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3001. Holy Goat!

Leviticus 16:1-34, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of Leviticus. On one hand, Jesus in his death on the cross atones by His blood for the sins of the world committed. But the Living and Resurrected Jesus continues to atone for our sins of human condition by taking our sins upon Himself in a Holy Spirit atonement. One is assured in the Death of Jesus; the other is continually assured in the Livingness of Jesus –in the Resurrection power of Jesus. This is the way we are continually atoned within what Wesley called our means of grace. Most of the time, our ...

3002. Sweet Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... identity from the inside out, removing and re-phenotyping the mutations that have become embedded in our identity, that have mutated our original identity, to infuse in us a true vine-like Jesus DNA. When we allow God to infuse that Jesus DNA within our hearts, minds, and spirits, there is no way we can bear bad fruit. The closer in relationship we are to Jesus, the harder it is for mutations to creep in that can influence the way we behave in the world. And what does it mean to bear good fruit? Paul tells ...

3003. Dusted

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... one has the dust thrown upon them (note Shimei who throws stones and dirt at David and who accepts that dust in humility recognizing his deeds), one is faced with a choice. One can turn (repent) and seek the heavenly “sprinkling” or baptism of the Holy Spirit. Or one can remain confined “to the dust.” *chaimbentorrah.com **See also Acts 13:51 and 18:6 as Paul shakes off dust. The word is also used in the Exodus, as the Lord “shook off” (eketinaksen) the Egyptians in the middle of the sea. In ...

3004. The Lame Truth

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... our hideaways, barking from the sidelines. But out there –in the midst of the world, running with Jesus’ mission, proud to carry his name and bear his image. If you want to be blessed, healed and full of life in Jesus, you need to allow God to stir up your spirit. You need to allow Jesus to lift you up and pick you up off of that porch. And you need to follow him willingly into the world. That’s what it means, to run with the big dogs. For Christians, there’s only one Big Dog. And that’s our ...

3005. Star Maker

Matthew 2:1-12, Psalm 19:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... rendition of the creation story. You can almost see and feel the breath of God sweeping and swirling across the still earth. The sky renders a power, a presence, movement, and creative energy to the painting, revealing that though the earth may be still, God’s Spirit is at work in the world, creating and renewing hope and light. If this painting were a piece of music, it might sound like both lament and joy at the very same time. Loneliness and hope. Silence and praise. The mundane and the miraculous. It ...

3006. House of Stone

Psalm 118:1-29, Isaiah 18:1-7, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... which you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? All these things my hand has made, and so these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, he [or she] that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.” (Isaiah 66:1-2) A house of stone is a house of covenant. Not a building but a people (house/household) in love with God. The stones described in scripture, used for altars and presumably the living “Temple” are to be “natural stones,” not ...

3007. Deep Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God. God the source of life in the midst of every desert. A walking Source of life. And in fact in the midst of their next conversation, Jesus assures her, ultimately, it’s not going to matter where and in what “temple” one worships. But whether one worships in “spirit and in truth.” “God is spirit. And his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” If we want to experience the wonder and the beauty of God’s “eternal kingdom,” we must literally allow God to establish the Holy ...

3008. The Pit of the Soul

Luke 9:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the saints, those who in their legacy and discipleship have proven God’s mercy and love. Their light will continue to shine through your darkness in every place and circumstance. And now, may you go forward in peace with the knowledge that the Holy Spirit is the only spirit you want haunting you this year. Blessings and peace. *See CBN “Don’t Quit in the Pit” by Danette Crawford. www1.cbn.com Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Herod Thinks that Jesus is the Risen John the Baptist (Luke 9:7-9 ...

3009. The Dwelling Place

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... our own body. And the mercy seat is the holy presence of Christ, whose blood has been shed for us and whose body broken for us. By his own sacrifice, he has atoned for the sins of all humanity and now dwells among us and within us as the Holy Spirit, our guide and our ever-present source of grace and love. By him our sins are covered and our guilt removed. We are nurtured in his love and grace and kept supple by his nourishing hand. We are soon preparing to enter into the season of advent, a time when ...

3010. Fake News vs. Fantastic Good News

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... the presence of Jesus became real to you, and you turned around and went back to share your joy with others? That’s what the disciples did. They went through times of terrible struggle and persecution after Christ left them, but, through the power of his Spirit they found a joy so great that they were motivated to share it with everyone they met. When James Ryle was six years old, his father went to prison for armed robbery and his mother abandoned him at a Dallas orphanage. Although it was supposed to ...

3011. A Robot in the Pulpit

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... him, then he will show himself to us. What an astounding promise! Jesus will show himself to those who love him. And Jesus gave us the ultimate example of sacrificing himself for those he loved. So when we sacrifice ourselves in an act of love, we are letting the spirit of Jesus come alive in us. Let me tell you about a Christian woman by the name of Maria Dyer. Maria was born in 1837 on the mission field in China. Her parents died when Maria was young, and she was sent to live with relatives in England ...

3012. Movable Stone, Portable House

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... not to his own journey, path, agenda, but to Jesus’ mission in the world, even when it feels unreasonable, hard, or tedious. How adaptable are you? How easy is it for you to put aside your own wants, desires, opinions, agendas, preferences, control in order to allow the Holy Spirit to guide you in a direction that you may not want to go? How easy is it for you to defer to God’s mission in the world, to love the people God wants you to love? To serve the communities God wants you to serve? To favor the ...

3013. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

... the festivities. The attractiveness of the celebration’s activities certainly made it easy for the flesh to rule over the spirit. The church leaders knew they needed to draw Christians away from this secular pagan holiday, and determined that celebrating ... knowledge and insight into the scriptures. He stressed the moral power of the incarnation. The incarnation is the embodiment of God’s spirit in Jesus, allowing us to confess on Christmas Day that Jesus was fully God, fully man. This is the moral power ...

