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1551. Discerning the Way of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... ? It is indeed all too easy to turn freedom into license, into the idea we can do anything at all. Freedom sometimes is defined as "the ability to do whatever one pleases." In a sense that is correct inasmuch as a Christian pleases to please God, but that leaves us still with the question of how we know what pleases God! The definition is entirely misleading, though, if it is used simply to say that we are now free to do anything at all, following any whim that enters our heart at any given time. There are ...

1552. Journey to the Cross I: Jesus And The Demon-Possessed Man

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Canadian hotel, he craters… he hits bottom. Filled with anxiety, completely immobilized, paralyzed by his emotional despair, unable to leave his room, lying on his bed, he moans out loud: “Life isn’t worth living this way, I wish I ... Well, the man is still prone to anxiety. He still has to work hard. But, now he has a source of strength. During the week, he often leaves his work-desk and goes to the church near his office. He sits there and prays. He says: “It clears my head. It reminds me of who ...

1553. The Joy of Being a Caring Person

Mt 25:31-46 · Lk 16:19-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... does not care."6 The Christian spirit, in Christians whose lives have been touched by Christ, in whose lives his spirit lives - these are the ones who change the sad picture of an uncaring world. True Christians are the ones who represent the Father, God - who can leave ninety-nine sheep safe in the barn, and then go out gladly and spend all night long searching in the wilderness for me. Paul Scherer tells of Toscanini in his last performance, when he was 85 years of age. The old man lifted his baton, and ...

1554. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... so God can make us holy even as he is holy. A little boy, attending worship for the first time, asked his mother, "What is this place?" His mother replied, "This is a church, the house of God." The little fellow sat attentively all through the service. As they were leaving, he turned to his mother and said: "God must not have been at home today. I looked all around and never did see him!" Would that child have seen God in our church? Would he have seen God’s love in our eyes? Would he have heard God’s ...

1555. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... know the Father" (John 10:14-15). We also know that he will never desert us nor fail us, again because he said so: "I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you" (John 14:18). We know we belong to Jesus as long as we live, and that we can trust ... tells us that our bodies are dust and unto dust we shall return (Genesis 3:19). When we die, our soul or personality leaves our physical body and we are given a new, glorified, spiritual, incorruptible body fit for heaven. Never again will the physical body be ...

1556. A Liturgical Drama For Advent

Drama

Tom Eberle

... while earth’s foundations are giving way." [Psalms 82:2-5] One: I guess I do worry about the day the kids will be grown and leave home. It seems like they are one of the few lights left for me. Two: Being a kid isn’t easy. It’s like somebody dumped ... and sits down. The Light notices this and moves toward the person.] Light: Why are you here in the corner by yourself? Nameless: Leave me alone! Light: My name is Light, can you tell me yours? Nameless: [pause, then mumbles inaudibly] I don’t have a name ...

1557. The Circus and My Faith

Ps 139 · Mt 22:37

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... class graduating from Andover Newton. Said Dr. Cragg, "Dry rot of the mind is one of the perils of the ministry."1 It is that; but it is no less a peril encountered as one sits in the pew. Our worship of God is far less than total when we leave our brains at home and bring into the sanctuary only our hearts. The Psalmist, too, must have known that both thinking and feeling are important to God because he cried out - Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! (Psalm 139:23) This theme ...

1558. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... , but occasionally you find those who don’t, and they carry this fear of the darkness into their adult lives. In one of my former congregations, there was a young lady who suffered from this fear and reported to me that she never went to bed without leaving a light on. The themes of light and darkness, of course, are in no way new themes on the scene. They have held a fascination for people since primitive times. And along the way, biblical faith adopted these themes and used them in expressing the nature ...

1559. Phoebe

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... of Christ ..." (1 Corinthians 12:27) It is her joy but she is no pious fool. When she entered the church, she did not leave her business-like resolve and know-how at the door. As the sermon is preached, she does not send her mind home to tend ... may be, you should remember me at the altar of the Lord." They persisted, and asked again if she were not frightened at the prospect of leaving her body so far from her native country, "Nothing is far from God, and I need have no fear that he will not know where to ...

