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1026. Reverence For Life

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , "You shall not murder." "Murder" rather than "kill" is the correct word. The verb in Hebrew means "violent or unauthorized killing." Jesus broadened this commandment. He condemned the brooding anger in the heart as well as the taunting terms of ridicule which arouse passion in others. Thus, the New Testament extends this commandment to get at the root causes of murder. It applies to the man who detests his boss because he was not given a promotion. It applies to the woman who despises another woman who ...

1027. Decaffeinated Christianity

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... old car one more year instead of trading it now? Mother Teresa says that if you give what you do not need, it isn't giving. Our friend Maxie Dunnam likes to tell about an American businessman who traveled to Europe to see the famous Oberammergau Passion Play? Following the performance the businessman had the opportunity to meet and talk with Anton Lang who portrayed Christ in the play. Seeing the cross that was used in the play, the businessman wanted his wife to take his picture holding it. He attempted to ...

1028. The Cross In My Pocket

Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... in a field? Those crosses were placed there by a West Virginian named Bernard Coffindaffer. He spent over $3 million erecting crosses along our public highways. In 1993 he went home to heaven. What a celebration there must have been in heaven that day! Bernard's passion was expressed perfectly in Isaac Watts' great hymn: "When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride." The entertainer Dale Evans, wife of Roy Rogers, is ...

1029. MR. CAIN

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... scar. Somebody sure touched you. CAIN I ... I slipped. JAREL You slipped? You fell down, and you slipped up. And you’ve been a very slippery man ever since, haven’t you, Mr. Rotarian? CAIN It could have happened to anybody. What the newspapers call "a crime of passion." I’ve got very strong feelings. JAREL How should I know. I think you used them all up on your brother. CAIN I was a rat. JAREL A Ratarian. CAIN Worse. JAREL A monster. CAIN Worse than that. Inhuman! JAREL A beast in a man’s skin. CAIN ...

1030. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... person is out for what they can get for themselves. And that is what adultery really is in most cases - people using each other for a while, in a screened-off corner, or in the back seat of a car, or in an out-of-the-way motel. When the passion is over, or cools, it is good-bye, frequently leaving a shambles of one or more lives behind. When we do that we are selling both the other person and ourselves short. We are taking a person and a desire, both of which are holy, and using them in a ...

1031. Chapter X

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... his heart upon, and how that heart is set, will determine, more than any outward circumstances, what he will be and do. If a man’s heart is filled with chamad, then he is in for a life of sustained hell, beginning now. For if he wants passionately all that he sees belonging to others his days will be filled with sheer misery until he dies. He will drive himself incessantly to acquire those things, never being satisfied with what he gets, until, at last, the embalmer gets to him. The kind of aquisitiveness ...

1032. LENTEN LITANY TO BE USED PRIOR TO ASH WEDNESDAY SERMON.

Drama

Michael J. Anton

... . There is the smell of death in the air. R: It is death we smell. Jesus, our Lord, is walking toward his death. V: It is a slow walk, a heavy walk that our Lord steps off toward Jerusalem. R: A bitter walk, a lonely walk, a painful walk, a passionate walk. V: To die. To die a cruel death, an agonizing death, an unjust death. R: But a compassionate death, a necessary death. ALL: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. O, Lord, on your way to death, have mercy on us. V: It’s our fault he has to die ...

1033. Crossing the Great Divide

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... t like what’s going on, but the pastor can’t hear them. The pastor gripes under his breath, and the church can’t hear him. Meanwhile, the great divide gets bigger and the wide valley gets harder to cross. We can observe several characters from our Lord’s Passion who failed to make it across the big valley. For Simon Peter, being a disciple of Jesus was a good deal as long as Jesus was around to protect him, but on his own, it was more expedient to be a nobody who knew "nuttin’." King Herod could ...

1034. No Retaliation

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... law decreed that a soldier could force any citizen to carry his baggage, but not for not more than one mile. It was this principle which allowed the Romans to force Simon of Cyrene to carry the cross of Jesus. The Jews hated that law with a passion. Jesus had the unmitigated gall to ask them to go an extra mile with those hated Romans. Can you imagine the groans that were heard when Jesus first offered this guidance? The principle is this: When you respond to an onerous duty with cheerfulness rather than ...

1035. God of Wrath and Grace

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... without even raising his voice. The electricity of his wrath could make your hair stand on end. You see, Papa hated with white-hot intensity anything that could harm me. That’s the way God is. He is concentrated, pure righteousness and holiness. He hates sin with a seething passion. There is never a wink in God’s eye when it comes to sin. God knows that sin can wreck our lives and doom our eternal souls. In verse 5 of our text we read that in the days of Noah, “the wickedness of man was great in the ...

1036. My Love Requires A Symbol

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... for me than I can make 100 percent accomplish. Tithing is a sure-fire protection against greed, the most common sin in America. Tithing is also the God-appointed way to finance his Kingdom. Because tithing is such a powerful symbol, the old devil hates it with a passion. The devil whispers something like this in our ears: “Hey, 10 percent of your income is a whole lot of money. With that money you could trade cars and move up to a BMW. With that money, you could join a country club or buy that huge, wide ...

1037. The Best Way to Help Someone

Colossians 4:7-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... somebody. Jesus Christ has promised to intercede for us with the Heavenly Father. Our God is a big God who can do more that we can even imagine. Jesus reminded us that with God all things are possible! An oil-rich king of a tiny Middle-Eastern country developed a passion for golf. One of his aides contracted with an American golf pro to come to the Middle East for a month and teach the king to play golf. He did so and the king became quite proficient by the end of the month. At that point the king said to ...

