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26. Good News From A Graveyard

John 20:1-9

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John M. Braaten

... gospel accounts of the resurrection, you discover an unusual thing; the first reaction of the men and women who came to the tomb was not joy - it was bewilderment and fear! The immediately impact of the resurrection on the followers of Jesus was confusion and apprehension. Mary Magdalene was in shock and the disciples, regardless of John's comment that one of the disciples believed, were clearly unnerved by it all. After all, they went from that tomb and locked themselves in a secret room. So it all adds up ...

27. The Interview

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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Larry Goodpaster

... I mean, share the good news -- tell the story! As you are going about your daily routine, in the coffee shop with your friends, on your street, in your neighborhood, tell the story.” “But I’m not sure I know what to say,” she was beginning to grow a bit apprehensive about all this. “Don’t worry about the big words or even having a few words in the right order. The story is simple, and you learned it when you were a child: Jesus loves me, this I know. Just sing that with your life and you’ll be ...

28. Wedding: 1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Joseph R. Foster

Journeys should be exciting and fun, yet they are also filled with apprehensions and fears. Such is the beginning of the journey we call marriage. We are nervous because we are not sure exactly what we are getting into. We may have mapped out the course for our relationship with another, but we are not 100% sure that the other shares our total ...

29. Sowing Seed Is Never A Waste of Time

Matthew 13:1-23

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Johnny Dean

... I. Two weeks ago yesterday I arrived at Craig Springs campground, full of enthusiasm over the prospect of sowing the seeds of the gospel in the midst of 23 teenagers. Now, I have to confess that the degree of my enthusiasm was at least matched by the amount of apprehension I felt at the prospect of dealing with 23 teenagers at the same time. There are days when one teenager is almost too much. And, to be fair, I should also say that I’m certain that there are days when one father or one mother is almost ...

30. The Flame, The Wind, And The Walk

Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Marion Fairman

... makes a brave effort to cope) But why not? Ask your question! Man: About the Holy Spirit -? Leader: (Dismayed) You're going to ask a question about the Holy Spirit? Woman: (Stands; firmly) If he can ask a question, I want to ask one too. Leader: (Apprehensively) Is yours about the Holy Spirit? Woman: Yes. (Slight pause) The first one! Leader: (Mouth drops open) You have more? Woman: A lot more! (She pats her notebook) You told us last week to take notes - right here - I have them! Man: (A little miffed) So ...

31. It Dawned on Me

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... . "Before the cock crows," Jesus replied, "you will deny me three times." "Never," said Peter defiantly, "Never." We had moved from John Mark's house through the Kidron Valley and arrived at the Garden of Gethsemane, exhausted by the night's activities, with apprehension of what was to come. Jesus took Peter, James and John with him further into the Garden to pray. "I had never seen him like this," Peter said later. "He was struggling with something that agonized him like no man has ever agonized." "My ...

32. Mary Remembers

Luke 1:26-38

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... ." "I am in your eternal debt, sir. I will never forget your kindness," Joseph replied. I knew that I would give birth that night. The journey was almost more than I could bear. Through the night I was in constant labor pain, mixed with feelings of apprehension, exhaustion, fear, but also trust. My mind went through every emotion. My one overwhelming desire was to give my child a healthy birth. If the angel was correct, if this indeed was to be the Son of God, he should not be born under these circumstances ...

33. The Day You Were Healed

Luke 17:11-19

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... healed, when your physician wrote your exit visa from the hospital, when the nurses wheeled you to the front door where your spouse was waiting in the family limo, and you were on your way? Almost forgotten now is the pain, the apprehension, and the helplessness that you had felt when the paramedics brought you in with siren screaming, the intravenous feedings, the wires and the tubes that made you feel like an electrical appliance. Almost forgotten, too is your whispered "Lord, have mercy," your wondering ...

