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4676. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... of the crucified Jesus, who has become for us the exalted head of the Church. Jennifer Woodruff has penned some poignant words that speak to our exertions in love. They come under the title "With the Drawing of this Love and the Voice of this Calling": Not only what we thought we could afford, Not only what we have the strength to give is asked of us; the grace that makes us live calls for a death, and all we are is poured Onto an altar we did not design and yet which holds us in his perfect will And in ...

4677. A Word to the Wealthy

Mark 10:17-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More. In it he cited a recent survey of people who were asked how much more money they would need for them to be free of worrying about money. It turned out that those with incomes over $100,000 thought they needed far more money than those with incomes under $40,000. The high earners were five times more likely to say they needed at least another $90,000 annual income in order not to worry about money. Does that make sense to you? Shouldn’t a person ...

4678. Playing Golf at Midnight

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... wasn’t able to retrieve it? His cloak may have been the only thing he, a blind beggar, owned. He depended on his cloak in winter to allow him to be out in the street begging. Could it be that Bartimaeus had enough belief in Jesus that he thought that perhaps he would be healed and would no longer need his cloak for begging? Or was he was so enthusiastic about Jesus calling for him that he simply acted without thinking? “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. Bartimaeus said, “Rabbi, I ...

4679. The Reception was Excellent

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... hear God saying aloud to him, ‘Millard, if I could make that crazy bumblebee do that, I could give you a new liver.’ And Millard began to cry. He was still crying when he went back to his house a few minutes later. His wife was alarmed. She thought something was wrong. ‘Oh no, honey,’ Millard said, ‘these aren’t tears of sadness, these are tears of joy. I am so happy to be alive in God’s beautiful world!’” (4) Millard Reed had seen God in a bumblebee doing loop-de-loops. He had seen God ...

4680. Are You in the Right Place?

Matthew 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... the same sign with which you and I will be marked in a few moments, and she now stood among the ashes of uncertainty, fear, death, sorrow, and loss. My guess is that when those ashes were being put on her forehead earlier in the day she never thought she would be standing where she was. Probably none of us would have either. We don’t want to consider that possibility, let alone face that reality. And yet, that’s the truth Ash Wednesday holds before us. Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall ...

4681. The Greatest Sin

Luke 13:6-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... about his responsibility to the world. In 1985, he and Ali spent one month living in Ethiopia near a feeding station. A man walked up to Bono and thrust his baby son into Bono’s arms, saying, “You take my son. He’ll live if you take him.” Bono thought to himself, how deep could a country’s suffering be that a father would give up his son to a stranger if it might save his son’s life? At this point, Bono and Ali realized that they could not go back to the complacency in which they had once ...

4682. Blago and Radnan, Two Lost Sons

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... it impossible to find a decent job. He is reduced to sleeping under a bridge and eating from the trash barrels behind fast food restaurants. One morning while looking for breakfast at the bottom of the dumpster behind Bob’s Beefy Burgers, Randy had an epiphany. “This is pathetic,” he thought to himself. “I am battling rats and cockroaches to find a half-eaten cheeseburger. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I was going to prove that if I had a pocketful of money I could flourish on my own. I ...

4683. From Deep Unto Deep

Luke 22:14--23:56

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... a polite way to say, “God, I don’t want to do this. Judas Iscariot and Simon Peter have been good and loyal friends. I don’t want Judas to betray me. I don’t want Peter to deny he ever knew me. God of heaven and earth, I have thought about this very carefully and all things considered I don’t want to be arrested, beaten, tortured, and hung on a cross to die. Lord, let this cup pass from me.” God did not answer Jesus’ prayer, at least not the way Jesus asked to have it answered. Less than ...

4684. From His Arrest to His Crucifixion and Burial

John 18:1--19:42

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... meeting, Jesus must have said something like, “Fellows, we are going to Jerusalem again. Pack carefully because I cannot promise when or, for that matter, even if you will be coming back.” After that, the apostle Thomas, a man known for doubting and questioning, may have thought to himself, “Oh, I don’t believe that. We will be back. If anyone asks me where we are going, I will tell them, ‘We are going to Jerusalem for the Passover. I expect to have a great time with Jesus and my other friends. I ...

