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Showing 1926 to 1950 of 5000 results

1926. John Was not like Gene

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

... the conservative values of the community and the Amish/Mennonite heritage of our county. The Christian Faith is seen as a matter of maintaining a rugged individualism and refraining from such "sins" as drinking, smoking, cussing, and the like. There is very little understanding of a gracious God who is breaking in upon the world, bringing his Kingdom. As a result, evangelism is mainly seen as enforcing the community ethic. Therefore, I tried to emphasize that we have a gracious God who does break in upon ...

1927. The Gospel in Two Words

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

... they did not know who it was who had been talking with them. As they sat at the table, the eyes of these two men were "opened up" so that they recognized the one with whom they had been walking. Through that encounter their minds were opened to understand the scriptures. Those writers of the New Testament also saw another example of being opened in the experience of being able to listen and receive what another had to say and give. Lydia was a woman who lived in a town in Greece. She worshiped God but was ...

1928. Jesus Knows Everything! Jesus Is God!

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... Mount, that he knows all our needs even before we ask him (Matthew 6:8). King David was very much aware of how personally and completely God knew him. He confessed, "O Lord, you have examined me and you know me. You know everything I do; from far away you understand all my thoughts. You see me, whether I am working or resting, when I rise up and when I sit down. You know all my actions. Even before I speak you already know what I will say ... Your knowledge of me is overwhelming; it is too deep for me to ...

1929. Overcoming Loneliness

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... straight about our family, we seem so messed up. Wonder if others are like us? "Julie and I tried to help Bernard and Jane. There’s sure a big gap between wanting to do something and doing it. Something gets into kids in their adolescence that makes them harder to understand and to handle. Bernard was defiant, as if he were trying to prove something. It was as if he had a chip on his shoulder and dared me to knock it off. I couldn’t figure out whether he was making a bid for more discipline or whether I ...

1930. Coping When It Seems Impossible

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... means of strength to many students. She gave unselfishly, and alone built a small church in India. But she had intellectual problems and theological uncertainties. She died at age fifty. Just before she died she said to her sister, "I never have been able to understand it all, but I have loved Christ and loved people; and now I see that even though there are things I cannot completely grasp, somehow Christ makes up the difference." She died at peace, her life complete. A few years ago, I worked very closely ...

1931. Counting The Cost?

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... pain is past, and failure made whole, It is full grown, and the Lord rules the soul.3 Life is made up of small things. People of great spirit are those who take these small things and weave them into a tapestry of love, service, compassion, understanding. The fabric may be uneven, the design faulty at times; the thread may break now and then, and the colors sometimes clash. In the end, however, it is an original creation, free from deceit, and radiantly beautiful. Not long ago a man in Jacksonville, Florida ...

1932. Enduring

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... . How then are we to live? We are to live by the grace of God. We are to live in God’s power, using all our skills as human instruments of peace and good will. We must discard the antique, if the antique stands in the way of new understandings of how people are to live. And we are to live each day in faith. When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther replied, "I would still plant my apple tree." 1. James Russell Lowell, "The Present Crisis" in Masterpieces of ...

1933. Questions Without Answers

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... either, is it, for we in our smarts know what happens when you corner a cat. We win no friends that way. Repentance But whatever God intended, he accomplished. Job confessed to his stupidity, to talking out of turn, to playing expert on the things he didn’t understand. "I had heard about you all my life. But it is now no longer second-hand reports. It is my personal experience. I have heard you with my ear, and I have seen you with my eyes. Therefore I abhor myself in dust and ashes." And now my social ...

1934. The Good News of Easter

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... God for the sins you have committed. No other can plead your case before God. No other is qualified to stand before God and do so. And how do I know this? One reason. He lives. It is the resurrection; because of the resurrection our whole understanding of Jesus is different. In the winter of 1982 Vice President, George Bush represented the U.S. at the funeral of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Bush was deeply moved by a silent protest carried out by Brezhnev's widow. She stood motionless by the coffin ...

1935. Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... about me. I will never see Jesus in this life. I will not have the chance to put my finger in the nail scars. I will not get the chance to touch his pierced side. It will never be proven to me that he was raised from the dead. Jesus understands it’s harder for me to believe than for Thomas and he counts me blessed. But let me ask you: How can you conclusively prove the qualities of love, friendship, or faith? How can you establish beyond a shadow of a doubt your devotion to your children? Show me ...

1936. Success

Mark 10:17-31

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... 't possible? JESUS: Most people are teaching what they don't know. BRYAN: Oh. JESUS: Some people are trying to be good. BRYAN: Uh-huh. But what you're saying is that a person cannot be good by trying to be good. JESUS: You've said it. Do you understand what you said? BRYAN: No. JESUS: Goodness cannot be attained by human achievement. BRYAN: Then how can it be attained? JESUS: Who is good? BRYAN: You said God alone is good. JESUS: Then doesn't it make sense that God alone can make people good? BRYAN: Yes, it ...

1937. The Big Snow

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... it. We seek to live not in harmony with our surroundings, but rather to conquer them and make them slaves to us. We seek to clear the streets so that we can resume our hectic pace of going to and fro, and in our race and pace, we fail to understand that we either learn to exist with the realities of this world as it was created or we die. Spring will come, if God’s final trumpet does not sound before. The snow will melt, if only after perhaps more snow. How we forget. Will we forget this great storm ...

