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826. Stewards and Our Bodies

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... one particular abuse of our body and refuse forgiveness for it. But, it is a moral and religious issue. Frying our lungs and choking the spirit in smoke cannot be something God would have us do. The church has a responsibility to help you quit smoking. Overeating is equally poor stewardship of our God-given bodies. We may be committing a slow suicide by ignoring good health information and failing to practice good diet. With all that science has discovered in our day about diet, exercises, and so forth ...

827. A Man Who Laughed at God

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... idea of his destination, how far it would be, how long it would take, nor whether he would ever return. (He never did.) That was complete obedience. And it certainly wasn’t easy. Suppose you were convinced that it was God’s will for you to quit your job, leave home, go to a strange land, experience hazardous adventures, sacrifice your personal objectives, and simply leave the future (and the finances!) in his hands. What would you do? Would you be willing to set aside your own desires and obey? Are you ...

828. All-Out Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... for the trip to his office. His wife’s theme song is pop-rock singer Sheena Easton’s, "My baby takes the morning train. He works from nine to five; and then, he takes another home again." But Ben works far past the usual five o’clock quitting time. His work takes him from coast to coast; sometimes he is away for days at a stretch. But, somehow, he manages to return home in time for important church business meetings, and rarely misses a service of worship. Ben is his church’s lay leader, chairperson ...

829. In Control

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... youth room, now their living and sleeping quarters, where they enjoyed watching game shows on the youth group’s television set. Within two weeks, the man was driving around in a parishioner’s car, the woman had succeeded in getting the janitor to quit and taken over his job, their three dogs were spending the night in the ladies’ room, church members were hesitant to intrude when they were dining in the kitchen, and the woman was complaining that youth activities interfered with her husband’s sleep ...

830. "But, Lord, I Didn’t Want To Be Saved in That Way"

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... does put things in perspective. The one who pays can always feel a bit above the relationship. When payment is not part of it, a different dimension comes to be in the relationship. Secondly, there is the story of a man whom I will call "Ed." Ed had been quite a promoter, but he had come to a crisis in his life. One day he visited his pastor, seeking some avenue out of his difficulties. During this visit he met and accepted Christ. His life was turned completely around, and he came to see his former self as ...

831. A Little Effort

Matthew 25:14-30

Illustration

Brett Blair

... , "No, no we need FRESH water! But they received the same reply form the Peruvians to lower their buckets and help themselves. They finally did lower their buckets into the ocean waters and when they brought the buckets on deck they discovered to their amazement fresh water. They had quit trying. There at the mouth of the Amazon river, anchored for days, too far from land to see the coast, but not too far from the mouth of the River, they had fresh water in abundance. Apathy had over taken them and they had ...

832.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... find a way, somehow. I won’t condemn this man. He is not at all like they say. I found him to be quite reserved - almost resigned to accept whatever comes. (Claudia enters right. She sits beside Pilate on the sofa.) Claudia: My lord! Pilate: Claudia! Why ... tomb for him. I would be honored to have him laid in my own tomb. Herod: But what will your friends say? Aren’t you incurring quite a risk? Joseph: What does it matter? All my life I have sought God, and I thought that Jesus was He. Now that he is gone ...

833. OUR LORD DELIVERED UP

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... raised, hove you not read the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong." Nicodemus glanced about the room where others had continued to arrive. He searched vainly for his friend, Joseph of Arimathea. Of all the Sanhedrin, this man only had revealed a sympathetic though furtive interest in the prophet of Galilee. But Joseph had not yet arrived ...

834. Blessed With Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... a basic necessity. What shall I emphasize Sunday morning when I am using for my text the words of Jesus which he spoke on his last night upon earth to his disciples? "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you ..." The other thought was quite different. I remembered that 31 years ago last Wednesday I was ordained into the ministry at the fiftieth anniversary of Trinity Church. After my father gave the sermon, I stood before him; Dr. Hugh Bannen, Trinity’s first pastor; my father-in-law, Dr. Abdel Ross ...

835. A New Kind of Teaching

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... life on it. Amidst the blizzard of information available today, you can be sure we are on to something significant when the teacher begins to stake his reputation, even his life, on it. Talk is one thing, but commitment to the subject matter of the talk is quite another. As in Luther, so in Jesus we have a man who takes a stand on what he is saying. Many of the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus' time taught dogmatically, which is to say, out of a rigid past and unimaginative present. Consequently, even though ...

836. The Personal Touch

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , if you will try, that the best witnessing happens in passing moments of conversation. In other words, you will do the greatest work for the kingdom in relatively minor ways. I think of a suburban woman who was playing tennis with her good but quite secular friends. In a conversation between sets she referred to something she had read that morning. It would have been easier for her to say, “I read something this morning.” Instead she simply introduced one word into her conversation. She said, “In my ...

837. The Establishment of An Empire

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... about better futures and say, "I’ll believe it when I see it." People of faith, however, respond with Saul Alinsky’s famous words: "We’ll see it when we believe it." Reading this account of David and the Holy City helps a lot. Conclusion David and Jerusalem. Quite a story. Because of all this, it came to be believed that God would certainly be in favor of any king who was a son of David. A blind man many years later was to know that too: Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting ...

838. Childs of Center Point

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... conscience. I can’t imagine all this bad publicity has helped them any. If anything, I think it’s given them a black eye. BILL CHILDS: I’m just surprised to see how well our families who’ve lost their jobs are taking it. Not only haven’t they quit the congregation, but a majority of them have now lined up behind Pastor Carlson. Looks like when the question comes up for a vote again next Sunday, he’ll be reinstated. EVIE CHILDS: If I were Pastor Carlson, I don’t know if I’d be willing to come ...

839. Shut-Ins

Exodus 20:1-21

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... answer.) You could sleep, eat, draw pictures, read books, look at television, talk on the telephone, invite your friends to come and visit. Maybe sometime you’ve been sick. You may have had a bad cold and you had to stay in the house all day and all night for quite a few days. That’s how it is to be a shut-in. That’s why shut-ins want to have people visit them. Another thing they like is receiving letters. Even though some of you can’t write letters yet, you could draw pictures to send to a shut ...

840. What If It Is True?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

... true? If it is true, what the angel said to Mary, it means that God’s Kingdom has been revealed and established with the promise that his future for our world is the ultimate victory for peace and harmony among all things. This means we can’t quit on our world because God has not quit on it. It seems easier just to throw up our hands and say the world will always be a place of violence and injustice; better make the best of it and hope to be on the winning side. But, if it is true, if it really ...

841. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... in leadership models, especially leadership in the church. As a member of a seminary faculty, I see the issue daily. Jesus made it clear to James and John: Special appointments are not handed out as though by a medieval bishop to those in high favor. Quite the reverse, it is the way of the "wounded healer" and "the suffering servant." There are individuals who feel that a "call" is all that is necessary. Clovis Chappell tells of the shoe salesman who was soundly converted and wanted to make his witness. His ...

842. A King - A Kingdom

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... are forty-foot sentry towers. The mammoth barrier required eighteen years to complete. Some 3,000,000 soldiers were used as workers in addition to untold thousands of slaves. In order to make it strong, the bodies of thousands of coolies were buried in the wall. Quite literally, it became a wall of human flesh and blood. It is said Shih Huang Ti depleted one generation of Chinese in order to complete the project. It has been observed that the one man-made object on earth which may be visible from the moon ...

843. The Reality Of The Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to me. If your dad could come back to life for five minutes and be right here with us… and if he knew you were worried about that, what would he say to you?” “He would tell me to quit worrying about that,” Jim said. “Well, all right,” the minister said, “then you quit worrying about that right now. Do you understand me?” “Yes sir,” he said… and he did. That minister was saying: “You are forgiven. Accept the forgiveness… and make a new start with your life.” The young boy did make ...

844. Give Up?

John 6:60-71

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... following him. MESHULLAM: For a guy who doesn't listen to him, you quote him a lot. JUDAS: I listen selectively. I remember what will help our cause. MESHULLAM: I don't think I can do it. JUDAS: You can't just quit. Remember what I told you, you're in this until the end. MESHULLAM: Well, I'm quitting. JUDAS: Oh, no! You're staying. I need your help. MESHULLAM: You don't need my help. Your plan seems like a good one, I just want to go home. JUDAS: Okay, leave then. When Jesus comes into his kingdom I'll ...

845. The Gifts of the Left Hand

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... of night in order that he could risk his weakness and his need. What is a left-handed gift? (or if you are left-handed already, what are the gifts of your right hand?) The left is the more awkward. Try eating your breakfast left-handed sometime - it’s quite an experience. We rub left-ness in by saying a guy like me has "two left feet" on the dance floor. The left hand is the slower, the less powerful. The left hand is the supportive rather than the shaping side of us, the supplementary rather than the ...

846. Like Trees Walking

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... where the distractions of daily commotion would not divert their attention. The first view that the man described was dim, quite unrealistic; people appeared like things. At least the man knew the difference between people and things as some of ... light lays like a string of diamonds across the black velvet of the night. But seen during day close at hand, it can be quite different; city and country squalor and poverty, brutality, and hurt, - all these shock us and demand something of us if we have clear vision ...

847. Conflict and Hope: One in the Spirit

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... not to be avoided, but to be embraced! Far from being something which is to be endured, it is to be sought. As Paul put it, "Engage in the same conflict which you saw and now hear to be mine." Having said that, we are made quite aware in this text that what is intended is not a conflict which is destructive. How often we find ourselves engaged in ecclesiastical dispute which is indicative of special interests, and not that which points toward the furtherance of the gospel. Such conflict which sets brothers ...

848. The Long Lonliness

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... felt understood, so alone, and tempted toward alcohol or drugs for solace, the couple in a tired marriage where neither is really there for the other, the unemployed rejected now and again in the search for affirmation and gain, the persons of the almost and not-quite-yet who wonder if they ever will fulfill their dreams -- for all these and more, O God, we make our supplications to you. In your divine wisdom and mercy, be pleased to grant our requests. And thank you, God -- thank you for a many-splendored ...

849. The Future Shapes the Present

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... God where the lion would lie down with the lamb; where the king on the throne would be the Prince of Peace and not a totalitarian despot. He said his Spirit, his Holy Spirit, would be here to support it. But it doesn’t seem to have happened. To be quite honest, even in the day of Jesus there was a dark side to Christmas. There was no peace on earth. At the human level it appeared that nothing had changed. The rivers of the Middle East still ran red with blood. Within two years of the birth of Jesus, Herod ...

850. A Secret Is Finally Revealed

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... names and reputations. Jesus had not visited Asia Minor and Greece and places like Ephesus, Corinth, Sardis, Colos-sae, and Philippi. The Holy Land had the majority of the apostles, the majority of the places Jesus visited, and the majority of the money. Quite obviously, everyone focused on the New Jerusalem idea, the coming of the kingdom there. In fact, the apostles called the Greeks together and said, “We are the ones with the reputation and the history and the money. Majority and tradition rule. You ...

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