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801. Recalling, Remembering, And Rejoicing

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous snakes and scorpions" (Deuteronomy 8:14b-15a). It is an eloquent recitation of the Almighty's achievements, to be sure. But you have to admit that, at least initially, it seems a rather curious choice of subjects for a farewell sermon. I mean, here the Israelites are preparing for a new life. However, instead of setting their sights toward the future, Moses appears more interested in dwelling on the past. Of course, it could be that he's simply reminiscing ...

802. Sowers Of The Seed

Psalm 119:1-176, Romans 8:1-17, Genesis 25:19-34, Matthew 13:1-23

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William E. Keeney

... :1-9, 18-23 "The Sower" Pentecost 9. Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 "Thistles Among The Wheat" Pentecost 10. Matthew 13:44-52 "Treasure And Trash" The parables are all concerned with the kingdom of heaven. They present differing views of the same subject. They lend themselves well to looking at the same complex topic from different perspectives. Context of Matthew 13 In Matthew 13 we have another of the major teaching sections introduced by Matthew into the general scheme of Mark's chronology. As noted above, the ...

803. Prepared Or Not?

Matthew 25:1-13

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William E. Keeney

... -year-old. She talked about it for a long time afterward. 5. Surprises in History. Malthus developed a theory that the population growth would outstrip the growth of food, resulting in mass death and chaos. Even India and China which were earlier subject to periodic famines have stabilized food production for a much larger population than Malthus would have thought possible. In the '60s the Club of Rome made some very pessimistic projections about the depletion of oil reserves by the year 2000. Approaching ...

804. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

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William E. Keeney

... registered against giving more to the one who already had the most. No such protest is found in Matthew's account. Context of the Lectionary The First Lesson. (Judges 4:1-7) The account is of the reign of Deborah as Judge. The Israelites were subject to King Jabin of Canaan who maintained his rule through Sisera as commander of the army. Deborah orders Barak to confront Sisera with assurance of God's support in the endeavor. The Second Lesson. (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11) Paul admonishes the Thessalonians to be ...

805. Don't Sweat The Numbers

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... born, the proud parents would send out cards that would say, "We've got a new baby! She was born at 3:25 a.m. on 10-12-95, weighing in at seven pounds, six ounces and she's 21 and a half inches long." But, since those numbers were subject to change, a more permanent number was needed. And so the parents would fill out a form, send it in to the government Agency in Charge of Numbers, and that agency would assign the child a nine-digit number that would be hers for life. Somebody else might have the ...

806. Confidence To Spare

Psalm 27:1-6, 13-14

Sermon

Robert G. McCreight

... failure and tragedy in any area of life. B Today our scripture text is from Psalm 27, and this psalm exudes confidence. It is one of many psalms of new orientation -- the third and final type of psalm we're looking at in this Lenten series. Psalm 27 raises the subject of religious confidence, so today we'll talk about what it is and how you can get it. Religious confidence is something that we all need and I believe you'll want as you seek to grow in your faith. All people with a deep faith have displayed a ...

807. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... ! But God was not thinking like a pious and patriotic Hebrew. God was divinely unorthodox in his thinking about the Assyrians and their sinful capital. God remembered that, as cruel as the Assyrians had been not only to the Jews but to all their subject peoples, they were still members of the human race, children of the Heavenly Father. But, unlike God, Jonah could not conceive of forgiving the Assyrians. To do so would have deprived him and his fellow Jews of their most trusted and efficient scapegoat. For ...

808. The Christian Journey III: The Desert

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it." The university campus can be a desert for some students. The familiar and comfortable are gone; the old activities or subjects in which they excelled no longer hold the same excitement; the childhood faith, appropriate to junior high or high school, unchallenged and untested, no longer seems adequate. It may be time to face the first death of a peer or close relative. A long time ...

