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Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... federal, state and local authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the broadcast stations in your area.” It’s been ten years since the Emergency Broadcast System broadcast its last alert. Recently it has been supplanted by the Emergency Alert System, but for many years the EBS stood ready to warn us in case the Soviet Union launched a nuclear attack. Today, such concerns ...

2. The Sin of Judging

Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... at that point no person can stand up and say, "I have no sin!" A religious radio broadcast minister, whom I have listened to from time to time over the years, changed the format of his program a while back in an effort to attract those who ... Cruelly and inaccurately, he was being accused of "no longer preaching the Gospel." There was also the time when this religious radio broadcaster, in one of his newsletters, published a picture of his wife wearing earrings. That brought a storm of protest from some of ...

3. Who Owns the Cloud: Google or God?

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... many years ago. Most of you know the one I’m talking about even though you are probably not old enough to have listened to it. In 1938 Orson Welles broadcast a radio dramatization of H. G. Wells’ story War of the Worlds. This broadcast was intended to sound like a report of an invasion of the Earth by Martians. The broadcast, which was carried all across the U.S., was so realistic that it almost caused a nationwide panic. Actor John Barrymore was among those convinced that the Martians had landed ...

4. Chapter IV

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... can remember how, in my Grandmother’s house, the day took on an aura of grimness. We were to go to church, keep on the good clothes, sit on the porch and read the comics, or go for walks. When the radio played it was to be tuned to religious broadcasts, or music that was classic and sedate. Though it was not intended to be so, the whole day used to seem like an undeserved punishment. I must confess that I used to be glad to see it come to an end, at last. What sticks in my mind as I ...

5. Who Are We, Really?

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... to God. Some of our older members may remember a radio program years ago called “The Back To God Hour.” In one city “The Back to God Hour” was broadcast in the time slot immediately following the weekly broadcast of a local church. The pastor of that church recalls that each week at the end of his church’s broadcast the announcer would come on the air and say these words‑ ‑ “You have been listening to the service of worship at Chalmers United Church, now ‘Back to God.’” (1 ...

6. Too Good Not to Be True

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... Odense, Denmark. Was Hans Christian Andersen irrational to carry that piece of rope with him, or was he simply being prepared? Fear certainly has its positive aspects, but there is that fine line. Many years ago, there was a Halloween-evening radio broadcast in this country by a young announcer named Orson Welles that caused quite a stir. This broadcast warned Americans that “the War of the Worlds” was beginning and that giant robots had landed in New Jersey. We are told that, as a consequence of that ...

7. Desperate Times Call For...

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... civilians in a foreign country. In such a setting such a prayer would certainly be appropriate. “Jesus Christ, help us all, Lord.” However, the investigation did not reveal how an audio loop of that desperate prayer happened to interrupt a national broadcast for six minutes a year later. (4) This Bible passage about the Canaanite woman shows us that desperation doesn’t disqualify you from having great faith. Neither does your gender or social status. All that’s required is the willingness to bring ...

8. Couldn’t Be Easier

Matthew 11:2-11 · Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... one TV in every single room — once the shows weren’t available in the same manner as the old days it became one of the worst things in the world. Once the outrage went viral a compromise was made, and the shows in question were released for public broadcast at least once during the proper season. I’d be curious to know how many people actually watched, since the ones who were most vocal probably owned a Blu-Ray, DVD, and an obsolete VHS copy, but we’ll see. Well, during the holiday season I want to ...

9. What "They" Say

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... Think again before answering. (2) Do not claim Jesus as Lord while continuing to look at people and the world through the wrong end of a telescope. On September 12, 1989, President Bush appealed in a live television broadcast to millions of schoolchildren to reject drugs. The 15-minute broadcast was carried live by the four major television networks as well as educational cable systems. A reporter from the Arkansas Gazette sat with students and viewed the message at one of the junior high schools in Little ...

10. Confusion Over a Questioned Book

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... unit - the envy of the entire medical world has six beds. They advised us that our radio stations after attack should maintain normal programming as much as possible so as to prevent excessive panic, apparently unaware that broadcast antennae do not survive atomic attack and once antennae are down, you broadcast nothing. After giving us the benefit of such thinking, all those people went back to their offices in Washington. I don't know what they are doing there now. Add to this all of those warnings issued ...

11. The Sound of Weeping

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... when a squeaking door announced the entrance to the "Inner Sanctum." Back in the early 1940's, the British Broadcasting Company provided the people of England with a real spiritual experience. These were the dark days during the Second World War, and Dorothy Sayers' play, " ... The Man Born to Be King," was broadcast. The play portrays the life of Jesus in a reverent and realistic way. I have read that skillful use of sound effects, ...

12. Give Them Good News...

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... that I fear do more harm than good. Such was the case when I tuned in a certain radio preacher while driving through the mountains of Western North Carolina. He had obviously been bombarding the air waves with his "hell-fire and damnation" preaching when his broadcasting time ran out. His time was almost up when he said, "And finally brethren, I'd like to say that we're all going to hell ..." Just then there was a blurp as the announcer cut him off and commented, "This message of hope and encouragement ...

13. The Yestermorrow Eclipse

John 10:1-21

Sermon

... view ... totally unaware that as he watches, termites have just put their finishing gobbles on the legs of his stool which, at that moment, is ready to collapse. The more deadly eclipse is the more subtle one. It doesn’t broadcast its coming in any grand, celestial way. In fact, there’s really no need for it to broadcast at all because it’s already here and has been here for a long, long time. Christ tried to warn us about it in his description of the lilies of the field. He was asking us to give some ...

14. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... Bonhoeffer’s contention that Christianity and Nazism were incompatible philosophies. The intensity of the alienation between Bonhoeffer and Hitler was indicated on the Sunday after Hitler came to power. The pastor was broadcasting a sermon on the radio in Berlin. Halfway through his sermon the broadcast was cut off. The die was cast. The National Socialists of Adolf Hitler would tolerate no opposition from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, or indeed anyone else. In the years that followed, the Nazis persecuted Jews ...

15. "A Friend Indeed"

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... indeed to those who need our help. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen! 1. Ministry of Money newsletter, August 1997, quoted by Carlos Wilton, via PresbyNet, "Preaching Stewardship," #1003, 10/1/97 2. A production of KCTS-TV and Oregon Public Broadcasting, John de Graaf, Producer, first broadcast nationally on PBS on 9/15/97 3. http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/diag/diag.html 4. Julian Shipp, via PresbyNet, "Self-Development of People Committee Funds Projects Totaling $732,763," PCUSA News, #4473, 10/7/97

16. A Fool and his Money

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... 4. Credit to Ross Bartlett's sermon, "Learning From A Fool" via Internet for the creative retelling of the parable, http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/sermons/c-or18-98.html 5. A production of KCTS-TV and Oregon Public Broadcasting, John de Graaf, Producer, first broadcast nationally on PBS on 9/15/97 6. W. L. Barnes, Free As a Bird, quoted in Bible Illustrator for Windows, diskette, (Hiawatha, IO: Parsons Technology, 1994) 7. William Barclay, Daily Study Bible Series, CD-ROM, (Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications ...

17. The Get-ready Man

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... then unleashing poisonous gases over New York City. The broken, anguished voice of an announcer continued: "Avoid bridges to Long Island ”hopelessly jammed. All communication with Jersey shore closed . . . No more defenses. Our army wiped out . . . artillery, air force, everything wiped out. This may be the last broadcast." Later they learned that they had been listening to the Orson Welles-Mercury Theatre production of War of the Worlds. It has been estimated that, of the six million people who heard the ...

18. How Do You Act In The Presence Of The Queen?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... myself, `Is he really saying this on radio?' Then to make matters worse he added, `I have to wait till the service is over to go to the restroom and so can you!' I let out a hearty laugh. That's not the sort of thing most of us would broadcast as part of a worship service. Smugly I finished tying my tie and laughed inwardly about this unsophisticated messenger of the Gospel. "Then the voice of God spoke to my heart. `King,' God said, `the reason that pastor has to tell his people how to behave in church is ...

19. Bad News, Good News

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... except that provided by a TV screen and a computer modem ” we will become a less caring, more violent society. After all, during the 1950s, various American cities saw theft rates jump in the particular years that broadcast television was introduced. (2) What's to happen when a generation is literally reared by broadcast television? I don't want to sound pessimistic this morning, but the contrast is startling. On one hand is the good news of Christ. On the other is the bad news of the world. It is easy ...

20. "Why Don't We Just Tell Them Our Names?"

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... . To know names would be at cross purposes with his intent. It seems part and parcel of the terrorist enterprise to deal only in group names by which the terrorist has been taught to regard the enemy. Take, as an example, the stump speech broadcast by Al Jazeera of Osama bin Laden, his everpresent weapon at his side. The speech can be boiled down to this: "We have long been victimized by outsiders who don't understand or appreciate our culture, who have undermined our values, corrupted our young, exploited ...

21. Day People

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... early years as a television news reporter. He had worked through the night covering a brutal hurricane that was battering the Texas coastline. He got back to the news desk in time to make his broadcast for the six a.m. news. But exhaustion soon set in, and Schieffer fell asleep during the 10 a.m. broadcast. A cameraman woke him up, and he jumped right back in to delivering news bulletins. Strangely, the station received very few calls about the incident. Viewers either didn’t notice or didn’t care that ...

22. Predictable Surprises

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... most up-to-the-minute source of information, weather watches, emergency reports, and eye-in-the-sky overviews. The only problem with all this preparedness, with all this reliance upon emergency broadcast systems, is that once an ice storm, flood, hurricane or windstorm hits with its inevitable power outage, we're out of the broadcast loop. It's completely predictable. Those in the middle of the worst weather, those with the most critical need to know, are those the information can't reach. Yet whenever the ...

23. Changed Lives - Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... new birth that Jesus calls for, and even within those theological groupings, there are differences, some of which are cultural. Story-teller Garrison Keillor told a wonderful story on his PBS radio show that illustrates this theological diversity. The show was broadcast from Columbus, Georgia. Keillor described a man who had moved to Lake Wobegon from Columbus, which is in the deep South. The man found work at a bakery and soon captivated the town with his peach pastries and southern hospitality. The whole ...

24. The Only Way to Fly

2 Timothy 3:15-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... that a signal is sent and the time it is received. GPS satellites carry atomic clocks that provide extremely accurate time. The time information is placed in the codes that are broadcast by the satellite. Receivers on the earth's surface use the time difference between the time of signal reception and the broadcast time, to compute the distance from the receiver to the satellite. By taking a measurement from four satellites the receiver can compute your latitude, longitude, altitude, and even the time of ...

25. Gospel Partners

Philippians 1:3-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... of you can pledge more and give more. Some may want to give a one-time gift. Some may want to make a twelve-month pledge; others will want to do both. Some may even want to underwrite one of our broadcast or even give a gift of stock or real estate. We have a gentleman that pays for our broadcast on Easter Sunday every year just so he can have a big part in the souls that are saved for Christ. Would you take a moment right now to fill out one of these commitment envelopes and say, "Yes, Dr. Merritt ...

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