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201. WEAVER

1 Sam. 17:7; Job 7:6

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... the shuttle back and forth, alternating sheds beating the weft down. Gravity helped pack the wefts tightly. 2. The Greek vertical loom consisted of a cloth beam at the top and loom weights on the bottom of the warps. The weaver stood in front of the loom and bent the weft upward. 3. The horizontal loom was the kind most often used by the Hebrews. This consisted of two beams held secure by four pegs driven into the ground. The weaver sat in front of the loom. This particular type of loom is narrower than the ...

202. Stand Up Straight

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... - challenged, so to speak. You could have a genetic predisposition to cancer. You could have a sick spirit. Perhaps you have a spirit of resentment, a pessimistic attitude, a selfish streak, or a manipulative manner with other people. In our natural state, all of us have a bent-over condition of some sort. LOOK AT VERSE 12. "AND WHEN JESUS SAW HER..." Lots of people saw her, but not as Jesus did. They would step aside so as not to bump into her on the street, but because of her condition they didn't even ...

203. Reviving Our Moral Responsibility

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... of any kind appears to be the least of all realities. Indeed it seems at times that the bottom has dropped out of everything. The ideals and hopes that Christians have held dear seem to be caught up in a whirlwind of opposing forces bent on their destruction. Christians believe in love, but everywhere throughout the world we see the fingerprints of the agents of hate. Christians affirm the power of right, but others claim that might is the only resource with any viable clout. Christians are apostles of ...

204. Eternally Interceding

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Larry Powell

... . Sure enough, the pale little youth failed to turn his work in when it was due. The teacher called him forward to the desk and told him to bend over. His hollow eyes looked helplessly at her as his bony body braced itself for a whipping. As he bent over, the bones in his back made little ridges in his shirt and his baggy pants were evidence of skinny legs and a tiny waist. The teacher raised the paddle. Suddenly, a little boy raised his hand and said, "Teacher, can I take his whipping for him?" That ...

205. Song of a Priest

Psalm 15:1-5

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

The author of the Fifteenth Psalm is a priest charged with the responsibility of screening pilgrims who have come up out of the Dispersion bent on worshiping in the Temple. Known as "the guardian of the threshold," he is to see that no one enters the hallowed precincts unworthily. For the worship experience is not to be taken lightly. As Paul later puts it, let those entering the sanctuary not engage in ...silly talk, nor ...

206. Song of a Prophet

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... tyrant, no pagan power, can hope to match the Lord’s might. The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. (Psalm 46:6, 7) A Transforming God God is not bent purely on destroying his foes. Rather, God’s intent is to break down and build up, to rout out and renew. Prejudice must be swept away by a purpose big enough to reform the race. In fact, this is the Almighty’s sole reason for the ruin he wreaks ...

207. Song of a King

Psalm 101:1-8

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... , all things considered, he views them not so much as subjects but as associates embodying his standards in their daily lives, where it counts - in the commonplace. So he will protect them by putting the holy city of Jerusalem off limits to all who are bent on wickedness. In fact, so zealously will he press his campaign against evildoers within the capital’s walls that he will bring them to speedy trial every morning (Psalm 101:8). The psalm is the inaugural of an idealist who wants only the best for ...

208. Song of a Philosopher

Psalm 139:1-24

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... me are thy thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee. (Psalm 139:17, 18) A Conflict and a Prayer The very depth of one’s spiritual bent, however, frequently puts him at odds with those around him of lesser faith. The philosopher-poet’s experience is no exception here. For his delight in the Lord is directly challenged by the wicked practices through which many of his neighbors are blatantly defying God. And to the ...

209. Do You Really Want to Dive?

Illustration

Leslie Bush

... in April when the sun had barely begun to warm the water, she brought me to the local YWCA for my very first dive. No one was by the pool at that hour but a sleepy lifeguard and some overly zealous sunbathers. I put my arms over my ears and bent my knees as mom had taught me that winter. Eyes screwed shut, I concentrated as hard as I could to make my legs push off from the wall. Finally, still in position, I opened my eyes and looked at my mother. "I can’t." The lifeguard broke in from across ...

210. The Garden: All Things New

John 20:1-9

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... the body wrappings were still there, including the burial cloth that had been around his head. They didn’t know what to make of it, so they simply went back to what they could understand, their own homes. But Mary stayed outside the tomb, crying. Once more, she bent over to look into the tomb. Now she saw two angels there, where Jesus’ body had been. They kindly asked why she was crying, and she explained that someone had taken her Lord away, and she didn’t know where to find him. Now she turned, and ...

211. Resurrection: Temporal to Eternal

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... it will roll away.* *"Easter Message," by John Van Brakle, Christ in Poetry, edited by Thomas Curtis Clark, Association Press, New York, 1952. The runner had stopped to catch his breath. He had covered almost three miles without letting up. Now he rested against a bent olive tree taking deep breaths that would bring strength to his tired muscles. He still had four miles to go, and he dared not stay too long, lest the great gates of the City be fastened shut - locking him out. Despite his panting, and the ...

212. Take a Close Look (At the Widow)!

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... -carat chains around her neck, a condo in Palm Beach and another one here - is a rare bird."[6] There was once a poor old widower who, like his female counterpart in Mark, was "rich toward God." His white head was bowed and his feeble frame bent from long years of toil over his workbench. His modest house was as time-worn as he. The roof was going bald and the asbestos siding was frayed around the edges. Inside, the worn upholstered furniture sagged wearily and the threadbare rugs yielded glimpses of the ...

213. A Cup Running Over

John 11:17-37

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... winds to subside. Jesus demonstrated even greater courage than the chaplain’s when he returned to Bethany, on his rescue mission to Lazarus and Mary and Martha. He knew full well that a deadly storm awaited him there, a storm spawned by the hatred of men who were bent on nailing his hide to the wall. II. There is "feeling" in this story of the raising of Lazarus. A. There is the natural, to-be-expected sorrow of the sisters over the loss of their dear brother. They were a closely-knit family. There is, in ...

214. Noise Is Anything That Corrupts the Integrity of a Message

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... integrity - is corrupted, so the receiver cannot reproduce it faithfully. Noises come from outside and distort the message as originally given. Sometimes, though, the noises that corrupt the integrity of a message are not from outside but from inside. We hear words. We are so bent on our own interpretation that we block the message and literally do not hear it. Often I discover a parishioner in the hospital who has been there for a week or so. Since I visit the hospital twice each week, I am concerned that ...

215. The Two Most Important Questions A Christian Can Answer

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the boy and the man of her hopes. She told God what she always expected me to be, and then how I had disappointed her hope. 'O God!' she prayed. 'take this boy of mine and make him the boy and man he is divinely designed to be.'” Then she bent over, kissed him and went out and left him alone in the silence with God.(1) Now that’s creative love! You see…law is not enough. Law tells us what we have done wrong. Love tells us who we can be. Over these 613 statutes of the Law stands ...

216. OUR LORD BETRAYED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... king! Well, soon he would be done with it. It was fortunate he had come to himself, seen how wrong he had been. The only Judean in the company - the rest, like the leader, coming from Galilee - Judas had contacts in Jerusalem. Now that the leader seemed bent on his own personal destruction, talking about how "his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father," Judas had had the foresight to use his contacts to save himself. Yes, soon it all would be over. The others could follow him to destruction ...

217. OUR LORD FORSAKEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... But where shall we lay him?" he asked. "Just over the hill," Joseph of Arimathea said quietly. "There is a tomb there in which no man ever was laid. I ... I had secured it against the day of my own burial." John stared at the two men as they bent down to lift the shrouded figure. A new thought, a sense of appreciation, began to filter through his sorrow. What risk these men were taking! Timid men, really, for he remembered how Nicodemus had come to visit the Lord, coming at night so his peers would not know ...

218. Waiting

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... poverty. There was peace in families, harmony, no dissension, no more drugs. There careful use of resources. By the time she got back to the counter, she had a long list. Jesus looked over the list, then smiled at her and said, "No problem." And then he bent down behind the counter and picked out all sorts of things, and finally stood up, and laid out the packets on the counter. "What are these?" the woman asked. "Seed packets," Jesus answered. "This is a catalog store." "You mean I don't get the finished ...

219. Astonishing!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the assurance that the world and mankind have been redeemed. (Adapted from The Meaning of Persons, p. 110-111). I believe Jesus brings that new kind of teaching, a new authority into this world to save, to make us whole, to overcome the demons that are bent on our destruction. “What is this?” the people asked with amazement. “A new teaching—with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him. At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.” Amen.

220. The Whip of War

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Brett Blair

... that role away from his people and placed it on the shoulders of governments. Neither should the church be blindly against all wars. We have not been given the authority by God to take such a position. Such a position hands the whip to evil men who are bent on taking advantage of the powerless. Temples and nations must be protected from such, with the whip of war when necessary, whether the crisis is a spiritual one or a national. May God grant us wisdom and courage in our actions. Amen. [Here is a closing ...

221. Heal the Sick; Cast Out the Demons

Matthew 10:5-8

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... is only trash, seeing beauty where there is only ugliness, seeking Dolcineas where there are only Aldonzas. Yet in that great play, "The Man From La Mancha," Quixote, who looks like an insane man in a sane society, may be the only sane man in an insane society bent on its own destruction. Jesus, who has repeatedly said, "Come unto me," also says, "Go for me. Heal the sick; cast out the demons. Do it together so that you don’t get too discouraged. Do it by my power; your own is insufficient." Thus we are ...

222. Coping When It Seems Impossible

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... to discover that Christianity really dealt with these questions of faith and found deep answers in experience. The old bus reached its destination. The motor was stopped, and in the dangerous silence she could ask no more questions. As she arose to go, she bent over and whispered, "I want to thank you. This has met a deep need in my life." This young woman had found new hope for coping with life, coping which is quite impossible without faith in a universe that has purpose and direction, and without ...

223. Spiritual Blindness

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... his blindness was total, and then, only then, could Milton say it: When I consider how my light is spent, E’re half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodg’d with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny’d, I fondly ask; but patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man’s work or his own gifts, who best Bear ...

224. The Father Who Wanted His Son To Succeed

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... establish his word which he spoke to me," the covenant that he had made with David for a throne that would endure forever. Parents in this church this morning who have known the heartbreak of a son or daughter on the primrose path, or hell-bent for disaster, whether by their own misparenting or other cause, could talk to David. He would understand. The King had fathered nineteen sons himself, whose names are listed by the Chronicler (1 Chronicles 3:1-8), and others who remain unlisted and are uncounted and ...

225. The Advent Hope

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... titled "Hope." It presents a beautiful maiden seated upon a globe. She is blindfolded and in her hand she holds a harp, of which all the strings but one are broken. The blindfolded girl is touching the one string with her hand, and her head is bent toward it, earnestly waiting to catch the note of that one string. All the strings on which we play the melody of life are indeed destined to break - health, peace, security, finally life itself. There remains only one string - Jesus Christ our hope, Jesus Christ ...

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