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901. The Need for Transfiguration

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... path, the vision was the beginning of the end for Jesus. He takes the disciples back to the valley and determinedly turns his steps toward the ultimate end of his coming into the world. It was to be a most difficult journey, one that would bring sweat as drops of blood from his brow, agonized cries of loneliness from his lips, tortured death to his body. This final strengthening and ultimate assurance that he had set his course properly is to be his power for the way now set before him. So also is it to be ...

902. Journey To The Cross VII (Easter): Jesus And The Women At The Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... street he looked back. He turned around and saw that he had been deserted by all of them. Then he did something that Rosemary had not counted on. At the age of eight years old, she was not prepared for what happened next. Jeter’s little arms dropped to his sides and in a voice Rosemary would never forget, Jeter whimpered, “Little Band, where are you?” And then as if to punish Rosemary for the rest of her life, Jeter started crying. That was a crossroads moment for Rosemary Brown. Never before in her ...

903. UP THE DOWN ESCALATOR

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... ve waited to the last possible minute to uncork the wine. You want the temperature to be perfect, for your guests are connoisseurs of the grape. Down goes the corkscrew, you are careful, you begin to pull the cork out only to find it disintegrating with pieces dropping back into the wine bottle. The times that try men’s souls are usually not the times they plan to have their souls tried. Trouble is never convenient. None of us would say, "Well, I feel great today, everything is going fine, I think it is a ...

904. THE CROSS

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... , the exciting chariot race, the repugnant leprosy colony. Yet, none hit harder than the crucifixion of our Lord. The sound of hammer on nail rings through the air, the cross rises until it suddenly thumps into place. Slowly Jesus’ blood begins to flow - one drop, then another ... a puddle forms beneath the cross. It begins to rain. Water mixes with more blood, and together they begin to trickle down the hillside. The trickle becomes a stream as the blood washes over God’s creation. We are reminded that ...

905. The Joy of Being a Caring Person

Mt 25:31-46 · Lk 16:19-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... a rough time of it, as a cameraman in a TV production. Suddenly he declared, "I want to be a Christian." When asked why, he replied, "A young woman who works with me brought her blankets to my family to keep us from freezing when the temperature dropped suddenly to eighteen degrees, where we were working. If that kind of caring is Christian, I want to be a Christian." It works. It really does. When I was a boy I would visit my grandfather’s farm in the summer. I remember the close personal ties between ...

906. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . We don’t mean it. It just becomes an unconscious lifestyle and destroys our influence. I can never forget the grounds keeper at a prep school where I coached track for three years. He was also the postmaster. Therefore, before breakfast on the day of a track meet I would drop by the Post Office and ask him to prepare the track, so that it would be in the best condition for our team and for the visiting team. Without fail, every time, he exploded: "I can’t do it. I can’t do it. My men have to prepare ...

907. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... , people are still not satisfied - only more confused. The stubbed toe still hurts. Is the stone we stumble over placed there by chance or circumstance? Are we somehow engaged in a dangerous game, playing against an unknown opponent that is out to get us by constantly dropping stones in our path? Some people have given up and accepted suffering as the price we pay for living. It may result from the odds of chance; or it may be an accident without rhyme or reason. Suffering is the misery in the not-so-sweet ...

908. The Gospel According to Christ’s Enemies

John 11:1-16

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... , "So when he (Jesus) heard that he was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was." Arthur John Gossip refers to this as "The Strange Tardiness of Jesus Christ."11 One would think that, hearing of his friend’s illness, Jesus would drop everything he was doing, saying, "My friend Lazarus needs me. I must go to him at once." Jesus must have known that Mary and Martha would have been frantically watching the road by which Jesus would come. Any moment they expected him to appear. The waiting ...

909. I Knew You’d Come

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... for suddenly went down the drain, all because their leader refused to seize his golden opportunity and make the best of it. Naturally they were disappointed - bitterly disappointed. And disappointment is the prime ingredient of the hardened heart. Like the sudden drop of the temperature to the freezing point, their hot excitement at being princes cooled down and froze their hearts. How many people have frozen hearts toward God because he disappointed them. One day they prayed and God didn’t hear - or ...

910. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... at the guardhouse, no shovel was missing. * That nameless Argyll soldier knew what it meant to deny himself for love. He loved himself enough to offer himself for his brothers, whom he loved even more. As his countryman Isaac Watts had said in verse, he did with his life: But drops of grief can ne’er repay The debt of love I owe: Here, Lord, I give myself away ‘Tis all that I can do. He lived and died in debt forever. So must we, if God’s Word from St. Paul is ever to become the Word made flesh in ...

911. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... meaningful for others. I saw a cookbook sometime ago, entitled, 1001 Ways to Please a Husband. Of course, the title may have sexist overtones, but if every husband and wife had such a philosophy, family life would be heaven on earth, the divorce rate would drop to zero, and homes would he truly Christian again. Another way of asking this question is to say, "How can I make you happy?" Many people today are searching for happiness, but they forget that happiness is always the by-product of service. We can ...

912. The Only Fact That Really Matters

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... be John Wesley. Just as they were ready to throw their stones, they heard his words about the power of the risen Jesus to change lives. They were spellbound, and one turned to the other to say, "He ain’t a man, Bill. He ain’t a man." They dropped their stones and listened to him intently. After the sermon was over, they fell to their knees and accepted Christ as their Savior. Wesley came over and put his hands on their heads and whispered, "God bless you." Then he went on his way. And one man turned to ...

913. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

Drama

Tom Eberle

... can see on the other side of that glass. What’s out there? What is it this sacrifice of myself will make me see? Mother: Some of what I see is in the newspaper for you to read also. I am told that you may live to see the last drop of oil sucked from beneath the earth’s crust. By the year 2000 there may be as many as 7 billion of you scavenging the earth’s surface for food. Son: Maybe we will discover a way of making oil from water, and food from the air. Surely there has ...

914. A SUNDAY OF THE PASSION [PALM SUNDAY] SERMON-DRAMA

Drama

Tom Eberle

... , I would say it is his rather uncritical acceptance of people without first requiring a certain standard of behavior from them. Toga: Have you pointed this flaw out to him? Judas: The more I pushed it, the more insistent he was about his position; so it was dropped. We are trying to improve crowd security to limit this kind of undesirable contact in the future. I would also like to say that I feel this problem is partly a result of his upbringing. He came from a poor village family. Fortunately he had the ...

915. Old and New

Mk 2:22 · 2 Cor 5:17 · Is 43:19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... . Remember back to those not so long ago years when trips into space were rather frequent? The people in Houston did a good job of showing us diagrams of how a given space trip would proceed. I remember particularly how one part of the rocket would drop away as another part of what was came into prominence. As the new came forward, being sent into space, the old fell away. What our technology displayed is illustrative of what Jesus is getting at when he says, "... no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth ...

916. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... questions and unsatisfactory answers - found no satisfaction short of the peace that came when finally he could say, "I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see thee." (Job 42:5) When God comes into view, our questions drop away and the vacuum created by this departure is filled quickly by the One whose grace and love lifts us beyond questions and answers to security and peace. 1. Gerhard vonRad, Old Testament Theology (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1962), p. 155. 2 ...

917. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... would be welcomed as blessing in a place like California where the water table often dips dangerously low. Robert Loveman’s words serve as a corrective to the prevailing notion of foul weather: It is not raining rain to me, It’s raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wildflowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It’s raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May ...

918. Lazarus Rising

John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

Sermon

... tossed. So he retired to an area where, we are told, John the Baptist had begun his ministry. Jesus is getting back to the roots of his calling. While there large crowds came to hear him. Upon hearing the news of Lazarus’s illness, we expect Jesus to drop everything and come running, but alas, it does not happen. He is only about seventeen miles away. If he really pushed hard he could make it by late evening or by early the next morning. In one of the most bewildering scenes in all of scripture, however ...

919. The Cross Way of Life

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... cross way. If it is a cross, why would it not be a road of hardship? The cross of Jesus is rough and tough. It means nails and a thrust of the spear. The cross calls for a sense of forsakenness and loneliness and agony and pain. The cross sheds drops of one’s own blood. But who wants to take that road of life? The other day I saw a bumper sticker which said, "Easy does it." That may be true in some cases but it is not the case when it comes to being and living as a Christian ...

920. Holy Tares!

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... work to make coffee for the lawyers. She refused to do it and was let go, but she in turn sued the firm for sex discrimination. Because Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was getting drunk and fooling around with Fanny Foxe, he was dropped from the Masonic Order. When it was learned that Wayne Hays had Elizabeth Ray on the Federal payroll as his mistress, he was forced to resign as a member of Congress. Even in the case of the presidency of the United States, a man who felt he was ...

921. Jesus Makes House Calls

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is okay. When a son is put in jail, a father runs to post bail. When a member, of the family has an operation, the hospital room is usually occupied by a member of the family to express love and concern. If there is a death in the family, relatives drop everything to be on hand to comfort. This is done out of love and compassion. Since God loves us more than any human being can possibly love, God and his Son make haste to come to us in our situation. Common Needs Jesus could not wait to come to the ...

922. Jesus ... Who?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... God, I am here." Then he would begin to preach to an empty barn. Some pranksters plotted to pull a trick on him. They hid in the barn, and when he said, "Howdy God, I am here", with a deep voice they answered, "Howdy, Jim, I am here." Well, Jim dropped his hat and took off, and never again was he seen at the barn. When we confront the holiness of Jesus as Peter did, we will have a sense of awe and unworthiness before the purity and perfection of Christ. Peter fell on his knees and said, "Depart from me ...

923. Annas, Caiaphas, and Judas

Drama

Jon Joyce

... no, no! You’ve got to take this. Kiss of death ... and he said ... he said one of us would ... why me? [Falls to his knees, folds his hands in prayer and cries in agony to the heavens] Why me, O God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Why me? [He drops his head and hands to the floor and sobs] CAIAPHAS: [His attempt to be cunning and clever overcomes his good sense] You were chosen, Judas of Kerioth, chosen to do the Lord’s will in helping us rid ourselves of the carpenter from Nazareth who was disrupting our ...

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

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... plaster. The blind man knocked, walked up the stairs to the third floor where he was supposed to go, and opened 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 ...

925. Bad Candy Wrappers

Matthew 13:24-30

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some candy wrapped in paper. Good morning, boys and girls. Have any of you ever thought of yourselves as being candy? How many of you would like to be candy? What kind of candy would you be if you had a choice? Would you be a little chocolate drop or munchy candy bar? Take your choice. I think that I would like to be a piece of fudge. What would you like to be? [Let them answer.] I think that all of you look as if you want to be candy, especially the ones that have cherry centers! Almost ...

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