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676. Hope In A Hostile World

Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... in the heavenly light from a special star. Everything is so tranquil. This picture is reinforced by the songs we sing this time of year, like “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright. Round yon virgin mother and child, holy infant, so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.” All of these images suggest peace and tranquility, but the fact is that the world into which Jesus was born was neither calm nor peaceful. It was hostile and dangerous. The world ruler at that ...

677. The Revelation Code IV: The Fight at Frodo's Tower

Revelation 19:1-21

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, For caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, the women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says, "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe our ...

678. Getting It Straight

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... run into major health problems or accidents. There is no need to make something difficult when, for the most part, it isn't. Money may or may not be needed. Physicians and other professionals may or may not be needed. God's gift is to be handled with tender loving care and at times that may mean strong medicines of discipline. Give thanks for our mortal bodies. To be fruitful is to take good care of yourself. This is a reasonable expectation and has no bearing on a vain spirit, unless we make it so. Clergy ...

679. Half-Life Or Have Life

1 John 5:1-12

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... of God does not have life. We confess these things before all, that all might believe in the name of the Son of God, so that all may know Jesus and have eternal life. Amen. Hymns We're Marching To Zion O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling

680. Doctors, Weddings, And Wineskins

Mark 2:13-17, Mark 2:18-22

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... Of Confession Our lives, Heavenly Father, are in patches and tatters. We feel our lives part and parcel as they are torn away. Mend us through the action of your Son. Shine your light upon our paths. Amen. Hymns Here In This Place O Let All Who Thirst Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling

681. For Such A Time As This

Esther 7:1-10, Psalm 124:1-8

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... silent ways, we confess that if it had not been for you we would have been swallowed by our adversaries, our problems, and the sins of this world. Thank you for your presence, your guidance, your perseverance in finding us and saving us! Amen. Hymns Seek Ye First Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling Obey My Voice

682. Healing And Curing

James 5:13-20

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... our daily bread, and joyfully trust you to answer, "Yes," "No," "Maybe," or some other answer altogether. We praise you most of all because you are, always were, and always will be. Amen. Prayer Of Confession God unknowable, yet somehow friend, Lord of majesty yet tender parent, we come before you with song and sorrow. We anoint each other, not out of a sense of controlling you, but inviting ourselves to again in union with you seek your will for our lives together. Raise us up. Forgive us our sins. Amen ...

683. Christ’s Twin

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Philippians provokes an interesting question. If Christ had a twin what would he, or she, be like? Paul writes, “If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like‑minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose . . .” We are to be “like-minded” with Christ, says Paul. What does that mean? Maybe, at least spiritually, it means we are ...

684. Philippians 2:1-11

Philippians 2:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... a series of rhetorical questions, each of which assume a positive answer. Despite any suffering or misery this community might be experiencing because of their faith, there is the “comfort,” “consolation,” “love,” “fellowship,” “compassion,” and “tenderness” of Christ available to each member. Notice how these qualities are all community oriented. “Comfort” is “paraklesis,” a term which has its roots in “parakletos,” the familiar Johannine “advocate” or one who stands ...

685. Obedience Is a Means

Matthew 21:28-32

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Martha Thatcher

Whenever I take the opportunity to actively love God in personal obedience, I end up sensing a new tenderness in my heart toward Him and a stronger resolve to obey again next time. Obedience is not an end, but a means - a means to express our love to God, and a means to increase our love for God. It is a catalyst in the process of loving God and becoming more like Jesus.

686. The Blessing Complex

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the blessing that is Christ into the world every day of our lives to every person in our lives. What can you do to bring that blessing to others? What actions can you take? You can bless someone with as little as a glance or a smile or a tender touch; you can bless people on the street, in the sanctuary, down the hallway, or up the theater stairs. You bless people by how you see and hear and treat them. You can take a “blessing break:” stop and start thanking God for all your blessings; for your Fed ...

687. Blue Christmas

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... for some people this sentimental song will be all-too-relevant during this Advent/Christmas season. It reminds us that holiday memories aren’t necessarily happy in many families. Blue Christmas. (1) “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God,” writes Isaiah. “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins. A voice of one calling: ‘In the desert prepare ...

688. Beware: Hypocrites on Premises

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

David T. Ball

... Forty Days with the Messiah: Day-by-Day Reflections on the Words of Handel's Oratorio.1 What will we discover as we proceed on our Lenten inner journey? Treasures such as a profound appreciation for the very gift of life, and a deeper sense of God's tender, yet powerful love for each one of us, but probably not our own personal perfection. My own best moments of spiritual openness to God don't last long, which usually reveals how reluctant I am to place God rather than my own selfish interests at the center ...

689. Write to the Heart

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... the matter. God gets right to the heart of the matter, too, when he chooses Jeremiah, before his birth no less, to be a prophet. Jeremiah doesn't get much of a chance to pick a career for himself, since God informs him of this decision at a tender young age. God approaches Jeremiah, who considers God's proposition for about two seconds, and says, "No thank you, God! Not me. I can't do that." God didn't take "No" for an answer, though. The next thing Jeremiah knows, he is pounding the pavement, preaching to ...

