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2126. Count Me In!

Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the sabbath, and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant - these I will bring to my holy mountain ..." This means that Scripture does not teach universalism, the view that all people will ultimately be saved. This heresy eliminates hell and judgment with accountability to God. If this were true, it would not matter what we did with our lives or how we lived. All of us would finally end up in heaven. Who will God ...

2127. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... , we love you." Many just stood quietly touching the name with the tips of their fingers. Was God concerned enough to be with these sorrowing people who had lost sons, husbands, and sweethearts in an unpopular war? How many, do you think, said to themselves as they viewed the more than 50,000 names on the monument, "And God doesn’t give a damn"? The good news is that God does care when we die or when we lose loved ones. This is proved by Jesus’ concern when his friend, Lazarus, died. He joined Lazarus ...

2128. The Danger of Being Religious

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... rote, nothing you get in a classroom, but an intuitive, God-disclosed truth. To know the truth is not an easy thing. Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" Most of us sit in Pilate’s seat. We do not know the truth of God, and we are subject to partial views of the truth or we embrace what is not the truth. One time, two beggars were approaching a house to ask for food. In the front yard was a huge dog who, with bared teeth, growled and at the same time wagged his tail. The one beggar was afraid to ...

2129. Claim Your Ministry

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... Who was the greatest? Both were great so long as they served their Lord. To my mind it is the saddest feature of the contemporary Church that we have lost a vital sense of lay ministry. By and large the Church takes much too limited a view of Christian service. We eagerly recruit people necessary to maintain ourselves as an institutuion, but we do not equip you to be ministers in the world, in your daily lives within your occupations and public life. A decade ago, the National Council of Churches presented ...

2130. Loving Unconditionally

John 13:31-38

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Robert Bachelder

... , on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good." This was the dominant attitude of much of medieval Christendom. Nor were our own Puritan ancestors renowned for loving people whose views were contrary to their own. They scourged the Baptists and drove them to Rhode Island which they called the "sewer" of New England. My own ancestor was forced to move with his congregation to New Hampshire because he opposed government-enforced religious ...

2131. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... you will see them dutifully and reverently quoted. Instead, on this day, on this darkest of days, I want to ask you to listen to a different voice. To listen to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For you see Christ’s gospel rejects the prevailing view that we are predestined to be victims; that we must, as did the sailors in Shakespeare’s Tempest, despair because all is almost lost. This Christian voice makes us restless and dissatisfied with playing the role of victim, with the life that merely creeps. It ...

2132. Isaiah’s Interruption

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... . It’s important to put them in the right place, so stick with me for a half minute of Hebrew grammar. Believe it or not, the Hebrews didn’t use quotation marks, so all of them had to be placed into English by scholars who argued their point of view. The issue here is simply, who says the "All flesh is grass" passage? The prophet? Or God? I vote for the prophet, because there seems to be a note of melancholy common to us as mortals, and uncommon to God as immortal. Hear some of the words again: "All ...

2133. The Church’s Fear and Comfort

Acts 9:19b-31

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... . And if the worst comes - if the war begins that will end all wars, then will a new respect be found for prayer. What brings on the fear of God? What is it that causes God to lose his temper? (That, at least, is what it looks like from our view.) What stirs and stirs and stirs the anger of God until his wrath is spilled out? You know the word. We don’t use it much anymore. Like fear, sin is a word that’s too churchy. It’s too gruesome. Now we say we are sick, or depressed, or ...

2134. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... time" until the churches of the world could bring peace and goodwill to the ends of the earth. This is agonized participation. It is a philosophy which is admittedly contrary to the Christian Gospel. To supplant it with its inadequacies we need the cosmic view of those early Christian martyrs who faced the lions and gladiators in the Coliseum and the Circus Maximus and yet praised God in song and prayer even as death overtook them. Neither cross, nor slave-galley, nor chains, nor the worst that Rome could ...

2135. General William Booth

Matthew 25:31-46

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Carroll Gunkel

... the Army’s founder, met the Master. To have men and women and young people meet the Master, as he did, was Booth’s major aim. Beyond that, General Booth set for himself and the Salvation Army four goals. They were: 1. To bring into public view "the ocean of ... misery ..." which characterized society. 2. To awaken people from spiritual lethargy. 3. To challenge people to give themselves to the care of the needy. 4. To evoke compassion in others to support the work of the Salvation Army.5 Putting aside ...

2136. Hiltgunt Margaret Zassenhaus

Deuteronomy 31:1-8

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Carroll Gunkel

... job, which began with no lofty themes, she made a ministry. Dr. Zassenhaus does not speak of herself as a Christian; she says she is a humanist. I would not quarrel with her self-appraisal, but I would say that, regardless of her self-view, she embodies Christian principles and exemplifies applied Christianity. Hiltgunt Zassenhaus does not fit the mold we have formed of a typical Christian. She did not hear "a still, small voice." She had "no prophetic ecstacies, no sudden rending of the veil of clay." No ...

2137. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 2

Matthew 28:1-10

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Esther R. Russ

... through with the material over the lady’s head. 7. Optional: Pin the veil at the shoulders and in the back to keep it from sliding off the head. Main Garment With Cumberbund and Headcover Main Garment: May be made by using Butterick Pattern No. 4938, View D, or a costume pattern most often used for angel costumes. The sleeves, however, should be made extra long so they may be rolled back and tacked to make cuffs. The garment should be ankle length, preferably a plain color. Cumberbund: May be made by ...

