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926. THE MARRIAGE GAP

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... the home." Note the words, conflict and clash, in juxtaposition with love. Conflict is inevitable when we are talking about human beings with the difference in outlook that males and females have. Furthermore, the only available candidates for marriage are sinners! A man schooled in pride doesn’t suddenly sit down and start caring. All of which may make it difficult for any of us to accept the other person as a person, or as anything at all. But, you see, love can’t wait until the other person is worthy ...

927. The Racial Gap

Psalm 53:1-6

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... ready for meaningful dialogue and meaningful love. He says, "Black and beautiful," and we don’t believe him or we completely miss his point because our mind set is tied to beauty as being white. Now, before you object to that I, too, can point with pride. My own alma mater elected a black homecoming queen this year - but she looked white! That is, her features were Caucasian and her skin just happened to be black. I’ve not seen Julia on television, but I was completely entranced with Diahnn Carroll when ...

928. Everyone Has a Somebody

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... are really not being honest, frank, and sincere with themselves. Life for them becomes misery. Real love escapes them. Resentment has killed it. We all know the double-talker. Says one thing to one person, says the exact opposite to another. A few doubletalkers may pride themselves on seeing both sides of a situation. Actually, they lack the real love and courage to deal with what is the truth. In it all, we see ourselves in varying degrees, for everyone has a somebody. Why is it we are always failing with ...

929. What's Mine Is Yours

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... a part in some of CROP’s ‘food-for-work’ projects in many nations. Relief too is not a ‘hand-out’ but is given in exchange for work in irrigation or gardening or road building. I believe you have a better nature that would take pride in knowing that a hundred windmills which are drawing life-giving water in India are there because of your generosity. And that in Bangladesh there were 100 wells which you made possible. And in the parched Sahelian countries of tropical Africa, wide areas now produce ...

930. The Bread of Life

Luke 9:10-17

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... ?" "Wait a minute," Mrs. Americus interjected. "What about the garbage we throw away?" "Well, I’m a pretty insightful custodian of that," Mr. C said. "Shall I give you some Forinstances?" "Do indeed. I admit I am pretty shaken, for you are shooting at my pride, and, I guess, at my sincerity, too." Fragments Are "Lost" "Well, for instance," Mr. C started in grimly, "bread is life. But you throw bread away every week. That little br-, excuse me, that little son of yours eats out the middle of the slice ...

931. In The Shade Of An Awning

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... , untrained. Perhaps hungry. Pretty much alone - for I don’t think I’d ever heard of his family. And here I was starting to thrash him because a sack of herbs had fallen in the path of a woman from Damascus. No one was hurt - except my pride in my inn - The Inn of Tarus. It wasn’t until this very simple event that the importance - the real importance - of my noon-time hosting to Jesus’ preaching hit home. Bits and pieces of his greatness assembled themselves. He had talked of sinners who repent - of ...

932. Advent 3: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Peace of Christmas

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Christmas, go in the spirit of love and fix those broken relationships in your life. If you are alienated or estranged or cut off or at odds with any other person, go in the spirit of Christmas and make peace. Don’t put it off any longer… drop your pride, drop your resentment, drop your grudges, and go set it right. Go… and God will go with you. That’s what mistletoe is really about… and that’s what Christmas is about. God comes to us in the Christ Child so that we might be… set right with God ...

933. Getting Ready

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to Brennan. Your eminence, what shall we do? Newman answered: The people are suffering and dying. How can I send a priest to do this work? I must go myself. At Advent God looked down upon his dying people dying from sin and distraction, pride and preoccupation. How, under the circumstance could he send a substitute? He came himself—in the person of Jesus Christ. Advent is about repentance and salvation. Perhaps you have heard the fascinating story of Marie Krassman. Marie Krassman was a Polish Jew who ...

934. Demon Drop

Mark 1:21-28

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... I am going back to my human. He is perfect for my purposes. He studies the holy scrolls every day. Then when I take possession of my human again I will take along some of my strongest friends. I will be their leader. Some friends like Oonat, who promotes pride so well, and Atak, who specializes in self-righteousness. The plan is to tell of the Holy One's mighty deeds. Isn't it a marvelous plan? DARK LORD: This is your plan? This is your marvelous plan? Just kill this -- this -- NIGITH: Kill the Holy One of ...

935. Christ Is Our Lord and Savior

Mark 1:29-39

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... Lord! Collect O Lord, You alone are the Creator and Sustainer of all the Universe, and in Your merciful love You have extended to us Your healing and salvation. With true love we thank you, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often in our pride we forget the way we were before You touched our lives. And too often, Lord, we tend to forget what we would still be were it not for Your forgiveness and healing power. Forgive us, Lord, and give us the vision we need to share Your Gospel in ...

936. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... based upon the realization which comes to every individual who approaches the moment of repentance. Repentance is (1) an admittance. It is saying "I have been wrong. Lord, be merciful to me a sinner." To admit personal folly is not a gesture which pride allows one to take up eagerly. Repentance is (2) a risk. It risks previous friendships and all manner of relationships because a changed person is thrust back into unchanged situations. An elderly woman who had lived a wretched, godless life, came under the ...

937. On His Way

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... going to put into action, the commitment to which we would tenaciously cling. Where are they now? Are we on our way, our faces set like flint, or have we turned backward? Did Robert Frost describe us when he wrote sorrowfully, "Nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope"? By the time Jesus had reached Jericho on his way to Jerusalem, he was accompanied by a great crowd. When he came to Bethany, he was joined by another crowd, and when he came to Jerusalem on Passion ...

