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1151. Experiencing the Reality of God

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... to her. In sharing her witness to what the retreat had meant to her, she told of falling off to sleep on her sofa one day and dreaming. She dreamed that she saw God coming toward her. She ran to meet God and God swept her up in a warm and loving embrace -- and she said she dreamed that she could smell God. These people experienced the reality of God in their own unique ways. The things that happened to them were the same thing that happened to the early Christians on the Day of Pentecost. It would be ...

1152. The Witness of Being

Genesis 1:1—2:4a

Sermon

James L. Killen

... probably had his last meaningful visit with Miss Blanche. He walked out of the cold, sterile environment of the emergency room into the gentle warmth of a summer afternoon. He was suddenly intensely aware of everything that was around him. A gentle breeze cooled the warm summer day. The late afternoon sun was deepening the colors of trees and grass and flowers and buildings. He could see people moving around, a family with young children were walking to a car in the parking lot. The rush of the day was past ...

1153. Preaching to a Stone

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... other gods." Joshua has indeed tapped into their memories of the stories heard around the campfires. They know how the Lord has acted on their behalf. They know that the Lord has given them their identity. They choose to serve the Lord. Joshua is only getting warmed up, though. He challenges the people's response to his altar call, "You cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God." Joshua must have wanted more than a quick and easy commitment. Joshua pushes the people to think about the covenant they are ...

1154. Good Bread, Better Bread

John 6:51-58

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. (John 6:53) Collect Soft bread, warm bread, new bread, how good. We eat this bread and are nourished. Living Bread, Lord, is even better. We break this bread and abide in you forever. Amen. Prayer Of Confession How our pride prevents us from sharing the bread of life in the Body of Christ. Our sisters and ...

1155. A Hope for Peace

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

James L. Killen

... with whom we need to be reconciled and made some effort to offer a hand of friendship to each of them during this happy season? How would it be if we each sent a Christmas card to each of the people on our lists with some message of genuine warm wishes written in it? Maybe nothing would come of it. Maybe it would get an unpleasant response. But maybe it would be the beginning of a reconciliation that could make both your life and theirs better. Then we should look for ways to move out into the community in ...

1156. Living Hope

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... writers to imagine the end times and to write of human self-destruction and the elimination of all life on earth. And if not the end of life, they would speculate on the mutation of living creatures into some sort of monsters that will inherit the earth. Global warming due to our usage of fossil fuels is currently a major issue. We're putting a hole in the protective layers of atmosphere that protect the earth and we're told that we could be headed for another episode like Noah and the flood as the polar ...

1157. Because

1 Peter 1:1—2:3

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

1158. The Gifted

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

... to spiritual experiences, a lot of people like to get as mystical as possible and float above the world. They say things like, "Jesus is born within my heart," or "I listen to Jesus in my heart," or "My heart needs to be cleansed," or "My heart was strangely warmed," or "If you ask me how I know he lives, he lives within my heart." To put it in other words, "Faith is only a matter of the heart; forget about the world where the Word became flesh." Unfortunately there are some Christians who would like to be ...

1159. Being More than Civil

1 Corinthians 1:1-9, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... against us and be reconciled with them, so that there will be peace on earth. That is what he preached. Then he said, I want you to meet someone. And he would introduce Sosthenes. And he would tell how Sosthenes hated Paul, and Paul didn't feel so warm toward Sosthenes either. But he would say the grace of Christ is at work in me, and through grace I have received mercy, therefore I must be merciful. So I went to Sosthenes, and I forgave him. And because of grace, once there was hostility and now there ...

1160. Coming Home

Luke 15:1-3,11b-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... listening to somebody read Luther's interpretation of Paul's letter to the Romans, where Paul says that we are saved by our faith in God's grace alone--and not in our own works. Wesley went home that night and wrote in his journal, "I felt my heart strangely warmed, and knew that Christ had died for my sins, even mine." We are saved by our faith in God's grace alone; not by our efforts, but by opening our lives to what God wants to give us. It's the same thing that Paul wrote to the Corinthians in ...

1161. God Never Gives Up

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . The 15th chapter also contains the famous parable of the Prodigal Son. We don’t look at that this Sunday. This Sunday we look at the two short parables that precede it, that introduce it. These parables you could say are the warm-up acts for the celebrated Prodigal Son. For that reason they are very often overlooked, not taken seriously. But they are important and precious in themselves. They begin with this introduction: “The Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling, saying, `This fellow welcomes ...

1162. He's Back

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... it he makes the distinction between "cheap grace" and "costly grace." Cheap grace is going to church to hear the comfortable words, the good news about God's unconditional love. Then snuggling in it, as if it were a down comforter, leaving church with a warm, peaceful feeling, but not letting the one who brought that love into the world, who died for you because of that love, challenge the way you are now living. In the Bible repentance is not just remorse for the past, feeling sorry that you did something ...

1163. If I Were a Rich Man

Mark 10:17-27

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... lesson, we will look at that. James says, What does it profit if a man says he has faith but has no works? Can his faith save him? If someone is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to him, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," [that is to say, you just say to the person pious phrases, but you don't do anything for that person] what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. That is a remarkable passage. It is written in the kind of ...

