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3776. The Lion, The Lamb And Herod’s Rage

Matthew 2:1-12

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Erskine White

... to be consoled because there were no more children. The sound of their sobbing flooded the earth and filled the heavens as their beloved children died in the horrible holocaust of Herod’s rage. This took place at the first Christmas and in a figurative sense, of course, Herod has been raging ever since. There is evil in this world which cannot stand the sight of good. There is darkness which cannot stand the light. It may be represented in specific people, like Herod or Stalin, or it may simply be ...

3777. What About The Holy Spirit?

John 15:18--16:4

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Erskine White

... . What matters is that a good number of our young people are not afraid to be seen with these kids. Their friends ask them, "Why do you hang around with So-and-so; nobody likes being with her?", but our young people do it anyway. This innate sense of goodness and compassion - later on, a passion for justice and righteousness - this is a sign of the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, and She is present in our church. Another word for Counselor is "Comforter." The Holy Spirit is a Comforter and don't we know it ...

3778. The Vanities Of Work

Ecc 2:1-26

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Erskine White

... he has done with his life and he asks a question which many thoughtful people are asking today: What am I working for? What am I living for? "What do we gain from our labors under the sun?" Understand that I am speaking of "labors" and work in the broadest sense. You might work in an office or factory; you might work in the home. You might be paid very well for your work, or paid nothing at all. If you've had babies at home, you know that babies work incredibly hard to learn everything they do. If you are ...

3779. A Thankful Heart

Luke 17:11-19

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Erskine White

... part of the story, which has to do with gratitude. There were ten lepers healed that day, yet only one came back to say "Thank you" to Jesus. Only one out of ten! The other nine lepers were healed, but they still weren't healthy in the whole sense, since none of them had a thankful heart. Lest we miss the drama involved, it might help to recall what kind of disease we are talking about. Leprosy is still a problem in India, of course, where Mother Teresa worked with lepers for many years. It still stalks ...

3780. Wedding: An Offer from God

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John M. Braaten

... in your marriage by constantly saying, 'I love you,' in word and deed. And, keep the bridges of communication in good working order by taking the time to explore the depth of each other's personality. And, be sure to mature together, not only by developing a hearty sense of humor, but also by developing mutual interests." All that is sound advice, and if you want a meaningful life, you would be wise to follow it. But there is something more I hold before you today, and that is the offer God makes to you on ...

3781. Wedding: The Bondage of Marriage

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John M. Braaten

... a mere mating of individuals. He says that through marriage the two persons become a new creation. God bonds the two personalities together in a dynamic way so they cannot be separated without painful and irreparable damage to both. So, we could say that, in one sense, marriage is indeed a bondage. However, the bondage of marriage is not one of coercion, a bondage of power. In no way is marriage like slavery. It is servanthood by choice, in a self-imposed bondage of love. We choose to marry because we want ...

3782. Wedding: Together...Till Death Us Do Part

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John M. Braaten

... proper persective. Then things, even valuable things, become dispensable. Blunders in relationships become forgivable; people become reliable. Love becomes possible; and hope can surge in our hearts. When we have committed our lives to Christ he can free us, liberate us, in the truest sense of the word. Then we can live out our lives to the fullest, enjoying, but not being bound to, all the gifts God gives us. For Jesus' promise was, and is, if a person will surrender their life and lose it in him, they ...

3783. Wedding: One from Two

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John M. Braaten

... wife. Your two names will become one. That is important, for names are symbols, and to share the same name illustrates to the world, in a concrete way, the unity of marriage. Your union as husband and wife was designed by God to be permanent. In no sense should marriage ever be looked upon as experimental or temporary. Jesus was veiy clear in stating that no one should ever try to divide a husband and wife. What God joins together, no one must separate. The fact that God creates one from two in marriage may ...

3784. Developing Wisdom

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 ...

3785. God's Mystery Story

Romans 16:25-26

Children's Sermon

... , Jesus, a lot of people couldn't tell it was really God's Son. And so a lot of people missed the most exciting news in the whole world! That's the trouble with mystery stories. Sometimes you get to the end of the story and it doesn't make sense because you weren't paying attention along the way. You missed too many clues. So when the surprise ending comes, you say, "I don't get it!" and the story is sort of a waste of time. But if you watch carefully for the clues and try to figure out ...

