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2501. Deep Water

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... You can’t reach audiences as a singer or a song writer, if you can’t first allow yourself to “go deep” into that place inside in which you can channel your emotions, and even your pain, and bring them to the surface in the form of art. You can’t heal your past unless you are willing to “go deep” and examine the hurts face-to-face that are haunting your spirit. You can’t be an effective disciple unless you allow yourself to “go deep” into your relationship with God, your relationship with ...

2502. Summertime Praise

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... ''Christ loved the church'' (Ephesians 5:25). That's why we shout ''Hosanna!'' and get all stirred up. His love explains why we're here and why we sing. In a famous prayer, St. Augustine says that, despite our mortality, we ''still desire to praise thee'': ''Great art thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is thy power, and infinite is thy wisdom." We desire to praise thee, for we are a part of thy creation; we bear morality about us and carry the evidence of our sin.... Still we desire to praise ...

2503. When What You Signed Up For...

Acts 16:9-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... even for your life. There is an old “Peanuts” cartoon strip that I suspect we all can relate to. In the first panel Charlie Brown says, “I learned something in school today, I signed up for folk guitar, computer programming, stained glass art, shoemaking and a natural foods workshop.” In the second panel he says, “[Instead] I got spelling, history, arithmetic, and two study periods.” In the third panel Charlie’s friend asks, “So, what did you learn?” Charlie says, “I learned that ...

2504. Get Your Third-Class Tickets Here!

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... success. We don’t want to wait for the good life; we want it now, immediately. And if we don’t get what we want we will look someplace else. Who wants to sit around and wait? Who wants to sit around and pray? In his book, The New Art of Living, Norman Vincent Peale gave us an interesting picture of our modern situation. He tells about a man in London years ago who had regained his sight after having been blind since two years of age. He could not remember his perceptions from his infant years, of course ...

2505. The Green-Eyed Monster

Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... most often as Mary, Mother of God. You can see these meanings easily when you examine the beauty of the stained glass windows in early cathedrals in Europe. Also in the Renaissance however, colors took on meaning in the realm of the medicinal arts. An important theory of medicine stated that the human body was made up of four temperaments called “four humours.” These constituted black bile, yellow/green bile, phlegm, and blood. When these were in balance, a person remained healthy. When they somehow got ...

2506. Rejoice: Hints Of Heaven Are Here On Earth!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... the world says life and our activities praising and serving God don’t matter, we (rebelliously) know better. For we know that hints of heaven are here on earth! That’s a good reason to rejoice. [1] Plato, Parmenides, 129ff. [2] Sherwin Nuland, The Art of Aging: A Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Being (New York: Random House, 2008). [3] G. W. Anderson, The History and Religion of Israel (London: Oxford University Press, 1966), pp.33-34. [4] John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T ...

2507. Constant Companion

John 14:23-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... each other all are proactive ways we can care for each other and ourselves.[5] The ”pandemic of loneliness” and lack of intimate connection has gotten so bad that societies and organizations, such as the “Unlonely Project,” sponsored by the Foundation for Art and Healing spend their time looking for ways to battle this serious pandemic.[6] But it’s hard, because loneliness is a very unique kind of emotion. It’s intricately tied to grief. When people are lonely, they are essentially grieving for ...

2508. Finding Your Place

Romans 12:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... feels like freedom? “As I look over the history of American intellectual life,' wrote Dwight MacDonald a few years ago, “I must conclude that American academic thought is characterized more by its consensus that its complexity. A stultifying sameness pervades American arts and letters, an all-too willing effort to jump on intellectual bandwagons.” It is risky to dress, act, think for oneself, to develop an independence of mind and spirit. There is a consensus on certain matters. You'll discover it in ...

2509. Life Between the Times

Revelation 22:7-21

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... Moltmann, Theology of Hope, trans. James Leitch (New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1967), p.325. [6] Ibid., p.338; Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream,” (Washington, DC, 1963). [7] Johann von Goethe, as quoted in Ibid., p.27. [8] Sherwin Nuland, The Art of Aging: A Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Being; Daniel Amen, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (New York: Three Rivers, 1998), p.81. [9] Rudolf Bultmann, Jesus Christ and Mythology (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958), pp.40-41.

2510. Unbound

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in the realm of the divine. Although in Jesus’ day, his disciples would have been highly influenced by their Greek surrounding culture, still they were immersed in their faith, their study of the Hebrew language with all of its nuance and meaning, and in the art of inquiry. They may have leaned a bit too much toward the rational many times, as we see in Jesus’ interactions with them, but at the root, they were above all curious. And they were open to Jesus’ instruction, to his challenges, and to his ...

2511. The First Sign of Civilization

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... to be the first sign of civilization in a society. What separates an uncivilized collection of people from a true civilization? Mead could have mentioned the first signs of tools, like grinding stones or clay pots for holding food and water. She could have mentioned art, like cave paintings or carved statues. Instead, Mead said the first sign of civilization in her opinion was when an ancient skeleton was found with a healed thighbone. Why is that a sign of civilization? It was Mead’s estimation that in a ...

2512. How to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... with the most incredible word. What is it? It’s the word: “Father.” Father—the one word that changes everything. Since 1986, the Burning Man festival has been celebrated in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Thousands of people gather for a big party celebrating art, community and self-expression. In 2003 someone brought a large, portable phone booth to Burning Man. They called it the God Phone, and they set it up in the field. Above the booth is a sign that reads, “Talk to God.” Below the booth ...

