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1501. The Fundamentals of Family Ties

1 Corinthians 13:1

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... very different things. One wife lamented to her counselor, “I told Tom we needed to improve our communication, so he enrolled in a public speaking course at the community college.” Communication in its simplest form requires two things: Speaking clearly and listening carefully. The art of using I messages to say what you mean and mean what you say is not an easy subject to master. But we need to try. Family members cannot read your mind regardless of how long you have been in that family together. So ...

1502. Living on Full Alert

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17. 20-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... is soon?” Soon is sooner than it was. Soon is closer than when we first began. When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart Then I shall bow in humble adoration And there proclaim—My God how great thou art. Soon and very soon, we are going to meet the Lord. Max Lucado in his book Applause of Heaven, a great book on the Beatitudes of Jesus, comes to the last chapter by that title and opens that chapter with these words: “I’m almost home. After five ...

1503. From Hunger to Satisfaction

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... it “The Crumb Prayer": We do not presume to come to this Thy Table, O merciful Lord, Trusting in our own righteousness, But in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under Thy Table, But Thou art the same Lord Whose property is always to have mercy. When we went from styrofoam wafers and Cokesbury Chiclets to real bread for Communion a few years ago, some of you were concerned. I got letters complaining that children were enjoying Communion too much because ...

1504. Get Up and Go

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

A primary Sunday school class invited their pastor to view their Christmas art work. On the bulletin board were posted pictures of the Holy Family at the manger, angels singing to shepherds in the field, and wise men bringing their gifts to the Christ child. One drawing, however, puzzled the pastor. It was a picture of the Holy Family boarding a jet plane ...

1505. From Laziness to Passion

Psalm 51:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the door and knocks. Passion is to suffer with, to walk the road alongside. It is obedience more than excitement, loyalty more than lightheartedness, devotion more than delight. It is willingness to watch with Christ in prayer through the night! Have thine own way Lord, Have thine own way. Thou art the Potter, I am the clay. Are you willing to pray that kind of prayer on Ash Wednesday? It will put a passion in your soul if you do. Amen.

1506. Reaching Up—Reaching Out

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of William Booth there was." Thirty-six years ago this past June, I was ordained an elder in the United Methodist Church. The presiding bishop was Roy H. Short. Bishop Short had a unique style of preaching. He knew how to tell stories before story-telling was an art. He seamed his sermons together with gospel songs and jingles that he collected or made up. He said something in a sermon all those years also, I have never been able to get off my mind. He put it in a little jingle that goes like this: "Some ...

1507. Pray

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... us behold its mystery and bow in humble adoration. III. PRAYER IS COMMUNION THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT The disciples came to Jesus and said “Teach us to pray." People come to me and say, “I don't know how to pray. Could you help me?" Prayer is not an art to be mastered; it is a relationship to be experienced. Prayer is not primarily our striving for God. Prayer is God coming to us. As surely as God searched for Adam and Eve in the Garden, so He looks and longs for us. Let not our guilt and embarrassment ...

1508. By Faith

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... shall not hurt thee, I only design Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine. The refining process includes heating up and cooling down. The flames make us tender so we can bend without breaking, be shaped without shattering. And the cooling teaches us the fine art of waiting until we are strong enough to live into our new reason for being. May the Refiner's fire become our desire. III. OUR FAITH FILLS US WITH INEXPRESSIBLE JOY! “Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see ...

1509. By Believing

1 Peter 1:13-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... from sleeping on the hard pews. 3. I used to believe that Communion was served during church because the service was so long that everyone needed a snack. 4. I used to believe that God's name was Howard, because we always pray, ‘Our Father who art in heaven, Howard is his name.' We gather for Confirmation this weekend in the life of this congregation. It is a time to affirm our faith, refine our beliefs, and commit ourselves to a lifetime of discipleship. It is time to say with confidence, “I believe ...

1510. Finding Plenty in the Midst of Scarcity

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... you had been asked to give the blessing, what would you have said that day? “Dear Lord, where did all these people come from and what am I going to do for Christ's sake? Amen." Jesus would have most likely said the Jewish grace that all men prayed: “Blessed art thou, Jehovah our God, King of the Universe, who bringest forth bread from the earth. Amen" Do we pray to get out of a pickle or do we pray to glorify God? We do not pray with much passion until we are between a rock and a hard place. The ...

1511. The Humble King

John 12:12-19

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and in truth." Worship is not about style; worship is about Spirit. In genuine worship God's presence is felt, God's pardon is offered, God's purposes are revealed and God's power is displayed. In genuine worship we bow before our Maker. Easterners have the art of bending and bowing as a means of respect. It's hard to get Westerners to bow their heads, much less bend their knees. In genuine worship we are hushed by the Divine. “Let all mortal flesh keep silence." In our noisy world let us find a place ...

1512. Living in Gratitude

Philippians 4:4-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... you, the times I have tasted it, the times I have known it down in my soul, I wouldn't trade it for anything in all the world. A neighborhood library offered a community competition for the best painting symbolizing peace. The award-winning art work would be prominently displayed in the library. When all the entries were in, the judges narrowed the competition down to two. One painting featured a majestic lake, so tranquil and still that the lush hills behind it were perfectly mirrored in its reflection ...

1513. Anti-intellectual Christianity

Luke 11:1-13

Illustration

Wallace H. Kirby

... . We are in serious danger of failing to heed Durant. With our attention on those multitude who are flocking to the proclaimers of the gospel (whose presentation is untarnished by a serious grappling with the wisdoms of science, biblical criticism, or the prevailing arts) we are overlooking the fact that we are creating a new mission field: those who drop out of the faith because it appears too simplistic, obscure and anti-intellectual. According to Cohn Morris, the pulpit is one of the few remaining places ...

