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751. Kingdom Kids

Colossians 1:13, Revelation 21:27

Children's Sermon

... family by being baptized. We continue in the family by saying to God each day, "I like it here in your family, Father. I want to stay." Today is All Saints' Sunday. Today we remember a lot of other people who were children of the Heavenly Father. Some of them are still ... who first loves us, we are in God's family. It isn't hard to get into the Kingdom. But it is sometimes hard to stay there. Because sometimes we have to do hard things, like love people who don't love us, or do the right things when they are ...

752. Rocky

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

William J. Carl

... the Great for the worship of Caesar. In short, Rocky, I mean Peter, was risking the accusation of blasphemy and treason which would have meant certain death when he called Jesus the Anointed One. Somehow he knew that a new regime was coming in and he couldn’t stay with the hardliners anymore. Now it was time to move on into a new order, the new kingdom which God was inaugurating with the coming of Jesus. And now he was beginning to see it all more clearly. He could see the effect Jesus was having on the ...

753. Finding Oneself in the Wilderness

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... stress in each person is to be found between the gutter and the mountain top. Which to choose? What kind of person to be? In the wilderness that question arises. It is important to stay in the wilderness long enough for an adequate answer to be found. Another insight of the temptation narrative is that humanity does not stay in the wilderness alone, for as the author of the first gospel put it, “And the tempter came.” “If,” said he, “You are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of ...

754. The Kingdom of God Is Like… a Joke!

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Steven Burt

... had thought this Kingdom or rule of God in each person’s life was coming, but when Jesus confronted them with parables such as this one, they found that it had arrived, had caught them off guard, caught them sleeping like the servants who didn’t stay awake while waiting for their master to return. First, let me say something about the Kingdom of God. The thing folks were waiting for was the coming of the Kingdom. You know, “Thy Kingdom come; thy will be done.” In this case Kingdom means something ...

755. Small Church Communion

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Steven Burt

... than the communal kurakon diepnon or “Lord’s Supper.” William Willimon, in Worship as Pastoral Care (Nashville: Abingdon, 1979), makes a sharp observation: You have heard it said that the family that prays together stays together. I say to you that the family that eats together stays together. Could the contemporary breakdown of many of our families be attributed to our families’ so rarely eating together?… Little wonder that love and unity are difficult for us. We cannot share something even ...

756. Good News From A Graveyard

John 20:1-9

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... death is the end, if there is nothing more, than through my dying, I speak the last word, not God. Then when I die, I will stay dead and that's that! I wonder how many of us would like to believe that. It effectively takes care of the knotty problem of God. ... those doors and give you your freedom. He opens the last door to us, too, the door of death. You might say, "When I die I will stay dead," but that is not true. You didn't ask to be born, but you were born. You didn't choose to be born, but you were. ...

757. Act III, Scene 2

John 21:1-14

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... he was unjustly condemned and crucified. On hearing this Jesus doesn't rattle them by saying, "But look, I'm Jesus and I'm not dead! See, I'm very much alive." Rather, he lets them talk. As the day comes to an end, the two men invite Jesus to stay and share a meal, and only as he prays do they suddenly become aware that he is the Christ who was dead and buried. But it seems no sooner do they recognize him, than he vanishes. Or consider the gospel for today. Some disciples go fishing. They fish all night ...

758. Jesus And The Woman Of Samaria

John 4:39-42, John 4:27-38, John 4:1-26

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." 1: Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I have ever done." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world ...

759. Paradoxes Of The Christian Faith

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... the jaws of defeat and death can steal your crown of victory or take your song of joy. When asked why she lived so victoriously, a saint of the church said, "Because the scriptures say, 'And it came to pass,' which means that it didn't come to stay. That's why the prayer says, 'Yea though I walk through the valley,' because I'm coming through, I'm claiming my victory right now in the name of Jesus!" Many people in Seattle, Washington, are amazed at the faith and victory of little Brianne Kliner. She was ...

760. Hostage Crisis

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and ignorance have taken us over. The Word is a liberating word. Had Elijah kept it in the hollow of his heart, Ahab and Jezebel couldn't have put him on the run. Had he known the prayer warriors were praying and the saints of God were staying on his side, he could have stayed on that mountain and put the king and queen on the run by the wrath of God. If he could stand up to the prophets of Baal, why not Ahab and Jezebel? Like Elijah, God can set you free! God set Jacob free. No longer a prisoner ...

761. Give Me A Break!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... and calmness, for meaning. While we may not spend a great deal of time analyzing why we do our running, when we do pause in the light of such an invitation as this, we see the truth about ourselves and our ways of living. We are trying to stay alive and make sense of it all; trying to discover the reason and the purpose behind and beneath life. We are not the first to come to such a deep realization. Sixteen hundred years ago, Saint Augustine arrived at the same conclusion. His comment has been translated ...

762. Endorsing The Future

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... don't believe things will work out for us. We can languish in the tears of depression: "I knew it would be this way." We can stay in that desolate place and wallow down low, crying painful tears in the valley of our problems. We can literally cry over what we do not ... sap in honeydew excretions. The dry desert air changes those into drops that turn solid. But if you pick it and let it stay too long in the evening air, it spoils by the next morning. As the people gathered this manna, they were warned by Moses ...

763. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... entered a rented high school gymnasium. Over 220 people were seated in reclining chairs facing the stage. The hypnotist gave what appeared to be a stimulating and spontaneous speech. Then he put everyone under and finally reawakened them. My friend decided she would stay and repeat the session. After the next wave of people filled the reclining chairs she was amazed to learn that instead of being a spontaneous speech, the hypnotist's speech was as canned as corn. Obviously the remedy did not take for any ...

