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1901. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... are at his disposal, and the major question is whether we acknowledge that or not, whether we voluntarily place them at his disposal, or whether he must with force reclaim them in the end along with all that he has placed at our disposal. It is in this that one senses the force of Paul’s words in the text before us: "God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not ...

1902. PASS THE SALT

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John H. Krahn

... message to his world in an exciting way. We are to be the salt of the earth. It takes very little effort to be tasteless in today’s world. But God wants us to be salty characters ... not in a racy, earthy sense but in an enhancing sense. Christians should enrich the lives of others. Having an engaging manner, we should cause people who meet us to comment, "He is so refreshing." "She is delightful; her faith makes her sparkle." Christians should never become completely satisfied with themselves. You must ...

1903. What Are You Going to Do About Death?

Mt 10:28 · Lk 12:4

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... , "Son, I hope you do! And if you do - he will get you - just like he got me!" This is great. The Christ will stand any examination, and if you examine him deeply enough, he will capture your life, and in this capture comes a deep sense of the eternal. There is a fascinating chapter in the book, Life Without Limits by Lloyd Ogilvie. This chapter is entitled, "Being Open to the Impossible." It suggests some challenging insights. A Christian is one who is open to the impossible. Man does the possible. God ...

1904. The Miracle of Christ

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... other youth, I was messing it up. I discovered that life did not begin and end with me, but in God. I came to my senses. God acted in my life when I was still separate from him. I was sick, and then suddenly I knew "I have got to have ... through life missing that deep thing - that fire, that inner compulsion, that inner peace; that still, small voice, that call, that challenge, that sense of eternal things! The real Christian experience is not thought out coldly. It is a gift from God, when we dare to be ...

1905. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... to a gruff, loud voice and say, "Come here you sweet little angel. I love you. I am going to hug you." The child will run away as fast as he can. A child watches your eyes; children perceive your attitude; they listen to the tone of your voice; they sense what’s inside you. These are the overtones. In the book, The Son of Man, the leader of the synagogue in the village where Jesus lived as a boy is thus described: "He kept all the fasts; he paid more than a tithe; he demanded that his sons and daughters ...

1906. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... progressively more difficult. As James Smart says, "But it is not like Jesus to play with a person’s faith in an hour of need merely to test the strength of faith."7 Others, like Luther,8 see the event as a trial of faith, not in the sense that Jesus was testing her faith to see how strong it was, but rather a testing that would in the process make of it a stronger faith. This is the principle that resistance is necessary for the development of strength, as every good athlete knows. These interpretations ...

1907. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... . Lovers express their love for one another by hugging, kissing, touching, fondling, holding, by making love. How do you make love to One whom you cannot see, touch, hold, taste, smell, or hear with any of the five senses? By keeping God’s commandments, that’s how. "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments," says John (1 John 5:3) - and Paul agrees when he says, "Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." If we honestly want to pay our debt of love ...

1908. Are You Exercising Your Faith?

Mt 4:1-11 · Phil 3:12 · Gen 32:3

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... faith’s heart trouble! In real life our faith occasionally suffers from heart trouble, and I emphatically believe that a large part of what delivers our faith from that disease is exercising it. In this context I am not speaking about exercise in the sense that we put our faith to work, as important as that is; rather I am speaking about exercise on the spiritual and mental level that corresponds to calisthenics on the physical level. There is good biblical precedent for wrestling with our faith. In the ...

1909. MIRIAM’S BABY BROTHER

Drama

Marcia Miller

... even felt the sunshine. But I suppose babies can’t feel anyway. MOTHER: That’s what you know. Babies are very much aware of what is going on around them. That is why Brother hasn’t cried out during the day. Somehow he senses there is danger. MIRIAM: I hope he keeps on sensing it. [TWO SOLDIERS enter without bothering to knock.] SOLDIER #1: It has been reported that there is a young male-child in this household. SOLDIER #2: We have come for it. MOTHER: There is no child in this house. SOLDIER #1: Not ...

1910. Don't Be Afraid of the Future

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... in Philadelphia celebrating the 250th birthday of our Methodist founder, John Wesley. After the conference, a friend drove him to the airport. As it happened, a terrible thunderstorm was in progress, with lightening streaking across the sky. His friend, with a questionable sense of humor, said, “Earl, I hope you make it. But if you don’t, tell old John Wesley that we celebrated his birthday party.” Earl Hunt replied, “Frankly, my friend, right now I’m not the least bit concerned about John Wesley ...

1911. Incalculable Riches by Bishop Roy C. Nichols

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... You Are Not Feeling Religious. I follow him pretty carefully, because he’s the same one who wrote the book, How to Become a Bishop Without Being Religious. In one of the sections in his book he makes an effort to desocialize our concept of God. It’s great to sense the immanence of God; but it’s important as well to understand the transcendence of God. To paraphrase Smith, in one place, he asks to keep on being the big God "I don’t want you to be my buddy," he says. The time has come in the history ...

1912. In the Spirit's Tether

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... of our oneness is strengthened and enriched. There is no magic here, with the elements. But, a miracle does take place in our self-awareness. The former feelings of self-intoxication slip away as we sense our subjection to one who strengthens and sustains us. Each one of us is an individual in every sense of the word. Yet, in spite of our marked singularness, nevertheless there arises one body, of which each believer is a member and Jesus Christ, the Head, controlling and guiding all. In the eating of ...

