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201. The God You Worship

Acts 17:16-34

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... get some insight into who we are and to what we are committed? Would they get some idea of the God or the gods we worship? Paul had not been to Athens before to preach. He was impressed by the number of idols and altars in Athens. The city even had "an altar to an unknown god." He was impressed by this and argued with them about it. Most of them wondered what "this babbler" would say. They accused him of speaking of other divinities because he spoke of Jesus and the Resurrection. The word for "resurrection ...

202. Who is Greatest Among You ...

Matthew 23:1-39

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... clear a table and had dropped an entire tray of dirty dishes. Immediately the dining hall erupted with applause as the young man started to clean up the mess on the floor. He appeared to be on the verge of tears. Then something happened that is indelibly impressed on my memory. Without saying a word, the professor stood up, walked over to the server who was frantically scraping up the mess on the floor, stooped down to his knees and began to help collect the broken glass and scraps of food and put them back ...

203. The Beginning of a New Life

Ruth 2:1-23

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... even stopping to rest, and Boaz, who had heard of her love for Naomi that motivated her to leave home, was impressed by her diligence. That’s what is so interesting about this part of the story. What Ruth did next was in keeping with her character and her culture ... . She did not go to Boaz and attempt to impress him with her beauty and charms, nor did she plead desperately with him to help her and Naomi. Sometimes those kinds of tactics will ...

204. The Poor in Spirit

Matthew 5:1-12

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... mouth. A young dentist literally worked his way through Dental School on my mouth. He filled my teeth. He put in bridges. He capped and crowned. He worked on my gums. In fact, after he finished with me, he took an impression of my mouth. He was so proud of it. On the last day, he brought the impression with my name penciled in and said, "I'm going to keep this on my shelf for as long as I practice dentistry." Until I accepted the poverty of my dental condition, I was not really ready to get my teeth fixed ...

205. Sole Brother

Luke 10:25-37

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... neither knows the theological tenets of any prevailing religion. The odds that either of them would stop to render help would be more lopsided than the odds that a plowhorse could win the Kentucky Derby. Neither would look at all promising. Neither would have the impressive qualifications. And yet it is here, among the outcast, the unknown, and the unqualified that a person in need finds help. Christ is saying to the lawyer and to us that he doesn’t know who our neighbor will be ... that our true neighbor ...

206. On Mars Hill

Acts 17:16-34

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CSS

... community at Athens, however, so it was one place where Paul’s mission work failed. To Paul’s sensitive nature, this was utterly depressing. He had been unable to get his message across in the world’s great cultural center. Perhaps his attempt to impress people with "lofty words of wisdom" as a philosopher was the reason. They could see that he was an impassioned enthusiast rather than a calm and reasoned sophist. Or perhaps the nature of the audience on the Areopagus was at fault, for what had ...

207. A Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Acts 9:1-19a

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George Bass

... ours? We, too, are blinded by our prejudices and unable to comprehend the true nature of the Church as one in Jesus Christ; that the Church is his, not ours. When Dr. Harry Whitely was pastor of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland, he impressed the Lordship of Christ upon those gathered to worship him with an announcement: "The Holy Communion will be celebrated in the Moray Aisle ChapeJ at 12:15 p.m. We cordially invite our Christian friends and visitors to the communion, remembering that this is ...

208. OUTSIDE THE IN-GROUP?

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John H. Krahn

... groups today is what I call the Enlightened Unbeliever in-group. For many, membership in this group usually begins during college. To qualify you must become increasingly impressed with yourself and what you know. You must also find faith increasingly childish. Members in this group have yet to learn that the truly intelligent persons are more impressed with their ignorance than with their knowledge. To accept God, people must first accept their own limitations. Another popular in-group is the Free and Easy ...

209. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

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Robert Noblett

... frightfully easy to substantiate that claim. When I was young my mother used to tell me about gypsies and all I have ever known about gypsies is what she told me, so my knowledge about them is hardly broadly based. She left me with the impression, though, that gypsies were largely wanderers - people who moved from place to place and had little sense of rootage and direction. While I’ve not seen any gypsies traveling through our town lately, I am wondering if there is still a preponderance of spiritual or ...

