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2176. The Lord, The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... baptism with the Holy Spirit. Some of you cannot wait three hours, nor do you need to wait. Go to your tent, go to your room, go into the woods, go anywhere where you can get alone with God, meet the conditions of the baptism with the Holy Spirit and claim it at once." At three o'clock we gathered; four hundred fifty-six of us. And one after another perhaps seventy-five men arose and said, "I could not wait until three o'clock. I have been alone with God and I have received the baptism with the Holy Spirit ...

2177. On The Job Training

Matthew 10:1-42

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... it? JOE: It sure does, but I'll tell you again, we're not here to promote God or the Bible. ED: You don't have to tell me. You're promoting yourself and that's contrary to God's will. JOE: The training personnel are claiming some pretty impressive statistics. ED: They certainly are. I've seen them. JOE: An increase in sales of five percent per month. That's impressive. Less stress. That's impressive. Healing people -- they have actually healed people of diseases. Walking on fire -- actually walking on fire ...

2178. While This House Lies In Ruins

Haggai 1:1-15

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... of Korban that Jesus denounced. People set aside money for the temple to inherit when they were dead, and they lived off that money. And they did not take care of their obligations, especially with regards to taking care of their parents, because they could rightly claim that the money was set aside for God's work. After they were dead. Darn good deal. Being holy and living like the devil. After all, sooner or later someone will take care of it. Someone else. There is an even greater gap between God and ...

2179. Yes, It Becomes Unclean

Haggai 2:11-17

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... who were left behind during the exile, too poor and destitute to matter. When the generation of the exile arrived, years before Haggai's prophecies, the returnees rejected the remnant in a highhanded fashion. Centuries of bitterness followed as both Jews and Samaritans claimed to be the true faith. When Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman he broke several barriers. He was not only speaking to a woman, who was less than a person in his society, he was speaking to a Samaritan, which would have scandalized ...

2180. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Romans 1:1-17, Matthew 1:18-25

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... others. Forgive us, Lord, and especially in these days before Christmas, help us share Your Gospel with those in need around us and help us keep the real focus of our life on You. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "God, Whose Love Is Reigning O'er Us" "Ye Who Claim The Faith Of Jesus" To A Maid Engaged To Joseph" Gospel: Matthew 1:18-25 Theme: Jesus, the Christ, our Savior Call To Worship Leader: Let all who have sinned gather now to hear the news of God's Love! People: For we have opened our hearts in prayer ...

2181. Christ Is Risen!!

Acts 1:12-26, Acts 1:1-11

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... the Cross has become a sign of our salvation. Leader: God has defeated death and the grave, once and for all. People: And in Christ we are called to be the Church, a symbol of God's Love. Leader: Christ who ascended to heaven will surely return to claim the church. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You have called us to proclaim the message of Christ in all the world. Guide our paths, Lord, that nothing might impede us as Your messengers of salvation. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of ...

2182. The Vine and the Branches

John 15:1-17

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

Liturgical Color: White Theme: The Vine and the Branches: Our Choice -- Pruned or Severed. AN INVITATION TO WORSHIP Pastoral Invitation (Pastor and Ministers) Welcome, in the name of Christ, the Vine, to the fifth Sunday of Easter. If we claim to be one of the branches of the vine, then, in worship and beyond worship, we are not an audience, which spends its life examining the vine. We are a congregation, part of the universal branches, learning and growing together. We are the actors on the world stage. ...

2183. No Longer Servants, but Friends

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... our assets, because once recognizing them, we must use them ... we come across weak to our friends, because we are afraid of our strengths." (One minute of silence before receiving the offering.) THE SCATTERING Charge to the Congregation As Christ's people, we claim friendship with God, no longer lordship, no longer even sons and daughters, but friendship. An Arabian Proverb says, "A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest ...