2138. A Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

George Bass

... in Chains) lies a set of chains. They are supposed to be the chains that bound Peter before his crucifixion. They are in remarkably good condition - no rust and painted black. Pilgrims flock to that place - and tourists, too, because it contains Michelangelo’s "Moses" - to view the chains and to pray. God has given us a set of chains - in prayer - that unite us to God and each other, according to Lord Alfred Tennyson: For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains (prayer) about the feet ...

2139. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

Sermon

George Bass

... still dead? She really shouldn’t have been afraid of the inside of a tomb, especially a grave that have never been used before. If it had been a tomb which contained the remains of others, she might have had reason to shrink back and shield her eyes from viewing the shroud-wrapped bodies of now-dead human beings. And she had seen Jesus in death; he shouldn’t have changed too much in less than three days, should he? His eyes had been closed, the pain was gone from his face, and he had been placed in a ...

2140. Lift High the Christ!

John 12:20-36

Sermon

George Bass

... opened and a metal arm injected him with a fluid that paralyzed him - and soon his death was inevitable. The coffin had been built so that it even dug a grave; lowered itself into it, and pulled in the dirt behind him. The younger brother who had viewed the coffin and said to his brother, "To hell with you," was actually judged and condemned - and killed - by that which he had rejected, his brother and his coffin. To reject the death of Christ on the cross and simply call it nonsense is to place oneself ...

2141. Who Has Everything?

Matthew 5:5

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... of modern illustrations we could all relate, examples of persons we know who have real strength, the strength not of physical prowess, but of physical, mental, and spiritual control. What is meekness? I think it can be summarized this way: meekness is a realistic view of oneself, an honest attitude toward that self, and the quality with which one deals with others. Meekness means that we are not proud of ourselves; we don’t glory in ourselves; we don’t think of how fortunate the world and society and ...

2142. What Is Your Mercy Quotient?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... and welfare recipient, lawyer and client, clerk and customer, employer and employee, parent and child. I know that it is hard to do, terribly hard. It is almost impossible to climb up out of ourselves and see the world from someone else’s point of view. It requires an enormous capacity for imagination, and yet, how important the effort. That’s what the college president did to some extent through his sabbatical. That is what some sensitive people are able to do at rare moments in their lives. But too ...

2143. An Altered State of Consciousness

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... old universe, but not yet realized." When will we realize that what God intends for his universe is so much more exciting than anything we have yet dreamed? Can’t we see that the true nature of the universe has been covered up, hidden by a false view of life. "Listen, Nicodemus, I speak what I know," continued the Master. "If you cannot grasp earthly reality, how can you ever know eternal truth?" Jesus might have added, "Let God illuminate your inner eyes, so that you may know the true life to which he ...

2144. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... from our mountaintop home over the city of Asheville. I can see the old home where Tom struggled as a child. Don’t let his pessimism get you down. He paints despair with magic colors. Thomas Wolfe is a genius at portraying the dark, frustrated, despairing view of life. His picture, though beautiful, is not true; he had lost faith. With no true faith the picture is black: Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father’s heart ... which of us has not remained forever prison ...

2145. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... Christian Century, Paul Martin makes an interesting statement: A growing measure of responsible opinion argues convincingly that had religion been doing the job it should have done, psychiatry would never have arisen as a profession. Proponents of this view say that the problem is generally not a guilt complex. The problem is guilt. Depression, anxiety, hostility, fear, tension, and in more serious cases, psychosis, are really ailments of the conscience - symptoms that result from violating the conscience ...

2146. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... and fallen by the hundreds and thousands in the time the church has been sustained. Some human institutions can stand the strain for longer periods of time and others barely see the light of day before they collapse. Sometimes, by suppressing alternate views and differing opinions, a human enterprise can be sustained for a fairly long time. Democracies are much harder to sustain than dictatorships, and that is part of what makes America such an amazing model for the world. Yet one constantly hears voices ...

2147. The Glory of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... that the world itself could not contain the books that would he written" (John 21:25), the writers quite obviously chose to focus their attention on this one event as the decisive event of Jesus’ entire existence. Everything else pointed toward it, whether viewed from before the Resurrection or after the Resurrection. It is central to understanding Jesus. Notice, then, that even the Resurrection takes its shape and form in the way the death of Jesus takes place. The death of Jesus is not just a prelude ...

2148. Binding Up the Fractured World

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... In Christ the intention is to restore the unity that has been fractured and so desperately needs to be bound up in the splints that will lead to healing. Such a task is a cosmic task and lifts the cross high above the poor little horizons with which we usually view it. To believe in a Jesus described like this is to be lifted out of the little shells of our limited vision and space and to be transported into a vision so big that only God himself can be its author! That is the vision to which the lessons of ...

2149. I WANT TO BE NOTICED

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John H. Krahn

... impossible. Who cares anyway? God does! "Even the hairs on your head are all numbered," the Bible says. So intimate is God’s interest in you that he keeps a personal count of every hair on your head. Everyone goes through life wanting to be noticed. Few view life as a terminal illness. Few live in perpetual apathy. Friends and fame are sought by most. Success in sports, in business, with the opposite sex is important. We want our lives to count. "He’s a great guy," is the least we want to hear about ...

2150. BIG DADDY, J.C., AND THE SPOOK

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John H. Krahn

... to speak at a certain college in Ohio. Mrs. O’Hair will go down in history as the one who knocked prayer and Bible reading out of the public schools. Over 350 students, faculty, and townspeople gathered to hear Mrs. O’Hair discuss her views in opposition to God and religion. She lambasted everything sacred. She made fun of pastors, leaders, and church officers. She said the Bible was not infallible, and it did not amount to anything anyway; she harassed the students and professors; she harangued the ...

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