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2726. Pentecost’s Promises Judith Ann Cobb

Isaiah 44:1-5

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... your descendants, And my blessing on your offspring (Isaiah 44:2, 3) Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel And his redeemer, the Lord of Hosts; "I am the first and I am the last; Besides Me there is no god." (Isaiah 44:6) We are a people who love promises. We listen for them; we seek them out; and we save them up, but we do not trust them. We buy appliances with guarantees. Yet more often than not, we discard the guarantee with the box. We know that the appliance will not be permanent and that there will ...

2727. The Call for Justice

Micah 6:1-8

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... what it is God requires and lists cultic and religious acts that may be performed. But the response to the question states clearly what God requires. God does not require things but persons. God has shown us what is required: the people of God doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with their God. Our God requires that we give ourselves as an offering to God, by giving of ourselves for other people in the community. God seeks and calls for justice to be done by God's people. To do justice is ...

2728. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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... upset when they act in selfish, greedy and harmful ways toward other people. But Jesus taught us that our God is a God who loves us, one who wants us to live healthy and happy lives. Our God is a God who forgives us for our trespasses. The Lord ... so that we might be set free from sins of our past and fully healed of our guilt. Furthermore, we need God's great power and love to help us to do that which is surely most difficult for us: to forgive and forget completely the ways in which others have hurt and ...

2729. Traveling Light

Mark 1:29-34

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... have and nothing else. Why did he visit so many places? Do you know the answer to that question? I'll tell you why. He had a message to share with all of the people about the good things that God did for them and how much God loved everyone. Jesus also showed the love that God had for the people by healing the ones who were sick, and forgiving the people who had sinned. Jesus could have stayed in one place and waited for the people to come to him, but that was not his way. He traveled everywhere that his ...

2730. Proper 20 & Pentecost 18

Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Philippians 1:1-11, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 106:1-48

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... . And am I not to feel sorry for Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, to say nothing of all the animals. Apparently, Jonah learned a lesson about God's love, and grace, and mercy, that all of us need to learn. Exodus 32:1-14 (C) Moses remained on Mt. Sinai too long for the people of Israel; they not only thought he was not going to return, but they also lost faith in God once more. Accordingly, they ...

2731. Proper 27 & Pentecost 25

Psalm 50:1-23, Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 63:1-11, Amos 5:18-27, Hosea 11:1-11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, Matthew 25:14-30

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... the second section by others, glorifies wisdom and reveals the secret of attaining it. It takes the shape of an exhortation to seek wisdom, and if not actually written by Solomon, it is certainly of the mind and spirit of Solomon. The message for all people who love and fear God is simply that they seek that "eschatological wisdom," which puts all of life in proper perspective. It is an appropriate reading for this part of Pentecost. Amos 5:18-24 (E), 5:16-24 (C) Had this reading begin at verse 14, it would ...

2732. A Glory Revealed by Abiding

John 8:31-41

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... . It’s the same for us. We come to be children of God, to be born again by the Spirit of God, only by faith. For example, John’s Gospel says over and over, in many ways, "He who believes in the Son (namely, Jesus) has eternal life."4 "God loved the world in this way: He gave his only-begotten Son so that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."5 We have already passed from death to life, from lies to Truth by trusting in Jesus Christ. Well and good. But like Israelites who believed in Jesus, we ...

2733. A King Worth Having

Zechariah 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... , it is not a victory over physical death, for it is appointed for every person to die. The death we have conquered in Christ is death as separation from God. By his sacrifice, Christ has reconciled us to God, and nothing, says Paul, can ever separate us from the love of God. Death, then, has no hold on us. Death has no sting for us. Fear of death is non-existent. Thanks be to God for the victory we have in Christ. A Humble King The coming king, according to our text, is a humble king - "humble and riding ...

2734. Peter’s Net

Luke 5:1-11

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Richard F. Bansemer

... believe anything, if only they could, and do anything, if only shown the way, but faith escapes them. Like the lover whom no one loves, or the bereft and the bereaved, ‘so now the believer who senses no faith senses a certain helplessness on earth. What is such a ... too many fish to handle. This faith of ours is no easy faith. It demands from us a change in the way we think, the way we love, the way we give, the way we live, and the way we pray. We don’t catch faith as we do fish. The rod and reel and ...

