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701. Looking Back; Moving Forward

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Tony Everett

... very presence of the Lord God. Jesus brought the disciples down from a glorious mountaintop experience to walk with him to Jerusalem on a journey that led straight to the cross. It, too, was a frightening journey. It was a journey of suffering and hope, passion and promise, despair and joy. It is a journey that Jesus invites us to share today. The Ark of the Covenant of the Lord was carried triumphantly by the children of Israel throughout their wanderings. The cross was carried in glory by Jesus to Calvary ...

702. Love One Another - the Hospice Movement

John 13:31-38

Illustration

John R. Steward

... directions on where to push the chair. Is this not the new commandment to which Jesus referred? He calls us to be disciples who love one another. We are the ones who are healed and strengthened when we learn how to give and how to love. Adapted by Bruce Larson, Passionate People (Dallas: Word Publishers), p. 203.

703. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... approval of those efforts, we should be all the more sensitive to the manner in which the evangelists relate that attention that was given to sedate our Lord for his crucifixion. A Routine Courtesy While the evangelists give us some details concerning the passion of our Lord, more than any other portion of his mission and ministry, by today's standards we have sparse information. What we do have, then, is all the more important. The fact that each evangelist mentions something about the sedation of Jesus ...

704. Taking The Good With The Bad

Job 1:1-5

Sermon

John A. Stroman

Once upon a time in the land of Uz there was a man whose name was Job. He was a man of sterling character who always sought to do the right thing. Above all he had respect for God and hated evil with a passion. His family consisted of seven sons and three daughters. God had blessed Job not only with a large family but he possessed seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and numerous servants who cared for his enormous amount of livestoc_esermonsk. He ...

705. The Waiting Place

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

William L. Self

... ourselves. "... No one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him" (Isaiah 64:4). Henri Nouwen, from an article in Weavings titled "Our Waiting," says that all action ends in passion because the response to our action is out of our hands. That is the mystery of work, the mystery of love, the mystery of friendship, the mystery of community -- they always involve waiting. And that is the mystery of Jesus' love. God is revealed in Jesus ...

706. The Man With Two Umbrellas

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

William L. Self

... matters. In the Bible we see Amos, a poor herdsman from Tekoa. As his campfire burned, he heard the call and saw the beckoning hand. "The Lord took me from tending the flock and said, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel' " (Amos 7:15). He spoke with passion against the years of dark doings in high places, wealth breeding laziness, rampant injustice. But Isaiah was a friend of kings, cultured and courtly. "In the year King Uzziah died I saw the Lord." Mourning the fall of the king, he heard the voice of God ...

707. Held In His Arms

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

Years ago, there was a very wealthy man who, with his devoted young son, shared a passion for collecting art. Together they traveled around the world, adding only the finest art treasures to their collection. Priceless works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, and many others adorned the walls of the family estate. The widowed elderly man looked on with satisfaction as his only child became an experienced ...

708. Permission To Daydream

Joel 2:28-32, Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... to imagine a better world. We have the power to dream of a better life. We have the capability of visualizing ourselves doing great things. A person who has no dreams for life is in serious trouble. Without a dream, there is no direction, no motivation, no passion. And a people or nation without a dream is a nation headed for disaster. The prophet Joel wrote three short chapters that got included in our Bible. We don't know much about this prophet. There is very little in his writing that gives us solid ...

709. So Much To Say, So Little Time

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... prominent place in the order of things, a little like first graders lining up at the water fountain at school. For twelve grown men, you'd think that they would have been more sophisticated, but we have to remember that these were commoners, men of passions, used to living lives of intensity on fishing boats, on farms, in workshops, and in tax offices. They were the blue-collar workers of their time, skilled and yet not educated, used to the basics, not interested in what the future might hold because they ...

710. Our Defense In A Stone-littered World

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... of grace and power" and that he did "great wonders and signs among the people." And we know the incident that leads up to today's lesson: how the Jews challenged his preaching, had him arrested and placed before the council where he preached passionately and eloquently. They only became more deeply enraged, and dragged him out of the city and stoned him to death. According at least to Luke's account, this then was the first Christian martyr. What had Stephen expected? The seven had been chosen to assist ...

711. The Pastor Who Created A Monster

Haggai 1:1-15, Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... people were living in poverty. How were they going to come up with the needed resources to build this splendid temple? Negative thinking ran rampant among the Jews!" Pastor Jenkins' voice grew excited. Standing on the chair he found himself preaching with more passion than usual. He continued, "Then Haggai spoke an important word on behalf of God. The prophet told the people how they would accomplish the goal in front of them. Even though the goal seemed difficult or impossible to the people, the prophet ...

712. Uplifted By The Blues

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... months ago. Shortly afterward, Raymond began to feel that he was the victim of another kind of plague -- in fact, a series of them. To begin with, his wife left him for another man. She told Raymond that she needed to be with someone who had more passion in his life. Shortly after his wife had filed for divorce, Raymond learned that he had not received a promotion that he had been expecting. The job was given to someone younger, someone who had spent a fewer number of years with the firm. During this same ...

