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901. Is There Life After Christmas?

Luke 2:21-40, Isaiah 12:1-6

Sermon

Erskine White

... our breath and say, "Whew! Christmas is over - thank God that is done with! Now we have nothing to worry about until Easter." Parents of newborn babies know otherwise. When the child is safely delivered, the mother relaxes in exhausted happiness and the father beams with pride and joy, but the respite after the birth only lasts a moment. Now that the baby is here, she needs food and warm clothing. She needs love expressed in a close embrace, and soon she will need her diapers changed for the first of many ...

902. It Isn't Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... went through Oxford, took my degrees, was called to the bar and eventually became a judge. Pastor, nothing but the grace of God could have caused me to admit that I was a sinner on level with that burglar. It took much more grace to forgive me for all my pride and self-deception, to get me to admit that I was no better in the eyes of God than that convict that I sent to prison. II But yet, that just doesn’t seem fair. It goes against the business mentality that dominates our lives. We have always been ...

903. Pressing On

Illustration

Lloyd John Ogilvie

I asked an Olympic runner the secret of his success. His answer had profound implications for the Christian life. This is what the runner said: "The only way to win a race is to forget all previous victories, which would give you false pride and all former failures which would give you false fears. Each race is a new beginning. Pressing on to the finish tape is all that’s important!" This young man knew what he was talking about. He was right about athletic running and spiritual living. The freedom to ...

904. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... soldier who brings Naaman to his senses. What is there to lose, after all? "If the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was ‘Wash, and be clean?’ " So Naaman swallowed his pride and bathed, and to his surprise his flesh became like that of a young child. He was cured. Mark’s gospel tells a much simpler story of a man, apparently of more humble means and demeanor than mighty Naaman. This man also was a leper and came and ...

905. Paul - Persecutor, but Participant

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... . After all, I was born a true Hebrew, from the tribe of Benjamin. I received a thorough training in the laws and traditions of my people under the teacher Gamaliel, and as a Pharisee, I made every effort to observe every detail of the Law. In my pride and blindness, I thought I was pleasing God when I persecuted the church. But what are you doing? Are you really participating in love and faith, or are there times when you, too, are persecutors? Oh, you may not deliberately set out to cause trouble among ...

906. Christian Courage

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... of our faith in Christ and the Bible, we are compelled to see Christianity as something special and unique in the matter of salvation. Yes, we are to see ourselves as the people of God in a special way. But our unique calling is not to result in pride, but rather in additional responsibilities. "To whom much is given, much will be required." We are here for others. Our God has always had one goal, to make it clear to all people that God loves all people. Speak out, O saints of God! Despair engulfs earth’s ...

907. When God Was Nothing

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... needed that kind of encouragement. They were trying to keep a church going in difficult circumstances. Their city was the retirement home for many of Rome’s greatest military figures. The city served as the frontier city for Rome in Macedonia. The citizens prided themselves on being Roman, they dressed like Romans and lived like Romans. The city was named after Alexander the Great’s father King Philip II. This city was the epitome of Roman lifestyle. In this city there was no synagogue for Paul to ...

908. The Path of Maturity

Drama

William Grimbol

... much to offer, except the good life, and that is so bankrupt ethically, because it has nothing whatsoever to do with goodness. We must start with our Selves, but there just seems to be so little there worth loving ... so little there for which we feel genuine pride ... so little there for which we feel You might be proud. Maturity? Loving? We fall so miserably short. READER 2 Next, You ask us to love our neighbor as our Self. Our neighbor ... who is that? There once was a time when we sat on front porches ...

909. The Path of Integrity

Drama

William Grimbol

... Kingdom not of justice and equality for all, but a Camelot for a chosen few? READER 5 Lent is indeed a time when we are compelled ... mainly and justifiably ... by guilt, to confront the Christ, to open our hearts to Him. to allow Christ access to our pride and our principles. Lent is a time when we must stare into that stark, simple unleavened life, and ask ourselves, what has happened? ... Why so much yeast? ... Where is our purity? ... Where is our truth? It is Lent, and we - if we allow ourselves to be ...

