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1301. The Crucified Ruler

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... , let us smash the barriers that divide peoples and be a sign of the Kingdom that is to come in the midst of the kingdoms that now exist. And, thirdly, with the enthronement of Jesus as the world’s Crucified Ruler, a new day of hope has dawned upon us. That hope is that the reign of the Crucified One is not confined to earthly possibilities. "My kingship is not of this world ..." Jesus told Pilate. Jesus’ reign begins in this world. It begins on Good Friday. But it does not end in this world. It ends ...

1302. Repentance and Forgiveness

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... ! When we repent of our sins, we are really volunteering to die. "I am powerless over sin’s dominion over my life, dear God. Put my willpower, put my old self to death. Raise me to new life." That is what we pray. And we pray that prayer with confident hope. Jesus Christ, the One to whom we pray, has, after all, risen from the dead. He has the power, therefore, to raise us from the death of our daily repentance. "I forgive you all your sins." That is the new life-giving word addressed to all of us sinners ...

1303. Blind Bartimaeus - Model For Healing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... generous givers claimed to have been cured by the man. It all had the ring of truth. Would Bartimaeus have made more than a feeble effort to reach the Master if he had not been certain that his sources of information were trustworthy? They added substance to his hope for healing, and offered all the evidence he needed to convince him that it was within the power of Jesus to give him his sight. "Master, let me receive my sight." "Go your way; your faith has made you well." IV. There is a glorious ending to ...

1304. Advent 2

Isaiah 40:1-31, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Mark 1:1-8

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... , God, and sustain us with your nourishing Word. Let us hear afresh the tender comfort of your good news: "Your God is here." In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Second Lesson: 2 Peter 3:8-15a Theme: Advent hope, Advent holiness Exegetical Note From an obvious stance of apocalyptic hope in the parousia of Jesus Christ, this writer explains the delay in that event as an act of divine mercy, which gives everyone a chance to repent before the final conflagration that will consume the earth and the heavens, and ...

1305. Proper 13

2 Samuel 12:1-31, Ephesians 4:1-16, John 6:25-59

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... LIFE. Collect God of life and love, whose Gospel in Christ Jesus is one of life over death, give us the wisdom to see the life beyond death and the strength to live accordingly; that even in the loss of acquaintances and loved ones, we may see the future hope that is a part of your eternal promises. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Understanding God, we confess that we are scared to death of death, and that we ignore it, deny it, and camouflage it in every possible way. Forgive us, we ...

1306. Reinforced With Joy

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... with you and that with him there is forgiveness of sins, healing for sorrow, strength for the day, courage for the task, and hope for tomorrow. When we cling to that faith, nothing, not even a cross, can destroy the spirit of joy. Secondly, Jesus believed that ... . They have not placed their lives in Christ’s care. If you want joy, that inner joy that puts a song in your heart, hope in your dreams, and security in your days, ask Jesus Christ to take control of your life. Let him be your guide. Obey him. ...

1307. Forgive and Heal

Mark 2:1-12

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... , I did. MOTHER: Why? Why did you leave this house when I told you not to? THOMAS: I had to, Mother. I just had to see Jesus. MOTHER: And you left your father unattended, to do what? Follow some preacher! I told you. Don't get your hopes up about Jesus. THOMAS: Oh, Mother, my hopes are up. MOTHER: Well, if they are you're going to be disappointed. THOMAS: Not me, Mother. And you won't be either. MOTHER: I've been disappointed so many Times. It's a way of life with me. THOMAS: Let me tell you about Jesus ...

1308. Back in the Swing

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... died. Instead, divine judgment fell upon the child, according to the ideas of that day, as a special favor to David. It could have been worse. In this narrative we have a tragic death; a movement back into the routine of life; and a new life - a new promise of hope. 1. A tragic death It always hurts when a child dies. Even in this case, when David expected it - and knew he deserved it - it hurt deeply. He hurt so much when he knew his first child was going to die that he cast himself upon the ground, and ...

1309. Paul of Tarsus

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... local church and civil leaders here in Jerusalem. His chances for fair treatment would appear to this reporter to be iffy at best. LECTOR: Dear Timothy - I wish I could see you again. Much as I’d like to be able to report otherwise, I’m less and less hopeful of ever getting out of Rome alive. They promise to review my case, but nobody takes action. I think someone - or some group of people - may have gotten to the powers-that-be and succeeded in persuading them not to permit my case to come up. In the ...

1310. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... to have been thrust by history into a role from which I cannot escape. Now black people all over the south look to me to give them hope and to lead the way to a better future. Now they’re asking me to move to Atlanta to help organize things more broadly. I feel ... Dr. King met with President Kennedy at the White House. ANTAGONIST: The man really was a dreamer. It’s pure idealism to hope for that sort of cooperation. There’s too much hatred in the world for anything like that. PROTAGONIST: I once heard a ...

1311. God's Verdict Upon The World (Looking At The World Through The Eyes of God)

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... all the advances that mankind has made there were very dark days that lie ahead. The age of enlightenment promised through science, medicine, industry to usher mankind into a utopian society. Indeed it looked like it might actually happen and then WWI slipped in to dash these hopes. Nationalism reared its ugly head and brought man’s head down in shame. The thought then after the war was that it was the war to end all wars. One last final dying breath of man’s inhumanity to man. We had gotten it out of ...

1312. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... light and beauty. The drenched horizon was renewed. It was a different world. But that is not all. The sun, or the Power and Love back of the sun, broke in upon my friend’s life and awareness in a way that cannot be explained. New life, new hope, new joy, new adequacy, new power, new peace flooded into him. Life had begun again; God had moved in. Since that experience he has been a new man, a new psychiatrist. a new husband, a new father. A new dynamic has entered his ministry of healing. Everyone notices ...

