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1. On Talking to Oneself

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... from the royal right arm, and a half pint from the royal left shoulder, followed by an emetic. The royal head was then shaved and a blister raised, then a sneezing powder, and a plaster of pitch on his feet. Finally, forty drops of extract of human skull were given - after which His Majesty gave up the ghost.” (Luccock, Halford, MARCHING OFF THE MAP, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1852, p. 12) Who wouldn’t! In those days the prescription usually read: “Take out blood.” Today we might say, “Put ...

2. Grace Upon Grace

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... tenth of his salary, giving the rest for the feeding of the sick and the poor, and the villagers called him by the affectionate nick name Monseigneur Bienvenu (Welcome). Hugo sums up the bishop, thus: “There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. Love each other; he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was the whole of his doctrine.”4 ...

3. We Will Be Changed

Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God. And by God’s question, he knows, something is going to happen, and it’s going to be awesome! God’s voice, God’s breath is about to do the ultimate act of resuscitation. But God doesn’t require science, or a lab, or tools of extraction. God simply says, “I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live.” What appeared to be dry and disconnected –a people truly disconnected from God-- would again be restored to life, relationship, hope, and a future. Those who appeared to be dead and ...

4. Sustaining Faith

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... sacrifice. But here’s the rub. Jesus was not glorifying the widow in this scripture for her self-sacrificing demeanor. He was harshly and bluntly criticizing the Pharisees and Scribes for taking advantage of her goodness and preying on her faith commitment in order to extract from her the only money she had to live on. Lauded as an act of “great faith,” Jesus sees it for what it is –the worst kind of religious abuse, a manipulation of her gentle and vulnerable spirit, using the language of faith to ...

5. Witnesses For The Lord

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... power and the authority to treat them any way he chose. He responded with kindness. Toward the end of the story, Joseph's brothers were fearful. Their father had died and they were afraid that because of their past transgressions against Joseph, he would extract revenge. So they send this message to Joseph, "Your father gave this command before he died, 'Say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you' " (Genesis 50:16-17). Joseph's words ...

6. How Good News Spreads!

1 Kings 8:22-61

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... to Muslim traders who sold them to coastal slave merchants bound for North America. Bad as this all was, many a slave became a Christian. And the gospel has flourished. I know of a Christian in Brazil thrown into prison on unjust charges. At first he fought to extract himself from such a hell hole. He was unwilling to come to such a place! Then God opened his eyes and he saw 4,000 men with him in the dungeon. And he began to testify and minister. Today, after eleven years in prison, his ministry is fruitful ...

7. The Half Pencil Doctor

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

David O. Bales

... of his trunk. Craig stared at his father. Roger shrugged his shoulders, and bent down, deciding, since Craig was watching the encounter, to try once more and thus leave with a clear conscience. "Doctor Casparis," he was almost shouting into the man's ear as he carefully extracted the envelope so as not to knock over a photograph, "I am Roger Leeth. My father was Doctor Lester Leeth. He died, but he said I was to bring you this envelope. He said that you saved his life and that maybe you could tell me about ...

8. Salt And Light

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... eyes and furrow their brows for a moment, as they access their mental map of the streets of Roanoke, and that expression usually gives way to the exclamation, "Oh, that green stone church across from Patrick Henry High School." "That's us," I said, as I finally extracted approximately two dozen napkins from the vanquished chrome box. I was about to invite the lady to join us for worship when she blurted out, "When y'all gonna have another one o' them big yard sales in y'all's parkin' lot? I really liked ...

9. Bad Timing

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... a bed." When the physician examined the man, he found that an attacker had seriously injured his eyes and the man's sight was imperiled. The man was desperate with fear and rage, pleading with the doctor to restore his sight so that he could find his attacker and extract retribution. "I want revenge," he screamed. "I want to kill him. After that I don't care whether I am blind the rest of my life!" The doctor told the man that he was in a Christian hospital, that Jesus had come to show us how to love and ...

10. The Merciful

Sermon

John A. Terry

... and the Lion. Androcles was a Roman slave who lived in the days of the Emperor Tiberius. He ran away from a cruel master and took refuge in a cave. A lion came wandering by, limping badly. He held out the damaged paw to Androcles, who skillfully extracted a huge thorn. Scene two took place some time later. Poor Androcles had been caught and was being thrown to the wild beasts in the circus. But the lion sent to devour him turned out to be his old friend. So, instead of attacking him, the lion nuzzled ...

11. Hate Evil

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... threat of death present in those poisonous snakes that infiltrated the camp of the Israelites was a powerful motivation for the people to repent of their sins of unbelief and complaint in the desert. God could have used their helplessness as a time to extract from them promises that they would change their lives, clean up their acts and take loyalty oaths and make commitments never to sin against God again. However, that would not work. If people were motivated only by fear and self-interest, the problem ...

12. The Merciful

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

John A. Terry

13. A Lady With A Listening Ear · Mary Of Bethany

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... as the banquet being given in his honor to pass without manifesting her devotion to him. So she hastened to her room and took from her hoarded perfumes an alabaster vial of Indian spikenard -- so named after the spiked flower from which it was extracted. Imported at no small cost she had been holding it for just such an occasion as this. Accordingly, casting her customary decorum to the winds Mary raced the short distance to Simon's crowded house; and, bursting into Jesus' presence, she broke the colorful ...

14. The Proof Is In The Fruit

Luke 6:39-49

Sermon

James Garrett

... one does. Here is an example of the humor of Jesus. If you have any doubts that God has a sense of humor, look in the mirror! It must have been with a smile that Jesus gave the parable of a person with a log in his eye trying to extract a speck of dust from someone else’s eye. We have no right to criticize unless we ourselves are free of faults. That means we have no right to criticize… “There is so much bad in the rest of us that it ill becomes any of us to find fault ...

15. Marked For Death

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

George Bass

... the good and godly life, the new life in Christ which is ours in baptism. The cross reminds us that we are marked for death, but it also assures us that we have God’s guarantee in Jesus Christ that ‘‘the sting of death’’ has been extracted in Jesus’ death and resurrection. Lent tells us that we are death-marked people, but Easter asures us that the cross also means life and that through baptism we participate in what happened to Jesus at Golgotha and in another garden. It was in a garden that ...

16. Saved By Grace

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... writer of Hebrews encourages us to, “Throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us… (Hebrews 12:1 NIV).” Life can only be filled with joy and meaning when sin has been extracted from human experience. A life with Christ is a life free of sin. That’s our challenge, that’s our goal to live sin free so that the anger of God will not be invoked against us. The Power Of Intercessory Prayer Grace was made manifest in ...

17. Holy Arithmetic!

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... than you do now. At the appropriate time, after the ground has been prepared, the cane seed is planted. From the seed, the ribbon cane grows. In the prime of its life, the cane is cut down, and we run it through the gristmill, which extracts the juice. The juice is then cooked to the proper consistency, bottled and sold as molasses. Now seed, cane, and molasses are three separate things, but they are inseparably linked, all of the same substance. The Trinity is not exactly like that, but sort of. When ...

18. There's Blindness, and There's Blindness

John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... of God in terms of anger and revenge and discipline, they also continually praised God’s mercy, love and kindness. Could a God who loved us enough to become one of us, live with us, and die an agonizing death on a cross for us be capable of extracting vengeance when we don’t behave in exactly the right way? Well, what’s the answer, then, when Christians, caught up in some calamity or personal tragedy ask, "Why me, Lord?" I mean, we DO believe that God is all-powerful, all holy, all love, don’t we ...

19. Peace Through Sacrifice

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... and simple: SACRIFICE - to sacrifice something is to make it holy by giving it away for love.1 We've grown up with the idea that a sacrifice is hard to do, even painful, that it is done with great reluctance, if not actually extracted from us by intimidation or outright threat. Sacrifice in Buechner's terms, and, indeed, in biblical terms, sees beyond the short term loss, beyond the security of possession, beyond the sentimentality of retention. Sacrifice is more nearly the willing offering of all one has ...

20. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... !" That is another way of saying what we have been talking about. If one is willing to suffer, which is to say that you claim nothing and that nobody can do whatever he will to you, the persecutor has lost all power over you. He cannot extract anything from you, then. Violence at that point becomes powerlessness and the sufferer holds the upper hand. He will inevitably frustrate and finally win out over the persecutor. That is a powerful hand to play, and it is, if you have followed this carefully, the hand ...

21. The Glory of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... person who takes it seriously where God, himself, sees the heart of life. The cross is always seen, biblically speaking, as the place where the tragedy of sin meets the grace of God. It can never be separated from sin as such, and the fact that sin has extracted such a severe penalty tells a person plainly that if sin is not dealt with, it will be the undoing of a person. Sin cannot be ignored away. It cannot be explained away. It cannot be bargained away. It cannot be excused away. It must be confronted ...

22. In Which Direction Do You Travel?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... many of us in looking at children, teenagers, spouses, and friends who are heading in a wrong direction wish that we could just pay someone to pull the evil out of them. Unfortunately evil is not something that occupies a space in us and can be extracted like an absessed tooth. There is a movie, entitled The Exorcist, which has made a lot of money from exploiting the concept of evil. The movie is based on a reported case of exorcism in Maryland in 1949, at which time a Catholic Priest received permission ...

23. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... to the government. If he said that he should pay it, the people would be angry. He would be a traitor. They would be angry because taxes were as sore a point with them as they are with us! Palestine was an occupied country. There were three taxes the Romans extracted from these people: 1. A ground tax - a man must pay to the government one-tenth of his grain and one-fifth of the oil and wine which he produced. 2. An income tax - one percent of a person’s income. 3. A poll tax - every male person from age ...

24. How to do Extraordinary Things

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... with which we are not presently familiar." Miracles do not necessarily contravene the laws of nature. Often they super-charge or dynamize those laws. These miracles, or extraordinary happenings, ought to be almost commonplace in the lives of Christians. Let me extract from our text certain principles which will enable us to do extraordinary things. FIRST, USE WHAT YOU HAVE! Jesus told his disciples that he wanted to feed a huge crowd of people. Immediately the disciples started whining about what they did ...

25. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... think, "Will I have to spend the rest of my life paying for what I have done?" And, "What will this mean when the time does come that I meet someone with whom I really want to share my life?" The wrong use of sex can extract from an individual both short and long term payments. In many people it produces feelings of guilt and of personal worthlessness. Some of the frequent problems many counselors and pastors deal with spin off of sexual experiences outside of marriage. People often are made sexually frigid ...

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