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751. "I Don’t Want to Be Perfect - Or Do I?"

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... to know the mysteries of God the mysteries of the whole life, the caring life whether we accept it or not. And then Jesus points out, "Look. Some of the seeds are falling on stony ground." There is solid rock underneath. Only a thin, thin layer of dirt, warm and moist. The seeds will sprout quickly and then their roots will hit the rock. The sun scorches the thin soil, and even though the seed germinates quickly, it dies as quickly and is gone. These are the people who grasp at any new thing. They are ...

752. The Gospel According to Christ’s Enemies

John 11:1-16

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... should have included some weighty evidence of Lazarus’ friendship and service to Jesus. "Lord, remember Lazarus is your loyal friend. He has made known your name and ministry to everyone he met. He has loved you deeply and always welcomed you into his home with warm hospitality." In direct contrast to this natural and expected plea is the message from the family at Bethany. The sisters did not say, "He loves you," but, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." This is the gospel in a nutshell. Not our love of ...

753. Magnify Your Ministry!

Romans 11:11-24

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... truly live up to the glorious title they bear, the image of God can readily be seen in them. Years ago a minister’s wife noticed a small boy selling newspapers. He stood in his bare feet over the grating of a hot air vent outside a bakery to stay warm. Moved by pity, she asked him, "Where are your shoes?" He replied, "Lady, I ain’t got no shoes." She took him to a department store and bought him new socks and shoes. The lad ran off without a word of thanks, and at first, she was a bit disappointed ...

754. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... smile: "But you called me brother! Thank you for such a gift." Tolstoy hurried home for some money, but when he returned a short time later, the beggar was dead. On his cold face the smile still lingered. His body was dead, but Tolstoy’s kindness had made his heart warm. "Owe no one anything, except to love one another." Leo Tolstoy did it. He was a Christian forever in debt to love. He learned to pay on that debt by loving others for God’s sake and for their own sake. As he did, so can we. But also for ...

755. A Thinking Person’s Thankful Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... Here is another sign that Paul was a thinking man as well as a thankful man. Paul wanted the hearts and minds of his people to grow together. Paul knew something we modern Christians often forget: the thankful love of thinkful people is warm and genuine but never sentimental and naive. The King James Version tells us that Christian love "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things" (1 Corinthians 13:7), but J. B Phillips helps us understand Paul better when he translates ...

756. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... the students had studied their lessons? Wouldn’t it be fantastic to be part of a church actively involved in evangelism and missions, in worship and fellowship, with no barriers of class or race, sex or age? Wouldn’t it thrill your soul and warm your heart to be part of a church such as is described in the second chapter of The Acts of the Apostles, a congregation who "believed ... together ... held all things in common ... (sharing) as any had need ... attending the temple together and breaking bread ...

757. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EPIPHANY

Drama

Tom Eberle

... deck? Voice: [slowly] Not even a sun deck. Some day, some moment, you will discover what my gift means. You will be freed of the stars you are chasing. You will stand like the trees and the mountains. You will become monuments of my creation - warm, loving human beings who desire to be nothing more. [The Wise Men kneel at the altar and individually rise to place their crowns upon the altar, then leave the sanctuary. The crowns remain as the Epiphany altar arrangement.] Male: What happened then? Star: I don ...

758. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EASTER

Drama

Tom Eberle

... are gathering for an all-night vigil to await the resurrection. We will spend the night here, waiting for the first light of dawn. [A couple enters and stands at the back of the congregation. The woman is wearing a robe and the man is not.] Severus: The night is warm. Can we wait here a little longer before we enter? Mario: Are you having doubts, Severus? Severus: No. I have made up my mind that I will join your faith. It is just that tonight is the night. No longer will I be instructed in the way; now I ...

759. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR PENTECOST

Drama

Tom Eberle

... 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 find the community of my Spirit - the church - reaching out to ...

760. Old and New

Mk 2:22 · 2 Cor 5:17 · Is 43:19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... for treatment, their chances would greatly improve. Here decidedly, new is better than old, even though the old was couched in what for many was a more palatable form. When I go for medical assistance - while I like to deal with a physician who is a warm human being - sound and updated medical technology is higher on my list of priorities than whether or not I happen to personally like the doctor. The second position in the school of thought holding that new and old are in competition is the converse of the ...

761. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9) God’s power active within the life places of vulnerability. No wonder St. Paul was quieted! While no one would elect a handicap, how stimulating it is to warm to the promise that God will be with us in those weaknesses. Then, ironically, our weakness becomes our strength! Think of God’s power amid weaknesses doing two things for us. First, consider God’s power that makes us creative through or because of our ...

762. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... in business. A young man shows immense promise and seems destined for board rooms and executive offices, but at age thirty-eight or forty-two it ends in coronary unrest or emotional tumult. It happens in the church. One evening an official board warms to the promise of a tantalizing program or proposal and there is a contagion in the room that is uplifting, even exhilarating. But somehow two weeks or two months later what had so completely captured the fantasy seems hard pressed - terribly hard pressed ...

763. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Robert Noblett

In the section of the country where we live, February and March are always cold and slushy months. So come April, nothing dampens my ardor for the coming of spring. I’m ready for it! Part of the reason I am ready for it is the fact that warm weather means the return of parades, and as the song says it, "I love a parade!" A community in which we lived some years back boasted the first Bicentennial parade in the nation, and well do I remember a family’s invitation to share that event with them from the ...

