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526. Where's Dad?

Matthew 2:13-18

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... today. Really talk. I have some unresolved issues to deal with. Since Mom died, Dad seems more mellow and open so we set up this “phantom” meeting. You see, sir, I’m leaving tomorrow for a year in Central America. I have too much emotional garbage to carry on that plane and all around the jungles. It’s stressing me out. Stranger: Like what? Brad: Like when Mom was sick. I was going through tough times. Mom needed him but I needed him, too. “Dad, just play catch with me,” I begged time and time ...

527. Toss Your Cap Over the Wall

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... of note without critics. Certainly Jesus had his critics. In today’s lesson from Mark’s Gospel Jesus is still in the early part of his ministry. However, people are starting to take note of him. He has chosen his twelve disciples who will carry on the work after he is gone and the crowds are growing larger. Momentum is building toward a magnificent ministry. But almost immediately he runs into opposition. First of all, it was from his own family. Mark tells us that when Jesus’ family heard about ...

528. Your Life as a Provenance of the Jesus Story

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... leaders Luke chooses to name. Admittedly the “priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas” is a problematic description. By long-held Jewish tradition there was only one chief priest presiding at the Temple at any given time. However, Annas’ term as high priest (6-15 CE) was then carried on by no less than his five sons and eventually his son-in-law Joseph Caiaphus (18-37 CE). It is not hard to imagine that even if Annas were no longer serving as the designated leader of the Temple during this time, the long arm ...

529. Right Answer - Wrong Conclusion

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... intelligent” when it was able to have a credible conversation with a human being. Of course, Turing didn’t even imagine that one day we would have Siri, the voice in Apple iPhones and iPads. Anyway, Turing’s test was whether a computer was able to carry on a conversation with a human. The truth is, however, according to Arno Penzias in his book titled Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World, it’s a lot easier for a dumb machine to converse with a human being than Turing thought. In the ...

530. The Coming of the Kingdom of God

Luke 17:20-37

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... had also developed the idea that Noah warned others of the flood to come and was mocked for his efforts (cf. 2 Pet. 2:5: “a preacher of righteousness”; Heb. 11:7: “he condemned the world”). So only Noah’s family was prepared; others simply carried on as normal until it was too late. 17:28 People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. As in 17:26–27, the description is of normal life, rather than the specific wickedness of Sodom. Again, Lot and his family were the ...

531. Getting It Right in the Coming Year

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... of “A Thousand Marbles.” “Tom” he said, “I know life has kept you busy for a while now . . . but you may end up missing out on the things that really matter if you don’t get your priorities right.” “An idea struck me one morning,” he carried on, “when I added up the number of Saturdays an average person who lives to 75 has, I discovered that it was 3,900 Saturdays. I did this by multiplying 75 by 52.” Tom was engrossed with the old gentleman’s story. “See Tom, this thought hit me ...

532. Our Strange, Strong Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... , pastor and educator Marian Plant once wrote, “There are times when the last thing I need in my life is the activity of the Holy Spirit. That “presence” of God which has a way of seeping into the psyche and unsettling one’s accepted ways of carrying on life. That manifestation of the Holy which alights on one with the innocence of a summer firefly, but whose motive is to transform the unsuspecting believer into something akin to a fiery dragon on behalf of God. No thanks to the Holy Spirit, I have ...

533. Don't Miss Jesus

Luke 2:41-51

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” Matthew 14:27 (KJV) “Be of good cheer.” By seeking a life of prayer. Richard Baxter who lived in the 1600s wrote, “Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people, that will not pray for them.” Prayer must precede all that ministers and laypersons do in the church. That includes teaching, serving on boards and committees, evangelizing, giving, and more. How ...

534. Simeon (A Monologue)

Luke 2:22-40

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... for a God who was faithful to eternal promises. My prayers complete, I made my way out here... to the quiet of the countryside... to contemplate... to wonder... perhaps to die. I am ready. I have lived a long and full life. I have raised a fine son who will carry on after me. I am most certainly at peace with my God. How could I be otherwise when God has honored me this way? I am ready. It is strange, now that I think on it. As I mentioned, I am a Pharisee, we do believe in the resurrection of the ...

535. Judgment on Israel

Amos 2:6-16

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the announcement of judgment on the foreign peoples immediately surrounding Israel, and his purpose in doing so is entirely theological. These foreign nations posed no serious threat to Israel’s life in the time of Jeroboam II, although that king may have carried on sporadic border warfare with the Arameans on the northern border of Gilead (1:3) and with the Ammonites on the southern border of that tribe (1:13). Amos’s theological purpose in beginning with the foreign nations, however, is to show that ...

536. Bold Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ignore in your life? “See” and “hear” people you’ve allowed yourself to retreat from or stay away from in your life? “See” and “hear” the message and the call God has for you? What God will ask you to do in order to carry on God’s mission in the world today? “Be bold” and “speak boldly” the scriptures tell us –nearly as many times as “fear not!” For God’s outstretched hand will lead you –into a place of healing, restoration, potential, growth, and a different kind of ...

537. For Someone Who Will Be Terribly Missed

Job 19:23-27 · John 12:23-26 · John 14:1-6 · Acts 1:21-26

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

The Doctor and His Dog [Tell of what they’d wish for us to do, how we can carry on from where their life had ended.] In one of his books, John Braille tells of an old country Doctor who made his rounds in a horse-drawn carriage. The Doctor’s dog would go along for the ride. One day, the Doctor went to visit a man who was critically ...

