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51. Who Is Your King?

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... to Jerusalem in this way and at this time, He was using the symbolism of a king, even a Messiah. He knew full well what this symbol would mean in the super-charged atmosphere of Jerusalem. Today, we who want a comfortable religion are fond of saying, "Don’t mix religion with politics," but here we see them mixed inextricably as Jesus enters Jerusalem. Here is Passover, the most political of Jewish holy days - the celebration of their liberation from Pharaoh. Here is Jesus, coming as the prophets had ...

52. The Birth Of Esau and Jacob

Genesis 25:19-34

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... hand gripping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when she bore them. (1:) When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. (1:) Once when Jacob was cooking a stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. Esau said to Jacob, 4: "Let me eat some of that red stuff, for I am famished!" 1: (Therefore he was called Edom.) Jacob said. 5 ...

53. Robert Paul, You Were Right!

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

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Richard Hasler

... encourage us? We have called to mind stalwart witnesses out of the distant past, but do we not have saints who affect us for good in the recent past, too? Do we have saints as close to us as in our own family history? I have always been a fond admirer of the actor Jimmy Stewart. Reading an article in the newspaper I learned something about him I had not known before. In an interview Jimmy was telling the reporter about his return to Hollywood after serving as a pilot in the Air Force during World War II. He ...

54. The Illusion Of Neutrality

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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Robert Beringer

... the air. Picture, if you will, a person who tries to live under this dangerous illusion. Here is a person who works as a clerk in a big store and lives quietly with his family in a modest suburban home. "I am a peaceful man," he is fond of saying. He has no enemies, simply because he has no strong convictions about anything. He rarely involves himself in an argument, and when discussions do arise at work or home, he never takes sides. Nobody knows where this man stands politically, how he votes, or whether ...

55. The Tinsel Time Machine

Drama

Edward Long

... the wealthy visitors to report back to him when they had found the King. So we thought it would be wisest to not help Herod out. We heard the Baby and his parents escaped to Egypt. Who would want to harm babies? LENNY: It sounds like you really became fond of Jesus and his family. INNKEEPER'S WIFE: Jesus. Yes, that's what they named Him. Whatever happened to him, I wonder ... TOM: After a life of ministry and a death on a cross he rose and is alive in spirit yet. Millions of people recognize him as God ...

56. Strangers at the Manger

Matthew 2:1-12

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... truth, even if it comes from the most vulnerable and powerless members of our society? If the preservation of power, the status quo, is what we value most, we will continue to mortgage the future of our children to buy whatever passes for success. We’re awfully fond of saying that children are our future. We say that a lot in the church. But I am convinced that WE are the future, and our decisions about how we treat our children will determine the destiny of our world. If we abuse them or neglect them ...

57. Life on the Roller Coaster

Matthew 16:21-28

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Johnny Dean

... let me get off if I didn’t like it. And I didn’t, and there’s not enough money in the world to get me on another one! And if you are like me, when you heard these news reports last week you probably turned to someone who IS fond of roller coasters and said something like, "See! I told you those things are dangerous! That’s why you’ll never catch me on one of them!" That’s not exactly the truth, is it? The reason we don’t like the roller coaster ride is we don’t like ...

58. The Scariest Sound in the World

Matthew 25:1-13

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Johnny Dean

... in order to create more three-day weekends (whatever those are)? Oh, well. I guess you just can’t please everyone. No matter what you do, someone will find fault with it and raise a ruckus. Don’t get me wrong - I LIKE Halloween. I have lots of fond memories of Halloween, the fondest, of course, being Halloween, 1984, when our daughter was born. But going back a lot further than that, I remember Halloweens when I was growing up. My friends and I would try to visit at least half the houses in Memphis on ...

59. The Seven Last Words of the Church

Luke 20:27-40

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Johnny Dean

... tool in bringing about change in the world, and we must be willing to be used up for the sake of the world. If we blindly dedicate ourselves to the preservation of all things traditional, how can we ever hope to bring about change? Now, I don’t begrudge anyone fond memories of the way the church used to be. I have a treasure chest full of those myself. But please, let’s not confine God to sentimental memories of the way we were. Let’s not lock Jesus up in memories of the church as it used to be, where ...

60. What You See Is What You Get

John 14:5-14, John 14:1-4

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Johnny Dean

... do also. If I heard Jesus correctly, what he said was the only thing we have to do is believe in God and believe in Him and there would be a place for us prepared in Heaven. I know that there’s lots of church folks who aren’t really fond of that rule. I remember hearing more than one person say, "You know, I resent folks who get a mansion when they don’t really deserve one. They sure haven’t done anything while they’re here to deserve a mansion. You know who I’m talking about, preacher. It ...

61. Is It Well With Your Family? (Mother's Day)

2 Kings 4:8-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... small village was located in the center of the country it afforded him a kind of hub from which to conduct his ministry. He was by there so often that one of the couples in the village came to know him and would invite him to dinner. She grew so fond of him, in fact, that she entreated her husband to make a small room for him up on the roof. She even furnished it with a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp. Now listen, this is extravagant. She was really trying to make him feel welcome. Now ...

62. The Fourth Sunday in Lent

Matthew 20:17-19

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Kendall McCabe

... to the public dump, where the dirty business of death was done and society discarded its social misfits, along with the rest of its garbage and waste. Her tears must have been not only of grief for Jesus, whom she had loved and served, but grief for all the fond hopes of the kingdom that would never be, a kingdom where her sons might have had a place to the right and left of the throne. Her thoughts must have been bitter with anger and regret as they finally cleared the city gates, and the scene on Golgotha ...

