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Showing 1051 to 1075 of 4952 results

1051. Who Do You Think He Is?

John 6:51-58

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... rows of other communicants, looked at me with those big, blue eyes and held up her hand. She stopped right there in front of me and just stared up and waited. I looked back at her parents and they both smiled and nodded. She apparently knew more than we thought. Somewhere in her heart and soul this little girl knew that it was the most important thing she could do that Sunday, to break free of her mooring, come to the head of the line, and hold her hands outstretched and up to me, and receive the body and ...

1052. Six Days to Make a Decision for Christ

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... Mark 8:29a). Peter piped up and answered that he is the Messiah. Jesus then ordered them to tell no one. Let them go on believing for now that he is John or Elijah but don't correct them. Then Jesus took them to school and showed them why. I thought of this passage the other day when I was in a doctor's exam room. Two medical students, one obviously a year or two further along than the other, took turns asking me questions. This went on for some time. They left after telling me that they would consult with ...

1053. If the Stones Cried Out

Luke 19:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... to his kingdom, Jesus continued, he rewarded those who increased his money and punished those who did not. As usual, the disciples weren’t sure what Jesus was trying to say to them, but they began getting excited because they thought Jesus was speaking about his own kingdom. Imagine their thoughts: “This is it! Jesus is finally going to announce that he is the King--the Messiah. He’s going to set up his kingdom and defeat the Romans and restore the glory of Israel.” Well, of course he was the ...

1054. Our Feelings of Hypocrisy

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... by Jules Feiffer in his poem first published in The Village Voice. I felt like a fraud, So I learned to fly an airplane. At 50,000 feet I thought, "A fraud is flying an airplane.” So I crossed the Atlantic in a rowboat. I docked at Cherbourg. And I thought, "A fraud has crossed the Atlantic in a rowboat." So I took a space shot to the moon. On the way home I thought, "A fraud has circled the moon.” So I took a full page ad in the newspaper, And confessed to the world that I was a fraud. I read ...

1055. Joseph, When Did You Know?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... for their daughter’s wedding. The day before the wedding, the church held a mission conference. When the woman and her husband came by to decorate the church, they found that the mission organizer had forgotten to take the mission banner off the pulpit. They thought the motto on the banner was a good message for a wedding too. The banner read, “Worth the Risk.” (3) When Joseph originally heard the news of Mary’s pregnancy, he was going to very discreetly arrange for a divorce. He was a kind and ...

1056. Understanding Outrageous Grace

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... he writes, “That’s the message of outrageous grace. Outrageous grace isn’t a favor you can achieve by being good; it’s the gift you receive by being God’s [child].” (9) The Pharisee missed out on the gift of God’s outrageous grace because he thought he could do something to earn it. He didn’t want any bleeding charity. He wanted to be good enough. He was comparing himself to those around him. But the tax collector compared himself to God, and he cried out for mercy. If you don’t know the ...

1057. The Pearl of Great Price

Matthew 13:45-46

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... day he heard some exciting news about a pearl that had been found along the Gold Coast of Africa. This one, they said, was really the best pearl that men had ever seen. The businessman could hardly believe it. He looked at his other two pearls and thought and thought. They were beautiful, the most beautiful that he had ever seen, but what if there was one that was still better. There was no choice, he had to go and see this pearl. Everything they had said was true. (Hold up another pearl.) This was by far ...

1058. The World's Most Extraordinary Club

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... the door to the kingdom of God. If you were born a child of Abraham, a member of the nation of Israel, then the doors were open for you. You were one of God’s chosen. Another way to open the doors to God’s kingdom, or so it was thought, was by keeping the laws of Moses. The laws passed down through Moses were established to help the nation of Israel honor God and live as a holy people. But over the centuries, these basic laws grew into a collection of 613 rigid rules for righteous living. There were ...