713. Too Light A Thing

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... of Jesus Christ can do the same. We are called to go into all the world and preach the Gospel, but we can end up worrying over whether the attendance is up or down from last year. We can find ourselves consumed over important institutional things, instead of passionately involved in the salvation of God's world, which is the biggest thing. Do we hear God calling? "Church, I call you to more than this. It is too light a thing that you aim to pay all your bills. I call you to give away half your income ...

714. The Sacred Other

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... perfect, I have always respected him as a man who dared to speak truth and face the most violent racism with courage and gentleness. While his heart was frequently broken by those who were known as his followers but did not always follow his nonviolent passion, Dr. King himself stuck to nonviolence as the only way to solve racism or any other problem. The fact that our country has made so little progress in rooting out racism and violence since his passing is surely the most tragic reality which confronts ...

715. Our Champion Rides Into Battle

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... of police commented, "We were prepared for anything that night, for everything. Everything except candles and prayers." Never underestimate the power of the grace of God and the gifts of the Spirit. With such power Christ, as our champion, rode into Jerusalem that day of passion and palms. Such power is ours, too, for the great crises of our day and for the ordinary struggles of our daily lives. There's a hymn we never sing this day but which uses such imagery to describe our Warrior King, our Champion. The ...

716. Awake, Christ Is Coming

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... role in the conversion of Augustine, the influential early church father. In his autobiographical Confessions he tells of his early emotional and intellectual struggles as a young man living in North Africa. Emotionally he could not control his sexual passions. He took a mistress, had a child by her, married her and eventually left her. Intellectually he experimented with various philosophies. He embraced Manichaenism with its sharp dichotomy between good and evil, light and darkness and later became ...

717. You Can Be Articulate

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... more appropriately sung "I Love The Story But Couldn't Tell It If I Tried." That, however, need not be the case. So far as our lives of faith are concerned, we can be articulate. We can tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love with power and passion whether or not we are able to stand on our feet in front of a crowd. That's not always where the best preaching is done anyway. Mark tells of a man who could not articulate his wants, needs, emotions or wishes. He could speak after a fashion, but not ...

718. Enlarge Your Horizons

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... looked at life. In our lectionary text today from Paul's third chapter in his Letter to the Ephesians he writes of his commission to preach what he calls "the mystery of Christ." His whole ministry might be summed up in this all-consuming passion. Since our own society associates the word "mystery" with mystery stories like Murder, She Wrote and Perry Mason and Agatha Christie mysteries where everyone is in the dark regarding who killed the person until clues are discovered that solve the mystery, we need ...

719. Make Scriptural Hope Your Own

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... not part of the riches of Greek culture, then you were simply an uncouth barbarian. The Jews also made sharp distinctions: Jews and Gentiles. If you were not a descendant of Abraham then you were a Gentile, ignorant of the covenant promises. Paul's great passion, reflected in all his letters, is to preach the gospel of Christ to the Gentiles and to convince them that they are included in the scriptural promises. In this passage the apostle quoted no less than four verses from the Hebrew scriptures, and in ...

720. To Bow The Knee

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

On this Passion/Palm Sunday, we both celebrate the triumphal procession that was due to Jesus as the Christ, and look forward to his betrayal and death just a few days later. And so, this passage from Philippians is exactly right for our text this morning. In it, Paul is quoting an early ...

721. Week One Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... . We do not have Jesus' physical presence with us, but we have more than enough signs. We know more than the Jews did. We know about Jonah and the physical life of Jesus, as did the Jews. But we also know the end of the Gospel story, the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. We are benefactors of 2,000 years of Christian tradition. Lent is a time when reflection on change and transformation in our lives is encouraged. What change of heart or mind do we need? What new direction is Jesus suggesting to us ...

722. Hosanna To The King!

John 12:12-19, Philippians 2:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Palm branches, one for each child Lesson: Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name. Good morning, boys and girls. Today is a very special day for us. We call it Palm Sunday or the Sunday of the Passion. Later on in our worship service we will hear the story of how Jesus suffered and died on the cross for us. We also remember something else that happened to Jesus not very long before he died on the cross. These palms here will help us tell that story. ( ...

723. Week Five Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... possibilities that exist around us. How can we respond? Can we open ourselves to the presence and possibility of God? Can we open the door and allow God to enter? Lent is a time to prepare our house for the marvelous events of the Paschal mystery, the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord. Lent is the time the Church has given us to conduct our spring training, our spring cleaning as well. Let us sweep the house of our heart; let us open the door. Let us accept God's invitation this day. Saturday ...

724. The Essence of Spirituality

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... Remember, a good scientific definition of a kiss is "the exchange of bacteria between the anterior ends of two digestive systems." While accurate in all the facts, this definition does not encompass the full weight of a romantic kiss between two people who passionately care for one another. The Bible, on the other hand, shows us a way to see through eyes of faith and to focus on the meaning of existence. This creation passage from Genesis is particularly important because everything else in scripture flows ...

725. The King Of Hearts

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... needs to be preceded first by bad news. And thus, much of Ezekiel's early prophesies seem to echo that of his colleague in the cloth, Jeremiah. In lurid detail, he launches one scathing attack after another upon the sinful inhabitants of Jerusalem. In fact, so passionate are his warnings that Ezekiel eventually begins to act them out in the hope that someone will notice. He binds himself with ropes, for example -- lying on his left side for 390 days, and on his right for 40 -- in order to depict how long ...

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