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576. What Do You Want Me to Do for You?

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... with its own life sometimes, that it is reluctant to seek out others. It certainly is characteristic of most of us who call ourselves present-day disciples. We feel that we are consumers of God’s love rather than purveyors of it. We somehow have the notion that Christ exists to do something for us (like James and John), not that we are here to do something for others in Christ’s name. Have you ever thought of this: we are the only group of people on earth who are specifically charged with the ...

577. The Lord Has Need

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... City to borrow a donkey for the remaining two-mile journey. Why? Because riding into Jerusalem on a donkey was a Messianic statement. Nowhere does Jesus say out and out, “I am the Messiah.” He did not use the title because people had so many different notions - most of them wrong - of what the Messiah would be like. Most saw the Messiah as a conquering military hero. In the words of George MacDonald’s famous poem: “They were all looking for a king/To slay their foes and raise them high:/ Thou cames ...

578. God’s Greatest Gamble

Mark 12:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to declare it illegal. If God cannot find a people with whom he can work inside the church, then God will work outside normal channels to get His work done and His purposes accomplished. This parable or allegory or whatever you want to call it challenges the popular notion that the world (or the Church) belongs to US. In one sense, it is O.K. for us to say “This is my Church” But in the final analysis it is never OUR Church, is it? In 1939 three Methodist bodies in America joined together to form what ...

579. Holy Tuesday

Mark 11:27-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... party of His day. Indeed, in Matthew 23:2 Jesus specifically said that the Pharisees had the truth! His problem was not what the Pharisees preached, but the fact that they so often did not practice what they preached. The Sadducees could not accept the notion of resurrection, so they set up a ridiculous hypothetical situation, based on Levirate law (Deut. 25:5-6) which required the brother of a dead man who has left no child to marry the widow. They described a woman who married seven brothers in succession ...

580. Holy Thursday

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... with me.” “And go tell the soldier who pierced my side with a spear that there is a closer way to my heart than that!” Through eating and drinking, Jesus sought to heal broken relationships. John Wesley had a radical twist in his notion of what the Lord’s Supper was all about. He believed it not only to be a “confirming ordinance” but a “converting ordinance.” “Wesley saw that Holy Communion was not a self-congratulatory meal for saints, but a life-changing meal for sinners.” (Willimon ...

581. Dealing with the "F" Words of Life

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... in God''s name can any of you know of a dark harsh world which only makes sense if Christ is raised from the dead?" Recently Pastor Jim Dethmer of the Willow Creek Community Church in Illinois said this: "The culture in which we live hates the notion of failure. It will use all kinds of fancy academic words to keep from saying the "F" word. The culture has also invaded the church. We find Christians using the words: slip-up, mistake, error, and miscalculation. People do not want to talk about failure in our ...

582. Honestly, Are You Worried about Tomorrow?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Eric Ritz

An ancient Chinese parable tells of Old Tan Chang who had a small farm overshadowed by a towering mountain. One day he got the notion to get rid of the mountain. With the help of his wife and sons, he began to hack at the rock around its base. A neighbor walked by and scoffed, "You''ll never finish the job, old man! There are not enough days in the year for you to do ...

583. Thanks for the Memories

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... pieces he had memorized by recalling that middle C was under the "W" imprinted on his piano at home. On the big day of his recital, he walked confidently on stage, yet to his consternation, he was seated before a Yamaha. He hadn''t the slightest notion as to the location of middle C. After a long, terrified silence, the piano teacher realized the problem, walked across the stage, and pointed to middle C. Hinson''s brother-in-law then proceeded to play the oft-rehearsed recital selection. (2) As we reflect ...

584. The Marvelous Message of Easter

Mark 16:1-20, Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... age, Freud and Marx, prophesied that "man come of age" had outgrown religion, but they are gone, and so is their modern age with its contempt for religion, and religion flourishes still. Chinese communism was determined to stamp out Christianity, and all notions of God. But the gospel grew in the underground and house churches kept the faith going until today there is a new springtime of faith in China. Eastern Europe suffered under communist oppression and suppression of religion for forty years. But now ...

585. New Wine in New Wineskins

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... new wineskin of God's new kind of power is the body of Christ, the Church. I realize that the Church has not been a perfect institution over the centuries. I realize that we still have debates over dogma. I realize that we still use humanly contrived notions to avoid sitting with each other at our Lord's table of grace. But the scriptural reality remains: God comes to us through the community of faith. Please remember Jesus' high priestly prayer that, indeed, the time will come when we will all be one in ...

586. Easter for Thomas, Too

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... time, the signs of resurrection are so slight as to be imperceptible. But God's resurrecting activity is ongoing. It's timetable may vary, but God's intent does not. While people naturally experience God in a wide variety of ways, there is an Old Testament notion that it is life-threatening to behold God face-to-face. You may remember the story of Jacob's nocturnal wrestle with an unknown man. The battle continues, but the dawn is coming and the man with whom Jacob is wrestling later becomes identified as ...

587. You Are Free to Fail

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... come down into the church in Ann Arbor to get clothing from the church rummage sales and food from church supper leftovers. He suffered terribly from loneliness. Eventually he was discovered, and experienced acceptance from the church. Somewhere he had gotten the notion that is all too prevalent in society that failure is unacceptable. When Jesus went back to his hometown of Nazareth, he stood up to teach in the synagogue, but the townspeople were offended that this one who had grown up among them should ...