63. The Miracle Comes at the Breaking

Luke 24:13-35

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Various Authors

... reasoned so. Their hearts had burned with excitement as he interpreted the passages to them; that should have been indication enough that his Stranger was their Lord. The preacher in me wishes it were so, for I open the Scriptures each week in the fond hope that people will, at such a moment, see their Lord. And often, of course, they do; for this is the purpose of the Scriptures and the expectation in preaching, that as the Scriptures are explained, people will see and experience Jesus Christ. Come ...

64. Where Are the Lilies Now?

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Gary W. Houston

Two years ago our family was on vacation. We drove up into the countryside near Bedford, Indiana to a small white church named the Mundel Christian Church. This is the place where I was baptized as a youth. At this pilgrimage spot of mine are fond memories of pitch-in dinners and all-day meetings as my father once held the pulpit there. But what remains with me more than anything is the fact that so many of my family members are buried there behind the church. The graveyard is big because the church has ...

65. Violet, The Color of Royalty

Luke 1:31-35, Luke 23:33-38

Sermon

... prominence. History is very important to the Jewish people. Following the death of David and Solomon, and with the assumption of the throne by King Rehoboam, the nation of Israel had suffered from internal strife and continual decline. No King was remembered more fondly than King David. So, remember him they did. For it was David who had consolidated the territory of Israel and expanded the nation. It was David who had established Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. It was David who had won many great ...

66. White, The color of purity, holiness

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

... and those who could not get to church this morning need only listen to their radio and we will bring the Christmas Day service of St. Martin’s Lutheran Church right lnto their homes.] * (* Adapt for local use.) The "good old days" have a lot of fond memories for many, but on a day like today I’m thankful for our technological achievements. Thank-you, good Lord! Second, we’ve often heard the phrase, "Christmas is for kids!" In many ways that does seem true enough. Most of our best memories of Christmas ...

67. Lent 6

Matthew 21:1-11

Bulletin Aid

... presence and power: that, seeing you and your sovereignty embodied in one like us, we may adjust our values and priorities in accordance with your will. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Almighty God, we admit with regret our fondness for pomp, pretense, and pageantry, and our tendency to mistake these for real importance and power; and we therefore confess that we would have been among those shouting and waving palms at Jesus' triumphal parade, and calling for his crucifixion a few days ...

68. The Steadfast Power of Love

Matthew 14:13-21

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... Jesus. Fill us now with this divine gift: that, reinforced by its tender might, we may become agents of your mercy and bearers of your grace. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Compassionate God, it hurts us deeply to confess how fond we are of the many kinds of earthly power, particularly wealth and politics; to admit how admiring we are of those who are powerful on those terms; and to recognize how little we avail ourselves of your heavenly power of love, which can move the mightiest ...

69. Jailbreak at Midnight

Acts 16:16-40

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CSS

... God for every remembrance of them, his first European flock, and for their unfailing partnership in the Gospel. Filled with new enthusiasm, Paul, Silas, and Timothy continued to journey through Greece while Luke remained behind at Philippi. Greek people were fond of philosophic discussions, so the disciples must have had some interesting conversations and debates as they made their way along a major trade route known as the Egnatian Way. After about 100 miles, they came to Thessalonica, a commercial center ...

70. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... a Massachusetts island. They are an old New England family, descended from a Puritan minister, but by and large they have managed to slough off the ancient habits of guilt, self-denial, taciturnity, and penitence. By stern standards, they are somewhat dissolute, fond of drinking, gambling over backgammon, and partying. But not Lawrence. His Puritan inheritance remains intact. He is not a religious man, but he is a man of principle. He devotes his time to lecturing his family about their frailties. He is a ...

71. The Only Fact That Really Matters

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... utter unconsciousness, or ... there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another." And Joseph Addison, in the eighteenth century, complimented Plato on his astute conclusion by saying: Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, This fond desire, this longing for immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul back on herself And startles at destruction? (Cato, act V, sc. 1) But no one yearns for life beyond death ...

72. Old and New

Mk 2:22 · 2 Cor 5:17 · Is 43:19

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Robert Noblett

... rests upon the oldness of adolescence. Continually throughout our days, the new is built upon the old. William Wordsworth, in thinking back on his own early life, seems to be suggesting this partnership between old and new in some words for which I hold great fondness. What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Or splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what lies behind.1 ...

73. Are You Exercising Your Faith?

Mt 4:1-11 · Phil 3:12 · Gen 32:3

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Robert Noblett

... our defense, but rather our undoing. Truth is not threatened by doubt and doubt can never keep us forever from being liberated by truth. A third exercise of faith is the willingness to ingest into faith insights gained from other disciplines and quarters. Some are fond of establishing and maintaining what I call a "drawbridge faith." They go so far in the development of their faith and then it becomes for them a castle of truth - the only truth. Around their castle of truth they dig a deep moat. They then ...

74. Winners, Losers and the Gospel

Mt 16:25

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Robert Noblett

... Hayes always had difficulty with losing. Back in 1963, after losing to Iowa, Hayes slashed his face with a large ring on his left hand, and sometimes in pacing the sidelines, he bit into the fleshy heel of his hand until it bled. He was fond of saying, "This whole country has been built on one thing - winning."1 Overstatement that is not. Competition is a predominant feature in our cultural fabric. We compete for fun, for mates, for titles, for jobs, for money, for grades, for admittance to schools, for ...

75. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... gets the credit! IT WAS BEAUTIFUL IN ITS RECKLESSNESS True love always has a certain extravagnace about it. There is a recklessness in love which refuses to count the cost. This woman took the most precious thing she had and literally lavished it upon Jesus. Jewish women were very fond of perfume (what woman isn’t?) - and Mary just poured the whole bottle on Jesus! It didn’t seem to occur to her to think: "I’ll give him a few extra drops, or a fourth of it, or half of it, and save some of it" - she ...

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