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551. Embalmed Alive

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , filled with fears and frustrations. Or, as the woman who visited the psychiatrist was told to go home and take the mirror down over her sink and cut a window in the wall so that she could see beyond her dirty dishes and her house and herself. I don’t care who you are, or what your name is, or what you work at, or how much you have piled up, I will tell you the eternal truth that you will not find life here within yourselves. As one modern play has it: a poor, sick man is dying, and nobody ...

552. Our Inclusive Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... .' If society can live with that, God help society." Let's suppose that you are a mother or father of a family of three children. One of those children has a life-threatening illness. You as a parent would move heaven and earth to get care for that child. If you had to choose between new clothes or even education for several children in order to funnel more money to the sick child, that's what you would do. Now, visualize God as the heavenly Father of all human beings, including the sick, indigent ones. Don ...

553. A Shepherd To Lead Us

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... be educated by it. But we do not always find it. The trust we place in our leaders can be broken. So what are we to do? John 10 holds the answer. Look at the picture Jesus gives us here in John 10: This wonderful vivid portrait of a shepherd caring for his sheep. The shepherd would lead his sheep out to distant areas and stay there for days. Being a good shepherd he created a temporary corral, a pen to keep the sheep in when they were not grazing. Using the crude stones of the field a shepherd could quickly ...

554. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... new life began to surge through him, God pulled the man tightly up against his shoulder, and hugged him, and kissed him, and only then, carefully laid the man down on the earth like a mother lays her baby in a cradle. I had that kind of an experience when my ... her that I could have burst. I walked over to a stool in the corner of the room and I sat down and held her close. I carefully turned back the corner of the blanket. I put her up against my face, and I rubbed my cheek over the top of her little head. ...

555. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... hammer, took my aim, and let it rip. "Wham!" went the hammer! "Ping" went the main-spring. "Mom!" screamed a little five-year-old boy. I went scurrying out from under that porch, with blood running down my face. A patch fixed the lip, and my mother took care of the tears, but I carried the mark from the spring for years. How lucky I was that the scar from that lesson was so insignificant. Some refusals to learn from others’ experience can destroy a person, or leave the kind of scars that can mar him for ...

556. Turning Away from Temptation

Matthew 4:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... you see anything wrong with them? In a minute I’ll tell you why. You see, I tricked you, or as the Bible puts it, "I tempted you." You see, you know it’s not right for children to have matches, and you also know that you should be very careful. The devil once offered Jesus all kinds of good things if Jesus would forget about God and be the devil's friend instead. Jesus said, "no" to the devil just like you should have said no to me when I offered you the matches. You see, I tempted you just ...

557. This Is Our Song

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... neon gases cool for the night - closed. No room in the inn again. I look to another hill - the imposing structure of the stock exchange rising out of the concrete toward heaven. I’ll invest my wealth and make more and retire earlier and take my ease and forget my cares. I buy my stock papers and I am happy, I am safe. The value of the stocks plummets to an all-time low. I am unhappy; I am not safe any longer. But there are more hills. I find the billboards blaring out the undisputed facts that if I really ...

558. When Is The Baby Coming?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Erskine White

... that time of deliverance is fast approaching today. A baby sent from God is coming to change our lives and it is time to care for this child by acting in His name in service to others. It is time to reexamine the values we live by and conform ... actual day Christ is reborn within us may be earlier or later than that. This baby will truly come to each one of us when we start caring more for His ways than our own, when we stop living in the old kingdom of this world which is passing away and start living in the ...

559. Feeling Down And Looking Up

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... and affirm her. It is sad but true that many of the people who are captive to feelings of hopelessness are young people. "My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God." That’s a way of saying, "Nobody knows and nobody cares about me, least of all God," and many would add, "If there is a God." A surprising number of young people, with what should be the best of life ahead of them, are often so despondent that they commit suicide. Suicide among teens is increasing at an alarming ...

560. Great Grace Was Upon Them!

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... just ordinary, common people who were creating all this commotion. The authorities couldn’t understand it. The only explanation they could come up with was that these people had been with Jesus. That really made them anxious, because they thought they had taken care of Jesus on Golgotha. They told this young congregation to "shut up and shut down." Remember, not everybody likes Jesus. So Luke doesn’t give us a romantic or idealized picture of the church. He sees the church under the divine guidance and ...

561. What God Requires of Us

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... another time. Nicodemus: But it is the time that Jesus calls us to recapture. We don’t need formalized religious practices. We don’t need the formality of the Temple. We don’t need Pharisees or priests. We don’t even need the Law. We need people who care and are motivated to do justice, to have mercy, and walk humbly with Yahweh. Caiaphas: (He comes back to reality.) No Temple, no priesthood, no Law! If you were a priest, I’d have your position. But since you are just a layman, I will forget our ...

562. Jesus the Hope of the World

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... I didn’t stay until the end. I don’t know who took it. John: Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, Mary Magdalene, and Mary took care of the body. They buried him in Joseph’s tomb. Peter: You mean his mother had to prepare his body for burial? This ... we dreamed of is gone. Let’s face it, Jesus is just one more good man who got caught and crushed in the system. Now I don’t care what you two do, but I’m heading back to Galilee. Guess I’ll try my luck at fishing. Peter: He said we’d be "fishers of men ...

