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1426. Amazing Grace

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . My own experience of being dealt with by the grace of God is revealing (though it comes differently to different people). First, there was given the grace of knowledge. I saw myself as I was. I was living in my own way with little awareness of God, with little concern for others. I faced sickness and possible death, and I knew I couldn't handle it. The truth about myself and life took hold of me and I was miserable. Second, there was given the grace of struggle. There was so much in me that had to be made ...

1427. Called to Be Saints

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... one way or the other, considering all the monumental things he has to do just to keep all creation going. It simply boggles my imagination to think that God would care about me in any way. Yet, time after time, the Scripture attests to God’s individual care and concern. Did you catch that in the First Lesson of the day? "The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name." (Isaiah 49:1b) Nobody is sure of exactly who this is that is called to the task outlined immediately after ...

1428. Discerning the Way of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... kinds of questions. It is a bigger question than the everyday kinds of questions about whether one should do this or that, for that matter. One daily encounters questions about whether a given action is good or bad or whether a particular deed is right or wrong. We are concerned, however, with asking about a whole style of life, a way of living, a path to journey on in our trip through life. How does one know which path is correct? It would be a disaster to travel a lifetime on a path and then find it did ...

1429. Journey to the Cross I: Jesus And The Demon-Possessed Man

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... . But then, he looked into his father’s eyes. Instead of anger or hostility, he saw there his father’s sympathy and concern; he saw there his father’s love and compassion. Then, instead of exploding into tears, the little boy suddenly burst into laughter. ... look at Jesus we see what God is like and what God wants us to be like! Jesus shows us the love, the compassion, the concern and the empathy in the Father’s eyes... and that’s the good news of our faith. Jesus reveals that God looks at us not ...

1430. The Necessity of Moral Commitment

Gen 3:1-24 · Is 28:15

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... just might have triggered a kind of chaos that could have started the upheaval of change." We are now moving somewhat beyond the peak of this madness toward a dawning, yearning hunger for some kind of dependable order. In reaction to all this, a group of concerned intellectuals met in New York in 1969. I remember how disturbed I was by their findings: "The world is absolutely out of control now, and it isn’t going to be saved by reason or unreason." Christians never give up that easily. God has not thrown ...

1431. A Thinking Person’s Thankful Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... we do. It means that our thankful prayers of love must become thoughtful deeds of love in our community and world. It means that prayer must be our first act each day, that obedience to the plainly stated commands of Jesus must be our first concern, and that our life’s passion must be to do all we can to make our community a community of love. Only as we understand that Christians are Christians first, and everything else second, can we understand Paul’s thoughts in this prayer of thanksgiving. Only ...

1432. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

Drama

Tom Eberle

... truth that we only live by dying - we only heal by being wounded. [pause] The altar is waiting for us, son. Son: I am ready for it. *Affirmation of Faith Take My Life, And Let It Be [Mother and son return to the first pew] Parish Concerns The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper The Offering and Doxology [During the Doxology the offering and bread and wine are brought forward and placed upon the altar.] [Mother and son return to the altar, and face the congregation.] Mother: The bread and wine are ready ...

1433. A SUNDAY OF THE PASSION [PALM SUNDAY] SERMON-DRAMA

Drama

Tom Eberle

... believes persuasion can be used to bring about certain changes in Roman policy. Zebedee: Is it not true that, in fact, Jesus has publicly said very little about the Roman situation, and that some members of your own group have privately expressed dissatisfaction concerning this? Judas: We have our own varying opinions about this. I believe it is only natural and healthy to have some disagreement among ourselves, but it has not led to any serious friction. Scroll: Jesus has not been publicly critical of the ...

1434. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... could arrange for an interpreter to be present for the service so that they, too, could appropriate anew the comforting words of Scripture. Frankly, I was ashamed of myself for not thinking of this myself and that omission on my part points up the very concern about which we are speaking. In the person of Mr. Richard Corcoran, a Glens Falls resident who is equally at home in the world of sound and silence, we found a most sensitive and capable interpreter. How frustrating and lonely it would have been for ...

1435. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... the land that He promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." (Deuteronomy 30:19-20, GNB) We are not capable of omniscience. Ironically, we often do not move on what we already know. In the process of being religiously mature people, we become more concerned with meaning than with mechanics. To ask the how of Jesus’ miraculous birth, the how of his resurrection, the how of the bread for the many, the how of the water into wine - and not the why of Jesus’ miraculous birth, and not the why ...

1436. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... the growing child must integrate and accept the necessity of suffering in life. To take away the child’s suffering would be a way of disarming the child. The fact, however, that the parent cannot suffer in the child’s behalf does in no way diminish concern and love for the child, and the loving parent does everything possible through his presence to undergird the child. He hopes all good things for the child, and I find comfort as we wrestle with this thorny problem of God and human calamity that God is ...

1437. Jesus Makes House Calls

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... need, Jesus, too, makes house calls. He will come to you when you need him. This fact was demonstrated in today’s Gospel lesson concerning Jesus’ walk on the water. Jesus had been teaching and healing all day. He felt the need of being alone to pray. He sent ... a member, of the family has an operation, the hospital room is usually occupied by a member of the family to express love and concern. If there is a death in the family, relatives drop everything to be on hand to comfort. This is done out of love and ...