1514. A Vision of Hope

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... God who would ultimately save them. One of the most enduring images of our Christian faith is of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. Many churches have beautiful stained-glass windows portraying Jesus as the Good Shepherd caring for the sheep. In addition, there are works of art depicting Jesus caring for a lost sheep. Such images are comforting to us, especially in times of stress. Jesus loves the sheep so much that he is willing to lay down his life. Could it be the hectic pace of our modern lives that makes the ...

1515. So, Explain It to Me

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... of the Trinity today. It took him ten years to write and is actually not one book but fifteen books all on the Trinity. In that work he developed that famous formulation of the Trinity that we see reflected in much church teaching, hymnody, and even art. Perhaps you have seen the visual portrayal of it. There is a triangle that at each point portrays a different person of the Trinity — Father, Son, and Spirit. In the center is the word God. Between each person of the Trinity and the center is the ...

1516. Children of the Heavenly Father

Romans 8:12-25

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... us a graphic portrayal of the fallenness of the human condition. Over the course of two hours we see everyone in that film struggle with their racism and prejudice. Regardless of how hard they try to overcome such attitudes, they can't. That is what all good art does. Whether it is literature or film or theater or even music, at their best they do more than entertain. They reveal the human condition, how broken and trapped we all are. Or as Saint Paul continually reminds us in his letter to the Romans, we ...

1517. The Heifer that Will Change the World!

Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32

Sermon

Larry Lange

... the very end of the world, I'm hanging on to the loving gospel mercy of God. Not some smelly, red cow. Amen. 1. Information for this sermon was found in Lawrence Wright's, "Letter from Jerusalem Forcing the End," The New Yorker, July 20, 1998, http://www.lawrencewright.com/art-jerusalem.html.

1518. The World According to Paul

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... The world according to John Irving is a weird, wonderful and dangerous place. His novels, he admits, are full of casualties, with terrible things happening to his characters. Irving's response is to lighten tragedy with humor."2 Actually, his novels are artfully disguised autobiographies, with almost every aspect of his own life portrayed somewhere within the plots. Irving's characters in A Prayer for Owen Meany3 mirror his life and experiences. The narrator of A Prayer for Owen Meany is Owen's best friend ...

1519. Handmade By God

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... you packed in your lunch leaked and now everything in your backpack is soaked. One of your teachers gives a pop quiz, and during gym, you’re the last one chosen for a kickball team. Your best friend won’t speak to you. On the way home, you drop your art project. When you get home, you spill your milk while eating your after-school snack, and worst of all, even your dog won’t play with you. What a rotten day. We all have days like that, and when we do, it’s easy to start thinking that maybe something ...

1520. Symbols We Wear

James 2:14-26

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

Object: Three samples of symbols/identification that people wear, such as an employee name tag, a police officer’s badge, a military medal, a Scout badge, a wedding ring, a martial arts belt Cross necklace or pin Cardstock printed with the scripture reference and verse Today we’re going to talk about identification. Identification is something that helps us discover or show who or what someone or something is. Scientists study the characteristics of plants to identify it, and detectives study clues ...

1521. Peace and Quiet

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... uses some of its most touted cultural creations as weapons of warfare. Or as Garret Keizer puts it provocatively in his new book The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise (Public Affairs, 2010), “When a country appropriates its most popular art forms in the service of torturing its enemies, is it not admitting repulsion at its own culture?” No wonder we are on a soul-search for “peace and quiet.” As the pastoral epistle of First Timothy expresses it, we are all searching for “a ...

1522. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Denied!"

John 13:36-38; 18:12-27

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . Conclusion I read that not far from New York City there is a cemetery where there is a grave which has inscribed upon its headstone just one word: "Forgiven." There is no name, no date of birth or death. The stone is undecorated by any sculptor's art. There is no epitaph, no eulogy, no Scripture quote, just one word: "Forgiven." But that is the greatest thing that could be said about any of us or written on our grave. Forgiven. And that's what Jesus says: whether we have denied Him publicly like Peter ...

1523. Come On In The Water's Fine

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

Show Clip from "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?"(Baptism scene, edited for language) That movie has become one of my favorite movies. And I particularly love that scene. As you watch the scene unfold you see the human need, the tugging of the heart and spirit as Delmar sees and recognizes the baptismal procession. He instinctively recognizes ...

1524. Neighbors Who Never Met - Sermon Starter

Luke 16:19-31

Illustration

Brett Blair

... in our present time. He was a progressive kind of a guy. He was self-indulgent and this is the age of self-indulgency. The contrasting life-styles of these two men is so obvious that you can't miss it. Dives was a connoisseur, a lover of the arts, one who knows and appreciates fine living, four star restaurants. We are told in vs. 19 that he habitually dressed in purple. Purple was known as the color of royalty because it was the most expensive dye in the ancient world. Only the upper echelon and the high ...

1525. On Your Mark, Get Set . . .

Mark 13:1-8, 32-33

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... flight when a voice came over the loudspeaker welcoming them and announcing that the aircraft had finally reached its cruising altitude. The passengers could now unfasten their seat belts. The voice continued by announcing that this was a state-of-the art fully automated aircraft. The passengers listened carefully as the voice explained: "This aircraft is the pride of our fleet; we no longer require pilots, co-pilots, or navigators. We have eliminated the possibility of human error and we no longer have ...

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