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1776. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... the end of the paycheck. All of us deal with stress in some form or another. If not with our own, with someone else's. And it is not uncommon that their stress should become our own. This is the way we are made - made to feel, and it is unavoidable that things will affect our feelings. Stress is the risk we assume when we take up the business of being human. A great many things come upon us over which we have little or no control. Things which are, in one way or another, "done to us." Dealing with these is ...

1777. Time and Stewardship

Sermon

Larry Powell

... We will learn that some day in some generation; that the basic need of each person is to give and receive love; that God grieves for our love; that love and affinity for all things is the yeast which transforms the lifeless. Somehow, I feel God intended love to be the universal language. Our greatest need is not to discover another world. We would just mess it up with our disposable cans, litter, fumes, and fragment people into little religious, social, and political groups. Jackie DeShannon said it several ...

1778. A House Or A Home?

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... those boys with a safe, loving place to play." Certainly children should be taught respect for property, and they should do their part to care for the home, but parents should never place so much importance on furnishings that human values suffer. A child's feelings of being loved and valuable are more important than a little wear and tear on the house. Let your house be a place where your children's friends are welcome! Keep Pressures Out Third, let your home be a place where undesirable pressures of work ...

1779. What Children Owe Their Parents

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... your parents ask you to do something, it is your obligation to obey. You must trust their love for you. You must know that they will never tell you to do something unless it is best for you and they will never tell you not to do something, unless they feel it will be harmful to you! I am reminded of the story of a four-year-old boy who was sitting in the church, watching a bug crawl on the floor. The youngster tried several times to touch the insect and each time Mom or Dad intervened. The child pitched ...

1780. Encounters With Christ II: Jesus and Mary and Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the one hundred and one things which in her super-efficient mind needed to be done. But here is the problem. All the while Martha is working feverishly, she is seething inside! Her indignation mounts… She gets more and more aggravated, more and more frustrated… She feels more and more put upon, more and more stressed out. “Where is Mary? Why isn’t she in here helping me? Who does she think she is… sitting in there with our guests… and leaving all the dirty work to me? Surely, Jesus can see the ...

1781. Monologue: The Other Shepherd Speaks

Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... tale. The three came back and told us what they'd found: an everyday scene of a mother and a baby -but different -with a holy feeling of God at work. I’ve learned long since that what looks ordinary to me doesn’t mean ordinary when God goes to work. I ... baby, and the man, and the almighty God. He brought into me - inside me -a revolution, a change of life, so that in my weakness feel his strength, and in my fears and failures know he loves me, and in my joys and blessings know he cares. Aye, true, I'm ...

1782. And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, As We Forgive Those Who Tresp

Matthew 6:12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... a busy street when you were not supposed to, or gone into someone's yard where children are not allowed to play, and then remembered that this was going to get you into trouble? If any of those things have ever happened to you, then you know what an awful feeling it is to be somewhere that you are not supposed to be. I had a neighbor who had a sign in his yard that told everyone to stay out. His sign looked something like this: (Hold up the NO TRESPASSING sign.) Can you read this? It says NO TRESPASSING. Do ...

1783. Faith Restored

1 Kings 17:7-24

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: Crises in life can be a threat to our faith. They make us wonder if God is pronouncing judgment on us. People: Many people become mad at God when such things happen, because they feel he has mistreated them. Pastor: But just the opposite is true. God is able to breathe life into many of our hopeless situations. We can believe in him! People: Great is our God, the giver of life; who is able to turn our sadness into joy! Collect O God our ...

1784. The Other Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... I don’t like it at all. Oh, I know. My name is on the check book right underneath yours. But I just wish that I could feel some excitement every now and then too.” Then the father pleads with him to come in, and there the story ends. Now as much as I ... the story of the lost sheep and the lost coin, and certainly there is no more beautiful story than that of the Prodigal Son, I feel that the heart of the story is in this last part—the elder brother. Here’s the background. One day Jesus, as was so often ...

1785. Preaching Because We Have Something To Say

Sermon

James Angell

... (the book came later), with the stolen title, "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever," also seemed to leave the people feeling that I had been speaking directly to them - that God was present in undeniable ways. Little is here about lectionary preaching. I ... has to say. One can still preach from a list and wind up fumbling with ashes. There are too many Sundays on which one feels called to be a persuasive expositor of faith. Sometimes we are too tired to listen to the Voice beyond our own. Sometimes we try ...

1786. Filled With God's Spirit

Acts 2:4

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... next year I will be in the fourth grade! It means a lot to know that I have passed. That's the way Jesus wants us to feel, too. He spoke to his disciple, John, and told him that someday everybody who loved God would pass into a new world, God's new world. That ... a lumpy old piece of gray clay. As a matter of fact, to look at that lumpy, old, slimy gray piece of clay kind of makes you feel sorry for it. Poor old clay. What good is anything that looks like this? I'm sure I don't know. On the other hand, if you ...

1787. Holy Trinity Sunday

John 16:12-15

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... faith to breathe deeply the winds of heaven's promises. When burdens oppress us, be for us, Lord, like a shadow of a mighty rock in the heat of the desert. If any of us are beset by doubt, then let us reach out in mind and spirit until we feel your timeless heartbeat near our hearts. Let us not be afraid to follow the reasoning of faith when it outreaches the reasoning of our minds. May radiance upon our faces be the sign that we have been with you. O Lord, holy Father, giver of life and health, we beseech ...

