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1101. The Ten Commandments - Part 2

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... simply look to the person of Jesus. That is what God is like. John Wesley died on March 2, 1791 at the age of eighty-four. His last words were: “The best of all, God is with us.” That is the good news. The one who created us, does not desert us. That sure faith and knowledge replaces the need for images, whether they be statues, sanctuaries, or human beings. We dare not make a mini-god to replace the only true God. III The Third Commandment reads: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ...

1102. The Escape

Drama

Douglas W. Orbaker

... Theudas (Trying to justify himself) I suppose you don’t want to live! Barabbas What is there to live for? An insurrection that has no hope of succeeding? A God who is unable to rescue you without your help? Friends or family that have long since deserted you? What is there to live for? Theudas There must be something ... Barabbas (Interrupting) Yeah! There’s something to live for. Yourself! That’s right. Old number one - me! Theudas Isn’t that enough? Barabbas No! Not for me. It ceased to be a long ...

1103. Resurrection: Temporal to Eternal

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... questions, seeking name and residence and reason. The runner answered, "It is a matter of life. The news I have. They await my word." After considerable delay, and further questions, the runner was admitted. He carefully inched through the narrow, twisting opening. Through the deserted streets of the city the runner made a difficult way. In the darkness many turns were wrong and he had to retrace his steps. But on he went until he found the steps leading to that upper room. The door was fastened. He could ...

1104. Resurrection: From Chaos to Order

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... One spoke to the young boy on this evening was the story of creation. "How did it all come to be?" That was the question asked in that dim long ago. Those human beings felt the warmth of the sun in day. They knew the cold of the desert night. They saw the variety of life that came and went, that seemed to follow some plan of motion - even as the sun moved silently across the blue sky. These early, early human lives saw the hunted as animal stalked animal. They share in it, stalking prey that provided ...

1105. A Man Who Laughed at God

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... direction. "Now, Lot," he said, "we will divide the land. Take a good look, then decide which direction you desire. You get first choice." In one direction, the land was green and lush, with abundant pasture and sparkling waters; in the other, it was desert - sandy, rocky, dry. Lot made the natural, normal choice. He said, "I’ll take that way," and pointed to the rich, grassy section - the fertile plateau that sloped down toward the valley of the Jordan River. How sad that he was so greedy. There was ...

1106. A Man Whose Dreams Came True

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... done to deserve all of this? What’s the use of loving and serving God? Is it worth it to dream, to have ideals?" How many times he must have wondered, how many times he must have questioned: at the bottom of the pit; shuffling across the desert in chains; on the slave block; deep in the dungeon; and now, completely forgotten by the butler. But one night Pharaoh had two dreams ... dreams that nobody could interpret. None of the wise men of Egypt were able to tell their meaning. Then, like a light flashing ...

1107. A Man With Lips on Fire

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... of Psalms." Not so, however. Research shows that it is the book of Isaiah. John the Baptizer blazes his way into the New Testament with words from Isaiah: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God" (Matthew 3:1-3; Isaiah 40:3-5). When Jesus began his public ministry, what words did he use? He turned to Isaiah, and there in the synagogue at Nazareth, he read: "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed ...

1108. A Man Who Wanted to Burn a City

Luke 9:46-50

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... ! What a wonderful Savior!" Audacity John’s "Son of Thunder" nature was also displayed in some of his hasty, impulsive, risky actions (and again, we don’t think of John in these terms). For example, when Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, the disciples deserted and fled (Matthew 26:56). But John turned and came back. He was the disciple who entered (recklessly) the palace of the high priest, and even dared to make it possible for Peter to get into the courtyard (John 18:15, 16). It was John ...

1109. A Man With a Scalpel and a Pen

Acts 16:6-10

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... tells us about the early days of the church ... about the miracles of Peter (Acts 3-5, 9-12) ... about Stephen, the first Christian martyr (Acts 6, 7) ... about Philip, the evangelist ... about the great revival in Samaria ... about the Ethiopian eunuch in the desert (Acts 8). Only Luke tells us the story of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus (better known as Paul the apostle). Bear in mind that anything in the Bible which is repeated is especially important. The New Testament tells us three times - not twice ...

1110. A Citizen of Three Worlds

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... ... as a preacher ... as a pastor ... as an author ... as a missionary ... as a saint - Saint Paul! His Sufferings He carried the message of the Gospel to the ends of his world - crossing mountains, seas, deserts. He confronted adversity ... persecution ... affliction ... opposition ... misunderstanding ... imprisonment: unbelievable hardship and unimaginable hostility. Chains and pains were his constant companions. His own catalogue of his perils and problems (2 Corinthians 11:23-28) tells us that ...

1111. Knowing the Secret

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Thomas Long

... we have known from the beginning, "Truly this man was the Son of God!" Appearance and reality - that’s the meaning of Mark’s secret. The one who appeared to be rejected is in reality the one in whom God is well-pleased. The one who appeared to be deserted by all is in reality the beloved Son. The one who appeared impotent in death is the one in whose power all shall live. That’s the secret revealed in the baptism of Jesus, and it is the secret in which all Christians share through baptism. In Flannery ...

1112. Where Can We Find Wisdom?

Proverbs 2:1-22

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... a Japanese daisy and an English daisy and produced the Shasta daisy. The bloom of my Shasta daisy has grown as much as two feet in circumference and seven inches from tip to tip." Burbank had similar success with cactus. "I also took the despised Arizona Desert Cactus and bred out of it its poison and all of its spikes, and made it edible for horses and cattle." Why was Luther Burbank successful in looking before him and seeing the possibilities in flowers and plants? He testified to his own outlook in this ...