2735. The Excitement of Meaningful Living

John 10:10 · Matthew 6:33 · Ephesians 3:20

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Robert G. Tuttle

... can discover in the depths of your own soul a new universe where God eternally is. You can be lifted into excitement, into love; seeing the true potential in all other people. A poor woman, sick for years, about to give up, no strength to carry on, had ... righteousness. He said, "I will repay four times anything I have taken. I will give half of my goods, Master, to do your work of love." There was the woman by the well, desperate, lonely. No one would even walk to the well with her. She was an outcast from ...

2736. What Form of Church Does God Want for the Furture?

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

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Raymond Gibson

... of church God wants for the future. A reformed church seems to be what St. Paul is describing when he urges his readers: "Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good ... Never flag in zeal, be aglow with the Spirit, serve the Lord ... ... who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). If transformation is the church’s only form for the future and entirely an act of God, ...

2737. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

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Raymond Gibson

... I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (2:20). If it had not been for Christ in him, Paul could not have been effective as a missionary or ... the holiness of God, To feed the mind with the truth of God, To purge the imagination by the beauty of God. To open the heart to the love of God, To devote the will to the purpose of God.2 That is the same power which enabled St. Paul to say, "I can do all ...

2738. Our Three-Faced God

Matthew 28:16-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... fear. The church was commanded to baptize converts into the name of the Father-God. In the last decade there has been so much emphasis upon the love of God that we have lost the fear of God. We are to fear God not in terms of being afraid of him but in terms of ... to thank and praise him. The Face of God the Son In the second place, we see the face of God the Son whom we are to love. Jesus told us to win converts by baptizing them in the name of the Son. God is not only Father but he is also equally God the ...

2739. Nag, Nag, Nag!

Matthew 15:21-28

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John R. Brokhoff

... our house recently. It was in the form of a doughnut with the caption, "Another sweet thing." It was their sixth child! And they still wanted him! Is there compassion in our hearts to make us cry out to Jesus in behalf of the sick, the aged, and the dying! Love will make us pray for them. We will visit them, and we will listen to them. One of today’s greatest needs is to have someone who will take time to listen. The need for listening is so desperate that in Los Angeles there is a business firm which has ...

2740. On Being Able to Be Sorry

Luke 15:11-32

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Allan J. Weenink

... I fully surrendered and I followed him, even to a cross and death." The Bible is not filled with super-saints who knew no sin. It is peopled with men and women who were able to say, "I’m sorry" and wanted to say it, even though they knew God loved them ... people who were able to accept God’s forgiveness and who could live with joy and peace because they were again at-one with God. And so we come to Communion this day ... first of all to confess our sins and failures ... to say, "I’m sorry," and then ...

2741. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

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Louis H. Valbracht

... ." He was not resorting to wishful thinking. He was stating a vital truth. The most important things in life are not known or learned by scientific observation, but by experiencing them. How do I know what anger is? When I get angry. How do I know what love is? When I love. How do I know what fear is? When I’m afraid. One of the great errors of our day, especially among the so-called eggheads, is that truth comes through the mating of intelligence with fact, and yet, areas where we can find truth by the ...

2742. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... is never out of date and is relevant wherever human hearts throb. It is the language, not of the slave-market or the courtroom, but of human relations. Our Lord himself in his greatest parable preserved the message of reconciliation in terms of forgiving love which brings about the restoration of a father-son relationship. The Father who runs down the road to embrace his wayward son is the God whom Paul describes as justifying the ungodly and acquitting the guilty. We cannot escape the conclusion reached by ...

2743. Something That Will Last Forever

Matthew 6:19-24

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Bill Bouknight

... , nobody was sharper than Papa. He taught us that a principle is far more important than a profit, that a good name is worth more than silver or gold. Most importantly, he taught us to place our elbows on the windowsills of heaven and to gaze lovingly and trustfully into the face of God. There is a big difference between possessions and treasures. A possession is something you own. We have lots of them: coats and cars and stocks and lawnmowers. A treasure is where you posit your heart. It is your ultimate ...

