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1576. Disappointed in Jesus

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... are finished, come back here, and we'll see what we can do for you." So, the woman did just that. And what she saw thrilled her. There was peace on earth, no more war, no hunger or poverty, peace in families, no more drugs, harmony, clean air. She wrote furiously and finally approached the counter, handing a long list to Jesus. He skimmed the paper, and then smiling at her said, "No problem." Reaching under the counter, he grabbed some packets and laid them out on the counter. Confused, she asked, "What are ...

1577. Vital Vulnerability

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... now imagine with me. Imagine that you are holding a newborn baby. Imagine how this baby feels — skin touching skin, curves touching curves — harmonious heartbeats as life surges between you. Imagine the smell — the earthy sweetness of breath and body perfuming the air. Imagine the sound — the silent melody of sighing, stretching, settling. Right now, for just a minute, let your imagination go. Feel the baby. Smell the baby. Hear the baby. And rejoice! This very night the baby you hold in your arms ...

1578. His Last Command ... Our First Concern!

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... and money are needed. God has personally called me here to be his representative." It's interesting that the great commission, written originally in the Greek, actually says, "As you go into all the world, make disciples." It has almost a casual or spontaneous air about it. And sure enough, search the scriptures as you might, you'll find the disciples nowhere starting "How to Witness" schools or planning a missions conference where they look at each other and say, "We've got to make some plans. Strategy ...

1579. The Garden Is Doing Fine?

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... and four different soils that receive it. It's a parable of how different people respond to the gospel. Stolen Seed Jesus said, "A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trodden underfoot. And the birds of the air devoured it." Anyone who has ever planted a garden knows the ruin of crows. And here we have a great mystery of the faith. In his explanation of this parable, Jesus said, "The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes ...

1580. History: His Story

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... inform you that you're the possessor of a choice piece of real estate known as planet earth. But the tenants you've leased it out to are destroying it. In another few years, it won't be fit to live in. They have polluted your rivers. The air is fouled with the stench of their over-consumerism. They frequently kill one another, and all the prophets you've sent to them calling for an accounting have met with violence. By any rule of sound management, Lord, you've got but one option." Then raising his trumpet ...

1581. The Man in the Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... just a few dollars. Pursued by the irate taxi driver, the passenger climbed a tall tree, jumped from branch to branch and hurled bananas from a shopping bag at a crowd which soon gathered at the scene. More than a dozen firefighters were called in and spread out an air-bag under the tree as a police psychologist was sent up in a ladder‑bucket to negotiate with the man. After a two‑hour stand‑off, the man agreed to come down. But he learned a hard lesson. He may have to pay many times the original taxi ...

1582. The Spirit of...Winter?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Counter that replaced the Giving Tree concluded his story by noting that at least the children were still able to reach out to those less fortunate in their community and experience the joy of helping others. But as he concluded his story on the air, the reporter inadvertently talked himself into a corner. "After all," he said, "isn't this kind of giving the real spirit of . . . of . . . of . . . winter." Too late he realized he was about to say the "C" word and hastily substituted the lame sounding "winter ...

1583. The Holidaze Craze

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... cards. --Found on Internet Amidst all the Christmas shopping network shows one program stood out as intentionally different. It was focused on looking at all the new gadgets that are health-oriented in some way. There were elaborate and expensive air purifiers, filter systems, massaging chairs. But it was one tiny, cheap item that loomed largest. It was a personal water filtration device called the LifeStraw. Instead of being sleek and ergonomically pleasing, it looked kind of fat and clunky. The LifeStraw ...

1584. The True Definition of a Sanctuary

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... seat. Where claustrophobia is fear of cramped places, agoraphobia is the fear of the outside. Agoraphobia is the fear that keeps people locked in their homes, afraid to venture outside the comforting enclosure of their own four walls. The outside, open air world is too vast, too unpredictable, too teeming with unknown dangers to risk encountering. In many ways all of Europe was agoraphobic prior to the ocean voyages of Columbus, DeGama, and Magellan. Common knowledge taught that if one sailed beyond the ...

1585. Trip Questions

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . Martin Luther King, Jr. Here are some words delivered in Memphis on the night before he died. King referenced the trick question asked of Jesus about "Who is my neighbor?" Here's Dr. King's exegesis of this text: "Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho . . . He talked about a certain man who had fallen among thieves . . . and that a Levite and a priest had passed by on the other side [of the road. Finally a man of another race ...

1586. Jesus Calls for Treen Christians

Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... mustard's healing properties or vital potency. Instead it's the tiny mustard seed's ability to grow beyond all expectation into a shrub so high and so vast that it becomes a tree. In fact Jesus' parable specifically declares that "the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches" - a detail that conclusively defines this plant as a true tree. The brain-shaped symbol of the tree is a powerful one. It has represented strength, community, and power since the earlier ages. In the Genesis creation story ...

1587. Celebrity Culture

Psalm 95:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... our daughter will join a hundred or so other Girl Scouts in earning a new merit badge. The Girl Scouts will spend an afternoon at millionaire/philanthropist/music fan Paul Allen's ode to rock'n'roll, the architect Frank Gehry's unique (from the air it looks like a three story smashed Jimi-Hendrix guitar) "Experience Music Project" (or EMP) in downtown Seattle. The Girl Scouts will be learning how to sing, dance and perform so that they can create and star in their own music videos. For a whole afternoon ...

