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1926. Does God Really Know Me?

Matthew 10:1-42

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... This is our last special service together, my little friends, and I want you to know how much I have enjoyed every minute of it. We have talked about the kind of things that I have wanted to talk about for a long time and just never had the right kind of people to talk them over with until you came here. I know that your parents have appreciated listening to the kind of questions that you ask because they have told me so. Now I don’t want you to think that I am the only one to whom you are important ...

1927. Christmas Carols · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Luke 2:1-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the accidents. The writer of the carol was a very young minister by the name of Charles Wesley who was greatly disliked by the important people of the church. This was a long time ago in England when there were two kinds of churches. One kind was okay with the king and the other was not. Charles was a member with the kind that the king did not like. One day a printer was making up a prayer book for the king’s church and he had an extra page with nothing to put on it. He had plenty of ink and all ...

1928. Sharing Brings Us Together

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... we are going to have what we want to write a letter. The same thing is true with food. There are people who have a lot of food, and there are some who have none. There are some people who have one kind of food, but do not have another kind. There are some people who have a lot of different kinds of food, but they have no oil. Some people have food, but they do not have factories. Some people have beautiful diamonds, but they don’t have food. It takes a lot of sharing on the part of everyone to make ...

1929. God of the Weekday

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... Lord’s name profanely in my presence and then he will catch himself and apologize to me. Why? It wasn’t my name that he defamed. You see the silly, childish superstition? I’m a clergyman and, therefore, I somehow carry God around with me. And there is always a kind of irritation and resentment on the part of these men that I’ve somehow brought God to where He didn’t belong, gotten Him into a place where He shouldn’t be, and it’s my fault. If God got insulted, why did I bring Him here? That’s ...

1930.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... are safe here. Pilate: Inform me further, if I can be of service. This was a bad business today. Joseph: He forgave you. I must do the same. Pilate: Do you want my guard to accompany you? Joseph: No. Thank you. I will be all right. We do appreciate your kindness. God bless you. (He leaves left.) Herod: He is risking his neck by doing this. Pilate: What did that man have, to attract such devotion? Herod: I don’t know, but I wish I had it. Pilate, I must return to my palace, where I will be in touch with ...

1931. THE MARRIAGE GAP

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... sometimes assume: men do cry, and women can be strong - but there is a difference that has to be reckoned with. I raised the question, when I taught a marriage class, about what people would think of a book titled The Sexual Life of a Nun. I got all kinds of snappy answers such as "shortest book on record" and such. The fact of the matter is, however, that such a book would be perfectly legitimate - for a nun, and any other woman, who does have a sexual life in that her thinking, her emotions, her style of ...

1932. What’s Going On in Your Orchard?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... morning. We’re talking of what’s going on in the orchard of your life. What are you producing? Saint Paul once enumerated in his writings what those fruits of the spirit were. He said, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." How’s that for a fruit basket? A good list for the cultivation of life’s orchard. With these fruits in mind, what’s going on in your orchard? Nothing goes on unless Christ is our vine of life. Without ...

1933. He Ought to Stick Out!

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... young girl again!" Her roommate laughed, too, but with a tear in her eye queried, "How about me? Nobody gives me kisses anymore." And so I did. I couldn’t help but think later, I wonder how many others in this world are not being kissed with love of any kind? That little child was correct. "If Jesus lives inside of me, it seems to me he ought to stick out!" HE OUGHT TO STICK OUT! I pray God’s spirit so shines through you, in your acts of love and concern for others.

1934. The Crowd That Betrayed Him

Matthew 26:47-56

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of a crowd that loved Jesus and part of a crowd that feared Jesus, but today you are going to be a very different kind of crowd. You may not like yourselves very much today but it is a part of our story and we should learn a lot ... They thought that Jesus was going to be King like other kings and live in a palace. But Jesus kept telling them that he was going to be a different kind of king. He was not going to live like the rich and powerful. He was going to be king over men who believed in God and lived in a ...

1935. The Testing Law Man

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... villains of his story. The third man - a Samaritan - stopped and assisted the stricken man, helping him to an inn and providing for his care. Not answered in the story was why a foreigner was on the road, nor what his business was that would give him the kind of money needed for that assistance! But he made the Samaritan a hero - for he "was neighbor to him that fell among the thieves." Do you see the subtle scandal here? As a lawyer I am acutely conscious of it. In this simple story, the Nazarene showed a ...

1936. Unwavering Light

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... easy to subordinate all our human interests to that one purpose. When Columbus got back from his voyage, he had to prove that he had discovered a new world. Words were not sufficient. His proof was the American Indians he brought back to Spain with him. They were a new kind of people. Nobody in Spain had seen their race before. They were Columbus’ certain evidence. Just so, Saint Paul understood that Christ’s Kingdom was a new world. This could be believed only if Christians could be seen as a new ...

1937. Commanded By Example

John 13:31-38

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... ’t know they were going to lose their mom. Oh, she was a beautiful Christian all through it to the very end." How quick we are to judge and how slow we are to love and keep loving in spite of outward appearances. How can we have this kind of love? Years ago Henry Drummond wrote a classic sermon about love titled "The Greatest Thing In The World." He concluded by suggesting that if you put a piece of iron in the presence of an electrified body, that piece of iron becomes electrified. It is changed into ...

1938. Prepare The Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Methodist people in the event of his death. But it Fletcher who died first and John Wesley preached his funeral. He referred to Fletcher as the perfect man. Historians comment on the amazing impact of his goodness. There is no answer to that kind of life. Some years ago a communist newspaper reporter was conducting an in depth study of a Roman Catholic order of Nuns working in Paris. The hard bitten reporter, Pierre Giraud was convinced that the good works, the loving philanthropy, the apparent tenderness ...

