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376. Not

Isaiah 50:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... , so he is obedient to his calling to serve God's people. Unless we would go to the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, we likely cannot find a better picture of Christ the Suffering Servant whom we know as Jesus. This is Palm/Passion Sunday in the church year, and since passion means suffering, what better time to examine his suffering and ours; his reaction and our own? We, the servants of Jesus, follow in his train. We are not better than our Lord and he knew terrible suffering. John (13:16) reminds us; "... no ...

377. Sight And Insight

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

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John R. Brokhoff

... sight to a man born blind and to reveal his identity as the Son of man. The Church Year Setting. The miracle of healing a blind man comes in the Lenten season. For Lutherans it occurs on Lent 3; for the Common Lectionary it is on Lent 4. Passion Sunday and Holy Week are only a few weeks ahead. The opposition to Jesus is increasing and Jesus is in controversy with the religious leaders. This intense hatred comes to a climax on Good Friday when his enemies have their day of victory. For some the length of ...

378. A Fine And Beautiful Thing

Mark 14:6

Children's Sermon

Object: a bottle of perfume Good morning, boys and girls. Our Gospel lesson is very, very long today. We're only going to talk about one very small part of it today. Today is called Passion Sunday. We remember many of the stories about Jesus on Passion Sunday. One of the stories is about Jesus visiting a friend's house for supper. While he was eating, a woman came in with a large bottle of perfume much larger than this one. She broke the bottle and poured the perfume all over Jesus' head. Let's see what ...

379. 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

... Matthew's order in his story. Jesus' reply to Satan, when tempted to change a stone into bread, to worship Satan and gain control over the world, and to test God's word by leaping from the top of the temple, is something of a preview to his passion, suffering, and death on the cross. Luke hints that Satan "lost a battle," even three of them, but he had not yet "lost the war." He says, "And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time." The most "opportune time" had ...

380. Lent 4

Luke 15:1-7, Joshua 5:1-12, Isaiah 12:1-6, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Luke 15:11-32

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George Bass

... , the cross of Good Friday, and the empty tomb of Easter. Although there is no introit to announce a "theme-name" for the Sunday, the very name of the day, the Fourth Sunday in Lent, should continue to remind every Christian that the week of the Passion of our Lord and Easter will soon be here and that realization should cause rejoicing among the faithful. The Fourth Sunday in Lent was, and always will be, "rejoicing Sunday" for the church. The Gospel for the Day informs and reinforces the reality of Jesus ...

381. Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17, Psalm 116:1-19, Exodus 12:1-30, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, Mark 14:12-26, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 10:19-39, Luke 22:7-38

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George Bass

... to this choice: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his servants. O Lord, I am your servant and the child of your hand-maid; you have freed me from my bonds." The church has good reason to apply this text to the contemplation of the Passion and death of the Lord, especially to Maundy Thursday. THE READINGS Exodus 12:1-14 (E); 1-8, 11-14 (RC); 3:8 (C) This is the account which tells of the instructions that God gave to Moses and Aaron about the Passover that he would use to soften Pharaoh ...

382. Easter 5

John 13:31-38, Revelation 21:1-27, Revelation 19:1-10, Acts 14:8-20, Leviticus 19:1-37, Acts 14:21-28, Psalm 145:1-21

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George Bass

... has loved them. (I might bring in Leviticus 19 at this point, if I were preaching from the lectionary of The Book Of Common Prayer. Jesus expands the commandment of God to Moses that people are to love one another; he gives it new meaning by his passion and death.) 4. Love marks people as faithful Christians; it tells the world that we are disciples of Jesus Christ. The cross calls for total commitment to Christ and sacrificial love for all people. 5. How much love? The cross says, "That much love." Acts 13 ...

383. Easter 7

John 17:20-26, Psalm 47:1-9, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Acts 16:6-10, Acts 16:16-40, 1 Samuel 12:1-25, Revelation 22:7-21

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George Bass

... . 1. The church is one, in Word, in the sacraments of holy baptism and the eucharist. It can only be one church, according to Jesus' word. 2. The Lord supports all prayers for Christian unity, just as he prayed for such unity on the night of his betrayal and passion. The church is one because it is his church, not ours. 3. The Lord desires unity in Word and sacrament - not simply for the sake of the church as an institution - but so that the church may be an effective witness for Jesus Christ to the rest of ...