538. Proper 12

Psalm 85:1-13, Colossians 2:6-23, Hosea 1:1-2:1, Luke 11:1-13

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... only engage in formal acts of praying, but did they also act out the answer to prayer in trust and obedience to the will of God? Illustrative Materials 1. Serving Whose Needs? A young man wanted to go to college. His father wanted him to carry on the family farm. He acceded to the father's wishes but was always frustrated. He never fulfilled the possibilities a college education would have provided him. Whose interest was the father serving? 2. Praying with Open Eyes. A young woman wanted four children. She ...

539. Boast In The Lord

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... characters: friends, such as Faithful and Hopeful; and foes, such as Worldly Wiseman, Hypocrisy and Giant Despair. He makes his way along the road confronted by one obstacle after another. All the time he is weighed down by the heavy burden he is carrying on his back. At last he comes to the cross. In one of the most unforgettable scenes depicting human liberation from the burden of sin, Bunyan explains what happens: "Just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders ...

540. Two Doors; One Choice

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... so would be to go where someone else had already searched. To find ourselves, like the search for the holy grail, is not something we can do by walking someone else's path. No one can show us the way. It is, rather, a search we carry on by ourselves. It is the internal search for the possibility of our own becoming. My high school band director was frequently greeted with silence when he gave the downbeat. No sound at all! As fledgling musicials, we were unsure of ourselves, each of us hesitating, waiting ...

541. The Upside-down Kingdom of God

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... the book The Be-Happy-Attitudes. Am I missing something? "I don’t want to be dependent upon God, or anyone else for that matter. I am strong, I am invincible, I’m independent!" But Jesus says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit…" I’m not going to cry and carry on about this any more. It’s time for me to get over this situation and get on with my life. I’m too strong to be acting this way." But Jesus says, "Blessed are those who mourn…" "I want my share of the American dream like everybody else. I ...

542. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... described, and which Paul appears to make basic to his portrait of Christian behavior in 1 Corinthians 12. The Church (note the word is singular) does not regard this as an alien movement. But, so far as I can tell, this rediscovery is being carried on with little reference to the preaching event, or where kerygma fits into our hunger for Brother Lawrence's kitchen. Is it because the path is so private - where finding a way to make oneself accountable for the stewardship of such a mystic potential becomes ...

543. The Disciples’ Dumb Dream

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... Jesus says thank you to his disciples. They were his servants, chosen to serve. They were to serve, not for the sake of a thank you, but for the sake of their Lord. Jesus must have been a little bit worried. How was this motley crew ever to carry on? What would they do during those three days he was in the grave? Scripture says, "They were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest." Who is the greatest? Not among them. Among us. The pastor? We’ve been together long ...

544. The Joy of Being a Caring Person

Mt 25:31-46 · Lk 16:19-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... hope, comfort, grace, encouragement, eternity. Like Jesus at the well, we, by the grace of God, are the givers of the waters of life. Chaim Potok, in the book My Name is Asher Lev, has a voice come to Asher in a dream: "Do you hear the pain carried on the wind? It is the cry of wasted lives. Who dares to add to that cry?" And in another episode, the boy responds: "I do not understand." And his friend asks, "What do you not understand?" Asher replies (in effect), "I do not understand why the world does ...

545. The Forgiven and the Forgiving

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... life after another. It is a great story, but it is too much like the story of our own loneliness. Fee and Meggie and Justine lived lonely, lonely lives for different reasons. They infected the lives of those they loved with sorrow, who then carried on the contagion, thus poisoning others. There is one exception - young Dane, who was himself all love, under all circumstances. His normal, natural reactions were love. He loved God so much even as a child that others were amazed. His love for his unlovely ...

546. God's Design for Marriage

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... on a decision, defer to him unless to do so would violate your conscience. Besides, when he is wrong, isn't it fun to say, "I told you so?" Some of you wives have husbands who are non-believers, pre-Christians. You won’t win them for Christ by carrying on a power struggle with them, or by putting them down. You won't win them by saying piously, "I'm praying for you," or by playing my sermon tapes real loudly at home. But a cooperative, gentle, loving, supportive, praying wife can win over the most uncouth ...

547. Feet Of Clay

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... laws. The clean, sparse words of Scripture describe the moment: So David sent messengers, and took her. - 2 Samuel 11:4 Men and women today, caught up in the hurts and pressures of their lives, often succumb to the temptation to disregard their marriage vows and carry on flirtatious exchanges. When that happens we all need to be reminded of the words of Luther: You can’t keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair. David was headed for a fall because ...

548. What Would We Do Without Friends?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... tour of the synagogues he returned to Capernaum to rest for a few days. The news got out quickly that he had arrived and soon the house was filled to overflowing with people and people even spilled out into the streets. Into this crowd came four men carrying on a stretcher a friend of theirs who was paralyzed. So jammed was the narrow street that they could not get through. But they were as resourceful as they were determined. Thus, we read, that they climbed on top of the house and cut a hole through the ...

549. The Longest Running Parade in History

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... for those who would join the Jesus parade: Do you promise to party and celebrate the God who became one of us in good times and bad, for better and for worse? Any church that parades around its block or its neighborhood singing, waving tree parts, and carrying on should also require all its congregation, as part of their membership vows, to sign a party agreement form: you get kicked out if you can't/won't party. What is making us a hardened-heart, stiff-necked people? What is making us closed-ears, stone ...

550. Come Forward to God's Throne Where There Is Grace (Relief for Guilt)

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... : One of them comes from South Africa. The attention of the world is on that violent nation. Allen Payton is one of the giants of that land. In his novel, Too Late the Phalarope he gives us this scene. A white police lieutenant has secretly carried on an affair with a black African woman. In South Africa, that’s against the law in every way. Not only against the civil law, but in that stern, Dutch-Calvinist and racist society, it was an abominable sin, unforgivable sin. The lieutenant is confronted with ...

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