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2151. "I Don’t Want to Be Perfect - Or Do I?"

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... hundred and eighty degrees." I don’t want to be "half dipped." I do want to have the spirit of Christ. I am hungry to have his love. I am yearning after perfection of inner life and attitude. Why didn’t God just make us the way he wants us to be and save himself ... feel that our separation is deeper than usual because we feel we have violated another life, a life which we have loved or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our ...

2152. When We Mourn

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... , and with a big hug I kissed her good-night. That night we all learned again the blessedness of mourning. It is joy to be loved like that! We also learn, when we mourn, the kind and depth of comfort God will give if we allow him. I am amazed over ... here today which Jesus gave us is this: when we mourn, we are comforted by our fellow Christians. We find out the strength and love that can come from our God. And, we learn again that those who die in the Christian faith, the baptized believers, are provided for ...

2153. For Those in Church: Joy and Service

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and got it. The next day he was back for Kagawa’s coat and trousers and got them, too. The slum dwellers laughed at him, but they came to respect him. He stood in the driving rain to preach, coughing all the time. ‘God is love,’ he shouted. ‘God is love. Where love is, there is God.’ He often fell down exhausted, and rough men of the slums carried him gently back to his hut. "Kagawa himself wrote, ‘God dwells among the lowliest of men. He sits on the dustheap among the prison convicts. He stands ...

2154. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to do we met the Master. When any human being, no matter how different from us, looks into our eyes, he must see love, never rejection. In the past when we took a position on an emotional issue like abortion, we may have regarded opponents as ... who has no home. Take him into your home as your son, and raise him as a Muslim." If you are ever captured by the love of Christ, if you ever visualize your name written on the cross where he died, you can never be the same again. Old divisions, old hatreds, and ...

2155. Well, What's for Sure?

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... again." He was not resorting to wishful thinking. He was stating a vital truth. The most important things in life are not known by scientific observation but by experiencing them. How do I know what anger is? By being angry, I don’t understand romantic love by reading either Freud’s analysis or Browning’s poems about it, but by experiencing it. Science may tell us that a kiss is a compression of the closed mouth cavity with the mouth of another, an antomical juxtaposition of two oblicular muscles in ...

2156. Chapter X

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... , and if we spend all of our days and all of our efforts running after things which are out there ahead of us, or longing for things which are the possessions of somebody else, we will miss the joy that can be ours by learning to live with, and love, those things that are right under our noses. Until we learn that, our lives always will be one continual struggle to "get." The story has been told about a young Congressman who one day during the Civil War was passing by the White House. On the east lawn he ...

2157. Written On God's Hand

Isaiah 49:8-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... a joy! Most of our relationships are performance-based. If we perform well, we are appreciated. If we fail, we are no longer acceptable. But Jesus Christ is the only friend we will ever have who can stand the full truth of what we are and will keep on loving. No new evidence will ever be charged against us that was not presented at Calvary and silenced forever. Decisions we make can take us out of God's will but never out of his reach. As St. Paul wrote to Timothy long ago, "If we are faithless, he will ...

2158. Restoring Our Sense of Priorities

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... everything. An "itness" and a soullessness pervades the human as well as the material. From such a scheme no good can ever emerge, and hence "so what?" is ultimately popular and acceptable. The grim reality is that from us has gone almost any concept of a Being who loves us and therefore has a moral claim upon us, or any sense of purpose, but all is "a jumble of things going it blind" (to use Fosdick’s phrase), with nothing that cares, and hence we feel no pull of any ultimate meaning to life. There is no ...

2159. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... but it was enough. It wasn’t what we would have liked if we had had our choice, which was the restoration of our lost loved one in our midst, but the connection was restored and the healing power of the presence of God flowed once again. Grief can sometimes ... life that will enable you to bear up under whatever burden you must carry. Each of us needs to know we are not alone. The love of God touches us with the same compassion as Jesus touched that man in the Galilean village. If we are out of touch with ...

2160. A Cup Running Over

John 11:17-37

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... the place where John at first baptized, and there he remained" (John 10:40). He had been there about three months when some messengers, sent by his good friends Mary and Martha of Bethany, brought the kind of news we all dread to hear: "Lord, he whom you love is ill" (John 11:3). The message referred to their brother, Lazarus. Jesus seemed to receive the news calmly. Instead of rushing off, "he stayed two days longer in the place where he was" (John 11:6b). Finally, he said to his disciples, "Let us go back ...

2161. Job - A Probe Into the Shadow World of Despair

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

... and the whole book for that matter, holds ultimate meaning and hope only for the one who understands restoration in terms of resurrection. More likely, one’s answer to the problem presented by Job, in all honesty, will be a silent sense that we are in the hands of a loving God who ultimately will have things converge in reunion and peace. But that assurance does not or cannot have explicit power in the book of Job. It is only in an event when God put his seal on that hope in the form of his son. It is in ...

2162. The Word of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... on the cross!" The cross speaks, secondly, of man’s godlessness. For whom did men nail on the cross? A hardened criminal for whom there was no hope? No, one who had done nothing but good, one who had revealed the power of sacred truth, one who had radiated divine love. By his words and his life he had exposed the shortcomings of men, for he had held up God’s standard of what life ought to be. He tore away the mask of sham and hypocrisy. In the mirror of his perfect life men saw themselves as they really ...

