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976. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , Jesus the unidentified king is crowned the King of kings. Just imagine that Jesus' Palm Sunday parade is passing down Poplar Avenue in Memphis. You stand on the roadside and watch. The crowds cheer but he invites people to do more, to actually join his parade. You sense that to step out into the street is to bet your entire life that he is the Son of God, your Savior and Lord. Instinctively you understand that in serving him you will know a quality of life, in this world and the next, that comes only ...

977. Our Three-Faced God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... as the symbol of God’s majestic presence. In our snuggling up to God and getting too familiar with him, we have lost the sense of awe, respect, reverence for the greatness of God. This is not the testimony of the Bible’s characters in their experience with God ... opposite. This means that man is a sinner and needs to confess and repent. Because God was considered dead, man lost his sense of sin. Menninger felt it necessary to write a book for clergymen, Whatever Became of Sin? If God is non-existent, then ...

978. Converting the Converted

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... Can the blind lead the blind? Can the foolish make men wise? If the church has no light, can she dispel the darkness of the world? Can a lost person find the lost? Can we make others Christian when we are Christians only in name? It doesn’t make sense, does it? What is wrong with the church? Should she not have some influence to make this a better country? Why doesn’t the church make a good society? This is the issue with which we are confronted in today’s Gospel lesson. It is perhaps shocking to some ...

979. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... God highly exalted him and gave him a name above every other name. This happens to every Christian who approaches God in humility and a sense of nothingness. God lifts him from his knees and stands him on his feet and crowns him with life. Worth Something What do you ... self-giving in Christ. It is almost too good to believe! Since God thinks so much of me, then I as a person can have a sense of importance and value. I am not garbage nor junk. I am a child of God who makes me what I am. A person cannot ...

980. Jesus Makes House Calls

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... independence and self-sufficiency, plus a measure of bravado. We today do not want help because we seem to think we do not have a problem. There is nothing wrong with us, we say; it is the other person who needs help. Or, it may be that we do not sense the need for help because we think we can handle our own problems. There may be a marriage problem. One of the couple does not think there is anything wrong, and is sure that a marriage counselor could not help. He/she feels that he/she knows as much about ...

981. Mary Magdalene, Stephanus, and Lucia

Drama

Jon Joyce

... and hands it to LUCIA as she talks] Would you like to see it? Here. Yes, he’s done many, many great things. And he teaches us all the time, telling stories and talking about our God. STEPHANUS: I’ve heard about your one god. That doesn’t make no sense to me. How can one God do all the things that all our gods do? LUCIA: I don’t want to hear about their one god. I want to hear about that man. MARY: Well, to answer you, Lucia, the Master teaches us to love God and to love all ...

982. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... family. The evening meal was a bit hurried as we tried to be ready on time. When one of our small sons had not been heard from for a while we went to investigate, especially when we discovered the door was closed to his room. It turned out that, sensing the need to help, he had gone to his room to dress himself. My wife had laid out the clothes, freshly pressed and made ready. He had taken over from there. So when she opened the door, there he stood, the carefully pressed shirt now rumpled, his combed hair ...

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

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

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... Paul’s answer to the question: "What is this new doctrine ... and what do these things mean?" Listening to what Paul said, and trying to interpret the meaning of the Christian faith contextually, let me say, first of all, that in a very real sense the new builds upon the old, for the Christian faith addresses itself to the deepest nature of a person. Even the philosophers admitted that this is a religious nature. So we discover at the outset that the Christian faith is a relevant faith speaking ...

984. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... , pistis or pisteuo, some 200 times in Paul’s letters, and is rich in meaning. Faith stands, first of all, for receptivity, for openness to the gospel and acceptance of the salvation which it offers. It is in faith that the gospel finds its fruition. In this sense Paul can use faith as a synonym for the gospel, as when he speaks of "preaching the faith" (Galatians 1:23) and of "the word of faith which we preach" (Romans 10:8). When the response to the gospel is whole-hearted commitment, man is set right ...

985. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... his neck, or bent his noble back. It matters not that we no longer believe in this definition of a gentleman; we did believe it once; its ghost rules on. Doubtless it is true, as someone has said, that the man who would clothe himself according to common sense would find himself in jail within a week. Why do men have numerous buttons invariably sewed upon each cuff, and two more at the back of every cut-away, frock, or full dress coat? The reason is that there isn’t any reason; there’s just the ghost ...

986. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... way was found down which it could be led. But it was hard to find. Once upon a time, some seventy years ago, a little baby girl was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was but nineteen months old an attack of scarlet fever deprived her of her senses of sight, hearing, and smell. Until her eighth year she lived in a state of such tragic isolation as to exile her from all save that and those she could touch. Then there came a young woman who sought tirelessly the way down which she might lead that little ...

987. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... beyond. Let us unite our minds, then, to think together a little about your image of tomorrow. In Berkeley, California, a few years ago a blind comptometer operator stood at a busy street corner, waiting in the hope that some kind person would assist her to cross. Sensing a presence beside her, she said, "Please, may I go across with you?" A man’s voice replied, "I’ll be glad if you will." Arm in arm the two walked across the street together. When safely on the other side, the man said, "Thank you; when ...

988. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... risen with Christ now. We have eternal life now." Today, that’s what we want verified. A layman friend of mine was describing the dullness of his own pastor’s sermons. He said: "He has the unique ability to make twenty minutes seem like an eternity." Well, in a sense, that is what I’m supposed to do this morning. In a few, brief minutes, I’m supposed to make you feel like you are living eternal life. That’s that you want, but life as we live it is so small, so futile, so restricted, so provincial ...

