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1026. Spirit Full Or Foul?

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

Sermon

Justin Tull

... we must look for more subtle signs of God’s kingdom as well. God saves us not only through the mighty hand but even as he hangs with pierced hands on a cross! Bishop Peter Storey also tells of his friend, Bishop Desmond Tutu. Bishop Tutu spoke of a new understanding of power. He said, “When the white man came to South Africa, we had the land and the white man had the Bible. They asked us to pray with them. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible. The problem is they never ...

1027. Rag Doll #37

Drama

Edward Long

... it to me. You will make me happy if you both will see Mr. Short over at the department store. He has a flute and a model train laid back for you. Please take these gifts, even if you no longer want them. That would please me. I don't understand exactly how, but I know Mrs. McKenzie often thinks of playing the flute in church. And I have a feeling that you, Mr. McKenzie, look at the corner of your basement and think of building a railroad, but then say "But I'm too old ..." Maybe at Christmas we're ...

1028. Who Is Jesus?

John 1:1-18

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... and lived among us. In him we see God's glory. He is full of grace and truth. And, he is the one and only. There are no others. Lesson: Good morning. (response) I have always wondered, "Who is Jesus?" There is a book in the Bible that helps me understand who Jesus is. The book is by a man named John, and John tried to describe Jesus. This morning I want you to go out into the sanctuary and find some words; these are words that John used to describe Jesus. Assign one person or two person teams to find ...

1029. Lifting the Veil

2 Corinthians 3:7-18

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... , they can't see clearly. But then Paul says, "Only through Christ is the veil taken away." Only in the life of Jesus do we see God clearly. If you want to know God fully, you must know Jesus, because he is the one who lifts the veil of our understanding. Lift the veil from the eyes of the girl. It is Jesus who lets us see God clearly. So the next time you are at a wedding and you see the veil over the bride's eyes, remember that it is Jesus Christ who lifts the veil of our ...

1030. Time and Timing

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

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... the righteous be victimized at will by those who scorn him and them? That's the problem that angers and humiliates Habakkuk. Outraged by what God's people are doing to God's people, he is even more outraged that God is doing nothing about it. Who of us can understand God's ways the way we would like? For one thing, God has not chosen to tell us the whole story of himself. He's given us the central story but not the whole story. Whatever he has not spoken we speak for him, then demand he act the way ...

1031. Dealing with the Devil

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... can go back inside and watch television. You can stay here and watch me trim the hedges. These are all the things you have my permission to do. But you can NOT go out into the street. It is very dangerous there. You cannot play in the street. Do you understand what I’m saying?" And Kevin solemnly nodded his head. "Yes, Daddy," he said. I let go of his hand and he ran straight to the curb, put one foot in the street, and then turned his head toward me and smiled, as if to say, "Foolish mortal!" Right then ...

1032. The Upside-down Kingdom of God

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... (name brand, of course), and power. As they deal with the need to be popular, we need to show our children how to take stands for the right thing, even when they know that they will catch some grief from their peers about it. They, too, must understand that life in the upside-down kingdom of God is not easy, but it IS worth everything that has to be endured. Frederick Buechner wrote, "Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside someone else’s skin. It is the ...

1033. Lent 1

Sermon

Betty Lynn Schwab

... filled with peace, a new era centered in Jerusalem but extending in its influence into the whole world. Reader 1: For Jesus, these prophecies of Zechariah would give him courage for Gethsemane, Jerusalem and Golgotha, Skull Hill. For the disciples, these prophecies helped them understand who Jesus was and is. Through Jesus, God was breaking in to human life and bringing about a wonderful new era. Youth: Let us pray. All: Holy God of the Booths, like Jesus' disciples, we long for Light and Peace. Yet we know ...

