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2176. The Poor - With Us Always?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... paining Christian consciousness today. And it is a problem which our religion has some clear directives on. Jesus has said we will not have him always but we will have the poor and whatever we do to the least of these we do to him. The Old Testament views the poor as a special charge of God. The prophets sought social justice for the poor. The poor had first rights to the sabbatical fruits. The entire tithe of every third year was for the benefit of the poor and needy. The poor could pluck from the vineyard ...

2177. Manufactured Christianity: Jesus Sells, Jesus Sells!

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... it will sell. Unlike the days of the early church when Christians were persecuted for the name of Christ, today Jesus sells. The name of Jesus sells books, records, T-shirts, bumper stickers, buttons, automobiles, and a host of other paraphernalia. In viewing the temptation of Christ, we note that it came immediately following his baptism. Temptation is intelligible only in the light of baptism. A time of dedication is inevitably followed by a time of testing. You will note that the pressure of temptation ...

2178. The Win-Win Philosophy of Life

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... incident. When someone tries to create a loser, extreme conflict results. By a series of "I" statements, one can move to a compromise in which both people can win. The idea of win-lose is lost when the initiator begins "I have a problem." It is interesting to view the life of Christ in this context. Many people approached the Christ in a time of crisis. Some demanded that he help them; others chastized him for being late to help them; others demanded a sign or a miracle. One day a leper came to Christ. This ...

2179. In Which Direction Do You Travel?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... a relationship with a personal God as the ultimate meaning of our existence. On the other hand, there exists a life-style which resembles a "herd of cattle" approach to life. Marital fidelity is scorned; the church is seen as worthless; drugs and other intoxicants are viewed as the "in thing;" God is seen as irrelevant, and accumulation of money and possessions is seen as the ultimate meaning of our existence. Now most, if not all, of us at some point in our lives get headed down the wrong direction. In our ...

2180. While We Watch for the Coming

Matthew 24:1-35

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and the end is the kingship of the world. Two, let’s sing it out: History is going somewhere. Some have felt that history is simply a record of our mistakes. Some have felt that it is a vicious circle in which we repeat our miseries. That’s an awful view of things - that we are on an endless treadmill in which we make no progress and from which we cannot escape. But the Second Coming of Christ has a great truth in it. It is not all futile and hopeless. We are moving toward a great event. That event is ...

2181. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... to alleviate the State’s chronic financial dilemma. And Iowa’s bright-eyed legislative newcomers were just getting around to solving the school consolidation problems settled by most states back in the 1800s. In Massachusetts, the legislature lurched into public view only to raise its own pay and protest the hard-hitting Crime Commission, which reported and depicted the legislature as completely lacking in moral backbone. Well, a dozen or so of our state legislatures still have an opportunity to redeem ...

2182. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

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T. A. Kantonen

... 4:15-16). On the other hand, those who are members of Christ’s body are also members one of another, "joined and knit together by every joint," working in harmony and interdependence for the good of the whole. Paul thus presents a magnificent view of the church as a living organism, the body of the risen and exalted Christ, carrying out his redemptive purpose in the world. Above all, it makes Paul’s ecclesiology an integral part of his Christology. As Bonhoeffer expressed it, the church is nothing ...

2183. Voluntary Blindness

Matthew 6:1-15

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... very imperfect, a sense of great imperfection should cleave to them."8 But letting one’s left hand know what one’s right hand is doing tends to obscure the perfect. One’s goodness comes between him or her and the perfect, shutting it from one’s view. Then one is unable to see one’s own deeds in the light of the excellence of Christ’s deeds, and fails to see his or her spiritual attainments in comparison to the stature of Christ. It is no wonder that Francis Asbury was concerned about the praise ...

2184. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

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Herchel H. Sheets

... we are very little people - pigmies in ability and puny in character. It is a hard and painful process to force ourselves to grow; it is much simpler to attempt to reduce others to our dimensions."3 Blinding specks nourish pride and stimulate the ego. But a view of one’s self that rests on the ruins of others’ faults is a house built on sand, and sooner or later it is sure to fall. Barriers To Honesty These blinding specks are also barriers to honesty. In John Bunyan’s book, The Pilgrim’s Progress ...

2185. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

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Kent Moorehead

... against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then angels swearing I was right would make no difference."2 So with reference to Jesus, I myself am enormously grateful that I have some 2,000 years’ vantage from which to view him. Had I lived back in his day, I hate to think how I might have misjudged him, considered him merely a disturber, a revolutionary, at very least a subversive influence. Who knows, I might have been just such a smug, ecclesiastically conditioned defender of ...

2186. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

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Kent Moorehead

... art - particularly when we do not know how to answer intelligently and convincingly certain upsetting questions propounded by our opponents in a controversy. In times like these, we need above all else to try to understand each other and to get the other person’s point of view. For obviously no one person or group of persons has all the truth; nor is any altogether devoid of some. Each has a certain amount of illumination to give the others, and God knows we need all the light we can get, for the days are ...

2187. EPISODE 1: THE FIRST WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... we do something so extreme? BISHOP: Extreme? SECOND CLERGYMAN: To get rid of a man permanently ... that sort of a thing isn’t religious, is it? BISHOP: My dear brother, one does not hesitate to shoot a mad dog. And that is precisely how I view this raving country preacher. He has set himself above the church. He claims a special affinity with God. He has made the preposterous announcement that he dropped down from heaven. This is not only blasphemy, it is insanity ... an insanity all the more dangerous ...

