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4426. The Flight From Light

Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Erskine White

... . Every citizen, great and small! Each one of us today! In one way or another, we all turn and flee from the light of the very things we think we want the most. What do we want the most, you and I? What do we most desire, not in the sense of a thing to be bought but a quality which would make us whole? Think about what you really want, and then think about what you do when faced with the prospect of actually getting it. One thing we want is companionship, an end to our loneliness. In some ways ...

4427. It Isn't Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... sings what he would do “if I were a rich man.” His wife reminds him: money is a curse. He immediately shouts up to heaven: curse me God, curse me. Jesus has just turned away a wealthy man, and in the Jewish way of thinking it doesn’t make any sense. In fact, I am not sure how many preachers would have the courage to do it. But it was Simon Peter who drew the question even more clearly into focus for us. He asked what is on the mind of every one of us, only we are too sophisticated to ...

4428. Why Don’t You Send Somebody?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... burnt-out shell of the once glorious medieval gothic church burned to the ground by fire bombs during the wartime air raid. That was certainly no "act of God," nor was the destruction of that great church viewed at that time as in the most remote sense "to the glory of God." It was indeed a tragedy mourned not only by that city and the English people, but by people around the world. The work and skill and devotion and artistry that had taken generations to produce that glorious edifice took only one night ...

4429. Just A Whisper

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... . During those thirty seconds each person is to say, "I am a British soldier. I am well trained. I will do my best. We shall prevail." It is a simple concept that we might well employ in our own lives when things become chaotic and out of control. In a sense Christmas gives us such a reminder and a chance to regroup and gain perspective. What does it tell us that we should remember? "I am a child of God. I am loved by God. Jesus has shown me the way to love. And love will prevail." Have you ever noticed ...

4430. You Can Go Home Again!

Jeremiah 3:6-4:4

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

In 1939, just as the world was teetering on the brink of a war, a world fair was being held in New York. In a sense it tried to push away for a time the threat of impending conflict with lightness and brightness and visions of a beautiful world to come. Nations from all over the world came - the large ones and the small ones. The tiny eastern European nation of Lithuania had an impressive pavillion ...

4431. We Know Jonah

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... and certainly the events that are recorded didn’t even happen. So we can forget all this, right? Or we can read the story of Jonah and argue about its historicity, or whether a fish could swallow a man, and miss the point! But if we read Jonah with the sense that it has something important to say to us, we might then paraphrase Walt Kelly’s "Pogo," and say "We have seen Jonah, and he is us!" No, we must not be isolated from those strife-torn places in the world. The holocaust is part of our history that ...

4432. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... ’s dignity. It is interesting that again Naaman’s help comes from a very humble source. The original idea to seek out Elisha, you remember, came from a slave girl - a servant to Naaman’s wife. Now it is an ordinary soldier who brings Naaman to his senses. What is there to lose, after all? "If the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was ‘Wash, and be clean?’ " So Naaman swallowed his pride and bathed, and to his ...

4433. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... was that, if possible, a cap belonging to the subject of the study - in this case John Knox - would be given to the person being honored, if such a cap could be found. In that way the honoree would have something personal, imbued at least in thought, by a sense of the man who had once worn it. But the only cap of John Knox that anyone knew about had already been presented to someone else years before. However the university did possess a pair of trousers that had once belonged to Knox, so they had a cap ...

4434. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... myself, too. I sold my soul to Satan, to be a slave of hell. Were you there, did you ask? Yes, I was there! Oh, God! How I wish I had not been there! But ... I’m not the only traitor. You were there, too. Take a look at your sense of values. Think of the words of Jesus, the same words which he spoke to me and the other disciples. "Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth. Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man’s life ...

4435. Pontius Pilate - Adamant, But Acquiescent

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... had been stirring up people all over, starting with Galilee. That gave me a chance to try to shift responsibility. Herod, tetrach of Galilee, was in Jerusalem at the time, and even though I had ultimate authority over all Palestine, I thought it both fair and good political sense, to send Jesus to Herod. I know now it did not help Jesus any. Herod and his soldiers mocked the man from Nazareth, and when Jesus refused to perform any of his so-called signs for Herod, Herod sent him back to me and we, Herod and ...

4436. Mary - Weeping Woman or Bold Believer

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... Pontius Pilate had said that. Jesus had never hurt anyone. He had spent his life helping people, relieving pain, offering comfort to the sorrowing, and giving health and even new life to some who had died. But now, there he was, dying himself. It didn’t make any sense to me, and I myself wondered why, when I heard him cry out, "My God, my God, why? Why have you forsaken me?" Then, in the eerie darkness that covered the land, I heard him speak again, in a firm, clear voice, "It is finished." And then, just ...

4437. The Covenant Of Amazing Grace

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... , drink and be merry. Just leave us alone. Eventually the world will be destroyed, either slowly but surely through pollution, or quickly by the bomb. So leave us alone to enjoy what remains and what is left of a world that is beyond salvation. What else makes sense but to live for the moment and to live for ourselves? But Christian hope is not to be found in a blind faith that retreats from reality and certainly not in a cynical denial of hope. Faith holds together in tension, both our experiences and our ...

4438. Lift High The Cross

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... makes clear the primary point, and that is that God provided the means of healing after the people had repented. That is what happened in our Old Testament story. Once the people of God discovered how awful it was to live with snakes, they came to their senses again and confessed to Moses, "We have sinned for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us." Living with snakes proved to be no picnic! It prompted an attitudinal change. It doesn’t ...

