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4576. Doubters All, Part IV

John 17:20-26

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... FEMALE PROFESSORS WALKING FROM A CLASS) GERRIE: (CARRYING BOOKS AND A BIBLE) I can hardly wait for the Bible study. I want to get there early. TOMMIE: (CARRYING BOOKS AND A RECENT NEWSPAPER) We can get there early if you don't mind eating leftovers. GERRIE: I don't care what I eat. TOMMIE: Spaghetti? GERRIE: I just want to get there early so I can ask Bob some questions. TOMMIE: I like Bob's teaching. He can probably answer your questions. GERRIE: I just want to learn all I can about the Bible so I can know ...

4577. The Rich Fool

Luke 12:13-21

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... understand. He'll allow me some more time to get my affairs in order. SOUL: Man, your act is together. You are the most together Man I know. You got lots of barns and lots of fruits to put in 'em. It's just your Soul you ain't takin' care of. MAN: I'll do that now. Henceforth, I will be different. SOUL: You be changed, all right. That ain't no lie, but it ain't gonna be like you think. MAN: I can't kick it with God? SOUL: It's too late for that. MAN: What will ...

4578. Sketch Practice

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... let's get serious. Let's try it again. Now, put your heart \ninto it. I want to see joy! (BEN DRAWS DIRECTOR TO SIDE, \nWHISPERING IN HIS EAR) \nLISA: Okay, what is going on? Will, is he talking about my \nface? \nDIRECTOR: No, no. (TO BEN) I'll take care of it. Let's do it \nagain. And can we get it right this time? (BEN INDICATES TO \nDIRECTOR THAT HE SHOULD REMEMBER THE THING HE HAD TOLD HIM) Oh, \nyes. Lisa, I've got an idea. Why not try it this time without \nall the gunk ... \nLISA: Gunk! \nDIRECTOR ...

4579. Take Up Your Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... trying to amass wealth has to leave it behind. The person who lives frantically, trying to get all of the pleasures out of life, may finally discover that he dies from just plain dissipation. The person who is the most diligent about health care must also finally surrender even after the most exotic surgery and most sophisticated electronic medicine have done their parts. However, the person who comes to understand that life is something other than all of what we can do with our physical existence discovers ...

4580. The Spice of Death

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... that we might wring the fullest meaning we can from that awe-filled scene where heaven and hell, judgment and salvation, God and man meet. What cannot be overlooked is the manner in which our Lord was buried. We do take note with considerable concern and care the manner in which friends and dear ones are buried. It is rather striking that, with the wave of criticism that was aimed at the practices of the undertaking profession a number of years ago, people continue to spend as much as they ever have for ...

4581. Anybody Listening?

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

William G. Carter

... ." Before he could restrain himself, the long-suffering minister blurted out, "I know, George. But at least you're getting a weekly manicure." Is anybody listening? That's the question that haunts every preacher. Sometimes we preachers stand up in the pulpit, offer the fruits of careful study and thought, and wonder if anything is getting through. Other times we feel like the apostle Peter in the third chapter of Acts, who said, "I have no silver or gold, but what I have I give you" (Acts 3:6). On the rare ...

4582. The Advocate

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ?" "Not so well," I replied. "I have just written a long letter to a church member telling him that he is morally wrong in something he is doing. Here, read it and tell me honestly what you think. I think I am absolutely right about this matter." Slowly, carefully, Duane read the letter. Wisely, he said, "I have learned over the years that it is not wise to put negative things in print. It is better to say these things to people in person and give them a chance to respond. If you mail this letter, even ...

4583. The Rebirth

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... family. They had prayed for a big family. It would be very hard to have four little babies around, but finally after prayer, they agreed. After the second adoption, the woman got pregnant. Guess what she had. No, not twins. Triplets! Seven children under two years old! Be careful when you pray. Often you get more than you expect or bargain for. The young couple raised their seven little ones to the glory of God, but at first it seemed like a job that was too big to handle. Going to the world is a job which ...

4584. Cheers For The Healed

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God" (Acts 3:7-8). Let's hear it for the walking, leaping, praising healed lame man. It is, perhaps, a smaller miracle when we manage to bridle our tongues, when we push aside self-centeredness and "care for orphans and widows in their distress," when we remember who we are, whose we are, and "keep ourselves unstained by the world" (James 1:27). Let's hear it for us, hearers, proclaimers, beholders, doers! The crowd said about Jesus, "He has done everything ...

4585. Love And Money

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

William G. Carter

... disbelief, and argue over which of them is the greatest. Finally, here's an honest seeker who wants to know what it takes. What must he do? His conversation with Jesus discusses the ethical demands of the law: don't murder, don't lie, don't steal, and take care of your parents. Do these things and live. The anonymous man said, "I've kept all of those things." He had become a successful seeker. So the story becomes a love story. Mark says Jesus "loved" this man. In the Gospel of Mark, there's no other place ...

4586. Can You See Where We're Going

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Jesus to the cross. There's a woman who received eyes to see. A few years ago, with the help of Presbyterian mission money, she helped to establish a halfway house for women who are recovering drug addicts. She schedules twelve-step groups, arranges for child care, and generally tries to get the women back on their feet. In a lot of ways, you would never expect her to be involved with such work. She is even-tempered, gentle, and articulate. But something happened a few years ago that caused her to see ...

4587. It Is Blessed To Receive

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

William G. Carter

... her. You praise my self-sacrifice, Spoon River, In rearing Irene and Mary, Orphans of my older sister! And you censure Irene and Mary For their contempt for me! But praise not my self-sacrifice, And censure not their contempt; I reared them, I cared for them, true enough! -- But I poisoned my benefactions With constant reminders of their dependence. All through their lives, under the guise of generosity, Constance said, "Girls, I took you in when your mother died, and I never want you to forget it." As ...

