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1426. How Can We Live Wisely?

Job 26:1--31:40

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... he returned to civilian life, he revised his plans again and headed for Hollywood where he appeared in small, unimportant parts in several motion pictures. He finally was offered a lucrative role in an expensive production by a major motion picture studio. He thought he would accept that offer, but then he revised his plans and appeared in a low-budget, low-salary film called "Champion." Issur Danielovitch wisely reviewed and revised his life choices several times. That is why the world knows him today as ...

1427. People Are Different, People Are The Same

Drama

Marge Passamaneck

... Hanukkah is not only beautiful, but fun too. TONY: Thanks a lot. Don’t forget to come to our house next week. * * * * * * * * * * * NARRATOR: In a few days it was time for David to help trim the Jackson’s tree. The tree was so green and full, David thought it didn’t need decorations. But Mrs. Jackson brought out a carton with ornaments of all kinds and shapes. Tony showed David the one their grandmother had given to their mother when she was a little girl. SUSAN: And here’s one my Uncle Bob gave me ...

1428. What Is God Made Of?

Acts 17:16-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... I could tell you that God felt like steel or fur or mud you would know what kind of material God is made of. A long time ago, boys and girls, people thought that their God’s were made of things like this statue I have here. Do you know what I mean’? People thought that this statue was a god and they put the statue on a shelf and everybody thought that their house was protected from any kind of evil spirits. This statue is made of marble. Other people liked to think their god was made in the form of a ...

1429. Christmas Carols · O Little Town of Bethlehem

Luke 2:1-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... savior. In just one night Pastor Brooks was able to write the poem. He liked it so much that he decided that it should have music to go with it. The very next day he asked his church organist to write some music to go with his poem. The organist thought that this was a fine compliment, and when he read what Pastor Brooks had written he knew he had to come up with something special. Day after day the organist wrote notes of music and he came up withone tune after the other. But none of them seemed to be ...

1430. The Miracle of Salvation

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

... that put Jesus on the cross. They feared that they would be supplanted in the religious hierarchy of the day. This might have been a part of it, of course. But I would think that it was simply the fact that He knew them - He recognized the guilt that they thought they had hidden - and He showed it for what it really was - a rebellion against God. This was the thing Jesus told us about guilt - all of our rebellion is against God. We may think it is our fellow men whom we seek to destroy because they get in ...

1431. John the Baptist

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... of you who live your faith and church life the same way, attempting to preserve the old ways, never seeking out the new. You are also the same people who say your church should not be involved in the world - in its problems of racism, poverty, and war. My people thought the same; and because they did, it brought them only more of the same. It was time for God to visit His people in my day. Perhaps it is time for God in your day to visit again, in judgment, as His second coming has promised! Each day in the ...

1432. Simeon

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... plucked corn on the Sabbath and rubbed it in his hands, he was reaping and thrashing. You recall from your scriptures what Jesus thought of our Sabbath Laws. He healed a man on the Sabbath and told him to pick up his mattress and walk. On another ... destined to make many fall and many rise in Israel, and to set up a standard which many will attack, for He will expose the secret thoughts of many hearts." And for you (Mary) I said, "Your very soul will be pierced by a sword!" She did not know what I meant until ...

1433. COMMAND TO SHARE

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... God is a beginning. The Christian life flows from worship into service and sharing. One Sunday in a church in Syracuse a couple arrived just after the benediction. The time change was their downfall. "Oh dear, the service is over," the wife said. One of our ushers thought fast and replied, "Oh no, the service now just begins." He was right. We leave God’s house to go out and serve God’s children wherever there is human need. It was the risen Lord who said, "Feed my sheep." Chanting and antiphonals were ...

1434. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... promised them that I would lead soldiers to Jesus when there were no crowds of people, if they would give me thirty pieces of silver. That was a lot of money, but I didn’t just want the money. I wanted to be one of the religious rulers and I thought that they would remember me and be thankful to me for what I did. After we had eaten the Passover with Jesus when most people were asleep, I led the soldiers up the hillside to where Jesus and the other disciples were staying. Jesus usually spent a lot of time ...

1435. Simon of Cyrene

Luke 23:26-43

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... during the holy days of Passover. My home was Cyrene where I lived with my wife and sons. I had always wanted to come to Jerusalem where people worshiped in the great temple. It was only after I arrived that I heard about the trial of a man who many thought was the Messiah. They called him Jesus and some said that he healed the sick and cared for the poor. I was just standing on the street when I heard women crying and soldiers yelling for people to get out of the way. Here came a crowd and in the ...

1436. Why Christmas?

Isaiah 8:11-22

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own Christmas pudding and burned with a stake of holly through his heart! ... There is only one thing in the world more ridiculous than Merry Christmas and that is the thought of a home with love as its center.... Merry Christmas! ... Friends! ... Love! ... What could be more idiolic? Bah! Humbug!" So says Ebenezer Scrooge of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol. We cringe at such sharp and cruel statements. They slam against us like the ...

1437. THE SURPRISED

Luke 1:5-25

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... the new day and summon the faithful of the city to gather for prayer while the incense offering is made. Zechariah entered the sanctuary alone, approached the altar, and began the offering of the incense. It was a very important day for him. He trembled a little as he thought of his awesome responsibility. He was to speak to the Lord God on behalf of the people. And then he was to address the people who had assembled on behalf of God. He tried to sense the feelings and needs of the people of the city as he ...

