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876. What On Earth Is God Doing? - 1940

Psalm 76:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... limitations whereby he cannot do some things unless mortals assist him. For example, it is quite impossible for the omniscient God to reveal his truth until men are able and willing to think. Nor can he create his heavenly harmonies unless we mortals study the art of music and write the scores and play the instruments which alone produce an opera or an oratorio. He supplies the resources, the materials, the wherewithal to make of this earth a paradise, but his will must be done, not merely accepted, if ever ...

877. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... curious and startling fact, and one too seldom acknowledged, that we are governed not so much by real convictions, vital ideas, living beliefs, as by the ghosts of dead convictions, outworn ideas, lifeless old beliefs. This is true in the great issues of our worship, our art and our work; and descends also to the capillary details of our talk, our manners, and our dress. The enthusiastic soul of youth enters upon a world ruled by dead powers. It is the dead who live, and the living go about to do their will ...

878. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... all tent-dwellers, In Jewish tradition it signified that he was the originator of the commercial transactions out of which grew business. Another great grandson was Jubal. The Bible attributes to him a rather remarkable fact. He was the inventor of music and the arts. A third great grandson was Tubal-Cain, known as the original craftsman. He was an artificer in iron and brass. Thus the Bible reveals that from this bad man, whose real character was largely erased by the single deed that he committed, came a ...

879. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... they shall be called the children of God" (Matthew 5:9). Suppose we quit this vile business of calling names. Suppose we stop labeling each other or hurling epithets at those with whom we disagree. To be sure, we are all tempted to practice this art - particularly when we do not know how to answer intelligently and convincingly certain upsetting questions propounded by our opponents in a controversy. In times like these, we need above all else to try to understand each other and to get the other person’s ...

880. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... for the depth of the water doesn’t matter when you’re on top of it. Mystery? If we are living by faith, we can live with that. Albert Einstein said, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is a sense of the mysterious; it is the source of all art and all science." And may I add: it is also the congenial traveling companion of all faith. For faith can take mystery’s hand and agreeably walk with her on any journey he makes. And faith can also walk with danger. Herein is one of faith’s great values ...

881. Significance in Life

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... are working at jobs that they don’t really like. Three out of four housewives don’t like housework. Three out of four laborers don’t like laboring. Stenographers don’t like stenography, and even many executives wish that they were doing something other than what they are. Art Linkletter was interviewing a little boy on his program, and he asked the six year old what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he said: "I want to be a fireman." "Why do you want to be a fireman?" "Because my father says I ...

882. The Hiding Angel

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

In art class some children were working with plasticine, a clay-like substance that can be used over and over because it does not harden. A little girl had made a very nice model of a creature with wings. She held it up and said to everyone, "Look at the angel." There ...

883. How to do Extraordinary Things

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . Notice what Jesus did with that fish and bread that was brought to him. He looked up to heaven and blessed that food. What he did was customary in every Jewish household. At every meal the head of the family pronounced these words of blessing and thanksgiving: "Blessed art thou, 0 Lord, who gives food to the hungry." Notice that it was God who was blessed, not the food. Did you realize that the purpose of a mealtime blessing is not to bless the food but the God who provided it? Jesus did not say, "0 God ...

884. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14), so we tend to neglect and forget his promise of coming again. Waiting is not easy. It is an art or attitude that must be cultivated. It should be an active mood and definitely not a resignation to fate. Waiters are subject to many forces which undermine their faith. My first experience of coon hunting taught me an important lesson about waiting. It was a cold ...

885. Here Comes Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Bjorge

... the peace ... but it will soon grow pale and will become putrid. John would have none of it. He called a spade a spade and let the chips fall where they might. The second aspect of John’s preaching was that it was far more than an entertaining art. It was a technique for getting things done. It was productive. His main theme was a call to repentance. John wanted more than a few tears. He said, "Bear fruits that befit repentance ..." (Luke 3:8). The people were to turn around, to have an about-face. Read ...

886. Christmas Is Coming

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

James Bjorge

... Eve take a stroll alone under the canopy of evening stars ... and wonder about God stepping out of space to touch you with redeeming love. Albert Einstein once said, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder, and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Peter Marshall phrased it in this way: "When Christmas doesn’t make your heart swell ...

887. Jeremiah and the Potter

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

Don Yocom

... you? Are you satisfied where you are with what you are? Let God remold your life and fill your vessel with His Holy Spirit. Then you will know the meaning of life lived at its best. Adelaid A. Pollard wrote: Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the potter; I am the clay. Mold me and make me After thy will, While I am waiting, Yielded and still.

888. Well, What Did You Expect?

Acts 12:1-19a

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... thoughtless, unintelligible mumblings. They have results like the little boy who attended church with his parents in his home town in Connecticut for so long that he thought that he had memorized the Lord’s Prayer. So he proudly recited to his folks: "Our Father, who art in New Haven, how do you know my name?" I’m not talking about the process in which we inform Almighty God of something that He doesn’t already know, like the preacher that one writer talks about who began his invocation with the words ...

