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576. The Lord Is My Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Robert Allen

... of life is that there are so many people who feel unimportant, worthless, unappreciated, unloved. Sometimes in just a few weeks I counsel with a half-dozen different people, all struggling with the same issue. They have low self-esteem; they have a low opinion of themselves; they have no sense of their inherent worth or value as people. Remember a news segment from the presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson. In one segment, they showed him speaking to a high school assembly of teenage boys and girls. He was ...

577. I Believe In Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Robert Allen

... grew older, prayer was simply a natural part of my life. I was firmly convinced that prayer was important ... that prayer was real ... that prayer made a difference. And through all the years of my life, I have never had any reason to change that opinion. When my children were old enough, my wife or I would read them bedtime stories. We read Mother Goose ... and Aesop’s Fables ... Bible stories ... and the Great Brain Series. We read the Hardy Boys ... and Nancy Drew mysteries. Finally, when the story was ...

578. Is There Life After Christmas?

Luke 2:21-40, Isaiah 12:1-6

Sermon

Erskine White

... upon Him," and with all His "counsel and might," He will not judge as the world judges, by what the eye sees and the ear hears. He will not judge the worthiness or usefulness of others by their wealth, their power or their standing in public opinion polls. He will not judge as priest or profiteer or politician are apt to judge, but "with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth." He will judge by God’s standards - not the world’s standards - and therefore ...

579. Maximizing Opportunities

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Barry L. Johnson

... and position himself so as to appropriately step between the receiver and the ball at precisely the right moment. The first choice minimizes risk. The second maximizes opportunity. Which one the player chooses depends on the degree of his security. In my opinion, this is also the difference between All-Americans and also-rans. The All-American believes in himself, and not fearing failure in pursuit of excellence, he’ll opt for courage and position every time. The same principle applies to using the gifts ...

580. Break Through

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... and a new way, and be a pilgrim people in quest of the kingdom of God. The danger lurking in David’s good intent was that the institution would harden and that God would have to break through settled traditions and fixed thought and rigid opinions to establish the tent mentality of a pilgrim people once again. The institution did harden. So does the church. And God has to continually break through in the thinking of a new thought or the enactment of a new idea. Jesus continually struggled against the ...

581. We Know Jonah

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... the Haftarah (Prophetic scripture selection) for the afternoon service on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. This anonymous author opens the door for us to assume several things about Jonah - that he was a proud man, self-centered, arrogant and opinionated. He was headstrong and willful, and used to getting his own way, by hook or crook, as we might say, regardless of others. Certainly very important among Jonah’s characteristics is the fact he harbored some very deep-seated prejudices, especially ...

582. A Prophet Like Me

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... that God speaks to contemporary situations and to our own lives. Implicit in our Christian faith we have the belief - indeed the experience - that God still speaks to humankind. God may not always say what we want to hear, and we must never confuse our own opinions with the will of God. But as individuals, and together as the church, we must cultivate the sensitive ear and the willing heart that we may be reached by God in every situation. Every generation needs those who are raised up as prophets from the ...

583. Whatever Happened To Sanctification?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... my lifestyle. I have a letter in my file (grown more precious over the years) that took me to task for supporting and promoting a church remodeling program when there were so many hungry people in the world. The closing shot in that letter was the opinion that pastors who had more than two suits in their closets - were hustlers! To the best of my recollection (one tends to remember those events!) that has been the only time for that kind of uncomfortable confrontation. Nobody has ever asked me why we need ...

584. Peter’s Second Sermon

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... , to conduct a self-supporting business in greeting cards, magazine subscriptions and the like. He was a great example to me and to many others, in the way he was handling his great suffering. We had many conversations. We talked a lot about healing. He wanted my opinion about going to Lourdes, France, a place made famous for its healing miracles. He got around to asking me if I would conduct a healing service for him. I was quite reluctant. I didn’t want to be a promoter of false hopes. But he persisted ...

585. Dual Citizenship I - What Do We Owe To Our Country?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... and inalienable, then it can be taken away anytime a majority thinks that political correctness requires it. If there is nothing that is absolutely right or wrong, if there are no unchanging principles given by God, then we're left with nothing but our opinions, and none of them has any authority. The Russian writer Dostoyevsky grasped this truth when he had one of the brothers Karamazov declare, "If there is no God, then everything is permitted." When the hippies in the 19601s insisted on the freedom to do ...

586. Peter Becomes the Rock

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G. Franklin Gray

... .) Narrator He was born in an obscure village, the son of humble people. He grew up in that small town and worked with his father in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He was only 33 when the opinion of the tyrants and ill wishers turned against him. Some of his friends deserted him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While he was dying his executioners gambled for his ...

587. Stewards and the Hungry

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... wants the children to starve, and yet they do; and we see it on our television screen year after year. No one knows the reasons we continue to have so much world hunger; we can only depend on the authorities that we read on the subject and their opinions. They claim there’s a certain lack of understanding and concern and that we fail to take the time to consider why hunger continues to exist. We close our minds to taking any of the blame as American citizens who live very "high on the hog" at the expense ...

588. Resurrection: From Burn-Out to New Vision

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... what has it amounted to? Nobody appreciates what I have done. Nothing has really changed. I’m all alone in this. No one is helping me." The burned-out have a difficult time getting help. They are too afraid to stop running. They have too low an opinion of themselves to think that anyone would want to help them. They may even become paranoid, seeing enemies that aren’t there. Burn-out is a kind of spiritual death. The miracle is that anyone is ever resurrected from it. Yet scattered among you are many ...

