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1501. Feed My Sheep

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... before. That miner headed a movement that resulted in Sundays off. The church began to take Jesus seriously. 3. Infant mortality rates are decreasing due to wider medical care, and this offsets in Asia and Africa the increased food production. This Christian concern for children marked the Wesleyan revival in England. When John Wesley was born a chief cause of infant mortality was drunken mothers rolling over on their babies and suffocating them. By the time of Wesley’s death, this had almost disappeared ...

1502. The Seekers

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... home of a family who seemed to have had more than their share of misfortune. Sickness, unemployment, and a new child in the home had been almost more than the family could manage. To this family our gifts of some food, a little cash, and much concern were given and graciously received. The next stop was to leave a favorite family painting with a relative who had longingly admired it as we quietly congratulated ourselves on possessing it. The last gift was the most difficult for it was a giving of ourselves ...

1503. Identifying Light

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... mankind is the first text of the ministry all Christians share, Saint Paul asserts. "I have become all things to all men," is his conclusion, so that, he continues, "I might by all means save some." Nobody is beyond a Christian’s loving concern. Nobody is outside a Christian’s caring responsibility. You can’t serve Christ and check off any kind or sort of other people. Wrestling against "spiritual darkness in high places" many Danish Christians wore armbands when occupying Nazis first forced Jews to ...

1504. OUR LORD BETRAYED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... eyes were on the leader now. The room itself seemed stunned, dimmed by this abrupt announcement of betrayal. They gazed at each other in consternation. Would their eyes turn to him? Judas waited, tense, his skin damp, ready to bolt. Had he not been so concerned for himself he might have been amazed at the strange reaction of the others, for not one of them dreamed of suspecting his companions. Having lived together for many months, not one could suspect another of so horrible a deed. So sure of each other ...

1505. OUR LORD TORMENTED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... therefore chastise him and release him." At this there was a wild, frenzied outburst of protest from the mob, but Pilate merely gestured with his arm and his soldiers took the Galilean roughly and led him into the fortress. He proceeded then with casual concern to hear the charges against the other three, who had committed murder in a brief insurrection before his arrival in Jerusalem. This time the charges were not brought by Jews, but by Roman soldiers who had captured the criminals. There could be no ...

1506. OUR LORD FORSAKEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... same eyes that had been opened by him to see? A chill quivered deep within John’s tired body. It was transmitted to the woman beside him through the arm that held her, offering to protect her. She looked up at him and beneath the anguish he saw concern directed toward him. Slowly she opened her lips as if to answer his unspoken thought, his thinly repressed fear. "I know," she said. "They have forsaken him. All of them. We are the only ones who are left." He could not bear to look longer into her eyes ...

1507. Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... he will show you a large upper room furnished; there make ready." (Luke 22:10-12) Finding things to be just as he had said, they proceeded to prepare the Passover. When evening came, they sat at the table. So far as the disciples were concerned, they had gathered as they had done since childhood, to partake of a traditional Passover meal. The ritual was always the same. The meal would begin with the recounting of the story of how the Israelites escaped from Egypt. Special foods, symbolic of certain aspects ...

1508. Advent: Lament, Repent

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... for us to honestly confess. Being unclean is rather foreign to most of us today. We don’t think of foods as unclean. A crab cake or lobster is gourmet heaven, not hell. And the disease of leprosy arouses feelings of pity more than a theological judgment concerning cleanliness. But from time to time we do come across situations which immerse us in the unclean. On a vacation in an unfamiliar area, you stop at the only motel with a vacancy sign. After checking in, you get the car parked, collect the kids and ...

1509. Luther of Wittenberg

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... doesn’t like me very much. I don’t blame anyone except myself - I know I’m just a stinking bag of worms where he’s concerned. I’m so far from perfection, it’s a wonder he takes time for me at all. Sometimes I think it’s harder for a ... pocketbook because of it, the argument is sure to have a far more lasting impact. I have come to believe that the church concerns ordinary people more than religious experts. So maybe getting the theses out was the appropriate result. I can’t take credit for ...

1510. Partners in the Impossible

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Richard Patt

... will be thrilled - and moved - again by the words of Jesus, "The fields are ripe unto the harvest ... Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every person." 3. A third area of need where God is inviting you and me to be partners in the impossible today concerns the feeding of the world’s hungry people. And this is our Christian calling! To eat is a basic human right. It is no shame to want and demand to be fed. Feeding the hungry was part of Christ’s mission, and is part of ours. But again the ...

1511. Strong Faith For Tough Times

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... before, on live television. On and on we could go with a moving and poignant litany of these powerful images etched indelibly into our hearts and minds. Now, I don’t want to be overly dramatic or sensationalistic this morning, but I do think this is what we are concerned about today. I do think this is the elephant in the room right now. I do think we need to grapple with this together. I do think we need to try to bring some spiritual light to the situation. Let me admit up front that I am certainly no ...

1512. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... and robs us of our full energy for living. Only to a point is the following bit of doggerel an expression of truth: Don’t worry if you worry, Don’t let it cause you pain; It is vitally normal, And absolutely sane. When worry moves beyond normal concern, it becomes debilitating and even destructive to health. As a young minister I was sent to the "Outer Banks" of North Carolina. I had seven churches up and down the coast. We lived in the house at Kitty Hawk where the Wright brothers had lived when they ...

1513. A Good God and the Problem of Suffering

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . One day I was surprised at a new reaction. He asked, "How is Mr. Jones down the hall?" (Before this he had been unaware of others.) The strange process of change continued. He would ask, "How are the men who work for me?" On and on it went as his concern for others grew. It was beautiful. His attitude toward life was different; his values were new. He died. But before he died he had become ready to live, really live. And when you are ready to live, you are ready to die. The reality of life is the same on ...

1514. Coping When It Seems Impossible

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... life, on her husband, on her children. How do you help a person, so desperate, to come to grips with life? When we are inwardly prayerful, God guides in our counseling. I said, "Well, if you can’t trust God, he is not mad at you. He is concerned about you; he is worried about one of his children who is all mixed up and suffering. He cares." Then another thought was given me. Knowing that she had some Christian background, I asked, "If you had lived in the time of Christ, if you had followed the multitudes ...

1515. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... to me." "Yes, very much," I said. "Well," she continued, "after you left the hospital that day. I may have dozed off, I don’t know. But there was Christine standing by my bed, lovely and very much alive. She told me how much she loved me and how concerned she was about my health. I have never seen her more alive. We had a marvelous visit. And then she was gone. But I know she is alive!" My friend lived for several years as a beautiful, complete, caring person. She was always radiant, loving, and full of ...

1516. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... be saying, "They are not developing their faith; they are looking more and more to science for a way of life. Therefore, I will speak to them through science and turn them back to their faith." Dr. Kubler-Ross writes of Dr. Rymond Moody’s book concerning what people experience after death: "It is research such as Dr. Moody presents in his book that will enlighten many and will confirm what we have been taught for two thousand years - that there is life after death ... It is evident from his findings that ...

1517. Counting The Cost?

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... post the 95 Theses? A great revival in Wales started when, because no one else offered to witness, a little girl rose in the meeting and said she would testify. Frances E. Willard espoused the cause of rights for women, temperance crusades, education, social concern - and she fought amid the laughter of a male-dominated society. Ignatius Loyola dedicated himself to the Virgin Mary and Christ, and, limping, made his way to Jerusalem. What a pathetic picture that was. Yet, out of it came the Society of Jesus ...

1518. The Fulfilled Promise

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... the wrong train, it doesn’t matter how fast you run along the corridor in the opposite direction." You must start with the right decision. This applies both to the individual and to the church as a whole. But the decisions of the organized church concern at best only programs and policies. The all-important commitment has to be made by the individual, for the axis of reality, as William James put it, runs through the hearts of individuals. Thus the Word who became flesh in order to establish contact with ...

1519. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... of mankind have found their best friend and defender. He to whom human nature was an open book showed a remarkably clear understanding of the mind of the child, a remarkably high appreciation of the child’s spiritual potentialities, and a remarkably deep concern that these potentialities be actualized. We recall at once his words, "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God" (Luke 18:16). In a still more dramatic occasion Jesus places a little child ...

1520. The Gospel for Labor Day

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... all times and under all conditions. Let us examine what he has to say about work itself, about our attitude toward work, and finally about compensation for our work. The parable is about men seeking work and an employer who hires them. The owner of a vineyard is concerned about getting sufficient labor to bring in a harvest of grapes. So he bargains with some workmen at six o’clock in the morning. He offers them a fair wage which they accept and go to work. But he needs more workmen and goes to the market ...

1521. Thomas Didymus: An Honest Skeptic

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... was not there in the room at the time the other disciples had gathered. Where was he? How did he feel about being left out of the big experience? Or had they made it up because he had gone his own way? Was there jealousy where the Master was concerned? Does the Church today act out the inner life of the disciples and need an experience such as Thomas needed? Do you suppose there was some lack of love in this encounter of Thomas and the other disciples? (I’m showing my counselor’s bias here it seems ...

1522. The Courage to Be Me

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... . You and I have been taught from childhood to try to succeed at whatever we do. Although the theology is out of date, the idea is still abroad that if one will just try hard enough and think enough positive thoughts, we can succeed at anything. Some people are so concerned about what others think of them that they think of success as meeting other’s expectations - not as self-fulfillment. Such persons face inevitable defeat, because "no one can please all of the people all of the time"! Consider the ...

1523. Be At Peace With One Another

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Brett Blair

... lives because we destroy the weak among us. Before we look at this point I want to draw your attention to the text, versus 38-50. At first glance it seems Jesus is covering several unrelated topics. There is the disciples concern about the man whom they do not know driving out demons. Jesus addresses those concerns. Then he instructs them not to cause little ones to sin. It would be better to be thrown into the lake tied to a millstone than to do such a thing, he warns. Then he tells his disciples to cut ...

1524. Ready or Not - Here I Come

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... friends asleep even though he asked them to watch and pray for him. In the parable of the virgins, five foolish virgins missed the bridegroom at midnight because they were asleep and allowed their lamps to go out. It is high time for us today to get awake with concern about the end of the world and Christ's return. "Wake, wake for the night is flying.” Today we need to get awake to the fact of Jesus' return to earth to bring history to a close, to judge the wicked, and to gather the faithful. There is no ...

1525. You Are A Name!

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... , John says, "But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God." The Bible promises "Every one who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved." Following in the steps of Jesus, bearing his name, Christians are concerned about "saving souls," that is, bringing people to the life and love of God in Christ. How do we go about it? We, like Philip and Andrew when the Greeks came saying, "Sir, we would see Jesus," take people to Jesus. We serve as midwives who help ...

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