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1301. A Ministry of Encouragement

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... whom he calls, Blank. Blank--the kid who didn’t fit in. Blank’s not his real name, but Ben wants to protect his identity. Blank couldn’t do anything right. But one day, Blank’s grandfather took him fishing. Blank made an impressive catch. His grandfather told him he was “the best young fisherman (he) had ever seen.” After that, everything in Blank’s life changed. He fished constantly, and began winning tournaments and acclaim. His grades improved, and he became more sociable. Blank eventually ...

1302. Day People

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... heard of pastors who have fallen asleep during their own sermon. It hasn’t happened to me . . . yet. At least Schieffer had an excuse. He had worked all night. Pastor Ron Mehl tells about an associate pastor who was eager to make a good first impression at his new church. The night before his first Sunday, he was too anxious to sleep. The next morning, as he sat in the warm, dimly lit sanctuary, he became increasingly drowsy. At one point, he felt himself leaning further to one side. Then he remembered ...

1303. Amazing Grace

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... , an old movie called Ben Hur is shown on television. There are several memorable scenes throughout that movie:a great sea battle, exciting chariot races, an exposure to one of the most repugnant leper colonies that you will ever see, but nothing makes a stronger impression upon the viewer as does the scene of the crucifixion of Jesus. As you watch that movie, you hear the nails being pounded through flesh with a heavy hammer. Sound echoes through the air. As you continue to watch, you see them as they ...

1304. Things That Cannot be Taken Away

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... a little time and then vanishes." From the day we are born, as someone said, we begin our journey to the grave. In his book Spirit Life, D. Stuart Briscoe put it in a memorable way. He writes, "When I moved to the United States, I was impressed with the number of total strangers who visited my home to wish me well...they all sold insurance! One day my visitor was talking about the necessity to be prudent in the preparation for all possibilities. 'If something should happen to you, Mr. Briscoe--'' he started ...

1305. RISK-FREE RESOLUTIONS

Drama

Angela Akers

... made my resolutions, too. I resolve to learn to do a really cool air guitar and to cut my toenails! I''m serious. I''m doing it this year. No one''s goin'' to slow me down." Pastor: (trying not to be sarcastic) "I''m really impressed. You''ve obviously committed yourselves to making this a better year. I wish everyone had your vision. I just hope you don''t push yourselves too hard to achieve such high goals. Have a good day!" Family: "You, too. Thanks. Bye!" TV: "There you have it ...

1306. Making Sense of the Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... -layer sandwich with heaven above, hell below, and the earth sandwiched in the middle. But since the sixteenth century such a view is no longer tenable—except to members of the Flat Earth Society which still exists, I understand—although sometimes I get the impression that they are pulling our legs! I. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY THAT JESUS ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN? I would suggest that the truth of that language is not spatial, but spiritual. It is the language of what theologians call sacred myth. Myth, as ...

1307. To Hell and Back

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... wait? God loves you! Repent! (which means turn around) and let God receive you now! Does that mean that everyone will make it to heaven? Who knows? I don’t. I surely hope they do. The question is: would I be offended if they did? I get the impression that some Christians think of heaven as an exclusive club, and their enjoyment of it depends upon how exclusive it remains. They are sort of like Groucho Marx who said that he would never want to belong to a club which allowed people like him to be a member ...

1308. Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blond

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:16-17) The word literally mean, “we have received grace heaped on top of grace.” What on earth does the writer mean? What is “grace”? Some churches seem to give the impression that “grace” is something which God has given to the church, and which the church, in turn, ladles out to deserving parishioners who say the right prayers or do the right good deeds. Sometimes, as a child, I pictured grace as something which the ...

1309. Jesus: The Life of the Party

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to renounce and suffer, that they may come to die." That may describe some Christians, but it certainly does not describe Jesus Christ! Jesus would never have recognized that version of Christianity. "A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief," He was, certainly; but the primary impression he gave His contemporaries was that of unspeakable joy. "I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete," He said. (John 15:11) I can imagine that Jesus would have been an ...

1310. What about Spiritual Healing?

John 4:43-54

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , nurses, and medicine. God works His healing power through all of these. We are expected to cooperate with the laws of nature which God has put in our world. I can only feel sorrow for those misguided people who refuse medical care for their loved ones under the mistaken impression that to use human means to heal is to deny our faith in God. No, I think that God has given us doctors and nurses and medicine, and I thank God for them. Without them, many of us would not be alive today. We need all the help we ...

1311. Is Suffering Punishment for Sin?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... into the world because of the wrongdoing of others. We may protest that it is unfair, but that’s the way life seems to work. In the Letter to the Romans, St. Paul calls it the “wrath” of God. When I read the apostle’s words, I get the impression that, for him, God’s “wrath” is not simply God getting angry at the world; it is more like God’s moral ordering of the universe. God does not have to punish us for our sins, because sin is itself the punishment for sin. God’s “wrath” is the ...

1312. So Who Needs A Shepherd?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... them back home. Does that mean that, ultimately, God will get all of us? I have no special inside information on the subject, but I certainly hope so! I wouldn’t be the least offended if God did get us all, eventually. Would you? I get the impression from some preachers I have heard, especially those on television, that a part of what makes heaven “heaven” for them is the idea that some folks are going to hell. To me they seem more concerned about saving hell than saving people from hell. But Jesus ...

