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1826. Gentiles 'R Us

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... our breath away. And to have two loved ones die on the same day, many miles apart, with their respective funerals scheduled for the same day makes it doubly difficult. I know you’ve heard that God never places a burden upon us that we cannot bear, but sometimes the load limit comes awfully close! How reassuring it is, then, that Sunday always follows Saturday, and we can come to church and receive the comfort of time spent with our brothers and sisters in Christ, of singing the old familiar hymns of the ...

1827. Nothing Difficult Is Ever Easy

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... and the questioner and go on about his business. But he doesn’t. In fact, the response Jesus gives to this particular question forms the basis of the early Christian community’s understanding of the gospel. All four gospels and the writings of Paul bear unanimous witness to the fact that Jesus’ response to this question defines what is expected of those who would be followers of Jesus. The question Jesus was asked that day deals with the Law, the commandments of God by which the children of Israel ...

1828. Get Ready, Get Set...Wait!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... to have some of their Christmas wishes fulfilled, the season is over so quickly that the need to make New Year’s resolutions to lose those added pounds, or to be more patient with all those idiots who somehow managed to get a driver’s license bears down on them even before the decorations come down. But the Advent we celebrate in the church – the one that has nothing at all to do with the number of shopping days left until Xmas – is altogether different. The hanging of the greens, the placement of ...

1829. Been Fishin' Lately?

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... which consumed quite a bit of his time, so much so that he had no time at all for fishing. Now it’s true that many of the fishermen made personal sacrifices and put up with all kinds of difficulties. Some lived near the water and had to bear the smell of dead and decaying fish every day. They were ridiculed by some who made fun of their fishermen’s clubs and for the fact that, though they claimed to be fishermen, they never fished. They wondered about those people who felt that attending weekly meetings ...

1830. Don't That Just Beat All?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... social creatures, have been from the very beginning. Remember what God said about Adam - “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18). To one degree or another, we all need other people around us to share our joys and to help us bear our sorrows. As the song says, “That’s what friends are for.” The reading from the Gospel of Mark for today tells us about a friend in need. This incident will set off a series of confrontations between Jesus and the religious leaders of the synagogue ...

1831. Humility

Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 40:1-31

Drama

Martha L. Leach

... of every family and flock were taken, Pharaoh gave in. We were free at last. But Pharaoh quickly had a change of heart, and once again I felt death "hot on my heels." As we were approaching the Red Sea, Pharaoh's chariots and horsemen were bearing down on us. John: I know the rest ... the waters parted, and you and all the Israelites safely reached the other shore. The waters then closed over the chariots and Pharaoh's soldiers, and they were drowned. Moses: How good it is to know that those wonderful ...

1832. Faith -- Abraham and the Centurion

Luke 23:26-43

Drama

Martha L. Leach

... what you were telling me. Abraham: As I said, God promised Sarah and me many descendants. In fact, he sent three messengers to tell me that Sarah was going to have a son. Sarah overheard, and she could not suppress her laughter, for we were both old. But Sarah did bear a son and we named him Isaac, which means laughter. But my faith was to be tested again. When Isaac was still quite small, God said I must take him to Moriah and offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains. I could not believe God ...

1833. Life is Messy

John 1:29-34

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... , much less the problems of the world. The only gospel that makes sense and can help… is the good news of a God who loves enough to suffer with and for a suffering humanity. And the only believable church is one that is willing to bear witness to such a God by its willingness to do the same thing" (Shirley Guthrie, "Human Suffering, Human Liberation, and the Sovereignty of God," Theology Today, April 1996, p. 32). The life and death of Jesus were not neat and clean. Life is messy; sacrifice – blood ...

1834. There's Blindness, and There's Blindness

John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... , the cold hard fact in all this is that we live in a world of trouble and sickness and disease and homelessness and these things come not from God but from human perversion and greed and rebellion against God. Jesus chose to confront the troubles of this world, to bear the pain and the burden, to take them to the cross of Calvary, to redeem and to save us from ourselves. And in doing that, Jesus sometimes broke the rules. It was the Sabbath day. A blind man came to Jesus for healing, and with a little spit ...

