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3426. The Time is Coming

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... give us new life. Amen. Offertory Prayer Accept our offerings, O God, as tokens of our deep gratitude for the new life your Son has made possible for us. Use these gifts and us to win others to that abundant life in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Hymns "Ye Who Claim The Faith Of Jesus" "To A Maid Engaged To Joseph" "Toda La Tierra" ("All The Earth Is Waiting")

3427. Gifts From The Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... , we are capable of performing miracles in your name. In this time together, renew our vision of the Church as your Body, and strengthen our dedication to serve you and you alone. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, we hear your call to service, and too often we respond by claiming to be unable or unfit for the task. Forgive our lack of trust in you, and our failure to know the gifts you have given us. Make us aware, we pray, that you have given each of us gifts of the Holy Spirit to be used for the good of ...

3428. The Call Of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... relied on you all our life. All: We will always praise you. Amen. Collect O God, we know that you have called us to speak for you, to act for you, and to represent you in the world; but often we have resisted that call. We have made excuses and claimed to be inadequate for the task. In this time of worship, renew our faith and trust in you that when we hear your call we may respond: "Here am I, use me," knowing that you will be with us. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, even as you used Jeremiah in ...

3429. Salvation Is For All

Romans 9:30--10:21

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... with us. In this time of worship, strengthen our faith and grant us the courage that comes from knowing we are not alone, for you are always with us. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Loving God, when we are tempted to think we have exclusive claim to your love and care, remind us again that in your eyes there are no differences between your children everywhere, and that you are the Lord of all. Help us so to live that we may be messengers of your love that says: "Everyone who calls out to ...

3430. The One Gospel

Galatians 1:1-10

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... our voices may be heard by those who govern. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, many voices call out for our attention as they proclaim their own version of the gospel. Send your Holy Spirit upon us that we may resist all claims that are divisive, that are self-righteous, and that do not proclaim your love and your mercy. Make us messengers of the one gospel taught by word and deed by our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Offertory Prayer With these gifts, O Lord, we reaffirm our faith ...

3431. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

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Phil Thrailkill

... of movements from Judea in the south to Galilee in the north and from Nazareth in the west to Capernaum in the east that Matthew heard the echo of a passage from Isaiah chapter 9. To say that it was fulfilled in Jesus’ movements was to make the claim that the God who inspired Isaiah as a canonical prophet was the same God who directed Jesus’ paths and that there were grand continuities between what God had been doing among his people the Jews and what was now coming to light in Jesus. Matthew took care ...

3432. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... new movement out on the edges of respectability, which is precisely that the Holy Spirit has done in the last century through the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. Out of the ashes of Protestant liberalism and educated unbelief arose a new spiritual movement, one which claimed that God was still doing what we read about in the book. And the question then and now is the same: Which set of problems do you prefer? Church as normal is safe; nothing much happens, but revival from the God whose kingdom is ...

3433. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

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Phil Thrailkill

... . May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may wish for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.”13 You are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Don’t lose the one, and don’t hide the other. Add value everywhere you go. We are a small part of a grand resistance movement against all that is wrong ...

3434. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

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Phil Thrailkill

... We have our eyes fixed on the kingdom Jesus promised and believe that all earthly arrangements are preliminary. Not kings or queens, not communism, not even democracy, preferable as it is: over time we have lived within them all and choose to disbelieve their over-blown claims.1 The threads of sin and evil are interwoven too deeply into the fabric of history to be extracted before the end; only the God who knows the secrets of every heart can do the necessary separation, and of that end we have been given a ...

3435. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

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Phil Thrailkill

... want to know the Father, hang around the Son and watch for the activity of the Spirit. Whatever we think of Jesus’ teaching, remember that it’s for all his followers, not just the advanced, whoever they are? We can’t get off the hook by claiming it doesn’t apply to us. If we are not learning to love our enemies and being drawn to the idea as an outrageous possibility, difficult as it is, we are missing something Jesus thought very important. There is nothing that reveals our spiritual parentage and ...

3436. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

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Phil Thrailkill

... 350 years. Four carriers were lost, one cruiser, 2500 men, 322 aircraft, and the best of their pilots. The tide turned in the Pacific; Japan never recovered momentum. Commander Rochefort never received proper credit. Instead, intelligence staff in Washington falsified reports and claimed the fame, even though they had predicted a June 10th day of attack, a week late. Washington sealed the records for 40 years. The real hero was moved from intelligence and assigned to a dry dock in San Francisco. In the book ...

3437. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

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Phil Thrailkill

... to it out of fear. In the past week I have heard rumors of a plan to assign a prayer minister to every block in Georgetown and another of a pastor who plans to visit the four corners of our county and there erect prayer monuments to ask God to claim our county and make a visit. The best gift God has to give any church is a set of open spiritual eyes and a sense of spiritual emptiness that drives us to prayer. Merely human schemes cannot do what needs to be done. I am not an outside critic; after ...

3438. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

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Phil Thrailkill

... personal God, of what character this God is, whether or not Jesus is the ambassador of this God, and whether we believe what Jesus said is true, not only about the next world but about this one. At the core of Jesus’ teaching is the claim that God the Father is not only watching but actively watching over us, and that reaching for the mercy and guidance of the heavenly Father is always smarter than any merely human scheming or calculation, no matter how tough the circumstances or how difficult the outcome ...

