William Grimbol

SETTING: Three scenes, in a courtyard garden, where two young people are engaged in conversation TIME: Christ's ministry Scene One MEGHAN: You don't care about anything. You never take a stand. You never have an opinion. You are always Mr. Charm, Mr. Warmth ... everybody likes you ... DEAN: Is there something wrong with that? MEGHAN: Yes. If nobody really knows anything about you. If nobody cares about anything you are, except being very, very nice. DEAN: What do you want? I don't even know where this ...

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