1913. On Being Able to Be Sorry

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... looked glamorous and he threw off all the restraints, only to find that what he had left, he wanted and needed most. "He came to his senses," the story says, and decided to return to his father and his home. As he thought about it, he knew what he wanted to say: "Father ... him that he could not just nonchalantly return and take up living where he had left off before his rude departure. His sense of honor and rightness would not even allow it, were it possible. Even though he knew his father loved him, he did ...

1914. Five Grains of Corn

Psalm 111:1-10

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... Compact. It begins: "In the name of God, Amen." In its less than 200 words, we find embodied the whole American system of free government. And through it all runs a deep spiritual strain which recognizes the Sovereignty of God and their sense of his divine leadership. The Pilgrims spelled God with capital letters. They worshiped, prayed and read his word regularly. They practiced his presence, emphasized his love and righteousness, and stood in awe of his judgment. That kind of faith and attitude enabled ...

1915. Running With Patience

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... patience is a wise teacher. Quaint though it may sound, it is nevertheless true. Adults as well as children are guilty of wanting to know all the answers, without taking time to understand the problems in order that the answers might make sense. An answer given to someone unprepared to understand it brings no fulfillment. Only as one searches and struggles, blindly at times, and even bitterly, lost and bewildered, waiting, wondering, seeking, questing, patiently moving step by step, does he find that which ...

1916. God, Help Us to Laugh

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... a group of people must be loose. Behind every successful institution or even athletic team lies a person who has a good sense of humor. In fact, most good organizations or teams hire a "humor man" who keeps everyone loose. Frequently the humor man commands ... of many churchgoers became more than mere attendance. Church should be a place of celebration. Thank God, a celebration of the senses has infiltrated churches. Even art and dance are beginning to find their way back into the church. More and more ...

1917. How To Be A Saint In A Storm

Acts 27:13-26

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... - it’s worse than that! It’s a darker time than anyone has ever encountered - and in the middle of that kind of hopeless situation, the preacher stands up among them and says: "BE OF GOOD CHEER!" Now here is a man who is either completely bereft of his senses, or else he has the most fantastic faith you’ve ever seen. This is good news born of great confidence in God, or else the raving of a blithering idiot. "Be of good cheer!" - in this kind of situation? If you are going to do anything then (or now ...

1918. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... that his freedom to sell milk ends where the rights of babies to health begin. He needed to be told: ‘Ye have been called into liberty; only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.’ Without a keen sense of social obligation, liberty is dangerous." Jesus said to these Jews: "Pay the tax; it is their coinage that has brought some benefits. Revolution will only make things worse for you." As a matter of fact, the Jews did not take Jesus’ advice, and there was a ...

1919. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... in society want to be free of the demands of the society around them. God never created you and me to be free in the popular sense of the word. He didn’t intend for us to live just for our own selfish whims. Life is not just one big picnic; nor is ... all put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free" (Romans 3:23-24). The Scripture promises liberation. It is the sense and realization of that which gave the New Testament its atmosphere. Thus, it is the happiest book in literature. When at last ...

1920. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... could have been said yesterday. And many of the people of our nation would agree with this attitude; but this is the very attitude of which the world is sick! And I suspect that Almighty God himself is a bit sick of it. Yes, in a very real sense, God gave us people this historic privilege of leadership. We were given the opportunity of being the shepherd, a shepherd of the world. But leadership was given, I earnestly believe, in order that we could lead the world to the one Good Shepherd. Why have we become ...

1921. Embalmed Alive

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... what we mean by an incident in the life of a professor who was walking on the grounds of a great European university, and one of the students was walking with him. The student had been attracted there by the reputation of the university, by the sense of prestige that that famous place gave him. He was planning to study law. "And what," said the professor, "will you do when you have finished?" "I will take my doctor’s degree." "And then what?" "After several difficult cases call attention to myself by ...

1922. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... a tax-gatherer, self-condemned before the law and appealing only to God’s mercy. Jesus concludes, "This man (the latter) went down to his house justified rather than the other" (Luke 18:14). Here the term "justified" (dedikaiomenos) is used in the precise Pauline sense of being acceptable to God, and the way of justification is shown to be the way of grace as distinguished from the way of the law. The divine love which freely pours itself upon the undeserving shines in its full glory from the cross, where ...

1923. Salvation as Hope

Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... dies, and the whole man, body and soul, is resurrected on the last day. There is no period of waiting, for waiting implies time, and beyond death time no longer has any significance. We may say that departed believers are at home with the Lord in the sense that their striving and waiting are over and they have reached their goal. But the dead are in a category of timelessness in which the end of time for an individual is indistinguishable from the end of history. It is questionable, however, whether such an ...

1924. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... and the publican was first told: "they trusted in themselves that they were righteous" (Luke 18:9). "Both Jesus and Paul agree," says Jeremias, "that no man is so far from God as the self-righteous person."26 The gospel of sin and grace begins to make sense only when man has become his own biggest problem, when he realizes that with all his achievements his orientation to life is wrong, that he needs God but his whole life is in contradiction to God. Today we are recovering the awareness of the need for a ...

1925. Numbered Hairs

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... moments that have already passed or that we think are ahead. This, she said, would add greatly to the enjoyment of life, for in most of the moments of our lives, nothing bad is happening. So why not recognize that and enjoy now?13 That is good sense, but it is not what Jesus had in mind when he talked about trusting God. He was talking about trusting him even when something bad is happening now. Byron Herbert Reece, the brilliant Georgia mountain poet, once saw a fallen sparrow upon the ground. As he mused ...

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