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1876. The Future Shapes the Present

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... peace, where the will of God would be done, a kingdom of God where the lion would lie down with the lamb; where the king on the throne would be the Prince of Peace and not a totalitarian despot. He said his Spirit, his Holy Spirit, would be here to support it. But it doesn’t seem to have happened. To be quite honest, even in the day of Jesus there was a dark side to Christmas. There was no peace on earth. At the human level it appeared that nothing had changed. The rivers of the Middle East still ran ...

1877. Respect

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of Christ, Paul takes it upon himself to articulate Christ’s respect, not tolerance, for those who are different. The text challenges us to respect one another in our different places with our different gifts. And with respect comes the willingness to support and undergird one another. The world has seen tolerant religious groups before. But true examples of fellowship and love are rare, even in religious circles. They produce a body of mutual respect quite unlike that which is normally seen, even in a ...

1878. Old Favorite

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to make it on his own, but he was terribly lonely. He went home and begged her to take him back. He crawled. He came back on her terms: she could take his meager salary and spend it any way she wished. She belittled his feeble attempts to support the family in front of her friends. He began to weep bitterly in the darkness of his love-deprived nightmare. He was completely and consistently without knowledge of love. But the next day he was a different person. He went to the garage and took down his rifle ...

1879. The Power of Uninformed Decisions

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Jesus’ genealogy back only to Abraham, Paul equaled the risen Christ with the redemption of the whole human race. Christ was the second Adam. Jesus was the reordering and reconstitution of all human flesh. Paul carried his analogy of death and rebirth back to Adam to support his point. This was not the Greek idea of a soul but life as a human being, represented by the first Adam, being compared to a second Adam as a divine spirit. By using the word “heaven” four times in the passage, Paul elevated the ...

1880. Salvation Includes Social Justice

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... : Will not the Lord say, “Why have you allowed so many needy to die of hunger? Surely you had gold with which to minister sustenance. Why were so many prisoners carried off and not ransomed?...” To sum up ... “Whatever, then, the Church had was for the support of the needy.” Likewise: “The bishop had nothing that did not belong to the poor.”7 Everything the Church has belongs to the poor. But if we are going to show a preference for the poor so that they can have power that means not just giving ...

1881. Sustaining the Weary with a Word

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... way they have tried to humiliate me? What are the charges? Helping the widows? Loving the little children? A willingness to be crucified for the sins of the world? What are the charges? Healing on the sabbath? Sitting and eating with sinners? Having women to support my movement? Choosing the most unlikely to succeed as my disciples? Quitting my job as a carpenter and receiving the call of the Father to make fishers of men and women? What are the charges? Calling women into ministry? Loving those who are gay ...

1882. The Hospitable Servant: A Woman Named Lydia

Acts 16:11-15

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... corroborated by the biblical record, for it is evident that Jesus, the apostle Paul, and the other apostles and disciples had a reverence and respect for women in general and women of faith in particular. In fact, women were the mainstay of support of Jesus’ movement, and there are other references throughout the Bible to women of power and strength whose faithfulness, humility, and tenacity helped to establish and solidify the early and later Christian movements. One such person was a woman called Lydia ...

1883. A Song of Promise

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... in famine and pestilence. One pastor left and two died, leaving Rinkart to minister alone. He read burial services for as many as forty and fifty persons in one day. His wife succumbed to the pestilence, and he survived an illness. Rinkart received little support from the town authorities, and eventually was even harassed by them. Totally exhausted he went to his grave, December 8, 1649. What he bequeathed to us was not only his untiring example of unselfishness but his great hymn, “Now Thank We All Our ...

1884. The Fruit of Forgiveness

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... the needs of fellow prisoners. One has to remember that Joseph had been completely on his own during these years. The parental influence is not there. His brothers had despised him and had sent him not only into slavery but also to an alien culture. There was no support system of any kind for him. There was no chaplain to visit and comfort him. There was no teacher to come and advise him. No one sent him a Bible or some devotional literature to consult or study. All that Joseph had to fall back on was the ...

1885. Rich Man or Poor Man?

Drama

Dave Marsh

... This drama presents no answers to the question: Poverty or Prosperity: Which is Biblically correct? But it is a good setup to a message about the subject of money, the Christian, and why some people are blessed financially more than others. I wrote this drama to support a series on stewardship and what God expects from us in terms of how we handle time, talents and treasures. Cast: Dave: A clueless Dad Teri: Dave's wife Kim: Dave's teenage daughter Props: A card table Wall Street Journal 3 chairs A magazine ...

1886. The Johnson Account (A Drama about the Holy Spirit)

Drama

Dave Marsh

... audience) heh. (LIGHTS OUT) END Alternate Ending.... April: Um. Nothing. That’s the doorbell. The pizza guy is here. Jeff: The pizza guy? April: Yeah. You know, he delivers pizza. (says 'pizza' slowly as if talking to a child) April: (April puts her arm around his shoulders (as if to support him a bit) as they walk off. Jeff looks around kinda dazed) You know, Jeff, you really need to relax more. You're too high strung. Let's talk about it. Etc. (LIGHTS OUT) END

1887. His Teachings

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of God. It is a delicate balancing act; I admit. And Jesus understood that it was delicate. You can hear that in his careful answer. At times we have a duty to Rome and other times a duty to God. Money that is to go to taxes cannot go to support the church. You try to make that argument with the IRS and you won’t be around long or have money enough to help the church. At any rate, Jesus sufficiently straddled the issue that the Herodian was not able to entrap him. II Next in the crowd stepped forth ...

