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4326. Redeeming Grief

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Eulogy

Charles L. Koester

... of our Lord is the beginning of our redeeming grief. We know where ____________ is, and who she is with. Jesus Christ assures us, "_______________ is with me. She is with me in my Father's House." With this assurance, our grief is redeemed, and we can continue to face life in this world with steady eyes. For even in this tragedy, there is the strength, and assurance of life's destiny. Because of Jesus, God's Son, we are more than our bodies. To you who loved ____________, in your grief, and loss, behind ...

4327. Victory Over Evil

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Harold G. Skinner

... into her room early in the morning. We witnessed a beautiful sunrise through the window, dawn in the East. It reminded me of the words of Isaiah 58:8. "Then shall your light break forth like the dawn." It was like the rainbow after the flood. The Lord Almighty continues to be supportive. I can't answer all your questions or mine. When you leave this service you will still have some emotions of which you are not sure. But of some things we can be certain. God loves us. He wants the best for us. In the midst ...

4328. Where To Go When You Grieve

Matthew 14:1-12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... we are in pain. But those who do care; family, friends (those who have called at your home these past days, those who have brought food, those who have called with sympathetic messages, those who have sent flowers, those who are at this service today, those who will continue to support you and help you) - all of thisis immeasurable help in your need. But think of the added glory and wonder of this: Jesus, the Divine Son of God, cares too! He is more touched with your grief than anyone. That's why we go to ...

4329. The Journey of Life

Luke 24:13-35

Eulogy

Tom O. Miller

... life, abundant life, eternal life. Thanks be to God for this hope. And thanks be to God for his promises and the witness of his followers, of the gift of our sister's life, for our eternal home. And thanks be to God for his love and mercy as we continue along the journey of our life, trusting in the hope of eternal life. Amen.

4330. The Blessed Hope of Everlasting Life

Philippians 3:1-11

Eulogy

James G. Cobb

... . She was one of those people who would always make eye contact with me as she came to the altar for communion. It was like an affirming glance saying ... this is right, this is vital ... this is for the strengthening in faith. God's word, his story, continues to draw me, to hold me. Worship matters! The Father in Heaven for Jesus sake, renews and increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit, to our strengthening in faith ... to our growth in grace. It dawns on us that life is a precious gift. We can't create ...

4331. The Public Effect Of Private Living

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... make me clean from my sin! No matter how low we have sunk in our private lives, there is hope for each of us through confession of our sin. As soon as we confess our sins, God stands ready to forgive. God is never through with any of us. God continued to use David. It was through the lineage of David that God chose to slip down the staircase of heaven and reveal his eternal love in Jesus Christ. There is hope for all of us who sin. This hope is found in a God who calls us, and forgives us ...

4332. Overcoming The Blues

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Robert Allen

... in my knuckles and shot all the way up my arm. I opened and closed my hand to make sure it wasn’t broken. Do you know what the instructor said to me? He looked at me and said, “Try again!” I thought, “No way, Jose!” But, the instructor continued talking and said, “You can do it! You’re big enough and strong enough. You’ve got to concentrate and believe in your mind that your hand is going through the board.” So, I tried again. I concentrated on the board. I studied the grain. I saw my hand ...

4333. Marked By The Cross

Romans 6:2-4

Sermon

George Bass

... did die on a cross, but he rose from the dead. He is alive and with us still.” This “sort of exchange went on for some time” and, then, one day he saw “a large outdoor crucifix” and said, ‘That Jesus is dead.’ ” Schmich continues, “Not knowing what to say any more and feeling a certain embarrassment at the poverty of our representations of the paschal mystery,… responded only, ‘Yes, he looks dead.’ ” She says that “he took my face in his hands and looked straight into my eyes ...

4334. Marked In God’s Book

Sermon

George Bass

... our “birth” as citizens of God’s eternal realm of the saints and martyrs. For them -- and for us -- the day of our baptism, when we were named for and claimed by God, is the day when our names were written “in the book.” Today we continue to name saints, confident that God has written their names in the Book of Life but with a difference; most of the martyr-saints tend to be secularized by setting aside the day of their physical birth as their “day.” That happened with the national holiday ...

4335. Marked For Mission

Sermon

George Bass

... a lovely and devoted family, whose members were very much involved with their church. They moved to California after he completed his residency and, potentially, “they had it made.” Their lifestyle could have been anything they wanted it to be, but they have continued to be involved in the work of the church and of missions. Gradually, all five of the children have become missionaries -- either medical (one boy is a surgeon, one girl is a nurse) or educational missionaries in various parts of the world ...

4336. Marked At The Table

Sermon

George Bass

... , one of the night, the two distinctly separated in old age. Finally one morning I saw the lined hawk features working as she stared far away down the street. ‘There comes the dead wagon,’ I heard her murmur in a dialect of a vanished day….” He continues the story: “Not long after she died, the ‘wagon,’ as she had foreseen, drew up in the street. She had penetrated further than I could see with the clear eyes of youth on that cold October morning. Though I stood beside her at the time, I would ...

4337. Paradoxes Of The Christian Faith

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... survive at all. The environmental "adversities," however, actually contribute to their longevity. Cells that are produced as a result of these perverse conditions are densely arranged, and many resin canals are formed within the plant. Wood that is so structured continues to live for an extremely long period of time. The author Darwin Lambert says in his article, "Bristlecone Pines in richer conditions grow faster, but die earlier and soon decay." The harshness of their surroundings, then, is a vital factor ...

