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1801. No Ignorant Brethren

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Rev. Kenneth H. Sauer

... with money. His disciples handled money for him. The first Christians asked for money and spent it without the guilt that they were contradicting their Lord. Comments come, however, when the Church asks for funds. They indicate a continuing need for us to understand the relation between faith and money. When we look at the New Testament we find that there is a very close relationship between the faith of the first. Christians which is described in rich language, and the life of the first Christians which ...

1802. The Call of the Disciples - James, A Fisher of Men

Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... his vision, though we had seen him laugh and heard him cry, he was to us still a stranger. Well, all at once we began to understand. We began to understand what he had been saying to us all along and why he acted as he had. Yes, it all became clear to us and for the ... first time began to comfort us and to fill us with purpose. So we took to the streets to share what we had come to understand and to let that life which had lived among us live again. And as we did speak out, sharing with others what our hearts ...

1803. Never Cry Uncle - Malchus

Matthew 26:47-56

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... my face. For the first time in your life, you know what wholeness is and what it means to understand and to be understood. You understand what it means to love and to be loved, what it means to forgive and to be forgiven. And you call it a miracle ... or by any other name you can think of and you know that nobody including yourself understands exactly what has happened except that something earthshaking has taken place. You may never be the same again for you have just ...

1804. What Jesus Saw In Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... orderly said: “5-6-7-8.” The point of that story is this: It is so important to know who we are and who other people are. If we know what makes us tick… and what makes other people tick… we get along better. If we understand where we are coming from… and where other people are coming from, we relate better. There is more compassion, more empathy and more kindness. That’s why in recent years we have heard so much about personality tests. Employers, counselors and job-placement agencies are using ...

1805. Building Barns, Postponing Life

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... this morning is: Are we rich in God’s eyes? St. Jerome, writing about 400 A.D., mentioned in a letter a woman who “preferred to store her money in the stomachs of the needy than in her purse.” It is all right to make investments, as long as we understand that the best investment that we can make is in the Kingdom of God. The only future that is sure is God’s future. God will be with you whether or not the Nasdaq ever gets back to 5000 again or the bottom drops out completely. God will be with ...

1806. Life's Third Dimension

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

... will pay you the amount you think is fair." Rather, he said, "Whatever is right I will give." It is quite clear that when he paid his workers at day's end, he was thinking of something more than mere length of time. And if you and I are to understand life, we've got to do this also - we've got to give attention to something besides length. So, for a few moments now, let's do this - let's think about life's other dimensions, especially its third one. In the physical world there are three elemental dimensions ...

1807. An Everyday Theology

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... to have a marriage, or a plane goes down with our son or daughter aboard, and we have thoughts about God causing all of this. Granted, God can and does teach us through these terrible moments. Admittedly they can be more graceful than we initially understand. But we must say that God does not deliberately send such pains and sufferings upon us. Again, an everyday theology provides the answer. If we ask the question in an everyday context - "Would a human father work this way?" - "Would you act this way ...

1808. Lord, I Believe - Or Do I?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

... and no settlement, perhaps a money matter, or a problem of inheritance, or an oppression which was common in the lives of widows in those days. She had no recourse other than the court, but in her case the court was useless, for His Honor didn’t seem to understand or care. He had no conscience for justice. But the widow kept on coming in the hope that by persistence she could wear him down, and he would have to settle the affair to get her off his neck. Finally, when she had made his nerves raw with her ...

1809. Are There Any Questions?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

... hopes and evaporated dreams fades out, and this bright vision comes in focus, "Behold, I make all things new." Do You Have a Question? I suspect that there are many questions, any one of which, if asked sincerely and in truth, would find an understanding heart in Christ. When our physician recommends a surgical procedure for an illness, we have many questions. What are the percentages? How long will I be out of business? What can I expect beyond the surgery and time of convalescence? Of course, what are ...

1810. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... him, the pained, the paralytic, and the infirm, for as he preached the gospel of the kingdom, he healed them of their diseases, and cast out demons. His fame spread southward to Jerusalem and north to Syria. The skies were bright with promise. We can understand the mood. We have heard the promise that prosperity is just around the corner. We have heard the bands strike up the tune, "Happy Days Are Here Again." We have been given the assurance of a great society, a generation of peace, and the great things ...

1811. Dead or Alive?

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

... Gospel, however, is that death can be turned into life: physical death by means of the Resurrection; spiritual death by means of what Jesus spoke of as being born again. What does it mean to be born again in this spiritual sense? If I had the wisdom to understand it fully, I would not have the words to explain it. One thing about it is clear, however. It means coming alive to God, opening the door to him, responding to his love, receiving his grace. It’s a miracle of God’s grace in which the endowment ...

1812. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

Sermon

... some pointedly personal questions, the answers to which could be as important to you as to me. For example, what kind of preaching do you want to hear, or are you willing to listen to? Can I speak to you freely from my heart in the light of my fullest understanding of the word and will of God? Will you listen if I try to preach about your sin, God’s judgment, and your need of repentance, as well as about the love, mercy, and grace of God? Is it safe for me to address your prejudices, challenge your greed ...

1813. Counsel for Discouraged Disciples

Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

... that God’s will must be understood as three-dimensional. First, there is God’s intentional will; then there is God’s permissive will; and finally, there is God’s ultimate will, what he keeps moving persistently toward despite all impediments. Obviously, we do not understand all that is in the mind and heart of God. We only know that he is love, that his loving purpose is to redeem his lost people in their troubled world, and that by his grace we are invited into partnership with him in pursuit ...

