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1101. Attitudes in the Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... [One sheet for each child with the Beatitudes listed.] Good morning, boys and girls. how many of you have ever heard of a constitution? Do you know what the word "constitution" means? [Let them answer.] A constitution is a paper that tells us of the ideas and beliefs of any organization. I have the Constitution of the United States with me today. It talks about how the people should be free to think and act, as long as they do not hurt any other persons. The Constitution of the United States was written by ...

1102. Our Search for Intimacy - The "Father" God

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... what we think God is against. We then stand in opposition to these same forces in life and feel that we possess an intimate relationship with God. But such thoughts neglect the God of compassion, love for all men, and forgiveness. Another misconception is the belief that intimacy means you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Intimacy, however, involves genuine caring for the other. It is that power to love someone and receive him in the very moment that we realize how far he falls short of our hopes ...

1103. Manufactured Christianity: Jesus Sells, Jesus Sells!

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... them? In fact, 200,000 Germans stood shouting their allegiance to the Fuhrer! No, we cannot compete with that! In fact, even today, our attendance percentages come in a distant second to professional football on Sundays. The Christian lives by faith. The meaning of belief and total consecration is our only product. Jesus called for commitment on the part of the faithful, not attachment on the part of the masses. He created a church, not a mob, and issued a warning to his disciples: "Woe be it unto you ...

1104. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... -closed lips. He trembled. ‘Why were you not at the door to keep the assassin out?’ she asked fiercely. Parker hung his head. ‘I have bitterly repented it. But I did not believe that anyone would try to kill so good a man in such a public place. The belief made me careless. I was attracted by the play. I did not see the assassin enter the box.’ ‘You should have seen him. You had no business to be careless.’ She fell back on the pillow, covered her face with her hands. ‘Go now. It’s not you I ...

1105. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... a common sight and situation in Palestine, that all who heard Jesus would understand. It could be seen in any small town where the grape harvest was being rushed before the rains came. There are some truths here that go right to the center of our Christian belief. When Jesus first told the story, it had a special significance to those who heard it. There is a warning here to the disciples who heard it. Jesus was telling them that they were very fortunate to be in on the beginning of the Christian movement ...

1106. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... chapel? ... They (the cadets) felt that sanctity was driven out of the moral code." The Daily News writer observed that it is hard for societies to have institutional morality when the individual does not have a personal morality based on some kind of personal belief. We need to love God - our very loving shapes our life-style and morals and gives content to our ethical decisions. A partial devotion is a miserable way to live. it is destructive to hear one thing in church from Scripture and secretly do ...

1107. Life: Sacred or Stupid?

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

The phrase "while it was still dark," is greatly suggestive. The darkness was not only a description of the earliness of the morning, but it was a description of all people without firm belief in the Resurrection of Christ. Without that knowledge, as St. Paul has said, "we are a bunch of miserable human beings," because we have no understanding of the eternal and sacred character of human life, and for anyone trying to live it, it is a process of stumbling along in ...

1108. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... . This relationship has a moral character. It presupposes sin and the forgiveness of sin, not just fellowship with a friendly spirit. And it implies that we are under obligation to God, as opposed to the humanistic view that we merely use God for our own ends. Belief in grace withers when Christ is only the leader of human enterprise or incentive to moral aspiration. Grace, in a word, is the royal saving power of God manifested in Christ.10 Grace, then, is not just one doctrine among others. It is the all ...

1109. Cheering Stones

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... a cause."5 The cheer for which Christ listens is the one that tells him that the person cheering now has a cause, that he or she has recognized the claims of Christ upon his or her life, and has committed himself or herself to him. Commitment involves belief. The one who is committed to Christ believes in him, has confidence in him, trusts in him. The committed person is also available for use by Christ, ready to go or stay, speak or keep silent, work or wait, depending upon which Christ wants him or her to ...

1110. Achieving An All-In Victory - 1952

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... even be immoral. For doing right, or wrong, implies the possibility and prerogative of choosing to do the opposite. Of course in many matters man has scant chance to make a choice. Conditions, events, forces beyond his control often determine his behavior and beliefs more definitely than some like to admit. But he can at least make his choice between the two basic philosophies of life - and there are only two such philosophies, not three, not thirty. On the one hand, he can assume that he is fundamentally ...

1111. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... Jesus almost invariably sought to authenticate himself was by directing attention to his style. It was not easy for Jesus to convince his contemporaries that he was the long-looked-for Messiah. Even those who seemed to be most staunch in this belief had their dark hours of dismal doubt, for the Master himself refrained from making any dogmatic declarations on the subject until the conviction was expressed by Peter at Caesarea Philippi. Even John the Baptizer, the dauntless forerunner who first announced the ...

1112. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... he tells you to do - even if he kills you for your disobedience. And while you resist, don’t hate him; pray for him, if possible, and though there is no guarantee that you won’t be crucified in the process, there is pretty good ground for belief that you will stage a resurrection. That is the elemental meaning of the cross - the crucial heart of the gospel of Christ. As a final word I feel like saying to all my Christian brethren, particularly to all my colleagues in the Christian ministry, what Paul ...

1113. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... kill off five million Kulaks for the sake of the cause. So the liberal stands resolutely by his principles and expediency is the wickedest of immoralities to him. Finally, not only is principle his guiding force, but he has a profound respect for and belief in the importance of the individual human being. This is his passion. His major thesis is that nothing is so important as persons. He is profoundly concerned with the betterment of man. So it was liberals who have fought to bring real progress; the ...

