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526. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

... we have done to ourselves. Judas couldn’t understand those tears; he wanted action; he put the nation first. Jesus cared for mankind - really cared - and does today, whether whether they wear black pajamas, three button suits, or military tunics, and we serve God by adopting that concern. In other words, Judas failed because he was too parochial. He might have served God - instead he tried to serve the nation and ended up serving no one. We serve God when we reach out in love to mankind - to the ghetto ...

527. The Forgotten Virtue

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... that there is not one among us who could not quote at least one or two of the proverbs from Poor Richard’s Almanac. But Ben Franklin once made a rather sad kind of mistake. It was a mistake that is common to many of us. He decided to adopt a system whereby he would achieve moral perfection. He listed twelve virtues on twelve pages of a book, with each page divided into seven columns. His system was to concentrate on a virtue for a week’s time and list, in each of the seven columns, the violations of ...

528. Prepare The Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Brett Blair

... lack of this man’s approval. The man was Rossini and he was not smiling. Much is wrong with our society. We can all make a list; broken homes, the increase in violence and dishonesty, the lack of integrity in public life, the slow slide of the church into adopting the ways of the world, the decay of sexual morality. Who is willing to be the watchman who sounds the alarm? Who will call us bark to God in repentance? Who will have eyes only for his Lord not seeking the approval of the crowds? It will not be ...

529. Good News, Release, and Comfort

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Richard L. Eslinger

... regular meeting our church trust funds would be evaluated for investments in companies doing business in South Africa. Those companies doing business there could be checked to see if they subscribe to the "Sullivan principles" which a number of U.S. companies have adopted. They promise no segregation or inequality in the conduct of business in South Africa or anywhere else. It’s a small step, but one that unites us with our Lord, who announced that he was coming to proclaim release to the captives. There ...

530. Paul of Tarsus

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... of Tarsus, has suffered what could turn out to be a critical setback in his one-man campaign to clean out nests of followers of The Way. Saul, you will remember from earlier reports on this program, is that young daredevil from upcoast who’s adopted Jerusalem as a sort of second home. Lately, he’s been wowing the local church hierarchy with a whirlwind campaign to keep freethinkers and others with unorthodox Jewish ideas in line. The Damascus trip was Saul’s most ambitious campaign yet, taking him far ...

531. Childs of Center Point

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... of Christ does miracles a lot of us don’t ever see. Just imagine what would have happened if we’d kept our mouths shut. Nobody in North Flats might have gotten any help from Redeemer Church. As it is, we have families in our congregation adopting families down there - people they had never met - or even heard of - before. The congregation has come together more solidly. There’s a new spirit. And a new understanding of the meaning of the cross that stands on the steeple of our building. EVIE CHILDS ...

532. What’s Happened To My Dear Old Church?

Mark 7:1-23

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Richard Patt

... , for example. As most Christian denominations are experiencing new trends and changes in Sunday morning worship these days, I can just hear a lot of tradition-bound Christians wondering, "What’s happened to my dear old church?" Here in our own congregation we recently adopted a new hymnal. This has meant some changes in our service and lots of new hymns to make friends with. The little round wafers in our Holy Communion have been replaced by freshly baked loaves of bread. During the Communion we now give ...

533. The Orphan

John 14:15-31

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... : An orphan. I didn't know that. DALE: My mother and father were both killed in a plane crash. I was a month old. WYN: Who raised you? DALE: I was raised by foster parents and then when I was twelve I was put in an orphanage. WYN: Were you adopted? DALE: I was too old. No one wants an older child. WYN: And you can't remember feeling loved? DALE: No. Never. WYN: Did you ever have a good friend? DALE: A good friend -- no. WYN: How about Jesus? DALE: I know what you're thinking -- Jesus is my friend ...

534. The Chief Miracle of Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... most of all was that Jesus is God with us. And so he also made the confession, "When the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem all those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons (heirs) of God" (Galatians 4:4-5). For Paul, what really mattered was that, because of Jesus, in Christ Jesus, nothing can ever separate us from the love of God (Romans 8:39). God with us! "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." This is the true ...

535. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ... I can almost read their faces, and tell that they need help, and what kind." And another with new insights: "I don’t feel bad at funerals any more. I kind of rejoice at them, because I know what the dead person is passing through." A man, who had adopted his nephew who was on drugs, heard the Person in the Light say, "Since you are asking for someone else, I will let you go back. You will live until you have seen your nephew become a man." Dr. Moody concludes the book: "What we learn about death may ...

536. What Was That About?

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... trace of Jewish faith. He banned the practice of the faith with all its rites and ceremonies. He built an altar to the Greek god Zeus within the temple court. He oppressed them, persecuted them, and finally obliterated as many of them who would not adopt the culture of the Greek. In the midst of this came this prophetic word to strengthen faith, encourage hope. The issue was not one of politics or economics. This was a spiritual struggle for the faith. So the images are painted in sharp contrast - light ...

537. Jesus Is Lord of All

Mark 4:35-41

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let us come together and worship, all children of the living God. People: In Christ, we are adopted into the family of God. Leader: And the Holy Spirit goes with us, bearing witness of God's love. People: Through the storms and through the good times, God is there. Leader: Let us proclaim for all the world to hear God's love in Christ! All: Blessed be the ...

538. The Word of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... , the cross removes it. Man stands accused before the judgment throne of God, the cross acquits him. Man is an enemy of God, the cross brings peace. Man is a slave, the cross buys his freedom. Man has lost his filial status, the cross brings about adoption as a child of God. The apostle is speaking from personal experience, the experience that changed the most vehement enemy of the church into its most effective missionary. This was not just a man getting hold of a new idea. It was a man being confronted ...

