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2101. Give Me Jesus!

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Richard Patt

... when it comes to my religion and matters of faith, give me the basics, give me something simple, give me Jesus? That is not to say that Christianity is simplistic or lacking in subtlety or depth. The personhood of Christ is profound indeed. Jesus is a many-faceted character. You do not exhaust his meaning for your life in a few paragraphs - or books. But the truth is that amidst the fire and conflict of life, in the daily struggle and the weary journey we are all taking, we only need Jesus and we only want ...

2102. Religion in Focus

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

Richard Patt

... to answer that question with any degree of focus. In a recent survey by the Gallup folks, over ninety percent of the people asked said they knew Jesus Christ. But when pressed about what they knew, they gave extremely unfocused replies. "He’s the main character in the Bible," some said. Others replied that he was a good and religious man who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Only a small percentage talked about him in New Testament terms of being "Lord" or "Savior." An even smaller percentage made any reference at ...

2103. Scandal!

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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... his hometown of Berkeley, California, and waved 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 ...

2104. The Gospel in Two Words

Mark 7:31-37

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The healing of the deaf and mute person becomes a metaphor for a deeper and more difficult healing, the changing (if not the character, then at least the attitudes) of those touched by the Healer. And all have been touched. This sermon suggests that being deaf (being closed) happens in more than one way. Biblical and contemporary examples flavor the meaning of the biblical "Be opened," and the contemporary "Be open." The fluidity of ...

2105. God's Verdict Upon The World (Looking At The World Through The Eyes of God)

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... does what we need most. He says I like you anyone. I love you regardless. I do not condemn you. I am sending you my son so that you might be saved. He will tell you of my love. Charles Shulz, creator and author of the Peanuts cartoon characters often conveys a message in his comic strips. In one strip he conveys through Charlie Brown the need we have to be loved and through Lucy our inability to love one another. Charlie Brown and Lucy are leaning over the proverbial fence speaking to one another: CB: All ...

2106. When The Cheering Stopped

Mark 11:1-11

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Brett Blair

... That was something new. Earlier they had been afraid to speak out for fear of the masses, but they began to perceive that the fickle public was turning on him. Soon the opposition began to snowball. When they discovered that they could not discredit his moral character, they began to take more desperate measures. Before it was all over a tidal wave welled up that brought Jesus to his knees under the weight of a cross. Why did the masses so radically turn against him? How did the shouts of Hosanna on Sunday ...

2107. Cultural Revolution or Spiritual Problem?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... s Son, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. God prompted people to flock to John so that he could prepare them for the good news of salvation. In the play, "Godspell," a modern retelling of the good news of Jesus Christ, John the Baptizer is the first character on stage. The play begins with him, much as God’s plan of salvation began to be unfolded through him. In the play, John appears on stage dressed like a circus ringmaster. One gets the message that his job was to "get the show going." As "Godspell ...

2108. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... wouldn’t be as good at it. Keep it up. Michelle." Perhaps the world needs to realize this truth more deeply. Much of our overwhelming fear comes from our confused thinking about what is real. What is the nature of the universe? What is the character of God? Is not the universe solid? Was it not designed to produce and develop real persons? Can that be accomplished when everything is made easy and is smoothly polished? Something magnificent is being accomplished here and we are a part of it. Somehow Christ ...

2109. Overcoming Loneliness

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... a maze of "organized loneliness." There are strangers outside and the stranger within. From the bottomless pit of our aloneness, we cry out to one another, but we cannot get the message through. In all the trauma of Captains and Kings, Taylor Caldwell has one of her characters remark, "His real need, his most terrible need, is for someone to listen to him." Man will not die from lack of vitamins or lack of shelter; it’s loneliness that’s killing us. Deep within all of us there is a message crying out to ...

2110. A Good God and the Problem of Suffering

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... you talking about?" "I can’t make them pay attention, they just stand there ..." Steinbeck sounded as if he might break into tears. "They won’t heed me ..." Stef was growing irritable. "Who?" he repeated. "What are you lamenting? Who won’t move?" "My characters!" Steinbeck exploded. He was writing Of Mice and Men.1 This could be God speaking about us, his children. "We just won’t move." We won’t listen. We won’t think, and accidents, breakdowns, nuclear wars, and the like rush down upon us like ...

2111. The Remote

John 14:5-14

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... Jellyhead! FLY: Good. I guess your hearing is all right. Yes, jellyhead. You're a jellyhead -- tasty and beautiful but empty calories. SUSAN: You don't see me prancing around in a funny dress and tennis shoes. FLY: Oh, ho! You're one of those individuals who judge the character of a person by what that person is wearing? A person is not just what you see. A person is certainly more than that. The soul and spirit of a person is the real individual. SUSAN: Of course, I know that. FLY: If you do know that, as ...

2112. Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

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Brett Blair

... I know all of the commandments, but there is something missing. It is possible to be a religious person and still miss the thrust of God's Word. Many years ago all of America watched as Alex Haley's Roots came to the television screen. There was one particular character that to me was particularly memorable. Ed Asner played the role of the old captain on a slave ship. He was a religious man. Each night he would close his door and read his Bible. The first night on the return trip some of the crew sent him a ...

2113. His Baptism and Ours

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... walks down to the river and presents himself for baptism. The two young men were acquainted with each other. They were indeed blood-relatives, for the New Testament identifies Elizabeth, the mother of John, as a kinswoman of Mary, the mother of Jesus. John knew the character of him who had grown up "in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man." And now when Jesus asks him for baptism, John has something still more than the sense of reverence that one feels in the presence of a person of spiritual ...

2114. The Dynamic Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... his saving power felt. When God addresses man, it is no mere communication of ideas but a bringing of deliverance and new life. The wicked and the unrighteous receive mercy and pardon, they are lifted up into life in God. In the New Testament the dynamic character of the Word receives even greater emphasis. "The words that I have spoken to you," says Jesus, "are spirit and life" (John 6:63). Or recall Paul’s statement in Romans 1:16-17, the text that triggered the Reformation, "For I am not ashamed of ...

2115. As We Remember - Memorial Day

1 Chronicles 11:10-25

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... to our God and our loyalty to our country. These loyalties reinforce each other. For God has not set us to live our lives in isolation or privacy but within the frameworks of living which he has appointed. The life which he gave us has an inescapable membership-character. By divine appointment we are members of a home, of a community, and of a nation, just as to be a Christian is to be a member of the church of Christ. To live as God intended us to live we must fulfill our obligations in each of these ...

2116. The Courage to Be Me

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... often we are surprised at the response we get, since response is always based upon perception, not upon some "real" essence. Our masks become our defense. I have seen the fascist tactics of the John Birch Society used against a man of character who dared to speak out against the Vietnam War. It takes courage to speak, knowing that one is subject to deliberate misrepresentation and consequent misunderstanding by others. You cannot live out your Christian convictions for long without falling prey to some who ...

2117. The Measure of Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... woman, "What do you think of the candidates?" She didn't say a word about their positions on the issues or their skill at debate. She simply remarked, "None of them seems to have any humility." Benjamin Franklin, the early American statesman, made a list of character qualities that he wanted to develop in his own life. When he mastered one virtue, he went on to the next. He did pretty well, he said, until he got to humility. Every time he thought he was making significant progress, he would be so pleased ...

2118. Advent 4. Won't You Let Him Into Your Christmas?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , hope and love. III. THIRD AND FINALLY, THEY SAW THE GOOD NEWS OF CHRISTMAS. About this time each year they show it on television, Dr. Seuss’s classic story, “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.” The Grinch was a sinister character who despised the celebration of Christmas. The people of Whoville loved Christmas and their celebration of Christmas irritated the grouchy Grinch. The people of Whoville -- Would gather on Christmas Day around their beautifully decorated trees. -- They would sing and laugh ...

2119. Wrinkled Wrappings

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... the whore!" By the time of the final scene when Don Quixote is dying, she becomes Dulcinea through the confidence of a man who seems insane. Look at your child and see someone great and someday he may be just that! Look at your friends as people of character and promise and they will usually fulfill your high expectations. Now, in the second place, God asks us, "What are you going to do about what you see?" If you see Jesus as God in human flesh, if you now perceive that Jesus truly is the promised Messiah ...

2120. The Unexpected Universe

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... the village atheist smiles in self-congratulation. But there it was nevertheless. Time magazine's cover story asking whether the Bible really can be verified from an archeological point of view. Were the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, mere legendary characters with no real, historical existence? Was Moses pure myth, as my former seminary classmate and now eminent archeologist, William Dever, was quoted as saying? Was the famous Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt a fabrication to undergird the later ...

2121. All Is Calm, All Is Bright

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

William G. Carter

... along with others, we are anxious for it. An editorial in a local newspaper asked, “Why can’t we stop all the mudslinging in our town?” The writer was referring to borough council meetings, but she could have been describing school board meetings or character assassinations in the church kitchen. Sick of the conflict, she urged a verbal cease-fire for the holidays. “We have to stop fighting and start working together.” If only it could be that easy. If peace were merely a matter of being nice to ...

2122. Beyond Our Sight, Within Our Hearing

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Testament proportions. His face began to shine — just like Moses on another mountain. His clothes were cleansed whiter than snow. And a cloud rolled in, overshadowing the whole group. Suddenly the walls of time and space broke down, and the two greatest characters of the Jewish Scriptures appeared. They began to chat with Jesus as if he was their contemporary. What did they see? Luke can’t quite say. The words aren’t adequate. “The appearance of his face changed. His clothes became dazzling white ...

2123. Truce or Peace?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... , a matter of dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s in life. Philippi was a wealthy city. In many ways it was Rome in microcosm. As part of a Roman province rebuilt by Augustus and populated with Roman soldiers, Philippi was given the legal character of a Roman territory in Italy, the very highest honor ever bestowed on a provincial city.1 In many ways the Philippians were like us — they were too wealthy to have a deep faith! Unlike in the rest of the world, women in Philippi held high civic ...

2124. Role Reversal: Baby and Priest

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... way of putting it. Another way is to say that God grows “better” as humans grow into a more mature knowledge of God’s revelation. Indeed, God does grow in our minds. God is not an infant come to deliver a band of narcissists; God embraces the character of the man Jesus. God grows up and lives for those who grow up and live. Our defiled world reaches out for the spirit of the adult. A marvelous image is thrust before our eyes. The corporate memory of those first Christian generations leaves us a vivid ...

2125. Respect

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

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Harold Warlick

... be necessary to speak of spiritual gifts at all. Paul possessed a throbbing concern. He enabled the church to draw upon the Hellenistic notion of paideia3 as a model for its life. Paul’s letters were “teaching sermons.” They were poised to form the character of their hearers and not just transfer information. The great apostle strove to enculturate a habit of thinking about the world in light of the community’s deepest values which would allow the Christian to perceive and act for the good of all in ...

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