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1351. How To Be Used By God

1 Samuel 16:14-23

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... I grew up as a sort of leader," says Crocker. "I had always been the one to swim a river and carry a rope across." - Irving Stone* (*Men to Match My Mountains, Doubleday, 1956, p. 144.) True leadership will surface. In our narrative today, we see how David’s ability was emerging. We need to be patient about progress. If we are thinking too much about tomorrow, today may not be lived as well as it could be. As a student I need to concentrate on studies, not my first parish. Settled in at my first parish, I ...

1352. An Unusual Legacy

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... I don’t think so," he replies slowly; "I’m having a hard enough time being just plain Charlie Brown." I love it! I love it! God does not expect us to be persons other than ourselves. But he does expect us to make full use of our given abilities and to live lives of integrity and faithfulness wherever we are in our little corner of the earth. Even though he slipped and fell short of perfect leadership, David gave us a glimpse of "what could be." And God was able to use his leadership to move his kingdom ...

1353. Francis of Assisi

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... what you asked in your last brief note by simply saying: I am no thief. Of course my father was upset. But let us keep things in perspective. Everything my father has he first received from God as a good gift - [read the following phrase with irony] including his incredible ability to make money! But our task, as I see it now more and more, is to assist Christ in distributing the wealth he’s given to some of us, so that it reaches the rest of us. That’s why I’ve spent the money that I realized from ...

1354. The Yo-Yo

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A yo-yo Lesson: God has given us different abilities that we can use and enjoy. This thing I’m playing with today is called a yo-yo. Have you ever seen a yo-yo before? A yo-yo is fun to watch. Now I want to show you what a yo-yo is. It’s two round pieces of ...

1355. The Whip of War

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Brett Blair

... use war to accomplish his will? It is because our world is a world, which is governed by the aggressive use of force. God could have, if he so desired, gone in and changed the heart of Goliath. But he did not because he will not violate our created ability to choose freely. We are not his computers we are his children. Some of these children choose to live lives of destruction, others lives of peace. God will bring justice to both. And justice must be served at times in the theatre of war. It would be the ...

1356. The Gospel in Two Words

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

... ; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. As important to the Christian life as is a finely tuned moral sense or even a broad sense of commitment, even more important is the ability to invest yourself, to expend yourself, to give yourself away. One cannot do that and be closed. Christian living calls for liberality, zeal, and cheerfulness in exercising the gift that God has given us. Christ cannot be served guardedly or with caution. Thus ...

1357. The Orphan

John 14:15-31

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... someone about love, even the love of God, is a poor substitute for loving that person. Summary: Dale is an orphan and is feeling the pangs of not having a loving parent. Wyn tries to help, but it turns out to be just talk. Wyn has no ability to love Dale, and Dale is left feeling worse. Playing Time: 3 minutes Setting: Your church Props: None Costumes: Whatever is appropriate for your church Time: The present Cast: Dale -- the orphan Wyn -- Dale's companion WYN: (ENTERS WITH DALE) Want to go have some ice ...

1358. Where’s the Power?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... her; and who in the world knows (really) how they decide which girl to give it to? They never pick the ones I like. All the young men who try to be professional athletes want to make the team, but most of them get cut because of their size, their ability or lack of it, and their injuries. All the men running for President of the United States want to be President but they get the Office, not because of their great desire for it, but rather because a majority of the voters give it to them. Just wanting to do ...

1359. Who Does He Think He Is?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... by giving us something we can see. After forgiving the sins of the paralytic, he asked the people there, "What’s harder to do? To forgive sins or to make a cripple walk?" That’s a good question, isn’t it? Both are far beyond our ability; both are humanly impossible; both require a miracle; both take God’s power. So, Jesus said, "To let you know that I do have power to forgive sins," he said to the paralytic, "Get up and walk!" And immediately he walked. Jesus does the impossible, even forgiving ...

1360. Coping When It Seems Impossible

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... me for years that ‘You can’t kill a happy man.’ " He continues, "Happy people rarely get sick and tend to recover quickly when they do get sick. The unhappy person is the target for any and every kind of illness." Larson goes on to share the secret of his ability to cope with life: "We Christians, of all people, have a good reason to hope. Hope is a gift of God based on the belief that God created us and is our friend and helper. If I believe in a God who cares about me and enters into my life ...

1361. Faith As Healing Energy

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force is not independent of the belief system, which can translate expectations into physiological changes. Nothing is more wondrous about the 15 billion neurons in the human brain than their ability to convert thoughts, hopes, ideas, and attitudes into chemical substances. Everything begins, therefore, with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all." Cousins insists that pain is not always an indication of poor health, but that "most ...

1362. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... It shall forever beckon me onward. I was fortunate to know Dudley and Alice Ward. Dr. Ward headed the area of Social Concerns for the United Methodist Church at the National level. They were both outstanding individuals of unusual intelligence, training, and leadership ability. For this reason I was deeply impressed by their book, I Remain Unvanquished. Alice Ward was struck down by cancer. In the early stages of the disease, she had a death experience. She saw Christ; she wanted to stay in that other world ...

