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Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... . Even the delays seemed to fit into the overall picture. Whatever we may be waiting for God has some assuring words for us. If we would check a good concordance we will find numerous verses in the Scriptures that relate directly to the subject of waiting. If we would like to strengthen our capacity for waiting there is not a more effective practice than meditating regularly upon God’s marvelous promises in the Scriptures. Surely, one of the most cherished promises concerning waiting is the following ...

1002. Wedding: 1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon Aid

Mark Pepoon

... makes love more than a feeling. It casts it in the role of a service, an offering, a sacrifice. It makes it something other than an abstraction. It keeps it with the concrete; a giving and a forgiving. Listen to what St. Paul says once again on this subject: Love is patient and kindLove is not jealous or boastfulLove does not insist on its own wayLove bears all thingsLove never ends. We are all great lovers at heart; and, if you don’t believe this, then just ask someone — and they don’t have to be a ...

1003. Light For Our Darkness

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... of Jesus Christ to be the Savior of the world. The Feast of Epiphany celebrates our human gifts to God, symbolized by those gifts given by the wise men to the Christ Child. More than any other characters in the Christmas story, the three wise men have been the subject of much good humor. Perhaps you recall the story of the little boy who was setting up a manger scene in the corner of his schoolroom. Puzzled for a moment, he called out to his teacher, "And where shall I put the three wise guys?" The truth is ...

1004. Crown Him Lord!

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... . This is not to say that paradise is without meaning. It is a word of Persian origin, and it refers to a garden. The late Dr. William Barclay writes that it was a walled garden.3 When a Persian king wanted to do a favor for a subject, he invited that person to walk with him in the garden. Jesus was promising the penitent thief more than immortality, and certainly more than the "dwelling in the shadows of the neither here nor there" of some of the contemporary theories and mythologies. He promised him the ...

1005. A Plan For Difficult Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... . Despite his well-documented crimes and excesses, he was, nonetheless, a master builder whose skills cannot be denied. He determined that Jerusalem would be the most imposing of all of his work, and to win the loyalty and support of his Jewish subjects, he would rebuild the temple as the grandest of all of Jerusalem's buildings. Building upon and extending beyond the foundations of Solomon and Zerubbabel, he nearly doubled the area of the temple mount, enclosing within the retaining walls an area of ...

1006. The Ten Commandments For Today

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Erskine White

... you should find in God. Do not make an idol of your economic system, so as to justify the oppression of the poor by your so-called "laws" of the marketplace. Do not make an idol of any ideology or institution - any power or principality - because all authority is subject to God. "You shall not make yourself any idol or image ... you shall not bow down to them and serve them." (3) "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain." The Lord's name is holy, so do not disgrace it by swearing or ...

1007. The Victory Of The Cross

Sermon

Erskine White

... put a robe on Him and drove a crown of thorns into His scalp. Then they spit on Him and poured out their scorn: "Hail, O mighty Jesus! Caesar shakes in his boots over You! Watch as we kneel before You, You pitiful, laughable King! Tell us: where are your subjects now? Who will save You now from the power of Rome?" When the mockery was done, they dragged Jesus out to the city street and tied the short beam of the cross to His back. The long beam was waiting for Him at Calvary. So bitter was to be His ...

1008. Checking The Vital Signs

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and then are terribly stingy with them, they know that something is wrong and we really aren’t being truthful. Some could say that this vital sign should never be mentioned in the pulpit. Yet, two-thirds of our Lord’s parables have dealt with this very subject. I’m not just making a plea for your money today; I’m making a plea for Christianity to be practiced. For the vital sign of response to be real in this congregation, Christianity is not just alive in our checkbooks like we said he would be ...

1009. Deaths, Our Teacher

Psalm 90:1-17

Eulogy

Allen Puffenberger

... of your years will be? Can you become really mature, "Get a heart of wisdom," until you have faced squarely your own death and lived accordingly? "Teach us to number our days" - that's a lesson we all need. And, the psalmist indicates that in this subject, the best teacher is death itself. How does death instruct us about life? In several ways. First, death punctuates life. It marks the end of life. It underscores our time limitations. We arrive at one point in time and depart at another. Eve was born April ...

1010. For a Nineteen-year-old Who Died of Cancer

Mark 15:1-15

Eulogy

Arthur H. Kolsti

... I was visiting with him at the hospital. "Tell me," he asked out of the blue, "how does a minister write a sermon week after week?" "How are they planned and prepared?" Very quickly he had me into a conversation on sermon preparation. I began to warm up to the subject. Suddenly I thought to myself, "Why, he's got me talking." Scott had that facility. The element of surprise was part of him. But, I want to leave the present for the moment. I want to jump back into the past. It is not a disconnected jump. The ...

1011. Lord, That I Should Receive My Sight

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Brett Blair

... worse in Jesus' day. Today a blind person at least has the hope of living a useful life with proper training. Some of the most skilled and creative people in our society are blind. But in first century Palestine blindness meant that you would be subject to abject poverty. You would be reduced to begging for a living. You lived at the mercy and the generosity of others. Unless your particular kind of blindness was self-correcting, there was no hope whatsoever for a cure. The skills that were necessary were ...

1012. Athanasius Faithful Teacher

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... was guilty of this crime, or was he acting to protect Athanasius, to remove him from these Arian opponents and thus save his life? We just don’t know for sure. In any case, this was only the first of five exiles that Athanasius would be subjected to in his life. While in Gaul Athanasius continued his practice of writing an annual Easter letter to the Egyptian churches. Here are some excerpts: Reader 2: “It is true that I have been hindered by those hardships that you have probably heard about, and ...

