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4451. Ephphatha...Be Opened

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , this time, come to life. That is possible, but it is still a stretch, though. How about the language of the encounter? At first glance, Jesus sounds awfully rough. "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." Mom knew the ill-feeling between Jews and Gentiles. But calling her a dog to her face? Umm! Again, folks explain that away, and they had better! After all, calling someone a dog, even a pet puppy dog (as the Greek here suggests) is a term of abuse, if ever there was one ...

4452. Transitions

2 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... than $1 per day? What kind of changes will we see? Transition time - change - in the church, in society, and everywhere. My friend, Carlos Wilton, notes: Living through life's transitional times is never easy. Feelings of grief for that which is lost, or about to be lost, can seem overwhelming. Sometimes there is a feeling of being stuck between the has-been and the not-yet - and that experience of "stuckness" seems to go on and on ... Whenever we must say good-bye to the old and embrace the new - however ...

4453. Simeon

Luke 2:22-40

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... and their son. Then I handed the baby back to his mother. As she took him from me, I felt compelled to say something further. I would have loved to have let my conversation end with the blessing, but that strange something inside me led me to share my feelings. There was joy, to be sure, but mixed with a sense of disquiet. I looked at the young woman and said, "This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel" (Luke 2:34b). Even though God had not specifically revealed it to me, I ...

4454. The Thoughts of Our Hearts

Luke 2:22-40

Sermon

Robert J. Elder

... for their son. A poor family, too, from the looks of it, since they brought no sheep, but just two little birds for the sacrifice. Simeon was the first to spot them. He couldn't remember just what it was that drew him to this little family, but he did feel drawn, powerfully drawn. For some reason he just couldn't take his eyes off that baby. He had seen hundreds of repetitions of this scene in all his years as a hanger-on at temple. People came practically every day to give thanks to God for children safely ...

4455. Clearing Out the Pipes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

John Smylie

... ourselves, and with one another. The season of Lent, which begins this Ash Wednesday, offers us a forty-day time period modeled after our Lord's forty days in the wilderness. Some of us may not feel the need to take on extra disciplines during these forty days. Perhaps our lives already feel full of enough challenges that a day of prayer or fasting may seem trivial. Others of us who are just as challenged may welcome the external disciplines of regular prayer, fasting, and acts of service as opportunities ...

4456. Fred and Barney

John 10:11-18

Sermon

John Smylie

... take the dogs away. Had I wanted to, I could have exacted vengeance upon those animals and shot them. I did not feel like a very good shepherd. My sheep were injured, the metaphorical wolf was successful in his attack. The sheriff eventually did arrive ... us to overcome our fears and worries all by ourselves. I suspect most of us have discovered that the more we have tried to stop feelings like anger or fear or worry the more we think about them and the worse they get. The sheep were never supposed to fight the ...

4457. When the Impossible Becomes Imminently Possible!

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... remarks, "There was a man and they called him mad. The more he gave the more he had." That's God! That's our Lord Jesus! Our reading teaches us three great life lessons. First, believe in God and in his Son Jesus Christ. Every time you feel like running in denial of life's seemingly unconquerable circumstances, remember God is in all your life's circumstances. Look for Jesus in what scares you. See him in your impossible situations for "Jesus our Lord already knows what he is planning to do." What we see ...

4458. The Heart of the Matter Is the Heart!

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men. — Mark 7:7-8 That is the difference between theism and me-ism. We either worship God for God's sake or worship God for our sake. The fact that we attend a certain church and leave feeling good does not necessarily guarantee us that worship in that church pleases God. Real worship is not measured by how it pleases me but by how it measures up to God's word. Today we use the term "seeker-sensitive" to define certain styles of worship. We must be ...

4459. This Gospel Is for Our Children

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... often conclude he or she is a smelly, dirty person who probably wants some of our money. Children smile toward street people and delight when they smile back. We need to smile more. When we hear music, we worry about getting the words, notes, and rhythm just right. Children feel the beat and move to it. They sing out the words, and if they don't know them, they pretend they do and make up some words. We need to tap our feet more and sway our hips to some nonsense songs again. When adults pray, we ask, "God ...

4460. Epiphany: All about You!

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... you always deserved it. Congratulations! So when Time selected you as the person of the year, from their perspective, you should feel very flattered. You beat out all the competition. Time wrote this: ... who actually sits down after a long day at work ... , my pictures are so interesting, so unique, that you should really check out my website? When did we get to the point that we feel so indisposable that we can interrupt a lunch with a friend to talk to someone else on the phone — and say nothing at all? ...

4461. Faith vs. Good Works

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... was no other way to the top but by earning your way step by step. It makes sense, logically. It should work, theoretically. But what happens when it doesn't work, when I don't feel forgiven, when I'm still racked with guilt, or when I'm not making any progress? What happens when I still sin the same sin, when I feel distant from God despite my most ardent prayers, persistent good works, and generous alms? What happens when it doesn't work? You either try to climb harder, as Luther did, or blame yourself and ...

4462. Genuine Hope

Romans 4:13-25

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... foolish. Don't we see evidence of eternal life here and now? Aren't the seeds of God's promise already present for us? We may see a glimpse of eternal life when we experience an act of self-giving love, or a moment of absolute truth. Or, we may feel the rush of sublime joy in the many big and small ways we experience the holy in our lives. Certainly we know it when we gather at the communion table and receive Christ's body and blood. Our hope is genuine, because there is already a presence and a beginning ...

4463. Loving God

1 John 5:1-6

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... that his love flows through us onto other people, who also want to grow in their relationship with the God of love. I don't know about you, but when I'm in a loving relationship with someone and that relationship is in balance, I can feel it. When it's out of whack, I can feel that, too. I suspect that we know when our relationship is in balance with God or when it's out of whack. John tells us that one way to tell is if following Christ's commandment to love one another as he has loved us ...

