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2601. Jesus, The Great Physician

Mark 6:30-44

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... calls us to share eternity. Leader: Truly our God is most wonderful, extending to us mercy and grace. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Most wonderful and gracious Lord, as You walked among us You demonstrated time and again Your love for us and Your willingness to heal our every malady. Help us, Lord, to accept Your love. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, again and again the only opportunities we have taken to share time with You in prayer have been in times of crisis or great ...

2602. The Fulfilled Promise

Acts 2:14-41

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T. A. Kantonen

... and to let the world write the agenda for the church. Pentecost compels us to ask: What is God doing in the world? What is the role of the church in his eternal purpose? What are the guidelines for a mission that takes its orders from the Lord of the church? The Apostle speaks of the creation of the church through the pouring out of the Holy Spirit as the fulfillment of a divine promise, the culmination of a divine plan. The idea of fulfillment predominates Pentecost and the community to which it gave birth ...

2603. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

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T. A. Kantonen

... in us has kept us near God. And even after they are gone, when we wear a white flower instead of a red one, they continue to bless us. Their memory is still a guiding star that leads us in the right way. Let us turn, finally, to our Lord’s teaching on children. It was appropriate that when Jesus came riding into Jerusalem in the parade of palms, children lifted up their voices to praise him, for in him the children of mankind have found their best friend and defender. He to whom human nature was an open ...

2604. And the Blind Shall See.

Mark 10:46-52

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... ! Collect Almighty and merciful God, only You can open the eyes of the blind so that we might see Your kingdom before us. And only You, Lord, can empower us to carry Your Gospel into the world. Send us, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have chosen to face life all alone. Too often we not only fail to come to You with our problems, but we also fail to lift in prayer the problems in the lives of those around us. Too often our lives fail to give witness to the ...

2605. Bad News from a Good Man!

1 Kings 21:1-29

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... as soon take off his head as shake his hand. His commission was to confront them where they were wrong in the name of the Lord and tell them that God would bring his wrath upon them. Listen to this verse that keeps many preachers awake at night: “If the ... God-given obligation to tell you that God judges sin. III. The Siren Sound Of The Sovereign Savior “The word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying.” God’s word sounds forth calling Elijah to action and Ahab to repentance. God always has ...

2606. The Child of Promise

Isaiah 9:1-7

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Harry N. Huxhold

... fulfilled in the person of Jesus. That is not to say that Isaiah did not have reference to a king enthroned in his day or one to be enthroned. However, what he does say about the revelation of God in a messianic figure was fulfilled in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. What is important to note is that God makes this revelation for the sake of people who would otherwise be doomed to continue to walk in the dark. What this adds up to is that God was and is willing to reveal God’s grace and goodness for ...

2607. The Ten Commandments #4: The Sabbath

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... were talking about Sunday. But was that right? Nowhere in the Bible is there any instruction for Christians to consider the Lord's Day as a replacement for the Jewish Sabbath. The Reformers were clear on that: Luther liked the principle of ... six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day"...ah, the seventh day...is a gracious, wonderful gift from your lavish, loving Lord. Let us pray. O God, we are grateful for a day set apart. But most of all we are grateful for your Son, our Savior, who ...

2608. When God Is Gone

Job 23:1--24:25

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David E. Leininger

... ritual of the Day of Atonement, the opening lines of the 22nd Psalm, a psalm that is anything BUT a song of doom and despair. No, a psalm of victory and deliverance even from the most powerful of enemies. Listen to the way it ends: You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel! For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help...The poor will ...

2609. The Shepherd Psalm

Psalm 23:1-6

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David E. Leininger

... With the help of an old and trusted friend. The friend to whom I refer is the Shepherd Psalm, Psalm 23. "The Lord is my shepherd..." This scripture is probably as well-known and well-loved as any portion of scripture. Generations have memorized ... of the monsters and dragons. But now, we find ourselves in this sacred space. We hear again the familiar phrases of the Shepherd Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd..." And we hear an invitation to the Shepherd's table - a morsel of bread, a sip of wine - in the hectic ...

