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151. Not As the World Gives

John 14:23-29 · John 5:1-9

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... a humility, an openness, a sensitivity which lets the old self die and raises up a new self, rooted and nourished in God’s love. This peace removes our cultural obsession with me - me - me - me and faces it outward in active, self-giving love. “My peace I leave with you, not as the world gives do I give…” The peace of the world is the peace of selfishness, of insisting on one’s own way, and upon one’s own perspective as normative. The peace of the world is a peace built upon the assumption that ...

152. The Tale Of Three Women

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... does not condemn Orpah, nor should we. The Orpahs and the Ruths among us should be remembered and celebrated. Ruth Naomi declares to Ruth, "Look, your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her." But Ruth replies: "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God." Naomi has taken a commonsense approach as she tries to reason with Ruth. Why would she want to travel with ...

153. Holy Week

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... as if he were the one who had been drinking. And the Ragman continued on. The Ragman continued to push his cart, stumbling as he went, leaving a trail of blood and tears. He came to the edge of town. There he encountered someone with whom I was not familiar. He must have ... of his life in the great city, he still had not found the meaning of life. Thus, as an old man he continues his search. He leaves the city. He walks for a long time and he comes upon a river. It is the same river that he and his best friend ...

154. Thistles Among The Wheat

Genesis 28:10-22, Psalm 139:1-24, Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43, Romans 8:12-25

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... both in the struggle to overcome it and to discover the good that lies beyond the evil. We do so in the faith that the good is more enduring than the evil because God is both good and powerful. 5. The Field is the World. "America: Love it or Leave it," "They ought to go back where they came from" and "Yankee go home" are slogans often heard when persons do not agree with someone who speaks out against an injustice or an evil. The kingdom of heaven is not restricted by political boundaries set up by human ...

155. Behold The Man Who Took The Victory

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... they had heard from him before in the calming of the storm, "Peace, be still." On their last night together he said, "My peace I leave with you." Now he assures them, "Peace to you." That is part of the good news of Easter for us today. There is a marvelous ... faith in a resurrected Lord. This Easter Sunday says to us that a loving God who has created us in his own image will not leave us desolate. He will not forsake us and allow death to forever annihilate us and those we love. The peace of God in the face ...

156. Adam’s Prime Rib

Genesis 2:4-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... had an ideal marriage. He didn’t have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn’t have to hear about how his mother kept house. There will never be another marriage like that. The Scripture in Genesis continues, “Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife.” That verb, “cleave,” has two opposite meanings. One is to cling to; the other is to separate. Naturally, the first is meant here, but the second is what too often happens. There is too little ...

157. The Resurrection Of Our Lord

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Mark 16:1-20

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... and place a large stone thereon? Is it the fear that someone will go into the grave? No, the fear is that the dead will leave their burial site. The object is to keep the dead separated from the living. No tomb could closet the risen Christ! No door could keep ... places of our lives (v. 7). Outline: 1. The other gospels recount appearances of the risen Christ. 2. Mark's gospel leaves us standing on nothing but the empty tomb and the proclamation that Jesus is risen. 3. The proclamation of the resurrection ...

158. Mary Has Chosen The Good Portion

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... point is simply that those means for getting ahead provided by the company are not designed with our well-being in mind. They are designed with the system's good in mind; its survival and growth. Mary chose to turn her back on the system. She chose to leave Martha with all those pots and pans in the kitchen in order to sit at the feet of Jesus and listen to him. He had a lot to say about life and its meaning. He shared his thoughts, without remuneration or enslavement to a publishing deadline, with anyone ...

159. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... The dolphins, still in a huge circle, weaved their way among the islands, staying right in the middle of the channel. We curiously puttered over to within 15 feet of the circle. All of a sudden a black mountain seemed to rise out of the circle and plunge down again, leaving a huge tail to slam the water. It was a whale, the largest living thing any of us had ever seen. It was almost seventy feet long. We hastily backed up. The last we saw of it, the whale was on a straight shot to the open ocean about five ...

160. Saved By Grace

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... places. God called Israel, “a stiff-necked people.” How many of our churches today have members whom this description fits perfectly? Sin causes us to become stiff-necked. We begin to think more highly of ourselves and less of others. God takes to the offense, “Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation… (Exodus 32:9-10).” This declaration of God is most profound. A person whose anger has been stirred up, wants to ...

161. Watching for Christ

Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... slowly take a leaf off of the branch. You might tease the kids and hold the branch up too high to reach. Now, sit back down and take a look at your leaf. What does it look like? (response) What does it feel like? (response) If you are using dry leaves allow them to crush them at this point. Continue to hold the branch over their head. Now, after looking at your leaf you're sure that this branch is telling us that winter is on the way? (response) What else is it telling us? What happens when it's winter ...

162. The Sixth Sunday of Easter

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... he is in the unemployment line, wondering what will happen when his time runs out. Is there anyone to say, "I will not leave you an orphan"? Here is a young woman who expresses her sense of call to the ordained ministry of her denomination. But she ... may rejoice in his presence. Christ comes to us in the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus tells the disciples it is necessary that he leave them so the Spirit will be with them. His localized presence, available to only a few at a time, must be sacrificed so, in ...

