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1576. Just What The Doctor Ordered

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... more than you do? Your hat was lost at sea? You never even knew your grandma? You feel like life is one monotonous day after another? Let this still your disquieted heart: someone is praying for you that you might have all that you need. And he also has the desire to give it to you! And that same Someone, who owned the whole world but gave it all up, was lifted up for you that you might know that he loves you.

1577. Something Old, Something New

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... and adoration of her would always be her companion. In other words, he would live inside her and empower her. God did that when he sent Jesus not only to be one of us, but to reside in us by his Holy Spirit! That's what the Holy Spirit's desire and job is. No longer did the Children of Israel need the Ark of the Covenant, which held the tablets of God's law, because that law had no power to help the people obey. But the Spirit within us not only tells us what is right and wrong, but ...

1578. Open Grave, Open Hearts

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... to be just one continuous 'give, give, give.' " To which the pastor replied, "Say, that's one of the best descriptions of Christianity I've ever heard!" The early Church understood this. Our society has lost much of what the early Church had, including the desire to find a need and fill it, especially in the social ministry area. This text does not promote communism or bringing everyone down to the lowest level or even equal levels. It does promote taking care of others in the name of Jesus. The early ...

1579. To Have And To Hold (Your Tongue)

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... ? Maybe that is our problem. Our estimation is too low of what God can and wants to do. We don't expect enough from our great and faithful God. Think about what the Trinity has done to effect the salvation of all who will only receive it. God desires all to be saved. The Holy Spirit's most important work and one that he does continually is wooing people to show them their sin and their Savior. Jesus accomplished the purchase from sin and the devil already, and no one can change that fact. No wonder people ...

1580. Decisions, Decisions

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... every day can be paralyzing. And what if the question and answer are not specifically condemned or approved in the Bible? What should be my reaction? What is God's will anyway? And why is it so hard to discern it sometimes? Should we do what one man did? Desiring to know God's will, he decided to open the Bible randomly and blindly point to a verse. His finger landed on, "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might." "Good," he thought, "I'll try it again." This time he read: "Whatever you are ...

1581. The Heart Of The Matter

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... . That suggests there still will be mistakes and problems. But forgiveness will be the rule of thumb. Grace will be more important than sin. It has been suggested that forgiveness gives us a new sense of worth, and with this sense of worth comes a desire to be worthy. A sense of worth, a sense of self-esteem, has tremendous regenerative power. When we feel good about ourselves, our actions tend to be positive, wholesome, and edifying to others. It is when we feel bad about ourselves that we engage in ...

1582. The Demons Within

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... other worldly creature. It ravages individuals while others seek to pretend it will go away if one ignores it long enough. Greed is a demon, threatening to make us slaves of want. Avarice has always been one of the deadly sins, but today the desire to have and to hold is something that many in our society prize and encourage. Things are often more important than people, more important than faith. As the scripture passage reminds us, the demons are legion. They enslave the individual, destroy the valuable ...

1583. Standing and Understanding with the Apostles

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... and the God who is hidden. We will always only ever know that fraction of the reality of God which he reveals to us. Thanks be to God that he has shown himself to us in Jesus Christ! In Christ we know him as a God of love, who desires holiness, justice, mercy and peace for his world. The ways and purposes of God will always be beyond our full understanding. There will always be mystery and a need to accept our inability to understand. This is most painfully true in our times of anguish, when we like Job ...

1584. Exercise Your Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... churches seeking new staff members. Some of these ads use high-sounding language. For example, the kind of pastor or staff member they are seeking should be: "Dynamic, energy-filled, imaginative, innovative, enthusiastic, with unrelenting desire ..." The churches themselves often describe their features in glowing terms too: "Rapidly growing, historic, in beautiful communities, with excellent facilities ..." In a recent issue of the magazine that contained such superlatives, David Steele noticed the ...

1585. The Sacred Other

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... unthinkable in our regular movie theaters as full frontal nudity still is, at least for yet a little while. The Lord said through Isaiah that the servant of the Lord, the people of God, would be a gentle people, a people who would witness to the life-giving desire of God. That's us, folks. How are we at protecting a simple bruised reed, seen by a frozen lake, or at protecting the last gasp of a smoldering candlewick? I remember well a conversation I had some years ago about this time of year. It was about ...

1586. Awake, Christ Is Coming

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... reading the Bible. He took hold of the book and read, "... not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires." Augustine read no further, "For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart something like the light of full certainty and all the gloom of doubt vanished away." The kairos moment had arrived. The right time had come. He delayed ...

1587. Live Together In Harmony

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... would live together in harmony. Unfortunately, much of church history attests to numerous conflicts, divisions and major schisms. In contrast the twentieth century has witnessed a return to a concern for Christian unity and a recapturing of Paul's desire that the followers of Christ not absolutize their particular attitudes and practices but make them all subservient to the rule of Christ. We struggle today with the precise problem that Paul dealt with -- Christian unity. Just think of the different ...

1588. Share Your Unique Story

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... friends with a Christian family. They invited him to worship each Sunday with them. He went to worship for a number of Sundays but found the service rather dull and routine. He observed that the people seemed to be attending more out of habit than a real desire to worship. He was embarrassed at times that he would have a tendency to doze off during the sermon, but he noticed others doing the same so he did not feel quite so badly. Finally, he decided that the service was not for him, and he stopped going ...

