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1926. Advent 3: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Peace of Christmas

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... … “And they’ll never joke about that again. I want to win games for sure, but I also want my players to know the meaning of integrity.” Let me ask you something. Do you know the meaning of integrity and honesty and ethics and virtue and morality? Do you feel good about your life right now? About who you are? Let me underscore a point right now that is so full of Christmas… The only way we can be at peace with ourselves is to welcome the Prince of Peace into our hearts and lives. The only way we ...

1927. Prepare The Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Brett Blair

... hear was: turn your life toward this one called Messiah. Repentance is not negative or down faced. Rather, it looks up and looks forward. It breaks the chains of oppression and death that hold us back. Don’t get stuck in the notion that repentance means feeling sorry and miserable. It is simply this. It means you have stopped doing what is wrong and now you are going to do the right thing. And it means one more thing. True repentance means a willingness to confront sin. John the Baptist had this courage ...

1928. The Need for A Community of Healing

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... by faith and prayer -- their own, and the faith and prayer of others when they were too weak to pray for themselves. I have had many people tell me that. One man told me that when his minister took his hand to pray for him in the hospital, he could feel the healing power of love flow from the minister to himself. Soon he was home. Another told me as she lay in the hospital bed she just opened herself to receive the healing power of prayers being said in her behalf. It was as though she were being flooded ...

1929. Standing Room Only Religion

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... need for the living of these days. Minister to each of us according to our several needs. Send out your light and heal and help us to look to you, that we might be radiant and buoyant in our believing. Sometimes with the old spiritual we say: "Sometimes I feel discouraged, and think my work's in vain, but then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again." Help us to believe: "There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole. There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul." Hear our prayers, through Christ ...

1930. A Thimble Full Of Ocean

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Larry Powell

... ought not to have done and left undone that which should have been done. It is remotely admirable, perhaps, that we do somehow feel obliged to tell "them" about it. Our own reluctance to confess is outrageously inconsistent with reason in consideration of the fact that ( ... his sister clear the table and wash the dishes. The little boy was startled when his sister said, "I don’t feel like doing the dishes grandmother but brother would love to." Red-faced, the little boy seized an opportune moment when the ...

1931. Advent: Lament, Repent

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... We can easily think of worse sinners right in this room. Maybe right in the same pew! As a matter of fact, some of us habitually carry around a mental list of sinners certified to be worse than we are. (That’s a good list to rehearse when you start feeling guilty about something.) But it is true, most of our iniquities are not in the category of what used to be called "mortal sins." No, for us it’s more "the things we have left undone" that mean that "there is no health in us." Especially in the silence ...

1932. What We Can’t See

John 3:8

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A kite. Lesson: We can’t see the wind and we can’t see God, but we can feel them. What’s this thing I’m holding? Yes, it’s a kite. Have you ever flown a kite? Do you who have flown kites think it’s fun to do? What do you use to make a kite? Yes, you use ... way he is like the wind. The wind helps the kite go up high in the air. God helps us do what we need to do. We can’t see him and we can’t see the wind, but we can feel the wind and we can feel that God is with us when we need him.

1933. What Would We Do Without Friends?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... that we need to hear. We, the church, are sometimes not the solution, but we are a part of the problem. Several years ago there was a life guard’s convention in New Orleans. As the party was in progress a guest, 31 year old Jerome Moody, feel in the pool and drowned. The over 200 life guards in attendance were stunned by the irony. This hints to our problem. I cannot endorse much of the evangelism on T. V. these days by the charismatic church. The Charismatic Church in general is doing great things ...

1934. Heaven on Earth

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Richard Patt

... as being God’s country. But evidently he did, and I am glad he did. "God’s country" is always that place where we feel at home, where our dreams and future lie, where our heart and our friends are. How dare we scorn any place where others have ... share that awe and delight so incredibly. And we who are "more sophisticated" miss it. And there’s a richness there, a richness that I feel all of us can learn from. I know I do. I suppose that Beverly is probably the greatest grace that God has given me. She ...

