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1. Global Warming

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... up" to our responsibilities by redirecting our inward fixation and looking out on our families and communities with new eyes. The United States is responsible for 22% of the world's carbon dioxide output, by far the largest contributor of gases that produce global warming. That amounts to about 55,000 pounds for every American man, woman and child. To make matters worse the United States has been one of the slowest nations to recognize the dangers of our punching holes in the ozone. On November 6, 1990, all ...

2. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... with Naomi, Ruth's quality of relationships came to the notice of Boaz who asked for her hand in marriage. Charles Dickens wrote, "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." We get cold alone. But together we can stay warm. In coming to you for friendships I acknowledge I need you. I need your listening ears, your insight, your wisdom, your help. Alone I am weak and vulnerable. Together with you I find what I need to go on. Leslie Weatherhead wrote, "He who hugs life to ...

3. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Steven Burt

... maid who kept the door to the court of the high priest said to Peter, “Are you not also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not. “Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold,… Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “Are you not also one of his disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.” One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden ...

4. Jesus, Where Are You?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Samra, in his book, The Joyful Christ, tells of a time when he needed healing and found it in a new vision of Jesus. Over ten years ago, Cal's life fell apart. His failing health had driven him to move far away from his family and friends, to the warm environment of Arizona. His health had also forced him to leave his job. His marriage had failed. He was worn out and sick, lonely and depressed. At the young age of fifty, Cal Samra had no more hope left. He decided to take his own life. Cal bought a length ...

5. Bridging the Generation Gap

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... a young mother who went to her pastor and said, "I'm having trouble with my son." The pastor said, "What's wrong?" She said, "Yesterday I warmed his soup and called him for lunch, but he didn't come." The soup got cold so I warmed it again, called him again, but he still didn't come. I warmed the soup a third time, called him again, and he still didn't come. Finally, after I warmed the soup the tenth time, I lost it and screamed at him and he came." She said, "What do you think my problem is?" The pastor ...

6. Parenting 101

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... a young mother who went to her pastor and said, "I'm having trouble with my son." The pastor said, "What's wrong?" She said, "Yesterday I warmed his soup and called him for lunch, but he didn't come. The soup got cold so I warmed it again, called him again, but he didn't come. I warmed the soup a third time and called him again, and he still didn't come. Finally, after I warmed the soup the tenth time I lost it and screamed at him, and he came." She said, "What do you think my problem is?" The pastor ...

7. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

... Aldersgate Street had his own form of a manger, and he was never the same again. Where is the manger that changed your life? Where did the Christmas experience happen for you? When did you come to be able to say, “I felt my heart strangely warmed.” Did your Christmas experience, whether it happened on December 25 or another day of the year, make you enthusiastic to serve Jesus? Did your Christmas experience give you a heartfelt zeal to share the love of Jesus? Did the moral power of the incarnate Christ ...

8. The Dream For Wisdom

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... the city of David. Our prayer for David, companion in these past weeks, is that David sleeps, at last, in peace. For in those last years, David is so advanced in years, so old, that he cannot get warm. They cover him with clothes, but he does not get warm. They bring him a young maiden to lie beside him, but he does not get warm. I imagine David shivers in the knowledge of all that his life has taught him, the hard way. At the end of his life, David shivers in the knowledge that the fear of the Lord is the ...

9. Elijah and the Widow of Zarapheth

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... that today?" you ask. "Yeah," I say, "there's the pity." Because God was in that very ordinary stuff. And we just don't make it ordinary enough. God is in ordinary events. As I have been, I am sure you have been thrilled by and warmed to the voice of Luciano Pavarotti. I warmed to him even more when in an interview he was asked how it feels to be regarded as the greatest living tenor, and perhaps the greatest tenor ever. "It is not I," he responded. "I am not my voice. The voice is something I possess. It ...

10. Fingerprints on the Chalice

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Steven Burt

... least as many Communion experiences as there are people. And each person has many Communion experiences. Who knows what will be triggered by the smell of bread and juice, by their taste or the weight of them in one’s mouth? By the words of the preacher or the warm hand of the assistant? Maybe it will be the smell of incense or candles, or the song of a bird outside the sanctuary window that brings a person face-to-face with God. Or the shadows cast by a candle, or the sun streaking through a stained gass ...

11. It's Not a Snuggie Love

Mark 15:1-15, Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... TV” hottest Christmas present of 2008, the “Snuggie” blanket — the “blanket with sleeves” — the crowd’s love is warm, comfortable, enveloping — and cheap. You know the “Snuggie” I’m talking about. Since they were introduced on an ... world. Cross-bearing understands the gift of true sacrifice. A suffering, crucified savior is the scratchy, abrasive opposite of warm, fuzzy Snuggie love. Jesus exercised his greatest power when he was willingly made powerless upon the cross. Cross-bearing ...

12. Why Am I A United Methodist?

I Timothy 1:12-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , while the leader was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for my salvation: And an assurance was given me, that He had taken away ... , England, nor the name of a church in nearly every city in America. Aldersgate represents a personal, convincing, transforming, heart-warming, Christian experience that empowered one of the greatest spiritual awakenings in the history of the world. It is a part ...

13. Dressing For The Marriage

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Mary Venema Swierenga

... When you marry, you commit yourself to the other, you bind yourself with promises to love the other as yourself, you promise to caringly bring your whole self to your relationship. Wear that caring, committed love you've promised today as the overcoat that will keep you warm for a lifetime together. There is one more thing that needs to be said -- actually, what I'm about to say undergirds everything I've said to far. These clothes Paul invites us to put on are not made of natural fibers. They are woven of ...

