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1201. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... the truth it serves all the purpose of a lie. And for this vicious business they have a special device - the headline technique. Knowing full well that a vast majority of their readers get their most lasting impression concerning any particular subject from the headlines, they skillfully slant the news by the way they phrase the captions of their articles. Note how prevalent is the wicked practice whenever there is a political contest of vital concern, an industrial dispute that involves a serious strike ...

1202. I know You by Name

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... machines and testing devices. The traveled road is not between the mind of the diagnostician and the heart of the patient, but between the clinic and the laboratory. If a man submits himself for a job, he is seen, not as a personality, but as a fit subject for various tests which presumably have more to do with ascertaining his worth than the human responses which may figure largely in the work that he is called on to do." Morris Bishop has caught the spirit of our day in the lines he calls The Perforated ...

1203. Something That Will Last Forever

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... sins combined. Money is the most seductive temptress on earth. Psychotherapist Olivia Mellon has a new book out entitled "Money Harmony." She contends that the toughest problem for her clients to talk about is neither family matters nor sex nor personal failings. The toughest subject is money. Why? Because money is not just money. For many people it is the bearer of other human needs, such as love, power and self-worth. In other words, when money becomes more a treasure than a possession, it can wreck a ...

1204. The Waters of Your Baptism

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... named Anonymous McBride. He got his name in a strange way. His mother was trying to honor a poet whose work she liked. When Anonymous grew up and became a Baptist preacher, he had a specialty. It had to do with baptism. Because my subject today is baptism, let me tell you the story. Anonymous was very skillful at making Methodists and Presbyterians uneasy about their baptism. He persuaded lots of them that unless they went altogether underneath the water, they were lost souls. Every Sunday afternoon down at ...

1205. The Level Ground Beneath The Cross

Romans 3:21-31, Romans 3:9-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

I like the story that is told about an old Baptist minister who preached every Sunday on baptism by immersion. His folks agreed with his doctrine, but they were tired of hearing the same subject every week. The deacons undertook to solve the problem through diplomatic means. They complimented the pastor on his pulpit skills and suggested to him that he was such a natural preacher that they wanted to try an experiment. They wanted to hand him a piece of paper with a scripture ...

1206. A Mother Who Could Let Go

1 Samuel 9:1--10:8

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... forever in the process of releasing our children to greater freedom. Because child-rearing is so vitally important, it is fitting on this day which is not only Mother's Day but also the Festival of the Christian Home that we seek some guidance on this subject from the Bible. Tucked away in an obscure part of the Old Testament is a story of a remarkable mother named Hannah. Let me set the scene for you. Hannah and her husband Elkanah had a beautiful relationship, but there was one awful problem. They were ...

1207. Straight Talk With A Young Adult

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... man loved his money more than he loved God, and he went away sorrowful. Jesus was not commanding that all of us get rid of our possessions and embrace poverty. Nor did he mean to suggest that money in and of itself is bad. Jesus did mean that we must subject every other value and loyalty to the high and holy privilege of being a Christian disciple. That is the key to the good life. If my life doesn't glorify Christ, it is a failure, even if I become a millionaire and am elected governor of the state. I am ...

1208. Reverence For Life

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... for them not to use extraordinary means to keep them alive. But that momentous next step--hastening death because in our opinion life no longer has any quality--is not our prerogative. A THIRD BATTLEFIELD IN THE WAR AGAINST MURDER IS THAT CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT OF ABORTION. From the moment of conception, a miracle is happening within a woman's body. There is at least the potential for an eternal, priceless person, made in the image of God. With every passing day, that unborn child has an increasing right ...

1209. Christ Shall Return

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of our world. I'm not referring to where each of us is going after death. I'm dealing with what the Bible tells us is going to happen when God brings earth's history to a close. The primary Greek word used in the Bible for this subject is "parousia." It means literally "the coming of the King." The Bible teaches that at some unknown future time, Christ the King will return in glory and bring earth's history to a close. According to a poll conducted by the Atlanta Journal- Constitution last year, 80 percent ...

1210. This Adulterous Generation

Matthew 5:27-30, Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... those who did not. The unspoken horror that nags at the minds of many people is AIDS. In the one city of San Francisco, 10,000 persons have already died of that plague. No doubt, there are people in this congregation who worry and wonder whether their misbehavior has subjected them to the deadly virus. On a televised talk show a guest told of a Hollywood actor who stepped out on his wife one night. He picked up a beautiful woman in a bar. He slept with her that night, only to wake in the morning to find her ...

1211. Derailed Dreams

Genesis 37:12-36, 50:15-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... from heartbreak. All of us have some derailed dreams. Joseph of the Old Testament was a devout dreamer. Even at the tender age of 17 he had been assured by God through dreams that he would one day be a ruler and that his older brothers would be subject to him. Joseph was foolish enough to tell his brothers about his dreams. They hated him for it. Also, they resented the fact that he was obviously their father's favorite. One day when they were out in the fields, they saw him coming and decided to kill ...

1212. Is Someone Knocking?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... current system encourages dependency and often undermines family stability. Having said that, we Christians must be alert and hard- headedly compassionate. We must not slip into the backpocket of either the Democrat or Republican parties. Our responsibility is to subject political proposals to the scrutiny and standards of Christ. For some time we have known that welfare recipients will probably lose some cash assistance. But now, for the first time, proposals have been made that could deprive low-income ...

1213. Failures Need Not Be Fatal!

Mark 14:66-72

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... writers record it. I am convinced that God has a message for us in Peter's most dismal failure. This sad episode can be divided neatly into a four-act drama. ACT I: PETER FAILS HIS LORD. Jesus is inside the High Priest's house, being subjected to kangaroo court justice by hate-filled enemies with execution on their minds. Meanwhile Peter is outside in the courtyard, warming his hands by a fire, listening to the guards and servants laugh about this holy man Jesus. "He looked so high and mighty teaching in ...

