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3951. If I Were a Rich Man

Mark 10:17-27

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... 't do anything for that person] what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. That is a remarkable passage. It is written in the kind of prophetic rhetoric which indicates for us that even in the first century, Christians had difficulty understanding this concept of giving. People were saying, we live by God's grace alone, not by our works, so you won't catch me doing any good works. I will live by faith alone. James had to remind them of another religious fact. That while it is true ...

3952. If You Look Like Your Passport Photo

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... for their edification that the transfiguration happens. They see more. They also see Moses standing on one side of Jesus, and on the other side, Elijah. Just as quickly as they saw the vision, it disappeared. And there is Jesus, praying, alone. That is what they see. To understand it you really had to be there. So I am going to take you there. Actually I am going to take you to an event a week before this happened, to a meeting with the disciples and Jesus at a place called Caesarea Philippi. This is one of ...

3953. Lateral Thinking

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... was generally sympathetic to the youth rebellion in the 1960's. Several years after that book was published, he wrote an article in which he said, "I have learned to my disgust that a major reason why the young don't trust people over thirty is because they don't understand them, and they are too conceited to try." I liked that. I clipped that out. I saved it. It is in my file now. I was over thirty then. I was one young people stereotyped. I knew they made no effort to really get to know me. Then it hit ...

3954. Plant It and Stand Back!

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... trusting God. The story of David and Goliath is there simply to remind them that they owe their whole life to God. God saved them. God created them. God has sustained them. To have faith means to trust that God can do that again. It is in that same understanding of faith, that Jesus says to the disciples, "God is still dong these wonderful things in the world. You can order this sycamine tree to be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it will obey you, if you had faith the size of a mustard seed." This ...

3955. Reflections on a Bumper Sticker

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... on earth to forgive sins." When Jesus talked about what forgiveness means, what it looks like, he used the analogy of family reunion. I think he did that because he knew that everyone of us would know what that means. Even if we have had lousy parents, we can understand what it would mean to have a homecoming, a family reunion. Even if we are estranged from homes that we do not want to return to. Thomas Wolfe said, "You can't go home again." Many of us have no desire at all to go home again, to the ...

3956. Scandalous News

Luke 4:16-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that. Luke says, "Passing through the midst of them he went away." You know what they said about that sermon? They said it's a scandal. It's blasphemous what he said. They didn't like it. According to Luke this story is of enormous importance in understanding Jesus. Two weeks ago we looked at the story of the miracle at Cana, the changing of the water into wine at the wedding feast. According to the Gospel of John that was the inaugural event of Jesus' ministry. According to Luke, and also Matthew and Mark ...

3957. The Source of Self Esteem

Romans 8:14-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... us in our place. But after a while, the world sorts us out, tells us who we are, tells us what our place is. "This is assigned to you. You stay there now." We begin to live the life that has been assigned to us. If you understand that, then I think you can understand what the gospel means when it proclaims that God has sent Jesus into this world to redeem the world, to set us free, and to make it possible for us all to have life, and have it in abundance. That is the gospel. Once again it is ...

3958. This Is a Test

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on a mountain of which I will tell you." We are not to think of child sacrifice here. The Jews never practiced child sacrifice. This is a theological point. We are to understand what happens here in this scene in the context of that famous phrase, "The Lord has given. The Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." The command to sacrifice Isaac is a test to see if Abraham really knows and trusts that our life is ...

3959. Two Women

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... ? How could she ever explain this to anybody? Then she remembers, she has an older cousin, an older woman who lives in the city. Her husband, she recalled, is a priest in the Temple. So maybe she could understand. Maybe she could give her some counsel. "So in those days Mary arose and went off with haste to the hill country, to a city of Judah, and entered the house of Zechariah." As soon as she enters the door, Elizabeth's baby "leaps in her womb." Elizabeth greets her ...

