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751. Resurrection: From Slave to Child

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... be worked in and through us. We also pray for others. Friends and loved ones need Your blessing. We pray for them in their particular need in the silence of this time (pause). But there are unknown persons, who are marked this day with poverty, hunger, disease, imprisonment, and selfishness. For them we pray. May they be counted into the accomplishment of Your will - and find there loving ties as children of God. We are a mixed company, O God, but we seek to be one congregation in prayer. Amen Benediction ...

752. A Citizen of Three Worlds

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... hardship and unimaginable hostility. Chains and pains were his constant companions. His own catalogue of his perils and problems (2 Corinthians 11:23-28) tells us that he was beaten ... stoned ... whipped ... imprisoned ... flogged ... shipwrecked ... scourged. He knew exhaustion ... distress ... hunger ... cold ... abuse ... exposure. He was driven out of church after church and city after city. Yet he was a man who for the sake of the Gospel and in order to win people to Jesus (this was what mattered most ...

753. William Booth and His Hallelujah Army

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... exotic and nuclear weapons, and spending billions and billions of borrowed dollars on them while cutting those few programs which aid the unfortunate, the poor, and the elderly. William Booth would hug you for your generous support of the Lutheran Church in America’s World Hunger Appeal. He would love you to death for your support of Bethel and Door of Faith Missions. He would rejoice when we would risk entering into any kind of jail ministry. He would give thanks for that small group of Christians in our ...

754. Hot Tubs and Fishing Trips

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Thomas Long

... meaning. This is not the kind of change in which a person simply heads out the door, slamming it on the way, but the kind in which a person yearns to become a citizen of a new and richer land. It is not a rebellion again boredom; it is a hunger to discover one’s true self. In an interview, Garrison Keillor, the host of public radio’s "A Prairie Home Companion," talked about his son, who was at the time fifteen years old. He said that his son had taken up the electric guitar and that his music tended ...

755. An Understated Masterpiece

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... and of the healing power of loving another, even when that love cannot be returned. When the students left the class that day, they left neither bored nor merely informed, but changed. What is this? A new teaching? If the truth be known, we all hunger in our hearts for somebody to teach us something which will transform our lives by its power. We suffer from the separation of event and knowledge. We attend events, from soccer matches to cocktail parties, and leave amused but no wiser. We sit at the ...

756. Discipleship - Path to Fulfillment

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... of whom knew the true meaning of discipleship and servanthood, demonstrated fine disdain for the recognition of men, and revealed, as few others have, the secret of greatness in the kingdom of God. Do you crave the praise and recognition of men and women? Your hunger cannot possibly be satisfied. Are you able to follow the path of discipleship? Yes? Then at the end of the path - indeed, all along the way - you will find fulfillment and cause for thanksgiving. Are you willing to be a servant? Good! You will ...

757. Proper 11

2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 2:11-22, Mark 6:30-44

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... . Yet, though Christ himself recognizes that need and tries to provide for it, the crowds prevent it, showing just how urgently needed Christian ministry is. Call to Worship Leader: Good Christians, listen: the ministry to which we are called is urgent! People: THE WORLD HUNGERS AND THIRSTS FOR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. Leader: If we worked day and night in mission in his name, we would still not satisfy the need. People: LET US BEGIN NOW TO LABOR DILIGENTLY AND RESTLESSLY IN THE EXTENSION OF GOD’S ...

758. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... rehearsal, they have no guarantee whatsoever that there efforts will help make God more real to an individual. But I do know that it is better to try than not to try. We are so used to looking at gigantic issues, such as racism and poverty and world hunger. We are stupefied by the enormity of such issues and say: “What’s the use? Anything that I could do would be so little that it would have the effect of an eyedropper compared to the ocean. Therefore, since I cannot resolve the whole issue, I will do ...

759. Who Needs a Bigger Barn?

Luke 12:13-21

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... because they have no food. Maybe the reason they do not have food is because they have no rain in that part of the world. May the reason is there are too many people to feed in one country. There are a lot of reasons why people are dying of hunger, but whatever the reasons are, we must share what we have with the people who need it. We don’t want to build bigger barns because someday we may need it. Let God care for that problem when it happens. Maybe if we need food someday, the people whom we ...

760. Wormy Apples Are a Waste

Luke 3:1-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some wormy apples We are going to talk about something most of us know very little about, and I hope something that none of us ever experience. We are going to talk about hunger. Has anyone here ever been sick because they had nothing to eat? (Let them answer.) I don’t think so, but there are boys and girls all over the world who do not have anything to eat. Can you imagine yourself being so hungry that you would eat tree leaves, ...

761. Sharing Brings Us Together

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: Some paper, envelopes, stamps, and pencils. Different children should possess all of one article We are continuing the story of hunger today with the hope that we can do something about it. We think everyone can help stop people from being hungry. We think you can help another boy or girl in this world from being hungry if someone teaches you how. I want to help teach you this morning. I ...

762. Who Needs a Shepherd These Days?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... had called "a national nervous breakdown." Then, with hardly a time for healing and a coming together - again, there was Vietnam, we’ve met a Watergate, a Mid-East war or two, an energy crisis, a spiraling inflation, a deep recession, the possibility and probability of world hunger and famine. You name it. Perhaps as you sit here this morning, you’re saying to yourself, "O God, why did I come to Church this morning just to hear all this? I’ve lived it, and I’m still living it. Don’t give me ...

