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126. "I Was Hoping for a Longines"

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... trying to guess what Santa Claus is going to bring them. Did Santa Claus hear their requests? They may have searched the closets, they may go look under the beds, they may tear through your clothes as they seek to find those packages wrapped in beautiful paper with fancy bows with their names on them. I’m not just talking about six-, seven- and eight-year-old children. I’m talking about children of all ages. I know a number of wives who have said to me their husbands are the biggest kids of all. Nothing ...

127. Discerning the Way of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... of them had come out of pagan backgrounds and at best the environment of Corinth was licentious to a very large degree. Almost anything was tolerated in the wealthy seaport city where transient sailors and wealthy profligates were willing to pay for whatever fancy passed through their minds. The Christian colony in that city could not help but be affected by their environment, and since undoubtedly some of them had originally been part of that environment, it was hard to shed old ways of thinking and acting ...

128. Leah

Genesis 49:29--50:14

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... , together. The chaplain of a British prison tells of a dull, unattractive, middle-aged couple who lived in a somber flat in London. Each morning the husband went off on his routine job. In time, he chanced to meet a glamorous young thing. Fancying himself the youthful romantic, the paunchy husband gathered all the family savings, plus some from his establishment’s till, and ran away with his newly-found mistress. In due time, all money was gone and naturally - so was the girl. British justice shortly ...

129. THE WITCH OF ENDOR

Drama

Marcia Miller

... me. Dreams, prophets, and the urim have been tried without success. Stealing away in the middle of the night is the only way left for me. I’ve got to know what the future holds. I’ve got to know. LUCAS: Don’t disturb Saul any more with your fancy quotes and high ideas of morals. We must find this Endora at once. Within ENDORA’s house, MUIDEM, RECOS and DARCY are performing a ritual dance. ENDORA is sitting on the floor, beating the rhythm out on a set of hand drums. [Bongos could be used. If none is ...

130. Hooray for Humility!

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... it Palm Sunday), he was unbelievably humble. It was a rather second-rate parade, when you stop to think about it. No prancing Arabian horse to ride - just an unbroken colt. No greenhouse flowers - just dandelion-type wildflowers thrown in his path. No fancy robes and royal regalia - just the usual, dusty seamless robe, woven for him, perhaps by his mother. No "big-name" people in the parade, no mayor of the town, no visiting "media personality" - just children and peasants and disciples. The people cheered ...

131. On Being a Tenant

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... that’s a privilege. We ought to look at our community and our church in the frame of mind that says, "How can I properly respond to this great privilege given me?" Rather than ask how well we might be entertained, and how well the church tickles our fancy, we ought to be concerned about how well we are serving the Christ of the church because we are privileged to be in his vineyard. Did you notice here the human freedom that the tenants have? The master left those tenants and went away and allowed them to ...

132. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... been marshalled as great insight and has been wrapped around this simple statement of the Bible. Some learned theologians have spent sleepless nights conjuring up involved answers as to why Abel’s was acceptable and Cain’s wasn’t. The most interesting and fanciful was that Cain’s offering was not acceptable because there was no shed blood. Abel’s was acceptable because it had involved slaughter. The idea being that God Almighty just loved slaughter and that you don’t please him until you kill ...

133. EPISODE 1: THE FIRST WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... happen to you. The Governor will back down. The crowd will see it. They’ll see that you’re the stronger, and we’re on our way. JESUS: Will you presume that your way is God’s way? That he is led by the nose in any direction where our fancy strikes us? No! This is not the way the Father has set before me. And it’s written, "You shall not tempt the Lord your God." *****

134. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... ’t thinking of body parts, of stomach and lungs and pituitary glands, wonderful as all these are. He was thinking, I believe, of all that happens in the inner world in a lifetime of years. There is the rosy glow of childhood, with fancies and fairies, and the slow dawning of insight, and growing pains. There is the romance of early adulthood, reachings and yearnings, the search for identity, the realization of love and struggle. There is the adventure of the creative years; then the nostalgia of advancing ...

135. Here Comes Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Bjorge

... a bull’s-eye. Sometimes preaching goes like that. We shoot out a message and then circle it with contentment whether it accomplished anything or not. John didn’t utter words just for the fun of hearing them ring in his ears nor to tickle the fancy of his listeners. He was a seed planter and expected fruits. Soren Kierkegaard of Denmark has a famous fable about geese. The geese in a certain farmyard decided to gather together every seventh day. At that time one of the ganders would mount the fence and ...

136. Abraham and the Meaning of Consecration

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Don Yocom

... not to be conformed to this world. The worldly have let the WORLD take over. Why should Christians let the world set their standards? It is still an inspiration to meet believers in Christ who have not succumbed to the temptation to let fashion, fad, or fancy determine their priorities. Without arrogance, a Christian can live a life of simple habits with activity which is wholesome, clean, and a blessing to all who know him. We do not have to do what the ads on television, radio, and in the other media tell ...

137. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... more devotional life than a goldfish. JAREL Devotional life? SETH Prayer life. Spiritual life. JAREL Oh, for God’s sake, now you’re going to give some pitch to buy a plastic tablecloth - with the Lord’s Prayer printed no it. SETH (Whisking a fancy, embroidered handkerchief from a coat pocket) Only half right, sweetheart. Genuine 24 kt. gold leaf embossed on imported Irish linen, done by hand in a home for retired circus employees. The family that stays together prays together. Or is it the other way ...

138. SURVIVAL IN THE RAT RACE

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... in a race. Oh, I know, Paul, you were thinking about the races you used to see in the Greek amphitheater at Tarsus, but we’re thinking of another race, one in which we are all entered, whether we want it or not. We don’t call it by any fancy name - a marathon, or a sprint, or a relay, or any other athletic term - we call it just simply "The Rat Race." Where did the name come from? We don’t know, but it’s apropos. You’ve all seen it. We put the rats into a cage that is ...

