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3751. Story of the Lord's Day

Acts 11:19-30

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... to a time of very special observance - Sunday! This is the Lord's Day, the sabbath. And here is how it came to be: It was on this day of the week, Sunday, that Jesus, having been crucified, arose from the dead. His disciples and friends began immediately, on the first day of each week, to celebrate his resurrection and his continuing presence with them. With only a few exceptions, those people were Jewish, worshiping in their synagogues on the seventh day, Saturday. After Jesus' resurrection, his followers ...

3752. Come Apart and Rest Awhile

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... John was killed that night and his head carried into the palace on a platter. Out there somewhere was Jesus - busy, weary, harassed by the pressure of crowds. To him and his disciples came messengers with the tragic news that John was dead. Receiving this news, what did Jesus do? A simple and totally undramatic thing: he calmly turned to his disciples, perhaps with a heavy sigh, and said softly, "Come apart with me to a quiet place, and let us rest awhile." This was all, just this. And this they did, he and ...

3753. Up And Down The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

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Donald Dotterer

... , away from the crowds, away from the problems and pain of the world, that Jesus met God his Father face to face. It is important for us to note the context of the meeting between Jesus and his father in heaven. We are told that Jesus took the disciples Peter, John and James with him and "went up on the mountain to pray (9:28)." It was when Jesus was praying that his face was changed, that he received the heavenly light and power which made his clothing a dazzling white. Therefore it is important to realize ...

3754. Who Is This?

Matthew 21:1-11

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... the pain and suffering for other people, he could not escape suffering himself. Yes, when he entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday he was heralded as a king. However, it would not be very long before he was betrayed, not only by Judas, but by all of the other disciples as they denied their allegiance to their Lord. As you will recall, only the women would remain faithful to him. We see then that Jesus had to confront the reality of evil head-on before he could defeat it. He had to be spat upon, beaten, crucified ...

3755. A Joyful New Beginning

John 20:1-9

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... , as becomes an Emperor." For the word emperor, we can substitute the words "man" or "woman." It certainly becomes a man or woman to go on with life with as much intensity as one can to the end of one's days, especially if that person claims to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.2 But as we travel the rough and rocky roads of life, it is sometimes very difficult to remember that fact. No man or woman here today needs to be lectured on the frail and precarious nature of life on earth. Illness or accident can cut ...

3756. Coping With Anger In A Close-up World

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Harold Warlick

... a man, the Son of God, who could calm an entire sea in the middle of a raging storm and tell a leper he was healed. Yet, as our Scripture for today indicates, he could not prohibit a jealous woman from making an idiotic statement or keep the other 10 disciples from getting angry at her two boys. That's life, isn't it? We can often run a business or recover from surgery or complete a great service project or make the dean's list easier than we can dissipate our feelings of anger towards those closest to us ...

3757. The Holy Spirit The Comforter

John 16:5-16

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... ; it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Comforter won’t come to you ... When the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth." Congregation: Jesus sent the Comforter so that the disciples might remain faithful when they were scattered. The Comforter dispelled doubt and strengthened them that they might see the resurrected Christ. Leader: Jesus said, "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance ...

3758. "Your Attention, Please!"

Mark 9:7

Children's Sermon

... The voice that we don't see but only hear is introducing me to you. Something like that, only a lot better, happened to three of Jesus' disciples a long time ago. They were on top of a mountain with Jesus when all of a sudden a brilliant cloud passed over the top of ... knew he was something very special. God the Father introduced Jesus with a voice that came through the cloud, and the disciples never forgot what they heard for as long as they lived. The next time you hear someone introduced over a microphone ...

3759. No More Begging

Mark 10:46-52

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... A tin cup. Lesson: And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside ... who came by. It was not a very good life, but it was the only way they had to live. It was on a day like this that Jesus was coming with his disciples out of the city called Jericho. Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, was sitting by the road with his tin cup begging all of the people who came by. He could not believe how ...

