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4451. The Jericho Road: Where the Action Is

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... of their charm. But Zacchaeus, ancient or modern, needs more than an invitation into society, or unthinking acceptance. His greatest rejection, ultimately, does not come from society but from his own soul. When we violate our best inner impulses, we become afflicted with a sense of self-disappointment. We are oppressed, not so much by what others think of us as by what we, in the pit of our beings, think of ourselves. Zacchaeus needed (to put it directly and clearly) to be saved from his sins. He needed ...

4452. The Authority of Jesus

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... over two million people ready to make him king and what did he do? He went into the Temple and kicked out a few of the high priest’s men. He isn’t thinking straight. Andrew: You’re not thinking straight. Matthew: Andrew is right. You’re not making any sense. Judas: Can’t you two get it through your heads that if Jesus is going to lead us in revolution, he’d better gather as many supporters around him as he can. He needs a broad power-base if he is going to run the Romans out and give us ...

4453. Obedience to God

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... to be - his people. He came to show us that we must work for justice, peace, harmony, and mercy. That we can achieve those things through any form of government, whether it’s Roman or Jewish, as long as we are faithful to the Creator. Joseph: What you say makes sense. But I am not sure what to do. I would like to talk to Jesus. Philip: We can arrange that, but why don’t you wait a few days? He will talk to you then. We’ll tell him of our talk and he will find you. Joseph: Are you ...

4454. What God Requires of Us

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... awfully quiet. Is he just another fool, or is he really the Messiah? (He laughs broadly.) Nicodemus: (with all seriousness) Caiaphas, I have never heard anyone speak with such authority. Calaphas: (surprised) What! Nicodemus: I mean, much of what he says makes sense. Caiaphas: Oh, come now. If he truly were the Messiah, would he attack the priesthood or your own Pharisees? They are institutions ordained by God. Nicodemus: That’s the problem, we have become institutions. We no longer care for the people ...

4455. Jesus Christ, the Truth

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

Characters: Caiaphas - the High Priest; insistent, thinks he has Pilate where he wants him. Pilate - governor of Judea; an ambitious man, a just man, who struggles between his sense of justice and his political ambitions. Guard - typical Roman soldier. Claudia Procula - wife of Pilate; sensitive, caring, and very supportive of her husband. Ruth - a Jewess who serves as the handmaid of Claudia Procula. The scene opens with Caiaphas standing outside the communion rail, symbolic of his refusal to enter ...

4456. Jesus the Hope of the World

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... and embalm the body properly. We didn’t have enough time with the Sabbath coming upon us. Thomas: Well, I’m not going to any tomb. The Romans have posted guards around the tomb, and if we show up we’ll be arrested. John: Thomas is right. There is no sense staying around here. Mary: I can’t believe this. Are you giving up? Peter: Look, Mary, as long as the Master was alive we were all with him. But now he’s dead. What can we do? We can’t do anything on our own. It’s hopeless. Mary: Look ...

4457. Stewards of Our Money

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... struggle it is to remain faithful to the Christ. It’s not the size of the offering, but the proportion of what we have that is given away. Add Joy We need add to this, Jesus’ advice to his people: God loves a cheerful giver. Not begrudging, not out of sense of duty, not in sacrificial pain, but cheerfully! It’s called being a steward of our money. Let the lights of warning shine brightly and let the antenna test out the clearance of our stewardship practices. The widow gave all she had.

4458. Resurrection: Temporal to Eternal

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... of earth turn to dust, they fade with time and disappear. Yet, through God the power of Jesus Christ overcame death and opened Eternal dimensions. Easter is not the empty tomb - it is the new awareness of God’s power. Easter is not burial cloths - it is a sense of communion with Christ and one another in the Love of Christ. Easter is not angels - it is the knowledge for me and you that Christ Jesus is alive, because God’s power for life is stronger than earth’s power of death. That message, spoken for ...