3439. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

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Phil Thrailkill

... and not the neighbor is a disconnect and a fraud: God desires deep integrity among followers of his Son. * That we are headed towards a reckoning that is building up from each day’s decisions: the truth about us will be known and told and dealt with. * That Jesus claims to know the mind of God which has doctrinal implications for who he is: he is uniquely God with us in flesh; his words are God’s words. * That conflicts are expected with sinners like us: the test of faith is how we work it out with one ...

3440. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... all. We recognize it as a form of evil. Jesus’ point in positing both evil and good in close succession is to make clear that we are each a mixed bag, but that God is not like us in this regard. God is not a mixed bag. “God is light,” claimed John, “and in God is no darkness at all.”15 All that is good in your life is from God. Our children may find us receptive one day and peevish the next, but not the great God in heaven who only gives good things to those who ask him. The ...

3441. Spiritual Blessings In Christ

Ephesians 1:1-14

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... with countless others. We pray in Christ's name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we know what you want us to do and the way you would have us live, but time and again we choose to follow our own will rather than yours. In humility we would claim your forgiveness, and with the aid of your Holy Spirit we intend to lead new lives fashioned after your will. Amen. Offertory Prayer Jesus, Son of God, we count our many blessings, and present these our offerings that through your Church others may come to know you ...

3442. Ascension of Our Lord

Acts 1:1-11

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... earth. Jesus said that repeatedly in the Gospel stories. "Of that day or that hour no one knows," Jesus taught, "not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" (Mark 13:32 and parallels). Jesus himself did not know the time, and if people claim that they do, they are saying that they know more than our Lord knows. Thus, Jesus' command to us is "Watch!" Be prepared in faith for his coming again. That's not the only question we have, however. We wonder what does it mean when Luke says that ...

3443. Wisdom and the Trinity

Proverbs 8:1-36

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... God made all of the rest of the universe (vv. 23-30). God rejoiced in her (v. 30), and she rejoiced in God's creation of the world and of human beings (v. 31). On the basis of this text, many persons in our time have therefore claimed that Wisdom is a divine figure, and we have abroad in our society what has come to be called Sophia worship, Sophia being the Greek translation of Wisdom. Principally such Sophia worship has appealed to radical feminists, because Sophia or Wisdom is a female figure, and they ...

3444. Resurrection

Acts 10:34-43

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King Duncan

... appeared in London’s Sunday Telegraph in 1934 that caused enormous excitement. The picture showed a long neck and head rising from the murky waters off Loch Ness. Photographed by a physician, Robert Wilson, it appeared to be an extinct dinosaur. Some claimed the photo depicted “the Loch Ness monster.” But many people remained skeptical. The truth is that Nessie did prove to be a harmless hoax. A man named Christian Spurling confessed his role in the fake photography just before he died in November ...

3445. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

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King Duncan

... the young man’s self-image by forcing him to participate in a situation in which the great likelihood was that he would fail. Paterno concluded that he should have placed the player in a situation where he could have been successful. He claimed it was one of his worst mistakes as a coach. (4) We can sympathize with Coach Paterno. We can also sympathize with the young man. We’ve all been there. Everyone has their failures. Everyone has learning experiences. The world’s greatest violinist, Isaac ...

3446. Identifying a Christian

John 13:31-38

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King Duncan

... in the mountains, his church was in the midst of a revival worship service. He arrived at the service during the time when people were giving testimonies. He told of the miracle of seeing ice made in the midst of the summer. Well, a dispute broke out. Many claimed that there was no such thing. Others wanted to believe him. It resulted in a schism within the church. Many left the church to form a new church. Its name, to this very day, is “No Ice in The Summer Southern Baptist Church.” (3) People can be ...

3447. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

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King Duncan

... wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.” (35b-38) This is the peace Christ wanted for them? TV evangelists may promise you that if you follow Jesus, God’s going to pour out His blessings, but Jesus never made such a claim. His disciples knew no outer peace, but they had an inner peace that the world could not shake. Isn’t that what you desire above all else for your children? You cannot protect them from every snare, every heartache, no matter how much you may want to ...

3448. The Blessed Promise

John 17:20-26

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King Duncan

... transformation my son has experienced can only be matched by that other great passage in our lives--our death. Death must be this same complete, unimaginable change of physical state . . . “We see death from this side--and it is terrifying. But our faith allows us to claim the promise: What appears to be death is a portal to a life transformed.” (7) That makes sense, doesn’t it? Life beyond the tomb is no greater mystery than life beyond the womb. It’s all a mystery. And surely God’s justice as ...

3449. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

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King Duncan

... had a major fight over two piles of wood. This church had a wood stove in the center of the sanctuary that heated the building. Two groups that didn’t get along with each other took turns stoking the fire and keeping it lit. However, one group claimed that they were working harder than the other group to provide the wood. As a result, both groups provided the wood but in separate piles. One child while reading the scripture one Sunday used his own version of the well know text from Ephesians, chapter four ...

3450. A Time of Grief

Luke 7:11-17

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King Duncan

... R. Bishop, www.kuc.org/sermons/091204.htm. 6. Diane M. Komp, M.D., A Window to Heaven (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992), pp. 28-29. 7. Joe G. Emerson, I Wanted the Elevator, but I Got the Shaft (Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1993). 8. Maxie Dunnam, Jesus’ Claims Our Promises (Nashville, Tennessee: The Upper Room, 1985, pp. 87-88).

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