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1251. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... , will draw all men to myself" (John 12:32). It was when that wife lifted up Christ in her life and actions that her husband was drawn to Christ. She was able to do the most difficult task of her life because of Christ in her life. This ability to do all things through Christ is also available even when we are confronted by tragedy, grief, and death. When Ralph Waldo Emerson lost his son, it was an extremely difficult experience for him. He found that it was only his faith and the presence of Christ that ...

1252. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... signs that we are, as a nation, becoming more sensitive to the special needs of the handicapped. Everywhere we go we are faced with reminders of thousands of people in our land who can’t take for granted what many of us often do take for granted - the ability to walk or see or hear or think or motion. But then we don’t have to look to the nation to be reminded of these matters. In our congregations we have many handicapped people. Three members of the congregation I serve are legally blind and at least ...

1253. Dessert in the Desert

Deut 32:10-12 · Ez 37

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... the wilderness," let us declare that at least to ourselves and, as appropriateness dictates, to others as well. When Jesus told us that we should become as children again in order to appropriate the Kingdom, he must have been noting children’s imaginativeness, their ability to work with a subject and stretch it for all it’s worth. This is what I see missing often in our adult religious lives. I read one time about a little girl who was attending one of her first religious services. She watched intently ...

1254. The Circus and My Faith

Ps 139 · Mt 22:37

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... of it bears testimony to his or her love for it. Our love of life and our love of the One who has given us life is revealed as we move in and capitalize on the possibilities of that life, including the possibilities to which we lay claim through our ability to think. Gerald Cragg once commented in this vein to a class graduating from Andover Newton. Said Dr. Cragg, "Dry rot of the mind is one of the perils of the ministry."1 It is that; but it is no less a peril encountered as one sits in the pew ...

1255. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... and will one day see before her not a mature adult, but an emotionally crippled one, maybe even a psychological monstrosity. Thus it is with God and his creation. Any other arrangement of affairs other than what we have would jeopardize our freedom and ability to develop as people who have been allowed error and mistake, but are able to use them as stepping stones to something better. In the conviction that weather-related deaths should not necessarily be construed as defeat, we find a fourth part of our ...

1256. What Is Your Holy Week Address?

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Robert Noblett

One of the earliest accomplishments of a child that brings plaudits from Mom and Dad is the ability to recite one’s address and telephone number. Should the child become lost, there is at least a small measure of comfort in the prospect that the child just might spew forth what has been committed to memory. This address is a geographical one. Later on, another address becomes evident, ...

1257. Phoebe

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... her business-like resolve and know-how at the door. As the sermon is preached, she does not send her mind home to tend the roast in the oven. She brings to her church all her faculties: energy, business acumen, sensitivity, creativity, ability to get things done. Church life means more than just activity. Phoebe knows this. She is neither satisfied with surface dedication nor superficial relationships. She is the one who carefully studies the Church school lesson - whether she teaches or not. She takes ...

1258. A Matter of Life and Breath

John 20:19-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... he breathed upon the apostles, and will breathe upon us on this Pentecost Day. What is this power? It is none less than the power of God. We all know that God is almighty, an omnipotent being. Nothing is impossible with God. The Holy Spirit has the same ability because he is the third person of the Trinity. To have the Spirit is to have the power of almighty God at our disposal. Thus, Paul could write, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Let us be sure, though, that we understand the ...

1259. The Cross Way of Life

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to Christ and his people. This does not mean some special act of heroism but the general attitude and lifestyle of a person who daily forgets self and expends himself lavishly for the good of the Kingdom. It involves the daily giving of time and ability for others and for any good cause. Whatever we do for Christ, can it be called a sacrifice? One time people referred to the sacrifice David Livingstone made by serving in Africa as a missionary. He remonstrated, "Can that be called sacrifice which is simply ...

1260. Herod and Jesus

Drama

Jon Joyce

... what is that supposed to mean? JESUS: I do not believe that you have the capability to believe what you see and hear. HEROD: I believe in God, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and ... JESUS: [Interrupts] Don’t try to overwhelm me with your ability to recite a list of our forefathers, Herod. It’s your heart that’s incapable of believing. HEROD: [Again unconsciously wraps his arms around his chest] I am too intelligent to believe the nonsense you’re telling me. JESUS: It has nothing to do with ...

1261. On Being Able to Be Sorry

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... relationships, it falls far short in terms of a Christian understanding of life. Two of the most difficult and humbling words in any language are: "I’m sorry." By the same token, they are two of the most wonderful words as well. In the Christian context, the ability, desire, and need to acknowledge sorrow, is the key to wholeness and the door to healing. In the story of the prodigal son, the young man who had decided to go it on his own, found that that was not the whole answer. The far country looked ...

1262. On Leaving Your Signature

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... , or some type of declaration. It is our inanimate authority, intent, desire, or expression. There are the words for anyone to read and your endorsement of them. What you are and what you want can be expressed on paper, within the limits of your ability to sign for them, whether it be financial, intellectual, authoritative, or an indication of an attitude. To let our influence be felt and known on a document, such as a petition or projection of opinion, is certainly one very valid form of self-projection ...

