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201. My Colors Will Be Clear

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... call you stuffy. But what small sacrifices these are compared to what some followers of Jesus are suffering! Today in China you could be imprisoned for attending a worship service other than ones approved by the government. Since the crucifixion of Christ, it is estimated that more than 40 million believers have died for the faith, more in this century than in all previous centuries combined. Jesus is looking for sold-out followers, never-look-back men and women, boys and girls. Jesus said that if you put ...

202. The Hardest Thing That God Could Ask

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... recently. They found that being a mother was the most demanding vocation they could find. It requires at least seventeen distinctive job skills, including that of psychologist, nutritionist, financial manager, and conflict mediator. In view of the skills required, the Times estimated that the job should pay $500,000 per year. Moms, you are underpaid! (1) One of my favorite cartoon characters is Dennis the Menace. In a recent episode, Dennis was seated in a chair in the corner; obviously he was being ...

203. Small-town Revolution

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Susan Hedahl

... , and the rich he has sent empty away. He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his posterity forever. (Luke 1:50-55 RSV) The import of Mary’s song cannot be over-estimated. It is no accident that in places of political and religious oppression, composers have their work censored and people are often forbidden to sing certain songs. As Luther once pointed out, music is one form of the Gospel - with all its powers to liberate. Who would ...

204. Stewards and the Hungry

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... helping the poor to bullying the militant with deadlier arms. In Time magazine we read, The U.S. may be one of the world’s richest nations, but more and more American children are living in poverty. A recent study by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 13.8 million children were in poverty in 1983, an increase of more than 4 million since 1973. The plight of the black children has worsened dramatically compared with that of whites since 1980. Black children are now twice as likely as whites to ...

205. Mother Teresa and the Dying Poor

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... live "high on the hog" here in the United States, compared with others around the world. And, it does not bring the satisfaction to our lives that we all long for. Yet, this is a time when our newspaper announces 35 million are starving in Africa, with Ethiopia estimating six to seven million people in danger of dying by starvation. In a day when our military boasts it can put a strike force anywhere in the world within a few hours, we find that large amounts of food, help for those hungry, rot on the docks ...

206. Sharing with Our Brothers

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... . They begged Paul to be allowed to participate. Their generosity reaches across the centuries to motivate us. We need such motivation, for what we face in view of the starving masses is a monumental task. The Task that Faces Us There are an estimated 2 billion people who are undernourished. Of these, 460,000 are reported as suffering actual starvation. We are told that one person dies of starvation every time we draw a breath. The world population is expected to double in forty years. Massive solutions ...

207. A Thimble Full Of Ocean

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Larry Powell

... infinity, eternity, unlimited love, boundless grace, absolute forgiveness; and, strain as we may, we perceive but a smattering of the divine, and even that is "through a glass dimly." What a magnificent thought: mercy and pardon of such magnitude that it is beyond our grandest estimations! See now how foolish we appear when we whine, "There is no hope for a sinner like me." See what a paltry grasp we have of God’s majesty when we declare, "My sin is too great for God to forgive." See how our little ...

208. Faith As Healing Energy

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... miracle of a loving, believing fellowship which produces the miracle of healing. In his book, There’s A Lot More to Health Than Not Being Sick, Bruce Larson tells us that a recent survey by the American Medical Association revealed that "by their estimate, 90 percent of the people who see a general practitioner in an average week have no medically treatable problem. Certainly they are ill and suffering real pain, but their problem is not chemical or physical and defies normal medical procedure ... Most of ...

209. Like Trees Walking

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... children whom he loves. If you cannot see your value to God and to us, your friends in Christ, then you need to have Jesus touch you again. We can help each other to experience his loving kindness and healing. When you have looked about you and reached a conclusion, estimating your God’s-eye score at 20-20 or 35-10 or trees walking, you will have a decision to make. The beauty of God’s Kingdom is something to behold, not because it is pretty, but because it is where man meets God and can get a God’s ...

210. A Lack of Feeding in the American Dream

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... Mental Health Institute at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, places part of the blame for a sharp increase in teenage suicides on what he calls "The American Fairy Tale." He says the number of teenage suicides in the United States has tripled in the last decade to an estimated thirty a day, and that more than half the patients in the nation’s psychiatric hospitals are under age 21. He says the "fairy tale" has five themes: that more possessions mean more happiness, that a person who does or produces more is more ...

211. Wrinkled Wrappings

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... as we ought to see God in the Baby Jesus, we should see good in our fellowman. Take a baby. Do you see the good that child may someday do? Can you see the potential? Is a human being worth only the value of the chemicals in his body now estimated to be about $17. Pity a child whose mother says to him, "You are no good, you were a mistake and I never should have borne you. You will spend your years behind bars." Though man is sinful and unclean, we need to see gold in garbage and treasure in ...

212. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... and dirt poor? That's your divinely appointed lot in life, said the aristocrats and oligarchs. But the Heavenly Star Thrower gave them something to fix their minds on, to lift them up, to draw them up to a greater self-image and a higher estimate of self-worth when the powers- that-be were carrying blame too far. That's why totalitarians of every age resist widespread distribution of the Bible in the people's language, because the Bible is a revolutionary book. It says each individual, no matter how ...

213. From Crumbs to Half a Loaf

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... . If your plan A (stew) has gone awry, you have no choice but to accept plan B, the leftovers. A particular attitude is developed in the mind and soul of those who must accept second best. Their most acute problem is to deal with the estimate of their situation that the environment places on them. If they accept the judgment of the circumstances, they, like the two late-arriving Boy Scouts, are reduced to subservient bottom-feeders in order to survive. Yet mere survival is hardly the basis for developing an ...

