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Sermon
Arthur H. Kolsti
Here is where it happens. Where is here? Here is right here, among us. Here is the community of faith, and every local congregation, large or small, is a visible manifestation of that community. The gathered community of faith is the port of entry for the initiatives of God. That is the it, the initiative of God. Does saying that place too high an estimation upon the local congregation? If y...
2. Listen
1 Samuel 2:12-26
Sermon
Charles Curley
It was a time of distrust and disillusionment in the land of Israel. People did not trust those who governed them. Those in positions of leadership were thought to be inept or corrupt, and often both. There was a lack of vision about the future of the people. Because those in leadership seemed helpless, hopeless and corrupt, God looked outside the tents of power to find new leadership with vision....
3. The Promising Child
1 Samuel 2:12-26
Sermon
Harry N. Huxhold
The Holy Gospel appointed for this First Sunday after Christmas was chosen to help us understand the development of that Holy Child whose birth we have just celebrated with joy and high delight. However, in Bible classes pastors generally have difficulty handling the protests of mothers who think that the behavior of the twelve-year-old boy Jesus was quite reprehensible. Mothers normally contend t...
Sermon
Tony Everett
So, what have you been doing since Christmas Day? If you are like most people in the community, you have been spending countless hours in shopping malls, looking for bargains and exchanging gifts. Retailers tell us that their busiest times are the days immediately after Thanksgiving and the days directly following Christmas. After Thanksgiving we begin gift buying in earnest. After Christmas, we b...
5. Growing with God
1 Samuel 2:12-26
Sermon
Elizabeth Achtemeier
There are times in the life of the world or of a nation when one individual changes the whole course of history. Perhaps we might say that such a change occurred when the Emperor Constantine declared Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire. Certainly we could agree that Martin Luther introduced an entirely new era when his actions initiated the Protestant reformation. And we m...
6. The Boy Grows Up
1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Sermon
Mary S. Lautensleger
Each of us faces the choice of who and what we will become. Sometimes, we don't really know what we want to be when we grow up until we are forty-something. Our earliest models for making that choice are the people who raise and nurture us. Although we identify with the adults whom we admire most, each of us is unique and intended to become "our own person." Occasionally there is a family-owned b...
7. Hidden Potential
1 Samuel 2:12-26
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
Home and Garden television produces a program titled Hid­den Potential hosted by Brandie Malay and architect/designer Barry Wood. Homebuyers are looking for a new home in a certain price range in their city. They are taken to three different homes that are not ready-to-move-in quality. The premise of the show is that the architect/designer will renovate the room by computer-generated graphic desig...
8. Growing In The Lord
1 Samuel 2:12-26
Sermon
Robert A. Hausman
A human birth, as the beginning of life, is representative of most beginnings that occur in life. Like birth, all beginnings are full of promise. Like birth, all beginnings are hard. The major moves of God's dealings in history seem to be marked by births. The story of the patriarchs is begun with the birth of Isaac (Genesis 12). The beginning of the history of Israel as a people is marked with t...
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Harold Warlick
You and I live in a world of communication. Analysts tell us that most of us will spend two years of our lives on the telephone. Most likely they will not be the best two years. Future generations could spend more than five years of their lives "talking" with people around the globe as they come home from work or school, download their computers, and get out on the information highway. Calling a c...
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