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1. Step Two - Hope

Mk 10:46-52 · 2 Cor 12:7-10 · Is 12:1-6

Sermon

John A. Terry

... Luther wrote that the study of music was second only to the study of theology. And when Geneva was besieged and every man was required to stand his turn at guard duty, John Calvin excused only one person from such duty. His name was Louis Bourgeois, the teacher of music to the children, who composed "Old Hundredth," our doxology tune. A Methodist bishop once said more people had been "sung" into his church than came in any other way. A national disaster and an understanding that the nation would only be ...

2. SURVIVAL IN THE RAT RACE

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... this way but once. You had better take some time to smell the flowers." How long has it been since you took time to do that? Certainly we see it in other places. "Look" magazine quotes the famous publisher, Armand de Malherbe, speaking of the bourgeois attitude toward educating children. He could have been speaking of us Americans: "Children are taught that you have to be first. Your friends can die. The schoolmaster can die. The school can burn down. But you have to be first, FIRST, FIRST! Parents are much ...

3. Molehills and Mountains

Matthew 6:25-34, Mark 8:31--9:1

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Louis H. Valbracht

... scale of values. After Christmas, Easter, and all the other holidays, our stores usually have sales. I saw a store one time in Chicago that was so exclusive and expensive that they were much too dignified to admit that they had anything so common and bourgeois as a sale. A small, neatly lettered card in the window announced that they had "Post-Season Price Adjustments." I thought about the fact that that’s what the coming of Christ, His ministry, death and resurrection always causes us to do. We have to ...

4. Academics, Fanatics, and Other Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... to kingdom men who fed people spiritually. They left an occupation to respond to a vocation -- a calling. Instead of luring fish into their nets, Jesus lured them into luring people to join in their cause. In place of the comfortable, settled, bourgeois life of Palestine, they were challenged to the uncertainties of campaigning for the Messianic Age, for the Kingdom of God Jesus was announcing. And ever since Jesus has been calling disciples to his cause, luring men and women away from mere occupation ...

5. Someone Greater Than a Prophet

Luke 1:26-38

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Maurice A. Fetty

... existentialist anti-hero." In Godspell he is almost the opposite; a flower-child, a man without guile. In Ernest Renan's classic book, The Life of Jesus, he is a nineteenth century idealized romantic who falls on bad days. Marriage and the bourgeois life in place of revolution constitute Jesus' last temptation according to Nikos Kazantzakis' novel and movie. Of course, Marxists of liberation theology like to see Jesus as the leader of the proletarian revolt toward a classless society. The images of Christ ...

6. How Shall We Prepare?

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... explained, "You are not going to have moral people until you have moral institutions. You will not have moral citizens until you have a moral government." She made it clear that Ms. Hoff-Sommers was wasting time and even doing harm by promoting bourgeois virtues and not awakening the social conscience of her students. At the end of the semester, that same colleague came into Ms. Hoff-Sommers' office carrying a stack of exams and looking very upset. "What's wrong?" Ms. Hoff-Sommers asked. Her colleague ...

7. Those Parentheses

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... -- into the fellowship of the body of Christ. Look at Peter's parentheses. Jesus is Lord of all. All brotherhood. All humanity. Newsman Eric Severeid in (his book) Not So Wild A Dream says: [if you can call a group a name such as] Bourgeois, bolshevist, capitalist, nigger, honky, hippie, pig, imperialist [and the like], the one so labeled may be reviled, imprisoned, tortured, killed or exiled because he is no longer a human being, but a symbol. He does not bleed when pricked; his heart does not cry ...

8. Have You Heard?

Matthew 4:12-23

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Mark Trotter

... After the crash he returned to France. He took a train from Marseilles to Paris. He wrote about the faces of the people on the train. "All I can see in these faces is the silent misery of wasted lives." He described a man on the train he called, "The Bourgeois of Toulouse." "Why didn't somebody shake this man early in his life before this clay hardened and get him to live the kind of life that he is capable of. And now that musician, that poet, that artist, that craftsman under this man is gone, and it will ...

9. Home Alone

Revelation 21:10, 22-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... spiritual oasis in the midst of the dangerous desert of secular culture. In "Family: Toward Androgyny," authors James Davison Hunter and Helen V. L. Stehline have correctly diagnosed this prescription as an attempt to perpetuate the 19th-century bourgeois family ideal. They cite several evangelical sourcebooks on the family as examples of well-intentioned attempts to advocate "Christian family" when they were actually endorsing a form of isolationist protectionism (see ch. 4 of Hunter's Evangelicalism: The ...

10. Easter Dreams

Luke 24:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... , Wir sind das Volk ("We are the People"), and created the movement that toppled the Berlin Wall. Why they hadn't felt it before, Pastor Fuehrer theorizes in a recent interview in the Christian Science Monitor, was because the church had been seduced by "the bourgeois image of Jesus as one who doesn't disturb, who is only passive," who is there only to make people happy. Through prayer and Bible study, they found a "Jesus that spoke directly to the people the truth" rather than a Jesus that diluted the ...

11. Doing Your Own Thing

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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King Duncan

... group of hippies remember them? living in the Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco decided that personal hygiene taking baths and showers and washing your hair, etc. was a middle class hang up they could do without. So, they quit indulging in these bourgeois activities. Baths and showers, while not actually banned, were discouraged. In the words of author Tom Wolfe, these hippies “sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and restraints of the past and start out from zero.” Before long, the ...

12. Discipleship: Backward or Forward to God

Luke 9:51-62

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Maurice A. Fetty

... the established rules of the game and then play the game profitably and well. It is only the venturesome lawyer who will leave a safe practice and run for political office or become involved in social reform. Better to lead the comfortable, successful bourgeois life than risk everything in a cause, no matter how noble, that may fail. The scribe or lawyer "went home again," back to old sacred realities and securities. But Jesus, learning by harsh experience and divine inspiration, knew that you could not go ...

13. Righteous Woman

Genesis 38:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . It will be preserved through the crafty, chutzpah of a gutsy woman named Tamar. If there's a moral here, a point of edification for all us good church-going people, it is not the one we wanted. Tamar has committed those sins which good bourgeois church people condemn--deception, illicit sex. Judah reacts, at first as the world reacts--indignant condemnation. Reminds you of King David and the prophet Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1-6). ''The man who did this ought to hang," says David. ''Thou art the man," says ...

14. They're Drunk

Acts 2:1-21

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Will Willimon

... , we continue to sin against Pentecost, continue to attempt to explain away the disruptive descent of the Spirit. And you know why. The Acts 2 threat that one Sunday we might all gather here in our bolted down pews, with our smug reasonableness, our bourgeois respectability, only to be grabbed by our collective collar, shaken up, thrown into confusion, intoxicated, is not a suggestion we welcome. Most of us come in here to be confirmed in what we think we already know; not to be dislodged, led by the ...

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