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151. The Recovery Of Reverence

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... society tramples over the sabbath as vandals trample over a flower garden. The same thing has happened to sacred festivals like Christmas. In our secular society we dare to use God's Son to increase our financial profits and to enhance our sentimental pleasure. Our society smashes not only sacred days, but the most sacred relationships where God has always been present. People today request that God's name not be mentioned in their wedding service. Yet, in almost every Christian tradition, there are the ...

152. God's Christmas Greeting

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... imagine a world where the wild beasts and little children play together and where the earth is full of the knowledge of the Lord! And that's our problem! We tend to dismiss such a picture as an idealistic utopia, an impossible dream shared by a few sentimental environmentalists but not something we can ever imagine happening on our earth. We have our own methods of dealing with wild beasts. The high-powered rifle is our answer and that is just one more evidence of how we identify a golden age to come with ...

153. Saints Alive!

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. It must have dawned upon them quickly. No mere collection of sentimental platitudes, these sayings were frontal attacks upon most of our assumptions about how things are in the "real" world. The pattern appears to be humiliation now and glory later. Such a proposal makes no sense whatsoever unless God can be trusted to ...

154. Wounded Glory

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Erskine White

... liable to be killed by the death squads. It is a helpless, hopeless life they lead, with the power of the police, the wealthy elite and the North American colossus all lined up against them. If you are wondering why there is so much anti-American sentiment in most parts of the Third World today, you must look at the bitter reality of imperialism. You must ask yourself why our national government and multinational corporations have so often lined up on the side of the wealthy few at the expense of the many ...

155. Lost and Found

Luke 15:11-32, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... , guide them. I think I might have lost it somewhere over here. Will you help me look over here? When it is found, go back to the usual meeting place: Thank you for helping me find my watch. I am really relieved. If the watch has a special sentimental value, explain why losing the watch would hurt. Have you ever lost anything? (response) What did you lose? (response) How did you feel when you finally found it? (response) That's right; you felt happy and joyful. You felt just as I did when my watch was found ...

156. Remember, Rejoice, Revive

John 14:15-31

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... to you."Those other words were the haunting words: "You should rejoice." Rejoice and remember go together, because our memories form the content of intimate moments, worthy to share with each other for all our years to come. Yet it is rejoicing that moves us from sentiment to faith. If we are to move from sorrow to rejoicing, we must do more than remember.Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you." He said, "Peace I give to you unlike any other kind df peace." Still, he anticipates our objection. It is not enough ...

157. Elizabeth and Mary

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

Despite the Scrooges among us who annually decry the commercialization, the crassness and the blatant sentimentality of so much of the Christmas preparations, it is still a magical time of the year. The daily popping out of multi-colored lights at doorways and windows, the Christmas tree lots that seem to spring up over night, the magnificent window displays, the wreaths, the tinsel, the reds and ...

158. The Seven Last Words of the Church

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ourselves to the preservation of all things traditional, how can we ever hope to bring about change? Now, I don’t begrudge anyone fond memories of the way the church used to be. I have a treasure chest full of those myself. But please, let’s not confine God to sentimental memories of the way we were. Let’s not lock Jesus up in memories of the church as it used to be, where we sang the same old songs and prayed the same old prayers – or did not pray the prayers of the church - and fought the same old ...

159. The Women

John 20:1-9

Drama

William Grimbol

... lives it. He actually lives with the poor, he actually communicates with tax collectors, lepers, even Samaritans. PATTI: He is a living - walking - talking miracle. CAROL: To live fully in the name of truth. To live a life of love. How marvelous! SHIRLEE: How utterly sentimental. This all just an emotional high. This is just feeling good about being good. There is a unique difference between that and claiming that someone is the Son of God, or that he can cure people. Now, I mean really, let's come to our ...

160. Peace Through Sacrifice

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... , that it is done with great reluctance, if not actually extracted from us by intimidation or outright threat. Sacrifice in Buechner's terms, and, indeed, in biblical terms, sees beyond the short term loss, beyond the security of possession, beyond the sentimentality of retention. Sacrifice is more nearly the willing offering of all one has, all one is ... for the sake of the long-range vision, because the vision is so much more hopeful, fulfilling, satisfying, than the short term suffering. Jesus was ...

161. Love Over Logic

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Carl Jech

... are not in it for the rewards, they are more likely to come to you ... If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone ... be willing to paint a picture and just hang it on your wall." The Spanish poet expressed this same sentiment in his fifth stanza: "Not for the hope of glory or reward, But even as thou hast loved me Lord, I love thee ..." A young woman shocked everyone with her suicide attempt. She was an apparently successful, gifted person. In counseling she confided to her mother that ...

162. Colorizing Jesus

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Carl Jech

... her, "I've got my quote!" "What is it?" "It's from Shakespeare ... Macbeth: 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time.' " "How can you find any solace in that dark sentiment?" the actress exclaimed. "I find it wonderfully helpful precisely because it does not try to comfort me," her friend replied. "It simply reminds me that long before me and long after me people have dealt with such trials and have survived." In spite of his ...

