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4801. Wrong Way. On Purpose

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel . . . It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs" . July 17, 1938. Douglas Corrigan tops off the fuel tank of his tiny 1929 Curtis Robin monoplane. Moments later Corrigan is airborne from the East Coast's Floyd Bennett Airfield. The plane is hardly state-of-the-art. His cabin door is literally tied shut with baling wire. Two compasses comprise the sum of his navigational instruments. Corrigan's flight plan was to head west ...

4802. Made For The Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

One of the many Christmas traditions that we all treasure is the singing of Christmas carols. If you grew up in church, you've probably memorized the words to half a dozen carols without even thinking about it. Because many of our carols come from merry old England, some of the ancient words and ideas they use can seem unfamiliar to small children. From The American Legion Magazine comes these misunderstood verses from famous Christmas carols. See if you recognize the songs: "Oh, what fun it is to ride ...

4803. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part IV)

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Eric Ritz

For those in our church family who have not been able to be with us these past three Sundays, we are in the midst of a Lenten sermon series using the imagery of Fasting and Feasting to draw closer to the will of God and to draw closer to Christ by having a closer walk with Him. By using the Word of God and appropriate stories of faith and illustrations, I have urged us and guided us to fast those attitudes, values, words, and lifestyles that are an insult to the Holiness of God, and because there is now a ...

4804. Are We on Speaking Terms with the Almighty?

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

As we open our splendid scripture lesson today, we see the story of two men who go to the same synagogue. They go to the synagogue for the same reason--to pray--yet they experience such different results. One goes to pray to God, and the other goes and hopes God overhears his litany of how good he is. I believe these two characters represent in a very real way our approach to prayer. We, too, shift gears from talking to God to the posture of talking at God. Despite the fact that the secular media of ...

4805. How Is It With Your Soul?

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Somewhere along the way I read a piece entitled "What is a Person" written by a little boy in West Virginia who was asked to write an essay on that subject. This is what he wrote. "When you are a person...your head is kind of round and hard and your brains are in it and your hair is on it. Your face is in the front of your head where you eat and make faces. Your neck is what keeps your head out of your collar, and it's hard to keep clean. Your shoulders are sort of shelves where you hook on your suspenders ...

4806. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

Author Dennis Rainey tells about an exercise he leads each year with his sixth grade Sunday School class. He divides the class into three groups. These groups then compete in putting together a jigsaw puzzle. As these 12-year-olds scatter into three circles on the floor, he explains that there is only one rule in the competition: to put together the puzzle without talking. The contents of puzzle number one are deposited on the floor and Group One immediately goes to work. The group promptly sets up the box ...

4807. Honest Abe

Genesis 12:1-4a

Sermon

Bill Mosley

There's an oft-told story about someone going to church to hear the new young preacher give his first sermon, and someone asks him, "How was the sermon?" And the person said, "Well, it was about faith and sin, but I don't know which he was for and which he was against." This is a sermon about faith, and I want it clear right up front that I'm for it, if it's honest faith. There are two definitions of faith. One is that faith is tenets, beliefs, doctrines. You can "belong to the Christian faith," or the " ...

4808. Fire in the Hold

Acts 2:14a, 22-32

Sermon

Bill Mosley

The great luxury liner was on fire, but no one knew it. Deep in the hold, near the engine room, hundreds of tons of coal were stored. Coal-powered ships used to carry the coal in a watered-down state. But this ship was new, and very big; bigger than any ship ever built, or had ever sailed. So even though the coal was watered for safety, the enormous amount meant that there were dry spots. A fire smoldered undiscovered deep in the coal supply, and when it was discovered, a fire-fighting crew was sent to ...

4809. My Laughin’ Place

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

Sermon

Bill Mosley

4810. Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Last!

Genesis 45:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

It happened to a rural Lake County, South Dakota, Lutheran church in August of 2000. Vandals attacked the fieldstone St. Peter Lutheran Church building with vengeance -- breaking windows, smashing light fixtures, flipping over the baptismal font, slashing a large "Jesus the Good Shepherd" painting, scribbling, and carving obscenities into the sanctuary walls and fixtures. The golden altar cross had been swung like a bat to gouge pews and walls. In the basement, kitchen dishes were broken and objects flung ...

4811. Proper 16

Matthew 16:13-20, Romans 11:33-36, Romans 12:1-8, Isaiah 51:1-16, Exodus 2:1-10, Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Exodus 1:8-2:10 The birth of Moses. The story of the Patriarchs ended with Joseph's bringing the Hebrews to Egypt. In due time they multiplied until they became a threat to the Egyptians. The story of the Exodus begins with the birth of Moses who was adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. The next ten readings will take us from Moses' birth, to the release from Egypt, to the wilderness wanderings for forty years, to Moses' death. Old Testament: Isaiah 22:19-23 Worthy and unworthy leaders ...

4812. Things to Come!

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

I'd quit the ministry were it not for what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 13! Here Jesus is brutally honest in telling his ministers both then and now what to expect. In the best of times ministry is difficult. In the worst of times it is downright intolerable. But there is hope! For in Jesus Christ, nothing is wasted! Matthew 13 is a unique Bible chapter. It is all but the first time in Matthew's Gospel that Jesus used parables to teach. And, clearly, these parables comprise a single sermon, at that! The ...