938. Whom Do You Sit East Of?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... the presence of the Lord. While Jonah is stowing his luggage below decks, it might be a good time to raise the question as to why he is trying to flee from the presence of the Lord. All kinds of answers have been proposed - a lack of courage; too much pride; a "let’s-not-get-involved" mentality. But the Bible doesn’t provide an answer. It simply says that he "rose to flee from the presence of the Lord." That’s all it says. To be honest, we can’t even say why we avoid God’s words to us ...

939. God’s Choice

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... he would need it. In the Old Testament the Spirit sets people apart from others. In the New Testament the Holy Spirit is given to all Christians. In both Testaments, however, the gift of the Spirit is not a possession to be hoarded to oneself with pride, but rather an enabling power for the benefit and service of others. The fact that David was already looking after sheep when Samuel found him was not only literal fact but also symbolically instructive. I love the story that came out of a major tragedy in ...

940. The Transfiguration

Mark 9:2-13

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... and healing ways and we give you our heartfelt praise for the Mount of Transfiguration experience. Truly You are God. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often You have come to us and we would neither see You nor hear You. So often in our pride, we have insisted You must fit our molds and be as we would have You be. And so often, instead of being Your vessels of healing love, we have been instruments of hurt and destruction. Forgive us, Lord, and remold us as You would have us be. In ...

941. What’s Happened To My Dear Old Church?

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Richard Patt

... us for the worse, often forming us into demanding, isolated creatures. Our sin and selfishness, ingrained since Adam and Eve, have a way of manifesting themselves in new and changing ways. In most human relationships today there is a lot of greed and deceit. Jealousy and pride are at work. To put it pointedly, sin is having a field day. The need for a true change of heart is obvious. In many respects you and I can be grateful today that people are willing to have an open heart about dealing forthrightly and ...

942. Then He Went Home

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... attitude of openness to change. What is it that divides a home? What is it that divides a family? What is it that divides friends? What is it that divides a nation? What is it that divides nation from nation? The answer is clear: An arrogance and pride that leaves no possibility for repentance and forgiveness. The ancient words of Jesus are more contemporary than our morning newspapers. Much has changed in the past 2,000 years. The human heart remains the same. It can pump blood as long as it has not turned ...

943. What If It Is True?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

... will say no to those who wish to profit at the cost of keeping others poor. We will say no to the love of power at the cost of true equality. We will say no to the millions of tortures and long, hard, violent deaths inflicted out of greed and pride. We will say no to fools in high places who talk of winning nuclear wars with "acceptable" casualty rates that run in the millions. We will be compelled to say no to all these things because, if the angel spoke the truth, God has said "yes" and has led us ...

944. The Miracle of Re-Birth

John 3:1-21

Sermon

... but by allowing something to be done for us which we don’t deserve and can’t do for ourselves. Only God brings new beginnings. Like Nicodemus, we will not want to hear these words. "Let’s misunderstand them. That will be more comfortable to us." In our pride we can’t stand to admit we can’t do it ourselves. The cross, when it is raised up and we look to it, doesn’t simply bring forgiveness; it creates new persons! It changes us in here (the heart) where we have our being. In a society ...

945. The Jamie Farr Connection

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

... us will be obedience prompted by a preacher’s coercion. Behind us will be a piety as a refuge from life’s problems. And before us will be devotion from love and the spontaneous joy of new life in Christ. Amen Notes from the Homiletician Many communities take pride in a local boy or girl who rises to fame and fortune. Among Ohio cities, Columbus has Jack Nicklaus, Cleveland has Bob Hope, New Concord has John Glenn. Toledo’s hometown hero is Jamie Farr, one of the stars of the classic TV show M*A*S*H ...

946. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... , when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye: I feel my heart new open’d. O! how wretched Is that ...

947. And It Came To Pass

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... but a season. City of God will endure forever - a majestic theme which established the Middle Ages and became chart and compass for Western Culture. Is this, after all, not the message, the Christian good news to a world confused, war-torn, tragically enslaved to greed, pride, selfishness? "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words ..." And John’s Gospel tells us "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us ..." (1:14). How Do We Live? In light of what we read in Mark, and what we learn from history ...

948. Man, Where Are You?

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... isn’t on a baited hook that someone dangles like a lure before our eyes. It’s on the inside that the prod to outlaw God is felt. Sometimes it comes disguised as piety, or in questions that concern our daily needs, or in lust for power and success, pride and self-esteem, the knowledge we have gained, our role in life. It appeals where the appeal is felt most strongly - from within the heart. "Man, where are you?" Are you walking in the strength of God, deploying the resources he has given in his Word and ...

949. Christ Is Our Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... or say, and we are so grateful. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, truly like sheep, each one of us has gone our own way. So often each of us has chosen to wander off into the wildernesses of life and away from You. And in our pride we have chosen to try to face the dangers of life alone. Forgive us, Lord, and open our hearts that we might hear You calling us home into the safety of Your care. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" "Be Still, My Soul" "What ...

950. Called of the Spirit

John 7:25-44

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... You. In a busy world You would give us love and joy in our lives yet so often we feel Your gift is too good to be true and we will not accept it. In love You offer us the gift of life itself and yet so often in our pride we refuse it. Forgive us, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah" "I Would Be True" "Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus"

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