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651. The Two Fires

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... So Christ is "fire" in a double sense. He is the fire of God’s judgment. He tells us that we are living dangerously, that without God we are part of no lasting future, and that we have no real present joys and satisfactions. Christ is also the warming fire of the transforming power of the spirit, forming us into happy sons and daughters of God, with lives and deeds to match. Both these fires of Christ are essential to our spiritual pilgrimage and neither can say it all alone. "I came to cast fire upon the ...

652. Mission to Unbelievers

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... . II Another necessary witness to unbelief will be the involvement of the church to the unbelieving poor. Poverty takes more than its physical toll; it diminishes one’s ability to believe. The Book of James says that if we tell the poor, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without making effort to feed and clothe the poor, then there is a death-quality about our belief. "So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead." In my office I have a copy of the 1908 Discipline of The Methodist Episcopal Church ...

653. Is This Life All There Is?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

... the Hebrew Scriptures the soul and the body are a unit; if the living God is the God of the living, then this life is not all there is. Someone has said if the baby in the womb had a choice, it would probably elect to stay where it was: warm, comfortable, and taken care of. It has no idea what life is like after birth. Perhaps that’s similar to this: we have no idea of what’s coming, no way to imagine how the resurrection will bring us an even richer life than we now enjoy as we live ...

654. The Call of the Cross

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

... looked in and discovered the choir of St. Peter’s Church singing - Handel’s "The Messiah," it turned out - in the atrium. They went in, worked their way toward the platform from which the choir performed, apparently in the hope of having their spirits warmed by the singing. There by the stage they encountered one of New York’s 30,000 homeless persons, a bag man, and as they watched, he began to rummage through his shopping bag obviously looking for something, and seemingly without hearing what was ...

655. The Man, the Message, and the Mission

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

George Bass

... : I’m writing this letter in memory of my very special daughter Tracy who was killed last March 27th in an automobile accident. Mr. Fink told how they loved her and about her "zest and excitement (that) energized everyone." How "She loved dramatics, music, her guitar, warm weather, the ocean, family vacations, pasta, late nights and sleeping in." He added: If she’d worn her seat belt, she’d be here with us now. We miss her and love her so. Just like your family and friends love you. So on this first ...

656. The Day You Were Healed

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

... thankfulness to sing, but as the motif of our days. From that day forward we will recognize the one who heals all our diseases, who forgives all our iniquities, who gives the sunshine and the rain and blesses us with bread, the one who stands with us in grief and warms us with his presence. We will know that life is lived within the everlasting arms of love, and nothing can isolate us from his love, not even death. We live in his intensive care. We have the promise.

657. The Gospel of the Little Man

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

... sins that clutch our throats, from the bondage of a habit we are powerless to break, from the fear of death - from these we look for salvation, freedom, deliverance. Jesus came to save - save you and me. From what? Saved For What? Is there now a warm response to the miracle that Christ has worked for us? Is there a response to demonstrate the miracle that he has worked in us? Those whom we have hurt, offended, lied against, betrayed, oppressed - do they wait in vain for restitution or the simple word ...

658. Advancers Over Decliners

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

... country to receive a kingdom, entrusted to each one of them a pound, then left with no return date set. At his ultimate return, he called his servants in for an accounting. Two were able to report advances in the value of his stock, and both of them received warm commendation for their faithful stewardship. A third confessed that he had been afraid to risk his pound, that he had laid it away in a napkin, or hidden it beneath his mattress, or buried it in a tin can in his back yard, or put it in a bowl ...

659. One Nation, Under Mercy

Sermon

... when the people of the church whose hearts had learned compassion at the cross of Christ assumed the role of sponsors in this land. When Fidel Castro opened prison cells and sent the wretched refuse of his land, they were not extended a warm welcome. But Jesus never spurned the stranger or the foreigner, the publican, the sinner, the Samaritan, the Galilean, the deaf, the blind, the handicapped, not even unclean lepers, not even thugs and thieves and prostitutes and criminals. Responding to their plea for ...

660. The Sign in the Subway

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... also knew, was an assumed necessity. Village bread was most often baked at home. The result of these things was the situation Jesus described, one which the disciples themselves might have shared on occasion. They could sympathize with the neighbor. To get out of a warm bed into the cold dark with no light and no fire was not pleasant: but still the neighbor’s need was met. It was done "because of his importunity," Jesus said - his persistence in asking. God is not a reluctant neighbor, but prayer that is ...

661. The Man Who Came to Dinner

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... the wrong crowd, gone from one trouble to another, finally ending in poverty and degradation. He had sold his overcoat to get money for liquor, and on a cold winter night he had his sweater pinned together with that safety pin. He walked into a mission to keep warm, and there the Lord Jesus Christ found him. After he came to know the Lord he started a new life. It brought him many successes and material possessions. He had that pin gold plated to remind him of what he once had been before he knew the Lord ...

662. Formula for Life

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

... in us. We are his children. He loves us and has shared something of his own being with us. To live in alienation from him is to cut ourselves off from the source of our being. To know his love and be responding to it is to be warmed by the pulsebeat of life. Is not this an important point for us - to pause and take inventory of our personal life situations? How vigorously have we been consciously seeking a meaningful relationship with God? At what points, and by what practices, do we deliberately try to ...

663. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

... it must be remembered that Jesus was not a rigid, judgmental dogmatist. He was not laying down a law so much as he was pointing the way to authentic living. His words were not the imperious proclamations of an authoritarian ruler or judge, but the warm-hearted counsel and injunction of a concerned teacher and friend. As a sociologist would say, he outlined an ideal typology toward which he enjoined his followers to strive. That any one of them, much less all of them, would perfectly embrace the ideal was ...

