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3651. THE RECONCILED LIFE

Hebrews 9:11-28

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John W. Rilling

... angels and say with the shepherds, "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass." The Christmas event is followed on Christmas Day by the meaning of this fact which the church ponders. The author of Hebrews guides the faithful on a long journey into the past and shows how God made himself known to men gradually, bit by bit. Now to Moses in the burning bush, then to Jeremiah in the blossoming almond tree, and again to the people as a whole in the giving of the law. But in these ...

3652. WHEN MORNING GILDS THE EASTER SKIES

Mark 16:1-20

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John W. Rilling

... be said very simply, in fact in just two words, and he cried out the ancient Russian Easter greeting which for more than a millenium has ushered in the Easter dawn, ‘Christos woskrese!’ (Christ is Risen)." And immediately there came back the long suppressed response of the believing congregation still there though suppressed by Communism, " ‘He is risen indeed!’ " 3. THE EASTER HYMN HAS YET A THIRD STANZA - the miracle of forgiveness. Those three who came to minister to the dead receive a commission ...

3653. Crowned With Victory

John 14:15-31

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O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... since I, as a little boy of six, was left all alone in the world. I will never forget that day when I made the long journey to your house. I can still recall my disappointment when, instead of coming for me yourself, you sent your colored man Caesar to ... no,’ he answered, ‘she’ll stay up for you. When we get near the house, a candle will be burning in the window.’ After a long ride I saw the candle light in the distance. I remember you were waiting for me at the door. There was a fire in the hearth, ...

3654. Getting Ready

Mark 13:24-37

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Brett Blair

... to receive the Christ child is the willingness to give up our violence, selfishness, idolatry, and self-seeking. Unless we repent, we cannot accept God’s good news of coming among us. I have often wondered why so few recognized the baby Jesus for who he was—the long awaited Messiah. Perhaps it is the same reason why so few recognize him today. In order to identify the child, we must first make a stop at the Jordan River and be baptized. We must repent of our sins. We must stop our ways and see the ways ...

3655. Prepare The Way

Mark 1:1-8

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Brett Blair

... whom received baptism by his hands. John even drew a group of disciples around him, which is significant for two reasons. First, some of these disciples later became disciples of our Lord. Secondly, a number of people began to think of John himself as being the long expected Messiah. For that reason John’s gospel felt obliged to specifically point out “There was a man sent from God whose name was John, He came for testimony to bear witness to the light that all might believe through him. He was not the ...

3656. Opening Up to Jesus

Mark 2:1-12

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Robert F. Crowley

... to the others. SERVANT: Master, the men who were working on your house said it was finished. JOASH: The roof? It sure took them long enough. I don't like dealing with someone I don't know. Since Hareth had that accident I haven't had anything around ... late. They had already made the hole in the roof. JOASH: A big hole. I'll never get that fixed. My new roof. It took so long to ... (FOUR MEN ENTER WITH A PARALYZED MAN ON A PALLET) ... get it repaired. FIRST MAN: We're sorry about the roof, Joash. SECOND MAN ...

3657. When God Is At Work

Mark 1:40-45

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Brett Blair

... with the leper’s life before he was healed. Something which for years the leper could not see, and something which perhaps he never dreamed of even in his wildest imagination. That is, that in all of his loneliness and despair, while his flesh was rotting away, long before his healing took place, God had not forgotten him. Indeed, he was at work in his life leading him toward that destiny that was to be uniquely his. It seems incredible that we can say that, because as we look back over the leper’s life ...

3658. The Stranger at the Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

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George Bass

... fellowship with him, we might become new creatures, able to become what he wants us to be, able to do what he wants us to do. So today we join the angel, the stranger at the tomb, and sing, "He is risen." And we will tell that story as long as we live. 33. "Son of Downed Flier Seeks Missing Clues From Dad’s Fellow Pilot" was written by Jim Parsons and published in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, February 4, 1984). 34. Joe Vargo, Cox News Service, wrote "Sighting of UFO in ’48 Turned Man Into Sky Gazer ...

