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926. Open Ears

Acts 7:57

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... want to hear. I suppose the least effective way is to wear ear muffs. [Put a pair of ear muffs over your ears.] When you have these on and they fit well it keeps some of the sound out. Whatever someone says is harder to hear with ear muffs on than it is without them. But a lot of sound still gets in, and if you want to keep all the sound out you have to try something else. The second thing I have is some cotton. That’s better than ear muffs. When you have cotton in your ears it’s ...

927. THE RECEPTIONIST

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... heart; and he says he’s got a metal plate in his head. Of course he could be lying about that; but just the same he keeps going, he gets resurrected one part at a time. And so what’s to stop him from living forever? And even if he is my own ... - all I can remember is that I said over and over again, "He doesn’t have any way to cry." And sometimes I wonder how we keep from crying every waking minute of our lives. We start out that way, you know, like little lost angels trying to get used to a nightmare. ...

928. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... to climb into the snakepit again with that groping maniac. SETH He didn’t send me here, it’s not his idea. You’re the one who keeps bringing him up. JAREL It’s like trying not to vomit. You may be against it in principle, but just the same you know there’s ... it reaches 48. And pick up as much Arizona Oil as you can lay your hands on. But don’t go above 15 and 1/2. And keep in touch. (He hangs up) JAREL Now, what was that all about? SETH It’s all part of the game. JAREL I’ll bet. SETH Well, ...

929. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... find some man to share her bed with her. Why this terrible illness? She was quite candid about it. She said: "You see, it keeps getting harder and harder to sleep by myself, so I have to have someone to sleep with me." You can well see what ... is, and there is no way to get rid of him. Try as we may, we have no grounds for divorce from ourselves. Your pursuing self will keep popping up, crying: "Don’t forget me!" tagging along behind us, shrieking: "You can’t do this to me! You can’t leave me behind! No ...

930. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... same route with its failures, as well as the successes. Man is different. He is able to accumulate, sift, evaluate, store, and pass on the benefit of both his successes and failures. To use that accumulated experience positively, can save many heartaches for others. It can help keep life freer from pain and tragedy for those of us who are able to learn, on occasion, by proxy. How often I have had to relearn this simple truth time and time again. One such instance still sticks in my mind like a burr. I was ...

931. Whispering The Lyrics (revised)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Thomas Long

... them the joyful commandments. But now that Jesus approaches his death, now that he draws near to his time of departure, now that the disciples will be on their own without him, that task is to be handed over to the Holy Spirit: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth ..." (John 14:15-17). The primary task, then, of the Holy Spirit is reminding the faithful of the truth, jogging the ...

932. TAX COLLECTOR

Matt. 18:17; Luke 5:27

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... leased to the highest bidder and that sum was then to be paid to the royal Treasury. If his collection fell below the required sum, the tax collector had to make up the difference. Any amount that he collected above this required sum he was allowed to keep. Although the tax collectors generally had a better than average education, since they had to know how to read, write, and figure sums, they also had to be men who were not above using cunning or violence to collect the taxes. Many persons tried to cheat ...

933. How to Handle Criticism

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... rabbis had a saying that went like this: “If one man calls thee a donkey, heed it not. If two men call thee a donkey, get thee a saddle.” And I’m not certain that they used the word “donkey.” You know what I mean. A third way to keep criticism from immobilizing you is to let the untrue or unfair parts of the criticism roll off you like water off a duck’s back. There is no need to develop a martyr complex or feel sorry for yourself. To go around whining “poor me” has never helped anyone live ...

934. Barabbas - People’s Choice or Chance of Providence?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... ever felt that way yourself? How is it with you? Be honest now. God knows, I’ve tried to be honest with you. And you have to be honest with God. You can’t fool him, that’s for sure! If you think you are faithful to Jesus Christ but keep on compromising the principles of Christianity, you are deceiving yourselves. Maybe you’re not as bad as the mob that shouted, "Give us Barabbas." But when you go along with the ways of the world, even when you know it’s wrong, you are as guilty as that crowd that ...

935. Stewards and the Hungry

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... we are the instruments through which the poor and oppressed, those who are exploited, are set free from their burdens. It further tells us that God wants the oppressed and the hungry to be fed as he promised they would be. You and I become instruments to keep his promise because we are "in charge." The Bible says that the best way to deal with enemies is not to battle them, but to feed them. Additionally, the Scripture says that when we help the poor and hungry we are actually helping the Christ we worship ...

936. When Something is About to Happen

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Long

... . Indeed, the whole business of being a part of the church at all felt, at times, like a burdensome weight, and on this Sunday morning that weight had tugged the conversation toward the question, Why stay in the church? "I’ll tell you," he said, "what keeps me coming to this church," and every head turned in his direction. The sudden rush of interest made him hesitate, uncertain of his own thought, but he pushed on. "It’s strange, I know, but I get the feeling here, like nowhere else, that something is ...

937. Not of the World

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... to walk the path of the rich fool and the rich young ruler. The so-called "prosperity Gospel" is simply bankrupt from a biblical point of view. None of us intentionally wishes to be overcome by the agenda of the world and the Evil One. How can we keep God as our treasure when we are surrounded by so many other kinds of riches? The world hates us. The Evil One wishes to conform us to the world’s agenda. How shall we persevere? Fortunately, we are not the only ones concerned about our perseverance. Jesus ...

