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426. Obedience Is An Ugly Word!

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... of suffering disgrace for the Name. Does that not make us feel shameful when we have been silent lest we be laughed at, or called demented, or labeled as religious radicals? Day after day the apostles went from house to house and in the courts; they never stopped teaching and preaching the good news that Jesus is the Christ. If the church of today could get back to that kind of obedience, there would again be record numbers coming to own Christ as Lord, people would repent of their sins and believe and be ...

427. Living Water

John 7:25-44

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... rock. Just a handful of water was all he wanted - all he needed. In the increasing darkness he was sure a fast flowing stream was just a few steps ahead. Jarib hurried now - only to step into a darkness that dropped 50 feet. He did not rise when he stopped falling. Nor was there any water in that dry gully miles from Jerusalem's walls. It is terrible to thirst and not have the thirst quenched! And, of course, our thirsting in this life is for more than water. You and I may thirst for all sorts of things ...

428. The Love Of Evil

Psalm 52:1-9

Sermon

Erskine White

... and so they put their hope in "getting the facts." They argue that if we just had the facts - if we could clearly see what is right and what is wrong - then most of us would choose what is right. If people just had the facts, they would stop smoking, wear their seat belts or put less salt in their food. If people just had the facts, they would support disarmament. If people just had the facts, they would understand why we need more weapons. Already you can see the problem. Facts are the servants of those ...

429. Do You Believe In Peace? - Memorial Day

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... but never peace. We could try another of the world's wisdoms, the path of Peace Through Compromise. Two people try to settle their quarrel through a process of give and take: "I'll agree to this if you'll agree to that. I'll stop doing this if you'll stop doing that." Compromise is eminently reasonable and maybe even fair, but it doesn't usually lead to peace because neither party has gotten what it wants. They both had to give up something in order to reach a compromise, so neither side is completely happy ...

430. Unfinished Journeys

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Erskine White

... again to avoid the people who are trying to knock him down. If he is flexible enough, if he can react quickly enough to the obstacles put before him, he can keep running and score a touchdown. But more often than not - most times, in fact - the football player is stopped short of his goal. He is knocked down and his journey is left unfinished, so he has to pick himself up off the ground and try again, and again and again. This is the art of living and it's important that we know it, because for most of us ...

431. James, God's Hero

Acts 12:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... 's love. James taught here and there, and then one day, while James was with some of the people in the church, the King of Judea became very angry about the good things that people were saying about the disciples and Jesus, and he decided that he would put a stop to it. He did not like people talking about Jesus as a great king, and as the one who gave everything that people needed. The King thought that he should be the only one that people spoke about, so he sent his soldiers out to get the followers of ...

432. Don't Cry!

John 20:15a

Children's Sermon

... was gone. Mary was one of Jesus' closest friends and she was very sad because she thought Jesus was dead. So she was crying. Lots of people cry when a friend or relative dies. They're very sad. They will miss the person who has died. But something made Mary stop crying. Do you know what it was? (Let them respond.) She saw a man and though he was the gardener. So she asked him where Jesus' body was. But the man just called her name. "Mary!" All of a sudden she knew it was Jesus and he was alive. So ...

433. Something Special From God

James 1:17

Children's Sermon

... that are beautiful and perfect? Sometimes we think the world is a terrible place. We think there are a lot of wrong and ugly things going on. But sometimes we need to stop and look at things like these. (Show them the flowers.) Where would we be without flowers in our world? And summer and fall are a wonderful time to enjoy them. Have you ever stopped to think what it takes to make a flower? How does God get them to grow so delicately? How does each flower know what color it is supposed to be? Where do ...

434. Proper 10

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14, 2 Kings 2:1-18, Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Psalm 69:1-36, Psalm 25:1-22, Luke 10:25-37

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... alley; she looked at the unconscious man and quickly walked past him. Five more people who had been in church saw the man and did nothing about helping him. It was the eighth person, a young man with long hair and a beard, who had not been in church, that stopped, took the man's pulse, saw he was alive and then went to a nearby telephone booth and called 911; he stayed there until the paramedics arrived and, only then, went his way. 1. There is probably an even higher percentage of people today who don't ...

