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Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:42-47, Isaiah 43:1-13, 1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Luke 24:13-35

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... Church seems to be gaining this unity more readily than the non-Roman Churches. SERMON SUGGESTIONS A sermon on the Gospel, Luke 24:13-35 - "The Stranger." The late Edmund A. Steimle wrote and preached a sermon on this text, which he entitled "The Stranger," and included as the "title sermon" in a volume of radio sermons called, God, the Stranger. It is a biblical sermon cast in the narrative style that Steimle developed in his teaching and preaching career (see Preaching the Story). In it he interweaves his ...

2. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... , The Gospel According to Matthew, New Clarendon Bible (London: Oxford University Press, 1975), p. 146. 5. William M. Taylor, The Miracles of Our Savior (New York: A. C. Arnstrong, 1900), p. 299. 6. Lenski, op. cit. p. 351. 7. James D. Smart, The Quiet Revolution (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1959), p. 72. 8. Martin Luther. 9. Edmund A. Steimle, Are You Looking For God? (Philadephia: Muhlenberg Press, 1957), p. 50. 10. Ronald S. Wallace, The Gospel Miracles (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1960, p. 111). 11 ...

3. Are You Ready to Wait?

Matthew 25:1-13

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Albert G. Butzer III

... back when. In fact, the longer the delay, the easier it is to lose hope that he will ever return at all. Edmund Steimle, a Lutheran minister, once wrote about Christ’s delayed return in these words: On the roof of the Riverside Church in New York is the figure of the ... John Hall, Thinking the Faith (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991), p. 234. 3. Edmund A. Steimle, Disturbed by Joy (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1967), pp. 13-14. 4. Thomas G. Long, Matthew (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997), p ...

4. The Power of Remembrance (Part III)

Philippians 1:1-11

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Eric Ritz

... for our future aspirations. Memory can prevent us from forgetting the message and the messenger, and that the author of the message was God Himself. So today my task is to remind us of the powerful message of All Saints'' Day. Dr. Edmund A. Steimle, who was one of the great preachers, exclaimed, "The grand assurance of All Saints'' Day is that no life is forgotten--ultimately. If God is good, then all that is good in the world is never lost. The last enemy, death''s insatiable ambition, is conquered ...

5. Real Absence

Matthew 25:1-13

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... we do not seek it or choose it. For as Frederick Beuchner says, "Absence can be sacramental, too, a door left open, a chamber of the heart kept ready and waiting."4 1. James A. Nestingen, "Hidden in a Word," in Augsburg Sermons Gospels, Series A, Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, 1974, p. 121. 2. Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth, Harper & Row, New York, 1977, p. 43. 3. Edmund A. Steimle, "Address Not Known" in From Death to Birth, Fortress, Philadelphia, 1973, pp. 64f. 4. Buechner, Telling the ...

6. Easter 6

Psalm 66:1-20, Acts 17:16-34, 1 Peter 3:8-22, John 14:15-31

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... the Day Psalm 66:1-6, 14-18 - The theme of this psalm is most appropriate for Eastertide and the Sixth Sunday of Easter. It issues a call to praise and prayer on the part of those who know that they have been richly blessed by God, and have, therefore, caught the ... at trying to be obedient and useful people of God. SERMON POSSIBILITIES A sermon on the Gospel, John 14:15-22 - "Loving Obedience." In one of his sermons, the late Edmund A. Steimle talked about obedience to the commands of Christ in terms of Jesus ...

7. When The Saints Come Marching In

Revelation 7:9-17

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Robert S. Crilley

... sort of folk whom you wouldn't dream of having over for Sunday dinner, and to find some secluded corner of eternity to spend with a few close friends in splendid isolation, then your deepest desire, it would appear, is for hell not heaven! It's hell, after all, which supplies one with solitary confinement. Or as Edmund Steimle so aptly described it: "a vast gray city constantly expanding, because nobody can stand to live next door to anyone else."3 From John's vantage point, heaven doesn't discriminate ...

8. Veiled Glimpses of God's Glory

Exodus 33:12-23

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Robert S. Crilley

... without realizing it, I had been up on the stage all along. Just whose story is this anyway? 1. Paul Scherer, The Word God Sent (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), p. 81. 2. Frederick Buechner, Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 2. 3. Edmund Steimle, "God's Afterglow," Protestant Radio Hour, Atlanta, Georgia, March 14, 1965. 4. Michael E. Williams et al., The Storyteller's Companion to the Bible, Volume Two: Exodus-Joshua (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992), p. 110.

9. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

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George Bass

... her tears, couldn’t it? But it may have been that the risen Lord looked different than he had before his death, as Edmund Steimle suggests. In Luke’s account of the events of resurrection day, two of Jesus’ disciples had a similar experience to Mary Magdalene’s as they were walking to Emmaus. A stranger joined them - Jesus Christ - but they didn’t recognize him either. Steimle says: "That part of the story, that he was not recognized, is baffling. Presumably they had been in daily contact with him ...

10. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Romans 1:1-17, Matthew 1:18-25, Psalm 24:1-10

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... through the angel, take Mary as his wife, and name the child Jesus after his birth. Jesus was born into a family, a holy family, and saved from illegitimacy, or worse, by the loving and compassionate obedience of a God-fearing man. And that's a lesson for us as we are about to celebrate Christmas once more. (Note: The secret of developing the text into a biblical story sermon, as does the late Edmund Steimle, is in interweaving the three strands of story: the story in the text, the preacher's story, and the ...

11. Proper 27

Psalm 17:1-15, Psalm 9:1-20, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17, Zechariah 7:1-14, 1 Chronicles 29:10-20, Job 19:1-29, Luke 20:27-40

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George Bass

... in their resolve. Jesus would soon have reason to test out his faith in the resurrection; they would see to that. They did. 1. The resurrection is a stumbling block for many people. It always will be. It is too unbelievable. It sounds like something out of a fairy tale. It appears to be wishful thinking, as it did to the Sadducees. Some three decades ago, Edmund Steimle said in one of his sermons: "For the story of the resurrection is still an idle tale for literally millions of people today. Not only for ...

12. Promise or Threat?

Matthew 24:1-35

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... us for generations - wars and rumors of wars, nation rising against nation. In terms of signs of the end, the church has always lived in a world that looked to be in its last days. Edmund Steimle once pointed to the statue of the Angel Gabriel atop the roof of Riverside Church in New York City. There the angel is poised, horn to his lips, ready to break forth with a mighty blast in announcement of Christ’s return. Through ice and sleet, heat and cold, summer rain and winter storm, there Gabriel is perched ...

13. The Abiding Presence

Exodus 33:12-23

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... . And that is the way it happened; God was as good as his word of promise and the Israelites knew that he was with them in their journey to, and conquest of, the Promised Land. That is exactly the kind of God we have in the Old and New Testaments, a God whose face is hidden from us but who is constantly watching over us. Edmund Steimle says that the biblical promise, "He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep" might be freely translated, "You never catch God napping." He says, "That’s ...

14. Pentecost -- A Wild, Weird, Wonderful Day

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John A. Stroman

... Spirit did for Peter? Peter's life was like an ordinary piece of wire, that became incandescent with the Holy Spirit. If we would take a stethoscope and place it against the heart of the early church we would hear the throbbing life beat of the Holy Spirit. As we consider ... on new wine," others mockingly replied. They were drunk, but not with new wine. They were drunk in what Edmund Steimle called "the dazzling possibilities of the love of God breaking out all over the place, smashing down barriers and ...

15. Transfiguration of Our Lord

Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Exodus 24:1-18, Psalm 2:1-12

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... wanted to hedge his bets; he wanted to make certain that something good and lasting would come out of this experience - some kind of a memorial or marker - so he blurted out, "Lord, it is well that we are here; if you wish, I will make three booths here, one ... - with Jesus - for us to join him in Lent. 2 Peter 1:16-19 (20-21) - "We Were There." 1. Some years ago, Edmund Steimle preached an Easter sermon that he titled, "No Idle Tale." He asserted, by his references to the Easter story and the accounts that ...

16. The Radiant Life

Exodus 34:29-35

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Derl G. Keefer

... the presence of his glory draws near. Then, we want him to hide us in the cleft of a rock. His presence is like peals of thunder and the fierce winds of a violent storm, and we reconsider the foolishness of our whim to see him. He is a holy God. Not only holy, but holy, holy holy...." - Revelation 4:8[3] When we come to worship our God, we come to consider who he is through his ... * holy power - Edmund Steimle said, "Do you really want to see divine power at work? Then discard your human notions of power ...

17. Marked For Death

Genesis 3:1-24

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George Bass

... an excruciatingly horrible manner -- nailed to a tree. His whole life was a journey to Jerusalem to be killed as a criminal. He knew that death was his destiny. Hadn’t he told his disciples three times, at least, about what lay ahead of him in Jerusalem? Only much later did they understand what he had said: “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” Dr. Edmund Steimle once said: “Jesus did not ...

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