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1976. The Church Reaches Out!

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... , "Do you understand what you are reading?" He replied, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" Thus Christian nurture and Christian education become essential parts of our mission. If we are going to "open our mouths," we want to be sure that what comes out is more sense than sound. We are reminded of the foundation words for all Christian teaching and learning by the Apostle Paul, "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; but when I became an adult, I put ...

1977. Egypt: Unlikely Refuge

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... ought to offend him. We had better not try to fence God in. How strange and wonderful that the story of our Lord Jesus Christ should include a visit to Egypt! Born in Bethlehem, nurtured in Nazareth, crucified and resurrected in Jerusalem: all of that makes sense enough. We can picture him preaching along the Jericho Road, and talking with his disciples as they walk the shores of Galilee. But how does Egypt fit into the story? The answer: just where God wants it to. At a dark and almost hopeless time, when ...

1978. The Garden: All Things New

John 20:1-9

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... wanted." And now, as you walk away from the tomb and back toward the trees and the flowers, you remember that special morning, a Sunday morning some 1,950 years ago. It was so early in the day that it was still dark. A woman approached the tomb. You sense that she is a person who has often traveled alone, so she doesn’t seem fightened by being alone in this rather eerie place at such an hour. Besides, she is encompassed by an emotion much deeper than fear. Her name is Mary of Magdala - Mary Magdalene, we ...

1979. When Something is About to Happen

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Long

... by piece, on the mantle. Every action has meaning, because something is about to happen. But we have also known the sense of loss and disappointment over a hoped-for future which does not come, when nothing, nothing really, happens. The husband and ... put away. The tree comes down; the shepherds and angels are stored for another year, and the long-awaited day passes with a sense that nothing, nothing really, has happened. In a far more profound way, the church has always struggled with its pain over a future ...

1980. Hot Tubs and Fishing Trips

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Thomas Long

... ’m not. He makes his own decisions. He is his own person.7 It is a worthy goal, I suppose, to want to "be one’s own person." No one wants to be pushed around, overwhelmed, and controlled by the demands of others. But there is a deeper sense in which none of us finally wants to "be our own person." We long to hear the sound of another’s voice summoning us, valuing our life enough to make a claim upon it. Sometimes, when parents are scolding their children for unacceptable behavior, they will say, "That ...

1981. A New Temple Shall Arise

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... discovered. Inevitably these ancient ruins, some very large in dimension, were built for religious reasons. To be human, so it seems, is to be religious. To be human means that we find ourselves accountable for our lives to Someone or Something larger than ourselves. That sense of life just seems to be built into our human nature. Saint Paul seeks to explain this religious dimension of human life in his letter to the Romans. In chapter 2 of Romans he makes the point that every human being has sinned in the ...

1982. What Is God Like?

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... son who was like Absalom. In that Parable of the Prodigal Son, he sketched a portrait of another son who misused his freedom, rebelled against his father’s ways, left home, and spent his substance in riotous living in the far country. When that son came to his senses, he started back home. "He was still a long way from home," said Jesus, "when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him" (Luke 15:20, TEV). When the older son, who was working ...

1983. How Can We Meet Grief?

2 Samuel 18:19--19:8

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... you" (John 14:1-2, NKJV). The imagery which Christ used in these words comes from the travel arrangements in the first century. Along the roads, there were "mansions" at regular stages of a traveler’s journey. These places were not "mansions" in our sense of the word, but simply accommodations for travelers. A traveler would make his way along that road until the shadows lengthened and the evening came. Then, he would stop at one of those mansions to rest for the night. The next morning he would resume ...

1984. Is Your Religion Second-Hand?

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... second-hand clothes, That’s why they call me Second-Hand Rose. Ev’ryone knows that I’m just Second-Hand Rose From Second Avenue. Like a used car and the possessions of Second-Hand Rose, one’s religious faith can be second-hand, too. In one sense, all of us began our religious life with a second-hand faith. As Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote in A Faith for Tough Times: We hear about Christian faith and life before we experience it; in family and church we accept its expressions before we vitally see ...

1985. What Do We Do Now That We’re Happy?

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... feel it in our own hearts. The good news of Christ is at work in the world, graciously giving us the happiness we long expected and a growing awareness that at last we are getting from God what we wanted all along. The task of retaining this sense of our salvation continues just as it always has. We are not to rest until Christ establishes his New Jerusalem and makes the earth its prize. Justice, healing, deliverance, liberation - all these are day-labor tasks which guarantee for us that we know what to do ...

1986. Trinity

Isaiah 6:1-13, Romans 8:1-17, John 3:1-21

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... Christ. People: AND THOSE WHO TRUST IN CHRIST AND ARE BORN FROM ABOVE ARE RECIPIENTS OF GOD’S GRACIOUS LOVE FOR THE WORLD. Collect Most holy God, whose love for the world is made real to us through your Son and Spirit, fill us with a sense of your saving presence and activity; that our daily lives may reflect our rebirth from above, and thus lead others to you. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, we confess that we do not consistently lead lives that reflect your redemptive ...

1987. Thanksgiving Day

Joel 2:18-27, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Timothy 2:1-15

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... may direct us in the way you would have us go. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of infinite mercy, we confess that we are not as thankful for or supportive of our political leaders as we should be. We are partisan in the worst sense, praising and praying for only those whose views match ours, or those whom we know to be religious like us. Forgive us, we pray. Remind us that you are God of all and can work through the believer and unbeliever alike to effect your will. Move us with your ...

1988. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

... with incarceration and the end of his ministry, Jesus just might use that moment to rally the forces and move against the power structure once for all time. Admittedly, this is just speculation - nothing in Scripture gives Judas this motivation - but it does seem to make sense, Judas trying to force Jesus to act the way he wanted him to. Judas wanted to make Jesus something other than he was. He couldn’t accept him as he was so he destroyed, finally, not only the relationship but Jesus as well. And that ...

