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451. Welcome to the Training Table!

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

... which the members of the team drew from the common task is lost to you. The skills and the accomplishments and the high purpose which propels them do not nerve you any longer. The satisfaction they enjoy and the success and, at the last, the celebration are surrendered when you cast off your partnership with them. God knew those were the risks when he first called the team together. It is ongoing, as the days and years go by. But God has a strategy that works. Have you ever been to a sports event at ...

452. The Triune God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... lives of his people through the power and working of the Holy Spirit. We may not fully fathom or comprehend this great God, but we can know who he is and we can commit our lives completely to him without getting bogged down like the skeptic who withheld surrendering his life to God because he didn’t understand every detail about him. A clergyman once asked a skeptic: "Do you mean to say that you don’t believe the Trinity as taught in the Bible?" The skeptic answered: "I don’t know about that, but I ...

453. Power to the Faint

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... He found that even his sufferings had brought him to the place of complete submission to God. He knew that all things were working together for good in the lives of them that love God. If we are confident of that, and if we have indeed surrendered our burden unto the Lord, then even the longest illness, the most grievous injustice, the greatest calamities or catastrophes, cannot harm us. Then who is there to fear? Why should we be cast down and despondent? So, not only do we have the antidote to depression ...

454. Bad Good News Won’t Sell!

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... bad news because he loved his fellow-countrymen. Being obligated to God, he had to tell them that, by virtue of their sin, God was bringing judgment upon them. Babylonia was God’s instrument to punish the nation. It was, therefore, God’s will for them to surrender to Babylonia and put on the yoke of slavery. It was inevitable. There was no other way out of their predicament. The law of justice is eternal, for our God of justice is eternal. It is a part of natural law that a penalty follows a breaking ...

455. Heart To Heart

Ezekiel 18:1-32

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... of sin must come to a stop. They die to all evil. Then, Christ starts a new heart to beat within us. We come to Christ, the super-surgeon, for a heart transplant. He puts his heart in place of our old heart. How is this done? As a patient surrenders himself/herself to anesthesia and to the operation, and as a patient puts complete trust in the surgeon, so we submit ourselves to Christ and trust in him to give us a new heart. Also, the new heart is the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is the creative ...

456. Separation of God and State?

Isaiah 44:24--45:25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... ." A nation may be chosen to be an instrument of God’s judgment. Jeremiah, the prophet of Judah, lived right before Babylon conquered the Jews and then later carried off the top classes as slaves to Babylon. Jeremiah became intensely unpopular because he preached surrender to the enemy. He rightly claimed that God was using the Babylonians to punish Judah for her sins. Have you ever thought that God could use one nation to punish another? This is God’s judgment visited upon a rebellious people. God may ...

457. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... came as no shock to Bonhoeffer who knew the price of a meeting with the Master: "When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die."10 Before the end of April 1945, Adolf Hitler died by his own hand. On May 8, 1945, the Nazi Government surrendered. Bonhoeffer did not live to see the demise of that satanic force, but he and others who had met the Master had worked and prayed for that demise. Bonhoeffer went to the scaffold at Flossenburg a victim of "agonized participation," but trusting in God’s grace to ...

458. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

... Simon by the shoulder and yanks him into the aisle. They struggle. The Centurion motions for one other soldier to assist Claudius. The second soldier rushes to Simon and forces his arm behind his back. After a more desperate struggle, Simon finally surrenders by sinking to his knees, about two-thirds of the way down the aisle. The Centurion walks toward Simon, pointing his sword at his chest. He then motions with the sword toward Jesus. Simon reluctantly rises, slowly and angrily walks toward Jesus. Though ...

459. A Tale of Two Cemeteries

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

George Bass

... the hungry. The Roman emperor, Valerian, learned of it and demanded the money from the Pope (Sixtus), whom he martyred when his demand was refused. Three days later - August 10 - Lawrence was burned to death on a gridiron because he, too, would not surrender the church’s treasury intended for the needy and also for those who were spiritually hungry, because the treasury included the care of church properties. Roman Christians have been enamored by Lawrence’s death ever since. He was made a saint, and ...

460. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

George Bass

... special occasions; they cannot function officially until they receive them, and the pallia are buried with them. The model of the sacrificial and innocent life of Agnes is a constant reminder to the hierarchy that their wills must be submitted to Christ and their lives lived in surrender to God. In a vision after her burial, Agnes is supposed to have said to her parents: "Do not grieve for me as dead; but rejoice and be glad, because I ... am united to Him in Heaven whom while on earth I used to love with ...

461. A Person Approved by Christ

John 1:43-51

Sermon

George Bass

... a monument shall be a house of God, and I will surely pay you a tenth part of all you give me." What we do know is that Jesus became his Lord and Savior - and that he, through God’s grace, did what all Christians are expected to do: He surrendered his life to Christ and trusted him without reservation to keep and preserve it forever.