210. God’s Great Chalkboard

Luke 18:9-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Good! Now I am going to take my eraser and erase what I have written. [Erase the chalkboard so that the chalk is gone, but the impression remains.] As you can see I have erased 2+2=4, C A T spells cat, and my stick man. They are gone because I ... for our sins. Since God knows that we really hate our sin, he answers our prayers by forgiving them. [Erase the marks again, but leave the impressions.] He wipes them away, and we are forgiven. God says that we are free from sin, and that we are with him in love. But ...

211. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... did have Christian kinsmen. "Greet Andronicus and Junias," he says, "my kinsmen and my fellow-prisoners; they are men of note among the apostles, and they were in Christ before me" (Romans 16:7). And his experience of the martyrdom of Stephen must have made a deep impression upon him. He was the young man at whose feet the participants in the stoning laid their garments and who "consented to the death." But he could not erase from his memory the image of the martyr who in dying gazed into heaven and saw the ...

212. In The Nick of Time

Genesis 22:1-19

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Jon L. Joyce

... and tears are going. Whatever we do with our money - save it up for descendants, put it into fads or hobbies - the bulk of it goes into whatever our god is. If we have the fortune or misfortune of having a good biographer, he will be more impressed by our checkbook stubs than by our official religious position. Our real religion is where our heart is. It can be a Confucian worship of ancestors and relatives, or a stoic stand on our status quo. The issue, of course, is deeper than statistics. It is what ...

213. How to do Extraordinary Things

Mark 6:30-44

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Bill Bouknight

... later recalled, "Having been so long without proper food, a bath, and change of clothing, I did not make a very favorable impression upon her, and I could see at once that there were doubts in her mind about me." Finally she said to him, "The ... 'm going to have a lot of hungry folks on my hands." He did not ask the Lord to put a little honey on the bread to really impress folks. No, he blessed God's name and committed that bread to God. That's not the way we usually pray. We usually present our "wish list" to ...

214. The Young Man

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... without him. Now - well, nothing is the same. BOY 3: Oh, I heard about him a long time before I finally chose to go see him. He surprised me. The fact that I was the heir to all that money didn't impress him a bit. Neither did my family's position make any difference. Other people always were impressed. Not he. You know, he could have been SOMEBODY? Oh, I gave him the chance! He turned it down. A sheer waste of talent, if you ask me. GIRL 3: I loved him. Why not? Wouldn’t you love someone who gave ...

215. The Might of the Mite

Mark 12:41-44

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Bill Bouknight

... the poor. Some rich folks came by with lots of those heavy Roman coins. They would look around, hoping to have an audience. Then they would sort of "slam dunk" those coins into those brass receptacles, creating all kinds of racket. People noticed and were impressed. But Jesus was not. But then a poor widow slipped up to one of the receptacles and dropped in two tiny mites. These coins were called "leptons" which meant literally "thin ones." These two mites combined were worth 1/40th of a penny. They could ...

216. Making a Name for Ourselves

Genesis 11:1-9

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Bill Bouknight

... institutional advancement. God forbid that we would become a kind of religious country club with lots of little perks for the members. I really doubt that God would be too impressed if we became the “Microsoft of Methodism.” The greatness of a church is its willingness to point beyond itself to Jesus Christ. God is more impressed by our fidelity to scripture, our passion to win lost people, and our willingness to sacrifice for hurting people. Let’s turn in another direction and think of vacation. Let ...

217. Create Your Own Happiness

Matthew 5:1-12

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Robert Allen

... history of God in ecclesiology." Now do you know what that all means? I’m not sure I do either! But, at the time I thought I did. A day or so later, I went to the viewing room with my preaching professor. I waited for him to be properly impressed with my carefully crafted theological sounding sermon. A couple of times, I saw him smile, but he never said a word while the tape was playing. Finally, when the tape had run its course, he reached up and flipped the switch off ... He made a couple more notes on ...