989. Like Buoys In The River

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... 's house. Curious, she asked him what they meant. He told her that when he first plowed that ground, his plow snagged on many large rocks just beneath the surface. So he set out the stakes where the rocks lay in order to avoid them in the future. In a sense this is what God has done through the Ten Commandments. He has said, "My laws warn you about the trouble spots. Watch out so you won't snag your plow. Follow my commandments and you will discover the good life." How can we be sure that God would command ...

990. The Unknown Hero

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... If someone hears you using God's name flippantly, that person loses any interest in your serious use of that name. If your honesty is suspect or if you participate in shady business deals, then no one will be interested in your spiritual witness. If people sense that your life is tilted too much toward selfishness, they will lose interest in what you have to say. On the other hand, if you know that every other person is one for whom Jesus died, a potential sister or brother, then that knowledge will create ...

991. You Have Been Subpoenaed!

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... them to witness openly for their Christ. And in verses 15 and 16 of the third chapter he told them how to do it. FIRST, HE WROTE, GIVE YOUR TESTIMONY IN AN INTELLIGENT AND RATIONAL MANNER. Our witness ought to have some orderly content to it. It ought to make sense. Last week I had the privilege of hearing a sermon by an 80- year-old retired Methodist preacher who is full of enthusiasm and energy. He recalled when he first gave his heart to Christ. It was in 1925 when he was 10 years old. At the close of a ...

992. SURVIVAL IN THE RAT RACE

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... out the limitations, the fallacies, of the system, but he does make his point. We forget that Jesus Christ exemplified the same thing in His own life in a different way. In the first place, He enjoyed his life hugely, because He never lost His sense of humor. One of our great theologians has written a book on the humor of Christ. Certainly His disciples today have forgotten all about it. Christ can look at the foibles, the follies, the contradictions, the incongruities, the conflicts of our rat race and see ...

993. Just Common People?

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... by with ever increasing speed, while we lie, the slaves of trivia, chained to "Insignificance, U.S.A." And there is always this plaguing sense of guilt that WE ARE JUST NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THIS WITH A LIFE. Remember John Oxenham’s simple words: "But once I pass ... which you can serve Him. Maybe small ways at first. Maybe some small humble service in the Church. Maybe with a new sense of stewardship so that more of the money that you give your life for can be used for something with eternal significance, ...

994. Chapter IV

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... Jews the keeping of the seventh day as special, was part of their being. One of the destinctive marks of Jews all over the world was that they viewed that day as kadosh, a term often translated into English as "holy," but which in its broadest sense means "to treat as peculiar," or "to set apart for sacred use." As such it was a day devoted to activities and things that helped renew their relationship to God. Sunday, however, came into prominence for Christians because on that day Jesus was raised from the ...

995. No Retaliation

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... more eager that he experience salvation through Jesus Christ? Do you know what our honest response would be? The heart of Jesus' message in this text is this: Don't retaliate. Instead, win over the aggressor with tough, wise love. This strategy makes no sense unless you remember our two primary purposes: To win people to Christ, thereby changing their lives now and saving their eternal souls; and, secondly, to transform human society into the Kingdom of God. Look with me at verses 38 and 39. "You have heard ...

996. The Witness of the Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... not measured in emotion. It remains even when feelings are low and troubles are as thick as mosquitoes in the Delta. This sense of assurance has nothing whatsoever to do with the New Age flakiness you hear about on TV: channeling, imagining, and psychic intuition. ... life that you have refused to confess and to ask God's help in changing? If there is, it can rob you of your sense of assurance. The second question is really two questions in one: Do you believe that Jesus died for your sins and have you invited ...

997. Anguish

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... a moment of pain, Jesus knows that ultimately God - and God alone - can be trusted. Listen again to Psalm 22:1: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? These words surely echo a sense of abandonment. But, before we simply stop at this point, the whole of the Psalm must be heard. This Psalm, to be sure, begins with despairing words, but it ends in praises of a God who does not turn from those who suffer. The Psalmist continues, For he did ...

998. Break Through

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... to by many arguments put forth for Israel to be established in 1947 as the Jewish homeland. David, in proposing a temple, was proposing an idea that supported not just a religion centered in a place, but a mindset that had "settled," and in a very important sense had ceased its quest. On the other hand there was the idea that the Israelites should always be a pilgrim people, and always be in quest of a land of promise that was not geographical, but mental and spiritual. The ark of the covenant still in the ...

999. And Now For Something Completely Different

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... few clever people had a man who was paralyzed whom they wanted to get into the very presence of Jesus. The fact he was paralyzed is a good analogy for our own situation whereby we are often paralyzed in a spiritual or psychological sense, though not often in a physical sense, by the guilt we carry. Now imagine this scene! Those people took apart part of the roof of the house, and with ropes lowered the paralyzed man down to Jesus. Jesus saw the opportunity to do something completely different from what they ...

1000. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips" (6:5)? Do we need to be reminded that when it comes to sinners, the Bible has two basic distinctions - repentant or unrepentant? Repentance is coming to our senses like the prodigal son and seeing ourselves as we really are - warts and all. Repentance is facing up to the powerful desires within us to deceive - to deceive others and ourselves. But repentance is not only recognition, it is also repudiation. I like the insight by ...

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