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1576. Can You See Where We're Going

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

William G. Carter

... buying a home: location, location, location." To prove his point, he drove the couple to see two homes. The paint was peeling on the first house, and the driveway was heaving in spots. "It may be a handyman's special," he said, "but look at the view." The house sat at the foot of a purple mountain, adjacent to ten acres of untouched forest. Then the group went to see a charming two-story stone farmhouse with five bedrooms, a big kitchen, and plenty of closets. "Everything's immaculate," the wife exclaimed ...

1577. When All Is Said And Done

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

William G. Carter

... end-of-the-world schemes, the devastation and carnage takes place in other countries, apparently so Americans can watch it on television. It's easy for us mainline folks to take shots at Jack and his wife Rexella, particularly when it comes to their silly and simplistic views of the future. But what do we have? Could it be that, just maybe, we have given in to the despair and hopelessness of our culture? Have we given up on God's future, left with a hand-wringing pessimism about the state of the world? Have ...

1578. A Ministry Of Hospitality

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Richard Patt

... says, "Come to my house; admire my possessions; see the beautiful way the table is laid. Enjoy the scrumptious food that has taken me all week to prepare. See how perfectly neat and tidy and clean my house is. Come and listen to my views and thoughts." Entertaining is hard, stressful, because through it we perpetuate the myth that we are perfect. We put up a facade saying that we manage our lives perfectly and that our children are perfectly disciplined and obedient. Hospitality is totally different. We do ...

1579. The Crux Of Being A Christian

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

... be to return to his former master, Philemon. But to soften the blow, Paul writes a letter to Philemon, exhorting him to receive his runaway slave, Onesimus, with forgiveness and love. After all, Paul reminds him, Onesimus is now a Christian and should be viewed by Philemon as a new brother in the faith. Paul puts punch behind his request by offering to replace anything Onesimus might have stolen. How could Philemon refuse to receive lovingly his former slave after an appeal like that from none other than ...

1580. God's Passionate Concern

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

1581. The Call Of The Tradition: Remember And Return

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... make a covenant with our God to send away all those wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law" (Ezra 10:3). This rather limited view of the people of Israel easily developed into a narrow exclusivism which would restrict the universal work of God. What if Ruth, the Moabite woman, who stood in the line of David, had been put away by Boaz? (Ruth 2:10). Or, to take another example, remember how ...

1582. Called! Cleansed! Sent

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... treatment of nature that we have lost a sense of the holy. We like to say that we tame nature. We use it, we control it, we even abuse it, rather than stand in awe of it. Sacred groves are seen as so many board feet of lumber, mountains are viewed as deposits of minerals or tourist attractions, and the ocean becomes a source of oil for drilling or a large sewer to dump in. We can see this loss in our treatment of community. No longer do we celebrate our oneness and seek the common good. Our life together is ...

1583. Echoes

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... ." His sense of abandonment still lingers. The echoes of abandonment are the chief pain that haunts the human family at every age. Echoes of scripture can be a blessing and a burden. We are burdened by those parts that make us confront ourselves as we are with the view of who we ought to be. And then there are those moments when we are blessed by echoes of scripture which remind us of what we must never forget. When Jesus came out of baptismal waters and stood on the mountain of bright lights, he heard the ...

1584. Advent Of Angels

Malachi 1:6-14

Sermon

Tony Everett

... in Hebrew) to prepare the way before me." Malak is the Hebrew word for "angel." At the time of our text, the fifth century B.C., an angel was not necessarily thought of exclusively as a spiritual being from another plane of existence. (This is a prevailing view in earlier biblical writings and in current popular books.) During the fifth century B.C., an angel, Malak, was often understood to be a flesh and blood human being who brought a message from God. An angel was an envoy sent by God to prepare the ears ...

1585. Unexpected Joy; Undeserved Gift

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Tony Everett

... officials asked his price, Edison stood speechless. He had great difficulty in naming an amount that was so ridiculously high. After several uncomfortable minutes of silence, a Western Union representative blurted out, "How about $100,000?" Unexpected joy! And, in Edison's view, an undeserved gift! This was the nature of God's promise to the beleaguered people of Judah in Isaiah's time. They were desperately ready for unexpected joy. They were hoping for an undeserved gift. They were eager for a new birth ...

1586. Reach For The Light

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Tony Everett

... finally resulted. She replied, "The Five P's of ministry: Prayer, Persistence, Prayer, Play, and Prayer." Notice that prayer was at the beginning, middle, and end of her list. Prayer connects us to the true Light. Prayer keeps the vision of the true Light in view as darkness threatens to overcome it. Prayer enables us to place one foot in front of the other in the long and difficult journey through unknown darkness. Reach for the true Light in prayer. Lift up your eyes to see the guiding light of Christ ...

1587. Anything But Trivial

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... ƒ about five hours, so this is even more remarkable. And Ezra only read portions of the law. Imagine yourself standing attentively for five hours listening to the reading of a scripture lesson. Even the Super Bowl doesn't last that long. And we view it from comfortable couches. The people heard what was required to live as God's children applied to their own disheartening circumstances. They recognized their sin and were overcome with grief. They had failed the Lord and their heritage. They had not held ...

1588. Seeing With New Eyes

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Tony Everett

... pattern is a clear, computer-generated image. In order to see it, you must relax your eyes and cease your effort to focus on a specific pattern. Your must "look through" the picture. Soon the image, a building, a landscape, or even a picture of Jesus, pops into view. You begin to "see with new eyes" what was there all the time. This is what happened to Isaiah. This is what happens to us as we face the confusing anxieties of life. When we look at our lives through the lens of Christ, the ordinary suddenly ...

