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1501. Dancing with the Wind

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... her eyes off it, she slowly and softly said, ‘Look, Harry, is it okay with you if I, I mean, if I don’t, what I want to ask, is it okay if I keep the cake for a little while? Is it okay if we don’t eat it right away?’ Harry shrugged and answered, ‘Well, sure, Agnes, that’s fine. You want to keep the cake, keep the cake. Take it home if you want to.’ ‘Oh, could I?’ she asked. Looking at me, she said, ‘I just live down the street a couple of doors. I want to take the ...

1502. The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... recite these magical words any time they are going to ask for information that may make you look guilty. This warning benefits us by keeping those who are ignorant of the law from being harmed without counsel. In other words, we are not required to speak out on our ... Christ. "Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel." Paul feels it would be a disservice to himself, to others, and to God to keep it all inside him. I envy Paul - that he had the courage to talk about Christ day in and day out. When we look deep in ...

1503. Get Ready

Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... that Jesus is going to return some day to usher in a new and perfect existence - even though we do not know the date - shouldn't we be making some preparations for it? Jesus told several parables that emphasize the importance of being ready for his coming. "Keep awake therefore," he said, "for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming ... Therefore you also must be ready" (Matthew 24:42, 44). Paul wrote that because we are children of light we should not be caught by surprise by Christ's return. How ...

1504. The Shouting of the Crowd

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... person's actions without knowing the facts. I had an evening meal in the home of a couple recently. I have known them for years and have been aware of some of the heartaches they have experienced. During our lively conversation, the wife made a statement that keeps popping into my mind: "Life seems to be one crisis after another. I get through one, and then I'm faced with another." That crowd on Calvary had no idea of the crisis through which God was passing when they shouted their insults. They didn't know ...

1505. A Night of Farewell - Peter

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... in me ... and I in you ..." Could I still abide in him after what I've done? No. Of course not. Wait. I remember. He said, "I call you friends." That look. He is still my friend. Could it be? I remember: "I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away ..." Even after what I've done. Yes, hold on. I feel empty ... But I've got to hold on. He said, "Your sorrow will be turned to joy." "Peter, Peter, Satan is trying to get hold of you ... but I have prayed for you." I remember ...

1506. Encounters With Christ VI: Jesus and Caiaphas

Matthew 26:57-68

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Caesar. We have no king but Caesar.” The implication here is that Caiaphas had sold out. At this point in his life, he wants only these things: - To protect and feather his own nest - To keep the people quiet - To keep the waters from being stirred - To hold onto his position as high priest… And he knew the only way to do that was to keep Rome happy. They had given him his job and they could take it away. But why was Jesus such a threat to Caiaphas? What did Jesus do that upset Caiaphas so much? Why did ...

1507. What's A Savior Worth?

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4

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Joe Barone

... knew the outcome of the conversation, but I think he loved me too. "Why do you ask me about what is good?" he asked. "One there is who is good." He looked down in careful reverence as he said it. But then he told me, "If you would enter life, keep the commandments," and my heart surged. I could have told him that I already do that. But I didn't want to appear too eager, so instead, I said, "Which ones?" and he listed several. "You shall not kill, or commit adultery, or steal or bear false witness." And ...

1508. The Butterfly Rock

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carl Jech

... faith to the everyday, "secular" world. There is probably no danger of our ever doing too much of that! We can be so heavenly minded that we are no earthly good. But we also need poetic, artistic, theological and other forms of religious symbols to keep our horizons open, to inspire our imaginations as we "consider the heavens." Next week our Surprising Symbol of Easter will be "Empty Prisons Without Walls." The week after that we will look at "Laughing in Church" as a symbol. And then, our next surprising ...

1509. Empty Prisons Without Walls

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... our culture, our governnment, our "way of life." It can be very difficult to resist the temptation to want to lock in a prison or mental hospital, or to ostracize, everyone who questions some basic values or traditions of our society, but if we keep reminding ourselves of the ways in which that is done in totalitarian countries perhaps we can avoid this trap. Prisons are both the reality and the symbol of our failures. Remember Ebeneezer Scrooge's disturbing attitude: "Are there no workhouses? Are there no ...

1510. Prayers for Year A

Bulletin Aid

William S. Carter

... , and help us to reflect it into the lives of those around us; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. NINETEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST · Matthew 21:28-32 O God, keep us honest. Help us to accomplish the things we promise. And educate our minds to choose your tasks for our promises. Lord, fill us with your love; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within ...

1511. The Faithful have Confidence in God

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... faithful to him in all kinds of circumstances. People: We know that if we are faithful to God, he will keep faith with us. Pastor: And that means God will judge us as righteous because of his love and mercy. People: May ... do not know when we will face death, Father, but if it were today, we do not feel we could say we have done our best at keeping the faith and running the race you have set before us. Forgive us for our multitude of modern day excuses which interfere with committed Christian living. Awaken ...

1512. Greater Than A Pinky Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... die, stick a needle in your eye.) Ok, everyone do it with me. Everyone cross your heart. (response) Now, hope to die. (response) Ok, stick a needle in your eye. (response) I don’t know what that’s all about but it sounds like someone is pretty serious about keeping their promise. When I was a kid there was one way to seal a promise that was extra strong. If someone sealed a promise this way, you knew that they wouldn't break it. Do you know what it was? (response) It was called a "pinky promise." How do ...