3014. Untamed

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... child of God and member of the created and natural community. Jesus will come out of his desert experience to be a “wild card” in the ordered life of everything everyone expected and new. His disciples would be too. Don’t let the world tame your God-feisty spirit. Don’t let the world destroy the human part of you! How wild are you? Isn’t it time you got in touch with your wild side? [1]For more on Jesus and wild animals, see Patricia Kasten, “Jesus and the Animals,” Compass News, March 6, 2020 ...

3015. The Power of the Staff

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... are “wing-clipping,” “flight-crippling” feelings that prevent us from being whom God created us to be. But lucky for us, we are not alone in our plight. We have a helper, an advocate, a holy parent, a buoyant staff to lean on. God. Jesus. The Holy Spirit of Christ. “Without him,” as Paul reminds us, “we can do nothing.” But with Him, we can do …anything! (John 15:5) Jesus reminds us that we have a life to live and a mission to fulfill. He nudges us when we have outgrown our circumstances ...

3016. The Oath

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and salvation complete. Hear the good news of the gospel! No matter how far you’ve fallen. No matter what you’ve done in the past or the sins you imagine that plague your mind and haunt your soul, Jesus can provide relief. Jesus is here to salve your spirit and ease your mind, to lead you into the paths of righteousness and to lead you beside still waters, if only you will let him. This day and always, may you be blessed by the healing power of Jesus, relieved of the burdens that bind you and weigh you ...

3017. Hope Rises

Mark 9:30-37, 42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we scoff at those days in which children were “seen and not heard.” In fact, barely were they seen! But how often do we do the same thing in our homes and our churches. And yet, Jesus is describing the child as the greatest of his disciples, because his spirit behaves as the least. The child is not looking for power, or greatness, or status, or wealth. The child’s heart has a purity that has not yet learned to value any of these kinds of goals. This in Jesus mind is what it means to be a “great ...

3018. Seeing Is Believing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Faith comes from a place of trust inside of you, based on feelings, intuition, and awareness of something inside of you that is in touch with something beyond our physical realm. How do you know Jesus is there? You see him with your mind, your heart, your spirit, your intuition. You know he is there. You can feel him. You can see him with your eyes closed. And seeing is believing. Why was it much easier for the blind man in our scripture for today to trust in Jesus when many around him saw only ...

3019. Grace Under Pressure

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... lesson for this morning is about Jesus confronting temptation in the wilderness. On a deeper level, it’s about how our wilderness times are the training ground for experiencing God’s power in our lives. In Luke 3, Jesus is publicly baptized by John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit comes down on him in the form of a dove, and God speaks from heaven and confirms Jesus as His beloved Son. Pretty exciting stuff! Jesus must have been feeling pretty good. And then we read in Luke 4, “Jesus, full of the Holy ...

3020. A Fruitful Life

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... and image of another. (7) In other words, what if others could say about you that he or she is the spitting image of their Heavenly Father? What would it look like if your life truly reflected the spirit and the image of God? If your life overflowed with the fruits of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control—how would it affect the people around you? How would it affect your work? How would it affect your priorities? Fruit can’t be hidden. It ...

3021. Take Heart

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

Will Willimon

... this rather amazing moment, here on the lake, they hear a deep voice, ''I am.'' Peter blurts out, ''If it is you, bid me to come forth to you over the waters.'' Peter launches out ''on the waters.'' And again we hear an echo back to Genesis 1 where the Spirit moved over the face of the waters and created a new world out of chaos. Then we are told, “when Peter saw the wind.'' How do you see the wind? This summer, late afternoon, hot day, all grew still, sky turned dark, there was a rumble in the heavens ...

3022. Rules for Basic Living

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... .”[2] Third basic rule for living — acceptance (Luke 6:22-23). Even if we feel excluded, reviled, and lied about by people for Jesus’ sake, God still accepts us. He knows our hearts. We can tell God anything that’s on our hearts, our minds, or our spirits. Gladys Hunt was quoted in Eternity magazine in October, 1969. “Acceptance means you are valuable just as you are. It allows you to be the real you. You are not forced into someone else’s idea of who you are…You can talk about how you feel ...

3023. Rock Stars at the Top

Luke 9:28-36 (37-43a)

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... being extraordinary human beings, but they were ordinary people God called to complete a task. They succeeded! What God longs to do is use ordinary people who are willing to obey to make a difference in other people’s lives. He will connect his Spirit with those willing individuals every time! On the mountain that night God sent Elijah and Moses to confirm Jesus’ ministry. As the disciples faced the trio they could see Moses who represented the law on one side of Jesus, and Elijah who represented the ...

3024. I Saw the Light

Luke 9:28-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of our experience and knowledge. The transfiguration if nothing else is a confirmation of that knowledge –that the Creator of the Universe is so vast, so large, so brilliant, so powerful that we are putty in the palms of His hands. And yet God’s gentle Spirit guides us, loves us, teaches us, and seeks to redeem us again, and again, and again. Today, on this transfiguration Sunday, may your hearts be stunned by the immensity of God’s grace. May you find God’s goodness and mercy hard to grasp. May ...

3025. God's Bouncer or God's Ambassador?

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... , as soon as Peter saw this vision, he was approached by men from Caesarea and asked to come share the message of Jesus with a Gentile family. What was he to do? When Peter began preaching to the Gentile family, they received the Holy Spirit. Gentiles! Received the Holy Spirit! What will God think of next?!? And suddenly the walls that kept Gentiles out of the early church started tumbling down. I want us to focus today on Peter’s response because it’s a powerful example of how to pivot our mindset from ...

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