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Showing 1926 to 1950 of 4947 results

1926. Strained Gnats

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... Aviv wrote a letter to "The Jerusalem Post" in which he referred to a matter then occupying the attention of certain Orthodox scientists in New York. They were trying to discover why the Torah allowed Jews to eat honey. Mr. Sander said, "Of course, the common-sense answer would be that they wanted something sweet and they did not have anything like sugar." But there is a rabbinic rule that if an animal is unclean to eat, so is anything that comes from its body. For hundreds of years, rabbis had explained ...

1927. Achieving An All-In Victory - 1952

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... in reverence and devotion. Instinctively I identify the best me with that incarnation of what I might be - and the rest of me somehow lines up in submissive allegience. I commit all of me to him. And when he takes command I come alive with a sense of integration, unity, oneness. The possibility of achieving an "all-in" victory through him who strengthens me, becomes real to me; and I think I understand something of what Paul meant when he said: "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me ... (Galatians 2 ...

1928. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17). That is, a person may surrender himself so completely to the personal influence of Jesus Christ that his life will be both revolutionized and empowered. Delivered from self-centeredness and inner conflict, he is given a new sense of adequacy. Enmity, suspicion, and fear which corrupt his social contacts give way to good will, trust, and courage. He begins to realize what it is to live - more abundantly. He becomes aware of an ability to tap spiritual resources with which ...

1929. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... do all things to coerce you into that kind of thought control. This is abhorrent to the liberal. There must be tolerance. We come then to the fifth major characteristic, which is the test or the guide on which liberals rely. Not in any absolute sense, but as a major guide, there is reason. The supremacy of reason - my reason, your reason. Any dogma, any decree, any authoritarian statement that does violence to your reason must be rejected at all costs. You may believe much that is beyond your reason and ...

1930. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... they are either. But we don’t have to know, for the depth of the water doesn’t matter when you’re on top of it. Mystery? If we are living by faith, we can live with that. Albert Einstein said, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is a sense of the mysterious; it is the source of all art and all science." And may I add: it is also the congenial traveling companion of all faith. For faith can take mystery’s hand and agreeably walk with her on any journey he makes. And faith can also walk with ...

1931. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... used to indicate him. By means of it, he says, "This is I." By means of it, others say, "That is he." In a very real sense the word equals the person, stands for him as his equivalent. This is so very true that I can say, "I am Leonard Mann." Who am ... be completely correct, it should read: Jesus, the Christ. The definite article belongs there - both in the grammatical and the historical sense. They started something, who on his circumcision day name this Child. They set in motion a sound wave which has never ...

1932. The Names of the Christ-Child

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... been there; Jesus wept at the grave of his friend Lazarus. When we are tempted so severely that we almost tremble under the force of the Evil One, our Lord has been there; Jesus spent a terrible forty days continually badgered by the Devil. When life makes no sense and we can't find God anywhere, our Lord has been there; Jesus cried out in agony from a cross, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" We can never say truthfully, "God doesn't understand." Jesus was God in human form. He trudged our toughest roads ...

1933. Do Wrinkles Hurt?

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... years have to live under a cloud of fear concerning long-term illnesses. The good news is that only 5 percent of us will ever spend time in a long-term nursing facility. However, 100 percent of us are going to die and spend eternity somewhere. Doesn't it make sense to prepare for what we know is coming? I am convinced that the fear many people have of getting older is really a fear of death and what comes after death. Yet it is so easy to be freed of those fears through faith in Jesus Christ. Some years ago ...

1934. Blessed Are The Focused - Father's Day

Proverbs 4:1-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... that the Bible is not a vitally important book in your life, chances are that it won't be in theirs. If they seldom see you pray, except a perfunctory prayer at meal-time, they will not take prayer seriously. If children sense that Sunday worship is a grim duty rather than a treasured privilege, they will stop attending as soon as they get a chance. I remember a mother who took her poodle dog to obedience class each week without fail, and paid considerable money for it. But she failed to bring ...

1935. How God Guides

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... put up a new one. God helped us develop a new plan: to keep the present Grant Building and to add a new educational facility connecting Grant to the Rash Building. That idea was accepted and saved us $5 million. God is a conservative in at least one sense: God likes to save money. Then it was as if everything clicked into place. A holy synergy began to develop around the plan. Enthusiasm began to spread like measles. I believe that God's present guidance is a call to action. If on May 19th at the University ...

1936. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... God’s moral order has been violated. Man has fallen short of what he was made to be. And guilt always follows sin for they are brothers. And whether a man always feels guilt or not is beside the point. Man may violate God’s laws and might smother a sense of guilt by his denial of God or by his rationalizations. This in no way eradicates his guiltiness. I remember as a small boy my father cut down two large plum trees in our back yard. He cut them at ground level. From ground level they were gone ... no ...

1937. Christmas Concern

Sermon

James Bjorge

... his way. But he didn’t. He identified with her hurt. She still had a long way to go but now she knew she could make it. Jesus entered into the plight of people, blind Bartimeus, Zaachaeus up a tree, a thief on a cross. The people could sense it. They knew he cared. Love transformed them. In the December issue of GUIDEPOSTS, 1968, there is an account of a man by the name of Paul Scott who was crippled by leprosy while in adolescense. Partially blinded and physically impaired he felt that there was nothing ...

1938. Jacob, the Wanderer

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Don Yocom

... . We are aware of his trickery and what this meant to Esau, but Esau wasn’t much of a man either. He did not fully realize what the birthright could mean, but Jacob sensed its value and wanted it. Esau was more interested in satisfying his bodily needs at the moment than he was in considering the needs of the future. Jacob also sensed the values of his vision at Bethel. The covenant God made with Jacob there was literally fulfilled in the years to come because, as the father of twelve sons, he became the ...

