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John 12:20-33

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... about Jesus. This was Palm Sunday afternoon now — crowds had already ... I realized that they wouldn't send a teacher to work on nouns and adverbs with a dying boy ... would they?"[1] A few years ago, the psychology department at Duke University carried on an interesting experiment to see how long rats could swim. In one container, they placed ... Jesus. 1. Bill Adams, Trinity Episcopal Church, Sutter Creek, California, via Ecunet, 12/29/96. 2. Bruster & Dale, How to Encourage Others (Nashville, ...

127. Stay—Tuned

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... samaritan and the prodigal son. Without John’s beginning description of the pre-existence of the Trinity, we might have been tempted to think of Jesus as God’s son in the ... or false accusation and be satisfied with your wages” (Luke 3:10-14). A Sunday school teacher once asked a class what was meant by the word “repentance.” ... , “It is being sorry enough to quit.” There was a cartoon wandering around several years ago in which little George Washington is standing with an axe in his hand. Before ...

128. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... of her child. She was willing to be ignored, insulted and rebuffed if only her daughter could be healed. Dr. Reinartz, for many years secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, tells of his mother who struggled to hold their family together through the Great Depression. ... House, 1969), p. 186. 13. Theodore Parker Ferris, Jew and Gentile (A sermon preached by Ferris in Trinity Church, Boston, on the Second Sunday in Lent, March 2, 1969). 14. Smart, op. cit. p. 72. 15. Herschel Hobbs, An Exposition of ...

129. The Waster

Luke 15:11-32

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Frank G. Honeycutt

... the news. It is too much to bear. Robe, ring, and fatted calf -- an unbelievably excessive trinity of welcome for someone's who's been a royal jerk. "Father, give me the share ... grave. We can completely misunderstand what Jesus is all about even as we worship every Sunday. We can waste life waiting for apologies, waiting for people to act decently and fairly ... home. And others, perhaps working hard in the fields of the Lord for years, have slipped into a Christianity that is more about controlling God's love ...

130. One Lord, One Table

Exodus 20:1-4

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... ," she said. "That's it. Now do it." On the way home, they argued about it in the car. But the ten-year old girl persuaded them. "We never see each other all together," she said. "At least this way we'd be together fifteen ... of the church universal, we celebrate One Lord and One Table through World Communion Sunday. Other denominations celebrate World Communion Sunday with us. And we do so, remembering what is common among us: God the ... Trinity Episcopal Churches, Winfield and Arkansas City, Kansas. Adapted.

131. Between The Parentheses

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

William G. Carter

... a certain church, the pastor stood at the door after worship one Sunday, waiting for compliments on the weekly homiletical masterpiece. The response did not ... soldier in search of a war. But now he has been claimed in the strong name of the Trinity through water and the Word. Who knows what will happen next? Now that he has been baptized, there ... and painful. The family left. Then came the second world war and the Holocaust. Years later, Jeremias wished to return to Israel. He wanted to see if anybody remembered ...

132. Holy Unto The Lord

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... is working wonders. Yet we are challenged to be holy like God in all that we say or do. We must master holy living, not just on Sunday morning, but everyday and all day. God never changes and if we are to be like God, then we must not change. In other words, if we ... not ours. Reginald Heber, almost 200 years ago, wrote, “Holy, holy, holy! Lord God AlmightyEarly in the morning our song shall rise to thee. Holy, holy, holy! Merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity! Holy, holy holy! All the ...

133. Names, Not Numbers

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... to save our souls, but to beautify our bodies. Our creed is the unholy trinity of competition, ambition, and social clout. The real tragedy is that, in a status ... and claimed, and chosen them to be his children. So, today we stand at the First Sunday in Lent, and both the Old and the New Testaments cry out to us, "Remember! ... pet. But, look out there in the kitchen. There is my baby girl Susan. She is just about a year old. She wakes me up at all hours of the night demanding attention. She is not obedient. She ...

