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1126. Epiphany 2

John 2:1-11, Isaiah 62:1-12, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... have felt divorced from God. The return to their nation and temple was like God's remarrying his unfaithful spouse. Accordingly, like a bride, Israel will have a new name, the name of her husband, and God will take delight in his bride. Lesson 2 (1 Corinthians 12:1-11). Gifts of the Holy Spirit. There is no intended relation of this pericope with the Cana miracle. It is the first of a series of seven readings from 1 Corinthians, chapters 12 to 15. Today's lesson deals with the Holy Spirit and his nine ...

1127. A Special Kind of Kiss

2 Corinthians 13:12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... do with all of these people at the times that I have mentioned? [Let them answer.] I might shake their hand or put my arm around them to show them how I feel about them, or I might kiss them on the cheek or forehead. That is the very special gift that I was talking about this morning. In the Bible St. Paul talked about a "holy kiss". It was a kiss that was made holy because it was a special sign between Christians that showed a new kind of love. I hope that you won't mind if I show ...

1128. A Wonderful Treasure

Ephesians 1:18

Children's Sermon

... Why do you suppose they brought those things? That's right. They were rare and special. That means they were worth a lot of money. So the kings were bringing gifts fit for a king and giving them to a brand new king. Have you ever wished somebody would give you a gift fit for a king? Guess what, somebody already did! That's right. God gave you and me a gift that is better than anything the Three Wise Men brought to Jesus. Now, what do you suppose it is? (Field some answers.) The Bible tells us that we have ...

1129. 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

... out." They did. They arranged it, made it happen - his death, that is. God did raise him up. 3. So Jesus promised that those who believe in him and are baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, will experience the resurrection as a free gift of God. And his faith in God was so full and complete that he gave himself over to a terrible death, confident that God would raise him upon the third day. He did. 4. The Sadducees and other religious leaders must have been convinced that Jesus was some ...

1130. The Unfairness of God

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

William J. Carl

... as much since we’ve been trying to live the right way all along. To others who haven’t done a lot around a church or for others who have perhaps wasted nearly their whole lives and come to church late, God’s grace means a lot more. But the gift of grace is all the same. That may seem unfair to you, but it’s not because God is more than fair, for in Jesus Christ, God took all the unfairness of our lives and our troubled world on himself and suffered the unfairness of death on a cross that ...

1131. Take Care Of Each Other!

Ezekiel 33:1-20

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... brought home a crude car he had fashioned from the clay. He found all kinds of snakes, bugs and worms and he was always bringing some of them home to show his parents. As time went on, it seemed like the parents always liked Jimmy’s gifts better than Bobby’s gifts. This was really upsetting to Bobby and he began to brood about it. He would even say sometimes to his parents, “How come it is you always like Jimmy’s presents and you just throw mine out? Yesterday you put Jimmy’s flower on the dinner ...

1132. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... is important. Everyone will rally around property. In fact, if you read most church histories and many brochures of universities, they are accounts of what building was built when. And we exonerate those people who, like the shepherd in the story, work long hours or give big gifts to help us acquire our property. And, like the woman in the parable, most of us will work double shifts in order to regain lost money. Let me lose my wallet and I'll turn the house upside down trying to look behind every door and ...

1133. A Road Map to the Kingdom

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... do not hold grudges. Healthy children come bouncing back the next day to a teacher or neighbor who corrected or punished them the day before. They extend goodwill. 5. Children try to please, innocently and flexibly. 6. Children can accept gifts. Maybe this is why we love to give to children. They accept the gift, give us hugs, and then run and play. We have not yet trained them in one-upmanship games. When we ponder what we do know about children and the training we give them, there are many lessons to be ...

1134. Rejoice In The Lord

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... joy that one feels lingering in the heart, even when tears run down our cheeks. You see, the joy of which Isaiah speaks is a gift of God. It is like a light shining in the darkness. It is not something we accomplish or achieve, or fashion, or even earn. We ... of my salvation." For Dr. Bainton, and a host of God's people in every age, not even death can take away God's incredible gift of joy. That is clearly the same joy that the prophet Isaiah found in God at a time when there was little apparent joy among ...

1135. The Glorious Company

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... the Beatitudes sound to us in our day, the early Christians sought to govern their lives by them. Undoubtedly, none accomplished every jot and tittle of the outline. Not all were poor or socially alienated. Some failed the test of courage, surely. Such faith is always a gift of God's grace. We can pray for it always, but we cannot force it from within. By the time of Constantine, the church had more saints and martyrs than it could name. There was clearly hunger among the grateful and the faithful to have a ...

1136. Wounded Glory

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Erskine White

... to go to a bank, and exchange your hundred dollar bill for 100 one dollar bills. That way, you could spread the money around to everyone, ahd no one would be left out. That's a bit like what Jesus did when He gave His friends a gift much more valuable than money: the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says that shortly after Easter, when Jesus was raised from the dead, He visited His friends; and on one of those visits He breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." Jesus was getting ready to go to ...

1137. Death of a Twelve-year-old Boy

Matthew 18:1-9

Eulogy

John M. Braaten

... taught us that simply believing is a way to beauty and peace. In his forgiving and accepting us, just as we are, we learned to accept each other. His enthusiasm and optimism for life, abbreviated as it was, showed us the joy that comes from accepting God's gifts and sharing the good news. Finally he convinced us that our hope for heaven is as near and real as today. At the funeral of former Vice-president Hubert Humphrey, one of his closest friends said, "He taught us how to live, and in the end he taught ...