1589. Enlarge Your Horizons

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Richard Hasler

Theodore Hesburgh who served for 35 years as President of the University of Notre Dame has always lived in a big world. In his fascinating autobiography titled God, Country, Notre Dame he tells of his desire to enlarge his horizons. In all that he does he reflects a broad vision and a compassionate heart that continually reaches out beyond academic considerations and even beyond his own church loyalties to fight for human rights and justice throughout the world. One story about how the University came to ...

1590. Signed, Sealed And Delivered

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... sit here tonight, gathered around this table, ready to eat this bread, to drink this cup. Only God knows, too, how to commune with us in the places where we hurt the most. But God does know what our pains are. God knows our secret sins. God knows our secret desires. God knows how much we want to be part of the heavenly hosts. God knows how and why we fail in our good intentions. God knows. And God calls us, as God called Paul. Like Paul, we were not there that first communion night. Like Paul, we have been ...

1591. You Can Be Less Worried

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

It occurred to me to title this segment of the series "You Can Be Worry Free," but I realized no one would believe it. The truth is, I don't believe it, either. To desire a life that is "worry free" is in all likelihood to dream the impossible dream. Between 20 and 30 percent of all Americans will live today under significant stress. Thirteen million will worry intensely for at least 90 minutes. It may be about our marriages, children, jobs, mortgages, health, grades, ...

1592. Follow The Man With The Plan

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... can only be kept healthy by interaction with "High Street." The gospel must be lived out in the world. Many people are bored on the "High Streets" of our day. The "blunted edges of ordinary life" suffocate them. They look for excitement that lasts. They desire a great goal to which they can devote their lives. We know something that endures and will not disappoint them. Let us invite these people into our fellowship where together we can engage in the greatest enterprise in the world -- to call people to ...

1593. You Can Be Intelligent

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... article. When morning came, the shoppers gazed into the window and saw all the items for sale. But the price tags had been switched. And many exquisite items appeared to be of little value, while some things almost without worth seemed to be the most desirable of all. Only a parable, of course, but it does happen, doesn't it? Society too often attaches its tags of highest worth to things that ultimately do not matter much, while other issues of urgency are all but ignored and deemed unimportant. Consider ...

1594. Riding A Train

Mark 10:17

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... like a credit card. (Show the card you have.) The rider then uses the plastic ticket to unlock a gate that lets him or her into the station to get the train. When the train stops, the rider gets on the train and when it stops again at the desired place, the rider gets off and uses the plastic ticket to open a gate to get out of the station. During the ride, the people on board will hear a voice announcing the different stops, but outside of that, they have no contact with the people operating the train ...

1595. Beware Of Imitations

Matthew 7:14

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... only purpose is to remind us of him. One of our goals in life is to find the real life that God wants us to live. That requires hard work and a lot of learning. There are no shortcuts to the real thing. Anything less than the real life God desires for us is an imitation. So, remember that one of the reasons you come to church and study the Bible is because you want to find the real life God wants you to have. Your Sunday school teachers and everyone else who is with you each Sunday have that goal ...

1596. Prayer

Ps 19:14 · Mt 6:9

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... . Long ago people used altars and smoke and fire to help them when they prayed. Back then, a person might write a prayer on a piece of paper and then set the paper on fire on an altar, and as the smoke rose the one praying felt that what was desired in prayer was being carried to the gods in the heavens. Today, however, because of Jesus, we believe that we do not need such things to help us pray. All we have to do is to talk to God as we would talk to a friend or to our parents ...

1597. From A Distance

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... trying to avoid by carrying out those rules. And then there is the other reaction to this distant God. Out of ignorance and fear there are those who simply conjure up what they hope God might be, which is usually a warm, cuddly grandpa, whose only desire is to make you happy. A fearful, unapproachable, fire-breathing God, or a harmless, comfortable, wimp. Such are the usual images of God, when experienced ... at a distance. I think it was during Desert Storm that the song "From A Distance" came out, sung by ...

1598. Living Our Lives On The Edge

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... to be a member of this exclusive organization, for my parents and grandparents would always say, "Finish what's on your plate. You want to be a member of the Clean Plate Club, don't you?" I didn't always, but I never said so. As I recall, my desire for membership in the Clean Plate Club seemed to depend on what exactly it was that needed to be cleaned up! There were times, of course, when I was driven to membership in this club, and would climb under the table to ensure membership by licking the plate or ...

1599. Magic

James 4:8

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... . Take an 8" X 8" piece of paper. On one side draw a fish. On the other side draw an underwater scene with seaweed and shells, etc. 2. Take a piece of cardboard and draw, paste, or trace your pictures on to it; one on each side. (Color if you desire.) 3. Punch two small holes (centered and one-half inch apart) on each side of the cardboard square. 4. Obtain two pieces of string, each about 18 inches long. 5. Thread the string through the two holes on one side and tie to make a loop. 6. Repeat on the ...

1600. The Inside And The Outside

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

Concept: We spend a lot of time taking care of the outside of our bodies but sometimes we forget to take care of the inside. Preparation: A shaving or cosmetic bag with deodorant, perfume or cologne, shampoo, soap, razor, comb, etc. Use as many items as desired. Lesson: Let's see what we've got in here. A bar of soap, what do we do with this? (Children respond.) Have you ever seen a man shave? We have a razor because we wouldn't want the men to have scruffy faces. How about this shampoo, what is ...

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