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1476. Serpentine Soul

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... 116: The Lord is Gracious Psalm 147: The Lord Gathers the Outcasts of Israel The Scripture Jesus References as a Warning to the Pharisees and Scribes About the Priestly Function and Sacrificial Tradition in Jerusalem (Hosea 6) God’s Grace is for All Those Who are Faithful (Isaiah 56) Jesus Calls Matthew (Matthew 9:9-13; Mark 2:13-17; Luke 5:27-32) The Letter to the Hebrews (Most Likely Written by Paul) On the New Covenant (8) The First Letter of John (Most Likely Written by John the Apostle) on Knowing ...

1477. Dark Waters

Exodus 13:17--14:31, Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of Moses and Miriam (Exodus 15) Psalm 77, 95: The Lord Rescues Us From the Deep Psalm 66: The Lord’s Salvation Through the Waters Psalm 136: The Lord’s Mighty Creative Hand The Book of Jonah [stages of grief] Jesus Walks on Water (Matthew 14:22-33 and John 6:16-21) Jesus Stills a Storm (Mark 4:35-41; Luke 8:22-25) Paul’s Shipwreck (Acts 27)

1478. Worship is Your Rest Stop

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Galatians 3:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and Rest / All Things in Relationship (Genesis 1:1-2:3) Psalm 92: The Song of the Sabbath Jesus Breaks the Sabbath, Calls Himself God, and Answers Questions from the Pharisees (Luke 5:33--6:11) Do You Live by Rules of Faith in Jesus [Who Gives You Rest]? (Paul’s Letter to the Galatians) Minor Text Keeping the Sabbath (Exodus 16:22-20; 20:8-11; 31:13 ... Matthew 9:14-17 and 11:2-12:21) Jesus Breaks the Sabbath, Calls Himself God, and Answers Questions from the Pharisees (Mark 2:18-3:12; Luke 7:17-35; John 5)

1479. Untamed

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a plan for kingdom living. Only three primary places do we find the Greek word “therion” (wild beasts) in scripture: here in Mark, in Acts, and most of all in Revelation, all describing a desert-like, desolate environment in which a man-made, cultivated ... Jesus and wild animals, see Patricia Kasten, “Jesus and the Animals,” Compass News, March 6, 2020, thecompassnews.org and Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Wild Animals.See also Job 5:22-23, Job 12:7-10, and Hosea 2:18. [2]For ...

1480. The Power of the Staff

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , I heard chirping. I peered around to try to see inside the alcove. I couldn’t see the nest itself, but I could see about 5 or 6 open mouths stretching outward from tiny little necks, reaching for the bits of food Mama bird would bring into the nest. Again, she was on a mission ... us assuring us and reminding us that we do have wings, and we will fly. In our scripture for today, we see Mark giving us two important stories about faith and risk back-to-back. In the first story, Jesus has just been in his home ...

1481. Unspectacular Faithfulness

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

Sermon

Will Willimon

... extermination of the Jews would both destroy his beloved Esther and would have adverse economic effects. The enraged king orders the death of Haman. The story closes with the institution of the feast of Purim which celebrates the survival of the Jews even in Diaspora. Israel, which was marked for death, yet lives through the skillful, courageous intervention of this woman. Within the confines of the prejudices of her society, Esther works with creativity. Her attitude was “if I perish, I perish” ( 4: 1 ...

1482. Recruiting Volunteers

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... doors, you will take your part in the greatest mission and message in the history of the world, to announce the coming of the kingdom of God until the day Jesus returns to make it so. 1. “10 Craziest Volunteer Projects” by Grace Murano, Oddee.com, December 6, 2013. https://www.oddee.com/item_98794.aspx. 2. Jeff Douglas, Associated Press, “Part of the story,” The Daytona Beach News Journal, May 31, 2004, 1D. 3. https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/i-k/jones-e-stanley-1884-1973/. 4 ...