3960. Until It Dawns on You

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... four gospels Jesus heals the blind. He often does it just after the disciples have done some dumb thing, or have failed to understand what he is trying to tell them. Jesus will then go from that scene to a blind man, who knows who Jesus is ... of your data gathering, or your sense experience. What a shame. People tell me from time to time, I don't believe the creeds. I don't understand the doctrines of the Church, so I don't pay any attention to them. They just dismiss them. They are not a part of their life. I ...

3961. What's The Use?

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... are living now, would be like this? And if it is like this, if there is life now, why not again? Or do you really believe that all there is, is only what you can see? Or even more ludicrous, do you believe that only what you can grasp and understand with your brain, is what is real? I have always found it curious that some who have trouble believing in life after death, have no trouble believing in life on other planets. As if one required a great leap of faith, and the other does not. It seems to me ...

3962. When to Hold On

II Timothy 3:14-4:5

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Mark Trotter

... and judges don't pay any attention to people like you." But she won't give up. She is also the model of the biblical understanding of history, that the poor, and the forgotten, and the overlooked, will be vindicated in history. That is the meaning of the Magnificat, that ... Jew to the Jews, and a Greek to the Greeks." What he means is, I will try to speak in a way so that people will understand what I am saying. That is all right. But the danger is to turn to the world for the content of the message, not just ...

3963. Christmas 1

Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Colossians 3:1-17, Colossians 3:18-4:1, Galatians 3:15-25, Hebrews 2:5-18, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... What is the solution? Choice of a text not in the Lections for the day? Asking a student to bring the message? It seems that Christmas 1 could blend with Student Day because it is a day to think about the meaning of the incarnation and to try to understand what happened in the Christmas event. 3. Last Sunday. Christmas 1 may be the last Sunday of the calendar year. If a New Year's Eve Watchnight service is not planned, the people may expect a message on ending the old year and beginning a new one. The theme ...

3964. Baptism of our Lord

Isaiah 42:1-9, Matthew 3:13-17, Acts 10:23b-48

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John R. Brokhoff

... understood in terms of honor and privilege. God means it for service. He blesses us that we might bless the world. We are chosen to serve. This is not an excuse to become proud or to feel superior to other people. It is a call to servanthood. Christians need to understand God's purpose in calling us to be his people. Outline: God's dealings with his people. a. He blesses them - v. 6a. b. He blesses them to bless. 1. To be light to the nations - v. 6. 2. To liberate the oppressed - v. 7. Epistle: Acts 10:34 ...

3965. Epiphany 8

Isaiah 49:8-26, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Corinthians 4:1-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... judge - God. Since religious leaders are called by God, work for God, they should be judged only by God. In this passage, we can see three judges. Outline: Each of us faces these judges. a. Self - I should not judge myself because I do not know myself, understand myself, nor can I be objective enough to judge myself - vv. 3b, 4. b. Others - Others should not judge me because they do not know all the circumstances nor my motives - v. 3a. c. God - When Christ returns, he will judge each person. Only God has ...

3966. Easter

Acts 10:23b-48, Colossians 3:1-17, John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

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John R. Brokhoff

... . For Mary Magdalene, the empty tomb meant only that Jesus' body was stolen. Peter saw the empty tomb and grave clothes, but he did not put two and two together that Jesus was raised from the dead. He failed to understand the scriptures concerning the meaning of the great events or crises in our lives at the time of their happening, such as our confirmation, wedding, ordination, or bereavement. 4. Faith and facts. We are given in this Gospel only circumstantial evidence - empty tomb, grave clothes ...

3967. Trinity

John 3:22-36, Matthew 28:16-20, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, Exodus 34:1-28, Genesis 1:1-2:3

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John R. Brokhoff

... preacher is true to the Lesson, the Trinity cannot be avoided. Except for Lesson 1, the Trinity is very much in evidence. Three Lessons: Genesis 1:1-2:4a; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Matthew 28:16-20 1. A God For Others. Need: Our people need to see, understand, and respond to the fullness of God as represented in the Trinity. In a threefold way God is always working in our behalf, for he loves us. Outline: What the triune God does for us. a. God the Father created us - Lesson 1. b. God the Son commissions us ...

