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2301. When God Is At Work

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... have to understand that, basically, I'm a dead man. I don't have to observe any sort of social convention; and as a result, I can break all the rules, say what I want. But one look at this Nobel Prize winner, this woman so many people view as a living saint, and I was speechless." Michael said an incredible vitality and warmth came from her wizened, piercing eyes. She smiled at him, blessed a religious medal, and put it in his hands. This murderer who wouldn't have walked voluntarily down the hall to see ...

2302. A Dreadful Declaration

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George Bass

... usher threatened to order us out of the theatre." He adds, "On the face of it, that is the kind of emotional reaction to this scene one would expect - pity, sobbing pity for Jesus, the innocent Victim, helplessly nailed to a cross, his body displayed in full view of every profane eye, a hideous burlesque ... and the cross on which he hung only the Supreme unveiling of human injustice."8 But, of course, God was there and, indeed, there was more to it than that which meets the eye and assaults the hearts and ...

2303. Report of a Secret Meeting

John 3:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... released from the condemnation of sin and become the children of God again. Jesus’ death was never meant to be seen as some sort of a semi-private execution that was to take place within the confines of a prison or a death chamber isolated from public view. A recent headline read: "He bled to death behind unlocked gate."18 It introduced the story of a man who bled to death after nearly severing his arm on a broken window in an apparent attempt to break into and rob a commercial building. The man evidently ...

2304. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... M. Nixon at the time of the Watergate scandal, tells his story. Colson, often quoted as once having said that he would gladly walk over his grandmother to assure Mr. Nixon’s re-election, said that his growing faith turned his political and religious views topsy-turvy. By reading C. S. Lewis’ "Mere Christianity," Colson came to a knowledge of his errors and was "born again" with a new life committed to serving others in Christ. Colson will use proceeds from speaking engagements and his book to support a ...

2305. The Technicolor Sign

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Larry Powell

... are actually created by refracted sunlight reflecting upon rain drops. Realists, therefore, will hastily challenge the proposition that rainbows are of the slightest theological significance. Immediately, we are driven to the matter of the perspective by which a thing is viewed. A religious-minded couple, whose lives are nurtured and sustained by the Christian faith, will look lovingly upon a newborn baby and profess, "It is God’s gift to us." Conversely, another couple to whom the spiritual life is ...

2306. In Quest of Fire

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Sermon

Larry Powell

... concluded by requesting the congregation to file past the open coffin. Slowly, they shuffled past the coffin, their faces assuming disconcerting expressions as each peered inside. The coffin was empty, save for a mirror. As each person peered into the coffin to view the deceased, each looked upon their own face. Some coals refuse to be fanned. Such was the picture portrayed by the chronicler: The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his ...

2307. Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... would be shed once and for all. God would enter into a New Covenant, of love not Law, instituted by the sacrifice of his own son. It would be forever binding and blood need never be shed again. It is as if Jesus was lifting the cup in full view of his disciples to say, with a foreboding sense of finality; "Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you." The prophets had said, "Behold the days will come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with ...

2308. We May Have to Change Our Name

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... of righteousness and praise as belonging to totally different scripts. One script defines the church as involved in the world, concerned about justice, "impacting" all sorts of needy causes. Yet for those engaged in these missions, worship often is viewed as a distraction. It seems irrelevant to what is important. Unfortunately, without the refreshment of praise-filled worship, this plot usually leads to a collection of worn-out, disillusioned saints. Like an army never rotated off the front lines, the ...

2309. Paul of Tarsus

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... a minute. ANTAGONIST: Sure, Paul could take a chance on getting thrown in prison. As far as we know, he wasn’t even married. I doubt he had a mortgage to pay, and besides, he probably really did believe the world was ending. Heavens, with a point of view like that, of course he’d take a lot of chances - and end up risking his life. But what about us ordinary Christians who have families to support? PROTAGONIST: I wonder whether any family folk were ever thrown in prison in Paul’s day? I’ll bet there ...

2310. Francis of Assisi

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... of battle, leaving the victory to be won by his fellow townsmen. In the battle with his own father, Francis dramatized the point that he was casting off easy wealth when he presented himself to the city square outside the bishop’s residence. In full view of townspeople, he stripped off all his clothing in what friends of his described as a "symbolic return to the nakedness with which God first created him." There has been no response either from the bishop or the mayor. Francis’ father, on the other ...

2311. Luther of Wittenberg

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... , angry destroyer. Wasn’t that the storm that drove him to join the monastery at Erfurt? PROTAGONIST: Yes. The lightning frightened him half to death. That’s why he vowed to Saint Anne that he’d become a monk. But I doubt the lightning gave him an angry view of God. He probably got that from his father. ANTAGONIST: You mean, old "No-you-didn’t-do-it-good-enough-for-me" Hans Luther? PROTAGONIST: Sure. A lot of us think God is like our parents - which ought to be a warning to us parents. Our kids ...

2312. Childs of Center Point

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... ? BILL CHILDS: Well, maybe so. But you don’t seem to have gotten the point. And if my own wife didn’t, I don’t suppose anybody else did either. EVIE CHILDS: Oh, I got the point all right. But Jesus and Paul are one thing. Pastor Carlson is viewed by most people in our congregation as having a bit less authority than either of them. BILL CHILDS: Well, it’s a lousy shame, let me tell you. What’s a pastor supposed to do when a soul-shaking issue like this comes along? Sit tight and say nothing ...

2313. Should Christians Always Oppose War?

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... THE PACIFIST POSITION HAS ALWAYS BEEN A RESPECTED MINORITY POSITION AMONG CHRISTIANS. A classic pacifist is one who opposes and will not participate in any violence. Many Christians have been pacifists over the last 2000 years, but the majority of Christians have not held that view. It may surprise you to know that Jesus was not a pacifist, at least in the classic sense. If you had asked the moneychangers in the Temple if Jesus was a pacifist, they would have replied, "Are you kidding? He drove us out with ...

