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1576. God Works Wanders

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... an old argument" -- a beginning. It may feel strange to seek to be so intentional, reflective, about our lives. We're used to following our too familiar patterns, even though sometimes we've stood back and looked at our lives and realized our actions made no sense at all. We have been protecting that which hurts us, putting at risk what we cherish most. Not all our lives are so imperiled, but those which are must be challenged to make this Lent a time of courageous pilgrimage. It's a pilgrimage to new life ...

1577. The Hope Of Peace

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... hope in another way, too: we have a new perspective on life. We no longer see the events of our lives as isolated, draining, depressing events to get through somehow, and we need no longer wonder why all these things are happening to us. Instead, we have some sense of the love of God in operation in our lives. We see how these disparate events can be made to work together for our good. We now understand that everything that happens to us, by plan or by accident, can build our character, if only we will give ...

1578. Week Four Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... of God which Jesus expresses in the Gospel must be our goal as well, with God and one another. Let us continue the Lenten journey by preparing ourselves to be people of greater care and love. The experience will be fulfilling as we bring the Kingdom to a greater sense of reality in our world. Thursday Week FourExodus 32:7-14John 5:31-47 Accepting The Lord The gifts of God are truly innumerable. God has given us the created world and all that is in it. We have the beauty of nature and the usefulness of the ...

1579. Week Two Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Do we consider it our right to do what we want in a manner of our own choosing? Do we have a sense of what our responsibility asks of us? In business the responsibilities are different. Does power, responsibility or privilege corrupt us? The ... within the journey of life which accompanies us along the road is our life of faith. Faith has a beginning, at least in a formal sense, through baptism. The long middle ground of faith is our life, the numerous times we encounter God and find ecstasy and the times when ...

1580. Holy Week

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... the light. There is the obvious fact that there is no physical light, but the differences are much greater. Darkness is cold, if not physically at least psychologically. People have a much greater sense of fear in the dark. Today many times people fear to go out at night. The darkness of night brings out a certain sense of danger, whether it be real or imaginary. Evil deeds are done under the cloud of darkness. Throughout his Gospel, St. John uses the images of light and darkness to convey certain concepts ...

1581. Week One Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... love or all compassion. I think this gets us closer for we can relate better to this understanding of God. We have all loved and been loved. We all try to show compassion. The best definition I have ever heard for divinity, at least the one that seems to make sense and in which I can participate is this: to the extent that I am able to live for others is the degree in which I participate in the divinity which is God. Our readings today speak about living for others as the way that leads to God, and thereby ...

1582. The Potter Almighty

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... of heaven and earth." That's the beginning of The Apostles' Creed, as Jeremiah might have written it: I believe in God who has created heaven and earth, and you, and me, like a potter at work at a potter's wheel. That's a biblical image that still makes sense for you and me. At craft shows, in art classes, in hobby shops, you can still find a potter's wheel. And you can take classes in making pottery. If you do, you'll find that these days the potter's wheel has an electric motor, with variable speeds and ...

1583. Raised Voices

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... he wants this to happen. REBECCA: (Desperately) We all do! HANNAH: Speak for yourself, Rebecca. I do not think this is a good idea. At all. And I'm sure this is none of God's doing. REBECCA: Why should you think that? HANNAH: Because it doesn't make any sense. It's a foolish, dangerous idea and it could get us all killed. REBECCA: But ...! HANNAH: God doesn't work that way. He doesn't take his people out of one bad situation just to put them into another even worse. If he truly wanted to help us, he would ...

1584. Play The Fool

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... wanton killing that so characterized his day, and he desired that people be persuaded to feed all the birds and animals on Christmas day.2 How crazy he seemed to his contemporaries. He was the laughingstock of the wise and cultured people of his day. His life did not make sense to them. He had given up so much to follow Christ and had done it in an outlandish way. And yet from the perspective of our own time, for not a few people Francis is the model of what it means to be a follower of Christ. His complete ...

1585. Week Five Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... day. Are we listening for the invitation? Do we recognize the call when it comes? Are we open to the possibility of God in our lives? The invitation of God is manifest in many wonderful and varied ways. In our families God may be calling us to a sense of reconciliation. It may be within the immediate family; it may be with someone we only see periodically. Maybe someone is seeking our reconciliation and is knocking on the door of our heart. Are we willing to respond? The invitation of God may come to us in ...

1586. A Law We Can Live With

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... them, but we are nevertheless offered life through them. Indeed, they may well be "a law we can live with" in the most profound sense of the phrase. And it is this truth which I would like to consider with you this morning. Having said that, though, I ... who we should be and how we should act. They are laws, so to speak, that we can live with, because in the deepest sense possible, they offer us the opportunity for life both with the Lord and with one another. Small wonder then that these ten, while etched ...

1587. A Misguided Game of Hide-and-Seek

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... disoriented and stumbling blindly about, reaching out toward something -- anything -- to grab hold of again. That doesn't excuse what they did, to be sure. But if this is the case, then the entire story becomes terribly ironic. For in a very real and crucial sense, Israel down in the valley gets in trouble because they do not yet realize what is happening up on the mountain. I mean, what they are about to receive in the tabernacle will ultimately fulfill what they are so desperately trying to create in the ...

1588. Veiled Glimpses of God's Glory

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... my daughters, and I would hardly want them to get their idea of me from looking solely at that! It's never easy to locate God. And Moses' request to be shown Yahweh's glory is an embarrassing reminder of how desperately we try. But in a deeper sense, I can't help thinking that even the search itself is somewhat embarrassing -- or at the very least, probably ought to be. For starters, it's the embarrassment of regarding God as One whom we could locate in the first place; of treating God like One who could ...

