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1501. Pentecost

Jn 14:8-17, 25-27; 20:19-23 · Acts 2:1-21 · 1 Cor 3-7, 12-13 · Gen 11:1-9

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John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Genesis 11:1-9 By the confusion of language, Yahweh stops the building of Babel and scatters the people. In fear of being scattered, men built a city and tower. They would make a name for themselves by building a tower which would reach the sky. To prevent this Yahweh confused their language so that they would not understand each other and the building project had to cease. As a result men were scattered over the earth. Pentecost is a language affair. The evil spirit causes confusion and ...

1502. Epiphany 6

Lk 6:17-26 · 1 Cor 15:12-20 · Jer 17:5-8

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John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Jeremiah 17:5-8 The heart of a human determines good or bad conduct. Biblical scholars are not agreed whether this pericope is by Jeremiah because the material is wisdom rather than prophetic literature. Corresponding to the Gospel lesson, the passage gives the woes (curses) and beatitudes (blessed) of those who do or do not trust Yahweh. It is a contrast of the shrub in the desert and the tree by the riverside. Verses 8-10 consist of a proverb with theological interpretation. They provide a ...

1503. The World's Best Kept Secret

Matthew 6:25-34

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Harold Warlick

Our society often paints a very dull picture of being good. It's almost as if wickedness is more interesting than righteousness. We continue to be interested in the Hitler era. Hardly a night passes that two or three cable stations don't have a documentary or a movie about the Adolph Hitler era. Many a theater owner and video store manager have found that the movies rated G and PG certainly do not attract the large audiences that R-rated movies attract. Certainly our medias have found that goodness is not ...

1504. Room for Differences

Mark 9:39

Children's Sermon

Object: Many different pictures of Jesus. Good morning, boys and girls. I have brought with me this morning some pictures of Jesus. I would like you to look at all of them and then choose your favorite one. If we have time I would also like you to tell me why you like one of them more than the other. (Show the pictures to the children and comment on the differences. The color of his skin, the length of his hair, the kind of clothes he has on, what he is doing, etc. ...) Now that every one has had a chance ...

1505. Midnight Turned Into High Noon

Isaiah 42:10-17, Isaiah 42:18-25

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Barbara Brokhoff

"... I will turn the darkness before them into light ..." David Hume, the philospher, once wrote an essay on the sufficiency of the light of nature for man’s spiritual matters. About the same time, F. W. Robertson, a noted minister, published a sermon upholding the opposite thesis, pointing out that the light of nature needs to be supplemented by the light of a revelation from God. Mutual friends of the philosopher and preacher decided to bring the two together to debate the matter. When the evening ended ...

1506. No Other Way To Be Happy

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

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John R. Brokhoff

"Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God ..." "If you love me, you will keep my commandments." (John 14:15) "Trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus ..." In a gospel song, these words of the refrain are sung over and over with each stanza. The chorus repeats the truth of our test: Obedience to God’s commands is the only way to get happiness (blessing). People in palaces are not automatically happy. The ...

1507. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

"Moreover I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold in bondage and I have remembered my covenant. Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment, and I will take you for my people, and I will be your God.’ " When someone does not care, bitterly we say in the vernacular, "He does not ...

1508. An Invitation to a Feast

Matthew 22:1-14

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

Did you ever hear such a story? The Gospel for the day tells it: a man gave a marriage feast and no one showed. He sent his servants out and found everyone too busy. Some even treated his servants badly when they were invited. So he went out into the streets and dragged in anyone who would come, and finally the wedding reception was full. To those who heard the story from Jesus’ own mouth, there was special meaning: The guests who had been invited and didn’t come were the Jewish people. They had been ...

1509. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

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Kent Moorehead

The key idea that unlocks the haunting theme of Henrik Ibsen’s undying drama, Ghosts, is succinctly stated by Mrs. Alving when she exclaims: Ghosts! When I heard Regina and Oswald in there, I seemed to see ghosts before me. I almost think we’re all of us ghosts, Pastor Manders. It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that "walks" in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us just the same, and we can’t get ...

