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4501.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... Not even Rome could have stopped that today. Pilate: Somehow I wish that I could have stopped it. What was there about him? Did you feel it? Herod: I wanted him to perform a miracle, as I had been told he had done marvelous things. But he said nothing. I sensed that he had nothing but contempt for me. Pilate: I know what you mean - but I thought that he felt sorry for me. I have never seen a more heart-broken man. Herod: He seemed to be unafraid of death. Pilate: I could not understand him. Crucifixion is a ...

4502. THE MARRIAGE GAP

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... and the love of our spouse we become secure in our own identity, and we can be delighted in relationships with other people beyond the home. We celebrate our own personhood by creative relationships with other human beings. This is possible, however, only when we sense that we have been accepted as we are. We might say, in passing, that in marriage both husband and wife are called to assume roles. Paul speaks of this in Ephesians when he says, "Wives, obey your husbands." Men are happy to quote this - out ...

4503. THE NEIGHBORHOOD GAP

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... there are people - and people, of course, are what make relationships in the first place! The fact is, any neighborhood is a collection of individual people, each one with his own wants, needs, and desires - not the least of which is the desire for a sense of identity and worth. Because we are all a bit unsure about our own worth (we know our insecurities and our guilt more than anyone else), we tend to up our self-esteem by favorable comparison with our neighbor. Consequently, his success, becomes a threat ...

4504. God Isn’t Dead - Death Is Dead

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... you are, and what you have going for you - your youth. Why do you yearn to look aged twenty, or twenty-one? Why do so many attempt to seek reality in the dead years gone by, and for years not yet come to life? The old saying makes sense, "Yesterday is dead, leave it. Tomorrow may never come, don’t worry. Today is here, live it!" Does all this sound trivial, especially for Easter? Then ask yourself why so many persons look for the living Christ among things that are dead. Mary Magdalene, and Mary, went to ...

4505. Who Needs a Shepherd These Days?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... it in the very depths and recesses of my being in spite of my faults, failings and hang-ups, because God has planted it there. Further, I believe without Christ’s voice in my life and in the life of this, God’s world, the whole thing makes no sense. Give me hope, you cry? You shall have it, says Christ. Heed my voice. Follow me. You shall have life richly, fully abundantly, eternally. God does not call most of us to greatness, but he does call each and all of us to faithfulness. We heed his voice when ...

4506. What’s Going On in Your Orchard?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... ." Cast from the vine we will consume ourselves. In the arctic, when the long nights come and the cold grows colder, the wolves prowl, looking for food. Their hunger is a terrible thing, and anything that moves, or is warm, is their food. Hunger sharpens their sense of smell. They catch the scent of blood carried by the wind for miles around. But the eskimos understand the wolves, and they have found a way to deal with them. They melt small patches of ice, then set the handles of their hunting knives down ...

4507. Mission Accomplished!

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... more than our bodies. We know our citizenship and destiny is the Father’s House. But life in this body, this world, is also God’s gift. Life from God is more than a yearning for things yet to come. It has to be, or our present life makes no sense. If our God-given life does not count for something, then God gave us the gift for nothing. Some folks look upon this life as being inherently evil. A battleground. God’s arena for testing us. But God created his world good, did he not? Life is "now" too! He ...

4508. He Ought to Stick Out!

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... substitutes for God’s spirit living deeply within us. At the center of becoming Christian is only one thing: a miracle. The miracle of faith. God, through his spirit, gives us a changed heart. This change is the reason "he has given us his own spirit." In a real sense, being Christian does not depend upon what we would do with our life at all, but rather what God’s Christ chooses to do with it, when his spirit is allowed to live in the depths of our being. How can Christ "stick out of us" if his spirit ...

4509. Zechariah

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... they realized I had seen a vision. When the days of my Temple duty were over, I returned home. That night Elizabeth and I enjoined in a passion we had not known in years and I knew, I knew! Elizabeth became pregnant and though I could not speak, I sensed her joy as she said, "How good the Lord is to me, he has taken away the shame I have suffered." Six months into her pregnancy Elizabeth was visited by her cousin Mary, the fourteen-year-old daughter of her sister who lived in Nazareth. When Elizabeth heard ...

4510. John the Baptist

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... , my feelings. Me, the stern preacher, rebuking rich and poor, priest and king. I heard so many stories of guilt and shame from the lips of those who came to confess their sins, I forget that I too had need of repentance. And I was seized with my own sense of need, just as others had from my preaching. For I baptized with water, and I waited for one who would baptize with the Holy Spirit, and with fire. And here He was; standing before me. How could I baptize Him, when I myself was unclean? Jesus had no ...

4511. Joseph

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... the example which you still follow, even in your day: church school for young and adult. From our people came Jesus. From our people came religious education for all. It is your heritage, passed on from our people ... our gift to you. I wonder if you have any sense of appreciation, or do you still persecute the Jews in your day? As He grew in years, Jesus began to ask me more difficult questions which I could not answer, nor could our local rabbi answer. All I could tell Him was: wait, wait until we go to ...

4512. Joseph of Arimathea

Luke 23:50-56

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... , that had met Jesus and had actually become a secret disciple. He believed that Jesus was the Son of God although he did not tell anyone in our group about it. I had heard about the teachings of Jesus and I came to like what I heard. He made real sense even though some of the things that he said made me feel very guilty. Once in awhile, when I knew Jesus was near, I would stand in the crowd and listen to him. I began to believe not only what he said but what others were saying about him. I ...

