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626. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

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H. J. Hizer

... -- how about temptation -- that's how we got started in the first place. Two: Temptation? Three: Your Lowliness, we've got all kinds of things to ruin the bridge -- disease -- hate -- corruption. Four: Discord, distrust -- disharmony. Two: Superstition -- fear -- poverty. Three: Hunger -- greed -- gluttony. Four: We've got all those bad things! Two: And that's good! Five: We'll need all those things this time because this bridge is going to be built out of love. Two: Love -- Love? [Incredulously] I never ...

627. Don't Just Stand There! - Get Involved!

Luke 3:1-20, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Dr. John Thompson Peters

... God. One of the great dangers of our age is that with no great cause the iconoclasts have destroyed ideals one after another, with no great God to believe in, as the skeptics have dashed age-old beliefs to pieces, that man's natural hunger to commit himself, will turn inward to destruction as it has again and again. WILL HISTORY REPEAT? The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith, From spiritual faith ...

628. The Messiah For All

Ephesians 3:4-6

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... was feverishly building up the establishment. One denomination competed with another for numbers, wealth, power, and prestige. The church moved to the suburbs to attract the more affluent. Left behind were the plaguing problems of the inner city - the poverty, the hunger, the unemployment. Left behind was the question of racial equality in the churches. The parishes sought refuge in the lily-white suburbs and neighborhoods where they deal with such problems by ignoring them. They didn't know that at the ...

629. Keeping God Alive in Our Hearts

Luke 11:1-13

Illustration

Jesus prayed: forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. In the novel "The Great Hunger," a newcomer comes to a farm community. He refuses all friendship with his neighbors and puts out the no trespassing sign. One day a little child from the town climbs underneath his fence to pet his dog. The vicious animal leaps on her and kills her. Hostility spreads throughout the ...

630. The Lord's People Together

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

... man perchance a Christian also, a follower of the Way? The Christian man does not dare say, "I'm a Christian; are you one also, perhaps?" For to be a Christian is a crime punishable often by death, and the Christian may be in jeopardy to identify himself. But he hungers for fellowship, his spirit yearns for the touch of a kindred spirit. So, with his walking-stick he traces in the dust of the road the shape of a fish or the form of a cross, for these are the symbols of the new-born Faith, and the people of ...

631. Full Barns and Empty Hearts

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... The gospel affirms the cause of the poor to seek bread. The Magnificat of Mary makes this clear: "He has filled the hungry with good things." The church must listen to its own message and always be with those who are struggling for bread. To leave them in their hunger is to violate part of the great good news of Christ. But many of us are not physically poor. We have our modest amount of bread and we do not really think about going hungry. Our barns are full. But are our hearts full, too? Could we "Job" it ...

632. Lovers Never Ask, 'What's the Least I Can Do?'

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

... sweating and grunting, carrying a whole church on his back. Can you identify with that? It seems as though the demands of church membership are pretty heavy, aren’t they? Always asking us for money - if not to repair the roof, then for missions or for hunger. If we complain we don’t have anything to spare, then we’re told we should eat a bit less and give the difference. On top of asking for our money, the church also wants our time - for committees, for teaching, for learning, for visiting the shut ...

633. To Be Somebody

Luke 19:1-10

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... encouragement is there for those who make sandwiches for a cafeteria? Or who fill mail orders at Wards? Or who make boxes at Hoerner Waldorf? Or who are retired - whose job history is in the past? Martin Luther King Jr. coined a word that says what we all hunger for: somebodiness. It seems to me that’s one way to describe what was driving Zaccheus, his urge to be somebody. Let’s use our imaginations to see how this ambition might have been spurring him on and what his encounter with our Lord did for him ...

634. Christ the King A King Worth Having

John 12:12-19

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... a scale and dividing it into thirds. One-third he burned, one-third he struck with a sword, and one-third he scattered to the wind. All this was to signify the judgment on God’s people for their idolatry: one-third would die from sickness and hunger, one-third would fall by the sword, and one-third would be scattered to the winds. Likewise Jesus would communicate by symbolism and show what kind of king he was and what kind of allegiance he sought. There was a prophecy by Zechariah that forecast his style ...

635. Real Security

Luke 12:13-21

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... happy. They offered him any price he cared to name for his shirt - only to find that the happy tramp did not possess a shirt to his back.1 Poverty, of course, does not bring people happiness in this life; too many people in this world cry out in hunger and want for this to be so. But - Jesus contends - wealth and financial success offer no sinecure to security; security is not to be found in the things of this world. Genuine security is the treasure God gives to those who believe in him, love and trust him ...

636. The Day You Were Healed

Luke 17:11-19

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... not, when he came down from heaven to survey the miracles and wonders of humanity: "This is only the beginning of what these possibility thinkers will do." We cannot stand by while the human family suffers. We cannot hoard the gifts of God while others hunger. We cannot turn aside when someone hurts. The burden of an agonized humanity is on our hearts, and we respond with prayers and gifts, with dollars for research, with bread for hungry children, and with our presence in compassion at the side of someone ...

637. I Voted for God

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... he sets the terms of his discipleship. In his Idylls of the King, Tennyson tells us that King Arthur bound his knights "by so straight vows that they were dazed as if half blinded by the coming of a light." Garibaldi offered his men only hunger and death to free Italy. Winston Churchill promised the English people only "blood, sweat and tears" to resist the Nazi invader. *Andrew died on a cross Bartholomew was flayed alive James (son of Zebedee) was beheaded Simon was crucified James (son of Alphaeus) was ...

