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176. Let Yes Be Yes!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

... That is why we must assume that his first "no" to her was merely testing, pressing her to see how well she understood that when God tells someone "yes," he’s not kidding. In the case of the disciples, it seems more the case that they were bent on sending her away without the healing she knew Jesus could provide. Ironic, isn’t it? God’s people struggle to find ways to "do evangelism" in a world of unresponsive people. Yet, when some people leap the hurdles and approach God’s community, too often they ...

177. Changing the "Too Much Syndrome"

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

David M. Oliver

... vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Perhaps some of you have seen it or seen pictures of this majestic work of art. In one scene, Michelangelo depicts God reaching with a strong, outstretched arm toward Adam, the first human. Adam is also reaching, but with bent elbow, somewhat more tentatively, back to God. Their fingers do not quite touch. What the artist re-creates, however, is a reminder of another thin place: the time when God began creating humanity in God's image and called us good (Genesis 1:31 ...

178. No Longer Spectators - But Participants!

Acts 2:14-41

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Barbara Brokhoff

... by. The Bear fired, and that duck is still flying today. But as Bear watched the duck flap out of sight, he looked at McKay and said, "John, you are witnessing a real miracle. There flies a dead duck!" So, all of us are witnesses to the Lord who has bent to our skepticism and made believers of us anyway. He did not argue with us but won us as he took us by the hand. So now, as participating disciples, we try, not to "prove" anyone into faith, not to force, not to argue, not to shame - we just attempt ...

179. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

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Barbara Brokhoff

... This Jesus" is all the good you can know about: peace, hope, love, pardon, understanding, faith, and kindness. I read of a little, old, grey-haired man who stood over the bedside of his dying wife. She seemed to be trying to tell him something, so he tenderly bent beside her bed, bending near to hear her response to his question: "What do you want, dear? What do you want?" And her feeble answer was, "I want you. I want you." "This Jesus" - this PERSONAL Jesus - draws near and says to our hearts, in the very ...

180. The Stiller of Storms

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... what the future may hold for posterity. They are not as clear-headed regarding the future as the French king who, contemplating the unbridled spending of his regime, said, "After us, the deluge." The great sin of America today is greed. We are so bent on making money that a great storm rages within us. Many businesses are kept open unnecessarily on Sunday, thereby enticing many persons not to frequent the Lord’s house on his day. Is there any stilling of this storm? The history of Christendom preserves ...

181. We Are Driven!

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... troops at any price until our men are home safe in France." Six months later, a group of Napoleon’s soldiers were in a room in Paris playing cards. The door was opened and in came Marshal Ney. "Tell us," the officers asked, "where is the rear guard?" That bent, broken man straightened up and said, "Sirs, I am the rear guard." So it is with God in Christ, who is our final protector in life. It means, moreover, that because of the fire of faith burning in our bones, we can be bold in our witnessing and work ...

182. Stuffed Bodies and Skinny Souls!

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... by Job, "O that I knew where I might find God!" Later in the chapter from which our text is taken, we read, "Seek the Lord while he may be found." When Rudyard Kipling was very ill and his fever was raging, he mumbled in a half delirium. His nurse bent close to hear what he was saying. She asked, "What do you want?" Kipling replied, "I want God." This is the basic longing of humanity from the time of Eden. Where can God be found? He is in the Word which is Christ, for Jesus said, "The Father and I ...

183. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

Sermon

George Bass

... where they have laid him." That was anything but good news to Peter and the others, and, of course, they had to go to the garden grave and see for themselves what this was all about. It wasn’t until Mary’s second visit to the tomb-site that she bent down and looked through the opening into the grave and saw that Jesus was indeed gone. Don’t you wonder why she hadn’t looked into the tomb on her first visit? Was it too dark? Was she too startled and too afraid? Did she have some premonition that Jesus ...

184. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

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Robert G. Tuttle

... by person." But when, O God? "Now, and tomorrow and tomorrow, everyday." But how, Lord? "Winning persons through Christ to life’s full meaning." But we are Christian. "Are you?" What do we lack? "You have been playing with toys - you should have been seeking your destiny! You have been bent on making life more comfortable - You should have been building a New World!" What will become of our world? "I seek to redeem it - I need your help!"

185. The True Nature of Happiness

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... are the poor in spirit means that we must decrease, so that he might increase. In Copenhagen in Denmark there is an unusual statue of Christ. After the bronze had been cast to that statue something happened. Because of either temperature or poor casting, the head of the statue bent forward. Yet, the decision of the church was to leave it that way, the idea being that if one chooses to look into the face of Christ, he must first be on his knees. That is what being poor in spirit is all about. II As much as ...

186. The Call to Obedience

Luke 22:42 · Romans 1:17 · John 15:10

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Robert G. Tuttle

... lifestyle that comes from and grows out of the experience of faith. The problem of disobedience began with the dawn of time and has been repeated in every generation. It is known to me in my own acts of rebellion against God. The original sin is probably my own natural bent to put myself at the center of the universe and to push God to one side. Until I have faced up to this, have pushed my own will to one side and have let God be at the center of his own universe and my own universe, I have not ...

187. I Knew You’d Come

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... this contributed to the hardening process of their hearts. To make matters worse, the disciples were facing overwhelming odds. Their little boat was far out in the lake; a sudden storm had arisen. Wind beat against their bodies, waves tossed their boat about. They bent their backs to the oars and paused only to bail the threatening water from the bottom of their boat. Frustrated and exhausted, but still afloat, they welcomed the first faint light of dawn. But in this eerie half-light of morning, they saw a ...

188. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... the face ruddy and round and invariably smiling, the heavy body more accustomed to half a dozen sweaters at one time than a single coat, the hair the color of moonlight now, but the eyes still bright; he, with his slight wiry body strong and bent from lifting too many fruit and vegetable crates for too many years, the windburned skin, the swarthy face impassive except for the wiry mouth - the childless couple who had taken the orphaned David into their home, rearing him since the age of seven, yet refusing ...

189. WE ARE THE BELIEVERS: TESTIMONIES

Drama

Marcia Miller

... money I had illegally collected as taxes. And when he started to leave, he turned to say: "The Son of Man has come to seek and to save those who are lost." THE HANDICAPPED WOMAN: For eighteen years I suffered pain. An accident caused me to be crippled and bent and I knew that I would never stand up straight again. The pain of the abuse I suffered was even more intolerable. The children made fun of me as I walked down the street. The parents of the children would duck into stores or turn the other way just ...

190. Not For Sale at Any Price

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... country to country. He followed every clue, but found nothing. In despair and broken health, he threw himself into a river and drowned. The man who bought his farm was walking over the land one day and stepped across a stream. Something caught his eye. He bent down and picked up a stone, a magnificent glittering stone - a diamond. He found one, then another. On that farm there was the richest diamond field in the world. The kingdom of heaven might be right where you live, right where you worship or work. If ...

191. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... Christianity to the outside world either repulsive or attractive. It isn’t a matter that Christians are perfect and will not have conflicts. There will always be quarrels, differences of opinion on how and who, disappointments with preachers and councils, hurt feelings, bent pride, loss of face, and lots of mistakes. It’s the idea that Christians can resolve these conflicts as no other fellowship can, that Jesus puts before us today. Comus, a Duke of Florence, had a saying that indicated the limitations ...

192. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , and even preached sermons that started out with that little embalming party leaving their homes in the cold light of dawn and hurrying to the Garden of Joseph of Arimathea to the tomb where the body of the crucified Christ had been hastily buried. Bent they were on their sad and somewhat gruesome mission of preparing that body for permanent burial. They hurried along in a black cloud of sorrow, gripped by fear and questions and concern Mary Magdalene, Mary the Mother of James, and Johanna, the wife of ...

193. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... of them was here. By what? Through what? The power of the Holy Spirit working in the parents and sponsors who brought them! They were acting in faith, inspired by the Spirit, and through that Sacrament, that child, born into a sinful society with all of its bent toward a sinful life, completely out of contact with the God who had created it, was placed back into a Father-son relationship with God once more. That little child became a part of the fellowship of the Church of Jesus Christ and became part of ...

194. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... comfort, hygiene, or usefulness. There is, however, the ghost of a dead reason. Once upon a time a "gentleman" was presumed to do no work, and he dressed to show this by putting on these visible signs that he never soiled his hands, sweat his neck, or bent his noble back. It matters not that we no longer believe in this definition of a gentleman; we did believe it once; its ghost rules on. Doubtless it is true, as someone has said, that the man who would clothe himself according to common sense would find ...

195. He Came to His Senses

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... his senses, was the thought to return home, to plead with his father for acceptance, not as a son, but as a hired servant. The independent, arrogant son, who thought he could go it alone, was brought so low that he was willing to crawl home ... bent, drawn, scraggly ... where once he had walked proudly, head high, in full command as the son of the master. The foregoing is suggested as a kind of "starter" for a sermon dealing with this text. Although the possibilities for preaching on this Lukan passage are ...

196. Worthy Is The Lamb

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is a story told long ago by that great British preacher, Charles Hadley Spurgeon. The radio newscaster Paul Harvey tells this story each year before Easter. Spurgeon was walking the streets of London deep in thought when he saw a young street boy. The lad was carrying an old, bent birdcage. Inside was a tiny field sparrow. Spurgeon stopped the boy and asked him what he was going to do with the bird. "Well," the boy said, "I think I'll play with it for a while, and then when I'm tired of playing with it- I ...

197. "Hands Off!"

Exodus 20:1-21, Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... said, "I would return it if it belonged to a poor family." Already, Johnny has a taste for the unearned dollar. Everybody knows that stealing is wrong. Even professional thieves object to being robbed. Yet, none of the Ten Commandments is more frequently broken, bent, or evaded than this one. Why? There are two reasons. First, each of us has a pinch of larceny in his or her heart. And secondly, because we have a devilish capacity to rationalize our own stealing. A cartoon in the New Yorker magazine shows ...

198. Chapter I

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... lush green, and beginning to develop its heavy heads of grain. As I watched, the wind began to blow across the fields, sending shivers through the stalks. Have you ever watched closely as the wind does that? The blades of wheat quivered and whipped and bent, passing their impluse from one to the other. It looked as though spirit fingers were running through the field much like a man runs his fingers through his hair. In a rhythmic pattern one wave after another started and then skittered across the field ...

199. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... nothing but the truth." Such a procedure was current even among earlier societies. In the days when the Commandments were new, men had to take oaths that would back up what they said. It was already apparent long before Moses that if truth were adulterated or bent justice would flounder, and innocent people would suffer. Hence it was of first importance for society to do all it could to make certain of honesty on the part of witnesses. Often the oaths that a witness swore were made in the name of God, or ...

200. CARPETMAKER

Judges 5:10; Ezekiel 27:24

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Stephen Stewart

... . The carpetmaker could chose strips whose colors matched, blended, or contrasted, according to his own inclinations. Three or more of these strips were interwoven to form a continuous braid, which was then laid on a flat surface and coiled or bent into shape. Finally the ends were handstitched together. Or, there were other methods of making carpets. Sometimes sections of material were sewn together, and often decorative trimmings were sewn on. They even had a method of making carpet backing - strips ...

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