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1226. An Outcast · The Woman Of Samaria

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... be any more constricted to Jerusalem or Gerizim than the stream to the mountain? (cf. 1 Kings 8:27) Salvation, the woman suddenly realized, is not of the shrine but of the heart; and that being so "whosoever will" wherever one is may receive it. It was an exhilarating thought, and with it a new and daring idea trembled on the verge of the woman's mind -- an idea so big it must be too good to be true. Could the weary rabbi smiling at her beside Jacob's Well be the long-awaited Messiah? Reason sought to shout ...

1227. Surprised By Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

... it forever; it will be I who gave it to her." He prayed, "Oh miracle -- thus to be able to give what we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of empty hands. Hope which was shriveling in my heart flowered again in hers; the spirit of prayer which I thought lost in me for ever was given back to her by God and -- who can tell -- perhaps in my name!"5 My friends in Christ, have you ever experienced the "miracle of empty hands?" Have you ever felt inadequate and unsure of yourself as you have tried to help ...

1228. Business Leader

Romans 8:28-39

Eulogy

Mark P. Zacher

... the coast of the English Channel. We may, unfortunately, only be getting a part of the message and a portion of the truth. But, let me tell you what I mean. I imagine that when many people heard or read about the death of ____________ all that they thought about was that his life had come to an end. No longer would he be a respected business leader of our community. No longer would he be here for his business associates or for his employees or, most importantly, for his wife and his daughters and his son ...

1229. When The Boat Keeps Rocking

Psalm 46:1-11

Eulogy

Robert Noblett

... be available to you. I will clear my mind, create a space for you within myself, and invite you to confidently share your thoughts, feelings and impressions with me. And I will do my best to listen to you in a non-judgmental, loving and caring ... or autos, or we can come to the sanctuary, if that facilitates our hunger to be connected to God. Our prayers can be audible or our thoughts sent God-ward can be the expression of our praying. Maybe we tend to be too mechanical about prayer. In fact, I think it is a ...

1230. I Am The Bread Of Life

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... had fed a nation. Jesus, they said, you have fed these people for one day but Moses did it for 40 years. What you have done is multiply a few earthly loaves of bread and fish but Moses made it appear from out of nowhere. The messiah, it was thought at the time, would out perform the signs of Moses. He who was to come would do the superior work. Jesus meets these expectations by saying that they had misinterpreted the Moses event. First of all, he reminded them that the bread had not come from Moses but from ...

1231. A Continuing Presence

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... front door of the church greeting people as they made their way out. A man paused to comment, "I used to know a fellow just like the man you described and his name was Herb too. He was a produce salesman in Memphis who used to call on me." He thought back across the years for a moment, then asked, "Did you ever know a Herb _________?" I told him we were talking about the same person. Two days later, another church member came into my study and said, "As you were preaching Sunday, I remembered a man I knew ...

1232. The Infinite Becomes An Infant

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... Spirit, and named the baby Jesus. We see that Joseph was a godly man who had an experience with God, who was sensitive to the Word of God, and obeyed divine instructions. He was a good man who had love and compassion for the girl he at once thought betrayed him with unfaithfulness. If Jesus were to be born naturally, Joseph would have been a worthy father of Jesus. Knew (v. 25). Didn't Joseph know Mary? Matthew says he knew her not until the baby was born. Of course, Joseph knew Mary as a friend and fiance ...

1233. What Do You Do with the Left-Over Jelly Beans?

Luke 12:17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... he could do was build some bigger barns? Did I ever tell you this story? He didn't know what else to do but to keep it all for himself. He never thought of sharing it with the people who were hungry. He thought that God just gave it all to him, and that God did not care if all of the rest of the people went hungry or not. Our own friend did not think of the rest of you either. He was like the rich farmer. Our own friend kept all of ...

