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626. Point Of Origin

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... The orchestra for the tour was made up of select professional musicians from around the United States. The group came together on a hot and humid afternoon for their first rehearsal. They began rehearsing Beethoven's Sixth Symphony in a rehearsal hall that was not air-conditioned. These professional musicians had played the piece so many times that they could almost play it from memory. They knew exactly when to come in and when to rest. Usually during rehearsals they could get up and go out for a smoke or ...

627. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... fiery chariot nor agitated tempest was evident to bear Christ heavenward. Christ's whole life had evidenced a power unlike the world recognizes power. his silent gentleness marked him even in his hour of lofty triumph. He moved slowly upward through quiet air. The origin of his ascent was his own will and his own power. Another striking contrast concerns the transition of authority. Elisha receives a falling mantle, the transference of unfinished business, so he can be fitted for continuing the work which ...

628. Shameless Passion

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... pigs. I know a woman who has been collecting pigs -- all different sizes and shapes. She has potholder pigs, ornamental pigs, letter opener pigs, flower vase pigs, socks with pigs on them, tongs with a pig head on it, pig wrapping paper, pig napkins, pig air fresheners. All she ever gets for Christmas and birthday gifts are piggish things. She's still passionate about pigs. My wife is the most passionate person I have ever met. We've been married less than two years, but besides her passion for our marriage ...

629. Open Grave, Open Hearts

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... 's odd. The mailman doesn't usually come twice in one day." She took the envelope out of the box and opened it. "Dear Ruth, it was good to see you again. Thank you for the lovely meal. And thank you, too, for the beautiful coat. Love always, Jesus." The air was still cold, but even without her coat, Ruth no longer noticed. Jesus is alive! Christ is risen! The grave is open; so also are our hearts and hands!"

630. God Is Down To Earth

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... are within this text of John 1:14 subtle tones of a sacramental theology that give meaning to this Gospel of the incarnation. The English poet John Betman is helpful to us when he writes: No love that in a family dwells, No caroling in frosty air, Nor all the steeple-shaking bells, Can with this simple Truth compare. That God was Man in Palestine And lives today in bread and wine. When things in this world appear out of control, when disappointment and despair grip your heart, when friends let you down ...

631. Accepting Responsibility

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... 1:5). What we learn in this story is that there are consequences for our actions. There is a popular parenting curriculum that emphasizes natural and logical consequences. Natural consequences are those things that occur naturally. If you throw a rock up in the air, the natural consequence is that it will come down. If you put your hand on a hot stove, the natural consequence is that you will get burned. If you do not brush your teeth, the natural consequence is that you will get cavities. Logical ...

632. All The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... in the meanwhile of waiting. Once I wandered up into the rooms of the biology department, upstairs from my literature classes. There in a round room of one of the gothic towers, I noticed all these cabinets with narrow long drawers. The musty air was sliced by the afternoon sunlight slanting down from high, narrow windows. I thought I recognized the name on a series of drawers -- "lepidoptera" -- and opened one. There in shallow boxes in neat rows were dozens or hundreds of butterflies, each suspended on ...

633. Daring To Trust The Roots

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... think much about the stump until early this fall when it suddenly struck me as I looked out my bedroom window that I could not even see the stump. Growing out of the sides of that stump was a mass of branches, some of them reaching six feet into the air! It all started with a shoot out of the stump of a willow tree. What a great picture of Isaiah 11:1: "There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse ..." So who's Jesse? Jesse was the son of Obed and the grandson of Boaz, the husband ...

634. You Can Be A Livesaver

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... may have been about life in general, not just life on the other side of dying. He may well have been inquiring about life that is full and satisfying and worth having. "What must I do to really be alive? Not just to take up space and breathe air and function, but to live? What must I do to count for something?" And Jesus answered by telling him a story. "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves ...." Then came the famous parable of The Good Samaritan. In Christ's story the ...

635. "But Some Doubted"

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... no explanation for this either. What did they doubt? Did they doubt that it was Jesus? Did they doubt that he had been dead, or that he was apparently alive before their eyes? Since they were doubting before Jesus apparently rose into the air and disappeared into a cloud, we can assume levitation was not the source of their doubt. Theologian Rudolph Bultmann says that everything changed for the disciples when Jesus apparently rose from the dead. There were those who had seen him since the resurrection ...

636. Live Together In Harmony

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... at the local level in ministerial associations and councils of churches. We dialogue with one another. We worship together. We serve the poor and hungry jointly. Since the 1960s and Vatican Council II, Roman Catholics and Protestants have enjoyed "the fresh air" of Pope John XXIII's pioneering spirit of renewal. Even though sharp differences remain on social issues like abortion yet so many things are done together today that just were not done before. A growing conviction persists that we need each ...

637. What's The Point?

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... , "What is the meaning in my life." As Rabbi Kushner puts it, there comes a point in life where we ask: "Was there something I was supposed to do with my life?"5 Kushner writes: "The need for meaning is not a biological need like the need for food and air. Neither is it a psychological need, like the need for acceptance and self esteem. It is a religious need, an ultimate thirst of our souls."6 You and I need to know more than how to make a living. We need to know the meaning of our living, if we ...