1935. A God Pleasing Savior and God Pleasing People

Malachi 1:1-5

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... fixes Dad’s favorite dinner and the kids hate it. Dad builds a tree house which the kids love and Mom hates it. A person makes a decision to please himself or herself and everybody gets angry at him because of it. A good deal of the frustration we feel much of the time is the direct result of our inability to please people. We want to make people happy, to be true to ourselves while, at the same time, being what others want us to be. We want to be good persons, good friends, husbands, wives, fathers, and ...

1936. How Life’s Pressures Affect Good Judgment

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Brett Blair

... An elderly woman said, "My sister thinks she has all the answers about the faith and tries to convince me of her point of view. I feel pressured to become her brand of Christian, but I keep thinking if it means being like her, I don't want it at all. When ... shoulder and let her rant on while I do other things. A half-hour later, she's still on the line blasting away, but I still feel pressure." A young pastor at a clergy conference said, "I hardly know who I am any more. There are so many points of view in ...

1937. Dealing With The Dividing Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

James W. Moore

... peace with your son! Go reconcile! Go fix that! Get that divisive, destructive wall of pride out of there!” Listen! Is your pride separating you from anybody today? Is your pride a divisive wall of hostility? Are you alienated from anybody today? And by the way, do you feel estranged from God? Is your pride keeping you away from God? If so, give it up! Let it go! If you will swallow your pride and turn to God in humility, God can make it right! God can bring peace to your troubled soul! God can fix those ...

1938. Like Trees Walking

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... He was the one with a God’s-eye view of a brother in need, even though he might be a half-brother. We may feel that we suffer less if we don’t let ourselves focus clearly on the world about us with its tragedies, its inhumanities, its social injustices ... when we leave this church this morning to test our sight and take the first steps toward improving our ability to see and hence to feel, that we may pursue the Christian way and not avoid it? 1) Look at the person nearest you and see whether he or she ...

1939. The Vulnerable Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... they are killing him. It offends all human scales of justice; however, Jesus is representing a divine or transcendent scale. I learned that this mythology is a part of Nigerian myths from an African student, Joseph Owalabi, as he dealt with his people’s feelings and concept of death: The Aruba act as though death is meant for the aged, and given the right conditions, every person should live to a ripe old age. Therefore, when a young man dies, Aruba consider it a tragedy and enter into mourning. Death ...

1940. Be Careful How You Live

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... poverty it warns: be wise, do not join those who drink too much wine, for drunkards and gluttons become poor and drowsiness clothes them in rags (Ch 23). On violence Proverbs has the drunkard saying, “They hit me but I am not hurt! They beat me, but I don’t feel it! When will I wake up so I can have another drink?” (Ch 23). And on injustice the book warns that alcohol is not for kings to drink lest they forget what the law decrees (Ch. 31). Wisdom and sobriety go hand in hand. A drunk will find it ...

1941. Preconceived Ideas

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... shall nots.” Jesus cramps their life style. And, unfortunately, these people have plenty of examples in the church to point to, to prove that they are right. These are lifeless, colorless Christians who never smile, and seem as if they have no good news to share. They feel that it is wrong to be yourself, wrong to be free, wrong to enjoy beauty. Jesus the pale anemic Galilean is their view of our Savior and they fail to see the new life and abundant living of which Jesus spoke. They fail to see that ours ...

1942. Advent 4. Won't You Let Him Into Your Christmas?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... She had seen the Angel of Christmas in a hospital patient. Listen! The Angels of Christmas are all around us. The question is: Do we have the eyes of faith to see them, and the ears of faith to hear them, and the hearts of faith to sense and feel their presence? That’s number one: The Shepherds saw the Angel, and they responded in faith, hope and love. II. SECOND, THEY SAW THE CHRIST-CHILD. You may say: How could they miss Him? There was that “Bright Star” in the sky. But, most everybody else did miss ...

