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426. Flow

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... or another activity that stimulates your sense of “flow” or “abiding.” For abiding is not just a cognitive occupation, not just a rote exercise. It must be entered into with excitement and anticipation and joy. When you enter into it, you can feel yourself fully engaging, not because you “should” but because you are pulled in, because you fully desire to be engaged with the source of your focus. I like to think of Pentecost for example as a full “immersion” experience. Immersive experiences ...

427. All In God's Time

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... because it’s taking awhile to receive your desired results? Do you neglect to cultivate time with God in your day, because the time you take in silent meditation impedes your ability to rush on to your next big thing? As 21st century humans, we feel we are owed immediate gratification. But sometimes waiting makes the difference between life or death. A week or two ago, I re-saw the theatre play about the Diary of Anne Frank. I thought about how long the Frank family had hidden in their secret enclosure ...

428. We Live in Hope

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... the person leaves them, leaves us, and moves on to God. This is a resurrection moment, a moment when death is defeated, not by the body, but by the soul, by the spirit which has gone home. It is a profound moment and a profound experience for a pastor to feel and know the soul lives on with God, not with the body. I am not sure anyone who has not experienced this, and even those of us who have, can describe it well. Yet, I know it to be so. Death had been defeated. Resurrection came. That is the message ...

429. A Faith That Overcomes

Acts 9:32-43

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... in her acts toward others. She was just the kind of person the early church needed. Why did she have to die? Of all people, why did the church have to lose this beloved saint to death? This story speaks to the heart of how each one of us feels when life brings tragedy to our doorstep. In pain and anguish, we are compelled to cry out. We implore God not to allow this travesty to befall us. So often the response we receive is deafening silence. We are left frustrated, wondering aloud, "Where is God?" It is a ...

430. Proper 25

Psalm 65:1-13, Luke 18:9-14, Joel 2:28-32, 2 Timothy 4:9-18, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... of shortcoming than people who know that person only by what he has done. The person is aware of what he should have done and left undone or of what he did that fell short of what he expected and wanted to happen. Only grace allows persons to feel justified. It is the awareness that God accepts and loves them as they are, with all their blemishes and failures, that leaves them justified. God's love is a gift, not payment earned by merit. 4. Where Do You Stand? Jesus constantly reached out to the people who ...

431. The Tale Of Three Women

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... guarantees for the future, but, even in the worst of futures, it is more hopeful and bearable when we bear it with one another. God was about to work out a remarkable future for Ruth. She wasn't sure what it all meant, but she had the feeling that her life was to have significance and meaning, if she was faithful and loyal, although things appeared mysterious. At this point in her life she is akin to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary knew that something important and significant was about to take place, but ...

432. An Unfamiliar Place For God

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... be speaking through you to us now? Seriously, isn't that a bit much? In fact, it's pretty close to unbelievable. Let's make sure we've got this right. Are you asking us, by our own volition, to move into caring relationships with people who make us feel uncomfortable? Are you saying that doing that will give us peace? We just can't understand that kind of logic. It is simply beyond understanding." We cry out to Jeremiah and it's God who responds. God says to us, "You're right. It is all quite beyond your ...

433. More Than Sex

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... , oppression, and poverty -- sins -- are like the dents and scratches in the old auto body. Just as through months and years of effort and investment the old car can be restored to mint condition, when we experience the love and grace of God in our lives -- when we feel the passion -- we are drawn to do all we can to restore the world to the way God created it to be -- a world where all the parts are in place and the needs of people come first. The poetic Wesley brother, Charles, addressed the same issue in ...

434. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 8:27-30

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... , hymns, scripture, silences? Were you waiting for someone to do something to you or for you? How much do you allow God's Spirit to speak to you? (silence) Now, would anyone be willing to respond? If not, let them know about you, your thoughts and feelings. Hymn of Adoration "O God of Vision" ACTS OF CONFESSION Introduction to the Act of Confession Return to our journey. What image, or what thoughts, do you have when you hear the word "sin"? Do you automatically shift your thinking to sins? And if so, do ...

435. Advent 3

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28, Isaiah 61:1-11, Isaiah 65:17-25, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... to do, so let's think about what it all means. 1. Be joyful at all times. Surely joy is something other than being happy or feeling good. None of us can do that at all times, even allowing for the rare person who may seem that way most of the time. ... this. I just can't say 'thanks' for turkey again." Paul meant that I should be grateful for what I do have in life and quit feeling sorry for myself because I have a few problems and could use a little more money. And most of all, be thankful that God cares about ...

436. Envy - Where Is The Grass Greener?

Gn 4:1-26, Mt 20:1-16, Philip 4:10-20

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... nice on my side of the fence." He was a young man when he inherited the farm. Though it gave him a decent living, after many years he became discontent with it, tired of it. He felt chained to the farm. Others seemed to have more freedom. He began to feel he needed a change. It was about that time that he began to find all kinds of things wrong with the farm. Little things, annoyances here and there. He finally came to the conclusion that he wanted to sell the farm. So he called a realtor who came out to ...

437. Called To Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... If you trust someone, you aren't going to intentionally mess up that relationship, are you? Barnabas: Not if I can help it. But that doesn't put a vengeful God hovering over me ... it puts a mothering God there, one I have to be careful not to hurt the feelings of. Paul: No, not really. You know you are relaxed when you are trusted. When your folks stopped hovering over you, you became a man, right? Barnabas: Right. Oh, I got advice from my dad and my mom when they forgot I was grown up. But I really didn't ...