34. Christmas 1

Lk 2:41-52 · Col 3:12-17 · 1 Sam 2:18-20, 26

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John R. Brokhoff

... , the sermon often becomes a brief meditation. Christmas 1 affords the preacher an opportunity to preach a doctrinal message on the Incarnation. 3. Christmas 1 is probably the last Sunday of the calendar year. People are aware of the close of the old year and are apprehensive of what a new year might bring. If a church does not have a New Year's Eve Watchnight service or a New Year's "The Name of Jesus" service, the preacher may find it beneficial to deal with the passing of the old year. 4. Christmas ...

35. The Promise of Emmanuel

Isaiah 7:1-25

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... gifts purchased. The day-to-day problems of being a child still will face those awaiting Santa's coming. There will still be adjustment to playmates, family tensions, sharing love and gifts with family members. There is, if only we are aware of it, a kind of apprehension lurking behind and beneath our anticipation, which is the word of the Lord in today's text. The Emmanuel passage in Isaiah 7 is not a Messianic text. The text speaks of God's activity apart from the child. God's activity is imminent and it ...

36. THE AGE OF ANXIETY

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... all the problems with the economy, crime, terrorists, and assassination attempts. The evening news plays the same familiar tune night in and night out. Sometimes we feel that these days we have to take the bad with the worst. Much of the time we feel apprehensive about the future. Feeling uneasy, we sometimes wonder what impending ill will befall us next. In the light of many troubles, the Sermon on the Mount seems to be a tough saying from Jesus. It states that if our minds were set on God, we would ...

37. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... : [Alarmed, but with the air that she expected something of this sort] What sort of disturbance? MJ: The men selling, you know, oxen and sheep and pigeons - and the men who exchange the money for the pilgrims. [A deep, long sigh. MB watches MJ closely, yet apprehensively] My son, so angry. [She shakes her head, staring straight ahead, then continues quickly] He made a whip out of cords, and lashed it around and around at these men, driving them and their animals right out of the Temple. MB: Oh, my! MJ: And ...

38. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

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Leonard Mann

... verse: Carry your candle with care, my child! The wind is waiting, The wind is waiting to blow it out. Now I fully agree that one should be wary of the waiting wind, and I know that winds are waiting. But I would make this point: If you are too apprehensive about the wind, you will never light your candle in the first place - and that, I think, would be more calamitous than to risk it to the wind. Yes, we are all going on into tomorrow; we have no choice. So light your candle and venture into the wind. It ...

39. Our Exclusive God (The First Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... or anybody. Of course, whatever is in first-place in your life is your god. By definition, you can have only one god at a time. Repeatedly in the book of Exodus God is described as a jealous deity. "Jealous" here does not mean suspicious or apprehensive of rivalry. Rather it means that God demands exclusive loyalty. In the Old Testament the adjective "jealous" is used only of God. There was a man who had been married twice, first to Mary and then to Tilley. He outlived both his wives. But finally as ...

40. A Gospel that Fills the Glove

Sermon

James Bjorge

... pick him up with the gospel. It sounds crude; but it brought healing and wholeness. During World War II a group of men were huddling together the eve before a major battle. Their thoughts had turned to serious things as they were a bit apprehensive about tomorrow’s prospects. Death found its way into their conversation. Some of the men began questioning what happens after death. While there were some stock answers tossed around, none seemed to satisfy. So one of the men suggested calling in the chaplain ...

41. An Identity Crisis

Sermon

James Bjorge

... power" (Hebrews 1:1-3). Last fall I did a lot of pheasant hunting in Iowa with my older brother. On one of his visits he brought along his black labrador. A lab is supposedly a born hunter with keen instincts for the outdoor life. I was a bit apprehensive though, for this dog had not been trained in hunting skills and I was dubious of his native abilities. Well, the fears were well-grounded for when this explosive black lab hit the fields, he was off chasing the winds. He did not know what he was supposed ...