14. Is It Too Late?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

George Johnson

... would be willing to wave our flags and blow our trumpets if we would decide to spend 50 billion dollars to prepare for and wage war on the threat to Mother Earth. Is it too late? There is differing opinion on how serious the ozone crisis and warming trend really are. We all agree that is a problem. But how serious is it - 70 percent serious, 90 percent serious? Perhaps this example will help. Your two-year-old is outside playing. Someone comes and reports that your child is headed for the freeway, exploring ...

15. Bridges, Not Walls!

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... history, which revealed a God who was full of surprises, was going to record one more surprise and it was a big one. No longer was there to be a wall between the Jews and Gentiles. All people are God’s people. The bridge is in. This is a warm story. It is a beautiful story about the crossing of a tremendous frontier. It is a story full of wonderful surprises. There’s no applause here for the feelings of hate. There’s no support for division. Rather just the opposite is true. We have a Roman soldier ...

16. John Wesley: Religion of the Heart

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... you. We Christians need heart-warmers so we can feel our religion. These are ... "very great and precious gifts he promises us.” And we, too, ... "may come to share the divine nature" (1 Peter 1:4). There was no elitism on Wesley’s part once his heart was warmed. He took it out to all of God’s people. An R. Hancock completed a famous engraving of John Wesley in 1790. The words over the engraving are "He went about doing good." It ought be said of us as well. Perhaps we need a conversion. Wesley was ...

17. Do You Hear What I Hear?

Luke 1:46-56, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... to which others are blind: "He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty." Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king, "Do you hear what I hear? In your palace warm, mighty king, Do you hear what I hear? A Child, a Child shivers in the cold-- Let us bring him silver and gold, Let us bring him silver and gold" Something new and unexpected. A word of hope in a hopeless world. Do you hear it? That is the ...

18. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in the house of the high priest. Except for Peter. Peter was there, in the courtyard. He didn’t acquit himself very well, but at least he was there. “And as Peter was below in the house, one of the maids of the high priest came, and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, ‘You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.’ But he denied it, saying, ‘I neither know nor understand what you mean.’” Mark 14:66) I. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS IS NOT A STORY OF PETER’S COWARDICE, BUT OF HIS ...

19. Bearing the Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... returned it to her. At night he wrapped himself up in this soft green blanket. It was very cold there in the woods and he was warm in it and he slept soundly through the night. In fact, he slept so soundly that he had never had occasion to see the King of ... the World who was said to come early each morning to make all things fresh and new. But the elf was so wrapped up in his warm, snug, soft green blanket that he never was up and never had seen the King of the World. One time a shepherd met this elf out in ...

20. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place, Penguin Books, 40 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010, USA) Singing the Lord's song is not a solo performance. We sing together, or we sing for someone else until they can sing, or others sing for us until our hearts are warmed and our tongues loosened, and we can join the singing. SINGING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND (#2)Scripture: Psalm 137: 1-6 A few months ago, I told a lawyer story in one of my sermons. It was a funny story that didn't speak too well ...

21. The Power of Partnership

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord." There is also strength when a man and a wife have children. "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is His reward." (Ps. 127:3) We do need someone to warm us on those days when life turns cold; when the east wind of trouble blows our way; when we are buried under a blizzard of heartache; when the chill of depression and discouragement freezes our very heart. We need the heat of a hug, the warmth of a word ...

22. A Matter Of The Heart

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... its hands set at 8:45—a quarter before nine. For John Wesley, that was the moment of his open heart surgery, a heart strangely warmed—in fact, a new heart. And, of course, Brother Charles Wesley would put it to song: O for a heart to praise my God, a ... , a copy, Lord, of thine. [2] If hardness of heart is the diagnosis and open heart surgery is the cure, then a heart strangely warmed, a new heart, is the result. And that brings us to the text for the morning, Psalm 51. It begins with that cryptic note ...

23. Style: Some Distinctive Marks of a Methodist

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... only us Methodists —— the world needs it - the catholic spirit lived out in the different denominations. II Now the second ingredient of a Methodist style. What we label in the vernacular as “heart-felt religion”. In Methodist language it is the experience of the “warm heart.” This has meaning at two points: the individual, and the fellowship - the larger group. The Methodist movement was born in England and soon began to burn with a fire of love across that land in large part because of two big ...

24. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Denied!"

John 13:36-38; 18:12-27

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?" [23] Jesus answered, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?" [24] Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. [25] Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, "You are not also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." [26] One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, "Did I not see you in ...

25. True North

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... in all kinds of positions. You saw them sprinting all over the field. What were they doing? They were stretching and warming up. A professional athlete would never start playing a game without first warming up. Spending time with God is our time to stretch our souls and warm up our hearts before God. It prepares us for our day. Christ’s followers should never begin a day without first warming up before God. This is how our souls become sensitized to God’s guidance each day. Imagine how different your ...

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1. Global Warming

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

2. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

3. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Steven Burt

4. Jesus, Where Are You?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

5. Bridging the Generation Gap

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

6. Parenting 101

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... a young mother who went to her pastor and said, "I'm having trouble with my son." The pastor said, "What's wrong?" She said, "Yesterday I warmed his soup and called him for lunch, but he didn't come. The soup got cold so I warmed it again, called him again, but he didn't come. I warmed the soup a third time and called him again, and he still didn't come. Finally, after I warmed the soup the tenth time I lost it and screamed at him, and he came." She said, "What do you think my problem is?" The pastor ...

7. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

8. The Dream For Wisdom

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

9. Elijah and the Widow of Zarapheth

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko