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1626. Saved By The Blood Of The Lamb

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... bread and wine, in the body and blood of our Savior. That young woman arose from that chancel rail with the assurance that she was forgiven. "Suddenly," she said to me later, "I knew what it meant to be washed in the blood of the Lamb. I feel renewed; I feel free; I feel as if God has given me a second chance." There is for us in the Lord's supper a constant renewal of the covenant between God and the church. This covenant links the Messiah and his covenant with Christ and his promise to restore the kingdom ...

1627. This Is Athletics -- Check Your Christianity At The Door

Drama

Karren Boehr

... , man, this is about good sportsmanship; this is about another guy who's obviously forgotten the rules and needs to be reminded that REAL men play fair. JOHN: (Muttering as he checks out his helmet) I can't believe it. No elbows, not getting even. Doesn't feel right. This is definitely going to take some getting used to ... MARK: (Slaps JOHN on the back) Atta boy. Now you're thinking on all cylinders. Come on, let's go finish this game. JOHN: (Muttering to himself) ... not going to be easy ... no cleats, no ...

1628. Like A Thief

Matthew 24:36-51

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... all to you, Lord. DAN: Good. Now, just relax and remember to keep your eyes closed. MINNY: Okay. Oh, I get it. You want me to soar through the clouds but you're afraid I might get sick. Sure, Lord. I'm ready. (DAN BEGINS TO EXIT) Ohhh, it does feel like I'm flying. Yes, of course I am. DAN: Don't open your eyes. Don't look down. Keep your eyes shut. There, that's a good little Christian. Keep your eyes shut. Good. Good. MINNY: Lord, it seems like your voice is getting farther away. Why is that ...

1629. Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... worship today.) Then, conclude with a statement by Bernice Johnson Reagon, in the Other Side (July-August 1997), who identifies the black church style this way: "You pass the audition when you walk in the door." Our being here has little to do with how we feel and everything to do with our obedience. Hymn of Adoration "O God of Vision" Prayer of Adoration Incorporate how the people came to worship with God's faithfulness to meet them as they are. God remains faithful even when we are less than faithful, and ...

1630. Advent 2

Mark 1:1-8, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... in business and a call to ministry. Many a miserable walk in the dark preceded my decision. These words of Peter's, "the heavens will burn up and be destroyed, and the heavenly bodies will be melted by the heat," could well have described how I was feeling. Maybe all of us are destined to experience something like this as part of the process of growing up, maturing, deciding what we are to do with our lives. Thank God, then, for "the new heavens and the new earth" of the soul. But Peter also warns that ...

1631. The Gift of Lent I: A Widow Gives Her Mites

Luke 21:1-4

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... for? Oh, sure, I'm a widow and all I own I could load on one small donkey, but don't feel sorry for me. I'm far richer than you might think. Shall we go sit in the shade of the olive ... saw me there giving my offering of two small coins. Two small coins, about enough to buy one meal of grain or dates or lentils. But most earnestly, I beg you not to feel sorry for me. I'm far richer than you think. You see, God himself is like a husband to me. By his own word he promises to defend the widow and sustain her. ...

1632. Moving At The Speed Of Light: At The Jordan

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... head and praying the prayer, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen." Sally feels the pastor's hands tremble as he prays. A man comes to an usher before Sunday worship. Would the pastor be willing ... his way because worldly wealth has become his god. It is hard to be up close and personal with the cross, hearing his groans and not feel the demand his second baptism places upon us. Jesus preaches peace with God to the baptized and to those who would or could be baptized. ...

1633. Being A Good Doubter

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... our prayers present no hint of doubt, no trace of question, and no scents of anger -- and only half our hearts." No, the issue for us is how to be good doubters; how to walk like Thomas honestly into the middle of them, no matter how scary and alone that feels, so that we can encounter 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 ...

1634. Not Yet Quitting Time

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... by which they navigated. And it's the fixed point by which we must navigate as well if we are not to become weary in well-doing. Only hope in the final triumph of God will enable us to keep on doing what is right, despite the weariness we often feel. How do we get that hope and keep it alive? Through prayer and worship. We must develop and nurture the habits of prayer, of relationship with God, of reflection on the scriptures. For it is out of that relationship that the vision of the day of the Lord will ...

1635. The Unveiled Truth

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... face only in the period when he is not performing his office of receiving and communicating God's word. The text, then, has a certain tension or confusion about the veil. The initial introduction of the veil seems to be in response to the anxiety that the people feel about Moses' shining face. Thus we expect the veil to be used when speaking to the people and to be off when speaking to God. As noted above, this is not the case. Moses seems to wear the veil when he is not functioning as mediator, but then ...

1636. You Can Be Eternal

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... a place of love and acceptance, security and family. What will heaven be like? Whatever your fondest memories of home are, those are hints of what heaven will be like. For many it will be a place of safety. I recall while growing up how secure I would feel at night, dropping off to sleep watching a shaft of light beneath my bedroom door. It came from the living room where my father sat up reading The Tarbell Teacher's Guide and preparing his Sunday morning church school lesson. I knew as long as he was in ...

1637. Epiphany 7

1 Corinthians 15:35-58, 1 Samuel 26:1-25, Genesis 45:1-28, Luke 6:27-36

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... morality. What is good is what "everybody does," or what consenting parties agree to, or good is what makes you feel good or good is what you can get away with without getting caught. Are there any absolute moral standards for ... to leave the room. Then he cried aloud to the extent that the Egyptians heard him. Today we no longer feel that it is unnatural or unmanly for a man to cry. Many feel that crying is therapeutic. At certain times even Jesus cried. Outline: There is a time for crying a. Tears of ...

1638. The Lenten Season

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... the season, Lent, does not reflect the mood or message of the season. It is an old Anglo-Saxon word, Lencten or Lenchthen, which means the lengthening of the days as spring appears. To preach meaningfully and properly, a preacher needs to know the message of Lent and feel its mood and spirit. Development Of The Season Lent as a period of 40 days came into being as a result of a long period of development. Originally in the first century Lent was only a period of 40 hours in keeping with the 40 hours Jesus ...

1639. Yet I Will Rejoice

Habakkuk 3:1-19

Eulogy

Barbara G. Schmitz

... went on to tell me that her dog, Pepper, had accidentally gotten out of the fenced-in back yard and had been killed by a car. Her children were very upset. She was upset for them, because they were foster care children, and losing a dog brought up all those feelings of abandonment that these children had already known all too often. She asked if I could come over and say come prayers. A day later we met at the pet cemetery. When all the prayers were said, the mom gave each child a rose and one by one they ...

1640. The More I Understand, The Less I Know

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... begin to rustle. And the conversation would die down, and everyone would just sit back and enjoy the summer breeze, the gift of the breeze. We didn’t know where it came from. We didn’t know where it was going. But we knew it was there, because we could feel it. You know what it’s like to come in here on one of those Sundays when you didn’t really want to be here, when your mind was somewhere else, and to be honest about it, maybe your heart was somewhere else, too. Then, during the worship service ...

1641. Anger - Eleven Ways To Blow Up, Seven Ways To Cool Off

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... the negative. Now then, you approach the express line. And there in front of you is a guy with more than twelve items. It's obvious he has more than twelve items; his basket is full. Will your pulse rate start to rise? Will you feel that your territory has been violated? Will you feel yourself wanting to say, "Hey, he's taking advantage of the system?" If so, then you have entered stage two of anger. You have an evil eye set on the person. You are angry. Yet most people will just ride out this wave of anger ...

1642. Deadly Sins - A Matter Of Sutton's Law

Romans 7:14-25

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... takes enormous courage. But those few simple words can create a whole new world. Try using them some time. If you want to experience real power and healing in your life when you're trying to avoid guilt that really belongs to you, say it, "I was wrong," and then feel the burden being lifted and the surge of new life pouring in. The second way to deal with sins is to repent from them. To repent means to make a U-turn, to turn away from those things that are not good and true. In the comic strip Peanuts Lucy ...

