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Sermon

Michael Rogness

... had gone fishing, all the times they had worked side-by-side in the fields. Finally his son disappeared down the road, and with tear-stained cheeks he turned and went back home, to a house that now seemed lonely and empty. Most of those words and descriptions are not in ... realized it had all been prepared beforehand, but probably no one who was there will forget that sermon. Richard Jensen calls these kinds of creative ideas "stereo preaching," creative preaching which communicates to both the literal left ...

2. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... Matthew (15:21-23). Scholars fail to agree as to whether Jesus actually set foot into Gentile territory. Some interpreters like Richard Trench1 are convinced that at no time in his earthly ministry did our Lord pass beyond the borders of the Holy ... more faith left. I am not worthy to enter into your kingdom." But Jesus just looked at the little old man’s long white beard stained with tears and smiled, "Fret not, little friend," the Lord said. "True, you have given away all your faith, but it is not by your ...

3. Stamped with God’s Own Image

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... friends are having a lot of fun with this information. They are bowing down in his presence and addressing him as “your majesty.” Brinkman, for his part, has joined the King Richard III Society, a group that brings together the king’s relatives, and is dedicated to improving the king’s reputation, which William Shakespeare stained in the play that he wrote about the king.1 Imagine what it would be like to be David Brinkman! One minute you’re nothing but an average and ordinary software engineer ...

4. Bearing the Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Drama

Angela Akers

... up their old lives in order to follow Jesus.” Reader Four: “Eight: the number of years that Pastor Richard Wurmbrand of Romania was imprisoned and tortured for his faith by Communist officials.” Reader Two: “One thousand: the number of people in ... India who turned out for the funerals of Graham Staines, a Christian missionary, and his two young sons. Staines was killed for preaching the Gospel.” Reader One: “Six: the number of Mennonite Christians in ...

5. My Precious, My Precious

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... picture from the loft which neither of them liked, and were dumbfounded when told it was a long-lost work by the Victorian artist Richard Dadd. They sold it to the British Museum for 100,000 pounds. An even better story of treasures in the attic is the ... us waiting to finish our coffee before coming into the sanctuary, "Come on in and bring your coffee with you. You can add your stain to everybody else's." Here was a carpet that was in ministry. It wasn't a carpet that existed for itself, and for the church ...

6. The TV Revolution

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... preach, several cameras with different angles are used, zooming in and out, and occasionally showing the audience, the stained glass, fountains, flowers, or whatever -- in order to keep the image moving as they speak. Politicians use 30- ... weapons. In the 1990s we are preaching to this television audience, but our sermons are crafted more for the reading audience of the 1890s. Richard Jensen speaks of the failure of "literate" churches to adapt to the new "post-literate" media age: I believe the root of the ...

7. Sin is an Ugly Matter

Matthew 18:15-20

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... room without asking. He broke the window. He took my cookies.” Sin is an ugly matter. You may be right. Judy might have done those bad things and Richard might have been mean . . . those are ugly things to do but you make things even uglier when you complain and tattle-tell on others. It’s like making a big mark on them—staining their forehead. Instead of telling everybody what happened, what do think you should do? (response) Jesus tells us that if we have something against our brother or sister that ...

8. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... for our attitudes and our behaviour." In Jeremiah it is said, "No amount of soap or lye can make you clean. You are stained with guilt that cannot ever be washed away. I see it always before me, the Lord God says" (Jeremiah 2:22, The Living ... So we must accept this fact that we surely shall die. Then, through faith in the Risen Christ, we surely shall live. The late Senator Richard Neuberger is credited with the statement that until a man has learned how to die, he has not learned how to live. There is some ...

9. Freedom!

Romans 6:3-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... under the watchful eye of One who knows us and loves us. It is the freedom of knowing that our sins, regardless of how deep their stain upon our soul, have all been washed away. It is the freedom that allows us to stretch our wings and be all we can be. It ... is only one man who can help us. That one man is Jesus of Nazareth. He is the only one who can make us truly free. Richard De Haan tells the story about a certain Mr. Kline. He was his little town's "Scrooge." No one really seemed to care for Mr. Kline. ...

10. The Mechanics Of Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... Lord" (2 Kings 19:14). Today, some prefer to go to a chapel or church to pray. The atmosphere created by the altar, symbols, and stained-glass windows helps them to feel the presence of God. Bed. A Psalmist prayed when he was in bed. "When I think of you on ... in our prayers the same old thing in the same old way. God must be bored! A variety of prayers is available. Richard J. Foster, in a recent book, Prayer, gives 21 different kinds of prayer from "Simple Prayer" to "Radical Prayer." Variety Of Biblical ...

11. Easter 4

1 Peter 2:13-25, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Acts 6:1-7, John 10:1-21

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... effectiveness of leadership can be discerned from the legacy it leaves behind. Back in the mid-1970s, Richard Nixon, mired in the Watergate scandal, left a legacy of cynicism and mistrust. Other national leaders, concerned ... 10 1. Sermon Title: Windows And Doors. Sermon Angle: Christians might be compared to windows and doors. A little boy was transfixed by the stained glass windows in the magnificent cathedral. As the light cast its illuminating glow, he asked: "Mom, who are those people that the light ...

12. Hostage Crisis

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... . Bulging eyes blinked rapidly as his face twitched. His brown, swollen hands rumbled nervously through the inside pocket of his urine-stained tweed overcoat. "I got to find a match," he said to himself. "I got to find a match." Again he jerked ... in fear. Hostages running to be running, not knowing where we're running to and who we're running from. The great writer Richard Wright in his celebrated classic Native Son tells the story of Bigger Thomas who runs from the law because he accidentally kills the ...

13. Killing A King

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

... person." They denied him the honor of a burial at the Kremlin wall and placed his body in a second-rate burial place. When "king" Richard Nixon fell from the presidency, friends cancelled plans to raise money to build a place for his papers intended as a monument to him. ... , "No, sir; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call Master." When we, too, look into the tear-stained, torn, and bloody face of Jesus, we see a king in him and we gladly call him our Master and King. While others ...

14. Saints With Crooked Haloes

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... listed the most unlikely persons to serve Jesus Christ, you would probably have included a lawyer and ex-Marine serving in President Richard Nixon's White House. Chuck Colson was a ruthless hatchet-man who once claimed he would walk over his grandmother in order ... he went to a local church to worship with a friend. As soon as he entered the church he noticed the beautiful stained glass windows. "Aren't these windows new?" he asked his friend. "Yes," he said, "Aren't they beautiful?" Dr. Craddock looked at ...

15. The Danger of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in their back pockets, all of them bowing their heads in prayer; families lined up in a comfortable pew in a sanctuary graced by the spectrum of light filtered through stained glass; a graying, gentle pastor who is a friend to everyone and would rather die than ever hurt or offend. That is what appeals to most. Then we hear Jesus: ... , eds., (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1971), p. 87 5. The story is also found in Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard Ward, eds., (St. Louis : Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 67-68

16. Jesus Won! We Won!

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... alive. When he calls our name we know death isn't the last word for sinners like us! Jesus won. "WE WON!" There is a stained glass window which portrays a woman sitting beneath a rough cross with her robes draped on a small pile of rocks. The clouds above ... Jesus will rise like he did to be with God. Jesus won! "WE WON!" 1. Don Emmitte. 2. The Rev. Dr. Richard Andersen. 3. CONTEXT. Cited in "Etcetera," SALT OF THE EARTH, July/August 1996, p. 35. 4. Walter Wangerin, Jr., "Them also which sleep in Jesus ...

17. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... isn't the answer. The brain knows when it is being hoodwinked. All the good thoughts in the world won't take away the stain of sin from the human soul. There is no place in this world that forgiveness takes place except at the foot of the cross. ... ., (New York: Bantam Books, 1991). 2. Lewis M. Andrews, Ph.D., TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, (New York: Doubleday, 1989). 3. Richard N. Johnson, LIFE AS IT AIN'T YET: MEDITATIONS FOR LIVING NOW, St Louis, Missouri: CBP Press, 1988). 4. Charles Colson, WHO SPEAKS ...

18. I'm O.k.; You're A Little Suspect

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... holiness and perfect love. All of God's judgements are filtered through His holiness and His love for us. Our judgements are stained by feelings of revenge, self-righteousness, anger, contempt, jealousy. God doesn't have that problem. No matter what we have done in ... . Unattributed, “Sin," People, 10 February 1986, pp. 107-109. Cited in Myths the World Taught Me by R. Scott Richards, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, 1991, p. 211. 4. (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984). 5. HELP 4 SUNDAY ...

19. It's All In The Blood

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... but have eternal life." And Nicodemus wanted to believe, more than he wanted to take his next breath. But as the blood runs down and stains the ground at his feet, he thinks to himself, "I don't know what to believe anymore." And that's where Good Friday leaves the ... PREACHING Magazine, Jan./ Feb. 2000, p. 32. Cited in Max Lucado's, JUST LIKE JESUS, (Waco: Word, 1997), 60-63. William Richard Ezell, "Would you Mind an Upgrade?" PREACHING, JanlFeb 2001, pp. 37-38. 3. Max Lucado. No Wonder They Call Him Savior ...

20. The Lord's Prayer: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ who died for our sins." [1] Now, consider this scene from one of Shakespeare''s plays, Richard III. Remember the scene in which Lady Anne, the widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, follows the open coffin of her father- ... arrived at the front door waving the hidden pages, dug up from the leafy earth in which he had buried them, still damp and stained. This was worse than anything he had imagined. The whole unhappy episode was getting out of hand. The wee fellow could stand it no ...

21. The Church Is Alive and Well

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... centuries: persecutions from without and problems from within. It has been attacked by its foes, neglected by its friends, infected with heresy, stained with compromise, weakened by strife and selfishness. Yet, it's still on its feet. It reminds me of a man who hired ... in the Christian Life, Charles Swindoll, p. 335. 2 Real Worship, Warren Wiersbe, p. 85. 3 Ibid., p. 85. 4 Richard Avery & Donald Morris, We are the Church, (Pasadena, CA: Hope Publishing House, 1972). 5 Christianity Today, November 9, 1992. 6 ...

22. They Said 'Yes!'

Ephesians 1:11-23

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... & Charles Wesley, Zwingly, Martin Luther, Augustine, Billy Graham, Iranaeus, St. Patrick, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Allen, Harry Hoosier, Franics Asbury, Peter Cartwright, John Calvin, Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, the Disciples, Mary & ... of all the saints before us. Conclusion Normally when we think of a "saint" we think of some stylized human figure depicted in stained glass, or of a person long dead who has been officially declared as a church relic. However, one of the clearest definitions I've ...

23. All Who Share This Hope

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... new way."3 This is kind of like the definition you may have heard, given by a child who had been told that the figures in stained-glass windows were saints: "A saint is someone the light shines through." Lydia Gruchy4 was that kind of saint. She was not "perfect" (whatever that ... ordained in the United Church of Canada, in 1936. 5. Op cit, Jeff Cook. 6. Quoted by Richard Bolin, note #9 of sermonshop_1996_11_01.topic@ecunet.org. Exact source not indicated. 7. Brian Wren, "There's A Spirit In ...

24. All in the Family

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... eastern Europe. While assisting the priest with holy communion, each boy accidentally spilled some wine from the chalice onto the floor. In eastern Europe, the priest saw the purple stain on the floor and he saw red. He slapped the boy in the face, and said, "You clumsy oaf. Leave the altar right now. Your services are no ... The Fruit of the Spirit (Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1998), p. 106. 4. Fred Craddock, eds. Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward, Craddock Stories (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 156-57.

25. When Your Parents Don't Understand

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... lived in a different time. There was perhaps just as much crime as there is today, but it was a different kind of crime than that which stains our world. Parents certainly didn’t worry so much about a twelve-year-old boy being on his own. Still, it is shocking that it took ... your love is a constant in their lives. They need to know they will never cease being your son or daughter. Writer Richard Foster tells about a father who was walking through a shopping mall with his two-year-old son. The child was in ...

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