4513. THE SURPRISED

Luke 1:5-25

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... . It was a very important day for him. He trembled a little as he thought of his awesome responsibility. He was to speak to the Lord God on behalf of the people. And then he was to address the people who had assembled on behalf of God. He tried to sense the feelings and needs of the people of the city as he spoke to God and it came to his mind that he would have to speak loudly and clearly when he went to address the people, that they all might hear and understand. But Saint Luke would have us ...

4514. The Overlooked

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... normal, vital, energetic young person. She was filled with enthusiasm and the natural inquisitiveness of youth. But add to this some other factors. All that we know about this teenager would indicate that she was the example of innocence. There was about her a sense of purity. She had been taught high ideals and there was a sacredness about her life, her body, and her mind. There is a holiness and a purity about her that makes her life one of radiance, whatever the mechanics of her pregnancy. Further, Mary ...

4515. The Miracle

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... that the way of Love leads to a giving of self in Love. And once more we will hear the call to let that Love so guide our lives that others may see the light of the miracle of Love through us. Dear friends, on this Christmas Eve, may we sense again the very human expressions of God’s Love. May we be open and receptive to that Love. And may we let that Love find expression through our very human lives this Christmas Eve and each day that follows.

4516. Encountering The Family Man

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... he said was not revolutionary - at least not as I heard it. He certainly did not deserve the Cross. But it was a startling speech, because it was so very different from what the rabbis say. He talked of many things, but with a love and gentleness that made sense out of it all. Perhaps that was what held me. He was the first preacher I’d heard who didn’t shout. His sermon on that hillside began in a strange way, telling of blessings that were bestowed upon the poor and sorrowful and merciful and pure in ...

4517. The Very Nearness Of Holy Week

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... last night he took the cup and the bread and said to remember him always ... and I walked out ... I betrayed his trust ... I did it ... for thirty pieces of silver coin, coin with Caesar’s face stamped upon it ... I did it." To me it didn’t make sense - what this tearful man related. The young man upon the Cross must have been a teacher or a doctor of medicine. But it sounded as if he was a new religious leader, too. And the words of this troubled man crystallized what I had been trying to comprehend ...

4518. Focused Light

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... him in some ways, but it was not an inspiring knowledge, apparently not a satisfying one. Until he heard Simon Peter’s message, Cornelius felt no profound commitment, no joyous acceptance, no cleansing renewal of life. Just so, each of us may sense, sometimes very strongly, our need for a complete awareness of God’s love, an assurance of his forgiveness, an intensely personal relationship with him. Like Cornelius of old, we are under convincement. Our lives respond to the gospel. It must have been ...

4519. Clean Light

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... anything, you know. When the famous John Wesley was still only a school boy called Jackie, away from home for the first time at Charterhouse, his mother wrote this warning: "... whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes the relish off spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin for you, however innocent it may be in itself." Is sanctity, then, just impossible? Be ...

4520. OUR LORD SMITTEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... . It was a point where all Jerusalem, save for the lower city south of the temple compound, could see. The sky was growing heavy. It was almost noon, yet the countryside was nearly as dark as it had been during the full of the moon the night before. A sense of urgency pressed the centurion, and he shouted to his men to hurry the procession along. He felt nothing else. Just the urgency to be done with it. At best, it was a tedious task and he would have to stay until the condemned were dead. Other times this ...

4521. HERE O MY LORD, I SEE THEE FACE TO FACE

John 6:1-15

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

... asked the preacher, Ill and o’erworked, how fare you in this scene? "Bravely!" said he, for I of late have been Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, THE LIVING BREAD. Oh human soul! As long as thou canst so Set up a mark of everlasting light, Above the howling senses’ ebb and flow, To cheer thee and to right thee if thou roam, Not with lost toil thou labourest through the night! Thou mak’st the heaven thou hop’st indeed thy home.

4522. RIDE ON! RIDE ON!

Matthew 21:18-22

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

... is unique in saying that the future belongs to Jesus Christ as well as the past. In the Orient you may visit the tomb of Mohammed, a has been. In India you may see spots associated with the name of Buddha, another has been. In that sense both great religious leaders are simply rooted in the past. Christianity alone has a future tense. Blessed is he that cometh - future tense. There is "one divine event toward which the whole creation moves" - his return in glory. 3. "BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING UNTO YOU ...

4523. Blessed With Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... achieve peace within ourselves until we place our lives in God’s hands and live according to his will and laws. God’s peace comes to us as his gift when we seek to live in harmony with him. Martin Luther was the most restless of men. His deep sense of sin stirred within his soul and gave him no rest or peace. "Oh, my sins, my sins," he groaned. His senior priest made him repeat again and again: "I believe in the forgiveness of sins." Yet Luther still felt guilty. Finally his priest said: "God is not ...

4524. Strengthened For Life

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... to abide with me, I don’t need to struggle for him. He will come to me and be a part of me. Each one of us is a limb of his body, a branch of the vine." Within days people saw a new man in Taylor. He lost the sense of strain and agony. As he yielded his life to Christ, he radiated a magnetism of love and happiness. He was no longer a man struggling for God; he was a man being used by God. If we fail to bear spiritual fruit, it could be because we have lost ...

4525. Reinforced With Joy

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... with the joy of the Lord, which the world can neither give nor take away. A miserable Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms. No person can truly catch the spirit of Christ and fail to catch his joy, that enthusiasm and gaiety and sense of freedom from outward circumstances. But what shall we say about those glum, sad and pessimistic Christians - that they are not Christians? No, they are the unripened, immature, or undeveloped Christians. Even the finest apples in the early stages of growth are sour ...

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