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1651. Proper 22

Philippians 4:2-9, Philippians 3:1-11, Philippians 3:12-4:1, Isaiah 5:1-7, Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... that Holy Name? We're not just talking about language here; we're talking about lifestyle and values. Old Testament: Isaiah 5:1-7 God as lover. You can feel Isaiah's passion for God, his beloved. He feels the pain of his beloved's pain at being spurned by his own people. When you love someone, her hurts are your hurts. Do we feel the pain of God as we observe a world in rebellion? Wild world. God threatens to let his vineyard go wild. Without cultivation, nature reclaims everything; it goes wild ...

1652. Easter Day

John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9, Colossians 3:1-17, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... sorry for ourselves? That's a futile kind of weeping. Do we weep because someone we love has been hurt or has died? Such tears can prove healing if we can get them out and then move on. Do we weep because we feel like an orphaned child? Christ understands that feeling and will come to console us. We may not recognize him, at first, but the living Lord stands ready to speak our names and wipes the tears away from our eyes. Weeping may last the night but joy comes in the morning. We're all in the family. The ...

1653. I Am Coming Soon

Sermon

Ronald Lavin

... him. That's the meaning of the incarnation, God taking on flesh." That Sunday night, Clyde called Jim at home. "That sermon really helped me," he said. "So did our talk last Tuesday night. I'm still hurting from Ida Mae's desire to divorce me, but I don't feel as much alone as I did." When Pastor Jim met with Clyde and Ida Mae at their house the next day, he asked each of them to tell their side of the story. "Jim has been away too much," Ida Mae said. "When I tell him my problems, he tries ...

1654. I Am The Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Ronald Lavin

... 's staff is a comfort for two reasons. First of all, it is used to keep us in the flock. As we start to stray, we feel the staff on our backside as a reminder that our life depends on staying together with the flock. Second, the staff has a crook which can ... heaven itself. How many times did Jesus say, "The kingdom of heaven is like a great banquet...?" To those who are low, who feel like nobodies, God announces good news in this psalm: you are kings and queens at the banquet table of the King of kings. ...

1655. Children

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... to say we could be interested in. "Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" we could hear him saying as he waited for his students to gather. I was far enough away that I could not see what he was doing, but I could hear and I could feel the hot sun. "This child is as great as any of you, and perhaps greater, for unless you are childlike, you won't even get into the Kingdom!" The men around me murmured. I couldn't make out what they were saying. Jesus went on and everyone quieted down to ...

1656. Repentance: A New Relationship

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... , suffice it to say the one hope we all have for a solution to America's current unhappy state as regards our myriad social problems is a change in our inward values -- not those to which we pay lip service, but the deeply held belief systems which determine our feelings and conduct day by day. Although Joel didn't use the word "repent," it's a word that expresses what he was asking his people to do. It's to be found often in the New Testament and, frankly, isn't a very popular word in mainstream theology ...

1657. Standing Firm

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... there for them, never personally critical, always ready to visit the hospital, to receive them in counselling, to marry the young and caringly bury the dead. And his door was always open to those who wished to visit in order to debate the issues, and they always left feeling they had been heard. In that there is a great lesson to be learned by any of us, pastors and others, about the business of taking a strong stand in a public situation. If it's done in love, people will at least listen ... and perhaps be ...

1658. Choose To Be Chosen

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... a way of saying we can exercise our election. We can get into the game. We can score. We can choose to be chosen. But back to that feeling of "will I be chosen?" In honesty, many of us must admit that the reason we were so haunted by the fear we might not be chosen ... with Word and prayer. Realize the blessing of God's food at the training table. You need never be discouraged, never need to feel you'll be traded if you make errors. Yours is an eternal contract. Choose to live as the chosen one you are! Anyone ...

1659. Have You Heard The Good News?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... content and the nature of that good news. It is "the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God." That is what the Advent is all about -- the preparation for the coming of Jesus Christ. This good news is centered in Jesus Christ. This is the mood and feeling that is captured by the African-American spiritual: Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere; Go tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born. The good news is that Jesus was born in an obscure village in an out-of-the-way place ...

1660. A Voice Crying In The Wilderness

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... with the possibility he will be unemployed. The older couple who has been informed that their son and his family are moving in with them because their son has lost his job. The single parent mother who can barely drag herself out of bed in the morning because she feels so burnt-out and so used-up. The older man who sees the younger generation undoing all the reforms it took a lifetime to achieve. The elderly woman who asks of her pastor when he comes to visit her to pray for the Lord to take her. What does ...

1661. A Hands-on Religion

Mark 1:40-45

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John A. Stroman

... For Jesus religion was a hands-on affair. This is where we as the church run into problems. We have a chronic problem of being able to get things done. We are afflicted in our outreach. Our minds approve the gospel, our hearts have emotionally sincere feelings for love and service, but our concern to help seems to have difficulty getting from our hearts through our minds to our hands. We have difficulty getting our hands and hearts to cooperate. We have been caught up in a "cult of verbal Christianity." We ...

1662. The Inner Demands of God's Law

Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 5:27-30, Matthew 5:21-26

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... proceeds to quote the Law ("You have heard it said ...") and then to intensify it ("But I say ...") by extending its purview to cover inner motivation. The first antithesis, contained in this passage, is typical in that it moves beyond the act of murder to the feelings that lead to it. Liturgical Color Green Suggested Hymns Dearest Jesus, At Your Word Oh, That The Lord Would Guide My Ways Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Let Us Ever Walk With Jesus O Christ, Our Hope O Jesus Christ, May Grateful Hymns Be Rising ...

1663. Masks

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... crawl into. Sometimes we get embarrassed by saying something in a way we didn't mean or doing something that makes us feel silly. Sometimes we are afraid of something and would like a mask to hide behind. But what several of you said just ... to be just who God would have you be. When we put on a mask, that is, when we act in a way that is not truly how we feel or think, then we are not being ourselves. If we go through life that way, we even risk forgetting who we really are; we may start to believe the ' ...

1664. A Tale Of Two Trees

1 Corinthians 13:13

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... be itself, there in the forest, growing with its friend. "You know, in some ways people are just like the trees in this story. Sometimes we get jealous of how someone else looks and don't like our own appearance. But when we can let go of those feelings and enjoy just being ourselves, we have a lot to give one another. The dogwood gave the evergreen its red leaves in the fall because it loved its friend. And the evergreen gave the dogwood hope and encouragement with its song when the dogwood was waking up ...

1665. Plan Your Leisure - Jesus Did His!

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... has said that if he had a single gift to pass on, it would be the ability for every one of us to laugh at ourselves. Finally, as you come down from the mountain of “R & R,” you Return to the Rhythm of life in your usual place. You’ll feel a renewed sense of what it’s like to work when you work, eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are tired, drink when you are thirsty, embrace when you are lonely and need loving. You return inspired to guard this God-given rhythm so that no foreign elements ...

1666. Bread for the Party (Bread of Life I)

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... . Third, Jesus teaches us to use what we have, never to wait until we think we have enough. Our tendency is to do nothing until we feel we have adequate resources to do it all. I heard someone say, “Oh, I’d like to win the lottery. Here’s what I would do with ... is a way to exercise more effective stewardship in these matters. I’ll put it on a more personal level. Most of us feel overwhelmed by world hunger, shamed by what seems to be an unguarded use of abortion as a birth control technique, and sorry ...

1667. Bread of the Eucharist (Bread of Life IV)

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... their home in which they take deep pride. Then you go to the dining room for the meal. You find the table set with care, the food exceptionally delicious, and the conversation flows easily. Simply put, it becomes a lovely evening and you leave feeling full in every way. You enjoy bread from the kitchen, but much more. You enjoy the bread of being graciously received, the bread of informed and lively conversation, and the bread of being in beautiful surroundings. Magnify that thousands of times and you begin ...

1668. Making the Mystery Work for You

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... effort to explore the deeper resources of our inner selves. When I watch the Memorial Day parades, celebrating those who gave their lives for our freedom, I can’t help asking, why? why can’t we find a solution for war? On those occasions when I feel down or feel distressed by the turmoils of the world, I ask, Why? Why? Why? The late Cardinal Cushing tells of an occasion when he was administering last rites to a man who had collapsed in a general store. Following his usual custom, he knelt by the man and ...

1669. You Can Never Go Home Again

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... I believe my task is God-given. I must give it a good trial. Whatever it takes to do the job, I will do it. If people reject me, I refuse to waste my energy in anger and self-pity. I’ll keep moving on. Somewhere, someone will feel the conviction that moves me. They will respond.” This thing about not being accepted in one’s hometown is a perennial phenomenon. The Wright Brothers workshop in Dayton, Ohio, was restored in 1988. Years ago, no one believed that they would ever get their flying machine off ...

1670. What Can I Do for You?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... serious, so I assumed the matter was also. “You are always called on by others, no matter the time or circumstances. You always have to be up and ready. I would like to be someone you can call on. It doesn’t matter when or what, I want you to feel free to call me a flat tire in the night, trouble with the house, a need to have someone to listen I want you to look on me that way.” From the quality of his speaking I was confident that he meant it. “What can I do for you?” actually ...

1671. We Haven’t Got To Them Yet

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... forebears discovered the difficulty of devising perfectly pure religion how do you and I manage? How do we know that we are right with God so that we can move ahead with a working self-esteem and a goodly sense of being justified in the faith? how do we feel Jesus in our salvation so that we do not keep on in an endless regress of self-examination? We need appropriate answers to these questions if we are to move on with mature confidence and effectiveness and if we are to be happy. One thing we try, as our ...

1672. A Thanksgiving Checklist

Luke 12:48

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... of the circle to a point along its edge. When that happens, we center too much attention on ourselves and evidence “entitlement behavior.” We come to feel that we are due this or due that. This should not be confused with affirming our basic human rights. Rather it has to do with the feeling that we are entitled to special treatment. And if that is our feeling, it is probable that we will set the trigger of gratitude far too low. Our demands on others will be so extraordinary, that few will and should ...

1673. Path To A New Life

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... too long, and too far from his home. Now two consequences lay ahead of him. One was the beating he would probably receive in arriving home so late. The other was the problem of getting there! Ely turned onto cobbled streets that he thought were familiar, sometimes feeling his way along walls that he expected to end in doorways. The darkness was so complete that he imagined he was blindfolded, or that he was like the old blind Joseph that begged near the city gate. At one turn he saw a flicker of light ...

1674. Where The Lord Dwells

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Charles Curley

... God here? And if God is here as you say, why doesn't God stop these terrible things from happening to me?" We can't help feeling that a settled-down-God would be there in powerful ways when we need God, and leave us alone the rest of the time. A ... rock-solid, in-spite-of-it-all foundation of my faith and my belief is that God is with us, wherever we go. When we have trouble feeling that God is there, or are wondering just what God is doing, the problem is not that God is absent from our lives. The problem is ...

1675. Song Of Loss Song Of Hope

2 Samuel 1:1-16

Sermon

Charles Curley

... experienced as much emptiness, loss and pain as anyone has ever felt for the most beloved brother. Yes, Saul was David's enemy, Saul tried to kill David repeatedly. But just saying he was David's enemy in no way encompasses the complex range of feelings David had for Saul. His grief for both Saul and Jonathan is large and complex and difficult to understand. Such complex emotions as those David throws into this song are particularly difficult for us to understand in a world which constantly tries to reduce ...

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