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4501. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... . There is a great need for living evangelism, far greater than for talking evangelism. A person may go to church on Sunday morning, hear the beautiful promises of Scripture, and the glorious proclamation of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, but he may continue to search for many years in order to discover a convincing human example of what the church is talking about. You cannot reduce the gospel of Jesus Christ to a string of words, or phrases, or spoken formulas, or even Scripture passages, no matter ...

4502. Never Cry Uncle - Malchus

Matthew 26:47-56

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... seen "the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." Quickly the soldiers closed insome words were exchangedand Jesus was led away. And even though I didn't know for sure where they were taking him of one thing I was certain that wherever he went he would continue doing for otherswhat he had just done for me.

4503. Take Up Your Cross

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... dim -In the light of his glory and grace. This is the secret of the victorious life: looking to the Master of Life for strength and direction. If I focus my attention on Christ Jesus, if I seek first his Kingdom in my life, if I seek daily and continually to follow him, then nothing can ultimately defeat me. As Frank Laubach wrote, "There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes." As long as I am able to maintain that vital contact with ...

4504. V.I.P.s

Philippians 2:1-11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the United States. Would you say that he is a very important person? I should say so. Who has ever heard of this one? [Joe Namath.] Right, a champion football player. How about this one? [Fred Flintstone.] Oh, everyone knows our favorite cartoon character, Mr. Flintstone. [Continue holding up the rest of the name cards and discussing the importance of each person in his field.] Say, everyone knew the last two names, my name and Janie's name. We must be getting more famous as we go along. You see, some names ...

4505. Never Read Any of His Books

John 20:1-18

Illustration

James W. Moore

... a year. Sometimes I go out of my way to come here." Bill Bryson was fascinated, “Really?” he replied. “O yes,” the man said. “I must have been here twenty or thirty times by now. This is a real shrine you know.” As the two of them continued walking and touring together, Bill Bryson said to the man: “You must be a real fan and follower of Mark Twain. Would you say the house is just like Mark Twain described it in his books?” “O, I don’t know,” said the tourist...“wouldn’t have the ...

4506. Wake Up!

Isaiah 50:1-11

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... wake everyone up. Let me hear you crow like a rooster? (response) I don’t think that woke them up. I know what they need. They need this! Hold up the Coffee What is it? (response) That’s right. This is usually what adults need to wake them up. Continue this with the other items using the theme “waking up.” Application: I have one other thing to show to you. Hold up the Bible What is this? (response) Yes, it’s a Bible. What does this have to do with waking up? (response) The Bible is God’s word ...

4507. Taking On Christ's Likeness

John 13:31-38

Illustration

Lee Griess

... a piece of iron in the presence of an electrified field, that piece of iron itself will become electrified. And in the presence of that electrical field, it is changed into a magnet. As long as it remains in contact with that field of power, it will continue to attract other pieces to itself. We are like that piece of iron. In the presence of Christ, we experience his love and take on his likeness. We are changed, electrified by the Holy Spirit, to attract others to the same love of God that we experience ...

4508. Service for Death through Miscarriage

Psalm 23:1-6

Eulogy

Stan Richards

... from me, and taken the crown from my head. All: He breaks me down on every side, he has uprooted my hope like a tree. (Job 19:8,9) Pastor: O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to kelp me! All: I will hope continually, and will praise you yet more and more. (Psalm 71:12, 14) Pastor: Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and shield. Our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. All: Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as ...

4509. Sermon Opener - Connected to God

Luke 24:50-53

Illustration

Lee Griess

... has gone up. Gone up and away. God has left us to our confusion. Abandoned us in the midst of the angry shouts of the mobs, the sound of gunfire and the rhetoric of the revolutionaries." God indeed has abandoned us. However, as he sat there and continued to listen, Willimon noticed that the boys were not singing "Deus Abscondit," which would mean "God has abandoned us," but rather they sang "Deus Ascendit," God has gone up. And the words of that song led Willimon to understand that God had not given up on ...

4510. The Kind of Church to Become

Acts 2:1-13

Illustration

Johnny Dean

... ’t! There is no church like that. In fact,’ he concluded, ‘if there was, I’d join it.’" Maybe Harry was right. Maybe there is no church that is open enough to the leading of the Holy Spirit to be that kind of church. But if the church is to continue to provide a witness to the world about the unconditional love of God in the next millennium and beyond, that’s the kind of church we’re going to have to become.

4511. Independence Day - The Mission of the Mighty

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... ! So what do we do? As the evil, the corruption, the crime in the community grows, what do we do. Pass more laws. As someone has said, 35 million statutes on our books and still no improvement. We increase the size of our police forces. We continue to build up our armed forces to protect our little island of freedom from the world. Consider the Great Wall of China. It was built 210 years before Christ as a protection against the northern barbarians. Twenty feet high, 13 feet wide at the top, it stretched ...

4512. A Change of Direction

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

... journey. He comes as the mighty "external force" to jar us loose from the power of inertia and set us going in directions we had never dreamed before. In the infant time of the Christian Faith, Saul of Tarsus was going down the road to Damascus. He was continuing in the way he had been going. He had participated in the stoning of the Christian martyr, Stephen. He had sought and obtained warrants for the arrest of Christians in Damascus. And now he was on his way to that city to carry out that mission. But ...

