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201. Trinity Sunday

Romans 5:1-11, Proverbs 8:1-36, John 16:5-16

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John R. Brokhoff

... vv. 23-26. b. By virtue of his creation, this is our Father's world vv. 27-30. c. You are the very best God has created v. 31. 2. If God created the world (8:27-31). Need: How did the universe come into existence? Science has several theories. The Bible unanimously tells us creation was the work of God. It was not an accident or a natural conjunction of plants or chemicals. How it was done and how long it took to bring the world into its present shape is of secondary importance. The purpose of this ...

202. Father's Day

Psalm 78:1-72

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Brett Blair

... morning was Faith of Our Fathers [or another appropriate Hymn]. I wonder if there is not some kind of irony in that. I wonder if we in the church are reaping, in lower attendance and fewer new members, the non-faith of our fathers. I have this theory about why women's lib came to the forefront three decades ago. The woman's movement, in part, was born out of necessity. Be honest men. We live in a matriarchal society in America. We hear a lot of talk today about single parent families. In most incidences ...

203. Prayer And Compassion Fatigue

Matthew 14:13-21

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Roger G. Talbott

... . She never ran out of flour, no matter how long it took for the next flour barrel to arrive. The world is full of stories like that, so I don't doubt that Jesus could have miraculously multiplied the loaves and the fish. I am also intrigued by another theory, however. That is the one that suggests that people in the crowd had brought food with them, but nobody wanted to bring it out and eat it because they figured nobody else had any and they would have to share and there wouldn't be enough for them and ...

204. Why Not Walk On What Jesus Walked On When He Walked On Water

Matthew 14:22-36

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Roger G. Talbott

... is the Holy Spirit in our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father." They are all connected. The Bible, we Christians believe, points to Jesus Christ, who is that invisible, spiritual word of God in visible, physical, historical form. All that I have just said is nothing but theological theory, however, until we voluntarily give up our faith in everything else and step out in faith on the word of God, just as Peter stepped out of the boat that night. When Peter stepped out of that boat, he did or was attempting to do ...

205. Why Do We Ignore Warning Signs?

Matthew 21:33-46

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Roger G. Talbott

... not quaver with fear when they hear the prophecy of Martin Luther King, Jr., who said, "The arc of history is a long, long arc, but it bends toward justice." Scholars are not sure exactly when in the first century A.D. Matthew wrote his gospel, but the theories tend to converge on a time right before or right after the Romans attacked and destroyed Jerusalem in the year 70 A.D. It was a period of incredible suffering for the Jews, and Matthew may have seen it as the judgment of God upon the Jews for having ...

206. Easter 3

1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Acts 2:42-47, Luke 24:13-35

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Russell F. Anderson

... that he gained courage from his conviction that Jesus had risen and was reigning at the right hand of God. There was no doubt in Peter's mind that Jesus was both Lord and Christ. A person is not going to put her life on the line for a theory or probability. No, a person will only stake her life on that of which she is utterly convinced. Preaching that doesn't issue from a firm conviction that Jesus is Lord and Savior is about as appealing as cold oatmeal, but not nearly so nourishing. "Save yourselves from ...

207. The Babel Disaster -- You Are There

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Jerry Eckert

... trying to get on the bandwagon. It became acontractor's boondoggle. Everyone tried to make money off ofus. It became our labor negotiator's nightmare trying towork things out with the labor unions. It became atheoretical disaster. Everyone had a theory about how bestto get the height, about how best to buttress the walls, howto let light in, what themes were most appropriate todecorate each temple level (there were seven!). I could notbelieve the confusion. Each specialist was using his ownjargon. Each ...

208. The Babel Disaster - You Are There

Genesis 11:1-9

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Jerry Eckert

... other trying to get on the bandwagon. It became a contractor's boondoggle. Everyone tried to make money off of us. It became our labor negotiator's nightmare trying to work things out with the labor unions. It became a theoretical disaster. Everyone had a theory about how best to get the height, about how best to buttress the walls, how to let light in, what themes were most appropriate to decorate each temple level (there were seven!). I could not believe the confusion. Each specialist was using his own ...

