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3401. The Dimensions of the Decalogue

Exodus 20:1-21

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... , and that those who eat the bread of his body and drink the wine of his blood, are already receiving the fruits of that victory. They - we - participate fully in it by giving thanks to God for the victory and living lives that give glory to God and show genuine concern and selfless love to family, friends, neighbors, and all the people of this world, and thereby do our best to keep both dimensions of the Decalogue.

3402. A Day For All the Saints

Revelation 7:9-17

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... and grace of God in our Lord. God’s process for proclaiming, or making, saints, is quite different than that of the church on earth. A newspaper headline read: "Beatification process of missionary moving swiftly after 200-year delay." The story concerned the efforts of the Reverend Noel F. Moholy and others of the faithful to promote the canonization of Father Junipero Serra, the Franciscan missionary, who died at California’s Carmel Mission in 1784. Before a person can be beatified and canonized ...

3403. The Tradition of Assembly

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... together. We are doing what others have done for 2,000 years almost - we are meeting in the fellowship of common worship, a thing of vital importance to others before us, to us now, and to our world always. So far as the church is concerned, and the whole institution of Christian Faith in the world today, there would be none had it not been for this Lord's Day practice maintained over the centuries. Imagine for just a moment that, after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, his scattered followers ...

3404. The Seven Stars

Revelation 1:9-20

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... bowed before him in adoration and awe. Here is the kind of Lord we worship - one who can put aside the care of stars in order to care for one person who comes in reverence to him. Know this, dear friend: whatever else in the whole universe may be of concern to our Lord just now, nothing is more important to him than you are. As you bow before him, know that his hand of pardon and peace is resting with blessing upon your shoulder.

3405. Tuning to a Distant Signal

Psalm 96:1

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A sheep rancher in the remote mountains of Idaho found that his violin was out of tune, and, try as he would, he was unable to make the instrument sound the way it should. A frequent listener to a radio station in California, he wrote the station concerning his problem, asking these good people at a certain hour and minute on a certain day to strike the right note for him. This they did: stopping everything else, silencing all other sounds for a moment, they struck that note. In his shepherd's hut in the ...

3406. Keeping on Course

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... matter of fact, my dear friends, it is something of this kind that each of us is doing as we are in worship on Sunday morning. We are checking in with God; we are seeing where we are; we are finding out about our directions in relation to his will concerning our journey of life. We can so easily become confused or lose our way out there in the weekday world of days, and we need this checkpoint. Here we touch base with the Lord of our life, and from him we take our bearings for going on. We can deviate ...

3407. The Exercise of Faith

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... you must exercise this also. If you don't, it dies. A widely known professor in a New England university started out as a practicing Christian, a man of faith. Over the years, however, this all changed. He became known as an agnostic, or an atheist even. He said, concerning that change, that he never consciously abandoned faith. He said, "It was as though I had just put it away in a drawer, and later when I looked for it, it wasn't there." Of course it wasn't; the man had let faith die for want of exercise ...

3408. Come Up to the Light

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... of reality, to our own life in the full dimension of what it is. Occasionally, certainly at least once a week, we need to see things in a light that is steady and clear and bright - we need to let the light of the Eternal shine in upon all our concerns and considerations. So here today, out of the shadows, we come up to the light, and pray that tomorrow when we must go into our mines, we will have a clearer sight for the work and walk of another day.

3409. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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... and happy lives. Our God is a God who forgives us for our trespasses. The Lord desires that we be healed. What is more poisonous than the petty hatreds and grudges that we hold against co-workers, family members and former friends? How seldom are the concerns that so bitterly divide us of any great consequence? So often they are rooted in squabbles over the superficial issues of money, power and possessions. A husband said to his wife, "Why do you keep talking about the mistakes which I made in the past? I ...

3410. Compassion

Luke 10:25-37

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Harold Warlick

... who could tell what rank he came from? He couldn't take a chance on being seen on the Jericho road associating with just anybody. The rumors would ruin him. Then a Samaritan came by. Jesus said, "The Samaritan was filled with compassion." He was not concerned with the man's pedigree, his race, or the cause of his tragedy. He simply had compassion. Compassion. Jesus said, "You go and do the same." Have compassion. The person may never be capable of returning the favor, but you go and have compassion. The ten ...

3411. The World's Best Kept Secret

Matthew 6:25-34

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Harold Warlick

... in all that she had. Although the amount was far less than others had given out of their abundance, she was the only person who seemed not to be playing a part. She was the only one who gave out of her natural goodness. The others gave out of their concern how they might look to others. You know how that goes. Many people go to symphony concerts not because they like classical music but because they know they ought to like it, and it is the proper thing for a person of their position to be seen at the ...

3412. Don't Give Up Too Soon!

Acts 15:36-41

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Harold Warlick

... their own while others were peaking. I repeat, there are too many persons whose lives have been unfulfilled because someone gave up on them too soon. Fortunately, these biblical stories have a somewhat happy ending. We all know how Jesus and Mary turned out - his passionate concern for her from the cross and his entrustment of her care to John. The story of Paul and John Mark has an equally happy ending. One of the downside risks in being an earthshaker and a traveler is loneliness. When you get out on the ...

