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4351. Where Are You?

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... intimacy with himself. It breaks his heart to think that you might ignore his gracious offer and go your own willful, tragic way. God has done everything to save you from hell, except take away your right to say "no." As you come to Holy Communion today, the loving heavenly Father is calling out, "Where are you?" Jesus said the same thing in a different way: "I am standing at the door of your heart knocking. If you will hear my voice and open the door, I will enter your life and fellowship with you." As you ...

4352. No Withdrawal

Sermon

James Bjorge

... The Call of the Wild," by Jack London, Buck the wolf dog was a creature of the wild. The urge of his wild heritage frequently pulled against his loyalty to John Thornton. The pull was so strong it could hardly be resisted; but there was also the powerful pull of love to his master. Buck had shared Thornton’s fires and food, had felt his hand on his tawny coat of hair, and had looked into his eyes. This is the way it was described: "Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call ...

4353. It All Comes from God

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... we are his children and he is our Father. There are some people who don’t want God to be their Father, and they refuse these great gifts. They don’t want anyone to give them anything. They think that they can get it by themselves, but they can’t. Love comes from God. Peace comes from God. And life comes from God. Our Father God gives them to us free, and we do not have to do anything at all but thank him, just as we would want to thank our earthly father for his gifts to us. God is ...

4354. Loud and Clear

Luke 8:14-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... hold up his hand if he can hear you. Okay? Now say, "It's fun being here." Good, they heard you just fine. What a wonderful voice you have. Would you say, "God is love," for me? That's great! Now I have a transistor radio and I wonder if you (choose another child) would play that for me? Wonderful! By the way, would you say, "God is love" for me again? Fine. I can hear you even with the radio playing. (Choose another child) Will you ring this bell for me? Great. Now, keep the radio playing, and will you say ...

4355. Release from the Bonds of Sin

Romans 8:1-17

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... who would hear the Lord's call in our time! People: But our lives are so flawed and we are so weak before the Lord. Leader: Let our hearts be witnesses to God's loving power and not our own, People: For God is with us and loves us even though we have all sinned. Leader: Then let our voices shout out our grateful praise for God's love! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, in the Holy Spirit You have empowered us to be free from the bonds of sin and death. Help us to live and ...

4356. God's Merciful Plan

Romans 11:25-32, Romans 11:11-24, Romans 11:1-10

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... of our sin and sent to us a Savior. People: Was Jesus sent to save the Jews or to bring Good News to the Gentiles? Leader: All have sinned, Jew and Gentile; Christ came to redeem all sinners. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, Your love for us is beyond all we can comprehend. You knew us before we were born, and You knew our hearts were sinful, yet You reached out to us that we might know Your ...

4357. Using our Special Talents

Romans 12:6-8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... and do nice things for other people and are pretty happy. But some of them are missing one thing. They don't know Christ and the love of Christ, so they don't have it all. They are like the first friend, Candy, who does a lot of things, but for some ... to be before Jesus came. They could try very hard and have a lot but they were missing something and that something was the love of Christ. Christ's love is for boys and girls and it does so much more yet requires no effort on our part. It comes from Heaven and ...

4358. In The Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Robert Allen

... aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. But hope sees a star, and in the night of death, listening love can hear the rustling of an angel’s wing. Some have asked the question, "Is there anybody there?" and they have come back with ... God. We cannot find God and prove God ... we can’t put God into some test tube and analyze him. It is like your love for someone. Your love is seen by what you do ... by what you say ... by how you live. And it is the same with God! The Bible simply ...

4359. Rules For Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Robert Allen

... a beautiful fairy princess." As she reached the last years of her life, her friends and neighbors were afraid that her fabulous secret of happiness would die with her. "Tell us, please," they asked. "Tell us what the fairy said!" The little girl, who was now a lovely old lady, smiled and said, "The beautiful fairy princess told me that the secret to happiness is to realize that everyone, no matter how secure they seem, has need of me." One of the great secrets of life is to realize that everyone has need of ...

4360. When Is The Baby Coming?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Erskine White

... baby truly comes to each one of us is the day we receive Him into our hearts and allow Him to change our lives forever. Then we shall know that the baby we have long been waiting for has come to us at last. Amen. Pastoral Prayer Most Holy and Loving God, who is the faithful answer to every earnest prayer and the abiding hope of every steadfast heart, we ask You to move our spirits this Christmas season, that we may approach Jesus not as parents of a fifth- or sixth-born child, but as worshipers of the first ...

4361. You Can Go Home Again!

Jeremiah 3:6-4:4

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... home. Alienation is a time of darkness in which we long for light. There was a man named John, who was sent by God to be a witness to the light who was coming into the world. The light, of course, was Jesus. The light was reconciliation and forgiveness and love to cure the darkness of bitterness and alienation and mistrust. To those who decided to accept the gift he gave the power to live as children of God. We cannot re-live the past. Even if we could we wouldn’t do it any more perfectly than we did the ...

4362. We Know Jonah

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... of prejudice there. Most of us try to control it, especially in circles where expressions of prejudice are not socially acceptable, but it is there. Don’t take me wrong, though. We’re good people. We know we are. We work hard. We are reasonably honest. We love and are devoted to our families. We support good causes. We stand up for public morality and honesty and treat our neighbors with respect. We want a peaceful world where everyone is fed and housed. We go to church and worship and pray. But in all ...

