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1476. God’s Doing

Philippians 1:21-30

Sermon

Larry Lange

... before Don gives up and walks out? She worried about this last thought more than the others because Don had had big plans for this part of their life: plans for travel around the world, plans for skiing and scuba, plans for romantic rendezvous on the warm, white sands of some island in the Caribbean. There had been moments of fulfillment of these plans along the way, but all future plans now seemed dead in the water. Now their attention was focused on her treatment and her recovery from it. All their time ...

1477. Soup Like Bread and Wine

Luke 14:1,7-14

Sermon

William A Ritter

... So, the soup comes in a rather tallish mug. Looks awful. Shade of mousey gray. Fred half-wonders if that's what it could be ... cream of mouse. So, he doesn't eat it. But he does use the mug as a stove ... cupping his fingers around it ... warming them on it. Which is when the door opens once more. Wind howls. Cold surges. "Shut the blankety-blank door," someone shouts. Lady enters. Thin coat. No hat. Ice crystals in her hair and eyebrows. Maybe 40. Painfully skinny. Men slide over to make room for her at ...

1478. The Gold Pin

Luke 14:1-14

Illustration

Carveth Mitchell

... the wrong crowd, gone from one trouble to another, finally ending in poverty and degradation. He had sold his overcoat to get money for liquor, and on a cold winter night he had his sweater pinned together with that safety pin. He walked into a mission to keep warm, and there the Lord Jesus Christ found him. After he came to know the Lord he started a new life. It brought him many successes and material possessions. He had that pin gold plated to remind him of what he once had been before he knew the Lord ...

1479. Are You Available?

Luke 14:25-35

Illustration

King Duncan

... prose of another age, "They rapped at the humble door of an Irish woman, the mother of a brood of children. She put her head out of the window. "Who's there?' she said. "And what can you want at this time of night?" They tell her the situation, her warm, Irish heart cannot resist. "Will you come?" "Sure and I'll come, and I'll do the best I can." And she did come," the account ends. "She did the best she could." This woman was willing. She was available. Is there a warmer word in our language? Available. It ...

1480. All Things Work Together For Good

Romans 8:28

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... , level place, but in real life, fish swim around. Jonah’s great fish might have gone up and down and diagonally, making Jonah a little dizzy. So now imagine Jonah. He’s stuck in a tight, cramped place, probably in an uncomfortable position. It’s very warm and smelly, and the acids in the fish’s stomach are irritating his skin. The fish is swimming around so much that Jonah feels like he’s riding a roller coaster with swivel cars. After three days of this, Jonah probably felt sick at his stomach ...

1481. Beauty That’s All In The Family

Romans 10:15

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... t know what God looks like, we can’t say, “I belong to God because I have his chin or his freckles.” But just the same, if you belong to God, I know what you’ll look like. Your hands will look helpful. Your smile will look warm and friendly. Your shoulder will look comforting. Your heart will look big and full of love. And your feet will be beautiful. You might think that’s funny. Nobody — except maybe little babies — has beautiful feet! They’re down there on the ground, carrying the entire ...

1482. Sometimes, God Says, “No”

Matthew 7:7-12

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... medical foundation), then I’d be helping the foundation help people who are sick! I could start a scholarship with some of that money! Scholarships help people go to college, which helps them get good jobs, and with good jobs, they can buy houses and food and warm clothes. God wants us to help people who need homes and food and clothes. If I started a scholarship with some of that money, wouldn’t I be helping those people? So I don’t understand it! I had good plans for that money ... plans that would ...

1483. There's Something about Con Men

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , do it, and God will bless your effort. There is a delightful story of a man who was shipwrecked on a lonely unknown desert island. To his surprise he found that he was not alone. A large tribe of people shared the island. Amazingly they welcomed him warmly and treated him very well. In fact, they made him their king and catered to his every desire. He was delighted but puzzled. Why were they treating him in such a royal fashion? As his ability to communicate increased, he learned that they had a tribal ...

1484. Daydream

Illustration

Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, And loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, And people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, Unfold and yawn and stretch and spread\ their fingers, Unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, And work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, And play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, or care or notice, And people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.

1485. Step Into The Vision

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... would provide the service free of charge. For some reason, this upset Mary. She begged them not to worry over her piano. When the tuner showed up at Mary's address, he discovered it to be in a very poor neighborhood. Mary's mother greeted him warmly, but Mary was nowhere in sight. When the tuner explained why he came, Mary's mother understood. She pointed toward Mary's "piano": it was an old ironing board with clothes pins glued to it to simulate piano keys. Many years before, Mary had played a neighbor ...

1486. Wedding Bell Blues

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... !" She even insisted on getting acquainted with the records of the men. She discovered that one of the men convicted of murder was blind, so she paid him a visit. She stepped into the cold cell and sat down next to this man. Holding his hand in hers she warmly asked, "Do you read Braille?" "What's Braille?" he asked. "Don't you know? It is a way that you can read with your fingers," she explained."Well, I've never heard of it," he replied. "I'll teach you then!" she said. And she taught that blind killer ...

1487. Come On In The Water's Fine

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , tells about a church in east Tennessee that he pastured in his student days. It was a beautiful little church in Anderson County. The church was a white frame building, pretty as a picture. There were good people in that church, too. It was a warm, loving family. But when Dr. Craddock arrived, he noticed something. He noticed that none of the new people in community, people who had come to work on the big government project over at Oak Ridge and all those people living in trailers and hastily built ...

