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601. All Choices Have Consequences

Drama

Karren Boehr

... sorry I didn't say anything. I figured you wouldn't listen. I figured it was none of my business. But I realize now, as your friend, it was my business. I guess I was selfish, too. I didn't want to look like a goodie two-shoes. I thought praying would be enough. JIM: (Rises and puts a hand on Rob's shoulder) Forgive me, buddy. I figured it was your choice to make. I never realized you would hit someone else. (Emotion overcomes him) Sorry, buddy, I'm really sorry. (ROB remains with head in hands, motionless ...

602. The Lord, The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... say that I would never enter my pulpit again until I had been definitely baptized with the Holy Spirit and knew it. I shut myself up in my study and day by day waited upon God for the baptism with the Holy Spirit. It was a time of struggle. The thought would arise, "Suppose you do not receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit before Sunday. How will it look for you to refuse to go into the pulpit?" But I held fast to my resolution. I had in mind what might happen when I was baptized with the Holy Spirit ...

603. Knock, Knock!

Matthew 21:28-32

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... to know about the Kingdom of God. MITCH: I think that's pretty tricky, slipping in here, telling me you're interested in finding out about God. WINNY: We do want to find out about God. We heard that you knew the Lord and therefore we thought that you might help us. MITCH: Well, you thought wrong. VERNA: Dear, maybe we could be of some help to these fine people. MITCH: You just stay out of this. Let me handle it. VERNA: (TO SUGAR) Hello, my dear. It's so nice to have you in my home. I'm sure my husband ...

604. No Honeymoon

Matthew 25:1-13

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... t you both sit? (NO ONE SITS) RALPH: I can't stay long. REV. ANTON: As I said, thanks for coming. RALPH: Sure. REV. ANTON: I thought we could all talk a little and see if there wasn't some way we could work this out. RALPH: I doubt it. (SANDRA CRIES) REV. ANTON ... we were getting somewhere. Now, let's not get too excited. Can we get back to the question? SANDRA: He told me he loved me. RALPH: I thought I did. I meant it at the time I said it, I guess. REV. ANTON: And what about now? RALPH: No, I don't love her now ...

605. The Expectant Parents--And An Unexpected Baby

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... . On a trip to the Holy Land we went to the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. There is a tree there which was planted in memory of Oscar Schindler, the man who saved the lives of so many Jews in the Nazi death camps. I stood there by that tree and thought about the movie Schindler's List. At one point in the story Schindler talks with a Nazi officer who tells him he has the power to exterminate a person. But Schindler says to him, "That is not power. Anyone could do that. But to have a man come before you ...

606. The Divine Advocacy

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... truth, so would Jesus assure his eternal flock of pilgrims that it is God's desire to liberate us from closed systems of thought. If we are bored, if we find life tiresome, if we are overwhelmed with skepticism and pessimism, is it not time for ... be convicted of the sin which destroys us and to be led into the truth which would make us whole. The Spirit, the great liberator of thought, would teach us more and more, knowing the more we know, the more we are able to know. And the Spirit would teach us we are ...

607. Lust - To Discipline The Eye And The Heart

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... that a few weeks ago envy was described as a problem of thinking that the grass is greener on the other side? Lust causes the same thoughts. It makes us succumb to the big lie that "with her or him, it would be better." But would it really? If you were to ask ... , what you can do to overcome lust is to confess it to God. "Lord, look at me. This is how I feel, these are my thoughts and fantasies. Release them from me and let me remember who I am and to whom I belong." Remember that Samaritan woman at the well ...

608. How Much Sin Is Too Much?

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... about things that are beyond our control. Any sin is too much, and yet we all make mistakes and commit errors and engage in sinful thoughts and words and deeds. The point is not that we are going to live perfect lives. We are never going to be free of sin ... questions which grow out of loving God with all our hearts, souls, and minds. As God's spirit shapes our lives, from each thought to each action, questions like this one vanish. We are no longer interested in seeing how much we can get away with. Instead ...

609. Epiphany 4

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... of strength and endurance most of his life. He was diagnosed with cancer six years ago and toward the end of his life the disease completely sapped his vitality. During the last nine days of his life we had to care for him as we would a baby. I thought he would rail against his weakness but he did not. This grace that God gave him to accept his weakness was a source of strength. It enabled him to accept the ministration of God. A third source of weakness is moral and spiritual in nature. It is the infirmity ...

610. The Man Born Blind

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... Daughter: I didn't ... You were so ... No, I won't put you on a guilt trip. Rabbi: I appreciate that ... As Saul told the story, it was obvious he agreed with the way the Pharisees handled the matter. Jesus had done the first aid on the Sabbath. Saul thought that was the kind of work which is against our Sabbath laws. When I said that mercy is not work, he argued that God made the Sabbath rest for good reason, and that the man could have been helped the next day. He was using my argument against workaholics ...

611. Pilate's Sign

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... is on every trade route on this end of the Mediterranean. It's too important to let it run its own affairs. Visitor: What's he do? Local: He acts as chief judge and enforcer. Visitor: He's the main sign of Roman power here, then. Local: He sure thought so when he first came here. He brought in his Roman Guard. Unlike his predecessor, he did not have his Guard remove the busts of Caesar from his flagstaffs. Romans treat their ruler as God. We Jews believe in only one God and that is NOT Caesar. The former ...