4685. The Value of Doubt

John 20:19-31

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... times this close follower of our Lord has been known as Doubting Thomas. As there were reasons for my uncle to be called Fat, so there were reasons for Thomas to be called Doubting. It had to do with some of the ways that Thomas thought and interacted with others. In some ways, Dr. Sheldon Cooper shares some personality traits with the apostle Thomas. Played by the actor Jim Parsons, Sheldon Cooper is one of the characters on the popular television program The Big Bang Theory. Sheldon is a twenty or ...

4686. The Awesome Power of FUD

John 21:1-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... to rush in and take charge. The image that comes to mind is the crab pot in a fish market. These don’t need lids because any crab trying to escape is always pulled back in by the others. As Michael Corleone puts it in Godfather III, “Just when I thought I was out… they pulled me back in.” That can and does happen. When we least expect it, some person or experience can grab hold with claws of fear, uncertainty, and self-doubt. As people of faith, our challenge is to find a way to live confidently and ...

4687. Living Between the Times

John 17:20-26

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... social is to be forgiving.” The rub, of course, is that coming to terms with our differences and living in unity does not come naturally. It is hard work. Just getting along with folks who are almost like us takes enormous effort. Even the thought of living in unity with those who significantly differ from us can be overwhelming. It might even be argued that there is good reason to resist welcoming differences. Our ancestors learned it was dangerous to trust those outside your own family. They knew from ...

4688. Song of Bethlehem

Illustration

Melva Rorem

I was a shepherd on that star-filled night In Bethlehem. I thought of long ago ... I thought of brave Naomi taking flight From Moab's land, of Ruth who chose to know A stranger's lot—a royal daughter, she. "Entreat me not to leave thee," she had said, "Thy people shall be mine—so let it be." Humbly she gleaned the fields, and there she wed ...

4689. Ounce of Prevention

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... girls, no matter how they seemed to repent of their past, would so often revert to their life of immorality as soon as they regained their health. In the midst of this frustrating job a thought came to Sensei. It would be better to put a fence at the top of the precipice than an ambulance at the foot. And with that thought a vision was born—a vision of a home for unwanted girls—a home warmed by love and bright with God's grace, a home where little girls, once destined for brothels and disease, could ...

4690. Having the Nerve

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... are dogs around and they can't come down to the ground. A lot of ‘em miss, but I've never seen any hurt in trying." Then he chuckled. "I guess they've got to risk it if they don't want to spend their lives in one tree." I thought, A squirrel takes a chance—have I less nerve than a squirrel? We were married in two weeks, scraped up enough money for our passage and sailed across the Atlantic, jumping off into space, not sure what branch we'd land on. I began to write twice as fast and ...

4691. A Solemn yet Joyous Feast

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... very scrupulous about the Eucharist. She was afraid that the priest was careless about distributing Communion and permitted tiny bits of the elements to fall on the floor around the altar rail. After Mass, she would sneak up to the altar and collect what she thought might be parts of the elements in which Jesus was still present. She would pick them up with a little spoon she always carried in her purse and then place them in a little plastic bag. Believing as she did that these scraps contained little ...

4692. Specifications for a Husband

Illustration

Ruth Bell Graham

When Ruth Bell was a teenage girl going off to Korea for schooling from her childhood home in China she fully intended to be a confirmed old maid missionary to Tibet. But she did give the thought of a husband some serious consideration. She wrote the following list of particulars: "If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said, he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of ...

4693. Your Hidden Potential

Illustration

Ted Engstrom

... majesty on the powerful wind currents, it soared with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. "What a beautiful bird!" said the changeling eagle to his neighbor. "What is it?" "That's an eagle—the chief of the birds," the neighbor clucked. "But don't give it a second thought. You could never be like him." So the changeling eagle never gave it another ...

4694. Mother's Hard Task to Love

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet, expresses well the hard task of a mother to love completely and deeply and yet always with the task of letting go. "You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the books ...

