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351. The Resurrection Of Our Lord

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Mark 16:1-20

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Russell F. Anderson

... city of Jerusalem. He killed himself and five other passengers, while the blast injured many others. The intent of the organization he represented (Hamas) is to derail the peace plan between the Palestinians and the Jews. The terrorist brought increased division and hostility through his death, the opposite of what God accomplished through the cross of Christ. Lesson 2: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Here we stand (v. 1). Paul reveals that the good news of Christ's death and resurrection provides the foundation on ...

352. God's People Are Rescued From Harm

Esther 8:1-17, Esther 7:1-10

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James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let all who would proclaim God's word gather now for worship! People: For we live in a hostile world with many who would silence the Gospel. Leader: And thus it has always been, as Satan would keep us from God's love. People: But the Lord will not be defeated, and God's word will be heard. Leader: Then let us commit our lives to proclaiming God's ...

353. Edges

Luke 4:14-30

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Richard A. Wing

... Commandments. But that is not our text nor what we will talk about here. We will not talk about Jesus being occasionally edgy, but the fact that he lived on the edge. Jesus lived on the margins and moved the margins to include all people, and hence invited hostile crowds to want to edge him out of existence. Today the church wants to edge Jesus out of our worship anytime the margins are made too wide and include too many who are not like us. Recently I was sitting at my computer, contemplating the way Jesus ...

354. Getting The Face We Deserve

Luke 9:28-36

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Richard A. Wing

... a whole section. This is the axis mundi, i.e., the place around which everything revolves in the life of Jesus. It's the most important verse in the Gospel of Luke. "And Jesus sets his face toward Jerusalem." He made that decision that he would face opposition, hostility and finally death rather than head off to Egypt. That decision was to catapult him in a direction from which he could not run. Mystical experience is a gift in daily life that enables us to face whatever we need to face. I'm going to look ...

355. Do Not Be Doubting But Believe!

John 20:24-31

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Lee Griess

... everything seemed at its worst, Jesus was there for them. Standing in the midst of them. Alive. There to grant them strength and hope. And that would make the difference for them. In fact, they would go to their graves, these disciples, almost all of them to hostile, martyr's graves, not the "Now I lay me down to sleep" variety, but the kind of graves that we pray never comes to us or our loved ones ... those disciples would go to their graves confident that even when things get that terrible, Jesus Christ ...

356. Love One Another (or Strike Up The Band)

John 13:31-38

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Lee Griess

... now it is our turn. It is our time to experience God's love and share it with others. It is our turn to experience God's love in action in our lives and to sacrifice to make it real for others. We live in a world that is increasingly hostile to the Christian faith, a world that grows more and more self-centered every day, a world that has lost the meaning of the word "sacrifice," that does not understand the commitment of faith. This is the world in which we are called to share God's love, but we ...

357. A Big Fisherman · Peter

Mt 16:13-20 · Jn 1:35-42

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... to pick up his evangelizing where the authorities had so threateningly disrupted it. A lesser man would have abandoned the field post-haste. But at heart Peter was a bold man. His attempt to walk on the sea, and his drawing of a sword in the face of hostile soldiers threatening the Master, attest that. (Matthew 14:28-30; John 18:3-10) So he continued to do what he had been doing by way of lifting up the Lord. At the same time Peter was a sensitive man, especially where Jesus was concerned; and he did not ...

358. "The Rejection Of Royalty"

Psalm 22:1-31

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

... he did not come down from the cross,precisely because he did not turn back from the plan of God, as he was challenged to do. And then the men on either side of him joined the passing parade of pathetic people in their outpouring of contempt and hostility toward him. In fact, according to the text of Mark,what they said was not fit even to be recorded. The rejection and abandonment of Jesus,even the horror of crucifixion itself,have been the experiences of more people than we will ever know.It happens, in ...

359. The Beauty Of Holiness

Psalm 96:1-13, Psalm 29:1-11

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Clement E. Lewis

... lives. "The beauty of holiness" is a most suggestive and satisfying phrase. It conveys the idea of "Holy Presence," and of being involved in spiritual goodness. My how human hearts long for that! In the midst of crassness, competitiveness, controversies, hostility, and uncertainty of conditions, we need that respite desperately. Symbolism, the historic sign of faith, serves to renew our sense of oneness with what has been generative before us, and proclaims that we too can be involved in the experience ...