2610. Peace in the Midst of the Storm

Mark 4:35-41

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David E. Leininger

... little water that is still in the boat after the storm wash back and forth between your toes. How should you respond to his question? You DO have faith, but you have never had it tested to the limit like this before. You have wanted to believe that he is Lord of ALL of life, but just how much you have wanted to believe it has never been called into question. Now, out in the middle of the silence after the storm, you are forced to look at that faith and wonder why you ever worried in the first place. For ...

2611. The Christ of the Commonplace

Luke 24:13-35

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David E. Leininger

... turn, Cleopas and Mark miss the point. They think they know where Jesus is - dead and buried. They are not prepared for a risen Lord, who walks with them along a common road and speaks to them of common things. Finally, it is in the most commonplace action of ... it. That is the faith of foxholes, and we find that when we need it. But the message of the Emmaus Road account is that the Lord is with us even when we do not expect him. From the Eastern Orthodox tradition comes the story of a man who went to a ...

2612. Preparing For A Royal Visit

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... success." Are you ready for the King? I'm not asking if you have finished your shopping or if the tree is up or if you made the last payment on your Christmas Club account. Is your heart ready to receive the King of Kings? Prepare the way of the Lord. Store owners want us to know that there are only a limited number of shopping days left before Christmas. They don't know that the situation is a lot more important than that. The King is coming. There is only a short time to prepare for a royal visitation and ...

2613. Waiting On God

Mark 13:32-37

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King Duncan

... was not easy being a Christian in a pagan world. Their one solace was that some day He would return and their faithfulness under fire would be vindicated. In the meantime all they could do was "wait," as St. Paul put it, "for the revealing of the Lord Jesus Christ." Sometimes that is all we can do as well. Most of us do not like to wait. "When my father missed a plane," says Cavett Robert, the founder of the National Speakers Association, "he caught another one. When my grandfather missed a train, he caught ...

2614. Eat And Live

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... claim that the Savior makes? How is he bread for our lives? Could it have something to do with the sacrament of the Lord's Supper? A poll was taken of the national membership of one Presbyterian group. They were asked questions about their devotional practices. One ... this Christ takes his hand with a smile and asks, "And was it not I who made those eyes and gave you them?" "Of course, Lord," he says, "but I have misused them. I'm ashamed to be here. Let me go elsewhere." "But don't you know," Christ says, "who ...

2615. A Colt Is Not A Horse

Mark 11:1-11

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King Duncan

... turns defeat into victory. Death does not have the last word. God will prevail. KALI ANESTASI. In the Rutter Requiem when the men are done singing "we are in death" the women begin to sing in ethereal tones: "I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord, he that believeth in me shall never die, but have everlasting life." (5) KALI ANESTASI! In the film The Mission the Jesuit who bears a noose around his neck enters the village where as a slave trader he had wrenched children from their parents to sell ...

2616. When The Going Gets Tough

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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King Duncan

... a great reward. How did he know he would receive a reward? HE KNEW BECAUSE GOD HAD BEEN WITH HIM EACH STEP OF THE WAY. Paul writes: "At my first defense no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion's mouth." Paul's expectation of a muchdeserved reward was not based on wishful thinking but on ...

2617. The Grateful Samaritan

Luke 17:11-19

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King Duncan

... 't anything I wouldn't do for him." (6) Those are the words of a truly grateful person. Those are the words of one whose life has been handed to him out of the goodness of another's heart. Are you crying out to Jesus from afar this morning? "Lord, have mercy on me?" Are you one of those who has already experienced Christ's mercy? Are you, then, among the 10 percent who are truly grateful? Does your life bear witness to your gratitude? Many years ago, a young French man named Pierre from a prominent family ...

