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101. A Prophet Like Me

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... they believed she had been dismissed from her position without due process, which is the right of every citizen under the Constitution of the United States of America, regardless of their views. They did it to be heard and to make a witness about the climate of fear and hatred that was loose in the land. It was to say that in God’s name this is not right! But people heard what they wanted to hear. People left Presbyterian churches in droves, and even whole congregations separated themselves from the ...

102. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... forgiveness of sin?" One of her boys replied, "Well, first you must sin!" Here is one of the big hurdles for the spirit of true repentance and that is our need for it. The concept of sin does not have much going for it in our modern climate and its idolatrous desire for self-affirmation. We may have made some mistakes or bad decisions because we were wrongly positioned in our family, but surely these little things couldn’t separate one from God? Several years ago the country was caught up in the drama of ...

103. The Church Reaches Out!

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... to win over those who are searching for meaning and purpose, is a congregation that is inclusive, intentional, and persistent in its hospitable spirit. But the friendly, open, hospitable witness must also be an intelligent witness. In religious circles today the climate is anti-intelligence. Blind faith and gut feelings are the "in" recommended Christian attitudes. The little boy who defined faith "as believing what you know ain’t so" was a wise interpreter of our age. Another interpreter of our age put ...

104. Facing the Glory Road

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... miraculous stroke; and there they would be right in the front row, ready to take over the leading spots in His government. It started early in the church, didn’t it, this idea that the road to glory could be traversed in the cushioned comfort of our climate-controlled Cadillac? They even thought that this was what they really wanted - even as we do. Granted, the world is full of Jerusalems, but you don’t have to be fool enough to walk right into them. Somewhere there’s always a safe bypass. Why not ...

105. Unwavering Light

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... , and it was very real! Every morning could well be the last day of waiting. Every night could be the eve of the Christ’s appearance. This whole atmosphere of expectancy pervaded their daily lives. They went about their day-by-day affairs in the climate of apocalyptic anticipation. Now in the light of this, try to picture in your minds the adjustments you would need to make. For example, imagine how you might question the wisdom of entering into a wedlock which could have no permanency. But surely, you ...

106. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... and love. This is why Oral Roberts’ "City of Faith" interests me. Young doctors and nurses from all over the world will be trained there in the best of medical skills, plus a vital faith in Christ, plus a ministry of love and compassion. This is the healing climate needed in hospitals everywhere. God’s love is shown especially in the ministry of healing. "How is your wife?" I asked one of my members, as I met him in the hall of a large city hospital. He replied that she was desperately ill and that I ...

107. Faith As Healing Energy

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... could find healing. This is what Jesus did every day. Some small Christian fellowship groups are doing just that in today’s world. Let the Church be the healing fellowship for today’s brokenness. The Christian minister could be the key person in this climate of faith, hope, and wholeness. Through his counseling, when he employs not only psychological skills, but his own special gift of faith and love, the healing spirit of the universe is evident in the minister’s presence. It is felt by the counselee ...

108. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... and ruthless. When he suspected treason on the part of his family members, he murdered his beautiful and beloved wife Marianne and her mother Alexandra. He assassinated his sons, Alexander and Aristobulus. When Caesar Augustus heard about it in Rome he said that, in the Kosher climate of Judea, it was safer to be Herod's pigs (hus) than his sons (huios). Herod's self-praise knew no bounds. And yet most of us know about Herod only because he rides along on the shirttails of Jesus, to whom the Heavenly Star ...

109. The Apostles' Creed: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... times as long, and whatever survived the incredibly hot days would freeze in the night when temperatures would plummet to something like 240 below zero. This 23-degree tilt is not absolute - it wobbles off by about 3 degrees with amazing regularity. Our seasons and our climates are affected by it. If the world strayed up or down MORE than the 3-degree tilt, life might perish. Without the tilt to deflect the light and heat, the earth would absorb too much heat. Moisture would be pulled to the north and south ...

110. Sunday Dinner

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... to the Temple, all the meat has to be eaten the same day or the next day and that it would be a very serious infraction to eat any of it on the third day (19:5-8). The usual interpretation of the rule is that in a hot climate like the Middle East, meat spoiled rapidly without refrigeration (which did not exist then) and would be unhealthy to eat 48-hours after cooking. But there are two problems with that. First, do you really have to pass a law, especially such a strongly worded law, telling folks not ...

111. Integrity

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a Republican? According to an article in the New York Times,(8) if Governor Riley's tax plan becomes law - the voters still need to ratify it in September - it will be a major victory for poor people, a rare thing in the current political climate. But win or lose, Alabama's tax-reform crusade is posing a pointed question to the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family and other groups that seek to import Christian values into national policy: If Jesus were active in politics today, wouldn't he be lobbying ...

112. Do You Hear What I Hear?

Luke 1:46-56, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... think? So what has the newspaper (or the TV or radio or internet or whatever) had for us this week? Well, early on there was the story of the failed mission to Mars. After the multi-million dollar disaster a few months ago when a Mars Climate Orbiter burned up for no other reason than someone had mixed up British and metric units and forgotten to transpose the calculations, now another $165-million is lost in space. The sound of silence. The sermon could well be on the unreliability of science versus the ...

113. God and Hurricanes

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... him. Why do we have hurricanes? Hurricanes arrive, not because God is out to get some sinful city, but because the prevailing winds, ocean currents and frontal zones combine in ways that create them. This is so in good times and bad and without respect to the moral climate or condition of the people who happen to be living in a storm's path. Jesus made it plain. We remember it in the venerable phrasing of the King James Version: "[God] maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on ...

