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Sermon
Robert A. Hausman
This text is a narrative of the call of Jeremiah; but before the call narrative, we have a preface by the editor of the tradition, placing the call in its historical context (1:1-3). The word of the Lord does not exist in a vacuum and it does not work only in some spiritual realm. It is rooted in our history and related to our chronology. It came in all its specificity to Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah ...
2. Dabar Adonai
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
Tony Everett
Twenty-five young teenagers are sitting at their desks in the classroom, minds focused on anything and everything except the complex algebra problem that their teacher is writing on the board. Suddenly, their reverie is broken by the word of the teacher: "I need a volunteer to come to the board and solve this simple binomial equation." Immediately, students become deeply involved with books under ...
Sermon
James McLemore
Let me describe how important a point of contact is. An experiment was performed on some baby monkeys. The baby monkeys were placed in a wire cage with two surrogate mothers: a wire imitation mother with a milk bottle, and a cloth mother with no food. The experiment was trying to determine to which of these mothers the infant monkeys would go. The monkeys fooled the experimenters. They went to the...
Sermon
John N. Brittain
A few weeks ago the officers of Kappa Chi, our co-ed Christian service fraternity, had a planning retreat in a small town just east of Indianapolis. We took our Saturday afternoon Burger King and Taco Bell to a picturesque park where I spotted a little boy who looked to be about five years old. He was the spitting image of my son Tim as he looked eighteen years ago when he was five. A lot of water...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
Jeremiah is often regarded as a Christ-figure, a prophet like Jesus, who suffered at the hands of his own people because he loved them enough to tell them the truth. A God-inspired man, fearlessly denouncing the religious laxity and social ills of his day, Jeremiah paid the price for his words. Tradition says that in 587 B.C., when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem as Jeremiah had predicted, his...
6. Talk! Talk! Talk!
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
Text: Jeremiah 1:6 - Then, I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak ..." Jeremiah was expressing a common need of most of us. One of the miraculous abilities of the human being is his ability to speak to another human being and be understood, that the mind can communicate its thought to another mind or minds by way of speech. But how tragic it is that we misuse and waste this God-...
7. The Lightest Touch
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
Harry N. Huxhold
Robert Bly has given us a painful and scathing analysis of our present American society. He titled his work The Sibling Society. Bly confesses he began this work in a lighthearted vein. He employed poetry, fairy tales, and legends to highlight the contradictions he noted all around him. However, he soon discovered that he was into some really serious business. Essentially, what he uncovered was th...
8. Yes!
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
A few years ago there was a hot slogan aimed at kids who found themselves facing the temptations of drugs, alcohol, sex, peer pressure of all kinds. "Just Say No!" Easier said than done . . . as anyone who has longed to fit in, be popular, or just avoid making a scene can tell you. Sometimes to just say no is the hardest thing there is to say. It's so much easier to go along to get along, to blend...
9. Jeremiah 1:4-10
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
Jeremiah has always held a special appeal. He is a vision of strength and commitment yet is a somewhat sorrowful character with whom it is easy to sympathize. Perhaps the reason Jeremiah has always found favor is that two basic factors have always defined life _ things always change and people don't like change. Nearly all people can look at their own age, their own times, and deplore the fact tha...
10. The Lord Needs You
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
God chooses the weak and unlikely people of this world to do God's work. The Bible is filled to bursting with the most astounding, incredible, powerful demonstrations of God's involvement in this world and in human lives. But perhaps the most amazing miracle that Scripture reveals to its readers is not that God created everything in the cosmos, or that God brought a tremendous flood to the earth,...
11. The Call of God
Jeremiah 1:4-10
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David E. Leininger
If you were to ask a group of people to take pencil and paper and sketch a portrait of an Old Testament prophet, many of them would come up with remarkably similar visions: an old gentleman of fierce demeanor with a long, unkempt, grey beard, dressed in flowing robes of coarse material, and perhaps with a gnarled wooden staff in his hand. It would probably look like Charlton Heston playing Moses i...
12. I Am Only . . .
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
King Duncan
"Five Things Christians Should Never Say," #3 Welcome on this Super Bowl Sunday. Football is a wonderful sport, but football fans can be cruel. Last season when the Dallas Cowboys were having difficulty beating anyone, there was a story going around that one of the players, while on his way to the locker room happened to look down and notice a suspicious-looking, unknown white powdery substance o...
13. Three Deadly Words
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
King Duncan
I'd like to tell you the story of two children. The parents of the first child were somewhat mismatched. His father was unemployed with no formal schooling. His mother was a teacher. This child, who grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, was estimated to have an IQ of 81. He was withdrawn from school after three months ” and was considered backward by school officials. The child enrolled in school two...
Sermon
King Duncan
Have you ever noticed that there is a very fine line between pain and laughter? Sometimes we laugh at a joke because we can breathe a sigh of relief that it happened to someone else and not to us. I read recently about a born loser. I doubt that the story is true. Strange things do happen in life, however. A young man knocked on the door of an expensive home seeking odd jobs to earn money. The o...
Sermon
King Duncan
Darden K. Caylor, a pastor in Cedar Rapids, IA, says that the day he decided to become a minister is still clearly etched in his brain. He was sitting at his Grandma Rula's house when he heard a voice speak to him from a distance. At first it was muffled, but then it became clearer. It said, "You should become a minister." Caylor couldn't believe it. Was this divine intervention? Was God really sp...
16. I Am Unworthy
Jeremiah 1:1-19, Jeremiah 6:1-30
Sermon
King Duncan
"Five Things Christians Should Never Say," #4 Texas pastor and author James W. Moore tells about a pastor in San Diego, CA who was called into the sanctuary early one morning. The custodian wanted him to see a strange offering that had been left on the altar. There were a pair of brown corduroy pants, a belt, a white T-shirt, a pair of tan suede boots, and a note. There were bloodstains on the sh...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
On the AOL News Page the other day there was one of those classic victory shots. Two guys, faces wreathed in huge smiles, one jumping in the air, the other with his fists triumphantly punched up over his head, head thrown back, eyes closed. These weren't football players celebrating their Super Bowl victory [insert the names of who won here] or basketball stars celebrating a big game win. Theses ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
[It would be wonderful if everyone who came to church had a piece of colored glass taped to their bulletin or pew. Rosecraft makes these and they're very cheap. They even look like pirate's jewels and were made to help you create treasure chests. The more you can ritualize the features of this sermon, the better.] It was discovered 26 January 1906, lying above ground, one of thousands of stones h...
19. Purpose-Driven
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
King Duncan
It was 2:00 a.m. and 26-year-old single mother Ashley Smith needed a smoke.  But she was out of cigarettes. And so she decided to go to a nearby market in order to feed her addiction. As she was leaving her apartment, she noticed a blue truck in the parking lot with a man in it. She didn’t think too much about it. She had only moved into that apartment two days prior. So she thought maybe he was a...
Sermon
Elizabeth Achtemeier
We modern-day Christians are not called to be prophets in the Old Testament sense of the term. We must remember that when preaching from this text. An Israelite prophet was one who had the ecstatic experience of standing "in the council (i.e., the heavenly court) of the Lord to perceive and to hear his word" (Jeremiah 23:18; cf. 1 Kings 22:13-23; Isaiah 40:1-8). He was then sent as a messenger of ...
21. The Call of God
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
Jeremiah had a task, a vision, and a promise from God. The prophet Jeremiah had a call from God to preach his word to a people needing to hear from God. His call has been duplicated multiple times over the centuries. Moses, Samuel, Amos, Isaiah, and Ezekiel could point to a precise moment in their journey when God called them to be proph­ets ... ones who announced God's actions and words. Preachi...
22. Motivated for Life
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
King Duncan
Sometimes I think we make it too easy to join the church. We’ve set the bar too low. Anybody can get in. Even sinners like you . . . and me. Suppose we required people to walk on hot coals as an initiation into the church? Maybe people would take church membership more seriously. I thought about fire-walking when I read an item from Adam Horowitz’s book, Dumbest Moments in Business History. Horow...
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
Carrie's[1] high school guidance counselor noticed she had been acting out a bit in school recently. She had appeared depressed and had been having some authority issues over rules and such. The guidance counselor set Carrie up with a local pastor who had been volunteering a few hours each Friday after a teen suicide a few months before. Most of the other students who came to see the pastor just n...
24. Risky Business
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Sermon
Mary S. Lautensleger
Su Xueling (pronounced ZOO-ling) is a different breed of entrepreneur, delivering instant noodles on her bicycle to satisfy fast-food appetites in central China. She wanted to use her business acumen to spread the gospel message in a land where religion has been controlled or suppressed by the government for decades. Ms. Su's father is a communist revolution veteran, and religion has always been ...
25. What's The Point?
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
Richard L. Sheffield
In the church we used to teach the Christian Faith in the form of a catechism. That's a question and answer format which when learned gives basic answers to basic questions about Christian belief and living a Christian life. The catechism was meant to be memorized like the multiplication table, so that at least some of life's questions might have answers as quickly as we know 2x2=4. Interestingly,...
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