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2326. Jesus and the Women in His Life

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Thomas Blowers

... again at night. Some of these returned the following day. Others did not. Anyway, Jesus traveled about so much even if you wanted to come back a second day there was no guarantee that Jesus would still be in the same area. And maybe that's why people began to stay with him. Well, the point I'm trying to make is this: on any given day, in addition to the Twelve who were always with him there were also others. And I was one of those others. So too was a young woman named Mary Magdalene. You know, history has ...

2327. Epilogue: Some Early Witnesses to Christ

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... bottom of the sea. They can't bother you any longer." And the man was soon found clothed and in his right mind. But when the people of the village heard about it, they said, "Jesus, get out of town! We'd rather have pigs here than you." Jesus never stays where he is not wanted, and so, he left. But before he left, he told the man to go home and witness. Home is the hardest place in the world to witness. But not only did the man witness at home; he went to ten other towns as well. He ...

2328. Filled With God's Spirit

Acts 2:4

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... 't want to share itself with me? I can stand here and yell and scream, or I can say "pretty please," but if the measuring tape doesn't want to come out of its case I can't measure the distance. Of course, the tape isn't much good just staying in there all by itself. As a matter of fact, it is nothing but a big blob until it does share itself. Well, let's see how we can do this. You [choose a volunteer] mark this spot and you [choose another] mark this one. Fine. I'll stretch out ...

2329. Wash One Another's Feet

John 13:1-17

Illustration

Lee Griess

... could have spelled disaster. The driver is terrified, crying out that he is scared of dying. So, Jack crawls into the cab next to him and says, "Look, don't worry, I'm right here with you; I'm not going anywhere." And Jack was true to his word; he stayed with the man until he was safely removed from the wreckage. Later the truck driver told Jack, "You were an idiot; you know that the whole thing could have exploded, and we'd have both been burned up!" Jack told him that he felt that he just couldn't leave ...

2330. Love Isn't Love Till You Give It Away

John 21:15-25

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Brett Blair

... was signed Oscar Hammerstein who was that evening on his deathbed. The note was short. It simply said: “Dear Mary, A bell’s not a bell until you ring it. A song’s not a song until you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay. Love isn’t love till you give it away.” When the play was over the cast rushed her backstage and asked, “What happened? We’ve never seen you perform that way before?” Mary read to them Hammerstein’s note and said, “Tonight, I gave my love away.” I can ...

2331. Opening Minds

Luke 24:25

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Brett Blair

... of the man who refused to go to church. His wife prayed that one day he would attend but he insisted there was always to much to be done on their farm. After a lot of negotiating they reached an agreement. He would go if she would stay behind and get the work done. That afternoon, when he returned, she could hardly wait. She asked, "Did you go to Sunday service?" "Yes," he answered. "How was the service?" she queried. "Ummm," he answered. "How was the Pastor's sermon?" "Ummm," he responded again. "Did you ...

2332. The Power Of God

Philippians 4:13

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Brett Blair

... and swollen; she couldn't speak to anyone because of fatigue, but she continued to run because she prayed: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me...I can do all things." Then two parks and recreation trucks in Central Park came by and stayed with her to light the way. After 11 hours of struggle and over 27 miles, Linda crossed the finish line. People were crying -- even the TV crew was crying --and Linda was crying at the response and support that she had received from God and these people ...

2333. The Kind of Church to Become

Acts 2:1-13

Illustration

Johnny Dean

... and his hometown in Pennsylvania, on his first night there Campolo experienced some confusion in his sleep pattern. He woke up about 3 o’clock in the morning and couldn’t get back to sleep. So he got up, got dressed, and left the hotel where he was staying, searching for a place to get something to eat. Eventually he found a tiny coffee shop that was open. Here is his description of what happened there: "The fat guy behind the counter came over and asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted a cup ...

2334. The Role of the Father (Father's Day)

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992) Now, I don’t want to be Pollyannaish about this. Not every man is God’s gift to fatherhood. But looking across the landscape of our country it is high time we men who have stayed with our wives and been their for our children stand up for fatherhood and teach its importance. Firstly, the role of father is to connect with his God. Secondly, the role of the father is to connect with his family. III. And third, the role of ...

2335. A Glass Full of Worry

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Brett Blair

... for six minutes. If that thunderstorm produced one inch of rain over one square mile, that would be 17.4 million gallons of water weighing 143 million pounds (about 72,000 tons). A hurricane has about 250 million tons of water swirling in the storm. How does that much water stay up in the atmosphere? The key is to remember that the water is in the form of tiny drops, not gallon jugs. The rising motion in the cloud is able to keep these drops suspended in the atmosphere.

2336. People Get Ready!

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Brett Blair

... is no way for the servants of that master to know when he will return. It could be that very night. It could be the next. It could be three days before he returns home. Because weddings in Jewish culture were week long events, one never knew how long the stay. If the wine held out and the celebration was lively enough, he could be there all week. But the servants are not privy to the master’s plans. They are simply to be ready when he knocks on the door. On the surface, this is a routine story. Everyone ...

2337. A Change of Direction

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

... reported seeing a rather interesting hand-made sign alongside a muddy and deeply rutted road. The sign read, "Choose your rut; you'll be in it for the next sixteen miles." In some way, our human experience is like a deeply rutted road: we get into a rut and stay there. There is a common saying that "practice makes perfect." Of course it doesn't, but it does tend to do so, assuming that the practice is of the right kind. Some other kinds of practice can also tend to make imperfect. Most of us put on virtues ...