1438. The Most Misunderstood Gift

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... which cannot be uttered. Now, this is perhaps the most helpful and also the most neglected area of speaking in tongues! God allows us to wrestle in prayer on behalf of situations, and of others and their needs. Have you not had times when your concern, your burden, your desire for another’s good was so great you simply did not know how to pray or what to say? Have you not, at that time, gone to God in earnest prayer - and literally wept, groaned, wrestled, agonized, often inarticulately, in prayer ...

1439. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... his mind. But he took time to perform a miracle of healing for an enemy - and on the way to his own death! Have you ever noticed that the needs of others come to us also at odd and inconvenient times? We would really like to help, to show our concern, but those problems always come when we are "too busy," "too tired," "it’s our day off," "we are on vacation," "we just got to bed," or "we don’t feel very well ourselves today" - people’s needs never match the convenient times in our lives. The wonder of ...

1440. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... while one policeman is held hostage. We have the same kind of lavish attention focused on us by God. There is something sacred about life - any life. If people would turn out a whole community to find a lost child, or dig out a lost miner, think how much more concern God has about each of our lives. And think about this: Think what a price God paid for us! We are so important to him that he sent his Son to save us. Think how the great events of our worship emphasize that fact - how at Christmas we celebrate ...

1441. Life: Sacred or Stupid?

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... any human life, no matter how apparently vile or sinful, must continue to struggle against those who would destroy it, even if they are of our states or law enforcement agencies. When did God give us the right to murder any of his children? We are so concerned in our day about endangered species - everything from the Whooping Crane to the Bald Eagle - and we sit here and stupidly don’t realize that the most endangered species on the face of the earth is homo sapiens - you and me? And our nation, and a few ...

1442. Justification and Reconciliation

Romans 3:21-31

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T. A. Kantonen

... not some detachable act of his, that is under the wrath of God. God’s wrath is not rage or bad temper but God’s holy love reacting against evil. Luther found comfort in the idea of God’s wrath, for it shows that God is concerned about me and I can experience this concern as love when my relation to him is set right. Sin leads with inner necessity to death: "If you live according to the flesh you will die" (Romans 8:13). The sinner "deserves to die" (Romans 1:32). The wages which sin pays to its slave ...

1443. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... the father of many notions. "He did not weaken in faith," says Paul, "when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was ‘reckoned to him as righteousness’ " (Romans 4:19-22). Paul concludes that ...

1444. Salvation as Hope

Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... Paul hopes that he would not have to fall into the sleep of death but would be among those who will be privileged to go directly "to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thessalonions 4:17). So deeply were the Thessalonians stirred by Paul’s words "concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus and our assembling to meet him" that the apostle was obliged in the second letter to warn them against being "quickly shaken in mind or excited" (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2) and to give practical instructions for living in the present ...

1445. Drastic Surgery

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... and inwardly, in a symbolic sense, it has often cast us into the "Gehenna of fire." Yet we, too, like Pascal’s contemporaries, try to gloss it over and pretend that it does not matter much. Jesus warns us against this. Real Life Is Life Without Sin His concern, however, is not simply with where sin leads one; it is also with what it keeps one from: It keeps one from entering into life. Not everyone, of course, thinks of life as the supreme good, as Jesus must have. The main character in the novel, The ...

1446. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... illustration of a person looking around a log to see a speck, it was not, of course, specks and logs and eyes which concerned him. He was thinking of studied indifference to faults in one’s own life and of concentration on the faults in others’ lives ... question we need to ask in regard to God’s searching of our hearts: "What if what he seeks in me is not there?" If we are concerned about this, if we are anxious that God find in us what he is seeking, and if we are open and receptive to God, his grace ...

1447. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... she has plenty of money. One can secure the material things one needs if his or her bank account is large enough. One can open closed doors if he or she can pay the price. But not only may this make one proud and arrogant where others are concerned. It may cause one to feel the same way toward God. If one has the money that is needed to buy what one wants to buy, what need does one have of God? Spiritually perceptive persons are aware of the essentials such as meaning, purpose, and fulfillment - which are ...

1448. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... . Sooner or later we begin to be haunted again with the ethical ideal. Our casuistry, ignoble expediency, and cheap compromises are seen for the ugly things they are. We stand rebuked and condemned. His style smites us. Which leads me to my third concern. That which bothers us most about Jesus, arousing our bitterest antagonism, is his style. It is not his teachings or his words as such. With these we can palter, argue, confuse, ahd apparently confound each other. Whatever interpretation is required for any ...

1449. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... of danger, and no one wants to deny freedom to the man who is safe and sound. It’s the man who is different who is dangerous. But this is the essence of Democracy. It was Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who made the immortal statement concerning this. He said, "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought. Not free thought for those who agree with it, but freedom of thought for those we hate."3 I wish ...

1450. Is The Social Gospel Out Of Date?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... least. For example, the three great historic creeds of the church mentioned the Kingdom of God only once. And this reference is only a marginal reference to a state beyond this earthly life - a heavenly kingdom. No mention, mind you, of this central concern of the Master in either the Nicene, the Athanasian, or the Apostles’ Creed. Why? What does it mean? The answer must not be oversimplified. However, two facts stand out quite clearly and explain much: First, there is the indispensable emphasis upon the ...

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