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776. Strong Faith For Tough Times

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , energy, creativity, and money on defending ourselves from one another, just think what we could do. If all the nations of this world could learn to live together in peace without the threat of war, we could take those incredible resources and wage war on hunger, homelessness, disease, illiteracy, and drug abuse. I know it sounds idealistic. I know it sounds like the impossible dream, but I can’t help but think about it. Just think what could be done. Just think what could be done. III. THIRD AND FINALLY ...

777. The Chief Miracle of Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... to sympathize with us in our weaknesses, scripture tells us, but one who in every respect has experienced all of life, even being tempted to sin as we are, yet without sinning (Hebrews 4:14). Jesus is one with us. He knows all about life: hunger, thirst, exhaustion, loneliness, rejection, pain, grief, sorrow, sadness, joy. He knows all about life because he lived it for about thirty years. Not only did he experience it, however; he transformed it. "I came that you might have life," he said, "and that you ...

778. Where’s the Power?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

The purveyors of "positive thinking" like to tell us that if we want something badly enough we can get it, no matter what it is. All we need is the desire, the hunger, the commitment, and if we have these three things, we can accomplish whatever we want. If we fail to achieve our goal, it is only because we didn’t want it badly enough. Positive thinking has much to recommend it, but it has its limitations. One such limitation is this: ...

779. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... Culpa (O Happy Guilt) Praise to thee, dear brother Guilt! Strong Son of God’s law and love Who dost not cease thy pricks When we would stop to play with dangerous toys Who goads us from the quicksands of anger and (unconcern,) Who makes our hearts to hunger Beyond new clothes, new chariots, new kitchens, New houses, new spouses, or even a new Nation. I have quarreled with thee, O tenacious Shadow that I cannot help but cast as I walk in God’s Light. I have hated thee as the enemy of my sweet sicknesses ...

780. Overcoming Loneliness

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... my prayers; what ought I to do?’ I reply: ‘Talk to God as you are talking to me; even more simply, in fact.’ Saint Paul writes that the truest prayer is sometimes a sigh. A sigh can say more than could be contained in many words." With a yearning, a hunger, a cry, the lonely soul reaches out to God and finds comfort. Why do we insist on doing it by ourselves and stumble inadequately? Things go wrong. We struggle to put things right. We fail again. At last we come back to God and say, "Take over; I can ...

781. A Good God and the Problem of Suffering

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... Belief?" This was the answer of one woman: "Giving up all our children, whom we so much wanted and loved. First an infant son. Second an infant daughter. Third a daughter 13 1/2 years old. There was no bitterness in my soul - but a deep heart hunger." Why? Walk down any street, in any city, in any country of the world. It’s there, behind the doors and windows that line that street. In my congregation, a mother with three children is struck down by polio. Why? A useful woman doing an effective work ...

782. Saved!

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... miles via trucks. I saw a picture of a child in that part of the world. The starving little one was quietly sitting on his mother’s lap, his hands folded. His limbs were emaciated; his abdomen was distended by malnutrition and downright hunger. There was a placid, resigned expression on the gaunt face, calmly awaiting inevitable starvation. E. Stanley Jones reminded us so often, the world cannot go on "half starved, half stuffed." The gospel of Jesus Christ means total change. The wealthy young man who ...

783. Counting The Cost?

Mark 12:41-44

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Warren Thomas Smith

... my ‘hat money’." A retired missionary. James Russell Lowell reminds us: He gives only the worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; And then: For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.2 Selfishness A mark of self-centered people is that they judge others. A member of my church, was very critical of a certain former governor for not remembering the church in his will. It was the perpetual topic of her conversation ...

784. The Word To The Wise

Proverbs 2:1-22

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Alton F. Wedel

... build a personal empire that will never crumble, that we can create a great society and progress to a man-made heaven, that we can mold our children in our image, that if we can set up colonies on planets we can solve the problems of world hunger. Or what illusion is it that flashes on your mental image? Humanity in its own wisdom has achieved great heights, only to create another pit. We conquer one disease to be engulfed by still another. We solve one problem, only to discover we have aggravated others ...

785. The Acid Test of Wisdom

Proverbs 10:1-32

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Alton F. Wedel

... to love in. He lays that burden on our hearts - war ravaged nations, overcrowded cities, a plundered planet where six percent of the population consumes fifty percent of the earth’s resources, where one of every three across the continents go hungry every day, and where the untold multitude still hungers for the Bread of Life. The acid test is now applied to us.

786. Ode to Wisdom

Job 26:1--31:40

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Alton F. Wedel

... sapiens, the human species which has attained the heights and reaches for still higher heights. In contrast to the Third World nations, we see ourselves as a "developed country," and except for a commitment of concern for people ravaged by disease and undernourishment and hunger and war in poorer nations, we like it on this continent and want to stay here in the good life. We are blessed! But what have we developed in this developed country? We have much knowledge, but no wisdom. We have good answers for ...

787. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... physician. If fever scorches thee, he is a fountain. Wouldst thou punish evil-doing? He is justice. Dost thou need help? He is strength. Dost thou fear death? He is life. Dost thou long for heaven? He is the way. Dost thou flee from darkness? He is light. Dost thou hunger? He is food." All this in Christ? Yes, all this in Christ.