1234. What Is Your Treasure?

Luke 12:34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... " for her, and she would take the doll with her wherever she went, even to bed when she went to sleep at night. She loved that doll with all of her heart, just like we loved our ball glove and knife. Jesus knew how people love things, and he thought that this was all right, even good, as long as we remember what love is really meant to be. Jesus told us that we should not love gloves, knives, money, dolls, gold, cars, or anything more than we love people, and especially God. Loving our treasure can be wrong ...

1235. A Fireside Chat

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... a phemonemon! But what Moses sees is no joke. It is actually a miracle. God grabs Moses' attention with a burning bush. Moses must have thought:"Odd, how did that bush catch fire out here in the desert?" But even more strange, as he continues to gaze at the bush ... burn are ordinarily consumed by the flames, or they melt down, or are blackened, or turn to ashes. Why is this bush different? So, curious, he thought, "I'll go closer. I'll see why it does not burn up. I'll get the answer. I'll figure it out. I'll ...

1236. Ascension

Acts 1:1-11, Mark 16:1-20, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... Away! Jesus ascended to our Father in heaven. He went up, up and nobody knows how far. It is the distance between the sinfulness of humanity and the holiness of God. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:9)." Jesus is so far away from us on earth but yet so very close. He promised, "I am with you always (Matthew 28:20)." He is present in the Holy Spirit who abides in us. At the ascension he goes up but not away from us ...

1237. Preaching The Miracles

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... McIntyre, was a soldier in the Civil War. Like other men, green as he could be, he became frightened in the midst of a battle and ran away. He was caught and the Army wanted to shoot him as a deserter. But his mother appealed to President Lincoln. He thought long and hard and then sent this message to the generals, "I understand your problem, but I've noticed it never did a hog much good to shoot him!" Then he wrote on a piece of paper, "This is to grant Rosewell McIntyre permission to re-enter the company ...

1238. It's A Small World After All

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... , one of the nicknames he held was "the hearty one." He had traveled with Simon on some of his journeys, until Simon was himself crucified. Now in his sixth decade of life, and more easily tired, his time was given to the remembering. This warm summer day he thought of the last times they had all been together. It was in Jerusalem and in the home of - what was his name? - ah, yes, John Mark's home. It was the meal and the Lord had ended that fellowship time with words that then sounded strange: "Do this ...

1239. Hope Against Hope

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Erskine White

... . The frozen embryos didn’t take and neither did the artificial implantation. At one point, they used a surrogate mother named Hagar, who conceived a child for Abraham, but as often happens in such arrangements, things got messy after the child was born. Sarah thought Hagar was mocking her barrenness and flouting her own fertility and in a fit of jealousy sent Hagar and the child away (cf. Genesis 16). Then one day, God came to Abraham and told him to forget about the nursing home - God was going ...

1240. When Christians Disappoint

Acts 5:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... regardless of who it is, it's always a tragedy and a shame when a Christian disappoints and gives the church a bad name. It might comfort us to know that even the early church had problems with disappointing Christians. We might have thought otherwise - we might have thought that with the memory of Jesus still fresh and the glow of Pentecost still warm, the early church would have been a perfect model of spiritual purity and inspiration, far surpassing what the world had ever seen before or since. We might ...

1241. Alive Again!

1 Corinthians 15:24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... that the Devil had won when they saw Jesus dying on that cross. Of all the men who ever lived, Jesus was the best. He was good. He had never sinned. But even someone that good had to die, or so the people thought. Then it happened. No one ever thought it could happen, but it did. Jesus came back to life after he died. He won over death and the Devil. He was not like other men. When others died they stayed dead. But Jesus was alive and walking around. He talked, he ate, he visited people and helped them ...

1242. Stephen, God's Good Worker

Acts 7:1-53

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... did make the jealous people look bad, when he did the kind of jobs that they were supposed to do, but never did. These people hated Christians, but they especially hated men like Stephen who were leaders in the Christian church. One day, when they thought they could not stand it any longer, they started arguing with Stephen while he was telling people the good stories of Jesus. Soon they became very angry and started to yell curses at him. Stephen never raised his voice. He even forgave them for what ...