1164. No Fear

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... heading for the hospital. On the way the man holding the girl in the back seat on his lap, said, "Hurry, mister, she is still alive." A little while later he said, "Hurry, mister, she is still breathing." A few moments later he said, "Hurry, she is still warm." They got to the emergency room of the hospital, turned the child over to the doctors. He said, "Hurry please. She is getting cold." She died. The two men were washing the blood from their hands. The man who had picked her up, with tears in his eyes ...

1165. Now What?

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

1166. On the Beach

John 21:15-25, John 21:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that detail. This is no ordinary fire. This is a charcoal fire. The last time we read about a charcoal fire in the Gospel of John, it was outside the palace of Caiaphas, the high priest of Jerusalem. The soldiers were standing around a charcoal fire, warming themselves. Peter was lurking a little ways off. The soldiers see Peter standing in the shadows. The light from the fire illumines his face. They think they recognize him. They ask him, "Aren't you a disciple of Jesus?" Peter said, "No." They asked him ...

1167. Until It Dawns on You

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... John Wesley, sitting, listening to scripture, at a time in his life that was filled with conflict and stress and self doubt, just like the disciples. While listening to someone read from Luther's preface to St. Paul's Letter to the Romans, he said, "I felt my heart strangely warmed, and I knew that Jesus had forgiven my sins, even mine." You will do well to be attentive [to scripture], as to a lamp shining in the darkness, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

1168. What If It Is True?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... -seeking is the way life has to be. It seems increasingly every year, in the 90s at least, when Advent comes we hear bad news, just terrible news. Do you notice that? I notice it. It just disturbs me. It upsets me. I have all these warm, comfortable stories that I want to tell at Christmas time, about grinches and little angels. I want Christmas to be like Currier and Ives painted it. But the newspapers and television coverage of the war bring the pictures of bombed buildings in Baghdad. There is nothing ...

1169. When to Be Extravagant

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... in Nashville late at night, about ten o'clock. I got my bags and went out to the curb where you wait for the shuttle buses to take you to the hotels. There were a few people standing there, lined up along the curb, wrapped in overcoats, trying to keep warm. Sitting on their luggage down at the far end was a woman and her male companion. He was silent. She was not. She was talking to her companion a mile a minute, and to anybody else that was within sound of her voice, which could have been in the next ...

1170. You Have Outwitted Me

Hosea 11:1-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... probably because for a period of time, Ephraim, the tribe, was the most prominent of the confederation of tribes, and therefore is the representative tribe. How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel!....My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come to destroy. You read Hosea and you see that God is determined to keep His ...

1171. In the Darkness of Despair, There Is the Light of Hope

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... my wife and told her to come quickly and take me to the emergency clinic. I was bleeding too badly to see how to drive. When she asked what happened, I told her, “The star of Bethlehem fell on me.” But, that night, people came by to see a baby warmed by the light of a star. I wonder, in this Advent season, if you would be willing to let the light of Bethlehem fall on you? And would you then be willing to be a person who shares the light? 1.Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town Of Bethlehem,” The United ...

1172. In the Darkness of Suffering, There Is the Light of Life

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... the true light that enlightens everyone. Since he enlightens everyone that means he will enlighten your life. The light which he is, will reach into the dark corners of your existence, and shed light upon all of life’s perplexities. The light which he is, will warm your heart and, in this season, fill your living with love and good will. The light which he is, will shine across the road you travel and enable you to find your way. A family visited Carlsbad Caverns while on vacation. They were down in the ...

1173. Two Babes In The Manger

Luke 2:1-14

Drama

Matthew Powell

... him that I had no mama and no papa, so I didn't have a place to stay. Then, Jesus told me that I could stay with him. I told him that I didn't have a gift for him, like everybody else. Jesus said that I could keep him warm and that would be the best gift anybody ever gave him. I got into the manger with him and Jesus looked at me and told me that I could stay with him - for always. Storyteller 1: The teachers, the translator, and the orphanage staff all had tears in their eyes ...

1174. Million Dollar Christmas

Matthew 19:21

Drama

Matthew Powell

... more serious is this matter when we regard it from the point of view of what this money would do in providing practical, useful gifts for those who need them this year. It has been calculated that the amount thus wasted on folderol would purchase one warm flannel night gown for every widow and a pair of shoes for every orphan in our public institutions. In view of these facts, we ask you to sign and send us the enclosed pledge that you will spend an entirely rational and utilitarian Christmas, spending ...

1175. The Burglar's Christmas

Luke 15:22-24

Drama

Matthew Powell

... walls of an old torture chamber. (Narrators stand and move slightly behind and to the left and right of Will. In the following speeches, they speak directly to him as if they are the voices of his thoughts. Will turns up his collar and tries to stay warm during their speeches) Narrator 2: Tonight, as this man stood stranded in the streets of the city, his hour came. It was not the first time he had been hungry and desperate and alone. Will: But always before there was some outlook, some chance ahead, some ...

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