218. A Man Who Was a Lion-Tamer

Daniel 6:1-28

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R. Blaine Detrick

... King Belshazzar (Daniel ministered during the reigns of several kings) had gathered together the lords and nobles from around his kingdom. They were enjoying a lustful, drunken feast of revelry and debauchery. At the height of the carousing, wishing to impress the princes and nobles, Beishazzar ordered his servants to the treasure house, commanding them to bring forth the gold and silver vessels which had been seized in Jerusalem’s temple. Using those sacred vessels (which had been solemnly dedicated to ...

219. The Crucified Ruler

John 19:17-27

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Richard A. Jensen

... royal surroundings. I will never forget that day! Monarchs. Rulers. Kings and Queens. Those words call up mighty and majestic images in our minds. If we were to be in the presence of this world’s rulers, we would expect to be impressed in somewhat the same way I was impressed in the presence of Haile Selassie. And then we hear again this Good Friday story from John’s Gospel. As John tells it, it is the story of the enthronement of a king. We think we know something about monarchy and their coronations ...

220. Lent 6

Isaiah 50:1-11, Mark 15:16-20, Mark 15:21-32, Philippians 2:1-11

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Paul A. Laughlin

... BUT IN A SUFFERING SERVANT! Collect O compassionate God, who gave us a humble Savior in the person of a human Servant, attune us to the humiliation and agony he endured; that we ourselves may become less enamoured of those highly placed, and more impressed with the humble compassion embodied in your Son, Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Most merciful God, we confess that we are guilty of exalting ourselves, of loving prestige, of counting equality with you a thing to be grasped ...

221.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... to have nothing to do with this. This prophet, as you call him - he is a strange man. Pilate: Perhaps had you not listened to him ... (He pauses, as Claudia looks at him, not knowing what to think) Come, dear, I know that you have been greatly impressed by him and that some of our servants are among his followers. It makes no difference to me this is just another "style" that will pass. Claudia: Don’t misjudge him, Pilate. It might give you great cause for regret. And, since you know so much, I suppose ...

222. FOLLOW TO THE JUDGMENT HALL

John 8:48-59

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John W. Rilling

... to a penniless teacher from Nazareth ... By the historian’s test of greatness, ‘What did he leave to grow?’ Jesus stands first," said H. G. Wells. 3. THIRD WITNESS - THE ARTIST. And a very impressive witness it is. Every nation brings him it’s finest tributes. Every genre of artistic expression offers him impressive witness. Pick up the "Oxford Book of Christian Verse" and read what the poets have to say about him. Walk the halls of the Metropolitan Museum and see what the artists have expressed in ...

223. When the Guest Becomes the Host

Mark 14:12-26

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George Bass

... passover in that place. I have often thought that someone should recreate DaVinci’s famous painting of the Last Supper by making animated figures who sit at the table and reenact the meal the disciples shared with Jesus. If the tour people really want to make it impressive, the people should move and speak; the climax of it would be when Jesus would take the bread, break it, and give it to the disciples with his blessing and the sacramental words, "This is my body; take it" - and eat. Then he took a cup ...

224. The Final Farewell

Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

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George Bass

... in the Middle Ages when the cathedral was built were found in great numbers in the charred ruins, and from these a cross of nails was fashioned." That cross, which with the words carved into the stone of the altar, "Father, forgive," makes a powerful impression on nearly everyone who sees it. It spells out what Christianity is all about - forgiveness and reconciliation with God and each other, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The cross of nails was carried from one church to another by the men and boys of the ...

225. God’s Choice

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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Roger Prescott

... him; for the Lord sees not as a man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." - 1 Samuel 16:7 There’s an old saying: "You never get a second chance to make a good first impression." And that’s too bad, because first impressions generally do not reveal inward qualities. The anointing of David demonstrates to us that we are to look deeper into each other than to see only what’s on the surface. While a doctor in England was using a small medical light to examine ...

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