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1601. The Promise of Wholeness

Isaiah 35:1-10

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Nicholas Berg is the protagonist in Wilbur Smith's novel Hungry as the Sea. We meet Nicholas as he walks up the gangplank to his sea-going tug in the cold, damp air. He is thinking of his life as it now confronts him. He had been the prime mover at Christie Marine, one of the world's largest and best shipping companies. He had married old man Christie's beautiful daughter and they had a son. Their marriage seemed to be solid and lovely. But now he is divorced from his wife. She had fallen for the new ...

1602. The Promise of Redemption

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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Today the glow of Christmas festivity and family gatherings warm and permeate our lives. Still the thrill of carols about the birth of Jesus tickles our imaginations and excites our hearts. The holiday cheer surrounds us and envelops us in glad thoughts of a baby born, whose life is pure gift to us, to put back together all that has been ripped apart. We have, once again, heard the old, old story of God's faithful and steadfast love for us. And who can resist a warm, cuddly baby? Yet we know deep in our ...

1603. A Renewed Call

Isaiah 49:1-7

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Have you ever been blue, worried, discouraged, disappointed about a task or job that you agreed to do, were asked to do, or called to undertake? Have you begun the task or assignment or mission with great hopes, high expectations, and tons of energy only, somewhere along the way, the hopes and expectations seem to be trampled and the energy just flows away into weakness and futility? Then you know something of the experience of the servant of the Lord in today's Old Testament Lesson. Yahweh God had called ...

1604. God Turns Darkness to Light

Isaiah 49:8-26

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he telephone rings on a warm, bright, fall morning, and the voice on the other end says, "This is Dad. I went to wake your mother this morning and she was dead. How long will it take you to get home?" Two months later in a library working on a project, the librarian comes to your desk and says there is a phone call for you. The voice on the line says, "Your grandmother has died. When can you come home?" The warmth and brightness become cold, clammy darkness penetrating the living room of life. There are ...

1605. Communion Is Running No More

Mark 9:42-50

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John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following us." But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon after to speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is for us. For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ, will by no means lose his reward. Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be ...

1606. What Does It Mean To "Believe"?

Romans 4:1-25

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Dennis Kastens

One of the most misunderstood terms in the New Testament is the word, "believe." We ministers preach on the word from time to time, and often-times never stop to tell what it means. This is especially perplexing to unregenerated people who do believe whatever they are told to believe, but who still do not consider themselves saved or born again, spiritually. Maybe you grew up under such circumstances. Perhaps as a child, you never heard of an infidel. Everyone you knew did not deny religion and the Bible. ...

1607. No Condemnation!

Romans 8:1-17

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Dennis Kastens

The prophet Micah, who lived 700 years B.C., was surrounded by people who worshiped many false gods and idols. One scholar has established that the Greeks alone worshiped thirty thousand; and we know the Hindus claim thirty-three million gods. In Mesopotamia every household had its own god. Micah beheld the Canaanites who worshiped Baal and Astarte, the Moabites who worshiped Chemosh, the Philistines who worshiped Dagon, the Amorites who worshiped Moloch, the Nabateans who worshiped Dusares, and the ...

1608. Overcoming Self

Philippians 1:1-11

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Dennis Kastens

Some children were choosing up sides for a game of cowboys and Indians. The first boy who was chosen by the captain of the Indian side came up and whispered to him, "Choose Cory next - he’s so great at dying!" So Cory was chosen. As the game progressed you could see what the boy meant, for when the cowboys threw a bead on Cory and shot him, he let out a moan - no blood-curdling scream, no over-acting - just a moan. He staggered forward and pitched over on his face, twitching once or twice before he went ...

1609. Journey To The Cross VII (Easter): Jesus And The Women At The Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

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James W. Moore

Do you remember the Legend of the Touchstone? It’s a great story to recall on Easter Sunday morning. According to that ancient legend, if you could find the touchstone on the coast of the Black Sea and hold it in your hand, everything you touched would turn to gold. You could recognize the touchstone by its warmth. The other stones would feel cold, but when you picked up the touchstone, it would turn warm in your hand. Once a man sold everything he had and went to the coast of the Black Sea in search of ...

1610. Peter’s Second Sermon

Acts 3:11-26

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Durwood L. Buchheim

It has been pointed out - many times! - that no aspect of worship has been so generally and ecumenically roasted as preaching!1 The many jokes about preachers and sermons rank next to, maybe slightly ahead of, jokes about mothers-in-law. Being a preacher and teacher of preachers, I have heard my share of funny stories about bad sermons. Like the one where the student preacher, who just finished preaching his masterpiece, piously asked the professor, "With what prayer should I begin my sermon?" The ...

1611. The Church Reaches Out!

Acts 8:26-40

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Durwood L. Buchheim

The growth of the early Christian Church has been compared to the way people grow up. Growing up is a difficult process. As we have heard these past Sundays, that was also the way it was with the young church. Growing up produced pain, misunderstandings and controversies. Some of these struggles came about because Christianity was born in a Jewish home. We Christians sometimes forget that Christ was a Jew. We owe much to the Jewish people. The debt should create a spirit of gratitude instead of suspicion, ...

1612. What’s In It For Me?

Mark 8:31--9:1

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Richard A. Jensen

Peter was always doing it. He was always out in front of the other disciples. He was always putting his foot in his mouth. "Who do people say that I am?" Jesus asked his disciples one day. The disciples answered that some people thought he was John the Baptizer or Elijah or one of the prophets. "Enough of what other people think," Jesus said. "What about you? Who do you say that I am?" This time Peter answered. "You are the Christ," he said. Christ was the Greek word for Messiah. Peter thought that Jesus ...

