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126. Easter 5

Acts 8:26-40, 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-17

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... . In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Compassionate God, we acknowledge with shame and regret that we do not bear the fruits of your love in Christ as we should. We too often and too easily become dead branches, worthy only to be pruned away and discarded. Forgive us, we pray. Bring us to health by the strength of your grace. Make us worthy vehicles of Christ’s love, bringing good and fruitful works to bear upon the world and its people. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen

127. Encountering The Family Man

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... . Strange, here I came to give myself to his teaching - and as I got near their conversation was of his invitation to be disciples. But the Nazarene was not too enthusiastic. To one he was saying that it was a rootless life. To another that the past must be discarded completely. It was at that point that I made my speech. Not as I had practiced. "I will follow you, sir." And then I added, "but let me first say goodbye to my people at home." Jesus heard me, turned his face to mine, and rebuked me: "No one ...

128. Recognizing The Hidden

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... ? What is the purpose of life?" His brother was surprised by the question. But the perception of age told him that it was important. His reply was the beginning of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - the beginning for Mike! Big brother pointed to a discarded candy wrapper that floated on the pool surface. "See that piece of paper? It is covering just a little bit of the water. It would be impossible for it to cover all the surface. It isn’t that big, and won’t stay afloat long enough. Well ...

129. Extended Light

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... , all wholly subject to men and could be cast off entirely at male will. Joseph was a just man, scripture records, not willing to do more than put Mary away privately when her pregnancy was first discovered. But in that time and age, he could discard her anyway he pleased, privately or publicly. Who would care? But that age is gone. That time is passing away. All the forms of that world are changed - or at least certainly are changing. Almost all cultures now value children. Women everywhere are achieving ...

130. Surprise, It's Christmas!

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... junctures (Finishing Touch p. 268). I like the story about a professor who sat at his desk one evening working on the next day's lectures. His housekeeper had laid that days mail and papers at his desk and he began to shuffle through them discarding most to the wastebasket. He then noticed a magazine, which was not even addressed to him but delivered to his office by mistake. It fell open to an article titled "The Needs of the Congo Mission". Casually he began to read when he was suddenly consumed ...

131. Search for The Treasure

John 17:6-19

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... taught. Just because it was carefully taught and we cleverly learned it doesn't make it true, does it? BEA: Well, no. I guess not. AILY: As scientists haven't we learned that facts are not facts until we can prove them? BEA: Yes, right. We have discarded many theories. We have discovered many facts. AILY: Right. The ancients might have found out about truth. Maybe it has been buried along with the artifacts. BEA: So how would we sit and wait for this treasure so that we can put on the garment of the power ...

132. Confrontation in the Temple

John 2:12-25

Sermon

George Bass

... a religious reformer who had failed. His was a glorious, but temporary, triumph - in the name of God - but everyone knows something about the difficulties that are encountered when one challenges the sytem - almost any system. More often than not, we get chewed up and discarded, not to be heard of, or from, again. In his book, Human Options, Norman Cousins writes about the Bomb, declaring "... the device can rock the earth but it has yet to make a dent in our thinking."13 Herman Kahn, who founded the Hudson ...

133. Love - A Christian Imperative

John 15:1-17

Sermon

George Bass

... savages to himself. By the sacrifice of his death he did what by his rule and teaching he had so far failed to do - he changed their whole minds, and changed them permanently." "And," asks Weatherhead, "What happened? A red robe became the symbol of a changed life. A man discarded his former dingy robe and wore a red one, as if to say, ‘I am one of Goho’s men. I am different.’ They became known as men of the robe."53 Christians are to be known as people born and made of love, the love of Christ, and ...

134. The Technicolor Sign

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Larry Powell

... and poured a chemical into the tank. Immediately, the silver precipitated to the bottom of the tank. Painstakingly, the shapeless mass was retrieved and sent to the silversmith to be refashioned into its original form. An article of worth had not been discarded simply because it had been reduced to a lesser state. In the hands of its original creator, it was recovered and restored. See the silver cup; see the granulated silver; see the restoration. Now transpose the articles. See the person we used ...

135. An Old Plan For New People

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... which he would light at night while others slept, hover over them to hide the light, and strain to learn the words on the tiny bits of paper. It was in this manner that Charles Tindley taught himself to read. Providentially, a well-worn discarded Bible came into his possession. Night after night, hovering over low-burning pine knots, he tediously strained over finger-pointed words until he had read the entire Bible. He was subsequently overcome by a burning conviction that he must worship in God’s house ...

136. Advent: Lament, Repent

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... cover on the bed. A few minutes ago you were driving down the interstate. Now you are in someplace unclean. For Isaiah, Israel had become unclean before the Lord, like a polluted garment. And when a piece of clothing becomes that fouled, it is usually discarded. The covenant people have become unclean like that, and blessing is impossible to deserve. The unclean are deserving only of God’s wrath. "... In our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?" Isaiah is also honest to God about our ...

137. What God Wants Us To Do

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Richard Patt

... for our sins upon the cross. Christ did not shrink from the enemy of death, but he was raised on the third day to give each one of us a sure answer and hope about eternal life in heaven. The one sent by the Father is never a discardable Christ - some harmless, milk-toast Jesus who helplessly tolerates all our whims and fancies. The Christ sent by the Father is the one of whom the early church confessed, proclaiming "Jesus is Lord!" He is Lord of every bright and dark corner of our lives. Christ always has ...