1483. The Joy Of Being Found

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... they are joined together by the connection “or” in verse eight. Both of these parables are not found in Matthew and Mark. The Pharisees’ concern was that Jesus was meeting with and even eating with, the wrong kind of people. The Pharisees were ... , he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ’Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost” (15:6). Jesus concluded by saying: “Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ...

1484. Small Beginnings, Great Endings

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... that the disciples should ask, “Increase our faith”? Jesus countered by saying: “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you’”(17:6). Matthew and Mark in their telling of Jesus’ saying used the word ”mountain” instead of “mulberry tree” but the result is the same: God has a way of doing the impossible if there is sufficient faith. More correctly, what is needed is not greater faith but ...

1485. Are We Living In The Last Days?

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... say: “As for these things that you see, the day will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down”(21:6). The disciples had a hard time believing his words, and they asked him, “Teacher when will this be, and what will be the sign this is ... had a particular title, according to Darby we are presently in the “church age” or sixth dispensation, a period marked by apostasy and the weakening of Christian morality. This period will be followed by the rapture when all saved ...

1486. Do You Know the Gift of God?

John 4:5-42

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... grace of God, Jesus went straight to “That Town” to share his identity with the unlikeliest of people: a Samaritan woman. Today marks the third Sunday in the season of Lent, a period of 40 days set aside specifically for Christians to reflect on the ... began to collapse. At one point, a walkway collapsed, leaving an almost six-foot gap that trapped passengers on the sinking ferry. A 6-foot, 4-inch passenger named Andrew Parker did the only thing he knew to do to help: he stretched his body across the ...

1487. Sent

John 9:1-41

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... asked about doing the work of God, Jesus answered, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent” (John 6:29). When there were questions about his teaching, Jesus insisted, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me” (John 7:16). The word ... , when he sent two of his disciples ahead, he did so with the purpose that they would make arrangements for him (Mark 11:1). The early church in Jerusalem chose several members and sent them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch with the purpose ...

1488. The Way of the Lord

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... say that Jesus lords it under them. Peter was so shocked that he blurted out, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” (verse 6). In the absence of servants, Peter would have expected to wash his own feet. In a group of disciples with their Teacher, one of ... and challenges all of us. “For the son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). We call on you as teacher and Lord, and just like Peter, we think we know what that means. But you go on to ...

1489. Mind Your Manners

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... practical advice, useful, but of no great consequence. But Luke doesn't call it advice. He calls it "a parable" told "when he marked how they chose the places of honor." It's more than manners, it's a parable, like other parables, meant to reveal something ... Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied" -- "But woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger" (Luke 6:21,25). Jesus advises that, when we give parties, we ought to invite "the poor and the maimed" but the fact is, outcasts would ...

1490. A Second Look

Matthew 5:27-48

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , there for the one who strikes and the one who is struck. God is, Jesus says elsewhere, "Kind to the ungrateful and the selfish" (Luke 6: 35). You have heard it said, an eye for an eye, this is the lex talionis, the law of retribution. But Jesus urges us to live ... trial, their lawyers pleaded for them. They were all high school seniors. A conviction would keep them from graduating, be a mark on their records for life. The judge was unmoved. After the four were found guilty, the judge, preparing to sentence ...

1491. Love And Boundaries

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

William G. Carter

... up, but the gospel of Matthew seems inclined to keep her nationality before us. Matthew calls her a “Canaanite woman.” When Mark told the story, he merely called her “a woman.” But Matthew insisted, “She was a Canaanite.” That word Canaanite is an ... law. What’s more, the gospel of Matthew claimed that Jesus twice said, “My only business is finding lost Jews.”(Matthew 10:6, 15:24) That suggests Jesus may have had borders he was unwilling to cross. Was this the reason why Jesus was reluctant ...

1492. Hark, The Herald... What?

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... wilderness preacher can fit the bill. How about gender? Are there boy angels and girl angels? Some point to Jesus words in Mark 12:25 about there not being marriage as we understand it in heaven; instead we will, to use his words, “be like angels ... as meaning that angels are sexless (which would mess John Travolta’s Michael up big time). But then there is that passage in Genesis 6:2 which says, “the sons of God (or ‘angels’) saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them ...

