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1151. Advent 1: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Faith of Christmas

Luke 2:15-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... a radio that the guards had. It was tuned into the BBC channel… and every day Tom Southerland would listen intently to the newscast… hoping and praying that he might hear his name… hoping and praying that the newscaster would talk about him on the air and tell the story of his imprisonment and his innocence. But his name was never mentioned so he assumed that nobody in the United States even knew that he was being held hostage. Finally, after 4 years of captivity, Tom Southerland was released. Our ...

1152. Prepare The Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and he needed to prepare the way for that event. He did this in basically three ways: I First, John the Baptist prepared the way by living a godly life. In an age of corruption John the Baptist appeared as a clean, bracing breath of mountain air. In his passionate embrace of goodness he spoke out fearlessly against every form of corruption. When the religious leaders from Jerusalem turned up in his congregation he did not express his delight to see them and feel complimented that they had done him the honor ...

1153. Something Good Can Come From Nazareth

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Brett Blair

... moment how if you ever took truly to heart the ultimate goodness and joy of things, even at their bleakest, the need to praise someone or something for it would be so great that you might even have to go out and speak of it to the birds of the air." Phillip had his moment. A moment I like to call a muddy turnip moment. A moment with Jesus that transformed him. A moment where joy flooded into his world and made him want to go out and speak to someone. He found Nathanael. But you can understand Nathanael’s ...

1154. Standing Room Only Religion

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

It is a picturesque story containing drama, suspense, and humor. I have imagined the crowds pressing in upon Jesus in an effort to hear clearly the profound wisdom and good news he was sharing. There was an excitement in the air going along with being in the presence of a celebrity. I also have imagined the delightful scene of the four friends carrying the paralyzed man, trying to press through the crowd into the packed house where Jesus was "preaching the word," as Mark puts it. Frustrated in their ...

1155. Everyone Is Searching For You

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . While an experienced crew of high-priced and seasoned pilots messed around with a seventy-five-cent light bulb, an entire airplane and many of its passengers were lost. The crew momentarily forgot the most basic of all rules of the air -- "Don't forget to fly the airplane!" The same thing can happen to the local church. The church can have so many activities, programs, projects, committee meetings, banquets, and community involvements -- so many wheels spinning without really accomplishing anything of ...

1156. Out of the Wilderness Comes New Life

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

George Bass

... into the first snow of a Minnesota winter. He took a few tentative steps in the snow and then, suddenly, he discovered that he was not on a leash this time. He began to run wildly, in circles, and he dashed around the large, fenced-in backyard, leaping into the air, twisting and turning in a glorious dance of freedom and joy. He was meant to have this kind of life - free from ropes and leashes, free from people who would not let him run as he was meant to. (He wasn’t even bothered by the four-foot-high ...

1157. Confrontation in the Temple

John 2:12-25

Sermon

George Bass

... and I tried to catch the blood as it fell from the sky but I couldn’t see any more because my eyes hurt ... And she tells me things ... And she uses me to sing." Agnes goes on: "It’s as if she’s throwing a big hook through the air and it catches me under my ribs and tries to pull me up but I can’t move because Mummy is holding my feet and all I can do is sing in her voice, it’s the Lady’s voice, God loves you! ... God loves you." In this strange sort ...

1158. Come Celebrate! Send in the Light!

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... world cannot be justified. Their oppression will end, because God has spoken in the coming of Jesus. The yoke of oppression will be lifted off every shoulder. Do you see the vision, church? That the world’s babies will have stomachs bulging with good food and not air? Do you hear the promise, people of God? That Latin American torture centers will be turned into well-baby clinics? Do you see the vision, people of Shalom? That a contest will be held by the states to come up with the most creative use for ...

1159. Feet Of Clay

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... to be so sweet do not seem quite so amorous over breakfast shredded wheat. - Benny Fields Our narrative began like this: In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle ... - 2 Samuel 11:1 It was also the time when romance was in the air. 2. Getting in deeper To cover up the scandal, the king sent for Uriah, who was Bathsheba’s husband and one of David’s army commanders serving under Joab. David hoped to make it seem that Uriah was the father of Bathsheba’s unborn child. But the plan ...

1160. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... ve heard from a lot of people I’d lost track of for a while. I must confess, I’ve sometimes envied you white pastors who have the luxury of living and ministering in the northern states. My years in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts convinced me that the air has a scent of freedom to it there. But coming back to the South was no mistake. These people are my people. Christ wants me to do ministry right where I am. My wife and I talked about accepting a call to a northern congregation. But we ...

1161. What’s Your Name?

Genesis 2:4-25

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... voice, all together, at the same time. Now I haven’t told you yet exactly when I want you to say your name in a normal voice, have I? So that’s what I’ll tell you now. Do you see my hand that I’m holding up in the air? Now keep watching it and when I bring it down, I want you all to say your names in a normal tone of voice. Are you ready? (Drop your hand.) Now, I’m going to write your name on these name tags. After you put it on, everybody will be ...

1162. What We Can’t See

John 3:8

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... see the wind. We can’t draw a picture of it, but we can see what it does to the branches and to our hair. We can’t see God, either, so in that way he is like the wind. The wind helps the kite go up high in the air. God helps us do what we need to do. We can’t see him and we can’t see the wind, but we can feel the wind and we can feel that God is with us when we need him.

1163. God’s Plan for Leaves

Ezekiel 17:1-24

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... ? Green is the color I was thinking about, especially the green leaves on the trees. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a leaf on a tree? Well, let’s think about it for a minute. First, of all, you’d be up in the air a long way, like being in a tree house. Have you ever been in a tree house? Part of the fun of a tree house is being up so high above people that they don’t know you’re looking down on them. Another thing about being a leaf would ...

