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2901. Sweet Salvation

John 2:1-11, Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... out there have a sweet tooth? How many are just downright chocoholics? Human beings, with the exception of only a few, seem naturally to be drawn to sweets. We associate sweetness with pleasure, joy, even ecstasy, and we associate sweet treats with rewards and the ability to eat the luxuries we crave. In Jesus’ time, you couldn’t go down to the grocery store to buy a cart full of chocolate, ice cream, or good ‘n plenty. The “sweets” of the first century were primarily honey, spice, and fruits and ...

2902. Scroll Bread and Honey

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... saccharine? Today, many farmers are committed once again to growing and selling foods that are better for our bodies. And many others are committed to making sure these natural “real” foods are available to all of our populations of people, even those who have less ability to pay. In some areas, “real food” is even given away to those who can’t afford it. Good food. Safe food for children and people of all ages. And that’s just here. In parts of the world today, people celebrate and cheer when ...

2903. Lion of Judah

Gen 49:1-28, Judges 13-15, Matt 4:12-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... King of the forest and field! And Jesus is our Lion of Judah! When we take on the identity of Jesus and allow Him to live His resurrection life within us, we own our identity as a child of God, engraved with a lion’s share of courage, strength, and ability. When Jesus was leaving his disciples in the flesh, He assured them, that all authority and power was given to Him, and that we as His disciples could do even better and greater things, as long as we abide in Him, and He in us. Paul reminds us again and ...

2904. Dangerous

John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... are messy. But they are also the most creative and dynamic ways that human beings live and grow. The most creative minds in history had the messiest desks. How many can relate to that one? In life, creativity and faith both come from the ability to journey through the valley of chaos. To live for awhile in grey spaces. The more Lazarus witnessed to Jesus’ resurrection, the more scared the establishment became. Yes, Lazarus was very, very dangerous indeed! But so are we. Our call as the Church of ...

2905. You Are What You Wear

Luke 24:1-12, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ready to submit to the Master Clothier, and to allow God to clothe us with His heavenly Holy Spirit garment of Light. The clothing we choose reveals the person we are. The clothing we allow God to choose for us, reveals the faith we have and our ability to submit our hearts to “fit” God’s mission and ministry. When we allow God to clothe us with grace and wisdom and energy and healing, salvific love, and the Word of power, we become immersed and enraptured in God’s Spirit of love and mercy, healing ...

2906. Trust Your Intuition

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... toward your destination on autopilot? Your brain instinctively kept following the path you knew, even though you were not consciously plugged in nor was the the rubber of your rational mind hitting the road. That’s called intuition. Intuition. The ability to understand something without the use or need of conscious reasoning. According to Psychology Today, intuition is your brain on autopilot. It is nonconscious thinking, a form of reflexive reasoning.* Many of us have gut instincts, hunches that we ...

2907. The Flock Paradox

2 Samuel 5:1-5, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to take the flock into a new, unexplored direction, and the entire flock will follow suit. A good flock respects each and every one of its members. A flock is a community that provides security not just in its sameness but in its difference and ability to respect change and innovation –individuation. Ever have a parrot as a pet? Parrots are extremely social birds. They need other birds, and they need companionship, or they can go stir crazy. If you have one as a pet, you’ll find yourself needing to ...

2908. Turf Fights and Rewrites: That's What Stiff-Necked People Are Made Of

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... struggle before we can accept God’s peace. Wrestling with our own demons….with stress, with anxiety, with depression, with addictions, with inclinations, with our feelings, with anger, with grief is a part of our daily lives. But we also struggle with our ability to see clearly. We are expert “rewriters” of history. Revisionists if you will of nearly everything and anything in our lives. We love to “blame” others for our own misfirings! It’s hard for us to stand before God and say, “Yup, I ...

2909. Deep Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to come from the very bowels of the earth, just in the way the springs rose from the ground in the account of the Creation in Genesis, was to them a Godsend. It allowed the people in that area access to life-giving sustenance and the ability to drink, wash, cook, and raise animals. They called this underground source which access point was a stone well dug into the ground –living water. Living water was the stream that flowed underneath the ground, waiting to be accessed and tapped, waiting to be raised ...

2910. The Unclean Palate

Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you friends? Why or why not? Jesus tells us, as does Paul and the other apostles of the early church, that the way you treat people bears witness to the way Christ’s Spirit is living and working in and through you. Or in other words, your ability to be in relationship with people who seem different than you are has much more to do with your culture, your tastes and your predispositions, and especially your relationship with Jesus, than anything to do with that person. God made us all unique. We are all ...

