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4601. Yours For The Asking

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... miles away. How did you get there?" He said he walked. "Why did you go to this trouble?" she shyly asked. He said, "The trouble is part of the gift." And so is our willingness to go through the effort, chaos, and pain to say to others that we care. God has constantly created good out of chaos and we pray that God will do the same with the healthy and unhealthy chaos we bring to this season. And finally, III. Ask for more. Yes, you heard me correctly: ask for more. In my family they always knew Christmas ...

4602. Living By The Calendar Instead Of The Clock (New Year's)

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... set the best example for our lives when he went away often to be alone and contemplate on that which was most important? When I was in seminary in the late 1960s, a question was posed to us: Because we are entering the computer age that will take care of the problems we normally spend time with, what will we, as clergy, do to help the people in our congregation with their leisure time? Can you believe that? How can we miss future predictions by that wide a margin? Instead, we know that with every problem we ...

4603. Echoes

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... a Birmingham Jail." This letter, written on toilet paper by a man who did not have reference books, was a profound answer to a group of persons who had written him telling him that he should remain quiet and let the courts, not his voice and demonstrations of nonviolence, take care of changes in America. Dr. King told them why he could not wait and why we must not wait. I read that letter long ago, but did not hear it until I was in the midst of people of many colors torn by the reality of racism's looming ...

4604. Flatliners

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... a daily basis oftentimes we don't have a reason to laugh. When we laugh it is because we know the last word will be restoration. "Woe to you with a good reputation." Big deal. The false prophets had a good reputation. Is that really what you want? Be very careful, because even after these edicts are given by Jesus, He's still in a flatliner mode. He flattens us all out. He takes us all on the level. He puts every category on an even keel. Please hear this or you will miss the gospel message here. I have ...

4605. Love Your Enemies--It Will Drive Them Crazy

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... person in southern California who gave me a gift at Christmastime -- a very interesting book. It is called A Ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in History. It is intriguing because of the criteria stated in it. The criteria, and you have to be careful, is that they must be persons who have influenced the daily lives of people and also people in the world right now. Jesus came in third. Some in the Christian community were upset. Jesus came in third and a rather distant third at that. Now remember ...

4606. Tiny Town: Promised Power

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Tony Everett

... of broken dreams and sad times. The mournful lyrics are often cries of hopelessness, helplessness, and insignificance in the overall scheme of things. Perhaps you are familiar with titles like these: "Every Time I Make My Mark, Somebody Paints The Wall"; "Here's A Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares"; "I'm Standing In The Middle Of The River And Dying Of Thirst"; "Why Don't Your Dog Bite Nobody But Me?"; "There's A Light At The End Of The Tunnel; Lord, I Hope It Ain't No Train." God tells us in today's text ...

4607. Reach For The Light

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Tony Everett

... it. Prayer enables us to place one foot in front of the other in the long and difficult journey through unknown darkness. Reach for the true Light in prayer. Lift up your eyes to see the guiding light of Christ along your life journey. Pay careful attention to what our text says happens when we journey in this light. Using vivid imagery here, Isaiah states that nations surrounding Jerusalem will see what the Lord has done and come to pay tribute and join in the celebration. "And nations will come to ...

4608. Named And Claimed

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Tony Everett

... of taunting and rejection. Many of us still allow the shame of being among the last chosen to shape our present identities and behaviors. "Why bother trying? I can't do that anyway"; or, "If I do that, everyone will laugh"; or, "Nobody likes me, so why should I care about them?" or, "I'm not going to get close to anybody; I will just be rejected anyway." We have all heard phrases like this echoing deep within our psyches. You know, it's just this kind of self-protection that often keeps us on the fringes of ...