1263. The Cunning Craftsman, God

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... it, I could not shake the phrase from my mind: "The cunning craftsman, God." As used, the word cunning does not mean some kind of craftiness which might be our modern interpretation. But taken in its pure sense it indicates skill, wisdom and ability. The phrase then really means that the Master artist God can take our blundering efforts and still make something useful out of them. He takes our mismanaged lives, our failed efforts, our missed marks, our shameful deeds, our alien attitudes, our sinful lives ...

1264. Running With Patience

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... , the sound assurance that "this too shall pass;" and on the other side of the mist the sun still shines and God still cares. Patience means staying in step with self-capacity without trying to out-distance God. It is the art of receptivity, the ability to sort out the useless from the meaningful, the quietness to listen. Yet it is also the determination to maintain a steady course, the stabilizer when panic threatens, the resolution to stay alert for the best signs in the worst times and the grace to ...

1265. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... do - he must correct the mistake made by one of his own men - for one of his enemies. This is the only biblical account that we have of a healing following an act of violence. The miracle involved here is not so much that Jesus could heal Malchus’ ear - his ability is no longer in question - the real miracle is that he would do it! Jesus, on his way to the cross, takes time to stoop down and feel around in the dark - in the grass of the Garden of Gethsemane, retrieve the ear, and put it back on the head ...

1266. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... our own worst enemies. Many of us don’t like ourselves and feel enslaved to be the person we presently are, with no hope of change. But when we become Christ’s disciple, and he becomes a presence with us, and we are in him, we have the power and ability to be a new person - one we can like and respect and live with in freedom. Paul lays it out, "When anyone is united to Christ, there is a new creation; the old order has gone, and the new order has already begun" (2 Corinthians 5:17). A parable by ...

1267. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... college, I was absolutely certain that I would never be so stupid as to spend my life in the ministry! Here I am. Experience, because I experienced the sense of vocation. The experience of prayer as communion with God: Centuries of Christian living hear witness to this - the ability to say: "I am not alone. Even when I am alone, my Father is with me." As Emerson has put it: "God enters a private door to you, and you know it." God enters into every individual. And, as we pray, we are assured that we are not ...

1268. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... self-forgetful, but because we want to appear better or more important than we really are. Self-estimate is involved here, too. Henry Sloane Coffin says, "Most of us are aware of being inconspicuous nobodies; we know that we are very little people - pigmies in ability and puny in character. It is a hard and painful process to force ourselves to grow; it is much simpler to attempt to reduce others to our dimensions."3 Blinding specks nourish pride and stimulate the ego. But a view of one’s self that rests ...

1269. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... the same; they may change. One can come to care about different things. And it makes a difference what one cares about, what one is interested in. The focus of one’s attention is upon one’s interests. One’s time revolves around one’s interests. One’s abilities and energies are utilized for the sake of his or her interests. How much money one has can have a lot to do with the direction of one’s interests. This is true in part because lack of money rules out many interests. We may dream about ...

1270. Cheering Stones

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... world could be different, wonderfully different, if enough of us would make ourselves available to Christ, if we would put ourselves at his disposal. Christ keeps listening for cheers which speak of commitment, of persons who are bringing themselves - all of their influence, every ability they have and all that they possess - to him and committing all to him. In a world that is crying out so painfully in its tragedy and need, someone must cheer today. Someone must say from the depths of his or her soul, "I ...

1271. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... be met is no excuse. Failure to fulfill them for any reason, whether because of stupidity or stubbornness, means disaster. But awareness of the demands of the particular conditions, and willingness to obey them without the slightest deviation, and finally the ability to carry them out completely, always means success, fullness of life, genuine achievement - not maybe, but certainly. In short, the narrow way leads inevitably to a broad life; the broad way leads to a narrow life. Now these conditions are not ...

1272. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... ’s something else we need to know. Paul says it: "We are risen with Christ now. We have eternal life now." Today, that’s what we want verified. A layman friend of mine was describing the dullness of his own pastor’s sermons. He said: "He has the unique ability to make twenty minutes seem like an eternity." Well, in a sense, that is what I’m supposed to do this morning. In a few, brief minutes, I’m supposed to make you feel like you are living eternal life. That’s that you want, but life as we ...

1273. The Open Door

John 10:1-21

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... You knew us even before we were born, and You knew we would each wander off into trouble like sheep. Thank You for opening the door to the sheepfold and calling us home. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, often we feel very smug in our own abilities to manage our lives and we tend to ignore You. And, like sheep, we each tend to stray in or even run away on our own separate paths from Your Love. Forgive us, Lord, and gather us back into Your loving fold. Make us one with Christ that we might ...

1274. The Beauty of a Childlike Faith

Matthew 18:1-9

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... power or money or prestige. They treat janitors and governors with equal dignity. They regard everybody as a VIP. Children seem to do this intuitively; adult Christians have to relearn it. There is a second quality of childrens that we Christians should emmulate. It is their ability to trust so completely. When I was sixteen years old, my little brother Joe was just four. He was my favorite little buddy and went with me lots of places. Now, my judgment at age sixteen left a lot to be desired. I would take ...

1275. Do Wrinkles Hurt?

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is a "geezer boom" on our hands. Some people mistakenly believe that most older people are sickly. The fact is that 75 percent of older people are healthy enough to engage in normal activities. Another myth is that older people lose intelligence or the ability to reason. Not so. While memory will sometimes falter a bit, our judgment keeps on improving because of experience. We who are under 65 must help our culture learn the biblical view of ageing. According to the Bible, "gray hair is a crown of splendor ...

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