638. Counsel for Discouraged Disciples

Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

... the individuals are indeed more fragile, but possibly also more sensitive and aware, than most of us. Who can look upon the evils which surround us and not be affected? Who can be impervious, for example, to: the greed and hunger; the exploitation and poverty; the suffering and neglect; the oppression and denial of human rights; the cut-throat competition and callousness toward the unsuccessful; the crime and delinquency; the slaughter of innocents on our highways; the corruption of politics; the strangle ...

639. The Now-ness of Eternity

Zechariah 7:1-14

Sermon

... another they are echoed throughout the Bible. In very concrete terms, Jesus spelled out the emphasis on loving God and neighbor. Judgment, he indicated, occurs where one’s relationship is defined in response to persons experiencing such conditions as hunger, poverty, sickness, imprisonment, estrangement, or other forms of distress or need. In such human relations is revealed one’s relationship to God, and all that is eternal hinges on that relationship. In this light, Jesus’ injunction to seek first ...

640. If Only We Would Hold On ...

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... hear Jeremiah’s word to hold on when we consider the condition of our world. How easy it is to be filled with despair at the trouble in the Middle East and in Central America. How easy it is to feel helpless and hopeless when we think of unemployment and hunger and nuclear armament. Nevertheless, we can hold on with faith, because this is still our Father’s world, and "though the wrong seems oft so strong, He is the ruler yet." If only we would hold on ...

641. If Only We Would Be Open To The Spirit ...

Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... not only the foliage, but also the plants themselves. The locust plagues which struck Palestine usually came from the area south of Egypt. The insects deposited their eggs in the moist soil there and, when conditions were right, millions hatched, and, driven by hunger, moved across the land, eating every green thing in sight. Joel is apparently describing an actual event, and his picture is so vivid that he may have seen it all for himself. He safely assumes that the people know exactly what he is ...

642. Prayer

Matthew 6:25-34

Bulletin Aid

... future? Who's going to see that I survive, If I don't do it? How can I not worry? About big things The threat of war Conventional or nuclear The economy Job security Employment Will I be able to maintain my life style? Population pressures World hunger; About personal things My health and security And that of my family Whether my kids will turn out OK My relationships with others My self worth; Even about little things "What will the neighbors think?" "Is my outfit appropriate?" "Do I have enough gas to get ...

643. The Holy Trinity

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

Sermon

... to move out or go forward because they fear the possible pain and risk involved, usually pay a severe price in terms of stunted opportunities and limited personal development. Perhaps Jesus had something of this in mind when he admonished people to "Hunger and thirst after righteousness." When one is hungry and thirsty enough, that individual will risk almost anything to satisfy those nagging needs. The children of Israel, while wandering in the wilderness, knew what it meant to be hungry and thirsty. They ...

644. Proper 9

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

... in new possibilities. Out of a baby, in most improbable surroundings, came the first strands of hope for a people who were without hope. People began to be infected with divine madness, a madness that allowed them to "peer beyond the possibilities of history for the impossibilities of God." (The Hungering Dark, page 124)

645. The Confessions of a Younger Brother

Luke 16:19-31

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... brother. At first, I was a little irritated with Abraham, but now I think he is right. Like the rich man in the parable, I am surrounded by people with needs. Some of these people are poor in the sense of economy and suffer the indignity of homelessness, nakedness and hunger. They are in my life just as Lazarus was in the life of the rich man. They cross my path at times when I least expect them to intersect my life. I was riding uptown on a subway in New York City when a blind beggar clumsily made his way ...

646. The Parable of Prayer and the Refueling Plane

Matthew 7:7-12

Illustration

... would have to stop its flight." "Oh, that is good isn't it?" said the boy. Prayer does its silent refueling of the soul. Many great persons have changed the course of history with dynamic leadership following the refueling of the soul. Washington, amidst hunger and starvation, rose from prayer on his knees to lead his impoverished troops to a Christmas Eve victory over the Hessians. Lincoln, from the loss of his dearest loved one, rose with greater understanding to lead a sorrowful nation from Civil War to ...

647. Religion - One Way to Get in God’s Way

Zechariah 7:1-14

Sermon

... atomic war. The best would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all people. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone, it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its science, the hopes of its children. The cost [in 1953 dollars] of one modern ...

648. The First Sunday In Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... to ministry. True life comes not from feeding only the stomach, but the heart and brain as well. Obviously, I am not saying the church has no concern for the hungry. Nor did Jesus dismiss bread and its distribution as things of no importance. When he saw the hungering multitude he fed them, in spite of the fact many of them would turn away and no longer follow him. They believed only in the bread and not in the one who had multiplied the loaves. The church, you and I, must always beware of a sentimentalized ...

649. A Wandering Aramean

Genesis 12:1-8

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Ten years ago history was made in the broadcast of a television show. The show was Roots. As you may remember, Roots was a documentary of one man's search for his ancestry. Black author, Alex Haley's hunger to know his identity led him to record his own roots, his own heritage, first on paper, then on the screen. And the significance of this T.V. show? This mini-series attracted more viewers than any other television program in history. With eighty-five million viewers, this story of ...

650. "If Only. . ."

Exodus 12:1-30

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... into the poetry of a traditional chant: If God had only freed us in Egypt to let us drown in the sea, it would have been enough - but he permitted us to cross on dry land. If God had only brought us to the desert to let us die of hunger, it would have been enough - but he fed us with manna. If God had only fed us with manna to let us wander aimlessly in the desert, it would have been enough - but he brought us to Mt. Sinai. Verse after verse, God's decisive intervention was recounted at the ...

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