1113. It’s as Simple as That

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... make the land a nation. Here is a wealth of history, of trial and error, of disloyalty and faithfulness, until the conditions of nationhood are at last woven into this people of God. John the Baptizer comes into his ministry by crossing the Jordan from the desert and assuming a ministry that would result in his death. He had come to baptize the people into the Kingdom that was being instituted in Jesus; and we all know the long years of hard work, precarious faith with its successes and failures that have ...

1114. Advent 2

Isaiah 40:1-31, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Mark 1:1-8

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... to liberate his still exiled people from Babylon, to return them to their own land, and to reestablish the covenant with them. Call to Worship Leader: Let us prepare a path for God in the wilderness of our hearts!} People: LET US CLEAR A HIGHWAY ACROSS THE DESERTS OF OUR SPIRITS! Leader: Thus shall the glory of the Lord be revealed, People: AND ALL HUMANKIND SHALL SEE IT! PRAISE GOD! Collect O God of power and might, who have entered into history in dramatic ways to free your people, invade our age anew to ...

1115. Pentecost

Ezekiel 37:1-14, Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41, John 15:18--16:4, John 16:5-16

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... , we may be moved from being merely followers of the Christ, and may become truly apostles of his message in mission for the world. In his name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of comforting Spirit, we confess to you our tendency to feel deserted, alone and helpless, as though Jesus had forsaken us completely, leaving us lost and disoriented. Forgive us our dispirited condition, O God. So touch us with your Spirit that we shall receive not only a sense of direction, but also strength for the journey ...

1116. Facing the Glory Road

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... . Eighty-nine men lost their lives building it. They at least knew that they died for something that would be accomplished. God grant that over the sacrifices that this world crisis costs, we can put an inscription like that which is over Boulder Dam: "For those who died that the desert might bloom." The old hymn has it: "We are living, we are dwelling In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling; To be living is sublime." Our Lord leads. Let us go up to Jerusalem!

1117.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... alive. Joanna: You are right. We can’t allow all he taught us to be forgotten. I will speak to all the servants in Herod’s household who believe. Claudia: Good! We should get word to the disciples, too, to let them know that we have not deserted. Do you know where they are? Joanna: Peter and a few of the others are at our home, afraid to be seen anywhere. Will the soldiers be looking for them? Claudia: Pilate intends no reprisals against them unless the Sanhedrin would force him. But I think that ...

1118. COMMAND TO SHARE

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

There were giants in those days: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, Hosea. Which one of these did Jesus nominate to be the greatest born of women? Not one. In stead he singled out a hairy, harassed desert preacher - John the Baptizer. Why? The clue is found in the fragment of the Baptizer’s teaching which Luke preserved for posterity. It revealed John as the pioneer of sharing. Not only was this John preaching a God of revolutionary morality, based on sharing with the ...

1119. The Bread of Life

Luke 9:10-17

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... fragments left over." And they were all "lost." Fragments Are Garbage One day Chompo let her have it. Tipping his lid, he said, "Mrs. A, I want to remain subservient, and all that, but if the Lord didn’t throw away the fragments from his big desert picnic, why do you all throw away so much good food when the hungry of the world would be saved by it?" "I am taken aback," replied a confused Mrs. Americus. "Nobody every questioned my Christian intelligence and sincerity before. You mean Jesus saved scraps ...

1120. The Ordinary

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... , a very special child. He was to be the Savior of the world. The angel continued to explain that a whole new age was dawning. All of life would take on new meaning and new dimensions. For this child was one who would make the drab, dull deserts blossom with beauty. He would create a highway through the insurmountable mountains of life. This one who was born would bring a new dimension of peace that the world had never known before. And so it was that some ordinary shepherds were instructed to go into the ...

1121. In The Shade Of An Awning

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... event would snatch it from me. The great sickness that took our savings and first-born, and forced our selling everything. The journey to the healing waters. Then came the winds, cursedly cutting apart the town, tearing down everything as it blew for days out of the desert. Then the Roman legions forged a march through our town, and in their superior ways stole and looted and raped and then went on. But now I have gained my place - an inn on the very edge of the highway, causing even great caravans to stop ...

1122. Focused Light

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... his forgiveness, an intensely personal relationship with him. Like Cornelius of old, we are under convincement. Our lives respond to the gospel. It must have been a powerful, driving compulsion for the wise men. Their traveling was far and difficult across the desert distances of the Middle East. Nothing short of profound convincement brought these Gentile seekers to the newborn King of the Jews. A strong Epiphany indeed. A Christian pastor in Hong Kong has told of a thirty-year-old Chinese man who escaped ...

1123. Clean Light

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... to be soiled or sullied. Saint Paul says our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. But our problem is always how to keep ourselves clean and pure. In Christian history we have tried almost everything. Hermits have crawled away into deserts and climbed high mountains. Zealots have flagellated themselves without mercy. Pious monks and nuns have lived under strict disciplines in monasteries and convents. Quakers have insisted on wearing the plainest of clothes. Amish keep their children untouched by modern ...

1124. Believable Light

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... teaching Astronomy. World War II was on, and the University of Washington was crying for Astronomy teachers. He was accepted, and taught hundreds of young navigators. He corrected 1,200 papers a week with a stubby pencil, painfully held in his crippled hand; but hundreds of flyers, lost in the desert night, found their way back to safety and home by the stars. Paul Davis was saying Yes. Ours may not be as dramatic. It can and must be just as real. God makes it possible. Accept his assurance!

1125. OUR LORD DENIED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

In the depths of the night, pilgrims still moved along the streets of the Holy City, streets which normally at this late hour would have been deserted to a lonely Roman guard. But now, for the religious festival of Passover, Jews had come from all the world, more than the city could absorb, and the large, tall man, his robe hooded about his head, attracted no more attention than any other. Peter drifted without direction, a shadow ...

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