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4326. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... . Jesus himself gave an illustration of this in his story of the rich man who kept prospering and in his prosperity felt secure and independent. He said to his soul, "Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry." No sense of dependence was indicated. He thought he was adequate in himself. But the time came when he had to die, and his treasure was then of no more value to him (Luke 12:13-21). A certain writer was heard on more than one occasion to express the ...

4327. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... Think of what Steve’s failure to forgive might have done to Laura, too. Think of the anguish of mind and soul she would have experienced, the despair that might have filled her life, even the kind of life to which she might have been driven. In a very real sense, she was redeemed by his forgiveness. It is said that a preacher once walked fifty miles to beg George Washington to spare the life of a man sentenced to death for neglect of duty. "I am sorry I can’t grant the request for your friend’s pardon ...

4328. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... times, but the person of faith keeps looking and hoping, believing he or she will come to another road soon. Helen Keller lived in a world of silence and of physical darkness. Many people pitied her because she did not have the full enjoyment of her bodily senses as they did. But she said, "It is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart." She said, "Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines ...

4329. What On Earth Is God Doing? - 1940

Psalm 76:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... fight against all of us. The Ten Commandments, we discover, are never broken - they are only illustrated. We are getting what we prepared for. We filled the conditions of disaster, and the results are unfailing. God is here, certainly enough, and in a more awful sense than we ever suspected, we may sing: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword. His truth ...

4330. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... of actual information about a person and only a casual acquaintance, or you may never even have met him personally, and yet you feel quite sure you know him - because you are sure of his style. The fact is, a person is never really a person in the deepest sense until he has achieved such a degree of integration as to reveal a distinctive style all his own. The only way we ever really know any of the masters, the real geniuses, is by knowing their style. Suppose you hear a strain of music that you have never ...

4331. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... stabbed! It is this perversion of the truth that has made religious sacrifice barbarous. The simple fact of the matter is that, as the Bible says, the attitude of the two men was entirely different. Abel came with a sincere recognition of his own sense of sonship and Cain was only doing the conventional, formal thing. It is the unrecognized distinction that always marks the true worshiper from the pseudo-worshiper. How many of us have played both roles? There have been times when religion meant much to us ...

4332. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... give the others, and God knows we need all the light we can get, for the days are dreadfully dark right now and the winter solstice is still ahead. Now the first thing we all ought to remember is this: Nobody wants war. Everybody, with any sense at all, hates it. We all want peace, militarists and pacifists alike. There is no difference of opinion about that. The disagreement arises over the method involved. The so-called militarist says that the only way to maintain peace is to prepare for war, enlarge the ...

4333. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... altogether. It always takes two techniques to tell the truth. The easiest part is saying your say; the hardest part is preparing the mind of your auditor to hear what you actually say rather than what he thinks you say when he sees your manner, senses your attitude, or divines your spirit. To be sure, therefore, that one’s spirit is right when he enters the pulpit is quite as important as his intellectual clarity and conviction concerning what he is going to say. Doubtless every minister has his own ...

4334. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... I come," and he is therefore occupied. Someone wrote concerning a certain woman: "Fourscore years this life she led: in the morning she arose, and at night went to bed." What a career! Day-to-day existence; alive, perhaps, at least biologically, but not living. No sense of interim occupancy. A man who had retired from his lifetime employment had obviously also retired from living, for when someone asked him how he spent his time, he replied, "I get up in the morning, put on my robe and slippers, make my way ...

4335. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... cannot camp forever at Bethlehem; we must go on from there. He did; and if we are to follow him, we must. Bethlehem is merely the first stop on a longer journey. Here at the Bethlehem station we pause to equip our spirits with reverence, sharpen our sense of wonder, get new wings for our faltering hopes, and lift up our eyes for going on. As from Bethlehem Jesus went on to his life, so from Bethlehem we must go on to ours. The shepherds went away from Bethlehem glorifying and praising God and telling what ...

4336. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... was saying, "I am the light of the world" (John 3:12). He was speaking of the same world John was - the world within, not some nebulous, vague something-or-other out yonder somewhere, but the real world of the inner us. He knew that in the final sense every man’s walk is made within, and every choice is an inward choice. So our Lord puts his light where it belongs. To borrow from the language of our space age, he would illuminate our guidance mechanism. Jesus says, "He who follows me shall not walk in ...

4337. I know You by Name

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... solution? An official greeter or a greeting committee, the appointed persons-for-the-day. They meet you at the door as you enter the Church. They give you a cursory greeting, a bulletin, a smile and a seat, and this will make you feel wanted. In a very real sense, the bearded and sandaled hippie is a more prophetic instrument of God than many in the Church. He is saying, if we can hear what he is saying: "I’m human. Only so far will you organize and conform my life. You will treat me as a person, or ...

4338. We are Not Simply "Now" People

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

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Jon L. Joyce

... of a vast kingdom. He is attributed with saying, to his tired, worn soldiers whose morale was pitifully low, during his campaign to win Egypt, "From yonder pyramids, forty centuries are looking down on you." And with that, he helped his men gain a sense of the movement of history. He told them that they were a part of the gigantic, momentous movement of history - so on to victory. Countless centuries look down upon contemporary Christians and we are part of that even more gigantic momentous history, the ...

