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1251. When God Steps Out Of Shadows

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

William L. Self

... 7). He knows we are not complete unto ourselves. We need each other. One man is no man. The community of God's people, first Israel and then the church, is as essential for life as manna in the wilderness -- or water in the desert. The apostle Paul says we are not complete unto ourselves. We are only individual parts of the body. We are of no use unless we are connected. However, in American culture we are still greatly influenced by models such as the Lone Ranger, the Marlboro Man, the rugged individualist ...

1252. The Man With Two Umbrellas

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

William L. Self

... is such a call and when it comes, it comes straight from God. I believe with all my heart a man must hear it and feel its imperious constraint before he can ever give himself with any wholehearted devotion and abiding wonder to this stewardship of the gospel." The apostle Paul in Ephesians 4:11 regarded the office of pastor as a definite appointment of the Holy Spirit. He was also certain that a divine call by Christ had placed him in the ministry (1 Timothy 1:12). A pastor who sees his ministry only as a ...

1253. A New Name

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... who he would become! Peter means "a pebble," but he was renamed "Rock." No longer would he be just a stone in someone's shoe, but a force to be reckoned with, a large, noticeable boulder built on the foundation of Christ the solid rock. As one of the chief apostles who established the Church, Peter lived up to the billing. What about you and me during this Lenten season? If God were to show up at your coffee break room at work or the locker room at the club or listen to your conversation on the phone, what ...

1254. Ready Or Not -- He Comes

Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... much of it seems too good to be true. It is awesome in the sense that God is veiled in human flesh and "in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself" (2 Corinthians 5:19). Mind-boggling to think that Jesus Christ became, in the words of the apostle Paul, the "visible likeness of the invisible God." This text in Mark 13 reminds us today that Advent is upon us. We need to get our lives in order or we will miss the whole thing again. Advent Is An Opportunity To Regain A Sense Of Wonder Dag Hammarskjold ...

1255. Possession Is Nine-tenths Of The Law

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... War II because of their destiny as a nation. If we think of our beasts as having awareness and sentient existence, they, too, share this belief in their ultimacy and power. It may be helpful to think of our beasts in this way, as the apostle Paul reminded us that we wage a war against principalities and powers, not just flesh and blood. When we are in the grips of a terminal illness, or prolonged unemployment, or depression, or financial ruin, or addiction, these things have tremendous power over us. And ...

1256. Not Independence, But Freedom

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... together, to pray and study and learn and serve and fellowship together. May God increase in his Church, and in each of us, his gift of counsel. After all, God didn't promise to make us independent, he promised to make us free! 1. Ernst Haenchen, The Acts Of The Apostles, (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1971), p. 189.

1257. Our Defense In A Stone-littered World

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... him to death. According at least to Luke's account, this then was the first Christian martyr. What had Stephen expected? The seven had been chosen to assist in the distribution of food to the widows. They were to wait on tables in order to free the apostles to devote themselves to prayer and to serving the word. To this end they received the laying on of hands from the twelve. Stephen's gifts were broader than that. So he preached. And his preaching was powerful enough not only to encourage believers but to ...

1258. There's More To Thanksgiving

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... generous, "church-going" people. If you had a hard time figuring out what was so non-Christian and so un-American about it, allow me to let you in on the secret. You see, the "creed" that was said in the worship service was not the Apostles' Creed. Nor was it the Nicene Creed or the Athanasian Creed or any other Christian creed. In fact, Liz, Sam and Joe were not attending a Christian worship service at all. They were attending a harvest time, thanksgiving worship service all right, but it had nothing ...

1259. An Unfamiliar Place For God

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... . It is simply beyond understanding." We cry out to Jeremiah and it's God who responds. God says to us, "You're right. It is all quite beyond your understanding. It certainly is." God responds to us through another inspired writer. Through the apostle Paul, God sends yet another revolutionary letter -- this one is addressed to the Christians at Philippi. The letter says, "The Peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus." "Yes," God says, "the kind of peace ...

1260. Exercise Your Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... . Maybe we should put an ad in our local newspaper that would read as follows: "Imperfect church, imperfect pastor, imperfect members, invites imperfect visitors that grace may abound -- Worship 10:30 a.m." Today, we are going to examine the opening words of the apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians. This will be the first in a series of seven consecutive messages on 1 Corinthians. Once we get to know the people in the church at Corinth, we soon learn that they are imperfect people, even ...

1261. Be A Wise Christian

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... and girls? (Let them answer.) I guess the young man thought it was too hard to do because he went away very sad. But there are many Christians who have given away all of their money and other good things just so they could follow Jesus. The Apostles and other disciples did that. Many people probably thought that they were pretty dumb for giving up their homes and other belongings, but sometimes that is what it means to be a Christian. Paul tells us today that Christians don't always seem too smart (wise) to ...

1262. Faith Of Our Fathers

Psalm 33:12

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... is the nation whose God is the Lord. Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever sung the hymn "Faith of our Fathers"? (Or, This morning we sang together the hymn "Faith of our Fathers.") Do you know who our fathers are? (Responses -- prior generations, grandparents, apostles, disciples, people who have lived before us, founders of our nation, and so forth.) Well, I'm thinking this morning of a particular group of people who came to America in a little ship. Anybody want to have a guess? Yes, they were the ...

