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2051. For Us

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , believe in a good God?'' I wish I had the discipline, not to be engaged by them in high flown disputations, but rather to say, ''Here, bread, wine, body, blood, for you." Of course, to do so would be to admit that we are not the great intellects we claim to be, searching out the ways of the hidden God. We are animals who live here, in the shadow of Calvary, land of blood and tom flesh, and lives in bondage to booze, and people perishing from too little bread, and more of us perishing from too much bread ...

2052. Why Christianity?

Romans 1:1-7

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... point us the way home. If that doesn’t hit home, let me ask you this question: What would the world be like if Jesus had never been born? Ever thought of it that way? Imagine this world if Jesus had never been born. Many atheists claim that faith and religion are bad for the world. Well, they just haven’t thought through it. Do you know what would be missing in this world if Jesus had never been born? No Christmas cards, caroling or concerts. No Christmas gift giving, candlelights, or twinkling trees ...

2053. Seeing the Truth of Jesus

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... or debate or ignore his message. But if Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God, then ignoring him is not an option. His Lordship demands our obedience. His life becomes our example. His promises become our foundation. His commands become our calling. We cannot claim that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God, and not be changed by that truth. The minute we acknowledge Jesus as Lord, we are challenged to step across a line, make a decision, die to our self, and live for the rest of our ...

2054. Seeing Is Believing

Isaiah 9:2 · John 1:14-18

Sermon

Will Willimon

... where it was allowed to rise. Then it was baked. All of this -- the soil, the farmer, the sower, the miller, the baker, the earthly, the corporeal, the commercial, the creaturely, the mundane stuff of everyday life -- all of this was blessed. All of this was claimed by Christ as part of the love of God. All became sacramental. Never again, after that blessing, can we look upon a field of grain or a loaf of communion bread or a slice of breakfast toast in the same casual way as before. Seeing is believing ...

2055. Glimpses of Eternity

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Will Willimon

... to be saved: Jesus must suffer in order to be obedient to God; they must suffer in order to follow Jesus. And the transfiguration on the mountain occurs right after this doubly distressing pronouncement. It's a strange story, so strange that our organist claims that he never heard it before. Peter, James, and John, the lead disciples, go away with Jesus to a high mountain. There, Jesus is caught up in a dazzling theophany. There is Jesus, talking with two great figures of Judaism- Moses and Elijah. Then ...

2056. Dying, We Live

1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Sermon

Will Willimon

... to be pitied" (15:19). It's all in vain. The Christian faith asserts that, in Christ, God has triumphed (15:24-27). But if death isn't defeated, we are to be pitied because our Christian claims of the triumph of God are hollow assertion. If this Savior can't do something about our dying, be really isn't much of a Savior. Our claim is that Christ has beaten the great enemy! In Christ, our lives begin to make a difference because we are free to live as those who share in his victory over death. We need not ...

2057. The Great Debates

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... David. It supported the idea of a “spiritual” messiah, a divine/human messiah, who existed along with God since the beginning of time and would appear in human form at some point in David’s future in order to make things right. It also supported Jesus’ claim as the messiah sent by God (both Spiritual King and Spiritual High Priest). So, who are his enemies? Take a guess! What a meaning-packed verse offered up by Jesus. Not only did Jesus prove through this exegesis that the messiah was not meant as ...

2058. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... calendar of America, the birthday of the man who has been called America’s greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. We have heard the old aphorism about some being born great, some achieving greatness, and some having greatness thrust upon them. Abraham Lincoln can surely lay claim to, at least, the last two of those. Lincoln has always fascinated me. Many of you as well, no doubt. In fact, he is now seen as so important a figure that one contemporary historian notes that there are currently more books in the ...

2059.

Psalm 93:1-5

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... must understand that the expressions “long ago” (lit. “from then”) and “eternity” (Hb. ʿôlām) do not denote infinite time but simply remote time. Nevertheless, while these temporal expressions describe Yahweh’s established throne, they are noticeably absent in the parallel claim, the world is firmly established (a confession at home with other testimonies of Yahweh’s kingship, 96:10; cf. 24:2; 89:11; 104:5). The world’s stability stands as a visible monument to Yahweh’s rule, but that ...