1313. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... ! how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on prince’s favours! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have - And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.5 Wolsey’s parting advice to young Cromwell may be good advice to all: "I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels." A dying Cardinal then made his last confession: Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my ...

1314. Power

Mark 10:35-45

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... trained to do. TIM: Of course. You wouldn't have promoted me if you didn't think I could produce. CARL: True enough, but I also hoped you would be willing to learn. TIM: I am. CARL: But not from the Bible. TIM: You don't expect me to have a Bible ... it work? TIM: Great. You helped me reach my full potential. CARL: In that particular job. You haven't reached your full potential yet. TIM: I hope not. CARL: I'm always here to serve you. TIM: Hey, that's right. You are, aren't you? CARL: Right. Just like you have ...

1315. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... be indifferent toward us. We are in his hands for all eternity. Nothing is too great, no sacrifice too much for him to make, when the welfare of his children is in question. For God is our Father. The second characteristic of fatherhood is faith and hope in the child to the very last. Even when the wonderful dreams that the father has dreamed for his son have turned out to be illusions, even nightmares, when the boy has brought sorrow and disgrace instead of joy and recognition, the father’s heart still ...

1316. The Shadow Ascending

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... what has been done in the past or will be done in the future. He also knows that the one sure means of relieving his now intensified pain, of solving his problems and achieving a sense of being all right, is to drink again. And this is what he does, hoping perhaps in the back of his head that he will be able to get the benefit of drinking and be able this time to control it and its consequences. The play suddenly returns to the first act without closing the curtain. If the first two acts are acted out as ...

1317. Jerusalem, Emmaus and the Meaning of Life

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... love this old man’s demonstration of ego integrity, "Hello young man," he said, "do come in." Mr. D., at this moment, feels to be at home, to have returned to Jerusalem, and with him we have the privilege of recognizing Christ’s presence. Mr. D. gives us hope as Christ did for the disciples, that we have recognized him in conversation. Though at times we are like the disciples: foolish and slow of heart we know we like to eat, talk and listen and have faith that we too will recognize him on our journey ...

1318. How to Profit from Prophets

Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... are good. Increased business here and around the world can mean a better life for all. Real estate once again may appreciate to yield a good profit. But the profits from the prophets are even better, giving success to the soul, enlightenment to the mind, and hope for our troubled spirits. After all, what does it profit us if we gain the world and lose our souls? Always and forever the prophets bring salvation to the soul. And there is no greater profit than that! Prayer Almighty God, Spirit of the universe ...

1319. The Long Lonliness

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... that far-off divine event toward which the whole creation moves. If our life is a grand work of art or a gigantic symphony, it will come to climax in the Second Coming, the Second Advent of the Christ. Just as the First Advent gave us assurance and hope, so the promise of the Second Advent should infuse us with confidence and a sense of purpose. True, as we get older we do have a tendency to "collapse into our genes," into our genetic stream, and to gain a "furniture figure" where our chest drops into our ...

1320. The Unexpected Universe

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... San Francisco, or farther to Honolulu or Hong Kong or Beijing or Tokyo or Moscow or St. Petersburg -- travel on and you will find them, monuments not to Alexander the Great, but monuments to King Jesus, working, living monuments, beautiful monuments, full of people with hope in their eyes, with prayers and songs on their lips and love and peace in their hearts. And they are all a part of it -- the unexpected universe, the surprise of the ages, the startling awakening to a new way of life and reality, never ...

1321. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... power that has reached across two thousand weary years" (Eiseley, op. cit., p. 179). And now it is for us on this holy night, to bow the knee in adoration, and to open the door wide to our inner galaxy, where mystery waits to ignite a cold mind, and where hope beckons to a defeated spirit, and where most of all, love would flood our inner beings with love for God and love for one another. So with Phillips Brooks we pray: O holy child of Bethlehem Descend to us, we pray; Cast out our sin and enter in; Be ...

1322. The Future Shapes the Present

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and day we will need to have others praying for us that we may be supplied what is lacking in our faith. We so desperately want our God and our Lord Jesus to clear the way for us through our commercialism, insensitivity, and violence, so the confident message of hope in God’s future can come to us. We will sing the songs. We will light the candles. We will embrace the choirs and the ministers as they come again to cheer us through another season and supply what is lacking in our faith. We will preach of ...

1323. Role Reversal: Baby and Priest

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... butt of crude jokes. Having been “flashed down” on the highway of life, yet trying to remain serene and controlled in the face of it all, we thumb through our briefcases full of excuses, offerings, cantatas, lists of good deeds and scraps of Scriptures, hoping our hearing will go well. The great High Priest takes a seat as all rise. Papers in hand, we approach the bench in fear and trembling. The great High Priest glances down. “Don’t need your offerings, though they helped your spirit,” he calmly ...

1324. A Fresh Start

Joel 2:28-32, Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... how you felt or feel those times when all the options seem closed. Are you in touch with those feelings? If so, you know how the people of Judah whom Joel addressed felt. What did Joel say to them? What does he say to us and to those without hope in our society? First Joel told the Judeans and us to lament for our situation, to repent, and to worship (Joel 1:13-14). (Joel himself was apparently a great advocate of Temple worship in Jerusalem and its cult of sacrifice.) Joel’s point, like those of most Old ...

1325. Out of the Box

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... weren’t our kind of people. God forgive us for the sin of selfishness. Peter and the apostles believed that what they had was too good to keep and that Christ did not call them to keep the Good News to themselves but to share a message of joy and hope with all people. This meant people with whom they had the least in common! What about you and your church? Do you have an open door policy of whosoever will let him or her come? Is your church for members only? Is it a country club, a private club, where ...

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