1510. Needed: Fidelity Insurance

Ephesians 5:22-33

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Bill Bouknight

An office telephone rang one day and a receptionist answered. On the other end of the line a female voice asked, "Is this the Fidelity Insurance company?" "Yes it is," the receptionist replied. "May I help you?" The caller said, "I hope so. I want to talk with someone about having my husband's fidelity insured." The surprised receptionist tried to explain that this was not the kind of insurance that Fidelity handled. Not even Lloyds of London offers that kind of policy. But wouldn't it be wonderful if ...

1511. The Bite of The Lying Tongue

Exodus 20:1-21, James 3:1-12

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Bill Bouknight

George Washington, father of our country, is honored as an example of honesty, dating back to his boyhood when he cut down that cherry tree and did not deny it. A recent theory has been circulated that George may have been born in Texas rather than Virginia; that his father gave him a bowie knife instead of a hatchet; and that little George cut down a mesquite tree rather than a cherry tree. When his father asked him about it, George said, "Papa, I cannot tell a lie. I cut it down with my bowie knife." His ...

1512. Something Good

Romans 1:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some newspaper headlines that read like good news. [Weather report that promises a white Christmas; "Peace in the Mid-East;" "No one injured in crash" etc.] Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you read a newspaper? Do you read anything besides the funnies? When I was your age I probably only read the funny papers, but if you read the newspaper at all, you know that it is filled with news, both bad news and good news. The bad news always seems to be in bigger headlines than the good news, but ...

1513. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

"You will not lie about your neighbor" Exodus 20:16 The eighth Commandment consists of only five words in the Hebrew. But despite its brevity, don’t be fooled into thinking that it is unimportant. It speaks to the heart of a fundamental human problem. Its intention is to prevent one man from destroying another with his tongue. In all probability, the original purpose of this guide for living was to assure truth in the law courts. Even today before a witness takes his place before the bench he usually must ...

1514. Mending Broken Relationships

Matthew 5:23-24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Scotch tape; a piece of colored paper that can be torn easily Good morning, boys and girls, and a happy middle of July. It sure is strange how the days pass so quickly and there are so many things to do before school starts again. Makes us wonder if we’ll get them all done. Most of the time we have fun, although every once in a while I hear noises that make me think boys and girls aren’t having such a good time. When I hear screaming and yelling and name-calling, I think that something else is ...

1515. A Reason to Hope

Lamentations 3:1-66

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Michael J. Anton

HOPE Lamentations 3:18-24 "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child." I suppose every generation could write its own book of lamentations. At least most of us seem to find enough to gripe about. Of course, many of our complains are about the people we don’t like because they don’t see life our way, or about the taxes that never seem to go down, or the noise the kids make, or the fact that they don’t make cars the way they used to. The tragedy of much of our griping is that too much of it is hot air blown ...

1516. Judgement Day Is Coming

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

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Bill Bouknight

When I was a college student I was tempted by only one other profession than the preaching ministry. That was the practice of law. And I am convinced that God is just as delighted with a Christian lawyer as He is with a Christian pastor. Those poor attorneys! Everybody tells lawyer jokes, including lawyers themselves. And I admire them for that. The only two groups in our society who have the grace and self-confidence to tell funny stories about themselves are attorneys and rednecks. May God bless both ...

1517. Someone At the Door

Revelation 3:14-22

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Bill Bouknight

According to the story I heard a man was at the Atlanta airport one day waiting for a flight to New Orleans. He had a little time to kill. As he strolled the concourse he noticed one of those fortune-telling machines. He dropped a quarter into the machine and out came a card that read, "You are John Smith. You are 35 years old, and you are waiting for a flight to New Orleans." It was all incredibly true. He was absolutely shocked. Surely there must be a trick, he reasoned. He looked behind the machine. He ...

