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551. Leah

Genesis 49:29--50:14

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... key personality in Asia today, is a lowly village woman. O-Lan, the plain, unwanted kitchen slave who became the wife of Wang Lung, a peasant farmer. During the vacillating experiences of poverty and wealth, starvation and prosperity, she had to be the skillful, stabilizing factor, holding the impetuous husband in check. Through the famine, when the faithful ox was the only available food, O-Lan had to take the knife and dispatch the much loved family pet. It was a woman’s place to do the heartbreaking ...

552. The Cunning Craftsman, God

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... , God." On reading it, I could not shake the phrase from my mind: "The cunning craftsman, God." As used, the word cunning does not mean some kind of craftiness which might be our modern interpretation. But taken in its pure sense it indicates skill, wisdom and ability. The phrase then really means that the Master artist God can take our blundering efforts and still make something useful out of them. He takes our mismanaged lives, our failed efforts, our missed marks, our shameful deeds, our alien attitudes ...

553. Running With Patience

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... is also the determination to maintain a steady course, the stabilizer when panic threatens, the resolution to stay alert for the best signs in the worst times and the grace to accept what cannot be changed. It is an art to be practiced, a skill to be sharpened, a faith to be kept, a philosophy to maintain and a hope to keep bright. It is not blind surrender to inevitable fate, euphoric capitulation without effort, nor stuporous cowardice that ceases to care. Into every life come those moments, days, weeks ...

554. How To Be A Saint In A Storm

Acts 27:13-26

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... stand the storm, they can already see it is about to fall apart. He doesn’t tell them they have some pretty important people on board, so everything will be fine - everyone can see they are as scared as anybody. No use telling them the captain is very skilled, a real "man of the sea" - they know that, but they know he’s lost too. No point in saying he just got the latest "weather report" and it’s going to be "clearing" tomorrow. No, that kind of optimism is no good. That which denies the obvious ...

555. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... a necessity in the twentieth century as in the first. Paul’s writings are radiant with the Spirit, for the Christian era is a "dispensation of the Spirit," Christian life is "walking by the Spirit," Christian virtues are the "fruits of the Spirit," Christian skills are the "gifts of the Spirit," and the Christian hope is realized through "the Spirit of him who raised Christ Jesus from the dead." If this is not a description of today’s Christianity, it is because the essential factor, the Holy Spirit, is ...

556. Numbered Hairs

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... of the cost to anyone else. He has so concentrated on this that his instinct seems always to tell him when someone could be useful to him. Tolstoy writes, "Something always drew him toward those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people."7 Manipulation and exploitation of persons is so common that many find it difficult to believe that anyone could be interested in them for their own sakes. "Everyone has an angle," it is said ...

557. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... all the purpose of a lie. And for this vicious business they have a special device - the headline technique. Knowing full well that a vast majority of their readers get their most lasting impression concerning any particular subject from the headlines, they skillfully slant the news by the way they phrase the captions of their articles. Note how prevalent is the wicked practice whenever there is a political contest of vital concern, an industrial dispute that involves a serious strike, a war in the making ...

558. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... insists. Nations are invariably motivated and dominated by self-interest. The "haves" want to keep all they’ve got, and the "have nots" want to get their fair share. Hence, conflicts are inevitable. The only adequate defense is equipment for and skill in killing and destruction. This method has been practiced so long, has been so widely accepted as inevitable and thus seems so obvious, that one who doubts it and particularly one who denounces it as insane and suicidal is considered impractical, visionary ...

559. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... the cogent relevancy of this theme and the importance of dealing with it practically and realistically. To that end I have raised with myself four obvious questions: Why? What? When? How? Why preach unpopular truth? Why not be adroit, skillful, wise, enough to avoid issues that are controversial, disturbing, and inevitably provocative of trouble? There are certainly many matters of importance that may be preached about without creating antagonism and dissension. In tragic hours like the present, when ...

560. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... child of poverty, of a humble family, in the American backwoods, but he could become the stalwart statesman who saved the American union. George Frederick Handel was an unknown Prussian who seemed to have everything weighted against him, but he could become the skilled creator of the mightiest of all oratorios, The Messiah. Saul of Tarsus was an intemperate and bitter enemy of the Christian Faith, but he could become the most powerful champion of that Faith the world has yet known. A second exciting fact is ...

561. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... contradiction - we live with death. And so we have come to celebrate the resurrection. This is the normal thing to do! We need to see the Risen Christ standing before us. What would you have me do this morning? Build some kind of a solid, skilled, scholarly statement and documentation for the resurrection of Jesus Christ? You wouldn’t want that, even if I could. Your presence here is proof enough of that resurrection. I remember asking a young widow if there was anything in particular that she wanted me ...

562. Saints With Crooked Haloes

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... would ever amount to much. Love, Mrs. Reams." I felt like a saint with a crooked halo! Listen to me now with your heart as well as ears. No matter how often you have failed, no matter how dismal may be your record, no matter how limited may be your skills, God wants to claim you as his own and commission you in his service. If you have a humble and contrite heart, even a little bit of faith, and if you are available for God, you can be one of his saints with crooked haloes. Remember, God does not work ...

563. The Waters of Your Baptism

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... trying to honor a poet whose work she liked. When Anonymous grew up and became a Baptist preacher, he had a specialty. It had to do with baptism. Because my subject today is baptism, let me tell you the story. Anonymous was very skillful at making Methodists and Presbyterians uneasy about their baptism. He persuaded lots of them that unless they went altogether underneath the water, they were lost souls. Every Sunday afternoon down at the Chattahoochie River, he re-baptized ten or fifteen folks. Everything ...

564. The Level Ground Beneath The Cross

Romans 3:21-31, Romans 3:9-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Baptist minister who preached every Sunday on baptism by immersion. His folks agreed with his doctrine, but they were tired of hearing the same subject every week. The deacons undertook to solve the problem through diplomatic means. They complimented the pastor on his pulpit skills and suggested to him that he was such a natural preacher that they wanted to try an experiment. They wanted to hand him a piece of paper with a scripture lesson on it just before he stepped into the pulpit. "We believe that you ...

565. "Hands Off!"

Exodus 20:1-21, Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... built the entire economy of the South on the legal theft of liberty and labor from African American slaves. We have a long and infamous history of theft. There is a socio-economic injustice related to stealing. Poor people, with no money to hire skilled attorneys, waste away in prisons for stealing a car or TV, while officers of huge corporations manipulate the stock market, embezzle, and bill our government for defense contract overruns. Few of them are ever even accused of wrong-doing. ours is a society ...

566. The Bite of The Lying Tongue

Exodus 20:1-21, James 3:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... that lying is epidemic in America. Michael Josephson is a businessman who specializes in ethics. He tours the country full-time, teaching corporate employees how to be honest. Josephson makes the following claims: "By the time a child is 8 or 10 years old, he is skilled at lying." "We say honesty is the best policy but we don't really believe it." "Over 50 percent of employees distort facts to impress bosses." "We all lie so much that we hardly notice it." Lying has taken on a whole new vocabulary in modern ...

567. Glorious Surprises

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the 1920's a great Scottish sprinter, Eric Liddle, Won an Olympic gold medal. Later he became a Christian missionary in: China, and was martyred there during World War II. Eric once said, "When I run, I feel God's pleasure." God gave Eric Liddle a gift-- skill in running--and he used that gift to glorify God. Whenever you feel God's pleasure, you are probably using one of your gifts of the Spirit. The Bible also speaks of "fruits" of the Spirit. These are qualities that every Christian should model. Just as ...

568. Put the Cross on Top

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... lives and save their eternal souls. We must keep the cross on top. On any given weekend we probably have 300 visitors in our worship services. We want them all to experience the friendliness and openness of this church. We hope they will learn some practical skill in Christian living. We want them to thrill to the music and to share their concerns with God in prayer. But beyond all that, our supreme responsibility is to help them connect with the Savior who loved them enough to die for them. He alone can ...

569. Christmas Is Coming

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

James Bjorge

... happen on this day? Then he saw the child Jesus; he swept him up in his arms and the Bible says old Simeon blessed God. Just imagine this gray-haired veteran of many years standing, trembling, excited with God in his arms. Today with our technical skills and rocket blasts to outer space it is easy for men to suppress astonishment. Everything is sort of "ho-hum" ... matter of fact. We yawn and say, "What next?" Not so with Simeon, nor the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks that night, nor the wisemen ...

570. An Identity Crisis

Sermon

James Bjorge

... hunting in Iowa with my older brother. On one of his visits he brought along his black labrador. A lab is supposedly a born hunter with keen instincts for the outdoor life. I was a bit apprehensive though, for this dog had not been trained in hunting skills and I was dubious of his native abilities. Well, the fears were well-grounded for when this explosive black lab hit the fields, he was off chasing the winds. He did not know what he was supposed to be pursuing nor did he seem to care. Little sparrows ...

571. Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Don Yocom

... us to hold evangelistic services for them. While I was there, they realized that they had no altar either, just a rickety old table used for Holy Communion. Someone made this suggestion: Every family was to contribute a piece of wood from around their homes. A skilled craftsman was hired who took those pieces of wood and made an altar to God from them. It was just as symbolic as the twelve stones in Elijah’s altar on Mount Carmel. The church came alive and responsive to God. What is most important is ...

572. Jeremiah and the Potter

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

Don Yocom

... alleys. The major industry in that town of less than 2,000 people is pottery. What a shame that some products that started out to be pots and plates are now of no value, but are used in paving alleys. Just as the old time potter used his power and skill to make a worthy vessel, God takes people and molds them into something worthwhile. "To make is the property of God, but to be made, that of men" (Paul Elmer Moore). God’s power can flow into human lives if we let it. It can also flow into the nation ...

573. Crossing the Great Divide

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... against getting his hands dirty - or rather bloody. But Pilate took a further step. He thought he could just skip over the valley altogether with one small leap of washing his hands before the roaring crowd. But crossing the great divide is not a matter of physical skill or mechanical tricks, nor can we dream our conscience across. There is only one route - to go through the valley. The valley is the harder way, the darker way. At times it is the valley of the shadow of death. It is also the way of the ...

574. APOTHECARY

Exodus 30:22-33

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... industries specializing in these products. Rather, the present-day apothecary is the pharmacist. In fact, unless I am mistaken, in England he is still called an apothecary. We are all aware of the type of service which our pharmacist gives us, the training and skill that go in to the preparation of the many life-saving drugs which are available to us. And, of course, we can’t stop with the corner pharmacist. We must also include the employees of the great drug and medicine manufacturing companies. They ...

575. ARMOR - BEARER

Jeremiah 9:54; 1 Samuel 14:7

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... during the Middle Ages, we can recall the standards upon which selection for such high honor was based. This probably wasn’t so involved in the times of which we are speaking. Most likely the merits upon which the armor-bearer was chosen were bravery, loyalty, and skill in warfare. We find this picked out for us by the third of our biblical texts. Joab’s armor-bearer, Haharai of Beeroth, was himself a mighty warrior, being one of the "Mighty Men" of David (cf. 2 Samuel 23:37; 1 Chronicles 11:39). We see ...

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