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851. Good News Or Bad News?

Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... were cast out of heaven; the war was won. But although he has been defeated and cast out of heaven, Satan is allowed to carry on his activities on earth for a time. As sometimes happens in earthly wars, although the conflict has been decided, the fighting continues. We may find it hard to understand why this should be, for it makes our lives more difficult. Perhaps God in his wisdom knows that such opposition is necessary if our faith is to develop and grow. Paul, James and Peter all speak of the blessings ...

852. Get Ready

Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... resources he has provided for us. In order for us to be useful for him in this world, Jesus urged us to "abide in me" - to be continually connected to him as a branch is connected to a vine. How do we do this? By using his word. "If you abide in me and ... his grace we are led to pray for and receive all that we need to do his will. So Timothy was advised to "continue in what you have learned," referring to "the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." ...

853. No Tears for Me, Please

Luke 23:26-43

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John R. Brokhoff

... , it needs more than tears. When things are bad, we moan. We feel sorry for the victims of persecution and violence. This is often seen when we witness a pathetic scene in the movies. We are moved to tears, but when the show is over, we dry our tears and continue on our merry way. One time a movie on Jesus' life was shown. The time came for the crucifixion with all of its agony and torture. While Jesus was being nailed to a cross, a young woman got up and said to her friend, "Let's go - this is where ...

854. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

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Larry Powell

... more and more are unable to tell you anything about their book, know less and less about the backgrounds of the great hymns, and whose origins have become so obscured that we cannot even agree among ourselves. The Sunday School, the primary teaching form, continues to decline at an alarming rate. Like the Cherokee, we have the "shops," the buildings, and the relics, but they are poor substitutes for the real article. The remnant is there, but it is becoming progressively obscured as we come more and more to ...

855. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

... does not stand still; the deepening lines in my hands, the grey hair (around other people's temples); the boys trying to squeeze into jeans which seemed only yesterday a little large, but are now two inches too short. The wheel of time is continually grinding, sometimes crunching, sometimes refining, but never stopping. But did you ever notice that some minutes seem longer than others? Some are sixty seconds, while others are s....i....x....t....y s....e....c...o....n....d....s. For instance, for two people ...

856. Proclaim Peace

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Alan Bacon Bond

... at the end of a full week of playing with dice-like devices, the loser would be declared King for a day - the day always happened to be Friday. They would dress the loser like a king, tease him, and then crucify him! The game continued after the crucifixion to see who would get his possessions. One week, nearly two thousand years ago, the loser happened to get very lucky, because coincidently, another gruesome drama was being played out between Jewish authorities and the Roman governor. The question of who ...

857. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Bulletin Aid

Robert G. McCreight

... salvation would be more than a flaring burst of light which fills the skies and then disappears. It would be an eternal light that would change the course of history forevermore. Zechariah 14:6-7 On that day there shall not be either cold or frost. And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the Lord), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light. Isaiah 60:19-20, 1-4a The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you by night; but the ...

858. Monologue: Moses' Mother

Exodus 2:1-10

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... up to her. He was raised in Pharaoh's court. He received the best that Pharaoh could give him, the best education, the best of luxuries, relationships and the best of life that Pharaoh knew. I knew that the boy was well, as I and the rest of my people continued to slave under intolerable circumstances. Even if he had continued to live with me, life is very cheap and he might easily have died young while on a dangerous construction project or from some other injury. But during all this time of difficulty, I ...

859. Monologues: Disciples Redeemed

John 20:10-18, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Drama

Raymond I. Keffer

... me to suffer on His behalf, for He promised that if we suffered for Him, we would share a room in His mansion in Heaven with Him forever. "I tried to live my life as a testimony to Jesus. Although my death was one of agony, my testimony for Jesus continued until I had taken my last breath. I was crucified on an X-shaped cross, not the traditional cross like Jesus. I was tied to this cross for two days before I died. "Praise God for His blessings and for His amazing grace that saved a wretched sinner like me ...

860. Prayers for Year A

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William S. Carter

... we celebrate the joy. Lead us into service; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER · Luke 24:13-35 O Father, we give you thanks for your continual presence among us. Remain with us and excite us with the energy of your love to serve your world; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER ...

861. Some Women's Stories

John 7:45--8:11

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Carl Jech

... of Jesus' God-like special powers.) But regardless of all that, the admonition to "sin no more" is simply Jesus' way of giving the woman another chance. The whole point of the New Testament emphasis on forgiveness in not to focus on past sins but continually to remind ourselves that tomorrow is another day, that God always offers us a new opportunity to improve, to do good, to love rather than to condemn. At the cross her station keeping, stood the mournful mother weeping, close to Jesus to the last. (13th ...

862. Throw Your Heart at the Sky

John 21:1-14

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Carl Jech

... is by no means diminished when we make honest efforts to interpret the New Testament correctly and when we resist the temptation to read into it only what we wish to see there. To ask "Will the real Jesus Christ arise?" is a way of reminding ourselves continually to question our pet theories about the Christian faith, so that we will not lose touch with the true Gospel of the grace of God. We have used the image of "colorizing Jesus" to make it clear that the real Jesus is a complex, multi-dimensional Jesus ...

863. Becoming What You Are

John 14:15-31

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Carl Jech

... they can do more harm than good. Our goal is not some static and abstract notion of perfection or peace. That is the kind of peace that the world may give, but it is not the kind of peace offered by Jesus. Our goal is to continue the process of living. The peace offered by Jesus has to do with life, with the never-ending process of becoming. In a sermon titled "A New Vision," Dr. E. Howard Satterwhite of Trinity United Methodist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, compared the ideal of a Christian community ...