589. A Man Who Lost His Head

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... of the pulpit in the twentieth century. Too many who stand in our modern pulpits today have no bedrock beliefs. Their preaching has no power ... no authority ... no intensity ... no persuasiveness. Their messages can be briefly analyzed and simply summarized thus: "In my opinion, I think it would be well if we might lean in this direction." The Gospel is more than good advice for the self-righteous; it is good news for the sinful. Too many preachers today spend six days asking, "What on earth shall ...

590. What Do You See?

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Thomas Long

... own faith strengthened, their own reliance upon the grace of Christ reinforced by the experience. Several months after the shelter was opened, one of the pastors of the church was being interviewed on a radio talk program. The interviewer was an opinionated fundamentalist whose biases were quite strong. It became clear during the interview that he felt that the church ought to stick to the business of preaching the old-time gospel and stay away from meddlesome activities like shelters for homeless people ...

591. Discipleship - Path to Fulfillment

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... honored with a place at the head table at a dinner with other clergy, prior to an ecumenical service. He was high in the hierarchy of his church, a colorful television personality, and a witty and insightful writer. He had every reason to have an exalted opinion of himself; but instead, he had the spirit of a servant. This famous man never finished his meal. Instead, he left the head table to greet the laity who were present and chat with the waitresses and busboys. And afterward, in church, Bishop Fulton J ...

592. A Cup Running Over

John 11:17-37

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... knock at the door that would signal the arrival of the doctor. We can hear his footsteps on the stair, and see him bending over the patient, as we held our breath and awaited his diagnosis. We were apprehensive, but reassured simply by his presence. in our opinion, God had made him little less than God, in his wisdom and healing powers. The sisters regarded Jesus in the same light. "If you had been here, O great Physician, my brother would not have died." Such faith! B. And what of the faith of Jesus? Hear ...

593. "The Sawdust and the Circus"

Numbers 27:12-23

Sermon

... whose very words seem archaic - repeat and listen to prayers to a God whom we cannot see - sing hymns from another era - and listen to a minister who may sound as wise as the ringmaster at the time. And then we go home and realize - or at least have the opinion - that it was all an illusion - a little island of unreality in the middle of a very real world. For there seems to be no carry-over. Now, the reason that the circus succeeds so well, is that we like to be fooled. We like to think we’re watching ...

594. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

... and give ourselves, and we must also accept others as they are. People in our families, our friendship groups, or our world, are people in their own right and our call is for acceptance. Our call is also for honest dialogue, of course, for honest attempt to change opinions and attitudes, but ultimately it is for acceptance of people as they are. God’s love is like that. He takes us "as is." He loves us as we are. And our call is to love others in just that way. Judas couldn’t do it ... so ultimately ...

595. The Forgotten Virtue

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... Yes, but in this case, we mean that it has achieved the wrong results. A person has become intoxicated with his own intellectual achievement. He becomes so self-important that he fails to see the importance of anything else around him. He becomes so proud of his own opinions that he argues, not for what is right, but to prove that HE is right. He closes his mind to the light of all new truth. The sin of the Pharisees was that they had fit their thinking into a nice, neat, little pattern. They had the whole ...

596. Unwavering Light

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... to the Lord." In other words, to help alleviate confusion. Nothing has afflicted churches much more in all ages than has confusion. What an unruly, contentious lot we humans are! We seem so much more easily divided than easily united. We let opinions become dogmas. We let denominations become abominations. We let ourselves separate into "us and them" enclaves. We break the bond of peace in the name of the Prince of Peace. Shame, shame! Undoubtedly there was division within the Corinthian church community ...

597. Gentle Light

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... faith for each other never diminished ... they could and did differ in love," he concluded. Surely this is how Christians deal with each other and, for that matter, with all the people around them. About some things we do indeed differ in opinion or by conviction. But not abrasively. Not judgmentally. Not violently. Not angrily. Not suspiciously. Not sourly. Only courteously. Only gently. Only lovingly. And to show the Corinthians exactly what he meant, Saint Paul dares to say, "Be imitators of me." Yet in ...

598. Crowned With Victory

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... which is more widely accepted than Christ’s Resurrection on that first Easter morning. When the disciples met to choose a successor to Judas, the basis for their choice was first of all - he had to be an eyewitness to the Resurrection. No second rate opinion or hearsay was accepted. He had to know from his own personal experience. G. K. Chesterton, the English journalist, wrote: "If a dozen men tell me that they have climbed the Matterhorn, I am satisfied that the summit is accessible, though I may never ...

599. A New Kind of Teaching

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... in the musty pages of the past. Consequently, teaching degenerates into a boring recitation of what someone else thought years ago, adding a little here, subtracting a little there. Many teachers are mere technicians of information, rearranging facts and opinions in new ways, without ever taking a stand existentially, saying here is where I stand, here is where I stake my life. Colleges, universities, and graduate schools can become mere junctions of information and dispatchers of knowledge without ever ...

600. A Dreadful Declaration

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George Bass

... that he or she intends to enter the full-time ministry of the church. "Do you mean to tell me that you are going to be a pastor? You?" Friends often see their friends as being strangely unfitted - perhaps due to demonstrated lifestyle, character, and opinions - for the ministry of the gospel. "You must be kidding." Even worse is the opposition of loved ones: "Have you ever considered what you are giving up? Look at the careers your friends are preparing for and take another look at the ministry." One ...

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