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1426. Heaping Coals and Virtues

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... statement on this list to understand. Ironically, it is also one which presents a different problem. When scribes copied the New Testament in ancient times, they regularly used abbreviations to make the work go faster. One system of abbreviation commonly used dropped the vowels from words, much as written Hebrew does. From this system, there are two possible words that could be found here, one meaning Lord, the other meaning time or opportune time, as a footnote in the Bible translates the alternative ...

1427. A Place for You

Ruth 1:16-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

I heard about a man who was an obituary writer for the newspaper. He took the job because you have to start somewhere, and he wanted very much to be a writer. He even dropped out of college because he figured that if you are going to write, then you ought to start writing. An obituary writer's status became immediately apparent to him. He was assigned to the city desk, which was a large working area, shaped like a horseshoe. The city editor was ...

1428. All Your Facilities Intact

Acts 17:16-34, Colossians 1:15-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... him to join the game. They then went to nine-digit numbers. The psychologist held the book of primes where they couldn't see it, so they didn't know he was cheating. Then they went to ten-digit numbers, eleven, twelve-digit numbers. Which is where he dropped out. His book went only to twelve-digit numbers. For another hour the twins kept anteing up until they were in ecstatic joy, throwing back and forth twenty-digit prime numbers. The twins, it can be said, have a sense for numbers. The same way a genius ...

1429. An Enclave of Resistance

Hebrews 1:1-14; 2:5-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... this has cost and how it could have been spent differently. I have a friend who came into this sanctuary many years ago, looked up to this ceiling, sixty or seventy feet high, and said, "There is a lot of wasted space up there. You know, you could drop the ceiling, build a second story and rent it out. You could earn some money in here." There was a period in architecture that said all spaces in buildings must be in human dimension. But what is the human dimension? What they meant was ten foot ceilings ...

1430. Are You Trying to Prove Something?

Genesis 12:1-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . He had to go through a physical crisis. We can call it a breakdown. He had to go through a breakdown before he could let go, and let God. Wesley had to go through a failure. He had to go through some humiliating experience in his life before he could drop his guard, and let go. But when he did, when he stopped trying to impress God, or anybody else, that is when God could get a hold of him. "For we are saved not by our works, but by our faith in God's grace."

1431. Blind Ambition

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... put aside everything else and come and be with you, stay with you, sacrifice something for you. I, like all ministers, preside over a lot of funerals. So often I hear a member of the family say, "He came. He was on the east coast for a meeting, but he dropped everything when he heard, got an early plane, and he came." He didn't do anything else. He just came. And nothing else that day meant more than that gesture. Jesus told them, "I think I'm going to die." The Son of Man, he said, is not going to ...

1432. Fathers in Their Generation

Psalm 103:13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... for spirituality in their lives today. I can't help but mention that at the same time in the 60's church patterns changed. Suburbia created the pattern that exists to this day in churches: parents and children no longer go to church together. Children are dropped off at Sunday School, parents go to church. But it's in church, in worship, that the heritage is rehearsed and celebrated, year after year, Sunday after Sunday, week after week. Church is where a father or a mother can get help from "the fathers ...

1433. Get Lost

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... how I was doing, always concerned about what other people thought about me, and what I was doing. Since I was never doing very well, against the norms that I had used to measure my performance, I was tempted on the one hand to despair, to drop out, give up, and not compete, and on the other hand tempted into defensiveness, self-righteousness, and finding fault in other people. I think I really experienced a conversion, a liberation, when I figured out that the Christian faith is not about me, about laying ...

1434. Have You Heard?

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the second verse, our text for this morning, the call of the disciples by the sea. It is a call to respond quietly, in simple trust. The third verse, Jesus praying quietly, beside the Sea of Galilee, out of doors. The fourth verse asks God to, "Drop thy still dews of quietness." We are getting quieter and quieter. Then the last verse, Breathe through the heats of our desire Thy coolness and thy balm; Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of ...

1435. Hosea's Marriage Troubles

Hosea 2:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . They passed the baskets. Everyone was to put their piece of the fragmented glass into the basket. The baskets were taken up to the altar and poured into a metal pan. When the last basket was emptied into the pan, a cloth behind the altar dropped, and there was a cross made of pieces of fragmented stained glass. The prophets revealed that God is a God of righteousness. God demands righteousness, moral behavior, from all of us. Hosea revealed that God is also a God of faithfulness, and God wants most ...

1436. How to Be a Blessing

I Peter 3:8-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... You're just a bleeding heart." But what they may not know, those who use "bleeding heart" as a term of derision, is that the source of "bleeding heart" is Catholic piety. It's a picture of Jesus, you've probably seen it, with a heart on his tunic, a drop of blood coming from it. It's maudlin art, it's just terrible art, it's propaganda art really. But it serves its purpose, which is to reveal Jesus our Lord as tender-hearted. So tender-hearted he didn't condemn anybody. He didn't regard the external reality ...

1437. No Fear

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... has been a part of the social fabric of this society for sixty years. The citizens who will feel that impact most severely are children and youth. The neglect of children and youth in our society is already a tragedy. The use of drugs in our society drops to a lower age every year. Thirty years ago we were concerned that there were drugs in our colleges and universities. Now they are in the upper elementary grades. It is said that there are fifteen million youth at risk in this society. Teenage suicide has ...