4464. Eyes on the Prize

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... translation of the Old Testament. It is from Psalm 116:10 in which the psalmist thanks God for saving him even in, and especially in, the midst of his conflicts and struggles: "I kept my faith, even when I said: 'I am greatly afflicted.' " Paul knows the feeling! He has had many struggles in his journey to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the church at Corinth is one of the main sources of those struggles. He uses these struggles as an entry point into one of the chief points of his proclamation. In ...

4465. Time for the Offering

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... hearts" in their approach to the offering for Jerusalem. The idea of gratitude, of glad and generous hearts, is central to Christian living, but we often have great resistance to it. The French theologian, Jacques Ellul, put it this way: If we feel too much sadness in giving, if we feel torn or irritated, it is better not to give. But we must clearly understand what this means. It means that we are still under mammon's power, that we love our money more than God, that we have not completely understood ...

4466. Words That Wound, Words That Heal

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... the ability to inspire others. A young girl was asked why she had broken up with her old boyfriend and taken up with a new one. She answered, "When I was with Robert, he impressed me with how great he was. But when I was with Jonathon, he made me feel great about myself." Jesus said, "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean." What comes out of our mouths reveals what ...

4467. Sanctity Stinks

Matthew 18:15-20

Illustration

Edward F. Markquart

... thing when he wrote: "O Lord, deliver me from Christian churches with nothing but Christian saints in them. I want to remain in and be part of a church which is a little flock of faint-hearted people, weak people, who know and feel their sin, their poverty, their misery, and they believe in the forgiveness of God." That is what Luther wanted. Nothing about colorful programs. Nothing about great music. Nothing about great preaching. What Martin Luther wanted to be part of community which had faint hearted ...

4468. He Longs to Dust Us Off

Matthew 21:33-46

Illustration

King Duncan

What we need to see today is that this same Jesus can help us when we feel rejected. There is a touching story about how a teddy bear sat high on a shelf in a department ... top shelf. When the clerk finally got the teddy bear down and handed him to the little girl, she threw her arms around him and exclaimed, "I love you, but I think you will feel better if I dust you off and sew a button on you." That is Christ's word to all of us who find ourselves sitting on shelves, covered with dust, with a few buttons ...

4469. At the Banquet...In Your Pajamas

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... affair he was asked how he felt to be among so many well-known celebrities. He described himself in his typically humble way. “I feel,” he said, “like a pair of brown shoes in a room full of tuxedos.” Well, obviously, you don’t wear brown shoes ... The love of God. This poor man who did not have on the proper wedding attire earned the wrath of the king, but don’t feel sorry for him. He received the same invitation everyone else received. He was to be the king’s guest, at no cost to himself, at ...

4470. Philippe

Matthew 24:36-51

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... the floor. He rubbed his eyes and scratched his head, He was so glad because he wasn’t dead. And Mom and Dad gave him a hug, as he sat upon the rug. His mother said to her darling boy, “How are you doing my pride and joy?” “I am feeling better, sweet mother dear, I want to write a letter to this hemisphere, And this is what I’ll say, ‘I’d rather stay awake, not sleep, for goodness sake! Alive, alert, and ready.’ ” The Wolf chimed in, “So that is what you plan to do — then may I your ...

4471. The Difference Between Getting and Giving

John 1:1-18

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... a romantic interest in him. (Former Girlfriend, extravagantly made-up, appears.) Narrator: The romance had cooled when the old man kept taking presents instead of bringing them. Former Girlfriend: I’ll tell you the difference. When you give, you feel good, and when you receive, you feel better. Narrator: The old man looked puzzled for a moment then asked: Old Man: How are you supposed to know which is “good” and which is “better”? Former Girlfriend: (crossly) What a silly question for an old man ...

4472. For What Do We Wait?

Luke 1:26-38

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... room. Waiting Man, dressed in scrubs, is seated surrounded by cups of coffee. He is very nervous. Nurse is talking to him. Mrs. Abernathy, Suzie, and Bonnie are seated with him. Mr. Schwartz stands leaning against the wall.) Nurse: Are you feeling all right now, sir? Waiting Man: Yeah, I’m okay, but I feel kinda foolish. Nurse: Don’t worry. It’s not uncommon for someone to faint in the delivery room. Waiting Man: Maybe, but I wanted to be there for my wife. Nurse: I know. But I think it’s better if ...

4473. A Christmas Program

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... one in town who could have given that Nazarean couple a room. It was likely that mine wasn’t the only door they knocked on. I feel like I’m trying to justify my turning them away, but it’s not like I was lying to that young couple. My place honestly was ... new baby. He’s so tiny, so precious, and so dependent on me. I’m so exhausted now from the travel and now the birth. I feel both excitement and fear. I want to celebrate and sleep at the same time. Oh, my Lord, I hope I can do this. I sure wish ...

4474. Responding to God

1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... bring sadness and defeat. The message is not always obvious; we are often confused by what God may be saying. Since the picture is not completely clear, we need to listen as well as observe. Thus, we need to pray. Most people are quite adept in expressing their feelings to God. We express our praise of God the one who is the source of our strength and sustenance. We give thanks to God for the abundance we have in the many blessings that come our way. We call out to God for our own needs — material and ...

4475. The Need for Transformation

Jonah 3:1-5, 10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... we must hear as well. By definition, transformation requires us to change. Many people do not like or want change. If we feel comfortable in our lifestyle, place of work, neighborhood, and ways of operating, why would we want to change? In such cases there seems to ... be no motivation for change. Only when things get out of sync in our life, when we feel things are not going the way we want, do we consider the possibility of change. Change and the ability to be transformed must ...

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