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1601. Responding In Anger

Job 7:11-21 · Matthew 21:12-13

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... to tell God how he felt. And in his anger, he did. But anger and Jesus -- that's another story. Did Jesus ever get angry? The biblical records report that he did. So how does it make us feel knowing that the Savior, on occasions, became angry? Do we sense that perhaps Jesus was caught off guard for a moment? So maybe we ought to skip over or dress up those references to his anger. But we can't do that. One day the chief priest and scribes became hostile toward Jesus because he broke the Sabbath observance ...

1602. "Ascribe To The Lord The Glory Due His Name ..."

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... of what goes on in modern churches and religious groups, including what we often call "worship," is not worship in the biblical sense, but something else which may, in fact, be quite useful. A lot of religious instruction goes on. Bible study groups, retreats, ... not possible with all manner of other duties and distractions. But if we are not careful the campus environment can lead to a false sense of self-sufficiency and self-importance. If we do not stop to hear God's voice we will probably miss it. If we do ...

1603. More Than Sex

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... sex. He heard in these poetic words of one person's love for another, the echoes of his own relationship with God. The spiritual sense of this text, he said, is what happens when we, as individual members of the Bride of Christ, the Church, are approached by the ... barriers that we construct that keep God at a distance. We have our moments -- there are lattices and windows through which we sense the presence of God -- but barriers keep us from full union with Christ. Yet it is that knowledge that the lover is ...

1604. The Christian Journey I: The Path

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... group of people who just don't understand what you are trying to say. And, of course, we can be lost within ourselves. It is this sense of lostness that the Apostle Paul recorded so eloquently in the letter to the Romans: I do not understand my own actions. For I do ... prevailed, and Jesus lay dead in the tomb, or so it seemed. But in the midst of their pain, as they struggled to make sense out of what had happened, out of what they had felt and heard and seen, the risen Christ came to them, walked with them ...

1605. The Christian Journey II: The Mountain

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... and the intellectual, the emotional and the rational. Think of two of the most familiar mountain incidents in the life of Moses. In Exodus 3 he is attracted by a bush that burns without burning up. When God speaks to him he is flabbergasted, overwhelmed by a sense of unworthiness. But by the end of the encounter on the "mountain of God" he has been taught the Divine Name, received a commission for his task with the people of Israel, and been given a sign that God would accompany him. The experience was both ...

1606. Eighteen Years Is Long Enough

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... , which is simply to say that we conserve and pass along that tradition of the book. "For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you," Paul wrote the Corinthians in words we often quote in Communion services, but which in a larger sense summarize how we pass the faith along from generation to generation. Because we believe the Bible to be inspired by God, we find it to be continually inspiring in new and often surprising ways, but we are, by definition, connected to this tradition. Jeremiah knew ...

1607. "Friend, Why Are You Here?"

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... for ourselves or for someone we love. "Gee, I'm worried about those medical tests I have to take tomorrow (or those tests that Grandma took last week). Sure hope they come out all right. Better go to church." Perhaps some of us are here out of a sense of duty: "Lent is nearly over. I really should do something religious." Maybe some of us are here this morning because someone else "dragged" us! Jesus' question for Judas is a valid question for us. "Friend, why are you here? Why are you here today?" I hope ...

1608. "Friend, Why Are You Here?"

Sermon

Alex Gondola

1609. The Savior Life Diet

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... spiritual poverty of the Western world is much greater than the physical poverty of [Third World] people. You in the West have millions of people who suffer such terrible loneliness and emptiness. They feel unwanted and unloved ... These people are not hungry in a physical sense but they are in another way. They know they need something more than money, yet they don't know what it is. What they are missing really is a living relationship with God. (Life in the Spirit, Harper and Row Publishers, pp. 13-14 ...

1610. Equipped To Play

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... by the progressive evolution of equipment. A fellow said to a friend, "I got some new golf clubs for my wife." His friend remarked, "That's great! I wish I could make a trade like that." Again, I'm just kidding. But it's a tough game and it makes sense to play with the best equipment. History has taught there are always new and improved ways of doing things. If you think that's hooey or somehow alien to our ethic, you need to take another long look at our Lord's parable of the wineskins (see Matthew 9:17 ...

1611. Balaam, The Donkey And The Angel

Numbers 22:1-20, Numbers 22:21-41

Drama

Peter C. Garrison

... me: "Go to Balak. Don't go to Balak. Go." Donkey: So, God can't change his instruction to you? His plans didn't fit your sense of order, so you hit me? Am I not your donkey, which you have ridden all your life to this day? I only veered, smacked ... on the whole thing: First God told me, "You shall not go with them; you shall not curse my people for they are blessed." That made sense; the Israelites are God's own people, why mess with them? I told Balak's guys to forget it. But more officials show up, I resist ...

1612. King Ahaz,Idolater

Drama

Peter C. Garrison

... slavery again. But, I suppose that's how we felt secure -- as slaves; slaves to superstition, good luck, the petty whims of local gods who can be bribed, palm readers who would tell us what we wanted to hear, horoscopes telling us the cosmos made sense in a way that pleased our sense of order ... Other: So, now what? Ahaz: So, now this I guess. Other: Our whole existence boils down to an eternity of, "I guess?" Ahaz: I guess. I once had the certainty of the one true God and I lost it to the chancy nature ...

1613. Call Home

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... to take control of our lives, the more we experience spiritual deterioration. The young man in that story represents many of us at various points in our lives -- self-sufficient, independent and armed with a false sense of security based on our own ability. But the scripture says, "When he came to his senses" (Luke 15:17), when conviction set in, when that turning point occurred that young man and each and every one of us can return to God. Reconciliation occurred because that young man came to grips with ...

