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451. Good News, Bad News, Good News

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Thomas Long

... things get, the more they thrive. So, when they arrive at a biblical text like ours today, the story about Jesus washing the disciples' feet, their approach is, "Okay, don't sugar coat it. What's the hard news in this good news?" They don't see any sense in being mollycoddled, so if there is a tough and demanding word from Jesus here, let's have it. "Give it to me straight, Doc, I can handle it." Thus, they comb through the story, looking for the "baddest, toughest" thing there, and, sure enough, they find ...

452. Forgiven!

Sermon

Lee Griess

... saving me!" And then she added a very profound statement: "You know what I've noticed though? People who have always been in the church, people who always do what they ought, who have never really gotten into trouble, always been prim and proper, don't have the same sense of gratitude that I do. In fact, I've noticed that for most church people, it's not so much what God had done for them, but what they still want God to do!" If you can identify with that statement, perhaps we can appreciate the story in ...

453. Welcoming Christ

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... money or advice, when the reason that the people came to us in the first place was because they needed to pray or confess their sins or simply receive encouragement from one through whom they could receive Christ. They are "welcoming" us into their struggles in the sense of verse 40 and we blow it by not speaking and living the apostolic word. Simply the fact that people know you are a believer is a way for those outside the church to make some kind of contact with God. It may be very indirect; it may ...

454. "Do This In Remembrance Of Me"

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... asked him why he had changed his mind so completely, he responded simply, "I spent the evening with Wilberforce." The force of William Wilberforce's presence and his personality was such to change the man's view and change his vote. If we could really remember Jesus, in the second sense of remember, "call to mind, experience his presence, remember who we are, remember what he stands for," his presence would change us. Let's remember Jesus' life. Let us remember his death. But most of all, let us remember ...

455. Prayers for Epiphany

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

... have no choice but to rest. We believe, O God, that you are serious, very serious -- not just waxing poetic -- when you say, "Be still and know that I am God."* Be still! If we don't learn what happens in the silence of your world, how will we make sense in the sounds of ours? As Christians we march to a different beat. An internal beat that is aligned with a very different rhythm than the dictates of our daily schedule. Help us, Eternal Spirit, to go to that place within. Help us to be still. Teach us your ...

456. Welcoming Christ

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... fell in love with a tall, blond 21-year-old with dark blue eyes. Carol Davis played the violin and wrote poetry, loved the out-of-doors, and liked politics. They dreamed together on summer evenings of the future and began to talk of marriage. Sensing that her parents had a right to know how serious they were, Carol arranged to have Lyndon come home with her for dinner. The Davises were among the most respected families in Kerrville, Texas. A wealthy banker, Mr. Davis was an extreme conservative in politics ...

457. When God Asks The Unreasonable

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... shall be provided." Now what in the world is the point of this story? How are we to make sense of God asking Abraham to kill his only son, his only heir? How are we to make sense of the scripture when it says that God did that to test Abraham? Are we supposed to believe that ... us to turn the other cheek when offended. We are to do that not once or twice, but 70 times 7. Common sense dictates that we might turn the other cheek once or twice but, the third time, we come out swinging. The culture teaches that ...

458. Lust - To Discipline The Eye And The Heart

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... covet and lust are sometimes interchanged. For instance, someone can say, "He's lusting after that red Corvette," or we hear the expression, she has "a lust for life" or "a lust for money." But this morning I will be using lust in the limited sense of referring to human sexual desire that is out of control, because that is what Jesus demands us to do in his description of the nature of adultery: to control ourselves. The Bible, though, is not against human sexuality or even against the physical attraction ...

459. Salvaging Our Lives

Genesis 29:15-30

Sermon

... what takes place between Jacob, Laban, Rachel, and Leah. The only power that seems to be at work here is the power of deception and the power of custom. One begins to wonder, "Where is God in all this?" Well, perhaps God is at work at bringing about a sense of justice in regard to Esau. The deceiver Jacob has met another capable deceiver and been duped. Perhaps the memory and telling of this story was a way of reminding people that our sins come back to haunt us. But there is no hint in this story that it ...

460. Epiphany 2

Jn 1:29-42 · 1 Cor 1:1-9 · Is 49:1-7 · Ps 27

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... a further call to be apostles, teachers and the like, but it is God who supplies the spirit and strength to fulfill that call. Gospel: John 1:29-42 The gospel continues the "call" theme found in the first two lessons. Here we have a man with a potent sense of call, John the Baptist, who points to Jesus as being the Messiah. Through this act he fulfills his calling, which is to point to the One chosen by God to purify the people. Two of John's disciples heard their teacher point to Jesus and say, "Here is ...

461. Pentecost

1 Corinthians 12:1-11, Joel 2:28-32, John 7:25-44, Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13, John 20:19-23

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... his love reaches even the deepest valley of our souls, we can face almost anything. The third "P" of Pentecost is Peace. In John's account, Jesus repeats the greeting, "Peace be with you." The peace of Christ is not an absence of conflict but a total sense of well-being. The fourth "P" of Pentecost is Prophecy. According to Acts, those who witnessed the in-rush of the Spirit were perplexed. They didn't know what to make of this unusual event. They were even accused of being drunk. Peter stood up to explain ...

462. Wonderful Story

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... it seems significant that Jesus was born into a world of suffering and rejection, a time of bloodshed of the most savage kind, and into a life situation without wealth or prestige of any kind. He was never intended to be a religious leader in the usual sense of those words, not a kindly aging man, accessible to one and all for wise counsel and insight about God. He came to show us how to stand in the face of every terrible destructive force in an often merciless world, how to live with courage and integrity ...