138. Heaven on Earth

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Richard Patt

... flag we refer to the promise of "liberty and justice for all." Can we have this kind of peace on earth too? Can we take to heart and serve all the people? Or do we as Christians continue to judge a book by its cover? Do we discount and discard certain persons in society, just because they are sons of Joseph, just because they grew up in Nazareth? Who are some of these people for whom we do not always have an equal vision of individual peace? There are the poor and the hungry. What generalizations we nurse ...

139. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... 30 p.m. he would go to his secretary and say: "Don’t let anyone disturb me. I am going back to the storeroom to worry." After locking himself in, he would get out his worry cards. This one had already solved itself. This one was not important. These he discarded. There were always a few cards that needed some thought. He worked through these and went out, a free man ready to do one thing at a time. But worry can go much deeper than this. During the Second World War many of the young men of my congregation ...

140. Enduring

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... godliness. These prophets of God did not minister amid tranquil, happy circumstances. How then are we to live? We are to live by the grace of God. We are to live in God’s power, using all our skills as human instruments of peace and good will. We must discard the antique, if the antique stands in the way of new understandings of how people are to live. And we are to live each day in faith. When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther replied, "I would still plant my ...

141. And It Came To Pass

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... which would require twenty years to complete. Let Rome fall, he insisted; she has lived out her service to history and humanity. Once so proud and beautiful, Rome had become debased, licentious. Those false Roman deities, worshiped with obscene rites, should have been discarded centuries ago. It was time for Rome to go, to make room for a fresh new city - the City of God. This literary masterpiece, City of God, stands as a classic in western culture. It is a philosophy of history unequalled in beauty and ...

142. The Marriage of Adam and Eve

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... mark without their fair share of variety, experience, and personal thrill. With consciences anesthetized, their preference is to sleep around, or shack up without commitment, until one morning they awaken to an image in the mirror of a wasted face, a wasted life, and one discarded on the wreckage heap of junkers. Made for Each Other Go back a moment into Eden when Adam was alone. Our Lord had formed the beasts and birds and every living creature, a world that teemed with life and beauty, and in the midst of ...

143. Reproached Rolled Away

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... them through the Promised Land of their dreams. That they could return to eating unleavened bread and celebrating Passover signified a return to the the original promise of God to continue their favor and spare their lives. Celebrating the Passover and discarding the bread of the wilderness meant the return to the original promise of deliverance from Pharaoh. They were grateful for having the opportunity to celebrate Passover once again, but more happy with the savory taste of the new food that greeted ...

144. When God Does A New Thing

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... are now being laid down and made into bridges. Those who were jailed unjustly are now heads of state. God is giving power to the powerless by setting the oppressed free. Everywhere we look we can see God doing a new thing, and if we look hard enough and discard the baggage and problems of the past that prevent us from seeing clearly, we can see clearly what God is doing. Yes, problems still exist and man still faces his share of woe, but if the owls and jackals can see, why can’t humankind see what God is ...

145. Dealing With The Pain of Rejection

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

James W. Moore

... part of the reason why divorces sometimes can be more wrenching and devastating than would be the actual death of a mate. Because while death brings feelings of deep loss and aloneness, divorce can create overtones of rejection, of feeling thrown away, of being unneeded, discarded. We are told that this same thing also counts heavily in the trauma of a prison experience. The whole aura of being confined, caged, out of touch, out of sight, cut off, rejected. And this is why old age is so depressing to some ...

146. His Nature Is Light

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In an attempt to save his sanity, Scrooge parachutes with Donald and the nephews into a remote, agrarian village named Trala-La, a parody of Shangri-La, the utopia in James Hilton's novel, LOST HORIZON. But Scrooge makes the mistake of carelessly discarding a nerve-medicine bottle cap, and the natives begin using it as money. They fight over the cap, and disrupt their idyllic existence. Scrooge brought plenty of medicine to Trala-La and because he has lots of bottle caps again finds himself the richest ...

147. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... unlock a door but has only has one hand free, the keys are in the opposite pocket.” Or “The probability of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich falling on the carpet face side up is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.” Or “After discarding something not used for years, you will need it one week later.” Or “After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.” Or “Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner.” Or “Anytime you have a 50 ...

148. Not Having Seen Him, You Love Him

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... the play was sold out and they couldn't obtain tickets. They were disappointed. They were also embarrassed to have to go back home and tell their friends they missed the highlight of their trip. So they decided to do the next best thing. They picked up discarded tickets, purchased a program, and bought the musical tapes. In their motel room they learned all the songs and reviewed the program. Back home they sang and whistled the tunes to all of MY FAIR LADY's hits hoping no one would suspect they never saw ...

149. Freedom!

Romans 6:3-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... in confidence, strength, love and assurance. Because fellowship and harmony have been broken, however, we walk in fearfulness, weakness, resentment and uncertainty. Because of that broken relationship with God, anxiety haunts us. We drown our sorrows, disguise our ambitions, discard the Divine image within. We are slaves to doubt, distrust and despair. And only one person can help us. Over two centuries ago, a wealthy landowner, Sir Roger Boulter, visited the traveling fair at Colchester. As he went round ...

150. Save The Children

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... and secure home. They need to know that Mom and Dad are committed to one another and to them. They need to know that someone will always be there for them. They need to know that they are recognized and special. If that means that we delay or even discard some of our own dreams, if that means we make some extra sacrifices, if that means we sometimes grin and bear a difficult situation, so be it! Their welfare comes first! We can't keep them from making tragic mistakes, and we can't keep them from making ...

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