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3001. We Build the Tomb

Hebrews 10:16-25

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Bonnie Bates

... don’t know about you, but I recognize that my thoughts are sometimes more human than faithful. When I am driving and I am cut off in traffic or I am following an exceptionally slow driver (I seem to always be in a hurry), I am less than loving. If alone in the car, I sometimes even verbally attack the other driver. Surely not a Christian act of a Christian heart. There is still a tendency, although I have largely overcome it, to deny a mistake or a failing, not lying exactly but avoiding blame that creeps ...

3002. A Living Memorial

Exodus 12:1-30

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Douglas J. Deuel

... 've always wanted to write, but never found time. I want to thank you, Jim, not for the football glories that you gave us, but for the real joys in life that we shared. Thank you for helping me start my garden. Thank you for touching my family with your love. Thank you for getting down on your knees to play basketball with my little boy and letting him win. Thank you for carrying my boy up the steps with one hand by the seat of his pants. Thank you for being the little fellow's idol. Thank you for sharing ...

3003. A Ministry Of Hospitality

Luke 14:1-14

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Richard Patt

... . While we were sinners, Christ was hospitable toward us by going to the cross and dying for us, in our place. Noticing our sin, Christ did not refuse to acknowledge us. He did not stop talking to us. He did not withhold information from us about God's love. No, in Christ, God made eye contact with us. The Word became flesh. The face of God now faced us. Looking into that face we felt sheltered and healed. Looking at his cross we know we are healed -- cleansed and forgiven in the blood of Jesus Christ. The ...

3004. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

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Maurice A. Fetty

... would you like for your spirit? The coming kingdom is waiting for you like the water reservoir is waiting for you to turn the faucet. Your closed faucet affects not the reservoir's reality, but yours. Like a mighty reservoir of justice and peace and love, God's kingdom is waiting for us to turn on the rusted faucet, waiting for us to cleanse the hardened arteries of constricted spirituality, to remove the plaque of selfishness, the corrosion of conceit. There's a new kingdom coming. It's waiting for you ...

3005. Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide

1 Kings 9:1-9

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... into the darkness of a cave, but we can't hide from the searchlights of God that seek us! What a relief to know that the love, truth, and goodness of God will search us out wherever we are and whatever we have done! Elijah was relieved to know that while he ... that we are alone, in our solitary rooms and caves, hiding out from all that is and all that will be. But God never fails. The love and mercy of God will seek us out. The voice will speak to us, "What are you doing here? ... Go out and stand, stand up ...

3006. Let Me Explain: A Sermon By Judas Iscariot

Matthew 26:1-5

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Don M. Aycock

... to punish them. The problem was that we had no leader. We thought for a while that John the Baptist might join us, but he did not. Then we heard about a man named Jesus. He was from Nazareth, and the people told of his mighty works and of his love. I sought out this Jesus and listened carefully to what he had to say. How the hope inside of me burned brightly when he spoke. His words were like arrows which pierced through to the heart of any situation. I just knew that he could be our leader in overthrowing ...

3007. Bowing Before The Mystery

John 1:1-18

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Charles H. Bayer

... mean for a young mother to look at her sleeping child and cry with joy; experience an awe so great no words in all the world can explain it? What does it mean for me to enter the door of my home and know that in that place I am loved; accepted just as I am? What does it mean that no matter what happens to me, and to you, no matter the tragedy, the heartache, the threat, we are not alone in this universe -- that greater than the galactic trillions upon trillions of miles of space out there, expanding all ...

3008. What's So Great About Jesus?

2 Samuel 23:1-7

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John A. Stroman

... for everyone and everything. God is concerned for all the people of the earth. God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as well as the God of Sarah, Leah, and Rachel. Not only did Jesus provide us a new concept of a loving God, but also he showed us a God who loves and cares for all. In this liturgical year we have discovered many encounters that Jesus had, but none is more interesting than his encounter with Philip. It takes place in John 14 where Philip says to Jesus, "Lord, show us the Father." Jesus ...

3009. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Stephen M. Crotts

... . And the Bible warns us this is all absurd. We were made for more! Why, in the Bible, the first negative statement God uttered was, "It is not good that the man should live alone" (Genesis 2:18). So God made us for relationships. He made us to love him and to love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:29-31). Think, if you will: Does not even our church building reflect this value? In the nave we learn to be friends with God in Christ as we worship. And then in the fellowship hall we learn to be friends with ...

3010. How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Stephen M. Crotts

... it with verve! Then there is a fight, some disappointment, and resentment settles in. A slow leak. As the poet has written, " 'Twas not love's going hurt my days, but that it went in little ways." The snap is gone. Sex becomes routine. She can't remember a ... And when I wake up in the morning she's still in my arms. She brushes her hair back and smiles at me and soothes, 'I love you.' And I know all is right with my world. "After she had the affair, I felt de-chosen. My entire confidence was shaken. Could I not ...

3011. Miracle Three: Healing A Leper

Mark 1:40-45

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Harold H. Lentz

... 's welcome to the leper reminds us that we may all be welcomed by him. No sin is so great as to separate us from God's love. Jesus is the bridge to our Father's forgiveness. But we can block out Jesus from our lives, to our own severe loss. What unnecessary weight we ... instinct of a human being, and without it we are not complete. We are like hollow men and women. Love Can Heal · Researchers working with Alzheimer's disease have discovered something which pleases but perplexes them. Sometimes a patient ...

3012. Praying With Bloody Knuckles

Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11

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William L. Self

... challenges in the new century. There are people and situations that can only be rescued by God's intervention, and we must not give up on praying for them. "When a mother prays for her wayward son, no words can make clear the vivid reality of her supplications. Her love pours itself out in insistent demand that her boy must not be lost. She is sure of his value, with which no outward thing is worthy to be compared, and of his possibilities, which no sin of his can ever make her doubt. She will not give him ...

3013. The Christmas Cactus

Isaiah 35:1-10

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Paul E. Robinson

... on a journey. And it is a very "long, long trail awinding" indeed, into the land of our hopes and dreams, into the arms of our loving God. Such a journey has been known by people as long as there have been people, for God placed that desire for relationship with God in ... to live and to be a blossom of hope and truth, the means of connecting us once and for all with our Creator, who loves us more than we can possibly know. God is always doing such things for us as we traverse the long, long trail awinding into ...

3014. A Most Important Dawning

Isaiah 60:1-22

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Paul E. Robinson

... to us in Jesus of Nazareth? Have we gotten sucked into the worst of the institutional church that keeps us busy doing good things, and forgotten the best of the church, its very purpose, which is bringing salvation and hope and joy and new life specifically through God's love known in Jesus, and then offering it to all the world? Oh, God help us if that has happened! Oh, what darkness if that has happened! Oh, how God's Spirit must be grieved if that has happened to even one of God's children! It could be ...

3015. Empowered By A Vision

Genesis 28:10-22

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R. Robert Cueni

... and wrong. Our faith offers an alternative vision for life. It has to do with the heavy traffic between earth and heaven and this God who is always near. This vision insists it is always better to give than receive, better to forgive than to seek revenge, better to love than hate. It is the empowering vision about the abundance of life that comes in Jesus Christ. That is the vision which forms a road map that can guide us the way we need to go. One more lesson we must garner is always a disturbing one. It ...

3016. When The Saints Come Marching In

Revelation 7:9-17

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Robert S. Crilley

... for this world, but for another. Death is merely putting out the lamp because the dawn has arrived. "To lose the earth we know, for greater knowing," writes Thomas Wolfe, "to lose the life we have, for greater life; to leave the friends we've loved, for greater loving, is to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth -- whereon the pillars of this earth are founded, and toward which the conscience of the world is tending ...."6 "Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?" an ...

3017. Proper 12

Mt 13:31-33, 44-52 · Rom 8:26-39 · Gen 29:15-28 · Ps 105:1-11, 45b

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William E. Keeney

... assurance that all things work together for good for those who are called by God. It is one of the key passages that raises the difficult issue of predestination. It ends with the assertion that nothing in all the world can separate the faithful from the love of God. Gospel. (Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52) The reading brings to a conclusion the three-week series of parables followed from Matthew 13. Psalm. (Psalm 105:1-11, 45b) The Psalm connects the seeking of the second parable in today's gospel reading about ...

