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551. Out of Control (Good Friday sermon)

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

John Jamison

... old worn blanket on the prisoner’s now bloody shoulders. And just for fun, they would then quickly pull it off again, reopening the fresh wounds from the scourging. If their token landed on the drawing of the crown, they took the pieces of hedge thorn that had been bent into a circle, and crammed it onto the prisoner’s head. And if their token landed on the cross? Well, the rules were clear that you could not actually use the cross until all of the other things were done first. It was no fun if the game ...

552. And They Lived Happily Ever After... or Did They?

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... she gracefully turned toward the door as she finished there is no other modern word to describe the king's feelings: he was smitten. Clearly she would be a suitable companion, his friend had succeeded, and she was the woman that God intended for him to marry. So he bent down and began to push against the stone. He pushed. He shoved. He grunted and groaned, but sadly, the stone would not move. This woman was not to be his wife; she was not the person that God intended for him to marry. Word went out and the ...

553. Blessed Among Women

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... the boy Jesus went to the temple to debate the learned doctors, the only person Luke quotes is his mother. Many of Luke's stories from Jesus' ministry are about women: the woman who was a sinner, the woman who wouldn't give up, the widow of Nain, the bent over woman, the widow who gave her mighty mites. At the resurrection it was only women who had the faith to go to the garden of graves. The text lists Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of Jesus, and other women. Luke reports that when they told the ...

554. Be Ready for the Possibility of the Resurrection

John 20:1-18

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... found the burial clothes, but no body. The gospel writer observed that “as yet they (referring to the apostles) did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead” (v. 9). When the men left the cemetery, Mary Magdalene remained. As she wept, she bent down, looked into the tomb and saw two angels, dressed in white. The angels inquired as to why she was crying and she responded, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him” (v. 13). Notice what is happening ...

555. On Welcoming the Imperfect

John 10:22-30

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... it was a particularly cold day. On the other hand, maybe when John said, “It was winter” (v. 22), he was referring to the icy attitude of those Pharisees who approached Jesus. Those were the first-century religion police. They always had an agenda. One bent close enough to Jesus that the master caught a whiff of moldy breath and rudely asked, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered, “I have told you, and you do not believe. The works ...

556. Can I Get Some Help Over Here?

John 14:23-29

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... bodies have been sculpted by thousands of hours of strenuous, physical training. Their physiques more resemble super heroes than ordinary human beings. The two young visitors watched while, with seeming ease, one of the body builders did repetitions with a steel bar that actually bent slightly under a weight approaching that of a small pony. The young men at the edge of the room were intrigued. “I’ll bet you I can lift that much,” one boasted. “I’ll bet I can too,” the other retorted. Then they ...

557. Angels on Assignment

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Editor James S. Hewett

... was the Rift Valley Academy, a private boarding school where children were being educated while their missionary parents worked elsewhere. Immediately upon leaving the carnage at Lauri the Mau Maus came with spears, clubs, torches, and bows and arrows to the school, bent on destruction. You can imagine the fear of those children at the school. Word had already reached them about the destruction of Lauri. There was no place to flee. The only resource was prayer. Out in the night, lighted torches were seen ...

558. A Picture of Atonement

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Editor James S. Hewett

... did wrong to steal and you must be punished," declared the teacher. As the teacher removed the leather strap from its place on the wall, Billy was ordered to the front of the room and told to remove his shirt. The arm of the teacher was raised over the bent and trembling form of little Billy. "HOLD IT, TEACHER!" shouted a husky voice from the rear of the room. It was Big Jim striding down the aisle removing his shirt as he came. "Let me take his whipp'n," he begged. The teacher was aghast, but knowing that ...

559. The Critical Spirit

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Editor James S. Hewett

... barber shop. The barber asked, "And how was your trip?" The salesman replied, "Wonderful! The flight was perfect, the service at the hotel was excellent. I made a big sale, and I got to see the pope." The barber was astounded. "You got to see the pope? What happened?" "I bent down and kissed his ring." "No kidding! And what did he say?" "Well, he looked down at my head and then said to me, ‘My son, where did you ever get such a lousy haircut?'"

560. Where Is Heaven?

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Billy Graham

... a hundred thousand light years or more in diameter, God can find some place to put us in heaven. I'm not worried about where it is. I know it is going to be where Jesus is. Christians don’t have to go around discouraged and despondent with their shoulders bent. Think of it—the joy, the peace, the sense of forgiveness that He gives you, and then heaven, too.

561. A Vision of Heaven

Revelation 22:1-6, Revelation 22:7-21

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Johnny Cash

... his condition worsening, it was obvious that he was going to die. The family gathered in the hospital room. Jack was swollen from the ravages of the traumatic injury. Johnny Cash tells the story: I remember standing in line to tell him good-bye. He was still unconscious. I bent over his bed and put my cheek against his and said, ‘Good bye, Jack.' That's all I could get out. My mother and daddy were on their knees. At 6:30 A.M. he woke up. He opened his eyes and looked around and said, ‘Why is everybody ...