435. Proper 26

Psalm 65:1-13, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 32:1-11, 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12, Haggai 2:1-9, Exodus 34:1-28, Isaiah 1:1-31, Luke 19:1-10

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... exile is a bit puzzling. Its relevance to the gospel emerges at verse three, "Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not in your sight as nothing?" On one level, this speaks to Jesus' stopping under the Sycamore tree and calling Zaccheus down from it; he saw what Zaccheus had been, how far he had fallen from God's grace, along with the possibility for repentance and a return to godly living. On another level, it points to Jesus' comprehension of the human ...

436. When Will The Pain Go Away?

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

George Johnson

... easier before his conversion, his new world view. Should I quit, he wondered. Should I go back to growing wheat, raising hogs, and stop asking the hard questions? If I do, would I be letting those people down, the people who asked me to go back and ... the status quo will always try to silence the cry of those who hurt, those who call for change. We embrace the darkness when we stop running from it. Society is full of escape mechanisms. We want quick fixes. Take a pill if it hurts. Find a new partner if you are ...

437. What's The Bottom Line?

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

George Johnson

... no one seems to appreciate my efforts, I will sit back and ask myself, "Why am I doing this? What is it for?" We all need to stop and ask the deeper questions once in a while, as individuals and as a church. Why am I here - why are we doing this - what's the ... of grapes, to make sure the grapes are good, sweet, tasty and high quality, the lover who owns the vineyard pulls out all the stops. Notice what is done for the vineyard. A very fertile hill is chosen, a hill with potential, a hill that has promise, a ...

438. Of Seeing and Hearing

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... and recognize as a fact that in no way can we see and hear everything around us. Each day we look upon tens of thousands of scenes. If we stopped to look deeply enough to see, we would never move forward in our day’s activities. If we stopped and listened so intently as to grasp the deep meanings in everything we hear, we would never move from one conversation to another. Nevertheless, times come when it is to our lasting benefit that we see and hear with new meaning. Destiny rides on the scene we look ...

439. Rejoice In The Lord

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... of man?" "The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." But the way they were living, it seemed as if their chief end was to irritate God and annoy him forever! Isaiah, however, believed in a God who cares, and who never stops caring even when we turn our backs on God. In ancient Rome, sensitive and cultured people for years had protested in vain the butcheries that took place in the arena. The bloody contests continued until one day, a Christian monk by the name of Telemachius leapt into ...

440. Questions

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

John Jamison

... was a difficult one. I hope that deciding what to preach was something that kept Jesus up late and woke him up early. I really hope that the decision to call disciples, and to be disciples, was frightening. Because they did it anyway. The questions could not stop them. I find myself being stopped time and time again by the questions. Do I go here? Do I say this? Do I go along with that? Can I really teach them anything? What if they don't like me? Can I really pull this off? Where do I begin? Do I follow ...

441. On Being Salty

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

John Jamison

... was not going to impress his girl. In his despair, he stayed there until his supplies were gone, and three weeks later swam to shore and got help. My Uncle Peacock was, my mother tells me, a "salty" kind of guy. Much like the two old men who used to stop by our house every so often to see my dad. I was always excited when they would visit, but my mother would just groan and find something to do in another part of the house. These guys drove a big orange truck that said, "City of Beardstown" on the door ...

442. Recollections of Abdul, Camel Boy for An Eastern Potentate

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Drama

Robert A. Morgan

... we all were motivated then to hurry. For, less than a half-day's journey from that village, we could see the king's soldiers pursuing us, and we were very thankful for our camels' speed and strength. During two nights we made no camp, but just kept traveling. We stopped only long enough to tend the camels and to eat a bite of cold food ourselves. Casper and his friends were not young, and I worried about them, but such joy seemed to have come to them from their visit to the baby that they did not mind the ...

