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Mark 9:38-50

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Rick McCracken-Bennett

... how it is we believe in one God, in three persons, and so on. Clergy dislike of preaching on Trinity Sunday is pretty widespread. So-called, Stewardship Sunday is another. It feels to me like I'm singing for my supper. After all, besides the mortgage ... pick them. Some bunches of people many years ago arranged the series of Sunday readings we call the lectionary and this just happens to be the day they picked for cut-your-hand-off, cut-your-foot-off, gouge-your-eye-out Sunday. So, these are the cards we've ...

27. The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

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Brett Blair

... must be played and not just one. That is why in the United Methodist Church we honor the lectionary and the seasons of the church year. That insures a witness to the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ. How can one go through the season of Advent and not touch upon the ... , how can we embark upon the season of Pentecost, as we did last week, without mentioning the doctrine of the Trinity? Today is Trinity Sunday. This is a day that has been celebrated in the Christian church since the 10th century. It is on this ...

28. The Trinity

John 16:5-16

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29. Holy Wisdom From On High!

Proverbs 8:1-36

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Barbara Brokhoff

... to adequately handle such enormous truth in one brief half-hour? That is also the huge dilemma of preaching on Holy Trinity Sunday. We need them all: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Our survival as Christians is impossible without all of ... . Don't despair! There is hope for you yet! 19 An unusual woman was being interviewed by a reporter. She had been a widow for years, and had reared six children of her own and 12 adopted children. In spite of her busy and useful life, she was noted for her ...

30. Let's Play, Stump The Theologian!

John 16:5-16

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King Duncan

... do not understand. In many churches, today is Trinity Sunday. It is the day Christians celebrate the reality of God in three persons ” Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Wouldn't you agree that the Trinity is a confusing doctrine? Even the finest ... St. Augustine. Augustine was converted to Christianity in A.D. 386 by the writings and sermons of Ambrose, the bishop of Milan. Ten years later Augustine became a bishop himself and served at Hippo on the coast of northern Africa, in the area we now call Algeria. ...

31. The Many Faces of God

Isaiah 6:1-8

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William J. Carl, III

... isn't it?" However, his wife broke into a huge smile and said, "Oh, Dr. Carl, I told my husband last night, we won it last year; it's someone else's turn. After all, we ought to share, shouldn't we?" I wish you could have seen the look on her husband ... get a glimpse of what Isaiah saw that day. The hidden God is also the Savior God and the sender God as we discover on Trinity Sunday, which takes us to the second face, the human face of God. In traditional theology we call the human face of God the Christ. But ...

32. Our Three-Faced God

Matthew 28:16-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... four faces, it was a mystery to me how that could work. On this Trinity Sunday we are confronted with the mystery of the Holy Trinity. Most of us react to the Trinity in terms of being frightened by God, confused by Christ, and puzzled by the ... of him but in terms of respect, awe, reverence, and adoration. This fear of God is based upon the greatness of God. In the last few years we have been singing not "How great thou are" but how great man is. We have been putting God into man’s limitations. We have ...

33. A Faith To Live By John D. Mauney, Jr.

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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... of the faith upon which they must build their lives. The people of Israel had reached the land of Moab after forty years of journeying in the wilderness and were about to enter the land of promise to begin a new life. Moses sought to ... keep His Law ... His Statutes ... His Commandments." Today we have a more explicit imperative from the Gospel that is appointed for this Trinity Sunday. It is the command of our Lord, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father ...

34. When Nothing Is Sacred

Isaiah 6:1-8

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Stan Purdum

... television to affirm that there are things that are sacred. On this show, unlike the Father Dowling Mysteries of a few years back, the characters actually prayed. In fact, prayer was taken so seriously that when Father Ray was troubled, he sometimes could ... way, is probably the reason the lectionary committee picked this passage as the First Lesson for this day, Holy Trinity Sunday.) Hearing this expression of holiness, Isaiah was immediately hit with a compelling sense of his own sinfulness - or unholiness ...

35. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

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King Duncan

... will guide you into all truth.” Last week in our celebration of Pentecost, we dealt with the Holy Spirit as the source of our power. Today, Trinity Sunday, we want to deal with the Holy Spirit as the source of guidance in this chaotic world. Think of a car. It will not go far ... . No, Perkins wasn’t an author. He was the top editor at Charles Scribner’s Publishing Company for some years. He served as personal editor for F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Ernest Hemingway (For Whom The Bell Tolls), ...

36. Good Hearts

Romans 5:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... from all human access by corridors, rooms, and finally by a blue, purple and scarlet-colored curtain of privacy. Once a year the High Priest of the Temple parted the curtains and entered into this “Holy of Holies,” this most sacred space where ... presence before God. A relationship that at last reunites us with God’s peace and power. This is also Trinity Sunday, and Trinity is all about relationship - God exists in relationship, and we can't exist without relationship.And the highest relationships are ...

37. About Kissing

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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King Duncan

... two ladies glaring at each other. Let's talk for a few minutes today about kissing. That might sound like a strange theme for Trinity Sunday. Don't blame me. St. Paul says in our scripture today, "Greet one another with a holy kiss." Who am I to argue with ... not. They also have fewer auto accidents on the way to work. They earn 20 to 30 percent more monthly and they live about five years longer than those who don't even give each other a peck on the cheek. The reason for this, says Dr. Sazbo, is that the ...

38. Not Defeated But Victorious

2 Timothy 4:9-18

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O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... God as he knew Him through Jesus Christ. I have known _______ all my life. We were boys together in Trinity Sunday church school. Through the years we have shared a warm, personal relationship of joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, and faith and doubts. If I ... , there you will be also." He knew that to say "Goodbye" here, means to say "Good morning" in our eternal home. During this past year ______ and I had lunch together on a number of occasions. One day last spring he asked me even before we had ordered our ...

39. Teachers Without Chalkboards

Matthew 28:16-20

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It happened many years ago now, but I remember it well. I had completed my theological education and was appearing before an examination committee of the ... or for ill. The other thing that we should note is the fact that our teaching, as well as our baptizing, is to be done in the name of the Triune God. On this Trinity Sunday of all days, we should remind ourselves that the names Father, Son and Holy Spirit are far more than a liturgical formula. They sum up the content of any specific teaching that we ...

40. Uzziah is Dead!

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Donald Zelle

... the Godhead, look in vain. There is nothing here that especially commends this text for Trinity Sunday. However, there is much for our consideration. "In the year that King Uzziah died ..." These opening words may seem incidental to the rest of ... armies to drive back the Philistines and others who would otherwise have invaded, but he carried out projects, during his 52-year reign in Judah, that provided security for the people. He increased their water supply and, in general, raised their standard of ...

41. The Sign of the Dove

John 1:29-34, John 1:19-28, John 1:1-18, Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20, Mark 1:1-8, Matthew 3:13-17, Matthew 3:1-12

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Lori Wagner

... glorious. One has the sense that the dove is sailing on the winds of some kind of invisible waves. In our scripture for this Trinity Sunday, the Holy Spirit of God descends upon Jesus at his baptism, not as a dove but “like a dove,” engraving forever in John ... And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” Luke: In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother ...

42. New Creations

2 Corinthians 5:6-10; 14-17

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... April. "We hardly knew her, you know. But she was always in her place on Sunday morning." "Are you the Warrens whose son Frank had such a sickly spell some years back?" April Givens asked. "Yes, yes we are. Why do you ask?" "Well," said April, " ... ," said the Browns. There were many more whom the "The Lady in Blue" had prayed for and helped out through her years of membership at Trinity. As April Givens revealed her mother's secrets to people that day, their responses all sounded about the same. "But I hardly ...

43. A Most Confusing Doctrine

John 3:1-21

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King Duncan

... or mother?" The little girl thought to herself as she left, "If I had lived with God as long as my father and mother and Sunday School teacher, I think I would be able to tell a little girl what He is like." That's one horn of the dilemma. We are ... doctrine of the Trinity. It is one of the most prized truths of the Christian faith. "God in three persons, blessed Trinity...." I'm glad we're trinitarians. If I had adequately to explain the Trinity to a fiveyearold, however, or even to a fifty year old, for ...

44. The Majesty Of God's Love

John 17:1-11

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Mark Ellingsen

... in this prayer and our text. For our purposes today on this last Sunday of Easter, the Sunday after the festival of Jesus' ascension into heaven with the church's celebration of the Trinity not far off, the last sentence of our lesson for today is ... it, too? Believing in the Trinity has all sorts of practical implications about the way you live your life. How dare we say we believe in a God whose love is so great that it makes one out of many, if we also do not, year after year, live as though we and ...

45. A Name Not Taken in Vain

2 Corinthians 13:11-13

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William G. Carter

... of March, 1961, a minister named Duffy splashed water on my head in the middle of a Sunday morning worship service. I was only one of a half dozen "Baby Boomers" whose parents had recently ... on William Glenn until I was a few days old. It took them over a year to offer me up for the sacrament of baptism. Whether they knew it or not, they declared that I was first, and foremost, a child of the God whose name is Trinity. Through Word and water, God announced a primary claim on my life. From that point ...

46. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

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Phil Thrailkill

... human schemes cannot do what needs to be done. I am not an outside critic; after eight years I am an inside observer. I am thankful for what I do see of Christian kindness and ... reward God gives is more of himself. To move deeper into the fellowship of the Holy Trinity is the best God has.7 We seek the kingdom through the practice of the ... God and one another we cannot hope to set right. Clara Null had just finished a Sunday School lesson on on Christian behavior. "Now, Billy," she asked, "tell me what we must ...

47. Who Is God Anyway?

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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King Duncan

... ARE SOME ISSUES IN LIFE TOO BIG TO UNDERSTAND. Aren't there? That's the first thing the doctrine of the Trinity says to us. There are some things in life too big for us to get into our little skulls. No one ... years ago. It is said that one edition of the Sunday NEW YORK TIMES contains more information items than the typical adult one hundred years ago was exposed to during his entire life. Where will it all end? Thousands of new magazines and journals were launched in the United States in the last few years ...

48. The Shy Member of the Trinity

John 14:15-31

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Donald B. Strobe

... persistently and continually to Him: “Here’s Jesus!” He noted that in recent years some theologians have spoken of the Holy Spirit as the “Cinderella of the Holy Trinity.” The great theologian Karl Barth said that what the Church needed most of ... by the Holy Spirit.” (I Cor. 12:3b) I believe that the normative conduit for the Holy Spirit is the preached Word of God Sunday by Sunday in the local congregation. Now let us take a look at some other words of our Lord which may cast some light on the ...

49. The Spirit and the Truth

John 16:5-16

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George Bass

... me" - are sung or read? We sing them over and over again because they are hymns that rehearse the scriptural stories of God with his people, and we do comprehend the message. "Holy, Holy, Holy" has to be sung - and some congregations used to use it every Sunday of the traditional Trinity season of the year - because it says so much and does it so well: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee; Holy, Holy, holy, merciful and mighty, God in three Persons, blessed ...

50. The Lord's Unanswered Prayer

John 17:20-23

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J. Howard Olds

... , liberals and conservatives, Anglos and Hispanics find their common denominator in Christ who makes us one. The Trinity is our example of unity. Make us one, Lord, make us one. Holy Spirit, make us one. III ... about 10 people and now there are over 6,000 people there. For 20 years now, Jim has been saying to every group of new members “Now I charge ... for us all. You who are here for the first time or every time. Sunday Dinner is prepared for you. Theologian Jurgen Moltman says, “The Lord's Supper is not ...

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