2338. Barefoot in the Palace

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... palace, they do not rest easy. They sense that the barefoot ones are coming to make their claim. In fact, or in anticipation, the present and future are signed by the bare feet that scurry through the palace corridors, or threaten to do so. I So we stay with this truth. The image of bare feet in the palace is a way of understanding our times. In so many places we see the oppressed and under-privileged who are asserting themselves. One thinks of the gallant Solidarity movement in Poland. This is what we find ...

2339. Museum or Mission?

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

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... a new building in a teeming inner-city neighborhood. The pastor who was with this congregation through all this upheaval said, "We had to decide whether we wanted to be in a museum or in mission." They couldn’t have it both ways. It meant either staying on their site, glorying in their past history and serving a few people, or giving up their past and gearing themselves to a significant ministry among the city’s people. They opted for mission status over museum status. Something of this same struggle is ...

2340. Lovers Never Ask, 'What's the Least I Can Do?'

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

... net result is that our own blood will curdle with hate and we’ll shut the door of God’s forgivenness to us. But if we do come through and forgive, it’s no big deal - we’re only opening the door so God may come into our hearts and stay there. It’s just our duty and we’re not grumbling, not as long as we’re in love with the Lord. — The duty to set a good example; — The duty to be forgiving; — And then also, the duty to have a positive outlook. I take that from these words ...

2341. The Freedom To Be Wrong

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

... are stacked against the farmer, how even prudent managers are losing their land. One of the signs of the pain is the tendency to withdraw from the world. Farmers who used to be regular at church and who enjoyed watching the high school basketball team now are staying home. We can understand why. They’re embarrassed. They’ve done their job well but they’re failing. Who wants to admit that? For them the communion of saints is not the place to fall flat on your face. Somehow we’ve allowed the church to ...

2342. To Be Somebody

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

... quick and come down." What for? Did Jesus also think it was silly for the superintendent of taxes in the top district of the country to be perching in a tree? If he’d said no more, you might assume that, but he went on to say, "For I must stay with you today." Never in the world could Zaccheus have summoned up the courage to have invited Jesus - so our Lord invites himself. This is the Gospel, that God comes to us. One of our hymns puts it this way: I sought the Lord and afterward I knew It was ...

2343. Is The Gospel Only For Women?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

... Word from the Cross, "Lord, don’t hold this sin against them." The hymn says: He prayed for them that did the wrong: Who follows in his train? Wouldn’t you call Stephen "manly"? And what about Paul? Would you and I have had what it takes to have stayed with him just one week? Listen to how he described his activities: Five times I have received at the hand of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and ...

2344. No Little Bit

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

... understand how you might feel about the offerings in our church. You might be saying to yourself, "My little bit doesn’t count and if they want me to give more, the best I could do is 10 cents a week. What good is that? So I’ll just stay at the same figure." Well, in our struggle to reduce the tension between the Northern and Southern halves of the globe, 10 cents will give two cups of dried milk to some undernourished child. Doesn’t that mean something? Never discount the value of your coin when you ...

2345. Christ the King A King Worth Having

John 12:12-19

Sermon

... t care for these fellows. In utter contrast, this Gospel for the Festival of Christ the King brings us "A King Worth Having." I In the first place, Jesus Christ is a king worth having because he has the courage to sacrifice himself. Normally a ruler stays behind the lines. We grant the wisdom of that for, if the leadership were shot down, the losses in the ranks would be still heavier. So those commanders who keep themselves back aren’t necessarily cowards. All the more reason to marvel at the disregard ...

2346. Christ the King The King On His Cross

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

... we want what he offers. Unless you’re hopelessly ill and suffering incredible pain, we may assume you don’t want paradise, at least not right now. That’s not necessarily wrong, because our Creator designed us to live; he gave us the urge to fight to stay alive. Our Lord has also commanded, "You shall not kill." That means he doesn’t want anyone to shorten our lives. He doesn’t want us to shorten our own lives either. Furthermore, we notice in the Gospel that Jesus fed the hungry and healed the ...

2347. Faith Bridges the Gap

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

... . Toward the end of the movie, when Jack was hospitalized with a high fever in Petrograd, Russia, it was rather obvious that his time had come. His wife, Louise, who had reached his side after a long and difficult - and illegal - journey, stayed by his side throughout his ordeal. He called out, deliriously, unintelligibly. But, suddenly, he regained consciousness; he looked alert and almost healthy again. The two of them talked - Jack coherently and animated - and then he asked her for a drink of water ...

2348. Tomb for Sale

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

George Bass

... t have a scratch on them. But the first car to come along faced a scene of utter hopelessness and desolation; nothing could be done for the other two young men - they were dead - so they attempted to comfort the others as best they could. All they could do was stay there until another car came by and the people in it were sent to get assistance. Not a day goes by in our country that such accidents do not happen, and there is "weeping and gnashing of teeth" by those who only can mourn. But this time it was ...

2349. Some Man

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

... process he lost Charlotte; she laid her eggs, entrusting them to Wilbur to take them back to their home barn, and then she died. "No one saw her die" - except Wilbur, who kept his promise and later saw the eggs hatch. Three of the little spiders stayed with him, asked for names, and inquired about their mother. Wilbur showed that he really was "some pig," and "terrific," as people remarked about him: he was faithful to his promise to Charlotte as she was dying. But you see, it was really Charlotte who was ...

2350. An Encounter With Two Old Friends

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

... -image, a total lack of self-esteem. Analysis might suggest that as a child he was controlled at home by guilt, a favorite mechanism of control that parents use. His older brother may have used the putdown to create the atmosphere of inferiority in which he lived and that stayed with him through the years. Perhaps this is the reason why he had sold out to the hated Romans and had become an agent of the enemy. Or was he suffering a depression? Or was his prayer a ruse to cover the bad name that he had gained ...

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