1438. Now What?

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

1439. The Big Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... center of our faith is God's victory in Jesus Christ in the Resurrection. One of the temptations of Lent is to take ourselves and our sins too seriously. Like the man who was flying his airplane. All of a sudden the airplane went into a tailspin. He dropped several thousand feet before he could pull it out. Later somebody asked him, "What did you think about when you were falling?" He said, "All my sins flashed before my eyes. I found it so interesting, I went back up and did it again." For those who enjoy ...

1440. The Extended Family

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... is to be a community, a communion. He called that world an "I - Thou" world, using the most personal address for another person, "thou." Let me ask you, do you think it is significant that in English, the second person familiar, "thou," is no longer used? It dropped out of usage in the 18th century. It's called the "familiar" address. Do you know what "familiar" means? "Family." What a difference a word makes. When Jesus says, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you," he ...

1441. The Wedding Guest

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , or Hosea, or Jeremiah as well, where it proclaims that in the last days the wine will flow in abundance and there will be harmony in all creation, and the world will at last be the way God wants it to be. It must have struck them. But then they dropped it, went on, changed the subject, thinking, "It was a lovely moment, but of no significance." Still, wouldn't it be nice if it were true, the Messiah has come. It would mean life can be the way God created it to be. Life can be for me the way ...

1442. Try to Be Nice

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... can reach out and touch other people. That is why Paul says to the Philippians, "Stop this divisiveness, stop this quarreling, stop this back-biting. Just stop it." If Christianity means anything, it means that there is a new way of living in the world. You can drop the past, you can put the past behind you, and you can grasp the life that God is giving to you. Besides that, there is now power available for you to do that. He says to the Philippians, "I can do anything through him who strengthens me." So ...

1443. You Can't Win them All

Matthew 10:2-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... second journey. And that's when it happened. Barnabas said, "Let's take Mark with us this time." Paul said, "No. Absolutely not. He's not going with us. He's too immature. He's got to grow up. Remember, he started with us on this last journey, then he dropped out, left us in the lurch. He's too immature." Barnabas replied, "Mark is the most promising young person we have in this movement. We can't lose him. We've got to take him with us." Paul said, "No." The argument got hotter. Then the text says, "The ...

1444. A Discussion Among Angels

Matthew 24:36-44

Drama

Matthew Powell

... and today the Son of God is born of a woman. So I must fly quickly, before the sun rises, to bring the good news to those happy people who have been chosen to receive it. Storyteller: As he said this, Gabriel rose, with arms outspread, and dropped as swiftly as a shooting star toward the earth. The other angels followed him - a throng of dazzling forms, beautiful as a rain of jewels falling from the dark blue sky. And as they followed him they wondered who had been favored and chosen to receive the glad ...

1445. Epiphany 8

Isaiah 49:8-26, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... judge is to evaluate, to criticize. The people of the Corinthian church were judging the merits and abilities of Christian leaders, resulting in cliques. Paul would remove this party spirit by having the people understand the ministers in their divine calling and by dropping the practice of judging. Only God is in a position to judge a minister and only he has the knowledge and wisdom to judge. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Matthew 6:24-34 1. Is Living Without Worrying Possible? (6:24-34). Need: The world ...

1446. Proper 20

Exodus 16:1-36, Isaiah 55:1-13, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 4:1-11, Philippians 1:12-30, Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... ? Outline: Instead of complaining – a. Have faith in God's care of you. b. Take the need to God in prayer. c. Wait patiently for God to help. 2. When Life Gets In A Jam (16:2-15). Need: There are times when life gets in a jam. The bottom drops out. We are faced with disaster and death. We are helpless to help ourselves. We do not know where to turn for deliverance. The Israelites were in this kind of a jam - in the wilderness without food. When we get in a jam, we can learn from their experience. Outline ...

1447. In the Darkness of Uncertainty, There Is the Light of Wonder

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... Church in New York City. In his autobiography, he told of going back to France and visiting some of the places where he had been in World War II. One of those places was the town of Sainte-Mère-Eglise. The 82nd Airborn Division had dropped into that town. While there for his visit, the mayor showed William around. They went inside the village church. The mayor pointed to a beautiful stained-glass window that depicted the 82nd Division parachuting into the town. On the window above the paratroopers, was the ...

1448. The One Thing God Can Not Do

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , my love. No one is leaving.” Of course, she is leaving in body, but not in spirit. This young mother wants her boy to know that she will be thinking of him all day, and that she will return to get him at the proper time. Every morning when she drops her son off at his new school, she says, “Goodbye, my love. No one is leaving.” The years pass, and the boy grows into a man. One day, the mother becomes too old and frail to care for herself. Alzheimer’s has begun to steal her memories. Her son places ...

1449. Swept Away!

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... wife attended the funeral held in an off-brand, country Baptist church. He writes: "I had never seen anything like it. The preacher began to preach. He shouted; he flailed his arms. 'It's too late for Joe. He's dead. But it ain't too late for you. People drop dead every day. Why wait? Now is the day for decision. Give your life to Jesus.' " Willimon goes on to suggest that this was the worst thing he had ever seen. He fumed and fussed at his wife Patsy, complaining that the preacher had done the worst thing ...

1450. Disappointed in Jesus

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... -sharp look at the world and lifts up all the blatant sin and selfishness of the world. Prophetic criticizing proclaims God's dream and desire for creation and then attacks each one of us in the heart of our apathy and our greed. Prophetic criticizing drops bombs of honest judgment and leaves us writhing in the ashes of guilt and failure, with radical repentance the only hope for survival. Prophetic criticizing has its prominent place in scripture, as John the Baptist can attest to. And God has the right to ...

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