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2276. The Joy Of God

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents." "Note this joy of God," he continued. "I couldn't believe it. I always thought we need to get right with God. That's what I was trying to do at the Buddhist Temple. But the Bible talked about a ... who needs to save us. And when God saves us, when God finds us, God is filled with joy!" 'What a strange God this is!' I thought to myself. God is overjoyed with finding just one person. I found this new. I had never heard of such a thing. It meant that ...

2277. The End

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... 300,000 and leveled two cities. The few people that made it out of the region said that there were not only earthquakes but there was a strange blue fire that came out of the sky. THE PRIME MINISTER: Blue fire. Could it be missiles? HASSAN: I thought missiles were a possibility but there were some eyewitnesses who escaped, and one old man who had been in the army said it wasn't a missile or bomb -- just blue fire. THE PRIME MINISTER: Blue fire. HASSAN: From the sky. He said it poured down like melting ...

2278. Joseph's Friend

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... and tell him to go away and not ask so many questions. I never did. I tried to answer all his questions. I sometimes thought that I would not be able to answer all his questions, but I just answered them as best and honestly as I could. He never ... . He wouldn't take time from his daily tasks, but would get up early and spend time alone with God, his father. Oh, you say, I thought you were his father. No, not really. I could only claim to be his stepfather. That was honor enough, let me tell you. Just to know ...

2279. Jesus? Where?

Luke 4:14-30

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... is getting embarrassing. FRANK: Okay, okay. (TO PERSON OLLIE POINTED TO) Sorry. Ollie, listen. You won't understand this, but people don't like it too much when you go up to them and point your finger in their face. OLLIE: Oh, that's all right, Frank. I just thought it might be Jesus. JILL: Ollie, will you stop it? Jesus isn't here, all right? Now just shut up! FRANK: You didn't have to be so rough with him. JILL: Well, you weren't doing anything. FRANK: It's a little difficult to explain. OLLIE: Frank, I ...

2280. Waltzing With Coyotes

Luke 6:27-36

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... jist see bouten that. (GRABS HIS NECK AND BEGINS TO WRING IT) BART: What're ye adoin'? WILLIE: I'm achoking yar scrawny nick 'til yar haid pops plumb off. BART: Oh, wahl, tarnation. That's whet ye were adoin'. I should aknowed it. I thought I felt a li'l somthin' on ma nick. But I thought it were a flea. WILLIE: A li'l somthin'! Ya most nearly fainted dead away. Why, ya haint looked that sickly since ya found that skunk in yar long johns. BART: By gum, I see it were you on ma nick. I was right ...

2281. Noah

Luke 12:22-34

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... more. Verse: God said to Noah, "This is my plan. This is what I want you to do. When you build the ark you better put in some stalls. We're gonna have a floating zoo." Then Noah went across the land Gathering animals, two of each kind. His neighbors thought after all of this He had really lost his mind. SHEM: (ENTERS. TURNS OFF RADIO) Dad, Dad! NOAH: What is it, Shem? SHEM: Have you heard the radio? It's predicting rain. NOAH: Yes, of course. SHEM: What is rain? NOAH: It's water that comes down. Don't ask ...

2282. Super Christian IV

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... fighting a never-ending battle \nfor peace, justice, and the Christian way. \nWIFE: You'd better take out the garbage or you'll be fighting \nthe never-ending battle of the ants and roaches. \nSUPER CHRISTIAN: Look, dear, I worked hard today, you know? I \njust thought I'd come home, prop my feet up, and watch my \nfavorite Christian T.V. show. \nWIFE: Oh, did you? I'm sorry. Why not watch Super Christian \nfight the garbage bag. TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE! \nSUPER CHRISTIAN: Will you stop with that "take out the ...

2283. Beware Of Your Piety

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

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... numbers of enemies, the pain of that hellish frustration will be unbearable. To lay treasures in heaven is to believe and trust that the God who created heaven and earth fashioned a life for eternity that was spoiled and warped by a humanity that thought it could be god-like and content forever by worshipping the things of the creation. However, God was willing to redeem the creatures by restoring to them their innocence by making it possible for them to trust the Creator again rather than the creature ...

