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Mark 7:24-30, 1 Kings 9:10-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we have blocked and shunned, that they be shown the mercy and love of God, even as they come to know God, the true God of Israel, the One True God of us all. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Jesus Heals a Syrophoenician Woman’s Daughter in Tyre (Mark 7:24-30) The Story of Jezebel (of Phoenicia, Daughter of the King of Tyre), Ahab, and Elijah (1 Kings 9:16-21) Minor Text The Story of Tamar: Loyalty is Not as it May Appear (Genesis 38) A Raining Down of Manna (Exodus 16 and Numbers 11) Elijah’s ...

2902. The Olfactory Sense of Prayer

Exodus 30:34-38, Exodus 30:22-33, John 12:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... real for us in the midst of secular life. In celebrating the Jewish Sabbath, Shabbat ends with a ritual called “havdala.” Havdala was instigated in the 4th century BCE as an ending ritual for Shabbat. The word havdala means “separation.” It marks the end of Shabbat and the beginning of the week. However, the ritual is paradoxical. The act of separation connects Shabbat with the rest of the week. “The boundaries between sacred and secular are blurred, and Shabbat imparts its transcendent vision ...

2903. Excuse Me!

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Carl Jech

... plain men, in all their strength and weakness, all their good and evil, in short, in all their poignant humanity." The writers of the Bible confront head-on the shadows that lurk in the hearts of all of us. They picture the many ways in which we miss the mark of being what we were intended to be and they called it Sin. To understand Sin is to realize that our negative self-image is often justified. Our lives are full of dark shadows. 1. Moses said "Excuse me!" from going to Pharaoh Looking at the full story ...

2904. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... are not a random collection of cells. You are not the sum of your current circumstances. You are a work of art, made in the image of God. You have the imprint of the eternal, all-powerful God Almighty within you. Your soul is a mark of God’s abundant love for you. It marks you as incredibly valuable in God’s eyes. Which leads us to a question: are you experiencing life the way God meant you to experience it? Or do you feel weary and burdened because you are living in a way that is disconnected from your ...

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Heinrich Heine

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Thomas Aquinas

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

2910. Don't Get Stuck!

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... heart will be grieved. All four of the gospel writers, and also the apostle Paul, talk about repentance — turning, changing direction, getting on a better road. The gospel of Luke does it more consistently and more forcefully than any of the other writers. But Mark was written before Luke, and this first surviving New Testament gospel writer lifts up this important message for the faith community in his very first chapter. The United Negro College Fund uses a slogan that’s useful for all of us. It tells ...

2911. Jesus' Advance Man

John 1:6-8; 19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... may surprise us then about John the Baptist. One is how popular John was. The other is his role in the drama of the first Christmas. As to his popularity, Mark tells us that “the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River,” (Mark 1:5). That was quite an amazing response to this wilderness preacher. Can you imagine every single person in a large metropolitan area and in all the surrounding countryside ...

2912. What Are We Protecting?

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Roy Howard

... be sufficiently unsettled to learn from it. In fact, Amy-Jill Levine, the Orthodox Jew who teaches New Testament at Vanderbilt University, argues that we should welcome the discomfort of the parables, particularly this one. Reminding us of Mark’s comment that Jesus would speak only in parables (Mark 4:33-34), she says, “What makes the parables mysterious, or difficult, is that they challenge us to look into hidden aspects of our own values, our own lives. They bring to the surface unasked questions, and ...

2913. Best Advice

Humor

Mark Clark, the military general, was asked what was the best advice he ever had. The general pondered for a few moments and then he replied, "Well, the best advice I ever had was to marry the girl I did." And then the young officer that asked Mark Clark that question said, "Well, sir, who gave you that advice?" And General Clark replied, "She did."

2914. No Promotion Required

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... dead and feed the five thousand, it is difficult to keep the word from getting out. And so, we have today’s dramatic text from Mark 11. Jesus and his disciples are drawing near to the holy city of Jerusalem. They came to the villages of Bethphage and Bethany at ... it, he sat on it. He was ready to ride into the city—not in triumph, but in great humility. Then, says Mark, something extraordinary happened. Many people along the way spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in ...

2915. It’s Sunday…But Friday’s Comin’

Mark 11:1-11 · John 12:12-16

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... , James, or John or the other nine wouldn’t you be surprised, possibly shocked, certainly dismayed, and definitely discouraged? They shouldn’t have been and neither should we because Jesus warned them and Mark recorded it in chapter 4 of his gospel. Jesus was teaching his disciples through parables, which are word pictures designed to teach a point. Mark wrote in 4:3-9: “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up ...

2916. The Cost of Discipleship

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... 2:11-13). Yes, the Christian life will not be easy, but Jesus never promised an easy road. Quite to the contrary, he suggested just the opposite: “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me” (Mark 8:34b). Unfortunately, although the teaching of Jesus is very clear and straightforward, we don’t want to accept the fact that discipleship will actually cost us something; we want a smooth, easy ride to life eternal. But the reality is that the cost of ...

