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701. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... you know God. To know God is to find him and to find him is to seek him. Thus, in our text, Isaiah says, "Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near." Before you and I seek the Lord, there must be a hunger and desire to know and have God, as the Psalmist yearns, "As a heart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for them, O God. My soul thirsts for the living God." With that longing for God, we begin our search. Who Seeks Whom? You may rightly ask, "Why ...

702. Two Bodies for Two Worlds

Isaiah 26:1-21

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to eat with the Disciples. How can a body be both spiritual and apparently physical? We do not know; the resurrected body of Jesus is a mystery. But we do know that the spiritual body we are to receive will not be subject to pain or suffering or hunger or thirst or any adversity. For those who are plagued with sickness, handicaps, or pain, this is good news. Our new bodies will be free from all that now plagues the earthly body. As Jesus received a resurrection body when he rose from the dead, so at our ...

703. Out of the Darkness

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... . Which brings me at last to the nuclear freeze. President Eisenhower made this connection between poverty and crime and the arms race explicit when he said: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed ... and those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labors and the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any ...

704. Begging Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... many who saw what happened, that’s all it was. To many who hear the story now, that’s all it is. But listen. There’s more. Much more. We dare not forget those people who tried to silence the beggar. We dare not forget the glossy page filled with hunger, and poverty, and unemployment. If we do then we are part of the crowd that said: "Shhh. Not now. We’re in church. We want to hear the words of Jesus. We want to hear him teach and preach. We want to follow him, love him, serve him, trust him ...

705. Do I Dare Be Different?

Matthew 5:10; 10:1-42

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... children may bear the brunt of being ostracized. If you seek to live daily in Christ’s way, you will stand for principles the world doesn’t like to be reminded of, and you may be left out of some circles." But blessed are you when you show that you hunger and thirst to be all that the faith asks of you, for you will experience the satisfaction that only an appetite for the things of God can give. The world says, "You have to learn to operate and live and work among people who are not quite as efficient ...

706. The New Covenant

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... And drink the holy blood for you outpoured. Offered was he for greatest and for least, Himself the victim and himself the priest. He that his saints in this world rules and shields To all believers life eternal yields, With heavenly bread makes them that hunger whole, Gives living waters to the thirsting soul. Approach ye, then with faithful hearts sincere And take the pledges of salvation here. O Judge of all, our only Savior thou, In this thy feast of love, be with us now. Amen. - Latin author unknown, c ...

707. The Three Faces of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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Robert G. Tuttle

... No, that is only a collapse of matter. Life disappears, only to reappear, in a new phase of life in the will of God, in the hands of God! God the Son, who by the power of God handled the things of this universe - with the authority of God: hunger, loneliness, sin, sickness, death had no power over him. In him, God was let loose in the world, triumphantly, so that Hans Kung declares: "I believe, first of all, to put it simply, in God as he addresses me in this Jesus." Christianity is our understanding of God ...

708. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . When we struggle deeper into reality, we find the new. In this age of false freedom, AT&T has to run a full page ad: "What can you do about obscene, harrassing, or threatening phone calls?" Our world is a sick world. We are unfit. We need reconditioning. We hunger for the touch of healing. Don’t give up! This is the kind of world Christ died for. It is the kind of world Christ seeks to heal by his love and by his holiness. He wants to make it acceptable unto God and richly meaningful for humanity. When ...

709. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

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Robert G. Tuttle

... has a psychic or spiritual channel open between himself and each one of his children. It is never closed except as we close our end of the channel. Through this channel the Spirit of God comes to the aid of our spirit. He gives expression to our prayers, the hungerings and yearnings of our souls. And God gets the message. It is at times in my yearnings that the awareness of reality rises up from the depths of my soul. It is my reality rising up to touch God’s reality; it is God’s reality making himself ...

710. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... are actually the snags by which our affections can be bought and held by anyone who may hold power over the giving or taking of those possessions. For there is one who gave them, and he calls us to love him. "Consider your call," Paul urges. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." God himself will be their wealth, their food, their drink, their all!

711. The Glory of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... hearts and lives of people whose very survival was so frequently in question. Perhaps we, in our day, fail to see how very tentatively at best life is sustained on a daily basis. Technology and science have shielded us from the most pressing demands of hunger and sickness and nature that have threatened the life and welfare of almost all previous generations and that still threaten so much of life around the world today. With this thin film of protection, we no longer live in the daily shadows of death as ...

712. Journey To The Cross VI: Jesus And Pontius Pilate

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

James W. Moore

... tremendous ideal. Jesus knew about that important longing deep within us and in the Sermon on the Mount... He underscored it by saying: Seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness and everything else will fall in place. Blessed are those who keep on hungering and thirsting after righteousness, they shall be filled. Patrick Henry knew the importance of pursuing a great dream and he closed his will with these words: “I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more that I ...

713. JONAH

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John H. Krahn

... sprints for Joppa to catch a ship heading in the opposite direction for Tarshish. Jonah’s determination not to get involved still has a lot of appeal among today’s Christians. Family frictions, an unchurched community, billions of bellies exploding with the pain of hunger - all Ninevehs. How we wish we could climb into a boat’s hold, go to sleep, and avoid them. But God calls us to care, and caring takes time! Caring takes preparation and hard work. Caring takes giving. Caring demands involvement in a ...