1835. Death Stinks

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... . Or we will find ourselves wondering where Jesus is, trying to comfort a sorrowing family member or friend, wondering what in the world we could possibly do or say to take away some of the pain this loss is causing them, to make their sorrow somehow easier to bear. This is a common human experience, one we have all had to face many times. And so it was inevitable that, sooner or later, Jesus would face it also. What would he do? Would his method of handling the situation be any different than yours or mine ...

1836. Which Jesus Do You See?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Brett Blair

... by a Satan figure. Both return enlightened, work miracles and challenge the religious establishment by their teachings. Both attract disciples and both are betrayed by one of them. Both preach compassion, unselfishness and altruism and each creates a movement that bears the founder's name. A contemporary Buddhist monk that has a large following here in the United States and in Europe sees Jesus and Buddha as "brothers" who taught that the highest form of universal understanding is universal love. The ...

1837. What You See Is What You Get

John 14:5-14, John 14:1-4

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... end to the violence in Europe, some way to protect ourselves from people who seem to have interpreted the Second Amendment to the Constitution to mean they have the right to arm themselves to the teeth with military assault weapons while at the same time bearing no responsibility to insure that those weapons don’t wind up in the hands of those who would use them to kill indiscriminately. But Jesus says we’re looking for solutions in all the wrong places. Jesus says if you want to cure the anxiety ...

1838. The Benefit of the Doubt

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... and doubts with our Easter visitors, I want to tell you that it’s okay. According to the witness of scripture, we’re in pretty good company. And I’m not just talking about Thomas, who because of this one episode in his life must forever bear the nickname, "Doubting Thomas," a phrase even non-religious people know and use. You heard the story read to you this morning and most of you remembered it. Thomas wasn’t there when Jesus made his first post-resurrection appearance to his disciples, and Thomas ...

1839. Not Your Favorite Father's Day Scripture

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... name, no son to make him immortal. Men do feel that way, you know? If we have a son, a little part of us will live on even after we’re dead and gone. To compound Abraham’s problem, his wife Sarah is also very old, way past the child-bearing years of her life. But Sarah comes up with a wonderful idea. She has a young Egyptian maid named Hagar. She says to her husband, "Since I can’t give you a son, maybe you could impregnate Hagar and she can give you what I cannot." And Abraham agrees (maybe ...

1840. Back to the Basics

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... we allow that need to become the most important thing in our lives, even more important than God, and therefore, replacing God. It’s wrong to steal, whether we’re talking about shoplifting or cheating on your Income Tax return. It’s wrong to bear false witness against your neighbor, whether by a deliberate lie, a half-truth, or by the malicious act of spreading gossip about someone. History tells us that every major civilization since the dawn of time that has fallen has failed because of the moral ...

1841. The Sound of Weeping

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... bring a child to life and see that child become coarse and cheap, to dream the best for a child and see him or her choose the worst, to crave companionship and be met with indifference, to long for affection and get ingratitude, is almost more than those parents can bear. There is no pain to compare with the pain of rejection. In a small town in the western part of our country there once lived a minister and his wife. They had a son who grew to be a fine young man with a keen mind and clean and wholesome ...

1842. Vacillation - Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not from this world." "So, you are a king?" "You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice." "Truth? What is truth?" I asked, walking away from the man. He was obviously not a political revolutionary, but a religious mystic. "Bring him along." "I find no crime in him," I told the crowd. "Is ...

1843. The Household Leader

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." Perhaps you have heard this old story, but I feel it bears repeating on this Father's Day. A crowd of men was standing outside the pearly gates of Heaven waiting to be admitted. They were instructed by Saint Peter to get into two different lines. The left line was for all those men who were henpecked and had to live ...