1363. Spiritual Blindness

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... We have been blind! Rather than accept our associates, neighbors, friends who have impaired vision, we have carefully walked around them - physically and psychologically - thinking we are kind. In reality we should have accepted their condition in the same way they accept ours. Ability To See I am a visual person. Everything in my personal experience is visualized. In my "mind’s eye" I see everything I read - novels, history, biography. I am the only American who does not own a camera. I travel in Europe ...

1364. Calming Of The Tempest

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Brett Blair

... reply. "I am not the woman with the great faith, but I am the woman with the little faith in the great God." I do not believe that in the boat that day on the Sea of Galilee that Jesus rebuked the disciples for their lack of faith in his ability to calm the storm. What I believe is that Jesus is disappointed that they do not yet understand who he is. If they understood that, then they would not fear the sea. When you find yourself in the midst of a storm and the boat is sinking, may I suggest ...

1365. All God's Children

Proverbs 10:1-32

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

Call to Worship We are all God's children who deserve to live in peace and abundance. We are all God's partners whose skills and abilities can share the struggle to raise the level of compassion in the world. We are all one family called to lift up the crushed members of God's family. Collect We renew our covenant to work together as the people of your realm, O God, to make this world a ...

1366. Letting Go

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... meaning." To free one’s awareness from one’s constricted way of being in the world also calls for a heightened awareness of just how one is in the world, the awareness of the way of relating that has developed over the years. Such awareness comes through our ability to see ourselves as others might see us, and to hear their response to our way of being in the world. We discover that we do not listen to others, that we are intimidating, that we deny our anger, that we are frightened. There are those who ...

1367. The Struggle of Faith

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... to life. There is a woman who has suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years, and she is delivered when she touches only the fringe of his garment. There are two blind men who are enabled to see, and there is a dumb demoniac to whom Jesus gives the ability to speak. And in the tenth chapter, Jesus sends out the twelve with authority and power to heal the sick, to cast out demons, to set at liberty those who are bound. John knows this. He knows it all. The text says, "John heard in prison about the deeds ...

1368. The Choice Is Always Ours

Ecclesiastes 9:1-12

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... price tags are for all of life. How are we going to handle honest questions such as, "Is this race worth winning?" "Is this activity worth the investment it demands?" "Does my performance open my eyes to some of my illusions about my own abilities - or those of the majority of my peers?" A seventeenth-century English writer wrote this telling line: "I have lost all and found myself." What the Christian life is about is the riddance of the superfluous intensities of life’s misdirected energies. Life’s ...

1369. Like Trees Walking

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... each other without reservation, and it was Jesus who showed us the way and it is the Holy Spirit who guides us when we are ready. What then can we do when we leave this church this morning to test our sight and take the first steps toward improving our ability to see and hence to feel, that we may pursue the Christian way and not avoid it? 1) Look at the person nearest you and see whether he or she looks like a statistic or "a case" to you or whether he or she looks like a friend whom you ...

1370. Smart, Wise, and Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... , to expose the privileged, and to intimidate the powerful. My failures need not continue to separate me from God’s love and forgiveness - he may even help me to help others learn from my mistake. A third characteristic of true wisdom is the ability to learn from anyone. I suspect that there has been more than one conversation this week about what sections of certain courses were open by the time some of us got through the registration line. We probably depend too much on reputations - sometimes thinking ...

1371. The Shadow Ascending

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... a male lead, we will see that he is generally speaking between the ages of thirty to 55, he is probably smart, skillful, and often successful in his work, though the goals he has in the back of his head might be a bit grandiose and beyond his ability. We might well describe him as being sensitive, lonely, and tense. He handles his dependency in a more immature way than most adults, though he might generally act in a particularly independent way to deny this fact. He hasn’t made peace with who he is. He is ...

1372. A Lack of Feeding in the American Dream

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... or inclined to seek help for any troublesome issues. When any of these assumptions or dreams or fairy tales are in operation, our self-esteem cuts us off from the feeding available from persons who are willing to give to us regardless of IQ, looks, sports ability, total acreage, or whatever. We get in the way of our own feeding. I mean, we as adults when I say it now. Our parents may have paved the way for our mentality as well as the greater culture, but once we grow beyond the immediate influences ...

1373. Be Careful How You Live

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... facts or even experience; this is simply growing in knowledge. Many people, especially older people, make the mistake of thinking they are wiser simply because they have been around longer and have acquired more knowledge. But listen to Webster’s definition: Wisdom is the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting. Paul is right then when he tells the Ephesians in verse 17: do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Wisdom discerns between what is right and what is wrong ...

1374. A Voice to be Heard

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... of clay crumbled in the presence of his thunderous voice. People who had been living miserly, self-centered lives looked in the mirror and saw themselves for the first time as they really were -- as Ebenezer Scrooges. Talented people burying their abilities beneath trivial activities were summoned to the stage, front and center, for performance in keeping with their gifts. In the secret reaches of bank vaults and stock portfolios, the wealthy were reminded, "Unto whom much is given, much is required." The ...

1375. Winter Warmth

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... for the care you show us by sending your son. We offer you our gratitude by not hoarding your love but sharing it throughout all aspects of our life. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession The hunger in our own spirits sometimes overwhelms our ability to recognize the impoverished spirit in another. As you draw near to us in this season of Advent, O God, let us also draw near with strength-giving kindness to those around us. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Hymns “It Came Upon The Midnight Clear” “Break ...

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