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801. Invitation to a New Life-Style

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... Out of the Spirit come various virtues as Paul lists them in Galatians: joy, love, peace, patience, self-control, etc. These are called fruits of the Spirit. To talk about fruit, reminds us of fruit trees. Did you ever see a tree groan under the load of having to bear fruit? Have you ever noticed a tree sweating because of the hard work to produce an apple? Did you ever see a tree that was writhing in pain over having to produce an abundance of fruit? That is silly, isn’t it? We know that a tree silently ...

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

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... this kind of world he must share it. That’s why I tried to show my Harvard student that God has no need to forgive himself. He is not afar off watching. He lives on Main Street. He bears our burdens, and other burdens which we only dimly guess. We may not know, we cannot guess What pains He had to bear. We only know it was for us He hung and suffered there. That word "dwell" refers to the Ark of the Covenant, leading the journey of Israel by day, keeping watch among their huddled tents by night. Therefore ...

803. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... thing when our talents, our capability to do things is wasted and idle. In Shakespear’s play Othello, a great line is "Othello’s occupation is gone." So here stood these men: sad, depressed, angry, and hurt. The owner of the vineyard took pity on them - he couldn’t bear to see them idle - to think of them returning home with a tale of no employment and no income. So he hired them just for a brief time, and gave them the whole day’s wages. He knew they couldn’t return home with less, and still hold ...

804. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... our country and done. When we are sure that something is contrary to God’s will, we must resist, oppose, bring our influence to bear, that it shall not be done. J. B. Priestly once said: "We should behave toward our country as women behave toward the men they love ... church and the holy sacraments. We must not divide everything in our lives into holy and secular; but, rather, bring to bear the holy in our daily routine, our responsibilities of this life. W. B. Selah says: "A certain dairyman objected to ...

805. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

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T. A. Kantonen

... gift of grace, not man’s achievement. Justification and sanctification stand for two inseparable aspects of living faith, justification for the intake, sanctification for the outflow, of divine grace. In justification faith receives the new life in Christ as a gift, in sanctification faith bears the fruit of the new life. In Kierkegaard’s language, the life of faith is the life of the open palm. Day by day and moment by moment we receive the new life, empowered by the living Christ, in the open palm of ...

806. EPISODE 4: THE FOURTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... and believes in me will never really die. Do you believe this, Martha? MARTHA: I believe it, Lord. You know I do. JESUS: Do you believe in me? MARTHA: Yes, Lord. I believe that you’ve come to us from God. [PETER, JOHN, JUDAS and THOMAS enter bearing the casket in which LAZARUS lies. MARY, the SECOND CLERGYMAN and MARY MAGDALENE also enter.] Mary, the Lord is here. MARY: Oh, Lord, seeing you will make me cry all the harder. If you’d been with us, Lazarus wouldn’t have ... Lazarus ... I can’t say ...

807. The Stepfather of God

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the village gossips would savage both Mary and Joseph. But before Joseph could act on his decision, an angel met him in a dream. "Mary is telling you the truth," said the angel. "Go ahead and cut short the betrothal. Marry her right away. The child she will bear will save people from their sins." The very next day Joseph did exactly as instructed though it must have set off a firestorm of gossip in the village. He took Mary as his wife but had no sexual relationship with her until after the birth of Jesus ...

808. The Master at Prayer

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... 't agree, your way, Lord, is What I Want. In the final analysis, Jesus prayed in Gethsemane because the cross was too heavy to bear alone. Life delivers to all of us some burdens and problems and decisions that we cannot manage alone. We are driven to God, to ... that I cannot face, but we can. There are loads that are too heavy for me, but not for us. There are sorrows that I cannot bear, but we can. There are times I simply grow tired of the fight, but we don't. There are barriers that I have no strength to ...

809. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... wave of love and sacrifice and make us children of God. In his second advent he comes to judge and perfect - to bring to completion all the program of God’s project of reclamation. His second coming assures us that the future is in God’s hands and it will bear the name, Jesus. The second coming of Jesus is being taken out of mothballs in our day. For too long it has been placed in the last chapter of dogmatics and given the small emphasis of an appendage. Thanks to the Jesus People and to a book by Hal ...

810. THE MARK

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... one? EVE Which means that it’s practically my obligation to help you. CAIN Maybe it is. You pay the price too. You let me into the world - and now that it’s balanced on my shoulders, you’ve got to move in too. You should bear your share. EVE What good would that do? Bearing my share. CAIN I don’t want to die like an animal. EVE What about your brother? CAIN He stood up to me. Face to face. I swear it. EVE Why do you have to tell me that? Why don’t you tell me too that ...

811. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... shouldn’t cry, that "everything happens for the best?" Tell her to dry her tears and stifle her bitterness, because "there’s always a silver lining in every cloud?" Tell her that everything that happens is God’s will, and so she must just "grin and bear it?" I remember very well a young, fledgling pastor that might have said those very things. He knew all of the answers of the Christian faith and the Christian way of life. He knew, for instance, that it was completely unnecessary and a sign of faulty ...

812. Worn Out? Tired? Weary?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... with pep-giving vitamins, and yet, they are tired, for the tiredness has very little to do with their bodies. It is the weariness of soul, the tiredness of spirit, the fatigue of the heart. And weariness of spirit comes NOT from bearing the burdens of the world. It comes from bearing the burden of SELF, this burden that ultimately becomes too heavy for any one of us to carry. It is weariness of spirit that saps your zest, your enthusiasm, your appetite for life. It dams up all of the energies and turns ...

