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2976. Proper 24

Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 33:12-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... terms of order and beauty. We thus owe God at least a portion of this world's goods. A Christian then has a dual responsibility to God and country. In most cases, country comes out better than God does, for God seldom gets a tenth of our income. Lesson ... in power and with conviction. It takes both God and us to transform people. The Word is from God, and we have the responsibility to proclaim it in such a fashion that people will hear and accept. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Matthew 22:15-22 (C, E); Matthew ...

2977. Proper 28

Judges 4:1-24, Matthew 25:14-30, Zephaniah 1:4-13, Zephaniah 1:14--2:3

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John R. Brokhoff

... do with it is my business." Or, we say, "What I have earned by my brain and brawn is all mine." Many have no concept of stewardship except, in some cases, as tithing. But, the parable teaches us we are accountable for what God has given us and we are responsible to develop our gifts to the maximum. Outline: How do you answer? a. What have you done with God's world? b. What have you done with your life? c. What have you done with the gospel? 3. Too Small To Matter (25:22-30)? Need: We have a tendency ...

2978. Christ the King

Psalm 100:1-5, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, Matthew 25:31-46, Ezekiel 34:1-31

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John R. Brokhoff

... is no God like our God. No other God could be as good to us. Other gods are forever demanding things of us. Here is a God who cares for his people. He is a benevolent King-Shepherd. This goodness of God, if truly realized and appreciated, brings a response in terms of worship, gratitude, and service. Outline: What God can do for you. a. Seek you who are lost - "I will seek the lost." b. Help you who are handicapped - "I will bind up the crippled." c. Strengthen you who are weak - "I will strengthen the weak ...

2979. Call Waiting

John 1:29-42

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Susan R. Andrews

... , "No, Mama, I want to be a writer." But, "No," is not what Mama wanted to hear. So, every vacation break for four years she would repeat her comments about his becoming a brain surgeon and keeping people from dying and making a lot of money, and always his response was the same. Finally the son had enough, and, when the same mantra began, he cut off his mother with exasperation, and with great passion he told his mother, "Mama, I don't want to keep people from dying, I want to show them how to live."1 This ...

2980. Enduring the Trials of Faith

John 20:19-31

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Richard Gribble

... contemporary disciples of Jesus, have been challenged to answer Jesus' call to labor in the vineyard. As Jesus says, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send laborers to his harvest" (Matthew 9:37-38). Our response will vary but in essence we are all called to be servants, but most especially to those who are least brothers and sisters (Matthew 25:40). We may assist in direct service to God and God's people in some ministry that is allied with the ...

2981. Defeat Transformed into Victory

John 20:19-23

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Richard Gribble

2982. What Is Success?

Matthew 7:24-29

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Stephen M. Crotts

... next city. But I have learned a thing or two in my 54 years. It is not what I do, but in who I am. It doesn't matter what I look like, where I live or how I dress. I am basically responsible for the depth of my life - hearing and doing Christ's Word. And God is responsible for how long I live, how much width and height I attain. William H. Channing had it right when he wrote his creed - To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury, And refinement rather than fashion. To be ...

2983. What If the End Is Near?

Matthew 25:1-13

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Stephen M. Crotts

... with lame excuses. So one day the pastor rang the old boy up on the phone and simply said, "Hello, Mr. Honeycutt, this is the pastor. Just one question for you. What if I'd been death?" Sobering, isn't it? Yet the accountings of life for which we are responsible come, and they come without warnings. They just come ready or not. If there is one of you here today who doesn't know Christ as your Savior, why not bow your head and ask him to forgive your sins, to come into your life and make you a light ...

2984. True Reformation

John 8:31-36

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Stephen M. Crotts

... crucified!" That is the truth; not circumcision and rules about food. At the time of what is called the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the problem again was a loss of focus on Christ. The western church had become so concerned with the human response to God's grace, with the need for people to do good works and the difficulties of living a holy life, that many Christians no longer felt that they could trust completely, with 100 percent assurance, in Jesus Christ, for salvation. The essential message ...

2985. A Life Well Lived

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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King Duncan

... . Many of them will make this decision with only one consideration in mind--their faith commitment that abortion is wrong. You may agree with them or not, but you have to respect their loyalty to their beliefs. They are saying “yes” to a lifetime of responsibility. They are, of course, also saying “yes” to many joys, but it is now a decision they alone can make. The life of faith can be hard. There are people who have quit good paying jobs because they could not reconcile the activities they were ...

2986. Predictable Surprises

Matthew 24:36-51

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Leonard Sweet

... s leaders in providing focus, energizing the organization, exercising judgment, and having the courage to take unpopular stands." They stress further that "The organization itself must be made more responsive and resilient" (p. 155). In other words to avoid predictable surprises we must have strong leaders and informed, responsive organizations. In today's gospel text we hear Jesus' own words about predictable surprises. Moreover, we're reading the story from the perspective of the Matthean community. These ...

2987. The True Definition of a Sanctuary

Matthew 25:14-30

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Leonard Sweet

... third servant had quite a different reaction to the unexpected opportunity offered by his master. This third servant did the safe thing with the single talent he had been given. He buried it in the ground, one of the most accepted forms of responsible safekeeping in the first century. But when the master returned and summoned his three servants to learn the status of the funds he had entrusted with them, he is unimpressed with this third servant's strategy. The two servants who wholeheartedly plunged into ...

2988. Live and Learn

Matthew 15:21-28

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Leonard Sweet

... God intimately bound to God's people. Jesus' declaration "It's not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs" depicts a household image that this woman instantly recognizes. She knows that ALL who reside in a householder's home are his responsibility and his concern. If Jesus refers to the Canaanite woman, to all he people, as mere house dogs in God's household, to her that means they're indeed part of the family. She hears inclusion, not exclusion, for house dogs are a welcomed part of the ...