1059. Re-Gifted but not Returned

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... “Cooking for One” and a small, individual crockpot to go with it. My wife and I got one of those mystery gifts that we didn’t know what it was as a wedding gift. Our thank you card read something like, “Thank you for the lovely... gift. It was so thoughtful and kind of you.” We had no idea where it came from so we couldn’t take it back. So we kept it in the original box in the attic for about fifteen years. One night we were watching television and we saw our, uh, gift thing, on the program ...

1060. Lord of the Sabbath

Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . And the Sabbath is our Sign that God is gifting this “newness” to us --newness of spirit, redemption from fear and sin, healing from sickness, a welcome into new life. Jesus used a great metaphor to show us about how you can’t always keep things the same. And I thought I’d show you in person what he meant. I have here some jeans. As you can see, they’ve been torn and ripped an awful lot. They are very old. And they are covered with patches. [take out a pair of old patched jeans] When I was young ...

1061. The Curse of the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 2:14-26, Psalm 34:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... hair, cover the face, and live alone. This is the utmost of humiliation, which is said to mimic the humiliation caused by the evil words spoken upon another. Usually the outcasting is for one week. Note Miriam’s punishment for speaking against Moses in Numbers 12. Our thoughts and prayers and speech is to be in prayer or in study of the scriptures or in worship and praise. Any other use of speech can lead to trouble. Matthew 12:36-7 tells us that “on the day of judgement people will give account for ...

1062. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God to prevent that from happening. We admit that we are not strong enough to last it alone. Our eyes need help. Our hearts need help. The last focus of this prayer is to ask God to remove all things that tempt us and lure us, and to keep those thoughts at bay, so that we can keep our eyes focused only on the Lord. For where your eyes are, so there will your heart be. (Jesus) Perhaps Jesus was thinking of psalm 121 as he ended this prayer. Let’s say the psalm together –psalm 121: “I lift up my ...

1063. Turmoil Brewing, Herod Stewing, Prophecy, and Porridge

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... identity of Jesus. But this is more than metaphor. These are prophetic words, and no more prophetic then as they still are now. In our scripture for today, the prophet Simeon tells us that Jesus is to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. Spoken against, not in the sense of negativity, but in the sense that something has come into our line of vision that can’t be ignored, and whether we say yea or nay about Him, Jesus must be acknowledged. The way we ...

1064. Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... we want to help. We want to heal. We’ll do whatever it takes because these people are valuable to God—and that makes them valuable to us. Seeing the world as Jesus sees the world inevitably leads to acts of compassion. Often, we have thoughts of compassion, but rarely do they lead to acts of compassion. Seeing the world through Jesus’ eyes inevitably leads to acts of love and compassion. Seeing the world through Jesus’ eyes involves us giving up some of our own rights and comforts and possessions to ...

Thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

David Bohm

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Donald Trump

1067. The Rabbi's Apprentice

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Obviously, Jesus is making some pretty strong enemies of the Pharisees, the monitors of the purity laws, as he’s saying this. But he goes on. Then he tells them, what truly contaminates a person in God’s sight, the true “contaminants” of the heart are evil thoughts, thoughts of murder, adultery, theft, slander, and insults! When those kinds of feelings in the heart are acted out in word and deed, this is what harms us in God’s sight. Now I want you to look at that list again. Look at the last two ...

1068. Not Such a Difficult Question

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... 2) The religious leaders are trying to get Jesus to choose which law is “top sacred” in God’s order of righteous living. Matthew tells us they are doing this to test Jesus. And no matter what he answers, he’s going to be wrong—or so they thought. But Jesus doesn’t take the bait. Instead of just choosing one important or popular religious law, Jesus takes them all the way back to the very foundation of God’s laws, to the One Big Law that is the foundation for everything else. And then he throws ...

