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2951. Get Up and Go

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... city, all these nations will come to you to celebrate what God has done for you. They will bring you royal tribute, as was the custom when a new king was crowned. Kings from all over the world will come to you, or send their representatives, and will bring gifts to you. Isaiah writes this in the later part of the 60th chapter. The abundance of the sea shall be brought to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you [that is a reference to nations bringing these royal tributes to the new city and to the ...

2952. Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all his beer. Some of us know somebody who’s in that kind of vegetative state. We want to talk today about freedom. This week we celebrate our nation’s independence, as well we should. What a precious gift! In the book, My America, news reporter Lucy Yang recalls her family’s immigration to the United States when she was just two years old. Her parents came here looking for opportunities that they could not find in their native Taiwan. Yang is sensitive to the ...

2953. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... went . . .” Trusting God completely. Following God obediently. But there’s one thing more that needs to be said. SUCH FAITH IS A GIFT. You cannot think yourself to such a faith. I’m sorry, but it’s true. I wish you could. I wish you could ... yeast which Judy had mixed in her bread dough. (6) I see Judy’s experience as a parable of the life of faith. Faith is a gift which must be received. Once we receive it and come to depend upon it, we discover that it is self-validating, and thus it grows and ...

2954. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

Sermon

James L. Killen

... because someone much greater than we cares about us and wants us to be, our personhood is doubly affirmed. That is a gift of God. Your person-hood is miraculously suspended over the abyss of meaningless and impersonal existence. And look at the world around ... us to start over one more time. Can you see that this is a part of the saving work of God? Can you see that it is a gift of grace? If you can, there are two things we ought to do about that. First, we ought to realize that we exist because of a miracle ...

2955. An Incredible Encounter

Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... dares pray for protection from Esau even though he knows he does not deserve it. Then methodically, Jacob sends presents in waves. Between each collection of goats, ewes, camels, colts, cows, and donkeys, the servants are to answer the question, "Who is sending these gifts?" with "They belong to your servant Jacob and they are a present send to my lord Esau, and moreover he is behind us" (Genesis 32:17-18). Personal fears can be very real. They can be exaggerated, imagined, discounted, or ignored, but when ...

2956. Shalom Shattered

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... to repress it and ignore it. The source of envy is alienation from God and from one another. Envy comes from our low self-esteem, from our fears and our insecurities. It comes from an irrational idea that we need to be loved equally by all people and gifted equally like all people all the time or we will be unhappy. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall; who's the fairest of them all?" As long as the stepmother queen remained youthful, the mirror always answered, "You, O queen, are the fairest of them all." But the ...

2957. Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Last!

Genesis 45:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... his handiwork." The second purpose of God is to create human creatures in God's own image. We are created for relationships and for stewardship. Our role is to discover who we are and what purpose God has in store for us. We are gifted with spiritual gifts, talents, abilities, passions, dreams, aspirations, and needs. Yet, as Oliver Wendell Holmes sadly observed, "Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us." The third purpose of God is to find the lost. Jesus' parables of the lost coin ...

2958. Ten Friends Drive Us to the Promise

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... avoid punishment, then you have to meet the expectation. Either way, you are on the spot -- the law's requirement is directed at you. But there is another kind of word in scripture as well, a promising one. In such words, declarations are made, gifts are given, promises bestowed ... thus none of the most important differences between the law and the gospel is who is responsible to fulfill them."5 With the law, you and I are responsible. With the gospel, God is responsible. Behind every commandment then, we ...

2959. A Peek at the Resurrection

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... another been oppressed by the sun's heat? It saps our strength, can make us ill, and can even kill us. In the resurrection, this ambiguity will be healed. In the resurrection, people and nature will live in harmony. We will experience God's creation as the gift it was meant to be. Just as our material selves will be redeemed, so will our raging emotions, pain, and grief. Life is full of heartaches. The emotion we all share today is grief. Grief can be a devastating experience. Some of us feel the sting of ...

2960. The Example of the Prophets

James 5:7-12

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. (James 5:7-8) Collect The signs are all around us -- those we can see, from the trappings of the season to the wrapping of the gifts -- and those we cannot see, from the new life in Christ demonstrated from those we least expect to the gifts of your Spirit which strengthen us in the midst of tribulation. Refresh our hearts in you, Lord, as we witness that you are near to all of us. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Judge of all, seen and unseen ...

2961. Name Him Jesus

Matthew 1:18-25

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... name him Emmanuel. (Isaiah 7:14) Collect Heavenly Father, you told Joseph to name him Jesus, the one who saves, the one who delivers your people. Save us, deliver us, as we also name your Son Jesus, the Lord of our lives! Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, with our gifts of our material wealth we also pledge this day that our hearts and minds will dwell with you these holy hours of your holy day. We will do for others things even greater than we would have them do for us. We will love you, O Lord our God ...

2962. Many Hands, One Great Labor

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... Come worship in this spirit of thanksgiving and thanks living. Collect We gather together, taking as much delight in the labor of others as in our own, taking no less delight in our own labor as in that of others. Thank you for your bountiful blessings, the gift of your Son and our Savior given cheerfully that we might enter into the new life now and forever. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord of the Harvest, have we sown sparingly? Lord of the poor and rich, you have bountifully sown so that we might share in ...

