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526. The Gospel According to Christ’s Enemies

John 11:1-16

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... the proposal that John found his inspiration for the account of the raising of Lazarus in Luke’s parable of Dives and Lazarus, but they conclude it is "quite plausible that the direction of the borrowing was in the opposite direction."6 It is their opinion that Luke used John’s account of raising the dead Lazarus to create the ending thrust of his parable of Dives and Lazarus. John as Teacher Raymond Brown sees in John’s exclusive record of the raising of Lazarus another instance of the "pedagogical ...

527. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... , we die to the Lord." Not only do we belong to Jesus first of all while we live as Christians, but we also belong to him first of all when we die as Christians. This sort of statement sounds strange to many people because the prevailing opinion today is that when we die, we belong first to the attending physician and then to the undertaker. When a person dies, nothing can be done until the attending physician pronounces that person officially dead. Even when that is accomplished, the physician must sign a ...

528. Are You Exercising Your Faith?

Mt 4:1-11 · Phil 3:12 · Gen 32:3

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... fruit. If exercising our faith is important - and I think it is - what kind of spiritual calisthenics might we commend? My suggestions are three. One exercise is the stretching of faith. St. John Ervine once remarked: "Every man should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind."1 Faith is not nearly so fragile an entity as we might suppose. Faith is like bread dough with yeast, work it and ...

529. WE ARE THE BELIEVERS: TESTIMONIES

Drama

Marcia Miller

... heard of this man, but I hadn’t hear of him doing anything wrong. He had never murdered anyone. He wasn’t talking of overthrowing the Roman government. Yet there were people who wanted him to die. Pilate - good ole friendly, straggling-the-fence, publically opinionated Pilate - decided to follow custom and release one prisoner in honor of Passover. I thought surely he would do the decent thing and release Jesus. But the crowd seemed to want to have Jesus killed and me released. I was glad that I wouldn ...

530. Living Water for a Thirsty Soul

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... conversation is cut short by the disciples return. They are stunned to find Jesus talking with this Samaritan woman, but we are told that they said not a thing. It’s the only time in scripture that Peter didn’t have a comment to make. He had an opinion on everything but even he is stunned. But Jesus knows of their disapproval. How? The face tells all doesn’t it. Their lips may have been silent but their faces screamed out disapproval. II But not even the 12 disciples can stop the woman now. She has ...

531. Can We Really Get Along?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , the answer is that God is neither. When we all get to heaven, what race will we be? Though I haven't found scriptural backing for this yet, I think that in heaven we may all be blue, royal blue, Duke blue. But that's just my humble opinion. Let's make two resolutions today: first, that we will seek to find common ground with persons who are different from us; secondly, that we will refuse to support any cultural or racial custom that cannot be backed up by scripture. Up until very recently if you had ...

532. Easter Headlines

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... earth are very significant, but they are only the prelude to the main event. The most important thing that one can do on earth is to prepare for eternity. The cover article in last week's Time Magazine was entitled "Does Heaven Exist?" An opinion poll revealed that 81 percent of Americans believe there is a heaven. However, nobody talks about it very much, except at funerals. There is much circumstantial evidence to support life after death. The longing, which human beings of all cultures feel for eternity ...

533. Sinner to Saint

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... . Now he tells about the love of God that turned him around. Eldridge Cleaver, leader of the Black Panthers who were dedicated to the violent overthrow of our government, came back to America, turned himself in to the FBI, and expressed an entirely different opinion of America. What happened to him? In recent months he was introduced to Christ and is now a follower of him. What can cause this change? It is the power of the Word, of Jesus Christ. A missionary tells of celebrating a Communion service ...

534. Caiaphas and Pilate

Drama

Jon Joyce

... . Excuse me briefly. [Exits with a flourish as PILATE and ANTONIUS watch] ANTONIUS: May I speak, Excellency? PILATE: [Gesturing ANTONIUS to stand before him] Of course, Antonius. You may always speak to me when we’re alone. I value many of your opinions. ANTONIUS: [By this time standing before PILATE] Thank you, Excellency. I heard the Lady Claudia speaking to you of this carpenter. From the other servants, I hear many things, of course. It - it does not bode well, Excellency, to become involved with ...

535. On Leaving Your Signature

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... can be expressed on paper, within the limits of your ability to sign for them, whether it be financial, intellectual, authoritative, or an indication of an attitude. To let our influence be felt and known on a document, such as a petition or projection of opinion, is certainly one very valid form of self-projection. Beyond that, to let our influence be felt in life, in other people’s lives and in the world-at-large, is quite another matter. We are no longer dealing with inanimate objects, but with viable ...

536. The Good Samaritan Didn’t Leave His Name

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... walls of a neglected house. It gives a cheerful color among debris and death. During World War II, "fire weed" served as a symbol of the renewal of life among the rubble, debris, and wilderness that followed the bombing and air raids. In my humble opinion, "fire weed" is the unifying symbolic expression of the Christian. He is there. Although his name may not be remembered or even left, the Christian’s time, money, and abilities are there amid the suffering of the world. When asked to explain the reasons ...

537. Love of God and Love of Country

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... things, but certainly not on the principles found in the parable of the laborers in the vineyard. Peter Cohen dares to ask the question if graduate business schools are producing people who can meet America’s real needs, which are ethical principles. In my opinion, Cohen could have written his book about the churches in America. The gospel according to the churches, I am afraid, does not resemble the principles found in the parable of the laborers in the vineyard either. We in the churches have also been ...

538. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... that the behavior of us church members on this very issue makes Christianity to the outside world either repulsive or attractive. It isn’t a matter that Christians are perfect and will not have conflicts. There will always be quarrels, differences of opinion on how and who, disappointments with preachers and councils, hurt feelings, bent pride, loss of face, and lots of mistakes. It’s the idea that Christians can resolve these conflicts as no other fellowship can, that Jesus puts before us today. Comus ...

539. When Yes Means No and No Means Yes

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

What’s your opinion? If you have two sons, and you tell one of them to do a job, and his answer is no, then afterwards he does it, and you tell the second one to do the same job and his answer is, "Sure, I’ll go," and he doesn’t do it, ...

540. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... to occupy our first attention, we will obstruct the flow of that grace and thereby deprive ourselves of that upon which our very salvation depends. In Richard Sheridan’s play, The School for Scandal, Sir Peter thinks Joseph Surgave is too lenient in his opinions of others. He says to him, "Ah, my dear friend, the goodness of your own heart misleads you - you judge of others by yourself." Surgave replies, "Certainly, Sir Peter, the heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another ...

541. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... the latter, and particularly we of the modern scientific spirit who are more perplexed than impressed by miracles, are bereft of such advantages. However plausible this contention may appear at first blush, maturer thought would seem to reverse such an opinion and contend for its opposite. Actually it is far easier to get an accurate estimate of almost any outstanding historical character than of one’s contemporaries, because time best brings true perspective, and distance is necessary to distinguish the ...

542. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... dark right now and the winter solstice is still ahead. Now the first thing we all ought to remember is this: Nobody wants war. Everybody, with any sense at all, hates it. We all want peace, militarists and pacifists alike. There is no difference of opinion about that. The disagreement arises over the method involved. The so-called militarist says that the only way to maintain peace is to prepare for war, enlarge the military forces to such an extent that no one will dare attack us. Wars always have been ...

543. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... and let us make up our own minds. The second characteristic of the Christian liberal is a decent intellectual humility. He knows he is liable to error and he knows he is susceptible to delusion. He has strong convictions but no pride of opinions, he distrusts all dogmas and he insists upon the prerogative of examining and testing all orthodoxies. For he knows perfectly well that nothing human is infallible or final. This is the contrast between the liberal and either of the extremes. You discover that ...

544. EPISODE 7: MAUNDY THURSDAY

Drama

Robert Clausen

... ." BISHOP: Go on. MAN: Afterwards I thought, "Who does he think he is, calling me a sinner?" BISHOP: It was presumptuous. MAN: I’m as good as the next man. BISHOP: You have a wife? MAN: She likes him. Now we always argue. BISHOP: Then, in your opinion...? MAN: He’s a nuisance. He needs to be put in his place. GOVERNOR: But I find nothing wrong with him. MAN: He’s a troublemaker. BISHOP: Deserving execution, am I right? MAN: Yeah, get rid of him. It’ll stop the arguments. GOVERNOR: He’s done ...

545. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... ? Do you have an OUT-look? What is it? As you look out from within, what is it you see? What do you see out there ahead of you? In my theological school days I sat in classes taught by Professor Earl Marlatt, who wrote what in my opinion is one of the finest Christian hymns ever written by anybody. This prayer-hymn, starting as life starts, petitions: Spirit of Life, in this new dawn, Give us the faith that follows on ... Then as the hymn reaches its end, climaxing as life does, it offers this prayer: Give ...

546. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... the Bethlehem Event, one of the New Testament writers put it this way: "God, who at various times, and in many ways, spoke in time past unto our fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son" (Hebrews 1:1-2). This, in my opinion, is one of the most dynamic declarations to be found anywhere in our Christian Scriptures. It is saying that the God who has spoken many times has now spoken again. It is saying that the God who has spoken to others has now spoken to us. And it is saying ...

547. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... the gate of birth. When they held him up and spanked him, I suppose he cried as all babies cry. But who was he, this newborn child? Those Bethlehem shepherds had some feelings about that; they went around calling him a Savior. Those wise men from the East had some opinions about it; they went to a lot of trouble to hail him and greet him as a newborn King. His mother had some private feelings about him which she "kept and pondered in her heart." Joseph had his feelings too, for, after all, in a dream he had ...

548. The Beauty of a Childlike Faith

Matthew 18:1-9

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... are trying to cover our inferiority complexes with a layer of cockiness. The junior senator from South Carolina, Ernest F. Hollings, has such an oversized ego that he himself makes jokes about it. He claims he once failed a lie detector test when he said, "In my humble opinion..." When Jesus called us to be like little children, he meant that we should feel so secure and affirmed in God's love that we won't need to brag or put somebody else down. That is authentic humility. Some years ago St. Paul School of ...

549. Needed: Fidelity Insurance

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... husband. The steps toward sexual sin I have just described are open to all of us. None of us is immune to temptation. But when we reverence Christ, He installs an alarm system in us that rings out a warning. For example, someone at work asks your opinion a lot and treats you with courtesy. You think to yourself: "He treats me really special, which is very different from my husband's attitude." But then the alarm sounds. At the office you have an attractive colleague of the opposite sex. You really do have ...

550. Like Buoys In The River

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Students of America completed a survey of thirteen college campuses in the Southeast. One presumes that the Southeast is more conservative than the rest of the country. 56 percent of the students, a clear majority, stated that right and wrong is a matter of personal opinion. Only 38 percent said that right and wrong are absolutes. Many Americans are guided by the philosophy of that bumper sticker which says, "If it feels good, do it." Someone who saw that bumper sticker on a car told me that he was tempted ...

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