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2426. Beyond Our Sight, Within Our Hearing

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

William G. Carter

... . Most of us don’t have the words to make much sense of it. Madeleine L’Engle, the great Christian writer, says that’s one of the reasons why we tend to avoid this story. In her words: The Christian holiday which is easiest for us is Christmas, because it touches on what is familiar; and the story of the young man and woman who were turned away from the inn, and had a baby in a stable, surrounded by gentle animals, is one we have known always. I doubt if many two- or three-year-olds are told at their ...

2427. What Are Spiritual Gifts For?

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Harold Warlick

A most important discovery has been made about trees. Derl Keefer[1] states that scientists have found that when the roots of two trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition. An unknown fungus helps link roots of various trees, including dissimilar species. In this way a whole forest can be incorporated together. With certain trees having access to nutrients, other trees access to water, and still other trees access to sunlight, possessing ...

2428. Good News for Good Living

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... criteria as sole truth; angel worshipers who feel there is a vapor-like being animating everything in existence; thoroughly modern secularists; and those who accept but do not know how to follow Christ. We are Corinth and Corinth is us! Paul touches all the bases. Like us, he implies that he has had no earthly contact with Jesus. Paul calls the list of those who witnessed the resurrection and asserts that “some have died.” Obviously witnessing the resurrection doesn’t grant immediate immortality ...

2429. A Note to Fearful Hearts

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to have a prayer?” he intoned. She painfully turned her head to stare him full in the face. “Sure, go ahead,” she responded, “if it will make you feel better!” He failed to grasp the meaning of her words and plowed ahead, reciting the prayer, and touching all the bases — “In him we will be raised ... first fruits ... those who have fallen asleep....” Then, as always, he pivoted and hurried on to the next room. She knew he would be back again the next day. His ego needed it. But she would try ...

2430. When Life Gets Hard, Christian, Rebel!

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... brings into play a standard of values....2 Therefore the individual is not, in himself alone, the embodiment of values he wishes to defend. It needs all humanity, at least, to comprise them.3 Camus himself was not a Christian, but he is clearly in touch with what is involved in Christian rebelliousness. Christians are people who say, “No,” to the laws in life, to life’s apparent meaninglessness, and to the oppression we encounter. They do not rebel for the sake of their own well-being, but for the ...

2431. Living Free

Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... may not have been sufficiently sensitive to that insight. Too often you and I act like our favorite socio-political agenda is God’s one-and-only way, the way of realizing his Kingdom here on earth, and that anyone who disagrees with us is not in touch with the truth like we are. Haggai teaches us some humility. He and God teach us that we need to be open to our neighbors’ exercising their freedom along with ours. Part of what is entailed in exercising your freedom is letting your neighbors be free by ...

2432. True or False?

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... it. Get on with your life. Know anybody with that approach to religion? Mouth the words. Learn the code. Maintain the facade. Cast opinions and personal preferences in the garb of God’s will. Clutch at God like a good luck charm, something to touch superstitiously, childishly to keep bad things from happening. Pretend that outside the sanctuary God doesn’t exist. Make believe that what goes on during the week is your own business. Admit no connection between in here and out there. Just as long as you ...

2433. The ABC Gospel

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... a great man. He was a high favorite with his master. He was a winner: “The Lord had given victory to Aram.” He was a mighty warrior. Naaman was a leader in the sight of his people and his king. Moreover, he was a man with God’s touch on his life. Everybody knew that God had used Naaman to bring victory in battle. When we have said all these things about Naaman, however, we have also left something very important unsaid. Naaman’s life, blessed as it was, was not perfect. “The man ... suffered from ...

2434. While He May Be Found

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and desire for seeking God? We seek pleasure. We seek enjoyment and entertainment. We seek rest and relaxation. We seek money and power. We seek sex and satisfaction. We seek recognition and fame, but do we seek God? Do we take God for granted? Have we lost touch with the real needs that compel us on bended knees into God’s presence? The prophet is aware of the arrogance and disdain that the people have for God. They have basked in their fortunes and have lived the good life and have not sought God. They ...

