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826. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... first temptation to Adam, the son of God, was to prove himself to be like the gods by eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But the greatest temptation came in that moment when the fate of all of humankind hung in the balance as Jesus sensed that moment when he had to enter the final judgment of God, death. It was then, Mark says, after three hours of darkness, that Jesus realized the awful abandonment of God in death. "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" By faith, by trust, by surrender ...

827. Confession

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... above all Habakkuk and Jesus in Gethsemane. This will be encouraging to you as you realize that with all of your frustration and anxiety you are in good company. Let us remember that as we speak about the absence of God, it is not a true absence, but a sense of God's absence. Theologically, God is always with us, but there are those moments that we are not conscious of God's presence. It is during those moments that we need to hold steady and remember what we have known of God in the past, until the clouds ...

828. How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... like a rat nibbling the cheese in a trap. The food is great. But the service is terrible. Just how terrible adultery can be is eloquently described in the following quote, written by the husband of an unfaithful wife. "One reason it feels so good to be married is the sense of being chosen. Out of all the people in the world she chose me. Me to touch. Me to express intimacy. Me to share life's deepest sighs and groans. "When I'm with her I keep thinking what a gift she is. I keep telling myself, 'No one else ...

829. Have I Got News For You!

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

William L. Self

... He said the most spiritual moment of his life was Christmas of 1944. Out of deference to the men in the camp, they were not given work detail that day and were given a bit more food. He said that as they moved around in the prison yard, they sensed that things were different. In one of the barracks (basically a thatched hut with dirt floor and open sides where men slept), one soldier began to sing a Christmas carol. It was echoed over in the infirmary where men were dying. Then all around the camp, the men ...

830. The Man With Two Umbrellas

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

William L. Self

... called me?" "You are mistaken. Go back to bed," the old man said. This occurred the second, and then the third time. Finally, as Eli was dozing off and the wise old priest was thinking that perhaps this was not an event that could be ignored, his spiritual senses kicked in and he knew something unique was transpiring here. "Go back to bed and hear the divine revelation." The source of the interruption was none other than the God of Israel. Samuel would not have been able to respond to the call of God had it ...

831. Uplifted By The Blues

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... had spent a fewer number of years with the firm. During this same period of time Raymond also noted that his children seemed more and more distant from him. Their own lives were very full and it seemed that they had less and less need for him. He sensed that they made subtle efforts to avoid him. Everything seemed to crash in on Raymond at once. He was devastated by loneliness and failure. He felt that he had failed as a husband and father. He also realized that he had probably advanced as far as he would ...

832. Why A Cross?

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... turned the earthly paradise into chaos. God is angry -- angry enough to punish the inhabitants of the earth and bring them to their senses. But no one on earth is willing to listen to God, so God appears ready to chuck the whole business, and let the ... and I love you, and as long as there is breath in our bodies, we will go on loving you and standing beside you!" In a profound sense, God is saying something like that to us from the cross of Jesus Christ. 3. The Cross Is God's Challenge To Us At a still ...

833. Our Helper

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... unconscious wayIs Christ expressed.Is it a beatific smile?A holy light upon his brow?Oh, no -- I felt His presence whileYou laughed just now.For me 'twas not the truth you taught,To you so clear, to me still dim,But when you came to see me, you broughtA sense of Him.And from your eyes He beckons me,And from your heart His love is shed, 'Til I lose sight of you and see The Christ instead.2 The Spirit, our Helper, is the one who communicates through us the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ. 3. Commitment ...

834. Flashing Lights

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... herself was still a girl. Then came an experience of shame when she was involved in an adulterous relationship, and more recently, the experience of sitting beside the bed of her brother as he died of AIDS. She wrote these words: "I search for the wisdom to make sense out of a story that reads like a bad soap opera. How can I convince people that God still performs miracles, that God has taken a broken life like mine and transformed it! I can only bear witness with Paul that 'in everything, God is at work ...

835. An Arranged Wedding, But An Intentional Marriage

Genesis 24:1-67

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... short of the glory of God." No mere mortal is perfect. In fact, after we marry we usually discover that some of the things we thought were strengths are really weaknesses. A woman remarked during marriage counseling, "When I married Dan, I loved his sense of humor. My family was so serious about everything. They never laughed. Dan had such a keen wit. Now I want to divorce Dan because he laughs at everything and never takes anything seriously." Good marriages learn to accept the frailties and weaknesses of ...

836. Expecting the Unexpected

Judges 4:1-24

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... deserve it. We don't expect it; we experience it! Small wonder that God's ways sometimes appear to us so strange and incomprehensible. How could they be otherwise? After all, they are God's ways, not ours. And I dare say, they are laughable in the best sense of the word, because they enable us to share in the joyful laughter of heaven itself. I mean, a joke that's predictable isn't all that funny. Worse still, if it needs to be explained, something has obviously been lost in the translation. "I will go with ...

837. Epiphany 5

Matthew 5:17-20, Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... avoid the death of the soul. Light makes visible God's will so that they may know and follow it. 3. A lamp was put on a lampstand in a Palestinian home. It was raised up so that it could better illuminate a room. People who have a false sense of modesty hide their light under a bushel. They do not let people know what abilities they have for fear they will have to accept more responsibilities. They may also be afraid to let people know that they are Christians. They risk giving offense or being given a hard ...

838. Proper 19

Matthew 18:21-35, Romans 14:1--15:13, Exodus 13:17--14:31, Psalm 114:1-8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... we are forgiven without a formal acknowledgement by both parties. Otherwise, the situation may fester and continue to disrupt the relationship. 2. Guilt: True or False · One of the problems people face is to distinguish between real guilt and a false sense of guilt. Two aspects of a false sense of guilt may need to be considered. Sometimes in the course of life and our human interdependence we may hurt another person when we are not really guilty. An example might be when we have an auto accident due to a ...