2618. Counterfeit Christianity

Matthew 7:15-23

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King Duncan

... , "Why is it different? I remember, it seems to me, that you and I joined the church on the same Sunday as boys. And I expect that when we came forward the preacher asked me the same question that he asked you, "魯o you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?' I said, "郎es.' What did you say?" Robert said, "Clarence, I follow Jesus up to a point." Clarence replied, "Would that point by any chance be the cross?" "That's right," Robert said. "I follow him to the cross, but not on the cross. I am not ...

2619. The Defining Moment (A Sermon for New Year's)

Luke 2:21-40

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King Duncan

... a list of resolutions prepared by the Rev. Walter Schoedel. He calls them 7-UPS FOR THE NEW YEAR. No, this has nothing to do with the soft drink. These 7-UPS fall under the heading of attitudes and actions. The first is WAKE UP--Begin the day with the Lord. It is His day. Rejoice in it. The second is DRESS-UP--Put on a smile. It improves your looks. It says something about your attitude. The third is SHUT-UP--Watch your tongue. Don't gossip. Say nice things. Learn to listen. The fourth is STAND-UP--Take a ...

2620. More Than Skin Deep

Joel 2:1-11

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King Duncan

... community and in the world. So what does it take to get re-connected to the Power? What does it take to restore our souls? The prophet Joel says it takes repentance. "Rend your heart and not your garments," says Joel. "Return to the Lord your God . . ." I read recently that the ancient Mayan language has over 80 metaphors involving the heart. Everything from repentance, love, comfort, and fear is expressed using the image of the heart. To comfort someone is to "shape their heart." A shaken heart represents ...

2621. Where Heaven And Earth Meet

Genesis 28:10-22

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King Duncan

... bring you back to this land. I will not leave until I have done what I have promised you." "When Jacob awoke, he thought, "˜Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.' He was afraid and said, "˜How awesome is this place! This is none other than ... own lives. The inner conflict steals our peace and leaves us feeling distant from God. Psalm 37: 4 instructs us, "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." What do you need to do to seek God's vision for your ...

2622. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

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Donald B. Strobe

... to give them to Him if He would only adopt the devil’s methods...as though they were his to give! I admit that sometimes they look as though they belonged to the devil, but Jesus knew better. He said, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written, Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’ “ (Matt. 4:10) How do you deal with the devil? As an already defeated foe! Luther said that the best weapon against the devil is to laugh at him; he is so vain that he cannot stand it! Jesus said that the devil is ...

2623. So Who Needs A Shepherd?

John 10:1-21

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Donald B. Strobe

... those words, he was making a Messianic claim. Every Jew of His time knew, as we know, the opening verse of the 23rd Psalm: “The Lord is my shepherd.” They were also familiar, as most of us are not, with the opening verse of Psalm 80: “Give ear, O Shepherd of ... the inner-city young people to put them into their own idiom. Do you know how the 23rd Psalm came out? Like this: The Lord is my Probation Officer, He will help me, He tries to help me make it every day.... When Jesus called Himself the “Good ...

2624. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-31

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Donald B. Strobe

... date had come and gone, he kept right on selling books about it, evidently undaunted. As we get nearer to the millennial year of 2000, I imagine that all sorts of predictions will pop up. The interesting sidelight here is that most New Testament scholars tell us that our Lord was born around 6 B.C., as odd as that sounds. You see, in the sixth century a monk by the name of Dionysius Exiguus calculated back to the birth of Christ and did not have a good calculator. He missed it by at least a half-dozen years ...

2625. Angels in the Wilderness

Mark 1:9-13

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Donald B. Strobe

... . To St. Paul who thought that he could not function with his handicap (whatever it was,) there came a message of God: “My strength is sufficient for you.” (II Corinthians 12:9) And it is something like that, the Gospels tell us. that happened to our Lord Himself. During Jesus’time of testing in the wilderness, when He was buffeted by Satan and wild beasts, we read that “the angels ministered to him.” (1:12) Imagine that! angels in the wilderness! the last place youUd expect to find them! I am not ...

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