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4301. God Is No Gentleman

Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... hands dirty (or his white gloves); he did not associate with others outside his own class; he drew a circle about himself, abandoning the world to its own fate. The lot of the common people was not his concern. He was an exclusive separatist in every sense of the word, and his total life evolved around his own small artificial world, detached and cut off from the realities of real life itself. The metaphor infers that, if God were truly a gentleman of the old school, it would be assumed he could not care ...

4302. Only Love Can See the Star

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... utilize our best by sublimating it in his service. In John’s Gospel we read: "No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known." If we would see God, if we would know God, if we would sense the reality of God, we must find all this in the Word Incarnate ... the word of God come in the flesh to live out the very nature of God on earth. We see God then, in Jesus Christ ... the baby, the man, and the risen Lord. We see the love ...

4303. Humility Gate

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... to come to God than his way, by stooping at humility gate. "I am the way ... no man cometh unto the father but by me." This morning we stoop to enter his presence by spiritually kneeling before him in wonder and in love. As we kneel we sense our inadequacies, our failures, and our mistakes. In the light of his life we see the stains of pride, arrogance, selfishness, and our own lovelessness. Bitter words that we have spoken echo in our ears. Unkind acts rise up to haunt us. Our spiritual muscles ache from ...

4304. Only the Wounded Can Serve

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... no one could ever say he knows absolutely nothing of the meaning and trials of human existence. In our humanness we find so many areas where we do what we know to be wrong and where we leave undone what we know to be right. We know so often the sense of sin and failure and frustration. Again and again we miss the mark. Can anyone know the utter futility and desolation that, at times, we feel? Yes! Jesus Christ has walked the same lonesome trail. Our problem lies not in what he does or might do for us, but ...

4305. On Leaving Your Signature

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... is not a brand such as the one a rancher uses when he puts his signature on his cattle. It is not a brand, but a living, dynamic influence; it calls a person from what he is to what he can become. Once, long ago, when humanity seemed unable to sense fully and completely the intent of God’s signature through the Law and the prophets, God tried in another way to let the vividness of his love be written in the lifeblood of his Son. So, the Cross became for all mankind the signature of a bond of blood. Even ...

4306. The Cunning Craftsman, God

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... the cunning craftsman, God." On reading it, I could not shake the phrase from my mind: "The cunning craftsman, God." As used, the word cunning does not mean some kind of craftiness which might be our modern interpretation. But taken in its pure sense it indicates skill, wisdom and ability. The phrase then really means that the Master artist God can take our blundering efforts and still make something useful out of them. He takes our mismanaged lives, our failed efforts, our missed marks, our shameful deeds ...

4307. Paper Flowers and Disciples

Matthew 28:16-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... pair of scissors and cut out a flower.] If I can make a flower with scissors, maybe I can cut one of you into a disciple. [Take a child by the hand and pretend that you are going to cut him into a disciple.] That doesn’t seem to make sense, and besides I don’t have a pattern for disciples. How do you make disciples? [Let them answer.] You teach them. That is the way to make disciples. You teach what Jesus taught you, and you love them. Disciples are made of love and truth. When Jesus sent the apostles ...

4308. Dirty Dishes and Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... many times do I have to wash the dishes? [Let them answer.] As often as they are dirty? Do you mean I must wash them every time they get dirty? Oh, me! If I want to eat off a clean dish, I must wash the dirty ones. That DOES make sense. One of the disciples asked Jesus this question: "How often should I forgive a brother who sins against me?" Do you understand the question? If someone does something to me more than once or twice or three or four times, how many times must I forgive him? Do you know ...

4309. Our Search for Intimacy - The "Father" God

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... . "And when Jesus drew near Jerusalem and saw the city he wept over it, saying, ‘Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace.’ " (Luke 19:41) I imagine there is no greater feeling of aloneness than recognizing that other people do not sense the tremendous importance of what we are doing. How painful it is when our wish to share falls flat upon preoccupied ears or ears that want to make fun of us. Most theologians value Christ for his ethics, his sacrificial death on the cross, or his ...

4310. Christianity Can Be Fun

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... would open up and be exciting if he was lucky enough to get to heaven. It took me years to escape this straightjacket of legalism. But fortunately I met some Christians who were human beings also. They played and frolicked in life without the deep sense of guilt that one would expect. Life was a joy and the earth was something fascinating to them. Only after wading into this stream of consciousness was I fully able to realize the tremendous meaning Jesus brought to the earth. Jesus came to invite mankind ...

4311. A Higher Form of Love: The Good Neighbor

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... . He taught us that true love is not working out our guilt through other people, nor is it the "Robin Hood Syndrome" of robbing from the rich to give to the poor. True love, in the eyes of the Christ, is affirming other people, restoring their sense of worth both as individuals and as human beings. Jesus looked at people who were despised by the pious. He would look at the tax collectors, prostitutes, and Gentiles. He looked at them not only with compassion but with appreciation. He pitied them. But he also ...

4312. What Gives You Away?

Judges 12:1-7

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... ." Then, there are a few persons who realize that the things they talk about do influence others, so they decide to talk about the church, and about God but they do it in such awkward ways. They are embarrassed, or apologetic - doing it out of a sense of "duty" or a responsibility to "witness" to their faith - and what they say is forced, artificial, and unconvincing. Then there are those great souls who just simply cannot not talk about him. Jesus Christ is very real to them, they love him, they love his ...

