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1051. The Spontaneous Routine

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... , our competitiveness, and to the erosion of our faith. (How many blessings ... or how much grace ... is ever enough?) Rather, seeing the patterns of God's grace, his unswerving faithfulness, and his steady work for our salvation, we have faith in his continuing ability and desire to provide for our needs. "We know that in everything God works for the good with those who love him." It is the confidence in God's providential presence, not the balance sheet of our accumulated blessings, that forms and feeds ...

1052. Death of a Twelve-year-old Boy

Matthew 18:1-9

Eulogy

John M. Braaten

... to become like children. Note that our Lord said we are to become like children - not to be child-ish, but to be child-like. Let's watch a child, and observe, and be captivated by the beauty of our Lord's words. Consider a child's ability to forgive and forget. Often a youngster "blows up" at a parent, or sister, or friend - then moments later embraces them or plays with them as though nothing had happened. Children instinctively know they need other people. They need to be loved because life is for sharing ...

1053. For a Thirty-three-year-old Cancer Victim

Matthew 13:24-30

Eulogy

Harold Warlick

... not. Charlie not only lived through it, but he lived over a year following it. Charlie said to me, "They didn't have this possibility five years ago. I've got to live through this." And he did. He did it with a larger consciousness than just his own ability to get home where he so badly wanted to be with his wife and children. He wanted to contribute some understanding of this disease to help those who would come after him. And he did. He and Kathy got all out of this imperfect situation there was to get ...

1054. Life Always Springs New!

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... that reconstructed city of Jerusalem a cross was placed, years later, to bear the weight of the Son of God. Within that city, even later, Christians gathered on the Jewish Feast of Pentecost and the Spirit of God blew to bring hope again. He blew to give the ability to sort out the many voices and ideas and philosophies, to put to an end the voices of confusion and doom. Life sprang new for God's people, because God was present and active in his world. We would not understand this lesson if we did not ...

1055. Channels Of God's Love

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... see it, we should do the same. But where do we go from there? "How will the preacher deal with *'s illness?" you may have been asking as you came here today. I hope to deal with it much as I think Jesus would. Jesus had this wonderful ability to love, to understand that illness is illness, no matter what its cause, and that people are so much more than just their illnesses. If you listened to the Scripture for today, you heard the story of how Jesus healed a leper without any questions asked. "Lord, if you ...

1056. My Father's House

Luke 2:41-52

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: The sanctity of the church. Props: A stepstool or small stepladder in front of the pulpit and the ability to take the children around the different stations of the sanctuary. Lesson: Good morning! (response) Everyone feeling well this morning? (response) Can anyone tell me about their father's house? (response) Tell me some things that are in your father's house? (response) This morning I want to show you ...

1057. Finish What You Started

Luke 9:51-56

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: Jesus has "set his face to Jerusalem" and is determined to fulfill the will of God. The Disciples are asked to put their hand to the plow and not look back, i.e., to finish what has been started. Props: An ability to sing the ABC song. Lesson: I need your help this morning. Would you teach me the ABC song? (response) For some reason I just can't seem to learn it. How does it start? (response) When they start it, join in and when you get to "G" make it ...

1058. Wine from Water: The Wedding

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... in former generations, today's young people are postponing decisions about their futures; they are in no hurry to make that dive into the mainstream of life. They are hanging around home; they are staying in college for extra years; they are working at jobs below their ability level - and, in the process, they are getting to be twenty to twenty-five years old and seeming not to be getting anywhere. If this is going on in your home, you can easily imagine how Mary felt. In those times young men went to work ...

1059. Revised Edition

Psalm 71:1-24

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... , almost to the point of stark. She lived simply. She didn't even complain that she wasn't visited often enough, like people in nursing homes often do. She made her pastor feel special and welcomed whenever he came. Trust and simplicity. Trust is that ability within to live as though one's situation is okay. Someone, somewhere, knows the situation and is taking care of it. Trust is that divine quality within that believes that God will make things come out right in the end. Trust is believing when "making ...

1060. Always Home

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... the past few years than I can recall, but all of those places were hospitals or nursing homes. There were many times I thought I would not see him alive again. Many times he came back from the edge of death. He seemed to take a pride in God's ability to do that for him. Then, after healing, came the day to come home, if only for a visit.There is also this house of God, a favorite place for ____________ He came here every chance he got. When he had to miss, for health reasons, he always apologized. It ...

1061. Step Eleven - Spirituality

Mt 26:36-46 · 1 Thess 5:12-22 · Ps 25:1-15

Sermon

John A. Terry

... our enemies. "Let not my enemies exalt over me." There are people whose presence in our thinking can continue to trouble us. There may be people you do not want to see because they have a better position, higher salary, the lover you wanted, the athletic ability you covet. You cannot stand the thought of their being smug about it. Maybe they would have a malicious interest in your problems. You can just see their smirks, you can hear their mocking laughter. The psalmist does not ask God to destroy them. It ...

1062. Step Three - Faith

Mt 8:5-13 · Heb 11:1-7 · Is 55:6-9

Sermon

John A. Terry

... in how those various losses were experienced and a common thread in how that loss was managed or was not managed. People's inability to face loss had to do with keeping the loss to themselves, and trying to cope using their own strength. People's ability to cope came with the willingness to share the loss, the pain and the struggle with others, to gain strength from outside themselves. The willingness to rely on the strength of others and to let others rely on our strength lets us begin to understand and ...