1814. God Is All Things for All People

Romans 11:33

Children's Sermon

... or he can be as light as a feather. God is a mystery. God is everywhere and that is really why he is God. He is whatever we need him to be. If you understand that God is all of these things, then maybe you can understand why God can listen to all of your prayers, even if you all say them at the same time. You will also understand then that God thinks that you are important. You are so important that he gave you a name and asked you to be a part of his family. So the next time you ...

1815. If Only We Would Be Open To The Spirit ...

Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... had trouble with God’s Spirit when He urged Jeremiah to be an unpopular spokesman for the truth. Jeremiah actually demanded that God release him from his ministry, a ministry that called him to say things he didn’t want to say, to utter words he did not fully understand. He had grown weary of being God’s mouthpiece, and yet he could not give up. When he tried to stop, he felt as if there were a fire smoldering within him, insistent on becoming a great blaze. "His word was in my heart like a fire, shut ...

1816. Prayer

John 10:1-21

Bulletin Aid

... What he was saying to them." That's not very surprising! I often don't understand what Jesus said (Or, at least, meant), And I've heard it all my life! Here he's talking about sheep And thieves And shepherds And ... Perhaps I have to absorb it, Instead of analyze it. Lord, forgive my denseness My insistence on having everything spelled out for me, And grant me the understanding That comes from the heart Instead of - Or in addition to - The knowledge that comes from the mind. For Jesus' sake, And my own. Amen

1817. Nervous Hands

Psalm 139:1-24

Sermon

... it, and we will fail. It makes us nervous. We are afraid of the unknown. We are afraid of the things that lurk beyond our understanding or loom in the dark. All of us are afraid of the dark. Every one of us. That's why night lights are sold at ... Lord. You are known personally by the Lord, and he knows everything about you - all of your needs and all of your weaknesses. He understands all the fears that rise up out of those needs and those weaknesses. Your faith is testimony to you that in knowing all about ...

1818. The Simplicity of God's Call

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

... God, for the Living God. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my help and my God. PRAYER OF ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me: I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing ...

1819. Parable of the Brain and Your Religion

John 14:1-4

Illustration

... him in church makes him a nice fellow," said George, "there must be damage to another part of my brain." "What I meant," answered Jim, "is that's how I got to know him quite well, and thus he explained to me about his handicap. When you understand him, then you see past the physical difficulty. And frankly, George, since you brought the subject up, going to church would do a lot for your brain and your attitude toward others." It is true that different parts of our body are directed by different parts of ...

1820. There’s Gotta Be a Day

Malachi 4:1-6

Sermon

... who rehearsed and performed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for a lifetime, but would only permit himself to record it when he was eighty. When he was listening to the playback, one person sitting close to him heard him remark, "I think I’m beginning to understand the second movement." In contrast to that, our zeal soon flags. It’s hard to be faithful for a few years, much less faithful unto death. We could conclude from our biblical and personal experience that neither a spiral of goodness nor a spiral of ...

1821. My dear friends, let us play.

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... of us do not come to church to play, that play is the furthest thing from our minds? Play seems foreign to our understanding of religion, and if it is to be found in church at all, it is best restricted to the nursery and the carefully ... then I hope I will be as strict about the doing of prayer and alms-giving as I am about the non-doing of the ashes! When we understand the ashes as play, they cease to be a big deal, as ashes. They merely are an annual reminder that the fasting life, the self-giving life, is ...

1822. The Miracle Of an Opened Mind

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... also this, "... he opened their minds ..." That is no small part of the miracle of the ascended Lord’s power, that minds once closed to Christ are opened. That is the sentence from today’s Gospel that we now come back to: Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead." What a Work of the Creator! The mind is such an astounding part of our bodies. Some time ago I had an experience in ...

1823. The Last Will Be First

Matthew 20:1-16

Children's Sermon

... world later. Now God says he is going to begin with the last people who heard his message. Those last people, according to our understanding, are the Christians. Just as the records that you didn't like so much when you had your choice would be the first played, so will ... the Christians be the first called by God to receive his gift of eternal life. I hope you understand that it is God's gift and he not only chooses who he will give it to, but how many he wants to give it ...

1824. Seeing Things Clearly

John 20:19-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... The disciples used to worship every Friday night and Saturday, but after the Easter experience they started having their big service of worship on Sunday, the little Easter. We still do it today just as they started it almost 2,000 years ago. Sometimes people find it hard to understand why we love Jesus so much. They read the Bible and some even go to church, but they still wonder why Jesus means so much to us. Some say they wish they could love God as much as we do, but for some reason they just don't know ...

1825. Proper 10

Lk 10:25-37 · Col 1:1-20 · 2 Ki 2:1, 6-14 · Deut 30:9-14

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... parable Jesus teaches us - a. Who our neighbor is - v. 30. The neighbor is one standing in need of help. It does not matter if he is Jew or Gentile, in the house next door or in Rhodesia, black or white, Christian or Communist. According to this understanding of a neighbor, the church has an obligation out of love to be concerned about social problems and to take social action. b. How to be a good neighbor - vv. 33-37. A good neighbor is one who has compassion for hurt people. He expresses this compassion ...

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