1939. The Foolishness of God

1 Corinthians 1:25

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... any difference if I had a footache or an armache, the pill would still go to my stomach. That is foolish isn’t it? Some people feel the same way about God. They think that what he teaches is foolish. It doesn’t make sense that his Son, Jesus, should die for us. It doesn’t make sense to love people who hate you, and to forgive people who hurt you, but that is what God teaches. People who do not believe think that God is foolish. But do you want to know something? The pill will work that way. Take the ...

1940. Don't Ignore the Signs

Galatians 6:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... as the Ten Commandments, and you must keep those rules and never ignore them. If you do ignore them, then you will have the punishment that God says goes with ignoring the rules. The Bible teaches us that we should not ignore God. That makes sense just as the signs make sense. The stop sign is there for our protection. If you stop, then no one gets hurt and everyone is happy. If you don’t stop, or just ignore the sign, then someone may get hurt. Listening to God and paying attention makes happy people ...

1941. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... would be real sympathetic. And the morning paper’d probably print our picture. Cain would like that, you know. He takes great pride in the family. JAREL He should. It’s a great family. SETH You’re part of it. JAREL But don’t forget, I left. I had the sense to walk out. SETH And now I’ve come to rescue you. JAREL Sure, that’s just what I need, to climb into the snakepit again with that groping maniac. SETH He didn’t send me here, it’s not his idea. You’re the one who keeps bringing him ...

1942. Hungry for Anything?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... of it, is only satisfied with the knowledge that we belong to God, that our care, our safety, and the fulfillment of our needs is in His hands. What do you want in life? I can tell you, just as any psychologist could tell you. You want a sense of significance. You want to feel important. You want to be loved. You want security. Don’t try to deceive yourselves that anything else is going to satisfy these basic hungers. Nothing will. They remain with you until the day you die. BUT THE POINT IS THAT NONE ...

1943. Worn Out? Tired? Weary?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... Gershwin and asked: "Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over again, would you fall in love with yourself once more?" Having a love affair with oneself is a terribly fatiguing process. It robs us of the one saving grace in life - a sense of humor - and a sense of humor is essentially, the ability to laugh at oneself. We can see all of our poses for what we are. Isn’t it strange that our Lord was never referred to as being tired, not this frantic, kind of weariness that comes from preoccupation with ...

1944. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... . He made us with the intention that we should love and regard each other as priceless. To make this point strong and clear where sex is involved the Hebrews reserved the word yadah to describe sexual relations between husbands and wives. In its root sense yadah means "to know," "to experience," "to understand," and "to commit oneself to another." The term commonly is used to describe the whole range of emotions and commitments that husband and wife feel for, and make to, each other. So when Adam "knew" Eve ...

1945. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... to heal, as well as difficult to prevent. It gets the offender because lying is like a corkscrew that digs deep into a life. Once it gets a bite, it winds its way down into the center of a person. It eventually pricks the conscience with a sense of guilt, as anyone whose lies have hurt another sooner or later comes to know. To stop this personal destruction God said, "You will not lie about your neighbor." The clear implication is that we should love and value each other instead. As with so many aspects ...

1946. Whispering The Lyrics (revised)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Thomas Long

... ," he writes, "a soap opera in which a character awakens every morning with amnesia ...." Every day, the character is in a strange house with a strange and attractive man or woman. Everything is new and fresh -- the view from the window, the partner, the sense of the self. "Does this prospect intrigue you?" asks Percy. "If it does, what does this say about your non-amnesiac self?"2 Percy's point, of course, is the lure of forgetfulness. One way to describe sin is willful forgetfulness. We choose amnesia; we ...

1947. BANKER

Matthew 25:14-30

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... Even Jesus spoke of them, in the parable from which we have taken our text. But even there, the concept was not the same as ours is today. We walk into large buildings that somehow seem to convey a sense of power; they are usually majestic, marble-invested shrines to commerce. The bankers themselves are dignified, old-school-tie men, who give the impression of fatherly concern for your troubles. It wasn’t quite that way in Jesus’ time. The word "banker" comes from a Greek word which means money- ...

1948. EUNUCH

Esther 1:12; Isaiah 39:7; Daniel 1:9

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... (Isaiah 56:3-5). There is some question as to whether Daniel was made a eunuch; it is a possibility, since this was generally the customary way to treat captives. The court of David first introduced eunuchs into Israel, here perhaps we can use the word in the sense of officer. The courts of the kings of both Judah and Israel contained them from that time on, and we have lists which give their names. As time went on, this position changed from one of shame to a position of high honor in the court. Josephus ...

1949. SERVANT, SERVITOR

Exo. 12:45; 2 Kings 4:43

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... 2 Kings 4:43 - "But his servant said, ‘How am I to set this before a hundred men?’ ..." A servant is a person of either sex who is in the service of another person, and the term does not necessarily mean that this servant is a domestic, in the sense that we use it today. In our usage, a servant is one who works for pay and in so doing attends to the physical needs, in one way or another, of the person who has employed him. But this was not necessarily the designation in the ancient world. Rather, that ...

1950. Broken and Beautiful

Luke 18:9-14, Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... beautiful brokenness. Those horses are utterly subservient to the will of the driver. They do not "do their own thing" or willfully pull in any direction they choose. They march in majestic tandem, following the direction of their driver. That is "brokenness" in the biblical sense. It means to renounce self-will so as to serve the will of Christ. It means to be like clay in the hands of our God. King David uttered Psalm 51 as a heart-felt confession, following his indictment by God for adultery and murder ...

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