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3651. Parables of Growing Seeds

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... Cycle B skips over the first 25 verses of Mark 4: the Parable of the Sower. In chapter 12 we have given consideration to this parable at some length. Many interpreters see this parable as one of the keys for interpreting Mark's Gospel in its overall, narrative sense. We must find room in our preaching on Mark's Gospel to include the Parable of the Sower. This might be the Sunday for such inclusion. It is not only the Parable of the Sower that has been omitted. Mark 4:21-25 has also been omitted. We ...

3652. A Lack of Faith

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... verses read as if faith is a prerequisite for Jesus' miracles. He cites the exorcism stories in Mark 1:21-28 and 5:1-20 as examples where that is not the case. "How one gets faith -- how one comes to understand matters that are contrary to ordinary sense and that Jesus seems intent upon keeping hidden -- are questions the narrative has yet to answer." 1 The hometown folk don't get it. They can't figure out the identity of their local carpenter's son. (Note the questions of identity raised in Mark 6:14-16 ...

3653. Trinity Sunday

John 3:1-21

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... . May our praise be pleasant in your ears, and fall tenderly upon your heart. Prayer Holy God, Loving God, though our minds cannot understand, let our hearts find hope and life in the birth that comes from above.You give this new birth where you choose. We sense when it happens, but cannot grasp the mysteries of how it happens. We can only rejoice and live out the new reality.As this Spirit-birth opens your kingdom's gates, we bow before you in thankful awe and joyful wonder. Our undeserving flesh dances in ...

3654. At Home

Mark 6:1-6

Children's Sermon

SHARING THIS WEEK'S GOSPEL THEME AT HOME Parents: Developing wisdom in your child is a difficult thing to do. Some people think wisdom is just common sense. But it can also be seen as a real gift to see people and things in the world around them in a different way than others might. That's how discoveries in science are made. The facts are all laid out, but the one scientist with wisdom puts the facts ...

3655. How Can We Restore the Christian Home?

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... just a pact like any secular agreement. But a covenant involves far more: it is a sworn agreement to which God is witness and in which God's concept of sincerity, justice, and faithfulness is the standard by which to live. What an awful sense of responsibility this implies for us! Note, for example, the verb in verse 13: these women were "bringing" their children. They didn't "send" them as many parents do with their children, either to Sunday school or to church. They came themselves, taking their children ...

3656. Choosing Your Spirituality

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... God intends. I need parents, teachers, ministers, peers, significant others who affirm me, not who knock me down as no good!5 Question Three: Does this spirituality engage me socially and ethically? We are social beings. We develop a social and ethical sense of being involved with others. When we separate from or deny this social dimension, and the challenges inherent, we minimize our accountability. Thank God for the community of faith, ordinarily and actually experienced by each of us in a place, with a ...

3657. Bread for the Party (Bread of Life I)

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... ?” we ask. Let’s take a look. Have you considered: listening for one hour to someone grieving, even when you have nothing wise to say? Easing a dying friend’s struggle for acceptance? Helping a teenager come to grips with a problem? Giving a sense of value to a lonely senior citizen? Easing the loneliness of a recently widowed neighbor? Making a stranger feel welcome and at home? Adding food for the local food pantry to your weekly shopping list? Sending a percentage of your food bill to Church World ...

3658. What’s Inside Comes Out!

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... discipline. He was a “loner” in school. The girls teased him and the boys beat him up. He joined the marines but only found abuse there and, eventually, was dishonorably discharged. He married and tried to have a family, but his wife hated him. He lost all sense of self-worth. Maybe you’ve guessed his name. One day it was November 22, 1963 he went out into the garage, took a rifle, drove into Dallas, and put two holes in the head of our former President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Yes, his name was Lee ...

3659. Making the Mystery Work for You

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... , the way you look at your spouse tonight, the way you receive the Sacrament. Thank you, God, for life’s mystery. Thank you for putting us right here in the middle of it. As we proclaim it, sing about it, and make inquiries into it, send us onward with a sense of wonder and reverence for you and your world.

3660. Teach Fear To Say Its Prayers

Mark 4:35-41

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Charles R. Leary

... lot of serenity, and save you a lot of needless worry and stress. Teach your fear to say its prayers. No one, including the Christian, is shielded from the storms of life. How often do you find yourself at a loss to explain the troubles life brings? Some make no sense at all. Once we feel the storms beating at us, we tend to blame people or the devil or a reckless life. Sometimes we blame God. Bishop Sheen used to liken life to a deck of cards, saying, once the hand is dealt, it’s a question of how you ...

3661. We Haven’t Got To Them Yet

Mark 12:28-34

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Thomas Peterson

... depths of right relationship with God. Since our forebears discovered the difficulty of devising perfectly pure religion how do you and I manage? How do we know that we are right with God so that we can move ahead with a working self-esteem and a goodly sense of being justified in the faith? how do we feel Jesus in our salvation so that we do not keep on in an endless regress of self-examination? We need appropriate answers to these questions if we are to move on with mature confidence and effectiveness and ...

3662. A Thanksgiving Checklist

Luke 12:48

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... ’s arms; full of wonder is a father extending himself to a needful son or daughter; full of wonder is the emerging sunrise and the receding sunset; full of wonder is the ability to free someone with a word; and full of wonder is that sense of knowing that defies analysis. Wonder translates into praise and becomes our sacrifice of thanksgiving to the One in whose image we have been created. Culturally, thanksgiving has become a holiday. But for those who understand its deeper dimensions, it is more to the ...