1243. James, God's Hero

Acts 12:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... very angry about the good things that people were saying about the disciples and Jesus, and he decided that he would put a stop to it. He did not like people talking about Jesus as a great king, and as the one who gave everything that people needed. The King thought that he should be the only one that people spoke about, so he sent his soldiers out to get the followers of Jesus. One of the first ones they found was James. They did not just arrest him, but instead they took out their swords and killed him in ...

1244. Jesus, The Bread Of Life

John 6:27

Children's Sermon

... me - who went with his family to eat pizza in a pizza shop. The family ordered the pizza and ate it. The little boy, about your age, loved pizza so much he told his parents, "I could eat this all the time. I'm always hungry for pizza." Then he thought to himself, I wonder if I could ever eat enough pizza? On Sunday he went to Sunday school. His teacher read the class a story about Jesus. In the story Jesus told people that he was the bread of life. Jesus told people, "Whoever comes to me will never be ...

1245. Proper 8

Luke 9:57-62, Galatians 5:16-26, 1 Kings 19:9-18, Psalm 16:1-11, Luke 9:51-56

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... RC, E, L, C) The rejection of Jesus was not confined, in his time, to the religious leaders of the Jews; the Samaritans summarily turned him away from one of their cities because they had heard that Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. Naturally, James and John thought that the people in that town should be punished, but Jesus would have none of that; he rebuked them for their proposal. They simply moved on to another village, where, it is to be assumed, he received a more hospitable welcome. But on the way, a ...

1246. Proper 11

Colossians 1:15-23, Luke 10:38-42, Genesis 18:16-33, Colossians 1:24--2:5, Psalm 15:1-5

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... I wanted to rename their group and call it the "Martha, Martha kitchen auxiliary," and I almost had to bite my tongue to keep from blurting out, "Martha, Martha." 1. Martha was put in her place by Jesus and she must have known it. It had to hurt. She thought that the most important thing she could do was to be a good hostess and make the food and drink and the accompanying amenities as nice as they could be. After all, he deserved the best that could be done for him. But Jesus said, "Martha, Martha, you are ...

1247. Advent 4

Psalm 80:1-19, Micah 5:1-4, Hebrews 10:1-18, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... is gone, when she dies, and he thinks about his own death. He muses: "Well, Lord, you and me - that's all I've got left. I wish I'd spent more time cultivating your friendship earlier. I'm a bit ashamed to start now." Mary never had to think thoughts like that, even when a "sword pierced her heart;" she knew God had visited her and would always be with her. 3. But every true believer is blessed to the same degree, if not in the same way, that Mary was favored by God. Even though "all generations shall call ...

1248. Rocky

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

William J. Carl

... , the big talker, said, “No way, lady. Never met the man.” Then came the cock-crow or was it the trumpet or was it the haunting cry of his own conscience? Whatever it was, Peter couldn’t take it any more. He wept like a baby. The big talker who thought he was somebody, was now a nobody and routed by a slave girl at that! Down to the mat one more time and Rocky finally throws in the towel. Somehow Jesus knows he will. Somehow he knows we all will when the chips are down. Jesus is no easy optimist ...

1249. Living Sacrifices

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

William J. Carl

... step further in Romans 12 when he said that we are called to be “living sacrifices” which may be one of the main problems people have with Christianity today. Sacrifice is not a word we use much these days, is it? When was the last time you used it or thought about it in terms of your own life? When was the last time you sacrificed anything for anybody? Come to think about it, there’s only one sport as far as I know where the term is actually used. Do you know which sport that is? You can almost hear ...

1250. What's The Bottom Line?

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

George Johnson

... bed just a little bit longer? I am waking up earlier now that I'm on the other side of 50, the second side of life. My thoughts early in the morning are usually around the day's appointments. Let's see, Lois needs that article by 9. I could go to the hospital ... and zedekah, justice and righteousness. The first is about Oscar Romero. He was made Bishop in El Salvador because everyone thought he was conservative and would bring stability to the war-torn country. Soon after he was installed, a priest who ...

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