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501. Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , "He was a genius," then you are apt to take the remark more seriously. There was a character in the Gospel who Jesus once described with four immortal words: Great is your faith. She was a Canaanite woman who came from the country to the north of Palestine, a country hostile to the Jews. She was presumably married, she had at least one child; but that’s all we know about her. We don't know whether she was a good woman or a bad woman. We don’t know her name. All we know of her is that in this ...

502. The Vicarious Servant

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... and were pierced to the heart by the callousness of human sin. But as they went away from the hill and into the world of their time, they were to become witnesses to a new life bought for them by him. And as they carried the Gospel into a hostile and indifferent future, Christ would see - as the prophet wrote - "the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied" (v. 11). Shall we let them down? Cecil Alexander’s lines are our answer: O dearly, dearly has he loved, And we must love him too; And trust ...

503. One’s Proper Service

Isaiah 58:1-14

Illustration

Larry Powell

... whether they be friends or adversaries, doing good to every man and willingly hurting no man." Wesley practiced what he preached. He traveled about 225,000 miles, preached about 50,000 times to crowds small and large, often up to 20,000, occasionally facing hostile mobs and barrages of stone and mud. But he had a plucky, game spirit, going on to the next town, leaving his class and "bands" to multiply. The service of outreach performed by Wesley, even with our precise statistics and access to his faithfully ...

504. Song of a Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... slinking through the murk to raid flocks he was tending (1 Samuel 17:34-36). So, to protect his sheep, the herdsman preceded them into the shadows armed with a nail-studded club. Alert to the slightest movement or sound, he fought to the finish any hostile person or beast accosting him. Brigands or beasts of prey, however, were not the only threats to the sheep. At times they had to be protected from themselves. For on occasion one of the flock, becoming confused in the darkness, wandered away. As soon as ...

505. Jesus Brings People Together

Ephesians 2:14-18

Children's Sermon

Erskine White

... -eyed people worshiping God on the other side? The Bible says that with the coming of Jesus, the walls which divide people no longer exist. "Jesus is our peace," the Bible says: "He has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall [of] hostility between us." We don’t often think of this when we think about Christmas, what with all the fun we have with presents, pageants and Christmas carols, but Jesus’ birth also means that a new kind of peace is born. A baby is coming who makes all ...

506. Great Grace Was Upon Them!

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... God’s message with boldness. (v. 31) It seems like another mini-Pentecost experience! Yes, this is powerful stuff we are dealing with. We may not be the same when we leave the sanctuary. This unique community of believers, located in the midst of a hostile environment, do not stay lost in rapture, praise, and prayer. They do not remain so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. Their prayers, as most prayers should, lead to action. Just as Jesus’ words had power to still storms and heal the sick ...

507. The Church Reaches Out!

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... and controversies. Some of these struggles came about because Christianity was born in a Jewish home. We Christians sometimes forget that Christ was a Jew. We owe much to the Jewish people. The debt should create a spirit of gratitude instead of suspicion, hostility, and snide remarks. Though the church began as a Jewish institution, it was not to stay that way. Old differences and distinctions were not to be perpetuated. The people of Pentecost who became the people of the Way, were called to move across ...

508. Stewards of Life, Death, and Beyond

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... the lesser of wrongs. That may be the choice in having or not having an abortion. So as stewards of life itself, I think that sometimes abortion is the preferred choice over the alternative of bringing a fetus to full term and birth into a hostile, unkind world. The Nearness of Death Two recent events lead me to talk with you about the death process. In the recent past, I was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to lecture on preaching to the Academy of Preachers. The Reverend Richard Lundeen, who was also to ...

509. Resurrection: From Slave to Child

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... journey that Jesus took that first Palm Sunday illustrates the biblical call to move from slavery to being sons and daughters of God. Earlier, the disciples had urged Jesus’ retreat to the safety of Galilee. There the leaders were fewer and less hostile. But in Jerusalem he faced increased tension, trouble, torture - and even death. Yet, Jesus did not retreat. His response to the proposal was, "Get behind me, Satan!" Jesus’ power was a steadfastness to God’s purposes, God’s will, God’s intention ...

510. A Reed Who Became a Rock

John 1:35-42

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... of their favorite men. And in most such elections, Paul would probably emerge at the top of the list. But Paul, in many ways, was different from you and me. Paul at one time was a bitter opponent and enemy of the Christian Gospel. He was hostile to it. He actually was responsible for the arrest, imprisonment, and murder of many of the early Christian believers. Most Christians today do not have such a background. Have you ever really hated the church? Or persecuted it? Have you despised it so extremely that ...

511. A Citizen of Three Worlds

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... Saint Paul! His Sufferings He carried the message of the Gospel to the ends of his world - crossing mountains, seas, deserts. He confronted adversity ... persecution ... affliction ... opposition ... misunderstanding ... imprisonment: unbelievable hardship and unimaginable hostility. Chains and pains were his constant companions. His own catalogue of his perils and problems (2 Corinthians 11:23-28) tells us that he was beaten ... stoned ... whipped ... imprisoned ... flogged ... shipwrecked ... scourged. He ...

512. Wait and Witness

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... between the United States and Russia. That is a deep division, to be sure. We have grown weary of its war of words. We can see no end to the conflict. As loyal American citizens we are not sure that anything can change the nature of the hostility, the curtain of iron, that separates people from people. Our loyalties, of course, place us on the American side of this conflict. We pull for our side to win the struggle of nations. As loyal American citizens in today’s divided world, we sometimes feel quite ...

513. When Things Don’t Work Out, What Then?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... he spoke of his nation’s capital: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem ... How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me" (Matthew 21:37, TEV). When he was being watched by hostile critics; when he was being cross-examined by his enemies; when he was in distress of soul as he faced the possibility of having to drink the cup of suffering; when he faced the unanswered question, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15 ...

