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226. Communion Is Reformed

Luke 22:7-38

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... cast our burdens on him. Too many of us choose to hold on to our burdens as we add today's pain onto yesterday's sorrow and top it all off with worry about tomorrow. So many of us have not learned the tremendous lesson which Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:34) saying "Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will have worries enough of its own." God wants us to trust him to be present with us and then just live one day at a time! In her book Nestle, Don't Wrestle, Corrie ten Boom tells an ...

227. New Life Goes On

Mark 5:21-43

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David Coffin

... . They did not have time on their side in terms of daily chores and errands. People in Mark’s community must work quickly to get their chores done before nightfall. There is no time for chit chat or visiting. There is no time for a long Sermon on the Mount like in Matthew 5. There is no time for a “bread of life” discourse like in John 6. The woman was healed immediately. Jesus acknowledged, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your disease” Mark 5:34 (RSV). Two ...

228. What Is Truly Important

Matthew 6:25-34, Matthew 6:19-24

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David E. Leininger

... reminded me of the two fellows who were talking about the demise of a rich neighbor. One asked the other, "How much did he leave?" And the friend responded, "All of it." The second scripture that jumped to mind was that passage we read from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' words about "stuff." "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal"...or we might add where it floats away in a flood or is left behind in an evacuation..."but store up ...

229. When Tradition Gets in the Way

Mark 7:1-23

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Donald B. Strobe

... 4-5) But Protestant Christians have sometimes been guilty of doing the same thing they criticize in traditional Roman Catholicism, setting up a set of rules and regulations for everybody to follow. Facing God’s terrible demand for ALL, they turn away from the Sermon on the Mount and set up another set of less demanding rules: “Don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t dance, etc.” Methodists have fallen easy prey to this sort of thing over the years. The view of most non-churchgoers is that Methodists are ...

230. Where Is My Guest Room?

Mark 14:12-26

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Donald B. Strobe

... and do the dishes really hold the world together. It certainly isn’t held together by the rest of us.” (P. 29) There is no limit to the good persons may do if they don’t care who gets the credit. There are nine Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount. There ought to be a tenth. “Blessed are those who volunteer.” III. “WHERE IS MY GUEST ROOM?” The Greek word here is the same as was used in Luke’s Christmas story. That is why we surmise that it was an “institutional” room. But there may be ...

231. How Does One Prepare For The Unknown?

Matthew 25:1-13

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George Johnson

... to gather in clusters and share our stories of foolish things and wise things we have done. In our text, Jesus tells a story about 10 bridesmaids. Five were wise and five were foolish. In reading this parable, we are also reminded of the story in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus told about the wise person who built a house on a rock, a solid foundation, and a foolish person who built on sand. Of course, the house built on the sand fell to pieces when the rains came because the foundation was not right ...

232. The Ten Commandments #6: No Murder

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... that of self-preservation. If someone can deny that instinct long enough to take his or her own life, we could seriously question the rationality of the act. The commandment was given to prevent blood feuds, not the taking of one's own life. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said that we can "murder" folks with angry insults(7) - we disparage their worth as "images of God." In the twentieth century he might say we do the same by failing to teach our kids properly about sex and letting them get to the place ...

233. Body Language

Mark 7:1-23

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Mark Trotter

... . He sent them both into the field to work. The first one said, `I'll go,' but he didn't go. The second one said, `I won't go,' but he ended up going." Jesus then asked, "Which one did the will of the father?" At the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount--which means this is the most important point, the summary statement--he talks about who gets in the Kingdom and who doesn't. He said, "Not those who say, `Lord, Lord,' not those who say, `I'll go,' not those who sing, `Here am I Lord, I will go,' but ...

234. Prayer: A Way of Life

James 5:13-20

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Richard Gribble

... never forgot his friends (John 17:1-26). Besides being a man of prayer, Jesus also instructed his followers on how to pray. He taught his disciples that prayer was a private matter; it was not to be used to make others think you are important. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, "Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others ... Whenever you pray, go to your room and shut the door and pray ...

