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501. Happy Birthday, Church!

Acts 2:1-13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . As Peter preached his special sermon, everyone understood him. Peter told everyone about Jesus and the wonderful things that he had done. He told people about how Jesus taught us of God's love, died for our sins, and rose from the grave. The people were just wild about the things that Peter said that day. Thousands of them decided to follow Jesus. They were baptized that day and made members of Christ's Church. That is why we call this the birthday of the Church. All of God's promises came true that day ...

502. Jesus Was a Pioneer

Hebrews 2:10

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... in something that looked like this. (Show them a butter churn.) They had to hunt all of their food in the woods. To do that, they had to carry these very heavy guns that were called muskets. It was a hard life, but they must have enjoyed living in the wilds and being free to do whatever they wanted to do. Jesus was a pioneer. The Bible even calls him a pioneer. Jesus lived a life that was different from anyone else's life because he went in new directions that God sent him. Jesus came to do something that ...

503. Baptism of the Lord

Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 61:1-11, Luke 3:21-38, Acts 8:9-25

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... hear an independent, fiery preacher call people to drop their sinful ways and repent. His personal appearance was in keeping with his fire and brimstone preaching: camel's hair garment with a leather belt around his waist. He went for natural foods: locusts and wild honey. He was a living protest against the luxury and culture of his day. Multitudes from all over the country came to hear him preach. His popularity and powerful preaching made some ask if he could be the promised Messiah. He preached the Law ...

504. Living Water

John 7:25-44

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

To call it a "wilderness" is not strong enough, not descriptive enough. That land surrounding the Dead Sea is a wild part of earth, burned by the sun of day and frozen by the winds of night. The rocks of this terrible terrain between the depths of Jericho and the heights of Jerusalem are jagged and upended. It is eternally dry. Jarib had foolishly set out from the Jordan River banks ...

505. The Song in Search of a Voice

John 20:19-23

Sermon

James Weekley

... a custom for its young men who reached age seven. To demonstrate their courage, they had to spend to night in the forest alone, They could take only their bow and arrows for protection. As expected, the boy was petrified with fear. The slightest sound became a wild beast ready to prance on him. But he wasn't alone. As the night faded into morning, he saw his father resting against a tree. In his darkest moments, father was there as a protector. The "Comforter," the Peace Giver, is on our side. As we tough ...

506. The Vanities Of Work

Ecc 2:1-26

Sermon

Erskine White

... living by bread alone and of working just for one's own selfish purposes, we believe we cannot live without saying, "O Master, let me walk with Thee." We know we can find no meaning or lasting joy unless, "Jesus calls us o'er the tumult of our life's wild, restless sea." And to the vanity of living by great works alone, of working without God to make a difference in the world, we can always "lift up our eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh our help? Our help cometh in the name of the Lord!" His is the ...

507. Wedding: The Love which Makes a Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... . It is a love which doesn't think about sweat, and struggle, and dirty dishes, and diapers, and disagreements. Romantic love is really a figment of our imagination and, therefore, it will lead ultimately to disappointment. Sexual love is powerful and wildly beautiful, but it is tied so tightly to self-love that it really cannot form the foundation for a solid, lovely marriage. When wills clash and troubles erupt, sexual love is too unstable to sustain the relationship and the marriage crumbles. Emotional ...

508. The Faith of the Cannanite Woman

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to the dogs." That sounds like a contemptuous insult. Even today the term dog is used for something particularly despicable. It has been pointed out that the actual word that Jesus used was not dog but puppy. He was referring to a household pet and not the kind of wild dogs that roamed the streets at that time. Some say that he was not insulting her but teasing her and that he probably had a smile on his face when he spoke these words. I don’t think so. I think he is drawing the lines here. His ministry ...

509. The Strength of the Master

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... back of a colt. The master presented such a rugged aspect on that first Easter morning that Mary mistook him for a gardener. From the sayings of Jesus it is obvious that he knew the out of doors. “Your father in heaven feeds the wild birds,” he said. “Consider the lilies of the field.” “Do not cast your pearls before swine.” “Enter the narrow gate.” “The wise man built his house on the rock.” “Laborers for the harvest are needed.” “If you had faith as a mustard seed.” “Strain ...

510. You Must Become As A Child

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . I well remember one of my former congregations where a group of people bitterly fought opening up the annual children's Easter party to the community. Their reasoning went something like this: We don't know who these kids are, they will run wild through the building, they will damage the building. Now, doubtless they thought they were doing the right thing. The disciples thought they were doing the right thing. Yet, Jesus took a very different position. Suffer the little children to come unto me, for ...

511. The Story Of The Scandalized Neighbors

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... you the whole affair set tongues to wagging like you wouldn't believe, and it got even better. The tales which came back to our little town whenever anyone went to the big city were staggering. It seems Judah made quite a name for himself as a big spender. BMWs, wild parties, lots of women, booze and drugs. Some of the more religious people were sure he would die of AIDS. Of course none of us knew how much of it was true, but it sure wasn't hard to believe. In any case, it was clear that young Judah, out ...

512. Joseph And His Brothers

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... Dothan. 3: They saw him from a distance, and before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him. They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer. (3:) Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams." 2: But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, 7: "Let us not take his life." 2: Reuben said to them, 7: "Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here ...

513. Into The Whirlwind

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Robert Allen

... the story of a man with extraordinary courage. Again and again, as he walks across the pages of the Old Testament, he is depicted as a man having the courage to face what was before him. When others traveled only in clan groupings because of wild animals, bandits, and other enemies, he went out alone into the wilderness. When others were too cowardly to speak out against the intimidating policies of one of the most powerful rulers of the Northern Kingdom of Israel -- a king named Ahab -- it was Elijah who ...

514. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... may be the consequences of disobedience. A secondary insight might be the prodigal son as a personification of the radical aspects of unbridled spirituality. Rather than emphasize the consequences of disobedience and the importance of finding our way home again, we might stress how the prodigal son represents the wild side of our psychological situation. Everyone has a wayward or radical side to one's human personality. This is a secondary idea of the text which is revealed through the use of imagination.

515. Paradoxes Of The Christian Faith

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... in his wrist. Two years later, he had a sore left knee, a strained left calf muscle, and a severe left wrist sprain. In 1983, he was out for knee surgery, and in 1985 he required 17 stitches after getting hit in the mouth with a wild pitch. In addition, he bruised a hamstring muscle, injured his right heel, and suffered a sore left ankle. His worst injury involved severe ligament damage to his ankle in 1986, a year predicted to be his best. When asked about pain, Gibson was quoted as saying, "There ...

516. Advent's "Invisible" Man

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... found the place for them to stay on that cold, windy night when the keepers of the inn turned them away? Who stoked the fires and bailed the hay? Who ran the errands and brought them food to eat? Who kept watch when Herod's lackeys were running wild in the streets looking to smoke the first two-year-old they saw looking anything like a messiah? Who was there at daybreak and midnight? Who buttered the bread and poured the cola? Who turned the straw, counted the sheep, and watered the trough for the animals ...

517. Hostage Crisis

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... , swollen hands rumbled nervously through the inside pocket of his urine-stained tweed overcoat. "I got to find a match," he said to himself. "I got to find a match." Again he jerked through every pocket of his pants, jacket, and shirt. Still no match. Wildly flailing his arms more frantically now, he began overturning chairs and tables in the room. Yellow eyes widened in disbelief as he hunched his back Neanderthal-like in search of that fire; that flame to heat the cooker that would launch his mind, body ...

518. Holy Diet

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... " were mentioned. But Jesus was leading their thinking towards a deeper hunger, for which he himself was the answer and the cure. Remember, for example, the Prodigal. He had a hunger for independence, the thrill and excitement of living high and fast and wild, entirely free from the dull routine of the farm. But, all too soon, this superficial bread and water, the thrills and frills of sensuous living, reduced him to the level of scrounging for any available scraps of leftover food and drink. Suddenly he ...

519. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... weakness - it lay at the point of his relationships. He always needed a sexual high to help him avoid the intimacy he feared. All his opponents had to do was bribe a beautiful Philistine woman named Delilah and suddenly, with his passions running wild, Samson was sleeping with the enemy. These tragic stories in the Bible are not far removed from our day. Domestic violence and the AIDS epidemic have focused center-stage attention on the primacy of personal relationships. At age 33, basketball great "Magic ...

520. God Works Through Opposites

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... of an ass (Matthew 21:6; cf. John 12:15; Isaiah 62:11; Zechariah 9:9)." The glory of God on a humble ass. It is a study in contrasts. God always works through contrasts or opposites. The crowd of disciples and followers of Jesus cheered him wildly on that first Palm Sunday. They treated him like a king. Fickle people. Just five days later they deserted him, and some may even have shouted, "Let him be crucified (Matthew 27:23)." God is always working through contrasts and opposites. We call this pattern in ...

521. The Road To The Cross

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... and Pilate. That crowd had a chance to free Jesus. They could have chosen him instead of Barabbas as the man whom they wanted to set free. This was, after all, no doubt the same crowd that just five days earlier, on Palm Sunday, had cheered Jesus wildly as he entered Jerusalem (Matthew 21:8-9.) Yet more recently, many in this crowd had been so convinced that Jesus was a prophet that they had made it impossible for the chief priests and the Pharisees to arrest him (Matthew 21:46.) And now, fickle people ...

522. The Road To Samaria

John 4:5-42

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... found Jesus -or were found by him - and then went to tell someone else about him? Andrew met Jesus. Then he went to find his brother Simon and brought him to meet Jesus. Philip met Jesus. Then he went to find Nathaniel and brought him to Jesus. A wild man lived in a cemetery. He met Jesus. Then he went into town and told everyone he knew about him. Why do you think those gospel writers recorded these events? Because they wanted all Christians to know that once you meet Jesus you cannot keep it a secret ...

523. The Recovery Of Reverence

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... great victory. A triumphal celebration was held upon his return to Rome. His legions marched before him and then came all his captives in their chains and wagons filled with the spoils of war. Finally came the general in his chariot. The crowds were cheering wildly as he passed by and it was a proud and wonderful moment for the victorious soldier. But a slave riding with the general in his chariot leaned over and said to the great leader, "General, remember you are only a man!" That is the relevant message ...

524. For Your Part

Matt 5:17-37

Sermon

John Jamison

... was out the door before I heard the rest. Jesus sat in the middle of the crowd on the hillside. Some of them had been with him for days, even weeks, but many of them were new today. They had all come to hear his teaching. The rumors were running wild about what he was going to say. Most of the rumors were about this new kingdom he had been hinting at. Everyone was interested in a new kingdom. The one that the Romans had offered wasn't working out at all. But the age-old kingdom overseen by the priests ...

525. Death of a Nineteen-year-old

Philippians 4:2-9

Eulogy

Louis M. Pratt

... . I have been in three shipwrecks, and once I spent twenty-four hours in the water. In my many travels I have been in danger from floods and from robbers, in danger from fellow Jews and from Gentiles; there have been dangers in the cities, dangers in the wilds, dangers on the high seas, and dangers from false friends. In the midst of his trials, Paul experienced God's presence in such a way that he found the strength to go on. It was not a shallow strength based on the notion that his faith guaranteed him ...

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