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4551. Should Christians Always Oppose War?

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... who opposes and will not participate in any violence. Many Christians have been pacifists over the last 2000 years, but the majority of Christians have not held that view. It may surprise you to know that Jesus was not a pacifist, at least in the classic sense. If you had asked the moneychangers in the Temple if Jesus was a pacifist, they would have replied, "Are you kidding? He drove us out with a whip!" Jesus allowed his disciples to carry swords, and the swords were not for killing snakes. They were for ...

4552. A Mountain Of Meaning

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . When Peter does finally quit talking nonsense a cloud appears, envelopes them, and the voice of God gives this instruction to Peter, James, and John: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to Him!” That’s it. Very short. To the point. What Peter said made no sense. What God said had a mountain of meaning. I would like to spend a few moments this morning unpacking the meaning of it. I This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to Him! There is a mountain of meaning in these words. Let’s look at the first ...

4553. Heaven on Earth

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Richard Patt

... is now well over 200 years old. It’s fitting that you and I thank God for a kind of heaven on earth he’s blessed us with in our beloved land. There’s lots that isn’t right in America, lots that isn’t good. But in another sense we do have a kind of heaven on earth here. Who would have believed in the mighty progression of this nation when it first began? Our mother country is England, the land of the British empire. Back in the eighteenth century, when many British people and other Europeans sailed ...

4554. Going The Wrong Way On A One Way Street

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... , a certain policy of the church, but underneath it all he is not a believer. The Inquisitor is the Christian counterpart of the distorted Jewish Pharisee in Jesus’ day. He knows more theology than almost everyone, but knowing is not believing. Knowing in the sense of head knowledge is a good thing, but it is not the same as faith. Ideally, knowing about God and theology should enrich a person’s faith, but it doesn’t always work out that way. Some people who are very knowledgeable about the things ...

4555. That Carpenter Is God

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... is an awesome and hopeful sign - awesome because it is ultimate; hopeful because it gives us a ultimate point of reference. Yet, even hearing the authority of God, the people of Nazareth rejected Jesus because of their unbelief. Unbelief. Jesus’ authority was sensed, but many still refused to accept it. Unbelief. Jesus marveled at the unbelief of the people of Nazareth, his hometown. Did familiarity breed contempt instead of faith? Does it today? Unbelief. Is that our problem today too? Do we refuse to ...

4556. Heal the Sick; Cast Out the Demons

Matthew 10:5-8

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... become more important than people. Ambition triumphs over service. Greed towers over human need. The Tower of Babel grows taller and taller. Thus, the Pentagon, Ford Motor Company, Visa, and the local Christian congregation are all potential "Principalities and Powers" in the biblical sense.4 Nests of demons grow in institutions as well as in human hearts. Division is the sign. Jesus says, "Cast them out." "We can’t do it," we reply. "You are right," he responds. "They are too strong for you. I’ll do ...

4557. The Miracle of Re-Birth

John 3:1-21

Sermon

... that a person needed to be "baptized in the Holy Spirit." This sermon proved to be helpful in dealing with that issue on the one hand, and to be a needed message to others, on the other hand, who are not open to the "joy" of Grace because of a sense of unworthiness and a "work" orientation to living out the Christian life. - Al Towberman

4558. My Soul Is Glad - Because of God

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

... happened. It is noted that "he has always been a deeply religious man. His faith, he said, not only has sustained him through his injury, the ensuing complications and his wife’s decision to leave him after his release from the institute, but it has also given him a sense of a divine hand in it all." What an irony! A divine hand in all of that? "Perhaps, he said, it is his lot, after having fallen, to be a symbol of hope." No one could have convinced him of that. Only he could have reached that conclusion ...

4559. It’s not what you know, but who you know!

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... She did not know Jesus. He revealed himself to her as the Messiah, the Savior; and she learned from the Lord about the very greatest thing: a new and eternal life in him. Then she knew Jesus and suddenly everything in her life began to count much more, making sense and meaning more than ever before. That only happens when one knows Jesus. We want to know all kinds of things. We want to know what is happening in the world and what is going on in our neighbor’s house. But unless we also know Jesus, we might ...

4560. Jesus Knows Everything! Jesus Is God!

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... as much as they used to anymore. Even more than parents, God knows everything. Better than to try to hide from our all-knowing God and Savior is to expose ourselves to him, to confess what he already knows about us anyway. To confess means, in its most basic sense, to expose oneself. The tax collector Jesus told about in one of his parables knew that God knew all about his sin and it was senseless to try and hide. So he confessed, "O God, have mercy on me, a sinner." God accepted him, Jesus tells us in his ...

4561. Where’s the Power?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... we want him to do. If God has all power, then why do things that we consider evil still happen? Even the children are able to grasp this difficulty because they ask, "If God can do anything, why doesn’t he make sin go away?" Things happen that make no sense to us at all and we sign in powerlessness, "Why doesn’t God do something?" There are no easy answers to such questions. We begin to understand why God does things the way he does when we learn what it is that God truly wants for us. What he wants ...

4562. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... his life with me. He said, "It was 72 years ago, in 1881. It was a Monday night after the first Sunday in October. I went to a little church where they were having a revival meeting. I was crushed under a burden of guilt, made hopeless under a sense of doom; I could hardly breathe. In despair, I offered myself to Christ, just as I was. The burden was lifted; my sins were forgiven; my life was transformed. That was 72 years ago. And to this day I have thanked God for forgiveness and for life, everyday." Why ...