1164. Accepting Our Crosses

Mark 8:31--9:1

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... are content in the midst of others who are suffering. Forgive us, Lord, and give us the strength and the courage to stand firm and declare Your love through our lives. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee" "There's A Spirit In The Air" "Take My Life, And Let It Be"

1165. Why Must We Carry A Cross?

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... parade that would take place when VE Day came. First, he said, would come the sailors of the British Navy, the ones who had upheld the grand tradition of Trafalgar and the defeat of the Armada. Next in the parade, he said, would come the pilots of the Royal Air Force. They were the ones who, more than any other, had saved England from the dreaded German Lufwaffa. Next in the parade would come the Army, the ones that had stood tall at the crises of Dunkirk. Last of all, he said, would come a long line of ...

1166. Do Children Like You?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Richard Patt

... forces represented in today’s Bible reading. On the one hand there were the Pharisees. We read that they were trying to "trap" another person (Jesus) in his own words. They were asking all sorts of involved questions. They had an argumentative air about them. Had some child been around, listening to the conversation (as children listen to adult conversations more than we might suspect!), would the child have been drawn to the Pharisees? On the other hand, observe Jesus’ style and approach. With a ...

1167. Then He Went Home

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... the Pharisees about their legalism; and withdrawn to the hills with his newly called apostles for a prayer-and-strategy session. By the time he reached Nazareth, he was the talk of the town. Nazareth was alive with rumors and counter-rumors. The air was blue with controversy. The controversy grew sharper when Jesus returned home. What happened? Jesus spoke right into the teeth of the controversy by talking about a divided house, the unforgivable sin, and his new family. Nazareth discovered that this was no ...

1168. Heal the Sick; Cast Out the Demons

Matthew 10:5-8

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... . Cast Out the Demons We do not know all that this command means. We do not fully understand the nature of demons or their arenas of activity in the interior dimensions of the human being or the exterior dimensions of what Saint Paul calls "the powers of the air" (Ephesians 2:2) or "the Principalities and Powers" (Ephesians 1:21; 6:12; Romans 8:38; Colossians 1:16; 2:10; 2:15). In the Baptismal service parents are asked to renounce "the Devil and all his ways," not because we know about the details of the ...

1169. Strong Faith For Tough Times

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... because people might get hurt.” · The image of world leaders and congressional leaders and people in the streets agreeing that something should be done, but strongly disagreeing over how to do it. · The image of television newscasters suddenly realizing while on the air last Wednesday evening that the war had started. · The image of people all over the world stopping what they were doing and being glued to television sets for hours and hours. · The image of President Bush speaking to the nation… and ...

1170. The Chief Miracle of Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... looked to him for his rebuttal, he said, "You know, my Daddy makes so much money every Sunday that it takes four grown men to carry it all to him." Sometimes children do like to brag about their parents. As much as they like to put on airs, however, what children treasure more than anything else is closeness with their parents. A twelve-year-old boy, the son of a missionary in Africa, was sent by his parents to school in the United States. His parents wanted to provide him with every opportunity to have ...

1171. "I Don’t Hate Any More!"

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... , huddled in a dark corner. I asked, "What in the world are you doing in this closet." The answer came, "We’re in here forgiving each other." The storm had been fierce. They knew it wasn’t best to meet God hating each other. Thunderstorms sometimes clear the air in more ways than one. In spite of Blondie’s convoluted logic, she was on the right track when she said. "Dagwood, if you’ll say I’m right, I’ll say I’m wrong." But there is another possibility. What if the case refuses to be resolved ...

1172. Overcoming Loneliness

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... see that Jesus really believed that he had great potential, and that he would back him up. Thinking deeply, the student whispered, "I will begin again; it’s all right now." The next day the vulgar pictures had been taken down from the walls, the fresh air was flowing through the room, and the sunlight had reached the dark corners. The next picture that Dr. Weatherhead brings into focus is that of "a girl living in a small boardinghouse in the city. It was not a pleasant life ... It was very lonely." The ...

1173. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... struggle came experience. She began to see the meaning of Christ and the Cross: "God must know and care, after all, because he was in it with us." She tells of this experience: "Suddenly there was a Presence in the room, a Person so alive that he almost made the air tingle, a Person who was utterly Good. He told me that what I had read was true, and that he loved me. The Person seemed to be Love. and Love (himself) was focused on me ... I knew that ... the I that I was would die, because it could never he ...

1174. Why Fear Growing Old?

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... there is pull and strain. But we cannot see the whole way. We pass through tunnels. It is dark. We are not sure where we will come out, but we trust the ultimate beckoning. Now we reach the higher plains of marriage, family, vocation, commitment. The air is clearer, our vision better; there is beauty and meaning all around us. We can see backward and forward. There are more tunnels as we strive on toward the peaks of knowledge, aspiration, and service. And now above us, the final mountain pass - the Great ...

1175. Not Far From the Kingdom

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... boldly accosted John Wesley, saying "We be Christians. We know not what you be." It was due to the Wesley’s textbook approach to ministry which resulted in their stumbling over their own feet. "All the time I was in Savannah I was thus beating the air," noted John. It was now Pentecost Sunday, May 21, 1738. Charles was ill; not dying, but afflicted with a painful case of pleurisy. He was lodging during the illness with kind Mr. Bray, the brazier, at No. 12 in Little Brittain. Mrs. Turner, Bray’s sister ...

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