209. Wonderful Story

Genesis 17:1-27

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E. Carver McGriff

... walking by a river. Hearing a commotion, they walked to the river's edge and saw, on the far shore, an incredible example of eighteenth century "justice." A young woman had been bound hand and foot. As they watched, she was thrown into the water, the theory being that if she survived, then she must be innocent of whatever crime she was accused of commiting. But, of course, there was no chance of that. Seeing this, and imbued now with Adoniram Judson's teachings of sacrifice and love, his young friend and ...

210. Feeding the 5000

Mark 6:30-44

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Richard A. Jensen

... (6:43) would symbolize Israel. There are seven baskets of leftovers in the second feeding (8:8). Some believe that seven is the number that symbolizes the Gentiles. It is a number of wholeness and universality. Other interpreters, however, discount these number theories. It would seem to make ultimate sense that Mark has told these stories to demonstrate that Jesus' ministry is for all people. Given the Old Testament stories that deal with feeding, it is probably not surprising that Mark uses this kind of ...

211. Here They Come, Singing

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... prophet could have meant that they went into exile with weeping, but that they came out with singing. When Thomas Wang, the Chinese Christian leader, was talking with Peter Wagner, the church growth specialist, he said, “Pete, I have studied your theories of the elements that make up church growth. I believe that you have left out one of the most important.” “Really? What was that?” asked Wagner. “Suffering,” replied Wang. “It is the suffering church that has been the growing church.” Into ...

212. Always Rising

John 6:25-59

Children's Sermon

... if is ready to add to the dough. As the initial batch of sour dough is used to bake bread, the remaining portion can be renewed by the addition of more flour and wafer. If properly cared for and renewed, one batch of sour dough can last (at least in theory) forever. Point out to your child that the starter dough is a lot like people - we are quickly used up or spoiled if we are not renewed - and that they can think of God as the fresh flour and wafer that keep the sour dough fresh and vital. Ask your ...

213. Stilling The Storm

Mark 4:35-41

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... not think a disciple is ever a finished person. It is like the confirmands in your churches. When they finish confirmation and make the choice to become church members, they are not ending or completing their learning. It is easy to have faith in theory. Confirmands are just beginning to ask the important questions. It is then their faith truly begins to grow. They must not feel our dismissal now that they have come through the rite of passage. We must offer them the support and encouragement that accompany ...

214. Lessons for Lent 3

John 2:12-25

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Russell F. Anderson

... Re-Imagining conference, the cross of Christ was subjected to derision. One of the speakers, who attempted to empty the cross of its meaning and centrality for the Christian faith, was Beverly Williams, who declared: "I don't think we need a theory of atonement at all. I don't think we need folks hanging on crosses and blood dripping and weird stuff." According to an article in Christianity Today, Ingeline Nielsen, a Swiss missionary to Zimbabwe, attacked the hymn "Lift High The Cross" as presenting ...

215. Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17, Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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Russell F. Anderson

... the Latin word reconciliation. He came up with the word atonement (at-one-ment), which he used in Romans 5:11. The King James Version followed Tyndale's lead but later translations reverted to reconciliation, probably to avoid confusion with the various theories of the atonement. The concept of reconciliation for the Old Testament and the New start from opposite points. The Jews believed that all unintentional sins were absolved when a person took part in the rites associated with the Day of Atonement (Yom ...

216. Connected To God

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Lee Griess

... That sense of being connected to Jesus enabled them to face persecution and suffering knowing that God was on their side. They could trust God because they knew Jesus. It is said that the wife of Albert Einstein was once asked if she understood her husband's theory of relativity. She replied, "No, but I know my husband and I know that he can be trusted." The disciples knew that Jesus had ascended to be with God, the Father, and that was enough. Jesus could be trusted with their lives and hence God could be ...

217. But God Can

Luke 7:11-17

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Larry Powell

... Man is a recurring decimal. You can never work him out on paper. You may divide and divide until your heart is content, but each figure you get, so far from beginning to end, is simply a new beginning." I suppose the antithesis of this continuing decimal theory would be to say, "Man is a period, or an exclamation point. This and nothing more." It will be much more to your relief that I do not wish to pursue this. I just find the symbols of decimals, periods, and exclamation points interesting because I have ...