2184. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 7:1-23

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... as we spread out before you the things we do and say which hurt others and hinder your witness. Forgive us. We mean, if we mean it, please forgive us! We know that our decision to be different, coupled with your power, will make us new people. We claim that there is nothing in life or death, in the past or present, in evil forces or other humans, that can separate us from you. (Thirty seconds of silence to let the prayer sink in.) Response "Rejoice, You Pure in Heart" Invitation to the Act of Pardon (Pastor ...

2185. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 9:33-37

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... the risen Christ, good-bye. Welcome to God's world, and everything beyond, as individually and corporately, we live lives of true greatness. And all the people said, (your favorite praise word). Response "With Jesus" Meditation "Every child (we are all children of God) has a claim on us, because every child (that is, all of us), is dear to Jesus, though not always dear to us. Jesus asks us to give, not things beyond our power, but to give the simple things that anyone can give. That is true greatness" (WHK ...

2186. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 4:35-41

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... that each of us makes to the creation of our own storms. Introduction to the Act of Forgiveness We say that we want the peace which Christ promises. Yet, we spend so much of our day rushing here and there, to and fro. Christ invites us to claim his peace, beginning now. Receive the gift. Response "O God of Love, O God of Peace" CELEBRATION THROUGH THE WORD Message with the Children of All Ages Invite someone who has been in rough, even dangerous, waters. Ask that person to describe the thoughts and feelings ...

2187. Advent 2

Mark 1:1-8, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... people for an intense sense of Presence, or whether there's something each of us is supposed to do in order to have a sense of the Holy Spirit. One or two people I know act as though one is not really a true Christian unless one can claim an intense encounter with the Spirit. Somehow, I can't quite accept that. What I do believe is that the words "Holy Spirit" are words which mean simply "God is present with us." Really, the whole Trinitarian formula is a grade school level effort to help us understand ...

2188. Advent 3

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28, Isaiah 61:1-11, Isaiah 65:17-25, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... cross while woolgathering during a sermon by a colleague. In truth, all of us are prone to a bit of self-importance and the deference accorded us clergy in most of our society does little to disarm that inclination. John quite frankly, though, made no claim to undeserved importance. He was honest enough to know who he was and who he was not. Second, and closely related, is John's modesty. Truthfully, I had a somewhat different impression of John from the other Gospels, but here I begin to see his quality ...

2189. Advent 4

Luke 1:26-38, Romans 16:1-27, 2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... apparently ran out of titles and even had a statue to an unknown god. Greek deities all were believed to have miraculous backgrounds. The goddess Mithra of the eastern religions was regarded as the child of a virgin mother. Even Plato, it was claimed by some, had a virgin mother. Clearly, itinerant preachers from a distant land needed some kind of credentials to compete with this. Christianity had begun to thrive. Gentiles now outnumbered Jews in the faith and it had spread to places like Rome and Athens ...

2190. Gifts of Lent, Ash Wednesday: A Man Gives His Donkey

Matthew 21:1-11

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... lead that great Palm Sunday procession all the way to the Fortress Antonia. Perhaps we naively assumed the strong gates would miraculously open, and all the terrified Roman soldiers in Jerusalem would run away like scared rabbits before the Son of David who had come to claim his throne. Then, with the city secured forever from the hated invader, the heir to David's throne would march in triumph with his army of children and beggars and old women to the palace of Herod. There he would be anointed king to the ...

2191. Gifts of Lent VII: Joseph Gives His Tomb

John 19:38-42

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... led away. Several times that night Jesus was tried. There were trials before the high priests Annas and Caiaphas; there were two trials before Pilate. There was even a trial before Herod. I heard each accusation: that Jesus had threatened to destroy the temple, that he claimed to be the Christ, that he called himself the Son of God, that he had made himself out to be a king in opposition to Caesar, that he opposed paying taxes, that he was nothing but a troublemaker. All this I heard and yet said nothing ...

2192. All Creation Yawns

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... commanded. We do not know much about the life of Jesus' earthly father, but we know that he dreamed and he remembered what he dreamed. In our time some suggest that it is important for us to remember what we dream. Many argue that individuals who claim that they never dream simply do not remember their dreams. There are even training programs to help us recall what we are dreaming. Dream therapists instruct us to awaken at night long enough to record right away what we have dreamed and write down many of ...