214. Make Up Your Mind!

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... ? What rules and principles shall guide the way I live this life entrusted to me? Whatever else we do, we should know where our commitment lies. It is my responsibility to tell you this! You have already decided. Whether or not Strauss and Howe are right in their estimation of our future, I cannot say. Of this, however, I can be sure: I have an obligation to my God to warn you that any life where he is not given his proper place, whether it is national or personal, is a life lived on the edge of destruction ...

215. Make Room for God

Luke 5:1-11

Illustration

James Garrett

Many years ago Oswald Chambers said to a group of students in a college chapel service: We have to learn to make room for God -- to give God “elbow room.” We calculate and estimate, and say that this and that will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come as he chooses. Expect him to come, but do not expect him only in a certain way. At any moment he may break in. Always be in a state of expectancy, and ...

216. Religion and Politics

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... politicians, Lyndon Baines Johnson. God is pleading for a turnaround and an outcome other than judgment. Do it and be blessed; don't and "be devoured." Well. Religion and politics. As old as the ancient prophets; as modern as tomorrow's newspaper. In my estimation, it is impossible to keep them separate and, frankly, anyone who says so understands neither religion nor politics. Both have to do with not only deeply held convictions but the way we live our lives. In other words, as we have said before, what ...

217. Giving Dangerously

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... First Presbyterian reminding you of the event. We have a special guest speaker coming - David Oyler, the Stated Clerk of our Lake Erie Presbytery - a celebration banquet following worship, all in all, a very exciting day. Our leaders are providing you the opportunity to estimate your giving for the coming year so they might wisely plan the mission and ministry of this growing church. Well, I am about to commit the ultimate heresy. I am going to tell you: don’t do it! Do not give to support the program ...

218. God and Hurricanes

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a different turn (you can't trust these storms), apply the prayers above to the people wherever it does hit.(1) In the face of Hurricane Floyd's threat, Sheila, her family, and two to three million people (depending upon whose estimates you hear) headed inland - the largest peacetime evacuation in American history - clogging highways with more traffic than they were ever designed to handle and creating gigantic ribbon-shaped parking lots. The next evening (Wednesday), Sheila would write again: Yesterday we ...

219. The Lord's Prayer: "Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... it is a massive evil to say, "Anything goes; if it feels good, do it." Despite the fact that we would prefer to "Live and let live," to "Judge not that ye be not judged," those are not always appropriate options. It is evil, in my estimation, to encourage life without limits, because, in the process, someone ALWAYS gets hurt. One morning a young lady named Padrica Hill, a former bank teller, a mother and wife, dressed her three children, made breakfast for them, smoked some crack cocaine and let the kids ...

220. What Is Truly Important

Matthew 6:25-34, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... two flannel, quilted blankets that my Aunt had made. I felt like the Mother on Little House on the Prairie. Rather like camping out. I invited my elderly neighbor to join me in this adventure and we did just fine. It was amazing to see the traffic! It is estimated that over 2 million people were evacuated from this region and all hit the roads. It took us 4 hours for a trip that would have been just over 2. Some folks sat in bumper to bumper traffic for miles and miles. As we headed back it was astonishing ...

221. Hang in There!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... between Jews and Gentiles. But calling her a DOG to her face? Rough. Even Ruff, Ruff, Ruff. Again, folks explain that away. After all, calling someone a dog is a term of abuse, if ever there was one. As one writer has it, The pariah dog was not an estimable animal in Near Eastern culture then, any more than he is today. But it is not the pariah dogs that are intended here...It is the dogs beneath the table...household pets, the children's playmates; and this is confirmed by the fact that the word for 'dogs ...

222. A World in Turmoil

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... very lives..." "In a period when attendance at Christian Sunday schools is dwindling, the myth of redemptive violence has won children's voluntary acquiescence to a regimen of religious indoctrination more extensive and effective than any in the history of religions. Estimates vary widely, but the average child is reported to log roughly 36,000 hours of television by age 18, viewing some 15,000 murders. What church or synagogue can even remotely keep pace with the myth of redemptive violence in hours spent ...

223. Welcoming Jesus

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... that the condition of children in this world is significantly improved since Jesus' time. After all, one of the few things that churches do NOT debate is that "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world." Then why do we have estimates that thirty-five thousand children under the age of five die daily around the globe, most from preventable poverty conditions? The financial cost to end most of these child deaths, it has been proposed, is about $2.5 billion a year, which is the amount ...

224. "A Friend Indeed"

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . A United Nations Human Development Report recently published (and reported in the June 22, 1997 issue of Manchester Guardian Weekly) notes that an $80 billion anti-poverty program could provide access to basic social services and eradicate poverty. This, the UN report estimates, is equivalent to the net worth of just seven billionaires. The net worth of 10 billionaires, according to the report, is worth 1.5 times the combined national income of the 48 least developed countries.(1) I guess that let's us ...

225. Lips And Hearts

Romans 10:8b-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... : "There are wild birds' feathers - the owls, the nightjars. I shall dream wild dreams. I should lie at peace here with only the sky above." "Someone who liked to think put this here," said one woman, who read the inscription aloud to her husband. It is estimated that the bench weighs 600 pounds and it had to be hauled down a steep embankment to rest where it does. Whoever was responsible, the city has decided that the monument can stay. (4) There is something to be said for silent gestures like that. And ...

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