443. Christmas Eve at the Candy Cane Inn

Drama

Edward Long

... tree ... seems to be a clearing just down there ... hold on ... (He steers, etc.) (Lights down.) NARRATOR: The car comes to a stop in front of a cozy log cabin in a small clearing near a lake, surrounded by dark woods; several smaller cabins can be ... night, the family has packed and eaten a wood-cutter's breakfast in the dining room with Mr. and Mrs. Nick. The snow has stopped but everything is covered with six inches of new blanketing. Someone has plowed out the lane and spread cinders up the steep part of ...

444. Step Seven - Humiltiy

Mt 23:25-36 · 2 Ti 2:20-26 · Ps 51:1-14

Sermon

John A. Terry

... advice he is giving is how to help those being crushed by their sense of guilt to receive and live this good news. What would I do if I stopped getting angry all the time? What would I do if I stopped lying to people? How would I start to relate in a decent way to the co-worker who causes me to drool? What would I do with my kids if I stopped yelling at them? What comes after my guilt is removed, my sin taken away, and I am grateful to God? How do I show that? Paul used the analogy ...

445. In the Beginning, God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... . And God gave us a day to rest, the Sabbath, so that we might have time to recharge our batteries and hear once again the story of how, from the seething, dark, churning, formless void, God brought forth earth and light and life. That’s where our reading stopped this morning, but that’s not the end of the story, is it? Man and woman are made partners with God in tending and caring for God’s creation. But, not content to be junior partners, wanting to be equals with God, the man and the woman mess ...

446. The Dynamics of Doubt

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... you!" Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have ... My Body Broken, Fortress, Philadelphia, 1963, p. 15. Happy Doubters' Sunday! A strange greeting for the Sunday after Easter? Not at all when we stop to realize that this Sunday the Gospel is about St. Thomas, the doubter who said, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands ...

447. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

... , but are now two inches too short. The wheel of time is continually grinding, sometimes crunching, sometimes refining, but never stopping. But did you ever notice that some minutes seem longer than others? Some are sixty seconds, while others are s ... . X was the first person on the scene. He knelt down by the injured dog and stayed with me until someone in a pick-up truck stopped. I don't remember who the man in the truck was, but I remember the big man with the scary reputation ordering him to "Take Larry ...

448. The Household Leader

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... footsteps. Perhaps you have heard the old story about a wealthy lawyer who walked to his office each morning. He had a problem with alcohol which he tried to keep well hidden from his family. Every morning as he walked to his office, it was his usual custom to stop at the corner bar for several drinks to start his day. One snowy morning as he walked toward the bar, he heard a sound behind him. Turning around, he saw his five-year-old son taking long strides and doing his best to step in daddy's footprints ...

449. The Entrance Into Jerusalem

Mark 11:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... these people are saying? By calling this man "Son of David," they're practically naming him "Messiah." HAMATH: Really? I hadn't thought of it that way. RIBLAH: Of course. Who else would the "Son of David" be but the Messiah? HAMATH: The Messiah? You're kidding! RIBLAH: No. Stop and think about it. That's one of the names the scriptures give to the Messiah. That's who these people must think he is. HAMATH: Yes. I can see what you mean. (Pause) The guys at the top aren't going to like this. RIBLAH: That's ...

450. Encounter with a Stranger

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Robert Allen

... went away to boot camp and then was shipped overseas for three years. Finally, the day came when he could go home. The last bus stop was 14 miles from the farm and his parents didn't have a phone. He simply threw his duffle bag over his shoulder and started ... step of the way. Suddenly, the dog heard someone on the road and began to bark. David said, "I whistled only once and Teddy stopped barking. There was a yelp of recognition, and I knew that a big, black dog was running toward me in the darkness. Almost ...

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