764. Nothing Is Impossible

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... 11 employees working at the same time. When the team of 11 is working, all of the other employees are either sitting down or just standing and watching. However, the action only takes place on the playing field. Some employees will come to the work site and stay the whole time but never work. They just sit or stand and just watch. All of the employees, however, are paid even though all do not work. God is certainly not like a professional football player. God worked all night long. The east wind just kept ...

765. Good News!

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... for English soldiers who had died in World War II. "Right there and then," he said, "I told God I would never believe in him again." We met Nicolas in Lewes, England, when we were there in 1984. He and his wife Jean ran a bed and breakfast where we stayed. We became fast friends. Jean was a new Christian. She was aglow with her new-found faith in Christ. She witnessed to Nicolas, but apparently to no avail. We shared our faith with him as well, but his heart was burdened. He wanted no part of God. When we ...

766. Anointed Ministry

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... gladness? Are we giving offerings beyond the biblical tithe? That's a good question in relation to this Word of God. Is this jubilee for you and me? Are we waiting with hope for the second coming of Christ? "Stay on the alert," Jesus says, "for you do not know which day the Lord is coming(Matthew 24:42)." Staying alert is a way to get set to go for God with generosity. Is this jubilee for you and for me? That depends on our answer to an even more important question: Is this Scripture being fulfilled in us ...

767. The Road To Capernaum

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... there on the northern shore of the lake. The name of the town was Capernaum. While there in Capernaum Jesus taught in the synagogue and astonished all who heard him with the things he said and did. That evening they went to the home of Simon where Jesus stayed while in Capernaum. As we look at the events which took place in that little town we get a glimpse of how Jesus carried out his entire ministry. I think we see there also the impact he makes upon our lives. Think about these things. I Jesus taught ...

768. The Road To Samaria

John 4:5-42

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... the woman at the well reached town she told everyone about meeting Jesus. John writes that "Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony." Then when they came out to meet Jesus they asked him to stay there with them for a while. Jesus stayed in the town for two days. Those third class people in that second class town gave Jesus first class treatment. Jesus accepted their hospitality. He treated them like first class citizens of the kingdom of God. And John says, "Many more ...

769. A Second-place Finish

John 1:29-34

Sermon

John Jamison

... over Judea, even from Jerusalem itself, to hear his message. Not only do people end up getting baptized by him, but many of them stay around and sign up to become his disciples. Some even begin to talk about him as the long-awaited Messiah. What a distance ... I don't recognize that this is my child, and maybe I can just do what I want today. If I look the other way, maybe I can stay number one a bit longer. You know it's true. We have all seen parents do just that. It doesn't work though, does it? And in ...

770. A Good Thing To Know

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... One covered his ears to hear no evil. The third covered his mouth to speak no evil. They were keeping themselves busy staying out of trouble. Some years later a fuller truth dawned. This "monkey theology" was not nearly responsible enough for Christian discipleship ... or for a witnessing church. Far too many contemporary Christians understand the goal of their religious life to be that of staying out of trouble - not making any and not causing any! They look quite busy tending the personal treasures of piety, ...

771. The Signs Of Salvation

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... involved." In the serenity of his tree, Zecchaeus was secure from the unfriendly crowd. They never looked up. He might have been safe from an encounter with the preacher as well. But not on this day. Jesus looked up! "Zacchaeus!" Jesus called. "Hurry up and come down. I must stay at your house today." Not only had Jesus seen him in the tree, but he had called him by name. He knew his name! When this day had begun, Zacchaeus was up a tree in more ways than one. When it was over, his feet would be solidly on ...

772. The Victory Of The Cross

Sermon

Erskine White

... the sound of those nails being pounded into the wood. And I remember overhearing one woman complain about it: "That cross is so barren and bare; it upsets the beauty of the church. I wish they would take it away." But the cross stayed in my boyhood church, just as it stayed in the wall of that church in New Jersey. When you take away the cross, you destroy the Christian church. Other religions have symbols which suggest beauty and light: the six-pointed star of Judaism, the crescent moon of Islam, the lotus ...

773. One Flock, One Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... it is. The early Christians gathered in one cave and then another. They gathered in one person’s house and then still another one. The risen Christ was with them, and they were with each other no matter where they met or with whom they met. Paul seldom stayed more than a few months as their pastor. But Christ had risen and was with them wherever they were and in whoever came forward to lead the worship. When you move to another community, the greatest compliment you can pay your home church is to transfer ...

774. Our Time Will Come!

1 Samuel 16:14-23

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... only in getting where we want to go, but in the experiences along the way. The process may be as valuable as the result! How many have not found it so in regard to preparations for that all-American experience of retirement? And how could a good student possibly stay with the studies unless this concept is mastered? Our time will come! Imagine the peace of mind that could result from accepting that! Think of the stress levels that could be reduced if we would live by it! God has a plan for us. If we will do ...

775. Stairways Of Heaven

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Justin Tull

... had your share of struggles. Many of them, I’m sure, had blessings that came with them -- especially if you kept struggling, kept hoping, kept expecting that there would be a payoff somewhere. Why, indeed, should we ever suffer pain without staying around long enough to receive our blessing? There always is one there. Do you believe that? Paul believed that. My grandmother believed that. Dr. Albert Outler, noted theologian, believed that. Some of your closest friends, ones who have suffered much, believe ...

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