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651. OUR LORD DELIVERED UP

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... responded, "you Sadducees didn’t come off so well when you tried to trip him up on the resurrection!" This was a telling thrust, and the Sadducee’s face darkened, and he turned away to the amusement of the Pharisees. It was well known that the Sadducees claimed there was no resurrection, but when they had sent one of their number to question the Galilean, he had replied, "As for the dead being raised, hove you not read the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am ...

652. Confrontation in the Temple

John 2:12-25

Sermon

George Bass

... , forces us to face the question of the resurrection: "Do you believe?" Jesus believed in the truth of what he replied to the Jews in the Temple, or he would never have allowed himself to get caught in their final trap, the one that claimed his life. Two radically different stories surfaced within two weeks in the daily newspapers. Locally, the headline, "His decision to end treatment carries acceptance of death," introduced the tragic story of Jim O’Grady, who had made a decision to die; his father and ...

653. The Shepherd Who Loved His Sheep

John 10:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... "Christ in Glory" mosaic in the building, opposite the first, and this one portrays Christ seated upon a throne and laying claim to the earth and everyone upon it. The combination catches and sums up the theme of this gospel for Good Shepherd Sunday ... death, and his resurrection, that we know him to be our Lord, our deliverer, and our hope, simply because he is the Good Shepherd. He has claimed us for God, and he will never let us go. As Christians, it is (or ought to be) perfectly clear to us that we can, ...

654. Francis of Assisi

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... find himself. I wonder how many young folk who went on to be great leaders in the church or the world first got into embarrassing scrapes? ANTAGONIST: Could be. But you have to admit, it’s not a very auspicious beginning for somebody a lot of people claim turned out to be a superstar. PROTAGONIST: My own beginning wasn’t very auspicious. I’ll bet yours wasn’t either. ANTAGONIST: Well, let’s not get into that. LECTOR: Dear Fernando - Where were you when I needed you? I’ve always counted on you to ...

655. Luther of Wittenberg

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... your life away? ANTAGONIST: What kind of life is there for somebody who spends his entire existence behind stone walls, escaping the real world? PROTAGONIST: Would it be better to live in the "real world," as you call it, without ever coming to terms with God’s claim on you - and eventually losing your soul? ANTAGONIST: I’m not suggesting that. Why can’t a person live a full life and still know and love God? PROTAGONIST: A person can. But I see plenty of people living in what you call the "real world ...

656. Your Undivided Attention, Please

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... the eyes, you have been marked with the cross of Christ forever. The Holy Spirit of the living one true God has stuck it in your ear, the gospel of God’s saving act at Calvary where he broke in on death’s dominion and delivered us from every claim that hell could make on us. We have been given a new life. We are the heirs of every blessing flowing from his hand. Is there anything that we have earned, that we have not received in grace? There is always the anxiety in Deuteronomy lest Israel might forfeit ...

657. Good News for Good Living

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... loved ones so they could apply hope to their skeptical doubts. No longer was it a ready resource for counseling techniques that could bring assurances to complex biomedical decisions about when is the time to let go of a loved one. The preponderance of the claims for the resurrection of Jesus Christ had a new-found urgency. The question was no longer, “What’s going to happen to you when you die or what happened to my parents when they died?” All it took was a chance meeting with potential replacements ...

658. A Fresh Start

Joel 2:28-32, Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... Lord, that the army of the north would withdraw and that the locust plague would end too (2:18-25). The people of Judah, it was claimed, would be satisfied, enjoy prosperity, and never again be put to shame (v. 26). But things do not get back to normal that easily or simply ... in spontaneous and therefore willing agreement with the sovereign freedom of God.”5 You are not really free, Barth seems to claim, when you seek yourself. You need to get free from yourself (since it is your sin that has gotten you in ...

659. God Notices

Amos 8:1-14

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... as a society, how we treat the last and the least and the lost among us. It all matters to God. That’s what Amos claims. So he is bold enough to rain on the parade, to announce the end of the good times, to declare the destruction of the nation ... . God does notice. God does care. What we do matters to God. That can be fearful news. Especially the way Amos says it, holding that claim above a society consumed with consuming, a society that is about to rot, a parade that will not last, a people that is about to ...

660. The Devil Made Me Do It

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... repay society for the wrong. However, he did wish to do something right where he had previously done what was wrong.(8) Good for him. Yes, since the beginning of time our first instinct has been to blame others for our own failures. Instead of accepting responsibility, we claim we are victims of cruel and callous forces. It would serve us right if God simply turned away and allowed us to stew in our own sins. But that is not the God of love we meet in scripture. Do you remember what Adam and Eve did after ...

661. Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of the moneychangers who were there to exchange the coin of the realm for temple scrip and wreaked havoc with those men who were there selling animals for sacrifice. He even made a whip of cords and drove the merchants into the street, fleeing for their very lives. He claimed he did it because they were turning "HIS FATHER'S HOUSE" into a den of robbers. Now, I will admit that some of the prices charged for those services tend to be exorbitant, but was that any call to do what he did? Whether he knew it or ...

662. The Lord's Prayer: "Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . "I don't think we snipers will survive the peace," he says. "We have killed too many and it is a small country. Not only will there be the revenge of families, but our own army will not want us around. We know too much. We did too much." He claims that other snipers have gone to South Africa, where, "they are hiring men like us." I doubt that any of us pray for deliverance from the temptation toward that kind of evil. I doubt that many of us are tempted towards ANY such evil activity as would land us in ...

663. What's in a Name?

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... though a tremendous weight has been lifted."(1) Even in the absence of a parental acknowledgment, she found the experience of publicly claiming her identity to be liberating. What brings all that to mind this morning is this story of Jesus' baptism. As he ... child of...um. Why, you're a child of God! I see a striking resemblance, boy!' He swatted me on the bottom and said, 'Go, claim your inheritance.'" And then the old man who was telling the story said to Fred Craddock, "I was born on that day!" What's in ...

