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4926. God Bless Santa!

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) For God so loved the world that he gave... What could be more “Christmassy” than giving? Christmas is the one time of the year when our thoughts tend more toward giving than to getting. Even the most selfish among us find our thoughts turned toward others. We go out of our way to consider family and friends. We even do things for people we normally forget: food baskets for the poor, toys for tots, and so on. You remember what happened ...

4927. Living In The “In Between” Time

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

Ronald Love

... IV neuroblastoma. As Still related his feelings, “Right there in the hospital waiting room, I fell to my knees. I’d never taken a hit that hard playing football. My head was spinning. And I felt a flash of anger. What did God want from me? Then I thought of the people at church, their incredible support. I was going to need them more than ever. But more than ever, I craved that one-on-one connection to God. His voice booming in my ears. As it had for my grandmother.” Still felt closer to God, but ...

4928. Get Ready

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... Christ does not know when his return will occur. Someone asks, when will Christ return—when will history come to a climax and a new world order, a world order straight from the heart of God, be introduced? The answer is, we don’t know. The early church thought it would be in their lifetime. It’s been more than 2,000 years. “Why does the Lord tarry?” many ask. We don’t know. Now, there are some people who would not say, “I don’t know.” That is not what we expect from Jesus, certainly. But ...

4929. How About Some Applause for the Creator?

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... and was paralyzed on the right side of his body. For four years he could neither walk nor write. The doctors could do nothing more for him. He managed to write several operas, but they were not successful enough to pull him out of debt. “At age 60 he thought his life was finished. Then he was challenged by a friend to write a sacred oratorio. He read the Scriptures and went to work. For 24 days, he slept or ate very little. He worked fanatically to produce the piece. Before he had begun to work on it ...

4930. God's Plan for a New Year

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... him. “To make your mother as happy as I can all year,” Dad answered. When mom got on the phone, Bill said, “What’s your resolution, Mom?” She answered, “To see that your dad keeps his New Year’s resolution.” I don’t know if you have given any thought to making resolutions as we say good-bye to this year and hello to the next. However, our text from Paul’s letter to the Galatians can certainly give each of us a new appreciation for who we are in God’s plan and purpose for this new year ...

4931. Text Message From Jesus

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Mary Austin

... abbot got back to the monastery, the other monks gathered around him to ask what advice the rabbi had for them. He didn’t have any suggestions, the abbot said sadly. All he said was something strange, the abbot reported. The Messiah is among us. All the old monks thought about this as they did their work. Could there be any truth in what the rabbi had said? The Messiah is among us? They wondered if he could have meant one of them. In that case, which one? Could it be this one? No, he’s too grumpy... but ...

4932. Liz

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... get in enough trouble just come crawling back and we’ll pretend like none of it ever happened. Is that what this church wants to say to our young people? It went back and forth from there. Part of the board supported Liz for the role and others thought it was absolutely the wrong idea. The pastor said a few words about forgiveness and how the church is the one place where we are given a new chance. The pastor said the church could do a tremendous thing for Liz by giving her this opportunity to minister ...

4933. I Want To Remind You — Easter Sunday

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... from the dead, God looked at some of them differently than the others, and maybe some of them were a bit more important than the others? They began to get distracted. I realize the stories we have about the resurrection don’t tell us whether the disciples thought these things then. But, as we look at what was happening in the church as Paul wrote to them just a few decades later, it is clear that those folks had forgotten the fact that they were one, united group who believed in Jesus Christ. They still ...

4934. Your Body Is a Temple

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Ronald Love

... , was a Christian monk and ascetic who resided in a monastery in the Egyptian desert. Concerned with the temptations that besought people the most, in the year 375 he compiled a list of the eight terrible thoughts, also referred to as the eight evil temptations. The eight patterns of evil thought are gluttony, greed, sloth, sorrow, lust, anger, vainglory, and pride. The list was not to be one of condemnation; rather, it was to raise awareness to our most compelling temptations so that we would be self ...

4935. A Waste of Time?

Mark 14:1-15:47

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... at a friend’s house, and the woman came in with a very expensive bottle of perfume. She broke it open and poured it on Jesus’ feet. She gave the very best thing she had, to show Jesus how much she loved him. But not everyone thought it was a good thing. Some of them thought she was wasting the perfume. They said she could have used it for something else or even sold it to raise money to help feed poor people. But Jesus told them that she had done the right thing. You don’t have to “save” your love ...

4936. Name Above All Names

Philippians 2:5-11

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... about a girl your age, who had some stuffed animals and some dolls. She also had a cat. It was very important to this girl that all of these toys and her cat had names. Names tell us so much about something. She took her time, and thought and thought about good names for everything. Finally, she named her cat Midnight. What color do you suppose her cat was? (Let them answer.) She named one of her stuffed animals Teddy. What kind of a stuffed animal do you think Teddy was? (Let them answer.) She had another ...

4937. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... 3] It was a horrible time. In the north, Henry Ward Beecher was pastor of Brooklyn’s Plymouth Congregational Church, the most influential pulpit in the land. When he spoke at ceremonies marking the recapture of Fort Sumter, Beecher made clear what he thought the conflict meant in the eye of God: “I charge the whole guilt of this war upon the ambitious, educated, plotting leaders of the south... A day will come when God will reveal judgment and arraign these mighty miscreants... And then these guiltiest ...

4938. A Surprise Ending

John 20:1-18

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... let me come in. It’s cold outside and I’m getting hungry.” So the little pig brought him in to sit at the fire and made him some oatmeal. The end. Is this a different story than what you expected? It has a surprise ending, doesn’t it? You thought you knew what the ending was, so you almost didn’t hear the new ending. That’s the same thing that happened to Jesus’ friends in our lesson today. What had happened to Jesus? Jesus was arrested and killed on the cross and then buried in the tomb. His ...

