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1351. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... s words in Thessalonians: "May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and hope which we don't deserve, comfort your hearts with all comfort, and help you in every good thing you say and do." THERE ... can. St. Paul writes, "May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and hope which we don't deserve, comfort your hearts with all comfort, and help you in every good thing you say and do." No ...

1352. Faith In Conflict

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... came to realize how much more needs to be done." She was teaching 7th grade math and working toward a degree in social work, when she volunteered at Mercy Hospice, working with the homeless. Later, she would found a shelter for women, called Women of Hope. Other things followed. Along the way she met Joan Dawson-McConnon, at that time a graduate student with a degree in accounting and soon to have a master's in taxation. Joan had the same Christian impulses as Sister Mary and soon they were working together ...

1353. Right Choices

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... , then watch out! And here is the last thing we need to see: THERE IS ONE WHO SAYS TO US, "YOU ARE A WINNER. THERE IS HOPE FOR YOU. BY MY GRACE , YOU CAN DO IT." In a PEANUTS strip Lucy is parked in her psychiatric booth, and Charlie Brown is sharing his ... . There is One who tells us that our lives are special, that the choices we make do matter, that there is always hope. 1. Myron S. Augsberger, THE COMMUNICATOR'S COMMENTARY MATTHEW (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1982), pp. 172, 173, 176. 2. Randy Scott, COUNTRY ...

1354. Where Are Your Chickens?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... to help pay for the fees associated with processing and transporting the foods. To date, Tomevi, who is 88-years-young, by the way, has collected more than $2,600 worth of pennies and is working toward a fourth mile of pennies. She says she hopes to continue raising money this way indefinitely. (5) Nothing dramatic. Just an 88-year-old woman helping God make miracles happen in people's lives. She could be sitting in front of the television all day. She could sit around reminiscing about how grand things ...

1355. The Problem With Keeping All The Rules

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... that he would see his need of God. They spent some time talking about the cross. They talked about guilt and forgiveness. The eyes of the murderer seemed to soften a bit. Certainly there was a hint of hope when they talked about heaven, something not even the executioner could take away from him. But as they began to talk about conversion, Anibal's face began to harden. He was uneasy with words like, “I've been wrong," or “forgive me." Saying “I'm sorry" was out of character ...

1356. Dark Shadows

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's failure. If it's not failure, it's aging. If it's not aging, it's death. There is nowhere we can run--nowhere we can hide. All of us will have our wilderness experience. All of us will spend some time in the dark shadows. But there is hope. Moses went to the Lord with the children of Israel's complaints. And the Lord told Moses to go to a rock in Horeb and to strike the rock with his rod "and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink." The children of Israel asked ...

1357. Are You Ready For Your Inheritance?

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... we can count on--an inheritance from God. At some point in our lives, many of us start to feel like we are losing more than we are gaining. We experience the loss of friendships, jobs, health and strength, new ambitions, respect or status. Where do we find hope for tomorrow? In the realization that we can never lose the grace and mercy and love of God. And someday--when we see Christ face to face--we will experience the awesome fullness of God in all His glory, and that glory will never end! That is God ...

1358. Swords Into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... Jerusalem would be like someday. It would be the most important place in all the earth and people would come from all over the world to worship there. There would be no more wars or armies. Doesn't that sound wonderful? That hasn't happened yet but it gives us hope. Just like Isaiah saw hope for a better world in the future, Advent and Jesus' birth gives us ...

1359. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... to make a cross.] That much. No other God has scars in His hands from stopping to help a stranger beside the road. Love is the heart of faith--particularly for the follower of Jesus. And that brings us to the final thing to be said: Jesus' love is the hope of the world. It's amazing. We still live in a world of ancient hatreds. It is a world in which might continues to make right. It is still a world where an eye is exchanged for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Can we not see that ...

1360. Receiving Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... stopped laughing, he explained that he was, in fact, a priest. By this time, the bonds he’d established were strong enough to make them stay; Mario had won their respect. And so the House of the Urchin was established, where young throwaways could find a home, hope, and the streetwise spiritual guidance of Mario Borrelli. (7) Christ is not asking most of us to make that drastic a change in our lifestyle, but he is asking us to be in mission. There is no other path to true happiness. To be in mission in ...

1361. Praise the King with a Song of Joy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... way we conquered our enemy and overcame the power of death around us.” (6) When the angels sang their chorus of joy on the night of Jesus’ birth, they were singing a song that would conquer their enemies and overcome the power of death. They were singing a song of hope, of joy, of life, of peace. We are being invited to join in the holy song that began in creation and continues in Christ. And it will be our theme song in heaven, so we would do well to get plenty of practice singing it here below. In the ...

1362. If Christ Had Not Come

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.” (I Corinthians 15:15-19) Noticing that the sad-faced gentleman is about to break under his load of grief and sorrow, I instinctively begin to quote to Him the comforting words of Jesus: “Do not let your ...

1363. Good Old What’s-His-Name

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... yourself to us and not to the world?” A strong tradition suggests that this man, too, was tinged with Zealot sympathies. He was still looking for a visible kingdom of God on earth, led by Jesus, who would slay His foes and lift high His friends, and he hoped to be one of the Twelve who would sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Cf. Matthew 19:28) But Jesus’ answer caught this fellow off guard, and may well be taken as a rebuke to his violent Zealot sympathies. Jesus said to him, “If a ...

