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1851. God Is Not Yet Finished With You

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... you think a slave trader like John Newton could ever be an outstanding preacher of the Gospel? The miracle of the second creation is that Christ creates the best out of the worst. He sees treasure in trash. Christ creates something out of nothing. Do you feel you are nothing - nothing but a sinner, lost and condemned? That has great promise! Christ can do something for you. He can make you a new creation, a person like unto God. Our Continuing Creation Even though God the Father has created me and God the ...

1852. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall uphold me." Though an astronaut flies to the edge of outer space, God is still there. A miner who works a mile deep in the earth can still feel the nearness of God. No matter who you are or where you are, God the King can be at your side. Isn’t that good news? But what about other gods? The Exiles were living among a people devoted to strange gods. These people were devout in their prayers ...

1853. Hiltgunt Margaret Zassenhaus

Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... so many, had a meeting which was neither intentional nor dramatic, but it was a meeting, nonetheless. Like so many, not all of her fears and problems were solved by her meeting, for the Lord sometimes creates more confusion for us than answers. I feel an affinity with her that I may not feel with the spiritual giants who often seem so far removed from me. Oswald McCall has captured the drama which arises out of a meeting with the Master. He wrote: I went walking and I met the Master. "I am glad we have met ...

1854. Reach Out and Touch Someone

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... the floor in the new house, there is a sign, "Don’t forget to call us." Here are people in a new city and a new place with no friends. Since they know no one at all, they can pick up their phone and talk to a familiar voice and feel as if they’re not abandoned. "Reach out and touch someone," the ad says to us. It’s a good idea. If I think about that particular ad, the one that moves me the most is a very big, heavy-set woman saying to her husband over dinner, "Joey called ...

1855. Do I Dare Be Different?

Matthew 5:10; 10:1-42

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... look at this particular program, for there are three words that we must not ignore: "Blessed are you if you are persecuted ... for righteousness sake." Persecuted not for the sake of self-righteousness, but the sake of righteousness. I think a lot of us feel at times that some of the antagonism toward Christian people and the church might be spared if Christians would not deliberately go out of their way to provoke it. Sometimes our dogmatism turns us into intellectual bullies. I am always suspicious of the ...

1856. Amazing Grace

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything. As we work with Christ, we work out a new life, and he builds a new life within us. God works in us "to will and to do." Deep in the human heart, Crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried That grace can restore. The grace of Christ "sets us to climbing again." "There is something radically wrong with a Christianity that does not issue in good works" - in a good life. God is not in debt to me because of my good works; I am in ...

1857. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... future judgment is resolved because in fellowship with God we are constantly standing judgment and being forgiven. Now we feel the miracle of "becoming" taking place within us; great happiness moves in upon our despair. We see life ahead ... We begin to realize the unachieved goal, we glimpse the ultimate reality; we are now committed to it, we have become a part of it. We feel love possessing us. We are glad. The old break with God is healed. By uneven steps God continues to structure new life within us: I ...

1858. Clouds and Son-Shine

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... has never forgotten, nor will he ever forget, that he was the persecutor of those who named themselves by the name of Christ. It is a source of constant amazement and awe to him that he should have been privileged to proclaim the name he once persecuted. He feels so unworthy - and yet so very, very privileged - of the honor that was bestowed upon him in the calling of God, the revealing of his grace at just the moment when Paul was most vehemently opposing the cause of the Lord. When one senses that God is ...

1859. Called to Be Saints

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity.’ " Could not - must not, for that matter - Paul have been feeling the same thing as he sat down to write this letter? How hard he had labored - and for what? To hear reports ... ransom from sin, our way of return to the Father from whom we have come. We all know this dual frustration, do we not? We know the feeling that sometimes life (and God, the source of life) asks far more of us than we have to give. But, if for no other reason than that ...

1860. THE MOST WONDERFUL GIFT

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John H. Krahn

... or aid from us, militates against our, "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" philosophy. Second, it smacks us where we hurt the most, right in our pride. Adults are hesitant about accepting gifts which they know they have not earned or merited. We do not want to feel obligated to anyone. It is not an easy matter for us to come before Almighty God and accept what he wants to give us - the most wonderful gift of eternal life. It takes a humble person to make such a confession from his heart and to stand ...

1861. TRY A TRUST WALK

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John H. Krahn

... , throughout the building. Something remarkable happened to me when I trusted my life, so to speak, into the hands of my young partner. In those short twenty minutes, a beautiful feeling developed toward that person, a closeness, a need for her. Even when the blindfold came off, I felt that I wanted to get better acquainted. I continued to feel positive feelings for my partner. Throughout the Book of Psalms God encourages us to take a trust walk with him. Jesus says to all of us, "Trust in me. I love you ...

1862. LOVE TAKES SWEAT

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John H. Krahn

... perfume. They must be worked at in a daily world with daily problems that are devoid of candlelight and secluded beaches. Dynamics of Christian love are not so much the tingling stuff that champagne is made of but rather the Tums that makes many an upset stomach feel better again. When the Bible says that God loves us, that doesn’t mean that God gets all gooey inside when he thinks about us. When God considered his wayward world standing up to its nostrils in the muck of sin, he didn’t have romantic ...

1863. HAVING A REALLY GOOD FIGHT

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John H. Krahn

... a little Christian saying that goes, "When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds." The best thing we can do in our marriage is not try so hard but to trust even harder. As people, there will be those moments when we cannot help but express negative feelings to our spouse. Be careful not to try to hurt the person, but rather attempt to express how his/her actions are hurting you. Tell it like it is. Don’t hold back. But let the Lord help you share your strong communication in a loving manner. When you ...