463. The Wisemen

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... deal with all things in clear, objective ways, I, too, have dismissed holy writings because they were either subjective or were biased to attempt to prove a point without the needed homework done by the writer. But there are passages of which I could not make sense if I left it at that. Now what I have realized is that those writers were describing their experience. Granted they tried to bias their readers, they still have the right to their perception and to their way of sharing that. And when I find that ...

464. Uzziah is Dead!

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... a television technician, a car mechanic, and a tomato grower, as well as from a minister of the Gospel. It is the experience of forgiveness that makes us witnesses. Yet we don't see people standing in line, saying, "Send me." Maybe it is because we do not sense our forgiveness, or because we have never confessed. We are unfit for the task of telling until we are pardoned, and once we are pardoned, we have the task! It will not be an easy one, as Isaiah is also told just beyond this selected portion of his ...

465. A Sleeping Bag God

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9) This story serves to remind us just how often we try, and inaccurately so, to pigeonhole and second-guess. One thinks of the women’s movement and how once we had a very restricted and truncated sense of who women were and what they could do. In the not-so-distant past it was not uncommon for people to make derogatory comments about females in the pulpit, for example. However, more and more people are coming to realize that women clergy can be quite ...

466. Wisdom In A Proverb

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... a text from the middle of Proverbs. Today's text is from the sayings of Solomon and the sayings of the sages. Solomon was the patron saint of the sages and the wisdom movement; Solomon, who was remembered for his intelligence and shrewdness, good sense, sound judgment, moral understanding, wisdom. The collection of proverbs under Solomon's name is the major portion of the Book Of Proverbs and gives it its distinct tone: proverbs that teach how the good life is to be achieved. Yet there is difficulty with ...

467. Eating Living Bread

John 6:25-59

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... our own pleasures and purposes or are we brought into the world for a larger purpose which our lives are to serve? Jesus had a clear sense that his life was dedicated to doing the will of God. He was bound by the source of his being to show the meaning of God ... . The food is not equally available to those who are hungry. A part of the problem also is a lack of will and a sense of priority to feed the hungry. 2. False Diets. Much of what the media in America provides is a false diet. A recent advertisement ...

468. Tying Up A Strong Man

Mark 3:20-30, 1 Samuel 8:1-22, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, Mark 3:31-35, Psalm 138:1-8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... our demands or wishes. The real problem most often is that we are not really "forced," but we don't want to accept the consequences of not doing what other persons want us to do. It then becomes an "imaginary constraint," not a real one. In the same sense, Satan or the devil could not "force" Jesus to do his will. Jesus had already decided in the temptation experiences that he would only do God's will. That gave him the power to resist the enticements of the devil, even when it led to crucifixion. Out of ...

469. Stilling The Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... go over to the other side when he saw the great crowds. In Matthew, the disciples follow Jesus rather than taking care of him (Matthew 8:23). Of the three versions, only Mark explains further that other boats were with him (Mark 4:36). Compared to the sense of urgency or tension in Mark's version, Luke's telling is casual on the surface. Note such terms as "One day," "a boat," and "So they put out" (Luke 8:22). The Storm And Jesus Asleep: The Gospel called Luke tells first about Jesus falling asleep; then ...

470. Lent 5

John 12:20-36, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... George Wiegel felt that the only thing fans could do was "pray for the conversion of the human heart." He shared that we could only pray that the hubris of owner and player alike would be exorcized during the Lenten season of 1995. "Neither side shares a basic sense of what is right or wrong and so they can't communicate ... All they care about is power and money." Jesus summed up the problem and the solution of what is wrong in the world this way: "... unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies ...

471. Forgiven!

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Lee Griess

472. Fourth Sunday In Advent - Joy!

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Bulletin Aid

David M. Oliver

... hometown to escape ridicule and ostracism because of my pregnancy." Instead, Mary's song is filled with hope, confidence in God, and trust in God's plan and God's provision. This morning we will explore together each of the verses of Mary's song to get a fuller sense of her joy, which is in sharp contrast to her circumstances. I invite you to open your Bible to Luke 1:47-56. I will read a verse at a time of the Magnificat and then offer a contrasting viewpoint which reflects the perspective of many in the ...

473. Words As Images

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... and end of the sermon, thus fixing it in the listener's mind and providing the unity to the sermon. If a preacher is using colorful language, a sermon will have many images as it moves along. The danger is clutter. There must be a sense of unity in the sermon, and this is done by making sure that the listener knows what the primary theme, or "controlling image," is. Patricia Wilson-Kastner advises, Normally we will want to make one particular image central; other images will either clarify or support ...

474. Delivery

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... voice. But the congregation's attention wanders, and when it is over many of them have not listened well at all. Why? Because they sense that the focus of his attention is on his paper. He looks up from time to time and scans his eyes over the audience ... commitment to the gospel proclamation is part of the "non-verbal" message we send. Listening to sermons Sunday after Sunday, listeners soon sense the pastor's urgency about the gospel. One of the saddest comments I ever heard followed a sermon of a pastor ...

475. Taking Life Seriously

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... ...So God said to some mud, 'Sit up! ...See all I've made,' said God, 'the hills,the sea, the sky, the stars.' ...And I was some of the mud that got to sit upand look around ...'Lucky me, lucky mud.' "10 But with our lives comes a sense of responsibility for fulfilling the unique opportunity to live them. We realize that no one can do our living or our dying for us. Feelings of inadequacy and guilt inevitably come from trying to live them. Especially when we compare our lives to others or look to external ...

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