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1576. When Your Nets Are Empty

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... . You heard the story read. They enclosed such a great shoal of fish their nets were breaking. If I am fishing in barren waters, and somebody tells me they are biting out there in the deeper waters, being angry won't solve my problem. I can either continue my hapless efforts, or move out from shore. It is my decision. If nothing is going well for you, perhaps the waters you have been working are too shallow. Sometimes the road to fulfillment lies in deeper waters than I have ever gone. Sometimes I have to ...

1577. An Idea Wearing Bid Overalls

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

James E. Sargent

... she appreciated all that he had done. She went on to say that she had been wanting to tell him something for quite a while now, but that she'd been afraid to. "You know," she said, "that your care and concern have touched me deeply." She paused, and then continued. "This must be what it feels like to be loved. I have known other men who say they love me. But you are the only one who has acted like this." She paused again. After a deep breath she ...

1578. Out Of The Whirlwind

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... and quiet capitulation is the end, then he is really in trouble. If God does not answer Job's questions then any answer he comes up with, no matter how trite or nihilistic, would appear as good as any. Fortunately, this is not the end of the story. God continues to speak. God reminds Job that it is God who is the master architect and builder and Job had no part in it. What stands out in these verses is the manner in which God is allowing Job to discover how ridiculous his supposed "wisdom" is. One scholar ...

1579. Confession

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... happened to inform him about God. In verse 6, Job feels bad and despises himself for his lack of understanding of God and "repents in dust and ashes." Job's greatest discovery in this encounter is his personal experience of God and the understanding that he can continue to question God and God will answer. Job's repentance is not as his friends thought it should be, an annihilation of himself, a total submission which reduces him to a despondent man on an ash pile. But now Job knows about a God who responds ...

1580. Telling The Truth

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... to those Jews who had shown some interest in him. But he gives it to them with both barrels. He accuses them not only of not telling the truth but also of refusing to recognize the truth when it is right before their eyes. Jesus says, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free." In other words, Jesus was saying to these Jews, who were proud of their ethnic heritage, their religion, and their grasp of the truth, that they don ...

1581. Having The Last Word

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... way to recapture the image of king and use it in such a way that is a blessing rather than a burden in our current world. Have you ever been in a heated argument with someone and couldn't let the matter drop? You just had to continue making your point. Why? Because you had to have the last word. If you have ever been in a classroom discussion, you have discovered the importance of that class reaching some sort of resolution and conclusion to the discussion. Students will often look to the teacher to settle ...

1582. Miracles Seven and Eight: Healing An Issue Of Blood & Healing The Rulers Daughter

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... of Christ, saying in their hearts, "You have delayed too long." They even said, "Don't trouble the teacher any further." What a blow that news was. But it did not perturb Jesus. He simply ignored their acceptance of death and told Jairus not to worry, but to continue to have faith. Jesus sensed that many in the crowd around him were there merely from curiosity, and he had no desire to have the miracles detract from his message about the kingdom of God. So he wanted to get away from the gawkers and be alone ...

1583. Miracle Ten: Healing A Blind Beggar

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... the Christ who stands waiting to forgive their sins, to console, to inspire. Persistence In Our Requests Of God When Bartimaeus learned that Christ was passing by and called out to him for mercy, he was told by several people to be quiet. But he refused. He continued to call out to Christ all the louder and harder. In the end, Jesus heard him and asked him to come over to him. There he was told of the blindness of Bartimaeus, who asked Christ to restore his sight. Persistence is a characteristic of a strong ...

1584. Forever Plaid

Isaiah 42:18-25

Sermon

William L. Self

... by his admonition that the wonders of the new exodus will be such as this new exodus, and this new thing which God is going to do will be such as to cause the first exodus to pale into significance by comparison. God is continually doing a new thing for his people, but his people are continually looking for former things. What does this mean for us? The shifting paradigms do affect the church. You may note that in Joel 2:25 it is stated that "I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has ...

1585. Point Of Origin

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and restrains the waters. It is more than the voice of a ruler on a throne who speaks in a sovereign voice. It is more than a God who calls into existence things that do not exist. It is a new beginning, a new perspective which continues to be blasphemous. God created! The order and the goodness presented in the first five verses moves symmetrically toward a grand climax. The order in the universe finds its climax in the freedom bestowed on human life. The good priests in Babylon who compiled the account ...

1586. Arc Of The Covenant

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... broke out, he had to flee from his enemies who wanted to kill him. As he fled he crawled into a cave to escape. As he prayed and lay in the darkness, spiders wove their webs across the narrow entrance. When his enemies came near, they noticed the webs and continued on, thinking he couldn't possibly be in there. Felix said, "When God isn't there, a wall is only like a spider's web. When God is there, a spider's web is like a wall!" God not only spoke of his faithfulness, but also gave proof of what ...

1587. To Have And To Hold (Your Tongue)

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... use your tongue to speak that wonderful truth! When we remember our baptism and how Jesus changed us there, our speech life is nourished. How adept are we at using our tongues as the Acts 10 people did? "For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God!" Do we continually praise God by what we say, by how we build up those made in the image of God, and by what we say behind the backs of those made in the image of God? Is your tongue a new creation each day or dangerous, like an old acidic, corrupt ...

