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851. Echoes of Eternity

Matthew 10:24-32

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... , where children’s toys hardly last from one birthday or holiday to the next, and where more and more items become dispensable and disposable (with everything from paper wedding dresses to throwaway flashlights), less and less emphasis is placed upon quality, authenticity and durableness, and more and more significance is set upon discardableness, throwaway-ness, and cheapness. We live in an age where great effort is made to make things as inexpensive, impermanent and short-lived as possible, with oftimes ...

852. The Stiller of Storms

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... allow his gracious work to be done in us, so the storm of selfishness and greed subsides, and we come to know the meaning of a great peace. II. The Storm in the Heart of Peter. (Pride and Boastfulness) Peter is a puzzle. He had many fine qualities, but alongside them, he revealed some very undesirable traits. Have you ever been in a group where someone was always pushing himself forward? Peter may have been like that - always ready to speak up before any one else had a chance, always ready to play the hero ...

853. Scenes From a Marriage

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Craig Erickson

... and weakness, which a marriage must have in order to invite a saving response. This Ash Wednesday "scene from a marriage" highlights the one key ingredient that keeps all of us from being "burned up by God’s fury." In fact, it is the very quality that makes this marriage an experience of salvation, namely: the abundant, endless, always-extended, never-failing mercy of God. That’s what makes this marriage so wonderful. That’s why the church has always held it up as a model for human-marriages, so that ...

854. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to divine standards. If not in the world, where are we to look for God? One place is to see God’s handiwork in nature. Whenever we see a person’s product, we feel close to the maker, and we learn certain things about him/her from the beauty and quality of the product. Dorothy Gurney’s poem is inscribed at the Bok Singing Tower in Lake Wales, Florida: The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the bird for mirth, - One is nearer to God’s heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. Though this is ...

855. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... tempted ... - Matthew 4:1 In Huxley’s Brave New World, Savage is contending with Mustapha Mond, the world controller. Savage’s sensibility has been shaped by the Bible and Shakespeare, readings no longer allowed to the public. He complains to Mond about the antiseptic quality of life in the new society. The controller says to him: "We prefer to do things comfortably." Savage rejoins: "But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin ...

856. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... was the result of knowing too much about his neighbors and thinking too much of himself. We have in Luke’s parable of the Pharisee and the publican a man who, like the early Henry Adams, combines a low opinion of his neighbors with a high estimate of his own qualities. The Pharisee’s prayer in chapter eighteen is taken from life, for a similar prayer comes to us in the Talmud in the first century A.D.: I thank thee, O Lord, my God, that thou has given me my lot with those who sit in the seat of learning ...

857. General William Booth

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... General Next to God, (New York: E. P. Dutton, Co., Inc., 1965) p. 25. 3. Collier, p. 25. 4. Collier, p. 104. 5. Railton, The Authoritative Life of General William Booth, (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1912) p. 193. 6. Railton, p. 2. 7. For further development of these qualities of William Booth’s ministry see Railton, p. 106 and following. 8. From "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven," by Vachel Lindsay, Collected Poems of Vachel Lindsay, (New York: Macmillan Co., 1925). Used by permission.

858. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 2

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

... MUSICAL BACKGROUND This program is most effective if all the narrations, dialogues, readings, and drama are given with background music. We used a combination of two types of musical background: (1) various record selections, which we recorded on a high-quality tape, and (2) live organ music. Taped Background In this area of the production, creativity can be unlimited. Simple music from records may be taped, or more complicated music that requires timing of appropriate words. For example, the background ...

859. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

George Bass

... - but we do an injustice to God, as well as to Mary, if we down-play or ignore Mary’s response to Gabriel’s astounding announcement to her. God must have been extremely careful in selecting Mary to become the Mother of our Lord. He saw qualities in her which must have commended her to him as most suitable for this important role in his plan. God knew she would be frightened; he could understand that she would be mystified by the startling appearance of the angel Gabriel - and perplexed by Gabriel’s ...

860. A Person Approved by Christ

John 1:43-51

Sermon

George Bass

... to him very much. As Zukav comments: "The child in us is always naive, innocent in the simplistic sense," and this means that "the beginner is open to many possibilities." At that point in the story, even if Bartholomew has the highly desirable quality of guilelessness, his mind actually seems closed to "many possibilities" in Jesus Christ: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Sounds like the man is steeped in Scripture, doesn’t it? Or perhaps he has been programmed by the rabbis who have mastered ...

861. Call Him a Story Teller

Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

George Bass

... , "Only Luke is with me." His life was not demanded on that occasion, and he went on to become an evangelist and, according to tradition, a missionary to Bithynia. But that is speculation; his faithfulness and commitment to Christ certainly were not, and these are the qualities of which - through grace - martyrs are made. However he died, it is rather obvious to me that he left this life to enter into another phase of life with Christ and did it triumphantly. I would like to think that he died at peace with ...

862. Who Keeps Getting in My Way?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... Happy is the man who cannot afford membership in a country club, or a new suit, or an occasional steak." That is not what Jesus is saying. He is not talking about material poverty at all. It would be more comfortable if he were. He is talking about a quality of life that the millionaire must have, as well as a man on minimum wage, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with property or wealth. In essence, this first attitude is the most important. If we can get this firmly fixed into our lives, then the other ...