813. Chapter IV

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... past. For some persons, at least, the heavy strictures about sabbath observance laid down by their forefathers became too heavy to bear. There was a time, and it still exists for some, when the keeping of the sabbath was a grim and stuffy ... hands! To realize anew that there is some One beyond this facade takes some doing on our part. We need the time, and the opportunity, to get our bearings. I need that just as regularly as you do. When I am on the go, day in and day out, even though I teach in a seminary, I ...

814. Let the Son Shine in

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... wings." Well and good, but the test question is: Do we walk in the light? Are we, as Luke says, "the children of light," and do we bear, as Paul puts it, "the armor of light?" The purpose of God’s light is to show life as it really is. A blind date has a ... that draws this fellowship together is that while we are required to admit and confess our sin, we are not condemned to bear them on our own shoulders. By confessing them freely, God frees us from that real burden of guilt through the blood offered ...

815. Snoring through Sermons

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... that person or does it just happen he’s here and we’re here? It all goes back to the nagging question of why the church is in business anyway. It is not to simply "save souls." But to equip and prepare us to bring God’s Word to bear on daily life and to listen to what God is saying to us through daily situations. Phillips Brooks observed that the train criers at the station would pontifically call out the names of the towns along the route of the departing train, as though they had been to every ...

816. Broken and Beautiful

Luke 18:9-14, Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... But when he wrote about his father, he could make you cry. His father was a soldier, a veteran of World War II who returned to military duty in Korea. There in brutal warfare against the Chinese, Mr. Grizzard, Sr. saw more suffering and horror than he could bear. He came home a broken man. The disease of alcoholism took him to an early grave. That kind of brokenness is tragic and heartbreaking. All of us are broken by sin to some degree. That is, we have inner flaws that only God can heal and correct. That ...

817. A Terrific Trade

2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... had arranged for us to be there. Albert and I took John inside and had a lengthy talk. We assured him that his father loved him much more than that company. We assured him that guilt had only one useful purpose--to lead us to the Christ who came to bear our guilt. We urged him to turn that guilt over to Christ and to accept from him forgiveness and a new lease on life. We assured him that God is bigger than any problem we ever have. We shared some helpful scriptures and had prayer. That evening at the close ...

818. Right on the Money!

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to pay the minimum each month. Before he was through, he had paid for that Rolex at least twice. Bless his heart! He just couldn't bear to say to himself, “I can't afford a Rolex." Proverbs 13:7 had him in mind when it says, “One man pretends to be rich ... thinking “I’m so financially stretched and stressed that these biblical guidelines are just beyond me. It’s more than I can bear.” Don’t dispair. Go home this afternoon and put a plan on paper. Make a start, however small. You may decide to ...

819. Reconciliation

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... , in fact, that material gifts can not pay the price of a broken relationship. The harm done to the love/trust relationship cannot be repaired even with a new Lincoln Towncar or a fur coat. The relationship can only be restored by the wife, who was wronged, bearing in her heart the ache and pain of her husband’s unfaithfulness. From that pain is born forgiveness. And in forgiveness a new relationship can be born. Now, that is what God does on the cross of Jesus. God was on the cross taking into heart the ...

820. Concern

John 19:17-27

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Burton F. Blair

... sad or hurt. Only this kind of love gives birth to the church as community. When we share comfort, healing, forgiveness, and acceptance with one another, we become one together, leaning and depending on one another. As community, we learn that we do not have to bear our burdens alone. We have each other. No matter what our burden might be, there will be someone in the church’s community that can help us. We will, in the community of the church, find someone who has walked where we are walking. And they ...

821. Song of a Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (Psalm 23:6) The benevolence of grace, the poet has discovered, is woven into the fabric of life; and we can escape it no more than we can elude our shadow. The God who bears with his own "the burning of the noontide heat and the burden of the day" provides them a sense of security and peace, not simply because they are coming home, but because, in the course of their checkered journey, he makes them increasingly aware of an encompassing love ...

822. The Richest Hill On Earth

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... and millions of people watching on television. Some of the people in the stands began to scream, "Throw him out!" And that was one of the nicer things they said. The young man just sat there, hanging his head in shame. Then the whole stadium seemed to grow quiet. Coach Bear Byrant went over and sat on the bench beside the player. He put his arm around his shoulder as though to say, "You made a mistake, but you are still a part of the team." That is God’s message to us through the Cross of Calvary. he is ...

823. Give Us A New Name!

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... he called "Mahershalalhashbaz," which meant "spoil speeds, prey hastens." Whenever that name was spoken it reiterated Isaiah’s contention that Syria and Israel would soon be conquered by Assyria. Perhaps such names were not very fair to the children who had to bear them. I can imagine them wincing under the very statement of their names; probably wishing Dad had called them something a bit more ordinary. And names have sometimes been used to signify some life-changing event in one’s life. You remember ...

824. Whatever Happened To Sanctification?

Exodus 20:1-21

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... The commandments of God are given to help and guide us in the tough business of living. Take the commandment: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." This has to do with lying. We can get into all kinds of games as to what ... of some social lies about how we feel or how we evaluate another’s appearance. Here, in love, we may fudge on the truth a bit. Bearing false witness has to do with more important issues than these. It has to do with public and political lying: lying to protect our job ...

825. Wheel Within The Wheel

Acts 1:12-26

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... . The "son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, to give his live as a ransom for many" (Matthew 20:28). Leadership is built on trust, and trust comes through service. Service, not domination. Servant leadership is the stamp of those who bear his name. So our text reminds us, not only of the necessity of good organization but also the need for trustworthy, serving leaders. In all of this process of leader replacement and selection, we see God’s care and concern for the continuity of the church ...

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