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1176. Some Things I've Learned Since I Knew It All

Mark 4:26-34

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Ron Lavin

... . In fact, small beginnings in the kingdom of God can lead to the biggest thing of all -- eternal life. 1. Ron Lavin, Abba (Another Look at The Lord's Prayer) (Lima, Ohio: CSS Publishing Company, 2003), pp. 69ff. 2. Further information on "Go and Do Likewise" can be found by contacting Bud Potter at dolikewise@aol.com.

1177. Who Does Jesus Belong to Anyway?

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... an exhausted person might. Grumpy Jesus said about the nastiest thing he could to this woman. While his attacks on hypocritical religious authorities (and sometimes his own disciples) were often of this nature, Jesus was remarkably patient with the lay people with whom he came into contact. He said, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs" (Mark 7:27). Though it's possible that Jesus was pointing to and referring to a domesticated dog lying at ...

1178. What Does It Mean to Be Blessed?

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... righteousness of God.” We are blessed and we have been chosen to be God’s ambassadors, as Israel was, to be a blessing to the earth. And where do we begin? We begin right here, right now--reaching out in love to everyone with whom we come into contact. When we as the church of Jesus Christ fulfill that one simple mission, the gates of hell cannot long endure. But there’s one thing more we need to see: far beyond being blessed and being chosen, we have been adopted into God’s own family. Adoption is ...

1179. Sheep Without a Shepherd

Mark 6:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... Pond Hermit.” Now they know his name is Christopher Knight, and police estimated he committed more than 1000 burglaries. When he was arrested in April of 2013 after being caught on a surveillance camera, he spoke to a police officer, the first human being he had contact with since a brief hello to a hiker on a trail in the mid-1990s. (4) What happened to Christopher Knight? Who knows? Maybe a mental condition, maybe he had become alienated from his family. We’re not told what led him to lose himself in ...

1180. What's in Your Wheelhouse...That You Can Offer Jesus?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... a person’s areas of competency, like command of a ship is within a ship captain’s abilities. Another online dictionary defines the term like this: “In baseball this is the part of an individual’s swinging range in which as a hitter they can make the best contact with the ball. If a pitch is right in your wheelhouse it is right where you want it, in the spot where you have the best chance of hitting it well.” They add, “The term is also often used to explain something that falls into a person’s ...

1181. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... what your response is to Rogers' disclosure, but I am led to think he was to utilize an overworked phrase "in denial." Come now, can any of us stand and say that we have, without exception, always liked every single person with whom we have ever come into contact? I appreciated the honesty of a well-seasoned cleric who confessed: "There are some people to whom I couldn't warm even if I were cremated with them!" Let's get this on the table before we go a step further. Christian men and women are not called ...

1182. The Year of the Woman

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... people with few or no friends or social supports. Another study demonstrated that people with no friends were three times more likely to die than those with at least one or more sources of social support. These outcomes apparently have physiological underpinnings, since contact with friends and loved ones may also lower the levels of hormones like cortisol that are released in stressful situations. A friendly face, says one author, may be just as health giving as an aspirin or vitamin E. (3) It is not good ...

1183. A Word to the Wealthy

Mark 10:17-30

Sermon

King Duncan

Author Andreas Schroeder tells about a poor farm boy from Iowa named Oscar Hartzell who in 1913 devised a scheme for separating a good many people from their life savings. He cooked up the idea of contacting everyone in the United States with the last name of Drake. He told them he’d made an astonishing discovery: due to a bureaucratic bungle, the estate of the famous British pirate Sir Francis Drake had never been paid out to his heirs. It had just been sitting there for ...

1184. It's Not About Me

Luke 6:39-49

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... one country against the other. This mission worker remembered one particularly violent clash where soldiers and rebels were massacring each other in growing numbers. But in the midst of it all, there was a tableau of peace and understanding, of human contact and human love. At the border of these two countries a small number of mothers from each rival nation were standing, facing each other through a crude fence. As gunfire erupted all around them, these mothers were quietly passing their babies through ...

1185. Scam of the Month Club

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Editor James S. Hewett

... rich? Now you can be! If you are one of the growing millions who are convinced of the reality of reincarnation, here's a once-in-a-lifetime offer! First, leave us ten thousand dollars or more in your will. After you pass away, our professional medium will contact your spirit in the other world. Then you tell us when you're coming back and under what name. Upon your return, we regress you, at age twenty-one through hypnosis to this lifetime and ask you for your seven-digit account number. Once you give us ...

1186. A Glorious Fixture

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Editor James S. Hewett

Years after her concentration camp experiences in Nazi Germany, Corrie ten Boom met face to face one of the most cruel and heartless German guards that she had ever contacted. He had humiliated and degraded her and her sister. He had jeered and visually raped them as they stood in the delousing shower. Now he stood before her with hand outstretched and said, "Will you forgive me?" She writes: "I stood there with coldness clutching at my heart, but I ...

1187. Most Precious Possession

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Editor James S. Hewett

... the driver of the other car never stopped. The only clue to the driver's identity was a twenty-dollar gold piece inscribed: "Given to Otis Sampson at his retirement by Portland Cement Company." After extensive correspondence, Otis Sampson was located and contacted. He wrote a letter telling them to discard the suitcase and all its contents, and send only the gold piece. Mr. Sampson used the phrase "my most precious possession," several times to describe the gold piece. Pastor Rittenhouse sent the gold piece ...