2513. The Thing About Evil

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... power, and the glory….forever. [1]Michael Hefferon, “Vampire Myths Originated With a Real Blood Disorder,” The Conversation, June 23, 2020, https://theconversation.com/vampire-myths-originated-with-a-real-blood-disorder-140830. [2]“Witchcraft, Women, and the Healing Arts in the Early Modern Period: Wise-Women and Cunning Folk Healers,” UAB Libraries,University of Alabama Birmingham, last updated May 13, 2022, https://guides.library.uab.edu/c.php?g=1048546&p=7609198. [3] Because pigs were gentile ...

2514. Peter Asks A Question

John 13:1-7 · 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... of feetwashing as well. And of course there is the clear example of Jesus and the command to do as he had done in the thirteenth chapter of John as well. And as for the fact that we plan to share a meal, it is clear from early Christian art that this was the norm. The Bread and Cup was usually celebrated in conjunction with a full meal, which for many was their only meal of the day. The Agape Meal, or Love Feast, brought together Christians of all economic stations to one table, contrary to the customs of ...

2515. Bent Out of Shape

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... bent under a burden of shame heaped upon her by her synagogue and leaders for her ailment is healed, while the oppressors themselves (having become bent out of shape over Jesus’ healing of her on the Sabbath) become shamed for their heartlessness. Luke renders an artful literary telling of the phenomenon, which all centers around the theme of “shame.” Who is the one bent out of shape? The woman or the leader of the synagogue? The woman is healed, for the shame was put upon her and was not her own ...

2516. Stay the Course

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... advertisers to some extent “lie.” They create an alternative “truth” that they present to others for the benefit of telling a story. These kinds of “lies” are what we might call “white lies.” They aren’t harmful. In some cases, we appreciate them as art. Some blatant “white lies” are socially acceptable, as well. For example, you wouldn’t tell your friend that you don’t like her haircut or his new car. You tell a white lie, because you care for your friend and want to celebrate and ...

2517. Dealing With Difficult People

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... no, he voted yes. He made things very difficult for me. I prayed, “Lord, help me deal with this man. What should I do?” Shortly after I began praying for this man, there was a fall festival at the church. I walked around to the different booths, admiring the arts and crafts created by those in the congregation. The man I was praying for had a booth full of paintings he had done. They were portraits. I had no idea he was a painter, and a good one at that! I asked him to show me his paintings and tell ...

2518. The Ear of the Heart

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... quality. We connect to a message, a place, a person, or a memory. That connection continues to interpret and sustain life for us, as it gives us a sense of purpose and meaning. The Britannica Encyclopedia defines music as, “art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and in most Western music, harmony.” The important point is the phrase “emotional expression.” Music often articulates ...

2519. All We Are Left With...

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... to see the results. So she split up $50,000 among 70 of her friends, with the stipulation that they give the money away to charity. One friend used the money to help a refugee family in Calgary. Another friend in Africa used the money to fund an art project for children in her town. A friend named Joni Bouchard shared that her son had died when he was 12 years old. She used the money from Dina’s bequest to buy pajamas for mothers who have lost their children through a charity called Pajama Project. As ...

2520. The Hidden City

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer in a Sea of Fog The artist Caspar David Friedrich is known for his ethereal, spiritual, otherworldly-looking paintings. In order to grasp the meaning of his art, one needs to contemplate the visuals, noting the colors, shades, objects, and the location of the figure, among other noticeable details. For example, the painting above, called “Wanderer in a Sea of Fog,” lacks clarity. The fog, in the title and in the painting, obscures vision with misty white. The ...

2521. The Mud Room

John 9:1-41

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... beauty of that clay pottery. It can always be renewed. As long as it isn’t oven/kiln-fired, even hard, crumbling, cracked, or broken, the potter can add water to the clay, heal it, re-form it, re-mold it, and renew it into a fresh piece of art. This is essentially what Jesus (the Divine Potter) is doing when he heals the blind man in our story for today. Born blind, the man has been unable to physically see. He has been sidelined from his community and blamed for his handicap. Jesus turns this upside down ...

2522. When Time Stands Still

John 11:1-45

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Pie is his lament, his attempt to find solace for his pain, to connect with the world by singing out his grief, much like Psalm 130 that we read today. The truth is that many artists find ways to unleash their grief and pain in their art, whether it’s music, painting, dancing, or writing. In fact, many attest that their gifts were made particularly vivid and expressive due to the depths of their emotional experiences. Grief is one of the most powerful of these emotions. Grief is a vital and everyday part ...

2523. Flash Mob

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... his “performance” that day? I believe that he certainly did. Otherwise, he would not have sent his disciples for the pre-arranged donkey and colt. Otherwise, the huge crowds that accompanied him would not have known what was happening. Like all flash mobs, like all art, Jesus was sending a message –one to the Pharisees and Priests, that his movement could not be put down, no matter what they did, and one to his followers, to let them know that the time of celebration would be coming soon. Perhaps he ...

2524. Sola Fide

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... form dating back to Solomon. But the doxologies used in Jewish worship were given a new meaning in Christian worship. In Judaism the doxology was sung to a God who is distant and remote. The Jews would sing these words in their Jewish doxology, “Blessed art thou, O God.” The Christians, realizing the Messiah had come, sang a doxology to a God who was intimate and personal because God had been made known to them by Jesus. Peter related the Christian doxology to a very personal God as we hear these ...

2525. Good News/Bad News

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... of decision. It was a time of decision for Jesus’ disciples. But it was also a time of decision for Jesus himself. “Not my will but thine be done.” And he gave his life for us. Pastor David Moore tells about a man who was walking through an art gallery when he came upon a picture of the Lord Jesus dying upon the cross. As he stared into the face of Christ, so full of agony, the gallery guard tapped him on the shoulder. “Lower,” the guard said. “The artist painted this picture to be appreciated ...

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