3018. The Holy Spirit As The Dove Of Peace

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John A. Stroman

... the conflict and turmoil in our own lives. The divisions in the world are the divisions within our hearts. We will not be at peace with the world until we are at peace with ourselves. The Holy Spirit brings to us what Paul describes as the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, and peace (Galatians 5:22). The apostle goes on to declare, "If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit" (Galatians 5:25). In God's peace is our peace. It begins with us. The work for peace begins with the first person we ...

3019. The Intersection Of The Cross

Matthew 5:31-32

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Mark Radecke

... Jesus' new way which is not to relax God's commands and figure out ways around them, but to hear in them God's loving will as good news for their lives, however bruised and broken and burned those lives may be. And that can happen only when they ... of death, we hear what he is saying to us: "I take you for better or worse; for richer or poorer; in sickness and in health, to love and cherish. You are mine, come what may. And as I have death behind me, not even death or all its fearsome force can part us. ...

3020. Yearning For A Loyal Friend

Job 6:14-30 · Matthew 26:69-75

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Wallace H. Kirby

... fears and destructive voices." The Lord answers: "Child, it is because you are attacked that I come. I know you cannot handle all the darkness in your life by yourself, and you need me." "But why me, Lord?" I ask. "Why bother to come to me?" He replies that he loves me, and that he will come to anyone who listens to the knock and opens the door. And that he will come with courage and strength. I welcome the Lord into my soul room. He embraces me and sets the table on its legs. He gets bread and a cup ...

3021. Easter Sunday

John 20:1-9

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... and sorrow and longing loneliness. Where our hearts have ceased to sing, let Easter songs of victory awaken new melodies of hope. Be the living Master who goes before us, healing the wounds of sin and lifting up the truth of life that would claim our love. We beseech you, O Savior, to give some gracious sign of recognition and mercy to all whom we name in our hearts before you: ... Strengthen them where ways seem hard and painful. Hallow and fulfill our imperfect hopes and prayers for them. Be merciful unto ...

3022.

Drama

Betty Lynn Schwab

... for all the world. Let us pray together. Congregation: Holy God, God of the Passover and God of the crucifixion, hear our cry when we turn to you. Protect us and our loved ones always. And open us to love all people and the world with a Christ-like self-denying love. In Jesus' name we pray. Child: Amen! Our shankbone! (Raises bone and places it on plate) All: Amen. Lent 3 Lent 3Exodus 12:3-13Matthew 16:24-27 Minister: When the hour had come, Jesus sat at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them ...

3023. The Season Of Renewal

John 3:1-21

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Wayne H. Keller

... How do we keep our pocketbook in the darkness? Are we willing to expose it to the light of the Christ? If so, how will we do this? Response "Today We All Are Called to Be Disciples" Charge to the Congregation God loved, and loves, the world, the whole world, black, brown, white; heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual; fundamentalists, conservatives, liberals; communists, socialists, capitalists -- so much that God gave the unique, one-of-a-kind son, that whoever believes in him (that is, who trusts him to the ...

3024. Advent 1

1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

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E. Carver McGriff

... all these things. 2. We grow through difficulties. There are times when we wish God would hurry up and help us overcome some of our problems, but we are destined to learn later that some of these problems were blessings. I well recall losing a job which I loved. My self-esteem was demolished, I felt sorry for myself, and I wondered why this had to happen to me. Years later, I realized that it was because of that job loss that I moved to another city, and it was there that I met Christ. 3. Jesus promised ...

3025. All Saints

Isaiah 25:1-12, Revelation 21:1-27, John 11:38-44, John 11:17-37

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E. Carver McGriff

... life will probably be one of continued growth and discovery. 3. It may be for everyone, but those who have learned to give and receive love in this life will have an immediate advantage. 4. Someone has said that only when a person is not afraid to die is he not afraid ... Eternal Life in No, and there is the same Eternal Life in Yes! Death is the fear between.' And my heart, reborn to love of life, cried 'Yes!' and I laughed in the laughter of God.' " And Lazarus laughs; he laughs, and laughs, and laughs until ...

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