664. Arise, O Church of God, Arise!

Sermon

... message dwell in your heart more richly. Do we want to be a witnessing church, unafraid to say something about Christ to a world in need? Then let Christ witness more to us! Let the word about the cross and the open tomb get down in your bones, changing and warming you, giving you a hope for your own life and stirring you to get up on your feet and tell others. God knows, we need to be such a witnessing church! [At this point in the sermon the pastor may invite the congregation to sing stanza two, or the ...

665. In God's Own Time

Galatians 1:12

Children's Sermon

... that it brings you and me together to talk about God. Sometimes we think God is hard to know and since we can’t see him we even wonder where he is. But you know, when I’m with you, I can feel God just like I can feel a warm day. I’m sure you’re wondering just what I’ve brought with me today. In a way, you know that I have something because you can see that something is hidden behind the piece of cloth. I mean, you know there is something there, but until that cloth is ...

666. Love is like Soap Suds

Philippians 1:9

Children's Sermon

... . Aren’t the trees beautiful now that they’ve all changed their colors? Isn’t it wonderful the way God has a plan for his whole world and all that lives in it? Our God certainly knows what to do and when to do it. When it begins to get warm, he puts the leaves on the trees so that we can have shade, and when it gets cold and the trees need to rest, he lets the leaves fall so that the sunshine can get through. Isn’t it wonderful to have not only a smart God but a God ...

667. Born Naked With A Cross

Sermon

... Jesus. In our text Paul says, "that I may know him." To "know" him is more than knowing about him: where he was born, who his parents were, what works he did, how he suffered, died, and rose again. In the Bible, the word to "know" means a warm, intimate, and personal relationship with another person based on trust. As a Christian, you know Jesus as the highest and best who ever lived or ever will live on earth. For a Christian, Jesus is all the world. Jesus is absolutely preeminent in all things. He is tops ...

668. Jesus Gave Himself

Philippians 2:5-11

Children's Sermon

... 't expect him to be a God. But we do, and I'll show you what I mean. Here is a candle, a beautiful white candle that has been sitting on my piano at home for a long time. It looks so good that it makes my whole room look warm and beautiful. This is the way I think a candle should look and whenever someone mentions a candle, I think of this beautiful white candle that sits on my piano. Now I have another candle, and at one time this other candle was as big and beautiful as my piano ...

669. God's Thermometer

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Children's Sermon

... us know a warning. [Hold up the thermometer.] What do you call this? That's right, a thermometer. I suppose all of you have noticed that when you are not feeling well, your mom or dad comes over and touches your head. If you feel even a little bit warm, the next thing you know they are putting this thermometer in your mouth and waiting to see what your temperature is. Is there anyone here who knows what your temperature should be if you are all right? That's right, 98.6, and so if your temperature reads 100 ...

670. The Golden Gift

Drama

... that I retire early. I believe it was the American, Dr. Franklin, who said, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Only I am told that in English it rhymes. So if you will excuse me. You may wish to warm yourself by the fire a while longer before going to bed. Your room is at the head of the stairs. Bonne nuit, Monsieur. JEAN: Bonne nuit, Father. (Bishop exits. Jean contemplates the candlesticks a while, and, after a certain amount of soul-searching, decides to steal them ...

671. In the Cross

Zechariah 9:9-13

Sermon

... make?" "God doesn't need me to sing hymns." "My kids will have plenty of opportunity to learn religion on their own. (After all, in the movie 'The Exorcist' they used a crucifix, didn't they?)" A rejection of God because of apathy toward God. Manana, later, luke warm, caring less. To hell with you, God! [Be careful of course with the use of this line] - Crucify Him. And a rejection of God then, 2,000 years ago, and God today - because of excuses. "This Christ," says the crowd, is too religious, and I'm no ...

672. In Turning to God

John 18:1-11

Bulletin Aid

... these words: "I have sinned," he says, and throwing down the thirty pieces of silver, he cries out, "I have betrayed innocent blood." But as all of this is taking place, Peter has been following Our Lord at a distance. And coming to a campfire, where people are warming their hands in the cold midnight air, one of the women recognizes Peter, and says this to him: "Aren't you one of his disciples?" And as he is asked, Peter denies Our Lord with a curse. And as he is asked again, Peter again curses Him. But ...

673. Parable of Two Bedrooms

Illustration

Two sisters had two identical rooms to which they retired when bedtime arrived. Though the temperature of the rooms and their furnishings were much alike, there was a great difference. One room was cold, but the second was warm, because love was there. One bed was hard, but the second was soft, because love was there. One room was dark with fear, but the other was safe and secure because love was there. One room was lonely, but the other was filled because love was there. What kind of ...

674. Parable of the Highway to Worship

Matthew 13:1-23

Illustration

... to himself, "This is the day of the Lord, and I will be glad in it." He noted a cardinal flitting in the trees and praised God for its beauty. He saw icicles dripping from the drain and was conscious of their beauty. He entered church warmly greeting all he saw. He entered the sanctuary and bowed in prayer rejoicing in the music, the beauty of church architecture and found food in the sermon. His heart was full and he went forth rejoicing. The second worshiper rose with reluctance saying, "I would rather ...

675. Dear Mrs. Day

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Thomas C. Short

... had never before known it. In love God was reaching out to me. With a love so much richer and purer than mine, God was reaching out to me. I did not sit down in the street to pray or break into tears or burst into song. I just felt warm and good and whole inside. I felt that God loved me and was reaching out to me to help me experience that divine love. It was the greatest feeling I’ve ever had in my life. I knew then that my life was going to be different. Well, it has ...

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