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451. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... let’s look at what it means. "The light" - certainly this encompasses all of God’s care and good intention and love for us. The light "shines" - it is emitted, it comes forth. "Into the darkness." now what’s that? Too often we have some vague notion about some nebulous kind of darkness - out yonder somewhere - which is penetrated by a light. Not so. The darkness is within us; it is an aspect of our personhood. It is into this darkness the light comes, into this moral and spiritual shadow-land of our ...

452. Our Unmanageable God (The Second Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... times of drought they could caress the golden calf and get rain. They wanted a slot- machine god, a god they could touch for whatever they needed. Something in us wants to objectify, localize and control God, to make him fit our patterns and preconceived notions. But God cannot be managed. As the Bible reminds us, "His ways are not our ways, neither are his thoughts our thoughts." Our task is not to regulate God but to serve him. The" Second Commandment warns against any attempt to circumscribe God. I find ...

453. Breaking News: Thomas Doubts Jesus Alive

John 20:24-31

Sermon

CSS

... difficult for the world to accept the message of Easter. We are asking people to believe in the supernatural, that there is life after death. Thomas Jefferson ranks as one of our nations greatest intellects but not many people know that he rejected the notion of miracles. When he approached the scriptures he could not tolerate those passages that dealt with the supernatural. So what did he do? He wrote his own bible. In the Thomas Jefferson Bible you will find only the moral teachings and historical events ...

454. The Secret of the Power

John 20:19-31

Illustration

Brett Blair

Thomas Jefferson ranks as one of our nations greatest intellects but not many people know that he rejected the notion of miracles. When he approached the scriptures he could not tolerate those passages which dealt with the supernatural. So what did he do? He wrote his own bible. In the Thomas Jefferson Bible you will find only the moral teachings and historical events of Jesus' life. No virgin birth. No ...

455. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... say to their companion, “Are you the only person in all of Jerusalem who does not know the things that have taken place?” This would be enough to unsettle anyone but new and disturbing information is being told. Reports about his tomb being empty and the crazy notions of some who say he is alive. Listen to what happens next on that dusty road at the end of the day. This is the part that intrigues me. Jesus begins to interpret the Old Testament and explains to them how all these things were spoken of by ...

456. Solomon and the Outline for Renewal

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Don Yocom

... out to His disciples that we do not put patches on worn-out cloth. The better way is to use new cloth altogether. A patched-up life isn’t much credit anyway. A genuine conversion makes us new creatures - new cloth - in Christ Jesus. A common mistake is the notion that once we are converted we do not need to be renewed when we again, in our human way, sin against God. The church is full of backsliders who have forsaken God. Like Demas of old, they loved the things of this world more than they love the Lord ...

457. Hungry for Anything?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... that kind of childishness, do we? How many people know what they want in life? Try asking them some time, and you will hear a hodgepodge of half-formed, ill-defined ambiguities. The simple truth is that most people don’t have the foggiest notion of what their desires in life really are. The philosophy of Communism dialectical materialism is accepted by about half of the people in the civilized world; and yet, the basic premise of that philosophy is false - the assumption that human beings want most of ...

458. Growing Up

Judges 17:1-13

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... Christian faith, in the full and free expression of sex and personality. Right on. We have been duped if we have allowed the puritan and the prude to be the perfect illustration of the Christian. The Christian ethic is not equated with Victorian notions. It is based on a free, victorious, responsible relationship with Jesus, the Christ who removes us from the vicious slavery to ourselves and our own fancies, a slavery that can only lead to disaster. That’s what the prophets of permissiveness overlook. In ...

459. Let the Son Shine in

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... really is, it has to be viewed under the penetrating rays of God’s light. His is the X-ray of Truth. Most importantly you and I must see ourselves and who we really are. Walking in God’s light means far more than a vague, sentimental notion that "Somebody up there likes me," or that God is looking down with a benign smile. Walking in God’s light requires rigorous honesty, coming clean and not only acknowledging, but confessing our sin. The central problem of our salvation is always that, as one author ...

460. Three-Dimensional Christianity

James 1:19-27

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... the priest and the Levite in the parable of the Good Samaritan, both of whom thought it was more important to attend to their "religious duties" than to do the truly Christian thing of helping the man in need. Remaining unstained is avoiding the notion that the principle is more important than the person, that institutions are more crucial than individual persons, that "dog eat dog" is the only practical rule for living. The second dimension follows. That Christian faith is more than a theory, more than a ...

461. Service Without Witness

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... necessary to our mission as true servants. Is our doing and being so closely identified, as Emil Brunner put it, that when a person turns to God desiring to serve him, God directs his attention to the world and its need? All this brings us to Isaiah’s notion of our qualifications for effective service. 1. First of all, what the servant says and does depends for its effect upon whom he or she is. Behind the action, there must be a life. The servant in his or her service must in their doing be a witness ...

462. Passing the Easter Miracle On

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... to say the least - and rightly so! Wouldn’t you and I have been so, too? And would we not, like them, be eager to know what was behind this tremendous event? Peter, however, knowing these people and their belief in magic and superstition, hastened to forestall any such notion, saying: "Why do you wonder at this and why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk?" (v. 12). It was not, then, a matter of magic or a sleight of hand trick intended to excite their wonder for ...

463. Easter Journeys Out and In

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... are actually read? In how many homes are the Scriptures shelved entirely out of reach and therefore out of mind? And what can be equally harmful is the manner in which the Bible is often read. Some read it merely for proof texts to underscore notions they already hold. Others who are narrow traditionalists read it with a closed mind and refuse to raise questions regarding points of view that are outdated or absurd. And some others pick up snatches of verses here and there with little connection before or ...