1114. Straight Talk With A Young Adult

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... respects from our current graduates. Memphis is a city whereas Bishopville was and is a small town. You could get into trouble in Bishopville, but you had to work at it. The devil was in Bishopville, but he was not happy to be there and was bored beyond belief. He probably sought hardship pay for working there. In the late 50ls we had never heard of drugs. We knew less about sex than do today’s graduates, though we were every bit as interested. We loved music just as much as today’s youth, though we had ...

1115. One Good Word - Thanks!

Lamentations 3:1-66

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... experience later, Andy Van Slyke, a devout Christian, said this: "If Jared had died, it would have been like a nail being driven into a two-by-four. There would have been terrible pain and anguish. If you pull the nail out, there is still a hole. But my belief in Jesus Christ is such that he would have filled that hole. Jesus would have been the wood putty." That's a Christian's perspective on the future. God is bigger than any problem that I can ever have. Nothing will ever be able to separate us from the ...

1116. Balaam and His Talking Donkey

Numbers 22:21-41

Sermon

Don Yocom

... there is a group of theologians who are now pressing the idea that the church must be secularized. Don’t misunderstand; the church is interested in humanity. But it can never offer its God-given power to a needy humanity if it is robbed of its belief in a supernatural Ultimate Being. Balaamism is the teaching that you can do all that the world does, be all that the world is, and also be a Christian. Baal was an agricultural diety whose idols throughout the land of Canaan promised wealth and security, but ...

1117. Naaman, the Leper

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Don Yocom

... at least would come out of his house and make a big fuss over him, then call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike the place on the leper’s body where there was disease. Not so! Naaman had a lesson coming about preconceived beliefs. Churches have even been started from preconceived ideas about religion. Such movements do not usually last because they are man’s ideas. God moves in His own ways, and it is our responsibility to learn those ways. Some people have thought that, if they build a big ...

1118. Those Bothersome Do’s and Don’ts

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... re in for some do’s and don’ts. FEMALE 1: [impatiently] Oh, who cares anyway? FEMALE 2: [stage whisper] You’d better care! He’s GOD you know. FEMALE 1: [snippily] I DON’T know. For sure. Neither do you. You just believe He is. FEMALE 2: Belief is all that’s necessary! FEMALE 1: Preach on! MALE 1: What does He mean, "any other God"? VOICE: You shall not worship or serve idols, or likenesses of animals or any growing things. You shall love me before anything else. MALE 2: [going center, making fun ...

1119. Well, What Did You Expect?

Acts 12:1-19a

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... wonder of communion with the majestic God of the Universe - it never fails! And then, expect what you have a right to pray for. Expect it. Saint Paul says: "Watch ye, therefore, and pray always." Pray with real expectation. Perhaps our greatest need in prayer is our belief in it, not prayer with the attitude: "Well, I doubt if anything will come of it, but it certainly won’t do any harm." We must BELIEVE that prayer DOES make a difference - and it will! In the novel, How Green Was My Valley, you remember ...

1120. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... one voice all the words which the Lord has spoken we will do." And God took their commitment, as he takes ours, seriously. When his people fell back on their word he reminded them of their promises. In those reminders there always was present the belief that men could reverse themselves and turn over a new leaf. The prophets continually cried to the nation they addressed to "return to the Lord." The Hebrew word translated "turn," or "repent," is shuv. It is a directional, or active term which describes a ...

1121. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... 4:8). Believe the best that you hear about a person. Trust and act as though those good things are true. Put the most favorable construction on a person’s actions. If you do that, that person often will work himself into a frazzle to make that belief come true. Giving the person that kind of a boost can help make him the better person he wants to be. Modern psychology has pointed out the wisdom of such a mind-set. You get better responses with praise and reward than you ever achieve with destructive ...

1122. Chapter X

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... based on how many different things there are to want. Covetousness is wanting what someone else has, and it doesn’t matter whether he has one thing, or a thousand, that you lack. And the thing that makes us burn to acquire what the other fellow has is the belief that if we get it, we then can be happy. We believe that because deep inside we think that happiness can be found in things. If only we had the other fellow’s pay check; if only we had that bigger house in that classier neighborhood; if only we ...

1123. Behold Your God

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... speed into midnight. "The train is the world; we are the freight; fate is the track; death is the darkness; God is the engineer - who is dead." What shall I say? As we look at human life, it’s like being on a teeter-totter. We sit between belief in man’s almost limitless capacity to advance in knowledge and power and disgust at the pettiness, stupidity and cruelty of a race apparently aiming at mass suicide. Tennyson said it: "However we brave it out, we men are a little breed." What shall I cry out ...

1124. Three-Dimensional Christianity

James 1:19-27

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... principle is more important than the person, that institutions are more crucial than individual persons, that "dog eat dog" is the only practical rule for living. The second dimension follows. That Christian faith is more than a theory, more than a set of beliefs, more than a verbal profession - it is action - the action of visiting orphans and widows as James puts it. And what James says represents all the actions that make Christian faith concrete. The folk song asks, "How will they know we are Christian ...

1125. MAGICIAN, SORCERER

Micah 5:12; Acts 8:9

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... God. However, we find that the prohibitions are so frequent that we are led to conclude that the people themselves indulged extensively. And it continued so down through the ages. In medieval times, everyone believed in witchcraft (how about the resurgence of that belief today!), and the most learned men used weird rites and incantations in their attempts to learn the secrets of the universe. They sought to summon good or evil spirits and to raise up the spirits of the dead. They experimented with astrology ...

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