714. The Excitement of Meaningful Living

John 10:10 · Matthew 6:33 · Ephesians 3:20

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the tree and walked home with him. Strangely, new life stirred in the hardened tax collector. He accepted this new spirit of life in the Master. He was cared for, and he began to care. In his new spirit he wanted to share in the life of the world. He hungered for righteousness. He said, "I will repay four times anything I have taken. I will give half of my goods, Master, to do your work of love." There was the woman by the well, desperate, lonely. No one would even walk to the well with her. She was an ...

715. The Joy of Being a Caring Person

Mt 25:31-46 · Lk 16:19-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... all about. Jesus said that we really don’t know ourselves. He wants to help us know the truth about ourselves and about life. At the judgment those who had not cared were surprised at their own blindness, and they cried out to Jesus, "When saw we thee hungered and fed thee not, thirsty and gave thee no drink, lonely and took thee not in, sick and ministered not to thee? We have never really seen you and passed you by." The other group who had cared by nature, or by grace, were equally surprised, and they ...

716. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... belong. What is it like to be with Jesus? The Bible tells us that where Jesus is, there is light, love, life, peace, truth, and joy. Now, those are conditions for really living! In heaven, there is no night, for Christ is the ever-burning light. There is no hunger, for Christ is the bread of life. There is no sorrow, no pain, no suffering, because God himself will wipe away every tear from our eyes. Heaven is also a place of great learning, because now we know only in part, but in heaven, we shall know even ...

717. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... sake. The Bible as the Word of God has the power to cleanse society of sin. In Isaiah, God says he will crush the wicked nations with the rod of his mouth (Isaiah 11:4). When Jesus was tempted by Satan in the wilderness, even though he was weak with hunger, he drove the devil away with the power of God’s Word. Martin Luther spoke of the power of God’s Word to overcome evil when he wrote in "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God": "One little word shall fell him." This is true because God’s Word in the ...

718. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

Drama

Tom Eberle

... railing during the prayer of confession while the son stands facing the altar.] Prayer of Confession: We want to stand, Lord, for the rest of our lives. We want nothing to crumble us to the ground. We want to blot out pain and suffering; to walk around loneliness and hunger. We are afraid if we get too close we will have to stoop to help. And Lord, we don’t want bending knees to tell us of your awe and grandeur. We would rather believe that nothing exceeds our own height. Is there a word you would speak ...

719. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR ALL SAINTS’

Drama

Tom Eberle

... of his life repulsed some, but it attracted many others, leading to the formation of the Order of St. Francis. And to some of the poor and lepers, it was the difference between life and death. Box: Next beatitude. Minister: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Box: Only if done in moderation. Minister: Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Box: A perfect example of enlightened self-interest. If you want a pat on the back, then be willing ...

720. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... it. That’s very personal for some and it ought to be heard. Or again, our belief in grace speaks to our social despair, it seems to me. We walk close these days to an abyss of discouragement and despair. The problems of our time, from hunger to ecology to atomic disaster, often seem to leave us hopeless - except for an underlying belief that God’s grace has not abandoned us. Oh, how foolish that biblical faith is. But Paul wrote the Corinthians that the foolishness of God is wiser than men. The Greek ...

721. Five Grains of Corn

Psalm 111:1-10

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... symbolic acts of restraint. These acts will not transform the world. But they will raise our own consciousness and contribute to raising the social consciousness of the world’s needs. Furthermore, if we contribute the cash savings from such acts to the direct relief of hunger or to united efforts to meet human need, we make a real difference. In that way we can use mammon to serve God." The third grain of corn reminds us that men are blessed not merely for themselves, but to equip them for greater service ...

722. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... us. THE MIRACLE OF MALCHUS SHOWS HOW TO TREAT YOUR ENEMIES For about three and a half years, since the sermon on the Mount, Jesus has been preaching and teaching about how to treat your enemies. He said: "love your enemies," once he said: "if your enemy hunger, feed him." Another time he said "forgive your enemies," and again: "if your enemy smite you on one cheek; turn the other cheek." He taught no retaliation in anger, or hatred, or violence. Now, on the way to the cross. He is remembering what he taught ...

723. Forgiveness Unlimited

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... forgive. Pick out someone to whom you will offer forgiveness today. Offer the hand and heart in love. Patch up the relationship, strengthen the friendship, set up the fellowship again. We are indeed the forgiven, the forgiving. The Norwegian writer Johan Bojer, in The Great Hunger, tells of a man whose little child was killed by a neighbor’s dog. Revenge would not long satisfy this man, so he found a better way to relieve the agony of his heart. When a famine had plagued the people and his neighbor’s ...

724. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... grace. "Why did the earlier workers not rejoice that the man who had waited long in the marketplace was now at peace, with money to take home to his family? Why did not the older brother rejoice that the prodigal was now restored, set free from the rags and hunger of the far country? If only we had but a tincture of God’s love would we not be glad, as heaven is glad, that the lost sheep is safe in the fold, delivered from briars and wolves? Or are you jealous because I am generous? God asks." (Interpreter ...

725. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... ask this in a political campaign: "Why do you want this office? What is your underlying motive? Is it love of the people or just ‘White House fever,’ as Robert Bender called it." Freud called it "the expression of the ego." Jung called it "the hunger for power." Adler called it "the desire for recognition." Dewey called it "the drive for significance." A modern psychologist has dubbed it "the drum major complex." Is it the desire to be a servant of God’s people or the desire to play God? How fine ...

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