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2076. Going Home for Christmas?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the place of Judas. No one seemed to fit. At last he came to a particular cell. The jailer unlocked the door. As he advanced toward the man, the man shrieked. Leonardo de Vinci stayed with the man for a while in the darkness. Finally, the man began to feel some warmth of human companionship. When he did, Leonardo put his hand on his shoulder and said, "Man, I have just purchased your freedom. You are free. Come with me." He led the condemned man out of the dungeon and saw that when they came to the light he ...

2077. Do You Know What Time It Is?

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... revenge. On the day he retired, he took his alarm clock to the dockyards. He placed it under an 80-ton hydraulic press. Then, with great delight, he pushed the button, releasing the press down on the clock. It was totally flattened. "What a lovely feeling!" Whittel said. Many of us can empathize. We have a love-hate relationship with alarm clocks, watches, and timepieces. But even if we were to spend the rest of our lives destroying them to express our exasperation with the pressure of time, we would not ...

2078. Singing in the Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... place and a person to turn to when there seems to be nowhere to turn. And for others, the storm will take place tomorrow. However, the Word of God does reveal that there will be a storm! It is not very difficult these days to find people who feel that their primary efforts are directed towards riding out a storm of some sort. Our lives are surrounded by difficulties that render invalid any long-term goals and aims. It is easy to forfeit our dreams and visions to direct our energies to the daily struggle for ...

2079. The Adventure of Discipleship

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... power of a gospel that left an indelible mark upon his soul. Being a disciple is a real blessing, despite the gospel's two edges. We know that God has promised to be with us always. That means that we are never alone in life, no matter how we may feel at a given moment, or how unsettling life's changes may seem to be. Being a disciple means that God is not just a "Sunday friend," but a "daily companion" in our life. It means that all things "do indeed work together for good." Oh -- it doesn't guarantee that ...

2080. Missing the Point

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... others! And it is the Holy Spirit that moves us to do that. The Spirit is given in baptism and nourished through scripture and the sacraments. The Spirit calls us to reflect God's glory in our lives. I know what you're thinking: I don't always feel like that. I'm not always loving and forgiving and kind like Jesus. I sometimes have doubts and fears and questions. I have failings and shortcomings and sins. Don't be discouraged! We have the same answer for failure and guilt and doubt that the disciples had ...

2081. Extravagant Guestures in a Cost-Effective World

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... had to have it, and to this day you enjoy it. However it cost you $450 and every time you pass by it, you still feel a twinge of guilt. Should you have spent that much? Our text is about such seeming extravagance. Jesus is in Bethany at the home of ... perfume as a symbol of the beautiful. The response of the disciples to the incident is then typical of what many Christian people feel about the arts. They are an extravagance. They are not something on which a religious man will spend his money. The good, the ...

2082. Entrustment

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... psalmist. If you want to thank God, join the psalmist in saying, "It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night" (Psalm 92:1-2). Or, should you feel inconsolable, let the psalmist speak for you: "I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me. In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted. I think of God ...

2083. Time Out!

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... of an American unit early in the fighting. This unit had in its possession a box which contained a cake. What was remarkable about the cake is that it had been sent to an American soldier from Boston and it was still fresh. This German officer described his feelings when he realized that the Americans had the resources to fly over cakes from home even in the midst of a global war. He said that he knew then, that they would never defeat an enemy that had such resources for the waging of the battle. (2) You ...

2084. No Salt in the City?

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... her three friends and two new ones to boot! Now, that, my friends, is salt! Thirst What else can salt do besides add flavor and thaw ice? It can induce thirst. If you take a date to the movies, just about the time the movie is getting good, you'll feel an elbow in your ribs. "Popcorn!" she'll say. So you scramble out to buy some. But don't be cheap! For while you're out you might as well purchase a drink. For the popcorn is so salty that after four bites, you'll get the elbow again. "A ...

2085. Ah, the Sweet Mystery of Life

Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... that it turns everything upside down, but the second time you read it you discover that it turns everything right side up. The first time you read it you feel that it is impossible; the second time, you feel that nothing else is possible." Be certain of this, the mystery of life is resolved forever through Christ, our Advent Lord! And then we encounter the Mystery Applied. As we journey toward Bethlehem this year, perhaps some of us find ourselves still enshrouded in unfathomable mystery. Perhaps a loved ...

2086. Training the Heart

1 John 1:1-4

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... formed well, a person whose heart is filthy and bitter, a heart that is unable to respond to another's pain with compassion. Or, and this is the insightful gem in our scripture reading for today from 1 John, there are those who have been brought up to feel guilty about everything, who never know peace. There are those whose hearts constantly condemn them, as the writer of John puts it. Rather we need to pray this prayer: "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." How hard it is ...

2087. Grace in the Midst of Weakness

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... burden of all this people on me? Did I conceive all this people? ... If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once -- if I have found favor in your sight -- and do not let me see my misery." This seriously depressed man feels so flattened by circumstances that he literally prays, "God, if you love me, please kill me." Who prayed that prayer? Moses. Here's a paraphrased cry of the heart from 1 Kings 19: "I have had enough, Lord ... I'm the only one left who really cares about you, I ...

2088. The Highest Bidder

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... his book The Different Drum, psychologist and author Scott Peck makes a case that within all of us there is a God-implanted desire to experience authentic relationships. Deep inside we long for true community: for relationships in which we can express our real feelings, be accepted for who we are, and give and receive genuine love. But most of us settle for a pale imitation of the real thing. Peck calls this cheap substitute "pseudo community." Most of us are involved in marriages, family relationships, and ...

2089. Sweet-Smelling Fragrance

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... is a lot more close-up. We live house to house, apartment to apartment, townhouse to townhouse, room to room, suite to suite. We drive fender to fender. We work elbow to elbow. We often get in each other's way. And when we try to spread out our feelings, we often find that the larger family is no longer there to absorb them. We have to focus our anger on fewer people. It naturally becomes more intense. Living close-up has problems. We all love and hate the very people with whom we are the closest. The two ...

2090. Lethal Weapon

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... rather bored with life. It takes more and more to get us excited. In fact, the church viewed boredom as one of the Seven Deadly sins. To be bored is "to cast a jaundiced eye at life in general" and most of all, your own life. You feel nothing is worth getting excited about since you yourself are not worth getting excited about. The number one complaint of students at Manhattan College is: "Boredom -- there's nothing to do." As Fred Buechner says, "You can be bored by virtually anything if you put your mind ...

2091. Who Needs a Doctor?

Mark 2:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... back then. This is what Sydney Harris wrote: He said, "Now that her world has come unstuck, and she is beginning to reglue it, I feel free to point out that she is a better person than when she was so busy being a 'good person.' Sometimes we have to fall ... and how her tour was going. But then it became very quiet, and out of the silence she confessed to the pain she was feeling because of all the abuse and derision from her sisters and brothers in Christ. She then visibly straightened up and spoke of her resolve ...

2092. Joy to the World

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... going to sing a song. What song shall we sing? We could sing Martin Luther's hymn of the Reformation, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." Maybe a hymn by Charles Wesley, such as "And Can It Be," would express how we feel about our Christian faith. We might want to consider something on a little more feeling level like Joseph M. Scriven's "What A Friend We Have In Jesus," or Fanny J. Crosby's "To God Be The Glory." No, let's not sing any of these. Instead, let's sing a song about Christmas. "Wait a minute! Did ...

2093. The Indwelling Christ And Holy Communion

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , but it was so powerful and so packed with meaning that I wrote Brother Simon immediately and complimented him on his message, and suggested that he write for the Upper Room. By return mail, he told me had never heard of the Upper Room. Well that hurt my feelings, so I sent him a copy of the Upper Room, and by return mail, I received his subscription. He said, “Enclosed you will find my check for a one year subscription to the Upper Room, it’s the best thing since the apostles. Now I always tell that ...

2094. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , ears begin to wave as he begins to leap about, “To dance is to live,” he says with gusto. In the next frame he’s twirling around and he concludes to himself, “For me, dancing is an emotional outlet.” In the third frame, he says with deep feeling, “I feel sorry for people who can’t dance.” And in the final frame, he goes leaping joyously away, admonishing us, “If you can’t dance, you could at least do a happy hop.” Do you get it? It’s a picture of living lightly. Life may not be ...

2095. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... get a candid shot of yourself, maybe a time exposure. As I hold the shutter open for a moment, what do you see. Pride - which won’t allow us to bear our souls and open ourselves to God’s healing love. Sexual lust, which makes us feel unfaithful and unclean. Callousness toward the needs of others which pits us against Christ who said, that our judgment would be determined by whether we fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the prisoner, and proclaimed to all - rich and poor, educated and uneducated ...

2096. Such A Babe In Such A Place

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... can recognize. A young couple expecting their first baby. The father is anxious and wants the best for his wife. You can feel his nervousness as he knocks anxiously on the door of the inn seeking a room in which they might stay. Can’t ... upon himself the sin of us all, and how through him our sins are expiated and God accepts us in spite of our sins. We all feel different, and have different theories of the atonement, and none of the theories are complete really. But the saved know that the work of Christ is ...

2097. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... this with the family before, and there had been many false alarms. She didn’t want to go – it was cold, the fire and comfort of the apartment were enticing – but she said yes and headed out through the snow, walking to the hospital, feeling very ambivalent about it all, yet dimly sensing responsibility, but still plagued by the problem of suffering and the goodness of God. It was a false alarm. When she arrived at the hospital, the child was alright. Instead of returning home immediately though, she ...

2098. Remember Your Baptism

Romans 6:1-14, Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you believe. It’s not that at all. But there are movements to it, and ingredients which are essential, and they are these. First, there is awareness of sin – an awareness that we, who we are in our separation from God. This brings feelings of guilt on our part. Again, even these feelings of guilt is the work of grace in our life, because an act of grace is also is an act of judgment. Then comes repentance – the act of being truly sorry and turning around. Turning from the old self and turning to God ...

2099. Soul Drain

Psalm 63:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... frustration and despair. Now I believe he’s there as mystery. And I want you to hear that. I believe he’s there as mystery. Sometimes we don’t understand what God is doing. Sometimes we don’t even realize that God is there. We certainly don’t feel God’s presence. We can’t get our minds, our little minds around the great movements of God. Even so, even so – he’s there as an inexhaustible energy, sustaining us, and when we wait, when we wait on him, he changes our pain into suffering and our ...

2100. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . The amount she mentioned seemed astronomical to me in relation to what she must be earning. That was the beginning of sporadic, then regular visits together. Always the elements of doing something, trying harder, giving more, were a part of her stance. Her feelings of needing to prove, to earn respect, to do good in order to be good emerged at every turn. She wanted to start a preschool for the economically deprived. She’d like to work in our tutoring program in the Mexican/American community ...

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