2911. The Tempest

Jonah 4:1-11, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... dead? Jesus then rises and calms the wind and waves. Unlike in the Jonah story, Jesus is not escaping, but shows us that Jesus (God with us) is there with us through every storm. Even though sometimes God may seem silent and the storms around us block out our ability to connect with God, see God, hear God, acknowledge God, God is still there. And God has the power to calm our storms and to bring us into a new place in our lives. God cannot and will not stop us from experiencing the turmoil in our lives that ...

2912. Now, It's Personal

Matthew 5:21-37

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... just solved all the problems in the world. Didn’t we Julie?” “Yes we did.” “And we ate that blue ice cream and we gossiped.” “We didn’t gossip, Sarah.” “No, okay, but we just talked and talked. It was a perfect day.” Julie admired Sarah for her ability to put a positive spin on what had to have been a terrible day for her. She got home late and fell into bed vowing never to go on another field trip without another adult to go along. Five days later Julie saw Sarah and her parents at ...

2913. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to a more complex and sophisticated part of our human nature. Not only in faith but in life, we live a journey that takes us from novice to disciple, and disciple to master. How we navigate that journey depends on our ability to turn from entitlement to relationship, from expectation to engagement, and from the poisonous temptation to take the easy way out to the challenge of learning from following Jesus and others. Psychologist Robert Porter describes “entitlement” as an unrealistic, unmerited, or ...

2914. The Phrase We Never Want to Hear

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... need to be afraid. They were not alone. From this day forward, peace would be a defining mark of those who follow Jesus Christ. The peace that Jesus promises his followers is not based on our circumstances or our comfort or our confidence in our own abilities. Jesus’ peace comes from our knowledge of God’s unfailing love and God’s plan for the world. Jesus’ peace comes from knowing the end of the story: that God plans to redeem all of creation and undo the destruction and distance caused by our sin ...

2915. The Secret to Happiness

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Philosophy, and Science (Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition). 6. Philip D. Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read (Waterville, ME: Walker, Large Print, 1999), pp. 309-310. 7. “Interview with Gallaudet University President I. King Jordan” by Chet Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, Ability, Magazine. 8. “Feel Good Friday: Woman helps homeless man build a new life” by Shamar Walters and Scott Stump, Today, March 14, 2017, https://www.today.com/news/woman-gives-homeless-man-job-helps-him-build-new-life-t109210.

2916. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... have always been and will always be a radically heterogeneous collection of individuals. We celebrate that diversity today. It means that Christ is the Savior of the entire world. He is not the Savior of a small homogeneous group alone. I may be cold and stiff with little ability to express my emotions, but he is my Savior just as surely as he is the Savior of the warm-hearted believer who jumps three pews to express his conviction. He is the Lord and Father of us all. This brings us to the final thing to ...

2917. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... ended up on life’s refuse pile. Fifteen years later Mandino brought Simon back in another classic work called, The Return of the Ragpicker. In this book, Simon, now a hearty and still vigorous 95-year-old man, was still changing lives by his ability to see to the heart of things and his continued commitment to reaching those on the refuse pile of life. In this second volume Simon makes this profound observation about modern society: “What are we doing to ourselves?” he asked. “The number of heroin ...

2918. Rise Up

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ongoing course of life can be refreshed and renewed. The winds of change will change the present into a new and more certain future. We will rise up again to be a vast and vibrant people, ready for the battles of the world, confident in our ability to live and flourish. God can revitalize hope, even when it feels like all hope has perished. Only God can resurrect a people from themselves. Prophets, awaken! Rise up now from your own fears, and hopeless valleys. Proclaim the coming of the Lord, and a future ...

2919. Apostles of Hope

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... despite anything that happens to us, we cannot be defeated. They make us believe in life and future while we are surrounded by the pall and threat of death and disease. Most of all, they revive our belief in ourselves and in each other, in our ability not just to survive but to thrive even under the most challenging conditions. In fact, if anything, the challenges of loss and grief can unite us, can energize us to fight back with the best within us, can encourage us to reach out to others in unprecedented ...

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.

Miyamoto Musashi

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Abdul Kalam

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

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2901. Sweet Salvation

John 2:1-11, Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2902. Scroll Bread and Honey

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2903. Lion of Judah

Gen 49:1-28, Judges 13-15, Matt 4:12-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2904. Dangerous

John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2905. You Are What You Wear

Luke 24:1-12, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2906. Trust Your Intuition

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2907. The Flock Paradox

2 Samuel 5:1-5, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2908. Turf Fights and Rewrites: That's What Stiff-Necked People Are Made Of

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2909. Deep Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2910. The Unclean Palate

Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2911. The Tempest

Jonah 4:1-11, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2912. Now, It's Personal

Matthew 5:21-37

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

2913. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2914. The Phrase We Never Want to Hear

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

2915. The Secret to Happiness

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

2916. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

2917. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

2918. Rise Up

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2919. Apostles of Hope

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Miyamoto Musashi

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Abdul Kalam

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

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