163. ASCENDING

Drama

... place where we can be together. A. P. 2: But we’re together now; why can’t you stay here? Player: I’d like to, but I must go. A. P. 1: Listen, either go or stay, but please make up your mind, this is getting boring. Player: I must leave. A. P. 2: But why? A. P. 4: Why can’t we go, too? A. P. 1: Well, it’s about time! Player: [very close to the ceiling] Goodbye, my friends. A. P. 1: Goodbye! A. P. 2: Please stay. A. P. 4: Take us with you. Player: Goodb-... [He ...

164. Sole Brother

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

... The congregation wasn’t familiar with it and the choir couldn’t lead it without practice, and they weren’t practicing this week. It was prestigious being pastor of the largest church in the district, but something last-minute always seemed to come up just when he was leaving for an important out-of-town meeting. There were times when he wished God’s work at his church would take care of itself and he could get off to conferences on time. The man sitting next to him knew exactly how he felt. He was a ...

165. A Fool’s Tools

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

... of personal determination we will not keep the opportunity either to use our own tools or to help anyone else use theirs. Act III has not yet reached full-performance, and I would pray that it never does. Perhaps at times here, when I’ve talked about leaving tools in dark corners, I might have given the impression that tools really aren’t being used unless they are in some kind of spotlight. No impression could be further from my intention. The last sight I would want to see would be people scurrying in ...

166. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... brought the man into being provides for his needs, even after he has turned his back on the One who fashioned him. And when man leaves that Garden, though Genesis does not record it, I think God went in among the trees of Eden. And when he got back where he ... anything better than the hogs ate. Have you ever wondered about why the father, if he really loved the boy, didn’t stop him from leaving home in the first place? Or, if after he had gone, did not take off trying to find him, and drag him out of the ...

167. Jesus the Hope of the World

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... I never have to experience that again. Peter: None of us would like to experience that. John: Worst part about the whole business was that his mother was there. Peter: You mean Mary watched the whole thing? How could she take it? John: I tried to get her to leave, but she wouldn’t. I want to tell you something though, even in death he was thinking of others. He asked me to take care of his mother. There he was dying, and he was more concerned about taking care of his mother. Thomas: And before that he ...

168. As It Was Told

Drama

Ed Irsch

... ! You’re not listening then! Martha: (calmly) Johnathan. Phoebe’s not here. Johnathan: I know that. Martha: (pause) Johnathan. You seem a little upset. Johnathan: (still raving) Why shouldn’t I be? I hire shepherds to take care of the flocks; they leave the sheep alone in the fields; they run all over Bethlehem with some fool story about angels and light and singing and stables and being commanded to tell everybody where the Messiah is born! Shepherds should remember their place! (slight pause, then ...

169. Dying to Become

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... The end result of this gift is the end of the tyranny of fear about life and death. "If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come." This resurrection level of consciousness enables a person to leave old patterns of life behind that include a hanging on to old ways of seeing things. It opens a person to new possibilities. This level of consciousness says "yes" to life. It includes an opening of persons to the possibilities that God intended for human beings ...

170. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... with cherry blossoms. The world is filled with an amazing variety of trees. In the deserts of Namibia there are trees still alive from the time of Christ, yet their central trunk has never grown more than three feet in height. Instead they produce two huge leaves up to twenty feet in length which never fall and continue growing throughout the plant's life. The banyan tree of India has more than one trunk. When the original trunk of the tree attains a certain size, it sends down additional rope-like trunks ...

171. Worriers Or Warriors?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He also knew what they needed most--the assurance from him that things were going to be okay. And so he says to them, "I am leaving you with a gift--peace of mind and heart! And the peace I give isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. So don't ... It's a pain. Someone has made a list of ways to tell that your new car may not be all you dreamed it would be: As you leave the used car lot, you see the owner rush out with a gigantic smile and high-five the salesman. You notice that the car phone they threw ...

172. The Young And The Restless

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... when he was 175. (Gen. 25:7) So, in a relative sense, we could say that even in his seventies he was still among the young and the restless. Abraham was living in a very prosperous city, a center of trade and commerce when God came to him and said, "Leave this country, and your extended family, and go to a land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and through you all families of the earth will be blessed." Scripture sums up Abraham ...

173. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... hurt again. After all, if I am going to stay there with the person who has just struck me on one cheek, I should at least brace myself: protect myself lest that hurtful person lash out at me again. But, no, I am to leave my other cheek available, leave myself exposed. Jesus' words seem, at first blush, to be nonsense. What possible good could come from such a strategy of vulnerability? Could it be that Jesus wants us to be hurt? No, not at all. Jesus wants something far better, lovelier, and more profound ...

174. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v2

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... be there and provide something for every situation. It’s difficult to remember that ours are not the only hands and feet Christ has, there are others who share His life and ministry – so there comes a time for us to relax a bit and believe that we can leave to God and others what we cannot do ourselves – convinced that as the God of mercy has met us at every corner, so God will meet those to whom we seek to minister at every corner in their life – and sometimes, rather than our being at that corner ...

175. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v1

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... be there and provide something for every situation. It’s difficult to remember that ours are not the only hands and feet Christ has; there are others who share His life and ministry – so there comes a time for us to relax a bit and believe that we can leave to God and others what we cannot do ourselves – convinced that as the God of mercy has met us at every corner, so God will meet those for whom we care at every corner in their life – and sometimes, rather than our being at that corner, God will ...

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