Sermon and Worship Resources

Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on

Showing 476 to 500 of 2332 results

476. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... A GREAT THRONG, AND HE HAD COMPASSION ON THEM.” (6:34a) That’s Jesus for you. He had compassion. One might understand if He had become irritated. I probably would have. Here was a chance to get away for a rest...they even went to a lonely, deserted place to get away from the crowds...but when they arrived, the crowds had beaten them to it! Jesus might have become irritated. But when he saw them, and saw their enormous needs, he put his weariness aside for awhile and began to teach them. He never turned ...

477. Radical Surgery

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... named Eberhard Busch, Barth said, “I was dreaming that a voice asked me, ‘Would you like to see hell?’ and I said, ‘Oh, I am very interested to see it once.’” Then a window was opened and he saw an immense desert. It was very cold, not hot. In this desert there was only one person sitting, very alone. Barth was depressed by the loneliness. Then the window was closed and the voice said to him, “And that threatens you.” Barth said: “There are people who say I have forgotten this region. I ...

478. Brokenness and Bread

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... and join the great procession marching to the Promised Land. Humankind is greedy--God is generous. God has always demonstrated in word and deed, "The More Excellent Way." Right there in the midst of their murmuring (which I call Operation Desert Storm) God initiates Operation Desert Share and provides manna from heaven--not because they are grateful--but because God is a God of grace who is generous. On Maundy Thursday Jesus even takes this example to a greater level of meaning and purpose. Father Henri ...

479. Don't Let Your Tongue Bite You

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... : the hummingbird and the vulture. The vulture sees nothing but rotting meat because that is what the vulture looks for. They thrive on a diet of dead and decaying things. The hummingbird flies over the same desert and past the same dead carcasses and sees instead the tiny blossoms of the cactus flower. They buzz around until they find the colorful blooms hidden from view by the rocks. Each bird finds what it is looking for. We all do. The same can be said for our words ...

480. Hissing in the Garden

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... I want to share five things for your consideration. First of all, acceptance of the reality of temptation and evil is healthy --even Jesus did. Dr. Joe A. Harding creates a stirring word picture about Jesus'' temptation in the desert. There is a young man, about 30 years of age. He is alone in a vast desolate desert. For 40 days he is there. Day after day, night after night. It is a place of blistering heat by day, bone-chilling cold at night. He has only enough food for survival. He is fasting alone in the ...

481. A Glimpse of Eternity

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... can only be experienced. All I can do at times to explain the MOUNTAIN is to invite someone to experience it for themselves. The same can be said of our relationship to Jesus Christ. We can never experience the joy of faith if we are stuck in the desert of fatalism, fear, and foolishness. We must begin the journey to experience and know the meaning of faith. In the summers of 1966 and 1967, I had the great privilege of traveling along with a bus load of scouts from Newark, N.J., to the Philmont Scout Ranch ...

482. Just Speak the Name

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion. I will share the words of the Lord Jesus Christ that came from the time he celebrated this meal with his disciples before his death on a cross. In that gathering was one who would betray him--all others would eventually desert him. However, our Lord loved them all. He loves us. When our words fail, remember the Word--the name above all names. It is this word that allows us to labor and to love as Jesus did. Henri Nouwen tells the story of three Priests who would ...

483. God Help the Fish

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... vanish. And because we have failed at meaningful change in the past, we are hesitant to commit ourselves to any real change now. It is interesting that after Jesus’ baptism, Mark tells us, “At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert, and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan.” I don’t know anyone who has attempted a real change in their lives who has not found themselves for a while in the wilderness. That is why resolutions rarely cut it. That is why good intentions ...

484. Who Can Ask for Anything More?

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... they have been knocking at the wrong door. An old story is told of a man who was asked if he found shade while crossing the desert. He said he had found shade but was not able to get into it. When asked why he could not, he replied, "Have you ever ... word, "And remember I am with you always, to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20) and "I will never let go of you or desert you" (Hebrews 13:5 Goodspeed)? I offer a final incident that sums up the central truth of the unfailing presence of our Divine Friend. It ...

485. Joy to the World

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... anymore. The town has moved south, and everything revolves around small strip malls, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, and a Super Kroger. For all practical purposes, downtown is dead and buried. Not many people go downtown anymore. There is something sad about a town becoming deserted. It's eerie! You can easily find a place to park. Buildings are empty, beckoning for someone to put them to use again and restore them to their original intention. This is nothing compared to the destruction of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was ...

486. Jesus Brings Us to New Life

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... other way around. It had only taken ten minutes to reach Tiny's home, but now after twenty minutes of driving he found himself on a deserted dirt road, totally lost. When the car sputtered, he realized he was out of gas. David was overcome with anxiety. It was 10 p.m. ... in some cases completely reversed direction. God was with the Israelites every moment during their forty-year sojourn in the desert following their exodus from Egypt. When the people sinned and were, as a consequence, subjected to the rule of ...

487. Baptized...and Baptized

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and helps us perceive John's stature. These men that were named possess the highest authority in the land -- but John came with a higher Authority. These men were the establishment of organized society including organized religion, but John came out of the desert. However, in that desert, the word of God had come to John, the son of Zachariah -- and it was that word that made him a prophet in the line of Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Under direct inspiration of God, such men as these had counseled ...

488. Watering The Garden Of Our Life (communion Meditation)

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 4, 1990) What the Nile did until it was contained is a picture of our proverb for today: "A generous person will be enriched, and one who gives water will get water." Like the Nile river, the mere flow of your life is meaningless in this desert world of today. It is when your heart overflows generously that you are enriched to the point of life being meaningful. It is when your heart overflows generously that you provide refreshing water for all the parched lives around you. Listen to the two verses of ...