1138. Step Twelve - Responsibility

Lk 19:1-10 · Gal 6:1-10 · Is 61:1-4

Sermon

John A. Terry

... that none of us are worthy of God's love and grace, that life itself is a gift, that Christ's redemption of each of us is the ultimate gift, then it makes a lot of sense. We were given the gift of life. It cost us nothing. When we strayed, it was God who paid the price to ... redeem us. All we can do, then, as an act of gratitude, is to let others know where they, too, can receive this gift of life. The third image comes from an incident that happened at a banquet I attended this past year. The banquet was held ...

1139. Oh, Lord, It's Hard To Be Humble

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ’t go back home made righteous and justified because we prayed correctly, or followed the proper order of worship, or sang the right songs, or were sufficiently humble. If we are justified, if we are blessed in our worship and prayer, it’s only as a gift of God’s love, which knows no boundaries, but is incapable of hate. God’s love extends to sinners of all shapes, sizes, and colors, whether we agree with the choices they have made or not, whether they have memorized the great prayers of the saints ...

1140. Episode 1: The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brother’s what shall we do?" Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." They did repent and Luke tells us that 3000 were added to the church on that day. Now that’s church’s Episode I. It is the story if the coming of the Holy Spirit. Today, we cannot duplicate the exact events of Acts. That ...

1141. The Flame, The Wind, And The Walk

Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Marion Fairman

... of God's law. Woman: (Exasperated) Well, if it wasn't special because it was the first time the Holy Spirit came, nor the first day to be called Pentecost, nor the first gift of significance to his people, then - Man: (Interrupting) Then it must be the fire, first time for fire! Leader: (Shaking his head) Still I have to say "no." The fires also rushed on Sinai - the clouds on the mountain were half darkness and half flame! (Exodus 19:18) Man: (Indignant) ...

1142. Melchior Reminisces

Matthew 2:1-12

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... and found him! His mother, Mary, and father, Joseph, were quite surprised to see us - all the way from Persia! We looked at the beautiful child in his crib and sank to our knees in gratitude to the Almighty for enabling us to find him. When we presented our gifts to his parents they received them with humble gratitude. We stayed but a short time. But we heard from his father that he, too, had a dream in which he was warned to flee to Egypt, for Herod was determined to destroy the child! How could that be ...

1143. The Secret of Survival

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... does not come in the kit. When the Israelites arrived in Canaan, it was already occupied by warring rulers, fortified cities, and belligerent inhabitants. The Promised Land was not a Utopia to be enjoyed. It was a pagan country to be conquered. It was not a gift as much as it was a conquest. If the land was to be theirs, the Israelites would have to work and to fight for it. And, so they did. It took many generations - probably two-hundred years of victories and defeats, successes, and setbacks - before the ...

1144. No Ignorant Brethren

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Rev. Kenneth H. Sauer

... be needed to do that work. That is why we have a funding program in the middle of November. If we expect the leadership of our church to present us with an intelligent plan for spending money next year, we must provide ourselves with an indication of what our gifts will be. That is why each of us pledges - it's part of our faithful, responsible participation in our church. On this day when visitors will be calling in many homes to receive pledges, it is necessary that we relate the Word of God to what we're ...

1145. The Messiah For All

Ephesians 3:4-6

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... in that caravan. First of all, they brought gold, and it's significant that in that day gold was presented only as a gift to a king. They brought frankincense. Why? That was a symbol that they believed that Christ was divine, because frankincense was what ... of sadness and of death. Myrrh was the precious embalming fluid that the ancients used to preserve dead bodies. And so by their gifts, the Magi expressed the fact, first, that Jesus was a king; second, that he was divine; and, third, that he had come on ...

1146. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... more than the dignity and good order of worship. You won't quite be able to say, "Come, you Almighty King," or "Christ, you Lamb of God." You want to stay at the distance that dignity and good order demand and reverence inspires. We bring here but one thing, a gift of love to God in response to his unspeakable love for us. What we do here may be rude and crude, paltry and faulty and unworthy, but we bring it, anyway, with the humble hope and prayer that he will, in his goodness, be willing to accept it as ...

1147. The Two Fires

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... nice people." The human need is an inner transformation that makes us into new creatures. It is the warmth of the spirit of Christ that accomplishes this. This is not something we can do for ourselves; it is the New Testament insistence upon grace and gift, not work and merit. We cannot make ourselves into the sort of persons who are recognizable as sons and daughters of God; the heart of the Christian testimony makes this clear. Not even a courageous and serious understanding of the first fire, Christ’s ...

1148. The Gospel of the Little Man

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

... meant salvation from his blindness. For the woman taken in adultery it meant freedom from condemnation. For the dying thief it meant the promise of paradise. And when you and I know what we need to be saved from, salvation is real and salvation is the gift of Jesus Christ. From an empty life, from the inner anguish of destroyed relationships, from the grief of loss, from tormenting guilt over those specific sins that clutch our throats, from the bondage of a habit we are powerless to break, from the fear of ...

1149. The Sign in the Subway

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... with no light and no fire was not pleasant: but still the neighbor’s need was met. It was done "because of his importunity," Jesus said - his persistence in asking. God is not a reluctant neighbor, but prayer that is sincere is persistent. Prayer is not wringing gifts from an unwilling God. It is talking with One who loves us beyond the love of an earthly father - One who sees the whole picture, who knows our needs better than we do, who does not meet them unless we ask with sincerity that shows itself in ...

1150. Parable of Jealousy and Jeopardy

Illustration

... says, 'it's what you do with what you've got, that pays off in the end,' " counseled the mother. "You must learn to think of your things as more precious and treat them so, that is why Tommy's things last longer and look better." God gives many good gifts to everyone of his children. These gifts must be developed into real talents for living a valuable life. Whether cooking, sewing, baking, writing, singing or swimming, each talent in life that is developed comes out of respect for and use of the native ...

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