863. The Joy of Sorrow?

Matthew 5:4

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... Paul wrote to those first century churches. He writes about how he has personally suffered because of some "thorn in his flesh." He says he prayed three times that it might be taken away, and after that he lost count. We find in those letters qualities of sympathy and understanding that would otherwise be missing. An old Arab proverb says that, "All sunshine makes a desert." Because the ground in a desert is dry and parched, nothing will grow in it. When we accept the fact that the rainfall of sorrow ...

864. What Is Your Mercy Quotient?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... they are dying. The world needs the merciful. We all need someone who will identify with us. Someone who will hear our cry, listen, have empathy, and care. We all need to have an attitude of mercy and to be the recipients of such an attitude! The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest, It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. - William Shakespeare So Jesus says in the fifth Beatitude, "O the happiness that comes to you ...

865. Sowing to the Flesh

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... did. Whether sown in darkness or sown in the light, Whether sown in weakness or sown in might, Whether sown in meekness, or sown in wrath, In the broadest highway or the shadowy path, Surely will the harvest be! Not only is the harvest certain, but its quality is bound to be the same as that which was sown. "Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap." You reap the same as you sow. If you plant onions, you don’t reap roses. Contrary-wise, when you plant delicious apples, you don’t reap gooseberries ...

866. Amazing Grace

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... something." She opened her pocketbook and showed Nell a revolver and a suicide note saying, "I was going to a motel and kill myself, Jackson was the only place where they would know what to do with my body." What if Nell had missed it? But Nell Mohney has the quality of Christian grace that doesn’t miss it. All of us can say with Paul, "I have not yet reached the goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ took hold of me." Again, "Forgetting what is behind, reaching out for that which lies ...

867. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... - or something has got hold of them - which makes them more sensitive both to the joy and the pain of human existence, more understanding, more sympathetic, more outreaching in their helpfulness. It is not as though they were trying to manufacture some peculiar quality in themselves. Rather, it is as though they had been open to an influence that comes from beyond the borders of our small selves. There is in them a spirit which seems to bear witness to a mightier spirit ... God.6 Humanity is played ...

868. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... you without hesitation that poverty is debilitating in every way to those who must live in it. The physical system suffers from lack of material necessities, which in turn takes its toll on one’s mind and spirit. There is not one thing ennobling about poverty, no redeeming quality that can be detected. We can, of course, speak of the kind of internal fortitude it can raise up out of its ashes, or we can speak of the character it fosters in those who must live in it. We must be careful, of course, not to ...

869. God Is The Power Of The Gospel

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Bulletin Aid

... frailities of human wisdom weaken our commitment to you. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Prayer of Confession We know the gospel is your word, Father, and not man's. But we are prone to react to the gospel with indifference when we see undesirable qualities in those who proclaim it. Forgive us for our pettiness which prevents us from standing firm in the Christian Faith, with conviction to live committed lives. Add strength to our faith by the power of your Spirit as we witness to one another. In our Savior ...

870. God's Kind of Happiness, Today

Matthew 5:1-12

Illustration

The Best Gift

... competitive spirit. "Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires." We have been taught that happiness lies in the desire to conform to the values of our own society. "Happy are those who are merciful to others." We have been taught that the quality of mercy is a sign of weakness. "Happy are the pure in heart." Tell that one to the guys and gals at work! "Happy are those who work for peace." We have been taught that happiness is defined in terms of preparedness for war. "Happy are those ...

871. HOW TO COPE WITH FEAR AND ANXIETY

Illustration

John H. Krahn

In television advertising we are led to believe that the greatest catastrophe that could befall us is "ring around the collar," or bad breath. Undue emphasis upon the importance of the body and the temporal quality of life has created a mind-set which is often more concerned with the accommodations of life’s journey than its destination. Modern fear and anxiety are not directed toward the real, valid, justified fears such as an eternity without God. This is one thing truly worthy of fearful consideration ...

872. LOVE TAKES SWEAT

Illustration

John H. Krahn

Nearly every couple who graces my office for premarital counseling is asked, "What do you especially love about him/her; what is their extra special quality?" More often than not my question is greeted with embarrassed silence. Those that venture forth with an answer are often very general or vague like, "I feel good when we are together." Sometimes there is the diplomatic answer, "I like everything about her, she is so perfect." It is hard ...

873. The Miracle of Christ

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... thinking about the necessary ingredients of the Christian Life: Faith, Obedience, Moral Commitment, Caring, The Abundant Life, and The Assurance of Life After Death. But now it comes to me that I did not in my own life discover and work out these great qualities of living mathematically, mechanically, or by a sheer intellectual approach. Something happened to me! Then all of this came to life and now has eternal meaning. Therefore, in this chapter I want us to look at the mystery and the miracle of how the ...

874. "I Don’t Want to Be Perfect - Or Do I?"

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... , will bring love and life. Because of these thorns and their healthy, overwhelming growth, we do not have time to think about life, about values, about the deep meaning of love, about God, about the eternal. Thorns! Thorns! Lesser things choke out more valuable qualities and, therefore, no abundant harvest. But this is not the end. Jesus points again to the hillside where the man is sowing seed, and he says, "Look. Some fall upon good ground." Some of the land is rich and watered, and ready for seed ...

875. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... daughter but for the mother as well, and he decided to heal them both. A Trial of Faith Some interpreters attempt to excuse or at least justify Jesus’ treatment of this woman as a trial of faith. He was simply testing her in order to discover the quality or strength of her faith. If she was worthy of being helped, then he would do something for her. William Taylor, for example, writes, "As regards the woman, the course adopted by the Lord was well fitted to test her faith. He would prove whether she were ...

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