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2801. Is There Any Hope?

1 Cor 15:14

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Staff

... body of Lieutenant Commander Roy H. Jones, commander of S-4, “was found at the foot of the stairway, indicating he stood alert until overcome.” Divers also “found a spectacle that moved them, hardy and inured as they are to horror, to deep emotion. Near the motors, arms clasped tightly about each other in protecting embrace, were two enlisted men, apparently ‘buddies.’ The divers tried to send them up thus locked together, but the hatch was not wide enough and they had to be separated.” Some of ...

2802. The Wounds of God

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John Dickson

... —that he would have to eat, sleep, and go to the toilet, let alone die on a cross. Dickson and the man went back and forth for about ten minutes during which the man insisted that the notion of God having wounds—whether physical or emotional—was not only illogical, since the “Creator of Causes” could not possibly be caused pain by a lesser entity, it was outright blasphemy, as stated in the Koran. Dickson later wrote, "I had no knock-down argument, no witty comeback. The debate was probably too ...

2803. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-33

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George Reed

... of these goals rise up to proclaim themselves number one in your life and it can destroy you. Parents are meant to nurture us and care for us as they guide us into adulthood. But parents are people and they are fallible. There are not only the emotionally crippled parents who abuse their children but there are parents who will not let go of their children so that they can take their place in society as adults. There are parents who think they can make the best choices for their children about career choices ...

2804. Recognizing Who God Is

Job 42:7-17

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King Duncan

... was paralyzed from the neck down. Where do you go from there? How do you come back from a second devastating accident? At first, Jim pushed himself to the very limit in therapy. But when he reached the point where he couldn't progress any more, Jim blunted his emotions with drugs. Finally one night, Jim realized that he had to make a choice: did he want to live or die? At this point, Jim says, he began to change his thinking, "Maybe this wasn't a curse at all. Maybe it was the most exquisite blessing of my ...

2805. Scrubbing Our Social Media Accounts

Romans 5:1-11

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King Duncan

... in our younger years. Those of us who grew up in a time before social media can leave those regrets in the past because there aren’t a lot of photos or posts about it. But these days a person’s whole life, every random thought and emotion and insensitive joke and embarrassing picture, can wind up online. And it’s nearly impossible to take this stuff back, unless you hire a company like BrandYourself to delete most of it. So be careful. But even if you, personally, are careful, your friends and family ...

2806. Christ's Monarchy

Luke 23:33-43

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Molly F. James

... up one’s room no matter how distasteful these actions may be for the child at the present moment. The parenting image can be problematic, also for we all sadly know stories of parents who abused their power, whose totalitarian tendencies resulted in physical and emotional scars that their children bore for the rest of their lives. Again we have to remind ourselves that Christ is not like us. His kingship is not subject to the worst of human tendencies. It only has the best of what humanity has to offer ...

2807. No Longer Home Alone

John 15:13-17

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Arley K. Fadness

... if they fail, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help." C.S. Lewis said, "We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them to know anything, even ourselves" (The Four Loves, p. 12). We were created to belong. It is not good to be alone. Jesus modeled such belonging behavior for us. He called the twelve to be with him. The New Testament Greek word is ...

2808. When Christ Calls

John 11:28

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Jon L. Joyce

... and to a life of faith. Charles Lamb once made an interesting observation: "Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door." It is true, for a sense of curiosity and of expectancy rises quickly in our emotional response to the sound of a knock. Christ is continually knocking and we must hear him as he seeks in many ways to attract our attention. His knock on the door of our life is the most important of all. When it sounds, do we pretend not to have ...

2809. Friday

John 18:1-11

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David & Marian Plant

... entered and stayed for three hour services, kept a quiet home through Good Friday evening and night. But I’ve never grieved as Jesus’ mother, the beloved disciple, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, and all the others who were tied directly and emotionally to Jesus grieved. Imagine those people’s lives if Jesus actually was dead forever. Imagine the world of his family. Imagine the world of his disciples. Imagine what they were experiencing after he’d breathed his last. Fear. Defeat. Gutted of hope ...

