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2201. The Best Offense Is A Good Defense

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... task of revising our ideas. We often reason that at least we can manage our small and restricted world. On the other hand, disciplined people realize that learning is a lifetime occupation. We are never through learning something new. We undoubtedly would prefer if everything stayed the same, but we soon come to fathom that change is a constant in life. The world around us changes, and we must not be afraid to incorporate into our own world and life view changes that will enrich our own adventure of faith ...

2202. The Road To The Wilderness

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... there, identifying himself with all the people as a sign of God's kingdom and its new age. And, a voice from heaven said, "Thou art my beloved son; with thee I am well pleased." Then Mark writes, "The spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness." He stayed there for a period of 40 days. He took the road to the wilderness - because God led him to that place. He took the road to the wilderness - because he needed that time alone to think about what lay ahead. He took the road to the wilderness ...

2203. The Road To Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... words: "0 Master, let me walk with thee in lowly paths of service free; Tell me thy secret; help me bear the strain of toil, the fret of care. Help me the slow of heart to move by some clear winning word of love; Teach me the wayward feet to stay, and guide them in the homeward way." Who is this Jesus? He is the one who comes to us and calls us to go with him - to walk with him. Unless you come to grips with who this Jesus is you will never know who you are, and what your ...

2204. The Road To Jericho

Luke 18:35-43

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... always invited people to come to him. He said, "Come unto me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." Later, when Jesus got into Jericho he found Zacchaeus up a tree. Jesus said, "Zacchaeus, come down out of that tree, for I must stay at your house today." That was the invitation Jesus gave people everywhere he went, on every road he traveled, "Come and follow me." Jesus invites us all to come into his presence - to bring to him who we are and whatever is happening to us. The door to his ...

2205. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... be filled with these things? I The resurrection is a transformation which takes place in our living. The resurrection changes everything. That stranger walked with them all the way home. He told them so much they wanted to hear more. They invited him to come and stay with them. They sat down at the table for a meal together. He blessed the bread and broke it. Then he gave it to them. There was something strangely familiar in all of that. And then Luke writes, "Their eyes were opened and they recognized him ...

2206. Wedding: Making a Commitment

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon Aid

Paul N. Frank

... whom we can count on; someone who we know cares about us. How would you feel if marriage vows were conditional? You would never be sure when the other person might want to dissolve the marriage. You could become ill; your husband or wife might not desire to stay by you during such a circumstance. But marriage is non-conditional. You still may become ill, but you know that you can count on your husband or wife to stand by you. This is one thing in life that you can count on. Why? Because that person has ...

2207. The Bottom Line

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... columnist Bob Considine wrote a story titled, "Could You Have Loved This Much?" It was the true story of Edith Taylor, who for many years lived happily with her husband, Karl, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Then the government sent Karl to Okinawa on business. Edith stayed behind because of her job. Karl's letters became less and less frequent, and then one day he wrote to Edith saying that he had obtained a divorce in Mexico so that he could marry his Japanese servant girl, Aiko. Edith's life was shattered ...

2208. Christmas Preparations We Often Forget

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... judgment - that light has entered the world and men have preferred darkness to light (John 3:19, Phillips version)." Isaiah foretold the coming glory and majesty of the Lord, but he knew that any such coming brings with it a judgment. If we choose to stay hidden in our preferred darkness, we may well discover to our sorrow what the judgment of Christmas is all about. 2. The Promise Of Exciting Changes But happily Isaiah could see in the promise of the Messiah's coming other preparations that would bring joy ...

2209. What Christmas Is About

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... how to get the most out of it. One of the tulip bulbs whose name was "No" said, "I don't believe there is anything more to life than what I have already experienced. I'm pretty well satisfied with the way my life is. I'm just going to stay over here in my corner and be happy." There was another bulb named "Maybe." This bulb said, "I'm not too sure. I think there is more to life than what I have experienced. I feel a desire to know more and find more, and it's all up to ...

2210. Questions

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

John Jamison

... respond? You don't want to tell them, but you know eventually you will have to? In my mind, that is how it happened. All the way back from the well, Mary stewed. Would he be angry or sad, or say nothing at all? Would he go away, or stay here? For months he had been paying close attention to everything John had been doing. He had questioned every traveler through town for news of John, the baptizer. Mary didn't understand the deep interest, but something inside told her it would lead to no good. But she didn ...

2211. Ka-Chang

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John Jamison

... sincere. Again, I think they probably missed the point. "Blessed are the peacemakers." Every eye on the hillside turned to the Zealots. It was one of those times when everyone believes the preacher has over-stepped the bounds. Sadducees wanted peace with Rome so they could stay in office.The Pharisees were for peace, within the rules of the law, which did not leave room for Rome. The Zealots were ready to kill for peace, and the common folks were thinking about how hard it was to simply be a peacemaker back ...

2212. On Being Salty

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

John Jamison

... he ran smack into the upriver end of Grape Island, one mile south of town. It was there, some hours later, that Uncle Peacock woke up and realized he wasn't going to make New Orleans, and, most likely was not going to impress his girl. In his despair, he stayed there until his supplies were gone, and three weeks later swam to shore and got help. My Uncle Peacock was, my mother tells me, a "salty" kind of guy. Much like the two old men who used to stop by our house every so often to see my dad. I ...

2213. Ooo Boy!

Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 5:31-32

Sermon

John Jamison

... Finally, ranking somewhere below the other two, was the wife. The wife was the most highly protected and treasured of the three. She was so highly protected and treasured that she was rarely ever allowed to leave the home and risk contamination by the outside world. She stayed at home in her role of caring for the household. She raised the children. She kept things together. She was the center of it all, but the center of it all is not always a good place to be. It was not only accepted, but expected, that ...