1263. Live Together In Harmony

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... did the baptizing as having magical or mystical powers. Paul is blunt. He is not crucified for them, nor are they baptized in his name. They should be attached to Christ and not to any of the servants of Christ. Lest there be a misunderstanding, the apostle reminds his friends in Corinth that his principal mission among them was to proclaim the gospel and further to preach not with "eloquent wisdom" but with clarity and with simplicity so that the cross of Christ might not lose any of its power. Paul was a ...

1264. Come To The Light

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... dead nor heal a Gentile woman's daughter. Everything he learned about Jesus he learned after Jesus had certainly died and had apparently been resurrected. Like us, he had to struggle with doubt, had to work through his salvation "with fear and trembling." Paul, of all the apostles, is the only one who, like us, walks only "by faith, not by sight." From this, we can take heart. Some may be certain, some may know the will of God easily, but Paul knew what it was to walk in darkness and uncertainty. He knew ...

1265. Don't Fight God's Plans

Galatians 1:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... them guess.) Right. It was Paul. From then on, Paul became one of the best Christians, one of the best followers of Jesus. He taught many, many people all about Jesus and helped many, many people to become Christians, also. We thank God for sending the church such a good apostle. Will you try to remember that story about Paul, boys and girls? Good. God bless you all. Amen.

1266. The Peace Treaty

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... to God's guidance. What we don't recognize is that in saying so, we establish a hostile relationship with our maker. It is this state of affairs that Paul is pointing to in this passage. He tells us that he and the other apostles are "ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through [them]." They are like ambassadors opening negotiations between hostile nations. The way Paul states the message from God is nothing short of astonishing: "We entreat you ... be reconciled to God ... We are putting ...

1267. Don't Be Stupid

Jeremiah 4:5-31

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... did, but only mature human beings can judge themselves."1 God's call is to maturity, to good judgment in the life he has made; to living it long and living it well; learning how to do good and not evil. God wants you and me to be like the Apostle Paul who wrote to the church in Corinth, which was beset by stupid, childish squabbles: "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways" (1 Corinthians 13 ...

1268. Let's Live

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... , as in ours, there was a dangerous separation between prayer and practice, between worship and worldly activities, between what people "believed" and what people did. We could excuse that way of living by arguing that after all we're only human. And that's the way we humans live. The Apostle Paul said once: "... I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do" (Romans 7:19). And even Jesus was tempted to do things his way instead of doing them God's way in his sojourn with the devil in ...

1269. Week Two Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... speak on Israel's behalf; he has been true to his call. Jeremiah has gone forth in a ministry of service; he has shown agape to the people whom God has given to him. I am sure that all of us can relate to the indignation which the other ten apostles felt toward James and John, as we hear in today's Gospel. Their mother wants her sons to sit in exalted positions in the Kingdom of God. Jesus wastes no time in correcting the thought of this woman and all those present who hear her request. Jesus says that the ...

1270. Holy Week

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... wants us to know that there is more to the Christian tradition concerning the Last Supper than the Eucharist. We learn in this Gospel of the tradition of service. Jesus initiates a new tradition with his actions at the Last Supper. Jesus washes the feet of his apostles, his closest followers. Furthermore, he tells them and all of us to do the same. In a society which daily cries out concerning injustice, poverty and crime, how can we answer the call of Jesus to a life of service? The basic answer is that we ...

1271. Our Helper

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... grace. Now this is no dead dogma, but a living truth about God! If we would understand the transforming power of God in human life, then we must be clear about the role of the Helper in the turning points of our lives. In the Acts of the Apostles is recorded the experience of one of the early church officers, a man named Philip, who with the Helper made possible a dramatic turning point in the life of an Ethiopian eunuch. The work of the Helper is evident in four ways. 1. Call Philip finds himself on ...

1272. Let Our Kids Pray

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Carl B. Rife

... it under the windshield wiper. Now that bumper sticker and my response get us into the whole area of prayer in the public schools. I would like to preface everything I have to say this morning with the understanding that committed Christians can differ on this issue. The apostle Paul in his writings in one place speaks about a word from the Lord where he is certain that he is speaking God's Word to the people. Then in other places he admits that it is his committed opinion. What I am sharing with you this ...

1273. The Tenth Meal

Sermon

Robert F. Scott

... good-to-be-true report of the resurrection, Luke tells us of the two disciples who walked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus. At supper, when he broke the bread, they suddenly recognized him. They rushed back to Jerusalem to tell their glorious news to the apostles. We pick up the story at that point. While they were talking about him, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you ...

1274. Music Is For Praise

Ps 33:3; 100:2 · Col 3:16 · Eph 5:19

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... are songs of praise. Singing songs is one of the ways we tell God what we feel about him and how happy we are to be his people. In olden days people were encouraged to sing of their love for God and in the New Testament the apostle Paul encouraged the people in early Christian gatherings to sing psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, and to make melody in their hearts. There is a wise old saying, "Music gladdens the heart." Sometimes when we feel sad or lonely, or even frightened, singing a song will ...

1275. With All Your Heart

1 Peter 1:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... parents, our brothers, sisters, relatives, friends. We love God, too. Is it a little harder to love God than it is to love your mother and father? (Let them answer.) Yes, it is a little harder because we haven't really ever seen God face to face the way the Apostles saw Jesus. Loving God is kind of like having a pen-pal who lives thousands of miles away. You can read his letters, but since you have never met him, you can only imagine what it would be like to spend some time with him -- to get to know him ...

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