910. The Path of Dignity

Drama

William Grimbol

... we must face the Cross inspired scrutiny of our laziness, and the sin of our quest for the good life, a good life that ironically keeps us out of the race almost totally. In friendship and within the family, we must address the issues of pride - selfishness - the refusal to forgive, or be forgiven - the Demolition Derbies of jealousy and anger and hurt - our lack of awareness and attention to the wishes and needs and dreams of those we claim to love, and we must do so from the penetrating and piercing ...

911. Egypt: Unlikely Refuge

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... highway, and the first person to stop and offer aid is a black man. A woman with delicate sensibilities is startled to find that the person in church who most nurtures her Christian life is another woman of a far different social class. A man who has long prided himself on his taste in literature is embarrassed to discover that the hymn which most deeply stirs his soul is a bit of gospel doggerel that ought to offend him. We had better not try to fence God in. How strange and wonderful that the story of our ...

912. In Control

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... close to considering ourselves and the work of our hands as being infallible. Would it be inaccurate to say that, before the space shuttle Challenger accident in January, 1986, our space program was our most revered symbol of scientific and technological pride and infallibility? In the words of one astronaut, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had gone, in its thinking, from "can do" to "can’t fail." Most of America shared that conviction. Launches became so routine that they went ...

913. What Is God Like?

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... life as a heartfelt experience, as well as an historical fact. As believers in a heavenly Father, who has not been perplexed and pained at evil? There are the natural evils of cyclones, cancer, birth defects, earthquakes. There are the moral evils of pride, anger, lust, indifference, envy, greed, and gluttony. An old Greek philosopher, Epicurus, stated the problem well when he asked, "Is Deity willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able to prevent evil, but not willing? Then he ...

914. How Can We Meet Grief?

2 Samuel 18:19--19:8

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... by other people. Furthermore, people who do not declare their grief may fear that the sympathy they will receive from others who see them vent their grief will dissolve their own self-control. Still another reason people do not declare their grief is because of pride. They enjoy the reputation of strength which unexpressed grief earns them. As an unknown poet has written: They call me strong because my tears I shed where none can see, Because I smile, tell merry tales, and win the crowds to me. They call me ...

915. Is Your Religion Second-Hand?

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... has told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?" (John 4:29). Those people of the village Sychar welcomed new religious insights. Because of their hospitality of mind, they passed from a second-hand grasp of Christ to a first-hand experience. Hear the pride in their voices as they say to the woman of the well: "We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world" (John 4:42, TEV). Welcoming new religious ...

916. A Way Back In

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... in human nature through which we gain a profound empathy with the strengths and weaknesses of all others. We know about the brittle ego that pushes people out on a limb and the shame that keeps them there. We have gained an understanding of the dynamics of pride and how it tends to move ever closer toward self-destruction. Add to this the wise willingness to wait for another to come to self-awareness, and we have the knowledge which helps us bring others in off a limb before it breaks under them. To know ...

917. The Remnant Year

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... them. The costs of daily life, the trials and temptations, cares and catastrophes were handled with faithfulness and courage. In due time the covenant relationship became too much for them. They fell again and again, preferring their wills rather than his. Rich, they pridefully manipulated the law. Tired, they yielded to the easiest way out. Defeated, they became despairing. They acted as if they were no people of God at all. Rather, God was their private possession to be used at will. From time to time God ...

918. Who Knows?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... of Jonesville have known their experiment in a brave, new world would result in tragedy? They couldn’t. Their lives, lived in despair, disillusion, and injustice, had found a haven from the destructive forces they had known. None knew that later the higher currents of unbridled pride would turn them about and send them in a different direction, to their deaths. Who could know? Each of us is a mixture of daydreams and grand plans. Oh, what we will do and will not do - we think we have it all plotted out ...

