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2576. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... to a City whose builder and maker is God. I, too, am sailing on a great ship, the old ship of Zion. I am acquainted with many of the passengers, and they are splendid people. But best of all, I am acquainted with the Pilot and the Captain, Jesus my Lord. This ship will not go down in mid-ocean, but will round into a beautiful harbor, and all on board will sing." Well, here we have two ways of traveling, two ways of moving from where we are to the distant harbor. One way is the way of uncertainty, doubtful ...

2577. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... go, we must arise and go; like shepherds of old, we must go and see; we must "see this which is come to pass, which the Lord has made known unto us" (Luke 2:15). But the point I would make is this; we don’t have to travel 1,980 years ... by shepherds that night in the fields of Bethlehem? "Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior who is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:11). It was the simple announcement of the coming and presence of a living Person. May we make pilgrimage of mind and spirit until ...

2578. A Mother Who Could Let Go

1 Samuel 9:1--10:8

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... which means "asked of God." Hannah and Elkanah loved and guided the boy until he was three or four years old. Then they took him to the temple to live with the old priest Eli. His parents visited him periodically, but they understood that the boy belonged to the Lord. God did great things with Samuel. He grew up to be one of Israel's greatest prophets. It was he who took a vial of oil one day, following God's command, and anointed a shepherd boy named David to be King of Israel. Hannah knew three great ...

2579. Turn On The Lights!

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . The essential message this scripture has for us today is this: A Christian must reflect Christ as surely as the moon reflects the sun. Our task is to illuminate a dark world with the reflected light of Christ, always giving him the glory. I believe that our Lord is calling us to turn on some lights in three particular ways. FIRST, WE ARE TO TURN ON THE LIGHT BY PLEDGING AMBITIOUSLY OUR TIME, TALENT AND MONEY. At the close of my sermon today, the offering plates will be passed again. You will be invited to ...

2580. The Hiding Angel

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... God's image. He longs to adopt us as his sons and daughters if we are willing. When we allow Him to be Lord of our lives, he molds us like balls of plasticine until we become extraordinary reflections of Christ. Does the angel or saint inside ... King of Kings, a son or daughter of God Almighty. And that's what we are when we claim Jesus Christ by faith as savior and Lord. We are adopted. That's the first message from pastor John in our text for today. THE SECOND MESSAGE IS THIS: REMEMBER WHAT YOU CAN BECOME ...

2581. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... they wanted to meet the bridegroom or they would not have been there in the first place. So readiness in waiting, symbolized by oil in the lamps, is the key factor in preparedness. The world waits too for God to invade the good planet again. "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of the trumpet of God" (1 Thessalonians 4:16). In the meantime we wait ... and work ... and play ... and glorify God. But just as the people before that ...

2582. Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... lives where we have fallen short, yet You have forgiven us, asking only in return for us to forgive others. Help us to truly love others, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have failed You and yet we have received Your mercy. Too often, Lord, others have failed us but yet we have demanded full and complete justice from them. Forgive us, Lord, and open our hearts that we might know and extend to others that same mercy and grace You gave to us through Christ and the Cross ...

2583. Faith Now and To Eternity

Philippians 1:12-30

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James Wilson

... God's work for our lives is not finished and in it we have joy. People: Let us serve Christ with gladness for all the world to see. Leader: And let our words and songs ring out with praise for God's love! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, we are so blessed that You not only allow us to be a part of Your Kingdom but You call each of us to serve You with the spiritual gifts You have given us. We praise You, O ...

2584. Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... that are with young" (Isaiah 40:9-11). Five centuries after the time of this Second Isaiah, John the Baptist appeared in the desert at a place along the Jordan River and proclaimed the good news about Jesus in some of the very same words: "Prepare the way of the Lord. Make a straight way in the desert for him." Like the prophet of old he urged people to make a venture of faith. If we want the comfort of God we need to prepare for it. We always need to prepare for whatever we want to happen in life or ...

2585. Simon Peter: Strong Stone or Crumbling Clay?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... my blood." I must admit I didn’t fully comprehend then what he meant, and the thought of him shedding his blood disturbed me deeply. Some months before, when he had told us that he would go to Jerusalem and suffer and be killed, I had protested strongly. "God forbid, Lord," I had said, "this shall never happen to you." But how hurt and chagrined I felt when Jesus then said to me, "Get behind me, Satan! ... you are not on the side of God but of men!" Then that dark night came and he had just told all of us ...

2586. What God Requires of Us

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... talk to me that way! I am the High Priest and you cannot talk to me in that tone. Keep this up and I will personally see to it that you are reassigned to some other post. How would you like to cool your heels in say, Nazareth? Aaron: My Lord Caiaphas, what Obed means is that we have some very pressing business! We need to speak to you and seek your counsel. Caiaphas: Thank you, Aaron. It is heartening to see that there are some who still respect the office of High Priest. Boaz, you may be dismissed. (He ...

2587. When Something is About to Happen

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Long

... world. Every time Christians recite the old phrase in the creed, "He will come to judge the quick and the dead," we disclose our hope that frail human justice, the kind one can get with a good lawyer and a full checkbook, is not all the justice life holds. Come, Lord Jesus. Every time some congregation creates a clothing closet or a food pantry for those in need. They do so not because they are so naive as to think that a few used garments and a shelf of soup and cereal are going to end human need. They do ...

2588. Shepherds and Bathrobes

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Thomas Long

... reduce the size of those great events to the scale of a Hallmark Christmas card. As the essayist Annie Dillard once put it, ... if you send any shepherds a Christmas card on which is printed a three-by-three photograph of the angel of the Lord, the glory of the Lord, and a multitude of the heavenly host, they will not be sore afraid.3 Perhaps this is so, but before we put the bathrobes back into the closet and dismantle the plywood crib, we should look again and carefully at the way in which Luke describes ...

2589. It’s as Simple as That

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... was safe in a way that we can all appreciate. God’s word had been passed on as an inheritance from one person to another. Secondly, when Elisha received the prophet’s mantle, he tore up his own. Clothed in the power of the garment of Elijah and the Lord, the God of Elijah, he makes his journey back across the river. There he had to confront the sons of the prophets, and learn to live with them as their leader. We all know how difficult it is to confront people we know after we have been promoted above ...

2590. Strengthened For Life

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." For us today, city dwellers for the most part, the figure of the vine and the branches has little personal meaning. If our Lord said, "I am the gasoline and you are the cars ... for without me you can go nowhere," we would know more of what he is talking about. We can have the finest car ever produced, but without gasoline it is worthless. Jesus pictured the vital relationship between himself ...

2591. John the Baptist Proclaims Christ's Coming

John 1:1-18

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... can fathom You have honored us by calling Your prophets from among Your people to proclaim the Good News to the world. We praise You, Lord! In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, as we continue to move through Advent, we are so aware there is much in the world that would distract and harden our hearts to the message of love You gave us in the birth of Christ. Lord, forgive us for all of those times when we have willingly chosen the distractions and turned away from You. Call us once more to the ...

2592. The Vine That Lives Forever

John 15:1-17

Sermon

George Bass

... to the brood of children now murmuring in the courtyard." That sounds a bit like the mission Christ has given to the church: our Lord’s physical presence is gone from the earth, but he expects us to carry on with his work. But we don’t have to live and ... work by ourselves. Christ’s promise is that we can "abide in him and he in us." We are not alone; the Lord is with us, and his resurrection promise to be with us until the end of time is real and powerful when we cling to him. Antoine ...

2593. Advent: Lament, Repent

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... is a good question. Clearly we cannot save ourselves. We cannot quench the wrath of God with a sudden burst of holiness. No, self-justification always just makes matters worse. The only thing to do, Isaiah insists, is to hand ourselves over to God’s mercy. Yet, O Lord, thou art our Father, we are the clay and thou art our potter. We sinners deserve no more from this potter than to be returned to the earth. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust - and to mud. But listen! What if we gave our misshapened clay back to ...

2594. "Job" Is Our Name Too

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... for vindication; rather, demands it of God. Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I may come even to his seat! - Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No he would give heed to me. If Job could only get the Lord God subpoenaed into court, there would be acquittal for Job. More than anything, he wants vindication from his God. But at the same time, Job is torn by the anger he feels towards his accusers and their "wisdom." He calls them "worthless physicians" and then levels a further ...

2595. God’s Choice

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... what to do. "Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me him whom I name to you." - 1 Samuel 16:3 As Jesse’s sons pass in review before Samuel, each one in turn is rejected by the Lord - although Samuel would have chosen any one of the first seven he saw. All must have been big, strong, good-looking young men. But God knew the right one had not shown up yet. "Are all your sons here?" asks Samuel. Then comes the dramatic climax to this marvelous story ...

2596. A Prayer of Wonder

2 Samuel 7:18-29

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... David’s humility in this prayer. Somehow we can sense how it’s different from the way we want to be "proud of our humility." 2. Praise True praise of God is paying attention to all of creation. To know that all is from the hand of this Creator. O Lord God ... there is none like thee, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. - 2 Samuel 7:22 David could have added all that we have seen with our eyes, too. But sometimes the vast glories of this earth overwhelm us ...

2597. Give Me Jesus!

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Richard Patt

... rest; give me Jesus! II Secondly, when we say, Give me Jesus, are we not saying that we want a sure foundation for our daily living? "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life." Give me a place to stand. Give me a rock to rest upon ... III "Oh, when I come to die, give me Jesus. You can have all the rest, give me Jesus." When our own ending is near, then "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life." Here at last we come to the most glorious meaning of Simon ...

2598. Ready or Not, Here I Come!

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... ’t get caught with your pants down, Jesus said. Be ready, Be prepared! (Revelation 16:15). The way to be ready is to be about the Lord’s business, to be doing what God wants us to do. Jesus compared it to a man going away on a trip and leaving his servants ... how to get ready for Christmas. Will we be ready for him when he comes back to us? We will be if we are about the Lord’s business. And his business is this: that we confess our sins and believe that he is our Savior who died for all; and that we ...

2599. Responding to God With Repentance

Acts 3:11-26

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... the courts of Almighty God! Leader: Let us come together and bring praise for our salvation in Christ! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Almighty and righteous Lord, You have judged us and found us wanting, yet in Christ You extended to us Your forgiveness, Your mercy, and Your righteousness. Lead us, O Lord, to forgive others. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often as we have faced life we have done so in our hearts without You. Instead we have chosen to rely on our own ...

2600. Empowered to Proclaim the Kingdom

Mark 6:1-6

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... ! Collect Almighty God, in Your wisdom You have called us to carry word of Your salvation to all who have the ears to hear. Give us the strength and courage to go wherever You would send us, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we have depended on our own devices and means instead of trusting in You and Your leadership. In our worldly ways we have denied Your power and refused to accept Your loving help. We are like prodigal children, as we have lost sight of Your purposes for our lives ...

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