139. Hungry for Anything?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... tall when your belly is full of booze. The hunger to be somebody drives others to crime. A waitress was stealing money out of a cash register. When she was asked what she was doing with the money, she reported that she went around eating in fancy restaurants and leaving big tips for the waitresses there. It was her way of achieving importance. The first thing that many criminals do after being apprehended is to ask to see the newspapers so that they can read about themselves. Well, our Lord knew our desire ...

140. Whispering The Lyrics (revised)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Thomas Long

... recording by the great blues master Jimmy Reed. A share-cropper's son, Reed brought the throbbing harmonica-and-guitar-driven black rhythm-and-blues of the Mississippi Delta into the popular rock-and-roll mainstream. Many of us, when we were in high school, fancied ourselves a budding rock band. My friends and I did. We would play and replay our 45s attempting in vain to capture the sound. But how do you imitate someone like Reed. The pain-soaked cries of his mahogany voice could not be imitated by ...

141. Growing Up

Judges 17:1-13

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... prude to be the perfect illustration of the Christian. The Christian ethic is not equated with Victorian notions. It is based on a free, victorious, responsible relationship with Jesus, the Christ who removes us from the vicious slavery to ourselves and our own fancies, a slavery that can only lead to disaster. That’s what the prophets of permissiveness overlook. In their exuberance to proclaim their way as the true way of growing up to maturity, they are blind to the lessons of history, that spiritual ...

142. Merry Kurtzman

Sermon

Erskine White

... ," the clerk sniffed, "and today we worship him like a king. I’m amazed you haven’t heard about him!" "Regis Kurtzman," she began, "was born on the 25th of December a long, long time ago in a rustic little inn. Mind you, he wasn’t born in a big, fancy five-star hotel downtown, but in a small one-star placed called The Manger Inn on the outskirts of town. His mother’s name was Sherry and his father’s name was Rudolph." "Little Regis was born very poor, but when he grew up he founded a toy company ...

143. What God Requires of Us

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... : Remember when serving Yahweh was a joy? Now it is drudgery. Think of those times when we saw injustice and worked to bring justice. Think of the many acts of mercy we did for people because we recognized that in serving men, we were serving Yahweh. We didn’t need fancy clothing; we didn’t need the office or a title. We didn’t even need the Law to tell us what to do. We just acted and reacted out of our love for Yahweh and man. Caiaphas: That was in another time. Nicodemus: But it is the time that ...

144. Loved People, Love People

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... was right, that he and Mom had instilled certain values in me. Most families have such values. When I went out on my own I was expected to live up to those values. "You have a family name to live up to," he said. In theological circles we have a fancy name for that. We say that the imperative to action grows out of the indicative. The imperative for me was to remember. The indicative was the fact that I was a Jensen. I was to remember who I was. I was to be who I was. "Be who you are ...

145. All Dressed Up and No Place To Go

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... pumping, and the whole psyche is toned up for a host of reasons. Self-satisfaction at having put on one’s glad rags to celebrate is probably a major reason. There are other times in life when, in the blahs, people go to the closet and look at their fancy clothes. "Oh, that’s a beautiful gown," the woman says as she eyes her sleek black evening dress, loaded with sequins and slit up one side almost to the thigh. The man looks longingly at his tux, "Gee, it would be nice to get all dressed up tonight ...

146. The Remnant Year

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... looking over the remnants, the unused ends of bolts of cloth. These are the leftovers after major yardage has been cut for dresses, draperies, and suits. Remnants often come in bins or piled high on a separate table. In her rummaging she finds a piece that strikes her fancy. "This is just about enough to make me a blouse," (She is so small she wears a Junior Petite). "This could make a skirt, or a pillow, or ..." So she buys it and adds it to the remnants already at home. From time to time she sorts through ...

147. Movin’ Around Room

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... . Accept the call of Christ: receive from him a new thing. Behold, it springs forth as a fresh well in the desert of your soul. What then? What for a new thing? It may be doing an act; taking on a relationship; or adopting a new attitude. Nothing big and fancy, but strong and dependable, and profoundly human. Whatever it may be, if lifted up and assumed in the name and power of Christ, it is a wedge for movin’ around in life. At last we stand on a new promontory and can see for ourselves the room in which ...

148. Recognizing The Hidden

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... evil deed was that he preached kindness and love and consideration and friendliness and a Heavenly Father. And that ever since this man was killed people have realized that he was not really dead at all, but that he lived. The cross, whether it be large or small, fancy or plain, whether it be high on a church spire or in a pile of rubble, was always the reminder that this man still lived this man Jesus, whom they call Christ. When the pastor finished talking they silently looked at the cross. Pierre did not ...

149. THE LIFE OF UTTER OBEDIENCE

Philippians 2:1-11

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John W. Rilling

... DIVINE EXALTATION. We have not seen the entire pattern until we see the rising line of his resurrected influence. "Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him the name that is above every other name." Charles Lamb and his friends were engaged one evening in a fanciful discussion of the great and the near great they would liked to have met, and they named them one by one, and the reason why. There came a pause in the conversation and Lamb said, "After such a list I can think of only two others. If ...

150. Back To Basics: The Three R's of Baptism

Mark 1:1-8, Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to the basics. Perhaps in our lifetime the most public statement of repentance was that of President Bill Clinton's. The one he made before a Prayer Breakfast on September 10, 1998. He summed up the task perfectly when he said, "I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned." Then he quoted from a book given him by a Jewish friend in Florida. The book is called "Gates of Repentance." Clinton read this passage from the book: "Now is the time for turning. The leaves are beginning to turn from ...

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