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Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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2576. Ordinary 32

Lk 20:27-38 · Zech 7:1-10 · 2 Thess 2:13--3:5 · 1 Chron 29:10-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... or heaven for every person. Only those accounted worthy to "attain" this privilege go to heaven. Christians attain this privilege not by character, gifts, or good works, but by faith in Christ who alone gives eternal life. 3. Living (v. 38). Jesus said that God is not ... doomed to things as they are. But, there is hope, for hope is not based on us or on the world but on God. Hope is a gift of God. if we go to God, we can have hope, for hope is ultimately based on the nature of God. Outline: There is hope for ...

2577. Epiphany 8

Lk 6:39-49 · 1 Cor 15:51-58 · Jer 7:1-7 · Isa 55:10-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... of anti-intellectualism in the religious community. "I feel" legitimizes behavior. Such "new pietiesm" (the Church experienced such a movement several hundred years ago) can become an insufferable tyranny, dividing head from heart and leading to emotional excess. A. Intelligence is God's good gift 1. It rescues us from emotional excess 2. It keeps us honest 3. It serves as a check on behavior B. God is above our intellect 1. We need to keep our reason in perspective: God is wiser than we are 2. God speaks ...

2578. Lent 5

Jn 8:1-11; 12:1-8 · Lk 20:9-19 · Isa 43:16-21 · Php 3:8-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... Jesus. This sermon should move us to express our love while our loved ones are alive. Can you imagine how deeply touched, comforted, and encouraged Jesus was after Mary's anointing him? Outline: Show your love now - A. Say a good and kind word today B. Give a gift now C. Do your loved one a favor today 3. When Extravagance is Cheap. 12:1-8. Need: Mary anointed Jesus with very costly perfume. So good was it that the fragrance went through the house; only expensive perfume would do that. Was this a waste of ...

2579. Lent 3

John 4:5-42

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... of our lives, O Lord. People: We take for granted opening a faucet and getting water; we grumble and complain when it rains for more than a brief time. Pastor: Open our eyes, Lord God, and give us an appreciation of the ordinary gifts you give us. Assistant: How easily we take for granted the basic gift of your grace to us, O Lord. People: In an offhand way we bow before you to confess our sins, and then we walk away thinking of them no more. Pastor: Open our eyes, Lord God, and help us to appreciate the ...

2580. Proper 26

Ruth 4:1-12

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... we do need God to lift us up when we feel cast down. Pastor: Life becomes what we let it become. If we let it become a gift of God, we will be refreshed with new hope. People: Our hope is in God, whom we believe is in our midst to make life a source ... Collect Loving God, who turns discouragement into hope, and despair into joy: Bless us with your presence; that we may see each day as a gift of your love, and live in thanksgiving for the hope that is ours in Christ Jesus, your Son, in whose name we pray. Amen. ...

2581. Christmas Eve or Day

Isaiah 9:1-7

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... -14 Theme: Live godly lives in preparation for Christ's return Call to Worship Pastor: God's grace has become known through the gift of his Son, Jesus our Savior. People: We celebrate our Savior's birth, and rejoice in the hope he has brought us. Pastor ... our world. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession With great joy we lift our hearts in praise, O God, for the gift of your Son! We join the throngs who hail your Son as Savior of the world. But our praise is too shallow, and too brief. Soon ...

2582. Training Session

Matthew 5:1-12

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... Nor could their participation in the fund for Susan be taken away from the people who responded. They, too, were "blessed" by God, not in the sense of gaining riches or worldly goods in return for their monetary gifts, but from the perspective of knowing that in giving they had received a gift from God which gave them lasting joy. A headline in the newspaper announced, " ‘We are the World’ sponsors see Ethiopa tragedy firsthand;" it was preceded by a film clip on television which showed the singers and ...

