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51. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted by the mouths of babes and infants. When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him? O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth! In the words of Charles Wesley's great hymn, we find ourselves "lost in wonder, love and praise." [2] Several years ago, I ...

52. John the Baptist, Sanctified Indifference, & the King of Pop

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... should always tell the truth, we don’t always have to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Some call this the art of the “white lie,” the polite under-played put-off. But whatever you call it, most of us gradually master the complex socialization ... showed. We aren’t all called to go as far as Jesus did. But we are called to lives of giving offense, to learn this art of sanctified indifference to what people may think or say or do. So: Who wants your head on a platter? If you are preaching ...

53. Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... just out of or still in adolescence, but Christian love is not for the young. Eric Fromm notes how we speak of "falling in love," as if love is stumbled into or we talk of "being in love" as if love is a permanent condition (Eric Fromm, The Art of Loving, pp. 4-5). Both phrases imply that nothing is easier or more natural than love. Yet there is hardly any human enterprise which begins with such hope and expectation, which fails so regularly, as love. So, Fromm says, we must be clear that love takes time ...

54. Christ's Grand Entrance Song

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... to ask him for his song requests. Whoever had been assigned Rory’s old phone number never corrected them. They never told them that they had the wrong number. Jason called the old number, and the person who answered admitted that they were a big mixed martial arts fan who had been pretending to be Rory MacDonald so they could choose his entrance song. From that day forward, Rory MacDonald made sure he chose just the right entrance song for all his fights. (1) I love this idea of a tough, mixed martial ...

55. When the Small is Great, and the Great is Small

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Will Willimon

... from your work without hurting business." Then it hit me. Those hours given to us were hours this struggling small businessman could ill afford. Every hour he gave to us boys was an hour of financial loss. He paid a price for us. It was thirty years after Art's scout troop, before I realized tl1e extravagance of his gifts to me. And I have been known to ponder, as I lounge like a lizard in the sun on the podium at university commencement, the unnamed folk who put our graduates where they are. Most of us ...

56. The Rich Fool

Luke 12:13-21

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... a lot of work to me, Man. MAN: And I will say to my Soul, "Soul" ... SOUL: (JUMPING IN FRONT OF MAN) What you want? MAN: Who art thou? SOUL: I be you Soul, Man. MAN: My soul? SOUL: ... Man. MAN: My soul -- SOUL: ... Man. MAN: Soul Man. SOUL: You got it, "Soul Man ... ! SOUL: He's taking you, too. Fool! MAN: He did not say me. He said you! SOUL: You dummy! I'm part o' you! MAN: Thou art not. I have not seen you before this day. SOUL: Well, whose fault is that? MAN: Not mine, I assure you. SOUL: I been here, Man. ...

57. Creating

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... hovering over the waters. This morning I brought along a whole lot of items that we might use if we were going to make an art project here today. I have some (paint, glue, popsicle sticks, pieces of felt - whatever items you were able to collect). We could probably think ... of these! But what if I packed all of these away right now and said to you, "Okay, now I want you to make an art project for me!" You can't use these materials, you can't use anything you brought from home. You just have to make a project ...

58. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... of God; a life usable by God. We have let ourselves slip a long way from fitness; we are badly out of shape. Listen to two contemporary evaluations. First, an American art critic, Our art is an art of anguish and guilt, of isolation and emptiness, of doubt and damnation. Contemporary art has rediscovered the irrational - in the depths of the demonic ... Modern art, with its loss of God and the human image, is the drama of our age. Here we see what is really happening to man, to society, and to God. (Findlay ...

59. Treasures You Can Share

1 Corinthians 14:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... way that we use the gift. Sometimes people are more impressed about what they are doing than what actual good they are doing. Paul thought that this was dangerous. I have an example of what I am talking about. Here is a painting that you and I might call modern art. The colors are beautiful, and they go together very nicely, but what does it mean to us? The artist knows what it means but that does nothing for you and me. We can’t tell what the painter is trying to describe. The only way that we could find ...

60. SCULPTOR

Judges 3:26

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... probably associated with agricultural and human fertility. It was for this reason that sculpturing was not highly developed as an art among the Hebrews; the Second Commandment forbade the making of graven images. And, to further add insult to injury, the ... in more lax times, sculptors were often called upon to make idols. However, because the Hebrews were not adept at this art, when sculpture was used, it was generally imported from Egypt, Pheonicia, Syria, or Mesopotamia. The ancient sculptor worked in clay, ...

61. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in heaven..." Someone has pointed out that it is good that the Lord began our prayer this way, because if we had been left to our own devices, we would have begun with ourselves. What would Jesus have us to understand about God in this phrase, "Our Father, who art in heaven...?" If we think of the cultural context in which the Lord spoke, we realize that the most striking thing, the most novel idea, was this thought of God as a personal Father. To be sure, the Jews of Jesus' day thought of God in terms of a ...

62. Preparing For A Royal Visit

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... move. He leased the apartment directly beneath Mellon's in Washington and covered the walls with masterpieces. Then, before returning to New York, Duveen offered Mellon the key to the apartment and invited him to drop in whenever he wanted to look at the art. It took only one visit. Mellon was hooked. He couldn't stay away. He came back night after night and stayed for hours admiring the paintings. Finally, he called Duveen; he was ready to deal. He bought the entire collection for $12 million. (1) Duveen ...

63. The Awesome Power Of Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... was a comfortable living for his mother. That's what love does for us. It lifts us. "Love lifted me," we sing, and it is true. Marcus Bach tells about a young man who attended a summer camp in order to study under a noted art professor. He learned more about art in that camp than he ever dreamed possible but not from the professor. The young man's roommate turned out to be a blind student, studying music. As he tried to assist his nonseeing roommate by describing their surroundings, he came to realize that ...

