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601. Peter’s Second Sermon

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... relationship with God that they had powers most of us do not have. For me a miracle is anything that makes God more real in my life. I see healing miracles going on today, but I see them being accomplished through the miracles of medicine and skilled doctors and nurses. This whole problem was usefully described in a delightful book, titled Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns. The main character is a wise old grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, who struggles in 1906 to make some sense out of life. His grandson ...

602. Stewards and the Hungry

Matthew 25:31-46

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... the Earth and all its natural resources. In the days ahead, we’ll discover that being a caretaker and steward involves a lot more than whether we tithe or not and what we put in the church offering plate. It involves our caring for our bodies, how we use our skills, how we apportion our time, and what we do with our life and others’ lives. It has a lot to do with caring for the hungry of the world. In Genesis 1:1 we read, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth ..." In the beginning, did ...

603. Stewards of Life, Death, and Beyond

Matthew 6:19-24

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... creation is a very large responsibility and privilege. We saw that we must conserve and love the natural resources, that the hungry need be fed as a sign of the Kingdom, that God wants us to be good stewards of our health and bodies, that our gifts and skills need to be identified and put to wise use, that a portion of the money we receive needs to be returned to God. Today, we have the privilege of being stewards of life itself, of the death process, and even what happens after that. First, let’s look ...

604. A Shepherd Who Became a Sovereign

2 Samuel 12:1-31

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R. Blaine Detrick

... between Judah and the northern tribes, and had belonged to neither. David was an outstanding king, who ruled with wisdom, justice, and power. Under his capable administration, the kingdom of Israel grew in prestige and prominence. He was a skillful general, who won one military victory after another. Under his competent leadership, the borders of israel enlarged remarkably. Indeed, under David and his son, Solomon, Israel reached boundaries that never before - and never since - had been reached. Singer We ...

605. They Also Serve Who Wait

Luke 2:21-40

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Thomas Long

... ," he says, ... I return your gods to you, and also give you to them, just as you have demanded. You shall provide the stuff; I shall give it a form ...4 But our gods made of positive thoughts, nuclear megatons, management objectives, secular therapies, and cosmetic skill cannot save us. Indeed they become burdens to us, heavy to carry, costly to maintain. It is God alone who saves, and part of what it means to be fully human is to wait for his coming. Jesuit priest William F. Lynch has observed that there ...

606. Living in the Future Present

Mark 9:2-13

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Thomas Long

... person in the world who knows what the future holds for this patient, that his life is now numbered in days. Although some might think this knowledge would lessen the physician’s responsibility, for the patient is now outside the limits of her skill and of medicine’s power, the physician knows otherwise. As she enters the patient’s room, and the patient and his family look toward her, wonderingly, hopefully, she is deeply aware that the awful truth she knows about the future has placed the heaviest ...

607. Take a Close Look (At the Widow)!

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

James W. Robinson

Mark is a marvel when it comes to storytelling. He is the O. Henry of the New Testament, a magician with words, who squeezes a novel into a paragraph or two. His skill is nowhere more evident than in his account of the widow with the two coins at the temple treasury. It is a gem of a short story. He makes it so easy for us to visualize the woman as she waits patiently in line to drop her offering into the ...

608. Where Can We Find Wisdom?

Proverbs 2:1-22

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... possibility that the prize which makes us wise is found in looking - looking behind, looking between, looking before, looking beyond. I First, we can find wisdom by looking behind. Sir Isaac Newton, the seventeenth-century English scientist and mathematician, once hired a skilled mechanic to build a small mechanical replica of the solar system. A gold ball represented the sun; dull gray balls stood for the planets. By turning a crank, Sir Iaaac could make the model move, so that the tiny balls traced the ...

609. Waiting

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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Thomas D. Peterson

... and waited for the best in us to come forth and prevail. Because they knew what God means for his children as it had been revealed in Christ, they could see that in us which was worth loving, no matter how we may have behaved toward ourselves. Skilled in the depth and seriousness of their lives, they were able to work Christ’s loving order into ours. They were well aware that God does not perfect imperfect natures overnight. Christ gave them wit and will to wait wisely for God’s fullness of time for ...

610. Confronting Hypocrisy With Humility (I)

Matthew 23:1-39

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Brett Blair

... it is not the title but the deed that makes it so. II Our problem first of all is hypocrisy. Secondly, the solution is humility. There are many things that humble me. I am humbled in the presence of the starry firmament. I am humbled in the presence of a skilled musician. I am humbled by an act of love that seeks nothing in return. I am humbled at the birth of a newborn child. I am humbled by the knowledge of a great teacher. I am humbled by the simple wisdom of a small child. What is humility? A dictionary ...

611. Everyone Has a Somebody

John 15:1-17

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Charles L. Koester

... indigent skid-row person was seriously injured. Hit by a car. Being on call from the Medical Society, this doctor was called in. For 48 hours he never left the bedside of the patient. Never slept, ignoring completely his own busy practice. His constant care and skill saved this fellow from certain death. Was he grateful? Oh, no - he slapped a $50,000 malpractice suit on the good doctor because one of his fingers was stiff after recovery! To love is also to risk. To risk! Oftentimes our love is never really ...

612. Sharing with Our Brothers

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

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Ewart E. Turner

... the least about "the church is always after my money." Indeed the church is, for the church is after you. And your money is as concrete an embodiment of you as exists. It represents the fruit of your labor, your time, your interests, your skills. The church has a major responsibility to God for the values and priorities you represent in our community. The church can put you to work in the slums of Calcutta, on the fratricidal roads and alleys of Lebanon, the Bibleless villages of Russia, the festering ...

