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1926. The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... to become preachers and teachers. Instead he changed his thinking and his approach to meet them in their world - where they are. That doesn't mean he took on their life style. No, he kept his focus on Christ but instead he tried to experience things from their point of view. To use a more modern example. If we were to try and witness to an alcoholic who does not see any value in their life and has given up, we shouldn't say "just quit drinking and come with me to church". That's part of the end goal - but ...

1927. When the Tie That Binds is a Slipknot

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... match continues in the Southern Baptist Conference, as the right wing leadership continues their attempt to root out all traces of liberalism, firing editors of the denominational news service and seminary staff who refuse to adopt an ultra-conservative view of scriptural interpretation. The Presbyterians are in an uproar over the latest report on human sexuality issued by the commission they appointed to study it. And we Disciples of Christ are certainly no strangers to infighting and controversy, both ...

1928. Trying to Face the Strain

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... about the pictures that I play Of changes. Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall To brown and to yellow they fade And then they have to die Trapped within the circle-time parade Of changes. Of course, other writers took a different view. I believe it was David Crosby who wrote my all-time favorite protest song, "For What It’s Worth." The song contains memorable opening line, "There’s something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear," expressing the uncertainty felt by many who lived ...

1929. Back to the Basics

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... and work together to turn this thing around." I think that’s what the Ten Commandments are for the church - the basics, the fundamental guidelines that teach us how God intends life to be. But you and I have been conditioned to take a negative view of laws and regulations and guidelines. We Americans living in the year 2000 don’t like to be told what to do. For far too many of us, laws represent an unfair restriction of our God-given, constitutional rights. We’ve been conditioned to be suspicious ...

1930. How Soon Is "Soon"?

Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... . But Jesus repeatedly warned that we should be ready and waiting for his return. When will that be? Does it make any sense to talk of it as being "soon"? God's Perspective When Jesus said he would return quickly, he was speaking from God's point of view. In the perspective of eternity the duration of a few thousand years is insignificant. So in answer to those who scoffed that Jesus would not return, Peter wrote: "But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years ...

1931. Peace as Shalom

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... Aviv, had displayed to us the remnants of the wars of Israel. Shelled-out tanks and armored personnel carriers were preserved where they had fallen, as memorials to the men who had fought and died there. Now our eyes were turned eastward, where we could see our first view of Jerusalem. The tour guide invited me to offer prayer. It is only from the vantage point of a year later, that I can now place a little round-headed pin on the map of my life-journey, to mark that spot as a particularly significant point ...

1932. Peace Through Sacrifice

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... justice.• Peacemaking does not just happen, it is intentional.• Peace is Shalom, God's tough love.• Peace is receivable when we confess our anger, fear, and grief, when we stop worshiping the false god named Security,and when we gain a world view, such as God has, which sees beyond our short-sighted human barriers. Today's step on the Sevenfold Path is the sixth, which suggests that peace comes through sacrifice. First, some biblical perspective. Jesus approached Jerusalem on Palm Sunday from the east ...

1933. Faith, Hope, and Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of things not seen. II Now, abide these three--faith, hope. Hope has received bad press over the years. I always think of that song by Mitzi Gainer in Rogers and Hamersteins South Pacific: I'm stuck like a dope on a thing called hope. That is how some people view it. Hope is for the silly minded. We relegate it to the same arena as wishful thinking. If you ask someone if they are going to be at a meeting so often the answer that you get is: I hope so. What they are saying is: don't count on ...

1934. Encounters With Christ II: Jesus and Mary and Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... of the dangerous attitude of resentment. It can devastate your soul!Secondly, there is the dangerous attitude of II. NARROWNESS… Martha is done in by her narrow perspective. Martha thinks her way is the only way… and she wants to force her way on Mary! Martha’s view has become so narrow that she can’t see any other way to receive the Master, but her way. She is blind to the miracle of “uniqueness.” She forgets that we are all different, that we are individuals and that each of us has a unique ...

1935. Encounters With Christ III: Jesus and Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James W. Moore

... not the end of life. It is simply moving through a door called “death” into a new dimension of life with God. Perhaps you have heard of Henry Van Dyke’s Parable of Immortality. It is a powerful parable on how we see death and how death should really be viewed. Listen to this: “I am standing on the seashore. -A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. -She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck ...

1936. Jesus Reflects -- A Dramatic Monologue

Isaiah 9:1-7, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... to me. I only know that God directs my life, and I am content to follow his direction each day. I would go so far as to say that my Father and I are one, certainly in spirit! I do not look upon my birth as particularly miraculous. In my view all births are miraculous! God is the creator of human life, and apart from him none would exist. He has as well created my life, only in a somewhat different manner. If man could only recognize it - life truly is more divine than human! God has poured so much of ...

1937. As We Take Our Rest

Matthew 26:17-30

Drama

Joe Barone

[Note: This week we walk with Jesus to the Garden of Gethsemane, and as we do, we look through the point of view of James, one of the sons of Zebedee.] Dramatic Monologue: James I don't suppose you can ever understand what it is that really touches me when I think about the Garden of Gethsemane. When you think about it, you might think I would feel a sense of my own ...

1938. Compelled to Carry

Matthew 27:11-26

Drama

Joe Barone

... from the feeling of impending death to death itself. It's easy, in the abstract, to say Jesus died for us, but devastating in the concrete. Today as we walk with him to the cross and stand and watch him as he dies, we do so from the point of view of Simon of Cyrene. Dramatic Monologue: Simon Of Cyrene I've heard it said that what you do can change the way you feel. If you want to reconcile with an enemy, they say, you have to do something peaceful toward him before you have any chance of feeling peace ...