1989. The Generation Gap

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... - honest enough to differ rather than just throw up our hands and say, "Forget it. Do what you want!" There are some areas of experimentation that are too dangerous to be treated cavalierly and lightly; drugs and promiscuous sex can do immense psychic harm and there’s no sense pretending they don’t. We ought to say this, but in it all, we must love. We can do it because God is in it with us. He’s been through the gap. Amazingly he continues to love a revolting mankind (and maybe the adjective is the ...

1990. His Risen Hand Holds Ours

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... darkness is to be in sin. To be in sin is to be away from God. And to be away from God is not life, but hell! All too often we make great commitments to existence, but very few to actual life. Our physical affluence has thrown our sense of values into chaos as more than ever before, and external values are emphasized. Business pressures us to borrow, spend, buy, waste, want. All the media are preaching to us. One economic observer roclaimed, "Never before have so many owed so much to so many." Our affluence ...

1991. Sharing with Our Brothers

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... about the generosity of the Macedonians because these poor churches gave out of Christian self-interest. They were making brothers, though they had never seen each other. A world full of brothers is a safer, better place to live. The hungry of the world can soon sense what motivates the giving of their neighbors. They come to learn of one who taught his disciples that if your neighbor, or even your enemy, hungers, feed him ... "that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise ...

1992. Feed My Sheep

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... For you always have the poor with you" as Jesus said in the home of Simon the Leper (Matthew 26:11). Is Hunger New? In what sense is hunger a new phenomenon? 1. One product of the amazing strides of technology in our age is that knowledge of how others live is a ... or, what is worse, a nuclear holocaust" (The Interpreter, December 1975, p. 4). 7. Another major reason for our sharpened sense of responsibility for human misery is the new form of Christianity which is emerging in our century. It takes "Jesus ...

1993. THE WATCHERS

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... eyes off of him. Never before had her dim eyes seen so completely and fully the freshness of a new life. Never before had she sensed so deeply Love and Joy and Hope as she did as she peered at that tiny new life. Anna beheld the hope of the ages ... Christmas as did Simeon and Anna. As their eyes beheld the Christmas child, all that was good and pure and holy came to life within them. They sensed a new joy, a new hope, a new meaning for life. And love was born anew in their lives. The good news this day is to ...

1994. Christmas Now!

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... who had journeyed far, after they had presented their gifts and worshiped the new born King of all kings, left to return to their homeland directed and guided by God. And those holy ones, the watchers, Simeon and Anna, left the first Christmas with a sense of fulfillment, completeness, and satisfaction. They left giving thanks and sharing the news with all they met as they went their ways. Now we would leave the celebration of this miraculous event. And just how do we go? What is our attitude? What are the ...

1995. Gentle Light

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... the best example we know. The hymn line, "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild ..." does not describe a sissy model. To be a gentle-man is never to be unmanly. Jesus of Nazareth and Paul of Tarsus were strong, firm men in every admirable sense. There is nothing milquetoast implied when a Christian is quiet, soft spoken, irenic in disposition, pleasant, and affable in manner, amiable and agreeable in conversation. A country preacher told about a family trekking from Arkansas to Texas in a covered wagon pulled by two ...

1996. OUR LORD FORSAKEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... a part of the sorrow of the dark day where all nature appeared to grieve. There was Mary, wife of Joseph, mother of the crucified, who, alone of all his family, had tried to understand, to have faith, to believe, who stood now at the foot of the cross sensing and sharing her son’s every pain. Beside her was Mary of Magdala, she whom he had healed of sickness unto death, whose mind he had released from the grip of forces as cruel as any that can grasp and twist the human personality, and had made of her ...

1997. IN THE HOUR OF TRIAL

Matthew 4:1-11

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John W. Rilling

... and to labor for our daily bread. We are to be dependent on him. Jesus himself becomes our brother in this same sense of dependency. In the refectory of the cloister at Beurone there hangs a picture of the Crucified titled ‘Sitio - I thirst.’ ... the table. That is why we say grace before meals." Sometimes a pain in the stomach is more effective in bringing a man to his senses than an idea in his head. It was only when he hungered that the prodigal son remembered his father. 2. THROW YOURSELF DOWN. The ...

1998. Advent 3: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Peace of Christmas

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... each other again! They had been brought back together. Now, think about this. The one who spoke over that loudspeaker, in a sense, served as a reconciler between the boy and his dad. They had gotten lost from each other because the little boy had wandered off, drifted ... away… but the one at the service desk got them back together again. In the same sense, Christ has come down to this earth to help us get back together with God who made us… and who loves us. That’s ...

1999. Search for The Treasure

John 17:6-19

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... treasure that so many people have searched for, all we need to do is sit and wait. BEA: Sit and wait! That doesn't make any sense. We didn't travel all the way to this God-forsaken land to sit and wait. AILY: What did you say? BEA: I said, why ... he might want to share it with them so that they could share in his joy in whatever he does. BEA: It's beginning to make sense. Let's try this praying. Do you know how? AILY: I've translated some ancient prayers. We'll try it and see what happens. BEA: Communicating ...

2000. On His Way

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... ’ miracles themselves (and there is no reason to assume that they had) this element of the crowd probably uttered their rebuke without breaking stride. (2) On the other hand, those members of the group who were already committed to Jesus may have shared his sense of urgency for getting on to Jerusalem, so that they sought to avoid delaying an appointment with destiny. We can only speculate as to the nature of the crowd, but whoever they were, they were overruled: "And Jesus stopped and called them, saying ...

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