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Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... school administrator made the 415-yard dash with a frying pan and a pancake from a pub in the market square to the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in 73 seconds. That was 9.5 seconds slower than last year's pace. Each woman must flip a pancake in the frying ... had gone too far in his bid for attention, "over manipulating" the environment, which then struck back with all its might. (1) Guilt ” irrational, but so real. Sometime back the newspapers told of a man who walked into the police station to confess ...

1827. Yada, Yada, Yada!

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... annual “Yada, yada, yada” day according to sources online.[1] It’s the day to celebrate the 153rd episode of Seinfeld (the 19th episode of the 8th season of 1997, for which writers Peter Mehlman and Jill Franklyn won an Emmy for Outstanding ... to know and be known, so they too can say with tears in their eyes and joy in their hearts…. “I know.” [1] “International Yada, Yada, Yada Day, Days of the Year (blog), https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/international-yada-yada-yada-day/. [2]Strongs, #3045 ...

1828. The Case of the Hardened Heart

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a kind of root identity or worldview. This view contributes to what we are willing or not willing to believe.[1] Psychologists call this “motivated reasoning.” Our brains “tip” toward accepting something as true if we want to believe it. ... do miracles in his own home synagogue, where they continually questioned his identity and challenged his power. It’s why he told Peter to “get behind him” instead of leading with his own agenda and worldview about the nature of Jesus’ mission. It’s why ...

1829. When the Rules Change

7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

David Coffin

... duties to do, and he moved on from task to task. Even while being tempted by Satan in the wilderness; it took all of two verses in Mark 1:14-15. There is no dialogue with Satan about turning stones into bread or jumping off the temple as in Matthew and Luke. We do not get ... . Finally, after the empty tomb event, the young man in the white robe told the women, “But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you” Mark 16:7 (RSV). Galilee ...

1830. Bold Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... lead the gentile mission for the early church! Despite every attempt on the part of both Romans and Jews alike to shut him up! Even Simon Peter –we know him as the “rock” or the “foundation” for the Church—ran away from his calling to speak on behalf of Jesus by denying ... kind of future. So what will it be? Keep quiet? Or, “speak up!” Jesus says “speak!” Do it! I dare you.[1] [1] Note that in Exodus 6:6, Deut 4:34, and Deut 5:15, God’s outstretched “arm” or zero’a, comes from the ...

1831. The Tale of the Widow and the Wolves

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Riding Hood, The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, The Wolf and the Fox, Peter and the Wolf. These are a few of the many tales we tell with wolves in the villain’s character. Why? Because wolves are ... a victim’s body. Attacking them from behind unawares, they have no qualms in consuming their victims while they are still alive.[1] Terrifying? Gruesome? Ever see their usually docile relative, the dog, go after a rabbit? It’s not a pretty sight. It’ ...

1832. Is This Any Way for a King to Behave?

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 · Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... the emissary of the King showed up in Nazareth, get ready for him to show up anywhere, here! saying, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you." Peter Heinrichs tells a story which illustrates how Christ's Advent overturns our expectations of who is important and who is not: “It was Fathers' Day at ... says, 'My God is here. I am blessed, and the world holds no power over me anymore.”'[1] Greetings, favored ones. The Lord is with you. 1. The Christian Ministry, November-December 1992, pp. 27-28.)

1833. Motives Matter

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... human beings can overcome much of our past, our learned behaviors, our urges, and our impulses when we prioritize our values to guide us.[1] This is not just psychological speculation but goes all the way back to Greek philosophy and to the Bible itself! Within the stories of ... He went through them himself in his wilderness experience and likely struggled at other times as well, when challenged by Peter, likely in prayer, and certainly in the Garden of Gethsemane. One of his great gifts to humanity we see in ...