2744. Our Father Who Art on Earth

Proverbs 1:8-19

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Louis H. Valbracht

... position, we become sloppy in our speech, in our dress, in our manners, in our character. A young girl told me some time ago that she loved to visit her father at his office. I asked her why. She told me, "Oh, down there he’s the kind of man that I ... penitently by my side. As he thought of his father at home he alternated between two attitudes - fear - "what will he do to me," and love - "what have I done to him?" As we arrived at the home it was like the prodigal coming home. It was four in the morning ...

2745. Chapter III

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... to your father who is in heaven" (Matthew 5:14-16). As God’s people, Jesus was saying, men will look at you and judge God. Live your life in such a way that what people see makes them "glorify," God, that is, value and treat him with esteem, and love him. By our lifestyle we are to demonstrate that for us God is foremost, not someone who we treat as "nothing." This Commandment involves so much more than not using God’s name in profanity. How I wish that was all that it entailed. Then I could live it out ...

2746. No Retaliation

Matthew 5:38-42

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Bill Bouknight

... . I believe in a strong national defense because it deters aggression. We have a duty to protect ourselves and those for whom we are responsible. All of us in grammar school had to deal with the school-yard bully. To run from the bully only made him worse. The most loving thing you could do for the bully was to stand up to him, to send him a message that bullying does not work. But after you stand up to the bully, it would be wrong to start bullying the bully, to become the new bully on the playground. The ...

2747. Song of an Evangelist

Psalm 103:1-22

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... another striking discovery. He cannot think of God’s grace without seeing it is an intimation of God’s character. Here is a Deity who shares the human scene. For here is a Lord whose heart beats as one with our’s. God’s love is an endless love, his patience inexhaustible. Slow to anger, God harbors nothing against his own. Neither will he continually chide. For God is aware of his children’s frailties, and he does not deal with them according to the measures of their sins or requite them according ...

2748. I Believe In Heaven

John 14:1-4

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Robert Allen

... not seen, nor the ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him ... Jesus affirmed this hope of an eternal Kingdom beyond this existence as he was being crucified on the Cross. One of ... daughter again. This is a question that everyone who experiences sorrow wants to know. They want to know if they are going to see their loved ones again. They want to know if they will be reunited with those who go before them. I don’t know if I can adequately ...

2749. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... to please God. But this is a pagan idea. Christ was not nailed to the cross to change God’s heart, rather it was just the other way around. The cross is there because "God was in Christ reconciling us into himself." The Calvary event happened because "God so loved the world, he sent his Son." Here is power to change the direction of our lives. Here is power to grow in faith. The history of the people of God and our own history warns us not to underestimate the power of sin in our lives. In Matthew’s ...

2750. Whatever Happened To Sanctification?

Exodus 20:1-21

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... least for a time) all debate and controversy over doctrinal issues and into high gear what it means in our time to love our neighbor. That is the direction of this sermon, under the question: "Whatever happened to sanctification?" Many of us Christians know that ... is a lie. Most of us are guilty of some social lies about how we feel or how we evaluate another’s appearance. Here, in love, we may fudge on the truth a bit. Bearing false witness has to do with more important issues than these. It has to do with ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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2726. Pentecost’s Promises Judith Ann Cobb

Isaiah 44:1-5

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2727. The Call for Justice

Micah 6:1-8

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2728. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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2729. Traveling Light

Mark 1:29-34

Children's Sermon

2730. Proper 20 & Pentecost 18

Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Philippians 1:1-11, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 106:1-48

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2731. Proper 27 & Pentecost 25

Psalm 50:1-23, Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 63:1-11, Amos 5:18-27, Hosea 11:1-11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, Matthew 25:14-30

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2732. A Glory Revealed by Abiding

John 8:31-41

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2733. A King Worth Having

Zechariah 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

2734. Peter’s Net