1589. Recalling, Remembering, And Rejoicing

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... the Lord" (Deuteronomy 8:2-3). Or to put it another way, merely providing for the Hebrews' survival until safely arriving in the Promised Land was not Yahweh's only objective. There had been lessons for Israel to learn as they wandered across the desert, and in a sense, they are now about to embark upon their final exam. How will they handle this gift of a homeland? Will they take the Almighty's blessings for granted or give credit where credit is due? Will they live by their own wits or by every word that ...

1590. Two Sons: A Parable

Matthew 21:28-32, Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... first son changes his mind. His actions are more important than his initial response. 2. The greater receptivity for change among those who are obviously sinners, tax collectors and prostitutes, than among those who are professional religionists. A sense of need is more likely to lead to repentance than a sense of already having arrived. 3. The kingdom is open to all. Entrance into the kingdom is not so much on the behavior or actions of the past or on profession of readiness to obey, but is dependent on ...

1591. Wicked Tenants

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... economic justice and opposition to the war in Vietnam. It is reported that more Christian missionaries were buried in Algeria than converts were made from Muhammadanism to Christianity in that country. 3. Sense of Doom. Two men in their late adolescence and early adulthood had to be treated for mental illness because of their strong sense of doom. They came out of the treatment with a strong commitment to help the mentally ill. Clifford Beers became the founder of the Committee on Mental Hygiene which was a ...

1592. The King's Wedding Feast

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... to be wide open and inclusive. Both the good and the bad are brought into the feast (v. 10). The one who is improperly attired is cast out to darkness with weeping and gnashing of teeth (v. 13). The kingdom has its demands. In that sense it is exclusive. But the invitation is universal. The choice is left open to the person who may respond positively or negatively. While persons cannot earn entrance into the kingdom, they can prove themselves unworthy by their rejection of its demands once they have entered ...

1593. The Promise Of The Spirit

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... experienced such results. So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. -- Acts 2:41-42 This sense of power that came to the disciples was the ability to do and to accomplish. This was surely the way the church was meant to be. Vigorous and flexible. These were the years before it became fat and short of breath through prosperity and muscle ...

1594. The Holy Spirit As The Dove Of Peace

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... a very heart-wrenching moment for those watching on television. What is one to do in a moment like that? Is it possible to know a sense of peace in the midst of such tumult and pain? For Jesus this peace is a peace even in the midst of hostility, even in the ... told us that we should set our sights on the balance of power, hoping against hope that fear would restrain the strife. In no sense could fear make possible our quest for peace. The Bible knows nothing about a peace that is based on fear, but rather a ...

1595. Words, Words, Words

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Thomas Long

... just called with the news that she had suddenly decided to drop out of pharmacy school. When the minister asked what could possibly have precipitated a decision, the father confessed that he had no idea and asked the minister to call his daughter and to "talk some sense into her." When the minister did call the young woman, he expressed shock that she would decide to forfeit all of her hard work and that she should think long and hard before throwing it away. "How in the world did you come to this decision ...

1596. Since He's In Charge, We're In Luck

Psalm 33:4-5, 8-9, 13-22

Sermon

Robert G. McCreight

... or later we all run up against the metaphysical question of why things happen the way that they do. Why did something happen one way instead of another? Many times we can't explain why something did occur or did not occur. But we may well sense that there is more happening than simply fate. Think of it this way. At one end of a spectrum there exists the possibility that everything is determined. Certain natural laws are in place which regulate and control the course of the planets, the chemical reactions of ...

1597. Behold The Man Who Took The Victory

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... true. We are not sure how they spent that day, but Luke and John both tell us that late in the evening they were all together in the upper room. Mark simply writes, "afterward." Suddenly Jesus came into the room where they were. He said to them, "Peace to you." Sensing they were afraid, he said, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? Behold in my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have." Then he shared a ...

1598. The Peace That Jesus Gives

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Lee Griess

... life. As Jesus called those disciples to him in the upper room and spoke the words of the Gospel reading to them, Jesus wanted them to know that they were his. He gave them a new identity and a sense of inner peace that the world could never take from them. And that's what he wants to give to us: a sense of peace, a new identity, and a direction for living so that our footsteps will not wander onto the roads to hell. Highly esteemed author Alvin Toffler once said, "You've got to think about the big things ...

1599. Professor Of Paradox

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... finding treasure in a field. The dictionary says that a paradox is a statement that seems to be contradictory or contrary to common sense, but which may be true. The parables in this passage are filled with paradoxes. On the one hand, Jesus says, the kingdom ... the disorder common to nearly all of us -- the delusion of insignificance and worthlessness."2 The treasure of the kingdom gives us a sense of worth that no job, no title, no human love, no skill or accomplishment could ever give us. I see this so often ...

1600. Yearning For A Loyal Friend

Job 6:14-30 · Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... with him, that not one of the three was willing to take his place. They were sort of standing on the shore, trying to make sense out of his sinking in the ocean. Each of them came at Job three times. So nine times he had to endure their "explanations." ... be your friend. I am with you always. Love yourself as I love you." I usually, after that experience in my soul room, have a new sense of peace and a new desire to go out to other people. Will Thompson sums it up in his hymn "Jesus Is All The World To ...

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