3968. Proper 6

Genesis 18:1-15, Romans 5:1-8, Matthew 9:35 – 10:8 (9-23), Matthew 9:35-38, 10:1-42, Romans 5:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... God as his people. 2. Whose we are. We do not know who we are until we know whose we are. If we belong to God, we understand who we are - children, sons, and servants of God. How did we become God's possession? We are his, first, by creation - "all the earth is ... 19:2-8a 1. Whose Are You? (19:4-5). Need: We are living at a time when many are concerned about self-understanding, self-identity, and self-acceptance. Often it is self-directed and self-centered. A human being cannot truly and fully know who he ...

3969. Proper 10

Genesis 25:19-34, Isaiah 55:1-13, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 8:18-27, Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... to us. Again, Jesus teaches that God's truth of grace is for all. God wishes all to be reconciled to him. Outline: Our text says - a. The Word is for all - "He who has ears to hear." b. The Word is for all who hear - "Let him hear." 1. Understand the Word. 2. Accept the Word. 3. Obey the Word. 2. Crowds But Not Christians. 13:1-8 Need: Crowds come to hear Jesus, but not all become believers. They may have enjoyed his message. They probably went away impressed with his wisdom and authority, but they did not ...

3970. Proper 11

Genesis 28:10-22, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 8:18-27, Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

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John R. Brokhoff

... 36-43 1. Kingdom of heaven (v. 24). The wheat (good) and the weeds (bad) are in the kingdom, not in the world. We could understand it if the parable applied to the world where there are all kinds of people. The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of God, and ... power in the world. We are not told where he came from, nor where he went after sowing the weeds. Is this not the case with our understanding of evil? We do not know the origin of evil, nor the end of evil. All we know is that evil is a reality in our world ...

3971. Call Waiting

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... decisive. Today there is no flashing light, no booming voice, no clear instructions as to what the disciples are to do. Instead, what we hear is Jesus asking a question - a strange, penetrating question. But it is the question that forms the foundation for understanding "call" for understanding vocation. The question is: "What are you looking for?" Now, please note what the question is not. It is not what do you want to do? What do you want to produce or achieve or prove? It is not what do others expect you ...

3972. Kairos Commitments

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... and minutes, days and weeks, years and decades. Instead the word used is kairos, God's time - a particular moment of God's inbreaking Spirit - a time to accomplish through us what we cannot accomplish ourselves. "Call" language is hard language to understand. We clergy types are expected to understand it, for we have to articulate our "call" in order to earn the title "Reverend." But that does not let the rest of you off the hook. As our scripture story suggests today, all those who bear the name of Christ ...

3973. Lite - Or Light?

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... habits of prayer, study, silence, stewardship, and service - these are the ways we become transparent, ready to receive and return the light of the God who burns inside us, in the well-trimmed wicks of our souls. It is then that we can move to a deeper level of understanding - realizing that though light comes from the outside in, it only serves its purpose if it burns brightly and pervasively from the inside out. The painter Rembrandt, a strong and committed Christian, used light to reflect his spiritual ...

3974. Worry and Wonder

Matthew 6:24-34

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... you by worrying can add one single hour to your span of life?" But worry we do. Think about it. When we are pushed out of the dark, warm, welcome of the womb, our very birth is a descent into anxiety, into the uncertainty of that which we can't understand and can't control. And we quickly pick up the anxiety of our parents, those big, hovering people who want the best for us, who want us to be the best, who project all their unfinished anxieties onto us. Who can forget the anxiety of crying in the night ...

3975. Building Our Foundation on God

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... from Saint Matthew's version of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, tells us of our need to change on the inside, to demonstrate who we are, and not concentrate on what others will see. We must be transformed so that God, the one who looks into the heart and understands our every thought, word, and action, will be pleased. Jesus is very clear in the gospel that we should not practice piety in any form so as to be noticed by others, for our reward will never be found in what others think. The Lord speaks of the ...

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