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626. The Steady March Forward

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... As he told them, however, there were other lost sheep that needed to hear his word. “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent,” he told them (Luke 4:43). People wanted him to stay for many reasons. He was a man of compassion, and he was a man of power. Put those two traits together and you get miracles of healing and tenderness. They weren’t used to being treated like that by anyone with authority. The miracles, however, weren’t his ...

627. Secret Swerve

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... betrothal was already a legally sealed covenantal “marriage.” Mary felt both honored and blessed and scared and worried. She sought advice first from her cousin Elisabeth, who advised her what to do. Mary was young but she was not naïve. She would need to stay under the radar until the child was born. She would need Joseph by her side. And they would need to perform a very careful dance. After singing and dancing praises to God, Mary left Elisabeth, who carried her own child –John who would be called ...

628. More Fully Understanding Christ

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... and helped 31 orphans to escape from Ukraine and settle in Poland. As the bus carrying the orphans crossed the border from Ukraine to Poland, some of the children began singing. Until the war is over and they can return home, they have a safe place to stay and social support through the help of the 1U Project and its supporters around the world. (7) In his best-selling book Atomic Habits, James Clear writes, “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance ...

629. God's Little Acre

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... re asked to keep the nursery or teach Sunday school, in fact, in this church you don't even have to ask, people just step right up when there's a job to be done and they do it. In this church, attendance runs 90%, and those 10% who stay home would be there but they are deathly ill. They're certainly not fishing or playing golf. In this church, nobody ever gets their feelings hurt, no matter what somebody says to them at the Board meeting. They're so filled with love, generosity, and understanding that there ...

630. The Fearful Meeting

Genesis 32:1-20; 33:1-4, 12-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... a meeting? How many of you have walked the path back home that Jacob walks? I don't think it's a path we like to walk, so much risk. Most couples I know who separate, divorce. Most brothers and sisters who split up in a squabble over the inheritance, stay that way. Twenty years ago her parents said, ''H you marry him with the color of his skin, don't ever set foot in this house again." When she heard her father was dying of cancer, she called and asked, "Dad, do you want me to come back?" He said ...

631. Avoiding the “F” Word

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in a kind of “fight and flight” status. We are always on the alert and on the defense about our hurt and pain. We know that allowing ourselves to stay in this state of mind and body will cause us all kinds of harm. Yet we cannot let it go. Staying angry though is the worst sentence we can bestow upon ourselves. Unhealed anger can lead to all kinds of health issues, even dementia! Our brains and bodies are simply not equipped to carry that kind of a load for an extended period of time. When we hold onto ...

632. Wrapped in a Cloud

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... laid to my rest And the world will be better for this That one man, scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To fight the unbeatable foe To reach the unreachable star Perhaps you will sing it today. Perhaps it will stay stuck in your mind throughout this week like an unquenchable mind worm. But the song captures the beauty of Mary’s experience, and of the vast, beautiful, impossible gift of God, given to all of us this Christmas: the gift of Jesus. Jesus –whom God sent ...

633. Knowing, and Known

Romans 4:13-25

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... . By the time the three men approached the old man’s tent, they had already passed a dozen others that did not wave or offer a cup. That was one of the things that may have impressed the visitors. We don’t know how long they actually stayed with the old man; if they stayed the three days or just finished their tea and conversation and went on their way. All we know is that as they prepared to leave, the visitors asked the old man about his family. He explained that it was just him and his wife. He said ...

634. Click to Unfriend

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... man. Mary turned away. The crowd started moving again. It was a bit easier to see now that the sun was coming up, but there were just too many people for her to get close enough to see Jesus himself and find out what was happening to him. She stayed near the back of the crowd until they came to the gates of the house of the governor, Pontius Pilate. She heard the accusations and arguments and her breath was taken away when she heard them all given the opportunity to have Jesus set free but they wanted the ...

635. Fear of Flying

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... “What if the engine failed?” “What if it ran out of gas.” “What if I die?” The very thought of putting his life into the hands of the unknown pilot caused him to practically break out in hives. Instead, he thought how much happier he would be if he stayed in his house, relaxed by the pool, and forgot about that trip. After all, did he really need to see Key West? Jerry has what we call “fear of flying.” But guess what? So do most of us at one time or another. And it has nothing to do with ...

636. Shake It Off

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... get us down when we’ve got the Lord of the Dance in our corner, teaching us how to dance through life? And Jesus does. He IS Lord of the dance! Jesus knows that joy and the ability to shake off worry and stress are vital to our ability to stay energized on God’s mission in the world. Cause things can get tough. People can be hard. And when situations get hairy and entangled, that residue has a tendency to “stick” to our spirits like gum on a shoe. What an image right? That’s the image that the ...

637. Bold Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of healing is reaching out to you. Will you speak up and ask him to be healed? Ask him to “see” and “hear” things you’ve been able to push aside and ignore in your life? “See” and “hear” people you’ve allowed yourself to retreat from or stay away from in your life? “See” and “hear” the message and the call God has for you? What God will ask you to do in order to carry on God’s mission in the world today? “Be bold” and “speak boldly” the scriptures tell us –nearly as ...

