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776. Vacillation - Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... that he couldn't prevent his punishment proves that he was not, in fact, what he claimed to be. A true 'son of God,' if such exists, wouldn't allow himself to be beaten, mocked, insulted. Therefore, when the scourging took place successfully, when the first drop of blood reddened his back, I knew we had a mere mortal on our hands, and that, if crucified, the man would actually die. You see, Procula, no divinity could die." "You make the logical error of assuming that what did happen, had to happen. Because ...

777. No Tears for Me, Please

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... do not let Christ be the Lord of our lives. Weep that we Christians tolerate the kind of world that creates crosses for innocent people. But even tears are not enough when we confront the strange man on the cross. If not tears, what then? A Lenten hymn replies: But drops of grief can n'er repayThe debt of love I oweHere, Lord, I give myself away;'Tis all that I can do.

778. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... LOVE. It is the perfect article. But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. (verse 10) There was a time in history when learned men insisted the world was square. Mariners were careful not to venture beyond charted areas for fear of dropping over the earth's edge. Available knowledge supported the belief that the earth was flat and human activity should be confined to the area bounded by the four corners. The ancients also commonly held that sickness, in any form, was due to the ingestation ...

779. A House Or A Home?

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... rider would carry the mail for a distance, and then hand it to another until, finally, the messages reached their destinations. In the Pony Express System, the most crucial time was when one rider was passing the mail bag to another. If the bag was dropped and destroyed by the pounding hoofs, or lost by the rider, the messages would never get through. It was most important that the mail be carefully passed from one to another. It's similar in the home! One of the primary responsibilities and opportunities ...

780. The Household Leader

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... to live sacrificially for your children? Are you willing to sacrifice for them? Recently, I read a story about a man in the 1800s who was driving a wagon which was pulled by a team of spirited horses. When he stopped in front of a store, he dropped the reins for a moment as he started inside. When he reached the store entrance, the horses became frightened and dashed wildly down the street. The man turned, and with superhuman effort, ran after the horses and leaped upon their backs. By the time he got the ...

781. The Gift of Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... : "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you." John 14:27 At the drive-in window of the bank there is a pneumatic tube. The transaction slips, checks, and money are put in a capsule, which is dropped into the tube. As air is sucked out from in front of the capsule and pressured behind it, the container is pushed through the tube. I used the tube one day. It came as no surprise to me, then that a pneumatic tube showed up in a dream, in which ...

782. A Pilgrim Recounts

Psalm 107:1-43

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... . But, we must have been sturdy souls, for we lost but one of our group to death during that arduous journey. We finally arrived at what is now called Cape Cod Bay on November 11, 1620. It was a bitter cold day, and it was snowing hard. We dropped anchor for the first time since we left England. Several men (including myself) rowed to shore and scouted around. The terrain was frozen and so rocky we knew we would be unable to construct any habitation and the land was too rocky for farming. One of our group ...

783. Six Nails of the Cross III: The Nail of Envy

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... live with one another: giving recognition always to the other man as a person of great worth and not a rival to be destroyed. Tonight as we leave, our prayer for each other is that we shall release the envy that has plagued us today and yesterday. We shall drop that hammer before we strike one more blow upon the nail and we shall ask for deliverance. No envy, just love. Never underestimate it. Pilate did, and look what it cost him. Give up the envy and rejoice in the well-being of others. It will make a new ...

784. Six Nails of the Cross IV: The Nail of Indecision

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... where true life and liberty are to be found. One of the problems which plagues youth today is not that they do not choose, but that they do not carry their choice far enough. True, there is hypocrisy and materialism in our culture, and the social drop-outs may have a legitimate complaint when they regard our culture as a sham. But their lives contain no vision, no hope, for they are shaped and molded around rebellion, revolt. The child may choose to reject the authority of his parents. But he must realize ...

785. When Life Closes In

Matthew 26:17-30, Matthew 26:36-46

Sermon

Robert Allen

... way in the darkness alone. He wanted to be alone where he could pray and seek fellowship with God. Life was closing in on him and he knelt in prayer. The scriptures tell us that Jesus, "... being in agony ... prayed most earnestly, and his sweat become like great drops of blood falling down upon the ground." Jesus knew what was before him. He knew that the hatred of men and women was about to nail him to a cross. He was grappling with fear in that garden as he prayed: "Father, if it be possible, let this ...

786. An Empty Tomb

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Robert Allen

... on that cross drained all of his strength and he quietly said, "It is finished ... Father, into thy hands I commit my Spirit," and he was dead. But, just to make sure, one soldier took his lance and pierced the side of Jesus, and the last remaining drops of blood poured out. They took him down from the cross and buried him in the borrowed tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. They hastily anointed his body with the burial ointments before the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown on Friday. They would wait all ...

787. The Symphony of God

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... , I might as well do nothing." Do something. No matter how small or insignificant the deed, do it! You are the people of God. The whole revelation of God is to you the people, and for you the people. You may think that your effort would be only a "drop in the bucket." However, place a bucket under a dripping faucet. In no time at all, it will be filled. Or, consider a tiny snowflake that is hardly noticed when it falls on the back of your hand. Multiply those snowflakes, and they can become a power-packed ...

788. No Grey Area

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... it will break down at this joint; it will cease to be a bridge at all. As one scholar put it, "Even if Christ be conceived as carrying us 599 miles on the way to the throne of God, anything merely human for the last mile would drop us all crashingly into the depths of hell." The theological temptation to interject added requirements to the pure, the simple, and the direct doctrine of justification by Christ, and by Christ alone, is not limited to the ancient church. We face the same fatal heresy today. Well ...

