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726. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR PENTECOST

Drama

Tom Eberle

... to go back home. Anthing else in your magic wand? H.S.: Nothing magic, just the gift of my Spirit. I suppose I should return you to your world. It’s too early to say if my experiment will have any effect. I will still be here, though. You will feel my breath of wind stir the air. You will see a warm glow in a friend and something deep in the unconscious will whisper that more is there. You will watch a movie, read a book, build a house - and something within those objects will breathe with life. You will ...

727. Old and New

Mk 2:22 · 2 Cor 5:17 · Is 43:19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... back one or more centuries. As individuals we have personal histories that carry us back to England or France, to Africa or to Sicily. We have personal roots and we have corporate roots and our fascination with history bears witness to the fact that we feel history holds something for us. We are - at least in part - what our parents have been and what our grandparents have been. Collectively we have a heritage that we like to trace to the primordial couple, Adam and Eve. History defines us. We didn’t ...

728. The Therapy of Song

1 Samuel 16:14-23, Exodus 15:1-21, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... song written in her honor. "Siegfried Idyll" was produced while he lived with his family at a lovely villa on Lake Lucerne. It was there that a son was born to them, and it was a period of deep serenity and happiness. Listening to it, one can sense the deep feeling he must have had for his wife and child. On the day of her birthday, fifteen musicians made their way secretly into their home and Cosima awoke to the sound of her birthday gift. Of the experience, she had this to say: As I awoke, my ear caught a ...

729. A Matter of Life and Breath

John 20:19-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is the whole people of God, clerical and lay. There is no question whether the ordained clergyman has the authority to be a spokesman of the Spirit when he says, "I declare unto you the entire forgiveness of all your sins." Every true minister of the gospel feels that these words are the most important he has to say in his entire ministry. He can say it truly because Christ gave the Spirit who works and speaks through him. He can say it because the church at his ordination gave him the authority to declare ...

730. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... , Mary? MJ: [Shaking her head] No - no, thank you. I - I’d rather be alone awhile. MB: [Hugging MJ] Take care, Mary. I - will be seeing you again soon. All this overwhelms me. I am afraid. I know that I won’t sleep again tonight. Please, if you feel like it, make our home a place to rest this week. [She pauses, then sobs, turning and exiting during her next line] Oh, Mary, it just can’t be. It can’t be. MJ: [Still sitting, for a moment, she stares straight ahead. Then she rises slowly, takes several ...

731. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... stand in it? "Grace" - it’s one of the warmest words we know and we use it in times when life is most real. We feel comfort in commending our loved ones in time of need to "the grace of God." We take courage when our own strength seems insufficient for ... Rich Young Ruler has lived by all that he thought was required of him, only to find that it hasn’t brought him the feeling of accreditation of himself, or even a sense of fulfillment. What do I still lack? says such a secular man. Oh, the daily anguish ...

732. An Overflowing Heart

Luke 7:11-17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of water along and I am going to pour it into this glass and just let it overflow. You have to have a lot of water to fill this glass and still let it overflow into the basin, but that is what I am going to do. It makes me feel good to know that there is enough water to quench my thirst and still let some of it run off into the basin. Now there is a good reason for my doing this. I want to tell you about something else that overflowed that was even more important. The Bible ...

733. A Higher Form of Love: The Good Neighbor

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... is unique because he preached love. Yet Jesus of Nazareth will always hold center stage when we speak of the concepts of human and divine love. Why? Jesus came to earth and clarified the true nature of love. He articulated a higher form of love than merely feeling sorry for someone. He taught us that true love is not working out our guilt through other people, nor is it the "Robin Hood Syndrome" of robbing from the rich to give to the poor. True love, in the eyes of the Christ, is affirming other people ...

734. For Losers And Cowards

Judges 6:1-40

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... battle for the nation and for God! Haven’t you noticed how paltry your resources often are? Moses had only a rod in his hand. The little boy had only five loaves and two fishes; but it was enough - a little is a lot in God’s large hands! You feel you can’t teach too well, or sing too well, you’re not well-educated, you can’t speak in public, you haven’t much money, or strength. But what, after all, does it matter, how limited your resources are? In God’s hands they mean the final defeat of ...

735. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... only a few hours is dying - and finally breathes his last breath. With sinking heart, Malchus thought it was all over - and went home with a feeling inside him like he’d swallowed a heavy rock. He does his work numbly, his hopes - so short lived - dashed to pieces on a rugged ... a small son, a son who was his pride and joy, a small boy whom he’d often take on his knees and tell him: "Son, feel my ear - no, not that one, the one on the right side. Do you know that ear one night lay in the grass - in the ...

736. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... to us now?" Here we learn a lot about our God, and it’s all very reassuring. The story tells us that God is kind. To be unemployed is a devastating thing. It robs us of our sense of self-worth. It removes from us our pride and feelings of accomplishment. It degrades and embarrasses us. It is a tragic thing when our talents, our capability to do things is wasted and idle. In Shakespear’s play Othello, a great line is "Othello’s occupation is gone." So here stood these men: sad, depressed, angry, and ...

737. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... like to encounter frustration and meet disappointment around almost every corner. We know what it is like to try and fail, to live with the ghosts of dead dreams and with other dreams which are barely alive and won’t quite consent to die. We can understand the feeling expressed by Sam Walter Foss in these lines: On the thirty-second day of the thirteenth month Of the eighth day of the week, On the twenty-fifth hour of the sixty-first minute, We will find all the things that we seek. Someone has said of H ...