360. Epiphany 2

John 1:43-51, John 1:35-42

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Richard F. Bansemer

... do some miracle. I'd rather wait outside if you ever plan to cleanse a temple again. I'd like to follow you and hear you teach and preach pure poetry from a mountaintop, or from an offshore boat. I'd rather not get into any arguments with people asking hostile questions. I'd like to be in the upper room and be among those who drink from your cup and eat from your loaf. I'd rather not have to try to stay awake in Gethsemane after supper. I'd love to meet you at the empty tomb on Sunday ...

361. Easter 7

John 17:6-19

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Dennis Koch

Gospel Note This passage is a portion of Christ's "high priestly," parting prayer for the disciples he is leaving behind. In it, "the world" is treated largely as a hostile environment, under Satan's control, and Jesus' followers as foreigners who, like their Master, are "in" but not "of" the world. At the same time, the prayer presupposes that these foreigners are about to set out on a mission in and for the world, for which they need divine consecration ...

362. The Ascension Announces a Triumph

Acts 1:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... , even so send I you." Christ is now enthroned in the place of power and authority, and the disciples are now energized by the coming of the Holy Spirit, and they set out to bear their witness to Christ, and that testimony will evangelize a hostile world. They are accused of "turning the world upside down," but in truth they were turning it "right side up." Disciples are still bearing the testimony to Christ, and it is making a difference in the world. Christianity Today reported that the world's Christian ...

363. Proper 15

Mt 15:21-28 · Ex 16:2-15 · Rom 11:13-16, 29-32 · Ps 78

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John R. Brokhoff

... , she would find her daughter well. And so it was! The Setting 1. The Occasion. Jesus tries to get away from the demands of the people who keep him so busy preaching, teaching and healing that he scarcely has time to eat. In addition, hostility between him and the religious leaders is increasing almost to the breaking point. To get away he leaves the country for the seacoast towns of Tyre and Sidon located in Phoenicia, northeast of Galilee. His attempt to hide himself failed. A Syrophoenician woman insists ...

364. Sight And Insight

John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41

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John R. Brokhoff

... sojourn, they lived in tents or booths. The festival took place in the autumn when the harvests were in. It was a busy time for Jesus. He saved a woman caught in adultery from being stoned to death. There were many controversies with the religious leaders. The hostility was so intense that Jesus was aware that they were trying to kill him (7:19). In his discussion with the Pharisees he referred to himself as "the light of the world." In chapter 9 Jesus brought light to the blind man. In the midst of the ...

365. Transfiguration

Luke 9:28-36 · Matthew 17:1-8 · Mark 9:2-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... lives. At his baptism Jesus learned he was God's beloved Son and was ordained to be the Messiah to take away the sin of the world. For three years he conducted his public ministry of preaching, teaching and healing. Now things were coming to a head. Hostility was at a fever pitch. Before going to Jerusalem, he needed to know if God was pleased with him and to know that God still wanted him to suffer and die for humankind. This assurance and approval were received in an experience with God. Paul also had ...

366. God's Descending Spirit

John 20:19-23

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Leonard H. Budd

... night for a time of prayer. Such overt piety infuriated the rough sergeant who was in charge of the company of recruits. He set about to deliberately humiliate the young Christian. He sought to make the young man's life over into the image of hostility and brute force that he (the sergeant) lived. That sergeant abused the man verbally. He issued him all sorts of unfair treatment. He used every opportunity to harass the soldier. Yet, at no point did the young Georgian resort to "returning evil for evil." He ...

367. Turning the Corner on the Very End

Mark 5:21-43

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James Weekley

... to form a statue of Christ. It stands today in the Andes Mountains on the border between the two countries. One hand of Christ holds a cross while the other is raised in a blessing. Hence Christ is that agent of transforming power who changes hostilities into peace, injustices into brotherhood, and sufferings into a life with purpose. We can look forward to the continuation of that power in his world beyond our boundary, as well. To those of us who are aligned to the Christ, the hope for existence in that ...