562. My Son, My Son

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Editor James S. Hewett

... head and shoulders straight, as those of an honest man with a clear conscience. And now those same shoulders were bowed low with sorrow and shame as he stood to receive, as though it were for himself, his son's sentence from the judge. At the sight of his father, bent and humiliated, the son finally began to weep bitterly and for the first time repented of his crime.

563. The Child on the Freeway

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Editor James S. Hewett

... to be in good shape. I don't see any broken bones. Her blood pressure is good. Her heart is fine. So far, so good."No apparent gross damage. She was only bruised and skinned from her vicious tumble along the freeway. Wonder number three. The mother bent over her child. Her eyes were full of tears and her heart was filled with gratitude for such a miracle. Suddenly, without warning, the child’s eyes opened, she looked up at her mother and said, "Mommy, you know, I wasn't afraid." Startled, the mother said ...

564. The Ravaged Life

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Editor James S. Hewett

... Cathedral as chorister. Years passed before the great picture was completed, and when one character only—that of Judas Iscariot—was wanting, the great painter noticed a man in the streets of Rome whom he selected as his model. With shoulders far bent toward the ground, having an expression of cold, hardened, evil, saturnine, the man seemed to afford the opportunities of a model terribly true to the artist's conception of Judas. When in the studio, the profligate began to look around, as if recalling ...

565. Lying By the Side of the Road

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... sad. A man who was a Vietnam Veteran, and had been a paramedic in Vietnam, was leaning on the door of an automobile that was stalled beside a busy expressway in some northeast region of our country. The story underneath explained the circumstances of why he was bent over that car and was weeping. On the way to work that morning the woman who had been driving that car had a heart attack and had fallen outside the car there by the busy expressway, and this man happened along and stopped to render help. Being ...

566. Scattered Pennies

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King Duncan

Money does have a way of dominating our lives--particularly if we do not have it. We are like the man who happened to find a $10 bill on the street. He was so happy that he spent the rest of his life walking with his head down hoping to find more. He accumulated hundreds of buttons, thousands of tabs off of soft drink cans, a few scattered pennies, a bent back and a sore neck. Meanwhile, he missed the beauty of God’s creation all about him.

567. How My Light Is Spent

Luke 17:5-10 and Mark 10:46-52

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Robert Pack and Jay Parini, Editors, adapted from Miller Williams

... turning darkness into light. Here is Milton's "How My Light is Spent": When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best Bear his ...

568. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them. I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them.” Laments God through Hosea. (Hosea 11:1-4) The image of God as father and God’s people as children learning to walk with Him is one of the most beautiful in scripture. By beginning your prayer with “Our Father,” you recognize that God is the ...

569. Masks Off!

John 7:25-45 and 8:11-59

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ...

570. Beautiful

John 20:19-23, Song of Songs 4:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... from Lebanon. Jesus Appears to His Disciples in a Locked Room (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) Then the disciples went back to where they were staying. Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don ...

571. A Restless Spirit

1 Samuel 28:1-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... fault. He knows it. God told him. Samuel warned him. But now, as he’s losing his battle, and he sees his reign declining, he’s getting pretty desperate. And as Saul puts it, God isn’t speaking! The scripture this week has a humorous bent. Saul has outlawed spiritualists and mediums throughout the kingdom for religious reasons. Honor God only, say the Scriptures. So, Saul has made it illegal to do anything else. Out of faithfulness to God, no one was to consult a spiritualist, a medium, a soothsayer ...

572. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life. Jesus Appears to Mary in the Garden and to His Disciples and Breathes on Them Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know ...

573. The Good Yoke

Matthew 11:25-30, 1 Kings 19:1-8, 1 Kings 19:9-18, 1 Kings 19:19-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... yoke or “way” of our rabbi teacher, who will lead us into the ways of righteousness for His Name’s sake! “I led them with cords of a man, with the bonds of love, and I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws, and I bent down and fed them.” (Hosea 11:4) “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1) The metaphor of field (God’s world or vineyard) is the world in which we walk ...

574. Turf Fights and Rewrites: That's What Stiff-Necked People Are Made Of

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your face and the walls too! We are people of struggle. We are a Sturm und Drang people. So much so that God’s nick-name for us is “stiff-necked”! God calls humans a “stiff-necked” people. God asks us to do something, and what happens? We get all bent out of shape and our neck all out of joint about it! If there’s one thing we know about a stiff neck –you can’t turn it! No matter how hard you try, it’s not gonna budge! And we call mules stubborn! Humans seem determined to struggle with ...

575. The Next Big Thing

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... having none of it. He is anchored in his own goals, his own dreams, his own desires, his own reality. So, God decides, it’s time for a change. God realizes, it’s time to choose a new king, someone whose heart is rooted in God. Not a decorated warrior, bent on leading with his own will and his own dreams of glory and prestige. But someone who will put God first, put God’s dreams first. But when God tells the prophet Samuel, it’s time to move on, Samuel too finds it hard to let go of Saul, of ...

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