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1. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... was. And Jesus sent his disciples out into the world to win people to life, in the same way that he won them, with the same spirit. If we have his spirit, we are drawing people to life. If we do not have his spirit, we are driving people away. Overtones can be beautiful. When I was a boy preacher I was thrown into contact with a beautiful Christian layman whom I shall never forget. He died when he was only forty years of age, but he lived, a tremendous life. He was a good man, a righteous man, able and ...

2. Immersed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Israelites are atoning for their adolatrous time in Egypt by the shedding of the blood of the lamb and its symbolic sign on the mezuzah (doorposts). [12]In Egypt, the Lamb was considered a deity. Therefore the sacrifice of the Lamb also takes on repentance overtones. See www7.biu.ac.ii by Yair Barkai. [13] Mezuzot found at Qumran contained Torah portions from Exodus 13:1-4 and 11-16 instead of the sh’ma. Whether the Exodus passage or the Sh’ma, the mezuzah still maintains its sacrificial as well as ...

3. The Second Meal

Sermon

Robert F. Scott

... All: Praise and thanksgiving and glory and love be to our God, who has loved us, forgiven us, renewed us, and set us free. Amen. Simon: Dinner With PassionLuke 7:36-50 Jesus shared his meals with such varied people that often there were strong emotional overtones.Luke brings us ten of these table scenes, and we find some indication of the importance they must have had to Jesus. The first dinner was at the house of Levi, a despised tax collector, and at once the Pharisees severely criticized Jesus, saying no ...

4. What Can I Do for You?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... confident that he meant it. “What can I do for you?” actually meant, “I want to meet your needs.” Most often we hear this question in a store. The clerk approaches us. “What can I do for you?” she says and means, “May I help you?” There are no overtones. But, back to the phone. “Hi, this is Frank.” “Yea, what can I do for you?” This time we have a favor to ask. “I need help; will you do me a favor?” A long pause, then, “It all depends on what it is!” Evidently “What can I ...

5. Just Speak The Word

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Larry Powell

... note to which it was tuned to respond." A musical note affecting an inanimate object, tuned to that particular note! Fascinating. I passed this information along to the music director of our church and asked her to explain it to me. "Oh, that is the overtone series," she smiled. She then proceeded to illustrate the principle on a piano by asking me to place my hand lightly upon certain keys. She would strike a particular key elsewhere on the keyboard and those beneath my hand vibrated in response. Keys were ...

6. Three Days To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Helen Keller

... end. Perhaps there are many serious pursuits to which I should devote the few remaining hours, but I am afraid that on the evening of that last day I should run away to the theatre, to a hilariously funny play, so that I might appreciate the overtones of comedy in the human spirit. At midnight my temporary respite from blindness would cease, and permanent night would close in on me again. Naturally in those three short days I should not have seen all I wanted to see. Only when darkness had again descended ...

7. Jerusalem: City for All Time

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... think you can find any Israelis who are willing to give up Jerusalem. They cannot and will not. This beautiful golden city is the heart and soul of the Jewish people. You cannot live without heart and soul." Similar words, though probably without military overtones, would express the feelings of many Christians. Moslem Arabs have the same attraction for the city. The events that have taken place in Jerusalem and their meaning for three of the great world religions make it a city for all time. We consider ...

8. A Covenant Sealed By a Sacrifice

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... that we will be his people and he will be our God. We are joined together with God in one inseparable union - one family bonded together in love. God, and God alone, seals this covenant-promise with a sacrifice. The word "sacrifice" has negative overtones for most of us. Oh, we speak about the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, particularly, in this Lenten Season. We stress in our stewardship drives that we should sacrifice our time, our talents, and our income for the church, for missions, and for social ...

