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3326. Shipwrecked on Malta

Acts 27:1-12, Acts 27:13-26, Acts 27:27-44

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CSS

... the port of Myra. It was a roundabout way to get from Sidon to Myra and perhaps delayed the trip even more. Some old manuscripts mention that Myra was reached in fifteen days. Myra was an important harbor for cross-Mediterranean traffic. As Julius had hoped, he was able to transfer there to a larger vessel enroute directly to Rome from Alexandria. This ship was heavily loaded with cargo, probably grain or cotton from Egypt. Fighting head winds when it sailed from Myra, it made slow progress "for a number of ...

3327. This God’s For Real!

Matthew 16:13-20

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... you didn’t like the god-king’s personality but had a little patience, you could wait until he died and hope the next one would be an improvement. In almost every country in the Roman Empire, there were "national gods" and household ... a confession of the presence in our universe of One who is no less than an eternal, Living God. The god who is addressable gives hope, direction, purpose to an otherwise confused and desperate human population. If we may not come to God, to use the words of Martin Luther, as ...

3328. Let’s Face It

Matthew 25:1-13

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Michael L. Sherer

... them. Their relatives wondered why the end was taking so long to come. Matthew may have intended (as may have the writers of Mark and Luke as well, who also have this parable) to admonish the church that the end will not come as quickly as had been hoped, or anticipated. (If it had, the foolish virgins would have gotten away without need of an extra flask of oil, but, to their surprise, the bridegroom didn’t come as quickly as they thought he would.) From Matthew’s time until our own, we’ve had a more ...

3329. Let the Church Be A Witness for the Lord

Hebrews 2:1-4

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James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Come all who would hear the call to proclaim God's prophetic word. People: We are called to take light where there is darkness and despair. Leader: We are called to carry hope to lives where hope has been lost. People: We are called to share God's Love so all might know true Life itself. Leader: We are called to proclaim God's mercy and grace for all to hear. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, we come before You today ...

3330. The Blessing Of Bondage

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

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Barbara Brokhoff

... know what it is to try to hide our sins. They fester inside us. We try excusing ourselves, ignoring the sins, blaming others, hoping they will go away on their own - but still they have remained: black, dark, hopeless, ever pleading against us. Our sins reveal a ... family of God to care when I am in trouble, no one to rejoice with me, no where to go with my sins, no heaven, no hope, no life after death, no Christ to love me, no nothing ..." And then you and I would cry out, "No! No! No! Not that, Lord, anything ...

3331. Faith isn’t Easy - But it Works!

Genesis 12:1-8

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Barbara Brokhoff

... will shout and sing, Standing on the promises of God!" The Pilgrimage - (verses 4-6) Suppose Abraham had chosen to stay in Haran? Remember, Sarai was barren - they had no children, no promise, no future. True, leaving Haran meant risk, but it also meant hope. Abraham heard God’s call - accepted, embraced, and believed his promise - and WENT! He obeyed, asking no questions! How often we question the command of God. How easily Abraham might have asked, as we often do: "God, are you sure you mean me?" - "God ...

3332. Midnight Turned Into High Noon

Isaiah 42:10-17, Isaiah 42:18-25

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Barbara Brokhoff

... midnight in the middle of the day. What a dark night of the soul for the Savior! But now, the cross on which he died is so wondrously illuminated that even the hymns of the cross fairly glow with its brightness: "When the woes of life o’er take me, Hopes deceive and fears annoy, Never shall the cross forsake me: Lo! it glows with peace and joy." or "Above the hills of time the cross is gleaming, Fair as the sun when night has turned to day; And from it love’s pure light is richly streaming, To cleanse ...

3333. No Longer Spectators - But Participants!

Acts 2:14-41

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Barbara Brokhoff

... Life When we see those who, like the Emmaus Road disciples, are sad and despondent, having lost their faith in all they once held as high hope, we can say, "Don’t worry about it. It was part of the divine plan that Christ should die. He ought to have suffered. The ... had been ready to die with Jesus at the time of Lazarus’ death. He doubted, he had no faith, he had no hope, and yet, after the crucifixion, he hung around a little longer just because he loved him. While Thomas was doubting the resurrection ...

3334. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

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Barbara Brokhoff

... into "conviction" of his/her sinfulness. As long as we can brazenly assert, "I am not as bad as others," "I haven’t done anything wrong," "After all, I’m only human," as long as we can gloat on ourselves with great self-satisfaction, there is not much hope for us. There can be no colossal goodness in life without first having a consciousness of sin. I like to pray daily, because I need it so much, "Lord, be merciful to me a sinner." We are sinners, we are lost, we are helpless to help ourselves, and ...

3335. Jesus Gives Us Tomorrow!

Acts 1:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... you had?" Moody said, "No, for I don’t need it. What I need now is grace to live in Milwaukee three days and hold a mission." The disciples were being promised grace sufficient for each day and each task. They were being left, but not without comfort, hope, and help. In fact, the One who had been with them would now be the Spirit in them! And what a difference it would make in their lives. Peter, who was such a weak and dogmatic activist, who spoke before he thought and acted before he considered, would ...

3336. Bad Good News Won’t Sell!

Jeremiah 28:1-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... also had good news for the day after judgment. He brought the good news that God was going to make a new covenant with his people. He wrote a letter to the exiles and assured them that God was concerned about their welfare. They had a future and reason for hope. To substantiate his words, he bought a field in Anathoth where he planned to live in the future because he was sure that Judah would once more be a nation. If today we accept the bad news and properly react to it, the bad news can turn to good news ...

3337. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

... human instruments. In the case of Lazarus, Jesus ordered the friends of Lazarus to remove the gate of the tomb. When Lazarus came forth, he told them, "Unbind him and let him go." Christ uses us to bring comfort and hope to the sorrowing. We are to open the gate of tombs so that people might have hope and joy in knowing Christ will give them life. The bereaved, like Lazarus, are all bound up with false ideas of death and heaven. The living are to unbind and release the dead that they might go to Christ in ...

3338. A Book Which Reads Us

John 4:1-26

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Robert Bachelder

... in his eyes and the concern in his voice emboldened her, dejected and cynical though she must have been, to cry out once more for acceptance and care. She said: "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." Jesus gave her himself. The hopes and fears of all her years were met in the Christ, in that incarnation of God’s love whom she there beheld. Jesus read her, her sorrow and her need, like a book. When she went back to her town, she could say to the people there: "Come, see a ...

3339. Out of the Darkness

John 9:1-12

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Robert Bachelder

... launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed ... and those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labors and the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. It is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. The nuclear freeze movement calls upon the United States government to work vigorously to negotiate a mutual, verifiable weapons moratorium and ...

3340. Begging Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

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Richard F. Bansemer

... , and he started to move, and he started to shout: "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me." Shhh. That’s what they said. Shhh. Be quiet. Shut up. He was an embarrassment. He was annoying. He wouldn’t go away, and they couldn’t turn the page. Their only hope was to keep moving, keep on going, don’t stop, not here, not now. And like a fog horn from the dark sea he sounded again: "Son of David, have mercy on me." And again: "Son of David, have mercy on me." And again. And again. The embarrassment and ...

3341. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams

Luke 1:67-80

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Carroll Gunkel

... which they were subjected for their prophetic roles. Only a sadist would have been willing to endure what they endured in the hope of personal achievement. James and John wanted to sit beside the Lord’s throne when he came into his kingdom, not realizing ... meaningful because it has taken place in the last quarter of what has become a cynical century. When those of goodwill see little hope in this world, they can be encouraged by the examples of people such as Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan who meet the ...

3342. Hiltgunt Margaret Zassenhaus

Deuteronomy 31:1-8

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Carroll Gunkel

... the war and because of the ruling regime. A member of our congregation, a native of Germany, who lived through World War II, told me that there were moments when all one wanted to do was cover one’s head, go to sleep, and hope that, upon awakening, the war would be over and the terror ended. While Hiltgunt Zassenhaus’ first resistance to Naziism was admittedly a passive one, it was followed by more active resistance. There were numerous times when Fraulein Zassenhaus was summoned to Gestapo headquarters ...

