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2451. The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... the future, but now!" He said to her, "I who speak to you are he." Amazed that he had told her these things, and, as yet unable to compute them all, she ran to tell the people in the village. The people came to the well and invited Jesus to stay with them. He accepted the invitation. Then it was they believed because of his word. "It is no longer because of your words," they say to the woman, "that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world." Her ...

2452. The Gathering, The Scattering

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Various Authors

... party host climbs up to pool-side. To the gate he goes. He whispers in the ear of the gatekeeper. In ten seconds the pool is wide open. Everybody may come in. Among the original guests, there’s confusion. Some leave in a huff. Some scowl, but stay. Some welcome strangers to their midst. Before an hour is past, a grand time is enjoyed by all. For weary bodies, hearts and souls, the Lord Christ opens his refreshing swimming pool, his holy meal, his gracious future, to the world. He says, "Draw near ..." It ...

2453. A Clothes Line for Jesus

Galatians 1:7

Children's Sermon

... who do not, and they make the line very crooked. We want to look out for the crooked lines, and we want to be a part of the straight lines. That is the story of the shoes, a clothesline and our two poles. I hope you will remember it and stay a part of the straight line of God.

2454. Do You Have Roots?

Colossians 2:6-7

Children's Sermon

... them answer.) All of you belong to Jesus, and that's good. Do you know how you became a part of his life? (Let them answer.) That's right, Jesus died for our sins. But I think the thing that I want you to know about today is how we stay a part of his life everyday, and how we grow up with Jesus. First of all, we want to know how anything grows. Things grow up in different ways. I brought along with me something special that helps some things grow. How many of you know what we call them ...

2455. In Training

Titus 2:1-15

Children's Sermon

... had a chance they told the people who read their letters what a wonderful plan God had for making us Christians. There was a man by the name of Titus whom Paul loved very much, and who received a letter from Paul about Jesus. Paul told Titus that he should stay in training to be a Christian. Do you know how to train? (Let them answer.) Have you ever trained a dog? (Let them answer.) I brought some things that you might use to train a dog. I have a whistle and a leash. If I want to train my dog ...

2456. Shaped by the Future

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... involved in that child's pain. The congregation that I serve operates a shelter for homeless people every Friday night. Members of our Homeless Committee take turns spending the night in the shelter. Recently one of these volunteers told me, "Pastor, it's not difficult to stay awake, but it is hard to watch with engagement." He was saying that it is not easy to be involved in the pain of homeless people. It is one thing to watch from a distance, but it is another to be involved. As Christians, we have ...

2457. Responding to What We Hear and See

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... that weak woman who has been made strong, one can see a sign of the coming One. It happens all the time. Weakness becomes strength for the prisoner who receives a visit, for the homeless family who is given a night's lodging, for the student whose teacher stays after school to tutor without compensation, for the sick person who receives a brief but sincere visit from a good friend, for the hungry child who receives nourishment because of U.N.I.C.E.F., and for all of us when summits bring us one step nearer ...

2458. Away with the Stable

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

... the City of David and went directly to Jerusalem. In all probability, this small village had no need for an inn. If Mary and Joseph had come here for a census, it is not unlikely that they had relatives living in Bethlehem with whom they could have stayed. It is possible that the carpenter from Nazareth and his young wife arrived a few days before the birth of their son and found the kataluma, the "guest room", already occupied by other relatives and guests. Since there was no room in the guest room, they ...

2459. The Message of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

... stood against him. He was accused of "stirring up" the people or, as we would say, of being a rabble-rouser. He was often misunderstood. He was not followed by many, and he had very few people who supported him when the chips were down. Very few people stayed with him as he moved toward Golgotha. We know he was given a criminal's death, and he was mockingly called "the King of the Jews." It is the birthday of this kind of man that we are now celebrating. According to our standards of success, mine and ...

2460. The Bodily Glorification of God

John 1:29-34

Sermon

... physical fitness as it is about glorifying the body. Joggers pound the street. There is a plethora of work-out books. Why, you can even buy records and videos that tell you how to turn flab into firmness and fat into muscle. To be sure, it is important to stay in shape, but much of this craze is just to glorify the body. Four symbols illustrate our obsession with glorifying the body. The first symbol is heard in the phrase "Dress to win!" Learn how to dress so you can be a winner. The worst thing you could ...

2461. The Called Ones

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... did not manipulate her unexpected response. Instead, they talked for a long time about the meaning of her decision. Her parents were, understandably, furious with the new direction her life had taken. Like those fishermen, however, she heard the call and she stayed with it. And there have been others. People in the western tradition have long known about Francis of Assisi. He turned from a life of luxury to one of voluntary poverty with the intention of sharing his possessions with the poor. He became ...

2462. The Poor in Spirit

Matthew 5:1-12

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... them look at my mouth and help me decide what kind of work I needed to have done. They accepted me in a rather routine manner. They cleaned my teeth and took some x-rays of my mouth. The young hygienist who worked on me said, "Mr. Pennel, just stay here a little while." She brought in a student, and he got all excited. Then she brought in another student, and this student also got excited. Soon, I saw the students talking in another room. They had called the professor in and were discussing who would get to ...

2463. The Primacy of Human Relationships

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... all of the embarrassing notoriety: "Thanks." "I didn't talk to him for a day after the incident," says Matt, who has continued to play the school-boy circuit. "We did not ride home together after he pulled me out of the state tournament. He left right away, and I stayed and rode home with my coach. But, the next night at home, my dad called me in and we sat down together and talked about what had happened, why he did what he did. He explained that he did it for my own good. He said that he did not ...

