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301. The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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Johnny Dean

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an ... But as a Christian, I can not accept it. I can not accept it. The Miranda Rights? No, I'm OK with them. It's the remaining silent part I can't live with. I'd like to propose The Apostle's Rights. "I do not have the right to remain silent. Everything that I say can and will be used to witness to others about the love and forgiveness of Christ. I have the right to ...

302. The Fourth Sunday of Easter

John 10:1-21

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Kendall K. McCabe

... true we are in ministry together, and the ordained ministry exists for the sake of serving and enabling the entire membership. As the Roman Catholic service for the ordination of bishops puts it, the ordained ministry is one of service and not of honor. The fact remains that the Church, for most of us, is constituted in some way of clerical members and lay members. We do set persons apart by ordination, and the practice shows no signs of going away. That being the case, it is my suggestion the laity should ...

303. The Emmaus Stranger

Luke 24:13-35

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Dean Lueking

... tell us that he has visited those desolate stretches of our lives. He has come to bring us out of them, in the power of his own voluntary suffering and redeeming love. It is no longer necessary to live on the brink of despair, nor is it necessary to remain a captive of the forever-backward look upon life. Our Lord Jesus Christ brings us forgiveness of sins here and now this day. Here is the gift that takes away the veil from our eyes, and lifts the fog of despondency from our hearts. He gave himself and is ...

304. For Those On The Outside

Luke 8:40-56

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... the background, where we are safe. We stay there often because to seek Christ first requires a commitment which we feel that we are not able to make, or simply do not want to make, because our energies are channeled in so many other directions. Like this woman, we remain anonymous and on the periphery of the life of the church. This is a natural human tendency to which most of us are subject at one time or another in our lives. When we do finally come to seek this Jesus of Nazareth, it may be for the wrong ...

305. Misunderstanding Jesus

John 6:25-59

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... important. It is not enough to get without giving. It is not enough to worship on Sunday and not through the week. We can rise every morning and renew ourselves to his service. This is what is meant here when our text says we feed on him and then he remains in us. And if we are to really receive from Christ what he has to give, if we are to have the experience of "saving power," then we need to feed on him. This means we completely absorb his teachings and his example. It means we appropriate his virtue ...

306. Proper 20 & Pentecost 18

Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Philippians 1:1-11, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 106:1-48

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... than one hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, to say nothing of all the animals. Apparently, Jonah learned a lesson about God's love, and grace, and mercy, that all of us need to learn. Exodus 32:1-14 (C) Moses remained on Mt. Sinai too long for the people of Israel; they not only thought he was not going to return, but they also lost faith in God once more. Accordingly, they asked Aaron to make a god for them out of their gold, and he did, fashioning a golden ...

307. A Senior Servant

2 Samuel 19:9-43

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... as the shadows fall ..."3 Barzillai asked no reward from David. The King’s armies were supreme and the road to Jerusalem was open. David promised Barzillai that he would have an honored place at his court, feast at his table, and spend his remaining days garbed in rich silks. Barzillai refused to cross the Jordan with his monarch. He had discovered satisfaction in doing good for others and sharing with others. The reward of seeing David returning from exile, was the reward Barzillai desired. The reward of ...

308. All Saints' Day

Matthew 5:1-12

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... good time." How would you go about putting your joy in the offering plate this morning? Charge to the Congregation Try this: The natives of Nigeria say, "To be happy is to be sweet inside." When our lives go sour on the outside, they still can remain sweet on the inside; because in Christ Jesus, we have received our peace, that peace that passes all understanding, the peace with which the world cannot give and which the world cannot take away. Planning for Your Congregation I. Other Scriptures Psalm 34:1-10 ...

309. The Blessing Of Bondage

Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24

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Barbara Brokhoff

... difficult laws to obey just so he can frustrate us. Nor does God make rules for us to keep in order to assure that we remain subservient to him, lest we "become as God." What a stupid lie of the devil to think that God could ever be threatened in the ... graciously provided. The third rule was just as important to his well-being as the first two, but he didn’t think so. It remains true that the laws of God are given to keep us from falling into trouble and disaster. What a pity, that our willfulness against ...