3760. Roll Out the Red Carpet

Mark 11:8

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... , and laid them in the street also. It was like a carpet, a red carpet, and they meant it to be so. They wanted Jesus to know that he was their King. They wanted to tell him that they believed in what he taught about God the Father. The disciples could hardly believe what they were seeing. It was the best thing that had ever happened to them. Here they were following Jesus and people were treating him like a King. It was great, just great, and they knew that he deserved it. This day people cut palm branches ...

3761. Prove It!

John 20:25

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Wesley T. Runk

... myself with a yardstick or a measuring tape. If I tell you that I weigh two hundred pounds and you don't believe me, you say: "Prove it." That means that I must get a scale and show you that I weigh two hundred pounds according to that scale. The disciples of Jesus had an experience like this. One of them, Thomas, was not with them when Jesus came back and visited them. They told Thomas that Jesus was alive, but he didn't believe it. He said, "Prove it." They said that they had seen Jesus with their own ...

3762. Responding to What We Hear and See

Matthew 11:1-19

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Joe Pennel

... , or shall we look for another?" Like others in the New Testament, John the Baptizer was not positive. Oh, to be sure, there were fleeting moments of recognition. Mary thought Jesus was a gardener. Those on the road to Emmaus never did recognize him. Even his closest disciples were not certain if he was or was not the true Messiah. That John the Baptizer had doubts about the messiahship of Jesus is revealed in his question: "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?" His question is not ...

3763. Responding to Christ's Birth

Matthew 2:1-12

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... it we want to live today, we must consciously will life. We must learn to love life with such a passion that we no longer become accustomed to the powers of destruction. We must overcome our own apathy and be seized by the passion for life. To follow as a disciple means to share in both the joy and the suffering of humanity. Christ's people are concerned about the joy and the hurt of life, but neither one to the exclusion of the other. Good news and passion are linked together in this faith. There can be no ...

3764. Submission

Matthew 3:13-17

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... new creation. This font, standing where it does, will not let us forget that we have been initiated into this congregation, as well as into the universal church. It reminds us that we have been grafted as a member of the Body of Christ - marked and identified as a Christian disciple. It will not let us erase from our memory that we have been born anew in the water and in the Spirit. Let us not forget that baptism is as much a rite of passage for the church as it is for the person being baptized. When a new ...

3765. Epiphany

Isaiah 60:1-22, Psalm 72:1-20, Ephesians 3:1-13, Matthew 2:1-12

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... Jews - that salvation has come through the grace of God in Christ and that it is meant for all. Just as John the Baptizer was close to death when he sent his disciples to Jesus, asking, "Are you the one who should come, or should we look for someone else?", so Paul was close to death when he sent this letter with one of his disciples to the church at Ephesus. The difference between them - and both of them died the same way, by being beheaded - was that John was uncertain about the identity of Jesus Christ ...

3766. Epiphany 3

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, Psalm 27:1-14, Isaiah 9:1-7

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... fulfillment of Isaiah 9:1, which Matthew quotes, rather loosely, in his account of the ministry of the Lord. Jesus broke into public view in Galilee, preaching, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." He immediately began to gather a band of disciples, of whom two fishermen, Simon and Andrew, were the first pair to be enlisted by Christ. Charismatic and authoritative person that he was, Jesus had no difficulty in getting them, along with James and John, to follow him. All four left their nets and ...

3767. Lent 5

Psalm 116:1-19, John 11:38-44, John 11:17-37, John 11:1-16, Romans 8:18-27, Romans 8:1-17, Ezekiel 37:1-14

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... text.) I. A biblical story sermon - John 11:1-44 - "Resuscitation or Resurrection?" Scene 1 - "Beyond the Jordan" with his disciples: the beginning of this story is enigmatic, because when he heard about Lazarus' illness, Jesus allowed him to die without ... a friend was about to die? Why didn't Jesus immediately go to Bethany? Was it necessary for Lazarus to die in order to convince the disciples of Jesus' identity as the Son of God? What is going on here? Isn't that the way it always seems to be, that God ...

