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3251. Service for Death through Miscarriage

Psalm 23:1-6

Eulogy

Stan Richards

... heart can not help ask "Why God Why"? A heavenly destination will be reached this day, And in a garden for angels another spirit will awaken to play.. Homily Prayer: As you came to us in birthing waters, so with water we release you. As we'd ... , brother and grandson. ________, we commend you to your parent in heaven-In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Prayer:Let us not be afraid. Let us stop being anxious, for God, our Redeemer and Saviour, is with us. He will help us. Let ...

3252. Sermon Opener - Connected to God

Luke 24:50-53

Illustration

Lee Griess

... in heaven even after his ascension to heaven. As we say in the Creed each week, "He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father." He ascended not to abandon us but to complete what he began -- through the work of the Holy Spirit, through his church and through his faithful people, Christ still is at work to rule with love and mercy. Christ has not abandoned us -- but he has ascended into heaven and that's what the focus of our worship today is about. So important is this event that ...

3253. It Is So Hard For Us to Wait

Acts 2:1-13

Illustration

Barbara Brokhoff

... and instant drinks, so why not instant results and instant responses? We can't wait. We want people to understand now! We want people to change now! Waiting for the Lord's leading and timing is so hard, but still Jesus said to do it: "Wait for the promised Holy Spirit." Don't run ahead of God, for if you run without waiting on God, you will run with no power (and with disastrous results). If you try to "hurry up" the hatching of a baby bird or chick, you only destroy the baby to be born. So, too, when we ...

3254. Joy Comes With The Morning

Psalm 30:1-12

Bulletin Aid

Robert G. McCreight

... you with a pure heart, nor have we loved our neighbor as ourselves. We have not done justice, loved kindness, or walked humbly with you, our God. Create in us a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit within us. Restore to us the joy of your salvation and sustain us forever with your bountiful Spirit. Amen. Declaration of Pardon For we know that Christ has been raised from death and will never die again - death will no longer rule over him. And so, because he died, sin has no power over him. He now ...

3255. Learning to Walk on the Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

... upon time and circumstance. What is a miracle to some may be fully understood by others. For example, the airplane is commonplace to all of us, but to a person of some remote tribe in some primitive wilderness an airplane would appear as a phenomenon of the spirits or a work of the gods. Also, what is a miracle at one time may not be a miracle at another: modern television would have been utterly bewildering to our great-grandparents. What is a miracle to us now may sometime be understood by someone, as ...

3256. Life's Third Dimension

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

... : Remains? This is not what remains of this good woman. What remains of her is not in this casket; what remains of her is in the hearts and minds and souls and memories of thousands of people she has touched along the way. What remains of her resides in human spirits where she has left something of herself. So much remains of her, but not in this room. It lives in the lives of the people she loved, for whom she cared, with whom she shared, to whom she gave so unselfishly of herself. So much of her is there ...

3257. Is The Gospel Only For Women?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

... 23:27-28) That will give you an idea what the whole chapter is like. No wonder they had to crucify him. Yes, the Gospel is for women - for Jesus was "womanly" - if that’s what we mean by not being afraid to mourn, or of being poor in spirit, or meek, or merciful, or hungry for righteousness, or pure in heart, or disposed to making peace. But the Gospel is also for men, if "manly" means having courage, because it takes courage to reveal we’re weak enough to cry. It takes courage to be meek like Abraham ...

3258. One Nation, Under Mercy

Sermon

... him in Jesus. Incarnate in the Christ, the mercy of the Lord of heaven and earth! "Ten sickly lepers all in a row. Nine men were healed. One was made whole." At the Easter Vigil just a few years back, I had the joy of serving as the Holy Spirit’s instrument in the baptism of thirtyfive Hmong persons, refugees from northern Laos, people who had crossed the Mekong River in the dead of night, escaped a shower bath of bullets, then from the camps in Thailand came to a new home in the United States. It had not ...

