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2251. Baptism And Self-Esteem

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... naughty." We are not just talking about having eaten some forbidden fruit. Living in sin means that we can never seem to shed the suspicion that we are not good enough. Living in sin means that we always find the lie of the serpent making sense: "God doesn't care about you, so you had better take things into your own hands!" Living in sin means that we are eternally in search of self-esteem and never able to capture it. Living in sin means that we can never bring ourselves to trust God, to love God with all ...

2252. Miracle Three: Healing A Leper

Mark 1:40-45

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Harold H. Lentz

... which pleases but perplexes them. Sometimes a patient suffering from this disease for which there is no known cure would experience a definite slowing of its progress. Looking more closely, they discovered that such patients were the recipients of much tender, loving care. Some member of the family or a good friend had kept them reassured that they were deeply loved. Love does wonders to the human persona and in some cases can be a powerful healing factor. This is especially true of those suffering ...

2253. Miracle Five: Healing A Withered Hand

Mark 3:1-6

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Harold H. Lentz

... of being religious is to be sure that they are doing the right thing: worshiping, reading the Bible, and leading a pure life. They do not comprehend the degree to which the Christian faith emphasizes concern and love for others. But, in fact, the degree to which we care about others is a measurement of the vitality of our faith. Jesus stressed the fact that Christians should go about doing good and answer the needs of others. He warned that on the judgment day what we have done for others will be one of the ...

2254. Famous Last Words

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

William L. Self

... experienced unusual growth with a strong leader and preacher instructed its pastoral search committee to find a pastor that was just the opposite. "We need a visitor, someone who will give us care," they said. "Preaching and leadership is not that important." The new pastor, who had great gifts in pastoral care, was ineffective in areas that had built the church. He was asked to resign in eighteen months because of falling attendance and budget. Leadership built the church and leadership will sustain the ...

2255. Arc Of The Covenant

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... . When God is there, a spider's web is like a wall!" God not only spoke of his faithfulness, but also gave proof of what he promised. Like the spider's web of protection for Felix, the rainbow in the sky was assurance that God would take care of Noah and all his descendants. Imagine what Noah saw when they opened the door to the ark after more than a year on board. Dead creatures everywhere. Half carcasses used as food by flying animals. Total devastation and land formation shifts. Then they looked up. Mrs ...

2256. Till Death Do Us -- Unite

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... ran to the tomb crying. Peter wept bitterly for his denial and the fact that Jesus would die. The two men on the road to Emmaus, if not shedding physical tears, surely had their hearts broken. And perhaps you today are crying -- if not outside, then inside. Jesus cares about your tears and promises one day to wipe them all away (v. 8). But for now, hear Psalm 56:8: "Record my lament; list my tears on your scroll -- are they not in your record?" God collects our tears in a bottle. He counts and knows all ...

2257. Open Grave, Open Hearts

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... power the Risen Lord gave to the disciples at Pentecost. Above all else, the living Jesus was demonstrated by their giving spirit, their care for the less fortunate! A man complained to his pastor, "I've been listening to your sermons and to our leaders at church ... text does not promote communism or bringing everyone down to the lowest level or even equal levels. It does promote taking care of others in the name of Jesus. The early Church was a small family. They were misunderstood and considered a sect. ...

2258. Decisions, Decisions

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... resides in us and speaks to us through the Word and godly counsel, reads our heart well (he lives there!), and uses us to carry the message of the gospel in all we do. Does God care about every decision? Should we pray about each one? Well, as you stand in front of your hanging clothes in your closet, though he does care about how you look, don't expect him to guide your hand to the dress of the day or the perfectly coordinated tie. And sometimes we paralyze ourselves and wait for an answer when common ...

2259. To Be Continued

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... know what he was talking about? I think they were especially consternated when, after Jesus headed heavenward, the angels talked about "he will come back." All they knew was one thing: Jesus had left them without his physical presence anywhere. "Lord, we don't really care about the gift of the Holy Spirit or being witnesses right now. We want you." They stared into the sky and cried out, "Come, fix breakfast for us again, Lord! Master, show us one more miracle. We love your teaching, Jesus. Tell us some ...

2260. God Is Down To Earth

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... yield noble and joyous music. God Became Domesticated in Jesus By means of the incarnation, God becoming flesh, God has come into the midst of life. Jesus knew life as we know it. He was raised in a family as the elder son was eventually responsible for caring for his widowed mother. He knew what it was for one's friends to turn against him, to be falsely accused and to suffer rejection and finally a cruel death. E. Stanley Jones has suggested that in Jesus Christ God became domesticated. He knew life as we ...

2261. Advent 1

Isaiah 63:7--64:12, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Psalm 80:1-19, Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

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William E. Keeney

... on an unfamiliar road, we missed the sign. Sometime later we realized that we were not seeing signs for our route and the exit signs pointed toward unfamiliar towns. We realized that we had not read the signs carefully enough. It cost us an hour of travel and added about fifty miles to our trip. Fortunately, missing the signs was only inconvenient and added cost. It was not disastrous. People are advised to look for signs of cancer. A lump, if detected early, may be removed and the survival ...

2262. The Heart Of The Matter

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... $2,000 for it. Then the man asked the dealer to take a look at the Pinto. After taking it for a drive and inspecting it carefully, the dealer told the man he would give him $2,000 for both cars. The station wagon basically had to be scrapped. That's the way ... from their mother, and placed them in a foster home. For the first time in their lives, those children knew that someone cared for them. They had clean clothes, good food, and adults who set limits on their behavior. In six months Billy changed from ...