1560. THE WITCH OF ENDOR

Drama

Marcia Miller

... the sooner you learn that the better all of us will get along. DARCY: I don’t like this dancing. MUIDEM: Please. RECOS: Leave her alone. MUIDEM: Recos, you’re always siding with Darcy. She causes you to have to do extra work, too. RECOS: It ... : I’ve got to get out of here. Come, help me up. We’ve got to get out of here. ENDORA: Please, sit down. Don’t leave so quickly. SAUL: I am a doomed man. LUCAS: Don’t talk like that. Something may happen to divert the warning. LEUMAS: The prophet Samuel has ...

1561. WE ARE THE BELIEVERS: TESTIMONIES

Drama

Marcia Miller

... into the room with my mother and father. I didn’t recognize their voices, but they seemed so calm and comforting. Everyone was told to leave. The servants protested, saying that I was dead and they had the right to mourn. One man, however, told them that I wasn’t ... day was over, I found myself making arrangements to repay the money I had illegally collected as taxes. And when he started to leave, he turned to say: "The Son of Man has come to seek and to save those who are lost." THE HANDICAPPED WOMAN: ...

1562. We Want Freedom

Matthew 4:1-11

Illustration

Barbara Brokhoff

... , freedom from fear of death, and above all, freedom from the terrors of the judgment day. A teen-age boy told his parents he was going to run away from home. "Listen," he said, "I'm leaving home. There is nothing you can do to stop me. I want excitement, adventure, beautiful women, money, and fun. I'll never find it here, so I'm leaving. Just don't try to stop me!" As he headed for the door, his father leaped up and ran toward him. "Dad," the boy said firmly, "you heard what I said. Don't try to stop ...

1563. Living Water for a Thirst Soul - Sermon Starter

John 4:1-42

Illustration

Brett Blair

... That's a fact - no exceptions, no extensions." "Nevertheless, there is reason to hope," Doctor Gomes promised. "The future is God's gift to you. God will not let you stumble or fall. God has not brought you this far to this place to abandon you or leave you here alone and afraid. The God of Israel never stumbles, never sleeps, never goes on sabbatical. Thus, my beloved and bewildered young friends, do not be afraid." What Doctor Gomes did for the senior class at Harvard, Jesus does for the woman at the well ...

1564. Our Three-Faced God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... in return. The Face of God the Spirit Now we look at the third face of God, the Spirit. If God the Father is unknowable and approachable, and if God the Son has left earth and is seated at the right hand of the Father in glory, where does that leave man in his relation to God? He is as bad off as before Jesus came. If we should stop there, God would be a distant, incomprehensible, and unapproachable God. In that case, woe is man! To answer this need, Jesus promised that God would come to believers as Spirit ...

1565. The Cross Way of Life

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... , and John Bunyan faced it and still face it. When Bunyan was put in jail for his preaching, he worried about leaving his family to fare for themselves, particularly his blind son. He wrote, "O the thought of the hardship I thought my ... , would break up my heart to pieces ... But yet, recalling myself, thought I, I must venture you all with God, though it goeth to the quick to leave you; O I saw in this condition, I was a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children; yet thought ...

1566. Jesus Makes House Calls

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... home and friends to make it on our own. The time comes when our new friends forsake us and we come to the point of being all alone as the Prodigal was. A sinful life is a lonely life. Or, it may be that we leave home for marriage. We may have married someone our family did not approve because they feared we would not make it together. Nevertheless, we were sure we loved each other and love could surmount any obstacle. Then in a few years troubles mutliply. A spouse cannot go home now. He ...