4563. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . I recall a preaching mission I conducted in another congregation. Toward the end of the week, the host pastor brought a couple to me after church one evening. They had a very sick child. They wanted me to pray for the child. We did. And I had a sense of answer. Therefore, I was greatly depressed when I returned home to discover that the child had died. I asked myself if I could really depend on that deep feeling that a prayer was being answered. Then I received a letter from the parents of the child. The ...

4564. Faith As Healing Energy

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... For the most part, I find that these threatened people are growing in faith and love. They are an encouragement to me. They care for one another; they are aware of God; and they have hope for life here and life hereafter. In fact, they probably have a sense of wholeness beyond that of their neighbors. One thing I say to them is, "Don’t ask, ‘Why?’ It cannot be fully answered. We do not, yet, see the whole picture. Your real answer is your response in faith to your illness. Wrap each other up with love ...

4565. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... I don’t even know about’ ... I started thinking, ‘What is the limit of the human being and of the mind?’ It just opened up a whole new world." Another: "It seems I’m more in tune with people now." And another, in the same vein: "I can sense the needs in other individuals’ lives ... I have been with people in the elevator ... I can almost read their faces, and tell that they need help, and what kind." And another with new insights: "I don’t feel bad at funerals any more. I kind of rejoice at ...

4566. Saved!

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... of fear in their own homes. In contrast to the perpetrators of these crimes, the young man is a near saint. This gentleman sought ethical values, spiritual formation. He knew there was more to life than that which he had already experienced. He was, in the best sense, a dreamer. Eternal life was his goal. How many moderns have goals at all, much less one so lofty as seen here? What Is Lacking? Has the Gospel of Mark given us an artificial person - a straw man we can knock down? We are almost at the ...

4567. Counting The Cost?

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... retired missionary, living on retirement income. "I was going to buy a new hat. You helped me realize I was selfish. I want to give my ‘hat money’." A retired missionary. James Russell Lowell reminds us: He gives only the worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; And then: For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.2 Selfishness A mark of self-centered people is that they judge others. A member of my church, was very ...

4568. A King - A Kingdom

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... Has brought God’s love to me. I know not how that Joseph’s tomb Could solve death’s mystery; I only know a living Christ, Our immortality.4 Who is this Jesus of Nazareth? We really know so little about the baby born in Bethlehem. Yet, in a sense, we know him better than any other personality who has ever walked this planet. Was there ever a man who had so few of this world’s goods, yet who possessed the whole earth? He had none of the earmarks of the "typical" modern, urbane individual (that outward ...

4569. Twenty-First Century Reformation

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Luther saw the church of his day trying to work its way to heaven. More, Luther himself was trying to do the same. We are still trying to work our way to God, a "works-righteousness" which ends in frustration and sense of hopelessness. Have we not learned from Paul what Luther came to understand, "The righteous live by faith"? (Romans 1:17). We are not saved by our own efforts, goodness, or gifts. Salvation is never earned or deserved. It is given by a gracious God. Yet we ...

4570. The Father Who Wanted His Son To Succeed

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... had predicted. And all the rest - Ithream, Elishama, Japhia, and Eliada - who can name them all? The most that can be said for them is that their names have been included in the list of David’s progeny. So David understands the conscience pangs and sense of guilt when parents see the iniquity of the fathers visited upon the children. His own guilt, pain, and fasting as Bathsheba’s firstborn burned with fever, can attest to that. He would understand the grief that sears the soul in tragedy and death, for ...

4571. The Word To The Wise

Proverbs 2:1-22

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... valley of decision, we look back in anger and regret. Christ the Answer? Bumper-sticker theology affirms that "Christ is the answer." What for? That depends on what the question is, and for most questions that are posed, Christ is not the answer. Common sense may be the answer. Learning gathered from the books of specialists may be the answer. Surgery or medication can often be the answer. The human brain is still the world’s most marvelous computer, subject certainly to error, but built by its Creator ...

4572. The Marriage of Adam and Eve

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... examinations as a preparation. There had been no marriage license application at the office of the Eden County clerk, no waiting period. There had not even been a time of trial to test compatibility, a period of courtship, an opportunity to practice sex, or in any sense to play the game of Romeo and Juliet. This is how it started! They were married in the great cathedral of creation by an act of God’s creating love. And they lived happily ever after!? If we would know, however, how it really started, we ...

4573. Your Undivided Attention, Please

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... the Sadducees and delicately asked the question, "Which commandment is the first of all?" Jesus answered with the unassailable Shema, "The first is this, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord, our God, the Lord is one ...’ " Pure Grace The word in Deuteronomy does not in any sense imply that Israel could earn salvation by obedience. It is simply and directly a call for their undivided attention, to love the Lord and cling to him alone as their response to love that God had shown to them. All the saving acts of God ...

4574. Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... In the early days of John Wesley’s ministry he was racked with doubts and uncertainties. So he went to his old friend and mentor Peter Bohler and laid his soul bare. When I first read Bohler’s response to Wesley in seminary I thought that it made no sense at all, but over the years I have grown to understand the wisdom in it. Bohler told Wesley: “Preach faith till you have it, and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.” In other words, act as though you have already moved passed doubt to ...

4575. The Reality Of The Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... walked into the room where the disciples had gathered and said, “Peace be with you” it startled them. They were frightened. It was a ghost. What else could it be? They were not the kind of men who were easily convinced. These were men of common sense, so they doubted. What else could they do? And this is one of the central reasons why the resurrection is a reality. This is a plain story. Simple. To the point. Realistic. Not contrived to try and prove what happened. Look at some of the other realistic ...

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