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1426. Then There Was One

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... alms. But Jesus does not so interpret it. He knows that the greatest expression of mercy for these tragic souls is to heal them. I wonder if all ten are not somewhat puzzled when Jesus says simply, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." He does not touch them as he has done with other lepers. He does not pray over them. He does not declare them cleansed. But the implication is clear. There were elaborate Old Testament rules for the cleansing of lepers. Going to the priest was the last step in the ritual ...

1427. The Greatest Of These

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... got God's love too." Tom and Donna Starr agreed that day. On the one hand they had lost just about all their earthly treasures. But they had love. They had their love for each other and their family. They had the love of God. The flood hadn't even touched the greatest treasure of all."

1428. The Collapsing Circle

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... she started to sing verse two some great impulse from within prompted him to join his tenor voice to her song. They were singing. Just the two of them black and white in harmony. An old woman from the back of the church came forward and touched him. "Jesus," she said softly. That was the one bond between them. And then Mr. Nelson committed an illegal act. He embraced the woman. They both wept. Suddenly, the circle of emptiness around them collapsed. People shoved up against Allan from every side. His hopes ...

1429. The End

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... some eyewitnesses who escaped, and one old man who had been in the army said it wasn't a missile or bomb -- just blue fire. THE PRIME MINISTER: Blue fire. HASSAN: From the sky. He said it poured down like melting blue ice, but when it touched the earth, it burst into flame. THE PRIME MINISTER: Very strange. A new type of weapon? HASSAN: Possibly. But from whom? Which nation would dare attack us? And who could coordinate the attack with the earthquake? What about the rest of the nation? THE PRIME MINISTER ...

1430. The Widow Of Nain

Luke 7:11-17

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... 's gone now. Now he lies there and none to take his place. None to teach. None to wonder at God's world. None to talk to me. My son! (MUSIC) JESUS: (ENTERS WITH DISCIPLES AND MULTITUDE. HE SPEAKS TO WIDOW) Dry your tears now. (HE CROSSES TO COFFIN AND TOUCHES IT) Young man, I say to you, arise! YOUNG MAN: Praise you, Lord. I was dead. I was sick. And now I'm well. I'm alive. JESUS: Now, here is your mother. WIDOW: My son! It's true, you are alive. Praise be to God! CROWD: (AD LIBBING) A ...

1431. Priorities

Luke 9:51-56

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... I would follow Jesus and he tells me about the nesting habits of birds. I don't get it. CURLY: I wanted a teensie-weensie little farewell party. I never put my hand to a plow. I wouldn't put my hand to a plow. I don't want to touch a plow. MOE: (JABBING CURLY IN THE EYES) Will you stop it? I just want to follow Jesus. CURLY: Then why are you standing here? Why don't you follow him? (STARTS TO FOLLOW LARRY CLOSELY; LARRY FOLLOWS MOE CLOSELY) MOE: (HITS HIS HAND, WHO IN TURN HITS CURLY) You ...

1432. Who's The Neighbor

Luke 10:25-37

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... MAN: Oops! Pardon me. I'm terribly sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going. ANNOUNCER: They stripped him of his raiment ... (THIEVES ARE BENDING OVER CERTAIN MAN) THIEF: Look, he has a raiment. CERTAIN MAN: (RISING) Not my raiment! Don't touch my raiment! Anything but my raiment! ANNOUNCER: They wounded him ... ANOTHER THIEF: (HITTING HIM) Shadap! ANNOUNCER: They departed ... THIEF: Let's get out of here. (THIEVES EXIT) ANNOUNCER: Leaving him half dead. CERTAIN MAN: (PRONE ON HIS BACK. HE MAKES A FEEBLE ...

1433. Guilt And Shame

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... if \nthey call it soft porn or what they call it. It's harmful and \nit's addictive and it's got you, Sam. It's got you! \nSAM: What do you mean?\nRENA: I mean, you're hooked, Sam. You're hooked. Sam, you \nhaven't so much as touched me for six months. \nSAM: Well ...\nRENA: By God, Sam, you'd better get some help. I'm telling you, \nyou'd better get some help or else we won't have a marriage. \nSAM: You wouldn't.\nRENA: I would, Sam. I will. You get some help and get ...

1434. Which Way To Jesus?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... dying upon the cross that the glory of God was revealed. What was revealed was God's love. God in the flesh was dying for sinners. Paul says in that pitiful moment of weakness God showed his power (1 Corinthians 1:18). It is at the cross of Christ you touch God's glory and his power. For Your Sake John records that when Jesus spoke his brief prayer a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it (my name), and I will glorify it again." What the voice meant was that God had revealed his glory in the creation ...

1435. Easter Power

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... him. He says that he can believe only if he sees the scars of our Lord's death. It is interesting that he demands the signs of death rather than of life. However, Jesus does return a week later when Thomas is present. Jesus offers to let Thomas touch the scars as Thomas had requested. Thomas is able to forego that request and confesses his faith. Jesus then says to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe." Jesus certainly did not ...

1436. The Open Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... that some illness had taken strength from his hand.1 Jesus told him to stretch out his hand. Does that have any relevance today? How many people in our congregations today have withered hands? Not many, but the symbolism of the stretched-out hand touches all of us. Jesus was addressing the spiritual condition of closed minds and hard hearts symbolized by clenched fists. That is what Jesus addresses today. The Text Jesus said, "Stretch out your hand" (Mark 3:5). In order for us to make application of this ...

1437. The Sending Plan (Alternate title: Our Human Predicament)

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... . We are too flawed ourselves to heal others." Flawed or not, we, like the original twelve apostles, are sent to bring healing to the body, mind, and spirit. God is the one who brings healing. He brings healing to us and then sends us forth that it might touch others through us. Henri Nouwen says that we are "wounded healers,"2 healers who are in need of healing ourselves, casting out evil forces and at the same time in need of cleansing. That is why we need Christ as our Lord and Savior. Jesus sends his ...

