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776. A Tempting and Lonely Place

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Thomas Long

... the thing which appears most holy and sacrificial - for example, going back to live and minister among the many needy people in Capernaum - is the very temptation God would have us avoid. In Elie Wiesel’s The Town Beyond the Wall, there is a rebellious character who has profoundly experienced the lonely place of human suffering and who chooses not to bear this in silence. He loudly laments, crying angrily to God that his fate is unjust, indeed, that God is unjust. It would seem that he had fallen into the ...

777. Inevitabilities and the Last Days

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... ’s business. The family was forced to move to another town, where his father established another business. But Awe’s undeserved reputation as a dangerous reactionary followed him from job to job. The authorities from his hometown circulated flyers describing his "dangerous" character to all county police stations in North Korea. Every move he made was being watched. Awe then fled to a town where there were some factories that had not yet been taken over by the state. Awe tried to conceal himself in ...

778. Happiness Is ... the Kingship of Jesus

John 18:28-40

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... , and Jesus could easily have recruited a vast army and overwhelmed the legions of Caesar. But that was not Jesus’ style, and he made that clear: "My kingship is not of this world." Men and women, in recent history, shed light on the peaceable character of the kingship of Jesus. Harry Emerson Fosdick cited Mahatma Ghandi as an example: ... for us moderns, Mahatma Ghandi should help us to understand Jesus. Ghandi’s powerful leadership swayed millions of followers and upon his will time and again hung the ...

779. It Might Have Been ...

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

Sermon

... 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 man. One character in CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY says to another, "God has put his hand on you." That was true of Judas, and it is no light responsibility when that happens to a man. Judas had a good beginning; he had promise. Since he was a Judean, and grew up near ...

780. The Most Beautiful Word

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... this doesn’t exist. Near the end of his life, Thomas A. Edison, that grand old man, was asked what effect he thought science would have on the behavior of mankind. And he replied, with typical confidence and optimism, "What the mind of man can invent, the character of man will control." Well, perhaps it’s just as well that Edison died before he was disillusioned. He did not live to see the day when the United States Senators, a group of them, would listen for nearly a week on evidence on how many tens ...

781. COMMAND TO SHARE

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... defines the heart of religion as "bearing fruits that befit repentence" - such a preacher is more than just a prophet. He is a long hoped-for emergent in the long history of man’s search for God. He is the pioneer in understanding what kind of character God wants in his followers, what the true requirements of obedience are, and most of all, what are the ethical contents of faith. John the Baptizer only hinted at the religious revolution soon to be ushered in by the imminent Messiah. It would tell the tax ...

782. THE WATCHERS

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... particular day are the ones who capture our attention and our imagination for they are "The Watchers." Simeon, we are told, was a just man. He was honest and upright and truthful. He was not one to go off on tangents. He was a devout man. The character sketch that we are given leads us to see him as a respected and trusted patriarch of the community. He was one whose faith was without blemish and whose integrity was beyond question. Saint Luke tells us that Simeon was one who watched. He watched for the ...

783. Man Of Sorrows

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Larry Powell

... then asked them, "And what shall I do with Jesus?" Loudly came the reply: "Crucify him!" And so it was that Barabbas was relased while Jesus was beaten and handed over to be crucified. A story has been told of a prominent, highly-respected man of impeccable character who threw himself in front of a team of runaway horses to save the life of a street urchin. Bravely, with no thought for his personal safety, the man had dashed into the street and, with a desperate lunge, managed to shove the lad safely out of ...

784. Paul of Tarsus

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... needed to slow Saul down a bit. With some people, it’s just a little harder to get their attention, that’s all. ANTAGONIST: And what about those "murderous threats" the book of Acts described him breathing? Remember those? I wouldn’t hire a character who ran around breathing "murderous threats." Just imagine if he came here for an interview when we were looking for a pastor, and right on his resume it said, "Is occasionally given to breathing murderous threats"! PROTAGONIST: But that was only at the ...

785. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... electrified his audience with a speech about a dream he says he has. He said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Concluding with the words of a familiar slave song. King said, "When we let freedom ring, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and ...

786. Divine Alka-Seltzer

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

... has experienced the agony, the aloneness, and the awefulness of suffering and who offers us not relief, but meaning in the pain we endure. "We rejoice in our sufferings," Paul writes, "knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts...." Notes from the Homiletician The sermon "Divine Alka-Seltzer" was preached at First Lutheran Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, at a time ...

787. What Was That About?

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... exercised about a judgment on some distant day. Self-styled judges are in great supply. Don’t tell me there’s another waiting in the wings to nail me at the end of history. In particular, what shall we say to this - this ancient vision of a psychopathic character named Daniel who admits it in these very words, Daniel had a dream and visions in his head as he lay in his bed. Apocalyptic Just what is this about? Before we go too far, let me explain that the book of Daniel is apocalyptic, which is to ...

788. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... attention at least once a year to the importance of the Christian home. It is in keeping both with the word of God and with the heritage of the Reformation. Luther placed particular emphasis upon the home as a place for training in Christian character and exercise of Christian virtues. He said that it was a thousand times better suited to this purpose than were the monasteries. His Small Catechism was written with this end in view. Parents who teach their children the word of God are priests and pristesses ...