638. Keep Your Eyes On Heaven

Colossians 3:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... we have a flower. How did this flower get started, does anyone know? (Let them answer.) Probably this one got started from a little seed that got buried in the dirt. Pretty soon that little seed began to sprout, and it grew up and up until it reached the air. Then it just kept growing up toward the sky until it looked like it does now. So kites and balloons and flowers all like to reach for the heavens, don't they, boys and girls? (Let them respond. Light the candle.) Finally, here is a candle. I want all ...

639. From A Distance

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... who did something that is so far beyond most everyone's reach or ability. "Wow! I could never do that!" we say. All through the Olympics my wife and I joked about what we would look like if we tried to jump off the ski jump or leap into the air with skates on! It's remarkable what some people are able to do, and do it with grace and apparent ease. Can you do a back flip on a narrow beam of wood and leather? I still say it's impossible, even though I've seen it with my own ...

640. Triumphal Entry

Mt 21:9 · Mk 11:9 · Lk 19:38 · Jn 12:13

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... meet him. They were excited! They even wanted to make him their king! To show how much they honored him, they took off their coats and wraps and laid them down like a red carpet before him. They even tore branches off the palm trees and waved them in the air like flags to welcome him into the city. That's why we call this day Palm Sunday. It was and is a day of rejoicing because the King is coming! Would you like to have a parade today? Good! Take your palm branch and let's parade up and down ...

641. Take Time To Smell The Roses

Psalm 27:13-14

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... the flower.) ... A beautiful fragrance. Sometimes we become so busy that we do not take time to enjoy the things we have around us. This morning we all came to church. Since it is a beautiful morning, we all should have stopped for a moment and inhaled the nice fresh air. Or we should have looked at the beautiful blue sky, or stopped for a moment to listen to the birds sing. When you get home today after church and sit down for your meal at lunch, I hope you will take time to enjoy the meal and not just eat ...

642. The Messenger

Luke 2:8-14

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

... If you're more ambitious, you may want to dress as an angel.) Lesson: Angels served as messengers for the good news that Jesus had been born. Now, we can be the messengers who share that message with all. Christmas is coming! You can feel it in the air. The stores are decorated, radio stations play carols, and there are candles in the windows. But I wonder if people know about Christmas, I mean really know about Christmas? I wonder if they know the message of Christmas? Isn't this a lovely angel? I hang it ...

643. Keep Your Eyes On Heaven

Colossians 3:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

644. Climbing Rainbows Through The Rain

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... chambers opening and letting water come to the surface of the earth. That is exactly as Genesis claimed it happened. The program went even further. It claimed evidence that biblical-era people had developed batteries for electroplating and even benefited from air-conditioning. As one might imagine, this was a program to warm the hearts of all who take the Bible both seriously and literally. "Imagine," the biblical literalist could now claim, "CBS, the network of Dan Rather and the liberal media, doing ...

645. Veiled Glimpses of God's Glory

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... of the Divine Presence: the peace we encounter, for example, in an early morning walk on some secluded beach as the waves quietly stitch a ribbon of shells into the sand, or the overwhelming awe we feel holding a newborn child -- the tiny arms wrestling with the air, as if trying to grasp the very world which has awakened so suddenly around them. Times like these are a chorus of praise proclaiming the glory of God. In fact, if one looks carefully -- down in the lower, right-hand corner -- you will no doubt ...

646. Life's Loose Threads and The Tie That Binds

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... , I think, bear witness to the dictum that regardless of one's effort or endeavor, works in progress often come to an end, and cannot or will not ever be completed. At the close of his Gospel, for example, John almost appears to throw his hands in the air, as if in a fit of literary frustration, noting desperately that "there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written" (John 21:25). And ...

647. Invitations To The Light

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Phyllis Faaborg Wolk

The outer darkness seemed to cling to Miriam like the tattered blanket wrapped around her shoulders. She shivered in the cold evening air as she sat in a doorway outside the temple, begging for money so that she could buy some bread to get her through the night. Jerusalem was a hostile place for a young widow in Jesus' day, and as she heard some strangers approaching with laughter and singing, she drew ...

648. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... of worth. Pleasure that comes from such things as good food, the thrill of exciting activities and similar sources lasts only briefly. They do not give the same underlying joy that can be found in the midst of toil and difficulty. Jesus had an air of joy about him that attracted people even while he labored and encountered opposition. Persons who have the security of trust in him and awareness of his presence have a serenity despite the troubled world in which they live. This brings a kind of enduring ...

649. The Promise Of The Spirit

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... monastery in 1517 and it was like striking a match in a tinderbox, touching off a firestorm of revival and reformation that spread throughout Europe. Wesley was driven by the Spirit out of the established pulpits of England which he loved to the open air of Bristol where he preached to the coal miners the unsearchable riches of Christ, bringing an unprecedented spiritual awakening. The same Spirit is driving us today to move out of our complacency and ease into the exciting stream of the Spirit's activity ...

650. The Church With Nothing

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Thomas Long

... we were, the church, locked in a room, bolted behind his egotistic lack of faith. Sometimes churches begin to think of themselves as useful social institutions in and of themselves. No one would say it out loud, of course, but the attitude hangs in the air that, sure, this is a place where God is worshipped, but if God were somehow to disappear from the scene, the church would still be a fine character-building contribution to the physical and emotional well-being of the community. John's gospel pulls the ...

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