218. The Infinite Becomes An Infant

Matthew 1:18-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... told about a boy who stood in front of the picture of his absent father. He turned to his mother and wistfully said, "I wish Dad would step out of the picture." At Christmas Jesus stepped out of the picture and came to us not as a principle or theory but as a person we can know and love. Toughest Thing for God. Dr. Al Lindgren of Garrett Seminary tells of taking his junior high school son fishing. While waiting for the fish to bite, they got to talking. The son asked, "Dad, what was the toughest thing God ...

219. Easter - Fact And Fiction!

Acts 10:34-43

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Barbara Brokhoff

... the gospel records, then we cannot deny the historical fact of Christ's bodily resurrection. The physical resurrection of Christ is as inseparable from the Christian message as a chicken from chicken soup. The non-believers have propounded multitudes of ridiculous theories to circumvent this biblical truth, saying: it was not a physical resurrection, but just a spiritual resurrection, Christ did not really die on the cross, he just fainted and was resuscitated in the coolness of the tomb, that the witnesses ...

220. Baptism of the Lord

Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 61:1-11, Luke 3:21-38, Acts 8:9-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... the seal of belonging to the church, for his life begins not with his birth but with his baptism. To be baptized means that a relationship between the revelation and the man has been established and is made actual in a specific situation." (Quoted by Lischer in Theories of Preaching, p. 343.) Approval. At his baptism God assured Jesus of his approval: "in whom I am well pleased." Some have a fear of not being approved. A pastor once called on a family which had not been to church for a long time. He asked ...

221. Who Is Your King?

Mark 11:1-11

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Erskine White

... their weakest point, making sure that the confrontation takes place on His own terms. These are brilliant, beautiful tactics - the power tactics of Jesus Christ! Maybe now we can see why both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. said that they developed their theories of nonviolent power from the teachings and example of Jesus. But it isn’t Jesus’ tactics in the temple or His tactics against the priests and lawyers that get Him killed. It isn’t even the controversy over whether He is the Messiah ...

222. Ashamed Of The Gospel

Romans 1:1-17

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Erskine White

... I want to keep up with Jesus Christ." The world says, "Seek the good life," and the gospel says, "Seek the life of good." The world says, "Do what makes you happy;" the gospel says, "Do what makes you holy." The world acknowledges that the gospel sounds nice in theory, but if you've got a job, a family or other responsibilities, it's pretty unreasonable and unrealistic in practice. Yet again, we are called to say, "I am not ashamed of the gospel. I am not ashamed to die to the old and live for the new. I ...

223. Lent 1

Romans 9:30--10:21, Deuteronomy 26:1-15, Luke 4:1-13, Psalm 91:1-16

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George Bass

... been or will be things like ourselves out there to share our loneliness.... I knew what Williams could do to a man. He might have done it to me once, if I hadn't been nearsighted." He says that Williams was a fanatic about an extremely controversial theory of his that there had once been a planet between Mars and Jupiter, a fifth planet, and that's what he was looking for and converting people by what Eiseley called "demonic" methods. Sounds like the sort of method that the devil might have used on Jesus ...

224. Proper 24

Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 121:1-8, Exodus 17:8-16, Genesis 32:22-32, Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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George Bass

... science and religion. They are stories about adults who followed their faith and the children who died for what their parents believed." She adds, "We cannot equate a church practitioner with a surgeon any more than we can equate the story of creation with the theory of evolution." If one can't pray with confidence in such situations, and if God doesn't respond to such prayers, does prayer have an efficacy today? 3. Jesus believed that it did, although he seems almost to have wavered a bit when he cried ...

225. The Problem With Miracles In Our Time

Matthew 14:22-36

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William J. Carl

... ’ journey on the cedar wood as if the waves themselves had borne him up (Ernst and Marie-Luise Keller, Miracles in Dispute: A Continuing Debate, trans. by Margaret Kohl, Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1969, pp. 67-79). I call this one the “lumberjack log-rolling theory” which should change the joke from showing the dumb preacher where the rocks are to showing him where the logs are. We can’t believe in the miracles, so we either joke about them or we try to explain them rationally and in so doing ...

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