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976. This Adulterous Generation

Matthew 5:27-30, Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the sky, how a snake crawls on a rock, how a ship finds its way across the heaving ocean, and the love between a man and woman." I agree with the writer of Proverbs, but I would rather omit that snake crawling on the rock. I'm much more impressed by a good bird dog...truly one of God's masterpieces. My plan this morning is to address the problem we are facing in regard to adultery and sexual immorality generally. Then next Sunday, in part II, I hope to offer guides for prevention and cure. THE FIRST THING ...

977. Derailed Dreams

Genesis 37:12-36, 50:15-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... dead-end. But two years later, Pharaoh had a dream and desperately needed someone to interpret it. His cupbearer suddenly remembered Joseph. Joseph, filled with God's wisdom, interpreted the dream. He also advised Pharaoh on wise policies for the nation. Pharaoh was so impressed that he elevated him to second-in-command. Once again, God transformed a dead-end street into a good detour. Remember Joseph's philosophy: Never give up; use what you have; and trust that God will find a way. St. Paul dreamed of ...

978. "Hands Off!"

Exodus 20:1-21, Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... resent being called thieves. Neither of them would rob a bank or steal a car. But neither of them sees anything wrong with a little deception that would make a few cents for one at the expense of the other. An elementary school teacher was trying to impress her students with the importance of being honest in all things. She said to the class, "Suppose you found a briefcase containing half a million dollars. What would you do?" Little Johnny raised his hand and said, "I would return it if it belonged to a ...

979. The Bite of The Lying Tongue

Exodus 20:1-21, James 3:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... be honest. Josephson makes the following claims: "By the time a child is 8 or 10 years old, he is skilled at lying." "We say honesty is the best policy but we don't really believe it." "Over 50 percent of employees distort facts to impress bosses." "We all lie so much that we hardly notice it." Lying has taken on a whole new vocabulary in modern times. We talk about erased tapes, doctored evidence, illegal cover-ups, and credibility gaps. Resumes are padded with non-existent accomplishments. Some people who ...

980. An Identity Crisis

Sermon

James Bjorge

... I can’t unless I could become one of them ... become one of them." The church bells were ringing and the man knelt in the deep snow and said, "Thank you God for becoming man." As we gaze into the mirror of Scripture, we see Jesus and ourselves and the impression sprouts that we were made to be God’s children. Finding our identity becomes the great inexpressible gift of Christmas.

981. Balaam and His Talking Donkey

Numbers 22:21-41

Sermon

Don Yocom

... to get God on his side. Ever hear of that before? Abe Lincoln was asked, during the Civil War, if he ought not pray for God to be on our side. Abe’s answer was, "It is more important that we be on God’s side." King Balak sent an impressive delegation to the prophet Balaam to request his services. At first Balaam said, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of my Lord my God, to do less or more!" Extravagant words! But, pressure was put on ...

982. Those Bothersome Do’s and Don’ts

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... shall not use my name irreverently. Nor shall you use it to swear to a lie. You will be punished. FEMALE 4: [remembering] I already HAVE been punished for using swear words! ALL: Tell us! FEMALE 4: I was about seven. [all groan] My mother made so deep an impression on my anatomy - well, I never have done it since. MALE 4: You hear God’s name used everywhere - a long with a lot of four letter words. FEMALE 3: You sure do. I get embarrassed sometimes. MALE 1: Only sometimes? MALE 4: You know what the matter ...

983. Treasures You Can Share

1 Corinthians 14:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... they don’t understand, but they believe that it is a gift from God. St. Paul knew about it and, as a matter of fact, he could speak in tongues. But Paul said that we must be careful about the way that we use the gift. Sometimes people are more impressed about what they are doing than what actual good they are doing. Paul thought that this was dangerous. I have an example of what I am talking about. Here is a painting that you and I might call modern art. The colors are beautiful, and they go together very ...

984. The Devil's Optical Illustion

2 Crinthians 4:4

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . Then there was a beautiful light that surrounded Jesus and a voice from God that called Jesus his Son. The disciples were so amazed that they rubbed their eyes and looked again and again to make sure that what they saw was real. I can’t imagine how impressed they must have been. Have you ever looked at one thing and thought that you saw another? It happens all the time. Sometimes things seem to be hidden from us even though we know that they are there. Have you ever seen an optical illusion? Do you know ...

985. It Happened in a Flash

Acts 2:7-8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... number of children you have present.] If you were watching and listening on that first Pentecost it would have looked and sounded something like this. Some people thought that the ones who were making the noises were drunk, but others were really impressed. Here were people who were followers of Jesus speaking in languages which they did not even understand. They were not just noises, but instead they were people praising God. The first Pentecost for Christians was quite an experience. As a matter of fact ...

986. SURVIVAL IN THE RAT RACE

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

Dear friends, I know what I am supposed to do up here in this pulpit. I’m supposed to startle you with some stabbing statement of Scripture. I’m supposed to challenge you with some call of Christ. I’m supposed to impress you with some imperative of the Gospel. But, do you know something? I don’t want to do any of those things today. I just want to tell you to relax, to rest, unwind, sit loose, take it easy, let your mind wander, if you will. In fact, you don’ ...

987. Just Common People?

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... ’t trustworthy themselves. They are clannish, narrow-minded anthropoids, hating work, hating novelty, and yet hating monotony, also, backbiting, mean, cruel, grasping, insolent where they dare to be, and sullen, if not craven, in the presence of that which impresses them. The vast, vomitous outpouring of their vulgarity appalls and nauseates even themselves, and scarcely any common man is able to live among other common men even for a few hours without violent complaint and criticism about his associates ...