1069. No Promotion Required

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... canvas. As Waldrop had feared, the dark blob looked awkward and out of place. But as the man continued to add texture and other colors to the blob it began to take shape. When the painter was finished, the part of the picture that Brian Waldrop thought was ruined looked great! It was exactly what the painting needed to make it beautiful and complete. Waldrop writes, “As I sat there watching the program that day, I was really surprised to find myself cringing at many of the moves the artist made with his ...

1070. Gratitude

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... the circus?" Yes. I told him, but he should have been able to look at me and tell how much I enjoyed it Just once, I thought, I'd love to go to the circus, or a football game, or get through one birthday party or one Christmas morning without him. "He's ... I got an undeserved "B" in Geometry. Mrs. Graves should have given me a much worse grade. I didn't know one theorem from another. I thought the least I could do was to thank Mrs. Graves for the grace. On the last day of school I tried to thank her. All she ...

1071. Imagination

Luke 1:39-45, 46-55

Sermon

Will Willimon

... considerably broaden your settled notion of what can and can't be. Imagination means having the sort of mind which is hospitable to facts which are usually ignored. Imagination is a willingness to take risks that the world may not be as it seems. In imagination thought takes wings and rises above mere storing of facts and becomes adventure. We shouldn't be surprised at this time of year, that children seem ore attune to the claims of Christmas. It isn't because children are ignorant or haven't yet got clear ...

1072. This Verse Says It All

John 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the life and death of Jesus because it’s too amazing to understand and too simple to accept. Rogers met a lawyer one day, and they were chatting about the books they read. Rogers said the primary book he read was the Bible. The lawyer thought this was a little short-sighted of Rogers. “If you don’t read any further than that,” the lawyer asked, “how do you know what to talk about when you speak to people?” Rogers responded that all people everywhere have only three problems: sin, sorrow and ...

1073. Divine Divestment

Mark 10:17-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... base things of the world, and the things that are despised' and nobody laughs."(1) Today I am to preach on Mark 10:17-27. The story of Jesus and the Rich Man. Rick Lischer, Professor of Preaching at the Divinity School, was supposed to preach on this text. I thought that I asked him to preach on this text on this day. Two weeks ago Rick told me that he had not heard about it, had never received a letter from me, and was planning to be at his fortieth high school reunion. That is no excuse. He was supposed ...

1074. New Creations

2 Corinthians 5:6-10; 14-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Lockwood's were at church, Barrett would follow me around and grin up at me whenever I noticed him. Barrett was a little shy and never said much. Then one day I saw him in the grocery store. At first he just looked at me. You could see that he thought he knew me and was puzzling over who I was. Then there was that instant of recognition. The light went on and Barrett came running over and hollered, "Mommy, Mommy. It's the new creature. It's the new creature from church." And he was right. As you read the ...

1075. Welcome, Joe!

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... story is starving and desperate. So, he decides to head home and beg for mercy. He knew he had destroyed any chance of rejoining his family. He’d destroyed any chance for forgiveness. But he thought to himself, “I’ll confess my sin to my father, and I’ll ask him to take me on as a hired servant.” If you have ever thought you have gone so far away from God’s ideals that you are no longer worthy to be called God’s child, then you understand the younger son’s decision. Then Jesus says, “But ...

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1051. Who Do You Think He Is?

John 6:51-58

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

1052. Six Days to Make a Decision for Christ

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

1053. If the Stones Cried Out

Luke 19:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

1054. Our Feelings of Hypocrisy

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

1055. Joseph, When Did You Know?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

1056. Understanding Outrageous Grace

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

1057. The Pearl of Great Price

Matthew 13:45-46

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

1058. The World's Most Extraordinary Club

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

1059. Re-Gifted but not Returned

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

1060. Lord of the Sabbath

Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1061. The Curse of the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 2:14-26, Psalm 34:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1062. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1063. Turmoil Brewing, Herod Stewing, Prophecy, and Porridge

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1064. Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

David Bohm

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Donald Trump

1067. The Rabbi's Apprentice

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1068. Not Such a Difficult Question

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

1069. No Promotion Required

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon