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1601. The Lord's Maid Servant

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... and that he was to be the savior of the world. Now, that was a lot to believe. But Mary believed it and then so did I. I only believed her after Joseph, her betrothed, said he believed her. I mean, I trusted her, but the story was ... well, you understand. She had faith in God who said this would come to pass and it did. She had the baby, although not at home so I could help her. She had the child way down near Jerusalem, in Bethlehem. I didn't see Mary again for many years. She and Joseph ...

1602. Transfiguration

Luke 9:28-36

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... 't stay here. This is just a building. RALPH: This is the church. MABEL: It's still just a building. RALPH: But, this is the place where I really feel alive, more than anyplace else in my life, my job, my home, anyplace. I didn't expect you to understand. This is where my friends are. This is where we worship together. MABEL: And this is the place you'd like to build a little wall around and shut the world out, right? RALPH: Well, yes, I would. MABEL: Then your friends -- the members of this church -- would ...

1603. The Mystery

Luke 7:1-10

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... healing and faith for healing. Playing Time: 3 1/2 minutes Setting: A church Props: None Costumes: Contemporary, casual Time: The present Cast: Stan Diane STAN: (STAN, DIANE ENTER) Do you understand healing? DIANE: Understand it? No, not really. Why? STAN: I knew you didn't. I don't either, but I just wanted to talk about it. DIANE: Okay, let's talk. What about healing? STAN: Well, I'm not a person that just accepts things as they are. I always have to probe -- ...

1604. The Advocate

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... indignant first captain replied: "This is Captain Jones. I order you to move." The second responded: "This is Robert Smith. I order you to move." Now Captain Jones was really hot under the collar. "You don't understand. This is the battleship Missouri." Robert Smith responded: "You don't understand. This is the lighthouse and you are about to crash." The Advocate witnesses for God and convicts the world of wrong, right, and judgment. The Advocate also guides us in the ways of God. To be Christian witnesses ...

1605. Himself The Real Presence

John 6:25-59

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... things, with us always, incarnate but invisible, making his presence known, making his blessings available to us in his body and blood with the gifts of bread and wine in this meal of remembrance. Ours not to reason why this way, of course, but does not this attempt to understand help us as we hear Jesus say, "Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you"? Does it not help us as we hear Jesus in this post-resurrection phrasing of his earlier ...

1606. Last But Yet First

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... to Gentiles," but surely not to us, "those who are the called." To us the crucified One is "Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1 Corinthians 1:23-25). The wisdom of God -- even though the disciples "did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him," surely we understand what he was talking about. "Odd of God" indeed, himself so to humble himself in Jesus, the Son, so as to be last and the servant of all, in order that he might be both under the law and nailed on the cross ...

1607. It's OK To Stir Up God

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Richard Patt

... . Why should we dare to be so persistent in our prayers? Why should we even go to the lengths of "stirring up" God, as this man in the story stirred up his neighbor/friend at midnight? Because God is on our side; God has our needs at heart. God understands the predicaments of life. He is probably even impressed when our prayers are not for our own sake but for someone else whose needs we have adopted as our own. We should be persistent because when we have banked on God and God's goodness all along in our ...

1608. Peace And The Peacemakers

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

Richard Patt

... ' life at the time. That is true of all of us, isn't it? When something significant is going on in our lives, our demeanor and speech may reflect that. Our words, usually spoken calmly, may develop an unpleasing bite that betrays the fact that we're on edge. We understand that and allow for it in one another. So we discover that the words of Jesus have a bite to them. He appears to be on edge. What's up? Jesus is worked up, that's what. His mind seems focused on the consuming event to come: his own ...

1609. The Crux Of Being A Christian

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

... Jesus was saying in the opening verses of this Gospel reading. Remember the shocking words: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." Understandably it can be those who love us most -- father and mother, and all the rest of the family -- who jump when our "rights" are threatened, or when injustice is threatening our well-being, and stick up for us. Like Jesus did to Peter, we might at ...

1610. God's Passionate Concern

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

1611. People With Power To Forgive

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... to reaffirm wrong as wrong. In the present threat of an AIDS epidemic to accompany the already existing epidemic of herpes and other sex-related diseases, we need to say again that fornication, promiscuity and adultery are wrong. We can understand why they happen, but understanding and approving and declaring them as normative Christian behavior is unfaithful to what Jesus and Paul and others have said. Comedian Steve Epstein notes: "To appease God, Oral Roberts accepted $1.3 million from a guy who owns a ...

1612. New Name, New Status

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Tony Everett

... Isaiah says to them, "You shall be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord will give" (v. 2). Remember Sally? "Teacher's-Little-Girl" became "Boss-and-Leader." A new name brought new status. A new name brought a new self-understanding and a fresh, new perspective. The same would be true for the nation of Judah. The same would be true for its people. Azubah and Shemamah became Hephizabah and Beulah. The formerly forsaken people and their desolated nation became "Delight of the Lord" -- "Married" and ...

1613. Roots Near The River

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... eyes and mouth than did the "fair and caring." Is it any wonder that so many of us, as Jeremiah says, place our trust in mere mortals and allow our own past perception to deceive us? The graduate students placed their unquestioning trust in their own understanding. Sin is like that. Living and trusting only in ourselves is like "living in the parched places of the desert, in an uninhabited salt land" (v. 6) -- empty, dry, and full of anxiety. Now, on the other hand, Jeremiah describes godly persons as those ...

