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176. Hungry for Anything?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... or park cars in the courtyard, but I trust that we still recognize the fact that there are certain values in a building that go beyond the fulfilling of these physical needs. Here is the truth - that there is some hunger in man which houses and warmth and food and sleep cannot, and can NEVER, satisfy. Our Lord knew what was in man. He knew what causes us to act the way we do. He knew that man is magnificently possessed by three hungers, three overpowering desires, three insatiable needs: First, HE WANTS ...

177. Chapter I

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... with her eyes the loveliness of the lilacs that bloomed by the porch-side, which she had only been able to smell before, and to look at the litter of puppies out in the doghouse, when only a day earlier the most she could do was feel the warmth of the soft little bodies and hear their squeals. "No one," she said, "who has not experienced a moment like that can ever fully appreciate what it really means. No one can know second hand what it is like to replace the monotonous grey of sightlessness with vision ...

178. This Is Our Song

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... and anxious one. I lift my eyes to find help somewhere in those hills. Aahhh, a bright neon sign beckoning me to come in. Surely there I will find rest for my spirit. There will be people there who will welcome me and take me into the warmth of their company. I will feel good inside, knowing someone cares. I run with my tie flying and burst into the door. But it’s dark inside; I can hardly discern the human figures who sit huddled together in little pockets, gesturing and laughing raucously as though ...

179. BRICKMAKER

Exodus 5:7, 16

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... were hard and the paint was shiny. These glazed bricks are just as beautiful today and the colors are as bright and fresh as when Nebuchanezzer had them built over 2,000 years ago! Brick-making today may be somewhat more prosaic than that. But when you appreciate the warmth of your home next winter, or have fun on your patio or cooking on your barbecue, think about the men who made those bricks for you. Their task is much easier than it was for the Hebrews sweating away in the brickyards of the Pharaoh.

180. Pillars of the Church

Exodus 17:8-16, Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . We can share the tough tasks and keep up those encouraging honks. Last year in our Women of the Word Bible study, one of the participants was a single woman whose main job in life was caring for an elderly aunt. She was very quiet and withdrawn. But within the warmth of the small group, she began to open up, look up, and smile. Toward the end of the year she shared with her small-group that with God's help she had been able to reconcile with a sister- in-law from whom she had been alienated for a long ...

181. Igniting the Church

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... service was about to begin. When these people had finished praying, they quietly entered the sanctuary and took their seats. "Now," said Moore, Watch where they sit." "What do you mean?" the visitor asked. Replied, "Where each of them sits down is such a center of warmth that anyone frozen in sin who sits near them is liable thaw out before the service is over." Would you be willing to be one of God's hot spots in Christ Church? Just imagine what God could do with over 1000 of us serving as conductors ...

182. Merry Kurtzman

Sermon

Erskine White

... and Faithful God, who has led us here on this most wondrous night of the year, we thank You for all that makes this season so special. We thank You for the expectant eyes of little children who eagerly anticipate the coming dawn. We thank You for the warmth of family and friends who gather to share their love at this time of year. We give You thanks for the spirit which is in this church tonight, reflected in faces which shine by flickering candlelight and hearts which sing for joy at the coming of our Lord ...

183. Stewards of Creation

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... fire. One soon discovers that there is always firewood gathered and available. The unwritten law of the northland is that the user of the firewood during the night gathers and replaces the supply the next morning so that the next person coming will also have the warmth and security of a campfire. We need to care for the earth the way the campers cared for that campground. In Genesis 1 God said to us humans: Your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under control. I am putting you in charge ...

184. Resurrection: From Chaos to Order

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... asked deep questions, and pondered even deeper answers. The story that the Ancient One spoke to the young boy on this evening was the story of creation. "How did it all come to be?" That was the question asked in that dim long ago. Those human beings felt the warmth of the sun in day. They knew the cold of the desert night. They saw the variety of life that came and went, that seemed to follow some plan of motion - even as the sun moved silently across the blue sky. These early, early human lives saw the ...

185. What Do You See?

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Thomas Long

... in a large city decided to turn its gymnasium into a night shelter for homeless people. Every winter there were reports that some of these people, condemned to sleep out in the open, had frozen to death, and so the church made the warmth and safety of its building available without charge. Each evening during the winter, volunteers from the church would spend the night in the shelter, providing food, clothing, and lodging for as many of the homeless as the building would hold. Almost without exception ...

186. How Can We Meet Grief?

2 Samuel 18:19--19:8

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... stood up in his place and asked, "Can this new religion tell us what happens after death? The life of man is like a swallow flying through this lighted hall. It enters in at one door from the darkness outside, and flitting through the light and warmth passes through the farther door into the dark unknown beyond. Can this new religion solve for us the mystery? What comes to men in the dark, dim unknown?" Maybe that old earl, like King David centuries before, was thinking of his boy killed in battle. King ...

187. People Are Different, People Are The Same

Drama

Marge Passamaneck

... asked David to place his menorah next to the red candle and to light it. David set the candles in place and slowly put the flame of the Shamus to all eight candles. As each one was lit, the room got brighter and brighter. The people felt the warmth of the light and when all the candles were burning, each person stared at the marvelous sight. Tony put his arm around David. TONY: You know, we don’t celebrate in the same way. But underneath everything we feel the same. We’re with our family, we give ...

188. Christmas International

Drama

Dory Younger

... When the song finishes:) NARRATOR: The Christmas tree is so lovely that we could enjoy it in our living rooms just as it is. But the joy of Christmas makes us want to decorate everything. We use candles at Christmas too, to add to the light and warmth of our celebration. As NARRATOR continues reading, child in Irish costume enters from stage right, turns on tree lights, and brings in a lighted [large] candle on a candlestand to place near front of stage right. Use candle only if it can be used safely. Irish ...