1214. A Gospel that Fills the Glove

Sermon

James Bjorge

... be quite another thing. The lad would respond with glee to such a gift for he sees a need, a use, for such an expression of love. The encyclopedias would hardly make the headlines of "good news" for the boy. Good news can only be defined subjectively as that which has vital significance to me, when it is related to some need or desire I might have. The puppy would indeed qualify as "good news." Consequently, some people can remain very cold and indifferent to the Christmas Gospel for they have not become ...

1215. Solomon and the Outline for Renewal

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Don Yocom

... greatest among one’s fellowmen, we must be the least. To be the minister, we must be the servant. Humility is what it takes. Methodist Bishop Edwin bit Hughes, in a pastorate before becoming a bishop, conducted a prayer meeting one night in which the subject was "The Imitation of Bible Characters." One person said he would like to have been Simon Peter; another said Andrew; others named other names. Then a person stood up and said he would rather have been Simon of Cyrene because he carried the cross for ...

1216. Those Bothersome Do’s and Don’ts

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

This skit may easily be read instead of memorized. In that case, rehearse it well so the lines will sound natural and spontaneous instead of stilted and draggy. The subject is God’s commandments: those given to Moses on Sinai and the two Jesus left for us. Cast: four boys, four girls and a man with a good deep voice offstage unseen. In the beginning the eight are scattered around the playing area, using whatever levels and other physical things ...

1217. Grade Cards

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... grade cards that I have collected. It will be a surprise to most of you, I think. Here is the first card. Take a good look at it. This is the kind of card that everyone would like to have, but there are not very many cards like this. Every subject has an "A" beside it. This person is perfect, and I am sure that the person who gets a card like this is pleased and so are his parents. Whoever gets a report card like this has worked hard and used his brain to the limit. But let’s take ...

1218. THE RECEPTIONIST

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... him. GRACE Well, at least your brother is committed to something. SETH Is that all you can say? GRACE How about this: "Blessed are the poor." SETH Are you kidding? They eat garbage. GRACE "Blessed are the meek." SETH They get stepped on. And don’t change the subject: what do you really think about my brother? GRACE It sounds as though he’s trying to remake the world. In his own image. SETH Which is more than I’m trying to do? GRACE You’re after three dollars. And that’s not very high stakes. Give ...

1219. SALLY JANE

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... from here. And apples. No more apples now. JAREL And pigs. I remember pigs too. But I don’t miss ‘em. CAIN I don’t imagine we’d be going in the same direction. JAREL What direction is that? Straight down? CAIN (Hesitating, bringing up a rather unpleasant subject) You know, he was talking about Sally Jane again this morning. JAREL I think he’s gone senile. CAIN He said that she’s pregnant. And then he grinned at me. A great big grin. And he rolled over and went back to sleep. JAREL He couldn’t ...

1220. SURVIVAL IN THE RAT RACE

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... He’ll take our values and reverse them. So don’t go on telling yourself that they’re right, even though I ridicule them. They are NOT right! We are to make full use of our lives, of course, but our lives were not meant to stand what we are subjecting them to. Our nervous systems, our physical bodies were not built to do what we’re trying to make them do. We don’t have to join the rat race. Take the life and ministry of our Lord. He spent thirty years preparing for three years of the ministry. And ...

1221. But Men Loved Darkness

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... difference between purity and putridness, the difference between nobility and deviltry, the difference between heaven and hell, between redemption and destruction, between God and Beelzebub, between day and night, between light and darkness. This morning I speak on the subject of Judgment. Judgment! Oh, yes, I know, I know that unfortunately, like so many great Christian truths, we have literalized them to the point where they seem childish and primitive and grotesque, and, as modern sophisticates, we can ...

1222. Why Should I Go On Living?

Matthew 12:38-45

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... every day to be filled with who knows what? Any and all demons may apply. What about their teenage or college kids? What are they doing? Well, a tiny 1% of them are growing beards, painting signs, marching in demonstrations, or making revolutionary speeches on this subject or that. The other 99% of them are silent and huddled together in quiet conformity and uniformity. A sociologist tells us that if you ask them what they want out of life, it turns out to be a cautious desire to be well-fixed comfortable ...

1223. Worn Out? Tired? Weary?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... and spinning its wheel. You are using up tremendous volumes of energy, and you are going nowhere. Have you noticed that when you toss and turn at night, because you are too weary, too tired to rest, your mind kept on racing, jumping from one subject to another? All the while you become more restless, more tired, more unbalanced, more undone. Even getting up doesn’t break the vicious circle. You are held prisoner by your own thought. You can be lying down and physically relaxing, but your thoughts are ...

1224. Well, What's for Sure?

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... hear people say that. And yet, there is not a person on earth - there is not a person on earth! - who can deal with a set of facts objectively. The moment we announce our intention to do it, the process has already become SUBjective, not OBjective. The brilliant scientist, Dr. Alexis Carrell has said: "Intelligence is useless to those who possess nothing else. A pure intellectual is an incomplete human being. He is unhappy because he cannot enter into the life of the world that he supposedly understands ...

1225. This Is Our Song

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... interesting. Funny thing about those days. Life was fun. I really didn’t have too many cares at all. But you have to grow up sometime, and I guess I left that God-stuff behind back there. Oh, I still enjoy a good debate at a party when the subject of religion comes around, as it always does. Hmm, funny thing about that. I guess a lot of people ARE on this journey with me. I like to argue about evolution and the Bible and miracles, especially that wild one about God opening and closing the Red Sea. Wow ...

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