42. The Forgiving Father (Father's Day)

Luke 15:11-32

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Brett Blair

... would usually be: “what have we done wrong, now.” Finally, he said, my wife pointed out to me that the tone in my voice when I called these meetings was very serious, the same tone that he used when he disciplined his children. Thus, they responded with apprehension. I have thought about that, and I wonder if that is not similar to the response that many people have when they have a meeting with God. They come to him with the feeling: Well, we must really be in trouble now. Despite all of the talk that ...

43. Easter: The Festival Of Joy

Isaiah 25:1-12

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... handled the dying business very well so it is hard for me to avoid the big question: "How will I handle it?" For these reasons many psychiatrists believe that death is at the bottom of all human anxieties. The poet paints a picture of these human apprehensions of death in these moving words, "... crazed we come and coarsened we go our wobbling way; there’s a white silence of antiseptics and instruments at both ends, but a babble between and a shame surely. O show us the route of hope ..." (Auden). That is ...

44. Christian Courage

Acts 4:1-22

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... ; but many of them would be emptier if the gospel were preached in them." To insure my safety and popularity do I water down the gospel? I know some people who for conscience sake, were arrested and spent a night in jail. They were very fearful and apprehensive. Was this the right thing to do? Will I be forever branded as a law-breaker? What will jail be like? These were some of the fear-producing questions. But the jail experience, for conscience sake, turned out to be much more positive than they expected ...

45. What Do You See?

John 1:43-51

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Thomas Long

... young mothers and squirming children. The pastor and the man sat down to observe for a few minutes. A nurse appeared at the door and called to one of the children, a little boy, about four years old, who marched bravely toward the nurse, already apprehensively rubbing his arm where he knew he would soon receive an innoculation. A few minutes later the little boy reappeared at the door, now rubbing his pained arm in earnest, poking his lower lip forward, fighting the tears that were pushing out of his eyes ...

46. Inevitabilities and the Last Days

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... wind that bends the creaking leafy forest giants into submission. The camper cringes in his tent as, in the now imminent storm, the thunder applauds the pyrotechnics of the lightning. Jesus’ predictions in the Gospel Lesson arouse our awe and apprehension, like an approaching mountain storm. Their air of inevitability nearly makes us cringe and cower and run for cover. I. Jesus speaks of the inevitability of change. It seemed to his disciples that the temple at Jerusalem would endure forever. There ...

47. A Cup Running Over

John 11:17-37

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James W. Robinson

... seemed like hours while we awaited the crisp knock at the door that would signal the arrival of the doctor. We can hear his footsteps on the stair, and see him bending over the patient, as we held our breath and awaited his diagnosis. We were apprehensive, but reassured simply by his presence. in our opinion, God had made him little less than God, in his wisdom and healing powers. The sisters regarded Jesus in the same light. "If you had been here, O great Physician, my brother would not have died." Such ...

48. Is Your Religion Second-Hand?

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... to me" (1 Corinthians 15:3, NEB). Paul used a traditional Jewish expression to stress the fact that he was passing on a tradition which existed before his own ministry. However, it is crucial to a vital faith that our traditional acceptance become a lively apprehension. It is by such a development that we grow from a second-hand inheritance to a first-hand experience. "What you have inherited from your fathers," said Goethe, "you must earn for yourself before you can call it yours." What is it that makes ...

49. Human Nature Revisited

2 Samuel 18:1-18

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Roger Prescott

... . Go forward, eager and reverent child, see here I begin to take my hands away from you, I shall see you walk careless on the edges of the precipice, but if you wish you shall hear no word come out of me; My whole soul will be sick with apprehension, but I shall not disobey you. Life sees you coming, she sees you come with assurance towards her, She lies in wait for you, she cannot but hurt you; Go forward, go forward, I hold the bandages and ointments ready, And if you would go elsewhere and lie alone ...

50. Saved!

Mark 10:17-31

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Warren Thomas Smith

... exemplar of virtue lacked something - indeed, he lacked a great deal. Did Shakespeare have him in mind? What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And this line, spoken by Hamlet, closes: and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?1 Said Jesus, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you have, and give it to the poor ...

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