2435. Deformed, Disfigured, and Despised: A Marred but Magnificent Messiah

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... . Being disfigured, he took on our unattractiveness, the horror of our disbelief. Being despised he took on our condition as outcasts and spiritual pariahs, as means of our relief. He was a marred but magnificent Messiah. We don’t want to see him, but we want to touch him. We don’t want to suffer with him but want him to be our suffering servant. We don’t want his physical looks but want his spiritual power. We don’t want his association but want to claim his authority. He was marred for our sins ...

2436. Twelve O'Clock Rock: When the Jailhouse is Rocked

Acts 16:16-40

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... jailer and are doused with buckets of cold water. 8:00: Still in the holding area, they are now taken to their inner cells and have their hands and feet fastened in the stocks. 9:00, 10:00, and 11:00: Paul and Silas lay motionless. Paul wakes up and touches Silas to see if he is still alive. Silas moves, groans, and open his eyes. Paul thanks God that Silas is still alive and tries to give him a cup of cold water to revive him. 11:15: The two men sit up and talk. They are sore from their ...

2437. The Child of Promise

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... in our hearts. One Christmas carol which captures that truth so poignantly is “Once In Royal David’s City,” sung with purity in the Service of Lessons and Carols each Christmas Eve in the King’s Chapel at Cambridge, England. The third stanza of that hymn is particularly touching: For he is our childhood’s pattern, Day by day like us he grew; He was little, weak and helpless. Tears and smiles like us he knew: And he feels for all our sadness, And he shares in all our gladness. In the Holy Child of ...

2438. Light from the Word

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... Lord with their faces to the ground.” These acts of worship would indicate more than contrition, but also adoration of God that was prompted by their humility and faith before him. The Feast Ezra himself must have been moved by the reaction of the people. He was touched by the fact that they were prompted to tears and that they did respond in an affirmative manner. In turn, Ezra announced to the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” By this Ezra indicated to the people ...

2439. The Fruit of One's Doing

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... in France as an impressionist painter closely associated with Degas. In her middle years and during the last decade of the nineteenth century, Cassatt featured principally mothers and children in her paintings. Having never married herself, she was deeply touched mainly by the bond between mothers and daughters. Her paintings reflect quite plainly the emotional and sensual feelings between mothers and daughters. The subject of children also reflects the commonly held notion of the day that children are ...

2440. The Fruit of the Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... of creative forces that would make the wilderness seem like a beautiful garden. The differences the people would see and feel would be testimony to the presence of God. We witness the differences in our own lives and the lives of others who have been touched by the deliverance God has effected for us by the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We view ourselves, the creation, and everything about us in a different light. We read history that is being made in a different way than people ...

2441. Keeping the Glow On

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... the mount. Like Jesus, the two companions who come to comfort Jesus and talk to him about his impending death and resurrection were experienced servants of God. Moses and Elijah had been through the fires of tribulation and trial, but they had also been touched by God’s glory. No one else would have been better prepared or equipped to offer encouragement to Jesus as Jesus readied himself for the ordeal of going to Jerusalem to die. All three persons, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus, had their meetings with God ...

2442. Not So Amazing Grace

John 6:25-59

Drama

Dave Marsh

... . You know, the blessing. Tom: Oh, yeah, right. The blessing. Jennifer: Go ahead. Tom: Me? Jennifer: Hey, I made it. The least you can do is pray over it. Tom: Um, ok. Sure. (He closes his eyes and in one quick motion, rocks his head forward, almost touching the table and let’s out a big grunt. His head comes back up and he begins immediately eating his sandwich.) Jennifer: (Jennifer looks at him appalled.) Tom: (Tom finally notices her and with a mouthful of food says…) What? Jennifer: What do you mean ...