612. The Babel Disaster - You Are There

Genesis 11:1-9

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... one! This tragedy has been a terrible one. But we will rebuild. We are a great city. Everyone knew it before and they will know it again. Our city is number one. When the religious community first approached us with their idea about a skyscraper temple, we thought it was a great idea. It would make people notice our city. The building could be seen for over twenty miles in every direction here on the plain. It would mean jobs for thousands of workers. We had to tear down two hotels where old people lived ...

613. Can Christians Dance?

Sermon

William G. Carter

... don't want to miss my television shows." The activity director said, "Don't worry. We'll be back in plenty of time." She was lying, but it got Rhoda on the bus. Rhoda allowed herself to be carried aboard. They put her walker by her side, although nobody thought she would use it. Soon the bus carried Rhoda to a huge arts and music festival in a nearby city. Attendance at the festival that day numbered over 100,000 people. It was an ambitious task to take 25 nursing home residents to a place like that. It was ...

614. Moses's New Job

Exodus 4:18-31

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... not that much help. If you want to do something important, you can run for tribal council or handle petitions against modern deadly weapons. Why do you have to take on Capitol Hill?Your worried wife, ZipporahSent by my father's messenger Dear Zipporah, I thought you knew. I thought I went over everything before we started out together. Let me tell you again. You know I'm Hebrew. You know the story about how my mother saved my life in a time when the Pharoah wanted all male Hebrew babies killed, how she put ...

615. What Really Happened Christmas Day

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... on the far side of the flock. Matthal strained to see what had startled it. "The wolves are usually bedded down by now," he thought to himself. Then he realized that the road to Bethlehem lay just beyond where the sound came from. "Just in time! They're ... handed it to Matthal so that he could go home and get some rest. Matthal took the denarius and headed for town. Even though the thought of his bed pulled him toward his home, he headed toward the inn. When he got to the stable next to the inn, he found ...

616. The Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

Drama

Jerry Eckert

617. Pilate's Sign

Drama

Jerry Eckert

618. Called To Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... Abraham story very much, and I respect the way he started so many of our traditions. I still think we should encourage the traditions that help us work out our own salvation, and help us to avoid being squeezed into the world's mold. What I thought I was preaching was faithfulness to God, not the necessity of a particular ritual. I'll bet someday that followers of John the Baptist will insist that everyone have adult total immersion baptism and they'll be quoting me that I demanded it! Barnabas: How else ...

619. Speaking Truth to Power: The Ministry of Nathan

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... the countryside, when he stopped to rest his horse in a small hamlet. Walking about, he spied a wood fence, and on the wood fence were nearly forty small chalk circles, and right in the center of each was a bullet hole. What incredulous accuracy, the soldier thought as he examined the fence. There isn’t a single shot that has failed to hit the bulls-eye. The soldier set out to discover the identity of the sharpshooter and was told it was a young boy. “Who taught you to shoot so well?” the soldier ...

620. In Search of a Leader

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... , but I look at the heart.’ “ (1 Samuel 16:7 TEV) There Is Still the Youngest After eight interviews Samuel is still batting zero. “Do you have more sons?” Samuel asks Jesse. Yes, Jesse does, but he seemed such an unlikely candidate that he wasn’t even thought to be in the running. “There is still the youngest, but he is out taking care of the sheep.” (1 Samuel 16:11 TEV) The call goes out to this youngest son and the Lord says to Samuel. “This is the one anoint him.” (1 Samuel 16:12 ...

621. A Sleeping Bag God

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... object of a definitive analysis. As confident as we are that God has disclosed himself in Christ Jesus, there is still truth in the words of Isaiah: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9) This story serves to remind us just how often we try, and inaccurately so, to pigeonhole and second-guess. One thinks of the women’s movement ...

622. The Banquet Bowl

Mark 9:38-41

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... and self-centered. He did not belong to his detractors group. (v. 38) Following WWII Bill made a fortune by investing his savings in futures and commodities. He was an old crusty, eccentric sort of a guy. He lived alone and most of the people in his neighborhood thought him to be mean and nasty. When Bill died at an old age I was asked to preside at his funeral. I agreed. So during the visitation hours I talked with people about him in preparation for the eulogy. The following is a partial list of my ...

623. Who Can Find A Virtuous Woman?

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... God's intention. And we have come too long a way and we know it is we ourselves who decides our virtue - we do - not to let some Hebrew sage tell us. And there are other problems with this passage. It is choppy. It appears to have no order of thought, no direction. It goes from wool to ships, from night to food, back to clothing, on to wisdom, from bread to fear of the Lord. Why, if any of the Ellis schoolgirls handed in such a poem to our English teacher, she would have written across the top in bold ...

624. Lessons for Lent 3

John 2:12-25

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... , the church. Our hearts are Christ's throne; the community of the faithful is the place where Christ has affixed His holy Name. The hymn "Built On A Rock" says it well: "We are God's house of living stones, built for his own habitation." Outline: 1. The Jews thought that the temple was the place to worship God. 2. Jesus refers to his body as the holy temple, which would be razed and then raised. 3. The church is the Body of Christ, a holy place of worship. The church is not so much a material structure but ...

625. Advent 2

2 Peter 3:1-18, Isaiah 40:1-31, Mark 1:1-8

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... popularized in the '60s. While this song protests the futility of war, it also reminds us of our human mortality. This is the same thought lifted up by Isaiah in verses 6-8. Like flowers and grass we fade and die. Even so, the Creator raises the flowers and ... looked a lot like the old teacher. She was holding a book that looked a lot like last year's book. Before the class began, he thought he'd go up to the teacher and explain to her what a dunce he was with algebra. So he confessed his troubles, but she ...

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