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3276. Learning to Lean

Luke 11:1-13

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Lori Wagner

... , and changing power of God – to God’s divine intervention in our lives and the lives of others. To invite the Holy Spirit into our lives takes deep faith and trust in God’s loving and caring Spirit, in God’s wisdom and mercy, and in God’s ability to transform, move, change, and act within our world. But Jesus assures us that when we put our faith and trust in God and ask for God’s intervention, God will answer. God will act. The act of prayer for Jesus is a humble and humbling activity. From ...

3277. Do We REALLY Know What Time It Is?

Romans 13:11-14

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Heather Sugden

... church is that urgency did not cause them fear, but instead seemed to bring them clarity and purpose. I wonder how clarity and purpose might help us in the time in which we find ourselves, particularly as we enter the season of Advent. I wonder also at our ability to stop — and listen — to the prophetic words before us today, which do call us into a moment which will fade. One of the privileges of being a pastor is hearing the stories of Advent re-read and re-lived each year. Instead of being boring or ...

3278. No Excuse

Luke 13:10-17

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Dean Feldmeyer

... Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord” (Jeremiah 1:6-7). You see, the promise of scripture is that we do not need excuses because we have God. God will go with us. God will give us the knowledge, the ability, the wisdom, the experience we need if only we will answer God’s call and bow to God’s will. God will go with us and deliver us from every insecurity and distress ― whether God sends us to a children’s Sunday school class, a church choir, the chairmanship of ...

3279. God Is Like...a Potter

Jeremiah 18:1-11 · 1 Corinthians 15:20-26

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Kenneth L. Gibble

... back childhood ideas of God as judge, as punisher. This was a God not to be loved as much as it was a God to be feared. But read the verses in Jeremiah carefully. You’ll see that the prophet was mostly concerned about showing the holy potter’s ability to destroy. Rarely does a potter at the wheel create a vessel to his or her satisfaction on the first try. Frequently the potter will squash a piece of half-formed clay and begin all over again. At the end of Jeremiah’s account of what God revealed to ...

3280. Give Me Your Word

Luke 16:1-13

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Jill J. Duffield

... am too proud to beg. I don’t have a plan B or a golden parachute. I can’t afford a really good attorney. What now? It is fascinating in Luke ho w many people talk to themselves and what they say and what happens as a result of their ability to be honest. Just a few verses back the prodigal “comes to himself” and realized he’d rather be a servant in his father’s house than live like he was living. He wasn’t too proud to beg and he was willing to be a servant instead of a ...

3281. On Not Meeting People's Needs at Church

Mark 6:1-13

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Will Willimon

... and its members as “concrete embodiments of the gospel such that it, and they continue to offer a profound, perhaps even radical, alternative to the dominate structures and institutions of the day” (p. 75). We must not place too much confidence in consumers’ ability to determine for ourselves what we really need. People cannot be trusted to know what is best for us. God has graciously given us something which we could not have by our own devices, namely salvation in Jesus Christ. In my experience ...

3282. Prayer Power

Luke 18:1-8

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Lori Wagner

... in Jesus’ day (as Christians today) however explored a third way: prayer. For people with faith in YHWH or today’s God (whether in the form of Father, Son, or Holy Spirit), God exists as the most powerful entity in the universe when it comes to the ability to change, transform, alter, or wield power both inside and outside of our world –and inside and outside of ourselves. But this requires us to do something radical –to give up our sense of control in order to call upon and rely upon God’s power ...

3283. Chief Among Sinners

Luke 19:1-10

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Jill J. Duffield

... of justice and peace. Jesus saw the chief among sinners as seeds for a great, holy harvest that could feed the world. He saw earthly insiders and those aligned with them turned into divine advocates for those outside on the streets begging for the ability to breathe. Jesus knew the power of God to transform sinners and upend the evil structures they uphold. Jesus knew his salvation sets us all free and breaks down the walls between insiders and outsiders, bridges the divides between people, and creates not ...

3284. The Future and What to Do About It

Luke 16:1-13

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Will Willimon

... advice columns and in most secular therapy, people in distress and turmoil are encouraged to dig down, to draw upon their natural talent and resources. In this parable it's different. We are urged to stride into the future with confidence, not confidence in ourselves or our abilities, but confidence in the power and grace of God. The one who told the story is Jesus, the one who not only told good stories, but boldly embodied them. Even when he moved toward a cross, he did not do so as one resigned to a ...

3285. To Be Alive

Luke 20:27-38

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Lori Wagner

... all the concept of life that God knows and in which God exists. And that “life” itself may be bigger, broader, and more amazing than we ever could possibly imagine. Once we allow that faith can be more powerful and expansive than reason and human ability, we have taken the step into a “truth” about resurrection that has nothing to do with “knowledge” and everything to do with “faith.” For “faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1). And ...

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