3659. The Passing of the Peace

John 20:24-31

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George Bass

... , ‘I have done it; I am going now.’ The priest stopped him. ‘Once more,’ he said, ‘just once more and you can go.’ The young man walked up to the chancel and looked at that cross again, and at the Crucified. He stood there for a long time. Then he came back to the priest and said, ‘Father, can I make my confession now?’ The bishop concluded the story with these words: ‘And, my dear people, that young man was myself.’ "39 "The signature (of the risen Christ)," declares D. T. Niles, "is ...

3660. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

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Larry Powell

... the like are brandished by well-intentioned but misguided fanatics; and, the bearded man on the corner we have long since decided to be a person mentally short-changed and, therefore, to be pitied. We see the word, but if ... ," but as thunder. "Repent!" Listen. Do you not hear a faint sound now that your feet are still and your breathing is easy? Does it not resemble the long, shrill blast from a trumpet? It is more than a noise, it is an alarm. The trumpet is blowing now, but can it be heard above the groans ...

3661. Will the Real Prophets Please Speak Up?

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

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Richard L. Eslinger

... were expected. All the people could do was to look back for comfort to the times when God had sent an Amos, an Hosea, an Ezekiel. Those were the good old days, when the word of the Lord was heard in the land. But now they were gone ... and the long wait for the messenger of the Lord had begun. Our problem is quite different, it seems. We may be living in a time when the word of the Lord is restrained. But there is a "prophet" on every street corner. They are everywhere. We live in a time ridden with ...

3662. Francis of Assisi

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Michael L. Sherer

... on? Could they have lost a focus on their life? Something or someone to believe in? ANTAGONIST: Maybe. But so what? PROTAGONIST: How long would you or I be self-sufficient if we didn’t see the point in anything? ANTAGONIST: (shrugging) How should I know? ... ! ANNOUNCER: This note out of Africa. Francis of Assisi must have come to the conclusion that miracles still happen. Not long ago, reports have it, he tried preaching to an Islamic Sultan in Egypt. According to eyewitnesses, the sultan listened politely ...

3663. Let There Be Light

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Shirley Jennings

... your family sleep in the daytime because of working at night? Do you ever take a nap when it’s daytime? What’s the difference between daytime and nighttime? It’s dark at night and light in the daytime. The Bible tells us that once upon a time, long, long ago, everything was dark. Then God looked at the dark and said, "Let there be light," and there was light (Genesis 1:3, TEV). God thought the light was good and decided to have both dark and light. What would happen if we only had darkness? (Let them ...

3664. A Song for Easter

Matthew 28:1-10

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... song could be substituted.) Lesson: Easter is a happy, special day for Christians. Today is Easter. Easter is a special day for Christians. For Easter we have a special flower. Do you know what this flower is called? Right: an Easter lily. The first Easter was a long, long time ago. Every year we read the story out of the Bible that tells about the first Easter. We also sing happy Easter songs. One happy song that I’d like to have you sing today is called "This Is the Happiest Day of Spring." The words ...

3665. Should Christians Always Oppose War?

Romans 13:1-7

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Bill Bouknight

... oil. Thirdly, the war can be approved only as a last resort. Other alternatives must be tried first. Some say that not all the other alternatives have been exhausted in the Iraq situation. Others disagree, saying that twelve years and seventeen UN resolutions are long enough. Fourthly, the war must be waged on the basis of the principle of proportionality. The good to be accomplished by the war must outweigh the suffering and killing that will be unleashed by the war. Fifthly, the war must have a reasonable ...

3666. A Mountain Of Meaning

Matthew 17:1-9

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Brett Blair

... Moses and the Ten Commandments, David anointed king, the return from exile in Babylon. But none bigger than this. This was not another in a long history of God’s actions in shaping world history. This was God in first person. Here was God’s very own Son. It is ... day, year after year? The people here will never listen to you.” “I gave up hope that they would listen to me a long time ago,” said the prophet. “I go on crying lest I begin to listen to them.” In the journey to Jerusalem the disciples ...

