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1876. Only the Wounded Can Serve

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... we do what we know to be wrong and where we leave undone what we know to be right. We know so often the sense of sin and failure and frustration. Again and again we miss the mark. Can anyone know the utter futility and desolation that, at times, we feel? Yes! Jesus Christ has walked the same lonesome trail. Our problem lies not in what he does or might do for us, but in our own lack of confidence in what he can do. Fearing his superior holiness, we are often ashamed to come to him in humility and penitence ...

1877. Our Search for Intimacy - The "Father" God

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... I gain new insight into the life of Jesus of Nazareth. "And when Jesus drew near Jerusalem and saw the city he wept over it, saying, ‘Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace.’ " (Luke 19:41) I imagine there is no greater feeling of aloneness than recognizing that other people do not sense the tremendous importance of what we are doing. How painful it is when our wish to share falls flat upon preoccupied ears or ears that want to make fun of us. Most theologians value Christ for his ...

1878. Virtue Won’t Hurt You

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... when they get to the level of a more stable income they will be better about giving to the church and other agencies. Don’t fool yourself. Many adults feel that when they retire they will have more time to be a help to others. Don’t fool yourself. Some people even feel that when they get rid of some of their personal problems they will be more faithful and committed to the Christian faith. Don’t fool yourself. It is a matter of values, not circumstance. We will never be any better in any circumstance ...

1879. The Win-Win Philosophy of Life

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... which seem almost insurmountable and make something good out of them. A person once told me: "I don’t know how to handle situations in which I disagree with someone. I always get angry and do something I regret or end up carrying a grudge that makes me feel uncomfortable when I’m around that person. I want to get organized and know how to deal with things and people that upset me. I shall never be happy again until I am organized." How do we get organized, in an effective way, to deal with the things ...

1880. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... a whispered conference and solved the difficulty of facing the offering plate that was fast coming toward them - one of them fainted and the other two carried him out! Contrast that, and our counting every little thing we do and give for Christ, with the feelings of Queen Victoria. Dean Farrar relates that Queen Victoria, after hearing one of her chaplains preach at Windsor Castle on the life and soon return of Christ, said to the dean; "Oh, how I wish the Lord would come during my lifetime." "Why does your ...

1881. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... with him. You will notice that, in our liturgical year, this is not as it has been for years, the First Sunday after Easter. It is the Second Sunday OF Easter, and we will have a week of Easter Sundays in these seven Sundays. But you know the feeling. You’re at a party, and everyone else is having a ball. They are happy and lighthearted. They laugh and they frolic, but you aren’t with the group. Your heart is weighed down by some secret sadness or depression or disappointment, so that every sound of ...

1882. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... year and a half or two years in far off Saudi Arabia. The instructions on the check were that $500 should be used for their regular parish commitment, but that $1,500 should be used for "some special thing that the church needed." Knowing how Steve and Betty feel, being members of our Cathedral Choir, and knowing how they love the whole music program of our church, I picked up the phone and called Larry on the intercom and I said: "Larry, the Lord doth provide. I’ve got your $1,500 right on the button, so ...

1883. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... can secure the material things one needs if his or her bank account is large enough. One can open closed doors if he or she can pay the price. But not only may this make one proud and arrogant where others are concerned. It may cause one to feel the same way toward God. If one has the money that is needed to buy what one wants to buy, what need does one have of God? Spiritually perceptive persons are aware of the essentials such as meaning, purpose, and fulfillment - which are not guaranteed by money. They ...

1884. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... there is no guarantee that you won’t be crucified in the process, there is pretty good ground for belief that you will stage a resurrection. That is the elemental meaning of the cross - the crucial heart of the gospel of Christ. As a final word I feel like saying to all my Christian brethren, particularly to all my colleagues in the Christian ministry, what Paul said some 1,900 years ago to his friends: "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing ...

1885. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... as well make the best of it. And what is to be gained by defying the will of the majority? We shall only get ourselves soundly disliked, and the result will be such loss of influence as will destroy our effectiveness altogether. I frankly confess that I feel the appeal of this argument. It is an altogether legitimate, normal, and valuable instinct to desire to be popular. In fact, I believe it is our duty to be popular. For only as we are liked, admired, held in esteem do we have the positive influence over ...

1886. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... about that; they went around calling him a Savior. Those wise men from the East had some opinions about it; they went to a lot of trouble to hail him and greet him as a newborn King. His mother had some private feelings about him which she "kept and pondered in her heart." Joseph had his feelings too, for, after all, in a dream he had listened to an angel visitant tell him even what name should be given to the Child. For it was required that even the incarnate Logos must have assigned to him a denoting word ...

1887. Signs Of A Vital Church

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to the thousands who passed by daily on a busy highway. A decision was made to let each Sunday School class be responsible for the message on the sign for one week. The Bible Class was first. Their message read: "The Church Visitors Never Feel Like Strangers." The following week the slogan was produced by a young couples class. It read: "Our Church is Incomplete...It Needs You!" When the third week rolled around, the youth got their chance to produce the message. Their advertisement became very quickly the ...

1888. The Perfect Gift

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of the most needed items on earth. Let me mention four. First, there is forgiveness. Forgiveness is powerful wherever one encounters it, but it is absolutely life changing and soul- saving when dispensed by Jesus. Some psychiatrists say to guilty people, "Just don't feel that way. Lots of people have done far worse than you. You're suffering from nothing more than the hangover from a domineering parent." That's about as helpful as telling someone with a migraine headache to just try to think about something ...