4813. The Cry for Help

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

In the Gospel of Mark, the woman in our story is called a "Syrophoenician." Matthew, however, calls her a "Canaanite." That's easier to say than "Syrophoenician" but there's something more important going on with that change. The Canaanites are not just Gentiles but enemies. They are the people who were to be driven out of the promised land by the Israelites and who fought against God's covenant people. There could be peace with other people of the Near East, but not with the nations of Canaan. In the Old ...

4814. Live and Learn

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Is anyone's memory of study hall a fun one? Either you were the studious type, who really wanted to use that hour of enforced peace and quiet to get some work done, or you were the kid that was bored, trying to think of ways to sneak out, send notes, shoot spit-wads, or otherwise somehow liven up that deadly hour. But the shushings of study hall monitors and librarians aren't common to all cultures. At traditional Orthodox yeshivas, the bais midrash, the study hall, is filled with noise. Not just noise, ...

4815. Move Life from Duty to Destiny

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Theme: Here is all you and I need to know about the future: It will be filled with Christ’s Presences, and fulfilled with his Promises. This is our destiny as disciples of Jesus: filled presences, and fulfilled promises. Exegesis: “The Word-Made-Flesh . . .” The gospel text for this Sunday before Thanksgiving Sunday continues the theme of last week’s lectionary reading: predictions of impending destruction and the approach of the end times. Though it is not explicitly stated, the presumed audience here is ...

4816. Dirty Laundry or Angels?

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

He is Risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah! The miracle of Easter has shocked us out of our "No-name Saturday" sadness, and filled our broken hearts with joy, our souls with hope, our mouths with praise. Even after two thousand years the resurrection still packs a powerful punch of awe and astonishment every year we're privileged to celebrate Easter. Try and imagine then, if you can, how utterly mind-boggling and adrenaline-pumping that very first Easter morning must have been for the men and women who ...

4817. What's Holding You Together?

Matthew 7:21-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

One of the hottest YouTube videos the past couple of weeks is one where evangelist Louie Giglio introduces the molecular cellular structure called “laminin.” Giglio uses laminin to show how we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” I want to use laminin to challenge you this morning with a fearful and wonderful choice. It’s a choice that determines how you go through life: trying to hold yourself together, or being held in the hands of a loving God. Are you trying to hold the whole word in your hands? Or ...

4818. Are You a Taker or a Giver?

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

It was quite a picture — on the front of the New York Times magazine. There were the "Little Big People" as the cover article names them — "little big people" who are precocious, even out of control, with affluent parents who have only themselves to blame. The picture shows a yuppie- dressed eight- or nine-year-old boy, stylish, cool with his own cellular phone in hand. In the center is a modishly over-dressed twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl, stylish, sexy, and eating high priced Chinese take-out food. ...

4819. 2 Thessalonians 2:13-3:5

2 Thessalonians 2:13 – 3:5

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

The letters to the Thessalonian church may be the earliest extant Christian writings in the modern canon. Although debate continues over the authenticity of Pauline authorship, there is no doubt that these letters grapple with the heart of Paul's missionary message. Significantly, the challenge that confronted the Thessalonian Christians is one that still faces the faithful today: remaining true to the word of God when it conflicts with the message of popular culture. As a much-favored free city in the ...

4820. Matthew 24:36-44

Matthew 24:36-44

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

Matthew the believer and theologian takes seriously the importance of Jesus' words to that first generation of disciples. But Matthew the Gospel writer and apologist to the second generation audience of Christians also takes seriously the needs and questions of his readers. To this end then we need to compare Jesus' words in Matthew 24:34 with his confession in 24:36. In verse 34 Jesus predicts that the events which will immediately precede the parousia of the Son of Man will occur before those listening ...

4821. Matthew 24:36-44

Matthew 24:36-44

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

4822. Mark 8:31-38

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

The central portion of Mark’s gospel, 8:27-10:45, is a journey narrative. This journey begins with Peter’s surprisingly astute recognition and declaration of Jesus as “the Messiah” (8:29). The “journey” that takes us across the scandalous topography of Jesus’ messianic identity, his mission, and the nature of the discipleship required by those who would follow him. Although Jesus had ordered his own disciples to keep his messianic identity a secret, Jesus now begins to tick off a list of the actions and ...

4823. Anybody NOT seeing red?

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Whether you were paying taxes this past Wednesday, or were lucky enough to rate a refund, its been hard not to see anything but red this past week. The Declaration of Independence has a phrase that is an indictment of King George. Pretend you don’t know who it’s referring to. The US “Declaration of Independence” declares that its people should not have to deal with meddlesome agencies that “harass our people and eat out their substance.” Big-time billion-dollar bail-outs, trillion-dollar infusions and ...

4824. Lasting Impression

Luke 3:34-38, Matthew 1:5, 16

Sermon

James Merritt

We have all heard of the actress Brooke Shields. What you may not know about her is her family tree or what we would call her "mosaic" is pretty impressive. Hanging from her family tree are the likes of Charlemagne, El Cid, William the Conqueror, five popes and the royal houses of virtually every European country. Before you think there is something special about her genealogy think about this. Experts now say that even without a documented connection to some notable ancestor, the odds are virtually one- ...

4825. Condition Yellow Christians

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

In every family album, there is always the same picture. It’s one of the most prized photographs in every collection. It features one of the most joyous, unforgettable moments in any parent’s life. It’s the moment when that first child, your tiny, newborn baby, is gently placed in your arms. As you look at your child, such tremendous emotions crowd your heart and mind — love, hope, joy, gratitude, peace, anticipation, wonder. But there is one more revelation that new Moms and Dads don’t usually expect. ...

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