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1126. Time to Get Ready

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

... , a highpitched beep will sound in the home and simultaneously alert the cable security personnel. The security monitor will immediately telephone the home to verify the emergency and dispatch the appropriate help. Security subscribers will also have the ability to activate fire, medical and intrusion alerts by pushing a button on the alarm panel. Subscribers to cable home security systems enjoy greater security and quicker response to emergencies than ever before ... And this: Emergency alert capability is ...

1127. Formula for Life

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

... ’s attitudes amid expectations. What does he expect from his role of servanthood other than that he has filled it well? To live as one should, to have the satisfaction of knowing that one’s duties have been fulfilled to the best of one’s abilities, is all the reward that should be expected. It is as though Jesus was saying, "What do you expect as rewards for your faith and good behavior? Are you looking for special favors beyond a simple commendation for being good and faithful servants?" This comes ...

1128. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

Sermon

... of Micah and Jesus there have been many preachers - good, bad, and indifferent. A few have deserved to be called prophets. Some have been charlatans and frauds. The great majority, however, have been sincere individuals striving, within the limitations of their abilities and the receptivity of their listeners, to be faithful in delivering the comforting and challenging good news of God’s love and redeeming grace. But who are the preachers? What kind of strange creatures are they? And what qualifies them ...

1129. Counsel for Discouraged Disciples

Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

John Bunyan had a remarkable ability to represent everyday truth in impressive allegory. One of the most vivid representations in his story, Pilgrim ‘s Progress, has to do with what happened in the Valley of Humiliation. No sooner had Pilgrim entered this valley than he saw the foul fiend Apollyon bearing down upon him, breathing fire ...

1130. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

... ambiguity. "It's true, isn't it," he asked, "that everybody's working just to live as high off the hog as they can?" That's the idea for a lot of us. Having a blast. Impressing our neighbors and relatives with homes and cars and clothes and our ability to send the kids to name-brand colleges. If this is so, our daily work is often unexciting and frustrating, too, because all the rest of our life is designed mostly for our own selfish purposes. We will never feel filled. We will never be fulfilled. What can ...

1131. Arise, O Church of God, Arise!

Sermon

... mess, obviously much too large a challenge for any one of us to deal with alone. We fail to observe the individual soul who is so near us. It is, after all, single human beings, one-by-one, who have needs. The touching secret of Jesus was his ability to see people amid the masses, to see an individual soul among the vast congregation, to zero in on one struggling person in the tumult of human uproar. Jesus had zoom lens vision as he moved among the crowds. He was acquainted not only with his countrymen's ...

1132. You Are Worth Much!

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

... with the boys" one night - actually something he rarely did. He was feeling pretty good behind the wheel and eventually rammed into a tree while turning down the street toward home. The accident left him with a neck and back injury which at this moment makes his ability to work in the future somewhat of a question mark. His spiritual problem was one of self-worth and it attacked his mind on two counts. How could someone be worth very much when he gets racked up through such a foolish accident? And how can a ...

1133. Fasting: Foolish or Fruitful?

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

... of fasting this Lent? One value that will come to you is self-mastery. When you fast, you learn to say "No" to yourself. It is usually called self-denial. You deny the self. You say "No" to yourself when you want to do something indulgent or wicked. Without this ability to deny self, a person does anything he wants to as long as he can get by with it. In the days of Robert E. Lee, a mother who had him serve as godfather asked him at the baptism what she should teach her boy. He said, "Teach him to ...

1134. Born Naked With A Cross

Sermon

... winter day, St. Francis was explaining to his brothers what joy was, as they walked to a village and suffered from the bitter cold. He said that perfect joy was neither in living an example of holiness, nor in performing miracles, nor in knowledge of all things, nor in ability to preach so well that unbelievers would be converted. They asked him, then, wherein was joy. He said, "When we get to the monastery, cold and wet, and they call us thieves and won't let us in, and we have to stay out all night in the ...

1135. Today's Talent Show

Romans 12:1-8

Children's Sermon

... looking at her music, would someone like to read over this poem, and someone else who likes to draw start drawing either a house or a horse or an airplane? That will be fine, and remember that, whatever you do, you are doing it because God has given you the ability to do it. I understand that this young man is the champion somersaulter in our church. [Pick out one of the littlest ones for this.] Would you turn a somersault and remember when you do it that it is a gift from God to be able to turn such a ...

1136. If Only We Would Confess ...

Ezekiel 18:1-32

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... reality. This, psychologists say, is fatal to mental health. We cannot begin to deal with anything until we identify it. If we refuse to identify our sinfulness we deceive ourselves. If we cannot or will not tolerate the pain of self-examination, we hinder our ability to make confession. We get to a point where the mirror of our lives reflects only righteousness to us. If we do anything to avoid the pain that comes from looking honestly at ourselves, we eventually will hate the light of goodness that shows ...

1137. What Shall We Do With This Baby?

Drama

... course God does. They are called foster mothers, foster fathers, step-mothers, step-fathers, adoptive mothers, adoptive fathers, or maybe aunt or uncle, grandma or grandpa, brother or sister. The title does not matter. They have the true heart of a mother or father and the ability to care for, protect and love any child placed in their care. Q1: I am beginning to feel better about this. But is a loving parent, or even two parents, all a baby needs in this world? Scene 3 Mary, Joseph and baby in the manger ...