809. Entertaining Tips for Christians

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... anyone who's ever broken God's laws. I've invited husbands and wives who have betrayed each other. I've invited children who have let their parents down. I've invited parents who feel like they have failed their children. I've invited people who have subjected their bodies to all kinds of abuse. I've invited those who are twisted up inside, crippled by all kinds of painful memories. I've invited those whose eyes are blind to other people's pain. I've invited people who say they love me, but whose actions ...

810. How Not To Throw A Party

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... " died about forty years ago. But I did consult the twelfth edition of Emily Post's Etiquette. Luke 14 focuses on etiquette for guests and hosts at dinner parties. I thought I should see what the original "Miss Manners" had to say on that subject. I uncovered a lot while browsing through Emily Post's Etiquette (Funk and Wagnalls, 1969). I learned to kneel, kiss his ring, and address him as "Your Holiness" when having a private audience with the Pope. I learned replies to lunch invitations to the White ...

811. Fulfilled, Or Just Full?

Sermon

Alex Gondola

John 6:24-31; Acts 16:11-15 William H. Willimon, Professor of Liturgy and Worship at Duke University, author of over twenty books, is one of America's most prolific lecturers on the subject of worship. I've heard Willimon several times. I've always found him to be insightful and delightful. One thing that makes him so engaging and so effective is his lack of pretense and his honesty about himself. He talks quite openly about his struggles in life and his struggles ...

812. Prayers for Memorial Day, Election, Thanksgiving

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

... for the ingenuity of your children, but we thank you more for your insistence that your love be proclaimed so that all people can overcome the ravages of sin. We thank you for your tender mercies made available to those who are the subject of our intercessory prayers. We thank you for: New opportunities and old friends; Careful doctors and daring innovators; Homemade solutions and mass-produced tools; Fashionable blouses and comfortable old sweaters; Friends who check on us and friends who don't remind us ...

813. Wedding: Deciding To Love (for a marriage after divorce)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Derl G. Keefer

... . What you want to focus on as you prepare to say your vows to one another are those things that will give real substance to your life together. To find, as an English professor I had used to say, "the real meat and potatoes of the subject." What are the things that make for fulfilling, lasting love? According to 1 Corinthians 13, there are some things you will have to let go -- little things like rudeness, selfishness, and irritability. "Pass the salt," said with a snarl across the table after a hard day ...

814. Life Beside The Falls

Ezekiel 47:1-12

Sermon

David O. Bales

... , Millie came into the home famous for her resistance to football. So Robbie and Millie didn't say much to one another. Phil and I waited and watched. Robbie made the Varsity, and the night arrived for his first home game. It was my place to bring up the subject, "Millie, we're going to Robbie's football game. We'll be leaving around seven; be home after nine." "I'll go with you." Thus it went for four years. Only when asked did Millie complain, "It's a game I neither understand nor enjoy." But every home ...

815. King Ahaz,Idolater

Drama

Peter C. Garrison

... 'em." Other: I did that too in a way. I became so "scientific" and "critical" that I forgot to wonder. I believed the newspaper more than I did my own eyes. I believed the tabloids and ignored God's Word. Ahaz: What's a tabloid ... Other: Don't change the subject. What else did you do to end up here? Ahaz: I gathered together the utensils of the house of God, and cut them in pieces. I shut the doors of the temple and put up altars all over Jerusalem. Then I made high places for offerings to other gods. I ...

816. A Living Witness

Acts 9:32-43

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... 't really happen anymore, do they? Our text today would certainly suggest that miracles were once common in the religious community. Today, when we hear people use the word miracles we become suspicious and doubt creeps in. Our text today not only addresses the subject of miracles, but suggests that many miracles take place in the ordinary events of our daily lives. Our text today would make a perfect made-for-television movie. There's a story line that involves the larger community; there is a hidden sub ...

817. The Suffering Servant

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... us whole. What does it mean to be made whole again? Life is not always fair. Sometimes things occur to us or people whom we know and love. The question that often springs forth is -- why me, why them? Numerous authors have written on the subject of human suffering, all with the intent of trying to bring some focus to what appears to be unexplainable events. Our understanding of human suffering can never make sense apart from our understanding of what the suffering of Christ means in our lives. Suffering is ...

