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1126. Miracle Five: Healing A Withered Hand

Mark 3:1-6

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Harold H. Lentz

... same category as harvesting, and should not be done on the Sabbath. Jesus said that he came not to condemn the law but to fulfill it. He was talking about a higher interpretation. Thus the law says we are not to commit adultery, but Christ pointed out that even the thought of doing so, or the lusting after a woman without committing the act, was a sin. No one is perfect, yet the Jews said that by obeying all laws, and by that way alone, one is on the pathway to heaven. In such a case no one would get to ...

1127. In The Beginning God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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William L. Self

... saying. That would set limits upon the purposes of God. On the contrary, God created from nothing an undistorted reflection of his thoughts, and this creation bears only the mark of God. So God's creation proceeds with a sovereign freedom that has no other ... stars and the sun in place at the beginning of the world. Long before I can think of God and love him, he has already thought of me. Before the foundations of the world, there began the history of a great love and a great search. God made the world from ...

1128. The Man With Two Umbrellas

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

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William L. Self

... said, 'I can tell you where that church is. It is not easy to find; it's quite a distance away. Let me make you a map.' So he made an outline of the way to the church and he left. "When I awakened Sunday morning, it was raining. I thought to myself, 'I'll just not go to church this morning. Surely, I can be forgiven for this. It's my first Sunday on a new campus; it's raining hard, and the church is hard to find. I'll get some more sleep.' Then there was a knock on ...

1129. Forsaking All Others

Joel 2:1-11

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Paul W. Kummer

... action in the war and this young soldier seemed to come to a moment of truth. Turning to his close friend, he said, "Listen, Charlie, if I don't make it back and you do, would you take this letter and see that Sally gets it? Tell her my last thoughts were of her, and her name was the last word on my lips. And here's a letter for Jennifer. Tell her the same thing." God is telling us to stop "two-timing" with the world, or three-timing with the world and Satan, or four-timing with the world ...

1130. Our Jealous Husband

Exodus 20:1-21

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Paul W. Kummer

... dressed in the morning and you must button up a shirt, a skirt, or a jacket, do you start from the bottom or the top? Which button do you fasten first? Of course, the top one. But -- have your ever had the frustrating and time-consuming tragedy occur when you thought you had it lined up, but after you buttoned up all the buttons, you discovered that you were still one off? You have to undo them all and then start over again. If you don't get the first button right, all else is out of alignment. Or think of ...

1131. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17, 1 John 4:7-21, Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:1-31

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William E. Keeney

... thus carried with it the cleansing of forgiveness. 8. "Abide in me." (vv. 4, 5, 7) Persons who are in harmony with each other receive mutual strength. John has a mystical sense of life force flowing between persons. Where the disciples were in unity of thought and purpose with Jesus, they partook of the same energy for life that he received from the Father. 9. "Glorified." (v. 8) The Father is honored when additional disciples are won to obedience to God's commands, and they bear fruit. That is the purpose ...

1132. The Pastor Who Created A Monster

Haggai 1:1-15, Haggai 2:1-9

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Thomas G. Rogers

... ." He had not planned to do so, but he decided to remain standing on the chair rather than return to the pulpit. He was pretty sure he had everyone's attention. He did not want to break the momentum. He said, "The Jews of Haggai's time thought the goal before them was unrealistic -- far more than they could ever possibly accomplish. Times were bad for the people. The economy was terrible. There had been drought and crop failures. Many of the people were living in poverty. How were they going to come up with ...

1133. What Is God Doing In Our Bad Times?

Joel 2:18-27, Joel 2:28-32

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Thomas G. Rogers

... wreck." There was a long pause before he could continue. "I just don't know what to do. I don't know what to think." There was another pause and the sound of muffled sobs. Ted continued, "Frank, I know you are always reading the Bible and all that. I thought maybe I could talk to you. I hope it's okay for me to be calling you like this, Frank, I just don't know what's happening. Why would God let something like this happen? What is God doing?" There was another pause while Ted tried to collect himself ...