738. The Words We Speak

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... man speaks 12,500 words per day while the average woman speaks over 25,000. Not only is a woman usually more verbal than a man, the two sexes use the English language differently. A man tends to be into facts, whereas a woman has a special radar on feelings. If a wife says to a husband, "Can we talk tonight?" his response is "about what?" He is like Detective Joe Friday of the old Dragnet TV series, "Just give me the facts, ma’am, nothing but the facts." Men are into head talk. A woman can integrate head ...

739. Christmas Concern

Sermon

James Bjorge

... that he hurt with them. The woman at the well knew her sin. She shunned the contact with people who made her despise herself all the more. But as Jesus chatted with her, he gave her something she hadn’t possessed for a long time ... her respect ... a new feeling ... a cleanness on the inside. Jesus could have just condemned the woman and gone his way. But he didn’t. He identified with her hurt. She still had a long way to go but now she knew she could make it. Jesus entered into the plight of people ...

740. A Warm, Steamy bath

Galatians 3:26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... towel like this one around you after your bath and gave you a big hug? [Take a big bath towel and wrap it around one of the children so that they can associate the feeling.] That really feels good, doesn’t it? It makes you feel like you really belong, or that you are completely safe, doesn’t it? That is the way that we should feel after we have been baptized and made Christians. It is like being wrapped in a big towel by your mother. You really know that you belong, because Jesus gives you his name and ...

741. Chapter X

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... strangling kind of love. It leads to a person clinging so hard to what he loves that he can destroy it, as well as himself. He doesn’t want to share with anyone, in any way, what he loves in that way. Chamad, then, is essentially an attitude, or a feeling about someone or something, that makes a person react to it in a way that can bring grief to the "lover," the "loved" and whoever may possess whatever it is on which the "lover" may fix his eye. It is interesting that even ancient people were able to see ...

742. The Witness of the Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... you any more even if you had been born into our family. Do you understand?" That's the kind of conversation you would have with your daughter. Why? Because you would want her to absolutely secure in your family. If you as human parents want your child to feel good and secure about adoption, don't you know that the heavenly Father is even more determined that our status in his family be solid and secure? Doesn't it make sense that his Spirit would bear witness with our spirit that we are God's children? In ...

743. The Forgiving Father (Father's Day)

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... I know that God loves me, but I must candidly confess that he probably doesn’t like me too much. Maybe for some people their feelings go back to the use of the word father. I have had many people comment to me over the years in a casual, but often ... sin has already been dealt with. It is no longer the focus. You are the focus. That thing which haunts you and makes you feel depressed and miserable, that causes you restlessness, it is no longer a block between you and your relationship with God. What you have ...

744. The Centurion - Arranging Death, Announcing Life

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... me?" I had seen men suffer, but never like that. Again I wondered, "How could this be God’s Son?" Suddenly, he did show one human feeling when he said, "I thirst." One of my men took a sponge, dipped it into some sour wine, and held it up to his lips on ... speak. It was too late for Jesus to hear me, I thought, but I wanted someone to know how I felt about him. Do you ever feel that way? Do you long for the courage to stand up, and speak up for Jesus? When you fail to be his witness, then you, too, ...

745. The Garden: All Things New

John 20:1-9

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... spot where they laid our Lord? Just then you don’t care to argue archaeology or history; you only know that at this moment you feel very close to the living Christ. For you, it is the spot. As you step back out into the sunlight, someone asks if he or ... picture by the doorway of the tomb. You aren’t sure if picture-taking is right at this time and place, but you feel that it is more right than contesting the point with anyone, more right than disappointing someone, so you pose momentarily while a camera ...

746. I Am The Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... last words about our lives. The good shepherd has made it happen. The good shepherd has laid down his life. The good shepherd wraps our lives in his life and invites us to live with him in eternal pastures. It is hard to be just a number. It hurts to feel unknown and alone in life. "I am the good shepherd," Jesus says, "I know my own and my own know me." Woody Allen is right. Human life is an endangered species. Death calls a halt to every human life. "I am the good shepherd," Jesus says. "The good shepherd ...

747. Let’s Climb a Mountain

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... of love and sympathy toward all mankind, especially toward the disenfranchised and dispossessed." But it is more than an attitude. It is action, too. Mercy is a tender heart with a helping hand attached. The merciful person works to relieve the agony of those who feel the squeeze for food and living space on a shrinking planet. She fights to check the pollution which poisons the air her children breathe. She speaks out for peace after her sleep has been disturbed by dreams of a nine-year-old son going off ...

748. What Do We Do Now That We’re Happy?

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... knew it were to make the world new. Today, we look around us and everywhere we find people glowing with the grace of God who comes to them especially at Christmas, causing the light of his goodness to shine into their hearts. We see this happening around us; we feel it in our own hearts. The good news of Christ is at work in the world, graciously giving us the happiness we long expected and a growing awareness that at last we are getting from God what we wanted all along. The task of retaining this sense of ...

749. What Is God Made Of?

Acts 17:16-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... their god lived in a rock like this or in a tree or in a very fast running river. That’s what people used to think. Today some people have other kinds of gods, although they don’t call them gods. Some people have to have something that they can feel. Let me show you what I mean. Have you ever seen someone carry one of these? (Hold up a four leaf clover or a rabbit’s foot). What is it? That’s right, a rabbit’s foot. People think if they rub that rabbit’s foot nothing will happen to ...

750. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

... night in prayer prior to recruiting his men. If so, it would seem that he was seeking divine guidance, and it would seem that God had a hand in the choosing of Judas (along with all the rest). Judas had a kind of divine commission, and I certainly don’t feel that he was chosen just so that a traitor would be in the midst of the band to betray Jesus at the precise opportunity. He was chosen for the same reason as any other disciple - because he had potential - he had within him the ability to serve God and ...

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