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3676. The Greatest Sin

Luke 13:6-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... for those who are sick, those who are troubled, those who are lonely, those who are in trouble. Bearing fruit is something that all of us can do. We don’t have to have a university degree. We don’t have to be gifted in terms of leadership or technical abilities or gifted as speakers. All we need is Christ’s heart giving us sensitivity to the needs of others and the willingness to serve. When Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross was doing research on her famous book on death and dying, she came across the story ...

3677. Good-Bye Mardi Gras, Hello Lent

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... . Well there it is. Take it.” The minister returned the wallet and told the man, “I didn’t come for your money. I came for your life.” Christ gave his life for us. Everything we are and everything we have is a gift of God. When you give, give out of thanksgiving for the gift of life. “Do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do.” This is the gospel and the message is clear: “You are dust and to dust you shall return; repent, and believe the gospel.” The word translated there as ...

3678. One Good Word for Santa

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Editor James S. Hewett

... stories of his generosity and compassion: how he begged for food for the poor, and how he would give girls money so that they would have a dowry to get a husband. The story most often repeated was about how he would don a disguise and go out and give gifts to poor children. He gave away everything he had. And in the year 314, he died. His body was later moved to Italy where his remains are to this day. But the story of Nicholas has spread around the world. There are more churches in the world named after St ...

3679. The Seven Levels of Giving

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Editor James S. Hewett

1. Giving to the poor, but with bad grace 2. Giving with a good grace, but not giving enough 3. Giving enough, but only after being asked 4. Giving without being asked 5. Giving without knowing who will benefit from the gift 6. Giving without the beneficiary of the gift knowing who is helping him 7. Fighting poverty by giving the poor person the means to escape from his condition

3680. Conditioned

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Editor James S. Hewett

... of a beautiful, large polar bear, but the problem was that there was no existing room for the bear. At the time of the gift the board of directors was in the middle of a fund-raising campaign to renovate the zoo. They changed the strategy to include a magnificent habitat for the polar bear in their renovation plans. In the meantime the bear was put in a small temporary cage. The space was so ...

3681. Listen to the Angels

Revelation 5:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Abraham and Sarah were in their nineties when Isaac was born to them. You will remember that Sarah could only laugh when she was told that she would conceive and bear a son at such an advanced age. Needless to say, Isaac was a very special gift to Abraham and Sarah--a gift directly from God. Few fathers have ever loved their sons more than Abraham loved Isaac. Imagine his emotions, then, when God came to him and said, “Take your son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him as a ...

3682. When Mickey Mouse Recognizes You...

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... . not handsome enough . . . not articulate enough. He was rejected by one girl after another. He was a nobody as far as his standards of human worth were concerned. He seemed to have only one gift. He excelled at making money, especially money fraudulently taken from others. And he used that gift to obtain the recognition he so desired. Unfortunately, it was not the kind of recognition anyone would want. The recognition of committing the world’s largest case of fraud destroyed him and destroyed many of ...

3683. The Trajectory of God’s Grace

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... could get into trouble for assault. I wore that coat proudly all year. “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” In the spring following the ... my back and has the glove! Today’s gospel speaks of prayer and the need to be persistent in our asking for God’s good gifts. I turned sixty last summer, and this summer, for the first time, I’ve broken down and hired a young man to mow my lawn. ...

3684. Are You a Super-Fan?

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... with financial and relational costs, but he never considered cheating anyone again since that day. (5) Disillusionment is God’s great gift to us because it forces us to notice the “God-shaped hole” that comfort and wealth and all other blessings simply ... a good chance that at some point in your life you will ache to know the Giver of life more than you ache to receive the gifts of life. I think that’s where Zacchaeus was at this point. You never know who is looking for Jesus. But you do know who Jesus ...

3685. A Healthy Church

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Kevin Harney

... . Think about what God could do through a group of people who are committed to sacrificial ministry to each other. These people know that the Holy Spirit has given each of them unique abilities (spiritual gifts) that are to be used for building up people and bringing glory to God. So they are purposeful about discovering their gifts and developing and using them. What could God do through such a church? We are either on the stretcher or helping carry it. There are times we need to be served. But most of the ...

3686. Recognizing Who God Is

Job 42:7-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Walsh remarks about that time in her life, ". . . the greatest thing I discovered . . . is [that] sometimes some of God's most precious gifts come in packets that make your hands bleed when you open them, but inside that's what you've been longing for all your ... life--to be fully known and fully loved." (2) "Some of God's most precious gifts come in packets that make your hands bleed . . ." Have your hands bled lately? Has your heart? Has a friend betrayed you? Has a ...

3687. First Sunday of Advent

John 1:29-34, John 1:35-42, Isaiah 11:1-16

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Heth H. Corl

... of your Son for whom we again prepare our hearts to be receptive to his birth in our lives. We pray in his name. Amen. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Dear Lord, this most wonderful time of the year has come again. I know Christmas is wonderful because it celebrates the gift of your Son. But I confess I have put myself in a time block. Christmas is so full of things happening now. I haven't considered it as a continuation of your love begun long ago. I really haven't looked too far beyond Christmas to see its effect ...