1943. Good News for Bad Times

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... card? An elderly couple was in a card shop looking for Christmas cards. The wife said, "Here is one I like but I don't care for the words." Her husband replied, "That doesn't matter, because nobody bothers to read the message anyway." Maybe the world -- you and I -- feel the same about God's message on the Christmas card. We want the trappings, the music, the Santa, the good times of Christmas but not the message. Yet, it is the message that is all-important, for it is a message of good news in bad times.

1944. A Stronger Hand

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... with gladness. To you, who steadies us whenever we falter and who brings our hearts to thanksgiving, we praise your holy name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Sometimes, God, we feel as if we were a remnant, torn and waving in the wind. Sometimes we feel as if we were broken pieces scattered over a tiled floor. Sometimes we feel like an overturned, uprooted houseplant. Gather us in. Breathe your life into us again. Renew our sense of wholeness through your saving grace. Amen. Hymns “God Of The Ages” “O ...

1945. The Kind of People Whom God Chooses

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... think I could play for the Cowboys?” Dr. Hubbard sized him up and responded, “Son, I don’t know if you have the size to play professional football. But keep at it, for you never know what might happen.” By the time he sank his final putt, Dr. Hubbard was feeling a little guilty about what he said, so he turned to the caddy and said, “I want you to have this t-shirt, but I’m afraid it is too big for you.” The young man smiled at him. Then he said something very wise. “Don’t worry, sir. I ...

1946. Old Favorite

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... or against the life-giving community.3 Paul would correctly state “If I lack charity I am nothing. In the eyes of God, I am dead. I cease to exist. I am nothing, nothing at all.” It is hard to motivate a dead person. It is hard to feel satisfied when you are religiously dead. 1 Corinthians 13. An old favorite. Yesterday’s news? A sugar stick from a previous era? Perhaps not. 1. As told by James Dobson on a number of occasions. 2. Peter F. Drucker, The Changing World of the Executive (New York: Truman ...

1947. Exposed!

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... closed blinds, wondering about our own health and personal salvation? This sermon probably doesn’t feel very comfortable, for you or for me. But, in the final analysis, I’m not certain how much God cares about our feelings. God appears to be as much concerned about the way we treat others in ... our world and the visions we exchange with one another as God does the way we feel about ourselves. God apparently wants us to expose ourselves to the public. Paul’s insistence that this reflection of ...

1948. God's Gifts Are Free: Enjoy

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... are the sort of things you do because you believe that God, society, and common decency require you to do them. We are proud of these good deeds. I am. Are you? Luther makes a penetrating observation about all these good works that we have done and feel so good about. In one of his lectures on the book of Deuteronomy he wrote these words about such works of the Law: For the Law first forces to works and when taken in the fleshly sense produces brilliant hypocrites, who imagine themselves to be the first ...

1949. One-Fired Up Preacher!

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... should go for it. “The Lord has sent me as far as Bethel” ... “The Lord has sent me to Jericho”... “The Lord has sent me to the Jordan” (cf., 2 Kings 2:2, 4, 6). Have you ever felt brokenhearted, alone, or despondent? Elijah knew all those feelings too. Not long before, perhaps you remember, Elijah prayed to die. “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life” (1 Kings 19:4). It was the only petition in his prayer not answered. I can imagine that as he swept towards heaven on that chariot, he ...

1950. Light to Serve

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... of false modesty most of us resort to when we really want to be coaxed into something. Nor was Isaiah merely self-conscious about this radically new experience as he performed his usual stint in the holy of holies. Rather, Isaiah was deeply aware how keenly we should feel the burden of our guilt and shame in the presence of our Creator. All of us should sense the same emotions as Isaiah as we approach our worship. As a place set apart where we can be confronted by the presence of the holy, our worship space ...

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