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1426. "The Return"

Drama

... firmly closes her Bible.) You’ve done just fine. You have identified me. Perhaps now you should stop reading for just a while and look carefully at what is and will go on right here around you. Liberal Lady Excuse me, I couldn’t help but overhear this, and I’d ... you know who this is? Child Sure I know, it’s Jesus; he won’t mind. Jesus No, it’s all right - but do be more careful. (The child sits in a pew.) Liberal Lady As I was saying, I knew you right off, the minute I saw you. The thing that has ...

1427. Security: Deeply Personal

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

... us both one and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility" (Ephesians 2:13-14), speaks to our plight with gravity and yet tremendous hope. "He is our peace" is the keynote for all immersed in our Lord’s call to be One. We are not being cared for by institutions or the most finely-tuned committees and executives. He looks after us and thereby gives us a secure approach to all that life offers. Join me for another sign. God Personally Will Judge "Behold, I, I myself will judge ..." gives no room for ...

1428. A Brass Cross and a Barometer

Luke 6:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... exceptions are allowed, become oppressive and bad. It is wonderful if most dentists, doctors, and pharmacists can be free from work on Sundays to worship with their family of faith and to rest. But a few of these professionals have to be on duty to take care of emergencies. Is it proper for a Christian to drink alcoholic beverages? Some point out that Jesus drank wine. He even made it on one occasion. My friends in a certain other large denomination insist that the wine he drank was non-alcoholic, but I can ...

1429. Shipwrecked on Malta

Acts 27:1-12, Acts 27:13-26, Acts 27:27-44

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CSS

... the end of the season for extended travel, the group took the first available vessel from Caesarea - a ship which Luke carefully identifies as a coastal freighter from Adramyttium, a small seaport in northwest Asia on the Aegean Sea. This ship was making ... or does it add to the authenticity of the account? How does it relate to Luke’s reputation as a good journalist and careful reporter? 2. Though Paul was an apostle and a tentmaker, he did not hesitate to offer advice about travel conditions. As it happened ...

1430. This God’s For Real!

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

... addresses us. It is the benefit enjoyed by a confession of the presence in our universe of One who is no less than an eternal, Living God. A God who takes on flesh and blood - who deals with us when and where we are hurting, who embraces us, who cares enough to come in person - changes this mad prison into a marvelous arena in which we can go exploring in a grand adventure guided by the greatest pioneer of all. There will be blood and tears up there around the bend and through the darkness. But the stories ...

1431. Midnight Turned Into High Noon

Isaiah 42:10-17, Isaiah 42:18-25

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Barbara Brokhoff

... feared they would not accept him. The actor wanted to cheer him up, so he took him by the hand and said, playfully, "Let’s hide behind the curtain and they won’t know where we are!" The boy looked at him disconsolately and said, "Suppose they don’t care?" God does care about you and the path you tread that seems so devoid of light. Do you think that for a moment, you, his child, could ever have a problem that God, in his own good time, could not sweep out of the way? And if your difficulty must remain ...

1432. Echoes of Eternity

Matthew 10:24-32

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Dennis Kastens

... of us? For one thing, it certainly demands that each of us give every possible consideration to the welfare of our own soul. "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Matthew 16:26) It demands that we care for our souls just as earnestly as we do our bodies. We eat three square meals a day (sometimes even between meals) to provide our temporal bodies with sufficient nourishment. Well, what about our soul? Is it well-fed or do we skip opportunities to worship and ...

1433. Begging Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

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Richard F. Bansemer

... image. Let him fade. Let him drift away like a vapor, Let him go as we’ve let so many other pictures go: the children with bloated stomachs in foreign lands; the children asleep on a sidewalk, abandoned by a parent either too poor to feed, or too weak to care anymore. Turn the page, let the mind drift, but do not look and do not stop unless you’re ready to make a judgment. It was no longer possible to ignore him. The page wouldn’t be turned, the picture wouldn’t fade, and he started to move, and he ...