1834. In Those Days: The Voice Of The Time Keeper

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... not in the least divine. They were set in the heavens so they might serve “for signs and for seasons and for days and years” (Genesis 1:14). The rising and the setting of the sun (yes, we know it is the earth that is turning, but that’s the way it looks ... . We are living in the present in the kingdom. How many of us have snuck a peek at our phones to see what time it is? Peter tells us that when the day of the Lord comes, the day of accountability and judgment, it will be like a thief in the night! This ...

1835. "No Contest"

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... gods are worthless. The point is that God is God, period! The psalmist said, "My heart is fixed, O God, on Thee" (Psalm 108:1). Have you ever wondered what would happen if God would be your God -- your only God? Not money, not your children, not your spouse, ... to simplicity in prayer. They have a way of getting right to the heart of things without undue confusion. One little boy, named Peter, prayed, "Dear God, that fairy you sent left five cents for my tooth and a quarter for my brother. You still owe me ...

1836. It's OK To Stir Up God

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Richard Patt

... be embarrassed. Take it to the Lord in prayer!" Let's listen as Jesus talks about all this. The outline to guide us is threefold: 1) the promise of prayer; 2) the reality of prayer; and 3) the practice of prayer. The Promise Of Prayer Despite the fact that you and ... are not only resigned to the future, but they have also resigned from the future. Their forward thrust is gone. Faith has petered out. Prayer appears to be an anachronism. But this parable encourages us to keep stirring up God until he gives us an ...

1837. How To Treat Your Enemies

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... has a way of stinging. He called us "light" and light exposes. You can be sure that Christ had his enemies. So did Paul, Stephen, Peter, and others. In fact, Jesus said, "Woe be unto you when all men speak well of you" (Luke 6:26). So, if you live ... have enemies?" The question is, "How shall you treat your enemies?" And for those answers we turn to the life of David in 1 Samuel 25. David has grown up watching his father's flocks near Bethlehem. He has killed the Philistine giant Goliath, been anointed the ...

1838. Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory!

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... have been this way before us and are now departed. We remember such saints as Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Mary, the mother of our Lord, Peter, Paul, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jr., and so on. We look to the example of their lives for inspiration as we struggle ... their lives for the faith. It was not, however, until the eighth century in the Celtic lands of Great Britain that November 1 became associated with a day to commemorate the saints. In that part of the world, this day seemed to be natural for ...

1839. Focus On The Son

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... look for his safety valve? A good quarterback must focus his eyes on the right object, and he must do it at the precise time.1 If in some way it would be possible to attach a camera on our eyes at the close of the Advent season what would be ... he explained to the Roman Christians, is "descended from David according to the flesh." After Paul's conversion he consulted with Peter and other disciples and he undoubtedly heard the marvelous facts of Jesus' birth, early life, and teachings. Noteworthy is the fact ...

1840. Live Together In Harmony

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... Oh, yes, Pa knows, I reckon, and some of the old people; but they don't know now what the row was about in the first place."1 How true that dialogue is. We all know of feuds in families, in neighborhoods, and yes, in churches that happened so long ago and yet the embers ... dynamic relationship with the person of Christ. The third group argues, "I belong to Cephas." Cephas, of course, was Peter's original Jewish name. The people who surrounded him undoubtedly favored keeping Jewish laws and customs along with ...

1841. Broadway

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... a job feeding pigs! His story reminds me of the title of a popular book, I Wanted The Elevator But I Got The Shaft.1 However, life in the "pits" sometimes forces us to admit that we have been traveling on the wrong road. Sometimes it is only when ... grace, my friend saw her on her way. What a U-turn! But it is not unlike the transformation that took place after Peter denied his Lord, or a woman named Mary gave up prostitution, or a tax collector named Zacchaeus stopped cheating everyone in his community. ...

1842. Forgiven!

Sermon

Lee Griess

John 12:1-8 On a recent religious talk show the hostess was interviewing a young woman who had just recently come to know Christ ... passage at all. Instead he opens the front of the book where the family names have been recorded for 150 years. He takes the pen and ink and crosses out the name of his son, Peter van Vlaanderen, not once but many times as though to completely obliterate it from the page. Without any anger or despair (at least none that anyone sees), without any words, and without any emotion, he ...