3259. The Sign in the Subway

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... healthiest body in the block? The winning points in the game? The million dollar deal? No, that’s not what Jesus said, is it? He said "How much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." God’s supreme gift is the gift of the Holy Spirit. What does the Holy Spirit do? She prompts us to continual conversation with God. She directs our energies in the direction of our prayers. She keeps us sensitive to the signs God gives to change direction and ideas. She keeps us assured ...

3260. Dead or Alive?

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

... the drives of the "Id" and "Ego." He did not throw much light, however, on what happens when the "Super Ego" fails to develop or take charge of the animalism of the "Id" and "Ego." This, surely, is one of the points at which deadness of the spirit can be identified. How else should one describe a condition where there is an absence of compassionate sensitivity and responsibility for values? Have you ever slept too long on a hard floor and had a limb "go to sleep" because circulation of the blood had been ...

3261. Let God Be God

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

... find rest in God. Humans are, then, spiritualizing beings. They look for essences in what they experience and perceive, and invent symbols to represent these essences. It was inevitable, therefore, that they would come to an understanding of the great, all-embracing spirit in whom rested the coherence and logic that made all other reality make sense. The grand summary of this climactic development is found in the first verse of the Gospel according to John. "In the beginning," he says, "was the Word (logos ...

3262. If Only We Could Remember ...

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... stands ready, waiting to take us back. If only we could remember that! Our God is not a God of wrath, ready to "zap" us for our unfaithfulness, but a God of love, calling us into oneness with him, into a relationship even more binding than marriage. Our fickle spirits too often corrupt this relationship, but even so, our God is still the God who stands ready to welcome us back, to buy us back, to renew the first commitment. It awes me to think of a God who could destroy us because we deserve it, yet who ...

3263. The Seventh Sunday of Easter

John 17:1-5

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... will not be changed, but we will be, because he will allow us to share in the glory which is his with the Father and the Spirit. We will see his glory because we will see the Truth of his life. And we will know there is no other glory than that ... the Father. His prayer will be answered as we respond fearlessly to his love and challenge, and let ourselves be lifted by his Spirit into wider worlds of caring and service. Christians are those who suffer, love, and serve, and, in that obedience, find both joy and ...

3264. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

... Deborah, who is mentally ill. She has lost touch with reality and lives in a dream world. One reviewer says that Deborah is courageous and heroic, yet she might be any one of us. Her story gives belief and promise to those who are concerned with the human spirit. No rose garden is offered to Deborah, yet she slowly fights her way back to reality, to a world that is often harsh and challenging. It is the story of one young woman’s successful fight for health, and of the others around her who wage their own ...

3265. A Moment of Brightness

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... are new every morning and his love is ever unchanging. But our experiences of it may not be constantly bright and transfiguring, simply because we are mortal and not yet complete in our sanctification. The new song is also an old song, and the flame of the Spirit which still burns in our souls is the age-old flame which through the ages has burned in every place and shown the glory of God to a dark world. A Message for This Moment of American Life Do not seek spiritual experience for its own sake. Nor ...

3266. Authority Through Servanthood

Matthew 20:20-28, Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... an age of wholesale parental abdication of authority, your calling is to fill the vacuum. The day will come when your children will rise up and bless you. The Call to the Whole Church In the life of the church, authority is a great gift of the Spirit of Christ who alone is Lord among all who bear his name. The past year or two have been a nightmare of lies, accusations, covering up and general tantrums among the celebrity television evangelists whose names you know well enough from the day by day news. What ...

3267. A Place for You

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... that good and gracious shepherd of our souls will be our faithful guide. We can go our way, then, also over that final path, with songs of peace and gladness in our hearts. A century ago John Henry Newman wrote an evening prayer which expresses well the whole spirit in which we see the present in the light of that place which Christ has prepared for us: Support us, O Lord, all the long day of this troubled life until the shadows lengthen, and the evening comes, when the busy fever of life is hushed, and our ...

3268. The Miracle Of an Opened Mind

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... even more than that - what a supreme work of God it is when the mind is opened by the Lord Christ to the spiritual understanding of what he is saying to us through the Holy Scriptures. I think of all those billions of brain cells responding to the Spirit’s mysterious drawing power. The picture in my mind is that of a gentle wind that blows across a mountain valley with countless aspen leaves responding to that invisible breath which we call wind. Yet it happens. And at a deeper level, it happens that the ...