864. Give Them Good News...

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... downtown Jericho Hilton." "I'm sorry to disappoint you, fellas," he must have replied, "but today I'm going to be Zacchaeus' house guest." "But Lord," they could have countered, "this man is a sinner of bad reputation." "Never mind about that," Jesus could have continued, "I'm going to eat with my friend Zacchaeus." And what a difference such unmerited love made in the life of Zacchaeus. In the presence of Jesus he became a changed man. Everyone wants to be loved and accepted as a person of worth. Everyone ...

865. An Everyday Theology

Luke 11:1-13

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Wallace H. Kirby

... that most of the truth of God and man is both/and, not either/or. It is both a learned and an everyday theology. To use one to the exclusion of the other is to simplify the tension at the loss of depth, richness, and truth. We will continue to need a learned theology. It is part of the apologetic task of our day. Let us remember that the sound, intellectual preaching of Ambrose of Milan played a major part in the conversion of Augustine. Harry Emerson Fosdick confesses, in The Living of These Days, that it ...

866. Christ Has Set Us Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... the soul, to concede they’re too weak to make it on their own, to acknowledge to their families, to their faces, that they’ve been a nuisance and an embarrassment. But this discipline is necessary before they become free not to drink. As Jesus said: "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples." The program of A.A. is just an application of the word of our Lord on how to be free of any enslavement: to repent of our past, to look to him, to receive his pardon, and to live forgiven, getting ...

867. The Violence Within, The Violence Without

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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... an historical interest, but hardly a personal one, hardly a contemporary one. In a moment the volcanic rage of the text is forgotten. The ease of crawling out from under shows how deep and elusive is our problem. Life goes on. Religion continues. Worship continues. And officially, too. The form is maintained, the substance gutted. Only the prophet noticed. In recent years, we’ve been shocked by some of the stories of the crudities, not to say savagery, emerging from the resurgent Muslim faith. And it’s ...

868. The Time Is Coming

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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... to be reminded. Parents know that. How often, contrary to the prophecy, must they tell their children to pick up, to do this, to do that? Then, upon the child’s graduation from college at the ripe age of twenty-two, parental reminding continues, needs to continue. But for all that, few deny their preference for God’s new covenant. Falling in love, being in love is something like that new vision. Perhaps you’ve experienced it. When you first fell in love, neither of the two of you needed instruction ...

869. Wellspring for the Soul

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... anymore. There’s no thirst for much of anything. It is to that rocky contour of our inner life that Jesus brings this astounding Word of his. He himself is the wellspring that never runs dry, keeps on gushing up in a living stream of life-giving water that continues into eternal life. Wellspring There is such a water. He is that water. It won’t do to just describe the problem of how life flattens out into desert places of the soul. What is called for now in your life and mine is a sizing up of where ...

870. Loosed from the Pangs of Death

Acts 2:14-41

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... be normal again. That is reality, but I have good news. To be loosed from the pangs of death is not simply to talk about eternal life and immortality for those who have died. To be loosed from the pangs of death also says something about those of us who continue living and have to deal with the reality of that death. What Peter was saying to the people of Israel was not simply that we have been loosed from the pangs of death for those who have died and gone on. There is a faith, and a community of believers ...

871. Life in the Community of Believers

Acts 2:42-47

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... fellowship. In the United Methodist Church we say, "Will you be loyal to the United Methodist Church and uphold it by your prayers, your presence, your gifts and your service?" Will you be a part of the continuity of that commitment that brought the faith to you? The Church will be here for you. The question is: Will you be here for the Church? That is what it means to claim our life together as the people of God. What a tremendous claim! What a beautiful opportunity to ...

872. The Source of Power

Acts 1:1-11

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... of the empowerment at Pentecost, is that we might be reminded that Jesus lived and lives, and was lifted up and is lifted up. He has assured us that, as surely as God lived in him, God lives in us to give us life and to empower us as we continue to live here until we, like him, are lifted to God’s eternal glory. If the disciples and Luke, who recorded the events, could make the bold leap from fact to meaningful faith and allow it to transform their lives, I believe it is also possible for us. This is ...

873. Easter 6

Jn 14:23-29 · Acts 14:8-18; 15:1-2, 22-29 · Rev 21:10, 22-27

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... - v. 22. Since God and the Lamb are present, the people will have no night, for the radiance of God's glory will be a continual light - v. 23. The inhabitants of the heavenly city will be God's people from all nations - v. 27. Best of all, the city will ... God through Christ. c. He is to send power through the Spirit, power to be and do. d. He gives us the responsibility to continue and extend his work in the world. "Jesus departed our sight, that he might return to our hearts and there find him. For he ...

874. Easter 7

Jn 17:20-26 · Acts 7:55-60; 16:16-34 · Rev 22:12-20

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Russell F. Anderson

... die for Christ - L 1 b. Hope for Christ's return to earth - L 2. The church prays for his coming soon that through his coming there may be a new heaven and a new earth. c. Comfort for life on earth - G. It is comforting to know that Christ continues to pray for his people that they might be one in love and that some day in the future they may be with him in his glory in heaven. Gospel: John 17:20-26 1. Will Christians Ever Be One? Need: Christians seem to be divided more than ever. The ...

875. Ordinary 32

Lk 20:27-38 · Zech 7:1-10 · 2 Thess 2:13--3:5 · 1 Chron 29:10-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... in Daniel and a few Psalms. Jesus did not answer the question as to which of the seven brothers would be the husband. He used the question as an occasion to teach the nature and existence of the resurrection of the dead. For one thing, heaven is not a continuation of earthly life and therefore there is no marriage in heaven. Also, there is a resurrection and a life after death. This is based on the nature of God, for he is the God of the living and not of the dead. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION Gospel: Luke 20:27 ...

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