514. Proper 11

2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 2:11-22, Mark 6:30-44

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... THROUGH CHRIST AND HIS SACRIFICE, FOR WHICH WE NOW GATHER TO THANK AND PRAISE GOD. Collect God of power and might, who have reconciled us to you and one another in Christ, impress us anew with the significance of that gift; that, seeing again the walls of hostility destroyed, we may feel truly closer to you and to one another. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Forgiving God, we confess that we do not always live as people who have been reconciled to you or to one another; that we often ...

515. "The Sawdust and the Circus"

Numbers 27:12-23

Sermon

... the world crack his whip at the world’s most ferocious lions. We like to be amazed at the little car out of which come a thousand clowns and a giant. By the same token, we like to come to church-or talk religion. Because it’s different from the hostile world around us - the world of dog-eat-dog, the world of the fight for success or the fight for survival. For an hour or so we have peace of mind, or an illusion of it, and then we go back to business as usual. The fact of the matter ...

516. The Miracle of Salvation

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

... today. The psychiatrist feels that once this is done the guilt can be dispelled. In other words, if a psychiatrist can show me that I hated my father when I was a small boy - then I can realize that this is the source of my feelings of hostility today - and I can put it all behind me and live a life that is tranquil and loving. Unfortunately, what sounds so easy and reasonable doesn’t always work that way. Psychiatry (and let me repeat - this is a real healing ministry - we need psychiatrists today to ...

517. Looking Ahead with Hope

John 1:43-51

Sermon

... later, there is a verse which says, "Simon of Cyrene, father of Rufus and Alexander." When Simon of Cyrene was forced to carry the cross he must have thought there couldn’t have been anything more degrading. How he must have felt the eyes of the hostile crowd upon him. They looked with scorn at a man forced to carry a felon’s cross, charged with the worst. Yet, just thirty years later, out of the degradation and humiliation of that moment, something happened in the life of Simon of Cyrene. When the ...

518. OUR LORD DENIED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... had ceased. In the deathly silence, every eye was turned on him. His bones seemed to quiver, turn to limp rope. Caught unaware, he denied it, protesting, "I do not know what you mean." The others continued to stare, and he felt he was at the center of a hostile world, but in a moment they were distracted and he got up from his place by the fire and went out to the porch. Another girl, perhaps told by the first of her suspicions, followed him, and in a loud voice so the bystanders could hear, said, "This man ...

519. Called into Friendship

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... us, strengthens us, and draws forth from us our best qualities. John G. Paton was a great missionary who served in the islands of the South Pacific. After three months in those savage islands, he buried his wife. Left alone, heartbroken, and surrounded by strange and hostile faces, he said, "If it had not been for Christ and his friendship, I should have gone mad and died beside that lonely grave." When Jesus Christ calls us friends, he wants us to respond and be his friend. Friendship is two-sided, as we ...

520. The Sheep And The Goats

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Brett Blair

... made some proposals on make-shift hospitals, trained volunteers, and the necessity for international cooperation. Finally, five years later, at the Geneva Convention of 1864 sixteen nations signed accords-modeled on Dunant's proposals, acknowledging the neutrality of medical personnel in times of hostility. For their banner and symbol they chose a white flag with a red cross. And so the Red Cross was born! We need to look upon each person as though he or she was Christ. Kindness is the criteria by which we ...

521. Advent 4: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Christ of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... so long to know. The poet put it like this: "O little Inn of Bethlehem, How like we are to you. Our lives are crowded to the brim. With this and that to do. We're not unfriendly to the King, We mean well without a doubt; We have no hostile feeling, We merely crowd Him out." Won't you let Him in this Christmas? Won't you offer Him your warmest hospitality? Won't you welcome Him into your life this year with open arms? Won't you receive Him into your life as never before? Won't you "make ...

522. Back To Basics: The Three R's of Baptism

Mark 1:1-8, Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... recognizing that we have the ability to change. These things are terribly hard to do. But unless we turn, we will be trapped forever in yesterday's ways." Clinton's quote ended with this prayer: "Lord help us to turn, from callousness to sensitivity, from hostility to love, from pettiness to purpose, from envy to contentment, from carelessness to discipline, from fear to faith. Turn us around, O Lord, and bring us back toward you. Revive our lives as at the beginning and turn us toward each other, Lord, for ...

523. The Need for A Community of Healing

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... and prayer. These and many others I have known have been healed because friends have brought them to the good physicians and have prayed to the Physician of us all. The Church can and should be that kind of healing community. In a lonely world of hostility and alienation we need that kind of concern. III. Note further that in the story of Jesus and the sick, healing and the forgiveness of sins are associated. It may be that some illnesses are caused by sin. I know that many psychosomatic diseases are caused ...

524. The Technicolor Sign

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Larry Powell

... for a "sheep thief." One of the brothers, too embarrassed to remain in the community, wandered from one village to another attempting to disguise his reputation. However, true to the old adage, "a bird never flies so far that it escapes its tail," he encountered hostility wherever he went. Embittered, he was to die and be buried in a forgotten grave. The other brother repented of his crime, remained in the community, and was determined to win back his respect. In his old age, he had gained the reputation of ...

525. An Old Plan For New People

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... message in an oilskin pouch, strapped it over his heart, and in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba in an open boat. He disappeared into the jungle and in three weeks came out on the other side of the island, having traversed a hostile country on foot. More importantly, he had delivered the message to Garcia. The thing which impressed Hubbard was this: When McKinley gave Rowan the message to Garcia, Rowan did not ask, "Where is he ... how shall I do it ... couldn’t somebody else go?" Nor, we ...

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