4609. They Didn't Have To Do It, But They Did

Genesis 14:1-24

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... way, but he didn't. His compassion and concern moved him to action. So he trained 318 men who pursued their enemies until they were captured at Hobah. There they found the frightened women, seized the goods that were stolen, and gave them safe passage home. Abram cared about his people. He did the good deed because he had empathy for those in difficulty. One man, who was rescued by another man from his burning car, said, "Thank you for going out of your way to help me." "That is my way," said the rescuer ...

4610. What Money Can't Buy

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... we cannot put a price on it. The prophet Elisha was well aware that what he had and shared with Naaman could not be sold for a price, could not be bought at a price. It is something deep within the human soul and spirit which delights and rejoices in caring and sharing and helping others. It cannot be purchased at any cost. This special something which runs from heart to heart and soul to soul is the love that God has for us and our love of others, which makes the difference in this life. We can all be ...

4611. God's Going To Bring His Children Home

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

James McLemore

... nation of Israel from its inception. God remembered when he conceived it through Abraham in Ur of the Chaldees. God remembered when he brought it forth like a newborn babe, in Goshen, when Moses took Israel out of Egypt. God nourished Israel at the Red Sea, and cared for it at the river of Jordan. God taught this nation to walk under Moses, and taught it to run and leap for joy under David. And now this people, this nation that God had conceived and brought forth was acting childishly, and turning its back ...

4612. How To Find Water When Your Well Runs Dry!

Jeremiah 2:1-3:5

Sermon

James McLemore

... are wells that cannot hold water. We have created our own cisterns. We believed that money was all we needed, but when the money ran out, we found out that was a broken cistern, which cannot hold water. We believed that the government would take care of us, but when government betrayed us, we found out that sometimes government is a broken cistern, which cannot hold water. We believed in friends, and friends betrayed us; we believed in family, and family deserted us; we believed in ourselves, but we could ...

4613. Is This The Season To Seek Salvation

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

James McLemore

... his family. The young man was 25, raising a good family. The woman was a good wife for a good husband. He had no faults, except that he worked all the time. He was trying to excel in his job so that he could build up his home and take care of his family. He never had time for church. He believed in God, but he also believed that he would have time for God after a while -- after he got his promotions, after he built his new home, after his family was settled. But one day before he got his ...

4614. Many Parts, but of One Body

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Illustration

John R. Steward

... the food. As the man looked more closely, he saw a very large spoon that was five feet long that the people were fighting over for possession. In his dream, he watched with amazement how one person used the spoon to dish up some food and then carefully turned the spoon around toward his mouth with all the food falling off the spoon and onto the floor. Then another person grabbed the spoon but was unable to feed himself because of the length of the spoon. Then the man turned to his guide and said: "This ...

4615. Acting Bulletproof

Luke 13:1-9

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John R. Steward

... of this philandering activity, Tommy became HIV-positive. Tommy Morrison described himself and many others when he tried to explain how this could happen. Yes, he gave the normal reflection that he never thought that this could ever happen to him. No, he was not careful but instead very reckless. Perhaps he stated the situation best when he said, "I thought that I was bulletproof." Wasn't that the problem that Jesus saw in the many arrogant religious leaders of his day? Isn't that our problem when we try to ...

4616. Love One Another - the Hospice Movement

John 13:31-38

Illustration

John R. Steward

... of the credit is given to the way the facility is run. The basic philosophy is different from most other hospitals. In this program the patients are expected to give themselves away in service to the other patients. Each patient is given another patient for whom to care. So, for example, a person who is unable to walk might be given the task of reading to another who is blind. The blind person would then push the wheelchair of the one who could not walk but who gives directions on where to push the chair ...

4617. The Fourth Wise Man

Luke 6:27-36

Illustration

John R. Steward

... gift for the Savior. His gift was that of precious jewels to give to Jesus. On his way to Bethlehem he found a man who had been beaten and robbed by thieves and left to die. The wise man took the injured man to an inn and paid for his care with one of the jewels that had been meant for Jesus. When he finally arrived in Bethlehem, Mary and Joseph had fled to Egypt with Jesus. He found that Herod and his soldiers were killing children and that Mary and Joseph had escaped with Jesus. The wise man saw a ...

