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Showing 1926 to 1950 of 4340 results

1926. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... father, I remember more than anything else their essential goodness. Their love for us children stood the test and still does. Can a minister lead a congregation in love and faith, if he, himself, lacks self-discipline and high moral and ethical character? Can the greatest surgeon in the world operate successfully with rusty, unclean instruments? Can God ever build a good world out of people who have lost their striving after goodness? Education is not constituted so much of theories, but of great teachers ...

1927. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... Karl Jung gives some sense to the meaning of this, "We have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future within even wilder violence the farther it takes us from our roots." And what are our roots? One of Skinner’s characters confesses the humanistic idolatry: "I’ve had only one idea in my life (a true fixation).... To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. ‘Control’ expresses it, I think. The control of human behavior ..." Humanistic leaders seek to ...

1928. Clouds and Son-Shine

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... . One wonders how God communicated such a strong drive to these men to go to so much trouble for such a brief visit. We would hardly drive five hundred miles in our cars - a long day’s journey - for a brief visit to one of such unknown character (remember: he had not yet in any way "proved" himself - they simply accepted at face value what they saw!); much less would we have endured this hardship for such a prolonged period of time just for this brief encounter. Shift your attention now, if you will, from ...

1929. Tis Good To Be Here

Matthew 17:1-13

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... and was able to soak it into his weary, tired and aching bones. The fresh air blew softly in his face and invigorated his lungs and cleared his mind. What a wonderful place to be! And no doubt, if we could have asked Tolkien's fictional character, Bilbo Baggins, he would have said, "Yes, 'tis good to be here." Now, that story is fiction, but it reminds us of a time when three disciples were permitted a view that was extraordinary. What happened on the Day of Transfiguration was real. When Jesus took ...

1930. TO LIVE IS CHRIST

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John H. Krahn

... something that happens to you, it is something you make happen. It is not a noun but a verb ... actively making an impact on the lives of those who come into contact with it. Most of the significant Christians have been strong people of great character. People willing to do what was right rather than what was expedient ... men and women who felt that living a meaningful life was more important than life itself. Those who feel they can live a significant life apart from Jesus Christ might well rethink the ...

1931. TONGUE POWER

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John H. Krahn

... savored a choice piece of gossip and then shared it with someone else? "Have you heard about Jill? I saw her having lunch with her boss." Finger-pointing and fault-finding are favorite pastimes of the gossiper. The dubious art of gossip murders good character. Our second subtlety is the sin of insidious inference. While not directly accusing, inference suggests that that which appears to be pristine on the surface may not be after all. A statement like, "Can’t imagine why Beth is so popular with the guys ...

1932. The Miracle of Christ

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... struggle over a period of three months while the spirit of God was working out something in me that had to be worked out, before I could really be his child. God knew that some things had to be worked out and changed in my nature and in my character, and that I had to be willing for this to happen, in my conscious and subconscious being, before he could set me free. Then, strange mysterious things took place deep within my inner being. Faith was given. I was surprised by my new moral hunger. My whole nature ...

1933. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... of the spirit of the Scribes and Pharisees - very correct in moral life and very unattractive and rigid in lifestyle. Because he lacked winsomeness and understanding; because he failed to think things through with his growing son, he lost his son. He had character without beauty. Overtones! The continuing "hum" was not appealing. Joseph Fort Newton once told of a young lady - lonely, desperate, in a large city, seeking a faith to live by. Someone told her of a family which went to a church every Sunday ...

1934. The Gospel According to Christ’s Enemies

John 11:1-16

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... come. Any moment they expected him to appear. The waiting must have been torturous! Each hour their brother grew weaker and still Jesus did not come. Such apparent indifference and tardiness on the part of our Lord is so unexpected and so out of character with all other evidence of Jesus’ sensitivity and compassion for those who hurt and are in need. John seemed to sense this reaction, for he introduces the fact of Jesus’ delay with the statement, "Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus." Rather ...

1935. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... . Loving one another is such a grand thing to preach about, so damnably hard to do. We’ve tried it so many times - we really have! - and have been disappointed so often. Eugene Ionesco wrote a play sometime ago entitled, The Airwalker. The chief character, Berringer, is walking one day in the countryside. Suddenly he realizes that the greatest thing that can happen to anyone is love. The more he thinks about it, the more exalted he becomes. All at once he finds himself suspended above the ground. The ...

1936. A Liturgical Drama For Advent

Drama

Tom Eberle

... for worship is written, not as frosting, but with the intention that the church year provides the staging through which the Christian story is made known. To proclaim the gospel without telling of Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost, is like writing a novel without any characters or visual landscape. The church year incarnates the gospel, making it visible in pageantry and story to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see. Of the seasons of the church year, Advent is the least clear in its focus. It was ...

1937. A SERMON DRAMA FOR CHRISTMASTIDE

Drama

Tom Eberle

... , if you were me, would you believe this story about an angel talking to a woman? Female: You’re calling this man a fairy tale! Gabriel: How do you know I’m a man? Female: I’m getting tired of this. I do my best to defend you against this character who puts you in the same league with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, and you don’t even stick up for me. Gabriel: All you’ve said about me so far is that I am a man who has wings and wears sheets. Female: Well, you know what I ...

1938. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EPIPHANY

Drama

Tom Eberle

... astrologers thought they had all the latest dope about stars. All of a sudden one day they up and decided to follow me. I’m not used to people following me. I come when they call me, so I figure that they ought to respect my privacy. Well, these characters wouldn’t let me out of their sight. I thought I had managed to ditch them in the Arabian desert, but when I got to Jerusalem they were still on my tail - figuratively speaking. You notice that stars really don’t have tails. [motions as if to show ...