1134. Uplifted By The Blues

Lamentations 1:1-22

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Thomas G. Rogers

... Lord, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise." He continued, "On the day I called, you answered me, you increased my strength of soul" (Psalm 138:1, 3). Raymond liked what he had read. It lifted his spirits. "The pastor was right," Raymond thought to himself. "This is a very upbeat part of the Bible." Raymond decided to read more. He glanced to the verse immediately preceding the verses he had just read. As he read, Raymond's uplifted feeling did an about face. The words he read were a cry ...

1135. You Can Be Like Children

Mark 10:1-12

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Michael B. Brown

... if not totally) White. North was predominately (if not totally) Black. All the children from the neighborhood where the two developments merged played together as we grew. We were children. We didn't realize the color of one's skin made any difference. We thought people were neat just because they were people. We were just little kids, and as such we were color-blind. Children almost always are unless somebody teaches them not to be. Maybe there is a lesson there for sophisticated grown-ups, a lesson about ...

1136. Week Two Of Lent

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Richard Gribble

... am sure that all of us can relate to the indignation which the other ten apostles felt toward James and John, as we hear in today's Gospel. Their mother wants her sons to sit in exalted positions in the Kingdom of God. Jesus wastes no time in correcting the thought of this woman and all those present who hear her request. Jesus says that the one who aspires to greatness must serve the rest; whoever wants to rank first must first serve the needs of all. Jesus goes on to say that he as well has come not to be ...

1137. Holy Week

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Richard Gribble

... but never actually seen him. I threw on some clothes, bounded down the stairs and out the front door of my apartment building. I thought, this is my opportunity to see where he goes and what he does. I decided to watch at a distance. The Ragman pushed his ... when they came upon a vast and wide river. Siddhartha looked upon the water and realized the emptiness which lay before him. Certainly, thought the boy, this river has no meaning. It is so vast yet so empty. The meaning of life cannot be found here. The ...

1138. Letting God

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Matthew 2:1-12

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Pamela Urfer

... in better surroundings, with women from your family to assist you. MARY: That would have been nice, but everything turned out fine. God in his mercy saw to that. JOSEPH: Yes, I know. But still, I feel I let you down. MARY: In what way? JOSEPH: In every way. I thought we would be at home for the child's birth. There you would have had your mother to look after you, and your sisters, and real midwives. Every woman deserves to have at least a midwife to take care of her when her time comes. It wasn't right. It ...

1139. Risen And Recognized

Luke 24:13-35

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Robert Beringer

... ! Dead just like any other man! They killed him, and we did nothing to stop them! Maybe the authorities were right ... maybe he was just an imposter! What fools we were to have believed in him!" The older man is silent for a time, lost in deep thought. Then he responds: "Fools? Yes, I suppose we were, but who can blame us? He seemed like the Messiah! He certainly was all I ever believed the Messiah would be!" Without raising his head, the younger man retorts: "Cleopas, I, too, believed in him! I trusted him ...

1140. The Good Soldier

John 20:1-9

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Pamela Urfer

... would you want to? LUCIUS: Oh, I don't know. Maybe so I can find out what it is the gods want from us humans. FLAVIUS: I thought you didn't believe in the gods. LUCIUS: I never said that. You're the one who thinks he's too macho for that sort of thing ... to see gods, why don't you go look for some Roman gods? Why do you have to get involved with this Jewish kind? LUCIUS: (Thoughtfully) I don't know. This one just seems more intriguing. Roman gods push people around, as you said. This one seems to be more ... ...

1141. Boast In The Lord

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Richard Hasler

... to the cross. Nonetheless, Paul continued in the same vein explaining: "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." Although the reputed wise people of his day thought what he said was pure foolishness, the weakness of the cross was in reality the power of God. The supposedly helpless man upon the cross paradoxically had the power to make people truly strong. Paul's own kindred, the Jews, interpreted the cross as foolishness ...

1142. But You Can't Get Water Out Of A Rock!

Exodus 17:1-7

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Steve Burt

... wife for a prayer.' I was annoyed at my father-in-law for telling the man I was becoming a minister. "The couple was from California and simply wanted to give me a copy of a book they liked, an old Christian classic, Streams In The Desert. (I hadn't thought about the significance of the title until now.) The man asked me to pray aloud, something I was uncomfortable doing, but I did it. He thanked me and I left. I never saw them again. "On our way home I opened the book to read what the man had written ...

