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876. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR ALL SAINTS’

Drama

Tom Eberle

... Minister: The gospel reading for All Saints’ Day is the Beatitudes from Matthew’s Gospel, which forms the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. They are not only the words spoken by Jesus, but brought to life by him. A disciple is one who reflects the quality of life of the master, so the beatitudes also become descriptions of the dedicated lives of those saints we honor today. [begins reading Matthew 5:1-12, as noted in script here] Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain,and when he sat down his ...

877. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... desire to be one with the "tree of life," and just as it was devastating for Adam and Eve, so it is devastating often for you and for me. There is, of course, no question about the fact that human technologies have greatly improved the quality of life for us all. Certainly we can have no argument with the originator of the wheelchair or with the medical personnel who have done so much to eradicate the lethalness of tuberculosis. One wonders, though, whether our various technologies have moved from being our ...

878. The Therapy of Song

1 Samuel 16:14-23, Exodus 15:1-21, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... any other thought offered. I finally asked him why he felt the need to constantly play the same theme. His answer was that he wasn’t sure he would be accepted by the group and found his questioning manner a way of gaining attention and hopefully approval. The quality of our meetings together deepened when we were able to move from a kind of testing ground to a turf far more fertile. There is a need for critical debate and questioning, but that best goes on in a context where there is a deeper level of ...

879. Leah

Genesis 49:29--50:14

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... gazing at Whistler’s portrait of his mother. "It’s a remarkable painting of a lovely lady," murmured the viewer, "but there is too much peace and calm to be the likeness of a real mother." To be sure, serenity and tranquility are marked qualities of motherhood, yet there has been far more sorrow, pain, and discord in the long history of women than the pacific sweetness of "Mother Machree" would indicate. Ours is a world which traditionally has not only belonged to men, but one in which women usually ...

880. Habakkuk

Habakkuk 3:1-19

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... . A small, elderly lady was dying of cancer. She was asked by her pastor, "Can I do anything for you?" "Oh, no, I have everything I need. God has been so good to me." She was in a charity hospital. In Christ, we find that quality of living which is not dependent upon circumstances for ultimate meaning and purpose. Adversity is a wind separating wheat and chaff. What we really are often comes to light only when the going gets tough. The superficial do not long endure amid difficult times. The Christian ...

881. AWAKE, MY SOUL, AND SING!

Drama

Marcia Miller

... . This is a celebration of the birth of Christ. It should be played with a hushed excitement for he is the Savior of the world. CHARACTERS READER 1 READER 2 The readers can be either male or female. There should be a distinct difference in their voices, in quality, pitch, or accent. There must be variety or the sameness will blend into boredom. ANGEL 1 ANGEL 2 ANGEL 3 ANGEL 4 Angels do not have to be girls. But they can be. It depends on who is available. In this particular case, the number can be smaller ...

882. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... but he invites people to do more, to actually join his parade. You sense that to step out into the street is to bet your entire life that he is the Son of God, your Savior and Lord. Instinctively you understand that in serving him you will know a quality of life, in this world and the next, that comes only through him. But you know that to follow him will cost you. When you crown him King, you become his humble subject. He has the right to change your values, your vocation, your habits, your budget, your ...

883. Can a Christian Go to Hell?

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... up the price, "Man shall not live by bread alone." One day a stranger came in to buy a saddle blanket. In the store several old cronies were sitting on barrels, chatting and smoking. They overheard the stranger ask for a blanket. They knew that the store had but one quality of blanket selling for $10.95. The merchant showed him a yellow blanket and said it was $10.95. The man asked if he did not have a better one. The merchant pulled out a blue blanket and said it was $15.95. The customer said he had a fine ...

884. Holy Tares!

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... million people week after week lived their religion. Why doesn’t the church have more impact upon American society? How can crime flourish as it does when there is a church on almost every corner? One reason for the lack of influence is the poor quality of church members. Nietzsche, an atheist, once wrote, "Redeemers you must show yourselves to be, if I would believe your Redeemer." We think we ought to get rid of the pseudo-Christians in our churches because they are poisonous to the rest of the church ...

885. Food for Faith

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... seems as though a greater miracle than the feeding of the five thousand is needed if today’s people are going to have sufficient bread. What can we as individuals do about this difficult and complex world problem? Before we can do anything, we must possess the quality Jesus had as he looked upon the sick and hungry crowd. "He had compasson on them," says the text. Here is the key to doing something. Where there is a heart, there is a way! Do we as individuals really care that half of the world’s people ...

886. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... the apartment door. He walked into the wide-open death trap. The audience in the theatre had palpitations of the heart as he moved toward the drop-off point. Just in time, he felt the slope of the floor and his sensitivity detected the lack of echo quality, so he stopped at the dangling edge. I have never forgotten the scene because that picture was a mode of thinking, a symol of our understanding of how much we know about God and the universe, or, more poignantly, about our husbands and our wives. You may ...

887. Only the Wounded Can Serve

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... similarly to us. He sympathizes because he has, through common experience, a real kinship with those who suffer. Such a thought must stretch the mind and expand the hope of all mankind. Jesus Christ is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. The quality of his life showed an amazing sensitivity to human need. He endured his trials and our trials, yet without sinning. Yet, "let us with confidence draw near," meaning that despite his perfection we can still speak freely to him. We are confident and ...