1313. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ? How so? Well, in the days of His flesh our Lord never preached outside of the little corner of the Middle East which we now call Israel, with perhaps possible small sidetrips to what is now Jordan and Lebanon. And He died without making much of an impression on the world, or even the Roman Empire of which Judea was only a minuscule part. But after His death and resurrection and the coming of His Spirit upon them His followers set out to tell all the world about Christ; and within three hundred years that ...

1314. Does God Give Out Blank Checks?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... person once said, “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, it is laying hold of God’s willingness.” Prayer does not change God’s mind, it releases God’s power. Now, I have to admit that there are some parables of Jesus which seem to give a different impression. In Luke 11 He tells of a man who goes next door to borrow a loaf of bread from his neighbor. Actually, he goes not to borrow one loaf, but three! And to make matters worse, it is in the middle of the night! The friend tells him, in ...

1315. Only the Neighbors’ Kid

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of the appeals of religious programs on television is that they are often such spectacular bits of show business. Everything seems to be so exciting and dramatic, with handsome football players and gorgeous actresses all putting their best foot forward to impress. Next to that, what goes on in church on a Sunday morning seems rather dull by comparison. Faithful church school teachers quietly sharing their faith in a crowded classroom; pastors praying for the special needs of parishioners they know, and in ...

1316. The Saint Who Played Second Fiddle

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... his friend John, who was one of the sons in the fishing company of “Zebedee and Sons,” if he would like to go with him to hear this new preacher. So, off they went to the Jordan. To make a long story short, the two young fishermen were so impressed by John the Baptist that they became his followers. Then one day John the Baptist pointed his followers toward another preacher, a man named Jesus of Nazareth, and said that this Jesus was “the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” (John 1:36 ...

1317. The Saint without a Name

Luke 6:12-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ve got to be kidding” kind of place. One would certainly imagine that the Messiah, when he came, would come out of Jerusalem or one of the other fortified store cities of Israel. But not so. He came from a small town. God does not seem to be as impressed with bigness as we seem to be. If there is one message which seems to ring throughout the Bible it is that God usually chooses the small and insignificant to get His work done in the world. He chose Israel, an insignificant nation, to be the instrument of ...

1318. Philip the First

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... undertaking. I must confess again that I do not find it easy to talk to strangers about faith matters. And I am a bit suspicious of those who do. Some of them sound much too glib and much too shallow to me. Philip gives one the impression of a man who really disliked having responsibility. He disliked making decisions. When you are a person with that kind of personality, William Barclay suggests, there are but two courses of action open to you. You either do nothing or you have the strength of character ...

1319. The Thirteenth Apostle

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... they had been sitting through meetings all day.....and by the end of the day they would have settled for almost anybody. “Let’s just get a warm body so that we can get the meeting over with.” Matthias’ election was done so quickly, one gets the impression that he became an apostle almost by accident. At any rate, it seems that at this point the early Church was not as sensitive as it might have been to the movement of the Spirit of God. For while they were flipping a coin to select Matthias, God ...

1320. Wining and Dining with Jesus

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , 1874 p. 36.) I can sympathize with the king. I have known some pretty unattractive people who call themselves Christians...haven’t you? People whose obnoxious and self-righteous zeal turns you off. I. JESUS HAD THE SAME PROBLEM. The Gospels give the impression that Jesus felt much more at home with the outcasts of the world: a motley group of tax-collectors, unorthodox religious folk, and women of easy virtue, than He did with the more pious God-fearing folk. His harshest words were usually reserved ...

1321. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a Canadian editor named James Taylor who writes: “There may be no 1990s. If present arms trends continue, World War III will begin sometime between 1988 and 1998.” You don’t have to share Taylor’s faith in computers which came up with that calculation, to be impressed by his statistics. At the moment the USA could wipe out the USSR 50 times and the USSR could take care of the USA 25 times. The stockpiles grow by 3 bombs per day. Around the world there is one soldier for every 250 people, but only ...

1322. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , if you could do this why don’t you stop all the bad in the world? Like war. Like diseases. Like famine. Like drugs. You think you’ve got problems, you should try being God sometime! On the other hand, whenever you’ve tried it, the results haven’t been impressive. I’ll try to believe more. Trust Me. (Signed) God.”

1323. What Do You Want Me to Do for You?

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... no sooner were the words uttered than the deed was done. And this man Bartimaeus did a little better than most folks whom Jesus helped. The record says that “immediately he received his sight and he followed him on the way.” (10:52) One gets the impression that this was the real message which Mark meant to convey. The following. That’s what it is all about. Following Jesus “on the way.” This man may have been physically blind, but his spiritual sight was keen. And so he had the right answer when ...

1324. The Lord Has Need

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... THERE ARE THINGS WHICH THE LORD DOES NEED. John Wesley was, perhaps, the most brilliant man of the 18th century. He read eight languages, wrote some 440 books and pamphlets, and had an intellectual curiosity far beyond any of his peers. But not everyone was impressed. One woman wrote to him: “Mr. Wesley, I have been instructed by the Lord to tell you that He has no need of your learning.” To which Wesley replied, “Madame, while I have no direct word from the Lord on this matter, I feel constrained ...

1325. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... named John Newton. Let me tell you about John Newton. He was born in 1725, the son of a Mediterranean sea captain. His mother died when he was seven. He quit school at age 10 and went to sea with his father at age 11. At 18 he was “impressed,” compelled by force to enlist on a British man-of-war. He was en route to becoming an officer when he deserted, was caught, was whipped publicly, and put in irons. Before long, he found himself on a slave ship, almost a slave himself. Eventually he became captain ...

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