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226. Going Ahead Anyway

Matthew 2:1-12, Matthew 2:13-18

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William B. Kincaid, III

... and the Oklahoma City bombing will continue to live in this world, as will people who destroy their families and create unnecessary conflict at work, but we must not let them have the final word. Churches will always have people who create problems, but we are not going to quit supporting the work of the church. On lots of days we will feel like we are not appreciated for what we do, but that doesn't mean we are going to stop doing what we do. We are going to be treated badly from time to time, but we are ...

227. Proper 8

Romans 6:1-14, Romans 6:15-23, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Genesis 22:1-19, Matthew 10:1-42

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Russell F. Anderson

... known, has broken down. No one ought to claim that the advent of a free market economy will usher in the kingdom of God for the Russian people. Yet, like in Jesus' day, it is a time of crisis. People must decide if they are going to support the new Russia or strive to go back to the old order. A new order is not born without suffering, sacrifice and death. Wolfhart Pannenberg warns that if Christianity is to make an impact, churches will need to steer clear of fundamentalism, on the one hand, and acceptance ...

228. Lessons for Lent 3

John 2:12-25

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Russell F. Anderson

... which hangs on the Etowah County Courthouse wall. His detractors also disapprove of his practice of prayer on the day when the jury is organized. April 10, 1995, a crowd estimated to be about 500 gathered about the court house to lend their support to Judge Moore. The judge believes that he has done nothing wrong and that he is merely exercising his constitutional rights. He stated that the constitution was never intended to keep God out of the government but to prevent the government from interfering ...

229. Proper 21

Mark 9:38-41, Esther 7:1-10, Esther 9:18-32, James 5:13-20, Mark 9:42-50

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Russell F. Anderson

... with the complaint that a man outside their group was casting out demons in Jesus' name. We might say that he was an irregular, not a part of the ordained ministry of Jesus' followers. God often employs those outside of the normal channels to do his work. Support staff (v. 41). "Whoever gives you a cup of cold water because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose his reward." There are many people who do not call themselves Christians, yet may be sympathetic to the gospel and the mission of the ...

230. Connected To God

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Lee Griess

... always help each other." There was a bond between them figuratively and literally. The same was true for the disciples after Jesus' ascension and the same should be true in the Church today. There is a bond that ties us together a bond that should lead us to support one another, to reach out to each other in love a bond that seeks to pull each other up higher and higher into God's presence. Rebecca Manley Pippert, in her book Out of the Salt Shaker and into the World, gives an example of that kind of ...

231. The Condition Of Mercy

Matthew 18:21-35

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Donald Dotterer

... stop drinking on one's own. The first step for the problem drinker is to acknowledge that he or she is out of control. Secondly, the person must seek spiritual help; one must petition the "higher power." With the help of God and participation in a supportive community, the demon of alcoholism can be defeated. However, the abuser cannot be delivered unless he or she truly wants to stay sober. The personal will to change is the critical factor. So it is also with mercy and forgiveness. We need the touch of a ...

232. Where You Do Not Wish To Go

John 21:18

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John E. Sumwalt

... her wheelchair and carrying her from the bed to the couch and back again. But during the first two-and-a-half years of her illness, before she was bedridden, Wilma was very much the crusader that she had been all of her life. She organized a support group for persons like herself who were living with AIDS. She visited AIDS patients in their homes, in hospitals and hospices. Many of them told how they had been forsaken by family and friends, how they had lost their homes and their jobs, how difficult it was ...

233. Beyond Bread and Butter

Luke 12:42-48

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Thomas Slavens

... given, of him will much be required.” Because labor has more today than it has ever had before, it has more responsibility than ever before. Labor now has the responsibility of launching new programs on behalf of human welfare. Three elements of the Christian faith support such a position. First, the Christian faith teaches that a person is both soul and body and that the body as well as the soul is important. Poverty, injustice and war can have evil effects upon the soul as well as the body. The body is ...

234. Marked For Mission

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George Bass

... cross is still there and it will always point us to the ends of the earth and tell us to take the gospel to every person on the earth. So in various ways -- by being concerned enough about people who haven’t heard the gospel, by prayer, financial support, by learning about people and mission, and actually accepting Christ’s call to go out and preach the gospel all over the world, we will be going back to Africa with my neighbors and to the ends of the earth with other missionaries and, at the same time ...

