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2401. Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... there today that are not looking for more theories--they are looking for what John Wesley called the religion of the warmed heart. Jesus said: Nicodemus, you must be born again. You see friends, it is easy to get caught up in the form of religion and lose touch with the reality of God. We can get so caught up in doing church work, that we fail to be the church. Our intellectual comprehension of the creeds can take precedence over our living the creeds. We can learn about the Bible and fail to be shaped by ...

2402. Jesus, The Great Physician

Mark 6:30-44

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... have been in times of crisis or great need. Too few times, Lord, have we come before You just to thank You honestly for the wonderful blessings You have given us in the everyday events of our lives. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to see all the ways You touch our lives. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing" "In The Garden" "I Need Thee Every Hour"

2403. Lust

Mark 8:31--9:1, Mark 8:27-30

Drama

James F. Crowley

... is because of those magazines. SAM: What? RENA: It's true, isn't it? SAM: No, it is not true. RENA: You are in love with those airbrushed perfect bodies and you don't have Time for me any more. SAM: That's nonsense. RENA: Then why haven't you touched me in the past six months? SAM: You know the long hours I work. RENA: I know I found this in your pants pocket. (PRODUCING A BUSINESS CARD AND HANDING IT TO HIM) SAM: What's this? RENA: It's a business card from a massage parlor in Washington, D ...

2404. Healing on an Emotional Level

Mark 5:21-43

Illustration

Charles R. Leary

... a roomful of doctors. Dr. Siegel thinks all doctors should be required to attend healing services as a part of their training. They should not be allowed to prescribe medications or consider operations during those training sessions. He is convinced that doctors need to "learn that they can help by touching, praying, or simply sharing on an emotional level."

2405. Spring Fever

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... summer flower, how can we think of other than the benevolence of a loving God? All: Let us sing songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. Collect We make time to love life, O God, because your love of life is a constant presence that surrounds us. We touch the petal of a Cosmos blossom or notice the head of a sunflower as it follows the sun's course. We love our lifemates and our children with all our hearts. We enjoy the beautiful form of the human body and rejoice in the infinite variety of your creation ...

2406. The Advent Hope

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... art gallery in London hangs a familiar painting by Frederick Watts, titled "Hope." It presents a beautiful maiden seated upon a globe. She is blindfolded and in her hand she holds a harp, of which all the strings but one are broken. The blindfolded girl is touching the one string with her hand, and her head is bent toward it, earnestly waiting to catch the note of that one string. All the strings on which we play the melody of life are indeed destined to break - health, peace, security, finally life itself ...

2407. Christmas Every Day

John 1:1-18

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... replied, "Yes, mother, I know that, but when it thunders like that a little girl wants somebody near who has skin on." A word was not enough. Even a mother’s reassuring word was inadequate. The child needed a friendly human presence, a gentle human voice, the touch of a warm human hand. That is how the Baby of Bethlehem brings God to us. God has been a word, an awe-inspiring word or an encouraging and comforting word. But the word has represented a fuzzy idea, something or somebody far, far away. Now the ...

2408. Christ and Time

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... mystery of time and given various answers. Plato called time the moving image of eternity, something unreal, a shadow that reality casts as it moves along. Immanuel Kant thought that time is nothing objective, nothing that you can see or hear or smell or touch, not even visualize. It is only the way we think. Just as acid turns blue litmus paper red, so human thought turns everything temporal. We cannot think of anything that exists without presupposing that it exists at some time. Apart from our thought ...

2409. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away." Salt works by contact, and Christianity is a contact game. We are responsible for what happens when our lives touch the lives of others. Salt prevents rottenness. What are we doing to prevent the rottenness that surrounds us on all sides and corrupts especially the lives of the young and immature? We do well to remember that our Lord was never more serious than when he ...

2410. Easter People

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... the loss of her child said to her pastor, "I wake up in the night and I stretch out my arms seeking once more to embrace my dear child but I embrace only empty air." We must all at some time or another feel the anguished yearning for "the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still." We stretch out our arms groping for the fuller life, the higher reality, the perfect fellowship which death cannot destroy. If Christ had not conquered death, we would only grope in the dark and embrace ...

2411. The Priesthood of All Believers

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... ’s own kingly and priestly mission. God became real to the human race when he himself became human, when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Christianity still shows its true vitality and makes it strongest appeal when it assumes the human touch and is lived out by persons. Not some impersonal message or program or organization, but Christians themselves are the primary agency through which Christ works. The world is a field, he says, and "the good seed are the children of the Kingdom" (Matthew ...

2412. As We Remember - Memorial Day

1 Chronicles 11:10-25

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... as to be a Christian is to be a member of the church of Christ. To live as God intended us to live we must fulfill our obligations in each of these spheres. But what is the spirit in which we are to observe Memorial Day? The touching little story from the Old Testament, transcribed above, illustrates the right spirit. King David, weary and spent after a hard battle with his enemies the Philistines, takes refuge in a cave near his native town of Bethlehem. Spurred by memories of his boyhood but knowing that ...

2413. The Choice Is Always Ours

Ecclesiastes 9:1-12

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... ways of God will reappear to you. It was Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, who wrote back in 604 B.C. in a piece called "The Way of Life," who said: Eternity is his who goes straight round the circle, Foundation is his who can feel beyond touch, Harmony is his who can hear beyond sound, Pattern is his who can see beyond shape; Life is his who can tell beyond words, Fulfillment of the unfulfilled. B. Another encouraging fact for many is that even God does not always prevail, immediately, in the pursuits of ...

