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2426. Honoring Parents

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 15:1-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you." Some have referred to the Fifth Commandment as the bridge commandment. You see, the first four commandments deal with our relationship with God. The remaining six concern our relationships with each other. The first commandment in that second part relates to family relationships, suggesting that unless people learn to live together in families, they will not be able to get along elsewhere. "Honor" means to esteem, to ...

2427. Is Someone Knocking?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... had at that late hour in Bethlehem. The late great preacher, Halford Luccock, had a favorite Christmas story. It was entitled "A Shepherd" and was written by Heyward Brown. The story tells of a Bethlehem shepherd named Amos who missed the birth of Christ. He remained with the flock to tend a frightened sheep giving birth to a lamb. When the other shepherds returned from Bethlehem, one of them asked Amos sarcastically, "Did some great voice from heaven tell you to stay here instead of going to see the Savior ...

2428. You Have Been Subpoenaed!

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... glad to hear that everything went well with your surgery. I want you to know that God was watching over you every minute and even though I know you question that, I also know that one day it will be revealed to you. My prayer is that you remain open and God will touch your life as he has mine. Once I was a disbeliever. When I could not fill my life with basketball, I would simply substitute sex, liquid drugs or material things to feed my internal shell-like appearance. I was never satisfied. I have finally ...

2429. Crossing Over

Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... The greatest teacher I ever had was that eminent Scots Presbyterian, James S. Stewart of Edinburgh. In one of his inspired sermons he declared, "Bring everything you have and are to your ministry--bring it without reserve. But when you have brought it, something else remains. Stand back, and see the salvation of God!" Dr. Stewart was saying that when God anoints what we have with the power of the Holy Spirit, that's when all heaven breaks loose! God continues to be a wonder-worker. He is always doing some ...

2430. A Haven For Troubled Hearts

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Brett Blair

... says, don’t have troubled hearts because I leave my peace with you. Not the peace of this world but “my peace.” - Then he says, don’t let your hearts be troubled because I am the vine and you are the branches. You will bear fruit as long as you remain in me. Make me the source. - Fourth, and this is wonderful, he says, I love you. Let me ask you: Have your heard your Lord say that to you? If you have not I want you to hear it this morning. - Fifth, he is frank with them, he tells them ...

2431. Night Fighters

Sermon

James Bjorge

... we cannot fully understand it. But we act according to the light available. We cultivate what John Keats called "negative capability." He describes this as "the capability of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact or reason, of remaining content with half-knowledge." We are becoming more accustomed to half-knowledge. The length of night we do not know; but we do know the dawn will come sometime. Well, the Christian takes the light that God sheds and moves toward ...

2432. Here Comes Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Bjorge

... we regard the Ten Commandments merely as ten good suggestions rather than ten commandments." Thus we have diluted God’s demands for man. Since we have not pointed up the absolutes but engaged in relatives, the following rendition of the law remains: Bad jokes are now sophisticated humor, Nudity is daring dress, Adultery is indiscretion, Perjury is quick thinking, Cheating is key-hole gossip, Drunkenness is feeling high, And failure is merely goofing off. No question about it ... we need some big Johns ...

2433. God Is a Giver

Sermon

James Bjorge

... us. So Christmas becomes more than Tiny Tim or a toy in a stocking, or the tinkle of bells, or steaming plum pudding. It is something about the universe. The greatest gift of all was wrapped up in a man: Emmanuel - God with us. But there remains one thing more. We must receive it. And we sometimes have problems at this point. You know how it is when you receive an unexpected gift from someone. You hadn’t planned on giving that person anything but all of a sudden you feel compelled to reciprocate ...

2434. A Gospel that Fills the Glove

Sermon

James Bjorge

... headlines of "good news" for the boy. Good news can only be defined subjectively as that which has vital significance to me, when it is related to some need or desire I might have. The puppy would indeed qualify as "good news." Consequently, some people can remain very cold and indifferent to the Christmas Gospel for they have not become consciously cognizant of their need for its gift. When the need factor is manifest, the Gospel account all of a sudden lights up and it is indeed "good news." But it is not ...

2435. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... of God or by his rationalizations. This in no way eradicates his guiltiness. I remember as a small boy my father cut down two large plum trees in our back yard. He cut them at ground level. From ground level they were gone ... no sight of them remained. However the following spring little plum shoots were breaking through the ground and pointing skyward all over the place. Guilt is like that. When God’s laws are broken and man attempts to just cover it up, he is foiled for guilt manifests itself in many ...

2436. Christmas Concern

Sermon

James Bjorge

... times when we cannot take away the suffering of another, but we can stand by. You may have no words to utter but there is a silent communication when you stand by. When a person is slipping into eternity and medical science has done all it can, there remains nothing more than standing by. But standing by in love is stronger medicine than you realize. To know that someone cares enough about you to stand by is potent therapy indeed. A pastor spent a long night vigil with the parents of a young boy who was ...

2437. Solomon and the Outline for Renewal

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Don Yocom

... ? If so, take six paces forward." These college men were assigned some dirty, menial task such as cleaning latrines. "Are you a high school graduate? If so, take four paces forward." These men were assigned some boring detail, such as KP duty. Then to the remaining recruits, the sergeant said, "Those of you that don’t know anything don’t have to do anything." It is easy to observe that the next time these soldiers were lined up, they were all quite humble AND IGNORANT! Don’t misunderstand me. I do ...

2438. Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

Characters: Mr. Horton, his teenage son, James, and the Teacher. They all enter at once and stand on different levels in a closed position [their backs to the audience]. They remain in these places throughout. They do not look at each other when talking, but rather at the audience. Hold for a few seconds before beginning. FATHER: [turning to audience, speaking irritably] Look at your hands! Those nails! You’ve been out in that workshop again fooling around with a motor ...

