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1251. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... crying, and the embarrassed young mother started to leave. The waitress said, "Here, let me see what I can do. You drink your coffee." She talked and cooed, showed the baby to the one-armed man who began whistling and making funny faces to make the baby stop crying. As Rita, the waitress, took the baby to explore the blinking lights, the one-armed man took coffee from a burner and began waiting on tables. And a warm glow came over the whole scene. Harriet Ritchie said she was moved to tears and said to her ...

1252. Praying for a Whole New World

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

William G. Carter

... went outside to the playground and her best friend decided to play with somebody else. To top it off, a big kid named Kevin had made fun of her on the bus. “It was a rotten day,” she sobbed, and he held her. After about ten minutes, she stopped quivering. He rubbed her back and she blew her nose. One more hug, and then he went downstairs. About a half hour later, he thought it sounded unnaturally quiet, so he sneaked upstairs to see what was happening. To his surprise, she was down on her knees with ...

1253. The Next Step

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... t wanted is fruitless if one does not take the next step and replace it with something that is much more effective. To decide to stop paying rent is a momentous decision only if one is willing to take the next step and purchase a house. To remove a diseased ... . Love is the Pauline badge of the new Christian profession. Everyday love is the next step. It isn’t enough to stop worshiping idols and refrain from evil. Throwing away an old and unclean garment is, indeed, necessary. The real kicker is putting on ...

1254. In, But Not Of, The World

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... and not of the world. When you recognize that you do not have a real stake in the things of the world except to see it as an opportunity to love God by loving his creatures and the things he has made, you will not be able to stop showering love and compassion on the world and its creatures. You will do all that for the glory of God. Being in the world, engaging in activities that can help the world, is a fulfilling, liberating, spiritual experience that will make God more real in your life. Christians, get ...

1255. Do You Know?

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... of it. I have been in hospital rooms and at bedsides, places where death is expected and places where death is sudden. I know what it’s like to have someone you love die. I know. Do you know me? “I cannot stop creating. I cannot stop bringing forth new life. I grin at every birth, beholding the possibilities of each baby. So much potential. I anticipate how you will seize the opportunities presented by life’s transitions: graduations and marriages, new jobs and new locations, retirement. How will ...

1256. Who Is Your Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Let them tell you.) Those are good answers. Now I want you to hear how Jesus answered that question. Jesus told this story so we would know who our neighbor really is. Once upon a time, a man was traveling from one town to another. On the way some robbers stopped him. They robbed him and beat him and left him in a ditch, half dead. Several people came by and looked at him but they kept on going. They pretended that they didn't see the wounded man. Then a Samaritan came by. Samaritans weren't very well-liked ...

1257. The Armor of What?!

Ephesians 6:10-20

Drama

Dave Marsh

... in the heavenly realms." Yep, that’s right! It’s against rulers and authorities and powers and forces of evil! Exactly!! (stops and looks confused) So, like what powers and forces are we talking about here? It sounds kind of like a Darth ... m gonna get me a shield of faith! I’m not sure what the faith part is about but I do know that it’s going to stop… FLAMING ARROWS?!? FROM THE EVIL ONE?!?! Oh, that’s just great! They never told me when I signed up for this Christianity thing that the Devil is ...

1258. Eager For The Journey

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... amazed me that non-Christians look upon Christians as weak and naive. I am not sure where that perception started but next time I’d like to ask these people, Alright, you think it is so easy being a Christian lets see you try. First I want you to stop lying. Then stop cheating people in your business practices, don’t steal, don’t stretch the truth, just let your yes be yes and your no be no. Don’t hate your enemies and pray for those who hate you. Oh yeah, and did I mention, you can no longer lust ...

1259. His Cleansing Of The Temple

Luke 19:45-48

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Jesus continued his journey into the city. It was at this point that the second, and perhaps most curious event of the day took place. For this incident we must turn to Marks” Gospel for he alone tells it. Jesus was still outside the city. He was hungry so he stopped to pick some fruit off a fig tree. Yet, this was April, and even in a good year the tree would not bear fruit until late May or early June. Mark says bluntly: It was not the season for figs. Yet, when Jesus found no fruit he became angry and ...

1260. Wisdom: The Secret of Effective Living

Proverbs 8:34-35

Illustration

Robert Allen

... been that he had allowed the anger and bitterness and rejection to wage a war within his soul. Once he stopped dwelling on what was wrong in his life and started looking at what was right, once he understood that his only real problem centered on the way he ... looked at himself, once he stopped waging war within himself, Jack was wise enough to realize that he was on his way to living an effective life. And what is ...

1261. Family Feud

Genesis 29:15-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Moriah, the pain of a father about to lose his boy, the child-like trust of a son, the hard stones of the altar to which the lad was lashed, the flash of the knife poised to strike. Suddenly a little girl became so nervous she shouted, "Oh, please, stop - the story is terrible," and she began to cry. Laughingly and with wonderful confidence, another child exclaimed, "Oh, Mary, don't be silly. This is one of God's stories and they always come out right."(2) I say Amen! So, I think would St. Paul. As he says ...

1262. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... moment, you would realize that were they all obeyed, this would be a splendid world. Crime would stop - no murders, no theft. Husbands and wives would not have to worry about the faithfulness of the other (and we never would have heard of Monica ... Lewinsky). Lying and gossiping would all stop. Parents would not have to be concerned about disobedient children or how they would be supported in their old age. And the ...

1263. The Ten Commandments #5: Honoring Parents

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... insisted that she could drive, so she and the kids would go ahead. Dad got out the maps, planned the route, the nightly stopping points, and off they went. A couple of weeks later, the father completed his extra work. He decided to surprise the family, so ... then stuck out his thumb as a hitchhiker. As Mom and the kids drove past, they did a double take. DAD! Mom screeched to a stop, backed up to the hitchhiker and the family had a joyful reunion. Later, when a newspaper reporter asked the man why he would do ...

