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2651. A Non-anxious Presence

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... large, not true. We are not perishing. The crime rate is down. Joblessness is down. The stock market is higher than it has ever been. The economy is in a slow but steady recovery, the safe and reliable kind of recovery. The highways are safer, air travel is safer, our food is safer, and our medicine is safer than ever before in the history of our country. We live longer and better, more comfortably with more resources at our command than any previous generation. Thanks to modern technology, our questions ...

2652. The Power of the Staff

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... they moved to the edge, fluttered their wings wildly and suddenly took off. Except the last bird. He moved to the edge. Then moved back again. He moved to the edge, looked around. Then nervously backed away. He appeared to look down, to the sides, up into the air, and then decided, taking that risk was a bad idea. On this went for about a day. Then Mama came back. And you can guess what happened. She pushed that baby right out of that nest. He may have been panicking. I’d guess he was. His wings fluttered ...

2653. Missional Discontinuity

Mark 6:30-44, Mark 6:45-56

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... place by yourselves and rest a while.” News Fatigue I’m something of a news junkie and, I have to tell you this was a pretty stressful week for people like me. Greece was going bankrupt. United Airlines could not get its planes into the air due to a computer glitch. Another computer glitch had shut down the Wall Street Journal’s home page and a third had managed to close the New York Stock Exchange. People were actually wondering aloud if this could be that big cyber-attack that computer literate ...

2654. Clean and Unclean

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... a tasty treat, he also seemed to think that animals like pigs are prohibited, not because they caused disease, but because they tasted so good we lost all sense of control. According to him, “The lawgiver (Moses) forbade all animals of land, sea, or air whose flesh is the finest and fattest, like that of pigs and scaleless fish, knowing that they set a trap for the most slavish of senses, the taste, and that they produced gluttony, an evil dangerous to both soul and body, for gluttony begets indigestion ...

2655. Now That's Rich

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... things that rich people love. It gives us common folk a humorous glimpse into how “the other half” lives. Among the things on the list are fine wine, sailing, cufflinks, pretending to empathize (I like that one), designer cupcakes, extravagant parties, air kisses, and being right (all the time). The website’s founder writes a short article explaining each subject and why it appeals to the rich. On extravagant parties, he writes: “. . . when rich people party, they spare no expense . . . An entire ...

2656. The Days Are Coming

Jeremiah 33:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... the set machinery didn’t work. Thompson was playing the role of Glinda, the Good Witch, who is supposed to descend to the stage in a large bubble. As Thompson began her descent, the bubble stopped working. She was stuck 40 feet in the air as her cast mates down below ad-libbed, “She’s coming . . . it’s Glinda . . . she’s coming . . . Glinda’s coming . . .” (1) Can you imagine being in those poor actors’ shoes having to act excited as they waited . . . and waited . . . and waited for Glinda ...

2657. Pulling Our Punches

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... a way, isn’t this impossible? Think if this was preached in every congregation in every church in this country — and everyone did it. First of all, all the folks on the finance committee would have to wonder how we were going to pay for air conditioning, heating, lighting, or much less things like our missions programs. And second, someone has to grow crops, manufacture goods, and keep the world running on an even keel. And yet, and yet — Augustine looked at this passage as one that was really doable ...

2658. Faith and Freedom

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... is still open and God still wants us to enter in to the feast of salvation prepared for us by Christ. The crowd marveled at those words. And when the woman heard Jesus pronunciation and felt his healing power it was like a breathe of fresh air blowing through her spirit. She was set free and healed physically, spiritually and emotionally. III. AND YET ANOTHER: A. While Jesus was healing this woman, some of Jairus' friends came and quietly slipped up next to Jairus. The news they bore was like a hammer to ...

2659. For The Love of God is Creative

1 Corinthians 2:6-12 · Psalm 8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... was needed. They were stumped and couldn't think of anything, it all looked perfect to them. But then God said, "Let us make humankind, in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." So God created humankind in God's image, in the image of God he created them; male and female God created them. (Gen 1:26-27 ...

2660. For the Love Of God is Forgiving

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... were in vain. I held my breath and ran over the skunk. I literally ran right over the top of it. Somehow in all the maneuvering, I had missed actually hitting the skunk and went right over the top of it. I could see it running off, tail in the air, in the rear view mirror. I sighed a big sigh of relief. And then I did what we all would have done. I flexed my nostrils and carefully took a tentative sniff to find out the extent of the damages. I was surprised and relieved when I couldn't smell ...

2661. The Richest Family in Church

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... he could carry as he traveled from town to town sharing the message of the love of God with everyone he met. And listen to how author Michael Frost summed up Jesus’ life: “Regardless of how much many affluent pastors might love their state-of-the-art air-conditioned church sanctuaries with their coffee bars, bookshops, and valet parking lots, we cannot forget that Jesus died on the cross naked and empty-handed.” (3) God cares about the poor. When I say that, I’m not putting limits on God’s love. I ...

2662. Grace Under Pressure

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the first insight we get from today’s story is, if you are planning to do anything significant with your life, prepare yourself for the wilderness. Preparation is the pathway to power and peace. Blaine Lee is a former instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He discovered that many young recruits needed more than just intense physical and mental training. They needed to hear real-life stories of the life-and-death challenges they would face on the field of battle. They could never understand the dangers ...

2663. Long View — Long Haul

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... . I mean, this woman was an artist. She was a painter, whose work sold in galleries for tens of thousands of dollars. Her life was established, with great social networks, comfortable routine, reputation and even wealth. She knew who and where she was, and her pervasive air of confidence spoke eloquently to this. This woman had it made. And yet, out of the blue she called me and asked if we could meet for coffee. I could tell by the tension in her voice that she needed to share something significant. So, a ...