1614. Following God's Lead

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... , "Well, all I know is that I've been praying for this need and haven't received an answer. Perhaps God will answer your prayer since God isn't answering mine." There are times in our lives when all of us go through periods when we do not sense that God is listening or answering our prayers. We feel as if we're in the wilderness, left alone without any hope of ever reaching the promised land. These times can be overcome but it involves faith, guidance, obedience, and leadership. God's answer to our prayers ...

1615. The Word Of The Lord Came To The Prophet Haggai

Haggai 1:1-15

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... worker. A little further down the road the traveler came upon another man performing the exact same task, but this fellow was whistling. When asked what he was doing, the second worker smiled and said, "I'm building a cathedral." Vision of the larger things helps us make sense of our smaller tasks. And if it hadn't worked out? If Haggai hadn't measured up? If this prophet for the moment hesitated a second and missed out? That's our fear many times. That we will undertake a work on the part of the church and ...

1616. Be Patient

James 5:7-12

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... to a place in the woods near a great tree, light a special fire, and say a mysterious prayer. And always without exception, the people he loved would be saved from danger. Magid of Mezritch became leader after Baal Shem-Tov passed on. As his teacher before him, whenever Magid sensed a danger for the people, he would go to a place in the woods near a great tree. He would say, "Dear Lord, I do not know how to light the special fire, but I know the mysterious prayer. Please let that be good enough." And it was ...

1617. Moving At The Speed Of Light: At The Jordan

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... did Jesus preach peace? Jesus lived in a time of conflict. The rights of people were not respected in any modern sense. (Occasionally in Paul's ministry his Roman citizenship earned him a different kind of treatment, but that was out of ... it take before she was calm enough to hear what Jesus was saying to her? As she stepped over the rocks to be on her way, did she sense that her life had been given back to her? Jesus teaches: "Go and sin no more." Jesus preaches peace with God to the baptized and to those ...

1618. Living In The Nonsense Of The Resurrection

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... m stuck with believing something so new, so different, so radical, that my life will have to change, to be new, different, radical as a result of the belief! I don't care what anybody says. It isn't logical, rational; it doesn't make sense to believe in Jesus, the Christ. It is nonsense, this story of resurrection. And it is precisely because it is nonsense, precisely because it defies explanation, precisely because it is radical, that my life is dramatically changed by it. Because Jesus the Christ lives, I ...

1619. Being A Good Doubter

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... on a cross. Despair? Yes! Grief? Certainly. Doubt? Probably. Perhaps he was out somewhere wandering the countryside trying to make sense of the tragedy at Golgotha which had jarred every fiber of his being. There were doubts, for sure, and they were ... the living God and have our own faith resurrected. It is a paradox, like losing one's life to find it, that doesn't make rational sense -- until we live it. And then, out of the dust of honest doubt can be born the greatest expression of faith: "My Lord and my ...

1620. Getting At The Truth

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... during arguments she uses that very information to berate him and tear him down. But other people have experienced something different. The 12 Step Groups such as AA know that when they entrust their lives to a Higher Power and bare their souls to that Power, they sense they are beginning to get in touch not only with themselves, but with Ultimate Reality. One young man in another city told me about a small group of men from his church which meets once a week to share whatever is on their minds and hearts ...

1621. Desires Bring Hope

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

John G. Lynch

... life as a head wind into which he must sail or as a sea that tosses him about. That's why God brought this death experience, this sense of loss into his life -- precisely so he would start living like a ship sailing into the wind, tossed to and fro on the sea. Life in ... need Moses and the prophets. They both need to listen. Significant changes in our lives come only when we experience a great sense of loss and then start to listen to Moses and the prophets again. Then God fans the flames of desire in our ...

1622. Not Yet Quitting Time

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... and weariness with fighting what seems like a futile battle for righteousness is what leads to a fascination with the end of the world. The tragic and violent end of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, came about, in part, because of the cult's obsession with the sense that the world was soon coming to an end. If we were to be asked for a favorite or familiar passage of scripture, I daresay that none of us here would name any of the lessons we've heard this morning. They're a bit strange, aren't they ...

1623. The Unveiled Truth

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... promise and hope. The coming of this divine word in human form has its culmination in the incarnation. "Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but these last days he has spoken to us by a Son" (Hebrews 1:1-2). The sense of the last days, of the change which comes with the incarnate word, is suggested in the second lesson today (2 Corinthians 3:12--4:2). It picks up the theme of Moses' shining face and veil. The new thing that is added is the idea that the glory of ...

1624. A Homecoming To Remember

1 Kings 8:22-61

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... months Diane had felt the presence of God in her life. She felt the urging, but like many people she tried to dismiss the notion. After avoiding the issue for as long as she could, Diane went to church. As the worship service began Diane once again sensed the presence of God. When the music began she says she felt lost. The opening hymn was "Praise To The Lord, The Almighty," and she managed to sing a word or two and then stopped singing altogether. "I was being battered by tidal waves of emotion," Diane ...

1625. You Can Be Forever Young

Genesis 25:1-11

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... There is a great lesson to be learned by observing life and the people who enjoy living it. The lesson is this: there is a profound difference between aging and growing old. Abraham grew to be very aged but never really seemed to grow old in the sense we ordinarily interpret it. Perhaps that is what the author of Genesis was getting at in writing: "Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age." His is a remarkable story. Abraham, of course, is remembered as "the father of Israel" (and is referred to ...

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