1034. Oh, Lord, It's Hard To Be Humble

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... don’t make a big deal out of my religion and pray long, rambling prayers like those religious fanatics on television." "God, I thank you that I know my weaknesses and I admit them, not like that Pharisee." "God, I thank you that I have a better understanding of you than those people who held up those hateful signs at the funeral of that young man in Wyoming." It’s so easy for our best-intentioned prayers of thanksgiving to slip into self-congratulation, even as our best acts of charity can become subtle ...

1035. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... isn’t the easiest church in town to serve either. These folks do love to argue, don’t they? But they’re basically good people, and you’ve done a wonderful job with them. Say, do you read the Bible? You know, if there are things that you don’t understand in the Bible, this would be the perfect time to ask me questions about them." I wanted to throw up my hands and walk away, and I really don’t know to this day why I didn’t. Instead, I said, "Of course, I read the Bible. Where do you ...

1036. Conversation or Monologue?

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... to a nobody like me when He could talk to the President of the United States." Maybe that’s a bad example right now, but you understand what I’m saying. As we go about our day-to-day business and busyness of living, caught in the grip of the ordinary stuff we ... us to do evil. As people turn to the church to affirm the word of God in their lives, we can either help them understand or add to their confusion. What happens when the voice of God calls people to "make a joyful noise to the Lord," while the ...

1037. A Night of Farewell - Peter

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ... No, master." He spoke, "Unless I wash you, you have nothing to do with me." I swallowed hard. "I'm sorry. I didn't understand. Not my feet only, but my hands and my head." Someone asked about being clean. "You are clean, but not all of you," he ... to our eating, each still thinking about what Jesus had said. He blessed the bread before him and then said something we did not understand. "Take and eat. This is my body which is given for you." There were whispers. What? His body? What does that mean? Someone ...

1038. Vacillation - Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... situation was most difficult," the soldier said. "I don't know about this resurrection, but he was the most unusual criminal I've ever seen. He was the most extraordinary man ..." "Enough," I said. The soldier obviously did not understand what I had done ... what I had to do. Even my wife did not understand my predicament. "I think you've done a terrible thing. What if it was true, Pilate? What if he was the Son of God?" "Are you serious?" I said. "Yes." "You always were the superstitious one, weren't you ...

1039. Time and Stewardship

Sermon

Larry Powell

... us, but our families and all those about us. The discerning person will acknowledge the plan of God for creation in even the movements of lesser creatures. The foolish person will sacrifice spiritual "conditioning" for personal convenience. Someone has put it in terms each of us can understand: When we play football, we want to make a touchdown; when we play baseball we want to hit a home run. When we play basketball, we want to be high point man. But on the Lord's team, we don't even want to practice. The ...

1040. A Shepherd Returns

Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... that night! "I ask myself time and again, why us, a group of lowly shepherds? Why not Augustus Caesar, or Caiaphas, or even Pilate? Who can understand the ways of the Almighty? But, it was to us he appeared! That heavenly Messenger! I can see him yet as plainly as I see ... spoke, asking us why we had come. One of the group spoke to him briefly, explaining the angelic visitation. He seemed to understand, and didn't ask for any explanation. "We stayed. I don't know how long. I think only a brief time. Though ...

1041. An Empty Tomb

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Robert Allen

... But, these parents chose to love her and help her develop just as much as she possibly could. When this family moved to our community, Amy's mother brought her to Sunday school and even helped that class of seven-year-old boys and girls understand Amy's difficulties. And the children responded by accepting Amy and treating her as one of their friends. That first spring that they lived in our community, the children of that seven-year-old class listened in fascination as their Sunday school teacher told them ...

1042. Empty Prisons Without Walls

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... Prisons The message of Easter is not only a story of the Empty Tomb. It is also a string of stories about empty prisons. On the quite literal level, as Christians we are concerned about the issues related to crime and punishment. We are concerned to understand the causes of crime and what can be done both to prevent people from becoming criminals in the first place, and to protect society from the violent and harmful acts of those who have in fact become criminals. We work to support and educate parents so ...

