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926. Dancing with the Wind

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... many people, the church is nothing more than a remnant of an ancient culture. They look at us the same way they look at the Amish and the Quakers. We are out of touch with their reality. The church is a dinosaur that just doesn’t have enough sense to lay down and die. And we have contributed more to the problem than we care to admit. Perhaps in our attempt to make the church more attractive to the unchurched, we have tried to explain away every occurrence mentioned in the Bible that appears to run counter ...

927. The Sound of Everlasting Joy

Luke 15:11-32, Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... our city makes us aware that nature is rejoicing: new growth in shades of green, the splash of red and pink azaleas, the whiteness of dogwood trees. Springtime has come with a mystic, inner joy in which all nature sings. This renewal of nature gives us a sense of excitement and renews our hope. Every Sunday can't be Easter. Every season can't be spring. But every year Easter and springtime make us aware of all the possibilities of new life. Easter is the day we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, and the ...

928. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Larry Powell

... lazy man's way of not thinking it through, and a sure sign of spiritual immaturity. There are, he claims, three distinct senses of the phrase, the will of God: (1) the intentional Will of God, (2) the circumstantial Will of God, and (3) the ... part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single organ, where ...

929. Empty Prisons Without Walls

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... like whomever he was near. Rich Little, the impersonator, once did a TV movie in which he played the part of an impressionist who had no persona of his own but could only pretend to be other people. One can also be a prisoner without walls in the opposite sense by being a compulsive non-conformist. Always needing to be different can be as much a slavery as always needing to fit in, to be accepted or to be like other people. 3. Empty Prisons The message of Easter is not only a story of the Empty Tomb. It ...

930. Throw Your Heart at the Sky

John 21:1-14

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Carl Jech

... term is "inclusive ministry." Yet, although John is a complex and symbolic Gospel, it is also for many people their favorite Gospel because of its warm, personal and "spiritual" tone. Jesus is indeed complex and multi-dimensional, but there is also a sense in which Jesus is a model of wonderful simplicity. Jesus has always been a symbol of personal faith. Paradoxically, Jesus has always symbolized resistance to the kind of religion that is a mere collection of abstract symbols. The Christmas message of "God ...

931. Jesus Meets Buddha and Confucius

Luke 24:36-49

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Carl Jech

... story in the book of Acts), Luke pictures Jesus as more or less vanishing into thin air as he ascends into heaven. It does make some sense that if Jesus is able to vanish into thin air at the conclusion of his ministry, he could also have used astral projection or some ... thought and critisim legitimate in China. Narrow-minded, culturally biased moralism - often masquerading under the guise of "common sense" - frequently produces the opposite of ethics. It can cause a lot of injustice and pain. In our own ...

932. A Holy Hunger

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... An elegant restaurant which is tastefully decorated, enhanced by candlelight and "singing violins" can contribute to our enjoyment of dining. However, all of this does not create hunger as an act of will; rather, it only makes us aware of our hunger by appealing to the senses. God prepares a dinner for us - communion. The one basic requirement for this communion to be holy for us is hunger - not the hunger of the stomach, but the hunger of our total being - the hunger of our hearts. It may be the hunger for ...

933. Counterfeit Faith

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... paid for, or it becomes a service that is bought. Despite what the Bible proclaims, we still believe that one does not "get something for nothing," or "everything has its price," or "beware of Greeks bearing gifts." These are the glass slippers, fashioned by our "common sense," into which we attempt to force the foot of faith. When we do, the faith that we possess is not genuine. It is counterfeit. It does not fit the faith of the New Testament. One of the greatest barriers to receiving the seed of God's ...

934. Natural Or Supernatural?

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... ." In other words, the only way we can prove the existence of God is when He comes down and tinkers with a watch. Now, turn to the other view of Wordsworth, for instance: ... I have feltA presence that disturbs me with the joyOf elevated thoughts; a sense sublimeOf something far more deeply interfused,Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,And the round ocean and the living air,And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;A motion and a spirit, that impelsAll thinking things, all objects of all thought,And ...

935. Seeking What Matters

Matthew 13:44-46

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... even, is safe to be treasured. Writing to the Philippians (1:9), the Apostle Paul, in the translation of James Moffatt, has this to say: "It is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital." Translator Ronald Knox puts it this way: "... that you may learn to prize what is of value." The concern of Paul should be a concern of every one of us. It is true, as is often said, that we ought to put "first things first." But ...

936. Life's Third Dimension

Matthew 20:1-16

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... ... Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me?" And here the story ends; and Jesus says the Kingdom of Heaven is like this! For you, I suspect, as for me, this story has some disturbing and troubling aspects. It appears to violate our sense of fairness. Let it be said for the householder, however, that he paid nobody less than he had promised. What troubles most of us, though, is that some men had to work several times as long as others for the wages they got. The whole issue turns upon ...

937. Barefoot in the Palace

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... the earth: "And men will come from east and west and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God." Isn’t this a commentary on present times? Even if the privileged still maintain their hold on the palace, they do not rest easy. They sense that the barefoot ones are coming to make their claim. In fact, or in anticipation, the present and future are signed by the bare feet that scurry through the palace corridors, or threaten to do so. I So we stay with this truth. The image of bare feet in ...