3688. Lost in Plain Sight

John 1:29-34, John 1:35-42

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... He had served as an officer in the artillery during World War I and as a spy for her majesty’s government in the court of the Sultan of Morocco. He was, by training, a nautical engineer who patented a ship’s hull design, a gifted artist whose pen and ink drawings continue to be on display at the Royal Academy, an accomplished archeologist, a religious non-conformist, and an enthusiastic and skilled cricketer. By 1925 he had made eight expeditions into Brazil in search of that ancient civilization which ...

3689. Jacob's Well

John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water ...

3690. What Kind of Sheep Are You?

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... born.” God’s people’s first occupation was as Sheep herders. This is the work of Abel. When we read that first passage in Genesis carefully, we see that while Abel gives to God gifts of the field, Cain gives the “fat” from his animals. And God is unhappy, tells Cain that his gift was not in good spirit. The “tending” of the sheep, the protecting, nurturing, raising of sheep is an occupation that takes great patience, compassion, vigilance, and meticulous care. This is the occupation of Israel ...

3691. Stargazers

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of Judaism. In fact, many believe, these tribal Mediens were originally led and taught by the prophet Daniel himself, as he had been placed in charge of them in Babylon a long time ago. “Then the king placed Daniel in a high position and lavished upon him many gifts. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge Of all of its wise men.” (Daniel 2:48) Daniel was a dreamer too! He interpreted dreams, and he was known to be very wise. He also knew the Torah and his Jewish ...

3692. Grounds for Blessing

Matthew 13:1-23, Luke 8:1-15, Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Their fruit will provide additional seed for years to come. Seeds are interesting metaphor, since each seed has in itself the “secrets” of life and reproduction. When God takes root in your heart, everything changes, and you also receive that gift of life and reproduction of God’s gift in others. Soil, the adamah, is the human heart. The seed is Jesus. The question is –what kind of heart have you to receive the Lord and Savior? The phrase about seeing and hearing comes from both proverbs (20:12 ...

3693. Lord of the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Report 2013. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Matthew’s Witness to Jesus’ Instruction on the Coming Harvest (9:35-38) Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Instruction on the Coming Harvest and Sending into the Field (10:1-24) Minor Text The Story of God’s Gift of the Torah on Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19 and 34) The Lord’s Command to Celebrate the Feast of Weeks (Deuteronomy 16 and Exodus 23:14-19 and Leviticus 23) Leave Some Grain in the Field for Foreigners and Others (Deuteronomy 24:19-22) David and the ...

3694. The Balm of Gilead

Mark 8:1-13, Mark 8:14-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of Manesseh. And the “balm” of Gilead, the oil it is known for used in medicinal healing is here Jesus Himself, who will restore the people back to God. Balm is actually “balsam,” a pine scented rare perfumed resin and “universal cure.” It was used as a gift from Sheba to Solomon and noted again in the story of Joseph. Often the ointment would be sold to Egypt. The Hebrew root of the word also means to “bleed.” As we know of the song, the balm will make the wounded whole. Jesus, the One who ...

3695. Surely, Surely

Luke 1:1-4, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... power and presence of Jesus in and among you. I want you to know the glory of God in the midst of you. I want you to be assured of the love of God for you. For YOU too are eye and ear witnesses of an extraordinary, amazing gift. That gift is “Emmanuel,” which means “God With Us.” As one of our Story Team Members, Teri Hyrkas has put it, God has a middle name: “WITH.” God WITH Us. That is the ultimate Witness: Withness. Surely, Surely. [optional ending] Let’s say together the words of Isaiah ...

3696. Liminal Space

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... rough the road, all roads lead to God when those roads are taken as pilgrimages of faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only road to God, but there are many roads to Jesus. Today, as you prepare to celebrate with family and friends, prepare to open gifts, and to revel in the joy of the holidays, know that this too is only “liminal space,” part of the journey that leads to even bigger and better things –to love, hope, and resurrection life. There may be some people in your family, or among your friends ...

3697. Even in Our Hiding

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Her nephew Christiaan died in Bergen Belsen, and her brother Willem died of spinal tuberculosis shortly after the war. Only Corrie survived after serving as a light and hope to others in her camp. When Corrie returned home from the death camp, she realized her life was a gift from God, and at 53, she began a worldwide ministry testifying to God’s love and to Jesus as Victor. She would go on to write a book about her story called The Hiding Place.” Corrie felt a mission to share the grace of God’s love ...

3698. The Bramble King

John 15:1-17, John 15:18--16:4, John 16:5-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s Field, where thistles abound, and where he kept himself unworthy of Jesus’ forgiving grace. The question, will Jesus’ taking upon himself the crown of thorns, redeem even Judas? Or does Judas, in ending his own life before receiving Jesus’ gift, reject the gift? In the story of Abimelech, successor of Gideon, Abimelech went and dined with his mother’s brethren (his uncles), and then betrayed his brothers by using silver from a pagan treasury to pay “weak” followers with silver to murder 70 ...

3699. House of God

Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised ...

3700. Rain of Grace

Hosea 6:1--7:16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that line in the 23rd psalm? “My cup overflows….” Picture the kind of rain that comes down, and comes down, and comes down…..filling those huge rain buckets and rain barrels, and overflowing them from the brim with clear, clean, refreshing water. That’s a true gift. That’s exactly what God loves to do –pour out grace like rain upon us, until we are filled to the brim and overflowing with the love and grace of God. Gully washers of grace. All we need to do is “acknowledge” God’s presence ...

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