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451. Prayers For the President

1 Timothy 2:1-7

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... we all know, our nation has been so bitterly divided along partisan lines that not a lot of conversation has been occurring. About all we are seeing is a mud bath and slime spray. That our leaders actually sit down and talk to one another, in my estimation, is an urgent prayer. Prayers for the president — the reason for them is the same now as it was for those prayers for the Emperor two millennia ago: "That we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness" (1 Timothy 2:2). The decisions ...

452. You're a Treasure!

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... norm” — to marry and produce a family in order to survive — is no longer viewed as a necessity. In America, the new norm is singledom. Half of all adults are unmarried, and 15% of those singles live by themselves. In Scandinavia it is estimated that by 2020 half of all “households” will be occupied by only one individual. But singledom does not mean we are alone. Who out there today is not umbilically connected to the “social network?” E-mail, Facebook, ebay, Instagram, whoever and whatever ...

453. The Golf Shot That Destroyed an Airforce

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... card and racked up so many moving violations that his record runs 18 pages. He wasn’t due to get his license restored until 2019.” “Serianni was steering his 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible in and out of traffic on a busy four-lane road, doing an estimated 60-70 mph in a 35 mph zone. His headlights were off and his blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. At 7 p.m., witnesses told police, the big Olds crested a hill and slammed broadside into a small white car turning left ...

454. A Rock Thrown, A Lesson Learned

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... That didn’t stop them. They made some rudimentary tents and began treating the thousands of injured people who streamed to them. Parents carried injured children from destroyed villages, walking days to reach them. The 13 paramedics worked day and night. They estimated they saved one life every half hour for several months. None of the people in that region had ever met an American. One of the paramedics told “60 Minutes”: “We are not just healing people. We are inoculating an entire valley against ...

455. Two Sticker Books and a Cabbage Patch Doll

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... tuxedo and some government relief, why, we feel like the world is against us.” As usual Will was right on target. It’s like something that the late Erma Bombeck once wrote while she was going through her struggle with cancer. It went like this: “An estimated 1.5 million people are living today after bouts with breast cancer. Every time I forget to feel grateful to be among them, I hear the voice of an eight-year-old named Christina, who had cancer of the nervous system. When asked what she wanted for ...

456. The Winning Word

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... respond, "Amen! Amen!" The word "amen" translates, "let it be so!" I believe the people were saying, "Let God's word speak to our hearts," and they bow with their faces to the ground in worship to their God. What a sight it must have been. Commentators estimate the crowd to be between 30,000 to 50,000 people. When God's Spirit comes upon a congregation there can be an overwhelming feeling of worship that must be expressed. The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being ...

457. God All Along

Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... " (v. 1). We can almost see him stewing and frothing as he appears before the high priest. He is looking for authoritative letters that will permit him to scour the synagogues of Damascus for any of these enemies of God. Make no mistake: that was Paul's estimate of the Christians. We mustn't misunderstand Paul as a wicked and violent man, bent on opposing the things of God. Quite the contrary: Saul of Tarsus is an earnest and godly man. He is sincere in his devotion to God and zealous in his service. His ...

458. A Stupid Question

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... may have had that revolution and recent era of independence in mind. In addition to that larger political context, the disciples' question also comes out of a personal context. These men, you see, had been following Jesus for some time, traditionally estimated at about three years. Perhaps they began with a fairly traditional understanding of Jesus as a rabbi. Rabbis in that day chose and gathered around themselves disciples: students who would commit themselves to their master's life and teaching. It was ...

459. Help From Habakkuk?

Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... shrift. This is the only passage from Habakkuk that appears in the three-year cycle of readings for worship, so you aren't going to hear many sermons based on this short book of only three chapters either. In fact, in 25 years of ministry, with a conservative estimate of about 1,000 sermons given, I believe this is the first one I've preached from Habakkuk! Back to that German monk: In Luther's search for meaning and help he stumbled upon Habakkuk as he was studying Paul's letter to the Romans. When he read ...

460. When the Drought Gets Really Bad

Isaiah 55:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... this lady, “We simply got rid of every piece of furniture and put them in the garden. We emptied the house of everything that cluttered it up, and it was filled with people.” (7) Furniture wasn’t important, in this lady’s estimation, people were. Table silver wasn’t important, but two officers of a frozen ship gave their lives trying to take it with them. People become spiritually thirsty when they have misplaced values. People also become spiritually parched when they betray their values. The ...

461. John 12:1-8

John 12:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... as “Iscariot” and as “the one who was about to betray him” (v.4). Judas objects to Mary’s anointing of Jesus on what appears to be humanitarian grounds. The costly nard could have been sold and “the money given to the poor” (v.5). Judas’ estimated value of the nard is “three hundred denarii” — a sum that was equal to an entire year’s wages (one denari/day, no work on Sabbaths) of a common laborer — a truly vast amount. But John’s text adds a revealing disclosure. According to the ...

462. Be a Bethany

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

463. Work Like the Who?

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Gospel of Luke about money than there are about death, marriage or family values. Jesus warned time after time about the dangers of riches. And we know it’s true we cannot serve God and money. Money may be our number one national obsession. One estimate has it that close to one‑half of the nation’s divorces are due to differences of opinion on how to handle the family finances. And those couples are comparatively lucky. A sociological study in Chicago found that some 40.2 percent of all desertion ...

