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151. What If You Could Change the Ending?

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... there were not listening anyway, they were watching to see how I acted, whether I really did love them. And if I really did love them, maybe God really did love them.” (2) It’s what we do, and what we choose not to do, that reveals our true character and values and priorities. This is never more true than in times of crisis. What we choose to do or not do in that crucial moment reveals who we really are. Our choices, to act or not to act, can literally change the ending to our story. On Christ the ...

152. A Good Name

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of an accumulated past. We are historical creatures. Each of us has a past. Our decisions are significant as they accumulate into a picture of a person who is doing the deciding. Your decisions are important, not because they fit each situation, but because they cumulatively create character. So when faced with an issue, like abortion, it doesn't help too much to ask, "What ought I to do?" until you first ask, "Who do I want to be?" It doesn't help much to ask, "Is it right to love in this situation or ...

153. “Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name in All the Earth!”

Psalm 8:1-9

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... they rest in God.10 Even though we tend to distinguish between special and general revelation, and quite validly so, in Scripture the two are so closely linked that the biblical writers would probably have flinched at such a distinction. God wrote his character into the created world (this is particularly evident in wisdom thought). The psalmist uses the word “all” two times again in the description of God’s deputation of humankind to rule over creation: You made them rulers over the works of your ...

154. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17, 1 John 4:7-21, Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... true worship in which we commit our lives to honoring God and acting in accord with God's will for our lives is an act of fruitful service. It will then lead us into other acts of fruitful service outside of the formal worship services. 3. Character and Personality · Character is formed and personality develops according to the goals and purposes of life. If we have as our goal to grow in Christ-likeness, in the image of God that we have seen in Jesus, then our acts in moving toward that goal will change ...

155. Christ the King

Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... the actors to demonstrate by their ministry of Christian love their own divinity. Every person in need whom we are able to help represents a hidden opportunity for us to be a channel of God's loving redemption and thereby to unleash in ourselves the character of the divine. 5. The Foundation of the World · Physically, the scientist may look at the foundation of the world in some big bang theory, in some characteristic of matter that can expand and fill the universe. Spiritually, we look to a God of love ...

156. Doing The Right Thing

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... of these problems. Love has some hard work to do. Looking back at the Bible passage, it seems our first reason to do "the right thing" is the fact that it is God's will. We see this in Jesus' life. What's our starting point? Character. Good character. Listen to what Stephen Covey wrote in his superb book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Covey observes that most self-improvement literature of the last several generations has been personality and success oriented, with little emphasis on personal ...

157. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... true worship in which we commit our lives to honoring God and acting in accord with God's will for our lives is an act of fruitful service. It will then lead us into other acts of fruitful service outside of the formal worship services. 3. Character and Personality. Character is formed and personality develops according to the goals and purposes of life. If we have as our goal to grow in Christ-likeness, in the image of God that we have seen in Jesus, then our acts in moving toward that goal will change our ...

158. The Invitation

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

... until #2 is standing next to the table facing the congregation. She then picks up the phone. When she finishes, then #3 circles counterclockwise again until #3 is standing next to the table facing the congregation. As she finishes, the lights go out and the three characters exit #1: (She dials the phone) Oh, hi, Mary. This is Margaret. How's things going? (Pause) And the kids, how are they? (Pause) Oh, I know what you mean, we keep running Billy back and forth from game to game, too. It is certainly getting ...

159. The Christian Life Joy in Adversity

Romans 5:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Leader: Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, even in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Men: We rejoice because God has promised never to leave us or forsake us, no matter who or what fails in our lives. Youth: We persevere in trials because Jesus Christ persevered, never once giving up on our salvation. Women: We develop ...

160. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... sometimes speak of this as the day when the Father abandoned the Son. Indeed some people consider the murder of the noble Galilean to be a proof there is no God at all. Our twentieth century cry that God is dead was anticipated before Jesus’ birth by a character in Euripides, who, seeing there was no moral order in human affairs, argued there can be no God: Doth someone say that there be gods above? There are not; no there are not. Let no fool, led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the ...

161. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... , then he is not the Supreme Monarch; he is the Universal Servant. God is the greatest of the great, not because he is the Boss of the universe, but because he is the infinite Spirit of Service. Now the conception we have of God subtly reacts to shape our character more than any other idea we possess. When we think of him as King, Ruler, "Lord of our far-flung battle line," each of us aspires to be like him insofar as it is possible. We want to boss, to rule, to conquer - that, we falsely assume, is being ...

162. Servants Without Fiber

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... God’s ordering and control. Hear his opening words in our text: "My servant whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights ..." (Isaiah 42:1 RSV). Clearly the servant is not ever his or her own. There is a givenness about the servant’s character; the servant is endowed with qualifications that come from an order and will beyond self and which lay claim upon every personal talent and power. As Professor G. Ernest Wright expressed it: "[It is] God’s reaching down into human affairs."1 Or, as it is ...

163. Goodness Is Not Good Enough

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... a little over the backyard fence - never maliciously - but she would bite her tongue before telling a lie. Do not defraud. She would not think of cheating at tiddly winks. Honor your father and mother. A more considerate daughter could not be found anywhere. In character, she is the rich young man’s identical twin. But she goes beyond her "twin" in one important respect. She is compassionate and generous. She is the kind of person who would give someone in need the blouse right off her back. That is where ...

164. The Gift

Drama

Esther Lense

... call to him. Yes, I think that would be a good name for him. ADAM: Well, whatever his name will be, I hope he comes soon. I want to be with God again. Please, God, won’t you send Emmanuel soon? Congregation sings O Come, O Come, Emmanuel as these characters leave and the prophet Malachi enters. READER: After Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden and sin entered the world, the history of man is a sad one. God was very patient, but it seemed that people did their best to anger him. They would promise to obey ...

165. The Lord's Prayer: Hallowed Be Thy Name

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... have a second problem. To echo Shakespeare, "What's in a name?" A lot! The name of God (or anyone, for that matter) is more than a means of identification. As far as scripture is concerned, to know God's name means to know what God is like... God's character, God's nature, God's power. In reflecting on that, we realize that names in our own society also carry baggage with them. When we name our children, we often select names which are the same as those people we love and respect. We choose those names, not ...

166. Son of Thunder, Son of God

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... wanted to put a stop to others not of his own group who were using Jesus’ name. Jesus had to rebuke him for it, and that rebuke must have stung. But it seems to have stuck. III. IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL, THERE APPEARS A CHARACTER WHO IS CALLED “THE BELOVED DISCIPLE.” The Upper Room story has an unnamed individual reclining “on Jesus’ breast” (John 13:23). Remember that in those days, Passover meals were eaten reclining, in Roman fashion, and the Fourth Gospel places this “beloved disciple” in ...

167. The Eighth Commandment: Why We Need the Police

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... our study how the respect of God and God’s name deeply develops our understanding and respect for life and people. Today we see that we are also to respect property that belongs to other people. To steal is not an isolated event. It is a reflection of character and commitment. In this new land or Promised Land the attitudes and actions were to be disciplined not to serve man’s end, but the way and will of God. The people had lived in utter poverty in Egypt. Now the chance for prosperity was at least a ...

168. Holy Living

John 6:51-65

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... founded the Victorian Order of Nurses to help sick folk on the lonely Canadian frontiers. In 1919 she led a delegation to the Peace Conference in Geneva on behalf of the women of the world. Someone asked her what was the strength that undergirded her life and character so that she was able, for sixty years, to give herself to the needs of the world? Just before her death in 1939, she wrote: "I find my one resource is to throw myself in unreservedly on the power of the Holy Spirit ... I make it a practice ...

169. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... what we are after! That is what is means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and to have the Lord’s wisdom go deeper in your soul than any of the meanness of this world. Not forgiveness and reconciliation as an occasional choice but as a settled habit of character. As Vivian Malone said, “I didn’t feel as if I had a choice.” She had lived so long in the faith that forgiveness had become a reflex. If we take the teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and turn it into a new law, another burden ...

