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226. Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany

Sermon

Russell F. Anderson

... you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (v. 20). Conflict management is a term we hear a good deal about these days. The art of conflict management assumes that conflict is a given in this world and that it isn't necessary evil. What is good or ... has opened at the Stadtmuseum in Munich titled "Munich: Capital of the Movement." The display chronicles the city's contribution through art and artifact. The focus of this exhibition is different than others that deal with this dark era in that it points ...

227. The Great I AM

Sermon

Ronald Lavin

... still. Button, button, who's got the button? God. God is THE GREAT I AM, and we are his creatures. God has the button. When I hold it and change stations and try to control things so that I will be satisfied and entertained, everything goes out of control. "Thou art the potter. I am the clay." The One who understands you is standing with you. The One in control wants only the best for you. Jesus showed us what the I AM is like. Once we get this straight, we can pray the prayer Jesus taught us, "Our Father ...

228. Christ the King

John 18:28-40

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... This text is normally used on a special day in the Christian year, and yet the day is often sadly neglected in the church's celebrations. Why not let a large work of art declare the uniqueness of Christ the King Sunday? Work well ahead of time, and go to one of the congregation's best artists. Ask this person to create a work of art that can be displayed in the sanctuary on this day every year. (It might be displayed in another part of the church building the rest of the year.) In whatever medium the person ...

229. Come Out!

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... to the exchange between them and God. His ability to do was set free. “The Lord has no hands but our hands to do his work today.” 2. Unbind the feet. Stanley not only had his hands unbound, thereby creating art works, but he had to sell them in order to live. He left home and traveled to his first art show. Not knowing what to do and having no display booth, he borrowed two saw horses and a piece of plywood to make do. To his amazement, he won first prize! Traveling became part of his work, and in time ...

230. OK, God You Win!

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... can compete with this God of power! Like Job, we must give in and say, “Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the potter; I am the clay.” You win, God, not only because of your infinite power but also because of your wisdom. Job confessed, “I ... It is for us simply to trust his Word and handling of us. Again we sing, “Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the potter, I am the clay!” OK, Job You Win! If God wins are we the losers? The good news is that because God wins ...

231. The Disciples' Tenebrae

Mark 12:13-17

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... King of the Universe, and thankful are we for the unleavened bread, the fruit of the earth, which was taken into the wilderness when you saved us from slavery. Take and eat this bread in remembrance of him whose body was broken for you. Lay Person: Blessed art thou, O King of the Universe, and thankful are we for the cup, the fruit of the vine, which was given to comfort us. Take and drink this cup in remembrance of him who died for you. (After each group finishes, Pastor gives a brief benedictory.) (There ...

232. The Son Makes Us Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... , since there are so many more people who behave much worse than we do. Even pastoral work is often defined more in clinical and psychological terms than in religious terms. Pastors now take courses in "pastoral counselling" rather than in the more time-honored art of "spiritual direction." A semester of Clinical Pastoral Education, or CPE as it's known, has become a requirement for seminary graduation or ordination in many churches. Now I don't mean to suggest in any way that a working knowledge of human ...

233. Proper 9

Mark 6:1-6

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... to our neighbors, so that your work may not be obstructed by our unbelief. Amen. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING God of surprises, you bring the wise to birth in unlikely places and skills of art and healing from families of unpromising histories. We are grateful for all wisdom expressed in speech, in writing, in music, in arts of all kinds. We appreciate healing words and touches that make us whole, especially the words of your Son, Jesus, and the comfort of your Holy Spirit. Amen. PRAYER OF DEDICATION O God ...

234. A Farewell Gift

John 14:15-31

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John M. Braaten

... peace, a peace which the world cannot give or understand, but as Jesus said, neither could the world take it away. The peace of Christ which passes all understanding, keeps your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Amen. ____________ 1. Pulpit Resource, Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 41. Logos Art Productions, Inver Grove, Minnesota. 2. Pulpit Resource,Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 14-15. Logos ...

235. How To Deal With Frustration

1 Kings 8:22-61

Sermon

Robert Allen

... with their grief. Their son would never be able to fulfill the dream and goals they had for him. But, instead of allowing that bitterness to fester and eat away at their lives, they decided that the only way out of their grief was to practice the art of forgiveness. When the war was over, these parents took the insurance money from the government and sent the money to our Board of Missions and asked that the money be used to build a Methodist Church in Japan. The Billy Hooten Memorial Methodist Church was ...

236. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... his celebrated work Ruins of Empires, Count C.F. Volney made the following observation in 1789: To think that a race of Black men and women who aretoday our slaves and the object of our contempt are thesame ones to whom we owe our arts, sciences and thevery use of speech.1 Volney, as other white explorers of previous German, French, and English expeditions, had discovered the truth about Africa and Egypt's role and influence on the development of Western civilization. Many of the white explorers found the ...

237. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... that from birth to grave we will be part of a herd. One spring I had an opportunity to teach for a few days in the World Arts and Cultures program at the University of California at Los Angeles, better known as UCLA. One of those classes was to be co-taught by a ... most of the courses outside their major. I agree. Humans take those courses to help subdue their powers of destruction. Art, culture, philosophy, music, religion, history, psychology - all these and many more are needed to cage and tame the human ...

