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526. Finding Common Ground

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to be in Florida during my birthday. I think it would be right that you have a party for me while I’m here.” Last Thursday was Caleb’s birthday and they celebrated at his house. When he called me afterwards he said, “We’re going to still have one more party; we’re going to have a pool party with all of my friends.” Four for one, I think that’s a pretty good deal. Caleb is a kid after my own heart. I like birthdays. They are not about accomplishments or achievements or activities. Birthdays ...

527. Who Am I?

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... never forget the aging pastor's widow they had met; with whom they had prayed. Philip, the Ethiopian eunuch, Bonhoeffer, Hans Kueng, perhaps even a few hippies and punkers, Gertrude Schaefer, young Christians in a youth hostel in the Black Forest; all these have one thing in common. They have an identity forged and perpetuated through baptism into Christ. "Who are we?" We are those who belong to Christ. Amen. 1. Hans Kueng, On Being A Christian (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976), p. 19 ...

528. Effective Suffering

Romans 8:26-39

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... that result from our sinfulness, as we go through the bad stuff that is such a part of our lives, is: God is not in heaven; God is here with us. Those who study such things say there are few things which are worse for an individual than to have one's child die. And we should remember that this is precisely what happened to God, when Jesus died on the cross. Suffering is aggravated for most people when it is done in isolation. Quite often the response to people who try to help is, "You wouldn't understand ...

529. All Are Invited, but…

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... that the wedding hall will be filled. It raises all sorts of troubling questions: What if they don’t look like us? What if they speak with accents? What if they come from another part of town? What if they are different? On top of all that, we also have one more thing to worry about… what if we do find the courage to invite them, only to learn that the king finds their presence problematic? Are you as perplexed by the parable as I when the king starts acting like a nightclub bouncer and says to one of ...

530. Sing A New Song

Psalm 96:1-2

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... and start something else! (Now you will begin the second children's sermon that has been given previously and are to watch for the same reaction.) Now wait a minute! Are you telling me there is something wrong with this one, too? You remember seeing this one also? I have one more and this time I don't think you will have a problem with it. (A third attempt at a previously given sermon and the reaction will be the same.) You remember this one, too! I think all of you have very good memories! That is what I ...

531. There Will Be No Adults in Heaven

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... had two heads?" Youngster were able to respond with great creativity and imagination. Among the answers were… With two heads you would be able to sing a duet in the shower. With two heads, if someone talked your head off, you would still have one left. With two heads, I could see eye-to-eye with myself. The problem was with the adult responses. Their answers were routine, prosaic, and could not get beyond adultish, rigid patterns. Unlike the kids, adults seemed unable to imagine the possibility that ...

532. The Season Of Renewal

John 3:1-21

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... brown, white; heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual; fundamentalists, conservatives, liberals; communists, socialists, capitalists -- so much that God gave the unique, one-of-a-kind son, that whoever believes in him (that is, who trusts him to the point of obedience; can't have one without the other) shall not perish (that is, shall know how to receive the full, complete life), but have life eternal, beginning now, now, now! Meditation Christ's love which, indeed, makes us vulnerable to each other, opens us to ...

533. Getting Ready

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... relate. "A million years to me, Jimmy, is like a minute." "Oh," said Jimmy. "Well, then, what's a million dollars like to you?" "A million dollars to me, Jimmy, is like a penny." "Wow!" remarked Jimmy, getting an idea. "You're so generous... can I have one of your pennies?" God replied, "Sure thing, Jimmy! Just a minute." Little Jimmy wasn't ready for that response was he? Our text this morning seems an unlikely scripture for Advent. It has nothing to do with Mary and Joseph, the Wise Men, of shepherds ...

534. One Body In Christ

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... one of you is different from your mom and dad and brothers and sisters. Paul tells us that all of the people in this church have one last name, too. We all know what that is, don't we, boys and girls? (Let them answer.) Yes. We are all Christians. We make ... always helping us out with the work we have to do. Let's all stand up and join hands, boys and girls, so that we have one big circle. (Form circle.) Being a Christian is like being part of this circle. If you weren't right where you are, the circle wouldn ...

535. Confronting Hypocrisy with Humility

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of religious abuses? Here it is. He turns to his disciples and he says, “They love to be honored and in the streets and to have people call them rabbi, but you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and all of you are students. Nor are you to be called instructor, for you have one instructor, the Messiah.” And then he says this: The greatest among you will be your servant. You see! It’s a level playing. In the Kingdom of God leadership is marked by servanthood. If you want to rid your ...

536. The Double Cross

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... -entendre"; judgments that have ominous consequences are "double-edged"; to be tried for the same crime twice is to experience "double jeopardy." Perhaps it has been the influence of the Age of Reason and the scientific conviction that all inquiries must have one right answer only that has made anything tagged with the label "double" a questionable or downright rotten experience. Postmodern thought is gradually beginning to wean us away from our love affair with either/or, and is teaching us to appreciate ...

537. The World's Fittest Human

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... have available to them in their capsule (things like duct tape, socks and plastic notebook covers) and runs to a room where several engineers wait. 'Folks,' he says, holding up a version of the square filter and the round receptacle, 'you have one hour to make this fit into this using only these materials.'" Only Christians with serious soul-training can do the impossible to provide oxygen for a suffocating world. Cited by Ronald J. Allen, Barbara Shires Blaisdell and Scott Black Johnston. Theology ...