788. The Communion of Saints

Hebrews 12:1-13

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T. A. Kantonen

... both in himself and in life around him. This conception of sainthood underlies the beatitudes, the traditional gospel lesson for All Saints’ Day. Our Lord ascribes blessedness to the poor in spirit, the mournful and penitent, the meek and humble, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the sincere, the peacemakers, the reviled and persecuted. The road to God’s kingdom, the road which the saints have trod, is the road of humble receptivity, of sincere concern, or heroic struggle. The ...

789. A New Perspective

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... about things and feeling about things just don’t fit. The person becomes unique. There is a line from one of the contemporary wedding services that says it well. "As God has put within the heart of man the wish to love many people, so has he implanted the hunger to be uniquely important to one person, and for that one person to be supremely and uniquely important to him." This is a given with us as human beings - it is part of the way God invented us. We yearn for that specialness in the eyes of another ...

790. The Courage to Be Me

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Gregory J. Johanson

... at Philippi these words of testimony: "Not that I complain of want; for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content. I know how to be abased and I know how to abound in any and all circumstances. I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and want. I can do all things in him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:10-13). I can have the courage to be me! Amen. The Rev. Donald C. Houts, Ph.D.

791. The Man Who Couldn't Hear

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... that her new necklace was now around the neck of her infant baby sister. "Oh," said the father. "I went on and gave it to her. You didn't like it anyway." Oh my friends, he wasn't listening. He wasn't listening. Jesus said: Blessed are those who do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. We listen to these words of Jesus but do we hear them? Jesus taught us to pray: Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. We listen to these words of Jesus, but do we hear them ...

792. The Long Lonliness

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... . If after the aeons of geologic time we humans become godlike in our dominion over the other evolutionary creatures, within the confines of historic time we have that longing for something more, that deep inward sense that we are destined for another world, that innate hunger for a reality that cannot be satisfied by sensual experience alone. It will not do for us to sum up human history as did one ancient sage who said bluntly of humans: "They were born; they were wretched; they died." If after the long ...

793. Winter Warmth

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... approach you, O God, with grateful and waiting hearts for the care you show us by sending your son. We offer you our gratitude by not hoarding your love but sharing it throughout all aspects of our life. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession The hunger in our own spirits sometimes overwhelms our ability to recognize the impoverished spirit in another. As you draw near to us in this season of Advent, O God, let us also draw near with strength-giving kindness to those around us. In Jesus’ name. Amen ...

794. The Advent-ure of Hope

Micah 3:1-12

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Dallas A. Brauninger

Call To Worship Leader: We know times of brokenness. The body or mind becomes ill. The spirit within suffers. People: We come praying for wholeness. Leader: We know times of poverty. We hunger and may not have resource to feed our body or sustain our spirit. People: We come yearning for fulfillment. All: Come, Christ, we wait to know your hope. Collect Transforming God, who brings change of heart, we trust in you. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Dear God, we notice only the ...

795. Beyond Our Sight, Within Our Hearing

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

William G. Carter

... hear about a God so holy that my eyebrows get singed during the sermon. I want to know about a Jesus for whom it is no big deal to bust down the divisions of time and space, so that he can talk with Moses and Elijah whenever he wishes. I hunger for a kind of worship that knocks me off my feet, precisely because it points to the Presence which we cannot manage, control, or even count on with any predictability. Is that too much to ask? Another preacher said it best when he asked: What if the church serves ...

796. From Crumbs to Half a Loaf

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... for me?” Jesus then healed the daughter and so began the ministry to the Gentiles, a ministry that changed the world. And it all started because a woman in the midst of her darkness, her wilderness, cried out for a little bread in the midst of her hunger. Are there any bread crumbs for me? Today’s lesson deals with this all-important issue: What is the relationship of the Gentile church to Israel? From crumbs to half the loaf is a leap, especially in a writing in the name of one historically known as ...

797. Good News for Good Living

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

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Harold Warlick

... Life and death are identical twins.”6 A good life is made up of the same elements as a good death. The death and resurrection of Jesus redeem our living as well as our dying. That good news saves our living from the tyranny of present wants, present hungers, and present threats. The private life in its living is radically changed when the private will is infused with the will of God for God’s world. The good news of Jesus is not only the Rosetta Stone that unlocks the mysteries of death. It is also the ...

798. Exposed!

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

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Harold Warlick

... renounced secret and shameful ways.” In a country like ours where the disparity between rich and poor is growing and every 44 minutes an American child dies of the effects of poverty, a veiled faith will not work. We must do more than form clubs to discuss hunger. We must do more than debate the morality of the appearance of those who are naked. We must do more than offer the sick our private prayers thanking God for our own health. If Christ truly be within us, the veil has been lifted from our personage ...

799. Living Free

Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... economics. Yes, the people of Judah who had returned to their homeland were freer than they had been in Babylon, though not totally free. (The Persian Empire was still in control.) They had experienced some real hardships since returning home — poor harvests and even hunger (Haggai 1:5-6, 11). In such circumstances, can you blame them for not believing that they yet had the resources to undertake a big project like rebuilding the Temple (Haggai 1:9)? Would you have handled it differently? Was it just not ...

800. Obeying God Rather Than Men

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... our mouths shut under strict orders because we have been told to do so? Will we keep our mouths shut under strict orders in face of corruption, our own sin, discrimination, persecution, annihilation, destruction, famine, pestilence, iniquity, drought, hunger, disease, racism, poverty, hatred, psychological and sexual abuse, sexism, ageism, classism, genocide, homicide, fratricide, and suicide? Will we keep our mouths shut under strict orders about a risen Christ who lives in the present age? The same Christ ...

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