1939. The Need for A Community of Healing

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... his illnesses are still very much a mystery. Despite all the advanced technology and highly sophisticated techniques, they are not yet altogether sure what was wrong. One day while visiting my friend, he said he felt he could make it if only he could get some kind of inner peace. Deep within his being something was wrong, he said. There was an imbalance, a distress, an anguish which prohibited an inward strength he felt necessary for healing. He read the book of Job, as did his wife, and said at one time he ...

1940. Astonishing!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... first thing to notice is that the man did not burst into the synagogue disrupting the service. Mark tells us that this was a man within their synagogue, probably a respected lay person and a productive member of society. The synagogue leaders would not permit any other kind. A second thing to notice is that this man’s affliction is only identified as an evil spirit. The demon is not tied to any sickness. What then was this demon doing to this man? We cannot say for sure but I would suggest that the demons ...

1941. The Call of the Trumpet

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

George Bass

... Kong. He had given his life to work among the Chinese and had come to be known as "the Lutheran theologian of the Orient." A kindly man at all times, I discovered that he could gently prod a lecturer to get at some missed or deeper meaning. Just recently, I read ... the end of Lent. Lent is a voluntary fast meant to remind us how fragile a hold we have on life. It is a kind of starvation and a taste of that suffering our Lord shared with all of us whenever he fasted. When James S. Stewart included "suffering ...

1942. The Vine That Lives Forever

John 15:1-17

Sermon

George Bass

... suitable to Roman Catholic worship) Pray for us, Mother, when we die, alleluia!49 Non-Roman Catholic Christians might want to substitute one of the prayers found in the baptismal service or one of the Easter prayers for this prayer, but the same kind of home vespers would be spiritually profitable for all varieties of Christians. This much we know about Easter and Eastertide: The Great Word - Christ is risen! - first sounded on Easter morn still echoes and reechos through these Great Fifty Days of Easter ...

1943. A Prayer for the Faithful

John 17:6-19

Sermon

George Bass

... of catacombs in and around the city of Rome, and that martyrs were buried in most of them, one begins to realize that they couldn’t have lived for Christ - and died for him and the faith - without the help of God. Few among us are asked to make the kind of sacrifices which they made - literally to lay down our lives for Christ. Don’t we even resist mightily when, annually, we are called upon to make financial pledges for the work of the church of Christ in our time and world? Don’t we limit the use of ...

1944. On His Way

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... Lot’s wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt" (19:26). She turned back! She had not wished to leave. Her memories were there, her possessions were there, her sons-in-law were there, and it has been suggested by some that the kind of life she loved was there, in which case her securities would have been there. For whatever reason, she turned her eyes back, away from the forward path. How many times our Lord could have turned back! How many times the security of home and family and the ...

1945. When God Almighty Speaks ... Listen!

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... priest was blind! It was night. The lamp of God which had burned all night, had not yet gone out. It was now just before dawn. But it was still very dark, as dark as the vision of Eli, as dark as the absence of God. You can feel that kind of darkness without going too far from home. Imagine a big church on a downtown street in the middle of the night. The street light down the block only serves to underscore how dark it is inside. Everything is locked up tight, dead-bolted and chained. The only light in ...

1946. What Would We Do Without Friends?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , “No you don’t. No you don’t. Cause if you did I would go to that church.” Wouldn’t we all want to belong to church like that? A church that doesn’t block the doors but opens itself up to all who would come in. That’s the kind of church I want to go to. III The third personality in the story is the cripple, to understand his plight, we must first realize that in the world of Jesus health and theology were viewed as inseparable. If you were sick it was because God was angry with you ...

1947. What If It Is True?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

... own is downright foolishness. Besides, a lot of folks are just plain hard to love. They’re unattractive, unpleasant, and selfish. They don’t deserve our care. Love requires giving things up; it takes time; it can mean risking rejection; it means sharing in sufferings and all kinds of things like that which interrupt the few pleasures one has in life. Maybe that is why we tend to be so self-centered: we’re sure that no one will love us the way we are that we had better be sure we take care of ourselves ...

1948. Strong Faith For Tough Times

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... their war is of God, that their military crusade is divinely ordained and divinely inspired. The Holy War Crusaders are absolutely certain that their convictions are right because they believe firmly that they are fighting for God. Many wars in history have started with this kind of religious fervor. One of the most tragic examples of the Holy War mind-set occurred in the Middle Ages when a group of 20,000 children (some of them no more than 12 years of age) became convinced that God wanted them to wage ...

1949. A Christian's Duty in Time of War

Nehemiah 4:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... God’s reason for driving the Canaanites out of the Promised Land. Those people were so evil that they had a custom of burying a live baby in a jar in a wall when they built a house, as an offering to the pagan gods. A third kind of biblically approved war was of a defensive nature. For example, when David repelled the attacks of the Philistines, King Saul, and his own son Absalom. President Bush has decided that Operation Iraqi Freedom meets all three criteria. It is a war to liberate oppressed people and ...

1950. Even The Demons Believe!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... , "they fell down before him and cried out, ‘You are the Son of God’!" (Mark 3:11). Luke tells us the demons knew that Jesus "was the Christ"! (Luke 4:41). It seems more than a little strange that demons should know Jesus and give witness to him. This kind of testimony could hurt a person more than help. Ever since the Garden of Eden we have known better than to listen to what the devil says, for he is a liar. For this reason, Jesus commanded the demons not to speak about him. How in the world did they ...

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