888. On Leaving Your Signature

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... time of solemn celebration. Officers, you have taken vows of special responsibility to serve, guide and strengthen this congregation. You have been elected to your specific responsibility because members of this household of faith have recognized in you certain qualities that have left their imprint. You are being responsive to the stamp of spiritual influence that has already touched your life, and you are responsible for leaving your own individual mark. These are challenging and exciting days in which ...

889. To Be Perfectly One

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... understood and sensed it. So the Christian enterprise and its oneness grew through individual testimony. We readily and easily tell our friends about products we have purchased that have been to our liking. The enthusiasm of satisfaction is a convincing quality. Should it not be the same in our one-to-one relationships with others as we speak of our personal relationship with God through Christ? That perfect oneness is also expressed through our identification with others who stand in need. Starvation ...

890. Manufactured Christianity: Jesus Sells, Jesus Sells!

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... , small voice. Today the forces of evil still tempt us. Nowhere is the force more appealing than to our egos. The early New Testament church was small in membership and committed in its life. Today we often bow to the temptation of numbers over quality. The Southern Baptist denomination to which I belong has approximately 11,825,000 members. Our entire goals have bowed to the temptation to grow and grow and the whole world will be ours. Even at the local level, a minister’s effectiveness is often measured ...

891. God Made Me Do It!

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... to let Christ be Lord of all of life? Never fear, there is a difference! The God-directed life absolutely cannot lose. God is ordering your existence, you never walk alone, life is like living out a fairy tale ("and they all lived happily ever after"), the quality of your life is different, the direction of your life is different, the ultimate outcome is sure, and you are always, in time, a winner and not a loser, for The Lord of Life is in charge! This is great, glad, grand news, then - it means that ...

892. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... to human forgiveness. Remember what he told Peter? We must forgive seventy times seven. William Barclay reminds us in his commentary that when Jesus spoke of Gentiles and tax collectors, he always did so with sympathy and gentleness with an appreciation of their good qualities. "It may be that Jesus was saying something like this: ‘When you have done all this, when you have given the sinner every chance, and when he remains stubborn, you may think he is no better than a tax collector and Gentile. Well ...

893. Christ the King

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... rules, he is in control. He is on the throne and we need not be afraid. And the promise is ... "but the righteous into eternal life" (Matthew 25:46). So we have from our King a promise of eternal life. A life not so much by duration, but rather, by quality. It is a new, rewarding fulfilling life in the kingdom of our King. When we help the unfortunate, we help Christ. It is often the simplest things that our King asks us to do for others. We are judged by the help we give to our fellow persons. Christ is ...

894. Life: Sacred or Stupid?

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... not call it "State Legalized Murder," which is what it actually is? But we are too delicate to use the proper words. We don’t like to face it. In that discussion, I heard the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago make this statement: "Throughout all of history, the quality of any nation or culture can be measured by the value that it places on a human life. For the state to kill A, because he has killed B, in the wistful and unproven hope that C, observing this, will not kill D, is absolutely immoral, illegal ...

895. Justification and Reconciliation

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... by his grace as a gift" (Romans 3:24). In Bultmann’s words, "Not merely salvation is the gift of God but even the condition for it is already the gift of God himself."12 And the righteousness which justification involves is not an ethical quality in man but his relation to God. Justification is God’s own action in rightwising this relation, thus making fellowship with him possible. Faith is surrender to the grace of God, accepting and living by what God gives. So it is also with reconciliation. The ...

896. Voluntary Blindness

Matthew 6:1-15

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... the snare was broken."9 He might have been wrong in blaming his friends for their open commendation of him, but he was right and wise in discovering the danger he was in and looking to the Lord for deliverance. Any time our good deeds or achievements or qualities become conspicuous to us, we are in spiritual danger and need to remind ourselves again that, after we have done all we can do, we still must say, "We are unworthy servants" (Luke 17:10). We can make no claims upon God. We are too unworthy, and his ...

897. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... was talking about the triumphs of faith, and he was using both exaggeration and pictorial language to make his point. He had no intention of encouraging persons to try to move physical mountains with their faith. But he did want them to possess the quality of faith which would enable them to achieve victories more marvelous than large-scale engineering! In comparing this faith with a mustard seed the intangible with the tangible - he was not suggesting that one needs only a little of it. Rather, he was ...

898. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... in upon that distant destination. And so it is until at last you turn into home stretch road, and round a curve, and the gates open, and you are there. And this is good. More than anything else, it is the character of the destination which gives quality to the journey. Let us illustrate it this way: Highway 296 is a three-hundred-mile length of typical mid-western road. It is springtime, and driving along its distance, a forty-year-old man is going west. His destination is a hospital morgue where he will ...

899. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... of the year, ‘Give me a sight that I might tread safely into the unknown.’ And he said to me, ‘Go out and put your hand into the hand of God, and that shall be unto thee better than sight and safer than a known way.’ " It is this assurance quality of faith which makes it the springboard of courage and everlasting venture. As people of faith, we’ll never be defeated or made to despair by what we do not know. Whittier wrote: When on my day of life the night is falling, And in the wind from unsunned ...

900. A Vital Night Call

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... never even make it to first base. Where do you stand today? The single most important question that any person can ask another is this: Have you repented of your sin and turned your life over to Jesus Christ? The answer to that question will determine the quality of your life here on earth and the destination of your life for all eternity. Those who respond with a genuine "yes" to that question are "born again" persons. In just a moment I will give you a chance to answer that question in the affirmative ...

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