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1701. The Garden Tomb

Luke 23:50-56

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... tomb to make sure that the followers of Jesus did not try to take him away. Joseph agreed, and when they took Jesus down from the cross they took him to the garden where Joseph had made a tomb for himself. Inside that doorway was a small room with a long smooth stone used as the place to lay the body. After the friends of Jesus had placed him in the tomb, under the watchful eyes of the Roman guard, they left before the night darkness came. As they were leaving they saw the Roman guard roll a very large and ...

1702. Song of a Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... the horn of olive oil and the pouch of cedar tar he carried as standard equipment, he anointed the bruised heads and scratched knees of those that had stumbled against sharp rocks or brushed lacerating thorns. And when he found one that was overly weary from the long, hot trek, he groomed it with the oil and offered it water from a large, two-handled cup to keep it from glutting itself at the pool. There is probably no more tender picture to be found anywhere of the shepherd’s sustaining care of his own ...

1703. I Love A Parade

Matthew 21:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Robert Allen

... as well. But, he had one serious problem. He didn’t have a bike - not even one with training wheels. However, he did have one of those long green inchworm toys. As he jumped up and down on its back, it would roll down the street. So, we put a couple of streamers on ... your needs to the needs of others and you will be on the road to being a humble servant of Jesus Christ. Someone put it so simply long ago when he said: Find a hurt and heal it; Find a need and fill it. When we do this, we are on the road to ...

1704. When Is The Baby Coming?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Erskine White

... start living in the new kingdom of God which is already coming. The day this baby truly comes to each one of us is the day we receive Him into our hearts and allow Him to change our lives forever. Then we shall know that the baby we have long been waiting for has come to us at last. Amen. Pastoral Prayer Most Holy and Loving God, who is the faithful answer to every earnest prayer and the abiding hope of every steadfast heart, we ask You to move our spirits this Christmas season, that we may approach Jesus ...

1705. Blessed among Women

Luke 1:39-45, 1 Samuel 2:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... her knowledge of Old Testament scripture. Mary was a woman of noble virtues, such as courage, obedience and humility. She had a mind of her own and even had her doubts, but she was willing to endure any hardship to do God’s will. She stands in a long tradition of biblical women who interpreted God’s ways to the world. Yet we can say all of this about Mary and still not reveal what is most important about her. What matters most about Mary is that she was a regular, ordinary person. She declares as much ...

1706. Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... in Lebanon. Some of them had been there for several years. Occasional pictures would be sent out by their captors to let the world know they were still alive and to keep the hurt festering. How our hearts ached for those men and for their families who longed to have them home again. We remember the feeling. How we and they needed the comfort that could only come by their release and return. Magnify that feeling several thousand times and you’ll have an idea of the impact that captivity in Babylon had on ...

1707. Just A Whisper

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... find a new way, receive this gift that is coming your way - Emmanuel. God immanent. God is with you. When bodily health fails there is still the gift of God’s love. In grief or hardship, in poverty or privation, the reminder at this season is that long ago, to people longing for light in their darkness, a child was given. And to us, as the quietness of Christmas Eve leads us to Christmas Day’s joyful celebration of the birth of Jesus, listen intently to hear the whisper of God’s love for you. A joyous ...

1708. Give Us A New Name!

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... to adulthood? Will it be dignified? Distinctive? Pleasant? We want names that will not be embarrassing or cause people to make jokes of them. Probably all of us have been amused by someone’s unfortunate name; one probably chosen by a parent who failed to think of the long term effect upon the child of the name they had chosen. A few years ago Johnny Cash sang about "A Boy Named Sue," a hilarious parody of the troubles a kid had going through life with a girl’s name. Most of us try to be more sensitive ...

1709. Remember Who(se) You Are

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... rock platform off to the side and closer to the falls, where for safety’s sake the park rangers would rather people not go. For a long time this young man sat on that rock platform, being buffeted and splashed by the cold spray and wind. He stood up, attempting to shield his ... over the roar of the water, but to no one in particular. "God, what an experience! I’ll never forget this as long as I live! I’ve never felt like this before. Oh, God! It’s so awesome!" His frequent mention of God seemed ...

1710. A Prophet Like Me

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... happened to look his way. He reminded me of some of the cartoons I had seen in the New Yorker magazine, depicting long-bearded characters in similar dress, usually announcing the end of the world. Certainly some of the prophets had their own peculiarities and ... back to nomadic times when, at Horeb, a fearful people asked for a mediator between themselves and God, and got Moses. For a long time it seemed that Moses would be the only prophet, but in today’s scripture we hear a farewell address to the people ...

1711. Feeling Down And Looking Up

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... My only consolation is that I helped her have one fine day of joy and hope. One does not overcome a deep-seated and long-term feeling of despair in a few hours, or even in a few days. That is why anyone suffering from depression or that inward ... feeling of worthlessness, or even lesser problems of self-image, should immediately seek quality counseling and stay with it on a consistent basis long enough to do some good. That young woman was not even able to believe in herself, much less could she believe in and ...

1712. Simon Peter: Strong Stone or Crumbling Clay?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... I worked hard at my job and loved being out on the Sea of Galilee, there were times when my partners and I toiled all night long and then had nothing to show for it. That was the case one morning, when Jesus approached us on the shore, where we had drawn up ... distress. He took James, John, and me with him, apart from the others, and urged us to watch and pray. But it had been a long day and we dozed off a bit. "Peter," I heard him say, "Peter, watch and pray to stay out of temptation. The spirit is willing, ...

1713. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

"Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip?" (John 14:9). So Jesus responded to Philip’s question about wanting to know and sense the presence ... of God. It is easy to focus on the demon Hitler, but the truth is that most of the world was involved. Hatred for the Jews has been around for a long, long time and we Christians are guilty of promoting and feeding these fears and suspicions. We read in Elie Wiesel’s novel, The Oath, these words, "With every approaching Easter, the Jews ...

