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801. The Paradox of the Cross

Mark 15:33-41, Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Robert Allen

... will find the cross in every nation and every race throughout the world as a symbol of the Christian faith. And this is really a paradox because the cross was once a symbol of suffering and shame. You cannot read the scriptures without getting the clear impression that Jesus knew the possibility of a cross was before him. The idea of the cross frightened him. The cross was the cruelest form of a slow agonizing death ever created to kill another. The cross was intended to humiliate as well as slowly kill its ...

802. Some Illusions (Symbols) Are Better Than Others

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Jech

... of Lystra wanted to worship them, whereas their goal had been to get the people to worship the living God. Ironically, success was getting in the way of the gospel. In the case of the lame man himself, it was his faith that impressed Paul. Throughout the New Testament, the individual's faith is consistently portrayed as being more important than the miracle. Successful signs and miracles are secondary to faith. In this instance, Paul and Barnabas might have wanted to undo the miracle, but I am certain ...

803. Prayers for Year A

Bulletin Aid

William S. Carter

... , and then, Father, hear our thanks; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST · Matthew 16:13-20 Eternal God, people around us are sometimes not impressed by your glory. Help us to radiate the power of your name. Don't let us feel embarrassed by our faith, but help us to declare your lordship as you renew our lives each day; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules ...

804. Paul Meets a Celebrity

Acts 25:23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... usually celebrities. When we meet people like this we usually feel different from when we meet other people like ourselves. They seem so powerful or beautiful that we act different from the way we do with our family or friends. Sometimes we talk different and we try to impress them with the things that we know about them or things that they are interested in doing. It is easy for us to change into a different person from what we really are. Paul had a chance to be like a changed person. As you know, there ...

805. Colorizing Jesus

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Carl Jech

... the truth in the observation made by the Stanford University professor of religion, Frederic Spiegelberg. He wrote that the emphasis put upon the historicity of Jesus may be a major key to the success of Christianity. We do not in any way want to give the impression that the stories about Jesus are little more than fairy tales. But when the editors of John's Gospel tell us that they have chosen to write about certain things in order to make us believe that Jesus is the Christ, we must face the fact ...

806. Becoming What You Are

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Carl Jech

... to 30 years minister at the famous Methodist City Temple of London, wrote that "any minister, standing in the pulpit, who is not an agnostic, is dangerous." His point was that healthy religion encourages us to foster our inquisitive spirit, to avoid giving the impression that we have final and absolute answers, and to leave salvation and perfection in God's hands. I would add that Weatherhead's notion of "the Christian agnostic" is a simple reminder to us to be always humble about our God-talk! To some ...

807. Jesus Meets Buddha and Confucius

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Carl Jech

... many times, the whole point of the Christian emphasis on grace is to keep us from giving in to despair as we struggle to make ourselves and the world all that it is meant to be. Perhaps the greatest danger of reincarnational logic is the impression it gives that we deserve everything we experience in this life. If karma is the reason for everything that happens, then we must accept our fate without objection or resistance. The danger is that we will become "moralistic" and, for example, blame people who ...

808. The Power To Defy Evil

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... won the confidence of the Hebrew people and courageously entered into conflict with the Pharaoh. He uttered the famous words that were to become the battle cry of the Black Freedom Movement in our own age: "Let my people go!" Egypt's king was not impressed. He saw this demand as a trumped-up excuse to gain another holiday for his troublesome slaves. He closed his ears to the pleas of an oppressed people, and he ignored Moses. Even when Moses brought plagues upon the land, the catastrophies only provoked ...

809. The Secret of Survival

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... was frightened by the sudden darkness. Her mother leaned over and said to her, "Look. Look back at the entrance. See that light? Well, that same light is at the other end of the tunnel." Later that day when the mother asked her daughter what had impressed her most about that first day in the mountains, the little girl answered, "I learned not to be afraid of the darkness in the tunnels because there is light at both ends." What sustained the Israelites was that every time their history entered the darkness ...

810. A Holy Hunger

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... God. Those of you who cook know that there is nothing worse than, after having spent long hours preparing a meal, seeing people come to the table and fuss over the food. They push the results of your hard labor around on their plates to create the impression that they have eaten something, when in truth, they have eaten nothing. The main reason that we do not eat is the simple and the obvious fact that we are not hungry. If "Junior" or "Sister" devours two candy bars, downs a milk shake, and finishes off ...

811. The Other Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... understand that the Father loved them too. Now the older brother has gone down in history as the villain of the story. He presents a mean picture to us. A newspaper correspondent might say of him today, “he’s gotten a lot of bad press.” We are impressed by the fact that he had a certain bitterness of spirit, a certain self-righteousness about him. Or we think he must have had a poor relationship with his family. But the fact of the matter is that Jesus didn’t condemn him, And, there is much good ...

812. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... of the moment in ways that have us remembering their gifts to persons like me in whom their wisdom, vision, and greatness lives on. There are the classical preachers whose reputations were established between pre-Reformation times and the Reformation. An impressive nineteenth century list of those who made Scotland synonymous with the power of preaching to help set the nation's character or, in the New World, determine the outcome of its civil war. Then, somewhere in the first third of the present ...

813. Welcoming The New Millennium

Sermon

James Angell

... attempts to fly; potatoes and corn were planted in Peru; the Chinese invented gunpowder; the Saxons settled in Bristol; and because it was the end of the millennium, there was widespread fear of the end of the world. 2,000 A.D. should produce a more impressive list. The world has speeded up. We are smarter, richer, much better equipped to explore what the world is all about than we were a thousand years ago. But we are also more dangerous to ourselves, more conceited - and less inclined to be kind and ...