763. What's Mine Is Yours

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... is yours as a gift from God. You are his steward, just as your hired men are your stewards and have to render an accounting of their stewardship. As a return of gratitude you can share in creation with the Creator and help those who suffer pangs of hunger, pangs which are at this moment felt by the half of humanity." "I’ll not ask you to sit, sir," exploded Barnes. "Next you’ll be telling me to embrace the philosophy of ‘What’s mine is yours.’ That’s the creed of the bandits who infest our ...

764. The Personal Touch

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the time we are bored and depressed by doctoring, the chances are we have not only bypassed A, we probably aren't helping our patients much, either. Buechner concludes: "The place God calls us to, is the place where our deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." That’s the personal touch. Meeting people where they are. Speaking simple conversational words in soul-winning moments. Finding our calling. That’s how Christ reached the fishermen and that’s how we can reach the world for Christ. Amen.

765. The Call of the Trumpet

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

George Bass

... is so radical, that one craves passionately to be able to let in some light upon the darkness. Certainly no one who takes life seriously can escape the necessity of confronting this problem and coming to terms with it in his own soul ...4 Physical hunger - and entering into that through fasting - is only one dimension of suffering. But it confronts us with all the other facets of what Stewart calls "the mystery of suffering." And that opens us up to another mystery, the mercy of God that offers resolution ...

766. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... We have a field to buy, or something to take to market, or a garment to mend, or somewhere to be, or something to do. Is there a word which falls upon the human consciousness with a more resounding "thud" than the word "repent"? It is difficult to speak of hunger to a person whose belly is full, or of abject poverty to a person who sits on the porch of a summer house perusing the Wall Street Journal. It is likewise a shout in the wind to speak of repentance to one who feels not the slightest need to repent ...

767. Advent: Lament, Repent

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... meal? Maybe, in God’s mercy, our meals together as a church people can be an occasion for joyful service rather than silent guilt. What if an empty beanpot were silently present at each church supper, to be filled with contributions to alleviate world hunger? It just may be that our potter God can transform us into a vessel of blessing for the poor of the earth. So reshape us, God, into caring, bountiful clay. Remember Jesus, gathering his followers around him, taking the bread, and the cup, giving ...

768. Will the Real Prophets Please Speak Up?

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... beginning of the new age. We will see him in the midst of the people, up on the mountain, saying, "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted ... Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." A prophet like Moses will bring the law of God to Israel. There will be a new Moses who will bring forth a new covenant. A prophet like Moses will also lead the covenant people from bondage. The ...

769. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... their places in the chancel. As they come forward, the congregation sings the hymn "Beneath the Cross of Jesus." When the hymn is completed, the drama begins.) LECTOR: Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it? Or hardship? Or persecution? Or hunger? Or poverty? Or danger? Or death? As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who ...

770. Why Must We Carry A Cross?

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... make demands upon their followers. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister he told the British people that he had nothing to offer them but "blood, toil, tears, and sweat." The Italian freedom fighter Gerabaldi told his followers that he offered them only hunger and death. These were demanding leaders, but Jesus was a thousand times more demanding then they were. Jesus said, "So, therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple." Possession cannot stand between you and ...

771. Partners in the Impossible

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Richard Patt

... what seems to be the impossible. Two-thirds of the world’s food production is consumed by one-third of the people. That leaves the food supply for two-thirds of the world’s people in question. And of those two-thirds, one-third live in severe, agonizing hunger each and every day. By what kind of impossible political coup do you and I turn those facts around? This story in our text is indicative of where Jesus’ heart is. His heart is with the hungry! That’s what he meant when he gave his church the ...

772. What’s Happened To My Dear Old Church?

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Richard Patt

... in sharing and support groups, seeking to carry on their lives in a creative, God-pleasing way. Other issues of the day are receiving similar attention and response. Christians are no longer just wringing their hands about such things as abortion, world hunger, joblessness, sexual orientation, physical abuse in marriage and families, or war. They are forming coalitions, large and small, to work out ways in which they can help themselves or others who are caught up in the challenge of these issues. At least ...

773. Divine Alka-Seltzer

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

... to suffer for others: to suffer by identifying and caring for others who suffer, whether they are down the block, whether they are native Americans, whether they are Islamic Iranians; to suffer by giving sacrificially of our own money to the World Hunger Appeal, the Love Compels Action Appeal in order to relieve physical suffering, and by giving our gifts to Strength for Mission to further the proclamation of the gospel; to suffer by ourselves taking up our crosses and trudging with Jesus to Calvary, where ...

774. No Huggies

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

... , open to others and to their gifts, open to the wonders of the world which God has given us. Last Sunday I carried our son in the pouch contraption that my wife and I wear to transport him. Rick allowed us to take him on the three-mile hunger walk for CROP. During one stretch on South Street, we were walking under two or three blocks of beautiful, golden-leaved trees. Being the task-oriented, schedule-bound adult that I am, I very methodically placed one foot in front of the other so that we could complete ...

775. Go ... Be the Church ... Do the Gospel

Sermon

... ample funds from a special account so that intangible ministries like church camp at Mowana, higher education at Wittenberg, and theological education at Trinity can be real for our children and young adults. * We respond to church-wide appeals for funds for world hunger, so that a united church witness can be felt. * We respond to the need for services to youth in the Oesterlen Home, so that more teenagers know that they can become responsible people. * We become active in local ecumenical affairs such as ...

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