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4626. Love And Resurrection

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... to us, "I LOVE YOU!" The cross was a slap in God's face by humanity. It was the utter rejection of him by those who thought they knew more than he. But the resurrection was God turning the other cheek. It was his way of saying, "I don't care what you do to me. I still love you absolutely." Love will not tolerate the limits imposed upon it by a scourge and a crown of thorns. Love will not tolerate the limts of a cold, dark tomb. God loves all peoples even when people might try to ignore him ...

4627. Let Me Explain: A Sermon By Judas Iscariot

Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... leader. We thought for a while that John the Baptist might join us, but he did not. Then we heard about a man named Jesus. He was from Nazareth, and the people told of his mighty works and of his love. I sought out this Jesus and listened carefully to what he had to say. How the hope inside of me burned brightly when he spoke. His words were like arrows which pierced through to the heart of any situation. I just knew that he could be our leader in overthrowing Rome. Then an incredible thing happened. Jesus ...

4628. God's Most Unmistakable Message

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... of his words. The crowd in Jesus' day was the one that wanted him dead. It wanted blood. Their killer instincts were aroused, instincts like a pack of hunting dogs on the trail of game. "Crucify him, crucify him!" They did not care about justice. Their apathy drove the spikes while neglect held him down. The seventh and final group was the soldiers. They squelched their individual consciences simply to do as robots and perform as programmed. Some government officials break the law, and defend themselves ...

4629. Leveling the Landscape

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... kingdom there will be no end. The image is the engineering and construction of a highway. This highway doesn't go over mountains until they are leveled, and what comes off the mountain's top is used to build up the valley. Once you have the big obstacles taken care of, the next job is to make the road straight enough to be useful. Now you've got a fairly level straight road, but it's bumpy. The final task is to smooth the rough places. That's the sequence. When you're through, the road is level, straight ...

4630. What To Do With A Self-willed Child

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... that so many of them seem curious about practically nothing. Their attention span is as long as a television commercial. They respond to most questions about anything more serious than their latest hair style, "I don't know." And when they are honest add, "and I don't care." A recent survey suggests that number one on the agenda of most young people these days is having a good time. The problem is not with young people for whom having a good time is high on the list, but with young people for whom that is ...

4631. Mary Ponders

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... Mary pondered. Her pondering must have been like the inner conversations of every new mother. Would her child be healthy? Would he grow to be strong? Would he be safe from the terrible plagues which took so many children in those days? Could she care for him, provide enough nourishment from her body, keep him safe? We should not be surprised if Mary had experienced the post-birth depression other mothers feel. After all, she was alone in a strange city, without her own mother, without the familiar things ...

4632. Bowing Before The Mystery

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... we have made it our god, has poised us on the brink of a cliff over which the human race could fall taking everything with it and all by the push of a button. Nor have we learned the essential lessons of life: how to live at peace, how to care for the masses whose lives consist of hunger and misery, how to keep our marriages alive, how to love our enemies. Life has been reduced to charts and megabytes and things which interface. We are the products of input and output and reams of paper which spew from our ...

4633. Plain Talk

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... , why do we take up offerings to alleviate hunger? If the poor are blessed, wouldn't our Christian duty lie in taking away from them what they have now, so they can be even poorer and therefore more blessed? That interpretation means we have not read carefully. Jesus didn't hold that poverty was blessed; only the poor. In Luke's account it was the poor, the left out, the ratted on and spat upon who were God's favorites. As liberation theologians put it, "God has a preferential option for the poor." Look ...

4634. A Mother's Love -- A Godly Passion

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... to ponder that image for a bit. Have you ever spent any time watching geese and ducks? On vacation, I get to do that every morning. This past summer, there was a young mother mallard who had her brood. And it was interesting to watch how she took care of all seven of them. When anyone approached the lake, she became immediately aware and would gather her little brood together and hustle them along to hide in the reeds and brush that surrounded the edge of the lake. Once, someone went really close to get a ...

4635. A Parade That Gets Ugly

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... " -- to be mocked, to be scorned, to die. That scene is replayed over and over and over again -- rejection, disappointment, crucifixion. Listen! It's happening again! Another rejection of God -- this time the hammer is called "apathy." "God? Jesus? So what? Who cares?" "What difference does it all make?" "Life is a __________ and then you die." "Religion is just a crutch for the weak." "Crucify him!" Pound -- nail into flesh. But there is more. What about our rationalization, our excuses? "This Jesus is too ...

4636. The Peace That Invades

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... days to live, to be sure. Bombs rained daily on homes and lives. This family of four, I had read about, had made very detailed plans of what they would do in case of an alert. The father would take the small son; the mother would take care of the infant daughter, and they would head for the nearest bomb shelter. One night, during the great confusion of such an alert, the family became separated. When the all clear was given, the father and son searched frantically for the mother and daughter. They returned ...

4637. Fire Wood

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

John G. Lynn

... to cool down in boredom. So Jesus came along. "Come, follow me," he said. "Come, let the Word of God heat you up, for you are beginning to cool down." Not long afterwards Peter returned with Jesus to his mother-in-law's house for dinner. She didn't care much for this Nazarene Rabbi. Feeling chilled, she put out the fire on her hearth and went to bed. Jesus came in and touched her -- the word in Greek means he lit her flame -- and rekindled her heart. Suddenly she was not so hostile to him any more. God ...

4638. The Gifts Are Unrelated

Ephesians 2:1-10

Illustration

Paul Lintern

... rainbow colored top hat, she wrote, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds." She greatly enjoyed this project, because she pictured in advance each person to whom she would give that figurine. The zebra was for the nurse who cared for her aunt, the lion for the old man who lives alone in the house behind her, the turtle for the little boy at church who broke his leg. As she delivered them she enjoyed the responses of others and her own joy within. One day, soon ...