3786. "These Apples Are Mine!"

2 Corinthians 8:14

Children's Sermon

... is that when I have more than I need and you are hungry, I should share with you. We need to remember that when we find out that there are other people in our town or in our world who are hungry. When they're hungry it doesn't make sense for us to make them earn the food first, does it? Of course not. God wants us to share what we have with anybody who is hungry.

3787. The Good Shepherd

John 10:11

Children's Sermon

... shepherd. He loves and takes care of us. He keeps us out of trouble and he chases trouble away when we need protection. But Jesus did something extra. Jesus even died for us. He did it so that we could live with God in heaven. It wouldn't make much sense if a shepherd lost his life and then left the sheep without protection. But this shepherd didn't stop there. Jesus died for us, to show us God's great love, but then he came back to life again. He has shown us how far he will go to protect ...

3788. Do It Anyway

Hebrews 5:8

Children's Sermon

Object: photo illustration of a cross. Boys and girls, do you like obeying orders? Sometimes I don't. We have people tell us to do things sometimes when we would rather do something else. Sometimes we get angry when somebody tells us to do something that does not make sense to us. Or maybe we just don't like the idea. But if they have more power than we do, we still have to obey. Let's think of some people we have to obey. (Name some authority figures the children can identify with. Have them name some too ...

3789. Epiphany 4

Psalm 71:1-24, 1 Corinthians 14:1-25, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31, Jeremiah 1:1-19, Luke 4:14-30

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George Bass

... pace and then to perspire. Biblical characters came alive. Kings drove chariots and Cadillacs, warriors used swords and bazookas, merchants hawked spices and bubble gum. I wonder now if our pastor was a fan of Peter Marshall and his 'sanctified imagination.' I have some sense of the pastor's style predating that of Frederick Buechner by several decades. But what I know for sure is that when Pastor Martin told Bible stories we kids could feel the centuries melt. We were there, on Mount Sinai with Moses, in ...

3790. Epiphany 6

Luke 6:17-26, Psalm 1:1-6, Jeremiah 16:1--17:18, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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George Bass

... know and believe all of this, and live the way that all Christians should.) (Note: In one of his sermons, "Did Jesus Disapprove of Wealth?" [included in When The Lamp Flickers], the late, great, British preacher, Leslie Weatherhead, warns about "the danger of getting our sense of values wrong." He illustrates this with several stories, one of which goes like this: There's a lovely legend about the pipe on which Moses played when he was a shepherd. It is said that the pipe was handed down and handed down ...

3791. Ash Wednesday

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Joel 2:12-17, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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George Bass

... directed to God, is hypocritical and, therefore, worthless. Fasting, which is the last of the three acts of piety in Jesus' teaching, and is almost unknown among Americans, is also a spiritual exercise that has no merit unless it is performed to heighten one's sense of self-denial and the quest for the presence of God. In his 40 days in the wilderness, Jesus engaged in two of these disciplines and did so in a one-on-one relationship with his heavenly Father. This, no doubt, sustained him when the Tempter ...

3792. Lent 1

Romans 9:30--10:21, Deuteronomy 26:1-15, Luke 4:1-13, Psalm 91:1-16

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George Bass

... have to do is to bring into action your own latent reserves of power. You possess undeveloped, untapped energies - physical and psychic energies - of which you have scarcely dreamed. Well, then, summon them forth! There is no need to be tyrannized by a haunting sense of deficient resources. That can only breed mental ill-health and nervous breakdown. Take a firm grip on your staggering soul! Believe in your own inner light. Develop your own natural resources! This is the way to stand fast in the evil day ...

3793. Lent 3

1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Exodus 3:1-22, Psalm 126:1-6, Psalm 103:1-22, Luke 13:1-9

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George Bass

... . 1. From one perspective, there is no such thing as an "innocent" person, save, perhaps, newborn children (despite the doctrine of original sin). "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." That's all too evident. 2. Every person "deserves" death, in one sense. That's the price of sinning. And so, all people are in need of the gracious forgiveness of God in Jesus Christ. Only through Christ can our sins be forgiven and can we be delivered from death, the fate we all deserve. 3. Amazingly, God ...