1438. OUR LORD SMITTEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... for the first time the dreadful deed in which he had participated. A chill went through him and he turned away. It was his job. He could not afford to be maudlin, sentimental. He stared full into the face of the crowd, some smirking, some weeping, and he thought what a miserable thing it was to be a human being. Time passed slowly, and the sky darkened until it was as deep as the black of a moonless night. The dry clouds lowered so that the city was hidden. Suddenly, the Galilean cried out, his voice a ...

1439. OUR LORD FORSAKEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... he had said. "They toil not neither do they spin, and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed as one of these." He had said this to demonstrate the deep significance of his teaching about God’s care and love, but with the thought, bitter sorrow was renewed. Where now was this loving Father? How could he have let this dreadful thing come to pass? At the base of the hill was an enlarged cave with a huge sealing stone at one side. The men carried their burden into its dark depths, the ...

1440. OUR LORD RISEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... the present life were not rooted in the past. She frowned, searching, for she had no past of her own. Had her friend not loved her husband, that she could live so content without him? How could she smile and laugh after he had been taken from her? Mary thought she never would smile again ... Turning from the table, the vials and jars on the high shelf at the side of the room caught her eye. She brought the low, square stool, placed it under the shelf, and standing on bare toes she lifted down several of the ...

1441. Strengthened For Life

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... the sixth verse I said, "I think it is this verse. Listen to it, ‘If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned.’ " Then I added: "Saint Paul expressed these same thoughts but in a different way when he said, ‘Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap’ " (Galatians 6:7). Let me ask you a question. "Do you know of anyone who has denied and mocked God all his life and ...

1442. Advent 1: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Faith of Christmas

Luke 2:15-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Jean said, “Honey, they are all here for you! It’s you! This is all for you!” When his wife told him that, Tom Southerland started crying and he couldn’t stop. He sobbed like a little boy. He couldn’t believe it. He said, “I thought everybody had forgotten about me. I didn’t think anybody knew I was in captivity. I felt completely abandoned. I didn’t think anybody cared. Thank God I was wrong.” The shepherds at the first Christmas must have felt something like that. Society had cast them ...

1443. A New Kind of Teaching

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... grasp on reality. O God, forgive our arrogance. Bring into our lives additional glimmers of the light of truth. Break the self-righteousness of our cranial arthritis. Loosen the stiffened joints of our minds and spirits, that we might be freed up to think your thoughts after you. We pray especially for the thinking of our world leaders. Bless and strengthen all those politicians who place our country's interest above their own. Help them not to be weary in well-doing. O God, help our land, and bring us to ...

1444. A Grief Observed

2 Samuel 18:19--19:8

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... m sure that both King David and Pastor Rogness were overcome with many feelings, one of which must have surely been, "What might have been?" Twenty years later, Pastor Rogness put some of his thoughts down about the event. They are timeless words about grief - authentic and universal. I’m sure we can extrapolate their spirit to the thoughts of King David when his son Absalom died. More important, perhaps they will speak for someone who grieves today at the loss of a loved one: It isn’t as if grief ever ...

1445. Bonhoeffer of Berlin

Acts 5:17-42

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... you, Kurt) is the same young man I taught in confirmation class not too long ago. Yes, I guess I’d have second thoughts about getting married when I wasn’t even out of high school yet. And certainly, these days in Germany, getting married at ... guard who was confirmed, just like you were once, and then who later joined the Hitler Youth, just like you did, and now is having second thoughts about Hitler. I was glad to hear that you and Elsa have had a second child. A boy at last! I’m flattered that you ...

1446. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... coming back to the South was no mistake. These people are my people. Christ wants me to do ministry right where I am. My wife and I talked about accepting a call to a northern congregation. But we're both glad we did not. You asked whether I thought starting this boycott was the Christian thing to do. First, let me remind you, I didn’t start the boycott. And I didn’t ask to lead it. I was sought out by frustrated, angry, helpless Christians. Almost everyone who is supporting the boycott goes to church ...

1447. What Do You Mean 'Born Again?'

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... plants them. On a recent return trip from Philadelphia where I had just attended a meeting of the Pastor Evangelists of the Lutheran Church, I sat next to a man named John. As the plane left Philadelphia, we made small talk and I settled down to what I thought would be a good chance to catch up on my reading and get some work done. John said that he was an executive with Standard Oil in Chicago. We talked about the price of gas, the Superbowl and inflation, among other things. I never wear my clergy collar ...

1448. The Healing Community

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... point by her isolation and sense of shame. She was an outcast for twelve long years. "Who touched me?" Jesus asked. The woman began to shake all over. "What could she say?" Her first thought was that she had transferred her uncleanliness to Jesus. That is how many people in her primitive society thought. She thought, "I have infected him." Something monstrous had happened. "I have saddled him with my suffering." The shaking woman came forth and told Jesus the whole truth as she perceived it. He then said to ...

1449. What If It Is True?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

... she will conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit though she has not yet known her husband; the baby Jesus will be born of a virgin. Now, of course, in our scientific age people don’t often take to mysteries or so-called miracles. Such things are thought by many to be the quaint beliefs of a less enlightened past. As a result of this skepticism, the church’s doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus and this text have become a battleground. For some people a firm belief in the virgin birth is a critical ...

1450. The Chief Miracle of Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... boy, the son of a doctor, replied, "Oh, yeah? Well, my Daddy makes so much money that he’s always telling my Mommy that she can’t spend it fast enough." The third little boy was the son of a preacher. He was quiet for a moment as he thought and thought about how he could win this discussion. As his two friends looked to him for his rebuttal, he said, "You know, my Daddy makes so much money every Sunday that it takes four grown men to carry it all to him." Sometimes children do like to brag about their ...

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