938. The Remnant Year

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... be if we could take some of the bits and pieces of Christmas, tuck them into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, and take them into the new year with us. It would be almost like making a New Year’s resolution and keeping it. We know how things go: bills and burdens; costs and catastrophes; days and dallyings; trials and temptations - until the weight of daily duties does us in once more. In the cold light of practicality the blessings and serendipities of Christmas - unsolicited acts of affection ...

939. Bell-Bottoms that Scared the Devil

Luke 6:37-38

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the temple with Jesus when He lived, you would have heard these bells ringing all the time. Bells are pretty and if you had them tied to your clothes we would all know when you were coming or where you were, but bells don’t keep the devil away. Jesus taught us that the way to keep the evil spirits away was to believe in Him as the Lord and Savior. When we believe that Jesus died for our sins, we are never afraid of the devil. Jesus says that He will forgive us for any sins that we commit, and that ...

940. Who Needs a Bigger Barn?

Luke 12:13-21

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... we may need it. Let God care for that problem when it happens. Maybe if we need food someday, the people whom we shared it with will share the food that they have learned to grow with us. God asks us to use what we have for everyone and not keep it hidden in places for just ourselves when others need it. That is the teaching of God and the way a Christian should believe. The next time you see someone trying to chew a whole pack of gum, I hope you will remember how hard it is to chew so ...

941. God's Training Wheels

Mark 1:9-13, Mark 1:1-8

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... Another thing that's important is baptism. Even Jesus himself was baptized. He received baptism because he wanted to be obedient to God. Some of you have already been baptized. We need to be baptized because that is another way in which God works in our life and helps us keep from falling. Sometimes I don't feel very close to God but then I remember: I was baptized into the family of God! I am his child. Hold up one of the training wheels: So I read the Bible and it helps support me on one side. Hold up the ...

942. Everyone Is Searching For You

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Brett Blair

... his philosophy in life. "I determined right then," he'd say with a twinkle in his eye, "not to miss the things in life, that my uncle had missed." Frank Lloyd Wright saw in those tracks what his uncle could not: It is easy to let the demands of life keep us from the joys of living. We all recognize that any goal in life worth achieving demands a great deal of our energy. If you are a doctor you must spend vast hours alone and in residency studying the human body. The life of your patient demands it. If you ...

943. All Together

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... of God’s presence and direction. It was a great reconciling and outreaching event - a great disciplining of the random, wild tendencies of our sinful human nature. This narrative is a message to keep us from being so parochial. As I think of my interaction with people as a minister, I know that as soon as we draw lines to keep people out of our community (church), we can be sure that the Spirit is already crossing those lines and moving in the hearts of love. It is a fundamental characteristic of the ...

944. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... world below - there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord. ANTAGONIST: I’d think all that hobnobbing with world leaders would go to your head. What was to keep King from becoming a dictator of some sort? PROTAGONIST: A lot of people must have thought he would. He was more popular than the president of the United States for a while. Until he spoke out against the war in Vietnam. ANTAGONIST: What a blunder that was ...

945. Divine Alka-Seltzer

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

... of coming home, I stayed at my meeting, lingering until the very last moment so that I would not have to face the reality of his death. I remember, too, my first day in an inner-city parish, when the pastor quietly informed me that the only thing that would keep me from getting killed was my clerical collar. And then I really wanted to run and hide. When later I learned to love the people of that neighborhood, I wanted to run and hide for another reason: the shame I felt for the way those people had to live ...

946. "I Don’t Hate Any More!"

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the pilot had been unhappy because of the way in which an airline strike had been settled. But there was more: As the pilot took the plane off the ground, he felt the plane to be badly off trim. The men who loaded the cargo had carelessly failed to keep the weight in balance. The pilot, already angry, became furious and over-corrected, jamming his controls. The plane dived into the runway and 118 were killed. Many one-car accidents are due to anger. A man has had a quarrel with his wife or with his boss. He ...

947. Enduring

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... in the Temple closed their eyes. Better to nail that One to a cross, lest he reorder things and bring about a New Heaven and a New Earth. New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth:1 Edwin Prince Booth, late historian at Boston University, said he planned - just before death - to secure a high-powered rifle and blow to bits all his lovely Victorian bric-a-brac which he had collected during his lifetime. Booth said he ...

948. The Father Who Wanted His Son To Succeed

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. I will be your God, and you will be my people." "This day you have become the people of the Lord your God. You shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day" (Deuteronomy 27:9, 10). David might have said it in the words of the Army commercial for recruitment: "Be all that you can be," shirking no challenge, living to your full potential, being faithful to your God ...

949. How Life’s Pressures Affect Good Judgment

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Brett Blair

... two lives; one with him and one when I'm with my Christian friends." An elderly woman said, "My sister thinks she has all the answers about the faith and tries to convince me of her point of view. I feel pressured to become her brand of Christian, but I keep thinking if it means being like her, I don't want it at all. When she calls, I just put the phone on my shoulder and let her rant on while I do other things. A half-hour later, she's still on the line blasting away, but I still ...

950. When You Reach Wit’s End

Psalm 107:1-43

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... , and then put the list and worries aside for a week. We’d find that many of the problems had just taken care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson used to say that a well-ordered mind in a time of crisis is like a clock in a thunderstorm - it just keeps up its regular ticking. There is a moving scene in the second book of Samuel (12:16f). David, the King, had taken for his own another man’s wife. And to make sure that there wouldn’t be any trouble, he had had the other man killed. The child of ...

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