1264. The Ten Commandments #8: No Stealing

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... with the needy."(11) Some of those new Christians had apparently been highwaymen and burglars before coming to Christ; obviously, not an appropriate lifestyle for a disciple of Jesus. Note what he says. He does not say stop stealing and work honestly so that you might support yourself. He says stop stealing, and work honestly...so that you might have something to GIVE! OK. After all, we cannot legitimately give something we have stolen, something that is not ours to give to begin with. I wonder what Paul ...

1265. Remember!

Deuteronomy 31:30--32:47

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... it. It gives me a sense of my own roots...who I am and from whence I have come...new MEMORIES...and is another reminder that preaching runs in the family. It has been said that people trace their genealogies back to either kings or horse thieves and then stop. Who THEY were and what THEY did challenge us to either live up to them or live them down. Our heritage becomes the shaper of our lives. Our religious heritage does the same for us. None of us could say we are here today regardless of any spiritual ...

1266. Wise Leadership

1 Kings 2:1-12, 3:1-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... East Council of Churches, drove us into the Old City through streets that I would have sworn were not wide enough for the car, let alone the car and all the foot traffic. "After snaking through the streets in what felt to me like going in circles, we stopped in front of a gate. Some young boys who must have been watching for us pushed open the gates and we drove into a stone-paved courtyard with a modest but impressive church in the center. After the congestion and clamor of the Old City, the courtyard ...

1267. When God Is Gone

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... he told the reverend he was like all the rest, making money off us, and he held our Annie as high as he could, right near the cross, and told God he'd better stop having the ministers speaking for him, and he should come and see us for himself, and not have the "preachers" -- he kept calling them the "preachers" -- speaking for him. He stopped after he'd finished talking about the "preachers" and he came back to us, and there wasn't a sound in the church, no sir, not one you could hear -- until a couple of ...

1268. "Wow!"

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... over three hundred deaths in our hospice, all of the Near Death Experiences have resulted in an increase of the sense of peace. One patient I became particularly close to had a typical experience. While in the hospital, (he was not a hospice patient), his heart stopped. Aggressive intervention returned his heartbeat. When I came on-shift the next day, he had been moved to ICU. As I entered his bay, his face broke into a big grin. The first words out of his mouth were: "I've seen the light." He described ...

1269. Angels

Psalm 91:1-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , I came across the story (10) of a woman who says she was prevented from going into a certain building at a certain moment because she was held back by an unseen hand on her shoulder. She looked around, but saw no one nearby. She tried again and was stopped again. Whirling around, she still saw no one. But then she heard a clear voice: "It would not be wise for you to go in there just now." Hours later she learned that there was a woman murdered in the building, just after she would have entered. It could ...

1270. Thank God, We're Not Alone!

Psalm 133:1-3

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... scripture, for life in God's kingdom, that is exactly backwards. Remember what Jesus said? "The last shall be first and the first shall be last."(3) If we are to ever to think in terms of relatedness and to celebrate and give thanks for togetherness, we will stop making our goal in life that of being NUMBER ONE. An old story. It seems an anthropologist, a man whose life work was spent in the study of human social and cultural development, died and came up to the pearly gates. But being the scientist that he ...

1271. Tough Love

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... and then come and stand before me in this house which bears my name and say 'We are safe!" - only to go on doing all these abominations?" (Jer. 7:9,10). For all the prophets, idolatry was bad enough, but when what little worship that went on stopped at the temple door, it compounded the felony. Again, there is not much difficulty in seeing a parallel with our own time. Far too often, genuine worship, the kind of the worship that makes a conscious effort at sharing the presence of God with a lost and hungry ...

1272. The Lord's Prayer: Thy Kingdom Come

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... that our prayer is a personal challenge. By praying, "Thy kingdom come" we make our own promise that, as God gives us the vision, we are willing to cooperate and do our own part in making God's rule a reality. With this prayer we are committing ourselves to stop shaking our heads or shrugging our shoulders saying the task is too great. We make a commitment to work to make this a world in which all God's creation will be treated with dignity, with fairness and with justice. That is not always easy. It is not ...

1273. Winning over Worry

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."(8) Amen! 1. James C. Hume, More Podium Humor (New York: HarperPerennial, 1993) 2. John E. Haggai, How to Win Over Worry (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1967) 3. Edward Podolsky, M. D., Stop Worrying and Get Well, (New York: Bernard Ackerman incorporated, 1944) 4. George A. Buttrick, "Matthew," The Interpreter's Bible, Vol. 7, (Nashville, Abingdon, 1951), p. 322 5. D. A. Carson, The Sermon on the Mount, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1978), pp. 92 ...

1274. The Jump to Judgment

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in a CHAIR. I started back to my rooming house, just itching to get at my typewriter. But as I made the turn in the dirt road which ran past the cabin, I looked at the scene from another angle. And when I did, I saw something which stopped me in my tracks. From THAT side I observed, leaning against the chair, a pair of crutches, and I noticed an empty overall leg hanging limply to the ground. In that instant, the lazy, shiftless character I had seen was transformed into a figure of dauntless courage." The ...

1275. The Freedom in Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... asked. The list could go on and on. Church can be a tough place. For what it is worth, the phenomenon is not new. Even in the earliest days, church folk had their problems. No doubt that is what prompted Paul to write to the Romans telling them to stop quarreling with one another and criticizing each other's way of observing the faith. He says, "So then, each of us will be accountable to GOD. Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another..." I wish the church had taken his advice, but in almost 2 ...

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