664. Hope For Those Whom Life Has Cheated

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... new spouse or a different set of circumstances. John Micofsky was confident his life would be greatly improved once he ridded himself of his wife. His dream came true on January 20, 1993, when his divorce from Maryann Kulpa was finalized. On January 21st, she claimed the $10.2 million jackpot in the New Jersey Pick-6 Lottery. When the press asked about Micofsky's condition, attorney Thomas Kline spoke for his client by saying, “Very upset, I think that's the word I would use.”(2) Do you get the feeling ...

665. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... them. This time he decided to try something different, and instead of shooting the coyote, he tied a stick of dynamite to its neck and lit the fuse, opening the cage door at the same time. The coyote unobligingly ran under The Insured's pickup truck. The claim is for the truck which is a total loss. (1) Our first response would be that the insured got what he deserved for his cruelty. Our second response might be to acknowledge that often when we give in to anger and bitterness, it is we ourselves whom ...

666. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony." Jesus told Nicodemus the truth but Nicodemas would not commit his life. The time comes for each one of us when we have to claim the faith for ourselves. Faith is not something we can borrow from another person, for faith to be genuine it must always be our own. David Seamands remembers talking with a salesman in a used car lot a few years ago. As they looked out of the showroom window ...

667. When Jiggling Wires Is Not Good Enough

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... the well. Jesus offered her the gift of new life. Jesus confronts each one of us and when we face the truth about ourselves we too are changed. We too realize what we've been missing. Jesus offers us the gift of new life. AFTER WE HAVE MET JESUS AND CLAIM HIM AS LORD OF OUR LIVES, THE NEXT STEP IS TO TELL OTHERS THAT WE HAVE FOUND THE MESSIAH. That's exactly what the Samaritan woman did. After her encounter with Jesus she went into town to tell other people, "Come and see a man who told me everything I ...

668. Facing Up To The Giant Task Of Life

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... deliver you into my hands." So he goes forward into battle, he swings into action, because he knows that God shall be with him. Like David, no one can fully serve the Lord without some effort which propels brave action, which propels them into life's battles to claim victory for the Lord, knowing full well that when the power of darkness knocks us down that Jesus will lift us up, high upon the mountain. In many of the parables that our Lord teaches us, which are found in the last few chapters of the Gospel ...

669. A Mountain Too High To Climb

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... step in understanding the meaning of Advent. When we could not climb up to God, God came to us. Advent means to "come to." God came to our world. We live on a God-invaded planet, as J. B. Phillips once put it. But there is a second amazing claim Christians make about Advent: GOD IDENTIFIES WITH OUR NEEDS AND OUR CONCERNS. God is no stranger to the challenge of being human. For God took on human flesh and lived as we live. In the October 3, 1977, issue of CHRISTIANITY AND CRISIS, Robert McAfee Brown wrote an ...

670. When You Feel Helpless

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... in a narrow sense of prohibiting swearing, said Webber, but there is much more to it than that. He proceeded to expand its meaning to “never live as though God does not exist." Or, stated positively, “Always live in awareness of God's existence." (5) If you claim to be helpless, according to professor Webber's hypothesis, you are taking God's name in vain. As one author reminds us: God knows our name (John 10:3). God numbers the hairs on our head (Matthew 10:30). God counts the steps of our feet (Job ...

671. If You Are The King Of The Jews....

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... , derelicts transformed, the light of hope put back into the eyes of a hopeless child . . . Emperors have tried to destroy it; philosophers have tried to stamp it out. Tyrants have tried to wash it from the face of the earth with the very blood of those who claim it. Yet still it stands. "And there shall be the final day when every voice that has ever uttered a sound--every voice of Adam's race--shall rise in one great, mighty chorus to proclaim the name of Jesus--for in that day "˜every knee shall bow ...

672. Managing Your Anger

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... over to God. Be careful how you deal with anger. It's not unChristian to get angry. Anger is part of the human condition. Anger can even be constructive. How we deal with anger sets the follower of Jesus apart from the world. Try Gilda Carle's formula: Name it, claim it, tame it. And then, after you've done all you can, turn it over to God. Pour out your hurt to God. Pour out your heart to God. God can heal your anger. Above all, says St. Paul, following the example of his Lord, "Do not repay anyone evil ...

673. Expectant Living

2 Peter 3:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... had etched on his headstone, he asked for three words: JOSEPH MEISTER LIVED. Our greatest legacy will be the lives of those who know God's love because of our efforts. (7) Whose life will be transformed because you shared with them the love of Jesus? Claim this moment for God. Let that be the true present you give this Christmas. The present of a life lived out in service to God and service to others. 1. E-zine: HUMOR Mailto: Judib@kktv.com. 2. Calvin Miller, A Hunger For Meaning (Downers Grove, Illinois ...

674. If God Is For Us

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... for two warring factions to both have God on their side. If God is on the side of our high-tech bombers high over the trouble spots of the world, God cannot also be on the side of the suicide bombers who are set on our destruction. We both may claim God's favor, but one of us has to be wrong. And yet who can deny the appeal of this simple statement, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" The very strength of this ...

675. God's Witness Security Program

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... ,”The dynamic process of saint-making is to work out in fact what is already true in principle.” (3) But there’s another title we earn at the moment of our surrender to Jesus. It’s a title we’re more comfortable with, and it’s equally important to claim it as our identity: Children of God---that is what we are. You are a child of God. The Bible says that all those who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior are the children of God. God loves all of God’s creation, but only those who ...

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