1143. A Misguided Game of Hide-and-Seek

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Robert S. Crilley

... to stand and nothing to hold on to -- that is an insecurity which touches the very depths of what we fear most. Such, I now believe, is what so frightened Jonathan that rainy afternoon: the feeling that he had been deserted, that everything on which he thought he could depend had somehow been displaced. And perhaps this is the backdrop against which the story of Aaron and the Golden Calf can best be understood as well. What happens is this: during Moses' long delay up on the mountain, the Israelites grow ...

1144. The Lamb's Book Of Life

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Phyllis Faaborg Wolk

... mean that this beautiful picture of heaven is something we are able only to imagine, and never to obtain? Is your name written in the Lamb's book of life or is it not? To answer that question, you must take your eyes off of yourself. You must take your thoughts away from your own actions. Don't be so self-centered. Because if you think you are living a good enough life to have your name written in the Lamb's book of life, you're kidding yourself. Or if you feel unworthy, like no matter how hard you try ...

1145. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

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William E. Keeney

... again? 3. All men (persons) are created equal according to the Declaration of Independence. Yet it seems obvious that not everyone is equally endowed. The parable says that the slaves had differing amounts with which to work for the master. Is equality to be thought of in terms of opportunity to fulfill their possibilities? Or is it in approval for how they perform with what they have? Or is it in ultimate worth before God as persons of value? 4. The judgment pronounced on the slave who tried to protect ...

1146. Behold The Man Who Tried To Be King

Matthew 21:1-10

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... . Just as I snapped it a boy on a donkey rode right in front of me. He is all you see in the picture. I thought of another one riding a donkey across that mountain just up from where I was standing. The bustling city was there waiting on him. Down ... her fellowman. One day she was walking down a street in downtown Atlanta. She saw a man lying on the sidewalk, face down. She thought, "Oh, no! He's dying." Quickly she reviewed the lifesaving steps she had learned in a CPR class. She rushed over to him, rolled ...

1147. Professor Of Paradox

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

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Roger G. Talbott

... wondered why she could not do the same. The old man inspected the bowl, asked about the dirt and the water and scratched his head with puzzlement. "It is all the same," he said. "I don't know why it isn't working." After a few more minutes of thought the old man said, "Oh, there is one more thing. When you are stirring the mud, you can't be thinking about gold nuggets." To stir mud without thinking about gold nuggets is a paradox -- like finding treasure in a field. The dictionary says that a paradox is a ...

1148. Getting Out Of Our Own Way

Matthew 16:21-28

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Roger G. Talbott

... about yourself or about me or about people you know. You are thinking about the past or about the future. Obviously our thoughts are very close to our essential selves, yet they are always changing, and something about us never changes. Each of us is ... . Who will you be if you have a child who is now an adult? Who will you be if you have an empty nest? You have thought of yourself in a certain way for the last five years or the past 18 years. Now you will be different, because that relationship is different. ...

1149. All-Surrounding Grace

John 3:14-21

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Elaine M. Ward

... that when they looked through the wardrobe, there was nothing there. The children said, "If it was real why doesn't everyone find this country every time they go to the wardrobe? If things are real, they're there all the time. They don't change." The professor thought for a moment. Then he said out loud, as if he were still thinking to himself, "If there is a door in this house that leads to some other world ... if she had got into another world ..." "Sir," said Peter, "do you really mean that there could ...

1150. Troubled By A Talking Whirlwind

Job 38:1-7 · Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... it rain? Job was confronted with the limits of his own knowledge. God was saying to Job: "You can't understand all about me. But wave at what you do see!" I remember standing on the beach, trying to comprehend what my eye could see of the Atlantic Ocean. I thought of how vast the eastern shoreline of the United States is. There is no vantage point where any of us can see the whole ocean or even a major part of it. Therefore, there will never be a time when we can say, "I perceive the ocean." But, though I ...

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