462. Amazing Grace

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the energies of grace and you will find joy. Faith, risk, commitment open the doors of grace. You are "saved by grace through faith." It is not so much that you are afraid of God; it is that you are terribly afraid of life separate from God. You surrender - or you affirm the glimpse of the great life God has in mind for you. And you work out your salvation under the guidance and in the power of Christ. You move, day by day, toward fulfillment, toward completion. The possibility of this "God-life" is the ...

463. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... are open to the Spirit. This is not old stuff. It fits our contemporary knowledge. Recently a psychologist from Princeton University wrote a book bemoaning the almost total breakdown of the intuitive approach to truth and reality with humanity’s total surrender to the rational process. He says that early man, not only in the Old Testament, but also in other disciplines of life, heard voices, saw visions, and accepted direct instructions and guidance out of the visible. He says that this direct intuitive ...

464. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... room where he had left his New Testament open at the book of Romans. He snatched it up and read: "Not in revelling and drunkenness, not in lust and wantonness, not in quarrels and rivalries, rather arm, arm yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ." He surrendered, and you know the rest of the story. Let’s get something straight, "God is not mocked." "The Master does return; judgment does come; an account is rendered." Perhaps, "Judgment is the sudden revealing of a long slow process." (Up or down). What is ...

465. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... , or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" No! These things can be overcome. But if I fight Christ off and refuse to allow him to exist at the center of my conscience, I am without hope. Stanley Jones makes it clear: "You don’t need to know everything about yourself to surrender yourself - all you need to know is that you need to change masters - and do it!" I can hardly wait to see what God is going to do in the 1980s, in the twenty-first century, what he is going to do in the eternal. That’s where life is ...

466. Christian Maturity

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... of Christ. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to mature and develop the wisdom to know when to stand firm and when to extend the same freedom of opinion we would claim for ourselves. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Morning Has Broken" "Jesus, Keep Me Near The Cross" "I Surrender All"

467. THE AGE OF ANXIETY

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... God says, "For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’ Worry is an insult to God. Anxiety demonstrates lack of faith. When we feel anxious, we best kneel before the Lord, confess our sins, and surrender our anxieties to him."

468. Magnify Your Ministry!

Romans 11:11-24

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... and their ministries as Christians are largely ineffective. They are not far from the kingdom of God, but neither are they in it. They never have quite enough time to serve, never enough income to tithe, never are quite ready to make the unqualified surrender which Jesus requires for discipleship. They want to serve Jesus but only if that service does not require bearing a cross; and crossless Christianity is not Christianity at all. A number of years ago in eastern Kentucky, a small, one-room church was re ...

469. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... sex, alcohol abuse, and anti-social behavior. The tendency to do whatever we want to satisfy our immediate desires has been called "me-ism," and it is said that ours is "The Me Generation." In an earlier age, it would have been said that we have surrendered to narcissism. Do you remember who Narcissus was? According to Greek mythology, Narcissus was an incredibly handsome young man who chanced one day to see his reflection in a pool. He was so entranced by the lovely image that he stayed by the pool forever ...

470. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me" (2 Corinthians 12:7-9). If it was true for St. Paul, how much more true must it be for us! God is anxious to give us power through our trust in him. When we surrender our weaknesses and problems to him in prayer, he makes his power available to us, power to do all things. The power of Christ is also available from the Bible. The Bible is the most widely owned book in the world, and it is probable that every Christian home has ...

471. What It Takes to Stay Christian

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... they believe enough to put that love in action. Thus, Christians believe, put their love to work by touching other lives with their lives in love; by sharing, communicating, telling, witnessing in love; by listening, caring, being, sharing, serving in love; by surrender, commitment, consecration, giving in love; and by praying, hoping, seeking, waiting in love. Many years ago, a Sunday school teacher handed a mimeographed paper to every boy in her junior high boys’ class. I was one of those boys, and I ...

472. The Only Fact That Really Matters

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... from the dead." He knew it was a fact first because the Bible told him so. Then he knew it was a fact because of the testimony and changes in the lives of eyewitnesses. But he knew it to he supremely so because he had given his life in complete surrender to the risen Jesus. This was the only fact that really mattered to Paul. But wait! So it’s a fact. So it’s true So Christ did rise from the dead. So what difference does it make? "But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead," Paul says ...

473. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR PENTECOST

Drama

Tom Eberle

... your Spirit is stronger than the corrosive acids of individual or national short-sightedness. Voice 4: No longer is our hope centered in Bermuda, or the stock market, or our children. Your Spirit has drawn us together as a community called the church. In surrendering everything to the direction, of your Spirit we have received in return a life centered on a firm foundation. We are a community called the church that believes the destiny of all human history lies in your hands. Minister: Spirit of God, blow ...

474. God's Glory

John 11:1-45

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let us gather together all whose lives would proclaim God's Glory! People: We open our hearts to God's presence and power. Leader: We surrender before God all that we are and do. People: With courage we will share God's presence with those around us. Leader: Then let us gather in song and praise for all the world to hear! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You so wonderfully ...

475. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to who she was and what she ought to do. If you are troubled with the same problem in understanding your worth, turn to God and accept the truth in Christ. In a God-denying world the best thing we can do with self is to make a self-denying surrender to Christ.

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