764. THE WITCH OF ENDOR

Drama

Marcia Miller

... to avoid the stereotyped "Fairy Tale" witch’s house. There must be a screen for the Girl Witches to hide behind and a raised platform for Samuel to appear upon. The play itself is of a serious nature. However, the actors should become aware of warm, comic moments which are contained within the dialogue-action. CHARACTERS (4 men, 4 women) SAUL: The King. Throughout the play he remembers that at one time he was chosen by the Lord to lead his people. He is a powerful man, both physically and mentally, even ...

765. Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

... wrong. I have been to the very best church affiliated schools, yet my heart is heavy. I need a sense of direction. And there are educated people out there today that are not looking for more theories--they are looking for what John Wesley called the religion of the warmed heart. Jesus said: Nicodemus, you must be born again. You see friends, it is easy to get caught up in the form of religion and lose touch with the reality of God. We can get so caught up in doing church work, that we fail to be the church ...

766. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... that long, except maybe for tickets to the Super Bowl or some rock concert. Jesus was a fascinating, unpredictable character. He displayed a wide range of emotions: compassion for a dying leper, exuberance over his disciples' success, a warm hospitality that callously disregarded racial and cultural boundaries, and blasts of anger at cold-hearted legalists. Jesus had inexhaustible patience with individuals but no patience at all with institutions and injustice. No wonder he still mystifies and intrigues ...

767. Three Witnesses

1 John 5:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A dishpan, a dishcloth and a dishtowel. Good morning to you. How are you on this beautiful day? Isn't it great to feel the warm sunshine of spring and to know that the good summer days are not very far away? It's nice to have winter when it starts and it's nice also to have it end. Speaking of end, do you know what we put on the end of all our prayers ...

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

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... need to "the grace of God." We take courage when our own strength seems insufficient for a task by going on anyhow, trusting it can be done "by the grace of God." We write it to friends in grief asking that God’s grace be with them. It’s a warm and human and loving word. But what does it mean? Must we say of it as the frontier singer said of the songs he sang in Stephen Vincent Benet’s "Western Star": "We pick our words like nuggets, for their shine, and if they don’t fit, we make them ...

769. Miracle On Main Street by Dr. George A. Buttrick

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... piety of the Temple. He condemned the exorbitant profits of the traders. He never said that "religion and politics don’t mix." He never played it safe. So they killed him. The brutal affair was not "spiritual," a word preachers love. The nails were iron driven through warm flesh, while soldiers at the foot of the Cross gambled for his clothes while he watched. Then why did we choose him? "For his love," you say. What? For his love drowned in blood and shame? Not a chance! We didn’t choose him: he chose ...

770. To Be Perfectly One

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... say he has faith, if his actions do not correspond to it? Could that sort of faith save anyone’s soul? If a fellow man or woman has no clothes to wear and nothing to eat, and one of you say, ‘Good luck to you, I hope you’ll keep warm and find enough to eat,’ and yet give them nothing to meet their physical needs, what on earth is the good of that? (James 2:14-16, Phillips) ... A man is justified before God by what he does as well as by what he believes." (2:24) In other words ...

771. Save It!

John 6:1-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... them I am going to ask someone to make a beautiful patchwork quilt that will look something like this one that I have with me this morning. It is hard to believe that someone could take these scraps and make it into something this beautiful. This quilt is not only warm but beautiful to look at, and it is made out of leftovers. Jesus performed a miracle one day with a few fish and a couple of pieces of bread. With this little bit of food that a boy gave to him he was able to feed a crowd of 5 ...

772. At the Door of the Church

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... missed some of the goals scored, Diane at least was able to root excitedly with the fans and decipher which team won. Without adequate preparation it would have been perhaps a boring affair to her. How sad it is that athletes warm up before competing, orchestras tend instruments before playing, actors rehearse before performing, orators think before speaking, but Christians seldom if ever prepare themselves for worship. The success or failure of worship for an individual is often determined by the attitude ...

773. An Invitation to a Feast

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... in all humility, with our profound faith, sorry for the kind of life we have lived, and with a deep sense of reverence as we come into his presence at the banquet. If we indeed come expecting great things to happen to us, and longing for the deep, warm fellowship of the believers at the banquet, that’s what we’ll find. If we come in the frame of mind which looks for dissatisfactions and complaints, we’ll find plenty of those as well. Jenny Lind always spent a few minutes alone in her dressing room ...

774. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... with my second and my third. When that little baby was born to him, how awful that sin he had committed must have cursed him. He cried out to God, "Forgive me! Give me another chance - if not for myself, then through my son!" Doesn’t that warm your heart to him? In the fifth place, the Bible is generous and fair, and it traces down his inheritance and his descendants. His great grandson was named Jabel. Do you know who he was? He was the father of all tent-dwellers, In Jewish tradition it signified ...

775. EPISODE 6: THE SIXTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... the way here ... MARTHA: Yes? MARY MAGDALENE: I started shivering ... I felt as if I were all alone, and the rest of the world had died. MARY: Why, Mary Magdalene, no wonder you’re upset. How terrible that must have been. MARTHA: Let me get you something warm to drink. MARY MAGDALENE: No, thank you, Martha. I don’t want anything ... except to be with you awhile. MARY: Where’s the Lord? MARY MAGDALENE: He must be with the men. MARTHA: I hope he comes here. MARY: I do, too. His talk of dying frightens ...

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