613. What's Mine Is Yours

Luke 12:13-21

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Ewart E. Turner

... planted and harvested. Your God had no hand in it. That grain is mine, only mine." "Look at it this way," Godson replied gently. "The mysterious life in the seed was placed there and sustained there by the Creator God. The sun and the rain come from him. The skill which you have to plan and manage is yours as a gift from God. You are his steward, just as your hired men are your stewards and have to render an accounting of their stewardship. As a return of gratitude you can share in creation with the Creator ...

614. Glorious Light

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... ivories on the keyboard were fastened with screws. A dozen or more strings were missing. It was capable of clattering only music marred with tinniness of tone and horribly out of tune. That is until Albert Schweitzer sat down to play. He was not only a skilled physician, but a renowned master of Bach’s music. Only he could bring alive in even a pitifully ravaged instrument the glorious chords of Bach’s great music. As only God’s infinite grace can restore the worst of us to usefulness, even beauty! He ...

615. LIFE! LIFE! ETERNAL LIFE!

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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John W. Rilling

... to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty am I got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. ‘My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me to be a witness for me that I have fought his battles, who now will be my rewarder.’ "When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the riverside, into which ...

616. IN THE HOUR OF TRIAL

Matthew 4:1-11

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John W. Rilling

Among the ancient Norse legends one tells of the visit of Thor, the mighty thunder god, to the land of the giants where he found them playing games of skill and strength. Eagerly he accepted their invitation to try his own prowess. His first test was to empty a great two-handed drinking bowl filled with a strange green liquid. But hard as he tried he succeeded in making it recede only a little bit. He shook his head perplexed ...

617. The Personal Touch

Mark 1:14-20

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Brett Blair

... He din’t say they would BE fishers of men. They were slowly made into disciples over the course of 3 years. It does not happen over night. It takes time for the Teacher to educate the student. It takes time for the Master to convey his skills to the apprentice. It takes time for the Lord to make these fishermen into disciples. The personal touch takes time. Canned approaches promise success over night but the personal approach takes time. You will find, if you will try, that the best witnessing happens in ...

618. A Dreadful Declaration

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George Bass

... age of technological wonders, allow us to program him any more than he would let Peter change the course of his life. Recently, a Japanese professor claimed that he has developed a one-arm robot that can play an electronic organ with its five fingers as skillfully as can a human. Professor Ichiro Kato, of Waseda University in Tokyo, has named the Robot WAM-7, claiming that it can play the university’s school song just as a human organist would. He said he intends to build an organ-playing robot "complete ...

619. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... actually footnotes to the larger theme of his life: he forgot God and wasted himself. There is every evidence that Samson did not have a monopoly on frivolity and unfulfilled potential. (1) 23,000,000 Americans, or one in five adults, lack reading skills and writing abilities to handle minimal demands of daily living; (2) an eighteen-year-old New Yorker named Ben dreads using the subway because he cannot read the names of the stations; (3) a top Eastern law firm has hired a professional writing instructor ...

620. When Ten Equals Two

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Larry Powell

... woman in order to display it as a mockery. For many days, and frequently well into the night, he chiseled. A form began to emerge which arrested him. The blows from the hammer became softer now. Finesse and devotion occupied his every movement. Beneath his skillful fingers, the figure became more and more beautiful, until at last, no further improvement could be made. Such grace, such beauty had she; so lifelike, was she, she must have a name, a name by which he could address her. Galatea would be her name ...

621. Francis of Assisi

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved, it is God’s power. For the scripture says, "I will set aside the understanding of the scholars." So then where does that leave the wise men? Or the scholars? Or the skillful debaters of this world? ANNOUNCER: In news on the Italian scene, Pope Innocent III announced this afternoon that the size of the army protecting the Vatican would be doubled, following the unsuccessful attempt last week of mercenaries to scale his palace walls in search of ...

622. Do Children Like You?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Richard Patt

... therefore draws others to himself? In our day we might look to the psychology books for answers. Maybe we would read the latest issues of Cosmopolitan or Redbook. They always seem to be having articles about personality-development and achieving the ideal human skills. But the answers may emerge more quickly and directly as we ask the fairly uncomplicated question, "Do children like you?" Ah yes, the precision that children show when sifting out the people around them who really care for them and love them ...

623. You CAN Take It With You

Luke 24:36-49

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This sermon is dominated by one image - scars. Rather than the cumulative force of many images, here is the cumulative force of one - scars - skillfully worked. When done effectively, as it is here, the listeners do not anticipate what is coming and therefore dare not abandon listening. The presence of scars means there have been wounds. More importantly, it means there has been healing. Read and see how the preacher does it for his parish ...

624. Go ... Be the Church ... Do the Gospel

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The hearers’ level of expectation is especially high on given occasions, such as a congregational anniversary. The dangers for the sermon are many; the victories few. Through the skillful interweaving of congregational history, the Church’s history, biblical history, the history of persons, and a knowledge and sensitivity of worship - always with the hearers in mind - this sermon forges a victory for the hearers. The sermon focuses the hearers where the focus is to be - on the Lord of ...

625. Coping When It Seems Impossible

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... , your home, your family. From now on, work not for yourself but for God. He has something great in mind for you. You will not just be fixing up sick bodies, you will be ministering to sick, frightened people, making them whole in body and spirit, by your medical skills and by the power of God’s love. You will never catch up, because God will lead you into new levels of healing and ministry. You will be thrilled by what you see in your patients’ faces. You will thank God daily for new life and joy. When ...

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