2263. Whispers From A Dream

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... be filled with causes for genuine despair. Even so, you can know that what you experience now is only a chapter in a much larger story. The good news is that the ending of the story has already been whispered to you through a prophet's dream. Be careful not to underestimate the power and importance of this dream. In our day and age the word "dreamer" is often used in a rather derogatory sense to describe someone whose head is lost in the clouds -- an idealist out of touch with reality. In the prophet Daniel ...

2264. Uplifted By The Blues

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

Raymond looked down at the pages of the open Bible in front of him. What he saw was a rather eerie sight and it sent a slight shudder through his body. All the words on the pages were covered with blue marker. Six months earlier Ryamond himself had carefully highlighted every single word on these pages with a light blue marking pen. At the time that he had marked the pages he had no expectation of ever turning to those pages of his Bible again. Now, to his own amazement, he found that he had once again ...

2265. The Sacred Other

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... be called Abraham, to step out in faith and go to a new land which God would show to him. And God said Abraham would be blessed by God, but for the purpose that Abraham might be a blessing to others. He was to be God's servant in caring for other nations and peoples of the world. The prophet Isaiah, whose ministry began 740 years before Jesus lived, often quoted the Lord as calling the people of Israel "God's servant." In chapter 41, right before the chapter we're looking at this morning, we read in verses ...

2266. The Ash Account

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Charles M. Mills

... in God's graciously given faith. A time to face facts and our hypocrisy. A time to repent and seek to be more honest in our service to the Savior. A compass can be used to draw circles or a straight line. If on Ash Wednesday, we will look with care at our account, we will conclude: a. We have fallen short of our profession of faith by hypocrisy, self-delusion and pride. b. We have used people as things and things as people. c. The Ash Account of repentance and new life in Christ gives us hope as we examine ...

2267. A Ransom Paid

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... the world, to be enthralled by computer games and bingo, entranced by television rather than relationship, more devoted to shopping than to caring for the poor, electing politicians as long as they don't raise our taxes, and voting them out if they seem to ... to his willingness to suffer as we suffer, to die as we die. What more could God do to tell us we are loved, wanted, cared for, of ultimate value? What an amazing gesture this is, that God should come in human flesh and suffer so for us! "So what does ...

2268. You Can Be Like Children

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... were people. We were just little kids, and as such we were color-blind. Children almost always are unless somebody teaches them not to be. Maybe there is a lesson there for sophisticated grown-ups, a lesson about who is or who is not worthy of our kindness and care. Maybe children know better than anyone else that it's not the color of skin or the gender or the size of one's home or one's political affiliation or kind of car one drives that makes a person worthy and special. Children seem to understand that ...

2269. Unconditional Love

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... to save his neck; used a surrogate when his wife didn't conceive; at his wife's insistence, banished this hapless slave along with their son, in a desert place; and complained consistently about his lack of offspring, even though God repeated his promise as well as his care for Abraham numerous times. So it isn't that Abraham is an example of a perfect person, nor has he perfect trust in God. He is a person much like you and me -- failed and imperfect. Yet this is the man God decided to choose. This is the ...

2270. You Can Be Intelligent

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... they get the chance to do unto you," synonymous with his, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?" If we would make our lives wise, we need to determine the difference between truth and lie. That is only accomplished by listening carefully to him who said, "I am the way (and) the truth ...." 3 -- Wise folks understand the difference between that which is important and that which is insignificant. I first heard from my father the famous illustration about the storefront window. In the window, he ...

2271. The Lost And Found

John 10:1-21

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... tell me what a shepherd is liable to lose? Yes, shepherds lose sheep, because sometimes they wander off from the flock or get themselves stranded in places where they can't get out. Jesus told a story about a shepherd who had one hundred sheep. One got lost. The shepherd cared so much for that one sheep that he left the 99 who were safe and searched high and low for the lost one until he found it. Jesus used that story to tell us that God is like that when we get ourselves lost or stray away from God. He ...

2272. Week One Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... which if followed would lead one to a more full and complete life in God's presence. In the reading God tells Moses that it is in caring for others that we find God. God says we are not to defraud, to be just to the weak and the strong. We are to make ... heavens; they will not return until they too accomplish their purpose. It might seem today, in a world which appears on the surface to care little for God or God's message of peace, that the word of God is not accomplishing the purpose for which it was given ...

2273. Our Helper

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... new understanding of what it means to commit our lives to Jesus Christ. I had a close friend who was a Presbyterian minister for 12 years. He served a church for that time as pastor, and in many ways, did a very effective job of preaching and caring for the needs of the congregation. But, within his own heart, there was no peace. He constantly struggled with his doubts, and with the burdensome feeling that everything that happened in that church depended on him. After 12 years he was tired and weary, and so ...

2274. A Special Night

Exodus 12:1-30

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... . It was the Jewish Passover celebration. He had the lamb and the bitter herbs and the unleavened bread. DAUGHTER: But the Last Supper is something else. FATHER: It is, and it isn't. The Last Supper also shows us how much God loves us, and how he will always take care of us. And how Jesus will die for us, just like the lambs had to die so the people could be saved. And when the Angel of Death comes for everyone else, it will pass us by. SON: Christians won't die? FATHER: Our bodies will die, but we will ...

2275. Brothers

Luke 15:1-7

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... these last few years. NATHAN: I know. That's all my fault and I'm sorry. JOSHUA: Well, I'm glad to hear that. I thought you were too hardhearted to even notice how much he's suffered. NATHAN: I noticed. But you were right. I didn't care. But now I do care. I want to come home and make things right. JOSHUA: How do I know you're telling the truth? Why should I believe you? NATHAN: I've never lied to you, Joshua. Or to Dad. My sins were of a different sort. JOSHUA: No, I suppose you're ...

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