539. Paul's Thorn In The Flesh

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... ." I have known couples whose thorn was their inability to have children. Sometimes, despite much prayer, that condition does not change. Some of these couples have decided that with God's help they will force this thorn to bear dividends. Some have adopted children. In some cases these have been so-called "hard to place" children. Others have become foster parents for children in crisis situations. These brave adults did not become bitter or bemoan their fate. Instead, they forced that thorn to produce a ...

540. In Praise of Feeling Guilty

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... whether what has been 'told' us is the real 'right' and 'wrong' of things," (as Menninger says.1) The pill, with its new possibility for controlling conception, contributed greatly to the revolution in sex mores seen in this generation (Parenthetically, the adoption of the mores without the responsibility needed has led to an epidemic of younger teenage pregnancies.) Made heady by the discovery that they could do with impunity what their elders warned against in this area, we saw the testing of the ...

541. You're Going To Have A Baby!

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... can tell her boyfriend and what he will say and do about it. How can she tell her parents? Because of fear, she postpones telling them until she no longer can hide her pregnancy. She is troubled about her schooling. Should she get married? Put the child up for adoption? Get an abortion? "You're going to have a baby" can be the worst news for an unmarried girl. But, it could be the best news, if when she told her parents she was pregnant and was asked, "Who is the father?" she, like the Virgin Mary, could ...

542. Destined?

Ephesians 1:1-14

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... these life-giving words through Jesus Christ. We receive new life because of Christ. Come, let us ready ourselves to take on the new life God planned for us in Christ. Collect You show us, O God, that we are not unacceptable but adoptable. We are not rejected but chosen. We are not condemned but forgiven. We praise you for this wealth of spiritual blessing. Through Christ. Amen. Prayer Of Confession When negative, fatalistic attitudes threaten to undo us with unwanted bondage, help us, O God, to remember ...

543. The Power of Uninformed Decisions

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... considered the body evil, an earthly prison for the eternal soul.2 To Paul, this was a foreign concept which was not based on the tradition or the Scriptures he had studied as the student of Rabbi Gamaliel. Consequently he tried to argue against adopting this concept with his Greek converts lest they open the door to a strange belief. By insisting on a resurrection, Paul had closed the door to strangers. But the children could still fall down the steps if they did not understand the universal appeal ...

544. Sustaining the Weary with a Word

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... themselves. My enemies do not put me to shame but shame themselves. Why should I be disgraced? Why should I be ashamed? Why should I view myself through the eyes of my enemies which have been shamed and disgraced by what they have done to me? Why should I adopt the mindset and viewpoint of my enemies whose purpose is to desecrate and destroy what is God’s? To view myself with shame and disgrace is to view myself as the perpetrator of crimes. It is to see myself as my enemy sees me and that is without love ...

545. The Fruit of Forgiveness

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... He was to be regarded as second in command over the whole land. He was bestowed with the Pharaoh’s signet ring and all the accouterments worthy only of a royal family. Pharaoh gave the young thirty-year-old prime minister an Egyptian name as a sign of his adoption into the royal household. In addition Pharaoh gave his daughter’s hand in marriage to the bright young man, who now had all of Egypt at his feet. Apart from the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, the story of the rise of Joseph is unmatched in all ...

546. Born Again and Again and...

Ephesians 1:1-14

Drama

Dave Marsh

... you trust in Jesus because His sacrifice, then the Holy Spirit lives inside you and you are His. At that moment you’re saved. You don’t need to keep doing it again and again just because you’ve lost the salvation high. You need to be confident in your adoption by God. Katie: Hmmm. I’m not sure that that’s Biblical. John: Okay. Let’s find out. (opens the Bible and reads a verse) “For you have been chosen by God to inherit His plan of salvation. This is a gift of grace, not of anything you can ...

547. Middle C

John 1:1-18

Illustration

... is middle C!” God's love and care is our middle C. Just like middle C could be counted on by the music teacher to be middle C always and forever, so too can we count on God to love and care for us, to see us as children worth adopting and saving, even dying for, to be the light that cannot be extinguished, no matter what.

548. The Spirit Has Landed

Luke 3:1-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... by the name of Sofi was born in Siberia, a bitterly cold and desolate area of Russia. A difficult place to be a child but Sofi's life was going to be even rougher than most. She was an orphan. Then suddenly at the age of 2 she was adopted, sight unseen, by Laurie Collis a single mother in Scottsdale, Arizona. When she was in the third grade, she entered an essay contest, and out of 10,000 applicants, she won! Toy maker Lego and The Planetary Society sponsored the event. As a result of winning her family ...

549. The God of the Unlikely

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... bank of the Nile. What could she have been thinking? Hard to imagine. We know what happened: the daughter of the Pharaoh and her entourage came to the river for a bath, found the baby crying in his basket-boat, took pity on him and decided to adopt. Courtesy of Moses' big sister Miriam, the princess arranged for Jochobed to be the wet-nurse...and for MONEY! What a quirky, unlikely turn of events!(2) Scripture does not tell us how long Moses remained with his natural parents before moving to the palace. Long ...

550. Civil War Isn't!

2 Samuel 18:1-18, 19--19:8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a mean-spiritedness and an incivility out there that is toxic. I doubt that the situation started with the partisan politicians in Washington, but there is no doubt they have raised it to its current unsavory level. Society has seen the behavior and too many have adopted it as acceptably their own. So saying, the church is in the midst of this uncivil social order and the result is that some of the horrid behavior from out on the street has sneaked through our doors. The most recent evidence is the battle ...

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