2989. Celebrity Culture

Psalm 95:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... what your mother always told you they would do: They spoil your appetite for the real food that awaits you at your real meal. In fact, our appetites have become so putrefied, that many of us haven't had any real food in years. What's the response of a Christian to a celebrity culture? It's time for Christians to stop joining the rest of the culture in making idols and role models of steroid-doped athletes, bling-bling dripping gansta rappers, lip-syncing pop-star bimbos, and the vacant rich who apprentice ...

2990. What God Requires of Us

Micah 6:1-8

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Leonard Sweet

... driver crowded too close, pulled out too soon, parked too crooked, or drove too slow or fast to suit you? Isn't our first response to mutter about what a crummy driver that other person is? In other words, we instantly elevate our own driving skills to some higher, ... death of all the firstborn! Would that satisfy you God?" To such snide, outlandish, even blasphemous words, God's response is restrained simple. With infinite patience, God's message is that just three things are required to reestablish the ...

2991. God's Resolutions

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Leonard Sweet

... resolution-making is falling by the wayside. The tradition of making New Year's resolutions dates back to the early Babylonians. They too tended towards the pragmatic and responsible side of resolutions, most often resolving to return borrowed farm equipment. But what if we looked at the New Year as a sea of possibilities, instead of an ocean of responsibilities? What if we resolved to relax more? What if we resolved to sleep more? What if we resolved to play more? What if we resolved only to make and ...

2992. Yellow Lights

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... feet. The reassuring words offered in today's 2 Thessalonian letter are intended to confirm these Christians in the rightness of their path, to affirm for them that they already have been taught and so clearly know for themselves what must be the right response to false teachings. The tradition Paul taught to the new church was a message not to be second-guessed, added to, or reshaped to fit conveniently a new situation. Paul's testimony - his teachings of God's enduring love, of Christ's sacrifice for ...

2993. Humans, Inc.

Luke 19:1-10

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Leonard Sweet

... . I don't think it's a false claim to innocence, or a dismissing of human culpability, that causes us to declare such violence as inhuman or inhumane. Rather it seems that at some deep, soulful level we recognize that there is a truly human response required of us as we interact with each other on this earth. There's something that defines and differentiates genuinely human behavior from that of all other creatures. It's when that essential humanity is lacking that we find the bad label inhuman so sadly ...

2994. Keep on Praying

Luke 18:1-8

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Leonard Sweet

... adults we certainly know how to behave in a board meeting or among co-workers so that we will either stand out as a prominent figure or blend in like wallpaper. As a spouse we're fully aware what attitudes and remarks will push buttons and what responses and actions will keep us well below our loved-one's radar. The justice-seeking widow-woman in today's gospel text is as annoying and irritating and doggedly persistent as any child in the check-out line . . . or any puppy trying to get outside. She persists ...

2995. Move Life from Duty to Destiny

Luke 21:5-38

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Leonard Sweet

... in it? The disciples wanted to be prepared. Whether it was prepared to fight or flee, hunker-down or hide-out, isn’t quite clear. The future might be frightening, but to the disciples’ way of thinking, an unknown future was even more terrifying. Jesus’ response refuses to give his disciples the comfort of a definitive, step-by-step time-line to the final Day of the Lord. Jesus doesn’t offer any “most direct” GPS map to the horizons of history. Instead he first declares the destruction of the ...

2996. If the Shoe Fits, Wear It

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

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Leonard Sweet

... on the first steps of his public ministry and authors the message he offers the people: "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near." When Peter, Andrew, James and John heard Jesus' proclamation, when they heard Jesus call out to them, their response was not slow or hesitant, not cautious or measured. Instead they reacted like runners hearing the starter's pistol crack at the beginning of a race. They ran to Jesus immediately. Their fishermen's sandals were transformed into track shoes. They ran to ...

2997. Jedi Christians

Matthew 14:22-36

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Leonard Sweet

... to move forward off of your own car. For many Christians, following in Jesus' steps has become its own kind of spiritual coasting, riding in the wake of Jesus' own first-century actions and reactions in order to relieve some of the responsibility for making our own twenty-first century responses. We're not called to follow in his wake. The risen Christ who lives today wants to make through us new waves with our faith. Jesus was not simply a good man and an outstanding moral teacher whose past actions we may ...

2998. Kudzu Frittata

James 3:13-18

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Leonard Sweet

... . Our own over-living can be traced back to similar good intentions even as it can be tracked forward towards similarly disastrous results. We want our kids to have the best opportunities possible . . . so we overindulge. We want to make sure we are informed and responsible . . . so we over-process, over-analyze and over-subscribe. We want to be the brightest, the most desired . . . so we over-achieve and over-reach over-the-top. We want to have it all . . . so we over-eat and over-drink and over-smoke and ...

2999. Missing the Mark

1 Samuel 8:1-22

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Charles Allo

... they are rejecting, not you. They don't want me to be their king any longer. 8 Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually forsaken me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment. Examine 1 Samuel 7-9 Notice God's response. "do what they say." They are rejecting me, not you. Don't take it personal. I am their king. And they don't want me as their king any longer. They have had this rebellion in them from the beginning even when I showed them that I was their king ...

3000. The Jesus RX and the Biology of Belief

John 20:24-31

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Leonard Sweet

... plummets the body into an ever-grimmer state of ill health. Given a cancer-fighting drug, but told there's little hope, the tumor increases in size. The drag of your mind impedes your healing. This is called the nocebo response. How sick can you make yourself? "The nocebo response is illustrated by the case of a woman who had a non-serious heart condition as well as congestive heart failure that was completely under control with medication. During a routine visit to the hospital, she overheard a doctor ...

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