1438. From Singleness To Solidarity

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... they are greeted by a gracious word from the Lord. Naomi heard that the Lord had considered his people and had given them food (verse 6). We are not told how she heard about it. But somehow, even though she was in a foreign land, she must have kept in touch with her people back home in Bethlehem. This is a reminder to us that God has a liberating word for us in every situation. However, it is our responsibility to hear that word and respond to it by cooperating with God. In response to the word that she had ...

1439. Can You See Where We're Going

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

William G. Carter

... in a man who was a beggar but now became his disciple. What's more, this is the second occasion in the Gospel of Mark where Jesus healed someone who could not see. In chapter eight, a man at Bethsaida needed extra help in having his sight restored. Jesus touched him once and asked what he could see. "I see people," was the response, "but they look like walking trees" (Mark 8:24). So Jesus placed his hands on the man's eyes for a second time. Then the man could see. By contrast, the healing of Bartimaeus ...

1440. All Stirred Up

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Richard Patt

... , but then she herself insisted on being unavailable for the potential blessing that might have been hers. By the way, don't you think Luke also included this incident in his gospel account because he found it irresistible -- or perhaps more accurately -- because he found a touch of humor in it? There is humor here, isn't there? We smile at the story because we see ourselves in it, or we detect someone we know who is similar to Martha. Sometimes our priorities, or frustrations, are so far off the beam that ...

1441. It's OK To Stir Up God

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Richard Patt

... assured that such a person is on our side. We don't want to be involved with someone who will misuse or abuse our story (through gossip, for instance), but who will remain on our side, perhaps despite our story. From personal experience I'd say the speaker touched on an important aspect of our deepest need as people. The promise of prayer -- of Christian prayer -- is that for the sake of Jesus Christ our Savior, a loving Father is ready to listen to you and me; as God listens, we may be assured that God is ...

1442. Rich In God's Sight

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Richard Patt

... grant us courage lest we miss your kingdom's goal; lest we miss your kingdom's goal. Or how about the urgency of striving toward Christian values? In our time there is a lot of talk about the loss of human values, moral values, as they touch upon the home, marriage, and sexuality. Have we no more Christian values? Of course we do! Most people I know of -- and not especially those in the church, but including them, of course -- have moral values that reflect the standards of the Ten Commandments. Our problem ...

1443. Sabotaging The Sabath

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Richard Patt

... woman is healed on the spot. Her body is straightened again, and she praises God for God's goodness. From here on, I say, we wish the story would have ended another way. Wouldn't it have been nice if all the people standing around witnessing this touching scene could have joined the woman in praising God for God's goodness? Indeed, the whole idea of worshiping a loving God on the sabbath could have been thus reinforced in a powerful way. But that is not what happened. As soon as Jesus finishes his lovely ...

1444. A Ministry Of Hospitality

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Richard Patt

... someone; they have few, if any, friends. Some are dying to feel connected; they don't feel like they belong to the human race anymore. Some are dying to be affirmed; they are weary from feeling that they amount to nothing. Some are dying to be touched, even if only by eye contact, or by some word of acknowledgment from another human being. All these people need hospice care; they need the hospitality of the church, because inwardly they are dying. They need a place of shelter, no matter how fleeting, where ...

1445. The Crux Of Being A Christian

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

... 's Gospel reading, so let's look at that second reading now. It's an unusual reading because, you see, the book of Philemon consists of only one chapter, so that the reading consists of this entire chapter, save the last two verses. In the touching story it tells, we have a wonderful illustration about what the crux of being a Christian is. What is that story? Briefly, it involves three characters: the apostle Paul, his friend named Philemon, and a servant who worked in Philemon's house with the interesting ...

1446. God's Passionate Concern

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

1447. Clever Christians

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Richard Patt

... to worship at some future date. Other believers, who only attend church, or still others, who are, as we said, pillars of the church, resolve that they will get down to the serious side of faith someday -- the side that brings them to a personal and touching confrontation with the Lord Jesus Christ and to the moral heroism they know is part and parcel of rising above a merely hypocritical faith. All of these people know in their hearts that, as Jesus says here, "no servant can serve two masters," that "you ...

1448. Keep Things Flowing

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Patt

... the future; people had their sins forgiven; storms were calmed and bread was multiplied -- because Christ was not a bottleneck for God's saving power but was the very instrument through which God's blessings flowed to others. Jesus once observed that after a certain woman touched his robe, he felt the power of God going out from him to her. Jesus kept things flowing. God's power flowed through him to others. Jesus never once faulted the man in the gospel story for being rich. That wasn't the point at all ...

1449. People With Power To Forgive

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... . Consider, for example, the story of Jesus' healing the paralytic who was lowered through a roof to the feet of Jesus. I have long enjoyed this story of Jesus' healing of the paralytic. It has drama to it, a deep sense of faith and friendship and a touch of humor. Think of it, a crowded house with people hanging out the windows and doors, so anxious were they to hear Jesus. (We latter-day disciples have always been amazed at Jesus' power to gather a crowd!) And then there is the beautiful picture of the ...

1450. A Tale Of Two Cities

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... capital of Judah, the home of the king. It was more than a royal center, however, since it was also the site of the temple, the dwelling place of God on earth. That made it the sacred center, the place where the people were most in touch with their God. "Jerusalem, thou city fair and high, would God I were in thee!" Jerusalem was a city characterized by power, wealth, and glory; but Micah was not from Jerusalem, unlike his older contemporary Isaiah. Micah came from the common people, from the small village ...

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