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951. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... home in Michigan, where my wife grew up. Usually the evening is closed in the dead of the darkness by our standing on the shore of that broad expanse of Lake Michigan and gazing up into the sky to watch the Big Dipper and the North Star. It is an impressive thing to do, especially when one of the luminous satellites drifts by, and we can feel the aura of the vast environment in which we live. A parent who shared this feeling tried to teach his modern son the beauty of the night sky. He said to him, "Look up ...

952. It Is Really Something New by Dr. Frank Bateman Stanger

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... that here were an industrious people, a people who love beauty and culture, a people who took pride in themselves and in their city. As Paul walked around the city of Athens, he was overwhelmed by its excessive idolatry. That was the thing which impressed him most. In fact, the Greek words which are used in the story say that he was provoked, he was exasperated. He could hardly contain himself as he discovered idolatry everywhere. Athens was a great university city, a city that had passed its golden ...

953. The Cunning Craftsman, God

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... them over and looking at my own life, I find that I fall far short. Also, like any of us, he took delight in accentuating those areas where he excelled or felt that he had achieved perfection. It might be well to reflect on what an impressive record this is. The man is honest in his business dealings, sets fair prices, gives value for value received. He is a model husband. To top it all, he is an exemplary churchman, devout in his religious duties and astonishingly generous in supporting the church budget ...

954. To Be Perfectly One

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... and its sister church are on the main highway to Manila, which at this point is a narrow, treacherous dirt road, built on a mountain ledge. This little town literally clings to the mountains. It is half surrounded by graded rice terraces which give the impression of a thousand reflecting pools of myriad sizes and shapes. Approached from a distance, with the terraced ponds in front and the tiered mountains in back, it is an incredible sight to long haunt the mind. Few outsiders have been in this area, except ...

955. A Custom for You

Luke 2:41-52

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... grown-up responsibilities. When Jesus was twelve years old Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the temple and he loved it. He listened to all of the great teachers and talked with them about God and the ways in which God worked. The people who listened to Jesus were impressed at how much he knew about God, and they agreed that this was not an ordinary person. He was really something special. Jesus loved the custom of going to the temple, and he made it a custom all of his life. The Bible tells us that when Jesus ...

956. VIP

Luke 1:39-45

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A large chair with a big ribbon and the letters VIP written on the ribbon. Good morning, boys and girls. Today I have something for you to see that will be impressive. First of all I hope that you have noticed this beautiful chair that I have taken the trouble to bring in and put in this place of honor. It is a lovely chair and quite unusual. Is there anyone here who has a chair that looks exactly like this one ...

957. The Poor - With Us Always?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to become harmful to ourselves. It is quite another thing to possess a religion which does harm to other members of God’s family. Someone once told me that as a minister I would spend over half my life trying to deal with false impressions people have about some of Jesus’ teachings. This is true. People are basically narcissistic, that is, we love ourselves. Consequently we are forever bending Scripture to justify our behavior. We take a few stock passages, hold them up before others, and miss the great ...

958. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... count of the numbers of the hairs on our head. Someone recently estimated that blondes have approximately 145,000 hairs, brunettes have 120,000 hairs, and red-heads approximately 90,000 hairs. That’s a lot of hairs to keep track of! The Jews used to be so impressed with the individual attention of God that they claimed each blade of grass had its own guardian angel. God really does care about us, we DO matter to him! Don’t you see that a God who heals the ear of an enemy, who counts hairs, who watches ...

959. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and a tax collector" (Matthew 18:17). V. The advice to treat him as a Gentile and a tax collector seems like very tough advice from Jesus. If you don’t succeed, Jesus advises to treat the person as a Gentile and tax collector. The first impression here is to give up and treat the person as hopeless and abandon him or her as irreclaimable. However, Jesus never set limits to human forgiveness. Remember what he told Peter? We must forgive seventy times seven. William Barclay reminds us in his commentary that ...

960. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... . I doubt it would do much good. I fervently wish, instead, it were possible to gather all the people of the world together in one place around the cross of Christ on Calvary. I would devoutly pray that while they were there, they might all be unforgettably impressed with the horror of the sin of humanity and with the boundless love of God in Christ." William Barclay feels, "This parable states implicitly two great truths - the right of every man to work, and the right of every man to a living wage for his ...

961. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... , yet true. "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Corinthians 3:17). A few years ago when I was in Atlanta, Georgia, my wife and I drove to the Atlanta cemetery to see the tomb of the famous Martin Luther King, Jr. I was deeply impressed by the words across the top of that tomb: "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last!" We are free from fear, free from self, free from others, and free from sin. It is Jesus Christ and his discipleship that sets us free. ... "If you ...

962. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... real concern is the preservation of what we like to call our "American way of life." This means being a millionare in the world when everyone else is starving, if necessary. Well, aren’t they right? Let’s be honest. Aren’t they right? The only impression we’ve ever made in the world is the pitiful pittance, by comparison, that the churches of the United States have given to the peoples of the world, because this, they know, was given in love, this, they know, was given in a real spirit of service ...

963. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... home the message of liberation to his hearers who were familiar with the purchase of freedom for a slave. To us it only suggests a redemption center where green stamps can be exchanged for merchandise. And justification does not lift the curtain on an impressive courtroom scene where the judge pronounces acquittal for one who has been found guilty. For us it is vindication of one’s conduct or finding excuses for it. Every term in the Pauline message of the justification of the sinner by grace through ...

964. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... she doesn’t like about herself. That’s why she talks such a lot and why she makes herself sillier than she is. It’s as if she were in a hurry to distract your attention from her looks, before you’ve had time to get a bad impression."1 That is one tactic. Another is to call attention to faults, weaknesses, errors in others so that one’s own may be overlooked or forgotten. Arthur Miller has two lovers talking one night. The man has experienced failure in marriage, and the woman has been through the ...

965. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... , but it is a far more difficult thing for subsequent generations to do so. The former could see him in the flesh and witness the wonders he worked. But the latter, and particularly we of the modern scientific spirit who are more perplexed than impressed by miracles, are bereft of such advantages. However plausible this contention may appear at first blush, maturer thought would seem to reverse such an opinion and contend for its opposite. Actually it is far easier to get an accurate estimate of almost any ...

966. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... . The most interesting way to study the Bible is by studying the biographies of the book, for then we see the Bible made flesh and that is always the best way to see any truth. People are always more interesting than principles and it is a popular impression that bad people are more interesting than good people. If that is so, it is not because of their badness, but because of the haunting fact that they have so much buried goodness that it would be a delight to discover it. I have always been unusually ...

967. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... to adopt, particularly when they are attacked, mistreated, or maligned, there can be no doubt that it is the heart of the gospel of Christ and the quintessence of his evangelism. By explicit exhortation, vivid dramatization, and personal demonstration, he impressed this crucial principle on the consciences of his followers, so that even though they falter in their practice of it, they cannot forget it. The complete shift of emphasis from the old, instinctive, animal reaction practiced by most mortals of ...

968. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... be hostile because the preaching is so true that it is unendurable to those who live with lies; in which event the ancient road to some form of crucifixion simply has to be taken. But then again people may be justifiably hostile, for the preaching may impress them as being of men rather than of God, as being a biased or partisan interpretation of events rather than the power of Christ; in which event the ancient road of repentance and prayer for forgiveness has to be taken both readily and rigorously. Much ...

969. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... 24:6). The end is not yet! Underline that. Accent it. Emphasize it any way you can; because it is the basic truth of our existence and of our living. We all live under the canopy of one over-arching fact: we are on our way somewhere. This is an impression we cannot escape. The awareness comes up from deep within us; things will not always be as they are now. Out of all that is past, we have come to right now. And now we are moving from what is to what will be, going on from here to somewhere ...

970. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... ride with me; and from that time on those mules never understood one word I said." Apparently the language he had taught them to understand was not an all-purpose one. When he had to trim from it what he didn’t want the preacher to hear, it didn’t impress the mules at all. I have tried to say here that, like the shepherds, we need to arise and go - in mood and spirit - to Bethlehem. I have tried to say that we need to learn the language in which God is speaking there. And why do I say these ...

971. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... . His whole life perspective is limited to one immediate problem: Where is his next meal coming from? He is not interested in the sunset which gleams golden in the west behind him. He is unaware of the tulips that bloom there by his feet. He is not at all impressed with the heights and ranges and reaches of mind and spirit. He sees all there is of his life in the light of the hunger pain he feels in his stomach. I well remember the time such a man approached me on a Cincinnati street and said the usual ...

972. To Receive or Worship?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... of the United States, was standing. Similar parades have followed World War I and II with such crowds present that it took days for workmen to clear the streets of debris in New York and Washington. But while the Palm Sunday procession was equally impressive, it was entirely different. It celebrated a greater and grander triumph. It did not mark the conquest of other nations but of human hearts. It celebrated the Lord of Life, not the slaughter of war. This was the Prince of Peace. Now they publicly ...

973. The Perfect Gift

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , "Would you take an old newspaper out on the back porch and try to shine my shoes without making a mess?" Every child is eager to please on Christmas Eve, so off he went. In a little while he brought the shoes back nicely shined. The mother was so impressed that she reached into her pocketbook and gave him a quarter along with a hug and a thank-you. Later that evening when she was getting dressed, she started to put on a shoe but realized that something was inside it. She reached in and found a quarter ...

974. Our Inclusive Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... 't treat each other as brothers and sisters? A Methodist layman visited an Episcopal Church one Sunday. Of course, the service included much liturgy and ceremony. Afterward, the Methodist shook hands with the priest as he left. He said, "Preacher, I sure was impressed by all that lethargy in your service this morning." Churches differ as to amount of liturgy and lethargy. It really doesn't matter by which manner the church baptizes or how they receive Holy Communion. Good Christians can be as formal as the ...

975. Straight Talk With A Young Adult

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... grapefruit.” Just then he glanced over his shoulder and noticed that the lady had followed him to the back of the store, so he added immediately, “And this gracious lady is willing to buy the other half. I hope that is okay.” The manager was much impressed. Later he said to the young man, “You have a quick mind. You could have a great future in this business. By the way, where are you from?” The young man answered, “I am from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the home of ugly women and great hockey teams ...

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