3768. Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, Exodus 12:1-30

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... 's death on the cross as an act that gains the forgiveness of sins and reunion with God for all repentant sinners. John 13:1-17, 34 John's account of the Last Supper portrays Jesus as the servant who is about to suffer; Christ washes the feet of the disciples so that they will understand that he came into the world as the servant who, alone, is able to deliver humanity from sin and death. To Peter's objection, "You shall never wash my feet," Jesus replies, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me ...

3769. Good Friday

Matthew 27:45-56

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... , when he turned over his life to the God who didn't seem to be there. The total despair that Jesus experienced had to be momentary, otherwise, he would have fought to live as long as he could. He died in the assurance that, as he had told the disciples from the words of the prophets, God would raise him from the dead. Together, his death and resurrection take the terror out of our deathtime, because our Lord will be with us as long as we live and see us through the darkest moment of our lives. We may ...

3770. Easter 4

Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 23:1-6, Acts 6:1-7, Acts 7:54--8:1a, 1 Peter 2:13-25, John 10:1-21

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... the last part of the chapter, John 10:22-30. The figure of the Good Shepherd was central to the symbolism of all of the ancient churches, picturing the risen Christ, ascended, sitting on a throne, Peter and Paul on either side, the other disciples often in the background and, nearly always, sheep drinking from a river emanating from the four gospels, while other sheep graze on the grass by the river. The Good Shepherd usually has a hand raised in benediction. Josef Jungmann, the noted Roman Catholic ...

3771. Easter 6

Psalm 66:1-20, Acts 17:16-34, 1 Peter 3:8-22, John 14:15-31

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... not earned by obedience or striving to live perfectly. Rather, obedience is the natural activity of those who are saved by God's grace. Believers cannot obtain perfection by obedience, because their perfection is in the Lord, but they should live out their lives as his disciples in the world, in full knowledge that they are loved by the Father and the Son. 1. The cross: sign of Christ's obedience, as well as his love for people. It is - and will be forever - a symbol of that unspeakable love of Father and ...

3772. Proper 4

Deuteronomy 11:1-32, Genesis 12:1-8, Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29, Romans 3:21-31, Psalm 31:1-24, Psalm 33:1-22

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... the heart of the Gospel in Jesus Christ. Matthew 7:21-27 (R, E); 7:(15-20), 21-29 (L); 7:21-29 (C) The conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount declares that Jesus expects his teachings to be learned and obeyed by those who claim to be his disciples. The faithful are required to do "the will of my Father who is in heaven," not to win salvation, Paul would say, but as a response to God's mercy in Christ. Here, Jesus is really talking about the final blessing that can be given to people, eternal life, because ...

3773. Proper 10 & Pentecost 8

Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 65:1-13, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 8:18-27, Exodus 2:11-25, Matthew 13:1-23

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... seed is strong and powerful, and life-giving. It germinates and grows in the minds and hearts of people, and causes their faith to flower and reach maturity. Jesus was teaching the disciples that despite the hostility and actual enmity which would ultimately claim his life, his mission - and theirs, too, as his disciples - will succeed. Despite set-backs and frustration from evident failures in the past (it would seem that the mission to Israel has been something of a failure, and that there is competition ...

3774. Proper 17 & Pentecost 15

Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Exodus 19:1-25, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Psalm 114:1-8, Psalm 63:1-11

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... been composed for the new lectionary, it points to, and reflects what is in, the Gospel for the Day, in which Jesus informs his disciples of the fate that will befall him in Jerusalem. It also spells out our response to his command to "take up our cross and ... had to put down Peter - rebuke him severely - if he were to do God's will. 3. Living with death. That's the fate of each disciple, who, Jesus said, is "to take up his (her) cross and follow me." The cross makes its mark upon the manner in which we live ...

3775. Epiphany 5

Matthew 5:13-16

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... as "salt" and "light" with respect to their role in bringing salvation to the world. The more developed of the two images is the latter: the disciples' "light," which is to be flaunted rather than obscured, is apparently their good works, which in turn reflect, not the efforts or inherent righteousness of the doers, but the glory of a gracious God. Call to Worship Leader: Let us worship the God of Light! People: LET US PRAISE THE ...

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