368. A Whale Of A Tale

Jonah 3:1-10

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Erskine White

... their righteous warriors (just as we have them today) - their xenophobic superpatriots and nationalistic priests who preached a religion of "Israel First." Jonah represents Israel in this story. Like the rest of Israel, Jonah despises outsiders. He stands for all the hostility and prejudice Jews felt towards people of other races. It is particularly important that God called Jonah to go to Nineveh, one of the world's greatest cities. Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire and believe me - there was ...

369. Jesus, The Mad Man

Mark 3:20-30

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Erskine White

... was deeply troubled. He wrote an article for Look magazine about the atmosphere of hate which had been allowed to flourish in his city. He talked about the right-wing groups, the Ku Klux Klan and others, who had been openly whipping up anti-Kennedy hostility for months with public rallies and radio shows and broadside newspapers. Kennedy, they said, was soft on communism, soft on the Russians and soft on Castro. Kennedy was doing too much for black people. Jack Shea wrote that Dallas had become a hotbed of ...

370. The Prodigal Nation

Luke 15:11-32

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Erskine White

... , no one would be disappointed in America today. We still live in a country, unlike many others, where people expect us to live up to the ideals we were founded on. So we must know today that it is not too late. We may be a prodigal nation in a hostile world, lost in the far country of values we are ashamed of, but by the love of the Father Jesus showed us in His story, it is never too late. In Jesus' parable, we are told that the prodigal son "came to himself." As he stood there feeding the swine ...

371. Our God Delivers!

Daniel 3:1-30

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Erskine White

... our anxieties. Great, Majestic and Righteous God, before whom all nations will pass in judgment to the right and to the left, we pray also that You will yet deliver us from the threat of nuclear war. Deliver us from the greed and ambition which fuels hostility, and the poverty and injustice which feeds resentment. Lead us on the paths of peace. Hasten the day when nations lay down their weapons of war, finding their security, instead in Your Word and Your righteousness, through Jesus Christ we pray. Amen

372. Sing A New Song

Acts 10:23b-48

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Erskine White

... had to adjust as well! They had to get used to new people - the Gentiles - with their different customs and foods, their different songs and languages. They even had to change the architecture of the church building, tearing down the "dividing wall of hostility" (Ephesians 2:14) which had kept Jews and Gentiles apart. In other words, everything would change in the church Peter knew except the fundamentals of the faith - the same Lord was still Lord of all. All of that happened because Jesus Christ was ...

373. Wedding: One Husband's Counsel

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John M. Braaten

... and imperfect people, who are difficult to live with at times. Never lose the capacity to marvel at the fact that your mate chose to marry you, warts and all! Then Peter counsels you to be forgiving. Forgiveness is the heart of happiness. We know that hostility upsets our bodies and our lives. To be at odds with one's mate creates an agony which consumes our energy and dominates our thoughts. Strange, then, that we do not seek reconciliation more readily. I assure you, you will save much time and emotional ...

374. The Faith of the Cannanite Woman

Mark 7:24-30

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Brett Blair

... are apt to take the remark more seriously. There was a character in the Gospel who Jesus once described with four immortal words: Great is your faith (Matthew's version 15:21-28). She was a Canaanite woman who came from the country to the north of Palestine, a country hostile to the Jews. She was presumably married, she had at least one child; but that’s all we know about her. We don't know whether she was a good woman or a bad woman. We don’t know her name. All we know of her is that in this ...

375. Proper 19

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7, Psalm 51:1-19, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Hosea 4:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16, 1 Timothy 1:12-20

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George Bass

... his continuing mercy and grace in Christ. SERMON SUGGESTIONS Luke 15:1-10 (RC, E, L, C); 15:1-3, 11-32 (RC - long form) - "A Shepherd's Crook - The Savior's Cross." As I was working through this incident, in which Jesus reacts to the hostility of the Pharisees by telling three - possibly four (some scholars think that the parable of the prodigal son was two parables originally) - parables, I happened to look at the water-color that a former student, now pastor, Ron Bock, gave to me; it is of a shepherd ...

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