1488. Closing the Curtains

Luke 16:19-31

Illustration

Brett Blair

... fond of is Garfield the Cat. There is a great humor in those sarcastic witticisms of his. One cold winter night Garfield looks out the window and sees Odie the Dog peering through the window. Garfield thinks to himself: This is horrible. Here I am in the comfort of a warm house, well fed, and there is Odie outside begging to get in, cold and hungry. I can't stand it anymore. I just can't stand it. So at that he goes over to the window…and closes the curtains. Friends, that is what you and I have done to ...

1489. What Should We Do?

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... us by giving gifts to our loved ones. But no gift will ever come close to what God has given us in Christ. John came as a prophet proclaiming the coming of Christ, the Messiah. He was the preview trailer. He was the commercial announcing the event. He was the warm up act so to speak. John came to wake people up to the fact that the times wasn't just coming, the time was here. Luke 3:7-18 (NRSV) [7] John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned ...

1490. Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief

James 2:1-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... over judgment. [14] What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? [15] If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, [16] and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? [17] So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. Passing judgment on others is for the birds. And we're full of bologna when do pass judgment. In ...

1491. Remember: Live Worthy of the Calling

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... for us to grow up, to become mature, in the Christian faith. We seem to forget in our age of instant convenience foods, products, and services that mature Christians are not produced by taking a couple of rounded teaspoons of freeze-dried Gospel, adding a cup of warm acceptance, adding quarter cup of grace and a quart of forgiveness. We don't add a sprinkle of the water of baptism, a pinch of hope and then fill it all with the Holy Spirit and voila, an instant, full-bodied Christian! (2) The Christian faith ...

1492. Magic Words

Luke 17:11-19

Illustration

James W. Moore

... the magic words?" Sarah screeched to a halt, turned back around and said: "Please! Thank You! You're Welcome! God Bless You! And I Love You, Mommy!" Now, that's gratitude. That's the healed lepers heart and her mother recognized it, and Sarah got a second banana!... And a warm hug!

1493. Acquired Taste

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... discipline. At the age of thirty-five this woman who had been a thread-maker in Paisley felt the call of a much more engaged life. In 1932 she volunteered to work with the Church of Scotland’s mission to the Jews of Budapest. Her warm spirit and thick Scottish brogue made her popular and loved among the four hundred children—-Christians and Jews—-she taught at the mission school. How far apart culturally was Budapest from Scotland? How different could the world of a Hungarian Jewish child be from that ...

1494. When the Church Becomes a Culture of Complainers and Crusaders, What To Do?

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... towards the gospel have also harnessed the power of the Internet. Maybe it is a back-handed compliment to the threat that Jesus’ gospel of forgiveness and love still offers to the forces of sinfulness and smallness. But the electronic world is swimming in the warm spit of spiritual backwash. And the dirtiest blows are often struck in the name of Jesus. It is the sad truth that the worst accusations, the most poisonous pens, come from inside the fold, from within the family of faith. Friendly fire is the ...

1495. Endurance

Illustration

Mickey Anders

There was a little country schoolhouse that was heated by an old-fashioned, potbellied coal stove. A little boy named Glenn had the job of coming to school early each day and starting the fire to warm up the building. One morning the teacher arrived only to find the building engulfed in flames. Misatking gasoline for karosene Glenn and his brother Floyd has ignited an inferno. The teacher who just arrived, along with other students, got Glenn out in time but his brother didn't make it. ...

1496. More Than A Kumbaya King

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... on a cross. We don’t want to hear that Jesus’ kingship, the reign of Christ, began with sacrifice. Instead we would prefer to think of Jesus as a comfortable, campfire, “Kumbaya” King. A “come-by-here” presence that passes by, leaving us feeling warm and reassured, comfortable and undisturbed. A “Kumbaya” King doesn’t ask for much, just a few good feelings directed towards others, when it is convenient. Serving a “Kumbaya” king lets us do just what we want, tuning in to the “king’s ...

1497. Counting Our Spiritual Blessings

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... while she’s hugging him tightly, Linus says, “Every now and then, I say the right thing.” (1) Welcome to this celebration of Thanksgiving. This is a day we count our blessings. For many of us, our focus will be on our material blessings. Our warm house. The comfortable car. The stylish clothes. A table bountifully spread. And yet, in the long run of things, these are the least important of all our blessings. Our lesson for the day from John’s Gospel takes place just after Jesus has taken five small ...

1498. God? Are You Really There?

Matthew 24:36-51

Illustration

Brett Blair

God's time clock is certainly out of sync with ours as Little Jimmy learned one day as he was laying on a hill in the middle of a meadow on a warm spring day. Puffy white clouds rolled by and he pondered their shape. Soon, he began to think about God. "God? Are you really there?" Jimmy said out loud. To his astonishment a voice came from the clouds. "Yes, Jimmy? What can I do for you?" Seizing the opportunity, Jimmy asked, " ...

1499. The Irrational Season

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... facing yet another explosion of agony as the deadly cholera outbreak becomes epidemic. Some are saying that as many as 500,000 could come down with cholera. There is hunger and holocaust. Germ warfare and genocide. Abuse and apathy. Disease and disinterest. Global warming, global warfare, and global god awfulness. That is the world of Reason. But Advent beckons us to live in the world of the Season — the Season of Anticipation, of Acceptance, of Accolades. This is the Second Sunday in the Season of Advent ...

1500. Back to Real Life

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he saw a towering male student, six‑feet, eight‑inches tall, holding hands with a fidgety coed barely three‑feet tall. What a contrast, six‑feet, eight-inches tall and only three‑feet tall. His curiosity piqued, Jackson watched as the young man, dressed in a warm‑up suit, tenderly kissed the tiny coed, and sent her off to class. The president said that the student was a star basketball player. Both parents had passed away when he was a teenager, and he made a vow to look after his sister. Many ...

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