1038. Jesus and Judgment

Romans 2:11-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... virtue for most Methodists is tolerance. But when we tolerate anything that God's word says is intolerable, it's like keeping rattlesnakes in our homes as pets. Their coloring may be pretty, but they are deadly. On this weekend when we celebrate Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, we focus on the cross. Good Friday, the day when Christ was crucified, is just five days away. The cross is the ultimate expression of God's love; but it is also the supreme judgment on our sin. The cross combines judgment and love ...

1039. Victory

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... silence of the Lamb of God. The prophet Isaiah, in the Old Testament, had spoken about the Messiah: "Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter ... so he did not open his mouth" (Isaiah 53:7). On the cross, we have felt and heard the noise of passion. Jesus prayed for the forgiveness of those killing him. He saw his mother and expressed concern for her welfare. In deep soul pain, he cried out in the silence of God. His parched lips caused Jesus to cry of thirst. But, now, there is something different. After ...

1040. Reconciling Palms and Thorns

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... me;" ... I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep ... I must bring them also ... So there shall be one flock, one shepherd." Today is the final Sunday in the Lenten Season of the Church Year. It is known either as Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday. But it is really both, for it blends two portraits of Jesus: the Jesus of Palms and the Jesus of Thorns. There is the Jesus we accept readily and there is the Jesus we need but find difficult and costly to follow. Let us be honest with ourselves ...

1041. What Does God Expect Of You?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

Robert Allen

... where there is hatred and people are hurt. We live in a world where there is hunger and people are starving. We live in a world where there is prejudice and people are denied their basic human freedoms. Doing justice in our everyday lives concerns the passion that you and I must have to see that every person has a decent opportunity to live their lives without fear, and prejudice, and hatred - with the opportunity to live life to its fullest. Within just a few weeks, our community was recently shocked with ...

1042. Call Waiting

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... room. So she began to sing to those five people. And again she said to herself that she could sing to these five people as she would sing if this was the largest audience Carnegie Hall ever turned out. She said she sang that night with a richness and a passion and an energy that was as good or better than she had ever sung in her life - to those five strangers. She finished her set, and the spotlight went off and the house lights came on, and she looked out at those five people who had been her audience ...

1043. The Tree of the Cross

Mark 15:33-41

Children's Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... that, whence death arose, thence life also might rise again and that he who by a tree once overcame likewise by a tree might be overcome, through Jesus Christ our Lord."1 This thought could be added to the children’s talk very easily. 1. From the proper preface for Passion Week, Lutheran Worship, concordia Publishing House, 1982.

1044. Wheel Within The Wheel

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... . Who can get excited about nominating committees, council elections and such things as administration, organization, management, and leadership? Those words and ideas seem out of place in this place of worship. Frequently I have heard the same fear expressed in these passionate words, "We are supposed to be missionaries, not managers. The church is becoming just like another business." On the cover of one of our religious journals there is the cartoon of two clergy shaking hands, one saying to the other ...

1045. Dual Citizenship I - What Do We Owe To Our Country?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... believe that our government is essentially the enemy? Listen to St. Paul's admonition to Romans: "If it be possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all." (Romans 12:18) Couldn't all of us resolve to lower our voices, to control our passions, and to be civil with all persons? Let's promise God we will learn how to disagree without being disagreeable. America's fractured community needs some peacemakers. (Well, next week I will go on to Part II of this sermon on Dual Citizenship. Then I will ...

1046. A Man Who Laughed at God

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... ; they are not gods to be worshiped, angels to be venerated, nor paragons of perfection to be slavishly emulated. They are real persons. They are like us: mixtures of good and evil; a constant conflict between the higher and lower natures: earthly passions struggling with heavenly aspirations. No wonder we can easily identify with so many of the biblical personalities. God, however, did not rebuke Abraham for this lapse of faith, for laughing at him. Instead, he assured Abraham that a son really would be ...

1047. A Shepherd Who Became a Sovereign

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... was ever at ease, was ever comfortable, knowing he had done these wicked and evil deeds. There is a terrible injury inflicted on the human soul when we turn our backs on God, when we do something we know is wrong. Yet how easy it is, under the impulse and passion of the moment, to say, "Oh, just this one time. I can get away with it." This story reveals again that even the best of men - even those who love God and worship him, who praise God and serve him - even they can yield to temptation and fall into ...

1048. Francis of Assisi: a Faith for Every Day

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... a similar society for women. In 1221, he founded the Tertiaries. These people wanted to adopt his lifestyle as far as was compatible with normal life. Francis received the gift of the stigmata (the five wounds of Christ) in 1224. His generosity, his simple faith, his passionate devotion to God and people, his love of nature, and his deep humility have made him one of the most cherished saints in modern times. Let’s see what this holy man has to teach us in our day. He certainly holds for us a model ...

1049. John Wesley: Religion of the Heart

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... : 1. Begin and end every day with God 2. Be diligent in your calling 3. Employ all spare hours in religion 4. Avoid drunkards and busybodies 5. Examine yourself every night 6. Set aside an hour of devotion each day 7. Avoid all manner of passion After his conversion at Aldersgate, John established Sunday church schools, preached in the fields of England, and was careful never to hold his worship when the Anglican Church did. He remained an Anglican priest almost to the end of his life. He finally broke with ...

1050. When Something is About to Happen

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Long

... mimeograph machines humming. Because nothing is about to happen. Even the second generation of Christians, the ones to whom the New Testament was originally addressed, were not immune to this loss of faith in the coming kingdom of God. In the beginning a passionate hope kept the line taut between their present experience and God’s future, but as the days wore on and the suffering became intense, and the living memories of Jesus faded, and the world rolled on as before, the tension in the line slackened ...

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