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4301. Mary Christmas

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

John Jamison

So, where are the shepherds? And what about the "multitude of the heavenly host" shining their glory on everyone and breaking into song about God, and salvation, and peace? Sure, there is an angel. One angel, who sounds more like a meditating attorney in a three-piece suit, speaking in one long sentence which tells Joseph he ought to see this thing through and try to work things out with Mary. And that even happens in a dream. But that seems to fit Matthew's purpose. Matthew isn't interested in the ...

4302. The Call To Victory

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Sims Robert

The book of Revelation is a powerful and beautiful book designed to answer one question. The people of the early church were suffering under persecution and many were being martyred. They looked for the second coming of Christ as the grand and glorious answer to their pain. They asked the question, “How long will it be before Christ returns? How long will it be before the victory is final and complete?” The book of Revelation gives a clear and simple answer: “Behold, I am coming soon (Revelation 22:12).” ...

4303. Whether We Live Or Die

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Sims Robert

“So Moses, a servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab (Deuteronomy 34:5).” In life and in death, Moses was a servant of God. The issue for Moses was not to live or to die but in all things to belong to God. The apostle Paul reflects the same spirit, “None of us lives to himself and none of us dies to himself. If we live we live to the Lord and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s (Romans 14:7-8).” All who trust and believe in God belong to God. ...

4304. To Be Sure

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

I am always impressed with the litany-like phrases Martin Luther uses in The Small Catechism as petition by petition he explains the Lord's Prayer: To be sure, God's name is holy itself ...To be sure, the kingdom of God comes of itself, without our prayers ...To be sure, the good and gracious will of God is done without our prayer ...To be sure, God provides daily bread, even to the wicked, without our prayer ...1 To be sure, to be sure, to be sure! God's gifts come to us despite our unfaithfulness and ...

4305. A Lesson From Prayers Overheard

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

We Watched His Eyes! It was late New Year's Day when the showdown finally came. The number one and two college bowl teams in the nation were set to fight it out in the Fiesta Bowl at Tempe, Arizona, deciding who would lay claim to being the "Beast of the East" and the best in the nation. Among those who predict such things, there was agreement that the nation's number one team would remain number one that night. Their passing attack had been unstoppable all season long, and it would remain so. A high- ...

4306. Saints Alive!

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

This is the day when our vision of the church sweeps the horizons of history and of heaven, all at the same time. We embrace with gratitude uncountable yesterdays. They have been the arenas of faithfulness for God and for his people. In these days God has worked our salvation faithfully and with mercy. In these days generation upon generation of the saints have lived and faithfully served, preserving until our day the saving grace of God's Word and sacraments. At the same time, we see the horizon of heaven ...

4307. The Ten Commandments For Today

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Erskine White

And the Lord spoke all these words, saying "I am the Lord your God ..." (Exodus 20:1-2) Imagine that your job in life is to get up each morning and prepare an egg for someone else to eat. There are many different ways to prepare an egg: hardboiled, soft-boiled, poached, fried, baked, scrambled, benedict, souffled, and so on. Now, if you didn't want to get bored and were willing to take a risk, you could constantly be striving for new ways to prepare an egg. If you wanted to play it safe, and you knew that ...

4308. God Forsaken

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Erskine White

And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, la'ma sabach-tha'ni?" which means, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Mark 15:34) Many churches today read from the Revised Standard Version or the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, the first RSV translation was printed in 1952. There were great arguments within many congregations between those who wanted to accept the new Bible and those who wanted to keep the old King James ...

4309. On The Night He Was Betrayed

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Erskine White

And when it was evening, He came with the twelve. (Mark 14:12-16) We are gathered here in the evening, after the sun is down, so perhaps we can use the darkness around us to better imagine the events which took place on this sacred night so long ago. The story actually begins earlier in the day, when Jesus sends two disciples into Jerusalem to make preparations for the Passover meal. You may remember a sermon from a few weeks ago ("The Boy Who Ran Away") in which I mentioned that Jesus has to use an " ...