563. What Is God Like?

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... of no better way to spread the words than through your column. I hope you will deem it worthy. "We’ve come to the end of another day, Hear me, dear Father, as I pray. Thank thee for all the blessings we share And keep me in thy loving care." That modern prayer comes close to the way a little Jewish child in Jesus’ day addressed God at bedtime. Before that child closed his eyes in sleep, he would say these words from Psalm 31:6 - "Into thy hands I commend my spirit." When David’s greater Son, Christ ...

564. A Way Back In

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... be able to see. We believe in their ultimate worth, and we want to enjoy it with them. Our belief is expressed in practical caring that does not turn loose even when things look hopeless. This is not the love of romance novels, but it is the love which ... another person like that? It’s just not human nature to lay yourself out like that for anybody. After all, God takes care of those who take care of themselves. True, in a way, but, I feel that examples of such loving and knowing are all around us. What we ...

565.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... to death! Well, this is one time it won’t work! My men tell me that he has done nothing wrong. Claudia: Please be careful. It would be wise to have nothing to do with this. This prophet, as you call him - he is a strange man. Pilate: Perhaps had ... think that I will be able to beat Caiaphas this time without using the custom. I admit that your Jesus is an unusual man but I care less for him than I do my desire to shame Caiaphas. Claudia: Revenge will do you no good, Pilate. Mary M.: Please restore my lord ...

566. Advent 1: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Faith of Christmas

Luke 2:15-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich indeed; and if, they had not Christ… and I had given them all the world, they would be poor.” Remember at the start of this sermon how Tom Southerland thought he had been forgotten and that nobody cared, and his plane landed in San Francisco and he saw all the people and the lights and the cameras… and he thought there was a celebrity on board the plane… and his wife said to him, “It’s you! This is all for you.” Well, that’s what I ...

567. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... whiff of that awful spray in later years. The subconscious plays strange tricks on us. But by faith in, and assurance from, the caring love at the heart of the universe, our fears can be quieted; and at the heart of our being there can be surprising ... me said, "God does not expect you to do more than one thing at a time. Now is the moment you have to preach. God can take care of Mrs. Jones until you get through." I tried it. And I have learned that I can always leave the Mrs. Joneses in the hands of God. ...

568. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... special Spirit and a Power at work in that church and through that church. I share a personal experience: An outstanding leader in our church, a Ph.D. in engineering and a vice-president of his corporation, had a near-fatal heart attack. He was rushed to a Cardiac Care Unit in a hospital thirty miles away. I hurried over to see him. The doctors were holding out little hope for his survival. I went into the Cardiac Unit, held his hand and said just a brief prayer of faith and hope. I left to return the next ...

569. Faith As Healing Energy

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ask me how I was and to tell me that he had prayed for me. Strangely, about three days later, my back suddenly got better. I like to think that the prayer and the concern were a real part of the healing. Such a world of deep faith and compassionate caring for each other is the world that Christ wants us to establish. It is his Kingdom. Perhaps it is not so much a miracle of healing that I need, but the miracle of a loving, believing fellowship which produces the miracle of healing. In his book, There’s A ...

570. Home Economy

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... oil in the cruse, and she was gathering sticks with which to build a fire so that her boy and she could eat once more before they died. "Go, do as I have asked," Elijah said. "First, bake a loaf of bread for me, and then when I am taken care of, you will have one for yourself." And how about that? A prophet of the Lord insisting that he have first bat, as selfish as all that. Social insensitivity? Did he not realize that there was famine in the land, that he was doing this poor widow in? The Promise ...

571. The Family Was God’s Idea

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... t. I believe that God created us in his image to teach us the nature of community, of love, and he put us in families to make that absolutely necessary; that you can’t grow up, you can’t even be alive very long without someone tending and caring. And that goes on for many years with us humans. That family that got its start in the ancient reaches of time became enriched and enlivened in the understanding of the people of the Old Testament, it has held out through history in ways that absolutely amaze us ...

572. Ready or Not - Here I Come

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... it." Of course, we sleep part of the time, about eight hours a night. But, this is not what Jesus meant when he said, "Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping." "Sleep" is a symbolic word for a state of unpreparedness. It means that many of us don't care what happens to the world. Only when you are indifferent and unconcerned can you sleep. You know that when something is on your mind when you go to bed, you cannot sleep; you toss and turn all night long. You get up the next morning feeling as though you ...

573. When Our Children Teach Us

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the past six months, but she still shows complete disregard for her physical appearance and makes no effort to assist her own care. She must be fed, bathed, and clothed by others. “Because she has no teeth, her food must be pureed. Her shirt is ... his life… he saw his mother’s face, he saw his dad and his doctor, he saw flowers and candy and balloons and the people who had cared for him. For the first time in his life, he saw his teddy bear. It was a joyous celebration! When it came time for the boy to ...

574. The Ten Commandments #8: No Stealing

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... do is that the church abdicated its historic responsibility years ago. Members did not give enough for the church to properly care for those in need, so government had to step in to keep people from starving to death. We complain bitterly about ... pay their debts on time, and all of us who fail to properly share. Echoing down though the centuries, remember the word. "You shall not steal." Care about EVERYONE'S property, and be generous. It is a word we need to hear. It is a word we need to live. Let us pray ...

575. When God Is Gone

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... as it can be expressed. Why does God allow a world of sick children and no money and no hope? Why cancer? Why do families fall apart? Why? Why? Why? These problems are not abstract and philosophical. They are profoundly human, and people see no solution. Does God care? Is God there? I can say on one point the angry farmhand was dead wrong. Holding his child up, he demanded that God come down and see what this world is like. God did that already. God came down, entered humanity and saw and felt it all. He ...

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