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1076. Power to Forgive

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... should actually move and impel us to do so. If we don’t forgive, the Bible bluntly states that we ourselves are not Christian. By "not forgiving" others, we are denying what "forgiveness" is all about according to God and the Bible. It’s our way of rejecting belief in forgiveness. The practical test is to see whether or not we deny "forgiveness." God doesn’t hand us a sheet of paper and ask us to put down whether or not we deny forgiveness. He doesn’t quiz us on what we "know" about forgiveness. He ...

1077. Religion at a Minimum

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... the real treatment and cure - and consequently one day dies from the malady - all the while thinking that the malady was "under control." Gallup Polls consistently reveal that ninety-seven percent of the citizens in the United States claim a belief in God, and approximately sixty-four percent of the population claim church affiliation somewhere. However, when you get down to the performance level of religion, the figure drops, percentage-wise, into the thirties. Apparently there are many who are religiously ...

1078. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... they felt separated from God. This was the opinion of Jonah who fled out of Israel to Tarshish to avoid obeying God’s command that he preach to Nineveh. He thought that getting out of the country was getting away from God. And this is still the belief of some Jews. In 1961, Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, said in an address to the World Zionist Congress: "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God." According to his view, all Jews living elsewhere in the world had to ...

1079. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... Christ is saved from the cross by a legion of angels, and the whole world knows for sure that he is the Son of God. He whispers to himself: "There was no ambiguity, no room for doubt, and no room for faith at all. God save me from such a belief." So we are called to choose for or against God, but we find the act of choosing to be hard. Even in life’s smallest things, we find it hard to make decisions sometimes. For example, the other evening after I returned from a long meeting, Beverly and I tried ...

1080. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... have given their companies years of loyal and competent service now find themselves out of work. Furthermore, even when times are good, the business world sometimes creates victims. I know from personal experience that many people believe their religious and moral beliefs are victimized by corporate pressures. They find it difficult to integrate their faith and their work in day-to-day corporate decision making. Their personal ethics are of the highest order, but they find it hard to discern and implement ...

1081. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... his difficulties were further compounded by the stringent biblical, Evangelical tradition, Lutheranism. He had been inculcated with the Pauline exhortation, "You must all obey the governing authorities." (Romans 13:1, Jerusalem Bible) The Basis for St. Paul’s admonition was his belief that those in authority have been placed in their position of authority by God.7 The letter to Titus (3:1) reaffirms this position: ... it is (your) duty to be obedient to the officials and representatives of the government ...

1082. "When E. F. Hutton Talks"

Jeremiah 26:1-24

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... building in the best possible shape. When it comes to the budget, the building is the one category that you don’t have to worry about. Here is security, for as long as we worship in a nice place, God must be close at hand. Yet underneath those beliefs there must have been the uneasy feeling that there must be more than this. Life is more than ritual and buildings. Where do we find fulfillment? How can we improve the investments that we make in life? Don’t we raise the same question? Life must be more ...

1083. A Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

George Bass

... of Stephen and other Christians. The risen Lord changed all of that. And isn’t there a little bit of both Peter and Saul in us? Aren’t we quick to say, "You are the Christ," only to turn around and condemn and criticize those whose system of belief about the Church differs from ours? We, too, are blinded by our prejudices and unable to comprehend the true nature of the Church as one in Jesus Christ; that the Church is his, not ours. When Dr. Harry Whitely was pastor of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh ...

1084. Lift High the Christ!

John 12:20-36

Sermon

George Bass

... and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The cross is an emblem of death for unbelievers; it condemns them whom Christ would save. Ray Bradbury wrote a story called "The Coffin." It is about a seventy-year-old man, Charles Braling, who is building his coffin in the belief that he would soon die. His brother, Richard, looked on, "bitter-eyed, for a long moment. There was a hatred between them," says Bradbury. "It had gone on for some years and now was neither any better nor any worse for the fact that Charlie was ...

1085. Call Him a Story Teller

Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

George Bass

... that nuclear war poses for life on the earth, and he began to speak out and to tell people the whole story of the Bomb, as he now understands it, for their knowledge and welfare - perhaps, for their survival. Luke was addressing the same sort of situation - belief based on partial information which could threaten one’s faith and even destroy it - when he began to write his first book for Theophilus. He wanted him to know the source of life, the gospel, and to believe in Christ and live the life that knows ...

1086. Faith A New Potential for Life

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... be with me in Paradise." No good works were ever performed - yet he was saved. Why? Because God knows the mind and the heart. He felt the thief meant it with his whole being. He knew that if the thief had lived, that out of this quality of belief and commitment there would have come a life of goodness and righteousness. So the faith was imputed to him for the righteousness that he would never have a chance in this life to actualize. His daring faith had opened for him, at the last minute, the everlasting ...

1087. EASTER POWER

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John H. Krahn

... very own personal paradise. So roll back the stone of any unbelief in your hearts, behold the glory of the empty tomb, and thrill to the power that can now be yours. Place your weak and trembling hand into his and say with Thomas, "My Lord and my God." Belief in Jesus and his resurrection is the key that delivers us from fear and sorrow. Jesus is the key to personal happiness, to peace, and to life everlasting. You can know this peace, you can know this joy, you can have this power, if today you will commit ...