9. Death: Commonality Explored

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

... a vibrant ecumenism that is sweeping across the universal church. It would appear that reality is viewed as just another way of laying another burden on people who already have too many. Christian unity requires reality, but does not presuppose overwhelming negative overtones are the result. Much good has already come from the simple admission that Christians are a divided people, and should not be this way. The "Decree on Ecumenism" says it well in these words: "The Lord of Ages nevertheless wisely and ...

10. "Sneak Up On ‘Em!"

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... , that I belong, body and soul, in life and in death, not to myself, but to Jesus Christ! Some Believed! (verse 34) Resistance to the Gospel comes in many ways. In Philippi, they put Paul in jail. In Thessalonica, there was an uproar with political overtones. In Beroea, an angry crowd was the reason the Christians sent him on a ship to safety. Here in Athens, the resistance was of the sort with which we are all familiar - they ridiculed him. The Athenian reaction of bland toleration, of ridicule, of calling ...

11. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... ask others the question, "What can I do to please you?" Our goal in life becomes that of making life more pleasant and meaningful for others. I saw a cookbook sometime ago, entitled, 1001 Ways to Please a Husband. Of course, the title may have sexist overtones, but if every husband and wife had such a philosophy, family life would be heaven on earth, the divorce rate would drop to zero, and homes would he truly Christian again. Another way of asking this question is to say, "How can I make you happy?" Many ...

12. An Invitation to a Feast

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... stood guard, has told what happened in those last moments of preparation. Miss Lind would stand in the middle of the floor, her shoulders back, and her head up, draw a deep breath, strike a clear, vibrant note, and hold it as long as her breath lasted. When the overtones had all died away, she would look up and say: "Master, who has given me this undeserved gift, let me ring true tonight." When we realize what a gift this invitation to God’s kingdom is to us, we too will try our best to ring true. We have ...

13. Do Wrinkles Hurt?

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... girls and those rock-hard professional athletes. Seldom do you see an older person unless the advertisement is about dentures or regularity. Senior citizens are rarely contestants on game shows. They are not hired as news broadcasters. Because of negative overtones about ageing, Americans spend a fortune in cosmetic and coloring products designed to camouflage the ageing process. America needs to hear the truth about ageing and older people. The fact is that senior citizens are the wave of the future ...

14. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... propaganda that bombards us from one source after the other, telling us that the new sexual tac is a healthy one. The hard push for free-wheeling sex is flooding in all around us. Apparently you can’t even sell most products without wrapping them up in sexual overtones. To push haircreme, for instance, you just have to have a sleepy-eyed broad being squeezed out of a tube to make it move. Would anyone any longer ever buy shaving lather that didn’t have a sexy voiced girl telling the guys to "take it off ...

15. Stewards and Our Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... it, has told what happened in those last moments of preparation. Miss Lind would stand in the middle of the floor, her shoulders back and her head up, draw a deep breath, strike a clear, vibrant note, and hold it as long as her breath lasted. When the overtones had all died away, she would look up and say: "Master, let me ring true tonight!" Jenny Lind’s prayer ought to be ours as "stewards of our gifts and abilities." "Let me ring true tonight." Saint Paul wrote to the Christians in Rome: "So we are to ...

16. In The Shade Of An Awning

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... so much to relieve sickness as to open that man to the greatness of God’s love. He talked of forgiveness, of endless forgiveness, that must be conquered if the Kingdom is to be realized. He talked of acts of kindness - simple and straightforward, with no business overtones. Just a few miles from my inn he had taken little children onto his lap, to hear them talk, to play with them, to be near them. He had said, God’s Kingdom must be entered as openly, as innocently, as trustingly as do little children ...

17. The Priesthood of All Believers

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... on added worth if we are also Kingdom people. We have to keep pace with the marching orders of our professional, social, and civic responsibilities, but to use Thoreau’s phrase, we also "hear the sound of Another Drummer." There is a spiritual overtone that gives true meaning and dignity to what we are doing. Even when no direct religious activity is involved, Christian men and women radiate Christ. As an undergraduate in a large state university I had a teacher in philosophy, a Christian layman, whose ...

