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1. Show and Sell or Show and Tell?

Hebrews 9:11-28

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Leonard Sweet

... that had ever been revealed. This “tell-all” story revealed the final, saving act of the divine to remove the sin that stained the human soul, the sin that strained all human relationships, the sin that stunted the growth of the human heart. It is your mission and mine to show and tell this story. In the words of Charles Wesley: A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify, A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky. To serve the present age, My calling to fulfill: O may it all my powers engage To ...

2. Good Show

Revelation 5:11-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... serving you. You come to serve God so that God might have a better opportunity to serve you. And I hope it will be a good show. Which brings us to today's Epistle from the Book of Revelation. Friends, do you suffer from the post-Easter blahs? Has the ecstasy gone out ... death of another and I didn't know any good news". Two weeks ago, when the glorious Easter services here were done and the show was over, I went to my office to disrobe and there was a note on my desk. The note said, "We are from South Carolina ...

3. Just Showing Up Doesn't Get the Job Done

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... passion. Be Yourself. It has always been true: Everybody wants everyone else to be just like them. Oscar Wilde said that the first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. Wilde continued: "What the second is, no one has yet discovered." God has called us to "show up" and "be present" because God has need of the unique gifts and strengths each one of us has to offer to this place and time. God wants you to be just like you. God wants you to be who you are. An old cowboy saying declares: "You can ...

4. Show and Tell

Mark 1:16-22

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... , my point is this. You and I have both experienced the unconditional love and grace of Christ Jesus in our lives. We have experienced redemption and the forgiveness of our sins through Jesus. And now, we are called and commissioned, just like the disciples, to "Show and Tell." I personally think that our church should be so evangelistic in nature that we start serving special cookies in our nursery and preschool. I think we ought to serve Billy Graham Crackers. (1) I know that was bad but I couldn't pass ...

5. Show Us The Father, and We Shall Be Satisfied

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Larry Powell

... its many forms in order to establish that there are times when evil appears to be more evident than the good. What we really want to know is, "Where is God when evil has its way?" and the ache deep down in our souls causes us to cry out, "Show us the Father." Christian friend, it is all in knowing how to look. Many of you will remember that several years ago one of the Russian cosmonauts left his capsule and floated in space, remarking to the mission control that he did not "see" God anywhere. C. S. Lewis ...

6. Showing Up

Ephesians 3:1-12

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... assumes his audience remembers the events on the Damascus Road, how Jesus said to him in a vision, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" He asked, "Who are you, Lord?" The reply came, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting" (Acts 9:4-5). This revealing showed Paul at least two things, one of which everyone always notices, the other perhaps not. First, that he, Saul, had got it wrong and had been on the wrong side. Rather than the believers in Jesus being deluded by one more charlatan, Jesus really had been ...

7. A Religion that Shows

Haggai 1:1-15

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David E. Leininger

... a dollar or two in the plate; and then go on about their business. Why, if they did not say they were God's people, no one would ever know. I suspect Haggai would say the same thing all over again: "Your religion is not showing and it has to show if you are to get the blessings God intended for you." Does that mean he would recommend more and greater cathedrals, huge monuments; tremendous building programs? I doubt it. The message would be "get your priorities straight, and the place to begin is the same ...

8. Show Me Your Credentials

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... Christians. You claim to be the very sons and daughters of God. You claim to be members of the kingdom of heaven. You claim to be saints, holy ones, and the apples of God's eye. Now is the time to fess up. No more foolin' around. Show me your credentials. Ironically, perhaps even surprisingly, you already have done that. In fact, you do that every time we gather for worship. But I must admit that they are rather strange and odd credentials. They are not the kind of credentials that members of a successful ...

9. Show Me The Fish!

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the water, driving the fish into deeper depths. "Cleaning their nets" probably indicated that they were finished with the day's catch, ready to go home. (2) These fishermen were tired and they were frustrated. They had toiled all night and had nothing to show for it. It's like the salesman who has gone for days without a sale. It's like the lawyer who cannot attract clients. They were discouraged, disheartened. Jesus' request must have seemed strange to them. Jesus asked them to go back out in their ...

10. What If He Shows Up?

John 2:13-22

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... on the back of an "I Am Here" card? Probably to the clergy, "Shape up!" Then I thought, what would Jesus say to the congregation? Have you ever thought about that? That is why John put this story in the gospel, so you would ask that question, "What if Jesus showed up in church? What would he say?" There is an old story about a French pastor who was appointed to a new parish in a little village. He started out by calling on people in their homes. He called on one home and talked to the wife. When the husband ...

11. Show Me What’s Real

Exodus 33:12-23

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Timothy J. Smith

... that the Lord God resume God's role. Where in the previous chapter God referred to the people as Moses' people, in our lesson Moses subtly reminded God that the people were in fact God's own people. "Now if I have found favor in your sight," Moses told God, "show me your ways, so that I may know you and find favor in your sight." Moses was seeking a sense of assurance that he and the people would not be abandoned in the middle of the desert where sand was the only thing that all anyone could see for miles ...

12. A Religion That Shows

Haggai 1:15, 2:9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... no temporary condition; it had persisted for almost twenty years, and no one seemed able to come up with a solution. Almost no one. There was one man who had a solution, Haggai, the prophet of God. His message said, "Your religion isn't showing, and it had better show if you want things to improve." A nation other than the Jews might not have thought that to be such a terrible indictment. After all, religion is often considered a private matter. Millions think that even today. But the Jews had been a people ...