238. Holy Unto The Lord

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... persons, blessed Trinity! Holy, holy holy! All the saints adore thee, casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea; cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee, which wert, and art, and ever more shall be. Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee, though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see, only thou art holy; there is none beside thee, perfect in power, in love and purity.” The prophet Isaiah declared, the words of the seraphs, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the ...

239. The Road To Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... Quest of the Historical Jesus, which said we cannot find out all the details of his life? Is he the Christ of literature, art and music whose life more than any other person in history has captured the minds of writers, artists and musicians? Is he the ... our Father, we bow before thee today because we have come to know that all our hopes and dreams are bound up in thy will, thou who art the source of all good things. So, be near us in this time of worship and may our songs of praise bring glory to thy name. ...

240. Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?

Isaiah 49:8-26

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... thou to me like a dried up brook when the waters fail?" Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Martin Luther, certainly no cynic, and surely a believer in God's mercy, nevertheless once cried out in rage, "My God, art thou dead?" Thomas Carlyle looked over the slums of London and groaned in disgust, "God sits in his heaven and does nothing." Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Even the strongest people of faith wonder in those terrible moments when it seems as if God is silent, "Does this God ...

241. Ka-Chang

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John Jamison

... always wondered about the other folks. As Luke reminds us when he tells this story, the other side of "Blessed art thou," is "Woe to you" and I have always wondered how those folks felt who were on the "woe" side of the fence. I'll bet that the words ... they heard were a little less like "Blessed art thou" and sounded a whole lot more like "ka-chang!" Before we begin our wondering, however, let's take a moment to meet the rest ...

242. Death by Suicide For Active Church Member

Psalm 139:1-24

Eulogy

Phil Barnhart

... Psalmist It reaches into life, through and beyond death. The Psalmist realized this eternal quality of God's nature when he wrote, "Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there." God loves us all, in spite of and nevertheless. He loves us abundantly and eternally. God loves Ivan Franzen. Ivan, as the rest of us, had his ups and downs, lived in a maze of ins and outs, experienced high times and ...

243. Walking On the Knees

2 Samuel 7:18-29

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... hast shown me future generations, O Lord God! And what more can David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O Lord God! Because of thy promise, and according to thy own heart, thou hast wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it. Therefore thou art great, O Lord God; for there is none like thee, and there is no God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself ...

244. In The Valley

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... and terror, can we say of God, "He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul"? But there's another portion to that psalm. "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me." Thou art with me. In his book Who Needs God, Rabbi Harold Kushner points out that in this part of the psalm the relationship has changed. No longer is God the impersonal He who provides us everything we need. Now God is the friend who ...

245. Revised Edition

Psalm 71:1-24

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... Stroke The meditation text is Psalm 71:6: "Upon thee I have leaned from my birth; thou art he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of thee." The elderly ... old person, penned in Psalm 71: "In thee, O Lord, I take refuge . . . In thy righteousness deliver me . . . rescue me . . . save me. Be a rock for me a fortress. Thou, O Lord art my hope. . . upon thee I have leaned from my birth." Our sister's body wore out, didn't it? Like the pages of a well-read book, a few finally were missing, ...

246. Christ's Compassion for the Sorrowful

Luke 7:11-17

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... being unresponsive to your healing touch when we have hurt. Forgive us when we withdraw in our misery instead of exposing ourselves to your compassion. Reveal your Son to us in our day as a great prophet who has come to save us. In his name we pray. Amen. Hymns “Art Thou Weary, Art Thou Languid?” “Be Not Dismayed” “Come, Ye Disconsolate” “Holy Ghost, Dispel Our Sadness” “Jesus is All the World to Me"

247. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... humor. Our concern is not that enough people don't attend church, because a greater percentage of them do. The facts of the matter are, however, that it becomes evident that most people don't know why they're there. We have lost, or are forgetting, the art of worship. In our text the prophet Isaiah seeks, in stumbling and inadequate words, to describe the worship experience which he had had. In his vision, he actually "saw the Lord." He heard the voices of the angels: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts ...

248. Seeking What Matters

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

... it comes to knowing what is worthwhile in life and what its supreme values are, you and I need something akin to the jeweler's art. In these parables of Jesus, one man stumbled upon a treasure, but he did know what it was when he saw it. The other man ... discerning judgments because they knew. When it comes to the values that impinge upon our human life, you and I need to cultivate the art of knowing a pearl when we see one, and, of course, to develop an insight for seeing the gaudy imitation for what it is ...

249. The Spirit and the Truth

John 16:5-16

Sermon

George Bass

... is thy Name in all the earth: who hast set thy glory above the heavens. And later, he ponders the mystery, the very heart of it: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers: the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him: and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels; and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under ...

250. In Turning to God

John 18:1-11

Bulletin Aid

... having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins, because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the ... Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. THE HAIL MARY Hail Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the ...

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