2917. Now

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Will Willimon

... around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.” (Mark 12:1) Out in Galilee, there was a great deal of coming and going, presence and absence. Whenever the master is absent, it is an ... disciples asking, always asking, "Lord, where are you going? Can we go do? Who is going to stay with us while you're gone?" Mark is wrestling with the same problem in the passage "It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts ...

2918. Where’s the Authenticity?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... He says what he thinks. You have to be impressed with how convincing he sounds.” Indeed. A significant part of Jesus’ work among the simple folk in rural Galilee involved using words. He got a reputation, almost from the beginning, according to Mark, the earliest gospel writer, for being really good at it. A recurring theme among Jesus’ listeners was, “He speaks with authority.” They were obviously impressed. In the text for today, a contrast is set before the reader and listener. Jesus knows how ...

2919. Not Gullible; But Skeptical

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... go with her on Sundays for a few more months. One Sunday the gospel reading caught Tommy’s attention about someone who could have been called Tommy. It was, of course, about Thomas. Thomas had doubts. So did he. “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe,” said Thomas. Tommy couldn’t have put it better himself. “If only I could see his body,” Tommy thought to himself. “If only I could touch his body ...

2920. Happiness Full Stop

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... he got closer to the statue. Christ of the Ozarks is made of cement, and it’s starting to crack and crumble in places. But his “deepest disappointment” came when he got up close to the statue and saw that it had no scars. No nail marks. No whip marks. No evidence of how much Jesus’ love for us cost him. (9) Yes, love and happiness are inseparable. But love requires sacrifice. Therefore, we must sacrifice in order to be happy. Love does not come easy in this imperfect world. But love is the central ...

2921. How Does Your Garden Grow?

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... Let’s begin with the gardener, the Father, and his role in the story. The gardener begins by choosing the soil. In the gospel of Mark 4:8, Jesus told the simple story of a farmer that went out to sow seed. The seed on the pathway never germinated. The ... the rocky ground sprung up and withered in the sun because it had no root system. The seed in the thorns was choked out. Mark 4:8 says, “Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew, and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some ...

2922. Following God's Plan

1 John 5:1-6

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... enough, or socially outward enough, to be loved.” We look down on ourselves. We seem to have forgotten that, as the book of Genesis states, we are made in the image and likeness of God. We are fallible, incomplete, and sinful, but since we have the mark of God in our creation, we are indeed good and lovable, by God first as our creator, and then by ourselves and others. We must make this initial hurdle of loving ourselves before we can ever properly love others. Certainly, the challenge to love others is ...

2923. Together In One Place

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... that Stephen and I would be arrested and have to spend the night in jail, I’d say, “You gotta deal.” What about you? And that sermon, and those 5,000 people — whether that number is accurate or it is an exaggeration or it is a symbolic number — marked the birth of Christianity as a religion in its own right. It’s days as a branch of Judaism were now numbered. This new faith would break the bonds of homogeneity and reach out to everyone, everywhere. Now, as those 5,000 or 500 (however many it was ...

2924. Hungering for Some Time Off

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

King Duncan

... Relate To.” Originally Published: July 02, 2019 in Reader's Digest, https://www.rd.com/list/vacation-stories/. 4. Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo. The Hollywood Walk of Shame (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993), pp. 13-14. 5. David McLemore, https://www.thingsofthesort.com/sermons-2/2019/9/30/mark-1017-31-the-rich-young-man. 6. http://revbickers.blogspot.com/2012/12/philippians-44-7-secret-of-true-joy.html. 7. Church Management, May/June, 1983, p. 59. First published in Guideposts, November 1982.

2925. Walking in the Way of Love

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... -slow-6-travelers-who-walked-around-the-world/. 2. “5 of the Toughest Walks in the World,” WorldWalks.com. https://www.worldwalks.com/walking-holidays/5-of-the-toughest-walks-in-the-world/. 3. (Barclay, Mark, pp. 73–74). Cited in Rodney L. Cooper, Holman New Testament Commentary - Mark: 2 (Kindle Edition). 4. “The Power of the Midnight Song!” by Maynard H. Belt, Baptist Mid-Missions @Laugh & Lift - http://www.laughandlift.com/ MONDAY FODDER, http://family-safe-mail.com/. 5. “He Turns Boys into ...

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2901. The Pardoning of Jezebel

Mark 7:24-30, 1 Kings 9:10-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2902. The Olfactory Sense of Prayer

Exodus 30:34-38, Exodus 30:22-33, John 12:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2903. Excuse Me!

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Carl Jech

2904. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Heinrich Heine

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Thomas Aquinas

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

2910. Don't Get Stuck!

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

2911. Jesus' Advance Man

John 1:6-8; 19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

2912. What Are We Protecting?

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon