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1. God’s Ultimate Concern

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... You shall not murder. 7. You shall not commit adultery. 8. You shall not steal. 9. You shall not give false testimony. 10. You shall not covet.” These 10 laws, commandments, rules and regulations, a guide to live by -- call them what you may, they represent God’s ultimate concern for the people of the world. Jesus said it succinctly, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life… (John 3:16 NIV).” God’s ultimate ...

2. Concern

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... been pushed back from the cross by the soldiers, we see, off to the left of the cross, John and Mary standing together. John has his arm around Mary’s shoulders. Mary is leaning against John for strength, as she softly weeps. This is the community of concern. Here is the vision of the church. And Jesus said, "Woman, here is your son! John, here is your mother!" Thanks be to Jesus - from that hour on - none of us should ever have to bear our burdens alone. Thanks be to Jesus! 1. William Barclay, Jesus ...

3. Security Concerns

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the past decade: "Will my child be safe here?" "Where are your call boxes located and how many do you have?" "How many cases of date rape do you have per year?" "Are your parking lots patrolled?" "Do you have a student volunteer escort service?" A concern with assaults from demonic powers seems to be an ever-present reality in our world. Parents want to make certain that their children have at their disposal all that is needed to help them resist an attack on their well being. Ephesians chapter 6 has never ...

4. Tomb It May Concern

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

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Mary S. Lautensleger

... at the "coming of the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:15). The essence of Paul's word of hope to the Thessalonians is that the living will have no advantage over the dead when Christ comes again. The friends of those who have died are naturally concerned about what has and will become of them. Paul describes the coming of the Lord and the resurrection of the dead according to traditional Old Testament imagery of the end of time. His colorful language is symbolic and cannot be taken as a literal description ...

5. Christmas Concern

Sermon

James Bjorge

... just a spiritual message directed at the soul of man. For the real gospel is wider than the measure of man’s mind. It includes all the good news about God caring for man. Principles enunciated and hopes expressed are not enough. Our day demands the deeds of concern. We can have a mighty soul-winning campaign and still not give two hoots about people. The good news of Christmas has it all. Jesus is his name for he shall save the people from their sins. But you can also, "Cast all your anxieties on him, for ...

6. An Army Officer Deeply Concerned

Luke 7:1-10

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King Duncan

... Jesus preach and he ran to get his brother Peter. Four men removed tiles from the roof of a house where Jesus was speaking and lowered a man through the ceiling so that Jesus could touch him. Do you know people like that--people with that kind of concern, that kind of compassion? Hopefully you are that kind of person. There are many people like that still around in our world today. They will tell you that loving people is its own reward. That is the second thing we need to see. You will never get closer ...

7. God's Passionate Concern

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Richard Patt

... thing about which, as Jesus puts it, we should "count the cost"? At first we are probably tempted to think that it is something like "our salvation" or "our faith in Christ." But, you see, upon closer analysis we would have to admit that everything concerning our salvation and our faith involves no cost, no pain, no crux whatsoever on our part. Good Christian doctrine teaches us that Christ bore all the pain, all the cost, all the cross. Christ alone saves us, Christians preach, and even our faith in him ...

8. Concerning Miracles

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... Maguire wrestled with the question of miracles after the tragic tsunami that struck Southeast Asia the day after Christmas 2004. One hundred fifty-thousand innocent people died in that devastating event. There was a widely televised story following the tsunami concerning the Rev. Dayalan Sanders. Rev. Sanders operated an orphanage in Sri Lanka. There were 26 children in that orphanage. Rev. Sanders rescued all 26 in a motorboat. According to reports, Sanders headed straight toward the advancing wave of the ...

9. His Last Command ... Our First Concern!

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

In the fall of 1971, I visited Leo Tolstoy's home in Moscow. There, tied in bundles and stacked against the wall, were his handwritten manuscripts for all of his great novels - War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection. For an hour I leafed through the mountain of paper, observing the man's handwriting, his strikeovers, and even the doodles he made in the margins. An elderly Russian woman, the curator of the museum, noticed my deep interest in Tolstoy and began to talk to me. "He was a friend of the ...

10. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

... we have two coats, Jesus urged us to give one to a person without any. God cares whether people are hungry and poor, but his concern to help depends upon our cooperation in sharing what he has given us. Care If We Perish? One night Jesus and his Disciples were in ... unbind and release the dead that they might go to Christ in heaven. To the dying and the bereaved, God shows his love and concern by using us to comfort people with the good news of eternal life. Did anyone ever tell you a story and forget the punch ...

11. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... out of our old ways and into the new way which Christ offers to them and to us. Let It All Out When we look at the miracle story from the point of view of the woman, we see our Lord’s penetrating insight into human personality. He is always concerned not just with the problem but with the person. Despite the fact that not a great deal of information is given to us about this woman, other than the fact that she was a Gentile, there are several things we can assume if we are sensitive to her actions in ...

12. The Message of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

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... was not an educated man but he was a wise man. On Saturday afternoon I would go to the cotton gin to talk to Corney. We would fall into conversation about this and that. I told Corney what Paul Tillich had taught me that week about ultimate concern: whatever our ultimate concern is that is our "god." I waxed eloquent with old Corney as he sat across the room in his cane-bottomed chair. Dressed in his bib overalls with his glasses pulled down on the end of his nose, he chewed on his old corncob pipe and ...

13. A Wonderful Mother (In-Law)

Ruth 1:1-22

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David E. Leininger

... law. Now, here were her two Jewish sons marrying non-Jewish girls. Even in OUR day, Jewish mothers have a problem with that. But, you know, there is not one word, not one indication, that Naomi ever let her inner feelings be known. As far as Orpah and Ruth were concerned, they were now as much a part of Naomi's family as if they had been born into it. There were lots of wonderful things about Naomi, and this was just ONE of them: Naomi ACCEPTED them...and they knew it. That is not typical of our vision of a ...