4363. The Right Spirit Within Us ...

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... hope God promised and Jeremiah looked forward to. Here is power for this new spirit within us. It is created not by rules but by love that has died for me. The new covenant is not another law to be obeyed to make one’s self righteous and often times self ... is the key that opens the door to purposeful and meaningful living. It is not where I breathe that I live, but where I love that I really live. Selfishness is the end of life while sacrifice is the salvation of life. The new heart, the new creation brought ...

4364. All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... never fails. Here is the sacrifice for our sin. "God has laid on him the iniquity of us all and by his stripes we are healed." Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a tribute far too small; Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all.4 1. Larry Trachte, now a college chaplain, was the intern who shared this story with me. 2. Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament Theology, Volume II, (Harper and Row, 1965), pp. 250-262. The author begins this section of ...

4365. Dual Citizenship II - What Do We Owe To God?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... means that no matter how awful your situation, you can always find cause for thanksgiving. At least you can say, "God is in this with me, and somehow we will find a way through it." Sometime this week get off by yourself and just ponder God's incredible love, that love that took Jesus all the way to the cross for people like you and me. Think of that suffering Christ who did it all so we could have abundant life on this earth and eternal life hereafter. Let tears of gratitude fill your eyes. Then you're in ...

4366. The Garden: All Things New

John 20:1-9

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... burial. He might be buried, but her devotion to him had not changed. I’m sure she hardly knew why she was going to the tomb; love compelled her. When she arrived, she was startled to see that the huge stone had been moved from the entrance. She ran to Peter and ... passed on. How then can we say that death has been defeated? Rodney Clapp’s father was a robust Oklahoma rancher who loved his Lord and his great prairie ranch. Then one day his strong body was invaded by a malignancy. He fought for health and ...

4367. Stewards of Creation

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... my grandchildren, have the privilege of learning from the natural law and creation. We have so cleared and paved the natural world until it’s hard to find any traces of it in our urbanized cities. Ogden Nash lamented: I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree: Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all! (2) 2. We need to develop a lifestyle which is sensitive to the needs of human beings and to the nonhuman world. This asks us to be much more aware of our ...

4368. God’s Dwelling Place

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... in the right way seems part and parcel of his purpose. What would we miss if waiting were eliminated from life? The deepest love stories, for one thing. You cannot name one that is not filled with this strange but common mystery: waiting is worked into the ... everlasting temple. Jesus Christ is the supreme gift and word of God to man. He is the beginning and the end. In him the timeless love of God is disclosed in terms of the created order in which a human life unfolds. The events of his life are more than ...

4369. All Dressed Up and No Place To Go

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... shining forth with exquisite splendor. We need not wonder why the New Testament writers looked back to this as a preview of God’s work in Jesus. In the fullness of time God has carried forward different designs in the garments of salvation with which he clothes those he loves. Look and see how he clothes us in the life of Jesus Christ, opening to us the mystery of the incarnation so that we can live in Christ and Christ in us - our garment of salvation. All dressed up in his royal self, where do we go? We ...

4370. Noise Is Anything That Corrupts the Integrity of a Message

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... is a parallel to our text in the New Testament. In John 21:15-17, 19b, we read of a post-resurrection appearance. Jesus is speaking to Peter. He asks him if he loves him more than others. "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus tells him to feed his lambs. Jesus suspects there is noise in the receiver, so he asks again if Peter loves him. "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Once more, "Tend my sheep." And, again, Jesus figures there is noise in Peter’s hearing the message. A third time, "Do you ...

4371. People Are Different, People Are The Same

Drama

Marge Passamaneck

... his parents a box. DAVID: I looked a long time for this, and saved all the money myself from my allowance. NARRATOR: They opened David’s gift. Inside was a tray with his parents names on it. DAVID: It’s for cookies and cakes. MRS. STEIN: Oh, I love it. I’ll put our Hanukkah cookies on it right away. MR. STEIN: David, it’s a wonderful gift. We’ll use it many times and will think of you each time we do. NARRATOR: When the boxes and wrapping paper were cleaned up, everyone played dreidle, a spinning ...

4372. How Big is God?

1 John 4:7-21

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... a different size for all of you. When you hate your brothers and sisters and when you do things that make God unhappy you crowd Him right out of your life. There is not much room for God when you do unkind things or think unkind thoughts. But when you love others and help your friends and try to be a friend and forgive those who hurt and do all of the other things that God teaches us to do, then God grows inside of you. Once a person asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God began and do you know ...

4373. The Most Beautiful Word

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... . Everything is in God. He is the one eternal fact that holds everything together and gives it order and meaning. All things are in His love. To see God in my life is one thing, but to see my life IN GOD is the thing that gives my life veracity, order, ... . When we are reconciled to God, then we see all of the tangled events of human life united and given order through Him and His love. He then gives to us the ministry of reconciliation. In other words, we pass the new life along. It means so much to us, we ...

4374. The Crisis of Commitment

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... his rifle hot, turned around to the rest of us in a foxhole with a smile of satisfaction on his face, and he said, "You should have seen that one. He didn’t know what hit him. I bet he jumped six feet in the air." He was loving it. He loved it. He loved killing. You see, it gives us a sense of being God when we kill, because only God has control over life and death. And so, it’s not hard to imagine that scene before the Cross, hear their spiteful sarcasm as they shout: "He trusted in God." Charles ...

4375. Strengthened For Life

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... that several months previously she had made up her mind to live one complete day as though there really is a God who loves, guides, and helps his children. It made such a difference to her, the way she worked and approached other people and dealt with ... saw a new man in Taylor. He lost the sense of strain and agony. As he yielded his life to Christ, he radiated a magnetism of love and happiness. He was no longer a man struggling for God; he was a man being used by God. If we fail to bear spiritual fruit, ...

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