839. Service And Reward

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... in the kingdom is more of the nature of play. It has its reward in doing the right thing, not because of the amount of extrinsic reward. Nevertheless, God is good and generous and the rewards received may be well beyond our deserving in a strictly egalitarian sense. 3. Working in the Lord's Vineyard. The English language has no equivalent play on words to that of the German for the expression "The kingdom is both Gabe and Aufgabe." Gabe is the German word for gift and Aufgabe is the word for a task. The ...

840. The Scope Of The Spirit

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... the most important date in the Old Testament. He said for Israel it was a time of relinquishment and reception. Relinquishment in the sense that it was the end of the known world for Israel. The city and temple are destroyed. It is a time of letting ... the Spirit within our lives, to the extent that no place is out of bounds of God's love and care! The writer of Psalm 139 sensed the broad scope of the Spirit activity among us when he wrote: Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy ...

841. Yes, But How?

Sermon

Lee Griess

... speaking about is those who feel the pain of a guilty conscience and grieve in the awareness that we have failed to live up to the expectations of God and those around us. Confession is good for the soul -- yes, we know that -- but how can we develop a true sense of heartfelt remorse for our sinfulness and a real desire to change our ways? Most of us are willing to confess our sins as long as we don't have to change. We are willing to admit to a blemish or two on our moral complexion but nothing that can ...

842. The Promising Invitation

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... and enliven hope. It is strange, then, that though we know these words so well, if you're like me you probably have little sense of their original setting in Matthew's gospel. The danger in this is that if we do not know their setting, we may misappropriate ... to reveal him" (11:27). The point is not just the obvious one that God's ways are not our ways and that God in some sense is always unknown to mere humans. Of course, there is some truth in that, but it's not the truth of which Jesus is speaking here. ...

843. Second Sight

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

David Belgum

... . At a Founders' Day banquet reference will be made to the vision of these early leaders in education. They saw a need and had vision of how the need was to be met. Sometimes it was lonely to be the only one in the community with this vision, this sense of fruitful destiny lying in the future, waiting to be realized. Daniel experienced this and reported it in his prophecy: ... I looked up and saw a man clothed in linen, with a belt of gold from Uphaz around his waist. His body was like beryl, his face like ...

844. All-Surrounding Grace

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... beyond" that is extraordinary to tell us that we are not alone, that we are surrounded by grace. A thread of blue wool from a dead friend's sweater is too good to be true. To trust that we are surrounded by grace shatters our sense of meaninglessness. We can "float into Creator Spirit's deep embrace." Faith is dynamic, changing, growing, decreasing, but doubt is not necessarily disbelief. Doubt can be revisioning. Jacob, Job, and Jeremiah remind us that doubt can be the impetus to deeper trust, for faith is ...

845. Communion With Christ

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... strange. Perhaps we have become so familiar with the Sacrament of our Lord's supper that we sometimes take it for granted. Our lesson encourages us to consider again what communion with Christ means. For one thing, Communion is God addressing us through all five of our senses. Communion is God trying to communicate with us ways that are deeper than words. Every part of us is engaged when we receive the Lord's Supper. We hear: we hear the words of the Institution of our Lord's Supper as they are spoken. We ...

846. Why Do People Suffer?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

David O. Bales

... pushed and pushed. Hours went by. Just sweat, pain, tears. No progress. It was after the surgery team was called to do a Caesarean delivery that Susan again placed her hand on the child's head and she was swept with a sense that the child would not live. No reason. Nothing scientific. The moment she sensed the baby was going to die Susan felt a sensation from her right hand snap up her arm and hit her entire body with a thud. There was nothing she could do or say. There were no indications of anything life ...

847. The Bible Study

Matthew 10:1-42

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... : Good point. We can't think before women and men. I mean, we can, but how would they know we weren't thinking something else besides that we trust Jesus? MARK: Good point. People, I mean, "women and men," can't read our minds. WENDY: It really doesn't make sense. MAGGIE: It really doesn't. WENDY: Imagine standing on Main Street and asking "women and men" to read our minds. REGGIE: I don't think it means that. Let's move on. MAGGIE: Look, here, it says Jesus will deny us. Why would He deny us if He loves us ...

848. Advent 1

1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... presence and its saving power. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Lesson 1: Isaiah 64:1-9 (C); Isaiah 63:16b-17; 64:1, 3b-8 (RC); Isaiah 64:1-9a (E) What a profound expression of overwhelming awe in the presence of a sense of God. That the "mountains might quake" and "the nations tremble": what a picturesque display of repentance and hope. We preachers can learn much just realizing the parade of visual pictures which move before us as we read these words. The writer -- possibly a disciple ...

849. Advent 3

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28, Isaiah 61:1-11, Isaiah 65:17-25, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... know that behind many a smiling face is a breaking heart. 2. Pray at all times. Paul surely didn't mean prayer in the conventional sense. A close look at Paul's life could lead one to the suspicion that he was much too much of an activist to spend ... that after a bit of prayer at the start of the day, the author was thereafter on a fast track and simply went with the sense that God was with him throughout. George Buttrick pointed out that "fields are not plowed by praying over them." I see prayer as a ...

850. Hoofs, Paws, And Christmas Pause

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... seemed the circumstance of her appearance that it caused no feeling of any unusual occurrence."2 And then it went away and Sidney St. John replaced on the wall the picture of Elizabeth Joy. He extinguished the light of the swinging lamp, and with a sense of sweet, sweet comfort, left the room. "The grace of God has appeared ... training us ... to await our blessed hope." Tonight we Pause. Waiting, listening for the sound of the One who is coming; who bridges heaven and earth and reclaims us. Is he coming ...

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