14. Prophets or Professionals?

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . We can simply hang up. These annoying salespeople are perhaps the most petty version of a "false prophet" our culture has to offer. They pretend to have a "word" for you but all they really have is the need to spread their own message. They have no concern for your life insurance needs or the state of your reading library or the profitability of your business. They just want to make a buck. After a few of these phone calls, however, no matter how clever the solicitor, we can quickly peg them for what they ...

15. I'm Listening

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... they were talking. Hmmm . . ., he thought, “I wonder how many times I’ve done the same thing to her.” (4) We all know what he’s talking about. We rarely give each other our full attention. Two men were talking over coffee one day. One said: “I’m concerned about my wife. She talks to herself a lot these days.” The other said: “Mine does too, but she doesn’t know it. She thinks I’m listening.” No one in this room will be surprised if I say that this is the biggest complaint of most women ...

16. A Tale Of Two Cities

Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... followed the higher prelates of the church virtually to personal ruin out of loyalty to their rulers. Amaziah appeared to be a priest who would do anything to preserve his power, even if it meant lying to the prophet. Amos, on the other hand, was more concerned with serving God than the people of the kingdom of Israel. Amos wanted to do God's will and bidding by exhorting the people back to God and by warning them of the coming scourge. God probably chose someone as plain and naive as Amos to prophesy ...

17. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

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Richard Hoefler

... . Barclay points out there are two ways suffering can be used to demonstrate the glory of God. First, "by the way in which we react to our suffering," and secondly, "by the way in which we react to the suffering of others."9 It is the second way which concerns Christ in our story of the man born blind, for our Lord says, "We must keep on doing the works of him who sent me." And the work of him who sent Christ is compassion - helping where help is needed and trying to make life better and happier for ...

18. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... tomb where the body of the crucified Christ had been hastily buried. Bent they were on their sad and somewhat gruesome mission of preparing that body for permanent burial. They hurried along in a black cloud of sorrow, gripped by fear and questions and concern Mary Magdalene, Mary the Mother of James, and Johanna, the wife of Cleophas. And how we have lauded them for their part in the Gospel narrative. Again and again, we have said: "There they were, those stalwart women, loving to the end, compassionate ...

19. Winning over Worry

Matthew 6:25-34

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David E. Leininger

... to spend all our time worrying about the necessities of life. We can live one day at a time and not have to overly concern ourselves with all the potential disasters that we tend to see looming just over the horizon. He says, "Do not worry about tomorrow, for ... ought to be, the message of Jesus is that we CAN win...if we let each day take care of itself, if we make our major concern the welfare of others rather than ourselves, and if we have faith in the God who loves us enough to take care of, not only OUR ...

20. Are You Convinced?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... new ability, a new gift from God." Every person makes this choice. The Holy Spirit will convince the world of righteousness when we become convinced that the great work of the kingdom is not something which is designed for the Holy Spirit to do alone. "Concerning judgment (v. 11)." Christians have long professed to believe in a day of accountability. Such a day is not marked on the calendar nor even claimed to occur in proximity to some speculated date. All the more reason to be ready for the event whenever ...

21. The Call To Excellence

Numbers 27:12-23

Sermon

Sims Robert

... stoning to shipwreck and to prison again. I cannot imagine that Simon Peter was worried much about security when he left Palestine to go to Rome to work with the church under the persecutions of Nero. I find it difficult to imagine Martin Luther being overly concerned about security as he stood before Charles V, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and said, “I cannot, I will not recant. God help me. Here I stand.” I can’t help but wonder, where are the mighty prophets with fire in their souls? Where ...

22. Love Is Down to Earth

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... saying that the Lord would "call him home" if he didn't raise eight million dollars, a black minister appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show provided perhaps the best and most insightful response. He said that it seemed somewhat presumptious to reduce God's purview to concern over a mere eight million dollars! God does have ways of calling us back to simple piety, of calling us back down to earth! In the upcoming series of Easter sermons we will meet quite a number of times the theme of Jesus' words in this ...

23. The Generation Gap

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... " is the dividing line these days. Why not 21 or 25? Maybe the answer is in that old journalistic device. "Thirty" is printers’ jargon for the end of a column or the end of an article. Maybe, for too long, thirty has marked the cop-out - the end of our concerns and compassions and idealism and love. If so, we’ve got a lot to learn. But, God helping us, we can. There are some pretty good teachers on the other side of the line! Thirty need not be the end of anything - in fact, any age is still the age ...

24. A Defiant Response to a Dangerous Theology: Does God Desire to Wipe Us Out?

Gn 6:1-8. 9:6-17

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... known as the Epic of Gilgamesh….in which the Noah hero bears the grand name Utnapishtim. The story in our Bible (Genesis 6-9) is not one story, but two….written in different eras by different authors….later stitched together by an editor with little concern for the internal consistency of detail. In one version of our story, two animals of every kind are taken onto the ark (male and female). In the other version, only seven pairs of "clean" animals and one pair of "unclean" animals are invited aboard ...

25. The Majesty Of God's Love

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... being true to the new life that Christ has given you. That awareness will help free you up when you are doing evangelism. It has freed me. It gives us confidence to do evangelism; it is a motivator. But there is one more freeing word that the ascension speaks concerning evangelism. That word is right here in our gospel text. Jesus says to the disciples and to us: "... lo I am with you always, to the close of the age (Matthew 28:20b)." The Holy Spirit makes Christ present to us (John 14:16, 17; 1 John 4:13 ...

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