1643. Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... Carrie remarks, "Sometimes STILL HERE seems stranger than GONE."2 Carrie finds it is as hard or harder to deal with being left behind as it is to deal with Molly Snow's being gone. Most anyone who has lost some significant person in his or her life knows that feeling. Without the person we loved, STILL HERE no longer carries the same meaning and joy it once did. When a wife dies, a part of the husband dies, too. When a child dies, a part of the parent dies, too. STILL HERE just isn't the same without them ...

1644. Been There, Done That

Matthew 2:13-23

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... a lot about compassion but isn't very compassionate, we need people who remember what it is like to have been there and done that. Another overused phrase is, "I feel your pain." It gives us some comfort to know that other people feel and share our pain, and we comfort others when we are able to let them know that we hurt with them. People who truly feel our pain are qualified in only one way -- they have been there and done that. Before surgery and at the graveside and with the attorney, people tell us, "I ...

1645. Why Not Walk On What Jesus Walked On When He Walked On Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... some great things, some wonderful things, some miraculous things, but the more we row against the wind the clearer it becomes to us that we were the recipients of grace and not the exercisers of great power, because rowing against the wind doesn't make us feel powerful. It makes us feel powerless. Maybe we did hit that home run in the bottom half of the ninth inning, but that was yesterday. Today, this morning, it isn't even dawn yet, it's still dark and we row and we row and we aren't getting anywhere. Our ...

1646. Easter 3

1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Acts 2:42-47, Luke 24:13-35

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... all belonged to God through Jesus Christ, who had redeemed them from the power of sin. Some people are too cynical and selfish to feel the common bond with other humans. We see such a character in the person of the king, in the Wizard of Id comic ... sacrifice. Outline: 1. Social scientists tell us that self-esteem is essential for human well-being 2. Lack of self-esteem stems from a feeling of worthlessness 3. Our worth is shown by God's gift of Jesus (v. 21) 4. In Christ, we have confidence for this life ...

1647. Epiphany 2

Jn 1:29-42 · 1 Cor 1:1-9 · Is 49:1-7 · Ps 27

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... we were to view our lives atomistically, in isolation from God and others. Then the prophet remembers, "Surely my cause is with the Lord." If my cause is also the Lord's cause, surely he will vindicate me, the prophet reasoned. Wouldn't you think that if a person was feeling as if he were a failure that the Lord might relent and say: "That's all right. I'll remove some of your burden and make it easier for you." But that's not what happened to Isaiah. The Lord gave him and his people an even greater task ...

1648. Good Friday

John 18:1-11, Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Genesis 22:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16, Hebrews 10:1-18, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, John 19:17-27

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... one who was wounded for our transgressions, experienced this tragic condition especially during the last week of his life. There was none to share the burden of the cross with him. Loneliness stems from spiritual alienation from God and others. Christians also feel this loneliness but Christ draws us back into the redemptive community. Lonely is the night, but the day has dawned. Outline: 1. We live in a world afflicted with loneliness (examples) 2. What is loneliness? alienation from God and then others 3 ...

1649. Lent 2

John 3:1-21, Genesis 12:1-8, Romans 4:1-25

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... of sunrise and then sunset but why? A sunset is always followed by a sunrise. Abram was called by God to engage on a journey to who-knows-where during the sunset years of his life. The end of one life was the starting point for another. People sometimes feel, when they reach the end of some phase in their life, that life is over, that there is nothing more to look forward to. Not so for the person of faith. Every sunset is met by a corresponding sunrise. Outline: 1. God called Abram to venture forth at age ...

1650. Lent 5

John 11:1-16, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Romans 8:1-17, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... truth. Her body may be nearly dead but her brain (mind) is alive (vv. 8-11). Epistle: Romans 8:11-19 Just deserts. The litany we hear constantly in this present age goes something like this: I demand my rights! Give me what I have coming! They want what they feel they have earned. Paul reminds us of the danger of demanding our rights, insisting on our wages. "The wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (v. 23). Gospel: John 11:1-45 "The one whom you love is ...

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