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Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... saw which sang." One of the lines these workers sang was: Hearts starve as well as bodies; Give us bread, but give us roses. When enjoying the requirements of our own souls, however, we must measure them as treasures, not possessions gifts to our spirits, not ... -to-heart; they are found praying on their knees, and they are found praising on their feet. We can all be successful treasure hunters because each of us has access to the key that reveals all the true treasures of life Jesus Christ. In him we are ...

2. Soul Deep Not Skin Deep

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... injuries. The prey is worth the fray. One taste of fresh blackberry pie . . . and you become a lifelong hunter, a member of the Homo Sapiens hunter species. In today's gospel text the unusual, even unpopular parable of the dishonest manager not only presents ... between 1997 and 2002. In 2002 over one and a half million patients got cosmetic Botox injections, and the numbers rose even higher in 2003. (For more such statistics see Virginia L. Blum, Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery [California ...

3. One Moose Too Many

Illustration

... , "and the other pilot let us take two moose." "Well, okay," said the pilot. "If you did it before I guess we can do it again." So the two moose and the hunters were loaded in and the plane took off. Because of the heavy weight, it rose with difficulty and was unable to clear an obstructing hill. After the crash, the men climbed out and looked around. One hunter said to the other, "Where are we, anyway?" His companion surveyed the scene. "I think we got about half a mile farther than we got last year."

4. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... , cried: “Arise!” Swift as a Thought by the snake Memory stung, From her ambrosial rest the fading Splendour sprung. XXIII. She rose like an autumnal Night, that springs Out of the East, and follows wild and drear The golden Day, which, on eternal wings ... weak hand that grasped it; of that crew He came the last, neglected and apart; A herd-abandoned deer struck by the hunter’s dart. XXXIV. All stood aloof, and at his partial moan Smiled through their tears; well knew that gentle band Who in another ...

5. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... so many open doors that he now breezes in and out of their psyche with no barriers whatever, a master of destruction and finally death. Hunter said of himself, “I sense it first, and before I have completely turned around he is there. He is me." You don’t want to ... defiant rebel yell. At the sound, "after half a century of silence, a moan, a sigh, a gigantic gasp of unbelief" rose from the Union men on Cemetery Ridge. "It was then," wrote Myers, "that the Yankees, unable to restrain themselves longer, ...

6. An Empty Stage Or An Empty Tomb?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... crowd of her fans packed the Apollo Theatre. The orchestra began playing, the curtain rose, a spotlight flashed through the dark, and the entire audience rose to its feet. They all stood gazing at a pool of light wandering around ... against being buried, but that was her stipulation. Mausoleums were little known at the time, so the husband hired the Scottish anatomist William Hunter to embalm his dead wife. Then he dressed her in fashionable attire and put her on display in the family parlor. Daily visiting ...

7. What Is Your Response to the Resurrection?

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... didn''t complain." Fear of competition winning out over other fears, the pilot relented. Grumbling, he helped them pile both moose into the little plane and the two hunters lay on top of them. The plane took forever to get off the lake and barely cleared the trees on the far shore. Then about a quarter of ... message: He came singing love He lives singing love He died singing love He rose in silence. If the song is to continue, we must do the singing. The Resurrection awaits your response. Amen and Amen.

8. Speaking from the Heart

Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... whatever it is. But what if we couldn’t store it away and forget about it? What if, like an abandoned storage unit on Auction Hunters, someone broke the lock and threw open the door and a camera crew showed the world what we kept stored away in our unit? Are ... he was speaking. Just before this teaching, Jesus had spent the night on a mountain praying as he often did. As the sun rose, Jesus came down from the mountain to speak to the people. Try to see this moment through Jesus’ eyes. He’s coming down ...

9. The Spiritual Organ Of Corti

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... two strong young men drew their swords. The fight was on! One of them would probably die in a few minutes. Who would it be? But just at that moment, Telemachus rose from his seat and ran into the arena. He held high the cross of Christ and threw himself between the two combatants. "In the name of our Master," he cried, "Stop ... Can One Person Accomplish?" p. 27. Previously adapted from a story in Courage In Both Hands by Allen A. Hunter (Fellowship of Reconciliation, 21 Audubon Ave., New York 32, N.Y.)

10. A Glory Revealed by Abiding

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... his heart, he experienced a dramatic "anno Domini." He was liberated and freed. But he did not just stay there. He, like Lazarus, "rose, went forth, and followed" Christ. Jesus sets us free to follow him that we may remain free. Jesus said, "If you continue in ... and the monkey’s hand. He has to either drop the food or remain trapped. He steadfastly hangs on and becomes easy pickings for hunters. He got what he wanted - but at a cost he did not expect. We all too often exchange our freedom in Christ for some ...

11. In Quest of Fire

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Sermon

Larry Powell

... coals burn low because of neglect. Here is a young man, handsome, bubbling personality, new home, boat, recreational vehicles, a hunter, camper, fisherman, social get-about. His name is on a church roll. He plays sports with the guys, jogs, skis ... dwelling place; but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, till the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, till there was no remedy. (36:15, 16) Is this a caricature of our lives? The watchmen of the fire have ...

12. A Niche For Every Itch

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and ... to us that PEOPLE RESPOND TO THE GOSPEL IN DIFFERENT WAYS. The Reverend Jerry Anderson, a retired pastor in Tennessee, was an avid duck hunter as a young man. Every fall when the first cold front moved in from the north, he would take out his duck decoys, clean ...

13. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... be left behind, and if you cling to them, then you will be left behind with them. We will be fully delivered; Christ died and rose to make it sure. Wrong behaviors and wrong ideas all have to go. Only truth and love will be allowed in that beautiful kingdom, and ... on this issue are Gregory Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005) and George Hunter III, Christian, Evangelical & Democrat (Nashville, TN: Abington, 2006). 4. The four classic marks of the church from the Nicene ...

14. Passion Sunday

Mt 26:14–27:66 · Phil 2:5-11 · Is 45:21-25; 50:4-9 · Ps 31

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... for all people -- a non-geographic, non-temporal realm of the spirit. The king of the Jews was dead and in his place there rose one who would be the Savior of the world. On the cross that hangs in our church, can a titilus be observed that reads: " ... head-on in the person of his Son. In so doing, God released the faithful from bondage to death. In the movie, The Deer Hunter, Michael attempts to free his friend Nick from the power of death. They were both subject to combat in Vietnam but Nick was forced to ...

15. If We Are Dreamers

Joel 2:18-27, Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

Clement E. Lewis

... , and the need to serve. That is the meaning of the dreams alluded to in the hymn we shared, written by John Hunter. Those were the kinds of dreams that Jesus treasured and sought to help to fulfillment. Dreams should cause us to reflect on ... commanded not to return, and winter was forbidden to paint the landscape; and many people cried, "If beauty dies, let me die too. Without roses, autumn woods, and spring, and the beauty of human faces, life is not worth living." But many of these had never lifted a note ...

16. The Birth Of Esau and Jacob

Genesis 25:19-34

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when she bore them. (1:) When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. (1:) Once when Jacob was cooking a ... sold his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

17. Marked By The Cross

Romans 6:2-4

Sermon

George Bass

... study made of polar bears to learn how they are coping with the infringement of modern culture upon their environment. The hunter/scientists making the study used a helicopter to locate and anesthetize a large polar bear; they shot a “loaded” dart into ... that he was making a “request,” and was really seeking information, so she told him, “Yes, Jesus did die on a cross, but he rose from the dead. He is alive and with us still.” This “sort of exchange went on for some time” and, then, one day he ...

18. Do You Have the Great Pearl?

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... the pearl dare not be touched. Any attempt to improve upon it is like trying to add color to the rainbow or beauty to the rose. It simply dare not be done because the pearl is already perfect. What can be more complete and perfect than the salvation that Christ has ... great price for us! The merchant in our text symbolizes the Christian life. Here he is depicted not as an ordinary souvenir hunter but rather as one looking for a valuable item worth more than all the other valuable items combined. He is looking ...

19. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... his melancholy hoot. The hunt for coons was on. The hounds bounded away as they were unleashed for freedom. I wanted to follow them. My companion, who was an experienced coon hunter, told me that we would just wait until the dogs got on a fresh trail. Then their howling would indicate that they were onto a coon. After many minutes of standing ... Martin Luther is quoted as saying, "We are to believe and live and love and work as though Jesus Christ died yesterday, rose today, and is coming again tomorrow."

20. Ready or Not, Here I Come!

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... that without feeling bad. Students say it when they stare at a big, bright red "F." Baseball batters lament it as they slouch off to the dugout after yet another strikeout. Hunters complain about it as they relive in their minds that big buck that got away while the safety was still on. "I guess I just wasn’t ready." Sometimes the consequences ... also, by grace through faith, when we live in him who lived and died and rose again for us, in him and for him, the One who is coming to take us to himself. Amen

21. Proper 10

Genesis 25:19-34, Isaiah 55:1-13, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 8:18-27, Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... - the twins struggled with each other - v. 22. b. Parents - Rebecca favored Jacob; Isaac favored Esau - v. 28. c. Occupation - Esau the hunter; Jacob the cook - v. 27. d. Values - Esau's material vs. Jacob's spiritual values - vv. 29-34. Lesson 1: Isaiah 55 ... It is not a matter of "Pinch me to see if I am alive." Outline: You know you are alive because - a. You died to self and rose to Christ in baptism. b. You live in the Spirit. c. Your Spirit witnesses to God's Spirit that you are alive. 2. No Spirit, No ...

22. What Names Are You Naming?

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... we function as individuals. Even in the earliest clans and tribes the group identity appreciated individuals - the greatest hunter, the strongest warrior, the wisest, the oldest, the youngest. This innate penchant for what psychologists call individuation is ... Great Tsunami of Christmas 2004. When the projected loss of life was around 20,000 we were sickened. When the death counts rose to 70,000 we were stunned. Then we were numbed as the numbers continued to climb, and the numbers of missing, never heard ...

23. The Smell of Fear

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Can you smell the fear? Hunters and soldiers have long spoken of experiencing firsthand the smell of fear. It's a scent as different from plain old hard ... weapons of mass destruction, every day that nothing happens is a victory for peace. Thank God for boring, nothing-happens days. Second, when you begin to smell the fear, smell the roses instead. There's nothing like a positive to overcome a negative. Even from prison Paul wrote that we should seize every moment to speak a positive word (Philippians 4:8). Or ...

24. Stand Up and Be Counted

Daniel 3:1-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... how ermines, those beautiful white furred animals who live in Europe, are hunted. They live in dens that are dug out of the ground. Hunters will dab these ermine dens with filth and mud and they turn the dogs loose to chase the ermine. Well, the ermine naturally runs ... just to make sure these men would be crispy critters. But then the fun begins: "Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, ‘Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?' ...

25. A Man of the Moment

Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... They are very different from each other, both physically and in personality. Esau, the twin born first, is a rugged outdoorsman and a hunter. He is his father's favorite, especially because the old man has a taste for the meat Esau brought home from his ... to fill his belly. There are five more verbs that report that rest of Esau's behavior in this incident. They are ate, drank, rose, departed, and despised. The first four tell us that he did not savor his costly meal; he just shoveled it in and left. The ...

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