2314. Why Must We Carry A Cross?

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... time, is about training, trying, suffering, and even dying (adapted from James Emery White, Rethinking the Church, Baker, 1997, p. 55-57). Peter took Jesus aside and rebuked him. Why? Peter believes the kingdom of God can be obtained instantly by force. Peter has a worldly view of the Kingdom and Jesus is speaking about a heavenly kingdom. For a moment I would like you to listen to this story with new ears and see Jesus through the eyes of Peter and the rest of the disciples. Get rid of all your notions ...

2315. Heaven on Earth

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Richard Patt

... d like to admit. We draw conclusions about others on the basis of outward appearance. We neglect to take into consideration important information about people before forming an opinion about them. We allow our stereotypes and prejudices to overrule an openminded view towards certain individuals and groups of people. That’s what happened in the Bible story here today. These Jewish religious leaders had a hard time coping with less-than-formal expressions of their traditional faith. Jesus had been a rabbi ...

2316. Give Me Jesus!

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Richard Patt

... latest fads of clothing and drugs and four-wheel transportation. And sometimes, when we’re finished with all of our experimentation and we feel as though we’ve been going in circles because we’ve come full circle again - then this humble Shepherd catches our view once more, and with exhausted voice we are ready quietly to resign ourselves: "You can have all the rest. Give me Jesus!" Oh yes, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life." Christ has been through it all himself ...

2317. What’s Happened To My Dear Old Church?

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Richard Patt

... as assisting the ministers in giving the bread and wine during Communion. It’s obvious that some folks greet such changes only with the refrain, "My church, my church, my dear old church: what’s happened to my dear old church?" But if we would view the changes occurring in worship these days with perceptive and trusting minds, we might discover some method to this "madness," some salutary reasons for the recasting of what we do here on Sundays. The common worthy theme of most of these changes has to do ...

2318. Worthwhile Arguments

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Richard Patt

... talk to me about it?" They say that two things you should never argue about are politics and religion. Yet most politicians I know feel a certain loneliness in their efforts because rarely do their constituents talk with them about their feelings and views on urgent and worthwhile issues. In our staff meetings here at church, we frequently discuss how difficult it is for us to know what’s important and meaningful for our people, because their expressions and feelings are so rarely shared with us. It’s ...

2319. Job - A Probe Into the Shadow World of Despair

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

... words out of my own faith experience and the experience of others. I believe that God is true God and does not will evil to teach lessons, and that God weeps with us when that divine intention for life together in love and healthful, wholeness is distorted. Viewing life through the lens of the Christ, it is my belief that God identifies with the victims of life; and more, God wills to work through us to serve them. Love can always be born into the most negative, but that does not make the negative good ...

2320. Divine Alka-Seltzer

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

... . We beseech God to keep us from the horrors and suffering of life. We look to God as a sort of universal pain pill who eliminates or, at the least, protects us from all trouble. No one wants to suffer. To realize that, all you have to do is to view our television advertisements. Whatever ache or pain we have, some company will try to solve it for us. And in our faith, we can seek to spell relief not R-O-L-A-I-D-S, but G-O-D, as we ask God to lift every burden from the ...

2321. Scandal!

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

... never anticipated. Scandal, a respectable, redoubtable term for the Christian? Well, says this sermon, "It had better be!" Perhaps the pugency of the Christic enterprise could be recovered if scandal, as this sermon sees it (not to mention the Good Book’s point of view), were more genuinely at the center of things. The halls of the United States Senate were cheerless this past week. A Senator, a man convicted of taking a bribe in the Abscam case, was cajoling his fellow Senators to let him keep his seat ...

2322. Go ... Be the Church ... Do the Gospel

Sermon

... , and a knowledge and sensitivity of worship - always with the hearers in mind - this sermon forges a victory for the hearers. The sermon focuses the hearers where the focus is to be - on the Lord of the Church and the response of the Church in view of.... The sermon suggests the aisle of the church building as symbolic in its power to illuminate accurately the life of the church. This symbol of the aisle gives the sermon a growing strength that consequently touches also those who are not an immediate part ...

2323. A Christian's Duty in Time of War

Nehemiah 4:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... be a no-war zone. God gave us through Isaiah a vision of a time when nations “will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord.” (Is. 11:9) But the Bible gives us a somber view of what to expect here on earth. Jesus predicted that there would be “wars and rumors of wars” (Matthew 24:6) until the end of our history. War is a tragic fact of life in this sinful world. THOUGH GOD PREFERS PEACE, HE SOMETIMES ORDERS HIS PEOPLE INTO WAR. Here ...

2324. When A Grain Of Wheat Falls

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Brett Blair

... there because they know this is Israel’s most important event and there is no more reverent way to worship God in this season than at the Temple, on Mt. Zion in the Holy City. But now they have learned that Jesus has just arrived. They know he is viewed by many to be the Messiah, the new king of Israel. It is no surprise then that they press upon the disciples a request to speak with Jesus. Some scholars have suggested that these gentiles are not converts but plants by the Roman government to spy on Jesus ...

2325. When The Cheering Stopped

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... on this morning. Why did the cheering stop? I One reason why the cheering stopped is that Jesus began to talk more and more about commitment. During the last week of Jesus life a very interesting scene occurred, and even more significantly, it occurred in full view of the people. A rich young ruler came enthusiastically running to Jesus. You are all familiar with the dialogue that took place. Jesus says: Go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor and then come follow me. The masses were stunned ...

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