464. Easter Turns ONLY into ALSO

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... ’s day" and that the other six were beyond or outside his concern. It was found in practice that those who kept the seventh day holy were more inclined to keep the other six days accountable to God, too. Or, take the Jewish people and their notion of chosenness throughout the whole of the Old Testament. This concept did not mean that all other people were destined to oblivion. As Christians, we owe much to the Jewish faith, but this does not mean we should be satisfied to stop with it rather than capture ...

465. Daring Words

Mark 1:9-13

Illustration

Larry Powell

... as the scribes. This particular reflection upon the scribes, implying a certain insipidness, interests us. They possessed authority by virtue of their position. Why did they not speak with authority? Conjecture is risky business, but we have a notion that their recitations were mechanical, unfeeling, and sing-song. Devotion may have been reduced to formalized vocation, and the sharp edge of adeptness dulled by neglect. Figureheads occupy space but command little respect, whether they be scribes, ministers ...

466. The Reality Of Sin

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Robert Allen

... in the hearts of many; the swastikas and anti-semitic slogans painted on Jewish temples and synagogues give witness to the bigotry and hatred which dwells in our world. There are thousands of men and women who never read the Bible and don’t have the foggiest notion of what it teaches about sin. But, in their everyday relationships, they live and move and run their lives on the assumption that sin is in our world. That’s why a loan officer at a bank checks your credit rating ... That’s why we spent ...

467. It Isn't Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the meaning of grace, but wasn’t getting very far. She tried definitions and abstractions, to no avail. Finally, she realized something the boys had known from the start. She was not connecting. She was not getting through to them. They didn't have the foggiest notion what she was talking about. So she took a deep breath and tried again: "Look boys, grace is the break you get when you don't deserve it. That's the simple explanation. But you won't really understand it till you experience it." But God ...

468. God’s Great Promise To Sarah!

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... on Economic Opportunity, by the year 2000 the American poor will consist almost exclusively of women and their children. Surely another important area for equal recognition is using inclusive, non-sexist language. Some of us don’t like the notion but language does reflect our attitude toward women. Our language needs to be subordinate here and not women! Religious bodies are beginning to recognize this by establishing inclusive language policies. One fears that the attempts to trivialize the importance ...

469. The Ten Commandments - Part 3

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... there are consequences for violating this commandment. They are frequently paraded in and out of the talk shows with disease and the break down of the family as the consequences. Writes Bishop Ruben Job: “One of the tragedies of our society is the notion that happiness can be found in infidelity and promiscuity. To watch any television show is to be impressed by our society’s fascination with unfaithfulness. We denounce the crime rate and laugh at infidelity.” Only those who seek to please God will ...

470. The King's Reception (What Are You Wearing to the Wedding?)

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Jesus so often warned men against material possessions and family ties. He saw how absorbing they can be. He saw how completely they can use up one’s thoughts and affections, so that nothing is left over for the higher things in life. And it is a mistaken notion to think that one must renounce business and family to follow God. Vows of poverty and celibacy for everyone is nowhere enjoined by Christ. All that is required is that we keep the claims of His Kingdom first in our lives. What is needed here is a ...

471. The Path of Maturity

Drama

William Grimbol

... make the task of maturation so brutally simple ... so crucifyingly modest? Why does our maturation migration always have to wing its way home to the context of loving ... the art of loving ... the work of loving? It is just such a naive notion ... such an idealistic and sentimental vision ... such an exercise in hopeless frustration. If our maturity is always to be measured by the extent and depth of our commitment to loving, well, then we are all hopelessly destined to lives of foolishness and childishness ...

472. The Path of Integrity

Drama

William Grimbol

... really just white washed tombs filled with the deadness of deceit and lies. Not such a luxurious life to have no titles - no wealth - no stature in the community, and yet, still ask people to "come unto You for rest ..." What an offensive notion that must have been ... how totally absurd. READER 3 In our world today, there is still no better symbol of the unleavened life than the act of washing feet. Dirty, dung encrusted, smelly feet. Repugnant. Repulsive. Revolting. Yet, the image of Christ washing his ...

473. When Something is About to Happen

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Long

... rush of interest made him hesitate, uncertain of his own thought, but he pushed on. "It’s strange, I know, but I get the feeling here, like nowhere else, that something is about to happen." The feeling that something is about to happen. A strange notion, and yet, the earliest Christians would have recognized it instantly as one of the truest marks of the church. They were convinced they stood on the precipice of history, and that something, indeed, was about to happen. For the world, time lumbered on, day ...

474. They Also Serve Who Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Thomas Long

... from a "white brother in Texas" who wrote, "... It is possible you are in too great a religious hurry ... The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth." Dr. King replied that such an attitude stemmed from a sad misunderstanding of time, the notion that time itself cures all ills. Time, King argued, could be used for good or for evil. Human progress, he said, is not inevitable, but rather ... ... it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard ...

475. A Tempting and Lonely Place

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Thomas Long

... of our lives, where we nonetheless make the crucial decisions of our lives. The late Carlyle Marney was once asked where the Garden of Eden was located. "Two fifteen Elm Street, Knoxville, Tennessee," replied Marney. The questioner found that incredulous and challenged Marney with the notion that the Garden of Eden was somewhere in Asia. Marney said that you couldn’t prove that by him, because it was at Two fifteen Elm Street that, as a boy, he had stolen some money from his mother’s purse and gone to ...

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