2414. The Shadow Ascending

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... feeding, and to challenge destructive ways of feeding. We are called to follow Christ into the thick of our human predicaments, alcoholic or otherwise. We follow sometimes through crucifixion until we find that rebirth into a new life where we are truly able to enjoy God by being realistically in touch with the beauty of his creation in ourselves and others and the world around us. Then we are no longer moved to deny but rather to offer our praise with thanksgiving.

2415. The Courage to Be Me

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... a common rope to reach a pinnacle together. Each needs the other, and each is bound to the other, even though it does not always appear to be so. Finally, let us consider the fear of failure. This is more than an intellectual matter. It is a nerve, touching one’s self-esteem. You and I have been taught from childhood to try to succeed at whatever we do. Although the theology is out of date, the idea is still abroad that if one will just try hard enough and think enough positive thoughts, we can succeed ...

2416. A Little Child Shall Lead Them

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... the courage and the insight to go on. It was chapter 35 which tells of a way of holiness which shall lead men through every difficulty to the place where the desert blossoms as the rose. There is a strange power in this old prophet and his words. He touches the heart. So few people, however, know how to read the Bible or religious books. They do not listen to these writings with the heart. There was no doubt that this verse had broken through the thinking level and had spoken to the very depth of the man ...

2417. Jerusalem, Emmaus and the Meaning of Life

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... is afraid of truth - "Yet since we are constantly being spoken to, since the word of God is addressed to us, summoning us daily, we can choose again and again in the dialogue of life to abandon the blindness we have chosen and be in touch with reality." Their journey from Jerusalem to Emmaus and back to Jerusalem is striking and moving in its universal symbolism. "Ought not the Christ to have suffered." "Ought not these men to have suffered?" Christ himself, his person, his life is so beautifully rich in ...

2418. JESUS: Liar, Lunatic, Legend, or Lord

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Brett Blair

... a legend? How do you know? Were you there when man walked on the moon or Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address? No you were not. How do you know then? You say someone told me. That is precisely right and someone told me that Jesus lived. There were eyewitnesses who touch him, saw him, heard him. Is his teachings and life’s story the work of disciples who wanted to make him more than he really was? Why then did they devote their lives to a literary ghost? No. He is not a liar, a lunatic, or a legend. He ...

2419. Be Careful How You Live

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... opportunities in being the author. As it is in life, so it is with God. In your Christian life you must be the author. You must be wise and make the most of every opportunity. Why? Paul tells us why and it may sound a little archaic and out of touch. He says we must make the most of each opportunity because the days are evil. Evil. That sounds a bit heavy handed doesn’t it? Most of us spend our days getting children to school, working at our jobs, preparing meals for the family, and doing our chores. What ...

2420. From Dead Works

Hebrews 9:11-28

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... : We worship the living Spirit of God. Collect Dear God, your Spirit infuses our lives with an energy that transforms imprudence into wisdom and changes doubt to courage for greeting life. Your Spirit keeps us on the course of integrity. Your Spirit keeps us in touch with the core of our being. Amen. Prayer of Confession We know about dead works, God. They waste our time, sap our energy, exhaust our soul, and keep us circling without growth. Fill our lives with the strength of your vitality so we might know ...

2421. Advent 3: Won't You Let Him Into Your Gift-Giving?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... : two hair ribbons, three small stones, a plastic dinosaur, a pencil stub, a tiny seashell, two animal crackers, a marble, a used lipstick, a small doll, two chocolate kisses, and thirteen pennies. Dad smiled as he examined Molly’s trinkets, he was touched. But then responsibilities called. He had to rush off to important matters. Quickly, he swept the desk clean into the trash basket, left over lunch, Molly’s junk and all. There wasn’t anything valuable there, nothing he really needed. However, that ...

2422. Wrinkled Wrappings

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... see God? They fasted daily, not once a year as in Lent or once a week. Through fasting they disciplined themselves that they might have a closer relationship with the heavenly Father. They were people of prayer, praying night and day. Prayer is being in touch with God, being aware of his constant presence, and reflecting upon God's will and nature. Prayer is more than a sentence prayer before meals or an "Our Father" at bedtime. Prayer is fellowship with God, with or without words. All of this is necessary ...

2423. The Long Lonliness

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , such as drunkenness or drugs or adulteries. Reveling and debauchery or the accumulation of riches and fame through ruthless greed will do little to help. But the Church will, for we are the community of faith and hope and love where God reaches out to touch his people. And poets will help, as will musicians and artists, authors and thinkers who speak to us personally as though it was God's word, person to person. And worship will help, and prayer and study and ethics and Communion. For communion is the ...

2424. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... and his intent to exalt them to wholeness and well-being. But high or low in the world, this Star of Bethlehem, this Jesus, has placed high and lofty ideals before us and above us to inspire us. Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring men on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny, said Carl Scharz, in an address in Faneuil Hall in Boston, 1859. To all those trapped in circumstance and ...

2425. When the Word Comes to the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

William G. Carter

... a high school education, give him or her a six-month trade school training, and provide a pastor who would be satisfactory to any discriminating American congregation. The curriculum would consist of four courses. Course 1: Creative Plagiarism. I would put you in touch with a wide range of excellent and inspirational talks, show you how to alter them just enough to obscure their origins, and get you a reputation for wit and wisdom. Course 2: Voice Control for Prayer and Counseling. We would develop your own ...

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