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1076. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the little things that cause divorces - not the big things. Little things like "lack of kindness, lack of gentleness, lack of understanding, lack of patience." It is a matter of overtones; a matter of sensitivity; a matter of inner beauty or inner ugliness ... God, by the spirit of God, but we need to have our lives tuned for overtones in the life situation. Only he who made us understands the gentle touch that can tune our spirits. The Christ came from God, from the other world where we were cast, to put us in ...

1077. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... pointed out above, deals with the issue of suffering. It proclaims that God is aware of our suffering and he will do something about it. First, however, our eyes need to be opened. God is not blind, but we are. We need to see if we are to understand. Sin and Suffering When the disciples see the blind man, their question is, "Teacher, whose sin was it that caused him to be born blind?" The very way in which the disciples ask the question tells us something about the way the disciples thought. Jesus saw a man ...

1078. What It Takes to Stay Christian

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... fulfill the Great Commission. This is our greatest hour for spiritual harvest in history. I don’t know the lady who wrote that letter, and I may never meet her until we meet in heaven. But one thing I do know about her for certain. She understands clearly what it takes to stay Christian in these days. It takes "the work of faith," or to use her word, evangelizing. It requires "the labor of love," or discipling; both must be carried out in "steadfastness of hope" in helping to fulfill the Great Commission ...

1079. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EPIPHANY

Drama

Tom Eberle

... the Christmas holiday and given to the occasion of Epiphany. As a result, for Western churches, Epiphany marks the gospel’s being given to the Gentiles, the wise men being the first manifestation of this. Our observance of Epiphany can be made richer by the understanding contributed by the Eastern Church. Epiphany is the celebration of the God who has come to us. To use a detail from the Magi story, it attacks the notion that truth is a matter of subjective star-gazing. Truth is not something we stumble ...

1080. Are You Exercising Your Faith?

Mt 4:1-11 · Phil 3:12 · Gen 32:3

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... all of faith that there is to know, but the farther we go in faith, the more we realize all that we don’t know, and the more we are delighted by new discovery! And this applies to all areas of faith - our reading of the Scriptures, our understanding of mission and our understanding of the person and work of Jesus Christ. So profound and utterly creative was the life of Jesus that I think I shall study his teachings and examine his life all of my life and still feel at the end that there is so much more to ...

1081. Herod and Jesus

Drama

Jon Joyce

... God, either. We are here to talk about you. You ought to be grateful that I’m giving you this chance in private. It may help you. It may save your life. We are going to go out there again and you are going to answer my questions. Do you understand? JESUS: [Evading Herod’s main point] You cannot talk about me without talking about God. HEROD: You presumptuous ... JESUS: I am who I am, Herod, and you simply are not dealing with that. I must do what I must do, the Father’s will, and there is no point in ...

1082. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... of there being anything bad in our lives. And that leaves the way open for evil to spread like a cancerous growth. Blinding specks are barriers to honesty and to discovery and acknowledgement of the truth about ourselves. Obstacles To Understanding Blinding specks are likewise obstacles to understanding. It would be foolish to say that one should always ignore the faults of others. There are times when that is a dangerous thing to do. So the right kind of attention to the faults of others is in order ...

1083. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... : What was the meaning of the future for those people? Whatever they saw in their time, they saw also that God was in it, touching it with redemption and hope. It has been often said that "pessimism is another name for atheism." True. You just cannot, with understanding, be a true theist and a pessimist at the same time. But when in every real and significant sense, God is pushed out of the picture, not much but gloom is left. A lot of people have made the mistake of leaving him out. O yes, they still ...

1084. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... me, And he tells me I am his own; And the joy we share, as we tarry there, None other has ever known. I did not then understand the meaning of those words. I supposed the song was a romantic ballad of some sort. Who "he" was I didn’t know; but in my child ... . You can’t be a pilgrim and be like that. You can’t be in retreat and be a pioneer at the same time. Understand this: It wasn’t fear and mistrust that helped the early American pioneers face the frontier; it was faith and trust and confidence and ...

1085. The Way I See It

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... . She makes her own unhappiness. So needlessly. Doesn’t she know her own worth? Doesn’t she know what a girl she is? I see myself again in her. Not in Ronnie. No, in Elizabeth. She runs that business, although she pretends I do. Well, perhaps she will understand Ronnie some day. Perhaps. The day she can look into her heart and truly say, "My brother!" [he freezes] MOTHER He’s home! My boy’s home! Oh, God, thank you for bringing him home again. He mustn’t see the tears I’m holding back. Or know ...

1086. When a Child ...

1 Corinthians 13:11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . Now you like to play with little cars, but I know that you will enjoy driving one of your own on the highway even better. Now you know what it is to be a Christian even though you do not understand everything about God and what he is really like. Now we know a little but when we go to live with God forever we will understand more, much more. That is why everyone here on earth is like a child to God, and our grown up days are all after we leave this earth and go to live with God forever.

1087. THE JOURNEY

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... I get involved in things. (He pauses, but there is no response) So, if you happen to like music, well, what the hell, I can understand that - even if you want to play music when I’ve got other things on my mind. It’s a free country. (Pause; no ... you? GRACE First the radio. Pick it up. CAIN Pick up your own damn radio. (He raises his arm menacingly) Sweet Jesus! Don’t you understand that I could kill you? With one swat! GRACE Well, I’m not backing down. You just get down on your hands and knees ...

1088. Chapter III

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... and me. When we are checked off, God often goes down the drain as well. Jesus knew that this could, did, and does happen. He thundered repeatedly about the necessity for those who would bear his name to do it in a way that would make men get a proper understanding of God. I am certain that that knowledge was behind his challenge made in the Sermon on the Mount when he told his fledgling disciples, "You are the light of the world ... men (do not) light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it ...

1089. The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... behavior under the guise of “It seems good to us and to the Holy Spirit.” We will be speaking more of the Holy Spirit as the season of Pentecost progresses. I would simply like to close with this thought on the Trinity. It perhaps might help us to understand this doctrine better if we word it this way: God the Father who is for us, God the Son who is with us, and God the Holy Spirit who is within us. Someone once asked Mrs. Albert Einstein if she understood her husband’s theory of relativity. No, she ...

1090. Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the speed of sound may well wonder, how it can get help from a Palestine Jew who traveled on a donkey? Can Jesus even understand our problems? There is the barrier of pride. Am I willing to get beyond myself and admit that I cannot handle every situation that ... these words. I don’t think so. I think he is drawing the lines here. His ministry is not to the Gentiles. We certainly could understand it, then, if at this point the poor woman burst into tears and simply ran away. But she didn’t cry and she didn't ...

1091. What Is Christianity Without the Cross?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... take up his cross and follow me. But Peter will have none of it. Peter stands in the way. He supposes he knows more than his teacher and he is rebuked. And it is a harsh rebuke: Get behind me Satan, says Jesus. Scholars throughout history have tried to understand this. Was Satan really using Peter or was this just Jesus disciplining a disciple. We will never know for sure. But it certainly means that Peter is being told to resume his proper role as a disciple. He is to learn from the master, not to try and ...

1092. Why Don’t You Send Somebody?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... deep dark night of the human soul. They had all but given up on any help from the Lord. In fact no one was even calling upon the name of the Lord or reaching out to take hold of the hand that could lead them through their wilderness. We can understand some of that feeling, for sometimes in the depths of our own struggles we may have felt alone, and even that God is remote from us. That is the very feeling of those who sat amidst Jerusalem’s ruins. But the prophetic word of hope to them suggests another ...

1093. Remember Who(se) You Are

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... baptism, and come to realize that we are indeed God’s children. God’s presence is in us, and upon us the favor of God rests. On one Sunday morning when there was going to be a baptism, I wanted to help the children present in church that day to understand a little more about what was going on. So at a certain time in the service they came forward. They looked at the baptismal font and the water, and I talked to them about the fact that most of them had been baptized as infants. Water had been placed or ...

1094. Feeling Down And Looking Up

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... O Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God?" Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall exhausted; but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run ...

1095. Paul - Persecutor, but Participant

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... I sat there, approving of the action when men stoned Stephen to death. But when you just stand by, not using your time or God-given gifts to serve God and help carry on the work of his church, are you the faithful participant that you ought to be? Please understand. I’m not trying to make you feel guilty at my expense. Even after I did become a Christian, I knew what a struggle it was to be true to Jesus, and to turn my back on Satan. My conversion assured me of God’s forgiveness, but it did not ...

1096. All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... evil and suffering described in these words: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way. (v. 6) It is our history, too! It is the old refrain of our lives enunciated so dramatically and emotionally by the Apostle Paul, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate ... Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (Romans 7:15-24). But against this scary history of sin and evil stands the steadfast love of our faithful God ...

1097. The Church Reaches Out!

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... human-made walls. However, this outsider is about to meet an insider. Our text tells us: Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go over to this chariot and join it." So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. He asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?" He replied, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him. (vv. 29-31) Here is one way in which outsiders become insiders. It comes via the "hospitable spirit." Philip is a hospitable insider ...

1098. Out of Doors: Nature and Supernatural

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... from the divine side, might we not eliminate the word "supernatural" from our vocabulary? Might we say, "These things are easy to understand if you know the laws of nature. All the laws of nature, that is." In a sense, that’s what science is ... a story, an insight into God and life from these objects of the common way. And he cooperated with them, in ways we do not yet understand, to bring the will of God to pass. Walk today where Jesus walked; not by Galilee or the Jordan River, but by the trees, the ...

1099. Resurrection: From Lesser to Higher Morality

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... s throw from the last house of the small community. But then, Sarah was only five. She lived with her grandfather who was unofficial rabbi for the twenty families of the village. Her grandfather, by his knowledge of the scripture, was the source for understanding the Hebrew law. Sarah’s town was distant from the many Jewish fishing villages that rested against the great Sea of Galilee. The nearest to her was Capernaum. But had Sarah gone in the opposite direction, walking not to the Sea, but walking away ...

1100. Resurrection: From Brokenness to Wholeness

Matthew 15:29-39

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... the bent leg, and stooped down to touch the twisted knee. "My friend," he said, "life is not just arms and legs - nor eyes, nor ears. Life, my friend, in all its forms is a gift from God, blessed by God." Jahmai stood still. He did not understand. He only knew that Jesus had touched his knee and nothing had happened. "Your name is Jahmai?" Jesus continued to talk with him, not conscious of the crowd that was now hushed in anticipation. "That is a great name, Jahmai. One of our forefathers was named Jahmai ...

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