2284. Which Way To Jesus?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... was that God had revealed his glory in the creation of the first Adam. That had been spoiled by sin. Now God would glorify it again and restore innocency to the world through our Lord Jesus. The people did not know what they heard. Some thought it was thunder. Others thought an angel spoke to him. Jesus said that the voice had come for the sake of the people. Jesus already knew the glory of the Father. Now, however, through the Lord Jesus the people would be glorified. In what was happening, the climax of ...

2285. Easter Jogging

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... on when she suspects that it is a friendly person who speaks to her, it had to be the gardener who had moved Jesus for some reason. If it was not the enemy, it was some friend who had moved Jesus for a good reason. Death still controlled the thoughts of the disciples this first Easter morn. The empty tomb is not proof for them that Jesus is risen. So entrenched were they in their grief, so locked were they in the grip of their mourning, that they could not even guess that Jesus might possibly be risen from ...

2286. The Parables About Response

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... family was poor. Some of his brothers got in trouble with the law. Charlie passed the confirmation tests, but just barely. He got the memory work, but only with a lot of extra time I gave him. After he was confirmed and I moved on to another church, I thought very little about Charlie until I got a letter from him about twenty years after I taught the class in which he was a student. "You probably don't remember me," Charlie wrote, "but I recently read one of your books and I decided to write this letter. I ...

2287. When The Odds Are Against Us

1 Samuel 1:1-20

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... for the staid worship to which the priest Eli was accustomed in the temple. Maybe she became so filled with God's spirit that she shook her body too much for Eli. Maybe Eli thought she was praying so long that the service might go beyond one hour! Maybe she was not following the prescribed ritual! Whatever the reason, Eli the priest thought that she was drunk with wine and chastised her. He said to her, "How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine!" (v. 14). In other words he ...

2288. No Box Seats In The Kingdom

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

William G. Carter

... the throne as King of kings and Lord of lords, we want to sit at your right and at your left." Well, it was a ridiculous request ... and when the other ten disciples heard about it, they got angry with James and John. They were upset, not because they thought it was the wrong thing to ask for, but because James and John asked for it first. Those two lowly fishermen wanted two box seats in the Kingdom of God, two chairs of honor for that day when Jesus will finally shine in the fullness of his glory. Today ...

2289. The Perisitent Noise Of Solemn Assemblies

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , it seems to me, that in Jesus they have seen the truth about the nature of man and the nature of God. It is not that they believe that by looking at Jesus one enters into a static and suspended state of truth. Not that. For Jesus and his disciples thought not of God or Truth in that way. God, for them, was truth and truth was God. But more than that, God was active truth, not static truth. He was not just being, sitting there in his divine essence. He was not just noun, but verb; not just meditation, but ...

2290. Prepare The Way

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... widows, orphans, single parents, aliens and strangers. It was not that the Israelites did not believe in God. They certainly did. If Gallup had taken a poll, it would have shown that 80 percent of the people believed in God, just as today. They just thought God was irrelevant and had nothing to do with this world. Of course, the Israelites gave lip service to God. God was convenient for leaders, to bless their wars. God was an important prop for their personal life: circumcisions, weddings, funerals. Their ...

2291. New Name, New Status

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Tony Everett

... and could not get a response, she called the police. When the police arrived, they discovered Mrs. Moryn on her knees. Her feet and ankles were frozen to the floor, literally encased in a one-inch thick layer of ice. At first, the police on the scene thought that she was dead. However, when a policewoman placed her hand on Mrs. Moryn's shoulder, Mrs. Moryn shivered and began a loud and repeated chant in Polish. An interpreter said that it was a prayer: "O God, help me." Mrs. Moryn was taken to a hospital ...