1063. Step Seven - Humiltiy

Mt 23:25-36 · 2 Ti 2:20-26 · Ps 51:1-14

Sermon

John A. Terry

... which is where God is claiming us. Like much of what appears in the Bible, humility is not popular today. We do not like to hear the woes of our condition. We are taught to admire rugged independence, an upwardly mobile ambition, the ability to stand up for ourselves. Humility brings reminders of feeling bad about ourselves, embarrassing moments that made us feel small, the terribly awkward time at the junior high dance. Christian humility really has nothing to do with putting down ourselves or being put ...

1064. Repent Your Way To A Merry Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... no more taxes than is appointed to you. And soldiers also came and asked: And what shall we do? And he said: Rob no more and do not make false accusations. In other words, whatever your role or task is in life, do it ethically to the best of your ability. If you are a tax collector, then be an honest tax collector. If you are a soldier, be a good soldier and not a cruel, corrupt one. In whatever role you are in, do what you can where you are. Christian service is not just a missionary in a foreign ...

1065. Are You the One?

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ; even though he had heard with his own ears the heavenly proclamation, "This is my Son!" did he wonder, in this moment of intense fear, if it could really be true? Isn’t it possible that John’s doubt was not directed at Jesus but at himself, at his own ability to think and reason? If what John believed – that Jesus was the Messiah, the chosen One of God- was true, then John would not have lived his life in vain, no matter what happened to him in days to come. So, when he was allowed to have a visitor ...

1066. Sowing Seed Is Never A Waste of Time

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... said to me stopped me dead in my tracks. The voice said only four words: "Where is your faith?" I didn’t have to think about the meaning of the question. I understood it right away, and I knew the answer immediately. My faith had been in myself, in MY ability to reach the campers with words and music, rather than in God, focusing on allowing God to reach the campers THROUGH me. So I found a quiet place (not an easy thing to do in the midst of all that insanity, but not impossible) where I could be alone ...

1067. How Much Is Enough?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... has a double meaning. Jesus frequently spoke of eating and drinking in connection with the satisfaction of spiritual needs. When Jesus talked about fish and bread, there was always a spiritual significance to his remarks. Having faith in God provides us with the ability to see, not only the physical things of life, but also the spiritual dimension. The Judeo-Christian understanding of life is that no one lives by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. That’s why Jesus referred ...

1068. The Pop Quiz

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ? Maybe our answers would be more complete if we simply listed words that describe what we mean. Jesus is: loving, gentle, compassionate, understanding, forgiving. Jesus is: my helper, my guide, my friend, my God. Simply put, who is Jesus to you? Children have a wonderful ability for deeply religious concepts in simple language. Listen to some of their questions about God and Jesus and religion in general: "Will my dog go to heaven when she dies? If Jesus is up in heaven, how can he be here with us at the ...

1069. I Hate To Rain On Your Parade, But

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... many rumors that were circulated about Jesus was one that accused him of being a party animal – well, they called him a glutton and a wine-bibber, but in modern language, that’s a party animal. You don’t get that kind of reputation because you have the ability to walk into a room and suck the life out of it! Jesus loved life! When he talked of life in the Kingdom of God, he referred to it as "abundant life." So don’t you think Jesus found it difficult to talk about his death? Notice that whenever ...

1070. Holy Arithmetic!

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... , accepting it as something we will most likely never fully understand in this life. And as we celebrate, let us invite a spiritually hungry world to the banquet table of a God who is forever alive and active and loving. For our salvation comes not as a result of our ability to master holy arithmetic, or memorize credal statements, but as a free gift through the grace of God, which we celebrate and remember as we are baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN

1071. Epiphanies and Training Wheels

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... religion, to my way of thinking, is sort of like moral training wheels. You need it when you’re young, before you’re old enough to get out into the world on your own, before you know what you’re doing. Once you get more confident in yourself, in your ability to handle any obstacle that gets in your way, you take off the training wheels so you can ride alone, be independent. That’s the way I look at God and church and religion. It’s just training wheels. And I don’t need them any more. I’m all ...

1072. When Drudgery Becomes Joy

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Joann Hary

... up best: "Live as children of light and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness. Wake up, O Sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." You have heard before that Jesus doesn't choose us for our ability, but rather for our availability. Even then he doesn't ask us to do anything other than to be the best that we can be. When we have faith and trust in God, he will empower us to become his servants doing the work that he would have us do ...

1073. Commitment

John 19:17-27

Drama

Martha L. Leach

Characters: Ruth John Theme: Commitment Narrator: Commitment is the attribute of this Holy Season which will be the focal point of this evening's worship. Someone once said, "God does not ask about our ability or our inability, but about our availability." Ruth and John are two personalities from the Scriptures who were available when God needed them and who were committed to the needs of those around them. John is returning to his home after witnessing Jesus' crucifixion. Ruth: Sir, I've been watching ...

1074. When You Least Expect It...

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... , and vanishes as quickly as He came, because Jesus cannot be held down or possessed, any more than he could be confined to a tomb. I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly glad that Jesus’ being alive today doesn’t depend on my ability to understand how the Resurrection took place. We keep right on misunderstanding who Jesus is and what he’s about just like those first disciples did. We keep right on loving the wrong things, chasing the wrong dreams, being taken in by all the false messiahs ...

1075. The Stranger in the Manger

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... of the box for a little while, then packing it away again until this time next year? Don't we hope, in the midst of all that is so blessedly familiar, that we might be invaded by a sense of wonder and mystery that is beyond our knowledge, beyond our ability to know and prove? John the Baptist's announcement is disturbing, but it is also "glad tidings of great joy." Among all that is so familiar, there is MORE so very much more that we don't know yet. There is a greater blessing yet to come, one that we ...

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