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3526. Prepared Or Not?

Matthew 25:1-13

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William E. Keeney

... speak of that coming event. No mention is made of the bride. From the context a bride is self-evident. Who then are the ten maidens who waited for the coming of the wedding party? Were they the contemporary parties? The wise maidens might be the disciples who were prepared to answer the call of Jesus and follow him. The foolish maidens could be the chief priests, the scribes and the Pharisees who expected a messiah to come and deliver Israel from its oppressors yet they were not prepared to respond either ...

3527. Christ the King

Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46

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William E. Keeney

... passes the test. A. The Test in the Poor B. The Test in the Sick C. The Test in the Prisoner D. Meeting the Test 3. Recognizing Jesus. (vv. 35-46) If Jesus would return today as he came when in the flesh, would we recognize him as the disciples did? Or would we be part of the scribes and Pharisees who rejected him? A. Recognizing Him by His Humanity By His Compassion By His Love By His Service B. Recognizing Him by His Divinity By His Glory By His Implicit Judgment By His Spiritual Power C. Recognizing Him ...

3528. Behold The Man Who Tried To Be King

Matthew 21:1-10

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... The Cost Of Discipleship, that "cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church." It requires no repentance, no discipleship, no confession. It is "grace without the cross."5 Without that there is no Jesus, no king, no kingdom. Still today we are called to be disciples who follow, who serve, who give ourselves, who live the abundant life and share it with the world. One year at Annual Conference when our retiring ministers were being recognized, the Bishop told about the wife of one of them. He told of what a ...

3529. The Bread Of Life

John 6:25-59

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Marc Kolden

... whole sixth chapter of the Gospel of John is about bread. It begins with an account of Jesus feeding a huge crowd of people from five loaves and two fish and doing it so lavishly that there are 12 baskets of crumbs left over. Then, after Jesus and his disciples left by boat, the next day the crowd searched and found him on the other side of the lake, but Jesus criticized them: "You're looking for me for the wrong reasons, just because I gave you lots of food yesterday. But that's really not what you need ...

3530. The Peace That Jesus Gives

John 14:15-31

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Lee Griess

... Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled. Neither let them be afraid." Jesus was preparing his disciples for tough times. He was about to ascend to the Father and they would be on their own -- left to find their way through this ... upon us and makes us God's own. God sends us the Holy Spirit, to comfort and counsel us in life. As Jesus called those disciples to him in the upper room and spoke the words of the Gospel reading to them, Jesus wanted them to know that they were his. ...

3531. Getting Out Of Our Own Way

Matthew 16:21-28

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Roger G. Talbott

... he became a common criminal. He lost his friends and his followers. He lost his only possessions, his clothes, and with them went his dignity. He lost his family. In order to insure his mother's survival, he had to give her away to one of his disciples. There was a terrible moment when he even lost his connection with God: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus lost everything including life itself, but in losing everything, he became the person he really was before God -- the Christ, the son of ...

3532. Brainstorms

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John R. Bodo

... Messiah. Andrew's evangelistic method is simply exposing people to Jesus. Is there a better one? One Of The Twelve. The disciples/apostles are often identified, individually, as "one of the Twelve." We know little about most of them except for their belonging ... step toward the renewal of our churches? The Cost of Conversion. According to John 1:35-42, Peter and Andrew were both disciples of John the Baptist. When John met Jesus, he recognized him as the Messiah. "Behold the Lamb of God!" he exclaimed. In ...

3533. Standing On The Shore

John 20:1-18 · Mark 16:1-8

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Elaine M. Ward

... wonder at mystery and with enough passion over possibility we might perhaps do so? "All that we do is touched with ocean" and possibility. That is the mystery and the miracle of Easter. The seeker approached the disciple and asked respectfully, "What is the meaning of human life?" The disciple consulted the works of his master and confidently replied, "Human life is nothing but the expression of God's exuberance." When the seeker addressed the master himself with the same question, the master said, "I do ...

3534. Pentecost Sunday

Acts 2:1-21

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... us exercise these gifts with enthusiasm this morning. Offertory Prayer We relinquish these gifts from our power, Lord, so they can be instruments of your power. May your Spirit receive them, enrich them, and invest them according to your divine will. Amen. Benediction What Jesus said to his disciples, he also says to us: "Peace be with you, as the Father has sent me, even so I send you ... Receive the Holy Spirit." Amen. Pastoral Prayer Holy Spirit of God, who at Pentecost descended with power upon Christ's ...

