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451. Mary Of Nazareth

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ephesians 1:15-23

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... God and wondered what he expected me to do since I was helpless and could do nothing on my own. I know that God does not want us to worry about our future and to rely on him, but I was anxious. Also, the penalty for being an unwed mother was severe punishment ... us. I did not have time to do anything or prepare for this situation. I only allowed myself to act in faith, but I did not want to go. It was so far away from home, but Herod would have no jurisdiction in Egypt. He could not send his men there to kill ...

452. Partners With the Eternal

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

... Lord it wasn't worth very much. Elsewhere Jesus says, "Without me you can do nothing." (John 15:5) It's a long leap from that to this: "With God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26) Is it not reasonable, then, that God who is a doer and wants to get things done in the world, should invite us into partnership with him? There is a profound nugget of truth in an old saying: "Without God we cannot; without us he will not." He seeks the human instrumentality through whom to work; we need the divine touch to ...

453. No Telltale Clues

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

... evangelist is not concerned with what motivated Matthew, nor with what the tax collector was thinking, nor with why he took the first step away from the tax office. It is not Matthew that is important at the moment. The spotlight is on Jesus and the evangelist wants us to understand something about him. When Jesus tells someone to move from here to there, the evangelist says that he is to do it. When Jesus tells a person to burn her bridges behind her, the evangelist says that she is to do it. When Jesus ...

454. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... says to him: "We prefer to do things comfortably." Savage rejoins: "But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." Many people think of God as a kind of cosmic Mustapha Mond or ... of God which reveals that his preferences are like those of Savage himself, a picture which suggests that God does not want easy comfort for his creatures, but prefers freedom, goodness, and sin. This picture is drawn, for example, in the Revelation of St ...

455. "At Beneficial You’re Good for More"

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... can borrow from them for a very, very merry Christmas. It is convenient and it is easy. Then there is the Beneficial Finance Company. This company tells us that we are good for more. The slogan is, "At Beneficial, you’re good for more." This company is sure that it wants us to have a happy holiday and it is willing to go the second mile to help our wishes come true. The ad is extremely effective and it makes us feel good to know that there are people who care. When we go into the loan office, we will feel ...

456. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... for you, too bad! Joanna: You don’t have to bite my head off! I’m just concerned, that’s all. Peter: If you didn’t want to be here with the rest of us, you should have gotten out while there was still time. Joanna: I tried to, but how could I ... And make Israel a Jewish state again. He could do that, too. Joseph: Then why didn’t he? Isn’t that what he always said he wanted? To help the poor and the weak and the suffering? Why did he go and get himself killed? That’s not going to help anybody very ...

457. The Flight From Light

Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Erskine White

... wounded almost daily by betrayals large and small. We are wounded as dreams die and cherished life goals are adjusted to fit reality. We want our wounds healed, but when we come face to face with the cause of our pain, we avert our eyes and deny what we ... hurts and pains, but we are afraid to let it go, so we go on living with our brokenness, yearning to be whole. Finally, we want communion with God. The answer to our loneliness and pain is communion with God, and we yearn for it with all our might. But when ...

458. The Crowd That Hated Him

Matthew 27:11-26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... and leaders went to the people and got a crowd together and came back to Pilate. Pretend you are part of this crowd. You have been told of all the things that Jesus has done to cause your country trouble and how he has worked against your leaders. The leaders want you to tell Pilate to let Barabbas go and to kill Jesus. You are at the place called the Judgment Hall and Pilate is seated high above you. On one side of him is the murderer Barabbas who the leaders have told you is really your friend. On the ...

459. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ’t see fit to let me into heaven ... I believe it was because I had those two small children to raise, or because I just wasn’t personally ready to be there." A high school boy: "I was a typical high schoool fraternity brat ... after this happened to me, I wanted to know more ... I felt I had aged over-night ... I kept thinking, ‘There is so much I’ve got to find out ... There’s more to life than Friday night movies and the football game. And there’s more to me that I don’t even know about ...

460. Dealing With The Dividing Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

James W. Moore

... into a beast? He was in front of his castle one day when what appeared to be an old beggar woman came by. She offered him a rose if he would give her shelter from the cold. But the prince was spoiled and selfish and arrogant… and he didn’t want to have anything to do with the old beggar woman. He considered her to be beneath him, so he sneered at her… and turned her away. The old beggar woman said to him, “Prince, do not be deceived by appearances, for real beauty is within.” But again, the Prince ...

461. Anything Better Than the Golden Rule?

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

William G. Carter

... if we have everything in common. Wouldn’t it be great if we could live by the Golden Rule? And yet, I don’t know anybody who can live by the Golden Rule. Once in a while, maybe; but not perfectly, and not all the time. If we want proof, we have no further to look than the teachings that lie around the Golden Rule. As some commentators come to this part of Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain, they interpret the Golden Rule as a summary of teachings that come immediately before. “Love your enemies,” because ...

462. Did You Ask How Much It Was Going To Cost?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... most important question a person ever asks is, "If I die today, what will my life have stood for?" (5) Let me put that question to you, even as I put it to myself. "If you were to die today, what will your life have stood for?" I don't want your answer to be an impulsive one. You need to count the cost before you answer. To say yes to one thing is to say no to many others. But the greatest danger is not impulsiveness, but inaction. Only twelve men and a small but unknown number of women out ...

463. Someone Is Calling In The Night

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... concern for his reputation. "So I came home," says Max. (1) Throughout the pages of the Bible we find a God who loves us and wants the very best for each of us. Sometimes God speaks to us directly. At other times God speaks to us through other persons such as ... for an elderly woman. The family had not decided whether or not to hire her. One thing Ruth was certain about was that she didn't want to leave her own apartment. She was hoping a job would come up and she would not have to move. Time was short and she ...