1939. In A Newly Hewn Tomb

Matthew 27:1-10

Drama

Joe Barone

... oil on the Master's head, and now we come to Joseph. A faithful Jew from Arimathea, probably a man who had made his fortune in Jerusalem, Joseph was a member of the Sanhedrin and one who had some feeling for the Savior. What better person from whose view to see the resurrection? Dramatic Monologue: Joseph Of Arimathea I had hoped so much in Jesus. I knew the promise of the coming Messiah. How many times had I prayed with the psalmist, "The Lord loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints ...

1940. Empty Prisons Without Walls

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... are a danger to others and to themselves and must be externally restrained by walls, bars, handcuffs. Then there are those who are political prisoners. They are locked in prisons, mental hospitals or held under "house arrest" because they hold or promote views which appear at least to threaten political or cultural order. Since we are thinking today about symbols and walls, we could mix together three "wall symbols" here in relation to Poland. Many Polish dissidents are behind prison walls. There is also a ...

1941. Some Illusions (Symbols) Are Better Than Others

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Jech

... are unreal. Or we can stress with theologian Paul Tillich that, while both illusions and symbols are inadequate and partial reflections of the truth, they do participate in the greater or deeper reality to which they point! From this latter point of view, illusions and symbols are not purely deceptive and unreal; they are, rather, "deceptively simple" and "partial pictures" of reality! Once we have understood this sense in which illusions and symbols can both be positive things, we can begin to discuss the ...

1942. The Piety That Isn't

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Carl Jech

... identified with a particular candidate or party, embarrassed by the stark polarization between "liberal" and "conservative" churches over the issues of (1) church doctrine and practice, (2) abortion, (3) church and state issues, (4) interpretation of the Bible, (5) life-styles, and (6) views on morality. In this video age of images, where the outward image is so strong that Michael J. Fox, Tina Turner and Michael Jackson don't even have to say the name Pepsi to sell the product in a commercial, must not we ...

1943. Save Us From the World-Savers

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Carl Jech

... a "world-saver" to being just one person among millions. But she had come to realize the many pitfalls of the "world-saver" mentality. You begin to arrogantly believe that you have all the answers. You refuse to really listen to anyone else's point of view because you are sure it is "from the devil." You will use any questionable tactic or clever manipulation to further your cause. The list goes on and on. Barbara Underwood was grateful that she had been saved from the compulsion to save the world. How much ...

1944. Jesus, Mary, Gustav Mahler, Brother Martin, and the Magi

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Carl Jech

... ' tells us what we are about in a pluralistic society." Marge Wold understands that it is indeed traditional for the Christian faith to be open to diversity! Have we been guilty of defining people out of the church by a too-narrow view of what constitutes an appropriate Christian lifestyle or value system? A recent survey of the San Francisco Bay Area indicated that only about 3% attend worship regularly. Is this because sophisticated city people are simply irreligious, or is it because Christians are ...

1945. Some Women's Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... model for the central Christian doctrine of Redemption, and thereby leads inexorably to the ultimate abolition of the entire institution of slavery under the leadership of Christian activists. Saint Paul was not a feminist. In fact, he had an almost embarrassingly patriarchal view of the world. But the insight and inspiration he shares with the Galatians provides the deeper truth which we have come to appreciate more and more today: "There is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you ...

1946. Comfort the Disturbed/ Disturb the Comfortable

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Carl Jech

... be stretching our society's understanding of what may be possible." It is extremely difficult to become meaningfully engaged in the struggle for a more just society without self-righteously identifying our partisan understandings and commitments as "the gospel" and any other point of view as "evil." But we must learn from Jesus to leave things somewhat open-ended - as when he said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (Luke 20:25) The church should never be ...

1947. A Baptism of Blood

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... God's saviorhood is fatal to our faith. In our First Lesson, Isaiah caught a vision of the conflict between human sinfulness and divine grace. Isaiah was a great prophet. He was tall enough to stand high above the people of his era to catch a God's-eye view of what was happening in his times. The people, each one by having turned his or her own way, were like sheep that had gone astray. Judah was a diseased nation dancing a "dance of death." The people practiced greed and injustice. The rich robbed the poor ...

1948. To God Alone Belongs the Glory

Isaiah 43:14-28, Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... and we are Your clay. Mold and shape us, O God, into the people You would have us to be in the image of Christ. And help us proclaim Your glory, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, so often when You have blessed us within full view of the seeking world around us, we have taken credit for Your works as if we had done them all on our own. Too often, Lord, we have failed to make any mention of giving the glory and credit to You. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to be quick ...

1949. Dedication to the Lord

1 Samuel 2:12-26, 1 Samuel 2:1-11, 1 Samuel 1:21-28

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... , Your wisdom surpasses all that we could imagine, and in the wonder of Your love You have chosen to walk with us and guide us as we dedicate our hearts and lives to You. We praise You, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, in our inflated view of our own wisdom we feel we know more about what is best for us and those around us than do You who created and understands the Universe itself. We have even told You what would be best in our lives. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to have the ...

1950. Windows Of Wonder

Sermon

James Angell

... open - even in the evening. A popular walker's pastime is to circle the island a little after sunset and see how the residents are going about life inside their homes. Except for back-rooms and bedrooms, all is in view. Families at dinner. Rooms looking elegant with polished furniture. Kids watching television. Bridge games. Cocktails with friends. Flower arrangements, curving stairways, paintings and sculptures. Book readers. The "we've got it made" on evening display. Sermon illustrations will reveal a ...

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