4339. Become an Ant

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... of a great number of humans in 1977 is a horror to them. Witness: most of us are never alone without a radio or television going. We tend to feel that, if we have something around us, we can forget that inner exile that separates us from sensing that life is meaningful and that we are meaningful. Because there is a similarity in this theme with other lessons of this season, it occurs to me that a sermon on this text could well be one which appeals primarily to emotions - a proclamation that would buoy ...

4340. The Temptations

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... comes to mind, and we are called to scrutinize our reasons for voting yes or no for urban renewal, school bond issues, state lotteries, and the whole host of issues that come to us for decision. Our individual answers should be given based upon our sense of responsibility for the world God gave us to minister to. Corporately, we need to address and act upon issues and persons around us with that same responsibifity, so that we minister to the world, whether the issue is abortion or drug laws or political ...

4341. When Your Sister or Brother Stumbles

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... forgiven and forgotten. The pastor Kenneth Chafin sat at lunch one day with a man who suffered a failure in his marriage. By his own admission the divorce was his fault. He left his family and withdrew from the church as well. After he had come to his senses, he had asked God's forgiveness and had begun that slow and painful process of rebuilding his life. During lunch with Dr. Chafin, he said, Kenneth, I've been back in the church for more than a decade but now I still don't feel quite right about things ...

4342. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... an encouraging word. The fans got quiet. Later, Robinson said that simple deed by Pee Wee saved his career. Where and when have you taken the side of a rejected person as to increase his acceptance? Where and when have you moved fences to enlarge a sense of community? Where and when have you included someone who was formerly excluded? Where and when have you had courage enough to speak up against the poison of prejudice? In the award-winning novel, "Gandhi," a Hindu leader co the bedside of the great Indian ...

4343. Saints With Crooked Haloes

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... human flesh. I mean saints who have their rough edges and their blind spots like everyone else, but whose lives are transparent to something so extraordinary that every so often it stops us dead in our tracks." I know that God must have a good sense of humor. If twenty-five years ago you had listed the most unlikely persons to serve Jesus Christ, you would probably have included a lawyer and ex-Marine serving in President Richard Nixon's White House. Chuck Colson was a ruthless hatchet-man who once claimed ...

4344. The Stepfather of God

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... after the birth of Jesus. Now, think about this young carpenter and the unanswered questions that must have bothered him. Was my dream real or just wishful thinking and self-delusion? Can Mary and I live with the gossip and ridicule of this small town? Does it make sense for the Messiah to be born into a poor man's house? How long can I stand being half-married? What an awkward arrangement! Yet, it is precisely here that we see the glory and greatness of Joseph. He was willing to trust God amid doubts and ...

4345. When God Is Your Guide

Acts 20:13-38

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to find it. The conductor, knowing Judge Holmes, said, "No problem, sir. I know you have the ticket somewhere. You don't have to find it." Holmes replied, "That's not the trouble, may man. I have forgotten where I am going." Lots of people have no clear sense of direction. They are just existing from paycheck to paycheck. There is a new product on the market called the Pyxis, made by Sony. It is a hand-sized global positioning device which tracks you by way of four satellites. The screen will tell you your ...

4346. Wimps Become Warriors

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... wider area. The great missionary to India, E. Stanley Jones, was fond of saying, "without the Holy Spirit, I'm a mess. With the Holy Spirit I'm a message!" At Pentecost God entrusted the Gospel to a motley crew so obviously underqualified that anybody with common sense would know that the power came from God. My challenge to us today is to dare to live a pentecostal life-style. How does one do that? FIRST, ASK EACH DAY FOR A FRESH INFILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. In Ephesians, chapter 5, verse 18, Paul issues ...

4347. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... read Playboy because of the thoughtful articles, but, watch out, they will lie about other things too. The mind is a magnificent computer, but it is no better than the material we feed it. Temptations will come our way regardless, but there is no sense in soliciting more. I doubt the wisdom of going to cocktail parties where husband and wife are expected to separate at the door and mingle all evening. I doubt the wisdom of office parties where too much alcohol and affection are dispensed rather carelessly ...

4348. The Hiding Angel

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... daughters." (Galatians 4:5) Let's suppose that you are a 15-year-old without parents. There is a responsible adult who has always loved and cared for you. She wants to adopt you. But according to the courts, that adoption requires your consent. In a similar sense, God has always loved us and cared for us. Through infant baptism God declares his desire to adopt us. But our permission is required. Once we claim Jesus Christ by faith, our adoption as a son or daughter of God Almighty is official. Then what a ...

4349. The Words We Speak

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... members of one another." Because trust is vital to marriage, truth must be assumed in marriage and never violated. If trust is betrayed, it can be recovered, but the process is long and difficult. Part of what it means to be "one flesh" in the Biblical sense is that we keep no significant secrets from each other. Dr. Paul Tournier, the great Swiss psychiatrist, said that for a husband or wife to keep a significant secret from the other is as damaging as an act of adultery. Each secret creates distance and ...

4350. A Wonderful Sacrifice

1 Chronicles 21:1-22:1

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... cover. I heard a story about a little boy who attended church one Sunday with his grandmother. All went well until offering time. Gramma began to search through her pocketbook for her offering envelope. She couldn't find it; she had left it at home. Sensing her dilemma, the little boy rose to the occasion. He whispered, "Here Gramma, you take my quarter and put it in, and I'll hide under the pew." That must have been a Methodist kid. Can a sacrifice really be wonderful? Remember the dictionary definition ...

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