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John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Catholic, who saved not only his life but the lives of 900 of his fellow Jews. Page was determined to find a writer who would be interested in telling the story of Oskar Schindler. One day a novelist, Thomas Keneally, came into Page’s shop to buy a briefcase, and Page told him his story. Keneally was intrigued and agreed to commit Schindler’s story to print. What resulted was a moving story of a man who helped hundreds of Jews escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis. The book was dedicated to ...

2. The Commitment of a Friend

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King Duncan

... a Roman Catholic, who saved not only his life but the lives of 900 of his fellow Jews. Page was determined to find a writer who would be interested in telling the story of Oskar Schindler. One day a novelist, Thomas Keneally, came into Page's shop to buy a briefcase, and Page told him his story. Keneally was intrigued and agreed to commit Schindler's story to print. What resulted was a moving story of a man who helped hundreds of Jews escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis. The book was dedicated to ...

3. Jesus Rescues Us

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... by and presume that others are responsible and we are not. On the contrary, we should take the lead and provide the proper example, so that others will follow in our footsteps. We should be proud to have such opportunities and responsibilities in our life. Oskar Schindler was a great hero, earning the distinction "Righteous Among Nations," the highest award the state of Israel can confer on a Gentile, for his rescue of over 1,000 Jews during World War II. He saved his workers and gave them new life when ...

4. Oskar’s Cruelty

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... like cattle onto freight trains, hungry, hot, and thirsty. The train is taking them to the death camps. The German soldiers are lolling about the station docks and enjoying the suffering they see, when tall, clean, rested, and pampered Schindler arrives in a spotless white suit. The Colonel offers him a drink and Oskar glad-hands among the soldiers for a minute. He has a bright idea! "Let's hose down the cars!" He convinces the Colonel to give him a soldier to man the hose, and they begin spraying the cars ...

5. Time For A New Vision

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Angela Akers

... 's List," which was turned into the awardwinning movie by Steven Spielberg. Before Page's death, he remarked, "I did not know how I would do this, but I promised Oskar Schindler I would make him a household name." (8) Leopold Page dedicated his life to spreading the story of Oskar Schindler, the man who had saved his life. Like Page, Jesus' followers did not know how they would do it, but they would dedicate their lives to making Jesus Christ a name known throughout the world. Our parting word, "Goodbye ...

6. Be Careful What You Ask For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... , “Why did I save this? I could have bought 10 Jews with this.” Taking another small possession he cried, “This would have saved another one. Why didn’t I do more?” (4) Oskar Schindler had a heart for serving and saving others. This is what true greatness is all about. At the end of the movie many Jews saved by Oskar Schindler are shown placing stones on his burial marker. This is a Jewish tradition--the stones symbolize that the memory of this man will not be blown away by the wind. (5) No act ...

7. Whose Side Are You On?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... of our faith. Deny yourself, live sacrificially, take up a cross. But this is not the whole story. If it were so, Simon Peter would have been doomed, and so would we. Christ does not us expect us to live under a heavy weight of guilt like Oskar Schindler, always feeling there is more we could have done. Such a burden would ultimately weigh us down and defeat us. And it was never Christ’s intention that we would think of ourselves with self-disgust worms of the dust, of no value, hopeless sinners. We are ...

8. Advent 1: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Faith of Christmas

Luke 2:15-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... people. A man comes before him and he has the absolute authority to kill that man, exterminate that man, if he so chooses… and the commander has been in the habit of doing just that… killing people brutally right and left with no conscience at all. But Oskar Schindler says, “Oh no, Commander, you are wrong. That is not power. Anyone could do that. But to have a man come before you and to say, ‘I could take your life if I so choose but no… instead I pardon you! I pardon you!’ That, Commander, is ...

9. Love Came Down at Christmas

Luke 2:15-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

10. Using the Best Materials

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... gas chambers. After the war, this noble heart abandoned his wife, became a womanizer and a drunkard, fell into destitution and dependence on others. He even pawned the commemorative gold ring that was fashioned for him from the false teeth of those he rescued. Oskar Schindler was not a man of self-control. It takes people of character to build lives that really matter. Character is not a sudden blaze of glory won, it is the accumulation of days in which good deeds are done. Paul says character is a matter ...

11. Jesus Eats with Sinners and Heals the Sick

Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 9:14-17, Matthew 9:18-26, Matthew 9:27-34

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Jeannine K. Brown

... . . . . Too many churches expect unchurched people to come to them, but the church is called to go to the unchurched people. The church is called to compete for the kingdom in the middle of the marketplace.2 History: Oskar Schindler is an example of what it means to use power in compassionate ways—extending mercy to the powerless. Schindler spent his entire fortune to save the lives of some twelve hundred Jewish workers from Nazi death camps like Auschwitz. The final scene from Steven Spielberg’s film ...

12. How to Recognize a Prophet

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... Christ, the Messiah, the ultimate prophet be? It will simply be that "When you see him, you see God, and he has come to bring life." Jesus, the ultimate prophet, has been "raised up" by God and is the Lord's servant. As the film Schindler's List moves toward its conclusion, Oskar Schindler is seen lamenting the fact that he still owns a gold Nazi lapel pin. He tears it from his coat and cries painfully, "With this pin I could have ransomed two more Jewish lives." He stares at the pin in his hand and weeps ...

13. Nabuchadnezzar’s Dream and Daniel's Interpretation

Daniel 2:1-23, Daniel 2:24-49

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Ronald W. Pierce

... s List. It is often the presence of darkness that causes people to long all the more strongly for light. Consider compelling classic films set in historical times of great turmoil and despair, such as Schindler’s List. Overwhelmed by the enormity of the task, at the end of the war Oskar Schindler laments, “I could have got more out. . . . If I’d made more money . . . Why did I keep the car?” Even though he has been responsible for rescuing eleven hundred Jewish people, despair remains. Ask selected ...

14. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... such men and women lack the wonder of life that comes from hope in eternity. If this life is all we have, we are most sad, most pitiable. Some of you will remember the movie Schindler’s List. Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, Steven Spielberg’s movie tells the compelling true story of the German businessman Oskar Schindler who comes to Nazi-occupied Poland looking for economic prosperity and leaves as a savior of more than 1,100 Jews. The entire film is in black and white except for a little girl ...

15. Acquired Taste

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... with these words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.” In late summer 1944, Jane Haining, tattooed with the number 79467, died. She was most likely gassed alongside her Hungarian colleagues and charges. Her name is inscribed near that of Oskar Schindler’s on the Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem in Israel. Jane Haining is thought to be the only Scot to be slain in the Nazi death camps. She is remembered in the stained-glass windows of Queen's Park Church in Glasgow and at the Church ...

16. The Kindness and Sternness of God

Romans 11:11-24

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C. Marvin Pate

... . Outside Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, a garden of trees is planted in honor of “righteous Gentiles,” those who risked a great deal to protect Jews, especially during the Holocaust. One of the trees planted there is in honor of Oskar Schindler, who helped to save hundreds of Jews from the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. Film: Weapons of the Spirit. This award-winning documentary (1987) is the stirring account of the villagers of Le Chambon in France, many of them descendants of French ...

17. And a Child Will Lead Them

Exodus 2:1-10, Matthew 18:1-9, Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... anyone could do such a thing to an innocent child. And yet our world is filled with these kinds of stories: stories of abuse, stories of kidnappings, stories of wartime atrocities, stories of poverty. We celebrate heroes still today, such as Oskar Schindler, Irena Sendler, and Sir Nicholas Winton, who rescued countless children from concentration camps at the height of WWII. Some of our greatest philanthropic gifts have been for the benefit of children. For we believe that the innocence of children needs to ...

18. Where Is He?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and bayoneted to death by communist revolutionaries in a basement in Yekaterinburg. At the time, the children were only 22, 21, 19, 17, and 13 years old and unable to be saved. But later, in World War II, heroes, such as Nicholas Winton, Oskar Schindler, Irena Sendlerowa, and Raoul Wallenberg, saved thousands and thousands of Jewish babies and children from Nazi death camps. Throughout our world, there are those who would threaten the lives of children. And those who would risk their lives to save them. In ...

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