1614. God Needs To Save This Family

Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

James McLemore

... way?" And God most certainly answered, "It is exactly because you are my prophet that you are living through this situation. Who else but my prophet could suffer like I suffer, and grieve like I grieve, and therefore understand what I understand? Hosea, because you agreed to be my prophet, I decided to let you understand how I feel about my people Israel. They abandoned me, the same way your wife abandoned you. Just as you can feel your grief, feel mine. "You said that you wanted to know what God knows, and ...

1615. God's Going To Bring His Children Home

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

James McLemore

... a child to God. I know that we are a nation, with laws and governments and institutions, but to God we are just children. Barely 200 years old as a nation, we have not lived long enough to see everything and we have not been around long enough to understand everything. If we look at our 200 years of America in God's eyesight, aren't we just like children? We have a boys' clubhouse, where the girls are not allowed to come and play, and the results are female workers making less than male workers. Aren't we ...

1616. Proper 6

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

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... within them. 5. Walking with Jesus. Those who have had their sins forgiven and been cured of their evil spirits and infirmities will be ready to walk with Jesus. They may not have to go about itinerating as the twelve and the women did. They will seek to understand where he would go and what he would do if he were present in their place today. They will then seek to follow and walk with him as a real presence in daily life. Illustrative Materials 1. Divinity and Forgiveness. To err is human, to forgive is ...

1617. Proper 24

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 119:1-176

Bulletin Aid

William E. Keeney

... 3-8) What does the parable tell us about the nature of our praying? A. Describe Need. Explore what is our real need from God's perspective. B. Imbibe the Spirit's Strength. Let the Holy Spirit direct our will and enable us to be patient in waiting to understand God's response. C. Let God Prescribe. Do not seek to impose our will on God. Let God impose his superior will on ours. CONTACT Points of Contact 1. The Power of Prayer. Prayer orients our lives to the basic forces of the universe. True prayer puts us ...

1618. Let Me Explain: A Sermon By Judas Iscariot

Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... that with everyone, of making them feel that he was searching for them and wouldn't rest until he found them. I was made the treasurer of the group. What a man Jesus was! I can still remember how he taught the crowds and scolded us disciples for not understanding everything he said. I came to realize that this man could be God's Messiah -- if he would. He could lead us in a successful revolt against Rome. So I waited and waited, trying to be patient until the time was right. A year passed, then two. Jesus ...

1619. Blessed Betrayal

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... way. But when I saw the reflected light as the swords were drawn and heard the thunderous march of the soldiers I panicked. I wanted to stand by him, but I just couldn't. I betrayed him by my cowardice." James and John might have spoken next: "We didn't understand. We were jockeying for first place in Jesus' kingdom and didn't know what he meant when he would say things like 'He who would be first must become the servant of all.' We betrayed him by our hunger for power." On and on it might have gone as each ...

1620. God's Most Unmistakable Message

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... this is as contemporary as tomorrow's newspaper headline. None of us live our convictions absolutely and all the time. So we understand Pilate, at least a little. A fourth figure among the crucifiers was a member of the world of wealth and power -- Herod ... God renews his promise to give us new power for life. Many of us are theological schizophrenics. We can identify with Paul who wrote, I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not ...

1621. Bowing Before The Mystery

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... what is down here. Having beaten back the borders of both inner and outer space we often assume that everything is understandable, nothing is ultimately mysterious, and those things which we used to call mysterious are simply what is left over when ... when you looked into the face of your infant son on the day of his birth? Or is that just another mystery which you can't understand and therefore must not be real." What does it mean for a young mother to look at her sleeping child and cry with joy; experience ...

1622. The Hands And Arms Of Grace

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... Here is my son who is going to die so that sin and death won't have to threaten or worry or frighten you anymore. It is my ultimate sacrifice and you don't deserve it. But I love you this much!" The world, you know, doesn't understand that grace. They don't understand the cross. For them, it is a symbol of failure, of pain, of defeat, of mockery. They thought they were doing away with a troublesome Jew and that would be the end of it. "Ha!" shouts God. "Ha!" And three days later, the world heard that shout ...

1623. The Waiting Place

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

William L. Self

... must be stuck. Our spouse is late. Will the snow ever melt, the rain ever stop, the paint ever dry? Will anyone ever understand? Will I ever change? Life is a series of hopes, and waiting, and half-fulfillments. With grace and increasing patience and understanding of this human condition of constantly unsatisfied desire, we wait on our incompleted salvation. "Advent ... invites us to understand with a new patience that very difficult state of being, Advent."2 Advent is the waiting place. All of us have been ...

1624. The Man With Two Umbrellas

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

William L. Self

... have found his way without Eli is a matter of speculation. The fact is he did have the influence of Eli which held him so that he could hear the call of God. The call of God is indispensable for the Christian leader. It is a time for us to understand that we are discussing the most sacred part of a minister's life, the holy of holies, the place where he loses control of the direction of his life and Someone else takes over. Paul Scherer has said, "We should ... clear out of the road all the nonsense we have ...

1625. To Be Continued

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... the present and can't see past today by faith? Are we held back by what we learned in the past? Just as the coming of the Holy Spirit is invisible and the second coming of the Christ will be unknown until the trumpet sounds, so we can't understand, categorize, or even imagine the future God has for us -- even if we are going through what we consider "hell" right now. Our awesome God always has something better for us -- especially when he takes something away. There is a story in the Talmud about a wise and ...

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