1888. His Resurrection

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

Sermon

Brett Blair

... social ladder and the testimony of women was regarded as worthless. If the disciples wanted to create a more believable story they would have had men discovering the tomb first. The evidence is that they told the story as it actually happened. 4. Paul's testimony supports the fact of the empty tomb. Paul was a respected Jew. But he claims he encountered the risen Christ. I should add here that Paul does not have in mind a spiritual or metaphorical death and rebirth. He wrote in his letters “he was buried ...

1889. Why Do You Seek The Living Among The Dead?

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Brett Blair

... women might have said, “Sirs we do not seek the living among the dead for the dead do not live.” The grave for Jews is a place of death. Scripture as they knew it, the Torah, did not address the issue of Resurrection at all—there are no text supporting the concept or denying it. It’s like so many things today that the New Testament is silent on. So, the women have no comfortable text that they can turn to as they go to the grave on this Sunday morning. For them Jesus is dead. So there was first ...

1890. A Happy Ending

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Brett Blair

... a group of theologians, politicians, economists and military men living in the first half of the nineteenth. Here is what they had to say: In 1800 Bishop Barclay declined the position of Archbishop of Canterbury with the words: "I have not strength to support a failing church." In 1801 William Wilberforce, the man instrumental in the anti-slavery movement in England said: I dare not marry, the future is too uncertain. In 1806 William Pitt said: There is scarcely anything around us but ruin and despair. In ...

1891. Truth - How Do You Know It When You Hear It?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... severe burns in its gaseous state. 4. Accidental inhalation can kill you. 5. It contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.. 6. It decreases the effectiveness of automobile brakes. 7. It is found in tumors of terminal cancer patients. He asked 50 people if they support a ban. 43 said yes Six were undecided And only one knew that the chemical is ... water. I just about fell out of my chair when I found the website DHMO.org. Apparently some prankster has taken this little spoof to a whole new level ...

1892. Liberty And Civility

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Luther King encountered it in the streets of Memphis. And John F. Kennedy in his Inaugural Address warned the enemies of liberty: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty." On no greater stage is this now being played out than on the streets of Baghdad and the mountains of Afghanistan. The people of these two countries are being ...

1893. The Political Controversies Of Jesus

Luke 20:27-47

Sermon

Brett Blair

1894. The Devil Made Me Do It

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Sclerosis, and HAS had it for a number of years. But his MS was kept quiet - and the result was that no one knew of it when he was campaigning for the highest office in the land. Now his opponents are screaming FRAUD; his supporters are just screaming. Congress wants to censure him for his duplicity. Negotiations go back and forth between the White House and the Capitol. Could the President avoid such a harsh public condemnation? Should he simply accept it? His staff is adamant in opposing any compromise ...

1895. Remembering 9/11

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of a fanatical fringe - to tar all of Islam with the brush of Al-Quaida would be the same as tarring all Christianity with the brush of the Ku Klux Klan. We reacted better than that, and I am glad. There was a wonderful outpouring of support for the victims and their families. Remember the long lines at the blood banks? The billions of dollars ungrudgingly given to charities who would provide assistance, in some cases more money than they knew what to do with? Americans are a generous people. We already ...

1896. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , no theft. Husbands and wives would not have to worry about the faithfulness of the other (and we never would have heard of Monica Lewinsky). Lying and gossiping would all stop. Parents would not have to be concerned about disobedient children or how they would be supported in their old age. And the churches would be jammed because God would be preeminent in all our lives. But that quiet moment would be ruined once the News came on - Film at 11. Too bad. Now, on the face of them, some of these commandments ...

1897. The Ten Commandments #3: God's Name

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... WRONGFUL USE of the name of the LORD your God..." as we read from the NRSV, are quite correct. That retains the prohibition against using God's name as a casual curse while expanding into the realm of insuring that God's name is not used as active support for evil or injustice. One final thought here on this use of God's name as an expletive: the fact that this is NOT what prompted the commandment is all the more obvious when we know that the last thing an Israelite man or woman would have considered saying ...

1898. The Ten Commandments #10: No Covetousness

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , it is unjust to let his child starve. To an employer, it may seem unjust to be forced to pay a worker a certain minimum wage regardless of the task performed, but to the employee, 40 hours of labor to only collect enough at the end of the week to support a family at the poverty line is also unjust. To a banker, it is unjust when folks do not repay their honest debts, but to the one about to be evicted in a foreclosure proceeding, it is seen as unjust to be tossed out in the street. As we say ...

1899. Remember!

Deuteronomy 31:30--32:47

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... lives were saved by this wonderful little station, so that it became famous. Some of those who were saved, and various others in the surrounding area, wanted to become associated with the station and give of their time and money and effort for the support of its work. New boats were bought and new crews were trained. The little lifesaving station grew. Some of the members of the lifesaving station were unhappy that the building was so crude and poorly equipped. They felt that a more comfortable place should ...

1900. The God of the Unlikely

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . harked back to the story of Moses. It was the spring of 1968, and Dr. King was heavily involved with organizing what was known as the Poor People's Campaign, but in the midst of that he took time off to travel to Memphis, Tennessee to lead a demonstration in support of higher wages for the garbage collectors of that city. At a rally on April 3rd, the day before he was gunned down on that motel balcony, he said, I don't know what will happen now. We have got difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with ...

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