3269. Proper 9

Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 · Gal 6:7-18 · 1 Ki 21:1-3, 17-21 · Isa 66:1-14

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... a natural law that you reap what you sow. Sow weeds and you reap weeds. Sow hatred and you get hatred. If one sows to the Spirit, one will reap eternal life. 2. Except (v. 14). In what shall a person glory? We may boast of our children or our parents. We may ... to want to do something else. Paul urges us to keep up the good work. Outline: Keep up the good work of - a. Sowing in the Spirit - v. 8 b. Doing good to all - vv. 9-10 c. Glorying in the cross - v. 14 WORSHIP RESOURCES Prayer of the Day: "God of glory ...

3270. Proper 17

Lk 14:1, 7-14 · Heb 12:18-19, 22-24; 13:1-8 · Eze 18:1-9, 25-29 · Prov 25:6-22

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... destiny is not determined by the stars nor by blind fate. Though God has a plan and purpose for each life, we can fulfill or deviate from it. In this text Ezekiel deals with this eternal human problem. The key word in the text is "turn." By the grace and Spirit of God we can turn from evil to good. On the other hand, through Satan's temptation, we can turn from good to evil. There is hope and liberation in the knowledge that we can turn. Outline: You can change - A. Change from good to bad - v. 26 B. Change ...

3271. Christmas 2

Jn 1:1-18 · Eph 1:3-6, 15-18 · Isa 61:10--62:3 · Jer 31:7-14

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... of God by virtue of being human. Only believers in the Word receive power to become the sons of God. The children of God do not result from ancestry or physical desire but only from the will of God. This calls for a second birth, a spiritual birth of the Spirit. 4. Flesh (v. 14). This external, divine Word who is God is enfleshed in Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is the incarnate Word. The Word came in the human body of Jesus. This reminds us that Jesus was truly and fully a human being. The Word took on a face ...

3272. Lent 5

Jn 8:1-11; 12:1-8 · Lk 20:9-19 · Isa 43:16-21 · Php 3:8-14

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... uncomfortable for some (it doesn't appear in some Bibles). A. People are more important than law codes 1. Jesus was unwilling to dispense with this woman's life merely to satisfy a legal requirement. 2. Laws, within and without the church, can kill both people and the spirit oflife, love and creativity among us. 3. Laws are made for God's people, not people for God's laws. B. Laws Can Liberate Us 1. Having rescued the woman, Jesus did not discard the law: he asked her to "sin no more." 2. b. Once we have ...

3273. Proper 9

Matthew 11:25-30

Bulletin Aid

... our side, recognizing your strength to move us purposefully through our journey in this world. People: We thank you for your yoke, an identification with you, Lord Jesus. Assistant: Jesus said: "Learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit." People: How often gentleness is absent from our lives, and humbleness is regarded as weakness. Pastor: Jesus, our Companion, we welcome your gentleness which manifests itself in concern and care for those whom God has made; we seek your humility which showed ...

3274. The Committed Life

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Bulletin Aid

... of Confession Our intent is to be Christian, Father; but our commitment to live the Christian life is not true to our intentions. We practice what we see more than what we say. Forgive us for our failure to demonstrate our convictions through our life style. Strengthen us by your Spirit; that our faith, hope, and love may determine the way we live. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Hymns "My Hope Is Built" O For a Faith that Will Not Shrink" "O Jesus, I Have Promised" "O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee"

3275. Joseph’s Dream

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

... has an alien shape to us. Our eyes, adjusted to a three-dimensional concept, cannot recognize it as a baby. But it is ... (and) it is your child."13 That kind of child would just not do. God had to produce, through this mystical union of Mary and the Holy Spirit, a child who would be normal and healthy, a baby who was just like every other normal child, as the Son of God. The Christ, born two thousand years ago, was to be a true and genuine "Tomorrow’s Child" for all time and all people. "The Word became ...

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