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926. Praise God For Adversity

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... redemptive history. Even the exodus from Egypt, so sacred in the memory of Israel's salvation, will be forgotten in the light of this new and mighty act. A new pathway through the waters of a new sea, a new way in the wilderness, a new river in the desert - all this God is about to accomplish in the process of fulfilling his promise to the people he has created and chosen. A new rescue, a new act of liberation, a new demonstration of God's continuing care for his people is about to surprise and to startle ...

927. Religion in the Valley - Religion That Works

Luke 9:28-36

Illustration

James W. Moore

... when he came back to his home church and testimony-time came, he was ready. He stood and said, “I’m so glad to be back in my own church, and I want to tell you that while it’s true that I have beaten my wife, that I have deserted my children, that I have stolen and lied and done all manner of evil and served several terms in jail—but I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that not once, in all that time, did I ever lose my religion!” Now, if your religion is nothing more than ...

928. God Shows His Glory to the Nations

Deuteronomy 31:30--32:47

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... see his love in Christ, who, even though rejected and crucified, became redeemer for all mankind. People: We rejoice in Christ our Savior, who shares with us God's love, justice, and redemption. He is our King victorious! Collect Almighty God, who does not desert us when rejected by our false appearance of allegiance: Draw us out of our complacency to recognize your redeeming presence in Christ who suffered for sins such as ours, to claim us as your children. Hear us for his sake. Amen. Prayer of Confession ...

929. Hermon: The Camel Who Was Humbled

Matthew 19:24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the beautiful carriage, and a tailor works with needles. The needle was small enough that Hermon could use it as a toothpick and the eye of the needle was so small that he couldn't even see it at a distance. Well, faster and faster Hermon went cutting across the desert sands at a time in the day when the sun was hottest and it burned his hoofs to travel at such a pace on the burning sand. Never before had his owner asked him to use himself in such a way and it upset him that he should make him ...

930. No Ignorant Brethren

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Rev. Kenneth H. Sauer

... to us today. Let us not be ignorant about those who are asleep, or about ourselves for that matter. Let us hear that great word of Christian theology, "Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ." Know that God loves you, is with you, and will never desert you. Believe it! Trust it! Rejoice in it! Be joyful in believing! Be not ignorant of God's love for you. Then, and only then, be not ignorant of the practical life of faith that lies before you. Luther in his Table Talk commented on our Lord's ...

931. Holy Trinity Sunday

John 16:12-15

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... , show us the way of reconciliation. When anxieties press in to suffocate the breath of the Spirit, give us faith to breathe deeply the winds of heaven's promises. When burdens oppress us, be for us, Lord, like a shadow of a mighty rock in the heat of the desert. If any of us are beset by doubt, then let us reach out in mind and spirit until we feel your timeless heartbeat near our hearts. Let us not be afraid to follow the reasoning of faith when it outreaches the reasoning of our minds. May radiance upon ...

932. Managing Disappointment

Romans 5:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Clement E. Lewis

... reconciliation. A Prayer O God our Father, you well know that for the elderly, the frail, the shut-in, the bed-ridden, the nursing or retirement home resident, and hospitalized patients, disappointments are emotionally painful, and cause feelings of having been deserted. Help those we pray, who have such feelings, that they may find relief from their sorrows and disappointments. Cause all who should, to visit, to genuinely care, and to relieve the heartaches of the lonely, the disabled, and the neglected ...

933. Thanksgiving

Colossians 3:1-17, Ecclesiastes 7:1--8:1

Bulletin Aid

Heth H. Corl

... so many upsetting things happening in our nation. Don't you think we ought to change our plans, and face reality? People: Pastor, I do get upset over some of the things that are happening. But I'm convinced that God is in our midst. He will never desert us. That is the reality I am facing. I came today to join in a unanimous celebration of thanksgiving. I'm not about to change my mind! Pastor: Praise God from whom all blessings flow! Even the blessings that come disguised as threats, doubts, and fears. We ...

934. People Get Ready!

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Revelation, predicted that March 21, 1844 was the precise date when Christ would return to earth. When this day came and went without the promised appearance of Christ, Miller changed his prediction to October 22, 1844. It came and went. Many of his followers deserted him but many stuck around and today you know them as 7th Day Adventist. A Christian Church but founded on a very shaky beginning. Hal Lindsey, in his book “The Late Great Planet Earth,” which has sold over 30 million copies, predicted in ...

935. Faith Bridges the Gap

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

... to work any longer, then they released the slaves from their service. Antoine says that these old "bags of bones" would beg for a short time, going from tent to tent, but when they were too weak to beg for food any longer, they would go out to the desert, sit down, and slowly slip away into death. The Arab children would run around them as they played in the sand, almost oblivious to the death that was soon to occur; they had seen it many times while they were young. And the old, discarded slaves would be ...

936. Some Man

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

... , but all of his efforts to change things for the better had failed up to that point. He lost his professorship at the University of Pennsylvania because, in a study of the city government of Philadelphia, he had uncovered corruption, and even his pastor deserted him when he was attacked because he - the well-known Dr. Russell H. Conwell of the famous "Acres of Diamonds" speech and pastor of the Baptist Temple - sought financial support from the city for the university he had founded. He obtained a teaching ...

937. Christ Is King

John 12:12-19

Sermon

... in control - in the world of war, or in this imperfect church, or in the pain and pressure and disaster of our personal empires where foundations shake and shatter? Does not the evidence suggest the question, "Where is now your God?" Has your king deserted you, or lost control, or has he been impeached, deposed, sent packing for conduct that betrays his office? The disciples felt that way when in the week that followed they saw Jesus delivered into the hands of evil people, bound, and judged, and crucified ...

