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1. Ambassadors For Christ

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... someone, and just let the results happen? Should I be angry, sad, or just shrug and walk away? Is my faith today, and my church today, being driven by the same things it was when it was first so real to me? Or has it become distracted by something else; fancy words and appearances, or expectations and rules that someone added? Am I living my faith, or have I somehow gotten distracted? As a person of faith, what am I to be? As a church of faith, what are we to be? These are good questions to ask on Ash ...

2. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... , whenever we are trying to run and hide. There is no alibi God cannot spot, no hiding place God cannot find, no bluff God cannot call. God found Adam in the shrubbery. God found Jonah in the ship's hold. And God finds us, every time, behind our plain or fancy excuses. Jonah did not get away with it. The Lord appointed a great storm to rock the ship in which Jonah was trying to rock his conscience to sleep. It took terror, raw terror, to bring Jonah to his senses. He had been very successful in keeping up a ...

3. The Challenge Of Simplicity

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John Jamison

... things you need to do if you want to follow him. Each one of the eight things was simple. And together, they spoke a very simple message. If you want to follow me, you do things differently. Different from the old ways. Different from those guys over there with the fancy robes and hats. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to be different. First of all, if you are following Jesus, don’t ever get the idea that it is something to boast or show-off about. Give me a minute here; I need to refocus. I always ...

4. Brace Yourself!

Matthew 5:21-37

Sermon

John Jamison

... statement as we read today’s passage from Matthew. Every person in the crowd understood what he meant. The guys in the fancy robes and hats were furious. The rest of the crowd was smiling, maybe even cheering, to finally find someone with the courage ... this one again. The crowd was as uneasy as we may be now. Jesus had suddenly sounded about as harsh as those men in the robes and fancy hats. I think he knew that, and I think that’s why he went on to say: “Again, you have heard that it was said to the ...

5. Weightlifting

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

... sees a people worn down by the burdens of life, a people who get tired. Jesus looks at them, stretches out his carpenter's hands and says: "Come to me ... take my yoke upon you ... my yoke is easy and my burden is light."1 I have always liked that fanciful guess of Weatherhead's. For years now I have let its images roll over me and comfort me much as Jesus' words themselves do. I have not thought much about the story until now. In reading the assigned text again, I began to wonder why the rest that Jesus ...

6. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... is given; whether it be on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day morning. Then they are unwrapped, unbound, set loose. And what a grand time it is when that which is hidden become manifest! Mankind lives too often under wraps. The paper that binds us is neither fancy nor colorful. And it seems as though we are as helpless to break out of the wrappings as those Christmas presents. There is an account of the raising of Lazarus which demonstrates the power of unbinding. Jesus calls him forth from the land of the dead ...

7. The Pleasure of Your Company

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

A little flight of fancy here.(1) You are stacking dishes in the kitchen of the restaurant where you work the evening shift when a well-dressed ... have the apron and let me put the food on the table...Sir. " But he won't let you. "Keep your seat," he insists. "Today I honor you." I warned you this was a flight of fancy. This kind of stuff doesn't happen...does it? It does for those who see it. It happens every week, in banquet halls around the world, the king honors the common. Regular folk right out of ...

8. Ready or Not, Here He Comes!

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Christmas, doesn't it? How many new coats will be under the tree this year? How much feasting will go on? Someone has suggested that when we share the extra coat, we might discover that we suddenly have more closet space at home without the cost of more fancy racks or building on another room. When we who have plenty of food share it with someone who is hungry, we might discover a way to drop those ten extra pounds we picked up over Thanksgiving. That may all be true, but I would not imagine John buying ...

9. A Society Out Of Control

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... all of his life had know a rather harried existence. When Mrs. Nielsen died, the story broke. It seems that when he was a little boy he would dress up in clothes a little too fancy for some boys' taste. He would go out to play. He had all kinds of physical disabilities, and in addition to that he was wearing these fancy clothes. Some of the other boys roughed him up, threw rocks at him, chased him down the sidewalk, or made fun of him. On many occasions this little fellow became so frightened that he would ...

10. A Life Above All Others

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... are not permitted in the church cemetery. There was a large monument which many tourists assumed was the grave they were searching for. But it was not. DeGaulle's grave is off to the side amid many others. There is nothing fancy about the grave stone either. It is just a white marble stone ” nothing fancy at all. (1) We have all experienced what it is like to be tourists. Milton Klamen has compiled a list of what he calls "Vacation Vexations" (Or, Words We Wish We'd Never Heard). Let me read a few of them ...

11. What Are You Sitting On?

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... her drama." (1) She had been sitting on her ticket the whole time. The story is told of a farmer and his wife in the dusty panhandle of Texas. They had eked out a meager living for 30 years. One day an impeccably dressed man driving a fancy car came to their door. He told the farmer that he had good reason to believe there was a reservoir of oil underneath his property. If the farmer would allow the gentleman the right to drill, perhaps the farmer would become a wealthy man. The farmer stated emphatically ...

12. God, The Promise Keeper

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the first few years on his own were difficult. One year, Bryan went home for Christmas. He bought a fancy cashmere coat at a thrift store and rented a luxury car. He was determined to play the "big shot" for his family. But Bryan soon discovered that his family ... wasn't interested in his fancy clothes or his shiny car. They were just happy to see him. (3) God doesn't always come in the way we might expect ...