1889. Turn On The Lights!

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . Most Americans cherish the dream of Dr. King that one day all persons will be judged, not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. We must not forsake the dream. In fact, I challenge us to channel whatever moral outrage we feel into an increased determination to build a just society, a society in which neither wealth nor race tilts the scales of justice. The realization of that dream would be a fit memorial to Nicole and Ron. And it would certainly turn on some lights for Jesus ...

1890. God Is a Giver

Sermon

James Bjorge

... . But we had better not call it gift-giving. For if the child then does well, he has earned whatever we bribed him with and it is thus no longer a gift. We also succumb to the desire for power which manifests itself in giving expensive gifts so the recipient feels indebted to the giver. We know that he who pays the piper calls the tune. So as we look at our history of gift-giving we shall probably all admit that often we have used gifts selfishly. There have been strings attached to the gift and not only on ...

1891. A Gospel that Fills the Glove

Sermon

James Bjorge

... that the Father knows that men need all these things. Jesus met a gal of Samaria who had lost her dignity and self-worth and he gave her back herself. He willingly talked about esteem needs with the disciples as they struggled with their desire to feel important in the Kingdom of God. He assured men who were insecure that the Father was omnipotent and they were secure in his hands. As Jesus filled these human needs, he revealed to them the great need of forgiveness and being born in the family of ...

1892. Last Ditch Stand

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... save people from themselves? HELEN: Whether they want to be saved or not? Sit down, John. I’ll get you some coffee. You’ll feel better. Darling, you did what you could for him. JOHN: Stop saying that! It wasn’t enough! [He drops into a chair and sinks ... people smoke and live to an old age. JOHN: A lot don’t. How old is old? HELEN: [trying to smooth things over] You’ll feel better tomorrow, dear. It’s all on account of Tom. [brightly] You didn’t drink your coffee! I’ll get a fresh cup. [starts ...

1893. Be a Good Thermometer

2 Thessalonians 1:12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A thermometer. Good morning, boys and girls. How are you feeling today? Everybody feels fine. That’s good. But suppose you didn’t feel so good, and your body ached, and your ear hurt, and everything seemed to be going around in a circle? Then what would you tell someone if he asked you how you felt? [Let them answer.] That’s right, sick. Now if you were really sick, and I sure hope ...

1894. SALLY JANE

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... and blood, you might say. JAREL Yes, naturally, we’d like to be certain that he’s getting the best possible care. You are a Registered Nurse, aren’t you? SALLY JANE No, Ma’am. I’m a neighbor girl. He called for me a while back, said he was feeling kind of sickly, wanted somebody to keep house for him, fix him hot meals. JAREL In other words, he hasn’t had any medical attention? SALLY JANE He never wanted any. He said he thought he might be dying, and he figured if he was there wasn’t no point ...

1895. Molehills and Mountains

Matthew 6:25-34, Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... of civilization?" What’s eating you? And is it worth it? Perhaps it’s time that we check a few price tags. How guilty we feel when our Lord delivers a simple command to us: "Don’t be anxious." How many of us can obey that command? Don’t go batting ... his business also collapsed. It was running on too fine an edge. I said: "I’m sorry that you have lost everything. I certainly feel for you." He said: "You know, Pastor, the sad part - the part that really hurts - is not losing it, it’s lying here and ...

1896. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... time why in the world that chap had even come to that retreat, except, maybe, to pull the trigger on his anger, I knew that he spoke for at least some people who were present then as well as for significant numbers of others who were not there, but who feel much the same way. There are plenty of people to whom the Bible, and its God, and that God’s claims upon them, are "out of it." They, too, have relegated God to that fairytale realm of goblins, ghosts, and unicorns. To talk to them about a God who acts ...

1897. God Wants All of Me!

Matthew 22:37

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... at a picture, we want to have it all. It just doesn’t seem right to have only part of it. Well, if you feel that way and I feel that way, then it’s only right that we learned it from God. He tells us through many ways that we should do whatever ... with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." Did you hear the word ALL? That means that God wants us to feel love toward him with everything that we have. He doesn’t want you to love him part of the time, but all the time. He wants ...

1898. Broken and Beautiful

Luke 18:9-14, Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... an abortionist or New Ager or Hollywood pagan. 0 Lord, it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way." But there was another man in the temple that day, said Jesus. He stayed out in the remote area, the Court of the Gentiles, not feeling worthy to come into the sanctuary. He was a tax collector- --which meant that he was an unpatriotic thief and extortionist. He was so broken by his recognition of his failings that he could not bear to look upward to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast in pathos ...

1899. The New Birth

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... he is doing, he always replies, "I'm clear- headed, blue-eyed and unafraid." I received a note from him recently. Let me read you part of it: "Next Easter Sunday will be my 5th anniversary of being a born again Christian. I'll never forget the great feeling and peace of mind. The sermon of that day put God's arrow through my heart." But you see, that sermon did not cause his new birth. Nor was it caused by his repentance and belief in Christ, though those factors placed him where God could reach him. God ...

1900. Overcoming Fear

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... secret." The guide took Dr. Peale to a small cell far back in a corner where there was just a little slit in a stone wall. "Now," said the guide, "reach inside there and tell me what you feel." Dr. Peale reached inside and said, "I feel a stone statue, the facial features of a statue." The guide said, "What you are feeling is the face of a statue of our Savior Jesus Christ. Those men and women in the darkest hours of their hopelessness would come here and put their hands on His holy and loving face. It was ...

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