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2976. A Worker Who Need Not Be Ashamed

2 Timothy 2:14-26

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... it. Have mercy on us, we pray, and grant us new vision that we may see the world through your eyes. Give us the power to work for a world where justice and righteousness prevail. In Jesus' name. Amen. Offertory Prayer Lord, accept these gifts as an indication of our desire to be faithful workers in behalf of your kingdom. We share what we have joyfully and with thankful hearts for all our blessings. Amen. Hymns "O Master Workman Of The Race" "Awake, Awake To Love And Work" "A Charge To Keep I Have"

2977. God Hears Our Prayers

Luke 18:1-8

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... never visit, have great needs. Take these gifts of ours, we pray, and through your Church may some of those needs be met, even as we strive to do the same here at home. Amen. Hymns "Out Of The Depths I Cry To You" "Prayer Is The Soul's Sincere Desire" "Spirit Of God, Descend Upon My Heart"

2978. The New Covenant

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Leader: The judgments of the Lord are just; they are always fair. People: They are more desirable than the finest gold, sweeter than the finest honey. Leader: They give knowledge to me, your servant. People: I am rewarded for obeying them. Leader: Come, let us worship the Lord of the Church. Collect O Lord Jesus Christ, you founded the Church that it may continue your work of ...

2979. The Truth Sets Us Free

John 8:31-41

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... Father, we pray for the Church founded by your Son, Jesus Christ. In the midst of the world's turmoil and secularism the Church stands in need of unity and renewal. Through the power of your Holy Spirit, renew in the whole Church, we pray, a passionate desire for the coming of your kingdom, which will unite all Christians in one mission to the world. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we confess that we have sinned against you. We have failed to do your will, and we have failed to work in the spirit of ...

2980. The Bread Of Life

John 6:25-59

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... of all of us. Thanks be to you, O God. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, forgive us when we look upon our blessings as something owed to us and when we become resentful if we do not have as much as our neighbors. Remove from us all selfish desires. May we always recognize that you are the giver of every good and perfect gift and you have blessed us far beyond anything we deserve. Amen. Offertory Prayer Heavenly Father, out of our deep concern for those who are without food, we bring these gifts to be used ...

2981. Set Apart For God's Purposes

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... as our power-ridden, materialistic society views the poor or the weak. A Christian understands that the meek shall inherit the earth and that God blesses the poor. Christians are a covenant, set-apart people, called to live according to God's will and not the will or desires of the world around them. It is this quality of being set apart that we confront in the story of Naboth's vineyard in 1 Kings 21. Naboth is a poor peasant who has inherited a little plot of land that happens to lie next to the royal ...

2982. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... a long story short, the first month he sold thirty-three houses and led the state of California in real-estate sales. He still couldn’t speak a sentence in English. (3) This is an amazing land with all kinds of opportunities. If you have a strong desire to succeed and if you live by some basic principles of right and wrong, you will probably prosper. This does not mean, of course, that you won’t experience setbacks. Everyone does from time to time. Setbacks are God’s way of testing us and refining us ...

2983. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... . He can bring heartache to families. Grace that produces obedience is available to all. That light gives wisdom to the simple and it protects you. Before I go on a trip, my family always comes together for a time of prayer. The reason is clear: we desire God’s holy anointing to come over us and to protect the one away as well as the ones remaining behind. As I was reading this passage and thinking about how obedience brings protection, I thought that we ought to be praying, “Lord, keep Dad from ...

2984. In the Cross of Christ We Glory

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Michael Milton

... has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering… (Isaiah 53:1-3, NIV). This is an amazing passage because in it we see that the Messiah will triumph through the very act of suffering. His glory is somehow in his sorrow ...

2985. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... scene. Here are the lessons they had to learn: We do not make the rules about who comes to Jesus; Jesus does. We do not discriminate in who hears the gospel. We must reach all with it. Moreover, we must not place barriers in the lives of people who desire to come to Christ. I once talked to a couple visiting my church back in Kansas. They said that they felt they were being fed on the Word, they enjoyed much about the church, but they said, “We are not lawyers or doctors, and there seems to be a ...

2986. Identifying a Christian

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the homeless because they’re cold.” (4) Do you understand the difference? If we are motivated by the idea that we’re going to make our church a bigger church, then our witness will ring false. If, on the other hand, we are motivated simply by the desire to transmit the love we have received from Jesus, then the world will gladly receive us. Jesus said that his followers can be identified by their love. Not by their clothes, not by their bumper stickers, not by what part of town they live in, but by ...

2987. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... evangelists may promise you that if you follow Jesus, God’s going to pour out His blessings, but Jesus never made such a claim. His disciples knew no outer peace, but they had an inner peace that the world could not shake. Isn’t that what you desire above all else for your children? You cannot protect them from every snare, every heartache, no matter how much you may want to. I know, some of you try. A new term has crept into our lexicon–“helicopter parents.” Those are parents who hover over their ...