2188. The Time of Our Visitation

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... at Bethlehem brought him to the world; what happened at Calvary brought him to the threshold of every human life; and this was the second act in the mighty drama of his coming. But we have not gotten the message of the drama in its fullness until we have viewed act three. The scene is set in the garden where is located the new tomb which belongs to Joseph of Arimathea, the tomb in which no body has ever been laid - not until last Friday evening when the disciples of Jesus had removed the body of Jesus from ...

2189. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

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Leonard Mann

... . It is an act of faith which opens the door. It is the forward step taken in trust which opens the way to the room which lies beyond. Do you remember how it was the Israelites, having escaped from Egypt, finally entered into the Promised Land? Having viewed the land from afar, somewhere on the summit of Mount Nebo, Moses had died, and there his body had been buried. The mantle of leadership fell upon Joshua, whose name means "Savior." The Promised Land lay west of the Jordan, and Joshua and his people were ...

2190. He Came to His Senses

Luke 15:11-32

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Jon L. Joyce

... . In the discussion, we should not be timid in pointing out that coming to the recognition of our identity is sometimes painful. The good news in this text, of course, is that the father is waiting to bestow our identity upon us again - at least from our point of view, for, from his he’s not removed it - when we come to our senses and recognize that we are what we are because we belong to the family of God and to the family of man (the father’s household). The good news is hilarious! The father received ...

2191. Do Wrinkles Hurt?

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... activities. Another myth is that older people lose intelligence or the ability to reason. Not so. While memory will sometimes falter a bit, our judgment keeps on improving because of experience. We who are under 65 must help our culture learn the biblical view of ageing. According to the Bible, "gray hair is a crown of splendor." The Bible decrees that older people should receive special honor and courtesy because of their wisdom, experience, and godliness. In biblical times the elders sat at the gates of ...

2192. Our Inclusive Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , reconciling influence. If we are going to help all races in Memphis to appreciate each other, we as a church must become more representative of our city. We need more ethnic minority persons in Christ Church. I refuse to accept the view that churches must always be typed as predominantly African-American or predominantly white. I can show you much more drastic differences in worship styles among diverse white congregations than exist between our church and Mississippi Boulevard. Allow me to suggest four ...

2193. Because He Lives

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... lie which is as dangerous to the church as cancer is to a physical body. What do we Christians believe about resurrection? We say it every Sunday in the Apostles Creed--"...the third day he rose from the dead." Listen to our official United Methodist view from our Book of Discipline, Article III: "Christ did truly rise again from the dead, and took again his body, with all things appertaining to the perfection of man's nature, wherewith he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth until he return to judge all ...

2194. Turn On The Lights!

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... was heard allover the sanctuary. When it was time for the offering, the pastor said, "Let us present our tithes." And he meant exactly what he said. That little congregation regards tithing, the giving of ten percent of income, as the minimum. In their view, one does not really make an offering until one gets above ten percent. That little church provides full support for twelve missionary families across the world. That Methodist layman went home in a state of shock. He had been accustomed to comfortable ...

2195. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... you" because we have already had that interchange with our Lord. When Jesus is Lord, he gives us different eyes with which to see our partner. The Lord actually distorts our vision a bit, but it's a beautiful and blessed distortion. God gives us an enhanced view of our spouse. Those things about him and her that are noble, positive and attractive are magnified. And those things that are unattractive are reduced in size. How does Jesus do that? I don't know. But that doesn't matter. I'm only in sales, not ...

2196. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... rejoice now because he is going to return. Pascal once said that it is a glorious thing to ride upon a ship that may be well shaken and tossed by the waves but which we know that no matter what happens, it will reach the harbor. The Christian’s view of life on this spinning ball, the earth, is like that. Sometimes we get dizzy but we know we’re going to make the destination. In the detective thrillers of the telelvision world, such as "Mannix" or "Hawaii 5-0," the outcome is obscured until the very end ...

2197. Here Comes Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Bjorge

... for you to have her" (Matthew 14:4). The Hebrews of that day were proud of being sons of Abraham. Rightfully so. But they were bloated with this pride and they excluded all others from God’s favor. John the Baptist could not tolerate this narrow view and he blasted their bomb shelter of security. Looking for an apt illustration John sees the abundance of loose stones that lay everywhere in the Jordan wilderness ... and he says, "I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children of Abraham ...

2198. Christmas Is Coming

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

James Bjorge

... . Bethlehem seemed so close that you thought the wind in the trees was the rustling of angels’ wings, and the star that shone through your kitchen window was the great star that led the wisemen to the manger. As you heard the Christmas carols and viewed the church scene, the little figurines would almost come alive. And you were rich in wonder those days. In the name of sophistication many have forfeited this birthright of man which enables him to stand in awe. And in moments of melancholy we sigh, "But ...

2199. God Stood Up

Sermon

James Bjorge

... grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." In Jesus the Man I have seen God stand up and turn full face to the audience of man. All the warmth and human feeling which you miss from the back now comes into-full view. His face shows emotions and concern which add a new dimension to the concept of God. And perhaps one of the greatest revelations to man’s soul is that the God who sits on the throne of the universe is the Christ who proved himself a friend to man. As ...

2200. An Identity Crisis

Sermon

James Bjorge

... to swell deep in his throat. He glanced over at the king tiger and he began to realize he was indeed a cool cat. Now in spite of all the very basic differences between many of the living religions of the world today most of them agree on one view with some variations; that is, that human beings as they usually exist are not what they were created to be. Our Christian faith is implicit in that we have lost our original state. Figuratively speaking we were made to be tigers and we are living like goats. And ...

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