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1201. Faces of Failure: Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Don Tuttle

... the next six weeks we’re going to look at how and why so we can learn from their mistakes. Today we begin with Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a Pharisee. Pharisees were teachers and rulers of the Jewish people. For the most part, they were hostile toward Jesus, but Nicodemus was different. He was among a small group of those in Jerusalem who’d seen Jesus’ signs—his miracles, healings, and exorcisms—and were intrigued. In fact, Nicodemus was so impressed that one night he came to where Jesus was staying ...

1202. From Fear to Overflowing Joy

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... during her terminal illness. [That is why she had transferred to their school.] It was . . . traumatic to leave her friends . . . as well as to face her mother’s impending death. “It became an almost impossible situation when she met our walls of prejudice and hostility,” Mohney continued. “But it was the ugly rumor that pushed her over the edge. After all, the older man who transported her to and from the campus each week was her father.” As you can imagine there was an outpouring of anguish and ...

1203. Please Pass the Resurrection Biscuits

Luke 24:35-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... man’s last enemy and still lives, the conqueror over pain and sin and death. This leads the Christian to believe that evil does not have the last word for him either, and that he will find unspeakable joy at the end of his journey with all that seems hostile to love woven into a plan greater than his present power to perceive.” (7) God really does love us that much. Life really does go on beyond the grave. Has it changed your life to know that Jesus is alive? Maybe you have not yet opened your heart to ...

1204. United We Stand

John 17:11b-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... it is obvious to me that the people who attend are experiencing God, and I am hoping that one day I will too.” (4) That is a beautiful and refreshingly honest response. I wonder if a TV character would say that today. Television has become somewhat hostile to organized religion. Some of us have experienced God in quite a profound way. Others of us are yearning for such an experience. Regardless, we are united in our belief that Christ is the way to God. And we gather here each week in the hope that ...

1205. Could the Pharisees Have Been Irish?

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... , everyone knew who they were and what God expected them to do. There is a certain comfort in living by such traditions. There is order and a certain security. But for a group such as the Jews living as a minority in an often hostile world such traditions were really the only way to survive as a community. And still they were not always successful. Even Tevye is threatened when his youngest daughter asks his approval to marry . . . horror of horrors . . . an atheist. On this he cannot compromise as ...

1206. The Peace of Christmas

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... each other so much that they defied the family opinions and married anyway. For several years they were ostracized from both their families. Then my mother became pregnant with me. And when the grandparents held me in their arms for the first time, the walls of hostility came down. I became the one who swept the anger away. And that’s the name my mother and father gave me.” McDonald concluded, “It occurred to me that her name would be a suitable one for Jesus.” (6) The child who takes the anger away ...

1207. When God's Dream Captures Your Heart

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... and became determined to crush what he called, “the open sore of the world.” Livingstone was a battler for justice before that became a popular calling. In his later years, Livingstone was racked by disease, attacked by wild animals, and often menaced by hostile tribes. Repeatedly he was robbed and abandoned by his own carriers, yet he marched on with his Bible. Henry Stanley reported that “not one man in a million would have pushed forward as he did.” You may remember Stanley’s immortal words on ...

1208. A GPS for Your Life

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... lesson Mabel was sitting on a verandah. Up the street came a string of porters, obviously exhausted. From their clothes and from the way they wore their hair it was obvious these men were from another tribe, a tribe toward which the Bantu had great hostility. Suddenly, out from the verandah there came a little line of primary-age children. Each had on her head a water pot. Even though they were obviously frightened, these children went out to the tired porters, knelt before them and held up their water pots ...

1209. If You Want to See the Angels

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Editor James S. Hewett

... little girl who had been at his front door. The coat was warm and dry and could not possibly have been out in the snowy night. Have you ever seen an angel? John G. Faron believes he has. While he was a missionary in the New Hebrides Islands, hostile natives surrounded his mission headquarters one night, intent on burning the Patons out and killing them. Paton and his wife prayed all that night. At dawn they were amazed to see the attackers just turn and leave. A year later the chief of that very tribe was ...

1210. What Gets Into Us?

John 18:1--19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... feel alienated from her mother. Although her mother tried her best to help, the daughter finally ran out of the room in anger and went upstairs. Seeing her mother’s new dress laid out for a party that evening, she found scissors and vented her hostility by ruining her mother’s new dress, seeking to injure her mother. Later the mother came upstairs, saw the dress, threw herself on the bed, and wept. Soon the small daughter came into the room and whispered, “Mother.” But there was no reply. “Mother ...

1211. Mirror Image of God

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Editor James S. Hewett

... the picture with great clarity. Jesus Christ, born in a manger at Bethlehem, is the mirror of God. In him we see a clear reflection of the Father. Jesus said, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father." No power on earth has done more to tame the hostile forces of humankind, and cause us to beat our swords in tools of useful productivity and our spears into peaceful instruments of creativity than this Child of Bethlehem, who came in weakness to lead us in strength.

1212. Truth In Advertising

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Jerry Della Femina

Advertising deals in open sores…Fear. Greed. Anger. Hostility. You name the dwarfs and we play on every one. We play on all the emotions and on all the problems, from not getting ahead…to the desire to be one of the crowd. Everyone has a button. If enough people have the same button, you have a successful ad and a successful product.