2963. Rejoice and Be Merry!

Psalm 117:1-2, Jeremiah 31:7-14

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord! (Psalm 117) Collect Your gift of joy, most gracious God, is moving all about us, begging to enter into our midst. We as your people have struggled with ... the face of prejudice, if we have been timid in the midst of oppression, if we have been sullen about your gift of joy, we confess that we have been a roadblock to your kingdom and ask for your forgiveness, pledging to recognize your kingdom as our ...

2964. One Last Present to Open

Ephesians 1:3-14

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... Christ and we're acting as if the coming of the Eternal King is over and done. Open our hearts and minds this morning to yet one more surprise, yet one more revelation, yet one more gift of the Spirit, in our worship this day! Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we know you have forgiven our sins, but we confess that we don't always act like we believe this. Lighten our hearts and minds in Christ as we live renewed in the spirit, confident in our ...

2965. Thank God for the Church

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

James L. Killen

... the saving grace of God through this church? Have you not been taught the Christian way of life here? And have you not seen to it that your own children and others who came into the church were enabled to learn those things, too? What are the special gifts that have been given to your church that give it unique abilities to serve God? What makes your church special? What is unique about the community in which your church lives and works? What are the unique stresses it puts upon the lives of those who try ...

2966. The Reward

1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23

Sermon

James L. Killen

... likely not to realize it until judgment day comes. Paul says we will be rewarded for what we have built and built well. Then what is the reward? The reward for building a good life is the good life itself. What we claim to have built is really God's gift to us. A life built of great commitments and high values and of love will be life in its fullness and there is nothing better that we could ask for in this life. It is not the wealth or the status symbols or the accumulations of pleasure that really make ...

2967. The Eyes of Your Heart

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... might die. And who knows? In a year perhaps the horse might talk." By Jesus' sacrifice, we have been spared and given hope. We don't know the number of days we have left on this earth before we ourselves "cross over." Whatever that number might be, it is a gift, a pardon. We live in the hope of the cross, and living like that, we have nothing to lose. Living or dying, we have hope. Hope for today, and for tomorrow. Hope for here, and hope for there, with Jesus, on the other side. We can see it with the ...

2968. Still Sinners, Still Forgiven

Romans 5:1-8

Sermon

William G. Carter

... the news of D-Day over the radio. The word of conquest reaches your ears, but the army of liberation has not yet arrived at your village. The letter of Romans seems to be sent to folks in that village. It's sent to people like us. It's a gift to people who gather every week to confess their sins and hear the assurance of God's pardon, yet they can't help but sense that nothing really has changed. Maybe that's why Paul keeps hammering away about the power of forgiveness. He insists that the atoning death of ...

2969. The Cloak

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

Sermon

Rick Brand

... church at Jerusalem and keep the purse for himself. He was being kind to the widows so that he could ask them for big gifts. Certainly there have been preachers who have done it that way. Jim and Tammy Bakker seemed to make a pretty good haul with the ... suffer need." The love of God speaks to the insecurity and the need that is at the center of our greed and as we focus on the gift of grace in Jesus Christ, as we rejoice and affirm over and over again that in Jesus Christ we have been given life and life more ...

2970. Have You Heard about Grace?

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the rules, you will be perfect. The reasoning was this. Since God is perfect, then we must be perfect if we are going to approach God. If we are going to be acceptable to God, then we must be perfect. The Law is God's gift to us so that we can do that. It is a gift to us for our salvation. If we would only follow it, we would be acceptable to God, we would be saved. But Paul said, it doesn't work. The Law instead of saving us, condemns us. Instead of freeing us, it binds us. Instead ...

2971. He's Back

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... came into Galilee, preaching the gospel, and saying, "`The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe this good news.'" Do you see the sequence? First the gift, and then the demand. First there's a babe in the manger, then there is Jesus, the man, teaching in Galilee. First there is the gift of love, then there's the question, "What are you going to do now that you have received this love?" Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great German theologian, who joined the resistance against Hitler ...

2972. He's Here Somewhere

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to say. And then after the birth, after the shepherds visit, these wonderful words. "Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart." That means she didn't tell anybody. "He is among you as one you do not know." How silently, how silently, The wondrous gift is given; So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him, Still the dear Christ enters in. Which is the message of another story in Luke, the ...

2973. Honoring the Fathers

Hebrews 11:17-22

Sermon

Mark Trotter

2974. How to Be a Blessing

I Peter 3:8-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... are unique, there's nobody else just like them, and therefore what they have to offer in this life is unlike what anybody else can offer, no matter what it is, and it will be celebrated and received as a gift because it has come from you. It won't be valued in relation to other people's talents or gifts. You do that, especially to a child, and you bless them. And they will be blessed, and their life will blossom. I heard about a little boy who was in preschool. The practice of the teacher in the preschool ...

2975. If I Were a Rich Man

Mark 10:17-27

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... We are all sinners. That being the case, then maybe our safe, comfortable, affluent lives are not the product of our goodness, but the gift of grace. Then the man's question, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" He is the last person you would ever ... That is the point of the story. You can do all the good works in the world and still not find your salvation, because it is a gift, given to us through this man, Jesus. Salvation lies not in what you can do for God, but in what God has already done for you ...

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