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151. The Lion Who Learned About God

Dan 6:21-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... stroking the lions' manes and rubbing their backs. My, what courage he had to pet such angry lions, and ignore their growling. Rehoboam knew he had never seen anything like it before. After a while the now peaceful lions went and layed down and the man bent over, knelt down, and began to talk to someone whom Rehoboam could not see. He thanked someone called God for not only giving him courage, but also for protecting him. It was later that the man said that his name was Daniel. Daniel told Rehoboam, "Some ...

152. Relationship Evangelism

Luke 10:1-20; Matt 9:35-10:8-23; Mark 6:1-13

Illustration

... out to neighbors and went out to find his acres of diamonds. Months passed. He was broken in body and spirit. His funds were gone. And at the Bay of Barcelona, he threw himself into the water, never to walk this earth again. Meanwhile, the man who bought his farm bent over one day and picked up a little stone. He laid on the mantle that night not knowing what it was. A few days later the old Buddhist priest cam by and saw it and exclaimed: Ali Facid must be back from his search. No, came the response. Then ...

153. Life's Greatest Treasure

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

... heaven - our salvation and forgiveness - always comes as a surprise. Isn't it surprising that God's grace is picking you up and saving you right now? What have we done? Really! Isn't there much more evidence that we ought to come here today with heads bent low, hoping - just hoping against hope - that maybe the heavenly Father will overlook our past? This past week and this past day? But surprise! As we come into the Lord's house this morning, we don't even discern one little sigh of disgust from the Father ...

154. Overcoming Life's Obstacles

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

... Why did Peter want to walk on the water? Just to try out this interesting little magical fete himself? For that matter, what was Our Lord's aim in walking on the water toward his disciples? Was he trying to show off his royal sonship? Was he a trickster, bent on frightening his friends in this spooky way? Was it all like the song of Herod suggests in the rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar? Herod sings this: Jesus, I am overjoyed to meet you face to face You've been getting quite a name all around the place ...

155. Arise, O Church of God, Arise!

Sermon

... 's mission. Do it by being, first of all, a watchful church (stanza one, etc.); secondly, a witnessing church; thirdly, a serving church; and finally, a worshipping church. ARISE, O CHURCH OF GOD, ARISE, AND GIVE GLORY TO THE TRIUNE GOD! The church that is bent on serving the mission of our Triune God will be, first of all, a watchful church. The hymn writer says, Arise, O Church of God, arise! Bestir thyself, lift up thine eyes. See the nations in commotion See tumult, warfare, earthquake, flood, Sun turn ...

156. Seeking Hands

Psalm 141:1-10

Sermon

... folded hands are reminiscent of the story that Jesus tells in the New Testament of the publican going up to pray. It says, "He smote his breast, bowed his head, and knelt down saying, 'Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.' " I can imagine that as he was bent over with folded hands, it was an act of humility. I would even consider today as we pray that folding our hands is an indication that we feel inadequate in coming before the Lord, and we are pulling our hands to ourselves, as an act of humility. But I ...

157. Seek Good, Not Evil (That You May Live)

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

... must spend frugally. Industries already wealthy are entitled to, note the word, not extravagance, but to "cost overruns." "The religion of the eighties? Success. Compassion is out," responded a national magazine. It then proceeded to detail its answer, young men and women bent on making fortunes and spending fortunes in the most profligate way. The righteous are afflicted, not the wrongdoer. There is a readiness to take bribes. The poor man’s claims, if he dare make them public, are ignored because he is ...

158. To Thank Is To ...

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

... believe in me," as one of the ads says. I am what I am because of what Christ has done for me. I am related to you because of what Christ has done to you. If that is true, I cannot stand by and watch you starve or be bent out of shape by injustice or watch your mind and heart lose vision because you don’t have opportunities to learn. What I am, is driven by this: "This interior resonance of recognition, begetting, or evoking praise and thanksgiving, is a function of the particularity of grace itself. For ...

159. Ascension Day

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... , to Northern Ireland, to those who gather wealth from instruments of destruction, to those whose god is their belly and who live only for their own enjoyment and satisfaction. And you shall also be my witnesses to the broken-hearted, to those who have no hope, to those bent with silent and helpless grief, to those who cause their own hurt and do not understand. In the face of all the world's grief and sorrow and need, it seems a hopeless task. On our own, it would be. But we have the promise of the Father ...

160. They Crucified Our Lord

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

... witness? They made him walk through Jerusalem's main streets, carrying the cross-beam of the cross. His face streamed blood from the twisted bramble of thorns jammed on his head and tearing his scalp. A crown they called it, all the more to mock him. Bent by the weight of this timber, he looks like no king, "his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance." As he stumbles up the steep streets, a soldier marches before him announcing his crime to the merchants and shoppers. At the execution site, he is ...

161. CHRISTMAS 1

Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Hebrews 2:5-18, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

Bulletin Aid

... ; that we may benefit by the salvation he brought to our world. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Forgive us, Father, for taking so much for granted in the Christian Faith. You have constantly had to pour out your love to people who seem bent on resisting that love. And we who want to accept your love, do so without considering the price you have paid. Sharpen our senses to see what wonderful feats you have performed in order that we might be redeemed from sin. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen ...

162. A Day For All the Saints

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

... dust of my sunset day. God knows how much I want to stay. A second poem at the bottom of the page ended on this note: The deepest thought one can think of persons is that they are citizens of eternity. Moments and years, years and moments, pass like sea-bent streams. And I? I’m carried by the current of an all-possessing Love. I’m on my way, God’s way for me, so let it be. He could have been speaking for all who have placed their faith and trust in Christ in life and in death. Today ...

163. Our Attentive Lord

Psalm 116:1-19

Illustration

... inclined toward me." Putting it another way, God is leaned forward listening. Ordinarily, we should not think of God as having human or physical form. But if, for just a moment, we may picture him in this way, we can visualize the great, kind King on his throne, his body bent forward, an elbow on a knee, a hand cupped to an ear, intently looking in our direction. This is the kind of God to whom we come when we worship, when we pray. It isn't difficult at all to get his attention; we have it already.

164. Real Strength

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... else who had also donated $3,000. People would stand five or six deep along the roadside to watch and cheer these runners. At one point in the relay, a female runner finished her run with the torch with a strong stride. When her kilometer was up, she bent over to light the torch of the next runner. And this next runner had to hold the torch with two hands. She was a little nine-year-old girl. Everyone could see that she was severely crippled. Obviously, she could not run a kilometer. But they lit her ...

165. At Table With The Lord

Drama

... a king's action. What's wrong with him? Peter: Lord, I won't let you wash my feet. Narrator: If I do not wash you, you have no part in me. Peter: Then, Lord, wash not only my feet, but my hands and my head. Judas: Look at him! Bent over, on his knees, performing the act of the lowest slave. But he is no servant; he is King - King of the Jews! Ruler of all the earth. Why does he do this? Narrator: He made himself of no reputation, but took upon him the form of a servant, and ...

166. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Romans 1:1-17, Matthew 1:18-25, Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon Aid

CSS

... , and the baby Jesus were there - and an angel, with trumpet raised, not merely to announce the birth of the Christ child, but ready to signal the return of the risen Lord at the end of time. But there was a problem: The trumpet, somehow or other, had been bent downward, as if the angel (Gabriel?) had been waiting so long to blow his horn that the metal of the horn had lost its strength and partially collapsed. For me, this has been a parable of the problem that we, who celebrate the birth of Jesus, have in ...

167. Transfiguration of Our Lord

Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Exodus 24:1-18, Psalm 2:1-12

Sermon Aid

... who is buried there. But the glory belongs to Jesus Christ, as the mosaic in the apse of the church announces. In it, Jesus is "seated in glory, offering his blessings from above the altar." Almost unobserved, a tiny, vested figure kneels by Jesus' foot; he is bent over in a posture which depicts his kissing Jesus' foot. He is a pope, according to his vestments, but which one? Is he the pope who planned the rebuilding of St. Paul's? Has the 13th century (mosaic) simply been altered by a later playful father ...

168. Getting Even

2 Samuel 13:1-22

Sermon

... it seems as if Mr. Lucky will never knock on our door. Because life is often unfair, some of us rail against the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." We become vigilantes who take the law into our own hands. Captains of our egotistical souls, bent on guiding our ships to some cozy harbor of power and security. In 1973 Richard Nixon became our only President to resign the Evecutive Office. Shortly before his helicopter lifted off from the White House lawn, Nixon told reporters, "Those who hate you don ...

169. The Prodigal Prince

2 Samuel 14:1-33

Sermon

... if she were mourning. Joab saw to it that she was allowed to pass through the checkpoints guarding the entrance to the palace of Zion, usually as impregnable as an entrance to the Fort Knox mint. She was brought to David’s throne, and the weary king bent his ear to her sad tale. The peasant mother told him that one day her two sons had engaged in a terrible quarrel in the fields. With tears browning her weathered face, the grieving mother implored David to forgive her first-born. She feared that, without ...

170. Labor Pains

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

There was no Labor Day holiday for Tom Sutpen. Every day he had to wrestle the red-eyed Virginia sun as he bent before the plow. Each sunset he shambled off to his shack. Each night was a black abyss as he heard his children cry out for food and his wife dream of shoes for each of the little ones. Thomas Jr. saw the seasons turn his father’s hair wintry white. ...

171. Lent 6

Mt 26:14--27:66 · Php 2:5-11 · Isa 50:4-9 · Ps 31

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... to society's drum. Forgive us, we pray, and inspire us again with the image of the one who emptied himself and was obedient to your word and will even, to the point of a torturous death, all so that a sin-sick world and a hell-bent humanity could come to know you and the presence and power of your coming Reign. In his holy name we pray. Amen Gospel: Matthew 26:14--27:66 Theme: The Godforsakenness of the cross Exegetical note Matthew follows his source Mark very closely here, especially in preserving ...

172. A Glory Revealed to Faith Alone

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

... freely spilt: "Though your heart has long been harden’d, "Look on me - it soft shall grow; "Past transgressions shall be pardon’d, "And I’ll wash you white as snow. 3. "I have seen what you were doing, "Though you little thought of me; "You were madly bent on ruin, "But, I said, - It shall not be: "You had been for ever wretched, "Had I not espous’d your part; "Now behold my arms outstretched "To receive you to my heart. 4. "Well may shame, and joy, and wonder, "All your inward passions move; "I ...

173. The Fashioning of Christians

Ezekiel 36:1-38

Sermon

... their distance. However, there’s something in a woman that gives her the false impression that a two-year-old isn’t capable of standing on his own two feet. For this reason, as I look back on it now, I didn’t have a chance. As "Trapper Joan" bent over to pick me up, her fox’s head swung out wide and caught me right in the face! YEOOW! I have observed, in over three decades of church-going in hundreds of different churches, that Christians are united if not by denomination and communion, at least by ...

174. Striking Silversmiths Start Riot

Acts 19:23-41

Sermon Aid

CSS

... a fair hearing. So for once, Paul was not in the middle of a riot! The tumult finally attracted the attention of the city officials. As noted elsewhere, local officeholders in a provincial Roman city, especially a rich and free one like Ephesus, bent every effort to keep the community quiet and peaceful. They sought to avoid anything that might arouse the Roman soldiers and bring punishment upon them and the people. The Ephesus city clerk, clearly a respected community leader, therefore made his way through ...

175. The Wolf and The Lamb Inside Us (Sermon Series 1)

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to Isaiah the prophet. At some future time the earth will be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the oceans are with water; then no creature shall harm any other creature in all of God’s earth. But for now we seem bent on destruction. The workforce magazine “Personnel Journal” put together this incredible statistic: since the beginning of recorded history, the entire world has been at peace less than eight percent of the time! In its study, the periodical discovered that of 3540 years of recorded ...

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