163. The Real Jesus is Channeling Grace

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Carl Jech

... surely need to avoid the attitude expressed by a group of parents who wanted The Diary of Anne Frank banned from the classroom because it seemed to approve of all religions without recognizing the superiority of Christianity. Ghandi's sentiment is a great antidote to such, no doubt well-intentioned holier-than-thou-ism. The Charlton Heston movie El Cid (which means "The Lord") illustrated both the horrible destructiveness of religious conflicts and the possibilities for overcoming religious-based hostility ...

164. Welcoming The New Millennium

Sermon

James Angell

... about to begin on January 1, 2000. It's hard, though, to bid adieu to an era that has witnessed a thousand revolutions, spawned a dozen new forms of freedom. Still it is - and always has been - Good-bye Forever. I wrote a poem by that name, remembering the sentiments of leaving home for college. 'Twill only be for a year, Mother, that I must leave. And the scholarship - it will help me learn so much. And I will learn; I will pass all the examinations. Then, After one year, I will return to you. Wait for me ...

165. Why I Believe In The Resurrection

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... more to it than that. This is a symbol of our participation in the death and the resurrection of Jesus. As we kneel we are descending unto death, and when we stand we are experiencing the resurrection of new life in Christ. Yet, as beautiful a sentiment and symbol as that is, there must be more to resurrection than that. You see? The best proof of the resurrection is not in what the witnesses said that they saw, but in how they responded to what they saw. A frightened band of disciples huddled together ...

166. The Same New Jesus

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... to the ultimate triumph. Across the street from our seminary stands Ascension Lutheran Church. Above the altar is a stained glass window which depicts the ascending Christ. The congregation decided to completely remodel the chancel of the church. Because of the sentimental attachment of the people to the altar window, they decided to retain the ascension window in the new design. When the remodeling was completed and the congregation returned to the church for worship, the little seven-year-old son of the ...

167. God, The Enemy

Luke 12:1-12

Sermon

... the 'powers,' that may be. To come 'out of the night that covers me,' I must be 'unafraid,' 'unbowed,' and 'unconquerable'."2 As McVeigh's final statement brought the poem and Mrs. Johnson's class back to me, I found myself wondering what Jesus might have said about the sentiment expressed in the poem. And then I decided that maybe he had already rendered a judgment about it. I find it in Luke 12:4-5: I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. But I will ...

168. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

... does is to completely give up. This pastor cared for this church. I am aware that sometimes people think the opposite, that the church doesn’t care. Fred Craddock, the Professor of Preaching and New Testament, at the Candler School of Theology, recalls dealing with this sentiment in his own church. He said, I was walking out one Sunday to go to the parking lot and passed the choir room. I passed this woman who was in the process of hanging up her choir robe. I said causally: I really enjoyed the anthem ...

169. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

170. The Lord's People Together

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

... best for the body of which it is part. So it must surrender all notions of doing as it jolly well pleases. At the inception of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry stirred the fervor of Virginia's patriots by shouting, "Give me liberty or give me death!" A noble sentiment this is; but you cannot run a baseball team on that, or a football squad, for each player must give up something for the team. You cannot operate an army on that, or build a marriage on it. And neither can you build a church on it. One ...

171. On Having "The Right Stuff"

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... tough, "right stuff" to stretch this country from coast to coast. Jesus is certainly talking about having "the right stuff" in this passage. He is telling us what it would take then, and what it takes now, to be his follower. There is no soft sentimentalism in these words of his. He says that the disciple must be prepared to part with family, to endure suffering, to face enormity of the task, and to give up everything for the sake of the Kingdom. Here, compressed in these brief verses, is the delineation ...

172. Complaint from the Kitchen

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... ’ve no time to be A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee Or dreaming in dawnlight, or storming heaven's gates Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates. I suspect, too, that there are many men who share this sentiment, for whom Rudyard Kipling spoke when he wrote the following lines: And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed - they know the angels are on their side. They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the Mercies multiplied. They sit at the Feet ...

173. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

Sermon

... concluded that "if a man should go about and utter wind and lies saying, ‘I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,’ he would be the preacher for this people." Doubtless one could find many preachers today with similar sentiments - preachers who have been rebuked or lost their pulpits for advocating needed social change, while other preachers, mouthing safe traditions and avoiding controversy, have prospered or even been lionized. Micah could have been looking down the corridors of time and seeing ...

174. The Now-ness of Eternity

Zechariah 7:1-14

Sermon

... of "when the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more." I am plagued with visions of life after death being related to gates of pearl, streets of gold, white robes, happy singing, and endlessly monotonous pleasant existence. I can’t avoid sentiments similar to those of Charles G. Blanden, who wrote a little poem in which he said: I cannot think of Paradise a place Where men go idly to and fro, With harps of gold and robes that shame the snow; With great wide wings that brightly interlace ...

175. The Passion of Our Lord

2 Corinthians 5:21

Sermon

... View." It is a work that I would recommend for reading. PRAYER BEFORE A CRUCIFIX Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before Thy face I humbly kneel, and with burning soul pray and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart live sentiments of faith, hope, and charity, true contrition for my sins, and a firm purpose of amendment. Meanwhile, I contemplate with great love and tender mercy Thy five most precious wounds, pondering over them within me, and calling to mind the words which David, Thy prophet ...

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