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726. To Bow The Knee

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... morning. In it, Paul is quoting an early Christian hymn, a hymn that triumphantly extols Jesus, not just for the amazing work he has done on our behalf, but also for the very essence of who he was and is. It begins by stating a basic Christian belief, that Christ "was in the form of God." In order to understand this, we have to understand the Greek idea that all of reality exists on two levels: the basic, underlying reality of what is (morphos) and the exterior appearance of the thing (schema). For example ...

727. What's The Point?

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

In the church we used to teach the Christian Faith in the form of a catechism. That's a question and answer format which when learned gives basic answers to basic questions about Christian belief and living a Christian life. The catechism was meant to be memorized like the multiplication table, so that at least some of life's questions might have answers as quickly as we know 2x2=4. Interestingly, the latest General Assembly has proposed writing a new Catechism to help us to ...

728. Holy Week

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... of public trust commit acts that cause others not only to lose faith in the individual, but in the system as well? Why do people fight one another when the only question between them is the color of their skin, their political preference or religious belief? For me the basic answer to these challenging questions is personal choice, our free will to say yes or no to God at any time in any way. Soren Kierkegaard, the famous 19th century existentialist philosopher and theologian, once wrote, "Faith is a matter ...

729. The Just Live By Faith

Romans 3:19-28

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... followers that mankind should live before God by faith and not on the basis of doing good works to earn their salvation. Today when we celebrate Reformation Sunday, we are remembering Martin Luther and all those who have stressed the importance of the Bible as the basis for our religious beliefs. (Prayer that we might be diligent to study our Bibles and to have the courage to stand up for what we believe.) (Give each child a sticker.)

730. Make A Choice

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... neutrality that we forget it is the fundamental choices we make that shape all of life, and for that matter, the life to come. I once met a woman who told me she would not become a Christian because there were too many obstacles in the path of belief. ''I'm not an atheist, but I'm just not convinced that God exists, or that Christianity is the right religion. I'm going to withhold judgment, and consider the matter impartially.'' That's fine, except that I hope this woman decides pretty soon. She is 87 years ...

731. Time Out

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... whose lives were broken and in bondage. For Jesus there was no separation between personal piety and social action. He was equally concerned about the misery of human beings and the glory of God! The times alone with God gave him the resolve to turn belief into behavior and words into deeds of compassion and justice. We can see that same resolve in the life of John Wesley, the great Methodist preacher. A biography of Wesley gives this description of his very busy but fruitful life: Wesley always arose at ...

732. A Most Important Dawning

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... ? This week keep in your mind's eye the picture of that man, rubbing that chain saw back and forth across a tree trunk, with a silent motor, scratching and rubbing and sweating and cursing. And then picture the millions of people who have a general belief in a general God who gives us general hints about general situations and invites us to live a generally good life following some general rules from a generally all-around-good-guy, Jesus, who lived 2,000 years ago, or so. Such a general religiosity does ...

733. Captives Set Free

Jn 8:32 · Gal 5:1

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... , house.) Do you know that there are lots of people in the world who are in prisons? They are not free. Sometimes they are locked up because they have broken the law and are being punished, but sometimes they are locked in prison because of their beliefs. They believe in a different form of government, or they believe that all people have the right to be free and they are being denied their own freedom. Some of Jesus' followers were thrown into prison for preaching and teaching about him. He was even thrown ...

734. Salve To Soothe Our Souls

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven ..." (Ecclesiastes 3:1). This was a time to be quiet and listen. For over an hour what I heard, as they talked about their friends and their fears, was also that many of these young people have bought the belief that if they only had what you and I have -- money, houses, cars, power -- life would be good; they'd have it good. They'd be somebody and then these things wouldn't happen to them. If they only had what you and I have it would be okay. So ...

735. The Good Soldier

John 20:1-9

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... happen. But I think they're afraid his followers will come and get the body and hide it and then claim that he came back to life. FLAVIUS: And the establishment is afraid the people would believe that? Is that part of their religion, a belief in walking corpses? LUCIUS: I guess. FLAVIUS: Where do you learn all this stuff? LUCIUS: (Shrugs) Around. FLAVIUS: (After a pause) The whole thing seems pretty strange to me. LUCIUS: Absolutely. FLAVIUS: And sort of morbid, don't you think? LUCIUS: Sure do. FLAVIUS ...

736. Be Wise In The Spirit

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... God's power. Furthermore, he knew that if he depended exclusively upon eloquent gifts his message might soon be rebutted by someone with superior eloquence. In order that the Corinthians might be able to distinguish between two types of wisdom, Paul underscores his belief that the Holy Spirit is the One who reveals God's wisdom. Using a human analogy he reminds them that only the spirit within a human being really knows for certain what that particular person is thinking. Likewise, no one really understands ...

737. The Witness Of Caiaphas The High Priest

Drama

Dann J. Ettner

... guardian of the Temple inJerusalem? I could see how all of that would have been destroyedif Jesus and His ever-growing band of disciples continued to gounchecked. Suppose that group had foolishly decided to take onthe authority of the Roman government? Suppose that the belief,which said that this Jesus was the Messiah, the one who had cometo save the people of Israel from the Romans, had been heard inRome? The punishment of the Romans would have been swift andpainful to us all. We might even lose the use ...

738. Don't Sell Your Inheritance for Cabbage Soup

Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... My soul undimmed, alert, no questions blinking. Let me die thinking.1 Learn to stay hungry, not only for information, but for God. Unlike other institutions, we never graduate from Sunday school because we never learn all we need to know about our faith. Never let your beliefs harden to concrete. Be open to grow in your faith. You never know when God is going to confront you with a new idea and a new set of circumstances. When that happens, your faith can be stretched to such new limits it can never shrink ...