2664. They Should Have Fired That Shepherd

Luke 15:1-3 (8-32)

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... No one threw a big party for the loyal one who stayed home. Most of us have at least a passing acquaintance with these stories. Perhaps we know them well enough that we have come to a point where we let them flow over us like a tepid stream of air that we barely notice. But the truth is that these are the stories of lunatics. Jesus tells us these stories and dangles bizarre situations and untenable story lines in front of us and they simply make no sense in the world in which we live. What, I wonder, as we ...

2665. Easter Makes Us One!

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

What Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in 1963 is still true today. He stated, “We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers [and sisters].” Dr. King is still correct. The Trump election made clear our attitudes towards Muslim immigrants. A Detroit News poll conducted over a decade ago (in 2007) is still ...

2666. The Limping Body Of Christ

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Mary Austin

... too much just yet, and the conversation is still polite. The uncle who likes to stir things up hasn’t brought up politics yet, and no one is criticizing anyone’s kids. Yet. Somehow, the feeling that it’s going to fall apart is in the air. That’s how family meals seemed to go for the early church in Corinth. The disagreements were so pointed that they wrote to Paul with some specific questions, and he attempted to answer them in this letter. Like many churches, the church in Corinth was a curious ...

2667. Rules for Basic Living

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... are some basic rules for living from Jesus today. First basic rule for living — grace in our poverty and need (Luke 6:20-21a). Poverty exists around the world and touches every country in the world. Basic human needs like water, food, clean air, living spaces, and more are inadequately provided for millions of people. The poverty in Israel during Jesus time in Israel was real and exploited by the rich. Similarly today people are kept on poverty wages and starvation diets in order for some rich individuals ...

2668. Unto Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... into Cleveland, Ms. Raphael helpfully recounted to me the details of her former marriage. ''He was a creep," she admitted. "Everybody knew it but me. What can you do?'' ''What indeed?'' I agreed. Gabriella began to whine as we made our approach to the air port. Before we touched down, her whine grew into a wail, something about, ''I don't wanna see Granny!'' At last we landed. I carried a bundle of assorted plastic bags out for the Raphaels. Gabriella had to be dragged, coaxed, then swatted smartly ...

2669. Moving Heaven and Earth

Acts 16:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... guard and declaring that even behind bars he was free? The prisoners’ faith in God gave them hope, and hope in God is the ultimate freedom from the circumstances of our lives. By the way, after coming home from Vietnam, Col. Certain became an Air Force Chaplain. After retiring from the military, he served as an Episcopal priest at several churches across the United States. And that brings me to our second question from this scripture lesson: “Who is listening to you?” Let’s look at our focus verse ...

2670. Fertilize Your Faith

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , but our disciples are failing to thrive. We are failing to reproduce. What looks like a church and acts like a church, is struggling to survive. As massive denominational structures cling to life, barren of fruit and seed, their churches gasp for Holy Spirit air. The Church is like a golem, big on presence, short on spirit. The Church has lost its passion. In last week’s scripture, we saw Jesus lamenting for Jerusalem. Now, in our scripture for today, much the way Abraham did for Sodom and Gomorrah ...

2671. The Voice

John 10:22-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to initiate a kind of bonding tone. When we sing, we pour into our songs and hymns a kind of emotional reverence that spellbinds others and creates in them a similar reverence and feeling of divine connection. The voice, sound created by the movement of air through a windpipe and the subsequent vibration of a set of vocal chords, is an intricate and beautiful conveyor of expression and communication.[2] We are in a sense programmed to receive each other and bond with each other through the vehicle of voice ...

2672. Church, Interrupted

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Will Willimon

... o-o-w who you are," howled something deep within the man. ''You're the Ho-o-oly One of God.'' ''Shutup," said Jesus. ''Come out of him!'' Things were getting odd that Sabbath in Capernaum. The man fell to the floor, his arms beating wildly at the air, his legs thrashing out so that people moved back to give him a wide circle, froths of foam and strange cries coming out of his mouth. Then the man became strangely calm and lay very still. Slowly he picked himself up off the floor, his face now tranquil, his ...

2673. Finding Your Place

Romans 12:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... brethren, by the mercies of God, to present yourselves as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God… Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…” Ah, but Paul, that is no easy matter. The status quo is the air we breathe, the six-thirty news, the advertisements—guidance on how to be one of the boys, one of the girls, our kind of people, just like us. I want to be accredited, approved, sanctioned, blessed by the stately crowd. And, as Becker notes, the less I ...

2674. First World Problems

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... people, and someone in the crowd says to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus is so wise here. He could have made money, or goats, or vineyards—whatever counted as half of this man’s inheritance—appear out of thin air. He could have easily solved this man’s problem. The man would have been thrilled. The crowd would have been impressed. But no one would have learned anything about God. And that is the greatest need any of us have in life. Jesus knows that. We ...

2675. The Joy of Being Found

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jean Fleming tells a wonderful story about something that happened at her church one Sunday morning. The pastor announced that a boy named Crockett had decided to become a follower of Jesus. A four-year-old boy suddenly stood up in his pew, pumped his fist in the air and shouted, “Yeah, Crockett!” Isn’t that what we all should do when someone trusts their life to God? Shouldn’t we stand up in the pew and cheer? But the little boy’s mother made him sit down again. (5) It may be all right to rejoice ...

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