235. Let It Shine!

John 1:1-18

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and then God called light into being. Let me say that the original function of darkness was to serve as a help structure, a supporting cast for the light. The original purpose of darkness was to help the light be seen; to help the light stand out; to help ... , do it. A song, sing it. A business, grow it. A poem, write it. A project, complete it. A light, shine it! A church, serve and support it! Let it shine. Use what God has given you or lose what God has given you. Let your light shine for Christ. There is a ...

236. Advent's "Invisible" Man

Matthew 1:18-25

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... 't have high visibility in society, but he was a man of great stature in God's eyes because of the decisions he made to be supportive of his fiancee during an anxious time. There are a lot of high visibility people with no substance at all. I recently heard of a man ... H.G. Wells and Ralph Ellision's invisible men, Advent's "invisible man" changed the course of human history by playing a supporting role. By what he did, he allowed God to bring forth Jesus. Mary was a key player, but Joseph was behind the ...

237. The Majesty Of God's Love

Matthew 28:16-20

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Mark Ellingsen

... we take up Jesus' great commission, when we do evangelism, we are merely doing our own thing. The fact that baptism is in the name of the Trinity reminds us of that (Matthew 28:19). The ascension and baptism in the name of the Trinity can be wonderful supports to us in our evangelism efforts. Let me explain that point. Evangelism. It is a word on every pair of American Christian lips these days. Everyone is speaking of church growth. Yes, we all talk about it, but it does not come easy in action. All of us ...

238. The Vine And The Branches

John 15:1-17

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... are his branches, then how we treat the people who live next to us becomes a religious issue. How we raise our children, how we relate to our spouse and parents are all critical issues for us who live from the vine. When God is central: revenge changes to support, hate turns to love, greed moves to sharing, don’t care looks like concern, and me first becomes after you. Not only that -- to be a branch of the vine and have God central means: we can relax, we have the source of life; we can forgive, we have ...

239. Death of the Unchurched For a Recovering Alcoholic

Eulogy

Alan Bacon Bond

... life, sets the limits under which life may be lived and promises life in God's eternal realm, a promise made through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 2. To remember before God a servant of God, Andrew William Hartmann. 3. To support one another, especially Bill's family including his wife Peg and their children Robin, Lara, Robert, Paul and Chet. Prayer of Invocation Almighty and Gracious God, in whom we live and move and have our being, we present ourselves before you as a people stunned ...

240. Athanasius Faithful Teacher

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Thomas A. Renquist

... 4:13) and ‘In all these things we are conquerors through Christ who loved us’ (Romans 8:37).” Reader 1: For the remainder of his life Athanasius would be in and out of favor with the various Roman emperors, depending upon whether they supported the Arian heresy or the orthodox view laid down by the Nicene Council. We need to realize that this was a time of theological fluctuation for the church. It was mainly because of the faithful persistence and courage of Athanasius that the church eventually ...

241. Bartolome’ de Las Casas Protector Of The Indians

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... set up an experimental colony where he could put into practice an evangelism based upon love, not force. He was assigned to an area along the coast of Venezuela. But when Las Casas returned to America to set up this Christian colony, he received no support from the American governors. In fact, one of them had just led an expedition into that area, killing and terrorizing the Indians everywhere. Las Casas’ experiment was never given a chance to succeed. In 1523, Las Casas decided to become a Dominican monk ...

242. Prayers for Year A

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William S. Carter

... Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT · Matthew 4:1-11 Our Lord, we remember your day of testing. We give you thanks that you are aware of our daily tests. Support us, God, through our lives, for we trust in you; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT · John 4:5-26 Eternal God, Lord of all, we are ...

243. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... if we try to make the journey alone. Preaching is validation when God is experienced both through knowledge and through action. Culture needs the influence both of itineraries by those who have experienced God through prayer and by those who have known God and God's support in the struggle for greater justice on Earth. The Royalty Of The Pulpit was the title of a book written earlier in the century about who had been leading preachers of the times. I never owned the book. Neither have I forgotten that title ...

244. Is This Life All There Is?

Luke 20:27-40

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... it sounds reasonable that this life is all there is. But living without that hope cheapens this life, tempting people to use one another as things. Our Lord shows us that the resurrection life will be grander beyond anything we can conjure up, a richer life of support, openness, and trust enjoyed by all the saints. And so we make the words of Paul to the Philippians our own: I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord ... that I may know him and the power of ...