4439. Great Grace Was Upon Them!

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... them together and because of that they had obligations toward one another. They were invited to live out God’s future now. Twenty centuries ago they were to be a sign of hope to the people around them. It was life beyond prudence and common sense. The community of believers were attempting to live that future which they looked forward to ... where there indeed would be no more tears, poverty or suffering. That’s what this community of believers is all about. We are the people of God’s future. We ...

4440. Peter’s Second Sermon

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... through the miracles of medicine and skilled doctors and nurses. This whole problem was usefully described in a delightful book, titled Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns. The main character is a wise old grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, who struggles in 1906 to make some sense out of life. His grandson, Will Tweedy was run over by a train and lived to tell about it. In thinking about his unusual escape from almost certain death, Tweedy asks his grandpa if he thinks he is alive because it was God’s will ...

4441. Christian Courage

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... Christ. Jesus Christ was not just another human being. He was different. Since his life and death, the world is different. In Christ, through the presence and power of Christ’s spirit - living is not the same. In Christ, life begins to make sense. In Christ we experience purpose, meaning, and satisfaction. In Christ, living is no longer a treadmill existence of one thing after another. Yes, living in Christ, the world is different, because we are different. This was sort of Peter’s standard sermon. He ...

4442. Bridges, Not Walls!

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... habits - that meat which God had cleansed, should not be called common. While Peter was pondering the shocking consequences of this revelation, the messengers from Cornelius described for him the vision Cornelius had and invited Peter to return with them to help make sense out of all that had happened. This is an historic meeting. It is not just between two individuals, but a delegation of Jewish Christians entering the home of Gentiles. This is a precedent-setting meeting. It hadn’t been done this way ...

4443. Wheel Within The Wheel

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... these responsibilities in the best fashion, and our leaders will not always be the bold, unselfish servants we would like. But it is and remains a community "claimed as God’s own." The best administration is done when we have a clear and confident sense of to whom we belong. It is the faithful God of the covenant who remains the creator and sustainer of our congregations. God, through the presence and power of the Spirit, remains, the "wheel within the wheel." Amen. 1. Richard O. Hutcheson Jr., Wheel ...

4444. The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to your neighbor. It would seem that with this commandment the Ten Commandments end on a whimper rather than a bang. Having dealt with all of the heavy stuff—idolatry, killing, stealing, adultery—we are suddenly left with this seemingly innocent word of coveting. Yet, there is a sense in which the 10th serves as a summary. Commandments 5 through 9 deal with man’s relationship with man. But it is the 10th that gets to the root of our inner most longings. It talks not of what we do but why we do it. It ...

4445. The Ten Commandments - Part 1

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Bible does speak of happiness. In the Beatitudes, the word blessed can be interpreted happy. Out happiness is not seen as a pursuit, but rather as a byproduct of a life centered in God. C Third is the false gods we create through idolatry. Idolatry in its most classic sense is shaping wood or stone or even metal into an image and calling it a god. Worshiping something we make with human hands and calling it a god sounds silly to modern ears but the practice is not dead. One need only go to the East to see ...

4446. The Ten Commandments - Part 4

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... : Thou shalt not covet. It would seem that with this commandment the Ten Commandments end on a whimper rather than a bang. Having dealt with all of the heavy stuff—killing, stealing, adultery—we are suddenly left with this seemingly innocent word of coveting. Yet, there is a sense in which the 10th serves as a summary. Commandments 5 through 9 deal with man’s relationship with man. But it is the 10th that gets to the root of our inner most longings. It talks not of what we do but why we do it. It gets ...

4447. The Marvelous Style Of Jesus: Truth And Love

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... gifts and qualities the other person carries and is willing to offer. The more immature person in the relationship simply cannot see the gift package in the other and is not ready to continue to build the relationship. Indeed, s/he takes flight from any deeper sense of intimacy and shows interest only in the more superficial physical and social expressions of that intimacy. So to work an eight-hour day, but not ever to inquire and to reflect on life is to miss its upper half and to be consumed with dwelling ...

4448. Authenticity vs. Showmanship

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... discount and distance themselves from the religious enterprise; or 2) they would become the kind of devotees who would be a sort of sub-college or group, just a couple steps below the status and station of scribe and Pharisee. They would fashion their own sense of security, set their own level of life station, and thereby have their own airs of superiority over others Ironically, though all this Law-devotion was to bring people closer to God, it actually made it difficult for many to experience God. As Dr ...

4449. The King's Reception (What Are You Wearing to the Wedding?)

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Brett Blair

... that one must renounce business and family to follow God. Vows of poverty and celibacy for everyone is nowhere enjoined by Christ. All that is required is that we keep the claims of His Kingdom first in our lives. What is needed here is a right sense of value and a wise discernment. It was excessive preoccupation with business and family ties that kept these men out of the Kingdom. It was not the performance of necessary duties. Lets look at their responses. One man said: I have bought property and I must ...

4450. Bethlehem: Capitol of the Universe

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... our first Lenten stop in the footsteps of the Master, at Bethlehem. If envisioning Bethlehem as "Capitol of the Universe" is too much for you, put the idea on a back shelf. There will be some future day, I promise, when it will make profound sense. Be satisfied, instead, with a closer, more existential fact. Let Bethlehem, and what happened there, be the capitol of your private universe. That’s what Phillips Brooks is saying in the closing verse of his poem-carol: O holy Child of Bethlehem, Descend to us ...

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