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51. First Sunday after Pentecost

2 Corinthians 13:1-10

Bulletin Aid

... Holy God, you have shown us your grace in Christ Jesus, and through him your love and the fellowship of the Spirit. Give us now an appreciation of your mysterious threefold nature: that, what we are unable to comprehend, we shall be able to know intuitively because of its impact upon our lives. In the name of the living Christ we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Eternal God, we confess that we often wallow in the incomprehensibility of your majesty, and use the limitations of our human minds as an excuse ...

52. The Danger of Being Religious

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... ,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest." In this new religion of God’s, every person will know the truth of God for and by himself. It will not be a truth learned by rote, nothing you get in a classroom, but an intuitive, God-disclosed truth. To know the truth is not an easy thing. Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" Most of us sit in Pilate’s seat. We do not know the truth of God, and we are subject to partial views of the truth or we embrace what is not ...

53. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... the beauty of his holiness? God, you see, loves us and wants nothing more than for us to love him and to choose the good. But he will not force us. Love which is coerced is not love at all. I think married couples and old friends grasp this fact intuitively. If I thought, for example, that Beverly’s parents had forced her to marry me, well then, no matter what she might say, I would spend much of my time wondering what was in her own heart. If I had reason to believe her love for me was not genuine ...

54. Facing Up to a Power Problem

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... - the source of life with the extension of life. "Listen to the wind, Nicodemus, listen to the wind." But, we get side-tracked into materialistic, consumer-selfishness and we miss the truth. We have educated all deeper meaning out of life. We have stifled intuition and mystery. Rejecting the full dimensions of life, we have settled for a fatal narrowness. And, we die - out of Spirit, out of breath! Through the Holy Spirit, God calls us to a new excitement. He would rescue us from our inner despair, so ...

55. An Altered State of Consciousness

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... we are amazed. It’s a new world! We are born again! We can’t go on fighting wars, dealing unjustly, worshiping money until we lose all meaning in life. No more do we feel defeated in life; we are now adequate for the full life God calls us to. Intuitively we enter into a new state of life; we are a part of the kingdom of God. When humanity is drawn into this new awareness of life - the kingdom of God is here; and we are ready to be graduated into the eternal kingdom. Jesus saw this. The disciples saw ...

56. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... church, then, is either false, or else it will keep people from practically any group in society. As much as strife may be deplored, we must learn not only to live with it but to deal with it in some constructive fashion. Yet there is a certain proper intuition when people say that, and we cannot squirm out from under the charge quite so easily as we might wish. Much as we may justify our divisions and discord, the world rightly looks to us for a modeling of unity, a place where people can live together for ...

57. The Glory of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... of their faith. For in him one learns to die so that one might understand what living is about. It was more than superstitious piety that drove those ancestors of ours back regularly to the cross for their sustenance in daily living. There was a proper intuition that gnawed at the heart of their faith, that if the death of Jesus was somehow kept at the forefront of their faith, their own dying would be somehow brought into a new light. For all the superstition that may indeed have abounded around this piety ...

58. What Are You Going to Do About Death?

Mt 10:28 · Lk 12:4

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the possible - I need faith for the impossible; and this is where my God operates. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him might not perish but have everlasting life" - impossible, but real! Daily, by faith, by intuitive insight, I touch something (not real, not of this world), but I know deeply that it is real. I know it to be of another realm of Reality that has always been, and will always be - where God himself is. Ogilvie declares (in effect), "Christ ...

59. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... Studying MJ more closely, looking occasionally from her to the Temple] All those people do seem extraordinarily excited - even considering they’ve got the Festival spirit. [She laughs, but superficially, almost from fear, for she senses that something is wrong and her intuition tells her it has to do with Jesus.] MJ: [Still preoccupied, staring stage right] Yes. [Pause] They do. MB: [Trying to see what MJ is looking at, craning her head, if necessary] Something certainly does seem to be going on there. MJ ...

60. Running With Patience

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... seem to be present, when the clear course of action appears blurred, when the directional arrow is hazy, the distant drum beat too muffled to recognize, the goals slightly out of focus, the closed door not quite yielding to our touch, the intuitive knowledge still indecisive, and the pattern not ready to crystalize. And so we wait. Yet, with waiting, comes discovery. Out of nowhere (yet surely from Somewhere) it seems to steal across the mind, stimulate the senses, motivate the thought process, energize the ...

61. The Beauty of a Childlike Faith

Matthew 18:1-9

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... close to Christ become so secure in his love that they no longer relate to other people according to rank or power or money or prestige. They treat janitors and governors with equal dignity. They regard everybody as a VIP. Children seem to do this intuitively; adult Christians have to relearn it. There is a second quality of childrens that we Christians should emmulate. It is their ability to trust so completely. When I was sixteen years old, my little brother Joe was just four. He was my favorite little ...

62. Needed: Fidelity Insurance

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... else's good ahead of our own. That's especially hard for us men who have been taught that assertive, macho types like John Wayne are really what women want. You cannot love your spouse well unless he or she teaches you how. You may think you are a natural, intuitive lover, but don't be too sure. Husbands and wives often don't have the same needs at the same times. Real love is humble enough to say, "I'm willing to learn how best to love you. Teach me." Christ makes us eager and willing to learn. Here is ...

63. The Witness of the Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is not measured in emotion. It remains even when feelings are low and troubles are as thick as mosquitoes in the Delta. This sense of assurance has nothing whatsoever to do with the New Age flakiness you hear about on TV: channeling, imagining, and psychic intuition. St. Paul taught us that two witnesses are involved, that of the Holy spirit and then our own. The Holy Spirit's witness is primary. Our spirit is the echo. When the two agree, our soul reverberates with joy. To what shall I compare this ...

