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2001. Come Home!

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... This thick darkness for Israel was not only the gloom of being "not home." Something else was adding to the dark: a sense of waiting. Israel had been waiting a good long time by now - for salvation, for deliverance, for restoration. It seemed that waiting ... are family and friends left behind, and what kind of homecoming is it when they’re not here too? Over and over, this sense of incompletion lives on with us. Particularly in these last few decades, we know something of what it was like for Israel. Family ...

2002. A Prayer of Wonder

2 Samuel 7:18-29

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... said, "I am nothing, I am nothing." The cleaner beat his breast, and said, "I am nothing, I am nothing." And the rabbi said to the cantor, "Look who thinks he’s nothing." True humility truly is very difficult! We can sense the depth of authenticity of David’s humility in this prayer. Somehow we can sense how it’s different from the way we want to be "proud of our humility." 2. Praise True praise of God is paying attention to all of creation. To know that all is from the hand of this Creator. O Lord ...

2003. Partners in the Impossible

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Richard Patt

... them instead of standing with them. After all, we’re not professionals, we surmise. We don’t know how to act. We don’t know how to react. We don’t know what to say or what not to say. So we withdraw. Just when healing in the sense of wholeness is needed most, we are not there. And the victims of our flight are legion! Jesus often became weary of bringing wholeness to others too. Once he was almost beside himself with feelings of being overwhelmed by the infirmities and human demands of the broken ...

2004. Do Children Like You?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Richard Patt

... the root of the matter. It quickly suggests most of the human qualities we ought to have as a loving and caring person. The presupposition, of course, is that if children like us and are drawn to us, we are probably quite close to the Kingdom of God in the sense of living out our Christian call to care and concern for others. In these sermon minutes, let’s look more closely at Jesus as the divine Son of God who had a heart for children and as that beautiful Savior to whom children felt drawn. I As we look ...

2005. What Do You Mean 'Born Again?'

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... Moses at the burning bush. There are many misunderstandings about "religious experience." One is that it must be a burning bush or a Damascus Road; another, that "religious experience" solves everything. Any old bush will do. You have had religious experiences in the best sense of that term if you will only think back on how God has worked in your life. These experiences are not ends in themselves, but means to an end. The end is witnessing. Witnessing doesn’t solve everything, but it does point us to ...

2006. The Gospel in Two Words

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

... teaches, in his teaching; he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. As important to the Christian life as is a finely tuned moral sense or even a broad sense of commitment, even more important is the ability to invest yourself, to expend yourself, to give yourself away. One cannot do that and be closed. Christian living calls for liberality, zeal, and cheerfulness in exercising the gift that God has given ...

2007. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... is the Christian. Never a pessimist, a realist, sustained by faith." Once Jesus painted a picture of striking contrast. We have it recorded in Matthew 7: What then of the man who hears these words of mine and acts upon them? He is like a man who had the sense to build his house on rock. The rains came down, the floods rose, the winds blew, and beat upon that house; but it did not fall, because its foundations were on rock. (NEB) Then Jesus went on to describe the opposite person, the one who built his house ...

2008. Coping When It Seems Impossible

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... our guides we wanted to go out into the desert to worship. They replied: "This is em-poss-ible." We insisted. They took us. When one lives three weeks in an officially atheistic culture, faith takes on new meaning. We deeply felt our faith and sensed its reality. One of us, with deep feeling, read from the New Testament. Our guides had never heard it read before. One of us prayed, talking fervently to our Father in heaven. This was probably our guides’ first prayer experience. Then we sang, from memory ...

2009. Why Fear Growing Old?

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... had the same vivid experience. But I didn’t tell you. I thought you might not understand." Neither of us forgot this experience. It was real. Someone was there. Who? My mother who was in heaven? My father, who was probably praying for us early in the morning? Or a sense of the presence of God, who is always with us, and makes his presence known again and again? At any rate, two young men, a long way from home, learned a lesson for life - we are never alone! He is with us all the way - "Even to your gray ...

2010. Enduring

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... . They were simple, well-meaning souls, naive, unable to make up their minds on major issues, and utterly devoid of common sense. They refused to recognize life as it was and take positive measures to meet the needs of their subjects. Caught in ... the end will be saved." This is our hope. The prophets of Israel and Judah lived out their own lives amid the sense of impending doom. True, it was not thermonuclear war, but the horror of Egyptian, Babylonian, Assynian, Persian invasion spelled torture, rape, pillage ...

2011. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

"Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you." (v. 12) Who is a saint? The historic definition is one whose life is worthy of imitation by all of Christendom. Some add that a sense of humor is a prerequisite, along with having performed miracles. "She is a saint," we say. What do we mean? We usually have in mind a person whose goodness, unselfishness, love, is unmistakable. Ah, but ask that one, "Are you a saint?" The answer: "Of course ...

2012. The Good News of Easter

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... any individual to answer the ultimate questions in life. And this morning I stand to proclaim Hope, the hope of His Resurrection. There is death. Yes. But life is in Jesus Christ, the hope of our resurrection. Friends, you have come here this morning with a sense of anticipation and longing. There are sobering questions on your mind and much hangs in the balance. Is there hope? Is there new life? Is there reason for joy? The answer to your questions has arrived this day. It is here waiting for you. It is ...

2013. Success

Mark 10:17-31

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... : 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 does make sense. But how does God do it? JESUS: God won't make you good until you let him. BRYAN: How do I let God make me good? JESUS: How bad do you want it? BRYAN: With all my life. JESUS: That's exactly what it ...