1567. Nag, Nag, Nag!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... will not only lead you to asking for help but will encourage you to do simple, menial tasks. A customer once wrote to Stanley Marcus of the Neiman-Marcus store in Dallas, "There’s a very nice-looking woman whom I frequently see in your store picking dead leaves from plants. Surely you can find a better position for a person of such obvious quality." In his reply he pointed out that the only higher position he could give the lady was his own position, because she was his mother, a member of the board of ...

1568. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... stage left, for the women to sit upon during part of their conversation. You may wish to use extras to show the audience there is a crowd in the city, although the dialogue will tell them that. If you do use extras, they should quietly begin to disperse and leave the stage/chancel area as Mary of Bethany (MB) and Mary, the Mother of Jesus (MJ) begin to converse. Costumes Both women should be dressed simply, MB in a white or light tan long robe, MJ in a light tan or blue robe. Both wear sandals. MB may wear ...

1569. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... . "Read it," he said, opening to the Gospel of John. "I really can’t," I said. "Start," he insisted. And so it all opened again and the years upon years since have been enriched because I met a man. There came a day when I lost my faith, determined to leave theological school because I didn’t know what I believed, or whether. But I met a man. "Remember," he said, "all you have to have is a few stones and a sling. Stay there until you find them." And if the ministry has been a life calling it was because ...

1570. It Is Really Something New by Dr. Frank Bateman Stanger

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... faith is a transforming faith. The Christian faith is an eternal faith. Such is the nature of the Christian faith that every confrontation of it is personally decisive. Tonight each of us is making some kind of personal response to the Christian faith. As we leave this service, each of us will have made some kind of personal decision in relation to Jesus Christ. So strategic is Jesus Christ that even no answer becomes an answer of "no." Look at the varied responses to Paul’s sermon in Athens. They mocked ...

1571. Humility Gate

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... men. By such action he has interpreted to all mankind that no one is beyond the reach of his compassion, mercy, and forgiveness. Upon leaving that church it is necessary once again to stoop at Humility Gate. Again, I was struck by the thought that not only did our ... the world went from that little supper meeting in the Upper Room to a wind-swept hill where he died on the cross of Calvary, leaving this world by the low door of sin and suffering. By his example we are reminded that there is no other way to come ...

1572. To Hoist a Sail

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... , to give as an expression of sacrificial love, to serve through involvement, to study the Word as discipline for the soul, to let the mystery of the sacraments speak, to know the genuine fellowship of honest relationship - that is what it means to hoist a sail and leave the rest to the providence of almighty God. Waiting, wanting, hoping, and working to be turned on by God, is to realize that there is more to life than merely man’s will and way and wisdom. I still do not understand it all, but there is ...

1573. The Unexplainable Reality

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... ... or better yet, right side up. Whatever it was, Pentecost had set in motion a force that could not be deterred. Soon the loose-living, immoral, corrupt Roman Empire became frightened and concerned. Here was a new morality ... so compelling that men were willing to leave all and follow ... willing even to die for what they believed. But a man’s highest allegiance was to Rome and its god-men. How could anyone be so blasphemous as to worship an invisible diety? Away with them! Who wants their good, their ...

1574. The Poor - With Us Always?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of it, or chiselers, but we have grotesquely made money a doctrine of immortality. Money is not only regarded as proof of the present worth of a person, but also the means through which life gains significance after death. If a man leaves a huge estate, death is cheated, because the money he leaves will sustain the memory of him and his fortune while the poor die and are forgotten. Many, then, try to amass money not for use in life, but as a monument in death. Surely this is the most profound idolatry we ...

1575. Keeping Our Promises

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the cookout because food had been prepared for me. I soon learned to value my word more. Now that I am a minister, I see the reason for such actions. It never ceases to amaze me how people nowadays will commit themselves to something, think nothing of it, and leave you hanging in the air. Once I talked to a Catholic priest in New England who related that he had had 72 youth sign up for a chartered bus trip sponsored by the church and only thirteen actually appeared for the trip or called to let him know ...

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