489. Commandments of Conduct

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the goodness that God intends. Having redeemed us in Jesus Christ, however, God does not just let us stumble around in the dark, wondering what to do in this new life we have been granted and making up the rules as we go along. God does not desert us any more than he deserted post-exilic Israel. No. God continues to go with us and to guide us, and he does that by giving us commandments. God points the way, which is the basic meaning of "Torah." He says, "Here is the way to walk. Here is the way to abundant ...

490. Endings

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... our armies ... Thou has made us like sheep for the slaughter, and hast scattered us among the nations. Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. Psalm 44:9-10, 12 Israel's life as a people was at an end, because God had deserted her, she was sure. "My way is hid from the Lord," she mourned, "and my right is disregarded by my God" (Isaiah 40:27). The end of a loving human relationship is bad enough, but the end of our relationship with God is worst of all. The glad news of ...

491. Get Rid of the Junk

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... AND BEING CURSED HAS TO DO WITH THE BASIC ORIENTATION OF YOUR LIFE. Jeremiah describes the cursed as trusting in mere mortals. That is, if the meaning of your life has to do with your toys and your accomplishments, then you are like a shrub in the desert. You can buy insurance to protect your health, you can strive diligently to stay on the right path and protect your reputation, but if you only trust in the tools this world can provide, sooner or later you’re going to come across an obstacle in your ...

492. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... beliefs did not change and the Spirit’s power did not lift, they thought they were still O.K. Pillars of orthodoxy, anointed servants of God, all the while marching towards the dark side of judgment. In a book on the sayings of the desert monks of the fourth century, Owen Chadwick sounds a note of caution: “Sometimes we excuse relatively minor flaws in people, especially if they have done something extraordinary for God. But God doesn't just want extraordinary good works from us, but obedience in small ...

493. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

Sermon

James L. Killen

... . Perhaps the best way to get started is to ask, "What was the significance of the flood?" To the ancient, desert-dwelling people of the Bible, water, the sea, especially the dark, swirling, angry depths of a storm-tossed sea, was ... could think about all of the inner misgivings that Noah must have had to overcome to follow an order to build a ship in the middle of a desert. We could think about the courage it must have taken to do that in spite of the ridicule of the people around him. It is not always easy ...

494. Bloody Lintels — Broken Bread

Exodus 12:1-14

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... . Fresh blood was needed because the patient's own blood had ceased to coagulate. In such a case, conserved blood, would not be effective. The three women practitioners each gave what they could -- a half pint of blood. A television show depicts a traveler lost in the Sahara Desert and dying of thirst; he removes his dagger from its sheath, cuts the skin on the shoulder of his camel, sucks the blood, and his thirst is quenched and he is saved! Blood is life. Loss of blood is death. It is by the blood of a ...

495. Massah and Meribah

Exodus 17:1-7

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... course it's possible, and we know this because we ourselves have been ungrateful and thoughtless at those times when we feel physical or emotional want. What have you done for me lately? That's the question the world asks. Don't look upon God's people in the desert with derision. Put yourself in the story and think; think hard, about how you might have reacted had you been there. Collect One: O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! All: Let us come into his ...

496. Are You Feeling Sheepish?

Psalm 23, John 10:11-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. What an amazing affirmation about life. It says there is no experience that you can enter where God is not there with you. There is no condition in your life, no emotional crisis, no psychological despair, no desert of sorrow or regret that you must pass through where you will be alone. All the pilgrim psalms say the same thing. The 139th Psalm says, If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there! If I take the wings ...

497. Timing Is Everything

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... was the Jewish civilization. It contributed the most to the preparation, and it was the longest in preparation, eight hundred years. There is a new book entitled, The Gifts of the Jews. It is a wonderful book. It's subtitle is, "How A Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels." It is written by Thomas Cahill, who also wrote, How the Irish Saved Civilization. Two wonderful books. The great contribution of the Jews was to see history as moving toward a goal that they called the Kingdom ...

498. What Kind of Name Is That?

Luke 1:26-31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... took over for Moses after Moses died. Jesus took over for John the Baptist when John the Baptist died. Moses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt into the desert wilderness for forty years, which period in their history they interpreted as preparation for entering into the Promised Land. John the Baptist is introduced in all the gospels in the desert where he is preparing the people for the coming of the Messiah, who will lead us into the new Promised Land, which he called the Kingdom of God. You shall ...

499. When Saying No Means Yes

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... believed that they were in the wilderness to prepare them for their vocation as the "chosen people." And Jesus was in the desert for forty days to prepare him for his special vocation as the "chosen one," as the Messiah. With that in mind, you ... not tempt the Lord your God." That is the only scripture quoted in the Temptation that refers to the Exodus. The Jews had been in the desert a sufficient length of time to discover it was going to be hard. They were out of water. They didn't know how they would ...

500. Proper 21

Exodus 17:1-7, Ezekiel 18:1-32, Philippians 2:1-11, Philippians 2:12-18, Matthew 21:23-27, Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... water for the people in the wilderness? Can the people be blamed for finding fault with their leader who brought them to this desert? If anyone is at fault, it is God and not Moses. He is only following the directions of God. So Moses asked, "Why ... his omnipotence and we restrict our prayers to trifles. Consider the text. Is God able to provide water for a million people in a desert where there is no water? In life we face "impossible" situations. Our need is to trust God to do the impossible for us. Outline ...

Showing results