4459. Resurrection: From Sin to a Second Chance

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... done, and said and thought. We are even ashamed of things that have been done to us. Like Adam and Eve, we try to hide our shame. We try to cover ourselves so that other people, and you, and even ourselves, will not see. As we bow in prayer, we sense that you are all-knowing. You know all desires. From you no secrets are hid. Yet, this cross above our heads reminds us that you love us more that we love ourselves. You accepted us. You have chosen to carry our shame. Beneath the cross we bow, and offer ...

4460. Resurrection: From Brokenness to Wholeness

Matthew 15:29-39

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... message was of worth in God’s sight. In that special moment his leg was less important than it had been all his fourteen years. In that special moment, Jahmai was important - named with meaning, tied in lineage to the people. And the village sensed it, too, seeing the little cripple as a person of individual worth. Wholeness, completeness, comes into life with such understanding. It can be a resurrection! It is a resurrection! The badly twisted cripple or the most glamorous cinema star is partial if only ...

4461. A Man With a Scalpel and a Pen

Acts 16:6-10

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... of two brothers, who came to his father and said, "Father, give me the share of goods which is mine." He received his substance ... journeyed into a far country ... wasted and squandered his money ... and ended up eating in a pigpen. Then finally he came to his senses - and returned to a forgiving father (Luke 15:11-32). Only Luke tells Jesus’ story of the Pharisee and the publican: "Two men went up into the temple to pray ..." The Pharisee stood proudly and lifted up his head and his voice, "I thank thee ...

4462. Martin Luther: the Shape of Grace

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... must work to disarm that ever-threatening monster. We live in a time when travel and communication make it a horrible sin to allow a few to have so much and so many to have so little. We must work to bring about change, a new sense of world community, and a system that feeds and opens up communication among all the earth’s people. Whenever the bureaucracy of the organized church aggrandizes and proliferates itself at the expense of caring about and ministering to the world’s less privileged, we need to ...

4463. John Wesley: Religion of the Heart

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

His mother was the daughter of an Anglican priest, and his father was an unsuccessful pastor in the Church of England. He had been raised in the parsonage - one of nineteen children. He, too, became a priest, but he sensed something missing. Religion to this "preacher’s kid" seemed cold, cruel, and intellectual. Then came May 24, 1738. Early in the morning he read in his Bible: "In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you ...

4464. William Booth and His Hallelujah Army

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... world. Through them he often stabbed the heart and conscience of his people. Their names are familiar to Christians worldwide: 1. St. Augustine, who pointed us to the nature of our sinfulness and God’s gift of forgiveness. 2. John Calvin, who gave us a sense of being chosen by God. 3. John Wesley, who held before us religion of the heart. 4. And today, William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, who placed the cause of the down-and-out before the church. The Scripture, which reverberates through this ...

4465. Knowing the Secret

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Thomas Long

... John Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday. A Ph.D from the University of Chicago, Doc now earns his living selling marine specimens he has collected from the tidal pools near his home in Monterey. He has a good life, but when he reflects deeply, Doc is troubled by a nagging sense of discontent. "Have I worked enough? Have I eaten enough? Have I loved enough? ... What has my life meant so far, and what can it mean in the time left to me? ... What have I contributed to the Great Ledger? What am I worth?"3 What am I ...

4466. What Do You See?

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Thomas Long

... see, then, like Nathaniel, we will find a Christ who will open our blind eyes, clear the dimness of our vision, and show us more wonders of grace than we ever dreamed were there to see. In her book Becoming Human, Letty M. Russell, describes the new sense of vision which was given to her, ironically, when she lost one of her eyes in a freak accident. Things which had once loomed large for her now became small in the light of the more important realities of sight, health, and the compassionate care of others ...

4467. An Understated Masterpiece

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... of Freud, and we leave informed but unchanged. We yearn to be a part of an event which leads, not to diversion, but to wisdom. We long to know the truth which does not merely set us thinking, but sets us free. And in the deepest sense possible, that was exactly what happened that day in the synagogue in Capernaum. An event of startling significance happened before the very eyes of the congregation. The demonic powers were subdued. A human life was restored. Jesus was shown to be Lord over all that seeks ...