2060.

Psalm 100:1-5

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... was a key component in Yahwistic faith. The congregation is commanded both to understand its rationale and to make it known. The primary datum is that the LORD, as opposed to other claimants to deity, is God. The rest of the verse unpacks the significance of this. The claim, it is he who made us, can refer to God’s roles as creator of humankind and as creator of a covenant people (cf. Isa. 43:1, 15; 44:2). The designations, his people and the sheep of his pasture (cf. 23:1), point particularly to the ...

2061.

Psalm 127:1-5

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... toiling for food to eat is in vain—unless the LORD is in it. (It does not, therefore, contradict Prov. 24:30–34.) The claim, he grants sleep to those he loves, has troubled interpreters. (The Hb. term for “sleep,” šēnāʾ, occurs only here in the OT ... “my enemies” in 1 Sam. 2:1 are simply the rival wife, not life-threatening militants.) To us moderns the claim that children are a reward from God might seem particularly offensive to parents struggling with infertility. But we must recognize ...

2062.

Psalm 142:1-7

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... are not insincere and manipulative, as though he had suddenly become religious in the face of an emergency. “You are my refuge” (Hb. maḥsê) is a familiar confession and becomes especially meaningful in view of the preceding lament of having no refuge (Hb. mānôs). Claiming Yahweh as my portion in the land of the living is particularly associated with the Levites (Num. 18:20). However, it is also found in psalms that do not appear to be the peculiar property of the Levites (16:5; 73:26; 119:57). The ...

2063.

Psalm 147:1-20

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... among humans. This is a skillfully woven poem that brings together the diverse threads of God’s ways in creation and with humans. 147:1–6 The Hebrew psalms have little to say about beauty and pleasure in their own right, but they do claim that praise is pleasant (or “lovely,” Hb. nāʿîm; cf. 81:2; 135:3) and fitting (or “beautiful,” Hb. nāʾwâ; cf. 33:1). Yahweh is presented through the metaphoric roles of “builder” of Jerusalem and “the healer” of the brokenhearted (cf. Isa. 30 ...

2064. “I Will Sing the Lord’s Praise, for He Has Been Good to Me”

Psalm 13:1-6

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... gave rise to his lament was conflict with his enemies, while others are inclined to think it was some type of sickness (“or I will sleep in death,” 13:3b). Psalm 12 dealt with the question of falsity’s claim to triumph over truth (12:2–4), while Psalm 13 modulates to the enemies’ claim of triumph over this man of faith (13:4). While we should not overplay the Absalom theme, the trauma of a lost son or daughter, as only parents can know, forms a lamentive tone to whose mournful strains we sometimes ...

2065. Daniel Interprets the Dream

Daniel 2:24-49

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... which leads into the predicate. The title “king of kings” itself is attested in Akkadian, but it is normally used in the third person, not in the second person, to address a king (Montgomery, Daniel, p. 171). It is used of Nebuchadnezzar also in Ezekiel 26:7. Persian kings claimed the title, and the Bible uses it for Artaxerxes in Ezra 7:12. In the NT it is a title for God (1 Tim. 6:15) and Jesus (Rev. 17:14; 19:16). It is interesting that the king who destroyed Jerusalem and took the Jews into exile ...

2066. Gathered Around Jesus

Mark 6:30-34; 53-56

Sermon

David Coffin

... a drastic plan of action. Their beloved town of Walnut Grove was laced with sticks of dynamite, as the townspeople decided to blow up the buildings rather than allow them to fall into the hands of a greedy land baron. When the land baron arrived to claim the town, he found all the town’s buildings destroyed. The people of the town left to start new lives elsewhere as many of them had done before. The people marched out of the town singing “Onward Christian Soldiers.” As this might relate to Mark’s ...