1589. They Didn't Have To Do It, But They Did

Genesis 14:1-24

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... at night. It was pitch black with no houses in sight, and he was filled with fear and trembling. Should he walk the back roads, not knowing where he was going? So he sat in his car, afraid for his life. Suddenly he saw approaching lights in his rear view mirror. Too fearful to get out of his car to wave the motorist down for help, he sat frozen in his seat. The car raced by him, then suddenly stopped, reversed itself and screeched back beside his car. Suddenly a light flashed in his eyes and he saw the ...

1590. What Money Can't Buy

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... . As property of the conqueror, her bitterness could have prompted her to bask in Naaman's misery. As retribution for being taken captive and being powerless to redress her condition, she could have watched him suffer day by day, delighting in his affliction and viewing it as a kind of perverse payback for taking her prisoner. However, empathy and compassion provoked her to share what she knew with Naaman's wife. All the money in the world could not buy this valuable information. All the money in the world ...

1591. A Christian With A Conflict Of Interest

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

James McLemore

... with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin -- because anyone who has died has been freed from sin." And when you crucify your conflict on the cross of Jesus, you become transformed. In the words of Romans 12:1-2: "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God -- this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able ...

1592. Acting Bulletproof

Luke 13:1-9

Illustration

John R. Steward

... against his brother's head. Both men bled a great deal into each other's exposed wounds. Soon after this episode the non-infected brother tested positive for the virus. It is stories like these that have caused the medical community to revisit how they view sports. The Center for Disease Control did conduct one study a few years ago, reviewing eleven NFL teams playing 155 games. The scientists recorded 575 bleeding injuries. From this they calculated that the risk of getting AIDS on the field was 1 in 85 ...

1593. It's Only Money

Luke 12:13-21

Illustration

John R. Steward

... struggles in our lives is the one that we have with materialism. Often our childhood affects the way we see money and possessions. In my own life, the fact that I had parents who were both products of the Great Depression shaped the way in which money is viewed. My parents always lived as if they would be poor again. As a result, it has sometimes been difficult to see money as a tool and not the end result. In my first congregation, we were discussing a maintenance project that was going to cost a large sum ...

1594. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... religion of the past, it is doubtful if that is any longer true. In several European countries, for example, the attendance at church on most Sundays is less than five percent of the population. The growth of Islam and Eastern religions is also viewed as an indication of the decline of Christianity. Others also point to the changing nature of the family as a portent of the time for the return of Christ. Divorce, the large number of children born to unmarried mothers, single parent families, and open ...

1595. Lent 3

Luke 13:1-9, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Psalm 63:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... would cause them to suffer a disaster. If they were bad, God would use some natural event or someone to punish them. Suffering and unusual circumstances of death were directly attributed to God and were proportionate to the grievousness of the sin. Jesus had a different view of God than either of these. Nature does act impersonally. Suffering and death are not directly related to God's punishment for sin. The world in which we live has an order to it that God allows to act on its own nature. Human actions ...

1596. Proper 6

Luke 7:36-50, Galatians 2:11-21, 1 Kings 21:1-29, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... of the city brought an alabaster box of anointment to pour over Jesus' feet. It was an expensive gift of love and devotion. Jesus did not require it of her. She did it as a spontaneous thank offering. A response of offerings to the church may be viewed in many ways. A frequent complaint heard is that the church is always asking for money. A stale cliche about preachers is that they never pass up an opportunity to take an offering. If the church is truly the body of Christ and persons have experienced the ...

1597. Prepared Servants

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... absent master or lord. At times in history, both personal and social, it seems that God is absent. It is difficult to understand how events can happen that are so bad if God is loving, powerful, and active in the world. Christians live with a point of view that sees history at long range. They know that the purposes of God cannot be frustrated indefinitely. They wait in patience, ready to act when God's presence again becomes evident. They may see it in their own lives when new events give hope and confirm ...

1598. Proper 18

Psalm 139:1-24, Philemon 1:8-25, Philemon 1:1-7, Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, Luke 14:25-35

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William E. Keeney

... more. He wanted those who identified with him to live fully the kind of life he had dedicated himself to follow. 6. "Carry the Cross." (v. 27) Crucifixion was a cruel and shameful punishment. It not only was a lingering death, it exposed the person to full view as he lost control of all the bodily functions. On the way to the site of the crucifixion the victim was made to carry the crosspiece of the means of his execution. That attracted a crowd and added to the shame. The Galileans who were probably the ...

1599. Proper 19

Psalm 14:1-7, 1 Timothy 1:12-20, Jeremiah 4:5-31, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

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William E. Keeney

... Sweep the House." (v. 8) The woman did not venture outside the house typically. Therefore it was quite certain that the coin would be somewhere inside the house. The floor might be either stone or dirt. A coin could be easily mixed in the dirt and hidden from view in a typical house. Sweeping would bring it to the surface and isolate it so it could be found. 13. "Joy ... of the Angels." (v. 10.) It was generally assumed that God had a company of angels around him in the heavenly court. They join in the joy ...

1600. Proper 20

Psalm 79:1-13, 1 Timothy 2:1-15, Jeremiah 8:4--9:26, Luke 16:1-15

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... invest for their future? Do Christians have as much concern for the time "when money fails" and eternity beckons? 4. Prenuptial Agreements. Persons are increasingly advised to draw up a prenuptial agreement. When is a Christian wise to do so? Does it indicate a transient view of marriage? Is it more important in a second marriage, in a remarriage after the death of a spouse, when wealth is inherited, or to protect a spouse who is not the major wage-earner yet contributes to the marriage and the family? Does ...

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