4939. The Glory of God

Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... majesty of God. Not when you stand on some hillside and watch thunderheads roll across the horizon, not in earthquake, wind and fire. No, the majesty of God, the great otherness and unfathomable mystery is in God's unwarranted, extravagant -- love. “My thoughts are not your thoughts. My ways are not your ways,” Isaiah hears this God say. My answers are not your answers. You come close to me more through your poetry, your hymns and doxologies, than your reason. Can we be bold enough, in our anxiety to ...

4940. I Am The Good Shepherd

John 10:11-18

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... you a story this morning about a little boy your age, who was lost. The boy went with his parents to the shopping mall. As the family went from one store to another, there was a mix-up. The boy’s father thought the boy was with his mother. The boy’s mother thought the boy was with his father. The boy was with neither. He was lost. The parents immediately stopped what they were doing. They searched and searched for their son. They called the mall security. They checked every store. They talked to all ...

4941. You're In the Army Now

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . So-and-So was taking the day off. That young man ran screaming from the building, out into the Berkley campus and called his fellow students to join him in shutting down the university. But what can you do? At least those protesting students of the sixties THOUGHT they could change the system. “We can change the world, rearrange the world,” was how it went in a song by Crosby, Sills, and Nash. You don't hear songs like that anymore on campus. We feel trapped. Don't agitate, better to adjust. Milk the ...

4942. His Own Knew Him Not

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... The story of the Prodigal Son seen from the point of view of the fatted calf.” That’ll get 'em. I bet they never heard that before! When things are new, unfamiliar, strange, we react with excitement. “How odd” we say, “how utterly fascinating!” I've never thought about it that way before. Yes, I shall have to go home and think this one over.” And we so like it when the preacher tells us something that we can go home and think over. It was the ministers' Monday Morning Coffee Hour and one of ...

4943. On Rendering to God and to Caesar

Mark 12:13-17, Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... their place. But what can a government do when vast numbers of citizens would rather die on drugs than live without them? What new program of the state will give me a reason to live? There are some things which even politics can't do. Aristotle, in his thought on the state, taught us that politics must be judged by something besides politics. Politics at its best is a means for helping me to achieve the “good life” but politics can't tell me what the good life is. Politics at its best is a technique for ...

4944. When It’s Good, It’s Really Good

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Mary Austin

... has lapses and gaps in their love. We need other connections to fill in the gaps, add to the foundation, make us whole. We need our chosen family, or church family, or mentors and wise guides, to fill the spaces. My own thoughtful and conscientious parents never saw a need to tell me or my brothers when they thought we had done something well. It seemed to go without saying, for them. When I was in high school, I had occasion to have lunch with my pastor, and he said to me, “Your mother is so proud of you ...

4945. All In God's Time

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... offers but a lifetime guarantee. So no matter how long we need to wait, our waiting does not have to be a time of empty frustration but can be a time filled with the joy of that promise, as we “marinate” in the promises of God. I love the thought of “marinade.” In fact, those of you who love to cook have at one time or another soaked some meat or vegetables or fish in some kind of marinade –perhaps a combination of oil and lemon, spices and herbs. The result is an amazingly tasty treat. But you ...

4946. Where's God?

John 16:12-15

Sermon

David Coffin

... Nicodemus coming by night to suggest that he did not want to be seen in public with Jesus. Possibly he feared he would lose his position if he was spotted associating with Jesus. People who are terminated from a job quite often find that those whom they thought to be their friends are now cold, aloof, and keep their distance from the recently unemployed person. Jesus meets us where we are — even if it is a dark place at night. This is the nature of the Isaiah suffering servant story in Isaiah 52:12-53 ...

4947. The Dream is Fulfilled

Daniel 4:28-37

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... firing at Job a withering stream of questions about creation, which he could not answer (Job 38:2–39:30; 40:7–41:34). This humbled Job and taught him not to question God in an arrogant or accusing way. In Daniel 4, verses 36–37 repeat the thoughts of verses 34–35. Nebuchadnezzar gets his knowledge or reason back (vv. 34 and 36), and then he praises God (vv. 34–35 and 37). The NIV obscures this by translating, At the same time that my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor were returned to me ...

4948. The Seventy “Sevens”

Daniel 9:20-27

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... , we find a penitential prayer that makes no reference at all to Jeremiah or to the seventy years. On the other side, one might counter that this charge is unwarranted, because Daniel did not imagine that he needed a new interpretation. He already thought he understood the meaning of the seventy years (9:2). Instead of looking for a new revelation, he was acting on his belief that repentance and confession would bring about the deliverance of his people. This was the common understanding of the exiles ...

4949. Woe to the Complacent

Amos 6:1-7

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... drunk by drinking wine mixed with spices, not from cups, but from bowls (cf. Prov. 20:1; 21:17; 23:20–21, 29–35; 31:4–7). And they stimulate themselves by anointing their skin with fragrant oil (cf. Song Sol. 1:3; 4:10). Yet they take no thought for the fact that their society is rotten to the core, blackened and decaying in its commerce and courts and worship, giving no heed to the covenant demands of a God who is Lord over all. Those who are first in the land will therefore continue to be first ...

4950. The Lord Abhors the Pride of Israel

Amos 6:8-14

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... 18:13–15). A mysterious force of evil has seized hold of Israel and made it captive. The prophets in the Old Testament, along with Paul in the New, knew the deadly power of sin (cf. Jer.13:23; Hos. 5:4; Rom. 7:15–24). Some scholars have thought to divide verse 12 from verses 13–14, but verse 13 begins with a participal, and those accused in verse 12 of corrupting justice and righteousness are the braggarts of verse 13. Clearly the root of their sin lies in their pride (cf. the comments on 6:8). Under ...

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