2067. AAA=A

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... be any plainer, at least not for a metaphor. And this disturbs everyone. Even many of his closest disciples! So much so, that many of them start to fall away. In our scene today, we see them talking among themselves, complaining in disbelief at the moxie of his claims. Then Jesus calls them on it, triple verifying just who he is. Hard to believe? You bet. You think it’s hard to wrap your head around now? Try knowing his parents back then! And yet Jesus’ message to all is clear! “I am the living bread ...

2068. Scandal

Luke 22:14-23:56

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... in a dilemma. He did not have room for the big fish in his boat. He could keep either his current catch or toss it aside and claim the prize of the day, but he couldn’t do both. Like any great fisherman, he chose the record breaker. Shoveling the little fish out of the ... all-out wars. People returned to Sawi homes bloodied, battered, or missing limbs. Sometimes they failed to return at all, claimed by assassins’ wounds and swallowed up by the putrefying womb of the jungle. It was then that the men began ...

2069. Holy Wisdom From On High!

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... that along with the Spirit's Wisdom is given to us the fruit of self-control! You see, there is a perception and discernment which is not inherent within us by nature. But the Spirit's perception gives a keenness and astuteness that we can never claim as our own. It is rather that wonderful, divine Wisdom from him which quickens the believer. John and I were invited to preach for a week on the campus at the Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky. While there, we were asked to make some taped messages ...

2070. Unusual, To Say The Least!

Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... , and have him say, 'You made the dream I had for you come true! What I had in mind when I created you is exactly what you did with your life's days and nights!'" We still have a chance to get it right: to repent, to obey, and to claim the promise of God. That is an unbelievable promise! Amen!

2071. The Beginning And The Ending

Luke 1:1-4; 24:44-53

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... to understand is that his life and ministry is rooted in the Hebrew Scriptures. In his gospel Luke emphasizes from the beginning that the story of Jesus is a continuation, a fulfillment, of God's dealing with God's people in history. Jesus makes the claim that the whole of Scripture -- the law, the prophets, and the Psalms -- is fulfilled in him. In order for the disciples to grasp this significant truth, Jesus helps them read their Bible in a new way, "He opened their minds to understand the scriptures ...

2072. Paths Of Desperation

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... with the doctors who had seemed to give up hope on his wife. Suddenly hopelessness was the order of the day. And where to go with this hopelessness? Dick's parents found a place that offered some hope for cancer treatment. A doctor about an hour's drive away claimed to have a cure for this type of cancer. Before long Dick's mother was housed with that doctor in the far away town. Dick made the drive with his father to see his mother quite often. This trip was this family's only hope. They knew of nowhere ...

2073. Joseph's Friend

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... he was learning to do, too. He would take long hours to pray. He wouldn't take time from his daily tasks, but would get up early and spend time alone with God, his father. Oh, you say, I thought you were his father. No, not really. I could only claim to be his stepfather. That was honor enough, let me tell you. Just to know him was honor enough. No, I wasn't his father, but I got the privilege of teaching all those things a father gets to teach his son. I got to walk with him through the ...

2074. Talk Show I

Luke 10:38-42

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... God." MARY: True, but we need to be doing our part too. PHIL: What do you think, Doctor? Is the work of God dependent on the prayer of the saints? DR. FITZNOUR: Well, yes and no. I should think God, if he is all-powerful as Christians claim, would be able to handle everything there is to handle. (APPLAUSE) But, on the other hand, there was a study that came out of the University of California that showed that 69 percent of all people interviewed who considered themselves to be born again said they thought ...

2075. The Thieves

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... good it did you. The Romans took everything we \nhad and killed you. Where was God when that happened? \nNERIAH: God was in control. He still is. Listen, what matters \nnow is that the Messiah has come. \nZETHAN: I know there was a carpenter who made that claim. The \nRomans just hanged Him on a tree. Two of our men died with Him. \nNERIAH: He's the one. He is the Messiah. He has done many \nmiracles and good works. \nZETHAN: And for that they killed Him. Some miracle worker. \nNERIAH: We have to trust ...

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