310. Father Damien

Luke 17:11-19

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Carroll Gunkel

... of the lepers of Molokai were hampered by the night of unconcern. The lepers were a forgotten people. Shunted off to their colony, they were truly "out of sight, out of mind." While that was true when Damien arrived on Molokai, it did not remain so. With the persistence we’ve earlier noted, the missionary bombarded the Board of Health with importunings for "more" more of everything for his lepers. When his pleas received no response, he sent demands. When his demands fell on deaf ears, he zealously - some ...

311. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

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Esther R. Russ

... angel in the tomb say that Jesus had risen and had gone to Galilee? I returned to the tomb where his body had lain; I touched the remains of the burial linens. I wept bitterly. I had wanted to show him one last time that I loved him, and now - now I could not even ... of the World! In that clay, at the last trumpet, the dead in Christ will be resurrected, and those who are alive and remain will he caught up to meet him in the air. Then Jesus, together with his bloodwashed throng, will make his final entry into ...

312. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

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Richard Hoefler

... . The purpose for which Jesus has opened the blind man’s eyes has not yet been accomplished. The reason is that neither side possessed the basic element of all true faith. The Pharisees had the Law and the healed man had the experience but both were lacking. It remains for the climax of our miracle story to reveal for us the basic element of true faith. Tell Me, Lord In the last scene of our miracle story Jesus hears that the young man he healed has been thrown out of the synagogue. There must have been a ...

313. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EPIPHANY

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Tom Eberle

... s wrong with wanting to be a famous athlete? Star: Maybe nothing is wrong with it, but why don’t you want to be what you are now? Male: Because I can’t swim fast enough. Star: But why should you even want to swim faster? Female: If we all remained the people that we are, you would go out of business. Star: I would prefer to speak of it as going into retirement, which wouldn’t bother me in the least. You don’t know how discouraging it is granting wishes for people who always end up undoing themselves ...

314. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

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Robert Noblett

... more answers; we need more will with which to respond to the answers we already have. From all of this we can only deduce the presence of a destructive force within each of us with which we must reckon. In most cases we know the direction indicated and it remains for us to muster the will to move in that direction. To that end the Christian church has a message for people, and it is the message that God, our creator, wants us to live; in the Scriptures and in the traditions of the church, the way to that ...

315. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... , neither must it be over-emphasized. He was, after all, according to his own description, "a Hebrew of the Hebrews" (Philippians 3:5), a Hebrew born and bred. In the words of Archibald Hunter, "Though the surface of Paul’s thought may owe much to Hellenism, its sub-soil remained Jewish."1 With the devout Jews of his time he believed in the one holy and righteous God, in the election of Israel to be his special people, in the Law as the unique revelation of God and his will for man, and in the hope of the ...

316. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... recall, for example, the jeering words of Clemenceau when Wilson tried to apply this approach at Versailles, "Wilson talks like Jesus Christ." When agape was laughed out of court, seeds of hatred were sown which soon blossomed into another world war. The truth remains: other approaches end in failure, but "love never faileth." "Make agape your aim," counsels Paul. Let the tactics required by each situation vary, but never lose sight of the basic strategy. It is the strategy of agape by which God won back ...

317. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

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Leonard Mann

... the Byzantine Empire. In A.D. 711 Emperor Justinian II was preparing to flee for his life. But the empress said to her husband: "You may flee if you like; the ship is in the harbor, and the wind is in the sail; but as for me I prefer to remain and die with the empire, because empire makes a fine winding-sheet." Toynbee’s comment is this: "When I read that, I thought: a finer winding-sheet is the Kingdom of God, for that is one from which there is a resurrection." No, my friend, I do not know what ...

318. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

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Leonard Mann

... using it here, and of course it is an overdrawing of the picture, because God just doesn’t work that way. But the fact remains: we do walk on a thin edge of danger. You’ve often heard recitals of "famous last words." Some such words: "I’ll light ... does always make the journey possible. But we must venture to move. Those doors designed to open at the command of an electronic eye remain closed unless we walk up to them. If we approach them as though they will open, they do. If we hesitate and hang back ...

319. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... ." "O my Lord," said Moses, as he quaked in his boots, "send, I pray, some other person." Rather than let him beg off, God remained persistent. It was Moses, not somebody else, that he wanted, problems and all. "Is there not Aaron your brother, the Levite? I know that ... could do better with my kids!" And no doubt, all of us "could do better" with our kids! But, the fact remains that most parents do a smashingly good job of carrying out their responsibilities to their children. Love and sacrifice, and the ...

320. You Can Go Home Again!

Jeremiah 3:6-4:4

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Frederick C. Edwards

... public 24 hours a day. There was not even a lock on the door. If that seems incredible, you also need to know that the church was in Los Angeles, California. For twenty years it had never been locked. There had been some occasional minor vandalism, but it remained unlocked. The people wanted it that way. Then one day an angry young man came to the church and stole the candlesticks and a few other small things. They were worthless to him, but it was done in anger. Things had gone badly for him. Among other ...

321. Great Grace Was Upon Them!

Acts 4:32-37

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... that if all the houses had been sold, then the congregation would not have had any homes to meet in. It is also hard to understand how a community could live indefinitely by using up their capital. So perhaps the picture is somewhat idealized, but the challenge remains nevertheless. Christians are to look at their wealth in a new way. In 1 John we read, "Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action." In the book of James we read this stern warning: If a brother or sister ...

322. Wheel Within The Wheel

Acts 1:12-26

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... make God central in our lives by the way we use our gifts to help others. We know this community of "sinners" will not always handle these responsibilities in the best fashion, and our leaders will not always be the bold, unselfish servants we would like. But it is and remains a community "claimed as God’s own." The best administration is done when we have a clear and confident sense of to whom we belong. It is the faithful God of the covenant who ...

323. Knowing the Secret

Mark 1:9-13

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Thomas Long

... Son of God. The thing is, he doesn’t look like the Son of God. Like the genius Einstein dragging the heavy suitcases of a wealthy woman up the steps of a hotel, Jesus does not look like who he really is. That’s part of the reason the secret remains hidden. Why doesn’t Jesus look like the Son of God? Because he suffers, and that seems unlikely in God’s own son. Jesus is the suffering Son of God, and that is a hard secret to learn. Once the disciples came very near to discovering the secret. "Who do ...

324. All-Out Love

Mark 12:28-34

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James W. Robinson

... he is a soul. On December 25, 1747, John Wesley strongly urged the Methodists to renew their covenant with God. His first covenant service was held on August 11, 1755. The form was used without change for nearly a century. Various alterations were then made, but it remains essentially the same. One of the prayers of the people offers, as few others do, the whole soul - the whole person - to the complete disposal of God: I am no longer my own, but thine. Put me to what thou wilt, rank me with whom thou wilt ...

325. A Cup Running Over

John 11:17-37

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James W. Robinson

... town for awhile before his enemies could do him harm. The Pharisees had threatened to stone him, and, on another occasion, to arrest him. So he and his disciples hurried to a remote district in TransJordan, "to the place where John at first baptized, and there he remained" (John 10:40). He had been there about three months when some messengers, sent by his good friends Mary and Martha of Bethany, brought the kind of news we all dread to hear: "Lord, he whom you love is ill" (John 11:3). The message referred ...

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301. The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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Johnny Dean

302. The Fourth Sunday of Easter

John 10:1-21

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Kendall K. McCabe

303. The Emmaus Stranger

Luke 24:13-35

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Dean Lueking

304. For Those On The Outside

Luke 8:40-56

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305. Misunderstanding Jesus

John 6:25-59

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306. Proper 20 & Pentecost 18

Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Philippians 1:1-11, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 106:1-48

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307. A Senior Servant

2 Samuel 19:9-43

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308. All Saints' Day

Matthew 5:1-12

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309. The Blessing Of Bondage

Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24

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Barbara Brokhoff

310. Father Damien