64. A Cosmic Announcement

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Susan Hedahl

... be found and who will speak it with clarity and inclusiveness? Forged in the worship and writings of many cultures, hints of a Savior were spoken in fragile, almost indecipherable form. When Paul visited the people of Athens, he reassured them of what their thirsty hearts already intuited - that the Jesus he preached was the One that had been among them all the time! "Yet, he is not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’ as even some of your poets have said" (Acts 17 ...

65. Wheel Within The Wheel

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... vision. They are more in tune with challenge than with comfort. They tend to focus more on people than on tasks. They see beyond the day’s crisis and budget deficit. Leaders place a heavy emphasis on values and motivation and have a healthy intuition for those intangibles that unify rather than divide. Strong healthy leaders are always thinking in terms of renewal and change. They are suspicious of that which becomes routine, for that means the "rut" is not far behind. Leaders do not push the panic button ...

66. Resurrection: From Chaos to Order

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... that had gone unanswered for so long. He discovered and order amid disorder, a Reason with a capital R. In Jesus he found the personification of the Mind of Creation - of God. THERE ARE MANY forms of knowing. Science is one. So are experience, and intuition, and faith. Science proceeds on the theory that there is a discoverable answer to all mystery - and the discovery comes about step by step. Faith, by definition, is a leap to gain answers to the mystery. I propose a belief, shaped by such a leap ...

67. The Easter Story Is Our Story

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there. The napkin which had been on Jesus’ head was also there, neatly in place. There were no signs of foul play. Finally the Beloved Disciple entered the tomb. He, too, saw the grave clothes neatly stacked. His intuition, it seems, told him that Jesus had risen from the tomb. The Beloved Disciple saw it all and believed. That is all that the gospel writer tells us. Peter and the Beloved Disciple then returned to the place they were staying in Jerusalem. Mary Magdalene ...

68. Where Do Sins Go?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... your reach into other people’s lives. The Lord has laid on another the consequences of your sin. III Thirdly, look at the consequences of sin in God’s life. In the sixth century before Christ, two men, hundreds of miles apart, had the same intuition that sin’s consequences touched God. In Greece, Aeschylus wrote about Prometheus, the son of one of the Titans of Greek mythology. Jupiter, the father of gods, gave Prometheus the task of creating man. Prometheus went to the bank of a river in Arcadia ...

69. Gentle Light

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... the brief overhearing of their conversation made him sure that they were cockney working men. His own clerical collar was his equally unmistakable identification. The two workmen continued to sip their "pints." Dr. Sangster drank some coffee in equal silence. Intuitively he sensed that his two tablemates assumed that he disapproved of their alcoholic drinks. In truth he did disapprove, vigorous teetotaler that he was. But, recounted Will Sangster, the Holy Spirit began to prompt his thoughts. "These men are ...

70. All Together

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... wonder of community) are captured in just a few words by Richard John Neuhaus: The best understanding, of course, is that which holds in one thought the majesty of the Church catholic and the troublesome little band of people at Third Methodist. The communal intuition on which they act may not be legitimated by the Christian teaching they hear. As mentioned before, in that teaching the Church may be accidental or even hostile to the process of "being saved." But the people, thank God, know better than they ...

71. The Healing Community

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... motivation," you say. Right! Many people have said to me, "I would like to come to God, but right now I am too down. Let me get my act together first. Then I will become a Christian. If I come now, it will be because of my desperate need." They intuitively sense that their motivation is about a "two" on a scale of one to ten. Today’s story encourages all of us to come as we are, wherever we are. What does the woman expect? Magic? If she were joining a cult or a satanic group, one might say that ...

72. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... near the Master. They climb up on the flat roof and cut a hole through the roof of boughs and dried mud. They let him down right in front of Jesus. It seems that nothing disturbs the composure of the Master. He looks at the paralyzed man, intuitively reads the situation, and says, "Friend, your sins are forgiven." When some complained that no one could forgive sins but God, Jesus asked, "Is it easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven’ or to say, ‘stand up, take up your bed and walk’?" And to convince ...

73. God’s Wounded Healers

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... we are impatient, when we want to give up our loneliness and try to overcome the separation and incompleteness we feel - too soon we easily relate to our human world with devastating expectations. We ignore what we already know with the deep-seated intuitive knowledge that no love or friendship, no intimate embrace or tender kiss, no community, commune, or collective, no man or woman, will ever be able to satisfy our desire to be released from our lonely condition. This truth is so disconcerting and painful ...

74. The Measure of Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... live close to Christ become so secure in his love that they no longer relate to other people according to rank or power or money or prestige. They treat janitors and governors with equal dignity. They regard everybody as a VIP. Children seem to do this intuitively; adult Christians have to relearn it. In verse 32 we read a not so complimentary report on the disciples: "But they did not understand." That's a picture that can be hung in the halls of the museum of mankind. When confronted by true greatness, we ...

75. Eager For The Journey

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , I will let down the nets.’ Now of course the real change that occurred that day was not their luck in fishing. The real change would occur when they got to shore. Peter knew this. “Go away form me, Lord; I am a sinful man.” Peter always seems to know, intuitively, what’s going on. He doesn’t want to get any closer to Jesus. He wants Jesus to go away. He is not worthy. When Abraham plead with God to spare Sodom, he said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am ...

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