1788. What Jesus Saw In Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

1789. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

... as 4:00. I have just had it. Go on and close the church up. And some of us who are not that radical sometimes feel the same way. Just let them go. Why is this pastor trying so desperately to save this church? It is evident to me that he ... . Who cares? Craddock says, I left the church that afternoon and tried to dismissed it. Oh, go home and get you something to eat and you will feel better. But what she said to me kept haunting me. Who cares? So I picked up the phone and called her and asked here if I could ...

1790. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

1791. Grateful For The Giver

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

... the priests (the Department of Health of their country). And they all went before they had any sign of a cure, for as Luke reports: "As they went they were cleansed." They were furthermore all alike in being healed. Leprosy deadens the sense of feeling but now there was feeling in their fingers. Leprosy gives an unholy tint to the skin but now there was pinkness in their flesh. As they heard the priest declare them fit to be with, they were probably all alike in their excitement: "I haven’t seen the old ...

1792. Is Christianity An Escape?

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

... , the fight for our spirits. It’s said there have been more people killed by Nazis and Communists, slain for their faith in Christ, more martyrs in our time than in any other period of history. In our country we don’t expect that fate but we may still feel the enmity. For us the persecution may not be open and violent but lurking and subtle. I feel it in how the world stereotypes us - as in television and films, showing church members as blue-nosed, simple-minded killjoys, only fit to be ridiculed. I ...

1793. Let God Be God

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

... sense of need of his grace. They figured they were saving themselves by means of their piety and good works. In defense of this exalted view of themselves, moreover, they had become alienated from their fellow human beings. Despising others put props under the feeling of being elevated above them. This is the kind of tragedy that always accompanies self-idolatry. It shuts persons off from the love and grace of God depriving them of both the blessing and the privilege of serving as channels of this love and ...

1794. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

... with their job because it doesn't say much about them as a person. They should be higher up on the ladder by this time, they feel. They can't be worth much or they would be more successful at this point than they are. That kind of surmising can nag at all ... ! Or to put it in financial terms, we're not always satisfied with $6.70 an hour. Surely, I'm worth more than that, we feel! There is the meaninglessness and frustration that can overtake us in our work, because we allow it to be too much of a gauge of ...

1795. The Challenge of God's Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

... under the reign of the devil. People will live out their days in the heights of hope and faith and fulfillment, or they will feel smothered in the depths of despair and frustration. To put if in the barest terms, the harvest of mankind is a matter of heaven ... are plainly baffled, so baffled that they are ready to throw in the towel and simply exist, not really live anymore. People feel shackled by life. They are like prisoners, chained and bound. They listen to the voice of their own insecure heart which says ...

1796. Don't Try So Hard!

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

... put a premium on wasting time. We encourage our children to work. When the grades at school begin to slip, the answer is, "You'll have to try harder!" When our boy is aspiring for a spot on the school basketball team, or when our recent college graduate doesn't feel she's rising through the ranks of her new job fast enough, we have a ready word of advice: "You've got to try harder!" But there is a whole other side to this business of accomplishing something in life, isn't there? For there is a subtely and ...

1797. The Yoke of Christ

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

... these premiums. It is in this light that the words of Jesus here in this text sound so inviting. He says, "Take my yoke and put it on you ... and you will find rest." These words sound pertinent for you and me, isn't it so? For very often we feel "yoked" - burdened, driven, exploited, loaded down. So what is the promise that Christ holds out here? What is the yoke of Christ? Well, obviously, the words of Jesus here are somewhat of a put-on. He says that his yoke is "easy," but a yoke is still a yoke. This ...

1798. Practice Being Good

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Children's Sermon

... downs. What is like an elevator that you can hold in your hand? Do you know? How about a Yo-Yo? How many of you have played with our friend, Yo-Yo? It’s hard, isn’t it? I think it’s hard. Sometimes it’s so hard that I feel like giving up. (Play with the Yo-Yo and get it to go up and down a couple of times before failing). How many of you have done this before? It isn’t easy, is it? Would one of you like to try? (Let one try it. A child whom ...

1799. Exercising to be a Christian

1 Peter 5:10

Children's Sermon

... , but then we find out the answer later. People ask the same question of God when they are sick or they suffer in some way that they don’t understand. They say, "Why do I have to suffer, God? What did I do wrong that means that I have to feel bad today?" But God tells us that it is like a test for us and the test will make us strong so that later on when we face bigger tests we will be able to pass them and accept them. None of us likes to be sick, but we learn ...

1800. In God's Own Time

Galatians 1:12

Children's Sermon

... , fourteen, thirteen (count it down to the point of zero and then pull off the covering and they will see the brightest, prettiest picture that they have ever seen). Isn’t that beautiful, boys and girls, and wasn’t it exciting to see? Now you must know how it feels to have God reveal himself to you in such an exciting way. Because of the story you have just heard, maybe you will wait for God to speak to you like he did to Paul and then maybe you will learn something so important that God will ask you ...

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