1013. Bartolome’ de Las Casas Protector Of The Indians

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... voice you ever listened to. This voice tells you that all of you are now living and dying in a state of mortal sin, on account of your cruelty and tyranny over these innocent people. Tell me: with what right and with what justice do you subject the Indians to so cruel and to so horrible a slavery? With what authority do you wage your abominable wars against these people, who were living peaceably in their own countries, where you cause infinite numbers of them to die by your unheard of barbarities and ...

1014. A Compassionate Friend

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... the exaltation of Jesus and then says of himself and us, "But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself (3:20-21)." So it is with *. When Jesus, in his pain and his compassion, raised Jairus' daughter, he raised her to a life in which she would once again face death and resurrection. That's not so with *. Because God sent his Son ...

1015. Changing The Rules

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... in the church cemetery. The pastor asked the others if they knew if their dead friend had been baptized. They said that they did not know. The others explained to the pastor that they had talked a lot about life and death and God, but one subject they had not broached was if and when their comrade was baptized. "Well then," explained the pastor, "if you do not know if your friend was baptized I must inform you that church ecciesiology does not permit you to bury your dead friend in this cemetery." Saddened ...

1016. Saved By Water: The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... he said, "You are right in saying you have no husband; you have hadfive husbands and the man you now live with is sure enough not your husband." Whammo. Bullseye. He hit her right between the sand dunes in her spiritual desert. She tried to change the subject. She tried to talk about him, about his religious insights and then about worship and where the temple ought to be built. "Let's get into a religious discussion," she was saying. "Let's talk about religious ideas. Let's get out of my desert and into ...

1017. Time and Timing

Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... our own turn on us and do so deliberately, premeditatedly, simply because they are in a position to do so? It's like having the firemen start the fires, the policemen rob the banks and murder the citizenry, the government extort money from its subjects, and the armed forces ravage their own country. Outsiders we could excuse by saying they are outsiders, but how does one excuse the insiders? For all we did to the South Vietnamese, the Cambodians and the Laotians, certainly Vietnamese must ask why they are ...

1018. Revised Edition

Psalm 71:1-24

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... , elegant, revised and corrected, fresh off his holy and personal press. God's first edition of his son, Jesus Christ, became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth (John 1:14). God's revised edition is the same Jesus but on Easter morning, no longer subject to death. Now the more elegant edition of our sister is also ready "to go to press." Not a page is missing, not a paragraph, not a word. She whom we've known as our sister in this world is ready to become alive, forever, like God's Almighty ...

1019. Christmas Eve at the Candy Cane Inn

Drama

Edward Long

... just sort of forgot the spiritual part of St. Nicholas, and that he works for God ... MRS. NICK: And that whenever at Yuletide people are kind to one another, or give gifts, especially to children, the spirit and reality of St. Nicholas is there. NICK: (Changes the subject.) But (Clears his throat.) we're goin' on and on - look at Suzy already asleep with the visions of sugar-plums in her head. (Looks at his watch.) And let me be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas, it's five past midnight ... (Laughs ...

1020. Step Ten - Perseverance

Lk 12:35-48 · 1 Cor 10:1-13 · Ps 15:1-5

Sermon

John A. Terry

... God who tempts us, but God who permits the temptation. It is like the petition in the Lord's Prayer: "lead us not into temptation." God allows the test and gives us a way to pass the test, to be led from temptation. God will not allow us to be subjected to an impossible strain. None of this negates any of the benefits of being baptized and receiving the Lord's Supper. It puts it in proper perspective. We are given entry into the life of faith. We are given sustenance to live the life of faith. It is for us ...

1021. Step Six - Willingness

Jn 5:2-9a · Heb 4:14-16 · Is 1:12-20

Sermon

John A. Terry

... book store in Atlanta to find out what books, church school curriculum and/or youth program materials they had on adolescents and drug and alcohol abuse. After an extensive search of their store and catalogues, they discovered they had absolutely nothing on the subject. While I was waiting, a man came in and asked for material on "childhood salvation." They had a whole section of material on childhood salvation. I stood there in amazement. What are you saving kids from if you are not saving them from ...

1022. Crown of Righteousness

2 Timothy 4:7-8

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... paper together and tape it. Make sure you have enough for every child. You should keep the crowns hidden from sight until the end. Lesson: Have you ever been in a race and received an award for winning? (response) How about getting a certificate for being good in a subject at school? (response) Adapt the following as it pertains to you: Let me show you something that I received. Show them the trophy. When I was younger, I was on a basketball team and I got this trophy at the end of the year. And when I was ...

1023. The Pop Quiz

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... faith, when in reality we have trouble answering the one question that Jesus asks his disciples of every age, "Who do you say that I am?" And so, when questions of faith come up, we’re tempted to give a short reply like, "Jesus is the answer," then change the subject as quickly as we can. If we say more than that, someone might realize that we don’t have all the answers, and how would that look? Who do you say that Jesus is? The gift of faith places the confession on our lips, "Jesus is the Messiah, the ...

1024. When Drudgery Becomes Joy

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Joann Hary

... kinds of people, the Pharisees who were searching for a way to condemn Christ, and who couldn't see the good that was done in the healing of the man who had been blind since birth; and, of course, the blind man himself who, even after being subjected to the questioning and insults of the Pharisees and being thrown out of the temple, still believed in Jesus Christ and fell down and worshipped him. Perhaps our New Testament Lesson sums it all up best: "Live as children of light and find out what pleases the ...

1025. When the Tie That Binds is a Slipknot

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... s (by now you know what a picky eater I am). So those who arrived early were full and drunk, and those who came later remained hungry, thirsty and sober. That didn't exactly do much to promote church unity! Paul felt the need to speak out on the subject. With a gift for understatement that he doesn’t always display, Paul says, "I hear that there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it." That would be like me saying, "I hear there will be a race in Martinsville today, and to some extent I ...

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