4313. God Made Me Do It!

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... a teacher-friend of hers who teaches the third grade. Many of the children are underprivileged, but all of them delightful. One little black boy who had grown to love his teacher, and wanted to do something for her, brought her a leaf to school one day. The teacher immediately sensed that it was a special gift, so she said: "O I just love it. I’ll take it home and put it in water. My mother has a green thumb, and I just know it will grow!" The teacher resumed her duties, the boy went back to his desk, but ...

4314. For Losers And Cowards

Judges 6:1-40

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... sweat from his brow - he glances over the way, into the distance, and sees - of all things, an angel sitting under the oak tree! And the angel speaks and says: "The Lord is with you, thou mighty man of valor!" (Now here’s an angel with a crazy, mixed-up sense of humor. It doesn’t look like God is even close to helping Gideon with his presence, and to call him a man of valor is impossibly funny. Gideon knows he isn’t brave, in fact, he’s frightened half out of his wits.) And God says further, through ...

4315. Hooray for Humility!

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... the student who was awarded a gold pin for being the most humble man in his college class - but it was taken away from him the next day because he wore it? We don’t become humble on our own - the grace is God-given. It results from a sense of our own sinfulness. It is seeing God as great, holy, clean, pure, good; and then seeing ourselves in contrast. It is also recognition that all that is good about you really comes from God. Every virtue we catch in ourselves should make us grateful, not proud. Egotism ...

4316. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... her signal. It reminded me of the person who said "When a woman sticks out her arm, and indicates a left turn, the only thing you can be absolutely sure of is that the window is down!" And women are often accused of having no economic sense (nobody really deserves such generalities). Untold cartoons have been drawn and stories told of women’s inability to balance a checkbook. Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead comics have not done the reputation much good either. It has been said that a man will pay one dollar ...

4317. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... no person hopeless - and neither must we. Reinhold Niebuhr, in The Irony of American History, writes, "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime: therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone, therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as ...

4318. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... then; we must also ask ourselves, "What does this parable say to us now?" Here we learn a lot about our God, and it’s all very reassuring. The story tells us that God is kind. To be unemployed is a devastating thing. It robs us of our sense of self-worth. It removes from us our pride and feelings of accomplishment. It degrades and embarrasses us. It is a tragic thing when our talents, our capability to do things is wasted and idle. In Shakespear’s play Othello, a great line is "Othello’s occupation is ...

4319. An Invitation to a Feast

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... the clothing of mind and heart and soul that is responsible and responsive to the gift that has been given us. When we come to the feast, we must come in all humility, with our profound faith, sorry for the kind of life we have lived, and with a deep sense of reverence as we come into his presence at the banquet. If we indeed come expecting great things to happen to us, and longing for the deep, warm fellowship of the believers at the banquet, that’s what we’ll find. If we come in the frame of mind ...

4320. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... committed suicide by slashing her wrists. She just could not accept the fact that she was good and God-made. In an average year in the United States, 22,000 people kill themselves, and 100,000 more try. The real cause for such attempts, say the psychiatrists, is a sense of guilt and a desire to punish oneself. G. K. Chesterton calls the great lesson of "beauty and the beast" that a thing must be loved before it is loveable. If we are God’s creation, and if we are created like God, we must think well of ...

4321. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... that they never thought of undertaking, that they objected to, even abhorred? Until I was a sophomore in college, I was absolutely certain that I would never be so stupid as to spend my life in the ministry! Here I am. Experience, because I experienced the sense of vocation. The experience of prayer as communion with God: Centuries of Christian living hear witness to this - the ability to say: "I am not alone. Even when I am alone, my Father is with me." As Emerson has put it: "God enters a private door ...

4322. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... ? A little group of frightened disciples was gathered together for fear of their thousands of enemies crowded into the capital city on that Festival Day, locked in that Upper Room, frightened, isolated. And then a strange power began to move through them. They sensed that they were no longer just a disorganized bunch of individuals, but that they were a fellowship, bound together by a common experience and by a passion to share that experience with everyone else in the world. As this new power laid its ...

4323. The Return to Catholicity

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, can you possibly understand the overwhelming sense of joy that possesses my heart and soul at this moment? I have just completed a long, long journey. It has taken me 460 years to walk one block - from St. John’s to St. Ambrose - because this Year of Our Lord 1979 is the 460th Anniversary of the greatest ...

4324. Drastic Surgery

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... fire," his listeners know he was talking about something that was grim and terrible. We have all experienced in our own lives, in varying degrees, the reality of the consequence of sin to which Jesus pointed. We know that both outwardly and inwardly, in a symbolic sense, it has often cast us into the "Gehenna of fire." Yet we, too, like Pascal’s contemporaries, try to gloss it over and pretend that it does not matter much. Jesus warns us against this. Real Life Is Life Without Sin His concern, however, is ...

4325. Voluntary Blindness

Matthew 6:1-15

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... to the feeling that God is in one’s debt, and that, as the Pharisee in Jesus’ parable implied, God ought to consider himself fortunate in having such a fine person as this on his side. Walter Bagehot said, "So long as men are very imperfect, a sense of great imperfection should cleave to them."8 But letting one’s left hand know what one’s right hand is doing tends to obscure the perfect. One’s goodness comes between him or her and the perfect, shutting it from one’s view. Then one is unable ...

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