245. Real Security

Luke 12:13-21

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... Jesus would step in between the two brothers and act as a judge by redividing the estate the one had inherited. It isn’t his business - and he won’t do it - to preserve the American way of life and the business and financial institutions that support it. Missing, the movie made about American involvement in the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile in 1973, is a true story about a New York businessman, played by Jack Lemmon, who goes to Chile to search for his son who disappeared in the military ...

246. The Promise of Light

Isaiah 60:1-22

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... the homeless. There are people hard at work in our cities seeking ways to change our structures and systems which produce dark despair for the weak and the powerless. Light is shining in the midst of darkness. There are people and structures seeking ways to support and assist people who have lost their land, their homes and their jobs. There are people hard at work seeking ways to change the realities of darkness that have destroyed and depressed so many dreams and lives. Light is shining in the midst of ...

247. One Commandment is Enough!

Exodus 20:1-21

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... , but when we do not do the things he says, he reminds us we cannot serve him while engaging an illegal and off-limits activities. Sometimes, it may seem, to keep the commandments will ruin us, certainly it will not be always convenient, but God will always do his supporting part to help us when we go out on a limb for him. He did it for the three Hebrew children who refused to bow to other gods. Will he do any less for us? Dr. Graham Scroggie was a well-known preacher of another generation, a powerful and ...

248. God’s Safety Net

Matthew 25:31-46

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D. Wayne Burkette

... ’s love for Christ will be realized or lost by our efforts to feed and clothe and shelter and console? The world is filled with persons who are unprotected, uncared for, hungry, abused, and belittled, and Christ the King is looking for his church to be their support, the embodiment of a God who is Refuge and Strength. But, as plain as Jesus makes it, we are left to wrestle with the question of how. How do we feed and shelter and console? Our inability to come to any kind of consensus in answering that ...

249. A Joyful New Beginning

John 20:1-9

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... one point in his life he was near death. The treatment for his congestive heart failure had triggered a stroke. His left side and vocal cords became paralyzed and pleurisy set into his body. He lay for weeks in pain and misery connected to life-support machines in the hospital. At one point his heart stopped beating altogether, but just as he lost consciousness, his heart was thumped back into action once again by the doctors. At another time when he was relatively clear-headed, Mr. Hook asked his physician ...

250. The Holy Trinity

Psalm 150:1-6, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 29:1-11, Matthew 28:16-20, John 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Genesis 1:1-2:3, Exodus 34:1-28

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... when the church obeys Christ's orders, because the Lord, who gave the church its orders, will be with his people, directing them and supporting their efforts, until the end of time. John 3:16-18 (R) - "Jesus - The Gift God Gave Us." 1. God's love is a ... to a cross and, in that, established a new covenant for all people. Golgotha became a mountain peak that was higher than Mt. Sinai, because it supported a man on a cross so that all the world might see God in him and bless his holy name. Genesis 1:1-2:3 (E, ...

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226. Going Ahead Anyway

Matthew 2:1-12, Matthew 2:13-18

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William B. Kincaid, III

227. Proper 8

Romans 6:1-14, Romans 6:15-23, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Genesis 22:1-19, Matthew 10:1-42

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Russell F. Anderson

228. Lessons for Lent 3

John 2:12-25

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Russell F. Anderson

229. Proper 21

Mark 9:38-41, Esther 7:1-10, Esther 9:18-32, James 5:13-20, Mark 9:42-50

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Russell F. Anderson

230. Connected To God

Sermon

Lee Griess

231. The Condition Of Mercy

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

232. Where You Do Not Wish To Go

John 21:18

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

233. Beyond Bread and Butter

Luke 12:42-48

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

234. Marked For Mission

Sermon

George Bass

235. Let It Shine!

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

236. Advent's "Invisible" Man

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

237. The Majesty Of God's Love

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

238. The Vine And The Branches

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

239. Death of the Unchurched For a Recovering Alcoholic

Eulogy

Alan Bacon Bond

240. Athanasius Faithful Teacher

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

241. Bartolome’ de Las Casas Protector Of The Indians

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

242. Prayers for Year A

Bulletin Aid

William S. Carter

243. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

244. Is This Life All There Is?

Luke 20:27-40

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245. Real Security

Luke 12:13-21

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246. The Promise of Light

Isaiah 60:1-22

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247. One Commandment is Enough!

Exodus 20:1-21

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248. God’s Safety Net

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

D. Wayne Burkette

249. A Joyful New Beginning

John 20:1-9

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250. The Holy Trinity

Psalm 150:1-6, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 29:1-11, Matthew 28:16-20, John 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Genesis 1:1-2:3, Exodus 34:1-28

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