1493. Going and Doing

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Steve Molin

... ’s what John’s gospel tells us. The start continued on the day that some pastor, somewhere, sprinkled water on our foreheads and marked us with God’s promise. And perhaps faith started to become real for us when a loved one said to us “come and see ... Bibles for our kids, send our teenagers to camp, and provide do- nuts and coffee for our Sunday morning fellowship. Lots of our $1.6 million budget will be spent to serve ourselves… but I wonder how much will be budgeted to serve others? It will not be a ...

1494. Wrapped in a Cloud

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

The approaching wintry days and nights means cuddling up in your warmest, cozy fleece, as unexpected snow wraps the earth in a thick, opaque, and silent blanket of white. Ever go outside after foot upon foot of snow has obliterated everything familiar from sight? All you see is white. Everywhere white and a kind of strange glowing haze in the frosty, still air. When the sun peers through the haze, it casts an eerie kind of glow. The crystalline particles of snow glisten, almost blinding you with their ...

1495. You're In the Army Now

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... we believe. And yet, even here, there is a price, a price by which the military metaphors of Ephesians 6 don't sound so farfetched after all. The materialism, narcissism, militarism, commercialism-- what Paul would call “principalities and powers”-- ... Mobile, ITT, the Pentagon, the Kremlin and the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles all moving against us. The great watershed mark of my undergraduate years was the upheaval in the mid-sixties at the University of California at Berkley. Students took ...

1496. The Case of the Hardened Heart

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... them a spiritual answer. They wanted a political one. So that’s how they saw him, interpreted him, heard him, understood him. No wonder Jesus gets periodically frustrated with even his own disciples. They do the same. Hear what happens next. In Mark’s version of this same occurrence (6:52), an important line is added to the story: Later that night, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land. 48 He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly ...

1497. Did Jesus Say What I Think He Said?

Mark 7:24-37 · James 2:1-9 · Isaiah 35:5-6 · Psalm 146

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

... that what one puts into one’s body is nowhere near as important as what comes out of people’s hearts. Here Mark interjected that in making this statement, Jesus declared all foods clean. Anyway, it appears that the debate had wearied Jesus, so he ... ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. Isaiah 35:5-6 (NRSV) Jesus got around to making the deaf hear and giving speech to the mute in the second part of today’s gospel reading. The ...

1498. Badger or Bonobo?

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... me” attitude to a “we” attitude and 3) building trust and shared commitment.[3] In the scriptures we are seeing this month in Mark, Jesus is doing exactly this with his disciples. He is trying to help them see differently about their neighbors, their biases, and ... , January 29, 2024. [4] See also “Why Territorial Managers Stifle Innovation,” MIT Sloan Management Review, May 6, 2024 and “Becoming a Collaborative Leader,” Human Capital Innovations Leadership Review, July 18, 2024. [5] Brandon ...

1499. The Tale of the Widow and the Wolves

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... old, completely devouring their prey until nothing at all is left, not even their bones. Wolf attacks reveal multiple bite and slash marks on a victim’s body. Attacking them from behind unawares, they have no qualms in consuming their victims while they are still ... John 10:12) "Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey ("tereph") to their teeth" (Psalm 124:6) The wolf symbolizes everything distasteful, predatory, and cowardly about those who “devour” the weak. In today’s scripture, we have ...

1500. Fox in the Henhouse

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Everyone has probably heard of Aesop’s fables. No doubt you’ve read a few of them when you were young. Written by a Greek slave who lived in the 6th century BCE on the island of Samos, the fables taught valuable lessons about desirable moral and social behavior.[1] Likewise, the ancient Jewish faith highly valued parables, moral behavior, and laws concerning how to live well personally, in harmony with God, and in community with others (halakhah). Judaism with its many “mitzvot” continues to cherish ...

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