438. Proper 23

Job 23:1-9, 16-17, Mark 10:17-31, Hebrews 4:12-16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... of suffering and pain? 2. Jesus also felt abandoned on the cross. "My God...why have you forsaken me?" 3. Where does one find God? In the cross of Christ. 2. Sermon Title: How To Fear God. Sermon Angle: Job confesses that he is terrified of God (v. 16). He feels that God is vindictive and hurtful. That's the wrong way to fear God. Job mistakenly held that Yahweh was cruel and unfair. There is a right way to fear the Lord; to hold him in respect and honor. If we want only to disobey God, we should fear his ...

439. There Is No Condemnation

Romans 8:18-27

Eulogy

Deborah D. Steed

... , "How could this happen?" "Why didn't I see the clues?" "What could I have said and done to prevent this?" "How can someone so close to me have been such a mystery?" Questions like this haunt us because we are so sorrowful and because we feel so powerless. Some people believe that Christianity is primarily a religion of answers. But our faith is more profoundly a religion of presence. Even when the questions seem to have no answers, God is present for us in our confusion, guilt, and impotence. "We do not ...

440. Do You Want To Be More Spiritual?

Romans 8:1-17

Illustration

Clement E. Lewis

... knowledge and understanding. Take stock of yourself, your interests and goals in life, and talk them over with God. You may do well to share them also with a good friend who has a deep reverence for life and for God. Ask yourself if what you think and feel would have the endorsement of Jesus. Are you about to do what you sincerely believe is right under the circumstance and proper at the time? Are you putting off what you know ought to be considered because it may require more of you than you want to give ...

441. Know What Time It Is!

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... calls me righteous, but we both know that I am not righteous. I am a sinner, and that fact cannot be changed with smoke and mirrors. I am a mixture of wheat and tares. The Most High may feel righteous in granting me pardon, but I feel forgiven. Instead of feeling free, I feel guilty. I stand acquitted before the jury, but before them I feel awkward and depressed for I know I am, in myself, unacceptable in the eyes of the Judge. If God is to love us it cannot be in spite of our sin as if it were foreign to ...

442. Forgiveness Freely Given

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Erskine White

... my transgressions are so great that no one can help me now." Well, these are precisely the people Jesus came to save: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God" (Matthew 5:3). These are the very people Jesus loves the most - the ones who feel they are the most unloved. "Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!" Then there are people who will agree that they are worthy of God's forgiveness - it's the other person over there who isn't ...

443. The Key To Confident Living

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Erskine White

... when they get to kindergarten! How are these children going to learn confidence in school when the world of books and learning is totally foreign to them? In our middle years, we need confidence to thrive or even survive in the world of work, where we can easily feel like a small cog in a giant machine, or a tiny boat on a turbulent sea. Then, as we raise our children (and we all must become parents without any prior experience), we need confidence to know that somehow it will turn out, and our labors will ...

444. We Are God's Temple

1 Corinthians 6:19

Children's Sermon

... . It's always good to have you here in church. Not only can we share a story, but we can worship God and tell God how glad we are to be in God's family. How do you feel when you come into the church building? (Let them offer some answers. Accept all of them.) Sometimes when I come into the church building I feel really reverent. It is a nice, quiet, special place where I know some special things will happen every Sunday morning. It seems special to me that we can be here and actually talk to God and hear ...

445. God's Great Love

1 John 4:11

Children's Sermon

... trouble. We need God's help to get rescued from sin and evil and death. And so God did the best thing God could do. He came to live with us himself, in a person just like you and me. That way God could feel all the pain and hurt and trouble you and I have to feel every day. That was really something special for God to do! God did it because he loves us so much. Why do you suppose God loves us that much? (Let them offer some answers.) God promises us that we are part of his own ...

446. God is Our Friend

Romans 8:15

Children's Sermon

... South America or Asia, we could find people who believe that God is a scary person who sends floods and storms and lightning. How would you feel if that was the way God really was? (Talk about it.) Other places you can find people who believe that God is sort of mean and ... work hard enough to be God's friend, or if you do it the wrong way, God may get really angry with you. How would you feel about having a God like that? I think I would not like a God like that. Other people think that God is so far away - or ...

447. The Problem With Miracles In Our Time

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

William J. Carl

... fine line between believing and not believing. There are times in our lives when, yes, we do seem to believe all these things we say about God when we read the Bible and sing the hymns in our own churches. There are even times when we’d say, yes, we feel close to God, whatever that means. But there are also those desert times in our lives when we wonder whether or not we believe any of it at all anymore: God, Jesus, the church, discipleship -- all of it seems like so much pie in the sky, a lot of sound ...

448. The Still Small Voice

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Steven Burt

... ’ to express the glory of being alone.” That’s elegant. And it rings true. Haven’t we all, at some time in our lives, remarked at the difference between being lonely and being alone? And haven’t we all felt the need to be alone? One Thursday I was feeling kind of exhausted. It had been a week of list-making, a week of too many things to do, too many loose ends to tie up on too many different projects. Besides that, my back was killing me. But there was so much to do that I couldn’t really ...

449. God Is Love

Sermon

C. David Godshall

... and a half year old boy in a house fire. The dynamics which are recognized in dealing with the family include the presence of shock, guilt, and the ever-present question of why? First contacts with the family did not reveal all that they were feeling, and invariably, further contact and counseling will be needed. In this instance, the funeral service is an initial opportunity to open up some of the issues that may need to be addressed later. In the scriptures we have read today, we have heard of the hope ...

450. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... their own harmonic and melodic structures of human interpretation which both undergird and inform our perception and action in the world around us. While our being in the world and style of existence is principally poetic, our ways of knowing and grasping, of feeling and thinking contain an aesthetic value essential to our cognitive and spiritual well-being. Thus every aspect of our lives is poetry. Our sanity and freedom as a people are intimately bound to our capacity to diversify the verse of our jangled ...

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