2292. Seeing With New Eyes

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Tony Everett

John Newton was the captain of a ship carrying captured men and women from Africa to become slaves in America during the mid-eighteenth century. He gave little thought to the enormous suffering experienced by his human cargo as they were torn from home and families and herded below decks of his ship. He gave little thought to the magnitude of the sin against God and humanity in which he was a willing participant. Until that day. As he watched his captive passengers share their meager food supplies and ...

2293. The Spirit Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and belief. Although the believers were from many nations with different tongues, the Holy Spirit united them into one body of believers by forging a common language of faith and belief. With so much fire, power, and enthusiasm did the people speak that observers thought they were drunk on wine. The tongues of fire rested over each of them as they spoke in their various languages. Fire represents the Holy Spirit and purification. Now the power of Pentecost was realized not only in the fact that people from ...

2294. How Long Will You Limp? (Because God Is Tired Of The Bull)

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... to church and become a faithful Christian. His prayers amounted to appeasing and bribing God. The man never set foot inside a church after his convalescence. While in the hospital he thought if he appeased God, God would let him walk again. Fortunately for him, God blessed him despite his insincerity. He went back to his old ways without the thought of ever pleasing God. Appeasing God is all form and no substance. Pleasing God is both form and substance, doing what is righteous and good in God's eyes. God ...

2295. A Double Dose

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... that what we are doing is pleasing in God's eyes. There is nothing wrong with a double dosage. Sometimes we need the second touch or the second hug. Our hearts rest in quiet assurance that there is a higher power anointing our steps, directing our thoughts and sanctioning our actions on behalf of the Kingdom. Sometimes our windows, so filled with the debris and fog of both outside and inside concerns, need to be wiped more than once for us to see clearly. Elisha needed the assurance that his commission was ...

2296. Catching Men

Luke 5:1-11

Illustration

John R. Steward

... we do not see this taking place in our churches. A few years ago, Dr. Win Arn did a survey of 1,000 congregations. The answers that he received might help us better understand the problem. He asked both the members and pastors of these churches what they thought the purpose of their church really was. Dr. Arn reports that 89 percent of the people in those churches said that the purpose of their church was to take care of the needs of the members. The remaining eleven percent believed that the purpose of the ...

2297. In a Dark Cave

Luke 14:33

Illustration

John R. Steward

... it was evident that there was an opening in the wall of the cave at ground level. The hole in the wall was the beginning of a tunnel that traveled for 200 feet and led to freedom. The captured man had so focused on the opening above that he never thought that there could be another way out of the cave. The opening was right next to the mound that he had been building. The trouble was that the opening on the ground level was in the darkness and did not seem possible to him. Too often people reject Jesus as ...

2298. Giving Meaningful Thanks

Luke 17:11-19

Illustration

John R. Steward

... but that is where it ends. They rarely direct their thankfulness to God. One year my daughter's school had a Thanksgiving day program for the parents. I was so saddened that during the program all they could sing about was "Tom Turkey." You would have thought that it was a poultry holiday. Not only is it difficult for us to give thanks, but it seems that we can not graciously receive thanks. If we listen carefully to various conversations we will notice that sometimes someone will say, "Thank you," only to ...

2299. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... Second Coming. That did not seem to console him! A short time later, the hand fell on the shoulder again. There stood John with a chagrined look on his face. He had reached into one of his trouser pockets and pulled out a crumpled-up wad of papers. He thought they were scrap to be discarded. It was the two tickets he had absentmindedly jammed into his pocket. He was relieved not to have to stay in Israel! 4. On Our Guard and Alert - for What? The Toledo Blade (24 September 1994, p. 11) reported a study by ...

2300. Proper 12

Psalm 85:1-13, Colossians 2:6-23, Hosea 1:1-2:1, Luke 11:1-13

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... for the extensive agriculture machinery required. The heavy machinery compacted the soil and the land did not get the needed water. Instead of Iran exporting food, as it had done previously, it now had to import as much as a third of its agricultural products. What was thought to be an egg proved to be a scorpion for many people in the land. 4. Answered Prayer. A. A young man was assigned a certain job by a church agency. At one point he applied for transfer to another assignment under the church agency. He ...

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