938. The Challenge of God's Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

... can make the barn bulge. God hasn't placed us in the church to preserve the institution. Christianity is no monument. Oh, some regard it as such, that's true. Some years ago I read in the newspaper about a woman in Michigan who purchased an 89-year-old deserted church building out in the country because it was her girlhood church, and, as the woman said, "I want to maintain and preserve it as a shrine. This little church has a lot of memories. I'm not going to renovate it or anything, just clean it and keep ...

939. How Was Jesus' Death Different?

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27

Sermon

... can be reconciled. God will accept him, forgive him, and love him. But, the question is whether modern man wants to be forgiven, wants to be accepted by God as his child. President Ford offered an estimated 100,000 draft dodgers and deserters clemency, amnesty, and forgiveness. The response was most disappointing. He extended the time twice. By March 31, 1975, only 16,000 applied for clemency. Eighty-five percent spurned the gracious offer. Apparently they did not want forgiveness because they felt they did ...

940. Killing A King

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

... protested, "The word of the king is enough!" The king was mighty pleased. He said to those near him, "This gentleman does me a real honor - he treats me like a king." There are various ways to treat a king. You can reject him and despise and desert him. Jesus was rejected by his nation. One day they shouted, "Hallelujah!" and later the same week they cried, "Crucify!" At the close of Palm Sunday, we find Jesus looking over the city and weeping. "Oh, how I would have gathered you ... but you would not." And ...

941. If Only We Would Hold On ...

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... wonder that Jeremiah has been referred to as the weeping prophet. He had something to cry about. The priests opposed him; even his own father turned against him. The princes sought his life, the people called him a traitor, and his captors declared that he was a deserter. Like Evelyn and, indeed, like most of us, Jeremiah fought with himself. The image he had of himself did not measure up to his image of a prophet of God. (1:4-10) He complained that his hearers ridiculed him because the Lord’s Word, which ...

942. Proper 9

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

The Hebrews who went down to Egypt settled there as guests of the Pharaoh. To those semi-nomadic people, the land, even though passing through a period of exceptional famine, must have seemed lush and green compared with droughtstricken Canaan and the desert which they had crossed. They were there as resident aliens, but at the time it was easy to forget that fact, because they were accorded special privileges, thanks to Joseph's position at the Pharaoh's court. However, the time came when this favorable ...

943. Faith-Filled Living

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

... care needs to be taken lest faith be oversimplified. It is not only the ability to trust God to be our companion when we stand in the cathedral among the throngs of the faithful and sing "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," but also when we are in the desert of loneliness and unable to crank out a song from our own desperate hearts. Faith is not just the ability to trust God’s love when the family has been blessed and all are gathered in good health around the holiday table but also in those times when one ...

944. The Third Sunday in Lent

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... joy of knowing they are daughters and sons of God. The woman at the well in today's Gospel could be each of us, as we seek the gift of faith or its renewal in the approaching Easter celebration. We don't have to go to the wilderness, to the desert, to be alone. It doesn't take the burning heat of the sun, the glistening green of the cactus, the buffalo roaming, and the deer and the antelope playing, to have an authentic wilderness experience. Thanks to the presence of what we call "sin" in our lives, we can ...

945. The Fourth Sunday in Lent

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... morning when the two Marys came running to tell her the news of the arrest in the garden and the rumors of a sentence of death by crucifixion. She was as determined as the other women, who had followed him from Galilee to minister to him, that she would not desert him now in this last hour of need, even when all the noble hopes were dashed. The little band of women made their way through the streets and out to the edge of the city to the public dump, where the dirty business of death was done and society ...

946. Good Friday

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... enter those places defensively. He can bring us breathing space when we think we are making our last gasp. He can share with his people the very energies by which he overcame on that fateful Friday long ago, and our lives will bear fruit in the desert, for he has proven himself to be the Lord of desperate moments. There are people in this congregation who have been confronted by darkness, plain people who make no boastful claims about their spirituality, and they are given light day by day because that is ...

947. The Fifth Sunday of Easter

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... - we have a guaranteed place in God's scheme of things, both in this world and the world to come. The wonder of it is that even when, to the rest of the world, we appear to have no place at all, no place to lay our heads, "wandering over deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth" (Heb. 11:38), we know God has prepared for us a city; we have a place. Surely it is this knowledge that helps explain the freedom of a Mother Teresa to minister to the dying, the freedom of a Martin ...

948. Ascension Day

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... deprived of the kind of intimate companionship which they had known together on the hillsides of Galilee. In some ways, the Gospel lessons of these past Sundays have been ministering to that grief. They are the assurances of Christ to his followers he will not desert them, he will return to them, and he will provide a Comforter to make his presence known. This feast of the Ascension is reminding us of two facts: one is the resurrection means we are deprived of the physical presence of Jesus as he was known ...

949. A New Plan for Lent

Joel 1:1-12

Sermon

... of Easter. Catechumens took their final exam before being baptized on Easter night; the most publicly sinful people made their confessions in front of other Christians; in worship, the Gospel readings dwelt on all the demonic challenges to Christ - Satan in the desert, for instance, and the healing of the possessed - to demonstrate what evil Christ was overcoming on Easter. It was a harsh season, not because of artificial restrictions, but because it was a harsh life of persecutions and living in a decaying ...

950. A Wandering Aramean

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

... version of the Apostles' Creed - it defines us. As such, the statement reminds us of the divine promise received from our Lord. The statement is also a confession. "My father was only an Aramean, a nomad unwelcomed anywhere but in the swamps and the barren desert, a gypsy quick to borrow the ideas (and the property) of others but with nothing much of value himself." This Old Testament creed places us solidly in the Divine's history of mankind, but it admits our place is not too attractive and not really ...

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