4338. Joy Songs, Trumpet Blasts, And Hallelujah Shouts!

Joshua 5:13--6:27

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... song! One loud, long trumpet blast! One long hallelujah shout, and the walls came tumbling down! What a sight it was! After the seventh circle around the city, the priests blew as hard as they could on their ram's horn trumpets and the people released one long, continuous shout, and the walls fell to the earth in one loud crash. The people in Jericho were shocked and dismayed. As the walls came down, Joshua shouted to the people to charge the city and to spare no one. The siege of Jericho would be one of ...

4339. Can You Dig It?

Genesis 26:1-35

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... past which can help it find its future. Isaac understood the value in doing such. He was reclaiming the faith of his father as a means of living out the promises of the future. Can You Dig It? The well of familial reclamation? Secondly, after continued harassment Isaac was compelled to move to a second place and dig the well symbolizing self-determination and self-empowerment. His enemies thought he would stop digging after the first well, but even as all hell broke loose upon him, he was determined to dig ...

4340. How’s That Again, Jesus?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

A misguided bird gets loose in the sanctuary and every eye in the congregation drifts toward the ceiling. Never mind that the choir is continuing to sing the anthem they have been working on for weeks just for this special occasion. The lost bird has totally interrupted the proceedings and besides, most would have to admit, its flight was much more entertaining. “I was so afraid that bird was going to land on your head -- ...

4341. Who’s In Charge Here?

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... meat and clothing, they established towns and cities. And God -- where was he? They never saw him. So it was natural for them to want to do things their own way. You have to admit that it was a pretty arrogant attitude that these people had. And they continued to show how stubborn they could be. In no way would they turn and acknowledge their sinfulness. The parallel I see between the people of Israel and those in a modern hospital who have to make a life and death decision is that it is easy to slip ...

4342. “Lucky” Is The Saddest Word

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... tickets willingly. So we do, but often with the aid of our weaker nature which would rather take the easy way to a comfortable life rather than putting forth the effort to give some of ourselves for what we receive. If the current trends continue, we are rushing toward more contests with huge prizes. The greater the prize, the more the players -- so the common wisdom goes. But with more big winners, we also have thousands, even millions of losers. From a particular Christian perspective, all of this lust ...

4343. 1-900-MIDLIFE

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

... 'd actually be on it. Doctor: Surprise, surprise. Here you are. Now, how can I help you? Caller 2: Well, I've been feeling a little empty lately. Doctor: Have you tried eating something? Caller 2: I don't mean in my stomach. It's more in my soul. Doctor: Continue. Caller 2: My job is going nowhere. Even though I'm one of the vice presidents, I feel like this isn't what I really want to do with my life. I need some kind of change. Doctor: Have you tried a sports car? Caller 2: No. Doctor: Go get ...

4344. A Road Map to the Kingdom

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

I hope for each of you that your journey on planet earth has been a good one and will continue to be so. One of the conditions that determines the worth of a journey is its destination. I keep on my shelf an old axiom: No wind blows good to a ship which has no destined harbor. It is true of our lives; if we don’t know where we’ ...

4345. Where Does That Leave Us?

Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... Silver Burdett, 1987, p. 22) This inscription was written 1300 years ago. Still people infer from bad times that the end of the world is near. There are always disasters and calamities. Yet, Jesus said, “...no one knows...but only the Father.” When we combine continued tenacious interest in the Day of Judgment with Jesus’ precise statement that no one can know, where does that leave us? In this text Jesus was more urgent in his actions than he had been previously. He was hungry and, in the time of his ...

4346. Nothing Is Impossible

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... to be at work. Just as God worked all night long in the blowing of the east wind, we must have faith that he is on the job. An unemployed faith is deadly. Even a retired faith becomes unacceptable. Success is only realized when faith is conscientiously and continuously at work. Listen to the text, “Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on ...

4347. Ouch! Those Thistles!

Matthew 13:1-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... or sister, and taking pennies and nickels out of your mother's purse. Those sins are like thorns on weeds and they just choke out all of the good things that you have learned about God. Pretty soon you will quit coming to Sunday School and church, and you will continue to do the things that you don't like to do, but which seem so easy. You wish that you were closer to God, but God is choked out of your life like the vegetable plants are in the garden. The only way that you can help yourself is like ...

4348. The Last is First

Matthew 20:1-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... follow the person who goes first. It means that you know how to cooperate very well. I want you, the second person, to hold out both of your arms and take hold of the first person's hand. Now we have someone who was first and someone who was second. (Continue to select people until you have only one left.)Now we have used everyone except the last person. Do you feel lonely? (Let him/her answer.) How does it feel to see everyone up there holding on to one hand? It is a very straight line that we have at ...

4349. He Lights Up Our Life

John 1:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: Some light-bulb packages with the light bulbs. Good morning, boys and girls. Today is a good day for us to continue to understand something about the person of John the Baptizer. We are only a short time away from the day when Jesus will be born again into our world as the Christmas child, but before then we need to get ready, and no one helps us more to get ready ...

4350. Our Dwelling Place In All Generations

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... is the book of worship of a faithful community who shares her pain and sorrow in light of the one true living God. The psalms contain the whole range of human emotions, but in all of those emotions they praise God. No matter what, we are a part of a continuing relationship with God, the psalmists say, and we come into gatherings such as this to share with one another our joy and grief, our pain and hope, our praise of the Creator and Sustainer of us all. And so today, we come to say good-bye to God’s ...

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