814. Confessional Services

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Bulletin Aid

G. William Genszler

... the name of the Lord your God in vain. Minister: Lord, I claim the family name -- Christian, yet I refuse at times to bear the family likeness. I do so little to make Thy Good Name loved and respected because I am too busy trying to impress others with My name and My importance. Congregation: O Lord, have mercy on me for Thy Namesake -- Jesus. Commandment: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Minister: Lord, I neglect those precious times when I can commune with Thee. How often the Sabbath rest, the ...

815. Dollar Signs and Life Symbols

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

Rev. Donald R. Shank

... ourselves and our attitude, for the Scripture says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. For love of wealth people will cheat, lie, betray, murder, try to keep up with the Joneses, manipulate others, find loopholes, go further in debt to give the impression or illusion of prosperity. We start by possessing a few things; then we strive to possess more; soon we're adrift in a sea of things and strive so hard to have new and beautiful things that we don't have time to be persons. Soon our wealth ...

816. Is Christianity Practical?

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... that floats around somewhere up in the clouds. And when that happens, beloved, we have corrupted Christianity. We have detached it from life. We have emasculated it of its power and its reality. E. Stanley Jones tells of being confronted with this impression of Christianity in a rather dramatic way. In his travels, he met a highly intelligent Russian acress (as most actresses in Russia are highly intelligent). "I suppose you are a religious man," she said. "Yes," replied Jones, "I suppose I am." "Ah ...

817. Natural Or Supernatural?

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... of the world. Once in a while, he went downstairs. When, therefore, the supernatural dwindled, as man's knowledge and discovery stretched further and further, expanding what he called the natural realm, as that expanded, the supernatural dwindled. And for many of those impressed by natural law, their impulse was to take God to the frontiers of the universe and bow him out. As Staley, one of the great astronomers, has said, "We no longer need the God hypothesis to explain the universe." For many today, the ...

818. Speak From Personal Experience

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... his newly acquired faith, shouting "Come, fall down my well ... Come, fall down my well ..." Sometimes we get so preoccupied with trying to get people to see things our way that we neglect to point them to the One who is the Way. Sometimes we are so busy trying to impress people with our grasp of the truth that we fail to point them to Christ who is the Truth. Sometimes we are so concerned about trying to convert people to our way of life that, we neglect to point them to the Lord who is the Life. In such ...

819. The Last Supper - Passover

John 13:1-17

Illustration

... this, for this is my blood which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sin.” Thus was born our sacrament of the Lord's Supper, out of the experience of an ancient Jewish custom. Leonardo da Vinci by his famous painting has forever impressed upon on our minds the last supper of our Lord. The scene that he depicts is that moment when Jesus announces his impending betrayal. The disciples look at one another with great shock, all, that is, except Judas, who refuses to look Jesus in the face and ...

820. Death and Resurrection

John 20:1-18

Illustration

... : After four years on this project, I now fall upon my knees and worship a resurrected Christ. It would be nice if we could hold some physical evidence in our hands to prove it all, but I would mislead you this Easter Day if I left the impression that the resurrection was a matter of fact. For in the end, the resurrection is a religious belief. In the end you cannot prove it or disprove it. And that is why some brilliant people believe and why some brilliant people do not believe. Because you cannot prove ...

821. No One is Exempt From Doubt

John 20:19-23

Illustration

Brett Blair

... by a lot of weaklings who can't face reality and that the church is nothing but a bunch of hypocrites who care nothing for each other and whose faith extends not to their actions or daily lives but is only just a bunch of empty phrases spouted off to impress others? A cruel letter, isn't it? How would you have responded to it? He sent a letter to the man and said that he had faced his own doubts and that faith was not always easy. He wrote, "I am convinced that there is a God. That no matter ...

822. When the Saints Go Marching In

Revelation 7:9-17

Illustration

Robert S. Crilley

... Revelation lies in the fact that it is a work fraught with mystery, and like all mysteries I suppose, it is at times compelling and at other times confusing. Filled with truth, but nevertheless teasingly enigmatic. Of course, thinking of this book only as a mystery leaves the impression that it doesn't need so much to be studied as it does to be solved. However, to be honest, such an endeavor is like trying to analyze a sunset or dissect a rainbow. At best, it's a wearisome task to scour John's words in the ...

823. Denominational Unity

John 17:20-26

Illustration

John M. Braaten

... , "God put the (name a denomination here) in there; they think they're the only ones up here." It isn't just (name a denomination here) who think they are the only ones who have got this God business right. There are other denominations who also give the impression of exclusiveness and project the feeling that it is only natural that the blessings of God should fall upon them. They are probably just as amazed as we are to see that it "rains on the just and the unjust alike (Matthew 5:45)." I suppose that is ...

824. A Radical Price To Pay

Luke 9:51-62

Illustration

Larry Powell

... . And why? This was her way of giving herself into the service of Jesus Christ. Not partially, but totally. That sounds like a radical price to pay doesn't it? However, if you think such a measure of commitment is radical, read again the words of our text and be impressed that the lifetime commitment is exactly what is called for. A lifetime of service. Call it anything you please, but do not call it less than it is; total commitment.

825. Free From Worry

Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:35-48

Illustration

... 's limousine broke down on the Garden State Parkway on the way home from Atlantic City during a weekend excursion. An unemployed auto mechanic stopped to help, succeeded in getting the limo running and then refused to accept any payment for his services. Trump was so impressed that the next day he sent flowers to the mechanic's wife and a certified letter stating that the man's mortgage had been paid in full. Trump refuses to confirm or deny the story or say exactly what he did for the Good Samaritan. "I ...

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