2193. Moving At The Speed Of Light: At The Jordan

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... heavily and engaged in glorious building projects. Jesus faithfully practiced the religion of his childhood and had seen the Jewish religious leaders try to stay on the right side of Rome while retaining the Temple's ritualistic tradition. Preaching Peace Peter claims in Acts 10 that Jesus preached peace. How did Jesus preach peace? Jesus lived in a time of conflict. The rights of people were not respected in any modern sense. (Occasionally in Paul's ministry his Roman citizenship earned him a different ...

2194. The Song Of Angels--And The Son Of God

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... is a sign of who he is, what he is like, what he will do. This is where we find him. We find him in lowly things, in the common things, in a barn, in a feed trough, in the hay, among lowly people. This sign is given for us. Claim it for yourself. A Sunday school teacher led her children to create a manger scene. Each Sunday during Advent they would add to it the characters. But toward the end of the season the teacher noticed one little girl seemed concerned about it, so she asked her if anything was ...

2195. Life Insurance Available -- Free, But Not Cheap

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... good news in word and deed, in miracle and teaching, on hillside and in temple, and still, people could not believe. In contrast to those who wanted to make God's love something we must earn by adherence to law after law, ritual after ritual, Jesus claimed that God loved even the sinner. It was the righteous, the religious of Jesus' day who had trouble hearing that as good news. They had developed a whole system designed around earning God's love. They somehow could not grasp the truth that God was greater ...

2196. Reflections On the Sacred Head

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... ever experienced is nothing compared to the cross, a pain that was not just from the nails, the thorns, the beatings, the suffocation, but also from the rejection of those he came to save, the desertion of those who were closest to him, the derision of those who claimed to be closest to God. "Pale" is not strong enough a word. He looked like death. He became death for us. How does that visage languish Which once was bright as morn! It was his eyes. In all the representations of Jesus I have ever seen, from ...

2197. Getting At The Truth

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... is the Holy Spirit which helps us get at the truth about ourselves and about our world. The Holy Spirit helps us get at the truth by teaching us the truth about reality. At first, this must sound like another of the preposterous and propagandistic claims which are foisted on us today. More than that, many of us are more or less children of the enlightenment. Like our American founding fathers, we believe that truth is self-evident to the reasonable, rational mind. Along with philosopher John Locke, we think ...

2198. Finding Faith In Unlikely People

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... of wines and women, a distinguished man among men who had his head together, who was never fooled or taken. This '60s man come-of-age never sinned, though he might have made errors in judgment because he didn't have all the facts. Consequently, he claimed no guilt, was oblivious to remorse and regret, and viewed the world as the survival of the fittest. Most assuredly, he was fit, and he was surviving. Or was he really? Carrying some of these attitudes into the use of power wreaked havoc to careers and ...

2199. The Narrow Gate

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

John G. Lynch

... to find, by diligent inquiry, some clue to those turbulent times in Russian history. By careful scrutiny he had planned to unearth for himself the treasure that would tell him all. He looked for something suspicious and evil -- an omen that he could claim his own. Instead God led him to a simple, fundamental truth about himself -- a truth as broad as the Steppes of Siberia, a truth as wide as the world: "Deus Omnia Conservat." "God takes care of everything." The Pharisees in Jesus' day were specialists ...

2200. Hate Your Mother And Father?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

John G. Lynch

... they are a distraction in your battles. Only God will ever be your steady ship. Only God will lead you, like a general, free." It is so easy to be beguiled in all this. Family is so natural and the bonds are so strong. Family life, claiming energy, time, property and resources, sets the familiar and comfortable course. God's call reaches beyond the path of family ties. His demands are greater, but so are his rewards -- purpose, direction and the glorious liberty of the children of God. Why, then, stand at ...

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