538. A New Look For A New Year

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... came back and called one of the women in and asked her if she minded waiting. "No," she said, "I've looked forward to this for so long. I love God and can't wait to meet Jesus. I don't mind at all." St. Peter then said, "Well I have one more question. How do you spell `God?'" She said, "Capital-G-o-d." St. Peter said, "Go right on in." He went out and got one of the other women, told her to come on inside, and said, "Did you mind waiting?" She said, "Oh, no. I have been a ...

539. The Miegakure Messiah

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... moves from light to dark. You go up hill and down, on paths scattered with stones. And the purpose of all this nonlinearity? To reveal only a portion of the garden or a particular view of the landscape at any one time. A mie-gakure garden would never have one of our favorites — the “scenic overlook” — that one-stop-shop where you pull your car over and see everything there is to see from a single vantage point. After 30 seconds you can then pull out and be on your way. In a Japanese garden, or a mie ...

540. What Is Your Accent?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , are graphic testimony to this regulation). Each tribe had its own window to heaven. Each tribe had its own accent, and only when all the accents were present could the divine language be spoken and understood. So we end this morning where we began: What's your accent? Do you have one? And are you learning to appreciate the accents of others?

541. Out On A Sycamore Limb

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... his hand up like this after being with Jesus, but I am sure he felt like someone was walking with him then, leading every step of the way. One of my favorite Charlie Brown cartoons is the one in which Lucy and her little brother Linus are having one of their own-sided conversations: Lucy spoke: “You a doctor! Ha that’s a big laugh.” Lucy continues, “You could never be a doctor! You know why?” “Because you don’t love mankind, that’s why!” After thinking a bit, Linus replies, I love mankind ...

542. How To Find Water When Your Well Runs Dry!

Jeremiah 2:1-3:5

Sermon

James McLemore

... for the elderly. The system is in place, but every time we let down our buckets, the well is running dry. Our children are not being educated. We have more public schools, more colleges and universities than any nation in the world. But we have one of the highest dropout rates of any country. Our illiteracy rate is above that of some third world countries. And our children who attend school are unable to pass the mathematics and English proficiency tests. In the midst of all this, our national government ...

543. Listening for the "Ching-ching"

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... these crimes, but for the family of the perpetrator, the pain is tremendous — even when they are a willing party in the prosecution's case. What courage and conviction it takes for a spouse to report domestic abuse or a parent to have one's own child arrested for substance abuse. Dr. Phil occasionally does "intervention episodes" which focus on getting family members to confront addicts or offenders, forcing folks into action with the hope of empowering healing. The results (and the ratings) are great if ...

544. The Designated Savior

Romans 1:4

Children's Sermon

... designated the kitchen to be blue. If we could pretend that there would never be another blue kitchen in the whole world, then you could say that you have the designated blue kitchen. You can have a lot of rooms and a lot of green rooms but you can only have one designated blue kitchen. That is what God did when he designated Jesus. He made him one of a kind and called him the Savior of our world.

545. David Anointed King over Judah

2 Samuel 2:1-7

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... old at this time. A. A. Anderson (2 Samuel [WBC; Waco: Word, 1989], p. 35) suggests that the number forty may have been included as “a round figure in the absence of the exact figure.” 3:2–5 Each of David’s six wives is mentioned as having one, and only one, son. There could be many reasons for this, and Hertzberg (I and II Samuel, p. 253) may be right in suggesting that only the firstborn son is mentioned. It is also possible that this is an indication of the difficulty David appears to have had ...

546. War Between the Houses of David and Saul

2 Samuel 2:8-3:5

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

547. For One Who Came to Faith While Dying

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Palmer L. Gedde

... , and accepted Christ, and received the blessed Sacrament, and prayed, and gave thanks - even in the midst of his illness and pain. When __________ died, he died claiming a promise. "I am the way, the truth, and the life." I honestly believe that if he were here today, he would have one last word of counsel for you and that it would be as follows. "Don't wait as long as I did to learn of the true God. Don't wait as long as I did to discover real life. Don't wait as long as I did to let Jesus ...

548. Easter Day

John 20:1-9, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalm 118:1-29, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon Aid

... third day, John says that "as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead." Completely missing from this part of the story (but it is in the next sequence in which Mary stays in the garden) is the angelic presence (Matthew and Mark have one angel, Luke tells of two at the tomb) and the Easter proclamation that they made to the women (Matthew's report has the angel of the Lord giving a tomb-side speech): Do not be afraid; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not ...

549. Maturity in Stewardship

2 Corinthians 9:6-15, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... A. R. Fagin, "that everything is all right with God as long as we make an honest living, pay our debts, give our tithes and offerings and spend what’s left as we please." When Americans, with some six or seven percent of the world’s population, have one-half of the world’s income and one-seventh of its food, plus a lead in almost every category, it’s time to look again at our Christian responsibility. "Is it right," asks Cecil Rhea, "for every family to reach the highest level of abundance it can ...

550. Star-spangled Justice

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

In just a few more weeks we will be winding down the official summer season. The children start back to school and we all have one final summer fling during the Labor Day holiday weekend. Patriotic holidays like Flag Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day are best celebrated in the hot summer sun or watching "the rocket's red glare" under the stars. Summer holidays have a tradition all their own: hot dogs and charcoal-grilled ...

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