3794. Easter Sunday

John 20:1-9, Acts 10:23b-48, Isaiah 51:1-16, Exodus 15:1-21, Colossians 3:1-17, 1 Corinthians 5:1-13, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Luke 24:1-12

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George Bass

... beyond the realm of scientific inquiry. It belongs to the field of faith. 5. So, listen to the message, ponder it, and allow the spirit of God to touch your heart and mind until you can say with all of your heart, soul, and mind, "It may not make scientific sense, but I believe the witnesses and the word. He does not lie among the dead! He is risen! He is risen, indeed!"

3795. Easter 3

John 21:1-14, Acts 5:17-42, Acts 9:1-19a, Jeremiah 32:1-44, Revelation 5:1-14, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 30:1-12

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George Bass

... for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Cycle C; the Episcopal Book Of Common Prayer sets it on Proper 5 in Pentecost. In this setting, it retains something of its original meaning, because it was the thanksgiving of a person who had been delivered from death. In one sense, the church has put words into the mouth of the risen Lord. Psalm 33:1-11 (E) - "The Cantate Verse," verse 3, "Sing for him a new song, sound a fanfare with all your skill upon the trumpet," recalls what might have happened in the worship ...

3796. Proper 13

Luke 12:13-21, Psalm 49:1-20, Ecclesiastes 2:17-26, 2 Kings 13:10-25, Colossians 3:1-17

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George Bass

... 's imprimatur, perhaps?), paints a vivid and bleak picture of human life on a level that has no room for God. "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity." The writer actually expands on the lament of Psalm 49, because he has come to his senses, he who has become the richest and wisest man of his time knows that he will die just as surely as the poorest of people and will leave all of his possessions to others. Only in the last few verses (2:24-26) of the reading does the ...

3797. Proper 18

Luke 14:25-35, Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Proverbs 9:1-18, Ezekiel 33:1-20, Philemon 1:8-25

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George Bass

... are required to lay their whole lives on the line for Jesus Christ. The cross demands total commitment to Christ and his gospel. 3. The church is sustained and flourishes when people are faithful to the Lord, when the faithful, who are martyrs, in a sense, commit their entire lives to the Lord. The church has been built upon the sacrifices of the believers, as well as the death of Jesus Christ at Calvary. 4. When people commit their lives to Christ and pick up their crosses in discipleship by works ...

3798. 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

... for the Day of the Roman Catholic ORDO, which includes "the Parable of the Prodigal Son," which Helmut Thielicke calls, "the Parable of the Loving Father" (see his volume of sermons, The Waiting Father). The wayward son of the "loving father" comes to his senses, assesses his situation, and in desperation returns home and shows genuine remorse and contrition for his sin. The words of the Psalmist found expression in his soul and might have inspired him to return to his father's house so that, in effect, he ...

3799. Epiphany 3

Mark 1:14-20

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Wayne B. Keller

... Proclamation of the Word Suggestion: Make clear what Jesus meant by repentance and conversion. It doesn't begin with the belief, "I am a worm and not a person." (Psalm 22:6) It doesn't mean feeling pity or sorrow for, primarily. It means to come to our senses. It's not so much looking at the past and saying, "I'm sorry," an idea developed from the Latin, (not Greek) interpretation of the world. Some of us make a religion out of always being sorry. Rather, it means looking to the future and saying, "Wow!" It ...

3800. The Cleansing of the Temple

John 2:12-25

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Wayne B. Keller

... . Proclamation of the Word Consider this: You may want to focus on the 1 Corinthian passage. Much of what Jesus did and said seemed absurd, not only to the religious leaders, but to Jesus' family and disciples. He didn't seem to make much sense. Strange that we have such a hard time with what he said and did; yet, we swallow hook-line-sinker some of the most preposterous theology, such as the New Age thinking, Mormon interpretation of Scripture, and anything passing for Christianity. During the religion ...

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