1939. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

Drama

Tom Eberle

... during this season. A certain dramatic license has been taken in shifting the focus of attention from the parent to the child. However, in a sense it does not matter whether one focuses upon Abraham or Isaac, because the story is only about one character. Isaac was an extension of his father, Abraham. For Abraham to sacrifice his son was to sacrifice himself, because everything that he was to become in the future was dependent upon the existence of Isaac. The story, then, is really centered in the surrender ...

1940. Old and New

Mk 2:22 · 2 Cor 5:17 · Is 43:19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... school of thought holds that new and old are in competition, and those who buy into this school of thought hold one of two positions. Here is the first position. Old is better than new. This position is held by some medically. The television character Marcus Welby reminded many of us in our thirties and beyond of the old family doctor who would unhesitatingly make housecalls and not necessarily just in the daytime. My wife still remembers from her childhood one particular doctor who would come to her home ...

1941. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... ourselves to a far harsher exile than that experience by "them." We show ourselves to be callous, smug, cold-hearted, high and mighty in our self-centeredness. And doing so, we take on a risk that may well be eternal as well as temporal in character. That is to say, we lose, concretely and here and now, the considerable human resources of mind and, yes, of body that thousands upon thousands of men and women have to offer America. But we also risk losing something else - our own dignity badly tarnished ...

1942. Winners, Losers and the Gospel

Mt 16:25

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... won the bout with his father and got his father to acknowledge a victory that never was, but winning he really lost. While he won the battle of persuading his father to dignify a lie, he lost an important moment in what we call the formation of character. Sometimes winning, we lose infinitely more than we gain. 3. Further still, we can invert what we have just said and say that losing, we can win: "... whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." (Matthew 16:25) That’s how Jesus expressed it. This ...

1943. Are You Under Arrest?

Heb 5:11-13; 10:39

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... 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 seem, to be religiously creative. He was a member of the Pharisees and as a Pharisee found himself in the strangle-hold of religious legality. Word of Jesus and his work came to Nicodemus and under the cover ...

1944. Dessert in the Desert

Deut 32:10-12 · Ez 37

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... severed lives. They are cut off from the meaning - yielding depths. This is the state of affairs that led Jesus to say that "men shall not live by bread alone." T. S. Eliot, in his play The Family Reunion, gets at this when he has a character, Harry, remark about people: They don't understand what it is to be awake, To be living on several planes at once Though one cannot speak with several voices at once. 2 Religious emptiness is derivative of being what Herbert Marcuse termed "one dimensional" men. "The ...

1945. The Therapy of Song

1 Samuel 16:14-23, Exodus 15:1-21, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... Many have enjoyed either the screen or stage version of "Fiddler on the Roof." It is the story of life in a Jewish ghetto called Anatevka, and music is quite literally the saviour of the people as they bear the pangs of prejudice. Throughout the story, the main character Tevye sings his way along. At one point he fantasizes in song about what it would be like if he were a rich man, and when he is finished, one is left with the impression that while he, like any of us, would like to be opulent, nevertheless ...

1946. Manasseh

2 Kings 21:1-18

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... prosperous, and Judah fared well politically and economically. There are two biblical accounts of Manasseh, the one we have just read, and another in 2 Chronicles. The Chronicler, however, adds an altogether different ending. Manasseh repents, undergoes a complete change in character. Not so in Kings. Here Manasseh dies the same evil man he was during his long life. Unquestionably, the Kings account is the most historically accurate, also the most life-like. IS THERE AN ANSWER? Life often seems cruelly out ...

1947. Phoebe

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... she always demonstrated; no half-hearted, lukewarm member. We may be sure she opened her home for worship services, and she offered hospitality to missionaries. During Paul’s stay in the area she may have been his hostess. Who has not seen the Phoebe character, played to the hilt, in the local congregation? Without her, the church would not be the moving, progressive grass roots force it is today. The Phoebes of the church are those noble women who, even in this modern day, are not afraid to be found ...

1948. Epilogue

Psalm 107:1-43

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Warren Thomas Smith

... . Were they irresponsible? Did they muff their lines? Were they tardy on entrances? In short, how did they play their roles? Only history can judge. They are gone - we are here. We are part of humanity and history. We have become the current cast of characters. We live today, and who knows what our actions may spark, what lasting event may come as a result of a single word? Our particular role may be ostensibly microscopic, but in the total drama, what may come of it? When Mrs. Rosa Parks refused ...

1949. IN THE BEGINNING ... THERE WAS LOVE ...

Drama

Marcia Millerf

... stage setting is also simple. On stage there are two tower-like structures which have steps on the downstage side. These should be painted white and set before black curtains. If this is not possible, use two white chairs placed on levels of the same height. CHARACTERS (1 man, 1 woman) THE GIRL: She is eagerly awaiting for life to begin. With the freshness of youth, she is bright, gay, playful, pretty, and almost-but-not-quite sure of herself. THE GIRL knows that life is about to be hers. She just wonders ...

1950. MIRIAM’S BABY BROTHER

Drama

Marcia Miller

... to another room in the house. Sitting on the table is a large basket. It is big enough to carry a bundle - such as a baby. Although this is the ideal set, substitutions (such as using the back of a lectern for the china cabinet) can be made. CHARACTERS MOTHER MIRIAM - a young girl SOLDIER #1 SOLDIER #2 Just before the lights come on, a woman’s scream is heard. Lights. "Not my baby; not mine." More screams. Other voices: "Stay away from here." "This is a girl baby." MOTHER enters the room from stage right ...

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