818. That Heavenly Call

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:26-38

Drama

Karren Boehr

... ? ANGEL: The same way I got into Mary's office. I walked in. JOSEPH: But my doors are locked tight! ANGEL: And you should know angels have absolutely no trouble with locked doors. JOSEPH: Angels! Now, wait a minute! Not more angel stuff! I've heard as much on that subject today as I care to swallow for a dozen centuries. You're not inferring that you might be an angel, are you? ANGEL: Yes, I am. And, you are Joseph. Now that we've got the introductions over with, I'd like to get on with my mission. (Clears ...

819. The Church

Acts 6:8-15, Acts 6:1-7

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... fifty miles will be streaming in here with their hand out. This is a sophisticated congregation and we just can't have anyone and everyone walking in here any time they want to. We have to protect ourselves. PETE: I think you're getting way off the subject, Jim. JIM: Well, I just don't like the idea of always looking for ways to spend the church's money. I volunteered for this committee because I felt the church needs more money. The way inflation is hitting everyone's pocketbook ... (JOHN AND GUY ENTER AND ...

820. The Lord, The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... , spoke it directly to my heart. There was no particular ecstasy or emotion, simply the calm assurance that the blessing was mine. Some time passed, I do not remember just how long, and I was sitting in that same study, I do not remember that I was thinking about the subject at all, but suddenly it was just as if I had been knocked out of my chair onto the floor, and I lay upon my face crying, "Glory to God! Glory to God!" I could not stop. Some power, not my own, had taken possession of my lips and my ...

821. Jesus Heals the Leper

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... moralism tacked on. Dramatize the Scripture Have the action take place in the chancel. After Jesus speaks, have the cleansed leper go out telling the people. Have a reader conclude with the last verse. Proclamation of the Good News Before tackling this difficult subject, do some studying on sexual perpetrators, both inside and outside of the church. I know several who will never again set foot inside of a church building because some "pillar of the church" molested them. This message of the touch will stir ...

822. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 13:1-31

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... offered a thirty-hour study on the book of Revelation. Two of the most helpful reference books were The Most Revealing Book of the Bible, by Vernard Eller, and The Last Book of the Bible, by Hanns Lilje. I invite you to read them before tackling this subject. I wrote one sermon based on this theme, titled "Raptured Into the Second Coming, or E.T.A. Later Than You Think." (If you want a copy, send me $3.00 and a SASE.) Response "Rejoice! Rejoice, Believers" STEWARDSHIP Stewardship Challenge It's time to give ...

823. Advent 2

Mark 1:1-8, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Isaiah 40:1-31

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E. Carver McGriff

... , had allowed themselves to be integrated into the local culture. But there was a third group, those who didn't quite fit into either group. These people were confused, unsure of their own status in God's eyes, fearful that they might be subject to divine retribution of one kind or another. In the words of this text we have an exalted statement of a loving, forgiving God. "Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem," God counsels the prophet. The prophet assures the returnees ...

824. Advent 4

Luke 1:26-38, Romans 16:1-27, 2 Samuel 7:1-17

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E. Carver McGriff

... mine with whom I used to occasionally eat lunch, who didn't even believe that Jesus was a real person. Between those extremes are the majority of mainstream Protestants (Catholics being in a different spectrum altogether) who either remain silent on the subject or privately admit some sincere doubts that things happened quite this way. May I, at this point, express my regard for any sincere Christian regardless of any theological differences between us, then express my own belief? I honor the story of Mary ...

825. On Getting Out Of The Way

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... bad are our enemies. Justify our violence and opulent lifestyles in a hungry world. Make us feel good about national goals which are contrary to the goals of Christ. Wave the stars and stripes. Never mention sin. Steer clear of the cross -- it is a most unpleasant subject. Say what people want to hear and they will never see Jesus. A church that does those things will be certain the masses will see it but won't see the Christ, who according to John, comes with "his winnowing fork in his hand, to clear the ...

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