3663. Speaking Truth to Power: The Ministry of Nathan

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... this poor man and his family of their only pet, killed it, and served it to his guest because he didn’t want to kill one of his own. Think of a household pet that is or has been in your life, and you can readily gain a sense for the cruelness of what this rich man did. Can you imagine the pure cruelness, the unadulterated meanness of this man? The story must certainly hit the bulls-eye with King David, because it instantaneously aroused his indignation. “I swear by the living Lord that the man who ...

3664. God’s Kind of King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... church because it is the body of Christ and believers are members of his body. The church, therefore, is essential to salvation. The Cross-King The biggest difference between Christ the King and all other kings is the difference between life and death. In one sense, Jesus died like all kings die, but with one big difference; he rose again on the third day! He was the king who died to save his people from eternal death, from separation from God. In our text the Messiah, Christ, is described as “our ...

3665. Stooping Is a Divine Posture

Isaiah 23:1-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... harbor, from which its commercial fleets set sail. In the city shops were displayed precious objects from all over the world. Tyre was a proud city, reveling in its high standard of living, looking down its nose at the poverty of other nations. In a sense, Isaiah is speaking to the whole country of Phoenicia when he addresses the city of Tyre. He calls it an “exultant city.” Other translations render this a “bustling city,” a “wanton city,” or a “joyful city.” The impression is that it was a ...

3666. Can We Love Too Much?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... do you think?” The reason God does not answer all our questions is that he gave us minds with which to think, reason, evaluate and decide. When we use our minds, we show our love for God. We love God by using our heads. Think things through. Use common sense. Not to use our minds is foolishness. The virgins in the parable were foolish because they did not think that they would need more oil for their lamps. The rich man who built bigger barns and then retired was a fool because he did not think of his ...

3667. Renewal of the New

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... scholar of yesteryear, Otto Piper, one day said to his class at Princeton Seminary, “When Luther read Galatians, he listened, and when he listened, it exploded inside him; and when the truth of Galatians exploded inside him, he didn’t have any better sense than to go tell it to other people. This produced the Reformation.” When the Word explodes in us, our faith automatically is shared with others. Like a fire within, it cannot long be hidden nor contained. Faith calls for a passion for lost ...

3668. Charlie Used To Do That

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... from the reality and love of God. The bread of life would be to know that the bread of un-life, the bread of death, Satan himself, this illusion, can really have no lasting effect upon us. That is if we continue to eat the bread of life. In a sense, Jesus is saying here that if we partake of the bread of un-life, of death and illusion, we will become part of that very death and illusion. We will become partners with it and therefore co-inflictors of it. So Jesus says, "Come to me, I am the bread ...

3669. Gunda

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... friend," he said, "you are now lying in that bed. That you are being taken care of is a revenge for the death of Captain Conolly." For the first time in his life, the man who so passionately desired revenge and who had so curtly rejected the message of Christ sensed a power that is stronger than hate. It is the power of love.2 "What gives life is God's Spirit; man's power is of no use at all." A parable: Paul Dicerio sat nursing a glass of beer at Vero's Pub, a neighborhood bar with good food ...

3670. Nathan's Wise Parable

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... . David confesses wisely, "I have sinned against the Lord." God's mercy prevails. David's life is spared. But God's judgment prevails also. And terrible the judgment appears to the writer of the Succession Narrative looking back on the history and trying to make sense of all of it: the death of the infant son born of the glance, the bloodshed and the violence, the wars and wars' ravages, the despair. David confesses, God's mercy and judgment prevail. Then, tucked in the same chapter as the terrible judgment ...

3671. The Compassionate Highway

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... ? This scripture gives a wonderful little window into Jesus' psyche. Despite the need for rest, he is "moved to the depths of his being with pity for them." Those are Mark's words. There was such compassion about Jesus. The image is of a shepherd sensing his responsibility for the sheep. The crowds that again clustered around were "like sheep who had no shepherd." And so Jesus again began to talk with them, and to share with them the wholeness of God's love and acceptance that would make them complete. His ...

3672. Path To A New Life

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... realignment of our affections, the restructuring of our virtues.... Conversion is not so much a negation of our human development as it is a transformation and fulfillment of it." (P. 140) Nicodemus, you have to move into this new life as a spiritual being, sensing your eternal value to God! Then the scripture changes into a preaching mode, as if it is no longer a conversation between two persons in a dimly lit room. Now the conversation is a witness, a preaching, an affirmation of faith. It is the witness ...

3673. Have You Confronted Christ?

Mark 3:20-30

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Leonard H. Budd

... Jesus spoke the words - calling good evil." (Interpreter's Bible, Vol. 7, page 693) That religious elite was so caught in pride and self-interest that it labeled what was divine as satanic! That was the sin. The religious ones were so tied up in their sense of religious rules that even great good to human life, taught by Jesus as God's good gift, could be seen only as the act of evil. That, said Jesus, in that moment of confrontation, was unpardonable! But I find another message in this confrontation. In ...

3674. Shepherd Of The People

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-16

Sermon

Charles Curley

... be said of us, that at least we tried. Loving God, you lead us like a shepherd, in the paths you would have us follow. Forgive us when our ways are not your ways. When we stray, redirect us. When we are lost, find us. When we wander and our sense of direction is confused, lead us home. Help us to be open to the leading of your spirit through all our days. In Jesus' name. Amen.

3675. Tough Faith In Tough Times

Luke 18:1-8

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... is so persistent, how much more is God, who loves us and is concerned about us, willing to answer us when we call to him? In view of the parable's insistence that God will bring justice and bring it speedily, what then are we to make of our sense that God seems to be taking his own sweet time about fulfilling his promises to make things right? The parable suggests a two-fold answer: In the first place, our notion of when and how a problem ought to be solved does not necessarily correspond to God's solutions ...

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