235. Follow the Directions

Psalm 119:9, 18, 89

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James Merritt

... were the results: 82% say the idea of “God helps those who help themselves” is taken directly from the pages of the Bible 63% could not name the Four Gospels 58% could not name half or more of the Ten Commandments 58% did not know Jesus preached the Sermon on The Mount 52% did not know the Book of Jonah was in the Bible 39% did not know Jesus was born in Bethlehem 30% did not know there were twelve Apostles [2] It reminds me of a Bible study class of young boys and the teacher said, “Who went into ...

236. The Call of the Trumpet

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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George Bass

... us still has merit and meaning; its merit has nothing to do with gaining rewards for our action, and its meaning emerges as the depths of life are explored. How fortunate that Jesus spoke first of almsgiving in this section of the Sermon on the Mount. Those who are aware of the millions of poor and desolate people in this world - and do something about poverty and oppression by sharing their wealth and themselves with such people - will certainly avoid the spiritual quicksand of Lenten discipline that is ...

237. Just When We Think We're Safest, There's a Sunset Touch

Mark 6:30-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... gave him six months to a year to live. He wrote the following letter to his congregation. “Dear Christian Friends, It has taken me 51 years of living and 33 years in the Christian life to learn the real meaning of Jesus’ word in the Sermon on the Mount, “Do not be anxious about tomorrow.” I have been a very ambitious man, and I have abhorred the mediocre. Always within me has been the desire to excel. In living this way I have been impatient and anxious, inattentive and often unkind. My goals have ...

238. I Need

Luke 10:38-42

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Dave Zuchelli

... was right. He reminded Martha that she was“worried and upset about many things” (Luke 10:41). That statement caused me to wonder as to whether he had taught on this subject while she was out of the room. He certainly had done it other times. In his Sermon on the Mount, he is recorded as saying, “Can any of you, by worrying, add a single hour to your life?” (Matthew 6:27). I guess it pays to stay in the vicinity when Jesus is speaking. More importantly, he went on to tell her that only one thing is ...

239. The Forgotten Virtue

Philippians 2:1-11

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Louis H. Valbracht

... wisdom did not reach the heights of the Word of God. Oh, Ben added humility to his list, last, but that’s not where it comes in the Word of God. In the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, in that sermon that we call the Sermon on the Mount, in that section of the sermon that we call the Beatitudes, He puts this first: "Happy are the humbleminded, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." Yes, humility came first, and the whole Word of God is filled with one statement after another, one narrative after another ...

240. The Struggle of Faith

Matthew 11:1-19

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Gregory J. Johanson

... to falter. "Are you really the one who should come, or shall we look for another?" The poignancy of the text is made even clearer when one considers the content of chapters 8 and 9 of Matthew’s Gospel. Here, following what we ordinarily call the Sermon on the Mount, there is pictured for us a series of vignettes, each of them marked by the presence of deliverance. There is a leper to whom Jesus stretched out his hand to touch, and he was made clean. There is the servant of the centurion who was paralyzed ...

241. The Ten Commandments - Part 4

Exodus 20:1-21

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Brett Blair

... was a gift from God just as the Messiah was a gift from God. Jesus himself said that he did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill the law. Jesus affirmed the Ten Commandments time and again by defining their original intent. He spoke in the Sermon on the Mount: You have heard that it was said to the people long ago “Do not murder,” but I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.” Sin begins not with the outer action but with the inner heart. It was the Ten ...

242. Are You Going to Fish or Cut Bait?

Mark 1:16-18

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James Merritt

... entitled A Rabbi Talks with Jesus. That book answers the question of how this Jewish Rabbi would have responded to Jesus Christ. In the book Neusner makes it plain he has great respect for Jesus and for Christianity. He even admits that the Sermon on the Mount leaves him "impressed and moved." He says that sermon alone would have quickened enough interest to have motivated him to have joined the crowd who followed Jesus from place to place listening to His teaching. But then Rabbi Neusner says he would have ...