1714. The Covenant Of Amazing Grace

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... for the moment and to live for ourselves? But Christian hope is not to be found in a blind faith that retreats from reality and certainly not in a cynical denial of hope. Faith holds together in tension, both our experiences and our expectations.3 We long for justice and desire a God who will guarantee it, but this also makes us vulnerable to irresponsible escapism and false religious comfort. We come back to the primary basis of our hope which is God’s grace and not our experiences. "Now faith is the ...

1715. Whatever Happened To Sanctification?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... seemed to enhance their popularity. Only when some of them got caught violating the sixth commandment, did some of their adoring public turn on them. One gets the impression that people are not immoral even though they lie, steal, covet or cheat their neighbor, as long as they abstain from illicit sex. For Christians, sex is a gift from God. Sex is a part of God’s created order. The fact that women and men are sexually attracted to each other makes life richer, more exciting and beautiful. But to live ...

1716. When God Was Nothing

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... when he saw that the masses were hungry and he fed the 5000. When he saw the sisters of Lazarus weeping for their lost brother he wept too and brought him back to life. When he looked down upon Jerusalem and said, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I have longed to gather your children. When he looked down from the cross upon his mother Mary and the disciple he loved John standing beside her and said, “Woman, here is your son.” He then turned to John and said, “Here is your mother.” In his greatest hour of ...

1717. Terminally Distracted Or Decisively Prepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... is that each set of bridesmaids had a level of awareness of and commitment to the bridegroom's arrival. Can one's initial commitment to Christ be long-lasting, or for it to be so, must it be ever-deepened and daily renewed? The lamp's need of more oil each day portrays as ... from hell? Or are you interested in heaven because you will be in the close presence of Jesus, and your heart longs and beats for such a privilege? The answer to the former question is practically played out in the five unwise bridesmaids ...

1718. The Escape

Drama

Douglas W. Orbaker

... since deserted you? What is there to live for? Theudas There must be something ... Barabbas (Interrupting) Yeah! There’s something to live for. Yourself! That’s right. Old number one - me! Theudas Isn’t that enough? Barabbas No! Not for me. It ceased to be a long time ago. I’m sick of myself, of who I am, of my very existence! And if you weren’t such a coward, you’d admit the same thing. (The guard enters.) Guard Pilate has decided. You’re free to go. (Theudas jumps up joyfully. Guard stops ...

1719. Obedience to God

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... change the hearts of people, so they would be what Yahweh intended them to be - his people. He came to show us that we must work for justice, peace, harmony, and mercy. That we can achieve those things through any form of government, whether it’s Roman or Jewish, as long as we are faithful to the Creator. Joseph: What you say makes sense. But I am not sure what to do. I would like to talk to Jesus. Philip: We can arrange that, but why don’t you wait a few days? He will talk to you then. We’ll ...

1720. Stewards and Our Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... family. Paul claims, first look at God’s grace toward us and then consider how graceful we ought to be toward each other. Iowa’s Music Man from Mason City, Meredith Willson, used to love to tell the story about a band whose music so pleased a king of long ago that he opened his royal treasury to the musicians. He invited them to walk in and to fill their instruments with as much gold as they could hold. For the bass tuba player and a few others that was wonderful news. But one man, according to Willson ...

1721. A Man Whose Dreams Came True

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... on their way to Egypt. Another of the brothers, Judah, said, "Look, we might as well profit from this. Why don’t we sell him? Then his blood won’t be on our hands." So Joseph was sold to the caravan. Picture Joseph, trudging under a heavy load, on the long trip down into Egypt. There he was sold from the slave block, auctioned off to the highest bidder. His new master was a man named Potiphar, a captain of the guard in Pharaoh’s court. So Joseph was a slave, a slave in a far-away country. All because ...

1722. Augustine, Defender of the Faith

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... home and talking to his wife. The maid answered the telephone. "I’d like to speak to my wife." "She’s having an affair with the butler and can’t talk to you now," she said. "Get my gun and shoot the both of them!" he ordered. There was a long silence on the line. Finally, the maid came back to the phone. She said, "I shot them both and, to be of help to you, I threw both their bodies in the swimming pool." "Swimming pool? We don’t have a swimming pool! Is this 278-0246?" Our lives are ...

1723. Party in Room 210 ... Everyone Invited

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Thomas Long

... a pathway which is marked "come and see." It is a pathway which is far more important because of where it leads than because of where it begins. It may begin, as it did for Muehl, as a pain in the body, or, as it has for others, as a longing in the heart, a struggle in the soul, or a wondering in the mind. It is a path which some people enter alone, which others enter by tagging along with friends or family, and down which yet others are dragged, at first reluctantly, by parents or teachers. No matter how ...

1724. Hot Tubs and Fishing Trips

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Thomas Long

... don’t show What I show isn’t real What is real, Lord - I don’t know ...5 When life is as confusing and disorienting as a ball bouncing in a wildly spinning Roulette wheel, we are eager for it to come to rest on a number, any number, as long as it promises a framework of identity and meaning, be it losing ourselves in work or finding ourselves in God. The problem with this kind of change is that when we go looking to "find ourselves," we often find ourselves alone. There is a sadness in a culture like ...

1725. An Understated Masterpiece

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... but no wiser. We sit at the feet of teachers and gather knowledge, from the value of pi to the theories of Freud, and we leave informed but unchanged. We yearn to be a part of an event which leads, not to diversion, but to wisdom. We long to know the truth which does not merely set us thinking, but sets us free. And in the deepest sense possible, that was exactly what happened that day in the synagogue in Capernaum. An event of startling significance happened before the very eyes of the congregation. The ...

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