4639. An Idea Wearing Bid Overalls

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

James E. Sargent

... say them. Finally the moment came. She told him how much she appreciated all that he had done. She went on to say that she had been wanting to tell him something for quite a while now, but that she'd been afraid to. "You know," she said, "that your care and concern have touched me deeply." She paused, and then continued. "This must be what it feels like to be loved. I have known other men who say they love me. But you are the only one who has acted like this." She paused again. After a deep breath she ...

4640. Before The Sun Sets

Ephesians 4:1-16

Illustration

Staff

... , she wanted to know, did he insist on stating his opinion publicly? Why couldn't he simply remain quiet instead of having to always speak? She had been brought up in a home where she had been taught to keep opinions to one's self. People didn't care what you thought. That's what she'd been taught by her parents. For all of her life she had followed their instruction. She couldn't remember a time when she had stated an opinion publicly. Granted, in their own home she would express herself but not in public ...

4641. Persisting In Integrity

Job 1:1-5

Illustration

... secretarial staff, the president himself and Ray. She even had time to visit her parents and sail weekly with the team. She felt her top teeth sink mercilessly into her lower lip and pinch the lip cruelly against her lower teeth. "Oh! That hurts! Be careful or I'll be bleeding!" Her eye mechanically surveyed her office: diploma discreetly framed on the opposite wall, favorite photos of the boat and team to the right, her beautiful desk with its neat files, and the large window to the left overlooking the ...

4642. Making Our Feelings Known

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... and his family. What makes this so difficult for Job is that it does not fit his understanding of God. The problem for Job in all of this is that it has happened as though there was no God, and if there was a God, God did not care one whit for justice. This is Job's problem. But this is also our problem. Richard Rubenstein, the outstanding Jewish theologian, said, "God died at Auschwitz." For many God seemed to die in the midst of their personal tragedy and suffering. So much suffering appears senseless ...

4643. Confession

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... point Job has only known about God by what he had heard from others. His faith was secondhand. Job listened to his friends and his knowledge of God came from them. His friends presented God as a mere object, when in reality God is a living, caring, personal, loving God. When Job declared, "But now my eye sees you," his own personal awareness of God frees him from the narrow, provincial God of his friends. His personal experience of God has liberated him from the confining understanding of God that had so ...

4644. What's So Great About Jesus?

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... concerned for all the people of the earth. God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as well as the God of Sarah, Leah, and Rachel. Not only did Jesus provide us a new concept of a loving God, but also he showed us a God who loves and cares for all. In this liturgical year we have discovered many encounters that Jesus had, but none is more interesting than his encounter with Philip. It takes place in John 14 where Philip says to Jesus, "Lord, show us the Father." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you ...

4645. With All The Saints

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... is a remarkable passage for All Saints' Sunday. It begins with an outburst of praise for what God has done and for what God will do. An unidentified city -- strong, oppressive and hostile -- will be destroyed and never rebuilt. Amid the destruction God protects and cares for the poor and the needy. Once this evil city and its ruthless inhabitants have been destroyed and vanish, another city will rise on Mount Zion where God will invite all people to a magnificent feast. God will wipe away all tears, he will ...

4646. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... to chat as they pass on the street, but neither really hears what the other says about himself nor is either moved to any kind of meaningful response to the other. We hurry through our "Hello, how are you?" "I'm not too well." "Take care of yourself" conversations and move on. Like two ships passing in the night, we are prisoners in our own self-imposed solitary confinement. The great people of God, though, always had their friendships. Elijah had his Elisha, Paul his Silas, David his Jonathan, and Adam ...

4647. How To Treat Your Enemies

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... the end of his resources. And as the future king who has dealt honestly in the land, he sends his servants to the rich man Nabal asking for some supplies. He's not asking for what Nabal cannot give. He's only asking for what he desperately needs. Be careful to note here that David has been completely honest with Nabal. He's even helped the man out by guarding his territory. So, now David is only asking Nabal to respond in kind, to do right by him. It's rather like an American tourist in Paris, France, today ...

4648. You Can Create A Godly Heritage!

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... of prosperous flocks! Actually, Exodus 20:6 says your faithfulness can bless literally "thousands." Take Abraham as an example. A simple desert shepherd was told by God, "Look toward the stars. So shall your descendants be" (Genesis 12). And so it is that we ourselves should be careful how we live. For we, too, are creating a legacy that will affect the lives of hundreds of people as yet unborn. A Bad Example With this in mind, let's take a moment and look at some examples of bad heritages. The book of Ruth ...

4649. How Good News Spreads!

1 Kings 8:22-61

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... so by sending two beloved men -- active, proven, and mature. In the past, the modern church has sometimes been slack in sending missionaries. And when we do get around to doing so, we all too frequently send under-trained, immature misfits. More than I care to remember, I have seen untested men, unuseful here, discontented with job, see the mission field as an answer to boredom, a chance to flee their problems, to live the great adventure. And with self-will they head for the third world! And, sadly, their ...

4650. Godly Sexual Passion For An X-Rated World

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... Genesis to Nehemiah. Second is wisdom literature, which is found in the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon. Then there is prophecy, which encompasses Isaiah to Malachi. Solomon's song is found in the wisdom literature section. Notice carefully the order in which it is included. There are the Psalms -- 150 Jewish worship songs about our longing to know God. There follows Proverbs -- 31 chapters on the human struggle to live usefully among people. Then comes Ecclesiastes -- the most ...

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