2583. Who are these Kings?

Isaiah 60:1-22

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... in the Child. They did not come as astrologers. They came to Bethlehem as men of faith, part of God’s new dayspring for the world. Nor did they arrive just with fire, the usual travel gift of the priests of Zoroaster in those days. They brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Luther had something to say about their gifts: The gold signifies their faith in Jesus as their king; the frankincense, that he was their priest; and the myrrh, that he would die for them. Sometimes God will leave us in darkness for a ...

2584. Never Forgotten

Isaiah 49:8-26

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... . He never forgets. When he remembers, he acts on our behalf and makes us remember, too. Then he leads us to learn from what we remember. When we do not learn from what we remember, we hold grudges, and they eat us away from within. God’s gift of faith is blocked, and we sit in the dust of exile forever. Isaiah was speaking to people discouraged for so long they were comfortable in their discouragement. They had forgotten any other feeling but that deep-down sense of being lost and forgotten. Most of the ...

2585. A Faith To Live By John D. Mauney, Jr.

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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... of eternal salvation. We must believe that the Holy Spirit has worked through the Word to bring us to faith, and that through baptism she has bound us forever to be her very own. God has done it all! It is ours, therefore, to accept his gift and to believe. For, "The Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other." The latter part of our text admonishes us, "Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, ...

2586. Where Does One Go When Darkness Floods One’s Life?

Genesis 32:22-32

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James Cobb

... seek a life apart. Years passed and Jacob was married and had amassed a great fortune. Now, as the scene of our text occurs, Jacob is on his way back to the parental home, carrying a terrific burden of sin and guilt. As he approaches his destination he sends gifts to his brother to assuage that guilt. Then he divides his family and followers and sends them in different directions, so that if one is destroyed the other will be safe. Now he is utterly alone and it is in this extremity that God comes to him in ...

2587. Treasure's Tug

Matthew 13:44-46

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... a deep thinker with a great mind - a mind like his. He always gives such clear answers." When we think those things, we risk not hearing Jesus' words about the kingdom of heaven being widely available, in fact, available to everyone. And to everyone it is a gift. So don't fret away your time wishing you were some other kind of person. When you have heard about Jesus, you have encountered the treasure. There comes a moment or many moments along the way when you will be thinking, "Just how much is it worth ...

2588. The Day of Pentecost

Isaiah 44:1-5, Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41, John 20:19-23

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... our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession You have blessed us with the peace of Christ, O God, and our hearts are glad. But in our gladness, we have not heard clearly enough the call to share our joy with others. And so we reject the gift of your Spirit which would enable us to go forth in Christ's name. Forgive us for depriving ourselves of the joy of serving others; and depriving others of knowing the peace of Christ. Breathe upon us the breath of new life, that we may be strengthened by your ...

2589. Image and Inscription

Matthew 22:15-22

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... have to obey divine rather than human authority.3 It is for that reason that we must continually decide whether, when and to what extent the government is carrying out its God-given mandate. Life and freedom are gifts from God, not privileges conferred by Caesar. And when Caesar proposes to strip away these gifts, we must decide whether to say, "Yes, this is a legitimate exercise of the power of the sword" or "No, in this case, the demands of justice will not be well served." And, as always, not to decide ...

2590. The Servant’s Credentials

Matthew 23:1-39

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... can be incredibly vexing. There are those to whom the managing group must, after extensive testing, torturous discussion and agonizing interviews, finally say, "No." Some are drawn to church occupations out of fairly severe emotional and psychological needs. Others lack the gifts their intended occupations require. And a few quite simply misperceive what professional service in the church is all about and refuse or are unable to alter their perceptions. I think of one man in his forties who had problems in ...

2591. The Trifocal Festival

Matthew 5:1-12

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... be something more than death; then there must be a promise that is not fulfilled in our short existence in this world; then leaving behind the ones you love, the flowers and trees, the mountains, and the oceans, the beauty of art and music, and all the exuberant gifts of life cannot be just the destruction and cruel end of all things; then indeed we have to wait for the third day."1 I. Vague talk about the immortality of the soul is hardly what I need and - thanks be to God - hardly what the gospel affords ...