2014. Lent 3

John 4:1-26

Bulletin Aid

C. David Godshall

... faith and to seek righteousness before you. Assistant: Enable us to look for the learnings from the past which will help us to pursue justice and mercy for our times and our peoples. People: Turn us from self-righteousness, and give us a proper sense of fear so that we may engage in right living and faithful believing. (Other petitions may be included here.) Pastor: Receive our prayers, O Lord, and answer them as you move in our lives to bring forth true faith, sincere life, and unshakable hope, through ...

2015. On the Night when He Was Betrayed

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... the consequences of our blunders catch up with us that we shamefacedly return to him. We are like Peter of the bonfire. He forfeited his discipleship when he broke off his relation to the Master, but when he "remembered the word of the Lord," he came to his senses and returned. While the Lord’s Supper is "in remembrance" of Jesus, it is much more than a memorial. The Lord does not speak of the bread and the wine as mere tokens of remembrance. He says, "This is my body which is for you ... This cup is ...

2016. The Holy Trinity

John 16:5-16

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... gives us. Instead of speaking about one substance and three persons, we could say in today’s language: The Trinity is the revelation of God, given in Christ, and continuing to operate in the Holy Spirit. God is one, not in the sense of barren arithmetic but in a higher and richer threefold sense in which God remains the one true God even though he reveals himself to us in Christ and continues to communicate himself to us in the Holy Spirit. God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, the Son of ...

2017. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... his children, he implies, and you have the best clue into the nature of God. Listen to the heart throbs of a father’s love and you will understand how God feels toward us. What are characteristics of fatherhood that help us to know God? The first is a deep sense of responsibility for the child. If you are a father, in looking at your boy you catch yourself thinking: of all the good things in the world that I am able to procure, I would like to give my boy the best. You would do everything in your power to ...

2018. A New Perspective

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... you didn’t know whether your train was moving forward or the other train was moving backward. There was a strange sense of disorientation until you could look around to find something you knew was stationary and tell for sure which train was moving ... plunge into darkness and despair? How do I recognize that you really are one and the same God, so that I don’t lose my sense of wholeness? How can the darkness of this hour not obliterate all the joys of yesterday and tomorrow? O my God, treasure me, I pray ...

2019. The Choice Is Always Ours

Ecclesiastes 9:1-12

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... , is! What has come, has come! What has gone, is gone! We can be overwhelmed and still be responsible. And John Greenleaf Whittier puts some words of prayer into our consciousness to help: Breathe through the heats of our desires Thy coolness and thy balm; Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still small voice of calm. Every door that shuts is followed by the grace of God by another that opens. Every new ending calls for a new commitment. Every plan that fails ...

2020. Smart, Wise, and Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... in preventing mass starvation. Perhaps the prevailing mind-set of the Corinth of Paul’s day does have a certain timelessness, after all. Just because Paul emphasized the cross as central to understanding life, he should not be misunderstood as being in any sense anti-intellectual. Nor do I want to be so understood. Our times call for the full use of all our intelligence, our technology, and our combined efforts to understand the complexities of our present scene. The problem is when we confuse being smart ...

2021. Eyes to See

Mark 10:46-52

Illustration

William G. Carter

... in the line weren't there for the same interview, they were waiting for soup. She grew nervous as she looked at the people in line. Some of them, in turn, looked at her. She felt self-conscious about the way she was dressed. Apparently others began to sense her anxiety. A woman in a moth-eaten sweater smiled and tried to make conversation. "Is this your first time here?" "Yes, it is." "Don't worry," said the lady in the sweater, "it gets easier." "The scales fell from my eyes that day," reflected the young ...

2022. Advent 4. Won't You Let Him Into Your Christmas?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... place. She had seen the Angel of Christmas in a hospital patient. Listen! The Angels of Christmas are all around us. The question is: Do we have the eyes of faith to see them, and the ears of faith to hear them, and the hearts of faith to sense and feel their presence? That’s number one: The Shepherds saw the Angel, and they responded in faith, hope and love. II. SECOND, THEY SAW THE CHRIST-CHILD. You may say: How could they miss Him? There was that “Bright Star” in the sky. But, most everybody else ...

2023. Ready or Not - Here I Come

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... . As Christians, Jesus has already come to us and we have accepted him by faith. At the end of our lives, he will come to us a second time and take us to himself in heaven. The hour of death is, in a sense, a second coming for a Christian. In addition, Jesus is coming in a cosmic sense. He will come at the end of the world. We believe this because Jesus said he would, and we have no good reason to doubt his promises. Through the ages the church has confessed, "From thence he shall come to judge the quick ...

2024. Good News for Bad Times

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... percent of them are not certain of God's existence; 29 percent are not sure of Christ's deity; 31 percent do not believe acceptance of Christ is necessary to be saved. These convictions, the book says, are shared equally by the laity. If we are going to have a sense of certainty and security in our lives in these changing times, we must have deep and abiding convictions based on God's Word. We must know what to believe and why we believe what we believe. Then God will be in the midst of us and we shall not ...

2025. You're Going To Have A Baby!

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... I am not fit to be a carrier of you. The carol is right when it says, "Cast out our sin, and enter in." With this sense of unworthiness we hear the announcement of our having a baby with troubled hearts. Are You Afraid? Like Mary, we can react with fear. Our ... if God actually confronted us, we probably would be scared to death. It is like a certain man who did not have all of his senses. It was his custom each evening to go to the barn, take off his cap, and say, "Howdy, Lord." Then he would deliver a sermon ...

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