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676. Searching for Peace

Matthew 10:1-42

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... there be no peace? Don’t we call Jesus the Prince of Peace? Look at your own life. Do you find peace there? Maybe you thought it would be more peaceful when school was out for you and you got a job. Perhaps you were waiting to retire or for the ... outlook on life, a certain attitude. Jesus did not do it right for them because he did not teach what they in their closed minds thought was religion. As a result of this there was certainly no outward peace in the land. Jesus said that he came not to bring peace ...

677. Epiphany 7

Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, Leviticus 19:1-37

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... it has to be built-up in every generation and in every place. The work might be begun by one person (Paul, for example), but others build on the work done before them. The fate of the church in China was unknown for several decades; some people thought that the church would have to be built from the ground up once China became an internationally open society again, but that is not so. The church in China is probably stronger, even larger, now than when the missionaries were expelled in the late 1940's. A ...

678. Good Morning, Jerusalem!

Drama

... I turned around, a man I didn’t recognize was standing there, and he asked me, "Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" I thought he was the man who took care of the garden, so I told him, "If you took him away, sir, tell me where you have put ... us that when they came to embalm the body, the stone had been rolled away and that his body was missing. John and I thought they must be wild with grief, crazy or something, so we ran to the tomb to find out for ourselves. Saul: Was the Nazarene’s ...

679. A Most Amazing Night

Luke 2:1-7

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... we don’t know what she looked like. But she has become a universal woman these last 2,000 years. European artists have made her look European. African artists have made her look African. In Japan, she is Japanese. Yet, every artist has made her look thoughtful and serene. What we do know about Mary is that she kept all the things she saw that night and pondered them in her heart. What a magnificent description of Mary - what a remarkable and insightful phrase! She "pondered them in her heart." It invites ...

680. Palm Sunday

Matthew 21:1-11

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... and the people mobbed him and hailed him. I saw the time was ripe. All I needed was to force him into showing his hand and he'd have to produce. So, I contacted the high priests 'cause I knew they hated his guts, and I turned him in. I thought this would bring him directly up against the powers and he'd have to get mad and give us the victory. Question: Okay, let's get back to what you said earlier. Did you not testify that, for whatever reason, you turned Jesus into the high priests? Answer: Yes. Question ...

681. Hail! Your King!

Mark 15:1-15

Drama

... . And I follow and carry this awful thing. I doubt that I, or my boys either, will ever be able to forget this. What a King he has turned out to be! He wears a crown of thorns. His throne is this cross. How incredible that some people thought this man was the King of the Jews. Last Sunday the crowd shouted his praises. "Thou art Holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel." But no one sings his praises now ... only jeers and insults. (Arriving at front center stage, he plants the cross.) Oh, why am I here ...

682. Paul in Chains

Acts 21:27-36

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CSS

... the phrase, "a citizen of no mean city," which was a quotation from the Greek poet Euripides. The tribune must have been convinced that Paul was a person of culture and education, for it was most unusual to allow a prisoner to make a speech. Perhaps the tribune thought that Paul could quiet down the mob, for if he was not The Egyptian, maybe the Jews had made some terrible mistake in attacking him. Paul had a fine pulpit at the top of the steps, looking down on the crowd in the Court of the Gentiles. He ...

683. Let’s Face It

Matthew 25:1-13

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Michael L. Sherer

... parable) to admonish the church that the end will not come as quickly as had been hoped, or anticipated. (If it had, the foolish virgins would have gotten away without need of an extra flask of oil, but, to their surprise, the bridegroom didn’t come as quickly as they thought he would.) From Matthew’s time until our own, we’ve had a more circumspect view of the end of things. Few of us look for the skies to open and the Son of Man to burst onto the scene, even though all of us know it could happen at ...

684. Jesus Gives Us Tomorrow!

Acts 1:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... out as far as Bethany." That means the Bethany district or area and on the brow of Olivet. Have you ever considered what it must have been like for the resurrected, soon-to-be-ascended-and-reunited-with-His-Father Jesus to have stood there that day? Many thoughts must have gone through his mind as he prepared for his departure. It was in this area he had known deep pain and great joy. Here he had met with cruel treachery from his foes. But here he also had known abiding, true, and loving friendships, It was ...

685. Heart To Heart

Ezekiel 18:1-32

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John R. Brokhoff

... his words: "What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart and this defiles a man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander." For the reason why we are and what we do, we may be looking at places ... apple and then eats its way out. A diseased human heart has the worm of sin in it, and this comes out in sinful thoughts, words, and deeds. A new heart cannot be made new from the outside. There is an internal condition that is by nature bad. A ...

686. "Preference by L’oreal"

Lk 17:11-19 · Mt 6:25-33 · Jn 6:25-35

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Peter Rudowski

... ’s going to be another meal? What about the person who has just begun to try to live on Social Security and is not sure she’s going to make it? There is no room for a big meal within that check. As I thought about all of the families who were coming together, I stopped and thought, "What about the persons who have lost a loved one this past year and are going to spend this holiday alone for the first time? What are they going to say thank you for?" Whatever I put on that list as an item of ...

687. Facing Up to a Power Problem

Acts 2:1-13

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Robert G. Tuttle

... a business engagement in a distant city. It was a dark, rainy night, and I was thinking about my interview the next day. It was a pretty big deal and would net me something like $30,000 if I were successful. Quietly there came to my mind a thought I had never confronted before - but it was clear - ‘if you make this $30,000 tomorrow, $3,000 of it will belong to God.’ I answered without hesitation: ‘All right, Lord, it’s yours!’ Strangely, I experienced a peace and glow and a sense of Presence I had ...

688. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

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Robert G. Tuttle

... beings. (By the 1950s, however) I believed none of these things The border between object and subject has been blurred, deterministic laws had been replaced by statistical ones ... I now regard my former beliefs in the superiority of science over other forms of human thought and behavior as self-deception due to youthful enthusiasm.1 Since many prominent scientists are beginning to find their own way home to God, why can’t the rest of us turn from an empty path and find ourselves at home again in God ...

689. Faith Opens the Door

Genesis 12:1-8

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Robert G. Tuttle

... of that collapse." We cannot have the new until we give up the old. The old falseness cancels out the new as long as we hold on to it. Faith is a radical commitment to the new truth that we see in Christ, and it transforms everything about our thought and lifestyle. Abraham was moved by his faith, by his inner convictions, by the call of God, and he went out, left it all, not knowing where he was going, staking his life, everything, on this God that, inwardly, he knew must exist somewhere. He had to find ...

690. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... been a stumbling block. Her Sunday school teacher, when she was a little child, cried every Sunday morning as she taught the lesson. She was a good woman, but to teach little girls about Christ while crying gave them the wrong picture. They thought being Christian was something sad - something terrible. They didn’t want to join something that would make them miserable. Jesus was not that way. Joy surrounded him wherever he went. Too many people have virtues without a supporting spirit and, thus, they make ...

691. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... with things. After several days of this same occurrence, the little old man came to the realization that the young man was a thief. He would go into the village in the morning and return in the evening with his ill-gotten gain. "Oh, my!" the little old man thought to himself. "How tragic! Such a nice looking young man and he is throwing his life away in crime." The little old man felt impelled to go out and testify to the young man and point out to him what a dangerous path he was following. But he held ...

692. Genuine Imitations

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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Raymond Gibson

... in my prayers. Maybe you would like to join me.’ When we were finished, she told me a little about what Jesus meant to her, and how her prayers and Bible reading and church friends gave her strength and courage. I knew then I had been missing something. I’ve thought about it - yes, and prayed about it, but I’m not very good at that yet. Mary invited me to church. She’s waiting for me now. I want you to help me find a faith like hers."1 That is a perfect example of what happens when Christian faith ...

693. A SERMON DRAMA FOR CHRISTMASTIDE

Drama

Tom Eberle

... here. Female: That’s right. The message did come through, didn’t it. Male: I’m even beginning to like angels. All the time I thought Luke was the dumb one for talking about them. But it’s me. I didn’t understand that there are times when words just can ... I didn’t understand that more was being said than just words. Female: But don’t forget that it takes insight too. I always thought it was enough just to look at the picture. I didn’t realize that what I should be doing is asking: What does it ...

694. IN THE BEGINNING ... THERE WAS LOVE ...

Drama

Marcia Millerf

... be interested in knowing. GIRL: Go ahead and try me. I might surprise you. I might even understand the situation. BOY: At first I thought that book was the most important thing in the world. It seemed to have all the answers. That is why I chose it in ... up. GIRL: You are a funny one. BOY: No, I’m not. You’re the funny one. You’re the one who plays music. GIRL: I thought you didn’t know what music was. BOY: I had almost forgotten. I never was one to care much for music, particularly the kind of music ...

695. It Takes Two to Preach!

Matthew 13:1-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... ? Many a preacher gets into trouble when people say he said things he did not say in his sermon. How can you receive the Word with understanding? You need to have some knowledge to really understand what is preached. When Samuel was a boy, God called him but he thought it was Eli calling him. The Bible explains, "Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the Word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him." To understand the Word, we need to know the Bible, to know God, to know Christ, the cross, and our ...

696. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... purification, an old man named Simeon took Jesus in his arms and then said to us, "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed." MB: [Alarmed, draws away from MJ, stands and paces] Then this sense of foreboding that we have - it - it’s not out of our own heads. MJ: No, Mary. MB: What can we do? MJ: [With conviction] We can do nothing, Mary ...

697. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

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Louis H. Valbracht

... the overwhelming wonder of God’s handiwork. And no one, at that moment, had to prove to me that it was his handiwork. I knew, because I experienced it. Think of the experience of vocation: Why are people called to certain tasks, tasks that they never thought of undertaking, that they objected to, even abhorred? Until I was a sophomore in college, I was absolutely certain that I would never be so stupid as to spend my life in the ministry! Here I am. Experience, because I experienced the sense of vocation ...

698. The Hard-to-Believe Promise

John 14:5-14

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Louis H. Valbracht

... of what life has to offer and then ordering all the best things, with the full expectation that God, like an attentive waiter, will scurry around and provide them for us. And so, again and again, we wonder about our prayers. Many of the questions are thoughtful and sincere. There’s a legitimate area of confusion and questioning. The other day, I was reading the musings of one of our pastors in Buffalo, New York. He was telling of the tornado that tore through that area of the nation some years ago, you ...

699. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

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T. A. Kantonen

... divine love revealed in the atoning sacrifice on the cross. It is faithfully retained by Anselm in terms of feudal justice and by the Reformers in terms of a conciliation between God’s righteousness and God’s love. Quite a different line of thought is followed by many liberal theologians beginning with Schleiermacher. Jesus is viewed as a uniquely God-conscious and God-dependent man and his death is regarded as the result of his unswerving faithfulness to his vocation as revealer of divine love. This is ...

700. Minute Accounting

Matthew 12:22-37

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Herchel H. Sheets

... self-improvement, or simply to set a careful watch on our lips, important as that is. Our greatest need is to so open ourselves to God’s Spirit, to be so possessed by him, that all of our words - both those we choose carefully and those we speak without much thought - may spring from a heart that is pure and clean, and may be as words set on our lips by God himself. Then we shall not have to fear the evidence they give in at the judgment, for they will be words of righteous and redeeming influence. 1. W ...

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