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1501. Strong Medicine

Judges 4:1-7

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... did she kill Sisera because the suffering of others got to her? In any case, she was not directly affected by the oppression of Jabin and Sisera, and she committed this messy murder to help others. Whatever her exact reasons, the narrator leaves us guessing. In any case, the Lord comes through again and overthrows Israel's oppressors. The celebration is boisterous, with a big song and dance. This story is exciting, if squirmy, and would make a great action-adventure movie. The actress who played Jael could ...

1502. Financial Freedom

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... any amount of money to do whatever I wanted to. Just on my name, Reverend, just on my name! Do you understand? I could borrow it on my name only.” The man then leaned forward and put his head in his hands, and said softly through tears, “I guess there are some things you can’t buy or borrow.” (3) This man’s material bank was full to overflowing, but his spiritual bank was empty. Is that your situation? Then you are serving mammon and not God. The dishonest steward at least understood that money is ...

1503. Jesus' Most Perplexing Parable

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth so that when it is gone, they may welcome you into the eternal homes" (v. 9). Jesus concludes this discussion with the familiar "No slave can serve two masters. You cannot serve God and wealth" (v. 13). My guess is that very few of you here this morning have ever heard a sermon on that parable. It ranks as one of the least known in the Bible. It doesn't take any particular insight to understand why. The story praises a scoundrel. That message does not ...

1504. Who Vouches for Us?

Romans 8:26-39

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... hearts and minds to the glory of your will for your people. Bless us as we seek to witness to your glory in the world around us and beyond us. These things we pray in your mighty name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession In this world full of accusations and second guesses, Lord, we take heart because it is you who answers for us, you who justifies us, you who redeems us. Amen. Hymns "Jesus, Priceless Treasure" "Christ Be With Me, Christ Within Me" "Ask Ye What Great Thing I Know"

1505. Grace Has Appeared

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... is it all about? How does it relate to me? And, how should I relate to it?" The answer we come up with to that basic question will do more than anything else to determine the shape of our lives. And the answer is not always easy to guess. The world around us gives mixed signals. People come up with lots of different answers. As a result, people live lots of different kinds of lives. But Christians believe that, in the coming of Jesus, that greater reality which is present in all of the little realities that ...

1506. Someone Is Trying to Get Through

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

James L. Killen

... comes up with some kind of an answer and, for good or for ill, the answers we come up with shape our lives. If you want to do something interesting - and very significant - look at the ways in which the people you know are living their lives and try to guess what kinds of answers they must have come up with to the question about the meaning of life. Then, when you have gotten good at it, ask those same questions about yourself. God wants to give us the answer to our big question. But the answer we need is ...

1507. A Christian's Resumé

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... . It's about being like that barker at a local carnival who is able to attract the most people into the tent because of his or her ability to say the right things in the most appealing way. And ... it's all perspective. You have to try to second-guess what it is the employer is looking for. Will they care that you grew up on a farm and have a strong work ethic? Or will they be more interested in your cosmopolitan life that has molded your creative talents since leaving the farm? Will they care that you ...

1508. Abraham Believed God

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... believe." "But, Father," they protested, "we fasted just like you told us and we came back today believing as you asked us. Why are you being so harsh to us?" "Believe, you say?" the priest questioned. "And where are your umbrellas?" And where are your umbrellas? My guess is that if the local weather forecasters predict rain, you will be prepared with your umbrellas. But if God tells you to that his son will return to earth as the sovereign judge of all and you need to get this urgent message out to others ...

1509. Sheep that Count

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... a handsome fox peering out from behind one of the trees. He had never seen a fox before, so he didn't know that he was supposed to be afraid and run from it. "Who are you? And how did you know my name?" "Everyone calls me Destiny. And I guess you could say I'm sort of your destiny. I know all the lambs in your flock by name. That's part of my work on earth, to get to know you all." "You look different. Are you a sheep?" "Not really. I could have been a sheep, I suppose ...

1510. No Shame

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 (29-31)

Sermon

William G. Carter

... , and they are ashamed of something. I struck up a conversation with a woman I had known for a couple of years. I thought I knew her fairly well. One day she blurted out that she had been married four times. I said, "You never mentioned it." She said, "I guess I'm ashamed." A man lost his job. That was hard enough. What made it more difficult is that he lost the job because he was caught taking a box of envelopes out of the office for personal use. He never mentioned it to anybody. He couldn't tell his ...

1511. No Longer Damned

Romans 8:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... men. Something began to dawn on him, so he asked, "How did your friend Jerry die?" One of them said, "He died of AIDS." Tony said, "Did Jerry have any family?" "They haven't talked to one another in years. We looked in on him when he got sick. I guess we were the closest thing to family he had." Tony said, "Did Jerry have a church background?" "Sure, Preacher, all of us grew up in a church. That's why we wanted a Christian minister." Tony said, "Well, it's my privilege to be here. I thought I would read ...

1512. Coming Home

Luke 15:1-3,11b-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... called the Scholastic Olympics. What happened was that she would ask each child to pick a sentence from literature, name the author and source from which it came, and then explain why this sentence could be called the most important sentence ever written. You can probably guess what some of the entries were, like "Fourscore and seven years ago," and "All people are created equal." A lot of political phrases like that. There were also a lot of literary phrases, like "To be or not to be." The girl who got the ...

1513. Dig In

Jeremiah 29:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... supposed to do. Because according to Biblical faith, we are here to "dig in," to be a part of a community, and to invest in that community, "to build homes; to plant gardens; to seek the welfare of the city." Lawrence Haworth published a book a generation ago I guess now, entitled The Good City, in which he said there are two parts to the good city. The first is opportunity. The second is community. You can't have a good city with only one of those. He said what is wrong with American cities is that they ...

1514. Even God Can Change His Mind

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... stunned by the Old Testament lesson for this morning, where it says the Lord changed his mind about the disaster he planned to bring upon his people. I have read that passage before, and there are many others just like it in the Old Testament. But I guess I never paid much attention to them. I thought that they were simply vestiges of a more primitive stage of religion, and something that we in the modern age need not take seriously. But then I read a book a few weeks ago by Richard Friedman, a professor ...

1515. Eye Exercises

Matthew 6:25-33

Sermon

Mark Trotter

1516. He's Here Somewhere

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to pay attention, then you would do it in Rome. You would do it in the capital of the Empire, not in Palestine, and certainly not in Nazareth, which is where the angel found Mary, and said, "Blessed are you among all the women of the world." But I would guess that if you wanted to keep it quiet, you would do it in Nazareth, in Galilee. You notice what it says in Luke's wonderful story of the birth of Jesus? After the announcement to her by the angel, it says Mary tells only one person, her cousin, Elizabeth ...

1517. Honoring the Fathers

Hebrews 11:17-22

Sermon

Mark Trotter

1518. If I Were a Rich Man

Mark 10:17-27

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... farmers (we would call them tenant farmers), then exploiting them with high rents, and by taking a portion of their crops. Jesus, who grew up in rural Galilee among poor farmers, knew all about this. So it is suggested that he edited the Ten Commandments (I guess if anybody is allowed to do that, it would be Jesus) to include this common sin of his day of cheating or defrauding people in order to gain wealth. So Jesus asks, "Have you obeyed these commandments?" The man says, "I have done all of them." Then ...

1519. Reflections on a Bumper Sticker

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... side and honked, and the man flipped her off. So you never know. I saw a bumper sticker that said, "Life is too short to feel guilty." I couldn't see who was driving the car, she was going too fast, and I couldn't catch up with her. I guess she also believed that life is too short to obey the law. I got to thinking about that phrase, "Life is too short to feel guilty." It sounds like it could have come from one of those semi-religious, quasi-psychological enterprises that crop up every now and then. And ...

1520. Scandalous News

Luke 4:16-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... home to America. On the ship she met the victim of another tragedy, a seven year old boy whose missionary parents had been killed in the bombings in Burma. Now he is being sent home to his relatives in America. The little boy was attracted to the woman. I guess because a seven year old boy needs a mother, especially in circumstances like that. But she would have nothing to do with him. In fact, she scheduled her time on the ship so as to avoid him. She couldn't get outside of herself, her own sorrow, long ...

1521. Stirring Things Up

Mark 13:1-8, Hebrews 10:11-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near." It's a marvelous passage. It seems to be saying that not only did this church have trouble understanding forgiveness, it had trouble understanding mission. I would guess the attendance was down. "Let's not neglect to meet together, as is the habit of some." He doesn't mention any names, but, of course, everybody knew who he was talking about. Attendance is down. He is concerned about attendance, because attendance is ...

1522. The Things That Make for Peace

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... knew the things that make for peace!" Perhaps the most subtle power destroying the peace is our language. I remember thirty years ago when the Free Speech movement began, they set out to liberate America from its hypocrisy. We are pretty much liberated now, I would guess. You can hear just about anything and see just about anything you want in our public life now. Certain four-letter words you hear over and over again, especially in the movies, as if it were some litany. It is justified by saying, that's ...

1523. This Is the Day

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... ago with the onslaught of Darwinism, they started building churches that looked like fortresses. Did you ever notice that? A lot of us were raised in those churches. They had these towers with turrets at the top, so you could shoot people from them, I guess. They used big stones to construct the churches. They looked like fortresses. You expected to see a moat and a drawbridge around it. Architecturally those churches were saying, we are not changing. We are defending the world as it has always been. It's ...

1524. What If He Shows Up?

John 2:13-22

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... said this morning contradicted what you said last Sunday?" I will say, "No, but thank you for telling me," because I can't remember what I said last week. Later when I research it, I discover they are right. But I'm a preacher. I guess my style of preaching could be called, "blatant contradictions, supported by sweeping generalities." I'll take responsibility for the sweeping generalities, but I will pass the blame for the contradictions onto the Bible. I just preach what's there. I don't write that stuff ...

1525. The Tree That Didn't Get Trimmed

Romans 11:33-34

Drama

Matthew Powell

... for myself. I feel sorry for the other young trees, still growing in the fresh hill country, who are dreaming the same unattainable dreams. Storyteller 2: Now, perhaps you don't know what happens to leftover Christmas trees. Storyteller 1: You could never guess. Storyteller 2: Farmers come in from the country Farmer: and buy them at five cents each to use as bean poles and grape arbors. Storyteller 1: Perhaps - Storyteller 2: here begins the encouraging part of the story - Storyteller 1: Perhaps the trees ...

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