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901. Right Next Door

Mark 12:28-34

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... be jealous. (PAUSE) I know. I know what it is. I was too blind to see it. I trusted you because I never had a thought of betraying you. But you -- you ... You have always been suspicious of everything I ever did. Where was I when I was gone too long? Who was I talking to? Who was I looking at? It was all in your mind. Your sick, sick mind. (CHLOE BEATS HIM WITH THE PAPER AND CRIES HYSTERICALLY. SHE HASN'T ROLLED THE PAPER, PLANNING TO BEAT HIM WITH IT. IT IS A SPONTANEOUS OUTBURST DURING WHICH SHE VENTS ...

902. The Unexpected Universe

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... of Hera, and, of course, the ancient stadium itself, where I ran a foot-race with my friends. But not far from the stadium are the ruins of the Rotunda, erected by Alexander the Great, in which he placed statues of his family. The statues are long gone. The majestic columns of the Rotunda lie about in pieces -- a crumbled monument of Alexander the Great, who, as legend says, wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. But travel a little farther from Olympia to Sparta or Patras or Athens, or farther ...

903. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. That's it: the Heavenly Star Thrower wants to stay our minds so we carry neither praise nor blame too far. I Consider first the matter of praise. One need not look long to see humanity's age-old propensity to carry praise too far. Consider, for example, some of the titles of rulers of the past: Alexander the Great, Herod the Great, Caesar Augustus, Antiochus Epiphanes, meaning the manifestation of the Divine. Can you hear it now? Governor ...

904. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... up on the news. One farmer asked the other, "Anything new happening?" "Naw, not much," replied the other. "Except I hear Tom and Mary Lincoln had a baby boy. Named him Abraham. Not much going on." So Caesar Augustus of imperial Rome could have said of this night long ago. King Herod was more anxious and killed all the Judean boys under two just to make sure nothing new would be going on. Even now with hundreds of births occurring every hour we are tempted to say not much is going on, except when it is our ...

905. A Secret Is Finally Revealed

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... were into incredible dance steps, forward and backward flips, and body shakes and twists out at mid-court. The ESPN camera, with its long cable, was right out there at mid-court with the cameraman lying on the floor shooting the performance of this single girl. The ... and there is nothing you can do about it. “Predestination is not about fatalism. It is about the love of God.”2 God, long before any human was born, destined us to be adopted because God is love and God has plans for us as God’s ...

906. Your Sins Are Remembered No More! You Are Free!

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... in the closet? Certainly I am not innocent. Old sloppy habits of prayer (or the lack of it), regrets about moral lapses (many when we were younger), have a way of haunting you in later years. We really are “hurting dudes.” Like the Hebrew exiles we are a long way from home (from where we should be in life). This community, this nation, you and I are haunted by mistakes of the past. In ministering to our despair, God has Jeremiah tell us about a fresh start he is going to give us, a new covenant that he ...

907. At The Potter's House

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... again and started anew, making another vessel. The clay never left his hands. He just set about making it better. He just started fashioning again, with those loving eyes, that gentle face, and those soft hands. I knew the silence wouldn’t last for long. It’s never quiet for long when Jeremiah is around. “That’s what God is like,” he whispered into my ear. “God is like the potter. If we are flawed and spoiled and no good, God will start over with us, fashioning us anew, reworking us. We are in ...

908. The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... ” means to treasure God more than anything else in the world. “To love your neighbor as yourself” means to treasure your neighbor’s life as much as you treasure your own. Tonight when you tuck your children into bed, or today when you say “so long” so someone you love, or tomorrow in conversation with a prized co-worker, or whenever you want to express something special to someone you care for… try it… say, “I treasure you so much!... and see what kind of response you get. Jesus treasured ...

909. The Temptation To Pass By On The Other Side

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to Jericho. We can surmise that this man was probably a Jew because this was a road going right through the heart of Judea. He had probably been up to Jerusalem to worship and now he’s going back to the City of Palm Trees. It was a very long serpentine road starting at Jerusalem, the highest point, 2,500 feet above sea level, and going straight down to Jericho, nearly 800 feet below Sea Level. The lowest place on the face of the earth not covered by water--the deepest city in the world. The Jericho Road ...

910. The Ten Commandments #4: The Sabbath

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... with clubs. "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy...no work...take a break." This commandment was one of the most gracious gifts that a loving God could have ever provided. It was as if Yahweh had created an oasis for Israel in the midst of a week-long desert. Then a fence was put around it and a sign on the gate that said, "Use this oasis freely, but leave the desert outside." For Christians, by tradition Sunday is our little oasis... our place apart in the noisy din of a hectic week. What will make ...

911. The Ten Commandments #5: Honoring Parents

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... are about to cross into and occupy, so that you and your children and your children's children may fear the LORD your God all the days of your life, and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long [Sound familiar?]...Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise... "HONOR your father and your mother..." Take ...

912. Look Up and Live

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... against Moses' leadership ended up costing the lives of almost 15,000 people in a plague. There are complaints about not enough water, so God arranges for Moses to be able to strike a rock with his staff and bring forth enough for all. Now, the end of the long journey is near. And they have encamped in this desert region that is infamous for the snakes. The griping and moaning resume: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this ...

913. Growing in Faith

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... School class, and he and I were talking about another class member who was also in the hospital - Bill wanted to know how Ken was getting along and was telling me about the wonderful dinner Ken had cooked for several friends (including Bill) not too long before. A nurse walked in during our conversation, heard that both these men were part of a Sunday School class, and laughed. "At your age?" she chuckled. Bill, who was 70, replied, "You're never too old to learn." Amen! If mainline folks are going to ...