4588. It's OK To Stir Up God

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Richard Patt

... out of the Second World War, when many a soldier had to take refuge from bombs and bullets by lying in trenches called foxholes. With explosions taking place all around, a soldier, it was surmised, learned quickly how to pray, how to plead for safety and God's care while enemy fire was blazing overhead. Who wouldn't pray when the troubles and disasters of life are inundating us? But far better it is to be living in a spirit of prayer at every time of life. That's what Jesus is trying to teach the disciples ...

4589. The Crux Of Being A Christian

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

... in; he always presses us toward maintaining our own selfish stance. "Rights rather than relationships" is the devil's theme. Environmentally and socially speaking, our world stands at the precipice of destruction because some people stubbornly insist upon their rights, not caring what is destroyed in the process. In contrast, the mind of Philemon is to suppress, painfully, if need be, any rightful behavior and to surprise others with the hand of fellowship. But again, don't always expect others to encourage ...

4590. God's Passionate Concern

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

4591. Nobody Owes You Anything

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Richard Patt

... of them. If there were any club dues to pay, they considered themselves paid up. Like the Pharisee in another parable that Jesus told, these Wunderkinder of the religious world wouldn't grovel like the publican and pray, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." They took care of their sins by themselves; they had a clean slate. There was no other payment needed. Nothing to do now but stand before God and accept the keys to heaven which God owed them. As you can see, this parable becomes a way of proclaiming the ...

4592. People With Power To Forgive

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... his head! Nevertheless, it is a charming story, a powerful story. It is a story of the faith and determination of four friends to try their best to get their friend to Jesus for healing. Where do you find friends like that today who care enough to put themselves out and to suffer embarrassment and inconvenience for the sake of someone else? It is also a story which goes to a central problem of human existence -- the problem of forgiveness. Is forgiveness possible? Are healing and forgiveness inter-related ...

4593. How to Rise above Discouragement

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... like his mother, were regarded as vulnerable, weak and without much opportunity for economic support. Nonetheless, a great crowd followed the procession, indicating sympathy and support at least for the time being. That's drama enough -- a large crowd of caring people -- but now there is more. Jesus approaches, apparently coming from Capernaum where he just healed the Roman Centurion's slave. He saw the widowed, desolate mother, had compassion for her, thinking perhaps of his own mother reputedly widowed at ...

4594. Dinner Parties With A Difference

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... forgiveness. Simon, on the other hand, was really in the exploitative frame of mind. He had Jesus over to dinner more or less to test his credentials to see if he might "fit in" or if he might possibly be used for the Pharisees' cause. He cared little for Jesus as a person, except as he might enhance or threaten the Pharisees' position. No real community took place between Jesus and Simon. Simon wasn't open. His was the old narcissism, closed off from one another and disinterested. The joy of true community ...

4595. The Perisitent Noise Of Solemn Assemblies

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... -class Protestant deacon in the gutter, he stopped his car, administered first-aid, called the ambulance and the police, followed them to the hospital, where the blue-collar, Independent, Polish factory worker paid for the black, middle-class deacon's room and care in advance. Now, who was the neighbor and who was being neighborly? By this famous story, Jesus made an inclusive critique of the religion of his time. Like ours, the religion of his time had affirmed regularly that the two greatest commandments ...

4596. Prepare The Way

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... gender, a different class, or a different sexual orientation? To prepare the way means to do so in our own circles, neighborhoods, and parishes. It means the powerful majority must be ready to minister to the minority. It means to be inclusive and caring. It means being open to new perspectives and being willing to change things. It means individual sacrifices for the sake of the common good. It means refusing to balance the budget on the backs of the poor. The liberation theologians of Latin America ...

4597. The Advent Of Our Lord

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... (v. 19a). He is not only a powerful king, but also a devoted one. "... he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing ..." (v. 17b). This is a king who is tender and caring, taking away judgment and reproach, saving the outcasts, turning their shame into praise and renown (vv. 18-19). The end of this restoration is a glorious homecoming. The people will be gathered from afar and brought to Jerusalem. There, their fortunes will be restored and ...

4598. A Tale Of Two Cities

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... 's people from their exile. God "shall give them (the exiles) up until the time when she who is in labor has brought forth; then the rest of his kindred shall return to the people of Israel" (v. 3). Once home again, the people will be under the care of the shepherd king. The shepherd is an ancient oriental image for the role of the king. In an absolute monarchy, the people were dependent on the king just as sheep are dependent on the shepherd. Just as the shepherd must feed, lead, and protect the flock, so ...

4599. A Tree Well Watered

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep (Luke 6:24-25). Woe to you who are rich, who are full, who laugh and are carefree because all your needs are taken care of. Woe to you who are spoken well of and have it made. Suddenly we see ourselves, for we are the privileged, the wealthy, the ones in control. Woe to you, because you already have your consolation. That's it, folks. If you believe that it doesn't get any ...

4600. Made New By Interior Design

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... by persons who dump us in the midst of our mistakes, but by the ones who stand by us in our stupidity until the light of new sanity dawns upon us. Those who do this in our lives are gifts from God. The love of God is the kind that cares for us just as we are and not as we ought to be. In time, we become the way we are treated, not the way we deserve to be treated. This is God's finest gift. So, "watch -- for your anxiety is God's opportunity." During the Civil War, Mary ...

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