1434. The Disciples’ Dumb Dream

Mark 9:33-37

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Richard F. Bansemer

... of us is likely to wonder Why? Why bother? I don’t see the point. I give and give and give and no one seems to care. I think I’m being taken for granted. Maybe we are. Maybe we don’t get the praise and support each of us deserves. Saying thank ... talent to make a difference at our jobs, it only the boss would listen. Most of us think that children are for parents to care for. That’s not the way it really works. After all, a good percentage of our property tax educates children we’ll never meet. ...

1435. "When E. F. Hutton Talks"

Jeremiah 26:1-24

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... fall into the trap of investing too heavily in ritual and into a building. There are, besides these, other places that we get caught today as well. Let me share a few of them with you. We constantly see in our society the great call for planning. We are to carefully plan our futures by the high school and college that we attend. When we are hired into a job, we are to plan our career path with that company. At the age of forty, we are to begin to plan for our retirement. At fifty and sixty we begin to ...

1436. A Tale of Two Cemeteries

Matthew 5:1-12

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George Bass

... in Italy is told and taught the story. It makes All Saints’ Day at Campo Verano what it is today and probably will continue to be. Lawrence was one of the seven deacons of Rome; he was in charge of the treasury that had been provided to care for the poor and feed the hungry. The Roman emperor, Valerian, learned of it and demanded the money from the Pope (Sixtus), whom he martyred when his demand was refused. Three days later - August 10 - Lawrence was burned to death on a gridiron because he, too, would ...

1437. Lift High the Christ!

John 12:20-36

Sermon

George Bass

... me and just tell them you’ve already paid." A passenger said, "That driver ain’t gonna believe those boys." The driver said, "Now you folks know that I’m not supposed to leave this bus." A customer answered, "It’s all right, lady; we’ll take care of the bus." So the driver got off the bus, went back to the next bus, obtained some transfers, and the problem was solved. And a customer announced, "She’s new, but she’s gonna do all right." Vannorsdal says that the most important element in the ...

1438. The Joy of Sorrow?

Matthew 5:4

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... you are crushed in bereavement, you will have to have help in meeting the many callers. And later on, when you are looking through the cards and food and flower lists, you are amazed to discover that so many thought of you and let you know how much they cared. I have gone to such homes where the place has been filled immediately with friends who have come to help. Many times I have been asked if I know of anything that can be done for a bereaved or troubled family. How often have you heard someone say, "I ...

1439. Amazing Grace

Romans 3:21-31

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Robert G. Tuttle

... press on to take hold of that for which Christ took hold of me." Again, "Forgetting what is behind, reaching out for that which lies ahead ..." We have been so accustomed to the old life (selfishness, blindness), we will have to get used to the power and glory, love and caring of this new life, by grace. It is said when you go on a safari, you look and seek, but you cannot see the game. The guide points it out to you. One man in India admitted that it took him two years before he could see the game. Jesus ...

1440. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... quotes Baudelaire: "Only when we drink poison are we well. We want to ... to ... drown in the abyss - heaven or hell. Who cares? Through the unknown we will find the new." Great life doesn’t come out of falling. Great life comes out of ... not belong to myself alone. I cannot hurt myself without hurting others. I am all tied up in "the bundle of life" with others. People care about me; God cares. If those I admire most would be happy about this, the answer is "Yes!" 6. What will it do to my after self? Is ...

1441. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... cannot extract anything from you, then. Violence at that point becomes powerlessness and the sufferer holds the upper hand. He will inevitably frustrate and finally win out over the persecutor. That is a powerful hand to play, and it is, if you have followed this carefully, the hand of Christ! For is this not the story of the cross? How much people pushed on him - Pilate, Caiaphas, Herod, Annas - all threatened him with all sorts of things. But when life itself was no longer claimed by Jesus as so precious ...

1442. I WANT TO BE NOTICED

Illustration

John H. Krahn

How many hairs on a human head? Have you ever stopped long enough to count yours? Even to count the hairs on a balding head would be nearly impossible. Who cares anyway? God does! "Even the hairs on your head are all numbered," the Bible says. So intimate is God’s interest in you that he keeps a personal count of every hair on your head. Everyone goes through life wanting to be noticed. Few view life as a terminal illness. ...

1443. THE CROSS

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... set us on the positive pathway of a life with God. Our eyes need no longer be downcast; our head has no reason to be between our knees. We are no longer oppressed with our weighty sins, for we have been touched by none other than God. He has cared not just a little but powerfully. His power encountered our sin, and it was no more. His incredible desire to rescue us in spite of everything dispels even the worst sin. But we must be wise enough to permit ourselves and our sins to be encountered by that desire ...

1444. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... reasons. First, we find here a situation in which Christ acted without being asked to help. The blind man does not cry out in this story as did Bartimaeus, "Lord, have mercy upon me." It is Christ who takes the initiative and comes to him. This would suggest we be careful not to establish rigid patterns and programs of how God acts in every case. On one occasion our Lord says, "Ask and it shall be given unto you." That is true; but it is also true that God will give to us even when we do not ask. God is ...

1445. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... nears the end of his greatest letter, St. Paul declares once again that in relation to the Lord Jesus, we Christians are forever his. Everyone wants to belong to someone. None of us want to go through life alone, with no one to love us, no one to care. We human beings are social creatures, made for fellowship with one another, intended to live in a community. Without someone with whom we can share our lives and our love, our hopes and our hurts, we are incomplete. God was aware of this from the very first ...

1446. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... please the new owner. That is exactly the way it is when one gives his life to Christ, and lets Jesus come into his heart as Lord. He wants to do everything possible to please his new master. It is like a woman who had been under a psychiatrist’s care for many months. Finally the psychiatrist told her, "I cannot help you any more, but I want you to do something. Go sit at the foot of Niagara Falls for two hours. Stay until you are thoroughly wet from the mist. I want you to do this so you will ...

1447. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR PENTECOST

Drama

Tom Eberle

... with us during tragic moments. And in this community we have heard the promise of life that resurrects us from the most baffling and discouraging events of these gnarled times. Voice 3: The divorce rate soars, not just of marriages, but of person caring for person. The human communtiy crumbles and erodes. But something is stirring - your Spirit has drawn us together as a community called the church. We are finding arms linked around our arms. We are hearing the voice of the church speaking to the healing ...

1448. Are You Exercising Your Faith?

Mt 4:1-11 · Phil 3:12 · Gen 32:3

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... spheres of her life. It was for her a source of power, of direction, of orientation, and of peace. But all this wasn’t to last. For unknown reasons, this woman ceased to be religiously healthy. She ceased to grow in faith. And the less she cared for her faith, the more that faith became a reactionary one. Over the course of time her faith became more and more dogmatic, and she grew increasingly intolerant of fresh insight and opposing viewpoint. Often she would lash out, and when she spoke on religious ...

1449. Phoebe

Joel 2:28-32

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Warren Thomas Smith

... of the church have rendered service which is beyond calculation. We will never know - this side of the Jordan - the extent of Phoebe’s ministry. She and her daughters have gone to the ends of the earth in the name of Christ: teaching, nursing, caring for the exploited and downtrodden, visiting those in need, witnessing in word and deed, proclaiming the Word. Diaconate means serving and service. A young woman graduated from Simpson College and responded to the call of Christ to go to China. The Methodist ...

1450. A STORY OF THE FIERY FURNACE

Drama

Marcia Miller

... : But the King ruled ... COUNSELOR #1: He has ruled before, too. And we are still plagued by the Sons of Abraham and their one God. This has been going on for four years. And they keep gaining power. They will soon have your job, if we aren’t careful and they aren’t stopped. COUNSELOR #2: Not our jobs. We were their teachers. Can the students be wiser than their teachers? COUNSELOR #1: So some ask. Look at the facts, however. See what has been done. This may be our last chance. [The music is heard again ...

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