914. Remember!

Deuteronomy 31:30--32:47

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... why knowing who we are depends on knowing from whence we have come. "Remember the days of old," says the lesson, "consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you." One of the most valuable parts of our ... was miraculously lifted and you knew in your heart of hearts that you were saved for all eternity. What a blessed experience! How long has it been since you remembered that? Keep it fresh in your mind to remind you to share that blessed feeling with ...

915. A Wonderful Mother (In-Law)

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the fact that Elimilech up and died. Can you imagine what a blow that was to Naomi? It would be bad enough being left a widow with two young sons to raise, but even worse being left like that in a foreign land: no relatives to give support, no long-time friends to offer consolation, no shoulders to cry on. It must have been a terrible time. To Naomi's eternal credit, she managed in spite of it all. She raised those two boys; she somehow found ways to support them, she brought them into manhood as best she ...

916. Remembering Charlie

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... s time on earth are a few photographs in scattered family albums, a gravestone in a Baltimore cemetery, and a name on a black wall in Washington. Yes, the pain is less, but our desire for fairness in life is NO less...nor should it be. Who does not long for more justice in this world, for little children never to go hungry, for young mothers never to get cancer, for Dolores Landinghams never to be killed by a drunk driver, for all the young Charlies never again to die in war? But until the promised day of a ...

917. Now That School's Out...

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... ?" he asked. "Grits," replied the waitress. "I didn't order grits," said the traveler. "No matter," said the waitress, "they just come." Wisdom is like grits. It just comes. I wish I could say that it will eventually be ours, like it or not, if we just wait long enough, but we all be wiser. Even the ancient Greeks said, "Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired."(3) Everyone of us probably knows someone who has been on the job for ten years, but instead of ten year's experience, he has ONE year's ...

918. The Handwriting on the Heart

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... year, the country thinks of Duke University primarily for the excellence of its basketball program. Coach K notwithstanding, there are some other programs to recommend the school. For example, a few years ago the psychology department carried on an interesting experiment to see how long rats could swim. In one container they placed a rat for whom there was no possibility of escape. He swam a few moments and then ducked his head to drown. In the other container they made the hope of escape possible for the ...

919. Sunday's Coming

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , and my bones waste away."(3) For half a millennium, they had kept an eye out for David's successor to gallop into town, assume the throne, and change their sad song. The orchestra was forever ready to play, "Happy days are here again." It had been SO long. Would this be the day? As Jesus rode into his capital city, tourists from all over Israel lined the street and cheered wildly. The faithful cut down palm branches and spread them over the road just as their ancestors had done over a century-and-a-half ...

920. Is God Like Daddy? - Father's Day

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... It did not pay him enough even to keep body and soul together. He would have been happy to have been able to eat what the pigs had. But, of course, that is what drove him back home...a shadow of the young man who had left not all that long ago. I can see the face of that father...eyes getting as wide as dinner plates, the jaw dropping and suddenly being completely enveloped in the biggest smile anyone could imagine. Then the run down the road, as fast as those aging legs could carry him. The weary son just ...

921. Leaping Lepers - Thanksgiving

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... ; insert what you will in there). And note that there was no question asked of these ten about their faith in advance of the miracle. Forget any quid pro quo's like "If you have enough faith, this or that will happen." Nope. Jesus just did it. Almost by long distance even. "Go, show yourselves to the priests." But then we come to Part Two. "One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him--and he was a Samaritan." A Democrat. A ...

922. Two Parades

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

King Duncan

... players whose batting averages had gone up since they had started praying. But God chose not to use the superstars. He chose a kid with cerebral palsy. (5) What is strength? What is weakness? What is success? What is failure? Sometimes you don't know for a long, long time. In Jesus' case, success came on the third day. The parade that had failure written all over it was a prelude to God's victory over sin and death. The trek up Golgotha marched right through the rolled away stone door of an empty tomb. For ...

923. Some Things We Can Do, God Can't

2 Timothy 2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... A few weeks later young Christina descended a flight of hotel stairs. "Her young face was tired. Her brown eyes no longer danced with youth but spoke of pain and fear. Her laughter was broken. Her dream had become a nightmare. A thousand times over she had longed to trade these countless beds for her secure pallet. Yet the little village was, in too many ways, too far away. As she reached the bottom of the stairs, her eyes noticed a familiar face. She looked again, and there on the lobby mirror was a small ...

924. A Time For Miracles

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... been uneasy about leaving the shop that Christmas Eve because one package on layaway had not been claimed yet. It might not have been anything important, but on the other hand, it might be some child's only gift. So Elizabeth and Herman stayed open as long as they could, but finally they decided to close the store and head home. The next day, Christmas day, Elizabeth couldn't seem to get into the Christmas spirit. She cleaned a little around the house, but she felt restless. Strangely enough, she began to ...

925. A Firm Grip On Your Balloon

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the extraordinary events that occurred on the Day of Pentecost in the Book of Acts. Let's set the scene for some of you who may be a little rusty on your church history ” just in case you're like the people in a Confirmation Class that Tom Long, of Princeton Seminary, was teaching. "It was a very small group," Tom says. "In fact, there were only three young girls in the class. In one session, I was instructing them about the festivals and seasons of the Christian year, and when we came to the discussion ...

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