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1476. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... a little uncomfortable with ourselves and our world. As long as we are uncomfortable with certain inequities in our world there is at least a chance that we will make a move to do something about them. At all costs you and I, if we are to remain Christian, must keep alive a certain uncomfortable feeling within ourselves. A person who did that for me early in life was a boy named P.J. Crowley. I met P.J. when I was fourteen years old. At that time I was a member of the Sunday School in a First Baptist Church ...

1477. Nothing Is Impossible

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... they turned was disastrous, mountains to either side, the roaring sea in front of them and the Egyptian army behind them in pursuit. Yet, seemingly when there is no way, God makes a way, even if he has to empower the wind to work all night long. Now, keep in mind that the sea was not cooperative, for it was not desirous of having its form disrupted. The wind would blow, but there was a resistance in the water. Every time the wind blew, the water came back to its original place. So, therefore, God called on ...

1478. God’s Ultimate Concern

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... the first. The ten commandments begin with our relationship to God. The law says, “You shall have no other gods before me, you shall not make for yourself an idol, you shall not misuse the name of the Lord and then you must remember the Sabbath Day by keeping it holy.” There is no reason for us to get out of line with God. The law is plain and simple. Even a child can understand. Now that’s the character of God. Profound to the intellectually astute and simple to the young; the character of God is ...

1479. An Overwhelming Promise

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... about the power of a loving God, we’re not saying we shouldn’t hurt. Instead, we’re saying, “You can trust in God. God keeps his promises, and that’s the message of the Bible.” We can’t fully understand. Of course, we can’t. “For my thoughts are ... singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Let Us Pray Almighty Savior, we thank you for the way you keep your promises, and now we rest our love for ** in you. You and you alone are God, and you and you alone can bring true ...

1480. Led By The Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... have always done it that way here at church and here in our community. So why change the system? A few proponents of that attitude can be found in this parish; what do you think? Finally, we have the pragmatists or politicians. We should do whatever it takes to keep everybody happy. We do not want to rock the boat. (I do not want to decide anything that will hurt my good name, and what I do decide must be in the interest of my retaining control.) Hm, such attitudes are not unfamiliar to any of us. Have you ...

1481. Dispelling Ministry Illusions

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... -10 dispels ministry illusions. Illusions are false ideas. There are at least three false ideas about ministry which are dispelled in this Word of God about the call: that ministry is for priests alone; that feelings of inferiority will keep us from serving; and that fears will keep us from ministering. The biblical correctives for these illusions are: that the ministry is for all the people of God; that the power and gifts of God turn inferior-feeling people into effective leaders; and that the affirmation ...

1482. A Mother's Pride And Joy

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... dedicate him to the Lord's ministry. Shortly thereafter a son was conceived and born, his mother's pride and joy, a direct answer to prayer. Hannah now had a dilemma. Should she keep her son, and thus preserve the great pride and joy of her life, or keep her vow to give the child for God's ministry as she had promised? She decided to keep her vow. Hannah's real pride and joy was God. It isn't easy to give up what seems like the most important thing in your life. Who knows the struggle Hannah went through ...

1483. The Recovery Of Reverence

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... height and breadth, but depth as well. What a difference that made! Houses and trees and especially girls looked so different! Pentagon felt different. Life had a whole new dimension and it was wonderful. But then his dream ended and the boy awoke. However, Pentagon could not keep a dream like that to himself. Jumping out of bed, he ran downstairs in his bare feet and rumpled pajamas to tell the guests at his father's party that there was a whole new dimension to life. People did not have to go on living ...

1484. Ka-Chang

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John Jamison

... the law. The key to all those other good things is to obey the laws of Moses, and the oral laws set forth by your rabbi. Keep your eye on the Pharisees. They have theirs on you. That group over on the left, back in the back, dressed so nicely. Those are ... " are some of the Zealots who have come down from Mount Arbel and are enemies with anyone who is a friend of Rome. Keep in mind, they carry daggers. The rest of the crowd is crowd. There are some fishermen, some farmers, some tax collectors, some teachers ...

1485. Captive To The Word Of God

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... slaves to a system that carried God's name and claimed his approval, but was not about his agendas. There's an old saying: "It happens to the best of us." It is well for us to remember this, lest we criticize others without charity and fail to keep vigilance in our own souls. Isn't it so! Just as the institutions of Judaism of the first century had been caught up into a centuries-old struggle for survival in a world that was secularly and politically hostile, so the Roman Catholic Church had been caught up ...

1486. God Forsaken

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Erskine White

... O'Connor was a boy, he would take walks through the orchard fields, and sometimes he would come to a wall which looked too high to climb over. But instead of giving up his journey, he would throw his hat over the wall. Then he had no choice but to keep going. President Kennedy used to say that this is what we have done with the space program. We have thrown our hat into space, and now we have no choice but to go after it. Isn't this precisely how some people overcome the barriers and burdens they meet in ...

1487. Called in From Off-stage

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... has the Lord chosen this one." And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen these." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here." And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him; for this ...

1488. Spirit Full Or Foul?

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

Sermon

Justin Tull

... . But of all our gods, the most seductive is the god of self. Worshiping self means that everything is measured primarily by how it affects us. The self is our god and we seek to revolve the world around us. But the ironic thing is that we cannot keep everything revolving around us. We do not have enough mass; we don’t have that kind of magnetism. We cannot save ourselves. And if we are followers of the Christ, we must not even try to save ourselves. Jesus has amply instructed us: “He who finds his life ...