1518. How to Fix the Past

1 John 1:5--2:14

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Bill Bouknight

They were sitting in my office recently, a couple preparing to be married. This will be the second marriage for both of them. I asked, “When did your relationship with God become very personal and real?” The bride’s answer so touched me that I asked for permission to share it, and she graciously agreed. She said, “It was following my divorce, during a low period in my life. I was running with the wrong crowd. One morning at 3 am I found myself in the parking lot of a place I did not want to be. I said, “ ...

1519. The Voices Of Christmas

Drama

Jerry Nordstrom

Cast PATIENT - Resident of a nursing home (male) HOMEMAKER - Food-happy matron (female) SHOPPER - Wealthy, materialistic socialite (female) SPORTSMAN - Young ski enthusiast (male) MERCHANT - Toy store owner (male) TRADITIONALIST - Sentimental Swedish-American grandma (female) CORPORATION MAN - Heavy-drinking party-goer (male) *CHILD - Greedy little girl (female) WORKING WIFE - Frazzled victim of the Christmas rush (female) *May be read, in character, by an adult. Presentation time: about half an hour Using ...

1520. The Richest Hill On Earth

John 19:17-27

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Robert Allen

All of us have taken trips that were memorable. There are certain vacations that stick in our minds. Perhaps, we were lying on a beach on a tropical island. Perhaps, the crisp cold wind was whipping against our face as we skied down the side of a mountain. Perhaps, we simply curled up with a good book and forgot about our everyday routines. We all have memories of certain trips or vacations that are as clear today as they were when we took them. Many years ago, I was with my family on vacation in Montana. ...

1521. Jesus Brings People Together

Ephesians 2:14-18

Children's Sermon

Erskine White

Object: None Today I want you to divide yourselves into separate groups, and I am going to divide you by the color of your eyes. Who has blue eyes? Sit over here. Who has brown eyes? Sit over there. Who has green eyes? You sit here. Now suppose I told you that from this moment on, you must not like anyone who isn’t in your group. If you have brown eyes, you aren’t supposed to like anyone with blue eyes. If you have green eyes, you must hate everyone with brown eyes, and so on. They are different from you. ...

1522. The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

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Brett Blair

A little boy was once asked by his Sunday school teacher if he knew the Ten Commandments. "No ma'am," came the reply, "my dad said that I don't have to know them since they are doing away with them anyway." It is one thing to be ignorant of the Ten Commandments; it quite another to mock them with impunity. Millions dismiss them as mere platitudes fit for nothing more than a dusty old bookshelf. They disdain them because they are "religious." There are still others who want to do away with the Ten ...

1523. Resurrection: From Lesser to Higher Morality

Matthew 5:17-20

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Leonard H. Budd

Sarah was five years old. She had lived all her life in a little village in Galilee, six miles from the shore of the great Sea. She had never been farther away than the olive tree grove, a long stone’s throw from the last house of the small community. But then, Sarah was only five. She lived with her grandfather who was unofficial rabbi for the twenty families of the village. Her grandfather, by his knowledge of the scripture, was the source for understanding the Hebrew law. Sarah’s town was distant from ...

1524. Mother Teresa and the Dying Poor

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

Jesus took his closest followers up on the side of a mountain for a spiritual retreat. There he tried to teach them about Christianity. One of the great promises he gave them was, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy" (Matthew 5:7). Seventy-six-year-old Mother Teresa of India knows what Jesus meant. She knows it like few people have understood since he first said it. Not long ago this tiny wisp of tough gentleness, who won the Nobel Peace prize, visited Norristown, Pennsylvania. There she ...

1525. Repentance and Forgiveness

Luke 24:13-35

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Richard A. Jensen

"Daddy. When you came home last Saturday night and stumbled up the stairs and hollered at Mom I was scared to death. I get really scared and upset when you drink too much." Tracy Hayes was the speaker. She was eleven years old. She spoke these words to her father during what is called an "intervention." Mrs. Hayes and her children, Tracy and Kevin, along with their pastor, a few friends, and Mr. Hayes’ boss made the very difficult decision to "intervene" in the life of Wendall Hayes. It was their ...

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