1138. Prayer

Matthew 4:12-17

Bulletin Aid

... 't like her? Who elected him leader anyway? And when is it my turn to lead? Who is the leader, anyway? The President? The Governor? The Mayor? The Conference Minister? The Moderator? The pastor? The father? The mother? The one with the loudest voice Or the one with the most ability, Or the one I like the best? Or is my leader The one I should be following - Jesus Christ? Lord, forgive me for following too carelessly For following my own whims, And teach me to follow Christ, For my sake, And for his. Amen

1139. Prayer

Matthew 14:13-21

Bulletin Aid

... surrounded by hostile darkness Wild beasts Demons! I thought I knew my way I thought I was safe Strong Self-sufficient But tragedy Loss Fear Have taken me And I don't know how to escape. Lord, forgive me for losing sight of you For being so proud of my ability to cope That I let go my anchor And find me - Lead me - back to your Kingdom For Jesus' sake. Amen

1140. Proper 7

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

... by the fact that his own actions had forced him to leave his home. At any rate, Jacob was in a psychological crisis when this dream came upon him. Earlier in his life, when everything was going for him as he planned and expected, the ability of such a dream to lift him to a higher consciousness would probably have been unlikely. Transforming experiences such as these usually come only when the conscious point of view is severely shaken, as through an illness, a catastrophe, or a personal crisis like Jacob ...

1141. Estranged Hands

Psalm 143:1-12

Sermon

... 's will. Our guilt scars remind us that God would have a perfect right to break his relationship with us. The scar on my hand is healed. It serves as a reminder, but it no longer interrupts the function of my hand. While I do not forget the error, the ability of my hand to be used is as great as it ever was. It has been restored. In Jesus Christ, we are extended the invitation to give him our guilt as we confess our wrong and find in him the peace of forgiveness and the restoration of our relationship with ...

1142. Parable of the Kettle

Illustration

It was a shining beautiful kettle with a large capacity and a high price. Being made of copper, it was valuable in its ability to heat quickly. Being made of copper, a useful metal, its alloys also gave it a gleam of gold. So it sat on the table of the merchantman and was prominently viewed by many. Two of Jesus' disciples came to purchase a large kettle and inquired of the merchant the ...

1143. God Is a Mystery

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

... ever ask or think. Robert Raines says it beautifully: "Lo, I tell you a mystery but the mystery is larger than the telling it eludes our boundaries it escapes our taming and naming hove the mystery.2 Once you and I claim to have full knowledge of God and the ability to predict God’s actions, we have fallen victim to one of the oldest temptations. No, we have fallen victim to the oldest temptation: trying to trade places with God. That’s what our oldest brother and sister did ... in the beginning.

1144. New Help on an Old Question

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

... son would be raised up after death but whether or not the two of them would know one another and relate to one another as mother and son. Our unwillingness to let go of today’s relationships and trust God to give us new relationships limits our ability to accept the good news of resurrection and life after death. We have difficulty seeing life in any structure other than those experienced in this life. Jesus encourages us to see beyond the molds in which we are cast today and to think of new relationships ...

1145. Parable of Two Businessmen

Luke 6:38

Illustration

Staff

One man advertised his product in all the leading magazines using all the superlatives regarding his service, his quality and his ability. The second businessman put advertising in second place of importance to the importance of giving genuine quality, real service and personal consideration. Said the first businessman, "With all the advertising I pay for I can't understand why customers drive by my door to that smaller place of my competitor?" ...

1146. The Fourth Sunday in Lent

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... the proliferation of nuclear power. Social activists are concerned about empowering the disadvantaged in our communities. We want to limit the power of the government in the management of our private lives. And, of course, we want to protect whatever power we already have. Power. The ability to get things done, to make things happen. We know it is important and we want our piece of the action. It isn't that we want to do anybody any harm by some act of naked aggression or an infantile urge to dominate. It ...

1147. The Second Sunday of Easter

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Kendall K. McCabe

... been cowering in fear, Jesus was there offering the peace which comes with the knowledge that one is forgiven, the peace that only forgiveness and reconciliation can bring. It is the risen Christ who brings not only the knowledge of forgiveness, but who imparts the ability to forgive. We who have died with Christ and been raised with him in baptism, we who participate in the life of his Body, know the freedom forgiveness brings, and we are able to share that with others. In the second place, this is part ...

1148. The Sixth Sunday of Easter

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... , he is in the midst of us. Perhaps it doesn't seem appropriate for me as a preacher to tell you how important my job is, but I must witness to my own experience of the power of Christ to use preaching to change lives. It is not my own ability or that of any other preacher I am talking about; it is the power of the presence of Christ working through even the weakest of his servants. Paul expressed it for all time when he said we have this treasure in earthen vessels, clay pots. I can well recall those ...

1149. The Seventh Sunday of Easter

John 17:1-5

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... will end up with a Christ who cannot be taken seriously. This does not mean it is incorrect to speak of the power of Christ. But we need to realize what we mean by power and what God means by power are two different things. Power simply means the ability to carry out a purpose. Before you talk of God's power, you must know God's purpose. That purpose is the perfection of creation, including you and me. God's greatest power is the power of love revealed through Jesus Christ. That is why, at the Last Supper ...

1150. When God Says "Go"

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

... need we be. The secret of our election as God's servants in the world is this God chooses us, not because of what we can do for him, but because of what he can do with us. Our availability interests God more than our ability. Look at the disciples. The New Testament suggests they were neither brighter nor nicer than other people. They continually missed the point, always jockeyed for position and, when the chips were down, were interested only in saving their own skins. Their sole qualification seems to ...

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