3667. Partners in the Impossible

John 6:1-15

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Richard Patt

... highest moral order. Is the moral turnaround impossible? Not when Christ has such partners in the challenge. "Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?" One beautiful young girl I know is doing her part. No dramatic moral turnaround perhaps, but in the long run, who knows? 2. A second area of need where God is inviting you and me to be partners in the impossible has to do with the evangelization of the world - quite simply, proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the saving message of his cross ...

3668. Going The Wrong Way On A One Way Street

Mark 2:23-3:6

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Ron Lavin

... sabbath is to get our eyes off ourselves and onto God and our neighbor in need. This point flies right in the face of our modern "Me Generation," the popular tendency to take care of self first, last, and always. Sometimes this tendency shows up in surprising places. Not long ago I phoned a man named Oscar about a car problem. Looking at the bill he had given me, I found the phone number he had written on it and tried it. Busy. I tried it again. Busy again. Busy. Finally, I looked more closely at the bill ...

3669. Job - A Probe Into the Shadow World of Despair

Job 6:1-7:21

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... , when this book is a part of the assigned readings. In my ten years of ministry, I have also managed to steer clear of facing Job head-on in that once a week or so existential struggle called sermon preparation. But we can never really elude Job for long. Job will at some point enter uninvited into our public and private worlds and demand a hearing. Job is the haunting cry of the victim in an unjust world. Job is a nightmare that forms the day for countless human beings. Job is that core agnostic cry that ...

3670. Scandal!

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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... police and told them his window had been broken by "that Hegele kid." Immediately the police went to the Jr. High to arrest my big brother. Then the police finally came to our back door and asked for me. I remember standing behind my mother’s blessedly long dress and hearing her tell the bemused officer, "This child didn’t do it. Check with the boys next door." SAFE! and not only safe, but sanctified - innocent! Oh, what a feeling! in the midst of scandal, to know we’re not touched, that we’re above ...

3671. The Jamie Farr Connection

Joshua 24:1-27

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... here. He speaks from warmth and loyalty and not from thought of gain. Listen to him as Klinger on M*A*S*H speaks of his longing to go back home to Toledo and of his cravings for Tony Packo’s hot dogs. Those ad libs are from the heart; he’s not ... I think he knows that we can’t look into the face on the cross without it eventually dawning on us that we long to give him our loyalty, our service. Certainly that happened to Joshua. Without Divine prompting he said to Israel, "Choose this day whom ...

3672. God's Verdict Upon The World (Looking At The World Through The Eyes of God)

John 3:1-21

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Brett Blair

... hope dawned as a result of that great victory. Prosperity beyond any ever known improved lives around the world. But there was a shadow that was cast in the dawn. For the war was won in 1945 by the invention of the bomb. And today it still casts its long shadow. Since then the Korean War and Vietnam were reminders of just how chaotic the world could be. And then we seemed so close to a lasting peace. The wall had gone down in Berlin. Eastern Europe had opened up. The cold war with Russia had thawed and at ...

3673. When A Grain Of Wheat Falls

John 12:20-36

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Brett Blair

... you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. This is the meaning of the Passion. The crucifixion of Jesus is God's conduct toward us; it is the rule for our conduct toward one another as lives as long as we shall live. That brings us to Jesus second announcement. II Jesus said, when a grain of wheat falls it bears much fruit. Many of you saw “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” starring ...

3674. Butterflies and Jesus

Mark 9:2-13

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Daniel G. Mueller

... and Savior. It is so good to know him that we don’t ever want to turn back from knowing him. We never want to go away from his glory. Recently I heard a beautiful confession of faith from one of our members. This member has not been a Christian long and to hear him confess his faith so powerfully absolutely thrilled me. He said, "If my Christian faith has done nothing else for me, it has definitely filled me with an inner peace and serenity that I never had before. I know that I am in the hands of God ...

3675. Coping When It Seems Impossible

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Robert G. Tuttle

... , speaking of our hunger and our faith. The singing, too, was new to them. Finally, one of us gave a brief meditation on our Christian faith and what it meant to us. There were tears in the eyes of one of our guides. The next day we took a long trip in a very noisy bus. One of our guides came and sat by me. She began asking questions about Christianity. I thought she wanted to argue; but soon I discovered that, out of her repressed spiritual hunger, she really wanted to know. A child of God, deprived of ...

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