1188. Faithful Preaching

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J. Daniel Bauman

... Heralds of God." Good preaching must not only be biblical, but also must be present tense. In 1928 Fosdick said that people are not interested in coming to church to hear about the Jebusites. Of course! They want a Word from God that has a distinct point of contact with the here-and-now. A sermon exists at the intersection of the Eternal Word and the life in the spirit today. Every sermon worthy of the name addresses us in the midst of the throbbing nowness of life. It also must be interesting. It is a sin ...

1189. Setting His Face Toward Jerusalem

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... of color. He gloried in the idea of a race war. But through the intervention of another former white supremacist, he began to change his beliefs. He finally realized that he had to get out of the white supremacist organization, to cut off all contact with them. Pelley asked Chabot, “Dean, do you consider yourself to be out, or do you consider yourself to be in the process? Chabot said, “I am completely out. Actually, doing this interview is the final step.” Pelley asked, “How so?” Chabot said ...

1190. Taxophobia

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Dr. Alvin Rabushka

Israelis fear the taxman. The Center for Business Initiative of the Self-Employed reports that two-thirds of those who seek advice in setting up their own business require psychological help to calm their fears regarding the tax authorities. One of the crucial factors in an entrepreneur’s decision to open a business is revulsion from contact with the tax authorities, a form of “taxphobia.”

1191. Happiest Memory

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William Barclay

Oliver Baldwin in a magazine article on David Lloyd‑George tells of his contacts with that famous Prime Minister. “My happiest memory of him was a weekend I spent at his house in Churt. He loved to show people over his farm, and he took a real pride in the fact that he had grown prize apples on soil the experts had told him ...

1192. Mimosa Pudica

Luke 10:1-10, 16-24

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... . What if our intentions are misinterpreted or we’re asked a question we can’t answer, or people think we’re weird or obsessive, or someone yells at us or just turns his/her back and walks away? No one knows for sure why the mimosa shrivels up at first contact. Is it worried that it will be consumed or damaged? Is it shaking off harmful bugs? It also closes up if any of its leaves feels direct heat. Because it grows like a weed and has a tendency to become fuel for grass fires, it fears heat. It also ...

1193. Santa in a UFO

Luke 2:1-7

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Owen Edwards

On December 16, 1965, NASA astronauts Wally Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford contacted Mission Control in Houston, Texas, to report a UFO sighting. Mission Control engineers listened tensely as the astronauts aboard Gemini 6 described the unusual aircraft they spotted as they orbited the earth. “I see a command module and eight smaller modules in front,” Stafford said. “The pilot of the command ...

1194. Join in the Singing

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... such kindness until a few months later. It was Christmas morning, and the prisoners had been allowed outside for a few minutes of fresh air. The guard who had snuck into McCain’s cell a few months earlier walked up beside him. He did not speak or make eye contact. But in the dirt, the guard scratched the image of the cross with his shoe. Then he rubbed the cross out and walked away. The enemy guard was a follower of Jesus. That’s why he had risked his life to help John McCain. McCain wrote, “For just ...

1195. If Your Cry for Help Is Loud Enough...

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... us, yelling “Help!” should be our first option. Our Bible passage today is about ten men with leprosy who had no way of saving themselves. Their disease affected them physically, with inflammation and severe nerve damage. It affected them socially, cutting them off from contact with others. And it affected them spiritually, cutting them off from worship in the Temple. The first, last and only option these men had was to cry out for help, and Jesus heard them. It reminds me of the story of a cruise ship ...

1196. Is There Any Hope?

1 Cor 15:14

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Staff

... j.g.) Graham Fitch and five enlisted men had been at the bottom of the ocean for nearly 24 hours. All had spent most of that time wrapped in blankets and lying in the bunks set up between torpedoes, barely moving and breathing slowly to conserve oxygen. But the contact with the diver gave them hope, as did the arrival of a sister sub, USS S-8 (SS-113), which used her oscillator to ping a question to the men down below using Morse code. “Is there any [chlorine] gas down there?” “No, but the air is very ...

1197. It Could Be Worse

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King Duncan

... ’re In Trouble When: The bird singing outside your window is a vulture. The bride’s family throws rocks instead of rice. There are enough candles on your cake to set off your smoke alarm. The health inspector condemns your office coffee maker. You put both contacts into the same eye. Your children’s school calls to surrender. Your plants do better when you don’t talk to them. You have to hitch hike to the bank to make your car payment. Your suggestion box starts ticking. You see the captain running ...

1198. Joy as Our Hallmark

Sermon

George Reed

... of Jesus endeavor to share God’s love and grace with others. In the parables of the lost sheep and lost coin, the finders called together their friends to celebrate and rejoice. God’s love and redemption are meant to be shared. It is in the human contact and giving of the love we have received from God that God’s joy, and ours, is made complete. God did not create us to be alone. God created us for communion with the divine and God created us for communion with each other. When we combine these ...

1199. Reading the Last Chapter First

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... poll, doesn’t it? Jesus is somebody important, somebody with a mission from God, but the respondents are kind of vague on the details. But on the second question—who do you say that I am?—everybody got strangely quiet. Do you think they made eye contact with Jesus? If they had cell phones back then, all the disciples would probably be looking down at their cell phones, pretending that they had just gotten a really important text. All but Simon Peter. He was the only one to speak up: “You are the ...

1200. Christ Is a Prophet

John 9:17

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Jon L. Joyce

The Greek word used here is prophetes. It has basically two meanings. One is foreteller, revealing future events that are to take place under the hand of God. Divine inspiration is implied, contact with the Almighty. The other meaning is forthtelling, explaining the Scriptures, having divine inspiration which leads to exhortation, and sometimes reproof. Giving guidance to individuals and to nations as God’s interpreter and his ambassador. Thus Jesus as prophet is the foremost example or revealer of God ...

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