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2576. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Morning Star.” The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life. Jesus Appears to Mary in the Garden and to His Disciples and Breathes on Them Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, “Woman, why are ...

2577. The Field House

Isaiah 2:1-5, Matthew 4:23-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ! Amen? And all God’s people said . . . .AMEN! *The photo for this sermon is from boredpanda.org. **See Wikipedia among others. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text The Mountain of the Lord is the House of the God of Jacob (Isaiah 2) Jesus Teaches His Disciples and Many Others on a Mountain in Galilee: a “Weeding Out” Story (Matthew 4:23 through 7:29) Minor Text God’s Promise to Flourish the House of David (2 Samuel 7 / 1 Chronicles 17) Psalm 84: Psalm of Praise for the Courts of the Lord Psalm ...

2578. The Well Watered Soul

Ezekiel 17:1-24, Ezekiel 47:1-12, Matthew 12:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , and rivulets that reside within. The Madrona does not care if it looks gnarled or strange. Its beauty is in its life, for it will never wither. The Madrona even sheds its skin to be continually renewed, refreshed, reborn by God’s still waters. Jesus disciples are Madrona disciples. We are not called to be stalwarts of the status quo, or giants of normality. Jesus calls us to be a tree of Living Waters, a tree that doesn’t do normal, but has a wet-behind the ears faith –a faith willing to stand ...

2579. House of Stone

Psalm 118:1-29, Isaiah 18:1-7, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and are transported in both past and future, even as we encounter God in the present. In this, the scriptures are timeless. Jesus as Master Architect and Master Builder (or stonemason) is also Jesus the Rock, the Living Rock of Ages. And we are His artisan disciples. We are edgy, but we fit together in a way only God can design. Together, we become altars in the world, full of God’s warmth, vitality, strength, and grace. We are not only formed by the Potter’s hand, but sculpted and smoothed and fitted ...

2580. Dark Waters

Exodus 13:17--14:31, Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... talking about our own challenges today in crossing boundaries and borders to reach the people of our own surrounding communities and to help them start a new life in Christ in a way they can understand. No matter where or who you are, God is calling you as a disciple to lead the way, to cross over into new places and new times, to put aside your fear of the future and to embrace the dark waters of the unknown, knowing that God will lead you through to a new and better place. “Wade in The Water,” an old ...

2581. Immersed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... our heart is our home, and the gateway to our hearts must be “washed” in the blood of the Lamb, so that we too can cross over into a new and vital life in Him. The mark of the Messiah is the mark of our mission too, as His disciples and apostles, His loyal followers and proclaimers of His message and identity as Lamb of God, Gateway to God. We just celebrated the day of Pentecost. But Pentecost now continues as we revel and cleanse ourselves in our Holy Spirit baptism, as we wash ourselves in the blood ...

2582. The Secret to Happiness

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s house to prepare a place for us, he is talking like a bridegroom to his beloved. He is making a promise to return for us and bring us to our new home—eternal life with God. Only he can make this promise because he is, as he told his disciples, the only way to God. Ginger Sprouse, a business owner in Nassau Bay, Texas, drove by the same homeless man on her way to work every day. The man, Victor Hubbard, paced up and down the sidewalk and occasionally spoke to passers-by. One day, Ginger gave in to her ...

2583. Our Strange, Strong Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... be orphaned, promised they wouldn’t be without someone to look after them. I’m going away [code for dying] and I’m coming to you. After death you’ll see me. God and I are one and God will see to my return. Before Jesus died, Jesus gifted the disciples and by association all followers who came after them with peace. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.” Here in the twenty-first century ...

2584. What's Your Superpower?

Luke 24:36-49, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the best teams. In fact, if you look at the scriptures, most of God’s best teams were made up of ordinary folk with God-powered motivation and assistance! In today’s scriptures, both in the books of Acts and in Luke, Jesus is adamant in telling his disciples to wait in Jerusalem until God’s power comes upon them. He explains to them that they will be infused with the power of the Holy Spirit, and that power will enable them to do the kind of miraculous ministry that God has in mind for them. If ...

2585. The Howling

Acts 2:1-13, John 7:25-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that communal message of God to all people. You are a beloved son or daughter of God, blessed in Jesus’ name and invited to participate in His mission. You are a member of the soul of humanity, united in the Holy Spirit, anointed as a disciple and apostle. Today, I encourage you to join in your own communal howl – an utterance of joy and victory, of happiness, love, friendship, and freedom, acknowledging that no matter what happens on this earth, the human spirit can never be quenched, because the Holy ...

2586. What's In a Name?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... though he himself felt that he had failed many, many times. Peter is a confidence building name for a man, who would need to have a lot of endurance, confidence, stability, obstinance, and permanence. In his naming, Peter step up and be transformed from mere disciple to valued stalwart of the faith. Think of the names that you bear upon your heart and soul. I’m not just talking about your first name or your last name. But what are the names you’ve been called by parents, siblings, friends, neighbors ...

2587. Practicing What We Preach

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... here? Jesus, you recall, was not criticizing secular people, but some of the most religious people of his day. Please notice that he did not criticize them for the message they taught. Indeed, he felt their message was very important. He said to this disciples, “Do whatever they teach you and follow it.” But then, he quickly added, “Do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach.” In other words, they were people whose deeds didn’t match their words, whose conduct was inconsistent ...