2592. Beginning A Healing Ministry

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... , in every instance, healing of one sort or another does happen. There is no such thing as unanswered prayer. In one way or another, the healing ministry enables people to experience the power of God's spirit in their lives. Often God's response to prayer is the gift of strength, with which a person is enabled to cope with a serious illness or disability. There are a number of ways in which a new emphasis on prayer can be incorporated into the healing ministry as well as the total life of the parish. At our ...

2593. Special Occasions Baptism

Mark 1:9-13

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... in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Leader: Repent and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. All: Father, may we claim this gift whole heartedly when we are baptized, and every day following. Make us ever mindful of the Spirit’s leading so that our service is acceptable in your sight.

2594. Jesus is Coming

Luke 21:31

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... of Jesus' birthday first? That is what Christmas is really about, isn't it? That is the day that we celebrate the birthday of Jesus and we do it in a lot of ways. We go to church, we spend the day with our families, and we exchange gifts, to remember the great gift that God gave to us, when he sent Jesus into the world. I wonder if you know that Jesus is coming again. He is. I don't know when, but the Bible tells us that we can count on it. Jesus will come again and live here with ...

2595. The Poor in Spirit

Matthew 5:1-12

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... our ordinary view of happiness, has its roots in God. Blessedness comes because our life is dependent upon God. It is a gift from God which, according to the New Testament, comes to those who suffer because of their faithfulness. Blessedness is not a Hollywood ... refers to a deep abiding happiness that can neither be given nor taken away by the world. It is well-being and prosperity: the gift of God to all people. Today, I do not want to talk about all of the qualities expressed in the Beatitudes. I want to ...

2596. Jesus’ Hospital

Matthew 9:9-13

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... problem with many of us is that we haven’t even gotten up yet, much less are we following Jesus. Jesus Christ empowers us to come follow him, but we have to get up and start moving as Matthew did so many years ago. Matthew, by the way, means "Gift of God" in Hebrew. Strange when you think of it, that one with such a name would be a tax collector. Tax collectors were hated by the Jews because these toll masters were seen as turncoats, mercenaries, if you will, who worked for Rome against their own people ...

2597. Christmas 1

Psalm 111:1-10, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Galatians 3:26--4:7, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

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... Spirit to join Jesus in addressing God as he did, "Abba! Father!" Because he has set us free from all that has enslaved us, he has claimed us as his children and made us inheritors of the kingdom through Jesus Christ. Jesus and the kingdom are the gifts that God gives us at Christmas. In this reading, therefore, is the reminder that we are continuing the Christmas celebration this day. Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 Matthew is the only one of the four gospel writers to include this lovely, but terrible and puzzling ...

2598. Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12, Psalm 1:1-6

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... in those who know themselves to be unworthy of his grace and helpless to win their own salvation. (Note: This gospel is best "preached" in the form of a thematic sermon that spells out the basis for true happiness in life and after death through God's gifts of grace as they are spelled out in the Beatitudes.) SERMON SUGGESTIONS A sermon on the Gospel, Matthew 5:1-2 - "He Taught It On a Mountain." In his book, Jesus the Magician, Morton Smith contends that there were many magicians roaming about the world in ...

2599. Epiphany 6

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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... 2. The church has been given the light of the Holy Spirit, so that "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him" may be perceived and understood by believers. Such wisdom comes as "gifts of the Spirit." 3. To take us to spiritual maturity, the Holy Spirit becomes our teacher at the express orders of the risen and ascended Lord. As teacher, the Holy Spirit turns on our spiritual "lights" so that we might know how to live in "the wisdom of ...

2600. Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

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... is the knowledge that "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." The alms are given to others, but it is only God's business to know the giver and the amount of the gift. I know of a congregation in which the tithers had different colored envelopes than the non-tithers. When the offering place was passed in that church, it was as if the tithers were standing on their feet and saying to the others, "See what I am doing for the ...

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