13. Needed: A Radiator Cap Solution

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... just a toddler, she pulled a pot of boiling water off the stove. Her left arm was badly burned from shoulder to wrist. She hid her scars with long sleeves and fancy gloves. When she and George Burns became a hit comedy act on the vaudeville circuit, many other female comedians began wearing long-sleeved dressed and fancy gloves. Everyone thought Gracie was just a trendsetter; only those closest to her knew how self-conscious she was about her scars. After Gracie retired from show business, George asked her ...

14. A Life Without Apology

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... that the ghost of her grandmother had come to visit her. Tan writes, "This time I think (grandmother) was telling my mother that her funeral clothes had already been made, and not to worry, that they were fancy beyond belief." (5) I don't think it matters to most of us whether we are buried in fancy clothes or not. But we do believe that we will look good in our resurrection clothes. Because we were not made for the grave. We were made for eternal fellowship with God. Honor your commitments, St. Paul ...

15. Food for the Fed-up

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... accurately: an age satiated with things but starved in spirit. He wrote, “It is like trying to live on fancy cakes - little bits of God knows what with cherries on top - pure sensations without satisfaction. You cannot live on them. You must have bread and butter, solid ... food; if you try a diet of fancy cakes you get fed up, which means that you are hungry still, but can’t eat!” (The Best of Studdert-Kennedy, New ...

16. A Life Hidden With Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . I thought you might be interested in our group of six -- obviously thoroughly enjoying the Lord, and each other. One, an alcoholic, given the simple medicine of love -- last drink November, 1973. One, whose husband left her with two boys – he living here with a "fancy lady" -- she, making it alone by the power of Christ. One, who has just won a battle over cancer. One, who has just gone through the anguish of placing her mother in a nursing home due to advanced arteriosclerosis. One whose husband had an ...

17. Heaping Coals and Virtues

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... surprising to find on a list of the worst inventions of humanity, particularly on the very short list. Even though this isn't the time of year when people think especially about thoughts of love, this is only a few months past spring, when young people's fancies are thought to turn to thoughts of love, and past June, when many people get married. So it might seem strange to hear about romantic love as one of the two worst inventions of humanity. But there is certainly some evidence that romantic love is not ...

18. At the Banquet...In Your Pajamas

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... passing but, to the art world, few people have been worth as much. The man who did not have on the wedding garment it couldn’t have been because he couldn’t afford better clothes. Jesus was clearly biased in favor of those who couldn’t afford fancy garments. There is a story about John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. The story may be apocryphal, but it reveal’s Wesley’s heart. In Wesley’s time the churches in England were only for the rich. You had to have fine clothes and be clean to attend ...

19. The Invitation

Isaiah 55:1-9

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... .5 billion catalogs each year.[1] And these catalogs are very inviting. Beautiful people without an ounce of fat modeling clothes, attempting to convince me that if I wear these clothes I will look exactly like them. Who are they trying to kid? Men in fancy garments doing yard work with not a drop of sweat on them and huge smiles on their faces, as if wearing that jacket makes you euphoric over yard work. Then there are the catalogs advertising all those cutting-edge gadgets and toys which are so essential ...

20. Goin' Down the Road

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

One of our family’s favorite films is the original Muppet Movie. It has a key song about moving down the road, being footloose and fancy free. The Emmaus road on the day of the encounter between Jesus and two disciples in our text was not a place for being footloose and fancy free. It was a road filled with people trying to make sense of the great tragedy that they witnessed in Jesus’ death. The word was everywhere. Not unlike what it must have felt several days after Pearl Harbor, after the planes ...

21. Righteous, Dude!

Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

John Jamison

... even the smallest of them, would end up becoming the least important person in the kingdom of heaven… the front seats in heaven were reserved for those who practiced the laws as they were meant to be practiced. The crowd was completely confused; except for the folks in the fancy robes and hats. In my mind, a few folks had gotten up and started walking to the back of the crowd. They had had enough. I think that might have happened, because I know if I had been there I would be one of them. “After all of ...

22. Fruit Production

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... ’t surprised at all. You know how those people are. Any time there is something going on where they can be seen in their fancy robes and stuff, they are going to go. And I said to someone that I bet when that group got down there, they would ... and throw them in a fire just like an old, dead, fruitless, tree. That’s when the whole bunch of them turned around and swished their fancy robes back up the road to Jerusalem. It was just so great to see those guys finally get what they deserved. Did I tell you ...

23. When It's Hard To Give Thanks

Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... his name is not familiar to a more general audience. One of his most popular paintings is titled The Thankful Poor. It is a painting which features an elderly father and his little son as they are seated at a table to eat a meal. There is no fancy turkey with dressing. There is no cranberry sauce. There are no sweet potatoes. There is no pumpkin pie. Instead there is only one tiny dish of food for them to share. But yet, in spite of their limited resources, their heads are bowed in prayer to give thanks ...

24. Dinner Parties With A Difference

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... house around a beautiful table of exquisite crystal and china and gourmet food. That rustic, ascetic outdoorsman probably would have thought it a waste of time and money, an unnecessary frill to the essentials of life. Many men today call themselves "meat and potatoes" men. No fancy foods for them. Just the basics. Forget all the fuss and bother. They just like a good steak, salad and potato. Let's sit down and eat and get it over with. But John the Baptist was even more rigid than that. Locusts and wild ...

25. Living By The Calendar Instead Of The Clock (New Year's)

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... means. Jesus would not give a prescription, but an example. To be in God's house means living by the calendar instead of the clock. The life of Jesus would invite us to live our lives by keeping our eyes firmly fixed on ultimate concerns rather than passing fancy. He calls us to live by the calendar of faith rather than the clock of fads. He invites us to live fixed on the importance of persons above possessions. He invites us to live in the theatre with a large screen, not in the daily snapshots that are ...

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