1864. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... just not quite big enough on the inside. We have never really discovered the grace of Christ. A man wrote this bit of doggerel to his wife: When you’re away, I’m restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; But here’s the rub, my darling dear; I feel the same when you are here. What was wrong? He shouldn’t have written it. His overtones were out of fix. Maybe her overtones were out of fix. Somebody’s overtones were out of fix! Often it is the little things that cause divorces - not the big things ...

1865. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... the ground. The more he thinks about love, the higher he goes. People gather to gape up at him and exclaim. Berringer shouts "Love and you can go up one rung of the ladder after another. You can climb one branch after another. You can do anything!" He feels that by loving he can achieve anything. "Go as high as you’d like!" he cries. Then he disappears, and there is silence on the stage. In a little while, he slowly comes down again. He is depressed and dejected. Berringer concludes by saying he went up ...

1866. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... ! What right do you have to tell me what I can or can’t do to myself?" To believe that we belong first of all to ourselves is to subscribe to a social philosophy of hedonism and utter selfishness. Still, we all want to belong to someone. If we feel we have no one to love us, no one who cares, no one to whom we belong, life becomes drab and meaningless. Mary Gordon, in her novel, Final Payments, introduces a character who represents humanity in microcosm in this need. Mrs Riesart is a patient in a nursing ...

1867. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... and women to Christ. This power is available even to the weakest. Once after serving Holy Communion to an elderly lady who was badly crippled with arthritis, she said to me, "Oh thank you, Brother Gibson! Now, I have the power to go on living again. Sometimes I feel so helpless and forgotten, but when I receive the Lord’s Supper, I know I can do anything God wants me to do!" Exactly! That 85 year old lady had received the power of the Holy Spirit through worship, and that same power is available to all ...

1868. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

Drama

Tom Eberle

... how difficult this is for me I don’t fully understand myself why I must do this. Son: Difficult for you! How do you think I feel? I’m the one being sacrificed. Why are you trying to slay me? Mother: Slay is such a cruel word. I am not trying to kill ... person and healing occurs, that open sore becomes a mark of beauty, like the red color that fascinated you. [pause] Can you begin to feel the good news that radiates from a polished cross that once was an instrument of death? Son: It’s almost too much. You ...

1869. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EASTER

Drama

Tom Eberle

... our faith? Did it not teach you that in order to enter we must cross that river of water that drowns our past in order to bring our future to life? Severus: Perhaps you had better give me a crash course in the Christian way. For right now I am feeling that I am not so drastically evil that I should be totally immersed and drowned of my present self. Maria: I do not know, Severus, if you are questioning as the devil’s advocate, or if you seriously wonder about what awaits you. You are not bad in the way ...

1870. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR ALL SAINTS’

Drama

Tom Eberle

... Mary, mother of Jesus. Box: That’s dirty pool! You don’t expect me to take on Mary. That’s like attacking my own mother. Mary: Please feel free to ask me anything you want. I don’t mind. Box: If you insist. I know you are a nice lady, and that God selected ... are you? Mary: If you want me to say I’m not perfect, I will say it. I’m human, I’m imperfect. Does that make you feel better? Box: Well, yes. At least you’re woman enough to admit it. I didn’t think you had it in you to level with me. ...

1871. Are You Under Arrest?

Heb 5:11-13; 10:39

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... then he declares himself. Apparently, and for this I am glad, Matthew understands that it is safe for him to reveal himself to his mother and father. What he has to say will not be his undoing. He knows he will not be punished for what he is feeling. I think of God in that way. I don’t think for a moment that God frowns upon our religious inquisitiveness or that he frowns upon our attempts to be religiously imaginative. We have in the New Testament character of Nicodemus a man who was struggling, it would ...

1872. WE ARE THE BELIEVERS: TESTIMONIES

Drama

Marcia Miller

... I was alone and I was lonely. One of the few activities I had was to go to the synagogue. On a particular Sabbath there was a marvelous teacher by the name of Jesus. He looked at me, and the aloneness I had felt for years disappeared. It was a feeling of freedom that I had never known before. Then he called me over to him. He reached out and touched me. Gently he said, "Woman, be healed." Instantly I stood up straight. I could move about with the agility of a woman much younger than I. That wasn’t the ...

1873. Lively Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... ) The bones started moving around, and they joined together, and skin grew over them, and they became alive. God was showing Ezekiel that God's word brings us life. There are many times that we feel like these bones, like when someone that we love gets sick, or when someone at school calls us a name. Have you ever felt like that? When we feel bad, God wants us to turn to his word, which is the Bible, and he promises that we can be alive again, just like the bones became alive for Ezekiel. Let's pray: Thank ...

1874. Converting the Converted

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... would be blessed and come to God. God said that the Jews were to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Thus, Jesus feels it is necessary for Israel to become truly Christian before it can evangelize the nations. If we put this principle down into today’s ... poem, John Brown’s Body, a sea captain is engaged in the slave trade and prays devoutly every day without any feeling of guilt about his business. John Browning, while governor of Hong Kong, encouraged the opium traffic but yet wrote the popular ...

1875. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... new jet airplanes. Then, driving here from the airport, we passed the museum which was dedicated to Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, and he came from right here in Ohio. You folks live in the midst of all this excitement. Do you feel the same excitement about the message of Christianity? You probably know all the facts of Christianity and you wonder what new thing can I say about it. I can’t say anything new, but I can suggest to you the tremendous excitement of new modes of thinking ...

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