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1101. Proper 27

Psalm 17:1-15, Psalm 9:1-20, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17, Zechariah 7:1-14, 1 Chronicles 29:10-20, Job 19:1-29, Luke 20:27-40

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen." The Psalm Of The Day Psalm 9:11-20 (C) - Time was, it is claimed, that Psalms 9 and 10 were a single psalm, two parts of an acrostic poem; that is no longer the case, and Psalm 9 is ... - Job's Affirmation Of Faith." 1. "I know that my Redeemer lives." 2. He is the creator and eternal God, ruler of the world. 3. When death claims me, he will permit me to see him in the life that is to come, the life that only he can give. 4. Do you know that ...

1102. A Short Sermon

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

James Garrett

... . We are called to action, not to fancy words. Jesus preached a short sermon. But what a sermon. He clearly denotes the kind of ministry he came to pursue. It is to be a ministry to the poor and outcast, the blind and unaffirmed. Jesus made a bold claim that day. I am the Christ! Salvation has become real, visible today. This was not what they expected to hear. The Scripture goes on to record: “When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. And they rose up and put him out of the ...

1103. Refuse To Be A Victim

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

James Garrett

... into any society or any fellowship, he takes upon himself the obligations to live a certain way, by certain standards. If the person fails to live the kind of life necessary, he hinders the purpose of the society. Once we make the claim that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true then a claim is put on our lives. In today’s Scripture lesson, Jesus sets down behavior patterns for kingdom people. No one needs to go to a Bible commentary to understand this text. It is a Word that challenges and instructs us. It ...

1104. The First Christmas Message

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James Garrett

... the boy’s shoulders and straightened up and said, “Boy, you’ve got quite an inheritance. Go out and claim it.” God made Christmas for us. But there is a sense in which all of us have to make our Christmas. All the salvation of God is finished and complete, but ... it is not mine until I claim it. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him still The dear Christ enters in. “ ...

1105. Where To Go When You Grieve

Matthew 14:1-12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... John's disciples knew that Jesus loved him too. Had Jesus not said, "Among men born of women, there is not a greater than he?" And so your loved one - this husband and father and friend of so many of us - was loved by Jesus too. Jesus had claimed him as his very own son when in repentance, faith, and baptism he became his own possession. Jesus walked with him through the illness, and also "through the valley of the shadow of death", and then into heaven's bright home. Jesus has never forsaken him, and now ...

1106. The Public Effect Of Private Living

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... , and restores us. You may have made wrong choices in your life. Your private life may have become a public scandal. Your private life may be hidden from others. But there is hope because confession, forgiveness, and God’s restoring grace is available if you will claim it. Will you claim the new life of promise that is yours through Jesus Christ? Prayer: O God, help us to realize that the way we live our lives in private has an influence on others. Grant that we may live in such a way that others may see ...

1107. The Marked Man

Sermon

George Bass

... -sacrifice; his suffering and death -- for every one of us, believer and unbeliever alike -- demands respect and appreciation. But his crucifixion also raises perplexing questions for many people: Did he really save us from sin and death by dying on a cross? Are the “claims of the cross” -- forgiveness of our sins, reconciliation with God, and deliverance from death and the devil -- really valid? Or is all of this just a lovely but fanciful story about a man who had strange delusions of grandeur -- he ...

1108. Marked At The Table

Sermon

George Bass

... to him as the prayer of a little boy I know makes to his father. His mother takes him to Sunday church school, and she has taught him to pray. He insists on saying a table grace at every meal, much to the consternation of his father who claims to be an agnostic. He always finishes that prayer with a petition for his father’s pack mule, “And God bless Blackie, too.” I suspect that the child’s very intelligent father can’t understand his “Saint Francis-like” prayer at all; I doubt if it is even ...

1109. Hang Time: A Good Friday Sermon

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... 's ability to deliver us. The problem is most Christians want the crown of Christ without the cross of Christ. They want all the accolades and laurel wreaths of Christian pomp and pageantry but don't want to pay the price which goes with claiming the victory. They want the resurrection without the crucifixion. They want to be card-carrying members of the Christian faith but don't want to pay dues. Being a Christian means that because Christ has suffered death on the cross for our redemption and liberation ...

1110. Can You Dig It?

Genesis 26:1-35

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... help sustain their lives spiritually. By reopening the wells, Isaac seeks to recover the deep, still waters of a great family history which was displaced by Abraham's death and his people's movement to another land. By choosing to redig, he is claiming personal identity and reaffirming the power, purposes, and promises of God. So the wells have literal and figurative importance. Your wells today might be any efforts you execute which help heal the hurt of family displacement or restore confidence in God. It ...

1111. Every Person’s Great Possessions

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... one more of this and one more of that -- then I will be willing to go with you, Jesus.” Are we not like little Fausts, wanting to have it our way? After all, we say, we deserve it! And what do we say to Jesus when he comes to claim us? These possessions have a common denominator which can be stated in one word: selfish. Give me mine, God, then…. When I’m old, God, then…. When I’m infirm, God, then…. After I’ve had all the earned fun, deserved advantages, and merited successes I’ll be ready ...

1112. Revealed Glory

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... . It is revealed to us today. God makes the divine presence known and felt in human experience. One who confesses a relationship with the Christ ought to be able to claim the revealed glory. Now, let us neither forget the position of New Testament writers insisting that the glory of God comes alive in Jesus Christ, nor the saints of old who claimed that glory was the final destination for those who lived and died in the Lord. They talked about and sang that old song, “When I Wake Up In Glory.” “One ...