114. Ban the "Buts"

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the funeral arrangements for his Dad who has just passed away. Had Dad just died, the young man would not have had time to be on the road with Jesus anyway - the tradition of the culture (and the practical necessity forced by living in a hot climate) was to proceed to burial within 24 hours after death. Junior was not being instructed to do something to which anyone with an ounce of sensitivity would have objected. Instead, we should understand the excuse as being, "Lord, I will follow you, BUT let me get ...

115. Get Off The Orphan Train

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... a brain tumor from your cellular phone. That flesh-eating strep-A bacteria. Radioactive waste in space, orbiting the Earth. Airborne tuberculosis or meningitis in an airplane . . . On-line stalking: pedophiles, con artists. (5) And the list goes on and on. We live in a climate of unreasonable fear. This is not to hide our heads in the sand and declare that there is nothing to fear in our modern world. It is to say that the world is probably safer than it has ever been. There have always been problems. What ...

116. We Know Where You Came From

John 6:41-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... very difficult to escape your reputation? Once people have an image of you in their minds, it is very difficult to change their perception. Back in the 1940s, a highly popular advertising jingle for Chiquita Bananas ended with the line: "Bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator, so you should never put bananas in the refrigerator. No. No. No. No." We're told that the only reason the word REFRIGERATOR was mentioned in the jingle was that it rhymed with EQUATOR. The company wanted shoppers ...

117. The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... was on the list. It was the designation of a category, the items she needed to purchase every day in the agora, the marketplace. Bread, before the time of preservatives, needed to be baked daily. Like manna, it could grow moldy the next day in arid climates, as well as damp ones. Thus Jesus says to us that we need to depend daily on him.(7) Do you see the wonderful paradoxes? Universal yet personal. Personal and yet communal. Time-sensitive and yet eternal. Jesus says that even though this bread which he ...

118. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... conviction, “My father owns the land on both sides of the river. Why should I be afraid?” I cannot think about Heaven without thinking of Mark Twain’s classic remark. Twain said that the only reason he wanted to go to Heaven was because of the climate. Most of his friends, he said, would be in the other place. Twain was somewhat of a cynic. I much prefer a beautiful and heartwarming affirmation of the world to come that was found once in the cartoon, The Family Circus. Little Billy and his father are ...

119. Where Are Your Loaves And Fishes?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... we have are people problems. Some of these problems we can't do anything about. For example, we can't do anything about the political problems of governments that use food as a weapon to subjugate their own people. And, we cannot control the ravages of climate in parts of the world. But there are some things we can do. WE CAN RETHINK OUR OWN STEWARDSHIP OF THE EARTH'S RESOURCES. Did you know, for example, that six million Europeans eat as much food as 240 million Africans? Even more startling, the citizens ...

120. Rise Above It

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... no natural predators on those beautiful islands and food was plentiful. Since there was no reason to fly, they didn't. Through neglect they lost their wings. Necessity is the mother of invention. Scholars point to the advanced technological progress of nations in the colder climates of the world. Where food and shelter are easily attained, there is no drive to innovate, to problem-solve. We live in a hard world in order that we might grow to our full stature as children of God. How difficult it must be for ...

121. Ultimate Freedom

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... the convicts to one of these three islands. There they would serve out their sentences and then be freed to remain there to establish a new French colony. But this colonization drive was a dismal failure. A former prisoner wrote that the men fought two things: the climate and each other. The heat, the insects and the confinement cells were all very uncomfortable, but the most hellish aspect of these islands was that once a man was sent there, he was to stay there the rest of his life if he had a sentence of ...

122. Don't Give Up - He Hears!

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Clyde Beatty was the most famous lion tamer in the world. While Beatty was performing with THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH he also operated a small circus that played during the off-season. This circus was stationed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and because of the very favorable climate from December through March, performed in the open air, without a big top. One day there was a heavy downpour and Beatty was forced to call off the show. Only one person had come to the box office to buy a ticket-a little old lady ...

123. Have You Changed Your Clock?

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... me Glows with fire divine." (3) While we wait and trust, we are also to put our hands to the plow. We are prepared simply by doing the work God has called us to do and doing it faithfully and with vigilance, regardless of the world's clock and the climate that it has surrounded us with. During the Second World War there was a young boy in a small town who had to go to the drugstore for his mother. As he arrived at the drugstore, he saw a poster on the front window that made a great impression upon ...

124. The Salvation Army Parade

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... through with it, it may cost you your life." Harold sat there too stunned to say anything. The doctor continued, "You should go to bed at once to prevent any more hemorrhages." The doctor told him he should take his illness seriously and go to a warm climate. "Can't take chances with tuberculosis," the doctor said as Harold left his office. Harold thought long and hard over the doctor's words. He realized that if he was unable to perform his role, the Passion Play would have to be cancelled and people would ...

125. What Goes Around Comes Around

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... . Both men die and something totally unexpected happens. A reversal of fortunes takes place. As Jesus told this parable, "The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham." The rich man was not so fortunate. He was headed for a warmer climate. The rich man, who had the best in life, was in Hades while Lazarus, the poor man who had nothing, was at Abraham's side. ACCORDING TO JESUS, GOD OFTEN TURNS THE TABLES. Jesus taught many times about God's reversals. Jesus said, "But many who are ...

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