789. The Shadow Ascending

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... bending rules, hoping this will be the last time, and not wanting to hurt the alcoholic’s family and career. The alcoholic couldn’t function without this dependency on the victim for protection. Otherwise, he would have to quit drinking or lose his job. The third character in Act II, who is really the key person in the play, is the spouse or parent of the alcoholic star, the one with whom the alcoholic lives. Her role is that of provoker and patsy. She is hurt and upset by repeated drinking episodes and ...

790. Backsliding

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Brett Blair

... is mentioned, the concept, I think, is still valid. It is backsliding. The term backsliding, I discovered in my research, was popularized in the 1600’s by John Bunyan in his very famous allegory Pilgrim’s Progress. In the story, you may recall, the character of Christian and Hopeful are on their religious pilgrimage. While on the journey they begin to discuss an individual by the name of Temporary. He had started the pilgrimage, but along the way he fell by the wayside, or, as Bunyan worded it, backslid ...

791. What Must I DO to Receive Life?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... replied, "It's Mr. Klopman." Some of you may wish to re-evaluate your diamonds on that basis. But seriously the true curse of any kind of valuable possession is its capacity to steal our hearts and souls. The rich young ruler is one of those unique characters from the Bible that have come to represent greed. So unwilling was he to part with earthly wealth that he sold his soul in order to keep his money. He wanted to be saved but not at the expense of losing his possessions. The first thing that impresses ...

792. You Are A Name!

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... defines your nature. It does not only say who you are but what you are. In the Bible one's name is the same as his nature, character and the sum total of his personality. Your name is you, your very being, what makes you. Because of this a man's name and nature are ... . A Change Of Name What is the case with God's name is also true with a person's name. Your name gives you your character, not only who but what you are. It is not your family name but your given name that describes your nature. When a person's ...

793. Why Earthly Powers Need No Longer Enslave

Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... already to some extent. But we continue to be in bondage to the same old institutions, to care too much about how Hollywood says we should behave or what the fashion industry says we should wear. Seventeenth-century French humanist and theologian Blaise Pascal described the ludicrous character of our plight so well. He wrote: It is absurd to rely on the company of our fellows, as wretched and helpless as we are; they will not help us; we shall die alone. We must act then as if we were alone. If that were so ...

794. The Promise of Baptism

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... section was on the fact that in baptism we discover new life. Daily we live as the newborn children of God who are privileged to live in the Spirit of God. In John Updike’s novel Toward the End of Time, Ben Turnbull is the central character. The story is set in Eastern America in the second decade of the new millennium after a Sino-American nuclear war that had reduced the world’s population fifty percent. A retired stock broker, at age 66, Ben finds himself tinkering with other worlds and other times ...

795. Light for Beauty

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... had dishonored God, but at the same time their God had not given up on them. In that sense their faith was vindicated or defended. Scott Turow’s novel The Laws of our Fathers is a helpful account of how we perceive ourselves as a nation. The characters of this story were initially drawn together by the events of the chaotic ’60s. They were caught up in the protests of that era on an explosive campus of a California university. The culture was coming apart at the seams. The peace of the Eisenhower years ...

796. His Trial

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Brett Blair

... an innocent man wrongly accused and that was Pilate. It was he who presided as judge and vacated his post. In what is surely his most haunting novel, The Fall, Albert Camus tells about a man whose whole life was held in a single moment. The main character in the story is John Baptiste a respected Paris lawyer, who had a comfortable living and satisfying life. And then it happened. Late one night he is walking home by the Pont Royal, when he notices a young woman leaning over the bridge railing, staring into ...

797. All I Want for Christmas is Joy

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

James W. Moore

... were made of wood, so they were pretty much indestructible.., and also easy for little hands to pick them up and move them around and place them in different positions. The children loved the manger scene and they loved being able to touch the characters and hold them in their little hands and arrange and rearrange them in creative and child-like ways. As you would imagine, sometimes the little figurines would disappear... and later show up in the most fascinating places in the house. And interestingly, the ...

798. Jesus and Andrew

John 1:35-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the prolific Bible scholar, wrote some remarkable words about Andrew some years ago. He said this: “We do not possess a great deal of information about Andrew, but even the little that we do know of him perfectly paints his character. Andrew is one of the most attractive characters in the apostolic band because… Andrew is characteristically the man who was always introducing others to Jesus. There are only three times in the gospel story when Andrew is brought into the center of the stage. There is the ...

799. "Wow!"

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... .(3) I wish everyone could have that WOW experience. I am reminded of a "Murphy Brown" episode in which for some reason she asks the staff about their thoughts or feelings about God. There were different responses from different characters - one was an agnostic, one was a Baptist, and so on. But the response of the character Jim stands out. He said he was a Presbyterian and went to church every Sunday with his wife. He said something on the order of, "I haven't had any experience of God. I go because it is ...

800. Trouble in the Manse

Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... ...to the fellows anyway. Gomer's vocabulary seemed to lack the word NO. And if her vocabulary did not lack it, her character did. Sure enough, she ended up pregnant again. This time there was not much question about who the father was NOT - Hosea ... as she had looked forward to getting away from Hosea, Gomer would not have chosen this. Finally, she got tied up with a really unscrupulous character...a pimp. All he cared about Gomer for was the amount of money she could turn in a night. When she was no longer of ...

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