64. A Colt Is Not A Horse

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... person who murdered Ennis is somewhere out there riding with the devil." (3) Cosby's right. Never blame God for evil. Palm/Passion Sunday is ecstasy and agony jammed up against each other, which is the enigma of life. We go from high to low, and the art in life is to have faith, even when that faith seems illogical. Many choirs across our land today will sing the "SANCTUS" from John Rutter's Requiem. It's the Palm Sunday piece. It's the most joyful movement in the REQUIEM, but immediately following it comes ...

65. The Face that Launched a Thousand Lives

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... , as he says, "Ah, thou hast heard me at last. Thou hast not forsaken me! Thou hast always loved me! I am forgiven! I can forgive myself -- through thee. I can believe! At last I see! I have always loved. O Lord of love, forgive thy blind fool! Thou art the Way, the Truth -- the Resurrection and the Life, and he that believeth in thy love, his love shall never die." For John and Elsa, only when love has had the final word could there be a new creation of their own love. But playwright O'Neill sees here ...

66. Dynamics Of Prayer

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our reaching out to God, groping to establish contact, searching for the way to enter into relationship. The Psalms are our best source for understanding the meaning of this dynamic. Listen to the Psalmist as I pick up a psalm here and there throughout the whole book. Thou, oh Lord, art a shield about me. My glory and the lifter of my head. Oh Lord, rebuke me not in thy anger. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Why does thou stand afar off oh Lord. In thee oh Lord do I put my trust. Notice the fact ...

67. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Paul is wanting to get out in a special way, and the way it gets out in this one sentence is no less a work of art and a statement of passion than that of a painter who would put it on canvas. Hold your breath as you listen again to verses 13 and ... have been transferred from condemnation to forgiveness. Go back to my introductory story of the yearning of Asher Lev, and the word of his teacher, "Art is whether or not there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way...a scream or a laugh." Of ...

68. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the Lord will save me” (55:16). “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (46:1). “For thou, O God, art my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love” (59:17). So, prayer is a hunger. It is also a confidence, a confidence rooted ... the word from the psalmist whose hunger for God we encountered the first day of our prayer adventure: Psalm 63:1-8 O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faintst for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water ...

69. How Can Religion Go Bad Doing Good?

Matthew 7:21-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... dissension in the years between the memorial's concept and its final construction. This month (May, 2005) the long-awaited opening of the Holocaust Memorial only opened a new round in the public skewering and scolding about this latest piece of public art. The memorial itself is constructed of 2,711 concrete slabs, all at various heights. The rows and rows of concrete create an undulating sea - vast, stark, and unsettling. In addition to the slabs themselves, the pathways that lead between the concrete rows ...

70. Quenching St. Anthony's Fire

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... number of people is the "Isenheim Altarpiece," completed in 1515. (Note: It would add immeasurably to this sermon if you get a picture of this and either put it up on the screen or have a copy store copy it and include it in your bulletin.) One art historian has called it a "work of such tremendous and dismal grandeur of expression that nothing on earth seems to equal it." This awesome altarpiece, measuring 10 feet long when closed, 21 feet long when opened, and eight feet high, is now housed in a museum in ...

71. Mary’s Magnificat

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... obvious from Mary's song that we can participate in the miracle of his kingdom coming and his will being done on earth as it is in heaven. Here is why Mary's Magnificat is relevant to the growing edge of our spiritual lives. Saint Francis never stopped asking, "Who art thou, O Lord, and who am I?" As he came to know the song by the young Jewish woman engaged to Joseph, his words came clearly, "He is the one who made all things and who loves everything he has made. It is not the will of this Father that ...

72. The Great Sacrifice of Love

Luke 9:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... to the apostles and even later to Paul and many other disciples. This great sacrifice of God's love demonstrated the length and breadth of what God was willing to do for us. As Albert Durer went to the mines so his brother could attend art school, and in the process sacrificed his own opportunity for greatness and personal fulfillment, so Jesus, the Son of God, fulfilled his Father's will and sacrificed his life for us. Paul realized that such a great sacrifice requires a significant response from us. He ...

73. The Awesome Power of FUD

John 21:1-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... drawings to public scrutiny. Please don’t misunderstand. I do not blame the teacher. She was young and inexperienced. Obviously she needed more teacher college lessons on being sensitive to the feelings of children. On the other hand, she was an outstanding judge of children’s art. She saw immediately what I was to confirm over the years. I have no gift for drawing boats. Most of all, however, I remember that day as the one in which I was introduced to the awesome power of FUD. You may not be familiar ...

74. Peter the Petulant

Mark 14:1-11, Mark 14:12-26, Mark 14:27-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , chefs, painters –these are the “service” trades that build our homes, provide our foods, assemble our cars, create our art –and along with all of these “men and women of the cloth” belong the clergy, the priests, the church ... pass on a heritage to our children and theirs, a knowledge not just of how to live but how to follow, the “secrets” of the art of discipleship. We are Jesus’ people of the cloth. What an amazing and unusual metaphor, isn’t it? The linen cloth. But this is a ...

75. Beautiful

John 20:19-23, Song of Songs 4:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is what holiness is. It’s like the warp and woof of a beautiful tapestry, woven together, intricate and beautiful. Any beautiful tapestry has flaws, perhaps a loose string or two, sometimes, a knobby knot or missing loop. But each tapestry is a unique work of art –when it is dedicated to the Lord. The time it took, each needle pass, all of the patience and loving care it took to create that beautiful story in color and thread –is like a beautiful prayer to God. A prayer walk with God! Every scripture ...

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