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4976. Travel Arrangements

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

John Jamison

... with them, he told them that since they had been witnesses to the things he had done, they were now to go out into the world and tell those things. They were to announce that repentance and forgiveness was free for everyone. Jesus told them to stay in the city until they were “clothed with power from on high” (v. 49), so they could do the work they had to do. What is important is that rather than standing there, staring up into the sky, fretting about heavenly things, they quickly returned their ...

4977. From Fear to Overflowing Joy

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... crippling results of divorce on some children. “Why has Daddy abandoned me? Doesn’t he love me anymore?” Teenagers have much of the same devastation when called upon to handle the death of a parent. We are usually not aware of it, but that emotion stays with us through our entire lives. A new widow or widower will often have an overwhelming sense of abandonment. Such is also the experience of life without God. But God has not abandoned His people. The story’s told about a small village in Poland ...

4978. All for Some Dumb Sheep

John 10:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... three tipped over and went into a dive. That is when Hyland discovered she couldn’t find her ripcord. She didn’t know how close she was to the ground. Bonadies knew and he knew that further delays would mean a fatal landing. And so, he stayed with her long enough to pull her ripcord, but too long to pull his own before impact. Hyland told investigators that Bonadies, known to his friends as “Bobo,’’ died because he took the time to ensure her survival. Hyland saw none of this actually happening ...

4979. A Divided Family

Mark 3:20-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... -14 that on the day Christ ascended to be with his Father, “the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.” Now listen to the next verse: “They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the ...

4980. Clouds and Son-Shine

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Hubert Beck

Motivation is the key to life. It is not only the key to getting work done, but it is the key to living itself! Once a person loses the will to live, health suffers and death is never more than a step or two away. Motivation is hard to sustain at times, though. The cloudy moments of life cause us to say, "What’s the use of it all?" We want to chuck everything and let come what may without care or concern. That’s when we need to see again the glory of the Lord revealed, for in God’s presence among us we ...

4981. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Hubert Beck

Sometimes want to cry when hear non-Christians say that they have rejected the church because of its divisions. They may mean denominational divisions on occasion, and that is bad enough. But more frequently they mean the internal strife that characterizes all too many congregations. For it is, after all, on the local level that most people encounter the church, and when they see discord and argumentation marking a congregation, they want nothing to do with that. I want to cry because the very body of ...

4982. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

"If poverty is strength, may the good Lord make me weak!" I can hear the idea running around in your head from the time you read the title of today’s sermon. This sermon title sounds every bit as upside down as the Beatitudes that we read as today’s Gospel or as the Second Lesson for today. "God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things ...

4983. The Glory of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

If someone said they would "glorify" you, what would you expect? Honor? Wealth? Power? Fame? Although some of you - perhaps most of you, for that matter - will immediately recognize the words and know their context, play a little guessing game with me for a moment. In what context would you expect these words of Jesus to have been spoken? "Now is the Son of man glorified, and in him God is glorified." Stress the "now" in the sentence so that your guessing is almost pinpointed to an instant in time, for the ...

4984. Discerning the Way of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Hubert Beck

How do we know what God wants us to do? It must be assumed that anybody claiming in any way to be godly must ask oneself that question regularly. One need not be Christian to ask the question, for it is a larger question than what kind of activity can be called Christian. It has to do with what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil, and many people outside Christendom are concerned about the same kinds of questions. It is a bigger question than the everyday kinds of questions about ...

4985. Binding Up the Fractured World

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Hubert Beck

The universe is held together in a most remarkable unity. When one reads scientific descriptions of how everything works, whether it be in the cosmic dimensions of the heavenly bodies or whether it be in the mini-dimensions of the atom, one is overwhelmed with wonder. What keeps everything together and holds it in its place? Why doesn’t it fly off into every direction and dissolve into absolute chaos? We know, of course, for it is part of our confession of faith, that somehow we tie all this to the work of ...

4986. Offering Ourselves to Serve

Luke 12:22-34

Illustration

Craig Brian Larson

In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time, the satellite's primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph the planet and its moons, and beam data to earth about Jupiter's magnetic field, radiation belts, and atmosphere. Scientists regarded this as a bold plan, for at that time no earth satellite had ever gone beyond Mars, and they feared the asteroid belt would destroy the satellite before it could reach its target. But Pioneer 10 accomplished its ...

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