1938. A New Perspective

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... about something else. You and I both know that people resent being treated so superficially. If things were that simple, we wouldn’t need somebody else to tell us about it. But yet there is a grain of truth in all that. When you are depressed, you do need to understand that the dark cloud is not the only cloud in your sky. It’s there; it’s real; it’s painful; but it’s not absolute, it’s not the only cloud in the sky. It’s one truth, but not the whole truth. There are other frames of reference ...

1939. Dying to Become

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... " to what is past in order to become "new beings," they just give up. Conforming is a way of resisting genuine change. Change is resisted by the refusal to choose to do something about living or dying. It has little to do with dying to the old self-understanding, because no choice is made to let something go, and hence there is no possibility of something emerging that is really new. It is like the woman who becomes involved in the process of new awareness of her self-respect and power as a woman and then ...

1940. Backsliding

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Brett Blair

... wonder why religion had no effect. I feel like saying: What do you expect? How many times have I known someone who lost a loved one who was dearer than life itself, they come back to the church for the funeral after being away for years, and they can’t understand why they did not have the spiritual resources to handle it. I feel like saying: What did you expect? Samson waited till he was in the middle of the battle and then he called upon the name of the Lord God of hosts, but God didn’t answer. Why ...

1941. Preconceived Ideas - Sermon Starter

Mark 8:27 - 9:1

Illustration

Brett Blair

... asked to participate because the world should be involved in this process; we are trying not to “Go it alone.” How the news is reported depends not so much on the events as it does the preconceived ideas of the reporter. Rev. Thomas Tyndale came to understand this firsthand when he received a phone call from Attica State Prison in upper New York. A riot had taken place and rebelling prisoners were now in control of Cell Block D taking a number of guards hostage. Rev. Tyndale was requested to sit on a ...

1942. The Measure of Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Christians have to relearn it. In verse 32 we read a not so complimentary report on the disciples: "But they did not understand." That's a picture that can be hung in the halls of the museum of mankind. When confronted by true greatness, we simply ... I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.” We all understand Penny’s point: A dream though hidden in the most common of men can bring about greatness but a common man with no dream is just that, a ...

1943. Make Peace

James 3:13-18

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... among us? People: Those who stay in touch with God. Leader: Who is wise and understanding? People: Those who seek to foster healing. Leader: Let us strive to be wise and understanding. People: Let us be makers of peace. Collect We are people searching for wisdom. Therefore, we draw near to you, O God, hoping that you will come closer to us and guide us toward leading better lives that will encourage peace in your world. Amen. Prayer of Confession When self- ...

1944. The Second Naiveté: Babies, Angels, Shepherds, And God

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... way of perceiving reality. Through a kind of second naiveté, what heretofore was ignored is observed by the open, inquiring mind. And very often a major paradigm shift occurs, something like the Copernican revolution. And as a consequence, we have a new way of seeing and understanding. It is the gift of the second naiveté. I Christmas Eve is not only the night of the Holy Nativity. It is also, we might say, the night of the Holy Naiveté, the Second Naiveté. Of course, few of us would want anything to do ...

1945. The Kind of People Whom God Chooses

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... boats to shore.” Peter was on his knees, absolutely enshrouded in amazement. Then he said the first truly intelligent thing he said all day: “Get away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!” If you ask me, that is a story that I can understand. It’s not particularly dramatic, abrupt, or instant. Instead it is time consuming, unfinished, and it smells like a fish story. At a moment when Simon Peter the fisherman gets the catch of the century, he wants to push away the Founder of the Flounders. And who ...

1946. The Power of Uninformed Decisions

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of creation pulls all things together toward its spiritual fulfillment. Whereas the most humble material (dust) was employed to produce the first humanity; the second creation had its origin from heaven and brought a new nature to humanity.4 What a babysitter. Paul explained in understandable terms his concept of the resurrection of the body as a plan of God. Christ was first but Christ was a prototype for all in the final victory of God.5 You and I do not know all there is to know about life and death ...

1947. God Knows

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... rules and regulations, then this passage has to make you think twice about that. If you believe that God is some kind of super-puppeteer, who pulls each string and effects our every move, then this passage has to call that belief into question. If you understand God to be an unmoved taskmaster without feeling or concern or interest, then this passage has to make you reevaluate that. Here is a vulnerable God. A God who loves what God has made, who is invested in creation. God longs for love to be returned ...

1948. What's Your Line?

Drama

Dave Marsh

... there were going to be lots of different types of kids there - some who liked classic rock, some pop, some goth. So I wrote this knowing that no matter how different we are, unless you have the Holy Spirit in your life, you will never understand Biblical truths... The key to this drama is using a Powerpoint presentation. Someone should trigger each new slide when each person speaks. I've put these in parenthesis for your convience. Be sure to have a long enough gap between each line so the person running ...

1949. A Going Away Gift

John 16:5-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . The Holy Spirit was God's gift to all of us. He came to us in place of Jesus. The Holy Spirit lives in all of us and helps us understand all the things Jesus told us. The gift of the Holy Spirit is much better than a postcard or a souvenir. It is always with us, helping us understand what Jesus wants us to do. It is hard for us to understand about Jesus dying for us on the cross, but we should always remember the wonderful gift he sent to us. The next time your father or mother goes away on ...

1950. Think About It (A Drama about Diffusing Criticism)

Drama

Dave Marsh

... what kind of supplies you’ll need, going out and buy the supplies, talking to the parents, blah blah blah so that you can have them come in here and where they completely ignore you, running around like crazy, eating glue, soiling themselves, not understanding anything your trying to teach them and.. Beth: STOP! (Dave freezes in position) (standing and closes her eyes) Dear Heavenly Father, I come before You and praise You for what you’re doing in these kids lives. Please help me to be constructive with ...

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