1213. Lying By the Side of the Road

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... any great servant of humanity, whether it be Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Mother Teresa or whomever it might be, who was not driven, first of all by a love for God. Loving people is not enough. People can be ornery—sometimes even hostile—even those who need help the most. If you are motivated only by a love for people you will soon grow weary in well-doing. But if you are motivated by your love for God, you can move mountains. Archibald Rutledge once told about visiting a church ...

1214. I Choose You

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Victoria Brooks

... pierced him; the sheer intensity of her gaze spoke to him of the anguish of her captivity and her longing for freedom. When it was her turn to step to the auction block, he and several others bid. With each rise in price, her hostility grew. Finally, Lincoln won, paid the money, and had her brought to him. She came, rigid with resistance, arms tied behind her back, leg chains dragging. “Untie her,” Lincoln said. “Oh no, sir!” her auctioneer responded, pulling her forward with a jerk. “She be ...

1215. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual, because we have violated another life, a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all ...

1216. Your Health Depends On It

Illustration

... clearly is for ourselves! The act of forgiving someone is linked with lower depression and anxiety levels and better overall health and self-esteem, say psychologists from the National Institute of Healthcare Research, in Rockville, MD, in their book To Forgive is Human. They suspect that forgiveness heals by lowering hostility, a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and increasing social support, which has been linked to lower blood pressure, better immunity and a longer life.”

1217. Grace Upon Grace

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

1218. Shockwaves of Joy

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... sung or prayed in some congregations from Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday. We started off last Sunday with the word “Hosanna,” which means “Save us!” or “Salvation!” The crowds shouted it to welcome Jesus into Jerusalem. But their “Hosannas” turned quickly to hostility and hatred. By the end of the week, Jesus heard the shouts of “Crucify him!” ringing in his ears as he carried his cross up the hill to Golgotha. For forty days, we have waited for this moment when we could celebrate the ...

1219. The Master's Voice

Matthew 13:53-58, Mark 6:1-6, Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... bush in your life, and in your place. This week I want you to live every day with this in mind: God’s burning bushes are everywhere. But you hear them before you see them. Can you hear Jesus speak? Will you be willing to speak for Jesus in a hostile place? In words that will make others free? Will you be willing to hear Jesus, even if those around you can’t? If they mock and scoff? Today….may both your ears and your lips burn with the presence of the Lord! What are the words to that amazing hymn ...

1220. Seat of Power

Mark 10:35-45, Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... will follow you.” We see it in our churches, we see it in our ministries, and we even see it in our prayers. Jesus, I need you to do this for ME. ME, ME, ME. And when God doesn’t make things go our way –we can be very angry, hostile people. But Jesus kingdom, as he tells us, is not to be acquired by wiles or wares, but a seat at Jesus table is by invitation only. And those who humbly follow will always be first, while those who demand the best seats, will always be thrust aside. “Like a ...

1221. Fleeced

Judges 6:1-40, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.” The people of the town demanded of Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.” But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, “Are you going to plead Baal’s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.” So because Gideon ...

1222. Reveille

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... but the true risk is for those who do not repent! Like stories of prophets before them, the disciples’ prophetic role is heightened by the metaphors of dust, snakes, doves, sheep, wolves, no staff or purse or shirt. An image is being drawn of Jesus’ disciples in a hostile environment, in which they need to think like a snake but be of a dove’s nature, in which they must depend upon some, but be wary and flee others. They must warn of the final dust, even as they lift others out of the dust! Dust of ...

1223. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... beside God’s mission. There are atheists, alienated church people, those unfamiliar with church, as well as power builders and institution makers. This is the place where God sets us down and invites us to worship God --right in the midst of an unfamiliar commons and perhaps hostile crowd. Right in the midst of a different kind of culture from the ones we grew up with in the Church. God tells us to put down roots (deep roots) exactly where we are, not where we might choose to be, but where God has led us ...

1224. Jubilaeum

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Genesis 2:4-25, Leviticus 25:8-55, Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... bring others with you to that table. How can you refuse? The Year of Jubilee is not just a time to celebrate, but a time to forgive. You all know what it’s like in our culture today. You all know how God mourns the fighting and the hostility that happens in this world. You are God’s “missionaries of mercy” to quote Francis. The Holy Spirit anoints you today to bring healing to divisions, to bring mercy to those who have fallen down and made mistakes. And the Holy Spirit today comes to you and asks ...

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Anthony de Mello

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1201. Faces of Failure: Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Don Tuttle

1202. From Fear to Overflowing Joy

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

1203. Please Pass the Resurrection Biscuits

Luke 24:35-48

Sermon

King Duncan

1204. United We Stand

John 17:11b-19

Sermon

King Duncan

1205. Could the Pharisees Have Been Irish?

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

King Duncan

1206. The Peace of Christmas

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

1207. When God's Dream Captures Your Heart

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

King Duncan

1208. A GPS for Your Life

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

1209. If You Want to See the Angels

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

1210. What Gets Into Us?

John 18:1--19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

1211. Mirror Image of God

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

1212. Truth In Advertising

Illustration

Jerry Della Femina

1213. Lying By the Side of the Road

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

1214. I Choose You

Illustration

Victoria Brooks

1215. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

1216. Your Health Depends On It

Illustration

1217. Grace Upon Grace

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

1218. Shockwaves of Joy

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

1219. The Master's Voice

Matthew 13:53-58, Mark 6:1-6, Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1220. Seat of Power

Mark 10:35-45, Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1221. Fleeced

Judges 6:1-40, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1222. Reveille

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1223. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1224. Jubilaeum

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Genesis 2:4-25, Leviticus 25:8-55, Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Anthony de Mello

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