243. “I Will Not Fear Though Tens of Thousands Assail Me”

Psalm 3:1-8

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... scientious study of Scripture, and concentration on the spiritual disciplines of love and mercy. A spiritual “weight watchers” club is not a bad idea, by which we can keep each other accountable and “weigh in” at each meeting on Christ’s Sermon-on-the-Mount scale, using the Beatitudes as our guide. There we can discuss our frustrations and failures, and the joy of our achievements through the power of Christ. In the third address (3:7–8a), David borrows his language, in part, from Numbers 10 ...

244. An Unpopular Profession

Matthew 9:9-13

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Donald B. Strobe

... And when Matthew heard the call to follow Christ, he rose up immediately and followed. But he didn’t leave everything behind. He took his pen and ink with him. How lucky we are that he did, for the Church learned its Lord’s Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount from Matthew. Matthew gives us the fullest form of the Beatitudes as well as many of the things that are most precious to the Christian’s heart. He gives us so much material that Mark never knew about. Only Matthew uses Wise Men to open the story ...

245. I’ve Come To Bring Fire

Luke 12:49-56

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Dave Zuchelli

... in the crowd that day, he (in essence) took a stand that we don’t have to take today. He took it for us. By that, I mean it is not our job to call our enemies hypocrites. In fact, our job is just the opposite. Remember the Sermon on the Mount? In that most famous of all sermons, Jesus said, “Love your enemies” (Matthew 5:44 and Luke 6:27). We are called upon to be reconcilers, not judges. When the apostle Paul talked about Jesus as being a reconciler, he added one important thing. He said, “All this ...

246. The Miracle of Salvation

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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... the pious utterances of the religious ceremonies and the actual feelings, emotions, and daily actions of those who had always felt they were deeply religious? In a word, Jesus laid bare the rebellion in the soul of each man who faced him. The Sermon on the Mount, often misinterpreted as a set of ethics, was a denunciation of sin - and there was no question of "If the shoe fits ..." The shoe fit everyone. The religious leaders had kept the fasts - had remained ceremonially pure - had tithed - had, as a ...

247. Mission Possible

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Robert Beringer

... in God's mission possible for this world, and that is the ministry of light. Isaiah says that the Servant will be "a light to the nations to open the eyes that are blind." Jesus spoke of himself as the Light of the World, and then in the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord said that "you are the light of the world." Light is essential to life, isn't it? If you have ever tried to pick your way through the woods at night without a flashlight, then you know the value of light. Businesses often leave lights on ...

248. Love of Enemies

Matthew 5:43-48

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Joyce Hollyday

... never read the Bible, said, 'Maybe it is a communist book, for all I know.' Sarah asked him to let her talk about it. While he kept his gun pointed at her and the other soldiers continued ransacking the house, Sarah opened a Spanish Bible the Sermon on the Mount. She read about Jesus' command to love one's enemies. 'That's humanly impossible!' the commander shouted. 'That's true, sir,' she answered. 'It isn't humanly possible, but with God's help it is possible.' She challenged him to let her prove it by ...

249. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... is required for Christian maturity. IV. PEFORMANCE NOT PROFESSION Now, another word. Performance not profession is a key to Christian maturity. That’s the third thing we need to note and it’s only an echo of all Jesus said in part of the Sermon on the Mount which was our scripture lesson today. Listen to him in verses 16-20. “You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit. A ...

250. Worry Wart or Winning Warrior

Matthew 6:25-34

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Eric Ritz

... be anxious about tomorrow, tomorrow will be anxious for itself." A colleague, Dr. Mark Miller, recently commented that so many in our society live by Murphy''s Law rather than the sound advice for living that Jesus shared in our lesson today from the Sermon on the Mount. There are many variations on that law, such as "your line will always be slower at the airport," or "wash your car and it will rain that night." One of my favorites is, "Buttered toast, when falling to the floor, will always land buttered ...

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