1613. Doubting Thomas

John 20:24-31

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Richard A. Jensen

"How can you believe in God in such a world as this, anyway?" Melvin asked. "I mean it’s crazy. Just look around you at the world. Does it look like a world that comes from the hand of a loving God? No way! No way! It looks like a world gone mad, a world gone out of control. I just can’t believe in God, I tell ya. I can’t believe in God’s so-called Son either. I’ve just got too many doubts about the way this world works. Too many doubts." Jeanie was beside herself. She did not know what to do. Sunday was ...

1614. OUR LORD TORMENTED

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E. Jerry Walker

Cold, bright moonlight, spilling over Jerusalem transformed the temple area into what might have been a setting out of Roman mythology. Standing on the parapet high atop the Antonia, the Roman Procurator, Pilate, let his gaze drift from the white temple buildings almost directly beneath him to the city beyond, but his mind was seeing the grandeur of Rome and his heart was filled with bitter nostalgia. He did not turn at the sound of steps behind him, nor did he speak when the centurion moved to his side. ...

1615. OUR LORD RISEN

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E. Jerry Walker

For those who grieve, time is a burden. It moves through emptiness with excruciating slowness, its spiritual malaise aggravated by fleeting memories of joys that never again will be. From sundown Friday when she watched as they placed her Lord in the stone vault until sundown Saturday, the world had stood still for Mary of Magdala. These were the holy hours of the Sabbath when the faithful praised God for the goodness of life, but for Mary they were an eternity of sorrow. The widow Mary of Jerusalem and ...

1616. When Life Gets Hard, Christian, Rebel!

Lamentations 1:1-22

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Mark Ellingsen

Jerusalem, the great capital, was in ruins. The Babylonians were in control. It was the beginning of the famed Babylonian Captivity. All the symbols of power, wealth, prestige, and influence were gone. No wonder so many Hebrews were in despair and that songs of lamentation like the one we just read as today’s First Lesson were composed and long remembered. Have you ever felt that way? Have you ever felt that life’s moorings had been cut loose? Maybe it was the loss of a dear loved one, a child gone bad, a ...

1617. The Promising Child

1 Samuel 2:12-26

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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 that no matter how impressive Jesus may have been with the teachers in the Temple, he gets poor marks for the ...

1618. The Fruit of the Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

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Harry N. Huxhold

Andrew Goldfinger, a physicist working with the Space Department at the applied physics laboratory at John Hopkin’s University, has explored a theological understanding of creation. His work is titled Thinking about Creation: Eternal Torah and Modern Physics. The book is a fascinating study of how the scientific theories of the origin of the creation and the maintenance of the creation gravitate more and more to compatibility with the description of the theological understanding of the universe in Genesis ...

1619. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

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Mark Trotter

The hymn we have just sung, "Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown," is based on the Old Testament lesson read for us this morning. It was written by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley. Charles Wesley was a prolific writer of hymns. He wrote more than 6,000 hymns. He put the great affirmations of our Christian belief, and particularly those that John Wesley felt were important, and put them into hymns. Other Christian traditions recite their faith with a creed. The Methodists have always sung their faith ...

1620. An Enclave of Resistance

Hebrews 1:1-14; 2:5-8

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Mark Trotter

Our scripture for this morning from Hebrews is one of the great affirmations in the Bible. The author writes: It has been testified somewhere, "What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him? Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection under his feet." Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. As it is, we do not yet see everything ...

1621. Moving on Up

Luke 14:1, 7-14

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Mark Trotter

Some of you may have seen a book entitled, The Second Book of Insults. Evidently the first book was so successful the publisher thought it deserved a sequel. I will confess that it sounds like an enjoyable read. It is in the grand tradition of a certain kind of comedy called the “put-down.” We love to see the pretentious slip on a banana peel. It is that kind of humor. There is a similar tradition in sports. We love to see the underdog beat the top dog. Which is why we look forward to the Padres meeting ...

1622. Keeper of the Springs

Proverbs 31:10-31

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Peter Marshall

Once upon a time, a certain town grew up at the foot of a mountain range. It was sheltered in the lee of the protecting heights, so that the wind that shuddered at the doors and flung handfuls of sleet against the window panes was a wind whose fury was spent. High up in the hills, a strange and quiet forest dweller took it upon himself to be the Keeper of the Springs. He patrolled the hills and wherever he found a spring, he cleaned its brown pool of silt and fallen leaves, of mud and mold and took away ...

1623. Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

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Leonard Sweet

The book of Nehemiah, coupled with the work of Ezra, combines to tell a story of courage and triumph in the face of tremendous challenges. Not considered to be among the professional religious leaders of the prophetic age, the layman Nehemiah responded with decisive action when he felt the call to guide and lead his people out of physical and moral laxity. Under Nehemiah's direction the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt, restoring physical security to the city's populace. But Nehemiah also helped restore the ...

1624. Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-10

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Leonard Sweet

1625. David: The Problem of Family

2 Samuel 18:28-33

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J. Howard Olds

For nearly a hundred years now Americans have paused on the third Sunday in June to honor their fathers. There are about 66 million of us fathers in the United States. Either out of love or obligation, people will spend one billion dollars buying us 100 million neckties. It's Father's Day. There is a father whose name appears in the Bible more than any other name. That man is David. Jerusalem is called the City of David. Jesus is called the Son of David. He was a man of great accomplishment although ...

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