588. To a Life Beyond

John 6:51-58, Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... tried to correct it the next day. But another typo read, "Mr. Joseph Brown has gone to roost." The third day was still worse. "Mr. Brown has gone to roast." Finally, the fourth day got it right. "Mr. Joseph Brown has gone to rest." This is the popular notion of heaven: rest. Do we sit on clouds, adjust our haloes, and play harps? In Revelation 7:15, John saw, "They are before the throne of God and serve him day and night...." It would seem, then, that heaven is not an eternal sort of south Florida lazy ...

589. The Impossible Option

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... so; nor did it mean taking charge of his own destiny, even by doing good and doing right. It meant losing his heart (and possibly his life) to this One who beckoned. If Bilbo found the label of "Thief" off-putting, the rich man certainly found the notion of "Penniless-By-Choice Disciple" equally unpleasant. To give away his vast wealth -- not as a tax write-off or personal do-good project, but as the necessary paring away of everything that was non-essential to following the Son of Man ... it was a sort of ...

590. In the Hot Seat

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... (and hasn't just required others to do so), it gives that person greater credibility when he or she then wields authority. It gives that person a certain moral authority to take action, make decisions, demand loyalty. And there's truth in that notion, even when we apply it to Jesus. Saint Paul himself quoted an early Christian hymn: "[he] became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and given him the name above all names ..." (Philippians 2:8). Jesus receives ...

591. Don't Fence Me In!

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... ? No! If it were, there would be no laws governing libel and slander. If it is not absolute, where does the government draw the line? Or, take the issue of freedom as it appears in connection with our personal living. An increasing number of Americans have espoused the notion that no one has the right to put any restraints on their liberties. "Don't fence me in" is their catchword. "It's my life, isn't it; if it feels good, I'll do it." Some time ago, a teacher, writing in one of our education magazines ...

592. Grace in the Midst of Exasperation

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... our cognitive resolutions to be in better shape stand little chance if we continually hang out at buffets. As millions can attest, this reality is nothing short of exasperating. Nevertheless, as theologian R. C. Sproul argues in Chosen by God, most of us intuitively reject the notion that we are slaves to our strongest urges. We believe ourselves to be captains of our own souls and directors of our own agendas. We protest, "I don't always do what I desire. In fact right now I'd much prefer being on a golf ...

593. Grace in the Midst of the Crush of Time

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... of each day to the experience of simply being in the presence of God. The goal of that quiet time is not to be productive. We are simply called to be. The shape of time that God has provided, second, also invites us to Withdraw Weekly. This speaks to the notion of the Sabbath. God worked for six days at the beginning of creation -- then God rested. For us to cease our work one day out of seven is to be like God. God doesn't suggest a Sabbath. It is mandated as one of the original Ten Commandments. Our ...

594. Who Needs a Doctor?

Mark 2:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the word -- Pauline is known by the company she keeps. Some of you may know that Pauline was named as one of the Points of Light in our community and was written up in the newspaper. Back during the days when President Bush first introduced that notion -- that there should be people who are points of light in every community -- I nominated Pauline to The Commercial Appeal to be such a person. When the President was coming to town about a year and a half ago, he selected a few people from that Points ...

595. Needy People Please Apply

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... for those at the bottom of society. He points out that mercy and pity were considered defects of character, not virtues, two thousand years ago in Rome. The Romans had rationalized away any sense of obligation for the needy in their society. “Christianity turned this notion on its head. Whereas, for the most part, the poor were formerly thought of as victims of cruel destiny, Christians were told that to look closely at the poor was to see the face of God. “Their care for the needy is legendary. They ...

596. The Indwelling Christ And Holy Communion

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Running from Emmaus, breathlessly breaking into Jerusalem, Cleopas and his companion made an Easter-like declaration. He’s back. Tombs cannot contain him. Even the tombs we build, which try to tuck him away in our dusty history, in our pessimistic defeatism, in our puny notions about what he can and cannot do. Tombs cannot hold him, he’s back. Alive. Go back to the metaphor of Brother Simon, your Maxie image in a mirror has no Maxie substance, but it is Maxie nonetheless. The bread and the wine do not ...

597. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... are paraded before me and my pastoral relationship to you, reveal the sins of all of us, wasted talent, neurotic fear, dependency upon alcohol and drugs, jealousy, exaggerated ego that puffs self up and puts others down. And perhaps the most common of all sins - that peculiar American notion that we can and must do it by ourselves. That we can be self-sufficient, and we must achieve at any price. “Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me ...

598. Gospel Through The Person

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... which you saw and now hear to be mine. Now if you’re taking notes or outlining this passage in your Bible, you might title this section, “Believing and Suffering.” If you’re not taking notes, register it firmly in your mind. This radical notion of Paul’s that believing and suffering go together. This is not something to shun, but something to celebrate. Most translations use the word privilege in the verse. We’re given the privilege, not merely a believing in Christ, but also of suffering for ...

599. Servants Of The Servant Who Was Lord

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... serve, and loving hearts to love, that having the mind of Christ, being a servant. But not many of us want to be servants like that, do we? Very early in my ministry here, I reminded you, and I will continue to remind you, that even us who have the notion that Christianity centers in service, need to realize that there’s a vast difference between the way most of us serve and Jesus’ call to be a servant. Most of us serve by choosing when and whom and how and where we will serve. We stay in charge. Jesus ...

600. Soul Drain

Psalm 63:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... family spent long days in pain and puzzlement, as we anguished in our relationship with our nephew and prayed long and hard about our responsibility, our Christian responsibility to him and the whole community in which he was involved. We didn’t have any exaggerated notion as to what God might do. And in the midst of that ordeal, the word of Isaiah became poignantly real – They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary ...

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