464. Can You Hear the Music?

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 60.00/piece price to a “twofer” — she got a half-price deal because she bought two for her small daughter’s bedroom. One buyer said he just needed something to “cover the walls.” Each canvas purchased for the street price of sixty bucks is estimated to have resale value of 750,000 to a million dollars. A secret unknown and unguessed by the rest of the world. That is the Kingdom of Heaven. Insight into that secret is what makes a “Good Samaritan,” what transforms self-serving into sacrificial ...

465. A Faith that Will Bring You Alive

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... conservative Americans regard the U. S. Constitution. If it’s not in the Constitution, according to these patriots, it won’t fly. That is how the Sadducees regarded the Torah. If it was not in the first five books of the Bible in their estimation, then it was not crucial to the faith. For example, the first five books of the Bible say nothing about eternal life or resurrection or immortality; therefore, such things should not be taught as part of the faith, according to the Sadducees. Accordingly, they ...

466. You Are the Light of the World

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... world. Some figures reveal the sun’s greatness. For instance, the sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth. If a baby would start flying to the sun at birth and travel 150 miles per hour, this baby would be nearly 71 years old upon arrival. Astronomers estimate that the diameter of the sun is 109 times that of the earth. Its output of energy is 70,000 horsepower per sq. yd. per minute . . . the temperature at the sun’s surface is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. “But the sun, in spite of its greatness ...

467. The Key to Getting Enough Rest

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... of today that a person begins to sink. I’m not going to ask you to raise your hand if you ever feel stressed out because of your work, or because of family concerns or worries about your health or whatever may be weighing you down mentally. The estimates are that 80 percent of Americans are under at least a moderate load of stress. To a great extent, fatigue is mental. Have you ever noticed that people who have a great mental attitude seem to have more energy than those who have a dour attitude toward ...

468. Breaking News: A World Gone Wild

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... the most powerful earthquake recorded in 110 years. This time the problem wasn’t the earthquake; the problem was the tsunami caused by the earthquake. Waves 13 stories high slammed into the eastern coast of Japan, traveling up to six miles inland. The cost is estimated to be $300 billion making it the most expensive natural disaster in history. Twenty-four thousand people were killed or missing. The coast of Japan was moved 8 feet. April 27, 2011-in a period of time now known as “The 2011 Super Tornado ...

469. Do You Have Any Leftovers?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... people may eat?’” (John 6:5, ESV) How large was this crowd? In verse 10 we are told the men alone numbered about 5000. Matthew tells us there were also women and children. When you take into account how large families were back in that day scholars estimate that crowd probably reached up to 25,000 people. Every one of them was holding up signs that said, “Eat more chicken!” Imagine you are Philip and Jesus turns to you and says, “Where are we to buy bread so that these people may eat?” If I ...

470. A Lesson from Jay Leno's Mom

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... little pigtails and wore the sweetest little dress with a great big teddy bear on it. She also had the prettiest smile, especially with that middle tooth missing. And she could jump out of a swing farther than any of them. In short, Sherri was great, in his estimation. He remembers one day this lovely child passed him a note during class and it read, “Do you love me?” Uh-oh, things are getting serious. He says he didn’t even know what love was, but he learned early that girls like to hear you say that ...

471. Running over the Cat

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... m sorry.’ A big tear welled up in each eye,” says Wilke, “but before those two tears had time to hit the ground, a sister-in-law rushed over, grabbed [the young soldier] by the arm and frantically ‘rescued’ him with trivial chatter.” (2) In my estimation, this well-meaning sister-in-law ran over that young soldier’s cat. She meant to do good, but the net result was more damaging than beneficial. This young man was not given the opportunity to grieve the loss of his father. When a significant ...

472. Satisfied Customer

John 6:25-59

Sermon

James Merritt

... ever claimed to be, literally, the Son of God, to be the Savior of the world, to have lived a perfectly sinless life, to have died for the sins of all of humanity, and to claim to have come back from the dead. Furthermore, it is estimated that in the history of the world, there have been roughly 108 billion people who have lived. Think about that. Only 1-out-of-108 billion (and that number increases every day) has ever made those bodacious, audacious claims. I would think just curiosity alone would drive ...

473. The Messed Up

John 4:1-26

Sermon

James Merritt

... a minor mechanical problem and shut down. Like a domino, it sent a message to other centers around the country, which also caused them to shut down. The cause was a simple data entry, of one error, in a single line of code. American Airlines alone estimated they lost 200,000 reservations in that one-day. Somebody messed up. In 1961, DECCA Records sent two executives in charge of evaluating new musical talent to London to check out a local rock-n-roll band. They spent two hours listening to this group ...

474. Reliable Witness

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... miles from this small planet. When these craft were still responding to signals at about 9 billion miles away engineers would beam commands to them at the speed of light. It took these commands thirteen hours to arrive, even at the speed of light! It is estimated that to send a message to the edge of our enormous universe at the speed of light would take 15 billion years. And within this enormous universe there are billions and billions of galaxies. (2) That’s more than I can get my mind around, but ...

475. What Do You See?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... desert land and there are still bandits and robbers who roam this area. Back in the day, it was such a dangerous road it was called, “The way of blood.” It was one of the most crime-ridden areas in all of Israel. Bible scholars estimate there were at least 12,000 thieves that roamed that Judean wilderness between Jerusalem and Jericho. It is kind of like our modern day gangs today roaming around like packs of wild dogs attacking innocent victims, beating them, and robbing them. Jesus tells about another ...

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