3343. "Preference by L’oreal"

Lk 17:11-19 · Mt 6:25-33 · Jn 6:25-35

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Peter Rudowski

... only ones who think of Christmas. Older people, adults, are hinting to those around them about what they would really like with the hope that somebody will listen. As we spend these last four weeks shopping for that holiday, the thing that is going to tell us ... God said we are so important that we are worth only one thing - the life of a son. When that Son comes, that Son gives us hope. When that Son comes, he walks with us; he carries us and makes us his own. We’re special! God says it over and over again ...

3344. A Tale of Two Cemeteries

Matthew 5:1-12

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George Bass

... relatives, friends, neighbors, and acquaintances. It seems to me that no one could belong to and attend that church without having genuine perception of the true nature of the Christian Church. It is made up of the living and the dead - through Jesus Christ - and the hope of both groups of people is continuing life in the kingdom of God. The other cemetery is thousands of miles away - in Rome; it is called the Campo Verano, and it is the cemetery in which most Roman Christians are buried today. It, too, has ...

3345. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

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George Bass

... of us and honestly cares about us, as Jesus so frequently told people who listened to what he had to say or saw his compassion in action in the miracles he worked in the name of God. He knew Mary. He knows us - and that is the beginning of hope in the Easter story, isn’t it? Truly, he was crucified for our salvation and, truly, he was raised for our justification and deliverance. Mary knew him, at that point in her life, as her friend and teacher, so she addressed him, "Rabboni," and must have sought to ...

3346. Call Him a Story Teller

Luke 1:1-4

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George Bass

... , and there were no signs of life when he was pulled from the water; his heart was not beating. He was dead. Medics and physicians at the hospital worked on him for over two hours before his heart began to beat again. Then there was hope; but it was hope mixed with fear; brain damage was almost a certainty if he survived. People prayed for him; a parade of pastors, priests, and ministers, whom the mother had never met, paused in his room and prayed. A chain of prayer stretched across the Twin Cities, the ...

3347. Christ My Light

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Dennis Kastens

... out on an eternity of darkness in everlasting perdition! The splendor of Christ, to share with us the brightness and glory of the Father! Who can understand it? Who can comprehend it? Who can fathom it? If our Lord had offered us even a little flickering candle of hope and said, "You can have this tiny flame if you are ready to earn it, pay for it with a lifetime of penance, with a thousand years in perdition, or ten thousand years in some place of purging, and then heaven"; in short, if Jesus had told us ...

3348. An Altered State of Consciousness

Romans 5:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... This "altered state of consciousness" is coming to a surprising number of people today - both young and old. And it is our hope for a new world. We are saved into something new by the life of Christ. But how do we uncover the "hidden face of God"? How do ... we break into his presence? How do we know we are there? Someone gives us hope: "There are more rooms for awareness in the house of my being than I ever dreamed of, much less explored." There are powers in ...

3349. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

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Robert G. Tuttle

... ." We bring everything under the truth of God, and then we discover "form and freedom in balance." Then Christ will again become the "common word of the world": the word of value, the word of faith, and word of meaning, the word of life, the word of hope. The new Christian discovering a way of identification with humanity, as Jesus did. The Christian radicals will not become a super race, nor a master race, not even will they be made up of great people; they will be "ordinary men who do great things because ...

3350. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

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Robert G. Tuttle

... To him the whole known world had collapsed, but he responded, "Don’t lose heart, brothers." Augustine, in a vision, had reached out and touched the Eternal. He was not surprised that temporary evil powers had passed away. "You are surprised," he continued with words of hope to his followers, "you are surprised that the world is losing its grip ... Don’t hold on to the old world; don’t refuse to regain your youth in Christ who says to you, ‘The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip, the ...

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