4618. Giving Meaningful Thanks

Luke 17:11-19

Illustration

John R. Steward

... that during the program all they could sing about was "Tom Turkey." You would have thought that it was a poultry holiday. Not only is it difficult for us to give thanks, but it seems that we can not graciously receive thanks. If we listen carefully to various conversations we will notice that sometimes someone will say, "Thank you," only to have the other person say, "No, thank you." Obviously, giving thanks has become a meaningless exercise for many people. We have reduced it to the level of telling one ...

4619. A Python in the Hut

2 Thessalonians 2:1-17; 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Illustration

John R. Steward

... one important problem. He only had one bullet left in the gun. He could not afford to miss. All of his skill would be required in order to rid his hut of this deadly creature. If he missed, there was no telling what would happen next. He took careful aim and pulled the trigger. He shot the python in the head. The python, which would soon die, was at this point only wounded in the head. It still had some life and some fight within itself. The python began to throw itself violently about. The missionary left ...

4620. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... of the innocent children at Herod's orders in his attempt to eliminate a potential rival to his throne. A less evident underlying theme of sorrow is the injustice existing in the world when babies have to be born in the absence of adequate shelter and care. It is not only Jesus who was born in such circumstances, but multitudes of others even now in our world. If the precious gift of life with all its potential is to be realized, such children need to survive despite such difficulties. The tragedy is that ...

4621. Lent 3

Luke 13:1-9, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Psalm 63:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... principles of the government are not so much based on justice and righteousness as they are on wealth and power. If we believe that God demands mercy, justice, and righteousness, can a people, a society, a civilization long endure when it no longer seeks to care for the most destitute of its members, for the alien in its midst, for truth and justice in the courts? 3. Is the Universe Mechanistic? The Deists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries assumed that the world ran on mechanistic laws. God was a ...

4622. Proper 12

Psalm 85:1-13, Colossians 2:6-23, Hosea 1:1-2:1, Luke 11:1-13

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... , suffering, and death. 2. Praying for Wants or Needs? Prayer is not so much intended to bring wants to the attention of an unknowing and uncaring God. What prayer does is to discover our real needs. If we believe that God is present to each person and cares about each person, then prayer is to help us know our true needs as we communicate with the mind of God. People too easily assume that what they want will work for their welfare. Too often if people get what they want, they get unexpected consequences ...

4623. Prepared Servants

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... role of the servant. One of the major themes of Jesus' ministry was that his lordship was characterized by servanthood. This image is of a different kind of master than the normal one. 8. "At What Hour the Thief was Coming." (v. 39) One perhaps needs to be careful with this image. The in-breaking of the kingdom into the present age is not hostile, as a thief would be. It is only the unexpected moment that the new age of the kingdom enters into the present age that is intended. God's activity in special ways ...

4624. Weather Signs

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... and expected it to produce fruit. Instead it produced wild grapes. Now the Lord will remove the protective walls that allowed it to prosper. The image is applied to Israel and Judah. Where the Lord had expected justice as the response to the care devoted to them, they disappointed the Lord with bloodshed. The Second Lesson. (Hebrews 11:29--12:2) The reading recounts the Old Testament experience of deliverance and faithfulness by various heroes. Yet they did not realize fully their hopes. Now in Jesus Christ ...

4625. Proper 22

Luke 17:1-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Lamentations 1:1-22, Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... persons. Jesus calls his followers to take upon themselves the duties of the slave or servant toward God and toward others. Where everyone does that, slavery or servanthood is not oppressive. It is liberating if all persons in a society work in a mutual obligation to care for another's welfare as much as for their own. CONTEXT Context of Luke 17 Luke 17 seems to be a chapter where the author had a number of authentic sayings of Jesus that did not fit naturally anywhere else in his narrative. The chapter ...

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