690. Love Is Something You Learn

Mt 22:34-46

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King Duncan

... , then four years old, in a high-backed wooden rocking chair. Boyd was facing his Mom as they rocked, his legs folded at the knee. Suddenly, he lifted his small head, stared straight at his mother, and became very still. Then he cupped her face in his tender little hands and said almost in a whisper, "Mommy, I'm in your eyes." He had seen his own reflection in his mother's eyes, and this strangely affected him. Mother and son stayed in that same position for several long moments as the rocking stopped and ...

691. Keeper of the Springs

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

Peter Marshall

... poetic, is true and descriptive. We feel its warmth, its softening influence, and however forgetful we have been, however much we have taken for granted life’s precious gifts, we are conscious of wistful memories that surge out of the past–the sweet, tender, poignant fragrances of love. Nothing that has been said, nothing that could be said, or that ever will be said, would be eloquent enough, expressive enough, or adequate to make articulate that peculiar emotion we feel to our mothers. So I shall make ...

692. Surprised Saints

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... man looked around, and suddenly said again and again and again: “I have no more pain! I have no more pain!” Schweitzer wrote, “His hand feels for mine and will not let it go.” (5) This was all the payment that Albert Schweitzer needed. Schweitzer had a tender heart for the suffering of the world. He saw Christ everywhere, in everyone. He gave his life to relieve the suffering of others. Saints of God have a heart for those at the bottom of society. Christ didn’t come for the well, but for the sick ...

693. Prepare the Way - Sermon Starter

Mark 1:1-8

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Brett Blair

... of Jesus. Elizabeth conceived six months before Mary. But Mary happened to be a very young girl, indeed almost a child. Most scholars put her probable age at thirteen. It was not unusual for a girl in that day and time to be of childbearing age at such a tender age. Indeed, it is not unheard of even in cotemporary America. Elizabeth, on the other hand, was a woman who was in the golden years of her life. She had never given birth to a child. You would think of her more in the category of great grandmother ...

694. The Outstretched Arms

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a hand against them, and he saves them from their sin by turning the other cheek and by accepting, on their behalf, whatever wounds they might choose to inflict upon him ... In Christ, the Apostle Paul proclaims, God reconciles the world to himself. In Christ, God exposes his tender and vulnerable heart to us. Not only is the cross God's answer to evil; it reveals the very heart of God. It is God's own way of turning the other cheek. Many are those who represent God as a great Monarch whose chief aim is to ...

695. The Bonds of Love

1 John 4:7-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... self, I am part of my family." Good marriages, good families, good communities, good congregations build and bless these five "ties that bind." When Christ calls us to incarnate God through love, are we capable of combining the bonds of tender care, true friendship, selfless desire, mature commitment, and social concern into any relationship? As Christians can we incorporate these bonds in an appropriate mixture into all our relationships? And as Christians can we accept and love those who fall far short ...

696. The Ultimate Athlete

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... moldy oldy" "Onward Christian Soldiers" make it back into the sanctioned collection of church hymns and then only by the skin of its teeth. It is possible, however, to identify with Paul's military metaphors by only slightly adapting the form to coincide with a new tenderness of spirit. If we translate Paul's image into that of an athlete, we can allow for great physical combat and yet still feel great respect if not awe for the perpetrators of these actions. Such a transference is not completely based on a ...

697. Gutsy Joy

Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the end of his life, when he was hemorrhaging so badly he could not even whisper, Stevenson wrote his wife and daughter a little note which read: "Mr. Dumbleigh presents his compliments and praises God that he is sick so he has to be cared for by two tender, loving fairies. Was ever a man so blest?" In the closing days of his life, Stevenson wrote this prayer that has become somewhat of a classic: "We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this ...

698. Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to continue to review those mistakes over and over and over again. (28) From another age comes Soren Kierkegaard's observation that most people "are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes." We are tender with ourselves, tough toward others. "But the real task, " Kierkegaard added, "is in fact to be objective toward oneself - and subjective toward all others." Coulda, woulda, shoulda thinking has gone overboard the other direction. Subjectivity towards the ...

699. Christ the Apple Tree

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... mother and was promptly and soundly spanked for being blasphemous. But where better to see angels than in a tree - a Tree of Life - a tree that beckons to our souls, especially at this time of year, to come and adore it. That tree of life, that new tender shoot out of the stump of Jesse, came to its fullest expression, however, in a wondrous and terrible way - on a tree of death. The life of the Second Adam, Jesus the Christ, came to full fruition on a different tree - the cross of Calvary. G.K. Chesterton ...

700. The Five Habits of Highly Spiritual Leaders

1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... world. While they might not have felt like it, these struggling, isolated, new-to-the-faith Christians were leaders. They were first- generation believers the beginning of the Gentile church in Asia Minor. 1 Peter understood how tense, how testing, how tender the cultural situation these Christians had to learn to thrive in. The "five habits" he suggests offered these believers a way to remain in the midst of a foreign culture, yet stand apart as members of the distinctive church community. 1. DREAMS ...

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