1088. HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?

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John H. Krahn

... fall short when we look at our lives and ask, have I done enough? The most righteous among us cannot do enough to save themselves and qualify for heaven, for only perfection is enough. Heaven can only be grasped by faith. Our faith, our trust, our belief, our love of the Lord Jesus Christ make heaven a certainty for our future. When the King of Ages returns to earth again, those who put their hope in the Lord will receive the benefits of forgiveness obtained through his punishment at Calvary. They will be ...

1089. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... this question, comments that some Jews believed that it was possible for a person to sin in the womb before he was born. A woman "with child" who worshiped in a heathen temple could cause the child within her to be guilty of idolatry. There was also a belief in Jewish thought that the life-soul existed and was responsible before birth. Some rabbis went so far as to teach that all life-souls existed in the Garden of Eden before the creation of the world. As they waited to enter the world, it was possible for ...

1090. What It Takes to Stay Christian

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... months after their wedding, they separated and then divorced. Later, the husband said to me, "That woman was impossible to live with! It just wasn’t worth the effort. I had to work harder at loving her than I did working at General Electric!" Contrary to popular belief, you have to work at love if love is to work, and that is equally true in the Christian life of discipleship as well as in a Christian marriage. The kind of love which St. Paul was describing as he wrote about "the labor of love" is that ...

1091. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR PENTECOST

Drama

Tom Eberle

... and demons, mysteries and miracles. Going the way of many children, he learned the scientific names of mysteries, and the complex explanations of miracles. Becoming an adult, this person decided that angels were not necessary, and demons were contrary to a proper belief in God. He became an all-American adult - optimistic, energetic - a believer in hard work and a clear answer for everything. Until one day this person woke up discovering he no longer believed in anything. With the passing of childish ideas ...

1092. Old and New

Mk 2:22 · 2 Cor 5:17 · Is 43:19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... in the film where Patton is viewing an old Carthaginian battlefield. As he describes what had happened hundreds of years before, his description is so real that an aide remarks, "It is almost like you were there, General." Reflective of his belief in reincarnation, Patton responds with a haunting laugh, "I was." Regardless of one’s position on reincarnation, Patton demonstrated that history can be living history. Second, it can be observed in this partnership between old and new that the new builds ...

1093. The Witch of Endor

1 Samuel 28:1-25

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... ’s chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.2 Shakespeare has given us a glimpse into the soul of medieval Europe. History has witnessed many tragic mistakes, but few as grievous as belief in witchcraft. One of mankind’s oldest superstitions is the demon-possessed witch. She or he - a man was usually called a warlock - was one with whom honorable people refused to associate. Generally abnormal, the witch was not permitted to live in ...

1094. Phoebe

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... admonished all of us that "... the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control ..." (Galatians 5:22-23) Phoebe is a woman of faith, and those who follow in her train must hold an abiding belief in Christ, otherwise they are not really her descendants. Phoebe is illustrated in Augustine’s mother Monica: when she was dying in Italy. Her sons were distressed because they knew she had always wanted to be buried in her native Africa. "It does ...

1095. Faith Comes Before Good Works

Romans 4:1-25

Bulletin Aid

... him righteous. People: We want to do good; but we want our goodness to be an honest expression of our faith in God. Collect Gracious Father, who challenges us to trust completely in your redemption: Remove from us all that encourages doubt or shallow belief; that with full confidence in your divine love, we may follow your will, believing sincerely that we have salvation in Christ Jesus your Son, through whom we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We want to do good, Father; but too often we find ourselves ...

1096. Religious People

John 4:39-42, John 4:27-38, John 4:1-26

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Thomas Long

... half of them regularly attend worship. And, not unexpectedly, those who were not raised in a religious environment participate in church even less actively than the sample group, but that doesn't mean they aren't "religious," too; indeed, they are nearly unanimous in their willingness to affirm their devout belief.

1097. Can a Christian Go to Hell?

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... faith. If we are interested in doing good works, if we want to be obedient to God’s will then our great need is for faith. For true faith always expresses itself. Faith without an outlet is no faith at all. To get faith, we need more than a shallow "belief." About ninety-five percent of the American people claim they believe in God but not all these have faith. A college coed once said, "Sure I believe in God; I’m just not nuts about him." That kind of faith will not produce good deeds or obey God’s ...

1098. Caiaphas and Pilate

Drama

Jon Joyce

... to keep things under control to fill his own pocket. CAIAPHAS also is a wicked man whose major interest is not really religion or the state of the people of Judea, but his own power, prestige, and wealth. A Sadducee, he has his own strong beliefs that this life is the only existence. ANTONIUS, a Greek servant, is devoted to PILATE; he exhibits no particular character traits, although he is a kind of confidante for the governor. As the scene opens, PILATE, with ANTONIUS standing stage right, is alone on the ...

1099. Men of Distinction

Acts 11:19-30

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... difference. What makes a Christian? I. First of all he believes some things and in someone. He believes in God who reveals himself in his holy Word as Father and Creator, and in Jesus Christ his only Son as Lord and Savior. Because he holds certain beliefs, he shapes his thoughts, actions, and way of life around what he holds most sacred. No one forces him to do this. John wrote, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal ...

1100. When The Cheering Stopped

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... spoke up and said: “I have a problem with your use of the word commitment. That sounds very binding and restricting.” Listen to what Methodist Bishop Kenneth Carder (Tennessee) wrote recently: “The church of today has become an institution in which even belief in God is optional or peripheral. Marketing techniques for a multiple option institution have replaced response to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the means of membership enlistment. The basic appeal is to self-defined needs rather than a call to ...

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