1843. The Wheat Among The Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... is not the heavenly banquet yet, but a foretaste of the things to come. But it is a foretaste, it is a preview of the final invasion of God's liberating rule. As we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim Christ's death until he comes again (1 Corinthians 11:26)]. In this way God builds us up in faith and hope, so that we might endure, and as we endure, others also may take courage and keep growing alongside until the harvest. For as it is written in 2 ...

1844. Baptism In Three Movements

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... God's experiment with your life. What God will make of you, we know not. Where God will take you, surprise you, we cannot say. This we do know and this we say -- God is with you."4 And God will be with us as we live out our baptism. 1. Malcolm Warford, Lecture at Lexington Theological Seminary, Lexington, Kentucky, May, 1996. 2. Lindsey Davis, quoted in The Bulletin, Lexington Theological Seminary, August, 1996. 3. Garrison Keillor, "The Exiles," Listening for God, Paula J. Carlson and ...

1845. Beasts, Saints and Chaos

Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... about God's faithfulness. Look at history. God encouraged us, I was with Daniel and Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego. If I was faithful then, will I not be faithful now? I was with James and Peter and John. If I was faithful then, will I not be faithful now? I was with the Luthers and the Calvins and the Bonhoeffers. If I was faithful then, will I not also be faithful to ... the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you." (Deuteronomy 26:1-11)

1846. Encounters With Christ VII (Easter): Jesus & Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... tourist… “wouldn’t have the foggiest notion. I’ve never read any of his books!” (Thanks to Rod Wilmoth for this illustration 1-17-93) Visiting his shrine, but ignoring his books. Sadly, that may be a pretty good description of how many people deal with ... W. Moore. That’s Easter. The Risen Lord comes back to life… and assures the disciples that they are forgiven. · Peter had denied his Lord three times. · Thomas had doubted. · All the disciples had forsaken Him. But, Christ came back, forgave ...

1847. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... Life Together, which Dietrich Bonhoeffer eloquently described, and which Paul appears to make basic to his portrait of Christian behavior in 1 Corinthians 12. The Church (note the word is singular) does not regard this as an alien movement. But, so far as ... , 1920, have been G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Leslie Weatherhead, E. Stanley Jones, Ralph Sockman, George Buttrick, Peter Marshall, Donald Baillie, James Stewart, and Arthur John Gossip. To allow myself the luxury of a second decalogue, I ...

1848. 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 ... on between him and the Lord in the two years he spent in the wilderness of Arabia. You don't hear Paul explaining what happened to him on the road to Damascus. You don't hear Peter talking about what happened between him and the Lord when they met shortly after the Resurrection. There is not a word. In one place, Paul assumes a stance much like some of our people, as he ...

1849. Partners With the Eternal

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

... not an empty phrase when the Apostle Paul writes of God's people "as workers together with him." (2 Corinthians 6:1) It is a phrase packed with enormous and specific content. For, you see, the people of God are partners with the Eternal ... When the Midianites were upon Israel, God called Gideon from a threshing-floor at Ophrah. When troubled Cornelius prayed in Cesarea, God called Peter from a housetop in Joppa. When the Hebrew people were brutally afflicted by the tyrant king Ahab, God called Elijah from the ...

1850. Faith Bridges the Gap

Luke 7:1-10

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... the crowd when he had done some of the miracles for the people of, Capernaum on that occasion when he had healed Simon Peter’s mother-in-law. And why would he call Jesus "Lord," that honored word for the Saviour that has almost disappeared from our ... James Jones and the Jonestown massacre, James Reston insists that Jones didn’t believe in God - nor did many of his closest followers.1 One of his assistants was Charles Beckman, an ex-Marine, who couldn’t read nor write and of whom it was said, "Neither ...

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