988. Why Should I Go On Living?

Matthew 12:38-45

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... to fill it up. I’ve got a lot of living to do in these next years." Unfortunately, he didn’t know it, but Big Daddy was at that time dying of a fatal disease - his life still empty. Oh, we could go on and the documentation is impressive, but if there is any crisis of our time, it is the crisis of emptiness. We’ve thrown out the stodgy old demon of the Victorian world. We’ve evicted the demon of Pollyanna moralism, the Milquetoast pietism,and the medieval superstition that used to pass for religion ...

989. Worn Out? Tired? Weary?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... . Most of us take ourselves too seriously. We are chronically weary, trying to maintain our position, the stance of our ego. The first question that we ask about anything is: "How will this affect me?" The next question we ask is: "How will this impress other people?" The worrier is always sensitive, easily hurt, always on guard to defend what is his, his pride and his possessions. He compromises only when he’s afraid. He listens to reasons only when his face will be saved, when his pride will not ...

990. TRYING IT WITHOUT GOD

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the white substance, my heavy, tired feet sank deeper until I thought I could not draw them out, that at last my whole body would be out of sight, and I must finally be lost in nothing at all. At every step, too, I looked back to see the impression that my footprints had made in the white substance, but they were never there. Even this sign of me and my endless journey was not given to me. This dream became my terror by night. Always the empty, white and endless plain, the silence, the half light, the ...

991. Our Father Who Art on Earth

Proverbs 1:8-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... . If he’s harsh and critical and bull-headed and belligerent toward people, his children will end up being the same way. The home "bigshot" who is always right while everyone else in the world is wrong, cuts quite a figure for a while. His children are impressed. But soon they begin to find out that this paragon whom they held so much in awe isn’t always as right as he sounds, and, with that discovery, respect begins to go. The father doesn’t maintain his position by being a petty dictator. He ...

992. Freedom Can Be Frightening

Leviticus 25:8-55

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... led, with a high degree of inconsistency, by Buddhist monks. New nations in Africa threaten to suppress internal opposition by methods very reminiscent of the old days of tyranny. He faces the fact that diplomats traveling around the world are often much more impressed by what they see in the Soviet Union than by what they see in America. Newly enfranchised nations, such as Egypt, gladly dicker with the Soviet Union for favors and for arms. One Indian state elects a Communist government as its celebration ...

993. Chapter IV

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... complete. God wants us to remember not only that the sabbath was made for our good, but who it was that brought the sabbath into being in the first place. That word "remember" that is used in this Commandment is zachar. In its root sense it means "to impress on the mind," or "to pierce the consciousness." In both frames of reference it carries the sense of jabbing a fellow to wake him up. As the first word in this guide for living it is intended to tweak our spiritual noses, and wake us up to the fact ...

994. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... much "weight" should we exert on them, and where and how? Certainly we should put "weight" on to assist in the forming of the moral stances of our children. The values we have experienced and learned to be right and healthy ought to be taught and impressed, no matter who speaks to the contrary. No school system, neighborhood, or pressure from peers should be allowed to knock out of shape the moral standards long experience, and the revelation of God, have shown us to be good ones. Too many people test the ...

995. Chapter VI

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... jumped out of that crater and each went in his own direction. They never met again, but there, for a moment, in the middle of the raging hell of war, two soldiers learned that even the enemy is a person. That is a fact that somehow we must have impressed deeply into our hearts and brains. Even the enemy is a man. Surely, some of them act like animals. But that is true of men who fight on both sides, as our nation learned again when it was confronted with some of the atrocities committed by our own troops ...

996. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... our neighbors at times is because we may feel inferior to them. When we stand up against another person, especially against those with whom we must compete at school, or at work, or in social circles, or even in the family, and find when we do that they are more impressive than we, often the way we try to close the gap is by trying to cut them down to our size. To some degree we too frequently treat people the way I one day watched my younger brother split a bottle of pop. His technique for dividing up a ...

997. This Is Our Song

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... make me feel any better; they don’t answer my cry for help. I run headlong through the valleys between the hills until it hits me. What’s behind those hills? Is there anything or anyone beyond that horizon? I never thought to look there before. The hills are so impressive and so overwhelming I forgot there might be something else. After all, this is the 20th century. The earth isn’t flat. I won’t fall off the edge if I climb over the hills and take a peek. It’s worth a look anyway; I can’t lose ...

998. BANKER

Matthew 25:14-30

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... concept was not the same as ours is today. We walk into large buildings that somehow seem to convey a sense of power; they are usually majestic, marble-invested shrines to commerce. The bankers themselves are dignified, old-school-tie men, who give the impression of fatherly concern for your troubles. It wasn’t quite that way in Jesus’ time. The word "banker" comes from a Greek word which means money-changer, and we know what Jesus thought about them! And the word "bank" itself comes from another Greek ...

999. COPPERSMITH

2 Timothy 4:14

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... full-time industrial specialists. The root meaning of the name Cain is probably that of "metalworker" or "smith," and the additional name Tubal-cain is meant to give ancestrial sanction to these ancient metalworkers. The tribal name Kenites means "smith;" an Egyptian impression of such a wandering band of smiths has survived since about 1890 B.C., on a wall painting that has been found at Beni-hasan. In Egypt itself, copper was widely used in making many things - everything possible from drain pipes to ...

1000. FULLER

Mark 9:3

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

Mark 9:3 - "And his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them." We are so used to seeing laundry trucks going up and down our streets and taking dirty laundry away and bringing back clean clothing; we are properly impressed with the enterprise of the young GI’s of World War II who thought up the diaper services; we take automatic washers and dryers so much for granted; perhaps we would do well to stop for a moment and think about those who used to be sent out of ...

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