1844. Peace as Shalom

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... with so much caring, that those I love can stand on their own, creating no burden for others ... but Lord, when by reason of circumstance, they can no longer stand, still let me love - love with Shalom, so I will have the strength of your love to bear the load. Lord, teach me self-discipline. Teach me self-discipline in the little things that I might be strong in the big things. Stay me from temptation, especially the temptation of leaping to the rescue of those who need to work out their own solutions. But ...

1845. The Gift of Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... more than righteous indignation, an anger which inflicts its hurt on others. And there is fear which aggressively attacks, lest the source of that fear gets the upper hand. And there is grief which blames and accuses because it knows not how to bear the pain to seek solace. Forgive me, Lord, for the misguided results of my anger, fear, and grief. Almighty God, by whose authority and permission alone, the rulers of the earth maintain their offices of responsibility, we implore you to inspire them to ...

1846. Ring Finger

1 Cor 13:1-13

Illustration

More than 2000 years ago Greek physicians believed that a special vein of love connected the third finger to the heart; it logically, therefore, became the finger which bears the wedding ring.

1847. Encounters With Christ III: Jesus and Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James W. Moore

... come down to mingle with each other. -Then someone at my side says, ‘There she goes!’ Gone where? Gone from my sight… that is all. -She is just as large in mast and hull and span, as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of their destination. -Her diminished size is in me, not in her. -And just at the moment when someone at my side says, -‘There she goes’ there are other eyes watching her coming… and other voices ready to take up the glad ...

1848. Joseph Ponders

Matthew 1:18-25

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... . At least to the wealthy. Those who could care properly for him. We have nothing, Lord, nothing! We are among the poorest of the poor. Surely you have miscalculated! Alas! Forgive me, Lord. Who am I to question the wisdom of the Almighty? "You told me that Mary would bear a son, and a son it is, Lord, a beautiful, healthy son. You told us that we should name him Jesus, for he would save his people from their sins! The only one who can save our people, Lord, from their sins is the Anointed One of God! No ...

1849. Simeon Recalls

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... his offspring, and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the Lord shall prosper. Out of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." Yes, I have committed much of ...

1850. Mary Of Nazareth

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ephesians 1:15-23

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... alone in the village, an angel of the Lord came to me. I was extremely frightened because the angel's presence was overwhelming. He had a message from God for me and I covered my eyes in fear while he spoke to me. The Angel Gabriel said I would bear the Messiah and call him Jesus. His kingdom would be everlasting. I wondered about this because I was not yet married, but every Jewish girl dreamed of being the mother to the Messiah. The angel gave me a verse which I have always cherished in my heart. He said ...

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1826. Gentiles 'R Us

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1827. Nothing Difficult Is Ever Easy

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1828. Get Ready, Get Set...Wait!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1829. Been Fishin' Lately?

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1830. Don't That Just Beat All?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1831. Humility

Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 40:1-31

Drama

Martha L. Leach

1832. Faith -- Abraham and the Centurion

Luke 23:26-43

Drama

Martha L. Leach

1833. Life is Messy

John 1:29-34

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1834. There's Blindness, and There's Blindness

John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1835. Death Stinks

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1836. Which Jesus Do You See?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Brett Blair

1837. What You See Is What You Get

John 14:5-14, John 14:1-4

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1838. The Benefit of the Doubt

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1839. Not Your Favorite Father's Day Scripture

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1840. Back to the Basics

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

1841. The Sound of Weeping

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

1842. Vacillation - Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Ron Lavin

1843. The Household Leader

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

1844. Peace as Shalom

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

1845. The Gift of Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

1846. Ring Finger

1 Cor 13:1-13

Illustration

More than 2000 years ago Greek physicians believed that a special vein of love connected the third finger to the heart; it logically, therefore, became the finger which bears the wedding ring.

1847. Encounters With Christ III: Jesus and Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James W. Moore

1848. Joseph Ponders

Matthew 1:18-25

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

1849. Simeon Recalls

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

1850. Mary Of Nazareth

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ephesians 1:15-23

Drama

Lynda Pujad

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