464. Sleeping through a Revolution

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ...” (Mark 14:36) Here was a real human being, not a phantom, struggling with a real human crisis. Later centuries would have problems with the humanity of Jesus, and a whole heretical theology would be built up by a group called the “Gnostics” who wanted a Jesus incapable of human suffering, a ghostly figure who haunts the pages of history flitting fleetingly over the face of the earth, but who never quite touches down on this planet. But that is not the Christ of the Gospels. Gethsemane means “oil ...

465. Blessings Beyond Our Dreams (Part 2 )

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... "i - f"–if. Life is a matter of choices. It is the accumulation of a host of major and minor decisions. But there are those who want to add a qualifier–"if only." If only I had done this–if only I had done that. Jabez knew he could not live life looking ... Now here is why most people will not profit from Jabez’ prayer. They think they know better than God. When we tell God how we want to be blessed we limit the blessings God will give us. The story is told of a man who dreamed he visited heaven. An ...

466. The Dark Didn't Catch Me!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... say, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so" (Psalm 107:2). The Apostle Paul shares his testimony in the letter to the Galatians. And in Psalm 66:16 David says, "Come and hear ... and I will tell what he has done for me." So in that spirit today I want to share with you my testimony. In the text Jesus promised, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger." I have known hunger. But in Christ I've known satisfaction. Here's my story. What I Was Saved From Most testimonies begin something like ...

467. A Pattern For Giving And Living

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to do is take a six-year subscription to LIFE and your name will be added to the drawing. You may win!" "The psychiatrist wrote a response to this offer which was a gem of rhetoric. "In your letter, you offer to make me the richest man in Princeton. I want you to know that I am the richest man in Princeton. In addition to this, I enjoy a quality of life so exciting, it makes LIFE magazine read like an Old Mother Goose story. For all these good reasons, I am asking you to remove my name from that silly ...

468. Making Your Days Count

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... had laid out for him. But it's painfully obvious in this passage that Jesus' friends did not understand him. What's worse, they didn't want to understand him. They were afraid to know the truth. Have you ever been afraid of surrendering your life to God? I suspect that many of ... if we let God into our lives. We don't ask God to reveal God's will to us because we just don't want to know! We want a comfortable life, not an abundant one. And if we were to view our lives through God's eyes, we just might have to ...

469. Let Not Thy Will Roar, When Thy Power Can But Whisper

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to put up my books when I am reading or a magazine article, I like to have a space where you can come back to it when you want to come back to it. I didn’t have anything like that – I had to claim a little corner of the living room where early in the ... of Him that I have ever seen or heard, when he described Him as the court fool of the King of Paradise. That’s what I want to be. I want to be a court fool for the King of Paradise. It takes a fool to yield, it takes a fool to give up control, and it ...

470. Strategic Planning

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... will be able to look down and see land. When that happens, we are going to start looking for a big city with an airport. If we find one before our fuel runs out, we will land. Then we will figure out where we are and decide where we want to go next. In the meantime folks, just sit back and relax and enjoy your trip.’ “Would you have a relaxed flight? Wouldn’t it be better if somebody had planned ahead?” (1) It has been said that the average American spends more time planning their vacation than they ...

471. The Way to Happy Endings

Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67

Sermon

James L. Killen

... purpose for the creation. Not everyone who has freedom uses it in love, and even some of those who do use it in love do not always have the wisdom they need to make the right decisions. As a result, lots of things happen that are contrary to what God wants to happen in our lives and in our world. God has to work with that as God continues to work in our lives. Leslie Weatherhead, the English preacher whose book, The Will Of God,1 has become a classic, speaks of the conditional will of God. There are lots of ...

472. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... Isaiah 7:10-16 1. Sign (v. 11). In most cases a human asks God for a sign. Gideon asked for a sign of the fleece. Moses wanted a sign of a rod that turned into a snake. Here it is different! Yahweh asks King Ahaz if he would like a "sign" of his ... more anxious to help than Ahaz was to be helped. 2. Test (v. 12). Ahaz explains his refusal to see a sign by saying he did not want to "test" Yahweh. In one way he was justified. Jesus told the devil, "You shall not tempt (test) the Lord thy God." With Ahaz it was a ...

473. Generations

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... -1946 Will all those born before 1946, please rise and remain standing? Tom Brokaw calls you the greatest generation, and he's right. Sociologists call you the boosters. You comprise both the GI Generation and the Depression Babies. The Trotsky saying that anyone who wants to lead a peaceful life has chosen the wrong century in which to be born applies to you more than any other generation. Born pre-1946, you are the generation that survived the depression, was transfixed by the 1939 New York World's Fair ...

474. The Counter Intelligence of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of the cross in these words with which he ends his 500-page book (533-534)? We ask, “Where does God fit into the story of my life?” when the real question is where does my little life fit into this great story of God’s mission. We want to be driven by a purpose that has been tailored just right for our own individual lives (which is of course infinitely preferable to living aimlessly), when we should be seeing the purpose of all life, including our own, wrapped up in the great mission of God for the ...

475. Looking Into the Eyes of the Risen Christ

John 20:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... decide to give it a try. When they find her house in the swamp, the boys dare Edward to go and tell the woman that they want to see her eye. Edward goes and brings back the old woman. She has scraggly hair and a patch over her left eye. Only two boys ... that God wins. On that hill called Golgotha, evil had its best chance to defeat God and could not do it. God wins!... and He wants to share that victory with you and me. That is the good news, the amazing news that can change our lives forever. Let me show you ...

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