2464. Getting Back To Work

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Brett Blair

... a trip to the Far East for the summer vacation before the start of his junior year. While there he met a guru who said to him, "Don't you see how you are poisoning your soul with this success oriented way of life? Your idea of happiness is to stay up all night studying for an exam so you can get a better grade than your best friend. Your idea of a good marriage is not to find the woman who will make you whole, but to win the girl that everyone else wants. That's not how people are ...

2465. Getting Back to Work

Luke 17:1-10

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Brett Blair

2466. A House for God

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Gary W. Houston

... : On Christ, the solid rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand. Here is verse three: His oath, His covenant, His blood, Support me in the whelming flood; When all around my soul gives way, He then is all my hope and stay. Aren’t those marvelous words? They’re buried deep down inside me. I heard them so many times as a youth that I can never forget them. They are part of my very structure. I remember when I was a guest preacher at a small country church in Miami ...

2467. It Takes More than Sun to Grow

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

... many meanings, not only one. First, let us take a different twist and look at the failure on the part of the sower. He threw some seeds on the wayside. He threw some on stony places. Some were tossed among the thorns and others on good ground. Now we must stay with these seeds for a moment. It is, I submit, not a seed’s fault if it does not grow properly on stony ground. It takes more than sun to grow. It takes good soil and moisture and time. See what I mean? The seed on the stony ground could ...

2468. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Romans 1:1-17, Matthew 1:18-25, Psalm 24:1-10

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CSS

... - from God himself. (Note: This is the sort of personal story I like to use in the sermons that I write and preach: A couple of decades ago, my son and I made a Saturday afternoon trip into Barcelona, Spain, from the Costa Brava, where we were staying for a few days. The most memorable sight for me was the Church of the Holy Family, planned and begun by Antonio Gaudi, the "father" of contemporary architecture. The church was begun in 1895, but it was not finished when we were there, nor is it completed ...

2469. Epiphany 3

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, Psalm 27:1-14, Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon Aid

... to do. (Note: Preachers would do well to read Loren Eiseley's autobiographical story, "One Night's Dying' in The Night Country, which contains an account of a firefly that got into his near-dark study one light, landed briefly on several different books, then stayed on one book, with his "light" flashing on and off as if to draw attention to it. When the firefly flew away, Eiseley got up, took the book, opened it and reports, "I came immediately upon these words from St. Paul: 'Beareth all things, believeth ...

2470. Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12, Psalm 1:1-6

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... , it works better than most of the ancient graduals did. The key verse is, "Their delight is in the law of the Lord," because it tells why the people of God are happy; they have heard and obeyed the Word of the Lord their God. Those who stay close to God, place their faith in him, and continually allow God to nurture their relationship with him through his Word and Spirit, are "like trees planted by streams of water." On the other hand, the psalm warns, the wicked are like "chaff which the wind blows ...

2471. Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon Aid

... our world, is not simply a matter of spiritual discipline to be engaged in for forty days; it is a life and death response to Jesus' command "to love one another as I have loved you." 4. The spiritual discipline of Lent teaches us that to stay close to God through almsgiving, prayer, and fasting requires that we also be close to our neighbors in the world. That is the way that Lenten discipline does us some good, teaching us what self-sacrifice, loving service, and Christian living are all about. Above all ...

2472. Lent 2

Genesis 12:1-8, Psalm 105:1-45, Matthew 17:1-13, John 3:1-21; 4:5-42, Romans 4:1-25

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... wondered what was going on, she dropped her water jar and ran back into town to tell everyone the good news about what had happened to her at the well. It turns out that there were lots of thirsty people in that city, so thirsty that they invited Jesus to stay with them - and he did, for two days, assuaging their thirst with himself and the water of life. The one who cried out, "I thirst," on the cross, always answers the cries of those who are dying of thirst. A sermon on the First Lesson, Genesis 12:1-8 ...

2473. Lent 5

Psalm 116:1-19, John 11:38-44, John 11:17-37, John 11:1-16, Romans 8:18-27, Romans 8:1-17, Ezekiel 37:1-14

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... dead. That's it. But Jesus made a return appearance in just three days! They couldn't get rid of Jesus as easily as they thought they could - nor can we, when we attempt to banish him by indifference or absolute hostility. Jesus lives forever. He is here to stay. 3. The resolution: The Pharisees didn't know it, but they were playing right into the hands of God when they decided that Jesus had to die and hatched the plot to accomplish his death. Caiaphas didn't realize that he was right when he said, "it is ...

2474. Easter Day

John 20:1-9, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalm 118:1-29, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon Aid

... three times that he must die and rise again on the third day, John says that "as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead." Completely missing from this part of the story (but it is in the next sequence in which Mary stays in the garden) is the angelic presence (Matthew and Mark have one angel, Luke tells of two at the tomb) and the Easter proclamation that they made to the women (Matthew's report has the angel of the Lord giving a tomb-side speech): Do not be afraid; for ...

2475. Pentecost 4

Psalm 100:1-5, Genesis 25:19-34, Exodus 19:1-25, Romans 5:1-11, Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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... 's womb, according to the story. Esau was the first-born; he was covered with red hair and grew up loving the outdoors and becoming a skillful hunter. Jacob was born "with his hand grasping his brother's heel;" he was quiet, a man who loved to stay at home - and definitely "mother's boy." Isaac preferred Esau over Jacob; he was his kind of child. But, while they were still young, Jacob obtained Esau's birthright from him in exchange for a bowl of lentil soup. "That was all Esau cared for his birthright ...

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