2443. Worship Worries

Drama

Dave Marsh

... it. (starts to sway and snap fingers) Sure. Yeah. Sounds good. Like it. (sways more) Yeah, I like the words being projected on the screen. Nice font as well. I wonder what kind of font that is. Helvetica maybe. Maybe Arial. Good color. Dave: And the background. Nice touch. Like the background. Kinda like my trip to California. Oh, that reminds me. I have to tape the game today. Man, how in the world are they going to get Barry Bonds out. I mean, he’s just unstoppable. He’s going to crush the Angels and ...

2444. Spiritual Binoculars

John 16:5-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... look very close to us. We can use binoculars to watch a football game and see the players more clearly. We can use them to see a bird in a tree, or even in the sky, and they will make the bird look like he is close enough to touch. Binoculars make far away things look closer and easier to see. If I hold these binoculars to my eyes (look through binoculars), I can see members of our congregation. They look much closer through the binoculars. We know that binoculars are for our eyes. Wouldn't it be nice ...

2445. Stronger Than Death

Luke 7:11-17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... where a young man had just died. As they passed the funeral, Jesus saw the young man's mother, and he felt sorry for her because her son had died. She had been crying; Jesus walked up to her and told her not to cry. He reached down and touched the casket where her son lay. He said, ``Young man, I say to you, arise.'' What do you think happened? (Let them answer.) That's right. The boy who had been dead got up and started talking. The people cheered and started telling everyone about this wonderful miracle ...

2446. The Next 5 (A Drama about Love)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Drama

Dave Marsh

... said we can have all the faith and gifts in the world but if we don't have love for one another, then we are nothing. It was aimed at how we love each other in the church but the drama works well for marriages in general also. The drama touches on how we can show love for each other by the way we treat each other. Cast: Dave: The husband Beth: The wife Props: A remote 2 chairs (or couch) Tiny wadded up pieces of paper A small ball Graphics from the shows mentioned (to show as slides) (If available ...

2447. It’s the End of the World As We Know It (A Drama about Worry)

Drama

Dave Marsh

... though rolleth in the mud and feast upon the orangutan and upon the fruit bats?" And King Uzzah dids’t say "Yea verily, why are you amazed. You are a wicked people" and the people saidth back to him "You too King." And a heavenly host came down and touched the ground and it didst open up and the people were devoured by it." Tina: I don’t get it. Dennis: "You too King?"… Y2K! Tina: Let me see that. (takes the Bible). Wait a minute. There’s no book of Hezakiah. You wrote this in here. Dennis: (takes ...

2448. The Super Highway to Heaven (A drama about Evangelism)

Drama

Dave Marsh

... then it’s important that I meet a daily quota. Jesus said to go out into the highways and byways and I figured that I should concentrate all my efforts on the information super highway. Jesus would be impressed. Isabelle: Okay, I’m not going to even touch that one. Let me get this straight – Your building the church through evangelizing on the web? Dave: Yep. I mean, look here. I was talking with this person I found in this soap opera chatroom and see, I sent her this cool smiley face and a plus ...

2449. The Healing Of Simon's Mother-in-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

James W. Moore

... decided to try “unconditional love.” The elderly woman patient rocked all day in a rocking chair. So one day the nurse pulled up a rocking chair beside the lady and just rocked along with her and loved her. Occasionally, the nurse would reach over and gently touch and pat the hand of the elderly woman. After just a few days of this, the patient suddenly opened her eyes and turned and said to the nurse, “You’re so kind.” The next day she talked some more and incredibly two weeks later, the lady ...

2450. The Healing Power of the Resurrection

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... . He went in to pray. As he prayed for help, he became so filled with despair that he began to cry. The priest heard him sobbing and in compassion, took the young man to the rectory. They talked at length and the story came out. The priest was so touched and his heart went out to this young man. Now, it just so happened that the priest’s best friend was the best plastic surgeon in Australia. The priest arranged a meeting. When the plastic surgeon met the young man and heard his story, he, too, was moved ...

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