789. Sandy Bread or Fertile Harvest

Joshua 5:12

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... had to live in the desert for forty years! And there were thousands of them. Do you know where they found food? (response) Every day for forty years, this is what would happen. Tear off pieces of bread and throw them up in the air so that they drop on the floor among the children. Do this as you say: God made something like bread appear on the ground every morning, and the people called it manna and they ate it. Every day for forty years the people ate this mysterious bread in the desert. This was how ...

790. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... monkish heart. That's why I came to Gethsemani. "Man's God's trophy," he said. The rest I've mostly Forgotten. That's quite enough for fourteen lifetimes To think about. God's trophy. Polished, proud. But I remembered that sometimes trophies get dropped And golden heads get broken off. The private quest - the search through solitariness for immediate communion with God is as old as the Bible itself. It is a road paved with autobiographies of wonder, experimentation, and advice to those who seek that quality ...

791. To See Your Face Is Like Seeing The Face Of God

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

James Angell

... and unruffled, and the sun was shining brightly overhead. But within less than an hour all that changed. Depth charges launched in strategic patterns sent geysers high into the air, and spread lethal shrapnel fires beneath. More minutes passed. More depth charges dropped and spouted. Then, out of Neptune's chambers there arose, dragon-like, the gray prey, as the enemy submarine's crew manned the deck guns and brought our ship under brief but withering fire. Then the ocean became blood. The submarine was ...

792. The Aim Of Preaching: To Bestow The Kiss Of Life

John 20:19-23

Sermon

James Angell

The Los Angeles summer of 1965 produced the frustration-generated Watts riots - or Watts "revolt" as I was taught to call those days. That was the year our family went to England for a pulpit exchange. We were in London the day after Adlai Stevenson dropped dead on Oxford Street, the victim of a heart attack. Mr. Stevenson never became president, but he won a special place in the hearts of the American people. Those of us old enough to remember his campaigns will never forget him - especially the night he ...

793. Abner: The Clumsy Ox Who Is Our Friend

Luke 14:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... very little and was always ready to help another ox whenever he needed help. The only problem with Abner was that he was a pretty clumsy ox. You know what it means to be clumsy, don't you? That's right, you kind of trip over your own feet or drop your fork when you're eating or spill a glass of milk at least three times a day. Some people are like Abner the ox and they just can't help it. People would give him warnings like, "watch out for that tree stump" and then he would fall right ...

794. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... in the presence of your Creator! That's an awesome fact before which I shrivel. I hope you do. You are not here to worship yourself, nor am I, any more than I am standing here in this pulpit to express a personal opinion. You won't want, then, to drop the "Thees" and "Thous" any more than the dignity and good order of worship. You won't quite be able to say, "Come, you Almighty King," or "Christ, you Lamb of God." You want to stay at the distance that dignity and good order demand and reverence inspires. We ...

795. The Rich Man and Lazarus

Luke 16:19-31

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

... and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames. Solo 2: Silly fool, you want pity now. Solo 4: You wouldn't even look at Lazarus on earth. Solo 2: You wouldn't even give him a drink of water. Solo 4: And now you want a drop. Jesus: But Abraham said to him, Abraham (Solo 3): Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted and Lazarus had nothing. Solo 2: That's right, you had it all. Solo 4: And Lazarus had not a single thing. Abraham (Solo 3): So now he is being ...

796. Getting The Facts

1 Corinthians 15:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... said that he knew they were in trouble and he had just come to tell them that he was going to help them out of their trouble -- with love. I don't know who made the bigger splash, but maybe our friends can help. Now first I'm going to drop Stanley into the water. Stanley is like the Ten Commandments. Wow, that was some splash! Now we will try Wilbur. Wilbur is like love. Oh, that was good, but not quite as big a splash as Stanley. You might think that Stanley won, except for one thing: Stanley made a ...

797. The Use of Power

Acts 2:1-13

Illustration

Power can be used in at least two ways: it can be unleashed, or it can be harnessed. The energy in ten gallons of gasoline, for instance, can be released explosively by dropping a lighted match into the can. Or it can be channeled through the engine of a Datsun in a controlled burn and used to transport a person 350 miles. Explosions are spectacular, but controlled burns have lasting effect, staying power. The Holy Spirit works both ways. At Pentecost, he exploded ...

798. Stay Together

Acts 2:1-13

Illustration

Barbara Brokhoff

A man tells of being on a bus tour in Rome which was led by a guide who spoke English. Their first stop was a basilica in a piazza which was surrounded by several lanes of relentless Roman traffic. After they were all safely dropped off, the group climbed the steps for a quick tour of the church. Then they spread out to board the bus, which was parked across the street from the church. The frantic guide shouted for the group to stay together. He hollered out to them, "You cross one by one, ...

799. Trifling with the Trinity

John 16:5-16

Illustration

Brett Blair

... sends the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not send God anywhere. God is clearly the Head." Her comments sent shockwaves through her community of followers and business partners. She was removed from the Women of Faith Web site, influential evangelical churches dropped her program, even some key employees left. Thomas Nelson, her publisher, quickly canceled the publication of her book that was then scheduled for release in one month. All of this because she trifled with the Trinity. If you are confused as ...

800. The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . In the February 1994 issue of Reader's Digest there is a story of how God's Spirit helped one man fight the impulse to pass by on the other side. On September 26, 1944, Ray Hamley, an RAF flying officer, and his crew, flying an American-built B-25, dropped bombs on the town of Kleve just inside Germany's border with Holland. Ray was 21 years old, and his bombs that day hit the railroad station, a number of Nazi factories, and the town church. He had an inkling that one of his bombs hit the church, but war ...

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