1588. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17, 1 John 4:7-21, Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... inactivity and lack of connectedness that they are no longer in living fellowship with that congregation. 5. Abiding in Christ. If a vine is cut off from the source in its root, it dies. Likewise, the new life in Christ withers and dies unless it is continuously nourished by drawing on the source of life. The fellowship with Christ needs to be renewed regularly. That needs to be done in a variety of ways. One way to renew the spirit is by participating in the worship of the church. Through the reminders in ...

1589. The Heart Of The Matter

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... God is an important prophetic theme. Ignorance of the Lord is a frequent criticism made by the prophets. It was Hosea who said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ..." (Hosea 4:6). People had forgotten that it was God who had redeemed them and continued to sustain them. They had forgotten the law of God and so were living in ignorance. In the new covenant that will not be the case. Everyone will have knowledge of God, from the greatest to the least. It will not be necessary for some people to ...

1590. The Other Resurrection

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... that we tend to leave it alone because we get embarrassed by it. You see, this is a miracle without much explanation or theological intrigue. It happens so quickly that we read it, swallow hard and move on. Just think about how it all happens. Jesus is continuing his itinerant preaching and teaching. He reaches the gates of the city of Nain, and you could read "Podunk" if you like. The disciples and a large crowd are with him as they notice a funeral procession heading out of town to the local cemetery. We ...

1591. Not Independence, But Freedom

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... the scriptures teach us relevant to a particular issue. We inquire of the history of the church, of its teachings, what direction to take. In certain great issues the Church continues to struggle. With some -- like peace and war, and economic justice -- the church has wrestled through its whole history. New issues continually present themselves. There are biomedical questions now which had never before been considered. But the church is the community where we work to ask the difficult questions, to struggle ...

1592. Invest In The Future

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... , "I had a candle brought into my hospital room and I lit it that day as a sign of my hope -- a sign that I was going to trust God like Jeremiah and invest in the future. Cynthia continued, "Against the recommendation of my doctors I took chemotherapy treatments. In the process I got very sick and I came quite close to death. But, as I stand before you today, my cancer is in total remission." She raised the lit candle in front of her. "God gave me hope ...

1593. A Cross For A Doorpost

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... night of his betrayal, the night before he would submit to the sentence of petty rulers, be subjected to the cruelty of forgotten soldiers and be executed high on a hill called the Skull. Yet what was accomplished in that death was not just the continuing of the redemptive story but its climax. His death is the proclamation of the redemption God wills for the world. The grace of God, his unbounded and undeserved love for the world, is greater than all our violence, our self-fascination, our rejection of him ...

1594. Surviving The Present Trials

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... second to the next, whether laying a knife on a counter meant it would stay there or float across the room! It must be that the world can be counted upon to continue to spin in its orbit, revolve once every 24 hours, and that such rules as "two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time without injury to one or both" will continue in effect. For what can we turn to God, then? Can we ask for the evil to be turned aside? Surely. Sometimes, the evil is indeed turned aside. Sometimes, a dream suggests ...

1595. Choosing Sides

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... power means nothing if we do not realize just how powerless we are in the face of evil. If we believe that we have merely failed, then we will blame ourselves or others, but, in the false belief that we can change ourselves, we will continue failing and feeling wretched, failing and beating ourselves, failing and wondering why we cannot seem to do better. Even Paul had this problem; in the previous chapter of Romans (7:14-25), he shares with us his own struggles against sin. He complains about his inability ...

1596. Labor Day

Lk 10:7 · 1 Tim 5:18

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... of people. Many of them are unseen and go unnoticed. Many people have very menial jobs to do. But everyone helps contribute to make our society function. Even on the days that we take off to celebrate, there have to be people on duty to see that our services continue. It is amazing that God has given us the ability to build a world like we have. Along with that creative ability, however, He has given us some responsibilities. We have to learn also how to take care of the ecology of our planet so that future ...

1597. Why A Cross?

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... , he refused to take any responsibility, and when threatened with punishment he would run away. His parents were good people who had a wonderful relationship with their other children. But no matter how much discipline or how much love these parents gave their youngest son, Donald continued to be a very troubled and rebellious teenager. One night I was with his father as we went to the local police station to pick up Donald. He had run away earlier in the day, and gotten into a whole new set of troubles. It ...

1598. Time Out

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... sermons per week. It is estimated that he traveled more than 250,000 miles all on horseback! Even when he was eighty-three years old, he recorded with some regret that he could only write about fifteen hours a day before his eyes hurt too much to continue. At eighty-five, when his friends urged him to ride his horse to a place six miles away where he was to preach, Wesley said indignantly, "I'd be ashamed if any Methodist preacher in tolerable health made a difficulty of six miles." And off he tramped ...

1599. Saint Valentine, Bishop Of Love

Mk 12:30 · Ps:14; 119:11 · 1 Ch 28:9

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... Roman Empire. It seems as though the Roman officials had a rule against young people being married in the church. Many young Christians wanted to be married by the priest in the church with God's blessing. Valentinus was sympathetic to these people and continued to marry them even though he was often threatened by the government authorities. Finally he was taken to Rome and put to death for his faith and his defiance of the Emperor's rule. In memory and honor of this man, young sweethearts started talking ...

1600. Keep Growing!

1 Peter 2:4-12

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

... how God wants you to live than you did when you were a young child. Am I right? That's good. That's how it's supposed to be. As you grow, your relationship with God should be growing, too. This week, I'm going to pray that you will continue to grow up strong and healthy and that your relationship with the Lord will ...

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