2588. No Promotion Required

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... their minds and fainting all over the place! And the rest, as they say, is history! (1) Of course, the fact that the Beatles were great musicians and very creative songwriters didn’t hurt. For most of his ministry Jesus did all he could to discourage his disciples from publicizing his work. The last thing Jesus needed or wanted was a marketing genius hyping his ministry. But when you are a man who can heal the sick, raise the dead and feed the five thousand, it is difficult to keep the word from getting ...

2589. Did I Say That Out Loud?

Mark 8:31-38; 9:2-9

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... were lots of questions in their minds as they climbed the high mountain. The scripture doesn’t say that they asked any questions during the climb but don’t you wonder what they said to each other during that journey? As they reached the top, the three disciples would have rested after seeing if their master had any needs. Their love for him and their belief that he was sent from God would have driven them to serve Jesus in any way they could. He needed nothing. Jesus knew exactly why he was there. He ...

2590. An Encounter with Jesus

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... the Jews. They wanted to know if all the things they had heard of Jesus were true. The scripture never says what was on the pilgrim’s minds, what they wanted to know, or even how they responded to the teachings Jesus laid down before this group of disciples. What we do know is that Jesus could see their hearts. He knew their questions and knew their stumbling blocks. Then Jesus laid out simply what it meant to be a believer and a follower. A few weeks ago you entered into this year’s Lenten journey. Why ...

2591. It’s Sunday…But Friday’s Comin’

Mark 11:1-11 · John 12:12-16

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... , James, or John or the other nine wouldn’t you be surprised, possibly shocked, certainly dismayed, and definitely discouraged? They shouldn’t have been and neither should we because Jesus warned them and Mark recorded it in chapter 4 of his gospel. Jesus was teaching his disciples through parables, which are word pictures designed to teach a point. Mark wrote in 4:3-9: “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up ...

2592. I Have Seen the Lord

John 20:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... rabbi. Impulsively she reached for him, but Jesus stopped her with the explanation that he had not yet ascended to the Father. Mary Magdalene will have to be content to hold him in her heart. That is exactly what she did. Later she would testify to his disciples, “I have seen the Lord.” What does Mary Magdalene’s experience on that first Easter Sunday have to do with your life and mine? Are there empty tombs in our lives into which we may be peering with a sense of helplessness and despair? That would ...

2593. He’s Not Who We Thought

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... t get rid of love by opposing it with hate. You can’t stop the future from breaking in by holding tightly to a dying past. Jesus is not going to Jerusalem to become a loser for a lost cause. He’s not what he probably looked like to the disciples, when the landscape began to turn dark and grim for their movement. Jesus is the shape of the future. The powerful love for all of us which he demonstrated, standing up to and facing down his killers, was not meaningless and empty. We won’t be getting rid of ...

2594. The Love Cloud

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in his healing, we need to allow Jesus to shine His holy light into our lives and hearts, so that our very souls are transfigured into a vehicle and a beacon of His light and hope. To be the hands and feet of God, to be Christian healers and disciples and apostles to a world in pain, a world that struggles to love, we need to pull ourselves back, and allow Jesus instead to shine. When we are “in love” with someone, we call that “having our heads in the clouds.” It’s not exactly in our culture a ...

2595. The Real "Lord's Prayer"

John 17:6-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... and God that we naturally align ourselves with God’s will. And so . . . Jesus, in his last hours on this earth, did what he had always done throughout his ministry. He took his concerns to his loving Father in prayer. Jesus prayed for others. He prayed for his disciples, and then he prayed for all those people he had never met, people who hadn’t even been born yet, generations of people yet to be born who would come to believe in him as their Lord and Savior. In other words, in his last hours on earth ...

2596. How Does Your Garden Grow?

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... , who were once boys, would have tended to the family’s vines and would know experientially the right ways to trim, groom, prune, and train a vine. Once again in teaching the disciples, Jesus made a nod of recognition as the beginning point. Just about all of them would have experience with a grapevine and how to make the greatest and most fruitful harvest. Many of us don’t live in an agrarian society. We don’t farm our acres everyday but many ...

2597. Promises to Keep

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... bodyguard with orders to see to the execution and when the head of the Baptist was brought forth, the girl received it without a qualm or a hesitation and, in turn, gave it to her mother. Mark concluded the story by telling us that, when John’s disciples heard about his death they came, took his body, and laid it in a tomb. The Story, Then The story of the death of John the Baptist achieved several things for Mark and his immediate audience who were very probably dealing with a cult of John the Baptist ...

2598. Never on Sunday

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... and a new law needs to be written. A Withered Hand The second story is more serious and more important than the first because it showed the law being perverted in such a way as to dismiss and even condone callousness and cruelty. Jesus and the disciples entered the local synagogue, which is primarily a place of learning and a sort of local substitute for the temple as a place to worship. Inside the synagogue, he met a man with a withered hand; probably, the language tells us, a malady from birth. Mark ...

2599. Sword of the Spirit

John 6:56-69 · Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... world, but he only had a brief time to teach them and prepare them for what was to come. The twelve were in a sense Jesus’ “round table.” Led by the Holy Spirit of Christ, the future round table would be made up of key disciples and apostles, who would take Jesus’ “good news” message of redemption and God’s call for repentance to the entire world. Knighted and prepared, as Paul described, they would prepare to battle the forces that would trip them up along the way, both spiritual and physical ...

2600. For Us Or Against Us?

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us (Mark 9:39-40).” It is important to know that this passage follows a larger discussion about which disciple is the greatest (9:33-37). Jesus said that, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all (Mark 9:35).” He then took up a child in his arms. Children were not valued as they are today – they gained value as they grew able ...

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