18. No Fifth Wheels in God’s Economy

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... toward marriage, implying to them that marriage is the only way a person can be mature and growing. A single woman has as much right to close fellowship with a man as a married couple do, without the burden of everybody thinking that it is unfittingly sexual in overtone or intent. A single man has as much right to be a leader in church circles as a married man. The church needs to admit that while the scriptures indicate God created Eve to be a companion with Adam, that Jesus never married. And who will say ...

19. Dealing With The Pain of Rejection

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

James W. Moore

... rejection can do that to us. It is undoubtedly part of the reason why divorces sometimes can be more wrenching and devastating than would be the actual death of a mate. Because while death brings feelings of deep loss and aloneness, divorce can create overtones of rejection, of feeling thrown away, of being unneeded, discarded. We are told that this same thing also counts heavily in the trauma of a prison experience. The whole aura of being confined, caged, out of touch, out of sight, cut off, rejected. And ...

20. Family Reunion

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... said again and again that we cannot come to Him alone. We come to Him with the rest of God’s children: we are called to be a part of God’s family, which is perhaps a better image than the “Kingdom of God.” The word “Kingdom,” beside its sexist overtones, assumes an absolute ruler at its head. And while I have no wish to limit God in any way, the Scriptures do teach that God has limited Himself in that God has given us free will to respond or not, to choose to be a part of God’s great ...

21. The Ultimate Happy Meal

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... And know you no," says Love, "who bore the blame?" "My dear, then I will serve." "You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat." So I did sit and eat. The story of the feeding of the five thousand is the first real Happy Meal. The Eucharist overtones found in Jesus' actions, his blessing of the bread, his instructions to sit down and eat make the loaves and fishes enjoyed by these five thousand hangers-on and would-be, wanna-be followers, the first true Happy Meal. Yet, the feat of this feast is a mere ...

22. Ministry By Faith: Does She or Doesn't She?

I Corinthians 16:14, James 2:14-26

Sermon

John E. Harnish

Shirley Polykoff describes the scene. Two women are talking quietly about another nice woman they both know, the woman in the ad who was always playing with a child in order to downplay any sexual overtones. Then (says Polykoff), smack in the middle of the conversation of middle class morality, we place the arresting question, the bombshell: "Does she or doesn't she? Hair color so natural, only her hairdresser knows." Polykoff was the creator of the 1950's advertising campaign, of which she says: A ...

23. Taking a Necessary Step

Acts 19:1-7

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... there are about as many reasons as there are people. While this may have little directly to do with John the Baptist, it strongly suggests a falling away of something good and supremely meaningful. We may not especially care for such revivalistic overtones, but the message is clear. We are created and intended for spiritual growth. To be seriously thwarted, regardless of how, becomes a sad state of affairs. The more sophisticated and ritualistic parts of society are not that much different. A daily early ...

24. Settle for an F

Hebrews 13:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... tenuous nature of such a relationship is obvious. This "cleaving" can only be maintained when conditions in the soil are just right. Far from cement-like permanence, dabaq seems to emphasize the fragility of such a relationship. But dabaq also has covenantal overtones. Repeatedly Old Testament texts describe the need for the people to cleave close to their covenant. (See Deuteronomy 10:20; 11:22; 13:4, also Joshua 22:5; Ruth 1:14-16.) A covenant requires a faithfulness that enables "cleaving" whether you ...

25. Rules for the Road

Joshua 3:7-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the unknown future, we freeze up and then start to agonize over our inertia. All sorts of apocalyptic doom-and-gloom scenarios have been proposed for the future we face in the 2000s. I am predicting that 1998 will be even more charged with apocalyptic overtones than 2000 (Why? The Antichrist number 666 multiplied by the perfect number 3 = 1998). In fact, the closer the 2000 threshold gets, the more these doomsayers sit steadfastly still. They refuse to turn on the power of a God who has promised to be with ...

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