1043. Laughing in Church

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Carl Jech

... is an "ultimate matter." "I do not want laughter at the altar ... in life's deepest moments. If it occurs in these places, then it is cheap, cynical and even blasphemous." Now we're getting serious about this business of humor! I believe that Bishop Emrich's understanding of humor is too limited. Far from being out of place in regard to serious, ultimate matters, I would say that it is our very ability to maintain a profound sense of humor no matter how bad or serious things get for us, that is the ultimate ...

1044. Quantum Leap

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Carl Jech

... the theme that everyone who does not "accept Christ" is lost and condemned? Or, does believing in Jesus mean to believe that salvation is God's business? Does believing in Jesus mean to believe that it is not our job to judge who is or can be saved? If we understand the gospel of grace to mean that the only way to be saved is by God, then it becomes clear that we cannot put limits on who God can save! The name "Jesus," which we celebrate and worship, means "God saves!" If we view our mission as a matter of ...

1045. Winning Isn't the Only Thing ... It's Irrelevant

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Carl Jech

... Jesus was just another great man or prophet with no unique claim on the hearts of humankind? The answer is that the point of this sermon is not to deny that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ. The point is that Jesus represents precisely a new interpretation - a new understanding - of what it means to be the Christ, the Savior! The Christ is not a glorious maker of arrogant claims, but a humble channel of the free grace of God. We do not go to the ends of the earth to tell the story of Jesus as the Messiah ...

1046. Giving Away the Store

Luke 22:7-38, John 13:1-17

Sermon

Carl Jech

... survival and looks instead for ever new ways to give itself away in humble love and service. "O Master, let me walk with Thee in lowly paths of service free." To give up our theological delusions of grandeur is not to give up the Gospel. To refine and reinterpret our understanding of what it means to believe in Jesus is not to say that our past ideas and methods of evangelism were all wrong. It is simply to grow and develop in our discernment of what the faith is all about. It is one of the ways in which we ...

1047. Jesus Meets Buddha and Confucius

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Carl Jech

... her own, but she surmounted them by helping others and concentrating on their needs. She especially enjoyed visiting lonely shut-ins. We discussed reincarnation on Easter Sunday, but since, together with the doctrine of Karma, the logic of reincarnation is the primary key to understanding the Buddhist/Hindu attitude toward ethics, we need to look at a few more angles on what the Indians call Karma-Samsara. One of the main appeals of this twin doctrine is that it offers to explain how life is always fair in ...

1048. The Real Jesus is Channeling Grace

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Carl Jech

... attention to the other major religions of the world. Many folks are so ignorant of anything beyond the Judeo-Christian tradition that when they do run into another faith-system they are immediately swept off their feet and become infatuated. In the name of understanding and unity based on the grace of God, we surely need to avoid the attitude expressed by a group of parents who wanted The Diary of Anne Frank banned from the classroom because it seemed to approve of all religions without recognizing the ...

1049. Don't Just Stand There! - Get Involved!

Luke 3:1-20, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Dr. John Thompson Peters

... no use his joining the Church. We Christians must testify that we have something that cannot be had anywhere else. This must not be done with arrogance, with pride or with malice, but it must be done with boldness and conviction. To do this we must absolutely understand the real nature of Christianity." Too often Christianity is thought of as a little bit of morality. Some men think that as long as they don't lie, don't drink, and abstain from many of life's pleasures, they are good Christians. But such a ...

1050. The Mote and the Beam

Matthew 7:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... teach us something he used an idea that we would all recognize and remember. Let me tell you how Jesus helped all of us understand where the goofiness starts. Have you ever had something in your eye? It hurts, doesn't it? Have you ever tried to help someone ... care of ourself. No one is perfect. We all make mistakes and we are all sorry about the mistakes that we make. We have to understand that the other people, the ones who bug us, are also children of God and brothers of Jesus. The next time you get angry ...

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