2214. Forgiving the Bully

Matthew 5:38-42, Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

John Jamison

... day, I received a note during spelling. The note read, "After school. You're dead!" The note was signed, "Les." This was not good news, as Les stood about six-foot tall and weighed in the area of 200 pounds. In the third grade! Fortunately, I had to stay a few minutes late after school that afternoon, and by the time I left, so had everyone else. I found several new paths home and managed to avoid Les for over a week. Until the inevitable happened. I forgot. I walked out of school one afternoon and crossed ...

2215. Enough!

Matthew 2:19-23

Sermon

John Jamison

... has made it clear that he intends to eliminate this future threat to his throne. So the angel returns in a dream and warns Joseph to take the baby and his mother and run across the border as fast as their feet will carry them. Just how long they stayed in Egypt, and where they lived while they were there we are never told, but finally after Herod dies, the angel hunts them down and tells them that it is safe to return home. However, now that Herod is dead, Bethlehem and Judea are under the control of his ...

2216. Simon the Zealot · A Man Who Changed His Mind

Mark 3:13-19

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... out loud. This was the silliest thing he had ever heard. How could the Israelites ever win and throw the Romans out of the country with that kind of talk and action? He thought that people only did something out of fear, and never because of love. But Simon stayed and watched Jesus work. He was there the day that a Roman captain came to Jesus and begged for his help, and when he got it he fell on his knees and thanked Jesus. Simon saw other people changed by that love that Jesus showed them and he liked ...

2217. Chosen By God

Ruth 4:1-12

Sermon

Sims Robert

... mother had difficulty going to sleep and was awake almost constantly. The woman said, “We came down to the last few days. I had been with my mother all that day, and about 3 a.m. I drifted off to sleep. My mother awakened me and asked, ‘Can you not stay awake with me these last hours?’ ” How reminiscent of Peter, James and John in the Garden of Gethsemane when Christ came to them and said, “Can you not watch with me just one hour?” To be chosen can be a painful thing! To be chosen by God is a ...

2218. Saints Alive!

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... that the followers of Jesus are more nearly "victims" than "disciples." They are the spiritual "have nots" who must trust and depend wholly upon God and his promises. However, Jesus has in mind for us something more than our passively staying out of trouble ... trusting God, being deeply sorry for the suffering of the world, practicing self-control, and longing for perfect righteousness. The works of faith are not passive. They are active and outreaching. Now the disciples, solidly established in faith ...

2219. Checking The Vital Signs

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... of our risen Christ. “… and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.” Remember our Lord said, “… be kind to each other?” Have you done that? Remember Easter? The God that couldn’t stay killed on Calvary was a God of love. That love ought to radiate from us as a congregation and as an individual these two weeks that we call Easter weeks. It was said of Henry Ward Beecher that no one ever felt the full force of ...

2220. Deaths, Our Teacher

Psalm 90:1-17

Eulogy

Allen Puffenberger

... steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days." Second, death purges life. It reveals what is worthwhile and what is not. Many of us are devoted to security. We are preoccupied with accumulating goods, power or fame. But these things have no staying power of their own; they, too, will pass away or will be taken away. Ironically, we acknowledge this truth by attempting to lay our hands on more and more and by taking all kinds of measures to preserve and to protect what we gain. We may succeed ...

2221. For an Eighty-year-old Man

Acts 1:1-11

Eulogy

Harold Warlick

... 35, and executives start eyeballing their pension plan at age 60, Eck Ring worked hard all of his life, until he was almost eighty. In a world where the average person moves fourteen times in his or her lifetime, Eck Ring moved to High Point at age seven and stayed 73 years. In a world in which the average marriage lasts eight and a half years, Eck Ring was married to the same woman, his lovely wife Ada, for 59 years. In a world in which bestselling novels and research books from the minds of Ph.D.'s fade ...

2222. Three Days To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Helen Keller

... should become an inveterate window shopper, for it must be a delight to the eye to view the myriad articles of beauty on display. From Fifth Avenue I make a tour of the city - to Park Avenue, to the slums, to factories, to parks where children play. I take a stay-at-home trip abroad by visiting the foreign quarters. Always my eyes are open wide to all the sights of both happiness and misery so that I may probe deep and add to my understanding of how people work and live. My heart is full of the images of ...

2223. John Christian Frederick Heyer First American Lutheran Missi

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... live every day as if it were the coming of the kingdom. Reader 1: When Heyer returned to America, he began his work as a home missionary on the western frontier. Now realize that in 1818 the frontier was western Pennsylvania and Maryland! One night Heyer stayed with a very pious American family who asked him to lead devotions… in English! He had no difficulty reading from the English Bible, but when it came time for the free prayer, he froze. He had never before prayed in English! Reader 2: “I finally ...

2224. Ludwig Nommensen Missionary To The Bataks

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... clever and happy.” Reader 1: The men of the village debated his request for a whole day. Unable to reach a decision, the radjas from the nearby villages were invited for a conference. The arguing went on for five days. Finally, the radjas allowed him to stay. But his attempts to establish himself there were continually frustrated. He lived in a rice barn because the people did not allow him to erect a building. He tried to start a school, but no children would attend. Once, at a feast, to honor one of ...

2225. Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... in Gabon, at that time the northern province of the African Congo. In a sermon preached that year, he took as his text the story of Peter walking across the water towards his Lord who had said to him, “Come,” Schweitzer preached: Reader 2: “Do not stay where you are, but move ahead, move towards Jesus!… Do not ask yourself whether the road is firm or practicable, fit for the man who follows his inclinations, but look only to see that it is really the road that leads straight to Jesus.” Reader 1 ...

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