134. Communion Is Remedial

Matthew 9:1-8

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... wrote in 1529, "... anyone who does not desire to receive the Lord's Supper at least three or four times during the year, despises the Sacrament and is no Christian." (Ewald Plass; What Luther Says, Vol. II, p. 814-815) Luther was never one to mince ... table of grace. When I was the pastor of Trinity Church in Georgetown, South Carolina, I noticed a curious thing. There was a lady who never came to the altar for communion. Oh, she was in worship every Sunday and was in the congregation when we celebrated the ...

135. Good News for Good Living

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Harold Warlick

The weather that Sunday was beautiful in Augusta, Georgia. The middle-aged minister and his wife, after being away eleven years, returned to their perch by the sixth tee at the Masters Golf Tournament on ... age! So be it! 1. As quoted in Fred Craddock, John Hayes, Carl Holladay, and Gene M. Tucker, Preaching Through the Christian Year (Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1994), p. 97. 2. Robert Cleveland Holland, Robert Holland at Shadyside (Pittsburgh: The Shadyside Presbyterian Church, 1985), pp. 87- ...

136. Hope That God Is Nearby

Isaiah 7:1-25

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J. Howard Olds

... Ivan was not that kind of atheist. When I met him on the back seat of church one Sunday he said he came to church because he had nowhere else to go. His wife had filed for divorce. His teenage son was a drug addict. He hadn’t been inside a church for 14 years because he no longer believed in God. But that day he came to church anyway. That day I ... and restore me, ’Christ beneath me, Christ above me, I bind unto myself the name, The strong name of the Trinity. Amen. Brought to you by FaithBreaks.org

137. Follow Your Mentors (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . and was kind enough to bring me back. Annie Laurie handed me her bulletin every Sunday covered with her corrections of my grammatical errors. Mary Lou celebrated her 90th birthday the ... . When I think of the Holy Spirit – the Comforter, the Counselor, the ever-present Third Person of the Trinity, who loves us, who teaches us and grants us peace, I think of the Holy Spirit as my ... fire of 1871 wiped Spafford out financially. A couple of years later Spafford’s wife and four children were traveling to ...

138. Checking Out the Scene

John 1:35-42

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J. Howard Olds

... God who takes away the sins of the world.” This is the second Person of the Divine Trinity who is now dwelling among us and the Son of God is asking some would-be disciples today ... infants and toddlers and tug with teenagers to get them to church on Sunday. That’s why I don’t ask baptismal parents if they renounce the ... the family was not more understanding of my schedule. We would get to church this time of year saying, “Lord, have mercy.” We needed some relief, a little bit of help. I like to ...

139. The Gospel We Preach

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... . The master entrusted him with one talent, which was a large sum of money, more than fifteen years’ wages for a laborer. But he was afraid of losing it, so rather than investing it as ... yours.” How did the one-talent guy come to such conclusions? Maybe he had a neighbor or a Sunday school teacher who tried to scare the hell out of him. Maybe he had been reading some bad ... Protestant, but he rejected the traditional Christian belief in the Trinity, that is that God exists as three persons, Father, Son, and ...

140. To Have And To Hold (Your Tongue)

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... don't expect enough from our great and faithful God. Think about what the Trinity has done to effect the salvation of all who will only receive it. God ... eyes would always light up with awe. But she never got a response equal to four-year-old David's. Gently she tucked the stethoscope in his ears and placed the disk over ... all our families can relate to: How often do we, as Christians, at 10:45 a.m. on a Sunday morning, love Jesus, lift up his name, honor him, and speak Scripture, but 45 minutes later on the way ...

141. A Ransom Paid

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... few years back, an ... common one, but one that needs to be corrected. We find it easy to say, 'Jesus loves you.' We learned that lesson early, in Sunday school, from well-meaning teachers, who understood that Jesus was easier for a child to grasp than the idea of God. But what Jesus ... before." One of the reasons the Church has insisted down through the ages that we understand God as a Trinity of co-equal personae (Creator/Father, Redeemer/Son, Sanctifier/Holy Spirit) is that otherwise we will tend to see Jesus ...

142. Hated, Excluded, Reviled, Defamed — And Leaping For Joy

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

William G. Carter

... about you, whisper about you, murmur about you? No, you have been baptized into the name of the Trinity, and no one can take that away. Blessed are you. If you can swallow these words, it ... struggling to create a free society for people of different races. One Sunday night, my friend drove into Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa ... of the great governmental city of Pretoria, strong symbol for many of the bitter years of apartheid, was a tiny group of those who had been denied standing in ...

143. Easter Completes

Colossians 3:1-4

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... " turn into "completes." On Easter Sunday, two time-honored rituals rush headlong ... or make nests. Especially male rabbits. Sociologist Cindy Dell Clark has researched what she calls the "trinity" of characters in children's most important ritual systems Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the ... nonsensical (to adults) traditions that go along with the Easter Bunny are kept alive and reinvented each year by children. How many households without children color eggs and hide nests around their living rooms? How ...

144. The Holy Spirit and You

John 14:15-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the truth of Christ and find strength and help in time of need. As Christians we believe God to be best described as a Trinity. On this Pentecost Sunday we turn our attention to the Holy Spirit who is God in us to comfort and convict, to remind and renew, to guide and ... have loved you." Jesus repeats it again and again. “Love one another, love one another, love one another." Twenty-five years ago, Jim Cymbala took the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church with twenty people in a broken down building in one of America ...

145. Hanging Around Jesus Changes You

Philippians 3:17 — 4:1

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... the 2010’s only 5% of brides were virgins. Sociologist Paula England found 28% of college women hooked up more than ten times in their years of matriculation. The US Census Bureau has found that the average U.S. home is 1,000 square feet bigger than the 1973 average home ... More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before. [2] Martin Luther, “Sermon for Twenty-Third Sunday After Trinity,” in The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther, Vol.4/2, ed. John Lenker. [3] John Calvin, “ ...

146. Is Anything Unforgivable?

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

David G. Rogne

One morning I was roused from sleep around 3 a.m. by the ringing of the telephone. The person on the other end of the line was distraught because, she said, she had committed the unforgivable sin. It is interesting to me that such calls often occur at such an hour, after the bars have closed. The woman went on to say that at some point in her life she had really been angry about something, and had said, "Damn the Holy Spirit." Now she was remorseful, but she knew that Jesus had said that blasphemy against ...

147. Silence and Darkness

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

John Smylie

Over the last 25 years, I have experienced many different Good Fridays. A few of them stand out and point out my own humanness and inability to embrace the fullness of what the Lord was offering. In answer to the hymn, my answer is, "No, I wasn't there when you were crucified, Jesus." And I have made vain attempts of entering the experience of that awful day, yet there have been glimpses of grace along the way. Today I hope to share a few of those glimpses and in the sharing perhaps you will find a glimpse ...

148. The Place beyond Revenge

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22

Sermon

Donna Schaper

A custom is begun! Because of the vengeance that the king took against Haman for Esther, the Jews are to remember their salvation. On the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month they are to send gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor. Oh, God, help me to understand violence! Help me to understand vengeance. I am pretty good at the other sins, like lust and greed, pride and gossip, but violence I just don't understand. I also don't really understand the tribalism that is beyond it. Is that ...

149. Taking the Long View

2 Peter 3:8-15a

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Donald Charles Lacy

So much seems to press upon us in our daily living that "taking the long view" may not only be remote but considered impractical and therefore shelved. A thousand years equals one day and one day equals 1,000 years. It all sounds so mystical and unscientific! Do you mean we have to rethink being captains of our own ships? That is so basic to the American way and you are suggesting we give it up? After all, we can accomplish anything we set out to do — that is if we just try hard enough. Planning is done ...

150. Cross Connections

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

Good Friday is not an easy day on which to preach, nor is what happened on Good Friday easy to explain. Many thoughtful Christians have a difficult time understanding how this very bad day in the life of Christ has become for Christians a good day. What's more, many find it perplexing to say that Jesus died for their sins because he died some 2,000 years before they were born. Then perhaps most perplexing of all are those theories of atonement that come to us in the New Testament, theories steeped in a ...

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