4695. Missed Opportunities

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... . The friend, Walter, stopped the car, got out, and started to describe with great vividness the wonderful things he was going to build. He wanted his friend Arthur to buy some of the land surrounding his project to get in on the ground floor. But Arthur thought to himself, Who in the world is going to drive twenty-five miles for this crazy project? The logistics of the venture are staggering. And so Walter explained to his friend Arthur, "I can handle the main project myself. But it will take all my money ...

4696. Perspectives—A Puzzler

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... how glad she was that the young lieutenant got up the courage to kiss her, but she was somewhat disappointed at her grandmother for slapping him for doing it; the general thought to himself how proud he was of his young lieutenant for being enterprising enough to find this opportunity to kiss the attractive young lady but was flabbergasted that she slapped him instead of the lieutenant; the grandmother was flabbergasted to think that the young lieutenant would have the gall to ...

4697. Luther on the Priority of Prayer

Illustration

Martin Luther

It is well to let prayer be the first employment in the early morning and the last in the evening. Avoid diligently those false and deceptive thoughts which say, "I will pray an hour hence; I must first perform this or that." For with such thoughts a man quits prayer for business, which lays hold of and entangles him so that he comes not to pray the whole day long.

4698. Real Consolation

Illustration

Charles Krieg

... went on to describe the funerals of several of them. After thirty minutes of this, the woman who had lost the dog tried to get the caller back on the subject. She asked, "But what about my dog?" The other woman replied, "Oh, I don't have him, but I thought you might be feeling badly about losing it, so I ...

4699. Does Your Gift Represent You?

1 Cor 16:2

Illustration

John Allan Lavender

... great and worthy cause, that a certain woman, a member of the church, came to him and handed him a check for $50, asking at the same time if her gift was satisfactory. The pastor immediately replied, "If it represents you." There was a moment of soul-searching thought and she asked to have the check returned to her. She left with it and a day or two later she returned handing the pastor a check for $5,000 and again asked the same question, "Is my gift satisfactory?" The pastor gave the same answer as before ...

4700. Power of the Written Word

Mt 4:4

Illustration

Brett Blair

If you ever visit the castle of Elsinore of Denmark, the guide will remind you that around A.D. 1200, the king of Pomerania built Elsinore Castle and also another fortified castle across the Skagerrak Channel in what is now Sweden. He thought that with these two bastions, one on each side of the channel, he could control entrance to the heart of Europe. The castle at Elsinore still stands, the one in Sweden is gone, and the Pomeranian king's name is forgotten—at least by me. But on the day of ...

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4676. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

4677. A Word to the Wealthy

Mark 10:17-30

Sermon

King Duncan

4678. Playing Golf at Midnight

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

4679. The Reception was Excellent

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

4680. Are You in the Right Place?

Matthew 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

4681. The Greatest Sin

Luke 13:6-9

Sermon

King Duncan

4682. Blago and Radnan, Two Lost Sons

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

4683. From Deep Unto Deep

Luke 22:14--23:56

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

4684. From His Arrest to His Crucifixion and Burial

John 18:1--19:42

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

4685. The Value of Doubt

John 20:19-31

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

4686. The Awesome Power of FUD

John 21:1-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

4687. Living Between the Times

John 17:20-26

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

4688. Song of Bethlehem

Illustration

Melva Rorem

4689. Ounce of Prevention

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4690. Having the Nerve

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4691. A Solemn yet Joyous Feast

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

King Duncan

4692. Specifications for a Husband

Illustration

Ruth Bell Graham

4693. Your Hidden Potential

Illustration

Ted Engstrom

4694. Mother's Hard Task to Love

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4695. Missed Opportunities

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4696. Perspectives—A Puzzler

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4697. Luther on the Priority of Prayer

Illustration

Martin Luther

4698. Real Consolation

Illustration

Charles Krieg

4699. Does Your Gift Represent You?

1 Cor 16:2

Illustration

John Allan Lavender

4700. Power of the Written Word

Mt 4:4

Illustration

Brett Blair

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