2810. Hosanna! Please Save Us!

Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 26:14-16

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King Duncan

... and-switch tactics to bring people into the kingdom of God. He made it very clear from the beginning of his ministry what God planned to do through him. He was coming as the Prince of Peace. The problem is, it is easier to rally people’s energy and emotions around war than it is around peace. War is tangible. War requires weapons and strategy and clear-cut goals, and an enemy. In a war, it’s easy to tell who is on our side and who is not. But peace requires humility and communication and cooperation. It ...

2811. Should We Wash One Another's Feet?

John 13:31-38, John 13:1-17

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King Duncan

... Surely not I, Rabbi?” Marchiano writes, “That tore my heart to shreds. Here was this guy walking straight into his own destruction. He’d had every chance a man could have, and here he was, signing not just Jesus’ death warrant, but HIS own. Emotionally, I just lost it. I grabbed his face, burying my head into his shoulder, grieving, “Yes, it is you.” “Judas’ eyes filled with tears in that moment. Then he pried my hand off his face and pushed me away. But, yes, folks,” Marchiano concludes ...

2812. The Art of Following

Matthew 4:12-17, Matthew 4:18-22

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Dean Feldmeyer

... metaphorical understanding that Jesus calls us. It is, rather, to the frontier of our spiritual lives. If we follow him, really follow him, that means we are going to have to take risks and live life at the edge of our resources — our mental, spiritual, and emotional resources as well as our physical ones. It means we’re going to have to start forgiving those who treat us badly and loving our enemies, even those who would undo us. It means that we’re going to have to be forgiving and self sacrificing ...

2813. Blessed

Matthew 5:1-12

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Dean Feldmeyer

... ) other things the rest of the time. No problem. The beatitude pronounces that the only way to see God is to focus our total attention upon God. Showing up in church for one hour a week expecting to be spiritually fed, mentally entertained and impressed, and emotionally inspired won’t work. Those who actually experience the presence of God in their lives are the ones who focus on God and do the work that comes with dedicating their lives to the pursuit of God’s will. The promise of the beatitude is that ...

2814. Broken Yet Sincere

Luke 24:13-35

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Lori Wagner

... wouldn’t whittle. In time, the wound healed and became a scar –a memory of a trauma that no longer stung, but became part of your history, your story, the truth of it etched white and edgy into your skin. Some wounds are physical. Some wounds are emotional. Still others are spiritual. In fact, one could say that the worst kinds of wounds we incur are the ones that cast doubt upon our spirit. The Emmaus Road story is about healing a wounded spirit. In the story today, we see two of Jesus’ followers ...

2815. Do you need a Pharisectomy?

Matthew 9:27-34, Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 12:15-21, Matthew 12:22-37, Matthew 12:38-45, Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... or Beethoven or something similar or something from a rock band ---your choice.] Beautiful, right? Music is like life. It needs a little chaos. If it’s too orderly, too neat, too tidy, it doesn’t work. It needs passion, and emotion, and upheaval. Sometimes soft, sometimes loud, sometimes slow, sometimes fast. It has pauses, pit stops, both harmony and dissonance. Beethoven was one of the greatest composers in history. Other composers, like Schubert, wanted to hear Beethoven on their deathbeds. Beethoven ...

2816. Parabola

Luke 10:25-37

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Lori Wagner

... allowed to speak) is “hineini.” It means, “Here am I!” It is the word spoken by the prophets who respond to God’s call. It is the word that signals God that YOU are willing to stand before the Lord with eyes open spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally.* In a sense, reading a parable is a “revealing” exercise. It’s a way to help you get from hiddenness to hineini by unclothing you from your current distractions and “reminding” you of what’s truly important, so that as a result ...

2817. Here I Am

Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... away from the relationships that would nurture and nourish us, in favor of ones that keep us distant? Is it as simple as playing it safe? Perhaps for many of us…it is. There is less confrontation, less stress, less demand, less need for compromise and emotional and spiritual depth in virtual relationships. When you are face-to-face, you can also go head-to-head. But what is the price for “playing it safe?” Here’s what musician and artist David Lynch says: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch ...