1364. Trouble: A Required Course in LIfe

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... stronger because of our facing the trouble. What He did for Jesus He''ll also do for you. Secondly, the great assurance is that the Christian journey provides hope for the struggle. The Christian life is not all bright sunshine. It is not hope without a struggle. On the other hand, it is not a struggle without hope. The Christian journey is hope in the midst of the struggles--and strength resulting because of the struggle. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, "Muscles never develop and grow unless they ...

1365. King of the Road

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... knows that God loves me. It made me want to cry." (1) As you receive the Elements of Holy Communion, may it help you to remember that you are a child of God--loved by Him--and that He knows you by name. Be encouraged--and may a dream, a hope, a vision, that is dead--now come alive because of the encouraging words of Christ. Secondly, this Gospel lesson informs and shares with us that we are not alone--for it is the risen Christ who walks with us. One night in 1945, General Dwight D. Eisenhower walked along ...

1366. The Bible: The Book No Other Can Match!

2 Timothy 3:16

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... a variety of voices, both from the past and present, from persons cutting across the theological spectrum, from critics and committed Christians alike, to testify why the Bible is the book no other can match and why we should spend more time with the Book of all books. I hope I have planted a seed today to spark your interest to learn and for you to know the Savior in a special way. I want to close with this story. I heard Dr. Fred B. Craddock this past summer at Albright College tell the story of a young ...

1367. Waiting and Witnessing

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... . A husband and wife wait for their child to be born. Middle-agers wait for retirement. The longer we wait with nothing seeming to happen, the more impatient and discouraged we become. Simeon had probably been to the temple hundreds of times without finding his hopes fulfilled. I can picture other people coming up to Simeon and saying to him, "Give it up, old man. You're never going to see any messiah in your lifetime. You are a hopeless fool. Forget your dream." There probably were times when Simeon did ...

1368. So Great a Love

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... in a place where only hopelessness and death are known. There are so many human beings who cannot imagine what it would be like to have hope, to be loved, to be shown mercy, to know a God who has so great a love, that even their hell is not the last ... in Ephesians of a different kind of God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. A God who brings life in the midst of death, hope in the midst of despair, love in the midst of hatred, generosity in the midst of selfishness. So great a love, that doesn't wait ...

1369. Good News!

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... are now large trees with deep roots for the purpose of displaying God's glory. The people will now be able to repossess the land that was destroyed and taken from them. All of their ruin and brokenness will be restored. We have in these scriptures a picture of the hope of Advent. God will keep his word. Our redeemer will come and take away the funeral dirge from our lips. In its place he will give us a song of praise. Too many people are living dressed in the garment of death, but the good news of Advent is ...

1370. The Right Word For Memorial

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is who bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." So that's the memorial word. Jesus Christ alive -- and hopefully alive in us. That's what our sister- and brother-pilgrims would say to us. But how do we appropriate that word? How do we bring those silent voices -- those now quiet lives into the living present. "This is Life Eternal," He said, "to know the Father and to know ...

1371. Servants Without Portfolio

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and now in our time and in our place. Henry Nowan, one of the persons whose writing challenge, judge, confirm, and give me hope, has provided a fresh and vivid metaphor for what it means to us moderns to be living Christs. It’s the metaphor of ... all our life. But the truth of it is not yet alive among us. I offer two signals which may put the truth in fresh light. Hopefully in such a clear light that the radicalness of it will cause us to consider and wrestle with it anew. The first signal that may enable ...

1372. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , but her stirring brought me to alertness. I had the feeling that my mother wanted to talk. And she wanted to talk about real things, not just to make time passing conversation. How did she feel? What was she thinking? There was a lot of deep sharing. I hope I will never forget that experience, and what my mother said. When you give your life to the Lord, son, everything else has to be alright, no matter what happens. It was her way of expressing confidence that she was OK in God’s hands. She had already ...

1373. Soul Drain

Psalm 63:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... life, not being cut off from the root. Sharing in the life of Christ and allowing him to share in ours, growing in him and living our lives in and for and through him. So Paul affirmed the answer to soul drain – Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the hope of glory. The one possibility of that splendor, which is so lacking in most of our lives; the only source of divine vitality, which is life indeed. If you abide in me – that’s the big IF, which stands between our barrenness, our soul drain and ...

1374. He Is Not Here He Is Risen

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was wrapped in a linen shroud and placed in a borrowed tomb. The cries of the mob, the shrieks of the crowd, the cursing of the thieves all the sounds still rang in their ears. The stone was a grim reminder of Jesus’ death. They had no thought or hope of resurrection. (Joe A. Harding, “Let Easter Happen to You”, March 30, 1986) Can you feel with them? Who will roll away the stone? And what about the stones in our lives? Our own death? Or the death of someone we love? I’m sure the stone sealing the ...

1375. The Rest Of The Story

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and dust you shall eat all the days of your life" (Gen. 3:14). But whether a snake, a dragon, a serpent -- it's obvious that Satan assumes many forms -- and the main truth to recognize is that Satan is present in the world. However you picture evil, I hope that you recognize that evil has an objective existence. We can't think of it simply as a vague, negative force in our life. It's active -- fighting desperately in every cunning way possible to deceive us, to pull us down, to destroy us, to get us to eat ...

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