2439. Last Ditch Stand

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... bows his head into his hands. In a moment, his wife, Helen, enters. She comes and places an arm across his shoulder. HELEN: John, I didn’t hear you come in. Tired? How about some coffee? There’s a fresh pot in the kitchen. [after he remains silent ...] John? JOHN: [shakes head, voice tense] No! ... No, thank you. HELEN: [aware something is wrong, kneels down by him] Is something wrong? ... John? JOHN: Tom - Tom died. HELEN: Oh, John, I’m so sorry! JOHN: Right ... under my hands ... Tom and I - we were ...

2440. Hungry for Anything?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... tell you, just as any psychologist could tell you. You want a sense of significance. You want to feel important. You want to be loved. You want security. Don’t try to deceive yourselves that anything else is going to satisfy these basic hungers. Nothing will. They remain with you until the day you die. BUT THE POINT IS THAT NONE OF THEM - NONE OF THESE BASIC HUNGERS - CAN BE SATISFIED WITHOUT GOD! Are you hungry? Whether you know it or not, you are hungry for God. Our Lord gave us a very simple solution ...

2441. Perhaps Next Summer...

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... a simple fact that as we sit making plans for next summer that within this day or this hour, we might be lying on a hospital bed or on a slab in the mortuary. Oh, I know, it isn’t good taste to talk about such things, but the fact remains that next summer doesn’t always come. When is your moment before God? It’s right now! It always is! Don’t let it pass! Harvey S. Firestone, Jr. puts it this way: "Today is the first day of the rest of my life." Think of the profundity of that ...

2442. Freedom Can Be Frightening

Leviticus 25:8-55

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... relief in the midst of all of these demanding imperatives, there was provided a jubilee year, and on that jubilee year, slaves, who were citizens of Israel, were to be freed. Note, only those slaves who were citizens of Israel. Foreign slaves were still to remain slaves. Land, which had been taken away because of indebtedness, was to be returned to the original owner. And there were several other minor provisions by which the law of Leviticus would be relaxed a bit. It was about this jubilee year that these ...

2443. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... distance between two people or two objects. They are relational in their root meanings. Chatah, for instance, has the basic meaning of "to miss the mark." It can describe an arrow that is shot at a target and flies past its intended goal. The target remains, the arrow zips past, putting distance between itself and its proper meeting-point. The term avar, also translated "to sin" or "to transgress," means to wander over a set line, or to go beyond a prescribed limit. It depicts a person drifting, or walking ...

2444. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... threw into your cup - instead of two." Does the pattern sound familiar? The only part of the jingle that can be faulted are the last few lines. It is rare that any Mrs. B. can trace the rumor back to its source and clear it up! Too often the damage remains. A person’s whole reputation can be shaken by a word, a nod, a shrug, or a look. As Jonathon Swift observed, you can "convey a libel in a frown and wink a reputation down." And what is so tragic is that so often such lies are launched against innocent ...

2445. Whispering The Lyrics (revised)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Thomas Long

... media mavens moved in for interviews, pushing themselves to think of clever questions to ask a presidential candidate on the way out of a Southern Baptist Church -- "Did you like the sermon?" "Did you enjoy the choir this morning?" "Do you plan to remain a Baptist in Washington?" -- on and on the banal questions spewed. Suddenly, a reporter, probably in a stroke of luck, shouted out a question that genuinely mattered: "Mr. Carter, suppose when you are President, you get into a situation where the laws of ...

2446. BANNER MAKER

Song of Songs 6:1-13

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... of us when the sight of many flags flying in the sunlight brings a distinct catch of the breath, and an uplifting of the heart. There’s just no denying it - flags do have symbolic significance, whether, as many claim, that significance is outmoded, or whether it remains alive in our hearts. Still it is there. The area in which I live is populated in large part by officers stationed at a nearby air base, and the flag flies proudly from many homes. Many a bereaved mother or widow or child cherishes the flag ...

2447. CARPETMAKER

Judges 5:10; Ezekiel 27:24

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... from the fact that the carpetmaker of today has mechanical aids, his methods aren’t really so very different from the ancient methods. Of course, we’re grateful for the nylon and other man-make yarns that he can use to help us in maintaining our carpets, but the process remains the same - down through the ages!

2448. CHEESE MAKER

1 Samuel 17:18; 2 Samuel 17:29

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... to Kraft or one of the other big dairy products companies for a slogan! We find very few links any longer to ancient forebears, but the cheese maker of today is a direct descendant of these forebears. His methods may be more modern, and much more sanitary, but his products remain the same.

2449. GOLDSMITH

Nehemiah 3:8; Isaiah 46:6

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... it into a god; then they fall down and worship!" Nehemiah 3:8 - "Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmith, repaired ..." Gold! How we love it and dream about it, even though as currency it is no longer in use. But the glamour of it remains. A great many people still spend their lives searching for the "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!" We can share a vicarious thrill with Schliemann as he unearthed the gold burial mask that he felt belonged to Agamemmonn. We have shuddered at the stories in ...

2450. HARNESS MAKER

Jeremiah 46:4

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... helmets, polish your spears, put on your coats of mail!" Today the harness maker doesn’t have to worry about making his harnesses sturdy enough to take a rider into battle. (Although I confess complete ignorance as to the making of harnesses for the remaining cavalry units in our army!) But, in the far larger scene today, the harness maker is primarily involved in making his products for the farms and riding stables. Granted that most of our farmers are totally mechanized, still horses are to be found on ...

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