919. Everybody a Cinderella

Hosea 2:2-23

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... he sees deep within and calls us forth to be what we can be. From depression he signals a way across by means of which we walk cautiously at first and then with increasing assurance, feeling his support grow with every faithful step. We are moving along. And, from pride and vanity, qualities of the ego that bind us up and block out any chance of grace, he re-spects you and me and calls us along. The love of Christ saves. He looks within to the counterpart of himself that he sees and begins to build upon it ...

920. Lent 6

Isaiah 50:1-11, Mark 15:16-20, Mark 15:21-32, Philippians 2:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... embodied in your Son, Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Most merciful God, we confess that we are guilty of exalting ourselves, of loving prestige, of counting equality with you a thing to be grasped. Forgive us our arrogance and pride, and inspire us with the person of Jesus Christ, who achieved our salvation and his own exaltation, not through self-promotion and status-seeking but through humility and suffering. In his name we pray. Amen Gospel: Mark 14:1--15:47 or 15:1-39 ...

921. Proper 9

2 Samuel 7:1-17, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10, Mark 6:1-6

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... rivals do) and, along with all his hardships, reminds him of the true sufficiency of grace and the real source of power: Christ. Call to Worship Leader: We meet as a people blessed by God’s grace in Christ. People: WE ARE THEREFORE A PROUD PEOPLE, BUT OUR PRIDE IS NOT IN OURSELVES, BUT IN OUR SAVIOR. Leader: If we boast, we boast of the power of Christ rather than of our own strength. People: NOR ARE WE A PEOPLE WITH "HEADS IN THE CLOUDS," BUT DOWN-TO-EARTH HUMANS IN WHOSE WEAKNESS GOD HAS PERFECTED THE ...

922. Proper 10

2 Samuel 7:18-29, Ephesians 1:1-14, Mark 6:7-13

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... of your gracious greatness, we too may be exalted to positions of importance in your plans for the world. In the name of the Nazarene carpenter we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, we confess that we like to think highly of ourselves, to take pride in our status and success, and to act as though all our greatness were self-generated. Forgive our arrogance, we pray. Remind us continually that only you are great, and that whatever greatness we have has been given rather than gained. In the name of ...

923. Proper 19

Proverbs 22:1-16, James 2:1-13, James 2:14-26, Mark 8:27-30, Mark 8:31--9:1

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... : AS CHRISTIANS WE BEAR AS WELL THE SIGN OF THE CROSS. Leader: Not every Christian in every age is called to be a martyr, but all are called to be members of the body of Christ. People: LET US THEN BEAR OUR CHRISTIAN MARKS PROUDLY, AS WITNESSES WHOSE PRIDE IS IN JESUS. Collect Redeeming God, who have set us apart by grace to have a special status and responsibility, set your stamp and mark upon us; that, in the midst of many conflicting allegiances, we may know to whom we belong and with whom our loyalties ...

924. Waiting With Anticipation

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

David M. Oliver

... this manner, the coming of the Lord can be greeted with anticipation and eagerness rather than with fear and trepidation. Only when the people of God can look honestly at themselves do they discover the freedom and power to change. Lack of honesty, prideful self-justification, and attempting to lay blame on others creates barriers rather than removing them. How can people of faith today gain this clarity and self-awareness? Isaiah offers us a direction with the following words: "... no eye has seen any God ...

925. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

... to betray Jesus, did he hope Jesus would call him back? Haven’t we done that? On impulse, we begin to make some gesture - one perhaps we didn’t even really want to carry through - but having committed ourselves, we move on. And nobody stops us. So our pride sends us on almost against our will. To his credit, Judas confessed. "I have betrayed innocent blood." It was a bonafide confession but it was in the wrong place. We’ve done that, haven’t we? "I really shouldn’t have done that. It was a real ...

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