170. Advent 2

Matthew 3:1-12, Romans 14:1--15:13, Isaiah 11:1-16, Psalm 72:1-20

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... is already present in his own activity. In Advent we are called forth in hope to God's future is now at work making claims on our lives, setting us moving in new directions, forming our present patterns of living. John's proclamation took on concrete character with the announcement of the "greater one" who was coming after the Baptist. John's prophecy (in person, word, and deed he recalls the prophets of Israel) unites the past, the present, and the future. God's word in the past has meaning in the present ...

171. Proper 14

Genesis 37:1-11, Matthew 14:22-36, Romans 9:30--10:21, Psalm 105:1-45

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... preachers and also observes the practice of reading the lesson that is to be preached rather than reading one set of lessons and preaching from something else. Likewise, preachers invited to other churches can demonstrate the shared ministry of preaching and the ecumenical character of the Church by using the lessons current for the day. Hymns for today can include for the epistle, "There's a Wideness in God's Mercy," and for the Old Testament and Gospel, "How Firm a Foundation." An emphasis on either the ...

172. Proper 16

Exodus 1:1-22, Matthew 16:13-20, Romans 12:1-8, Psalm 124:1-8

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... 2:10 contains three stories that explore the power of salvation, while Psalm 124 turns the insights gained from the introductory stories in Exodus into the language of praise. Exodus 1:8--2:10 - "The Salvation of the Savior" Setting. Moses is the central human character in the book of Exodus and, indeed, in the remainder of the Pentateuch. He is the one called by God to be the savior. With this knowledge as background, it is easy to conclude that the central event in the Old Testament lesson for this Sunday ...

173. Luke 19:1-10

Luke 19:1-10

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... of Zacchaeus.) Evidently Jesus has no plans to stop. He is simply "passing through it" en route to Jerusalem (see 18:31,19:28). Not surprisingly, crowds gathered wherever Jesus went, and Jericho is no different. The throng is so great that Zacchaeus, the final character in this chapter of Jesus' ministry, cannot see Jesus because "he was short in stature" (v.3). Zacchaeus is identified by the Lukan author as not only a tax collector but the "chief" tax collector (a rare use of the term in Greek literature ...

174. To Live Is to Choose

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... place in life.” “Third stool from the end. That’s it. That’s it!” Whether we are tilted by our tilted cocktail glasses, turned in purposeful direction by decisive action, life is life, by the choices we make. One of T. S. Elliott’s characters in his play, The Cocktail Party, describes what happens to a person by his choices. Edward, is the discouraged husband in that play. He’s pictured groping through the darkness of his own soul, no longer able to love his life. All relationships destroyed ...

175. Who's Who

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... of hatred and violence. When we see pictures on our television screens of babies burned by bombs, we need to hear that Jesus takes away the sin of the world. John makes sure we know who Jesus is and what he does. The next group of characters to appear on the set are the disciples. Only the gospel of John tells us that at least some of Jesus' disciples originally were disciples of John the Baptist. Matthew, Mark, and Luke write as if Jesus chose his disciples at random. In John, Jesus' first disciples ...

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151. What If You Could Change the Ending?

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

King Duncan

152. A Good Name

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

153. “Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name in All the Earth!”

Psalm 8:1-9

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

154. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17, 1 John 4:7-21, Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

155. Christ the King

Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

156. Doing The Right Thing

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

157. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... true worship in which we commit our lives to honoring God and acting in accord with God's will for our lives is an act of fruitful service. It will then lead us into other acts of fruitful service outside of the formal worship services. 3. Character and Personality. Character is formed and personality develops according to the goals and purposes of life. If we have as our goal to grow in Christ-likeness, in the image of God that we have seen in Jesus, then our acts in moving toward that goal will change our ...

158. The Invitation

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

159. The Christian Life Joy in Adversity

Romans 5:1-11

Bulletin Aid

160. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

161. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12