1113. Keeping In Touch… With The Lord

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... a brand new automobile 100 miles-per hour, traveling in the wrong direction, without the seatbelts fastened and no insurance. Surely we can declare that a great calamity is about to take place. Death is waiting on the sideline for the moment of impact to claim its victims. Whenever we refuse to keep in touch with our friends we become like the driver of the car, destined for destruction. Every relationship that is not nurtured soon dies. Now, it is one thing to lose touch with your peers, those persons who ...

1114. God Turns Even Grief And Death Around

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... trespasses and raised for our justification,” as Paul says in Romans 4. God is faithful. For those who wait, God turns even death and grief around. Let Us Pray Some things are beyond our understanding, and so we put our faith in you, almighty Savior. Hold us up. Help us claim your promise, the same promise claimed by Abraham and fulfilled for each of us in Jesus. Amen. *Person’s first name**Person’s full name

1115. Led By The Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... (John 10:7, 9, 11; cf. 1 Peter 2:25; Psalms 23:1). He is the man who wants to lead you and me - to point us to the abundant life (John 10:1Ob). Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is putting his claim on you and me to be his sheep. Of course, like you, I have heard the story of Jesus claiming to be the Good Shepherd hundreds of times in my life. However, I must confess that I never really heard it, never truly understood it, until I came to recognize that, "Hey, if Jesus is the Good Shepherd, I must ...

1116. The Majesty Of God's Love

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... been best explained by an African theologian of the earliest centuries, a man named Augustine. Augustine took very seriously the idea that our God is a God who wants his people to love in a special way. What is that special way? The Bible teaches it. In marriage, it claims, God wants love to make one out of two (two become one) (Ephesians 5:31; Genesis 2:24). He wants love to make many become one. (Human love at its best works that way. In any family unit to which you have belonged, the love you have for ...

1117. The Meeting Of Marriage Partners At The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... foreign girl at a well, a wedding was thought soon to follow. Yet God always confounds our expectations. He did not marry the woman. Or did he? Does he not usually carry out his promises, but just not in the way that we would expect? John claims that after Jesus had confronted the woman with information about her waywardness and had proclaimed more of his word to her, she became firmly convinced that Jesus was the Messiah. She went into the city and proclaimed this message to the Samaritans. Not only had ...

1118. Anointed Ministry

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... status and insist that the people pay attention to and follow the Word. With authority Jesus said, "Today this Word is fulfilled in your midst." The root of the word "authority" is "right, based on origin." It is the author who has authority. Jesus was claiming "author's rights." The author had entered the story as one of the characters. It's no wonder that we frequently read in the gospels, "Jesus spoke as one with authority." Now things began to heat up and really get dangerous. Jesus was speaking with ...

1119. The Road To Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... girls. The good news is that Jesus calls us to come and go with him, to follow him, to become servants, fishers and followers, witnesses, to become more than we are. Dr. Maxie Dunnam, a United Methodist minister in Memphis, Tennessee, wrote a book called Jesus' Claims - Our Promises. He told the story of Washington Gladden, a minister who lived back at the turn of the century. As a young man he had sought to know Christ, but was not able to find the peace he was told he should have. He attended services ...

1120. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... 'll see you in the morning." That is the glory of our faith. Pastor Prayer Eternal God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and great God of Easter, who has brought from the dead thy Son and our Savior, we come here to sing praises to thee and to claim for ourselves a great resurrection faith. So give us this gift of faith, O God, and enable us to be resurrection people. Make us people, Father, who say, "Yes" to life in the face of all its contradictions, all of its "Nos" and all of its disappointments. Give us ...

1121. Religion's Built-in Hazard

Isaiah 58:1-14

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... 's people to love and to show generosity in the same ways that God has loved us. Isaiah has no patience for those who claim that what happens in politics, in government, in society, in the business world, or in military affairs is of no concern to the church ... cross be raised again at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am for recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves, on the town garbage heap, ...

1122. To Be Sure

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... and be on your way; your faith has brought you salvation."9 All 10 were healed of leprosy. One was given still more. Just one heard Jesus' words about a new understanding of faith and of wholeness. Still we take God's gifts and run! Over and again we claim the gifts and yet are absent from his house on the Sabbath, grudging and delinquent in our stewardship, and silent in our witness to him who heals us. We take his gifts and run. But he gives them all the same. Though we are faithless, God remains faithful ...

1123. What Will He Find ... When He Comes?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... to whom to look. She has no hope whatsoever. Yet, she continues! There's the key. The widow has no hope. The judge was not one who cared one whit about either God or duty. She had no reasonable expectation that anything good would ever come from her claim. Still, she continued! In the days of such turmoil, Christians found great assurance in this story. Never would they have thought of the judge as an example of God. They had God's word in his promises. If an uncaring judge can act, how much more should the ...

1124. Death of a Twenty-nine-year-old Athlete

Ephesians 6:1-4

Eulogy

Palmer L. Gedde

... that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) Christ died for us. Christ died for us - so that we might be set free from bondage to sin and death. Christ died for us - so that we might live forever. And anyone - yes, anyone - who claims that promise need never fear death, regardless of how or when it comes. Whether at age twenty-nine or 109. Thankfully, we can live knowing that because of Christ's death and resurrection, the sting of death has been taken away. It is my hope that you can ...

1125. Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... Jesus. When the book was published in 1906, it aroused an intense debate among theologians. Yet it was the spirit of Jesus which guided Schweitzer throughout his life. Certainly many of us would want to claim much more about this Jesus than Schweitzer did, but few of us could claim to follow this Jesus as Schweitzer himself did. Schweitzer was ordained into the Lutheran ministry in 1900 and became assistant pastor of Saint Nicholas Church in Strasbourg. At one point Schweitzer was criticized for the ...

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