3413. Wheels Instead Of Walls

Ezekiel 1:1-28

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Harold Warlick

... much too small an idea of God. Most people develop a great deal physically, mentally and psychologically as they grow up. They learn their job and become proficient in it. They learn to be a parent and even a grandparent. But, says Phillips, "as far as religion is concerned a lot of them haven't grown up at all."1 All of us need to begin to get a few grown-up ideas about God. He cannot be confined to the Baptist or Methodist or Catholic persuasion. He cannot even be confined to this world alone. He cannot ...

3414. The Christian Life Prayer

James 5:13-20

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... effective. Men: Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain and it didn’t for three and a half years. Again he prayed and the heavens gave rain and the earth produced crops. All: Teach us to pray always for all of our concerns, giving thanks no matter what our circumstances. Teach us to enjoy communion with you even when no cares press us down.

3415. The Christian Life The Armor of God

Ephesians 6:10-20

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... . Congregation: May we take faith and use it, rather than talk faith and lose it. Leader: Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Congregation: May we recognize that Christ is our head in all things and your Spirit our guide concerning your will. Strengthen us with your armor and remind us to wear it always.

3416. Consecration Take up His Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

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... you have chosen for us, Lord. Leader: "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it." Congregation: May we become so interested in your work, Lord, that we lose interest in earthly concerns, considering all that we are and all that we possess as tools for your service. Leader: "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" Congregation: Can we price our eternal life or that of another? May we surrender time ...

3417. Solid as a Rock

Matthew 16:18

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... ? Believing in Jesus and saying so takes great belief and strength. You can build a great house on a rock, It won't cave in, or sink into the ground. A house built on a rock will stand forever as far as the rock on which it is built is concerned. The next time that you see a rock, you can think about the time that Jesus called Peter a rock and told him that he was going to build his church on a faith like Peter had that day and many days after that day. A rock is the sign ...

3418. The Emperor’s Son-in-law

Luke 12:35-48

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This Gospel hinges on responsibility, and the culmination of it is in verse forty-eight: "Everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." One of the favorite stories of the great Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegard, concerns an emperor, touring his domain and receiving the accolades of his people. When the entourage reached the market square of one village, his carriage was surrounded by cheering villagers and peasants. To the amazement of his neighbors, one brash young farmer stepped out ...

3419. Our Splintered World

Luke 12:49-53

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... not met, was at home. We talked about church, and he said he guessed he was a member somewhere "back home" but he wasn’t sure. Then he added "My wife is the churchgoer in our family." I asked him as kindly as I could, "As far as Christianity is concerned, whose side are you on?" He laughed and said, "I guess I’m not on anybody’s side, as you put it." But he was! Not to decide is to decide. How different from the totally-deaf man who went to church faithfully every Sunday. There was no interpretation ...

3420. Managing Our Memories

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Leonard W. Mann

[Paul reports, concerning Jesus] When he had given thanks, he broke [the bread] and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as ...

3421. The Ministry of Refreshing

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Various Authors

... persons who refresh others who thirst. In our daily round of duties and activities, in our home life, may we become more sharply aware of the needs of those about us, of the painful if often hidden ways in which their souls may thirst after some word of concern, of understanding, of encouragement, of loyalty, of love. In the heat of life’s battle, may we bring the refreshing of God’s love. May someone have cause to say of us, "He or she often refreshed me." We may one day be surprised with joy to hear ...

3422. Responding to What We Hear and See

Matthew 11:1-19

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Joe Pennel

... bring heavenly condemnation; he brought divine love. He did not associate with the religious establishment, but he went from village to village associating with the rubbish heap of humanity. He spent his time and energy with the least and the lost. He was most concerned with the powerless: the blind and the lame, the lepers and the deaf, and the poor and the outcast. And Jesus dared to teach that the weak occupied the most important place in the Kingdom of God. John the Baptizer became confused about the ...

3423. Responding to Christ's Birth

Matthew 2:1-12

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... passion that we no longer become accustomed to the powers of destruction. We must overcome our own apathy and be seized by the passion for life. To follow as a disciple means to share in both the joy and the suffering of humanity. Christ's people are concerned about the joy and the hurt of life, but neither one to the exclusion of the other. Good news and passion are linked together in this faith. There can be no Gospel without passion. As we travel in "The Way", we gradually understand that the Gospel, as ...

3424. Salt and Light

Matthew 5:13-16

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... of an ethnic joke says more about the person who tells it than it does about the person who hears it. I have a friend who is a chaplain at the Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute. In 1987 he wrote the following annual report concerning his ministry. I have a feeling that my friend has discovered what it means to be salt and light. My calling is to a mental health institute. My ministry is among folks who have special needs, distorted judgments, and peculiar perceptions about themselves and their ...

3425. Where Are the Lilies Now?

John 20:24-31

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Gary W. Houston

... good! But then comes the Sunday after Easter and sometimes even the lilacs are gone. Do we still believe in the Resurrection after Easter Sunday? Attendance drops again in many churches and people begin planning their summer vacations. Our minds quickly turn from God to our own concerns. There is always the danger that we will put God in a chest until next year when we will get him out along with our new Easter bonnets and ties. Now after Easter Sunday is a time that calls for increased prayer and a time of ...

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