189. The Racial Gap

Psalm 53:1-6

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... clue! I’m interested in the number of times one sees the word "soul" these days. There is soul music, soul food, and far be it for me as a white man to try to define it. I gather that at its heart "soul" denotes some kind of special warmth black men have for each other. It has something to do with relationships and depth of concern. Perhaps being "aglow with the spirit" is something akin to that. The Spirit of the living God is nothing less than the ability to feel God’s presence and forgiveness and ...

190. Believable Light

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... it together, each his own with Christ himself. Even tears of shame cannot blur what we have written - all our evasions, all our equivocation, all our hypocrisy, all our false seeming and pretense. Yes, all our downright lies, even the worst of them. But the warmth of the light dries up even the faintest lines or the boldest strokes. Then we are free! It’s all erased. We are clean, no longer smudged. And the world believes us again - and trusts God accordingly. This is what evangelical theologians of an ...

191. OUR LORD FORSAKEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... , they openly demonstrated a courage beyond that of the disciples themselves. They worked in haste so the body would be entombed before sunset when the Jewish authorities might take some ruthless, ugly action to remove the defilement against their holy feast day. A warmth rose in John’s breast, and tears filled his eyes, not with his own sorrow, but with gratitude that there were yet those who cared. With the women, he followed down the winding, precipitous path between the huge boulders which lined the ...

192. When God Is At Work

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... any sort of social convention; and as a result, I can break all the rules, say what I want. But one look at this Nobel Prize winner, this woman so many people view as a living saint, and I was speechless." Michael said an incredible vitality and warmth came from her wizened, piercing eyes. She smiled at him, blessed a religious medal, and put it in his hands. This murderer who wouldn't have walked voluntarily down the hall to see the Warden, the Governor, the President, or the Pope, stood before this woman ...

193. All Together

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... "community" (read that "church") which it is helpful to remember: 1. Community can be difficult The German philosopher Schopenhauer once said that people are rather like a pack of porcupines on a freezing winter night. The sub-zero temperature forces them together for warmth. But as soon as they press very close, they jab and hurt one another. So they separate, only to attempt, in vain, over and over again, to huddle together. Togetherness can be painful. But without it we will freeze. Certainly the early ...

194. An Unusual Legacy

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... 2 Samuel 23:3b-4 Such an image! All of us can visualize the two universal sights of sun and rain - not the blistering heat of noon in tropical countries, nor the torrential and violent rains which come sporadically, but rather the gentle, nourishing effects of warmth and water. Sun and rain together work the miracle of natural growth. They are gifts of God for all. This is the sort of leadership David’s legacy is talking about. This is the sort of leadership the world always needs. True leaders are true ...

195. Scandal!

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

... to people. Hour after hour he shouts to surprised strangers, "Good Morning" and "Have a good day." Town fathers no doubt would love to have him committed. But for Joseph Charles the scandal of living is to become the town character in order to share some warmth with as many people as he can. The scandal of living in faith. Christ knew it. And he bids us to stick out our necks, too. But there’s more to the scandal of Christianity. There’s also the scandal of believing. After Christ chased the profiteers ...

196. The Jamie Farr Connection

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

... kind of bank." But it’s not the same. There’s money in their eyes, the memory of a contract signed in their minds. They have to say those things. With Jamie Farr it’s different. The local-boy-made-good is proud of his connections here. He speaks from warmth and loyalty and not from thought of gain. Listen to him as Klinger on M*A*S*H speaks of his longing to go back home to Toledo and of his cravings for Tony Packo’s hot dogs. Those ad libs are from the heart; he’s not trying to ...

197. And It Came To Pass

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... the earth, God is God. How clearly it is stated in the symbol of the fig tree. Fresh leaves appear and we know the winter is past; the time of the singing of birds has come. Out of bleak winter misery, darkness, and suffering, there emerges warmth of spring and restored life. Certain things are temporal; others are eternal. Fall Of An Empire It was August 24, 410. For the first time in a thousand years the Eternal City echoed with the dull thud of marching Germanic tribes. Alaric had invaded Rome. There ...

198. And He Shall Reign

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... leaders who had brought the flock of God to exile and defeat, disgrace and devastation. They had inherited the promises of God, the covenant that God had made with David, of a throne that would endure forever. And while they basked within its warmth, they had failed in its responsibility. They had fleeced the sheep and scattered them, led their people into faithlessness, idolatry, injustices, and immorality of every kind. The final end could only be their judgment under God in the worst humiliation the land ...

199. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... ’s Day has a tenderness all its own. It is fitting to celebrate it with flowers, for mothers do their work in just that way. As quietly as a flower, or as the sunshine that calls it into being, mother love sheds its fragrance and its life-giving warmth. As Christians, however, we do not worship mother love as such. Mothers too are sinful human beings who need to be trained by the Master to fulfill their mission. It is for Christian mothers that we thank God. Before we were born they prayed for us. In ...

200. God’s Wounded Healers

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... inner ache? Kazantzakis writes somewhere, "Every woman has a wound which will never heal" - and every man does, too. Recently I came to know a young Dutch Roman Catholic at Yale Divinity School. Henri Nouwen is his name. He is a man of rare depth and warmth. He has written a little book called The Wounded Healer, in which he suggests that loneliness may be the deepest and most painful wound in the human heart. He writes: "The wound of loneliness is like the Grand Canyon - a deep incision in the surface of ...

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