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1426. Two R-Rated Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me." It was not that our Lord was against helping the poor, but he was saying that there are times when giving to other projects is as expedient or perhaps even more appropriate. Certainly supporting the congregation’s efforts to minister to the poor in heart and spirit is at least as important as reaching out to the financially poor. In our parish we need the generosity of many Marys to carry out the far-reaching programs and ministries which God ...

1427. Doing Battle With Death

Romans 8:1-17

Eulogy

Laurence A. Wagley

... ." It was to be a sign of the whole ministry of Jesus Christ that he went with that man, took the little girl by the hand, and said to her, "Talitha cum - Arise my child." The real presence of this Christ is here with us today. He will understand and support us in our grief. He will also give us an assurance that death will not have the last word. While we are silent in the face of this death, Christ speaks. While we are helpless before this tragedy, Christ acts to assure us of eternal life. While we are ...

1428. Where To Go When You Grieve

Matthew 14:1-12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... in pain. But those who do care; family, friends (those who have called at your home these past days, those who have brought food, those who have called with sympathetic messages, those who have sent flowers, those who are at this service today, those who will continue to support you and help you) - all of thisis immeasurable help in your need. But think of the added glory and wonder of this: Jesus, the Divine Son of God, cares too! He is more touched with your grief than anyone. That's why we go to him: he ...

1429. Hope In Christ

Sermon

Tom O. Miller

... the deeper meanings of hope in our lives. In short, it causes us to reflect upon and evaluate our faith and what faith has to offer us. Today we have gathered to share faith. We have gathered as friends of a special individual. We have gathered to find comfort and support. We have gathered to find hope. At the same time we gather to do so, we also hold in honor and memory the life of our friend. It is important to share the memories of his life with us and to cultivate the common memory of his life among us ...

1430. The Secret Of Effective Living

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

Robert Allen

... Bishop of Georgia proposed a solution. He could speak at the white church in the morning and the black church in the evening. Sir Thomas said, “I jumped at this compromise because it would mean that everyone in the community would know I did not support segregation. And,” he said, “I have never forgotten the reception I received at those churches. The majority of the people, even if they didn’t agree, respected me for standing for what was right. When I went to the black church, the welcome was warm ...

1431. The Call To Ministry

1 Kings 19:9-18

Sermon

Robert Allen

... being hurt and dying in wars. Individually, we cannot feed all of the hungry people in our world, but we can care about those who are hungry. Individually, we cannot provide a job for everybody who needs a job, but we can care about those who need a job to support their families. We can’t help everybody who needs help, but we can care. The call to ministry is not a call to help yourself but to care for others. Caring is the ministry that God is calling us to in today’s world. Will you hear that call ...

1432. The Marked Man

Sermon

George Bass

... of dying; Christ overcame death.” Isn’t it interesting that our time has looked to Socrates’ submission to a death sentence by poison for one answer to pain and hopelessness today? Death, by committing suicide, which is a procedure that the Hemlock Society supports, is becoming acceptable as a way out of this life, as a final answer to the human dilemma of pain and suffering, of life and death. God gives us different information in the cross and empty tomb of Jesus Christ! Jesus has conquered death ...

1433. Marked For Community

Sermon

George Bass

... people have something special going for them in their relationships with each other. They are friendly, good friends as well as neighbors. They help one another when there is illness or difficulty or tragedy. They are concerned in times of crises and offer the kinds of support and help one used to expect to find in a small town. It has taken time for this 16-family street to become a neighborhood, resembling what the church really is and something of how Christians ought to live with one another in care and ...

1434. Marked For Ministry

Sermon

George Bass

... , stewardship -- but these activities will have to be done in a new manner in a radically changing world. Therefore, stewardship will have to assume new meaning and new directions; it cannot mean simply going to the church at home or abroad, to the support of ecumenical activities, or even to the poor and needy today, although such activities need to be continued. The care of the earth becomes basic for Christian stewards, who hear God’s voice from the garden telling people to ‘‘care for the earth ...

1435. Marked At The Cross

Sermon

George Bass

... that his heavenly Father was waiting to receive him. And that same knowledge makes it possible for us to face all that there is in life confident that in all things, and especially when time runs out on us and we face death. Our heavenly Father, who supports us in every one of life’s situations, will greet us with open arms when this life comes to a close. Many years ago, Dr. Howard Hageman published a book of sermons under the title, They Called This Friday Good. In the awful death that Jesus suffered ...

1436. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... of a black presence from it. This is especially true when considering that Egypt is the foundation of the Jewish and Christian religions. James Henry Breasted, whom we mentioned earlier as the founder of the Oriental Institute, and who was no staunch supporter of the idea of a black Egypt, made the following statement: The ripe social and moral development of mankind in the Nile Valley which is three thousand years older than that of the Hebrews contributed essentially to the formation of Hebrew Literature ...

1437. Give Me A Break!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... the movement and brought the attention of the nation to the cause, the story is told of an elderly black woman. She walked daily from her home to work, a distance that many of her friends and family and others considered far too much for her. But she supported the cause and so walked everyday. When she was encouraged by the leaders of the movement to take the bus because of her age, her health and her limited moving ability, she replied: “my feet are tired; but my soul is rested.” That’s the rest of ...

1438. The Gift That Keeps On Giving

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... in my shoes, how would you respond? Another group of people are people like Emily. They come with a need but they are looking for more than just the immediate filling of their need. They do want a place to belong, a place that will give them support, but sometimes, like Emily, the need or needs they have are great. Still another group of people are those who come and want to get involved in the church right away. It’s easy for us to become excited about them because we are always looking for volunteers ...

1439. Endorsing The Future

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of sorrow. We can take the offensive, yell reverse discrimination, close the borders to immigration, and turn on those we perceive to be the alien, the stranger, and the foreigner to our traditional cultural inheritance. And there is much support for this. The Western religions are exclusive religions and fundamentalism is worldwide. Countries ruled by dictators usually have the cleanest streets. We can employ "survival of our kind" techniques. Gerald Kennedy tells the startling experience of a man who ...

1440. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... were to unmarried women. By 1990, 21 percent of all births were to unmarried women.36 The number of divorces has increased in America by almost 200 percent in the last thirty years, which greatly exacerbates our problems. In his incisive book, Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family, David T. Ellwood points out that 73 percent of children from single-parent families will be in poverty at some point in their childhood.37 The realities are certainly enough to frustrate and even anger the most dedicated ...

1441. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... ; I'm sending you back into the real world. Get all the cushions off your feet, Moses. This is holy ground and holy ground is real life. Learn to live among these limits and see God in them. There is always the danger that our support systems of money, education, science, technology, and even religion, which cushion our lives, may insulate us so securely that all our thoughts, feelings, and expressions will become such a la-la dream world that we will cease to recognize the reality of the world we actually ...

1442. The Priesthood Of All Believers

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... action of these young men who stayed together even in a pit of execution with curiosity seekers standing by looking on is impressive. They were together on one accord. Because priests are on the same team with a common enemy, they will consistently stand together in support of each other. The ability to assist each other is of paramount importance in the life of a priest. All believers in Jesus Christ are called to priestly functions. Ours is a job of servant in the world. We major in helping each other in ...

1443. Holy Unto The Lord

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... Germany when the walls, separating East from West, came tumbling down. God was present in the Persian Gulf when the declaration of war was levied on Iraq and the end came quickly, thereby sparing thousands of lives. There is also a presence in the Soviet Union supporting the people in their cry for democracy. God is everywhere at the same time, but wants the attention of the people of the world. The Bible says, “If my people, who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and ...

1444. Basic Service: I Am The Resurrection and the LIfe

John 11:17-37

Eulogy

Brett Blair

... morning, what do we have? There are three things we have. 1. First of all we have COMFORT. We have the comfort of FAMILY—this is why God has placed us together into family units—so we might bear one another’s burdens. We are better able to support one another through life’s trials when we are closely knit one to another and there is no tighter knitting then is found here: No greater solace, no greater peace. No matter the degree of difficulty, no matter the type of loss; it is family who is there ...

1445. What Happens When We Can't Believe It?

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... The message is also delivered in our first lesson. Peter is preaching on the first day of Pentecost to various Jews in Jerusalem. He proclaims Christ's resurrection (Acts 2:14ff). He delivers his sermon flanked by all of the other disciples (no doubt for support; see Acts 2:14). Then he even concludes his testimony to the resurrection by noting that all of his fellow believers make the same testimony (Acts 2:32). Peter is clearly gaining strength and courage from the fact that he shares a common faith with ...

1446. We Must Be Blind!

John 9:35-41

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... is it making a difference in our lives? Is it? Week after week, we come together as the family of God. In fact our Christian community (the church) is not just a Sunday thing; it exists all week long. Its purpose, a primary purpose of the church, is to give support to Christians, to be a fellowship in which we can lean on each other's shoulders when things are tough (1 Corinthians 12:12-26). This is the purpose of the church. We all know this. Yet it seems like in any church, not just in our parish but ...

1447. The Road To The Cross

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... , and according to Matthew, at least one parable Jesus taught was perceived by the religious establishment as being told at their expense. It was then that they resolved to arrest Jesus, and they only refrained at that time for fear of inciting Jesus' supporters (especially Matthew 21:45-46.) Finally, after several more confrontations, in which the established leaders were made to look bad by Jesus in front of others (Matthew 22:15ff, 23-24), our gospel (at the beginning of Chapter 26) tells us that "the ...

1448. Wedding: In Nomine Jesu

Sermon Aid

Max Zschiegner

... ! 1. “Help” may not be the usual things we think of when hearing a wedding address. We would go along with the idea that the very reason all our friends and family are present on this special day of ____ and ____ is to rejoice with them, to support them in their decision to begin life together as husband and wife. Our presence assures them that our prayers and good wishes accompany them as they, standing before God’s altar, make their vows of faithfulness to each other and to their God. But in our day ...

1449. Where You Go — I Will Go.

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

Robert A. Kramer

... to the Corinthians emphasizes patience, kindness, non-irritability, control of jealousy, boasting, arrogance, resentfulness. These are all qualities of interaction between persons. As ideals they confront us with objectives to grow in graciousness, respect, mutual supportiveness. Our need for divine forgiveness accompanies our aspirations that somehow the climate of our love will nurture the growth of these qualities among us. The contemporary words of Kahil Gibran, (The Treasure of Kahil Gibran) “Love ...

1450. The Illusion Of Neutrality

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... A majority of people apparently are not opposed to the church and what it stands for. They are neither for the church or against it. They would describe themselves as neutral. Of course, if everyone assumed that posture, there would soon be no church to support or oppose. The church, as we know it, would pass out of existence, and with it would go the mainspring of Christianity - the one insitution that keeps alive the redemptive power of God's revelation in Christ. Some people can afford to be neither for ...

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