3535. The Christian Journey IV: The Pool

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John N. Brittain

... water we need. "Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord ... who turns the rock into a pool of water ..." (Psalm 114:7-8). The pool of water is also a symbol of the response of the Samaritan woman and the resurrected Jesus' commission to the disciples. It is the time-honored metaphor of throwing a pebble into a still pond and watching the rings expand to the very perimeter. The woman has been sufficiently changed that she goes out with a simple proclamation, "Come and see a man who told me everything I ...

3536. Sunday Dinner

Luke 24:13-35

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Alex Gondola

... for. No one ever instructed my sisters and me in what it meant to be a member of the Gondola family. We found our place, we learned our family story, we established a common identity through that family meal. So it was also with Jesus and his disciples. Jesus spent a lot of time talking with people over meals. Think about how often meals are mentioned in the Gospels: the marriage feast at Cana of Galilee, dinner with Simon the Pharisee, dinner with "sinners," the feeding of the 5,000, a fried fish breakfast ...

3537. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

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Rolland R. Reece

... receive the truth however it comes. Perhaps the results aren't coming out wrong after all. What seems like defeat or disaster now may be something wise and constructive in the future. Your Son's death on the cross must have seemed like the bitter end to his disciples. (Now we know he was revealing the true nature of your love.) Enable us to look again at what we believe to be all wrong -- on the chance that it is something quite different. It may also be that we have done the right thing and, even so, life ...

3538. A Cultural Breakthrough

Acts 16:6-10

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Rodney Thomas Smothe

... Pamphylis and had not continued with them in the work. When the dust settled, Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus; Paul chose Silas and they traveled through Syria and Cilicia. Upon arriving in Lystra, Paul heard from the other believers of a young disciple named Timothy. Timothy's mother was a Jewess and a believer, but Timothy's father was a Greek. Timothy's spiritual reputation had spread among the other believers, so much so, that Paul wanted to take Timothy along on the journey to Macedonia. Prior ...

3539. Membership Has Its Privileges

Acts 16:16-40

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Rodney Thomas Smothe

... , Atlanta, is fond of saying, "There is more in the man than the land." What we believe and how we express that belief directly reflects our witness to others. Recently, I sat in amazement as a young lady who was a graduate of one of our local church Disciple Bible Study classes eulogized her mother. Confident, boldly confessing her source of strength, she let her witness of faith of Jesus Christ serve as an example of what it means to be free of the fear of death, free of the fear of failure, and free of ...

3540. Walk With Him

Luke 24:13-35

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Robert F. Crowley

... of Jesus, Cleopas and his companion, have just encountered Jesus and talk about what it meant to them. Playing Time: 4 minutes Setting: On the road from Jerusalem to Emmaus Props: None Costumes: Disciple of Jesus Time: Easter afternoon Cast: Cleopas -- a follower of Jesus Companion -- also a follower of Jesus CLEOPAS: (RUNNING IN) Where'd he go? COMPANION: (FOLLOWING) How should I know? Jesus was with us and then He just vanished. CLEOPAS: Jesus is alive! COMPANION: I know. I know. But where ...

3541. Water Logged

Matthew 14:22-36

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Robert F. Crowley

... Ruth, his wife, questions him about it. They will learn a lesson about God's provision. Playing Time: 4 minutes Setting: The home of Peter Props: A fish hidden in Peter's cloak Costumes: Ruth -- cap and apron Peasants of Jesus' time Time: Jesus' time Cast: Peter - a disciple of Jesus Ruth - his wife PETER: (ARRIVING HOME) Hi, honey. I'm home. RUTH: (OFF STAGE) Is that you, honey? PETER: Of course, it's me. I'm home. RUTH: Just put the fish on the fire, will you? I'll be in in a minute. PETER: (TO HIMSELF ...

3542. Yes, It Becomes Unclean

Haggai 2:11-17

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Frank Ramirez

... over time God's people had built up elaborate rules for clean and unclean, some of them nearly ridiculous. No matter what you did, you were excluded from the community because you were unclean. And suddenly judgment was involved. When the Pharisees asked Jesus why his disciples didn't practice cleanliness, he went to the root of the problem. It's not what goes into the mouth, but what comes out which makes us unclean. It's what is in the heart -- which is what God originally intended for his people anyway ...