739. Empowered By A Vision

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... God called him to be. What was true for Jacob is true for people today. We are still empowered by vision. Everyone has a certain idea about who he or she is, what makes life worthwhile, what is important and unimportant. Collectively these beliefs form the vision that empowers our lives. Too many people, however, are driven by visions of the unimportant. They want to live for self. They don't include in their thinking anything about the difference between right and wrong. Our faith offers an alternative ...

740. The King Of Hearts

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... , the vision itself would have been shocking enough to induce such a posture. But what proves far more startling, at least for Ezekiel, is the sudden realization that Yahweh could be present here in Babylon. You see, among the exiles, it was a commonly held belief that the Lord was actually confined to Judah, and moreover, the worship of the Almighty limited to the Temple in Jerusalem. No doubt, that's part of what made the experience of living in a foreign nation so devastating for these people. They were ...

741. Sowers Of The Seed

Psalm 119:1-176, Romans 8:1-17, Genesis 25:19-34, Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... Thesis: 13:1-9 Good soil brings a rich harvest of the spirit. 13:18-23 Hearing also requires understanding. Theme: 13:1-9 The word has a one in four chance of succeeding in producing good fruit. 13:18-23 Christians should be aware of obstacles to belief and avoid them. Key Words of the Parable 1. "That same day." (v. 1) The previous two chapters deal with the attempt of the rising controversy Jesus had in response to his ministry. Still he has a popularity among the common people. Chapter 13 shifts from the ...

742. Christ the King

Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... disease. The itch, the pest, tuberculosis, syphilis Ä he lived, slept, and moved among them. He had made up his mind that his life-span was to be short at the best, and faced it all without anxiety or fear.... He gloried in the belief that Christianity is not a religion of sensible men, but of men gone mad with love for God and man.1 4. Victim Offender Reconciliation Program · The Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) has had some remarkable success in bringing victims and those who perpetrated ...

743. Welcoming Christ

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... to one who is a religious professional. If we get a speeding ticket or are heard using profanity or do not speak out against wrongdoing, people criticize us (and rightly so). But that ought to be the case for all Christians: our behavior ought to reflect our belief; our conduct ought to square with our confession. It goes much deeper than this, however. It is not only our character or sincerity that are at stake. If we relate to others as disciples and if people relate to us as believers, we and they are ...

744. Love Without Limits

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... a stage she's going through." If you think that is easy, you haven't done it, because it may mean that there is something wrong with you: your genes, your parenting, your own emotional well-being. The next limitation this mother's love had to break through was her belief that she could handle whatever was wrong herself. Sometimes it's true. A parent's love and a parent's wisdom can work a lot of miracles. All we need to do is pay attention, figure out what's wrong and find ways to help our child. That's the ...

745. Standing On The Shore

John 20:1-18 · Mark 16:1-8

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... , for trembling and astonishment had come upon them...." "This is not Thou, O Lord. Yet Thou art in this also." Mystery encourages us to be modest before radical amazement. "We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery" (1 Corinthians 2:7). There is Something More beyond belief, beyond "the door." Yet we remain on the shore of what we know. When imagination fails we cannot walk on water nor stop the storm. We stand and stare at the sea on the shore of what we know. Only Jesus did. He stopped the storm and the ...

746. The Assumption Of Discipline

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... British Christian thinker approached this line of thought. "We value Shakespeare for the glory of his language and his knowledge of the human heart ..." Lewis wrote in an essay dealing with the doctrine of Christ's return to earth ("The World's Last Night") "not for his belief in witches or the divine right of kings, or his failure to take a daily bath." "When we propose to ignore in a great man's teaching those doctrines which it has in common with the thought of his age," Lewis went on, "we seem to be ...

747. The Christian Journey I: The Path

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... not only possible to get lost in a variety of ways, but that it is likely. And it presupposes that in Jesus we find a way of life that will enable us to make our way through this world. Christian discipleship is not an abstract philosophy or a code of beliefs: to be a Christian is to live in a certain way, to follow a certain path. How we find this path and how we stay on it -- the Christian journey -- is one of the fundamental motifs of discipleship. Today and for the next few weeks, I want to share some ...

748. The Christian Journey IV: The Pool

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... lost in a variety of ways, but that it is likely that we will. And it underlines the fact that in Jesus we find a way of life that will enable us to make our way through this world. Christian discipleship is not an abstract philosophy or a code of beliefs: to be a Christian is to live in a certain way, to follow a certain hodos, a path. We thought about the mountain, so often associated with the awesome power of nature and God, the place of the giving of the law, the sermon on the mount, the emotional high ...

749. Fools For The Sake Of Christ

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... the benefit of a full text of his speech, Washington Post reporter Joan Biskupic quoted Scalia and, obviously not recognizing the biblical citation, ventured the opinion that by this Scalia meant that "the modern world dismisses Christians as fools for holding to their traditional beliefs." I don't know if people were more indignant with the fact that a U.S. Supreme Court Justice would allude to religious faith, or that he seemed to imply an anti-religious cultural bias, but that phrase set off one of those ...

750. Fulfilled, Or Just Full?

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... food is. Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst" (v. 35). Some wise ones among the people said, "Lord, give us this bread always" (v. 34, RSV). And he does. My personal belief is that all of us, from the crowd at Lake Galilee 2,000 years ago, to Lydia, wealthy seller of purple, in Philippi in the early days of the Church, to those of us gathered together in this sanctuary in the closing years of the twentieth century; all of us ...

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