1588. The Curse of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... guys who rose at 4 AM to ride the crummies up into the woods. While divided by pay scales and levels of independence, all these hard-working men and women had a common tongue: the ability to utter a curse that wouldn't only turn the air blue, but stretch the existing limits of verbs and nouns, combining insults and invectives with remarkable insight and ingenuity. I dare any current stand-up comedian, rap musician, or action-movie hero to successfully spiel off a ten-word curse that never repeats the same ...

1589. God's Resolutions

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 's traditions. The Chinese celebration of the New Year has one unique difference: at the stroke of midnight, they open up all the windows and doors of their homes, to let out the old year and to open up their space to the fresh night air of the new year. Instead of renditions of Auld Lang Syne, Muscovites (somehow not surprisingly) toss empty vodka bottles above their heads at the stroke of midnight (guaranteeing a New Year in which one must walk carefully!). Danes jump off chairs at the stroke of midnight ...

1590. Boxing Day

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... The box of a comfortable home, bed, and familiar things . . . that box wasn't an option in Bethlehem's makeshift accommodations. The box of a home to call his own . . . or as Jesus later put his life outside the home box, "foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head" (Matthew 8:20; Luke 9:58). This was as true at his birth as it was during his itinerant ministry. Living and thinking out of the box kept Jesus the Nazarean an outsider to acceptability, an ...

1591. Come Back

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Just when I think that all this talk about A.I. or Artificial Intelligence is a bunch of artificial air, something happens to show me that maybe we're further along the AI path than we think. Maybe the worlds of the born and the words of the made are coming together faster than we ever imagined. In researching this week's theme of betrayal, I undertook a Google search ...

1592. Humans, Inc.

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... thrown across minefields into the line of Iraqi fire, with a little key to paradise round their necks. Nature is red in tooth and claw. But its redness is related to hunger and survival, not hatred and racism. The great killers of nature - lions of the air (falcons, owls), lions of the land (lions, tigers, grizzly bears), and lions of the sea (great white sharks) - don't go on thrill-killing rampages just for the fun of it, or because they dislike different species in the ocean. But human beings engage in ...

1593. Keep on Praying

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of these cargo cult religions are to this day waiting for the second coming (often called Last Day) when the cargo planes will return and make their lives better. Of course, what's missing in cargo cult religion is the engines that can power the planes into the air to ride the wind. All the persistence in the world doesn't pay off without the engines of prayer to power our lives, to make our hopes and dreams soar in the Spirit. This is one of the greatest problems in our churches today: we're another cargo ...

1594. The Seven Deadly Fears

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... three years later? Okay, I'm old. I actually know who Cat Stevens is. I actually listened to his music before it was classic rock. Still, it was startling to read that the 60's/70's pop-singer Cat Stevens was recently the reason an entire London-to-Dulles air flight was diverted to Bangor, Maine. Once there the 56-year old former rock star, now known as Yusaf Islam because he converted to Islam in the 70's, was denied entry into the US because his name was on a government watch list. Since he fell out of ...

1595. A Sourdough Sprirituality

Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... adjustment or not. 4) The only way you can keep the staff of life going is to give it away. When you give your sourdough starter away, what you're giving is a little bit of yourself. In every place on planet Earth, the air is filled with indigenous, marauding microbes and spores waiting to ambush sugars. When that happens, there starts a bubbly cauldron of bacteria, a colony of microorganisms. Wherever you go, those microorganisms pounce on that sourdough starter, making it unique and original. 5) "To stand ...

1596. Deep Faith

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... his feet in. Until he took that leap of faith and risked getting wet, nothing happened. 2.) Second, take a deep breath. Are you too busy to go deeper? Step back, take a deep breath, and bring some spiritual practices into your life that can give you the air you need to dive deeper into God. [Get a tape recorder and do this over the loudspeaker for everyone to hear.] Play a hymn/song everyone knows on fast forward on a tape recorder. See how many can identify it. Now do it with another familiar praise chorus ...

1597. From Black Holes to Red Holes

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... s always an education. The other day Thane started shouting, "How can this guy keep saying 'gravity is my friend!'?" For some reason the character Thane had chosen would perform astounding 720's, egg-flips, flying squirrels, grind-the rails, and catch air – does anyone here understand this language? – land the impossible and then hoot out "gravity is my friend!" Even grade-schoolers with no formal physics training knew that somehow and something wasn't right. "But snowboarders don't like gravity," Thane ...

1598. House of Jesus

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a spiritual, not a spatial move. The Father's house (oikia) is a household, a family – not a building (oikos), not a place. It's perhaps surprising that Jesus, who intentionally choose rootless-ness and wandering as marks of his ministry ("foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head" – Matthew 8:20, Luke 9:58) refers to the sense of house and home in order to offer comfort and promise peace to his disciples. But the fact is that while Jesus may have ...

1599. Jedi Christians

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . One popular but not terribly effective scheme was to tuck your own car right up behind any large truck barreling down the highway. The conventional wisdom was that the tremendous draft created by the truck would help drag your own vehicle along thereby reducing the air friction on it and thus increasing your own gas mileage. Following in the wake of the truck took some of the effort to move forward off of your own car. For many Christians, following in Jesus' steps has become its own kind of spiritual ...

1600. Kudzu Frittata

James 3:13-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... : Ellen Lombard of Fairmont, New York, manufactures four varieties of horseradish: Hot, X Hot, XXX Hot, and Too Darn Hot. She accidentally spilled a quart and a half bottle of her secret spice ingredient in her basement. She plugged in a fan to try to air out the room but the overwhelming vapors forced her out. She called 911 but when the firefighters arrived they too were overwhelmed, even with their masks! So the Onondaga County Hazardous Materials Unit was called in to clean up the spill. The fire chief ...

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