3543. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 8:27-30

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Wayne H. Keller

... friends, new visitors? (One minute of silence.) Meditation "Let the Beauty of Jesus" Before the Benediction What do you usually think and feel by the time of the benediction? Glad worship's over; joyfully expectant? Ready to move out as Christ's disciple and apostle, as Christ's minister, priest, saint? Meditation "Today's obedience to God offered tomorrow may well be too late" (Joost de Blank). "The Christ we will not share, we will not keep" (Author unknown). MUSIC POSSIBILITIES Music for Preparation ...

3544. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 10:35-45

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Wayne H. Keller

... ? Your birthday party may be one of those times. Name some others. That's what James and John wanted, one to sit on Jesus' right hand and the other on Jesus' left hand. What a deal! Hot shots! Cool! Immediately, Jesus straightened them out. Being his disciple is a matter of servanthood. Define that word for the children. He said it would cost them giving up their false pride and unworthy demands. Reading of the Gospel Dramatize this by having two chairs in the chancel, with Jesus in the middle. Reenact the ...

3545. Advent 3

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28, Isaiah 61:1-11, Isaiah 65:17-25, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

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E. Carver McGriff

... that the several statements in John's Gospel of a negative sort (1:9, 1:15, 30, 1:19-24, 3:28, 29, etc.) are designed to deal with this problem. Writing in The Community Of The Beloved Disciple, he says, "We are led to suspect that Johannine Christians had to deal with such disciples and that the negations are meant as an apologetic against them" (p. 69). Nonetheless, the Gospel writer did recognize John the Baptist as an emissary directly from God whose mission was to prepare the people for Jesus' ministry ...

3546. Gifts of Lent IV: Simon Gives His Strength

Mark 15:1-15

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Donald Neidigk

... performing one small act of kindness. Yet even this sin Jesus carried to the cross. As I came to understand what Jesus did for me, the guilt I felt gave way to a heart full of joy and thankfulness bursting to be expressed. How could I thank him? The disciples helped me learn how. I met with them often after Jesus' death and resurrection. From them I learned that Jesus had taught, "Whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me." Whatever I did, even something as small as giving someone a cup of ...

3547. Moving At The Speed Of Light: At The Jordan

Acts 10:23b-48

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Frank Luchsinger

... from God to travel to Ceasarea to the home of Cornelius the centurion, the "Italian Cohort," to preach to uncircumcised Gentiles which is where we find him in today's text. Peter's focus is shifting beyond Jerusalem. "Go into all the world and make disciples...." Peter and his companions baptize many Gentiles at the home of Cornelius and are persuaded to stay at Caesarea for some days. Peter preaches, "God shows no partiality, but in every nation any one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to ...

3548. Living In The Nonsense Of The Resurrection

Luke 24:1-12

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... scorned woman at a well her sins. Tell me, is it logical to believe in something that happened so long ago, so far away, something that defies medical, scientific, rational explanation? I'm sorry, folks, I don't buy it. I'm afraid I'm in the camp with the disciples. It is nonsense. For me to believe any of this would be for me to accept what isn't possible. Believing in an event, in a story, that is so radical would have to change my perception of life. If I believe the women's story who ran from the ...

3549. Reflections On the Sacred Head

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... really be the same. Isaac Watts would write: "See, from his head, his hands, his feet; Sorrow and love flow mingled down." Those are poetic and descriptive of Christ's work for us, but in plain English, Jesus bled. Real blood. Just a day earlier he told his disciples: "This is my body which is broken for you; this is my blood which was shed for you." Did they know at the time what he was talking about? Do we really know? "He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity" means that he took on ...

3550. You Can Be Real

Matthew 5:33-37

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Michael B. Brown

... about the importance of integrity and told them that either the very fibre of our souls is honest or else, sooner or later, somehow or another, the garment of our lives will unravel. Jesus taught those disciples that they should live their lives so honestly that no one would ever even think to question their integrity. No one would ever think to ask them to take an oath -- "Cross your heart and hope to die. Now promise me you're telling the truth." He said it this ...

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