1489. Recollections of Enoch, A Jewish Captive In Babylon

Isaiah 12:1-6

Drama

Robert A. Morgan

... and as it has turned out, they did not make slaves of us as I had expected. In fact, once we reached here, they seemed to go out of their way to make life tolerable for us, giving us materials to build homes, and providing us enough open land to keep some sheep and cattle, to plant a few crops, and our gardens. It's really been a paradox because there was no suggestion of such generosity along the way. In fact, I'm sure my wife, Rebekah, would not have died on the journey if the Babylonian soldiers had been ...

1490. Recollections of Reuben, Uncle of a Young Bethlehem Shepherd

Matthew 2:13-18

Drama

Robert A. Morgan

... he told me. He and his boys were out in that field over there, nearest to town, with the sheep. It was night, and a cold night at that, but no wind. The sky was clear, the stars were bright. They had a fire going as they always do, to keep away the wild animals, but they themselves were all asleep - as best you can sleep on the ground on a cold night, with only your cloak wrapped around you. Anyway, it was the very middle of the night. Nothing was stirring. Even the sheep were asleep. For all Nathanael knew ...

1491. Recollections of Mary -- Dramatic Monologue

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Robert A. Morgan

... learned his name was Joseph - turned to the girl on the donkey, and said, "I'm sorry, Mary, but I guess we'll have to keep looking. The innkeeper says there's no room for us here." At that point, we began to realize that the man, Joseph, was the husband ... had left out there was still burning. I thought that was strange, since Mary and Joseph had both seemed so tired, and Father had said, "Keep the lantern on until you're ready to go to sleep." I wondered what was going on out there, so I threw a cloak over ...

1492. On Your Lips

Romans 10:8-10

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... I want you to be very quiet for this one. Can you all close your mouths really tight? Can you balance the penny on your ... lips? Do like this. Demonstrate, and encourage the children to do it. Once they have it, begin to talk to them again. Keep balancing them. Don't stop, even though your faces are really funny right now. While you are talking to them, reach over quietly and get out the Polaroid camera, then quickly take a picture of them with their funny faces. Now instruct the children to hold tightly ...

1493. Saved From Water: The Storm

Luke 8:22-25

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... mothers carrying children. We were shouting at them and kind of pushing them back just when Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me." When you people read that story it makes us sound like a bunch of child molesters. Well, we weren't. We were just trying to keep things under control. I tell you, it was hard in those early months. But I'm getting away from my story. You call it a miracle story, and that's what it was. Talk about water. We all saw too much water that night - walls of water, sheets of ...

1494. A Faith, A Farm And A Family

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

John P. Rossing

... telling us so. That climate of expectation is faith. Faith is an attitude more than a belief or a doctrine: It's an assumption we carry through life, that God is trustworthy. God is faithful in the big things, keeping his promises to his people, guiding history toward its proper conclusion, but God is also faithful in the small things, dealing kindly with widows, blessing the poor and the lonely. This lovely little story in the Old Testament is about the blessings of faith, farm and family. In 1984 Sally ...

1495. Another Tricky Question

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... and tried to protect. What started out as the body of Christ has quite contentedly taken on the form of a political body, with power structures and, sadly, power struggles no different from the world in which it lives. And we still have the nerve to say, "Let’s keep politics out of the church?" The truth is that after almost 2,000 years we still just don’t get it! Like the Pharisees, we’re still convinced that Jesus had some kind of hidden agenda, and if we can just figure out what it was we’ll be ...

1496. Making Christmas Last

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... If I were to choose the most important events of the 20th century here is what I would say are the top events of each decade [Please chose your own top events in each decade, including some from the 21st century. I have put an asterisk by my choices. Keep your picks brief—one or two at the most for each decade]. *1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a powered airplane at Kitty Hawk 1904 Deaf and blind Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe College 1910 The "week-end" becomes popular in the U.S. 1912 The S.S ...

1497. What's So Good About Feeling Bad?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Joann Hary

... . Actually it is great to be learning new things every day. We enjoy seeing our friends. We love sports and the physical activity that keeps us pumped up. But let one teacher announce a test, and a big "UH" goes up in the room; and then let another teacher ... lot of time, or the program that we are supposed to share seems so, so, so ... well, you fill in the blank. Our hearts keep on beating, our lives go on, our needs are provided for, and yet we complain about getting old, never mind where we would be ...

1498. And Who is my Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... is as old and the stars and as familiar to us as our own need to be loved. We know this law—we cannot not deny its existence. Someone has observed that Knowledge is exploding at such a rate--more than 2000 pages a minute--that even Einstein couldn't keep up. In fact, if you read 24 hours a day, from age 21 to 70, and retained all you read, you would be one and a half million years behind when you finished. Campus Life, Feb, 1979 The fellow who wanted to argue with Jesus had a clear understanding of ...

1499. Faith -- Abraham and the Centurion

Luke 23:26-43

Drama

Martha L. Leach

... him, and I was to take Isaac down from the altar. There in the thicket was a ram God had provided for my sacrifice. What a prayer of thanksgiving I offered that day! God always kept his promises down through the ages. The only one he has yet to keep is the promise of a savior. Centurion: Oh, Abraham, I believe your God has kept that supreme promise also. You see, there is this Jesus of Nazareth who is a teacher and a healer. He gathers crowds wherever he goes. His message is one of love. I've observed ...

1500. The Family of Judas

Drama

William Grimbol

... might have a parent someday. He was concerned about everybody. He was such a good boy ... such a loving child. Even to me ... my, my ... even to me. On those days, you know the kind, when you wonder what it is all worth, or why you should bother to keep on struggling ... those days when tears come to your eyes so easily. It was Judas ... only Judas ... who would notice the wetness in my eyes or the down cast spirit. He would always try to cheer me up or do some special favor for me ... anything to lift my ...

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