2988. Set-Apart People

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

2989. A Time of Grief

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... they direct their anger at the clergy, says the rabbi. It is a safe way to preserve family harmony during a time of great stress. (3) As John Maxwell once said, hurting people hurt people! And this woman was hurting, and so she struck out at Elijah. Elijah had no desire to strike back. This woman had befriended him. Now it was his turn to help her. “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took the boy from her arms, carried him to his own bedroom, and laid him on the bed. Then Elijah cried out to the Lord ...

2990. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... with this guy, he's a loser." Wakefield wrote, "I saw the expression on the man's face. I saw the look that came on his face when he was asked to have lunch, followed by the realization that he was wanted, that somebody was really interested in him and desired his company." Then he wrote, "It was a face transformed by a single act of kindness." That is all it took. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

2991. Lighten Up

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . We are also going to be asking something else of you. Many of you are doing wonderful things in this community already. Some through volunteering in organizations, such as we heard this morning, others just in your vocation. You entered your vocation out of a desire to be of service to this world in the name of Christ. In those roles you are changing lives. I think especially of those in healing professions, and those in education. There are hundreds and hundreds of you in this congregation, and daily you ...

2992. Something to Sing About

Philippians 1:12-30

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Mark Trotter

... say what Paul says, "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."? He goes on: If it is to be life in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is better. But to remain in the flesh is better for you. I don't know about you, but it is very hard for me to relate to that kind of discourse. I can imagine the minister of the First United ...

2993. Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Matthew 24:36-51

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Richard A. Wing

... , "I know that my redeemer liveth." He read the words "rejoice" and "hallelujah." That night George Frederic Handel, now regarded as one of the greatest composers of his era, was blessed by a "gentle cosmic light." He was led slowly out of darkness by a desire to write music at a feverish pitch. He worked tirelessly for days until, with manuscript complete, he dropped into a seventeen-hour, death-like sleep. A doctor was summoned to see if he was alive. Out of depression came the light of the Messiah. Out ...

2994. Pigs Get Slaughtered

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... , there are many things that money can do for us. It can give us a comfortable home to live in, a reliable car to drive, access to education, health care, all the physical necessities of life. This is not a sermon against money. It is when the desire to have more becomes the driving force in our life, when it dominates our thoughts, and causes us to neglect our responsibilities to our family and to God, then money becomes not only a problem--it becomes our god. We worship mammon and not Jehovah. And there ...

2995. Strategic Planning

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... . These are our assets. All four are necessary to our well-being. “How do you want your life to end?” asks Jerry Foster, “With your final breath do you want to utter, ‘What a satisfying, fulfilling, and meaningful life I have lived’? Do you desire your relationship with your spouse and children to grow closer and stronger right to the very end? Do you want to leave a rich legacy of material and nonmaterial treasures for your heirs? Do you hope that friends and coworkers who attend your memorial ...

2996. Letting Go

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... shirks the duty of making this world better. Also, it raises a question of the character of God: What kind of God would create a world where the creatures a world where the creatures have to be bribed into believing? He says: Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love ...

2997. Experiencing the Reality of God

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... reality of the God who had been made known through Jesus Christ. That is what all of the commotion was about. That is something that we all need. Most of us are not what people call "charismatic" Christians. We have never spoken in unknown tongues or had any desire to. But we should be able to understand why some people want that experience and why some who have it value it so highly. To them, it is an experience of the reality of God. They believe that they can know that God is alive and present because ...

2998. The Way to Happy Endings

Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67

Sermon

James L. Killen

... Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?" It was a spoof of course. But it was a spoof making fun of the shallow, selfish piety that some people actually practice. We know better than to try to make God our errand boy to wait upon our trivial desires. And yet, there are some deep concerns of our lives, the basic loving concerns that represent our best humanity, that we feel we must lift up to God in earnest prayer. Our biblical faith teaches us that God cares about things like that and that God is willing to ...

2999. Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Last!

Genesis 45:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... of the week when God was tired and looking forward to a day off." Nonetheless Richard J. Leider and David Shapiro have listed common threads of people who possess lifestyles rich in purpose: They have a purpose larger than their own needs, wants, and desires -- a sense of how their lives and work fit into the larger scheme of things. They have an internal compass which keeps them "truing" to their purpose in life. They have clear boundaries around their two most precious currencies -- time and money. They ...

3000. The Model of Success

Luke 16:1-15

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Mark Trotter

... those things that are pleasurable to the eye and to the palate. I wish he hadn't said that, but it's there. Besides that, and more importantly from my point of view, he says you shouldn't invest in those things simply that are there to gratify the desire to gain the admiration of other people. We call that "status symbols" today. Christians don't do that. Furthermore Wesley made it clear that there is not much that we spend our money on that does us much good. Most things that we spend our money on we can ...

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