1513. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... full of pews. Yet there is a connectionalism here that makes me want to come to the defense of the sermon, keeping preaching tightly bound up with the assignment to hear and do the will of God. Biblical models for true spirituality come alive ... sounds silly, and at odds with the humility of the One whose life, death, and resurrection we are called to proclaim. Yet the heart keeps a scrapbook. And there is gratitude to those who have opened our eyes, been our teachers and guides and, having received the torch ...

1514. The Aim Of Preaching: To Bestow The Kiss Of Life

John 20:19-23

Sermon

James Angell

... ashamed, embrace our own tomorrows with thanksgiving. So we will go on praying and working for a revived nation, attempting to be part of the implementation of our own petitions by being alive to the grandeur of the world itself, alive to the differences that keep it interesting, alive to children, alive to love, and to the divine within the ordinary - the kinds of awareness that prompted Edna St. Vincent Millay to write:"God, I can push the grass apart, and lay my finger on Thy heart." The church, too, is ...

1515. Is Christianity Practical?

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , an attempt to escape from life; that the atmosphere of this sanctuary will carry us so far upward that we fail to keep our feet on the ground where they belong; that our spiritual life will become detached from the rest of our existence; that we ... , we mean a person who has his feet on the ground, even though his head may be in the clouds. Being a realist does not keep a man from having ideals, but being a pure idealist prevents a man from being a realist. And the great danger of Christianity today is ...

1516. The Kind of Church to Become

Acts 2:1-13

Illustration

Johnny Dean

1517. The Quality of Mercy

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

... presence, and said, "You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me to, and should you not have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?" With that burning rebuke, the king turned the ungrateful man over to the jailers, saying: Keep him until all this debt is paid. And of course the debt was never paid, because nobody can ever pay 10,000 talents. Well, this is where the story ends, as recorded in Matthew 18:21-35. It was Jesus who told the story nearly 2,000 years ago ...

1518. Lord, I Believe - Or Do I?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

... When the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" Or will he find behind the flurry of our busyness a valley of dry bones? There will be a day - his day, his end. In fact, his day is now, for Christ is in our midst. He keeps company with sinners. He responds with grace to every penitent. He releases captives from the bondage of their Egypt. He takes us by the hand to usher us through those dark shadows into life eternal. In the Gospel of a love that suffered through the death of Calvary we have ...

1519. The Foolish Farmer

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... of God’s name. There are sixty-one words in this procession of abundance; twelve of them are the first person singular: my. A grand Christian man once said, "It is not how much of my possessions I use for God; it is how much of God’s possessions I keep for myself." Recall the nursery rhyme: Little Jack Horner sat in a corner Eating his Christmas pie. He stuck in his thumb And pulled out a plumb And said [of all the ridiculous things to say!] "What a good boy am I." Not "What a good farmer my father is ...

1520. No Snap Courses

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... -45) When Jesus said, "The foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head" (Luke 9:58), one would-be follower backed off, saying, "Suffer me first to bury my father." He meant that he couldn’t keep on with Jesus as long as his father was alive. One excuse is as good as another. When the one we have called the "rich young ruler" heard the cost of following Jesus, he "turned away sorrowing." (Matthew 19:22) It is inevitable that this misunderstanding of the ...

1521. The Reins of Power

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

... lives, we should recognize that it is within our reach and must be established within us. As surely as he invited us to take up our crosses and follow him, he was challenging us to pick up the reins of power and live responsible lives in keeping with the will of God. We can live meaningful, fulfilled lives. We can conquer the passions of envy, hate, greed, and selfishness. We can do something about the terrible social problems that are devastating human society. In a very basic sense the issues are up to ...

1522. The Challenge of God's Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

... the woman said, "I want to maintain and preserve it as a shrine. This little church has a lot of memories. I'm not going to renovate it or anything, just clean it and keep it up." That's what a lot of people are satisfied to do with the church of Jesus Christ. They just want to keep the doors open. They want to clean it and keep it up. But Christianity is no monument. It is a movement. It is a movement because it has a moving message - that is, a message that is able to move people, a message that ...

1523. Don't Try So Hard!

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

... one who started at the bottom and worked himself up to the top. The title, "president of the company," has a hallowed ring to it here in America. So our nation holds to a kind of "work ethic." You've got to keep doing. You've got to keep producing. Exert yourself! If you fail, try harder. Stick with it! Keep at it. Now in a way all of us agree with this outlook, I'm sure. We don't admire laziness. We don't put a premium on wasting time. We encourage our children to work. When the grades at school begin ...

1524. The Godness Of God

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

... went over some rough road. The ark was in danger of falling off the wagon. A man, Uzzah, put his hand on the ark to keep it from falling. The moment he did, it was as though he had touched a high tension power line, for he fell over dead. God ... . God is even able to save and deliver us from ourselves and our enemies. Listen to Jude 24: "Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing ..." God indeed is able, but is he willing ...

1525. Do Not Enter

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Children's Sermon

... you go past the sign because the street is torn up, or it is one way, the other way. That sign is an obstacle. It keeps us from going where we want to go. I need a couple of volunteers for another obstacle that I brought with me. [Take out the ... like stretching a chain which says, "This is an obstacle that you cannot pass through." So, remember, you can be an obstacle that can hurt and keep people from knowing God. Or you can be a path, a big wide street or a six-lane highway that lets people come to know ...

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