2163. What Must I DO to Receive Life?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... moral coward. But that conclusion is too simple. The fact is there are a lot of good things that can be said of him. I'm impressed with the fact, for example, that having talked with him only a few minutes, Mark tells us that Jesus looked upon him and loved him. That doesn't sound like a scathing criticism to me. And, I think that we also need to remember that to this young boy Jesus was not the Son of God. He was simply a new prophet, with an exciting message, a magnetic personality, and eyes that gripped ...

2164. Advent 3: Won't You Let Him Into Your Gift-Giving?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the gifts that money can’t buy. I hope we will remember that this Christmas. I hope we will remember that this Christmas. From the time the Wise Men of old brought their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the manger, Christmas has been a time of giving. I love that. I’m all for that, especially if the gift-giving is a part of our faith response to the greatest Christmas gift of all, God’s gift of the Savior to the world, God’s gift of the Christ Child to you and me. But this past week, as ...

2165. A Fresh Start

Joel 2:28-32, Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... rope. A tragic end seemed inevitable. Have you ever been there? Have you ever reached a point in your life when you felt that there was little point in going on? Perhaps it was the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, a debilitating illness. There was no way out. You had nowhere to turn and no other options to explore, and you realized that you bore responsibility for your plight. Your only hope was a fresh start. Some observers who lament the present state of American society ...

2166. Light for Beauty

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... becomes not only her lover but her shield and protection. She is blessed in that she can claim all the holdings and blessings of her husband as her own. Just so in this Epiphanytide we are reminded that our dear Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to reveal that love for us whereby we are married to him and by faith to be advantaged in that he makes his kingdom our own. For us the blessing is not only that we gain in this relationship, but the prophet makes it clear that the delight and joy is just as ...

2167. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... one could agree on a new number one, nor, for that matter, any substitute list either. About all anyone would grant is that Americans do love lists. In fact, the Arizona Republic went so far as to compile a list of lists, the 50 Best Lists of All Time.(1) Among ... the place of God, and the first commandment says that is sin. The list of gods we worship could go on and on. After all, we do love our lists. But there is no need for the list to be unending for it to be a problem. All it needs is to have more than ...

2168. The Trouble with Stables

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... quicksand of grown-up reality; the day-to-day grind of a job that is just work; the dull pain that hangs on and on about which the doctors cannot seem to do anything; the emptiness of a home that is now just a house where people stay - the love is gone; the boredom that comes in retirement after a life of fulfilling activity. Nothing dramatic, but then stables rarely are. The trouble with stables is not that they are dark and dirty and smelly - that is the nature of a stable. No, the trouble with stables is ...

2169. Jerry's Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Clark D. Cowden

... the woods, where he could be close to nature. So he found a little house he could keep up, 1000 miles to the north. He loved his family so much, but he felt they needed to be on their own without him always telling them what to do. So, with tears ... son said "This is not your family. This is not your home." He said, "But I just drove 1000 miles in three days to share my love with you. I have a whole car full of gifts for you. Don't you want them?" The great-grandchildren were pulling on their parents' sleeves ...

2170. See My Hands and Feet

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... Being, a Source of life and power but not of personality. The idea of God with nailprints in his hands and feet because of his great love for us is an idea we are not ready for. Some years ago the papers were full of a story about the death of seventy-eight ... their lives in the light of eternity never run out of a purpose for life. "See my hands and my feet..." God really does love us that much. Life really does go on beyond the tomb. What is your response to those two great truths? 1. George F. Regas, KISS ...

2171. A New Daddy

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... at that. The most important thing in our relationship were those talks we had...after I got to know him and we had shed a few tears and had dropped all our defenses and our retention of emotions, and could look eye to eye, man to man, and say, 'I love you.'" (2) Alan Loy McGinnis in THE FRIENDSHIP FACTOR says we should look to Deuteronomy 6 in which we are told to talk to our children "while you walk by the way." He tells of Henry Luce who was one of the most influential publishers in the world. Founder of ...

2172. Lighting The World

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... might make a song." They sat down together at the piano, and, improbable though it may sound, "The Christmas Song" was completed about fortyfive minutes later. Excitedly, they sped into Hollywood, to play it for some wellknown people in the music businessincluding Nat King Cole, who fell in love with the tune. It took a full year for Nat to get into a studio to record it, but his record finally came out in the late fall of 1946; and the rest, as they say, is history. (3) What if Mel hadn't come by that day ...

2173. The Awesome Power Of Believing

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... to do with them. When his wife died, Davis hired a sculptor to sculpt a beautiful statue in her memory--a statue of a love seat with the two of them seated at each end. Davis was so pleased with the completed work he ordered another statue built, this ... . Do you remember Shel Silverstein's story, THE GIVING TREE (New York: Harper and Row, 1964)? It is a story about a tree that loved a little boy. In his younger years they played hide n' seek. In those carefree childhood days the boy ate the tree's fruits ...

2174. Thankful For The Right Things

Colossians 1:11-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... as a special shell only found on the far side of the island, a half day’s walk from the village. When she confronted the boy with this, he smiled, and said, “Long walk part of gift.” Crucial to everything we believe as Christians is this truth that God so loved the world that he made that long walk to come from where he was to where we are. When it was impossible for us to reach out to him, he reached out to us. There may be differences among Christians on a host of other things. We may be divided ...

2175. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 6:23

Sermon

Lowell D. Streiker

... or false. So I would have to decide for myself how I was going to live. Was I going to live as though there were a just and loving God? As though I were accountable for my actions? As though I could change the direction of my own life and could make a difference in the lives ... The wages of sin is death." Paul tells us that in the sixth chapter of Romans. Death is being cut off from the love of others as the result of our selfishness. Death is ending up with no character at all because the excuses that we offer ...

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