4310. Deaths, Our Teacher

Psalm 90:1-17

Eulogy

Allen Puffenberger

Part 1. Peaceful Death For an Eighty-four-year-old Woman The outline of this meditation has enabled me to address a number of the vital issues that are raised by death. The message is wide enough that it can be comforting to the bereaved, regardless of the circumstances of their loved one's death. The four points are greatly strengthened by references to the deceased's life - here, that of "Eve, " who was one of my parishioners. Even if the pastor has not known the deceased, an interview with his or her ...

4311. Death of the Unchurched For a Recovering Alcoholic

Eulogy

Alan Bacon Bond

Using the Available Spiritual Resources The deceased was a forty-eight-year-old married man with five children in their late teens and early twenties. He was a recovering alcoholic with a twelve-year chip. He had been sick for two days with influenza, and, while having had some high blood pressure problems some years earlier, showed no signs for alarm. He simply failed to wake up one morning. The family was unchurched and seemingly bereft of spiritual resources until it became evident that most of them ...

4312. Ludwig Nommensen Missionary To The Bataks

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

Reader 1: In the Pacific Ocean of southeastern Asia lies the country known as Indonesia. You may remember some of the Indonesian islands from your geography class back in grade school: Borneo, Java, Sumatra. It is on the island of Sumatra, specifically the northern part, where the Batak people live. For centuries the Bataks lived in isolation from the world; not too many foreigners wanted to penetrate that mountainous tropical jungle region. As far back as Marco Polo, the Batak people were characterized as ...

4313. Jerusalem: City for All Time

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Donald Zelle

"If you want one simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history, that word would be Jerusalem." So wrote Teddy Kollek in 1981, then mayor of the city. He explained it further. "I do not think you can find any Israelis who are willing to give up Jerusalem. They cannot and will not. This beautiful golden city is the heart and soul of the Jewish people. You cannot live without heart and soul." Similar words, though probably without military overtones, would express the feelings of many Christians. Moslem ...

4314. Water Boy

Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Justin Tull

Today’s scripture provides for many sermon possibilities. I could have dealt with Moses’ swift departure from Egypt and preached about running from our foes and our fears. I could have taken the second half of our story and played with the notion that here shepherds are not the honored guests of the Christ child but bullies who mistreat all seven of Reuel’s daughters. And a most tempting choice would have been to speak of the “spoils of hospitality.” Just for defending women’s rights, Moses is presented ...

4315. Spirit Full Or Foul?

Isaiah 44:1-5

Sermon

Justin Tull

Today is Pentecost, the celebration of the gift of God’s Spirit to the church and to us. And the question we must ask ourselves and the church is this: Are we Spirit full or Spirit foul? In other words, is God’s gift to the Hebrews and to the early Christian church a gift we have received or rejected, nurtured or ignored? Is the Spirit of God in us? In many ways the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost is not an entirely new act of God. The gift of the Spirit is not exclusively a New Testament occurrence. In ...

4316. The God Of The Past, The Present, And The Future

Psalm 23:1-6

Eulogy

Joe Barone

Psalm 23, Genesis 15:12-15John 14:1-3 and Revelation 22:1-5 I had an old friend once who told me, "When I go to a funeral I go to hear about a loving God." And then she added, "When it comes time to preach my funeral, don't talk about me. Just preach my funeral, don't talk about me. Just preach the Scripture and the comfort that it brings." What comfort does the Scripture have to bring us here today? First, it tells us that God, and God alone, is in charge of both life and death. When it came time for ...

4317. "On A Hill Far Away"

Eulogy

Joe Barone

Deuteronomy 26:5-11Psalm 78:12-16Hebrews 9:24-28 A Scriptural MeditationOn An Often-used Funeral Hymn Our faith is a paradoxical thing, isn't it? In Jesus, God turns our world upside down. That's one thought I always have when I hear the words to George Bennard's beautiful old song, "On a Hill Far Away." In that song, Bennard talks about clinging to the very things from which we shy away. He talks about clinging to the suffering and death of Jesus. As we come here today to share our love and our grief at ...