889. TRYING IT WITHOUT GOD

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , with care): "Be a materialist, an agnostic, an atheist if you must, but open your eyes to all that that means. It means that you have no organic, important connection with mankind, that you are standing on air, that you are an alien to the greatest art and the most profound experiences of history, that you have adopted a cause which, having no past, can have no future. That you must ignore or suppress the deepest and most prophetic impulses of your inner life. That you must accept as the fundamental tone ...

890. Perhaps Next Summer...

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... is gone. Oh, life goes on, but just the shell of life - the outward kind of mechanical, animal existence under the theme: "If I had only ... if I had only ..." I remember the striking painting that won many prizes and is now displayed in the Art Institute in Chicago. It was done with stabbing, almost photographic realism. It showed a simple composition of a door - a battered, weather-beaten, paint-peeling door - and on the door was an old-fashioned funeral crepe, the kind that people used to hang on their ...

891. Freedom Can Be Frightening

Leviticus 25:8-55

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... went into combat stoned on marijuana." That doesn’t exactly fit our picture of the clean-cut, fine, American hero, does it? What shall we say of that in which we pride ourselves so much - our freedom of expression, our freedom of press, our freedom in all of the arts, our lack of censorship? Well, that we have discovered can result in what happened to Mrs. Valbracht and me on Friday night, as we attended the first five minutes of that film, my wife said to me: "Let’s get out of here. I can’t stand to ...

892. BUTCHER

1 Corinthians 10:23--11:1

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... the consumption of the Hebrews. This wasn’t as simple as it might seem to us. In the first place, these must be men of strength, because the animals were usually killed while still fighting back. Then, too, they must be ritually instructed in their art or trade. You see, the meats that they prepared had to be "kosher" - that is, clean. This cleanness involved several things, but especially the necessity of being able to slit the windpipe, so that the animal died instantly. Since the ancients felt that the ...

893. CARPENTER

Isaiah 44:13; Mark 6:3

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... skilled workmen went. Well, this might have been all right as far as the homes of the common people went, but the palace of the king, and, especially, the House of God, had to be a far better example of the carpenter’s art than the Hebrews themselves could produce. So both David and Solomon imported carpenters from Phoenicia to build the palace-Temple complex in Jerusalem. However, as with anything else that is necessary, the people soon learned for themselves, and, later, native carpenters were skilled ...

894. CARVER

1 Kings 6:35

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... of cypress; nowhere was any stone to be seen. These woods, further, were filled with carved figures of gourds, lotus blossoms, birds, palm trees, and cherubs, and many other symbols. And, of course, as time went on, they became more and more adept in this art. So much so, that by the time Herod the Great rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem, it’s beauty was proverbial. I mean that quite literally - "He who has not seen Herod’s building has never seen anything beautiful," was a common proverb of that day ...

895. IRONSMITH

Isaiah 44:12

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... David, the iron-smelting formula became public property, and the metal came to be widely used in Isreal. Iron ore was brought in by Tyrian leaders, probably from Spain, although it was also found in the Lebanon range, and probably Egypt. The Jews probably learned the art of working in iron from the Phoenicians. The ore was reduced in furnaces built in stone; charcoal was used in them, and the fire was blown by bellows. Wrought iron, cast iron, and steel were made. Iron was used in Bible times much as it is ...

896. JEWELER

Exodus 28:11

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... for cutting, sawing, filing, and polishing. The early Hebrews possessed only limited amounts of precious stones. Aside from booty carried in from surrounding areas, jewels entered Palestine through regional distribution, especially through the traders of Phoenicia. The art of cutting and polishing stones probably developed as uncut stones were imported. Today’s jewelers and lapidaries make some magnificent articles for our enjoyment, and their methods of polishing and engraving the stones are very similar ...

897. MAGICIAN, SORCERER

Micah 5:12; Acts 8:9

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... their temples and shrines. Like modern performers they had foolproof methods of prophesying, of reading minds, and of conjuring up spirits. The history of natural magic is largely the story of refining and developing the certain methods of trickery. It’s not hard to see why the practitioners of these arts were strictly anathematized by the Lord!

898. MUSICIAN

Judges 5:11; Amos 6:5

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... at the watering places, there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord, the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel." Amos 6:5 - "who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and like David invent for themselves of music;" Music is both an art and a means of expressing ideas and emotions; it is sometimes called a "universal language." This language makes possible the communication of ideas and feelings among people who are separated by language, customs, time, and space. Music grows out of human experience. It ...

899. SILVERSMITH

Judges 17:4; Acts 19:24

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... ground, the silversmith worked with pliers to shape the object; with saws and hammers to make the shapes and designs he wished. Silver used to be extensively used in coinage, but today, although this use has declined, its value in the arts and in industry has soared. Motion pictures would not have been possible without silver, and silver solders are important in the aviation industry. Silver is used in the manufacture of photographic materials, in electronics, manufacture of chemicals and foodstuffs, and in ...

900. STONECUTTER

1 Chronicles 22:2

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... by robbers and enemies. So, they looked around for more permanent and satisfactory building materials. Canaan is a very stony land, and sandstone in particular is common there. It was, then, a natural development that they should start making homes of stone. Thus, the art of stonecutting and masonry was introduced. Naturally, if stone was so good for the homes of the people, it had to be the material that was used for the house of God. After all, God required the finest efforts of his people, and their ...

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