938. Grateful For The Giver

Luke 17:11-19

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... anyway. Then we saw Mary take out just one quart of milk for herself, while Phyllis grabbed all the rest and carried it all away. Funny but sick. The Bible sometimes shows us leprosy as a picture of sin. This disease of the nine that deadens the sense of feeling and eats away muscle and organ and bone is a symbol of how selfishness numbs our conscience and consumes our integrity. Our Lord by his selfless living and dying and rising has cleansed us of the gnawing guilt that erodes our personality and befouls ...

939. Tomb for Sale

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

George Bass

... it to be." At least they could still hope and trust in God and dare to go on living out their lives. Hope doesn’t silence our cries of "Why, what for?" does it, but it allows us to question, seek for answers, and attempt to make some sense out of the inconsistencies and mysteries of life. And it isn’t always a case of the good dying young, is it? In February of 1982, Dr. Solomon Garb, sixty-one, died - ironically - of cancer. Dr. Garb had devoted most of his professional life to cancer research only ...

940. Remember Me?

Luke 13:22-30

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... , but for your life you cannot remember the person. You "fish" around for some hints, but there are none that make any sense. Finally, with a trace of a smile, the person says, "I was in John and Mary’s wedding party eight years ago, and ... goal, the narrow door. Meaningful Relationships When you and I turn toward this goal, we strive toward the highest ideal that Christ has for us. In that sense, we share Christ’s hopes and dreams for us. We strive to go where he wants us to go and do what he wants us to ...

941. Complaint from the Kitchen

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... a whole lot cleaner." How do we sing it? "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." (Psalm 51:10) This is what worship should do. To sit alone, or with others in the body of Christ, at the feet of Jesus - to sense his presence and hear his words, floods the soul with joy and bathes the inward self with the refreshing streams of life. Or, to change the figure of speech, at worship the fires of the Christian life are lighted and fed. At worship we find and renew the reason for ...

942. The Man Who Didn’t Care

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... his new community he will probably seek the same environment - because he is that kind of person. He has been fitting himself for that kind of environment. That’s where he is at home. That’s where he belongs. It is something like that between this life of five senses and the life beyond. Each of us is creating the kind of person who is at home being with God and the environment of God,or is at home separated from God and the things that belong to God’s environment. 2. Jesus says that between these two ...

943. The Now-ness of Eternity

Zechariah 7:1-14

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... ponder this, I find myself thinking that God is unfettered by time and space and has the perspective of infinity. In his sight, therefore, every moment and movement of our existence must be fixed in his awareness. It is all a part of eternity. Was it in this sense that Jesus said God "is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him"? In other words, are all who have ever lived always alive to God in all the terms and conditions of their existence? Whatever the answer may be to such intriguing ...

944. The Day of Pentecost

Isaiah 44:1-5

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... to give up on his people. He wants to resuscitate them, to raise them from a corpse-like state into a new life of vitality and responsibility. The symbolism of the desert can be found in other places in the Bible, but here it is used in a new sense. Here, the desert that is transformed is Israel itself. This will happen because the spirit and the blessings of God will be poured out on all the people of Israel. According to the Anchor Bible (Vol. 20, p. 64), this is a novel concept. The normal traditions of ...

945. The Holy Trinity

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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... will risk almost anything to satisfy those nagging needs. The children of Israel, while wandering in the wilderness, knew what it meant to be hungry and thirsty. They knew it in a physical sense and they knew it in an emotional sense. Since they longed for a promised land, perhaps they knew it in a spiritual sense, too. There were times, in the wilderness, when they felt forsaken by God, but there were also occasions when they knew his presence near. In many different ways, they heard his voice. It ...

946. Angry Hands

Psalm 26:1-12

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... a sudden he tried to wrap his putter around a tree. What misdirected anger! It was so poorly directed, it did not make sense. It was not the inanimate piece of metal that had missed the putt, but the individual holding the putter. Never should anger be so ... died at an inappropriate time. I have been angry with God. But that, too, is misdirected anger. It is an anger that makes no more sense than the man who wrapped his putter around the tree. It is not the putter that did it, and it is not God who works ...

947. The Simplicity of God's Call

Romans 8:28-39

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... if something or Someone could touch our lives; we may wonder if something so simple and so marvelous could be true; we may have a deep sense of longing inside of us; we may feel a deep emptiness that longs to be filled; we may feel afraid of dying, or be wracked ... anyone cares; we may need some answer to a problem, or strength to face the day, or peace in the midst of our turmoil, or a sense of direction, or even a miracle. But Our Lord stands beside us this moment. And His call to us, in His love for us, is ...

948. Religion - One Way to Get in God’s Way

Zechariah 7:1-14

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... be simply stated. The worst is atomic war. The best would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all people. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone, it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its science, the hopes of its children. The cost ...

949. There’s Gotta Be a Day

Malachi 4:1-6

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... ones who suffer most are those who can afford to suffer least. That’s correct: the widow, the orphan, the alien. And God will not cease caring until these people are given their due because he is the God of all." Things come apart because we lose a sense of interconnectedness. We are all one family. We are all related. "Hath not one God created us?" asks Malachi. If that is the case, then all of his people are to get what God would like them to have, namely, justice. You will notice that our Lord talked ...

950. Authority Through Servanthood

Matthew 20:20-28, Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... ask the whole class a question and see the hands shoot up. Then I could choose who would answer. It was dazzling for me to be able to choose from all those hands. I thought that was what being a teacher was mainly about, and it was a delicious sense of power that had suddenly seeped into my nine-year-old mind. But what was happening to me had nothing to do with being a teacher, and everything to do with enjoying ordering others around. This is why I can appreciate Mrs. Zebedee’s eagerness to get her boys ...

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