4318. Channels Of God's Love

Eulogy

Joe Barone

Psalm 23, Psalm 27:1-6Luke 5:12-26 and Romans 8:31-39 A Scriptural Sermon For The Funeral Of OneWho Openly Acknowledged Suffering From AIDS People who attend funerals in situations such as this often have a lot of unasked questions. We all know * openly acknowledged he was suffering from AIDS, and, as I see it, we should do the same. But where do we go from there? "How will the preacher deal with *'s illness?" you may have been asking as you came here today. I hope to deal with it much as I think Jesus ...

4319. Candle Lighting · all five services

Matthew 3:1-12, Psalm 119:1-176, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, 1 Peter 1:1-12

Bulletin Aid

J. B. Quisenberry

Litany Of Repentance Leader: "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light;'' People: "They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." Leader: We are that people. People: The light shines upon us. Leader: It shines into the darkness of our souls. People: It exposes our sins. Leader: When we admit our wrongdoing; People: When we repent; Leader: The light of Christ will burn our sins away and make us clean. People: Thanks be to God! Scripture Reading: ...

4320. Mirror, Mirror

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: To show that though we do not understand everything now, one day God will show us all we need to know. Props: A hand mirror. Lesson: Today I have brought something to show you. Hold up the mirror. What is this? (response) Yes, it's a mirror. What do we use mirrors for? (response) We use them for a lot of things, don't we? We use them to look at ourselves, or to look behind us when we are in our cars. Sometimes when we are in a store, we will see mirrors in the corners of the aisle so that ...

4321. O Christmas Tree

Luke 1:1-4

Children's Sermon

Dale Bringman

Object: Tree Lights Lesson: The Christmas tree is an evergreen reminding us of the life God gave us when Jesus was born. As we begin to decorate the tree today, what do you think we should put on it first? Lights? That's a good idea. Let's put some lights on the tree. But why? Why do we have lights at Christmas? So we can see the Christmas tree? Yes. To make the trees look pretty? That's right. But what is the special meaning of Christmas lights? Long ago, God's people were discouraged. Many things had ...

4322. Affecting Eternity

Romans 12:1-8

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

Death of a teacher The meditation text is Romans 12:6-7: "Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching . . ." It is a peculiar meditation text for a funeral celebration, unless one remembers ___________. That's half our duty now, during this brief worship. We must fix our minds what ___________ meant to the rest of us. She was, among many other good things, a teacher. ...

4323. Step Eleven - Spirituality

Mt 26:36-46 · 1 Thess 5:12-22 · Ps 25:1-15

Sermon

John A. Terry

This past week I had a new adventure. I did some plumbing work I had never done before. But I got out my handy homeowner's guide, and followed along step by step. It took longer than I thought it would. But at last it was almost complete. Close to the very end came the time when I put on the nuts and bolts that held it all together. As we reach toward the end of this series, we are approaching the step that tightens down and holds in place all the other work. The 11th step is: "Sought through prayer and ...

4324. Step Two - Hope

Mk 10:46-52 · 2 Cor 12:7-10 · Is 12:1-6

Sermon

John A. Terry

Step two. "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." One word sometimes used to summarize this step is the word hope. We are going to look at today's texts as they relate to believing God restores us as we turn our lives over to that Power greater than ourselves. In the Old Testament reading, Isaiah sings a song of deliverance. The words might sound like a call for personal deliverance, but it is really a song for the deliverance of the nation and a call for a ...

4325. Step Three - Faith

Mt 8:5-13 · Heb 11:1-7 · Is 55:6-9

Sermon

John A. Terry

Step three: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to God as we understood him. In seminary I was preparing to take the final exam for my course in Theology 101. In any survey course there is always far more to study than is possible to cover. I tried to study the entire field of theological thought. I reviewed all my class notes. I even resorted to prayer. But neither the study nor the prayer prepared me for the only question on that final exam. The question went something like this: A man ...

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