2818. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... prayer, may our eyes always feast only on the goodness of God. “Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.” (Proverbs 30:8) God is not only provider of your physical needs, but your spiritual and emotional needs as well. As God provided Manna in the wilderness, not only food but hope, Jesus too is the “Bread of Life.” The daily bread for those who are loyal to God is a spirit filled with hope, love, and joy. In God, you are satiated and ...

2819. Turmoil Brewing, Herod Stewing, Prophecy, and Porridge

Luke 2:21-40

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Lori Wagner

... had plans stirring in the pot. While Jacob stirred up a red lentil stew filled with deceit, desire, and deflection, God had plans to use Jacob’s jockeying for position toward the glory of Israel. Later, Jacob would struggle to walk in God’s way. He had to emotionally stew in his own juice before he could partake of God’s promised feast of the Promise Land. He had to, so to speak, eat his own stew, taste his own sin, partake of his own fault, break his own body through his struggle with God in order ...

2820. The Sound of Joy

Genesis 17:1-27, Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 18:16-33, Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... experience in “worship” when we actively put ourselves in relationship with God. When Christ lives within us, we emanate joy from within outward. Because, the “joy of the Lord is your strength.” (Neh 8:10) Grieving, sorrow exist. They are valid emotions, part of the human experience. But….out of every sorrow, a person baptized in the sacrifice and salvation of Jesus knows that an intense and entirely irrational and incomprehensible joy….is always born! We can’t explain it. We can’t define ...

2821. Deep Faith

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Genesis 5:1-32

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Lori Wagner

... living water, among others. For an interesting idea on the deep as “not a beast to be tamed but a mystery to be embraced,” see Catherine Keller: Face of the Deep. ++A second note: in marketing, “deep metaphor” is indicated as an emotionally and unconsciously powerful metaphor which becomes a powerful predictor of how customers react and think. It’s a transformative metaphor with the power to drive human behavior. In the scriptures, we might describe the ark and the deep as “deep metaphors” as ...

2822. The Apothecary

Isaiah 40:1-31, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... they appear in every culture. Most cases, these are “wise men,” “mid wives,” practitioners/perfumers who create compounds, oils, and perfumes, or natural folk healers, who understand the intricacies of herbs, spices, oils, and methods of healing –emotional, spiritual, and physical. In Jesus’ day, often priests were the ones who identified disease, and declared people freed from them. Although there were physicians (of which Luke was one), most healings and methods of healing were still deeply ...

2823. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... without condition, and out of love. It is an “encounter” not only for them, but for us –an encounter with (and bowing down in humility to) God’s unreasonable mercy. The Holy Spirit is not orderly or reasonable or rational or logical, not bound by human emotions, or by desire for control or power, not contained by any means, but fully over the top extravagant in God’s loving and merciful and super-natural grace. Naaman at first doesn’t get it. He responds as though God is just like his own menial ...

2824. You are Anointed

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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Lori Wagner

... of fresh-cut grass? Or the smell of the woods in the rain? The smell of the sea, the fog, the moss? Or the scent on clothing of your spouse, or baby? What smells bring you the greatest pleasure? Our olfactory senses are inextricably linked to our emotional feeling of pleasure, and our soul’s sense of peace. If the smell is bad, the opposite can happen. Anyone smell something left in the refrigerator several weeks too long? Or left out on the counter –that fuzzy green and black rot that makes you want to ...

2825. Over the River and Through the Woods

Luke 2:1-7, Psalm 121:1-8

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Lori Wagner

... there talk? No doubt. But no one could have guessed the truth of this story! And so the “pilgrimage” began –one that would take the couple not just to a new geographical place, but one that would take them into a place of no return spiritually, emotionally, faithfully, and historically. For this was no ordinary pilgrimage but one that would define a “walk” with God that would extend to every human being. No wonder their walk ends with the Son of God in a food trough! For this is where the journey ...

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