638. Words

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... In the twenty-first century, many still believe that God is the God of their people who demands that they do God’s will. They believe that if you are not with us, you are against us. They believe our enemies are a threat and must be identified and stayed away from. As a result, they expect that God will one day bring vengeance against God’s enemies and reward their loyalty to obeying God’s word. Our understanding of God’s word creates our expectations of what God is like, what God asks us to do, or ...

639. Two Lives to Live

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... I believe they see this trip to see Jesus as the one, last effort before they give up entirely. I imagine children running around, many in tatters, many without a bath, not understanding why they were there that morning, yet all of them somehow seeming to know to stay within their group. They seem to know they are them. Once in a while, one of the children, in the excitement of the game they were playing, moved too near to one of those in the front and was quickly sent back to their place — back to them ...

640. When Following Is Not Enough

Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... it is to be on the mountain top, and how even more wonderful it might be if we could just build houses up there and stay on those mountaintops. How wonderful it would be if we never had to come back down to where there might be darkness, sickness, loneliness, and ... be a follower, and keep our noses clean, and that one of these days we will have our little house on the mountaintop where we can stay forever. But that is not what Jesus said. If you believe in me, you will do what I ask you to do. You will do what ...

641. No Excuses

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... first, but then it gets hotter and hotter and you end up getting hurt. In the same way sin always leads to hurt. Not a hurting on your skin like the iron gives you, but a hurting down in your soul. Even after you have stopped the sin the hurt stays with you for a long time just as a burn does. When you get a burn you put something cool on it to make it feel better. When you sin the only thing that will make it better is the forgiveness we have through Jesus. He can forgive us of ...

642. Transforming Love

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... for the boy's new friends and their behavior. The boy quickly responded to him that just because he hung around with those boys didn't mean that he did everything they did. Mr. Thompson thought about that for a moment and then he said something that has always stayed with the minister. He said, "What do you think would happen if I took one good apple and put it in a barrel full of bad apples? Do you really think one good apple could change all of those bad apples into good apples?" Very sheepishly the boy ...

643. Unusual, To Say The Least!

Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... lot of people were inspired. The pastor asked, then, that the revival continue for the second week. That was fine, but I told him I had already preached all the sermons I had (and, I suspected, all the sermons there WERE in the Bible), but I consented to stay on. I committed myself to the second week because the pastor blithely promised me, "Open your mouth, Barbara, and the Lord will fill it." That may be fine when you are standing before magistrates, but don't ever try it in the pulpit for revivals! I all ...

644. The Compassionate Healings

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... hot temper. The original meaning of passion is suffering with someone. Compassion is not pity. Pity lets us stay at a distance. Pity can be condescending. Compassion does not mean sympathy. Sympathy comes from someone superior to someone inferior. Compassion is not ... charity. Charity allows a rich person to stay in a position of power over a poor person. Compassion means standing in another person's shoes. Compassion means caring ...

645. No Box Seats In The Kingdom

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Methodist preachers take all of this with a grain of salt, the same way Baptist congregations have learned to be somewhat skeptical when one of their preachers moves on to a better church claiming, "I hate to leave this church and I would rather stay here, but the Lord calls." Baptists note that the Lord rarely calls someone out of one church into another church unless that church has a higher salary. Methodists have likewise noted that there have been few preachers who, once they are elected bishop, turn ...

646. A Tree Well Watered

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and does not cease to bear fruit (v. 8). This image of the faithful as ... in God means a privileged life free from trial. The heat and the drought still come, but the tree is not anxious, its leaves stay green, and it still bears fruit. It is in the very relinquishment of control that one finds the strength to persevere, for the ...

647. They Didn't Have To Do It, But They Did

Genesis 14:1-24

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... not knowing if the men would come back to lynch him. What was a black man doing stranded on a road in Southern Georgia? Should he stay in the car or leave the car? Twenty minutes later a tow truck pulled alongside his car. A beefy, tobacco chewing, white man in a blue ... how he had found a little girl who had wandered away from her mother at the Michigan State Fair grounds. The man stayed with the hysterical girl for two hours until her mother could be located. The man was deeply hurt because the mother didn' ...

648. How To Find Water When Your Well Runs Dry!

Jeremiah 2:1-3:5

Sermon

James McLemore

... nation with the most advanced scientific technology developing the greatest medical discoveries. But some of our elderly are paying fifty percent of their income for hospital bills and prescription medicine, and making decisions between buying food and buying medicine, staying healthy or staying alive. In the midst of this medical dilemma, politicians are planning major cuts in Medicare for the elderly. The system is in place, but every time we let down our buckets, the well is running dry. Our children are ...

649. Prepared Servants

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... that comfortable pew and serve the needs of those around you. Get dressed for action. Be prepared for the unexpected coming of Christ into your life, giving you new energy and power to act as servants in the world." Illustrative Materials 1. Stay Awake. A young son wanted to stay up for the new year to come in. Just before midnight he conked out. He could not wait for the glorious event. He slept through the firecrackers and gunfire and shouting of "Happy New Year." Is it childish behavior when people are ...

650. Why Be Good?

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... , most of them, because we learn to forgive each other and accept each other for what we are. Even the Lockhorns stay hitched because between cartoon sketches they must somehow forgive each other. Forgiveness must be offered and accepted a thousand times a ... wound, keep the upper hand by trying to make someone else feel slightly guilty, use any emotional device available to us to stay in control? Who among us has not been cruel, or heartless, or vengeful, all the time thinking that our cruelty was kindness, ...

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