4513. The Two Fires

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... . Remember the tale of Prometheus, the god who felt sorry for humans? He stole fire from the gods’ altar and gave it to man. Such stories suggest man’s reverence toward the mystery of fire. In Roman temples there was the central fire that burned continually, fueled and kept alive by men and women whose special duties were to see that the fire never went out. Fire and spiritual experience are never widely separated. As we turn to the Biblical record we also notice the prominent place of fire in religious ...

4514. Barefoot in the Palace

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... In the end, the forces of repression will have regained the palace and thrown out the barefoot ones. Most of all, we’ll need vision to make the most of these times. These are hard days for dreams and visions. The realists seem to be in control, and they continually tell us that we must not risk much beyond the present moment. We have just given our due to realism and wisdom; yet without a vision and a dream we shall make no progress. Martin Luther King, Jr., served America well when he told us, "I Have A ...

4515. On Having "The Right Stuff"

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... and sacrifice. It is a way of saying that nothing worthwhile can begin or endure without this same acceptance of suffering and sacrifice. If I were Satan, I think I would invest heavily in the "quick and easy" markets. These are the cultural trends that continually tell us that the valuable things of life can be ours without effort, discipline, pain and sacrifice. You can write a book titled Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Personality. It would probably be a best-seller. But you cannot write a book called ...

4516. Mission to Unbelievers

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... and the prophets were sufficient. And even if Abraham should go himself, it would not lead Dives’ brothers to repentance. They would only see it as an extraordinary event making no claim upon their lives. So Dives and his brothers, and their modern counterparts, continue in unbelief. For them there is no ultimate, personal meaning to life, even though with the poet Hardy, they rush to the stable on Christmas Eve to see if it were true that the animals knelt in reverence, "hoping it might be so." Dives ...

4517. Do I Give Up Praying Too Soon?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

... . For a while the judge refused her pleading, but she kept coming and she finally wore him out. He said to himself: Though I neither fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming. Since Luke says that Jesus told this parable "to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart," when I wonder, "Why don’t my prayers get answered?" I need to ask, "Do I give up praying too soon?" Luke records another parable of ...

4518. The Freedom To Be Wrong

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

... ’d do." Does this destroy authority? As for that dent in the rear fender, there are so many situations like that in my past and I handled them badly. But Christ’s atonement covers those mistakes too, and so I’m learning not to dwell on them. The Gospel is continually giving me a fresh start. Now that I’m a bit more aware of what it means to live completely forgiven for Christ’s sake, if I could live those situations again, I’d do them something like this: Dad, I guess I’m not as careful as I ...

4519. Christ the King The King On His Cross

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

... music, had such a glimpse of paradise when he was creating his oratorio, Messiah. He said that as he was composing it, "I did think I saw all heaven open and the great God himself." His music gives us goose bumps too. But the shivers don’t continue. I learned something about this from C.S. Lewis, the British professor at Oxford University who’d been an atheist and became a Christian. He helped me see better that we really do want paradise. In his book, The Problem of Pain, he says: There have been ...

4520. The Call of the Cross

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

... act was that of the booming American success; his second act was that of the wilting American failure. What is notable is that the failed Fitzgerald has, over the long haul, become an even greater success than the successful Fitzgerald." ... And Epstein continues: he made of his failures an elegant thing, next to which his success was made coarse, blatant, gross ... In truth it was nowhere so elegant (because) not much of this (meanness, drinking, etc.) is remembered. What is remembered is the aura of his ...

4521. The Beginning of the End

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

... Franz Joseph in 1864, who stopped in Jerusalem on his way to the opening of the Suez canal. Later, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, heir apparent to the Prussian throne, visited Jerusalem, and in 1898 his son, Wilhelm II, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The writer continues: "The German emperor wished to make his entry on a white stallion. According to an old legend, Jerusalem would be conquered by the emperor who passed through one of its gates on horseback. In order to calm the anxieties of the inhabitants, a ...

4522. A Mission and a Message

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

... than at any time since. Here, too, the gospel has to be - and is being - proclaimed again, as part of the world-wide mission that our Lord began that day when he appointed seventy people to go out two by two. The mission begun then and there will continue until the day when he returns in glory to bring in the fullness of the kingdom. But that first mission was only a preview, wasn’t it? The screening process by which the candidates were appointed doesn’t seem to have been rigorous at all, does it? Jesus ...

4523. Real Security

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

... pours out upon us the blessings of heaven - in the form of earthly riches and treasure - because we believe and try to live "good" lives? Time and again, I have heard television preachers promise their listeners financial success and security if they will contribute generously and continually to their fund drives. God doesn’t reward us that way, does he? And don’t too many of us misread Malachi (3:10) - "Bring the full tithes and dues to the storehouse so that there may be food in my house, and then see ...

4524. Time to Get Ready

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

... that had committed the unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit. But he began to preach the gospel, and he preached it so powerfully - and radically - that he was thrown into prison. It was there, in a twelve-year imprisonment, that he found a way to continue to tell The Story in the writing of Pilgrim’s Progress. His vivid images of "the narrow path straight as a rule could make it, running on, uphill and downhill, through city and wilderness, to the Black River (of death) and the Shining Gate" captured ...

4525. The Man, the Message, and the Mission

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

George Bass

... happening, and took his picture. She seemed to be announcing to the world, "Dad is back. We’re a family again. Everything is going to be all right now." And it was - for awhile. What happened to that family we’ve seen too often. The father and mother continued to have problems, and they separated for good - with a divorce - this time. The lives of all five have been anything but happy since then; I don’t think that any of them has really been happy for over a decade now. They have drifted away from ...

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