4468. A Tempting and Lonely Place

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Thomas Long

... and father that morning, and the news of her leaving school had caught them totally by surprise. Willimon asked why Anne was doing such a thing, but the father was uncertain. What he mainly wanted was for Willimon to call his daughter and "talk some sense into her." Willimon called Anne and reminded her of the many hours she had already put into pharmaceutical training and of her many academic achievements, all of which she now seemed to be willing to throw away. "How in the world did you come to this ...

4469. What’s In It For Me?

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... it wrong. And that makes me wonder. I hear all kinds of proclamations of of the Christian faith today that emphasize exactly what Peter emphasized. They tell me what is in it for me. If I believe in Jesus, they tell me, I will experience a renewed and powerful sense of my own self-hood. If I believe in Jesus, they tell me, all my physical ailments will leave instantly. If I believe in Jesus, they tell me, all my enemies will be destroyed. If I believe in Jesus, they tell me, my financial needs shall be met ...

4470. The Glory and the Cross

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... sent into our world from the world of God’s glory to carry out a mission. His mission was confirmed in this transfiguration story. "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." That is what God said to Jesus. It is from the words of Jesus that we get a sense of the nature of his mission. Jesus will suffer in carrying out God’s mission. He will be killed. The principalities and powers of evil that rule this world cannot abide the presence of God’s Son in their midst. The power of death seeks to do away with ...

4471. I Am The Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... with all the sheep of God’s flock. "So shall there be one flock, one shepherd." A recent movie by Woody Allen was titled, "Hannah and Her Sisters." The movie deals precisely with that theme. It is about Hannah and her sisters and how family life gives some sense of stability to life in a fractured world. The part played by Woody Allen in the movie is the part of a man who is constantly afraid that he will get some terrible disease. He is what we call a hypochondriac. As he comes into the movie, we ...

4472. A Cup Running Over

John 11:17-37

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... lived under the same roof.) Except for the usual domestic spats (busy Martha complaining when studious Mary neglected her household chores), harmony reigned. Jesus was comfortable there. He seems to have visited the family often. They were a family in the truest sense of the word. When one rejoiced, all rejoiced. When one suffered, all suffered. When one sorrowed, all sorrowed. When Lazarus died, the sisters felt that part of them had died too. B. We feel the sympathy of neighbors in this beautiful story ...

4473. Happiness Is ... the Kingship of Jesus

John 18:28-40

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... laugh. People like that. People want that."1 The new mayor becomes the center of attention by the sheer power of his personality. In like manner, Jesus towers over Pilate in the praetorium. Pilate seems uneasy, uncertain, unsure of himself, on the defensive, as if sensing that he is somehow outranked by the Carpenter of Nazareth. The other man has the aura of majesty that surrounds only a king or queen. "Are you king of the Jews?" Pilate asks. And later in the interrogation, Jesus makes it quite clear that ...

4474. When Things Don’t Work Out, What Then?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... of a child struck down with illness by God with the picture of the God we see in Christ, this narrative about David’s child brings home to us two insights most clearly: for one thing, deeply imbedded in Old Testament thought is the idea of the God whose sense of justice causes him to repay every man for his deeds; for another thing, sin takes on a life of its own as its effects spread out to engulf the innocent and the guilty alike. Not even David’s repentance can remove the bitter fact of consequences ...

4475. What Makes People Great?

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... of his life. Maybe David felt that he was above the law, or that his particular affair with Bathsheba was somehow exempt from God’s law. But, as Francis Thompson heard God say to a soul, "All things betray thee, who betrayest Me." David’s conscience and sense of social justice betrayed him. When Nathan the prophet appeared before the king and told a little story about a rich man who stole a poor man’s only lamb, David became angry with the rich man and said, "I swear by the living Lord that the ...

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