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676. Responding to Christ's Birth

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

... . It is this day that proclaims the purpose of the Incarnation: the manifestation of God through Christ to the world. As Chrysotorn preached in A.D. 386, "Up to this day he [Jesus] was unknown to the multitudes." In this season of manifestation, we are drawn to understand God as revealed to both the Herods and the Gentile Arab astrologers. The revelation of God is up to God, not us. But, one of the things that makes this such a day of unbridled celebration is precisely the nature of God. It is God's nature ...

677. What Will He Find… When He Comes? - Shorter Version

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... of God and his promises, built upon the gifts of the Holy Spirit, then the meaning and experience of hope is a different matter altogether. It's more than a word game. A lively and excited hope is a necessary ingredient in the Christian life. Similarly, an understanding of the role hope plays is pivotal if we are to comprehend what Jesus would have us learn from his parable about the widow and the uncaring judge. Our being able to hang in there in the difficult times is determined by the nature of our hope ...

678. Discerning the Way of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... book to such problems as he says, "We have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God." How to use the gifts given by God? What to do with the life that is at their ... in whom we have come to know the Father. It is to let our hearts be open to that faith that is grounded in Christ, and to "understand the gifts bestowed on us by God" in the light of Christ. The God who led Israel out of Egypt, to whom Moses turned the eyes of ...

679. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

Drama

Tom Eberle

... ’t ever want to meet anything or anyone that crumbles me to the ground. Mother: You may find this hard to believe - but I do understand. I can’t tell you what it means, and I won’t tell you any stories about the first time I crumbled to the ground. ... plunge the knife into me? Mother: Please don’t talk that way. Don’t you see how difficult this is for me I don’t fully understand myself why I must do this. Son: Difficult for you! How do you think I feel? I’m the one being sacrificed. Why are you ...

680. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... to the discovery of meaning. But when all the questions have been asked and when what answers available have been given, we seek beyond them all a presence - a presence that quiets our tortured hearts and bestows upon us a peace that is beyond our understanding. Job, that most tortured of men - caught in the maelstrom of unending questions and unsatisfactory answers - found no satisfaction short of the peace that came when finally he could say, "I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes ...

681. THIS MAN NAMED JESUS

Drama

Marcia Miller

... birthday that year, but those who were there knew that this boy was different. When it was time to return home, the boy stayed behind. He was found three days later, still at the temple, sitting with the teachers, discussing theological questions with maturity and understanding. Mary started to scold her son. "Don’t you know we’ve been worried about you?" she asked. "Your father and I have been searching everywhere for you." QUOTER: How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about ...

682. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... cares what happens to it. Jesus taught from this that God is even more concerned with a human being than with a single bird of almost no value. This means God thinks a person is worth enough to be loved and cared for. Let us be sure we understand, though, that God does not love people because we have inherent worth or goodness. That is not the teaching of the Bible. Rather, man gets his value because God loves him in spite of his unworthiness to be loved. From the beginning man disobeyed God’s laws and ...

683. Incalculable Riches by Bishop Roy C. Nichols

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... said it was unscriptural, and he quoted chapter and verse. But in all fairness to the Great Apostle, one needs to understand the context out of which he spoke when with some haste and heat he chided those Corinthians. The record will show ... book he makes an effort to desocialize our concept of God. It’s great to sense the immanence of God; but it’s important as well to understand the transcendence of God. To paraphrase Smith, in one place, he asks to keep on being the big God "I don’t want you to be my ...

684. Running With Patience

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... that patience is a wise teacher. Quaint though it may sound, it is nevertheless true. Adults as well as children are guilty of wanting to know all the answers, without taking time to understand the problems in order that the answers might make sense. An answer given to someone unprepared to understand it brings no fulfillment. Only as one searches and struggles, blindly at times, and even bitterly, lost and bewildered, waiting, wondering, seeking, questing, patiently moving step by step, does he find that ...

685. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... the narrow place. But I did say pass, didn’t I? And this is exactly what we do - pass it, and go on. Understand this, my dear Christian friend, we know where we are going. A generation or two ago, Robert G. Ingersoll was a brilliant lecturer ... let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober" (1 Thessalonians 5:2-6). Paul apparently wishes us to understand what kind of interim this is in which we are living. It is a kind which demands alertness, attention, activity. There may be a kind ...

686. The Words We Speak

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... want you to know that from now on that's the way it's going to be around here. I'm in charge of this house. Do you understand?" After having said that, he did not see her for two weeks. After two weeks, he could see her just a little bit out of one eye. ... . Men and women don't even define words in the same way. If a woman says, "I'm going shopping for a blouse," a man understands that to mean, "I'm going hunting for a blouse." On a hunting trip you stalk and shoot your game with all deliberate speed and bring ...

687. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the page as you look at it: "Jesus wept." Jesus wept! I don’t pretend to presume to know the meaning of Jesus’ tears. I don’t understand my own. I don’t know why I cried at the funeral of that little baby. I don’t know why I have cried at many ... had STRENGTH enough that when He FELT like WEEPING, He WEPT! I repeat: HE HAD STRENGTH ENOUGH TO WEEP! Perhaps Jesus can help us understand that to weep is not necessarily, as Shakespeare put it, "to play the woman with our eyes." It may be playing the man. ...

688. Well, What Did You Expect?

Acts 12:1-19a

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , let me ring true tonight. Let me ring true, as thou are true." Is there any doubt in your mind that such a prayer is always answered? A mother praying for strength and wisdom to raise her young, a soldier praying for courage, a leader praying for understanding and humility, a person praying for the strength to overcome that temptation - all of these are, you see, sharing in what God’s purposes are for us. When we are praying for a quality that will make us a more complete and mature and godly character ...

689. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... thing is that when we do, we often find that what is being said, or asked, or even demanded, is something that is best for us in the long run. Occasionally it takes a long time for us to realize that that is a possibility. Maybe we won’t understand it until we have children of our own. Still, the advice is laid out as plainly as can be, "Lend a sharp ear to your parents now." The word spoken to the parents is equally important. The Greek term translated "provoke" is erethizo. Its root meaning is "to stir ...

690. INTERPRETER

Genesis 42:23

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... idea of the convention. All of the representative nations send delegates, who present their countries’ opinions and, sometimes, requests, to the general assembly. Now, obviously, there are very few people in the world who are sufficiently gifted in languages to be able to understand more than one language other than their own native tongue. So, it is reasonable to recognize that there must be persons who will translate into other languages. If you and I were to hear a Russian speak, it is very likely that ...

691. The Gospel In Miniature

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Robert Allen

... rattle and quiver with each thunder roll. One look out the door and we knew that no one was going home in that downpour. While we were waiting, a woman about 75 years old came up to me and asked if I had ever seen a miniature Bible. Not really understanding what she meant when she spoke of the miniature Bible, I asked if she had one. She reached into her purse and pulled out a small Bible. It was only about one inch in size and the cover said, "The Miniature Gospel." Opening up the Bible, I saw that the ...

692. The Ultimate Christmas Gift

Psalm 85:1-13, Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... ," the angels sang, "and on earth, peace, goodwill among all people" (Luke 2:14). This was God’s clear message to humankind and God’s explicit intention for us with the birth of His Son, spelled out in heavenly harmonies for all the world to hear. We do not understand this because we do not see it in the world around us, but the ultimate Christmas gift is peace! Not just peace of mind or eternal peace beyond the grave, but peace and goodwill in this world, in the "here and now!" This is so basic to the ...

693. Mary - Weeping Woman or Bold Believer

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... do have a loving Father in heaven, and that some day you, too, will see me face to face." Yes, that’s what Jesus would say to you this morning. There still may be times when the circumstances of your life make you weep. When that happens, remember that Jesus understands. More than that, he lives in glory now, and prays for you before the Father’s throne. And until he comes again, as he promised he will, he has work for you to do. So dry your tears. Listen as he calls you each by name. See him by faith ...

694. Resurrection: From Chaos to Order

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... , it was the first time that Emile Cailliet held a Bible in his hands. He began to read it. He continued to read it. "I could not find words to express my awe and wonder. And suddenly the realization dawned upon me: This was the [word] that would understand me ... I continued to read deeply into the night And lo and behold! the One of whom they spoke, the One who spoke and acted through the Bible, came alive to me. The God of Creation was revealed in the Love of Jesus Christ. His life changed and grew ...

695. Easter 3

Acts 3:11-26, 1 John 2:28--3:10, Luke 24:36-49

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... instruction by Jesus to his disciples concerning mainly scriptural hermeneutics: he "opens" their minds by giving them, not a closed system of literalistic rigidity, but a new Christological angle from which to read the ancient Hebrew canon and through which to understand their own situation and ministry. Call to Worship Leader: This was the assertion of Jesus, which he made while he was still with his disciples: People: THAT EVERYTHING WRITTEN ABOUT HIM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT MUST BE FULFILLED. Leader: Then ...

696. The Tragedy of the Unprepared Life

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... issue here is one of readiness when Christ returns. When God holds his grand celebration, will we be ready? Now, I will be the first one to admit that this theme has been abused over the years. But there is a genuine element to this theology, we need to understand that there is an element of judgment to this parable. When the foolish maidens arrived at the party, we are told: “The door was shut.” When I read these words I cannot help but think of the story of Noah and how he gathered his family into the ...

697. The Discipline of Witnessing

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

... sins. Eventually, no matter how much action we carry out, we’ve got to talk about our faith. We’ve got to express our understanding of God and his power to forgive - his ability to change lives. We must say that until we talk about our faith we haven’ ... small prayer and study groups of which most of us are a part. Last week, one girl told us that she had come to a new understanding of Jesus Christ and had made a commitment of her own life to Him as the direct result of a now defunct prayer group. No ...

698. Getting Ready

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Gethsemane, the betrayal at the Mount of Olives, the weeping at the death of Lazarus, the temptations of the wilderness, the joy of the wedding at Gethsemane, the pain of seeing his mother suffer while he was on the cross. Don’t tell me that God does not understand. I don’t care what you have encountered; God has been there first. In the embrace of family and friends, God is there. In the suffering of children who are the victims of violence, God is there. No night is so dark that God’s light will not ...

699. The Word To The Wise

Proverbs 2:1-22

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... by night and said, "Ask what I shall give you." As Solomon recalled the great and steadfast love that God had shown to David, and now made him to reign in David’s stead, although he was "a child," he prayed for wisdom: "Give thy servant an understanding mind to govern thy people, that I may discern between good and evil: for who is able to govern this thy great people?" It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this - not riches or long life, but a discerning mind. "Behold," said the Lord, "I give ...

700. Man, Where Are You?

Genesis 3:1-24

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Alton F. Wedel

... with our advanced technology and our unlimited horizons believe in talking serpents? • Or with our advanced theology how are we to understand a God who hangs our fate in trees? • Or when we have passed the finals and the orals and have gained ... can get off the hook is when Christ gets him off the hook. And the only way Christ gets us off the hook is when one understands that one is on the hook. The first step, then, is to acknowledge guilt. Harry Truman had a sign, they tell us, saying that, "The buck ...

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