13. Is God Showing through You?

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... say Jesus lives in us?" "Yes," her mother stated once again. "Well, then, if God is bigger than we are and God lives in us, why doesn't he show through?" The God who shows through is what Peter called his listeners to be attentive to. The Transfiguration was that lamp shining in a dark place, that peek-a-boo of divine glory that shows forth now at unexpected moments and from unexpected places. The Transfiguration is when the glory is revealed, when the world-saving value of Jesus was made clear, when the ...

14. God Shows No Partiality

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... club. But Peter, in our Old Testament lesson, has learned differently. That strange vision that he had from God, the arrival of the delegation from Cornelius, and the eager faces of the Gentile crowd before him, convince him otherwise. "Truly, I perceive," he says, "that God shows no partiality." God doesn't care a whit, you see, who you are or where you came from. He does not judge according to human standards. God sees our hearts. And those of us here this morning whose hearts are open to hear the gospel ...

15. Growing Up Is More Than Showing Up

1 John 2:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... happened, he said, "I don't know. I guess I stayed too close to where I got in." So many Christians do that with their faith. For most of their Christian life they stay too close where they got in. You see, we often think that "growing up is showing up." We think that if a person comes to church on Sunday morning, and perhaps even attends a Bible study group, and maybe even holds an official position in the church like deacon, or Sunday School teacher, or committee member, or a trustee, that he or she must ...

16. Show Us The Father

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... didn't realize how upset Jesus was that we were all being so dense in understanding what he was telling us. "When I asked him to show us the Father, I was just trying to tell him how hard it was for us to believe that we were doing God's work. After ... before we really began to understand so much of what he had said. "So, I made what I thought was an obvious request. If Jesus could only show us a little glimpse of God, then we would have been able to be sure that we were on the right track. I didn't realize ...

17. Show Me Your Passport

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... give thanks for the gifts of others we must give thanks. As citizens of the gospel we find our strength in Christ--even as we become vulnerable to the whole world. Maybe the best way we can repair our image in the world right now isn't to know and show how to BE STRONG, but to learn from Katrina how to BE WEAK. We know we can be a good giver. Can we be a good receiver? Can YOU be a good receiver?

18. Lost, But Not the TV Show!

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... about was bringing them home. I love how the chapter begins. “Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus . . .” We could derive an entire sermon from that one phrase. Tax-collectors and sinners were all gathering around Jesus. This shows two things. First of all, the tax-collectors and sinners were hungry for Christ’s message. They were not coming out of idle curiosity, or to merely observe, or to find fault with him; they were coming out of a deep spiritual need. They ...

19. Show Me Your Baptismal Certificate

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the pews in our churches are emptying out, and the “nones” and the “dones” constitute the fastest growing religious segment of the population, the subject of “evangelism” is making somewhat of a comeback. And a favorite way of teaching “evangelism” is to show how we can “lead” people back to church and to Christ. But wait a minute! Oops! This “lead people to Christ” mentality is what is getting us into trouble in the first place, In fact, the whole “lead people to Christ” notion ...

20. Show Us the Father

John 14:8-17, 25-27

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

Philip put forth what seemed like a really good request. “Show us the Father.” He added, “That will be enough for us” (John 14:8). Yes, that would be great. If we can just see the Father, we’ll be cool. We’ll have all the inspiration we need to keep plugging away. We’ll be set for life. We’ll ...

21. Show and Listen

Acts 8:26-40

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Leonard Sweet

Nothing brings out bad manner and bad language like a phone call from a telemarketer. Can I get an Amen? The moment you say hello, and are greeted first with that brief static-buzz on the line and then with an overly-cheery voice chummily asking for you by (mispronounced) name, you can feel your blood pressure rising. Is it just me, or is it your experience as well that these calls come on the busiest days, at the busiest times? Dinner is cooking, kids are fighting, the door bell is ringing . . . and this ...

22. Hang Time: A Good Friday Sermon

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... Never mind that the person is good. Never mind that the person is innocent. Never mind they don't know the person. They always show up at hammer time, when it's time to nail somebody or tear somebody down. They never have a good thing to say about ... tried to stop him dead in his tracks with some nine-inch nails and some two-by-fours and some cast iron hammers. Just as the show time people specialize in hanging for the things of Jesus for a short while, the hammer time people don't hang for the things of Jesus ...

23. Harvesting What We Plant

Mark 4:26-34

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... memory of the attack. And, indeed, the "new" memory has replaced the violent one. Now, when I shave, I feel the love my dad showed me, and I also remember what it felt like to be innocent. My shaving memory marked the start of a long journey best ... appendage. He is the church tag along. He is not the religious head, heart, and soul of the family." (3) You and I as parents have to Show and Tell our kids how much we love them and how much we love God because We Harvest What We Plant. Conclusion A bald man and ...

24. Character Approved: Stand Up or Stand Out?

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is about one species. But human beings have spent so many centuries messing around with the canine gene pool that the difference between some breeds is astronomical. How do you compare a Chihuahua with a Newfoundland. Or a Pekinese with a Pit Bull? Yet in dog shows, after a champion has been crowned in each breed, the next competition is to find the best dog in each “Group” — herding, working, sporting, toy, and the group that we’d all like to be in, the “non working.” After a winner has been ...

25. You CAN Take It With You

Luke 24:36-49

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... and to touch the Lord’s wounds. Once again today, we hear Jesus answering the questions that rose in his disciples’ hearts by showing them his scars. Jesus relieves their fears and troubles with these words, "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; ... live before him. (Hosea 6:1-2) God’s surgery for his people was surgery on himself! In Jesus’ death on the Cross, God showed himself as broken by sin. He offered no last-minute "heroics" to save the life of his Son. Death came with no attempt on ...

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