384. Portrait Of A Powerful Servant

John 13:1-17

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John M. Braaten

... telling us what to do) and so we are apt to sacrifice the common good for our own ego needs and accompany it with all kinds of pious chatter. Power in itself is not an evil thing, nor is the pursuit of it incompatible with God’s design. The passion to learn, the pursuit of excellence - evidence of our desire for power - have been implanted in us as part of the Divine image. Indeed, Jesus promised power to the apostles (Acts 1:8) before he ascended. What is at issue here is not power as such but its use ...

385. Expectations of Hope

John 12:20-36

Eulogy

Daniel M. Shutters

... Epiphany Season - that time which celebrates the manifestation of Christ. We listen in those days as the Gospel speaks of the miracles that Christ performed. Quickly, we move into Lent, and the warnings of the crucifixion are all around us, but the Sunday of the Passion gives us reason to hope again, only to have the week end, with the Good Friday crucifixion of Christ. Liturgically we move through the life of Christ, between now and Good Friday. As we read the Scriptures in these coming months we note the ...

386. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Jesus called the phenomenon "saluting only your brethren." And He told it straight - "what reward is there in that?" It creates an attitude of smallness which is destructive to career, family, and self. During the ministry in the villages of Galilee, Jesus preached passionately about forgiveness. It was a strange doctrine to most of the disciples. Peter wanted to be legal and statistical about it. But Jesus stated there is no limit to forgiveness. It's a matter of forgiveness becoming a part of the habit of ...

387. The Road To The Cross

Matthew 27:11-26

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Mark Ellingsen

Passion Sunday, the whole story of the dastardly plots and betrayals that brought Jesus to the cross, lies before us. You know the story well. It is filled ... as criminals set free by Christ's crucifixion, to challenge the social order and its institutions when they are working evil and harm to others? Our gospel for Passion Sunday calls the church to condemn sin when it permeates our social institutions. It also sets us sinners free (as Jesus' crucifixion set Barabbas free) to work for freedom and justice!

388. Seek Good, Not Evil (That You May Live)

Amos 5:1-17

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Paul W. F. Harms

... authorized the deaths of millions of his fellow Soviet citizens. Seek peace! Establish justice! Speak the truth! Reprove truth! Seek good, not evil that you may live! The speaking for good is to be a passion. We are to be burned up with the desire and will that good will reign. We are to be consumed by the same kind of passion that consumed our Lord. The purpose of the text and of this sermon is not the development of a new program in niceness. It is a seeking after life itself, as God describes and designs ...

389. Step Eleven - Spirituality

Mt 26:36-46 · 1 Thess 5:12-22 · Ps 25:1-15

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John A. Terry

... to God for the strength to face the troubles and to receive the knowledge of what to do, because even if we are like Peter, turning our back on our best friend, perhaps having too much to drink and escaping into sleep when we should be on our knees praying passionately, God's greatest desire is to give us the strength we need. There is a medieval legend which says that sometime during the 12th century, Henry II of England laid siege to the French city of Le Mans, but he failed to take it, and so he retired ...

390. Step Seven - Humiltiy

Mt 23:25-36 · 2 Ti 2:20-26 · Ps 51:1-14

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John A. Terry

... if we try to depend on our own power. Avoid being filled with evil by filling yourself with good. Your life will be filled with some spirit, with some activity. Your mind will be filled with some thoughts. We need God's strength to shun youthful passions and instead seek to fill our thoughts and actions with righteousness, faith, love and peace. We know that in the church, we have not always reached the high calling to which we have been called. Paul talks about a major reason for that failure. I have ...

391. Lent

Sermon

Betty Lynn Schwab

... depth. Jesus Christ shows us how to live out truly loving faith and truly faith-filled love. Jesus is our way into union with God. Jesus shows us how to be Ruth today. Reader 2: Let us pray. All: God of Palm Sunday, you are also God of the Passion. This Holy Week help us remember Jesus' death and Jesus' love. Help us to experience loving faith and faith-filled love. May all our life become a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings we receive from you. In the name of the one who rode the donkey and ...

392. The Elders

Drama

William Grimbol

... plate away) I will just watch and enjoy myself vicariously. RUTH: (Begins to clear table) I do appreciate the fact that you like my cooking. DAVID: See! I knew it! RUTH: (Laughing) I said like, not love. DAVID: I deserve some remnant of passion at my age. RUTH: (Patting DAVID'S paunch) So do I. DAVID: Naughty. RACHEL: Well spoken, Ruth. NATHAN: Speechless friend? DAVID: Yes ... my mouth is still full. RUTH: (Completes clearing of table; looks out of garden onto imaginary roadway) There goes "the kind ...

393. The Family of Judas

Drama

William Grimbol

... is guilty of no crime ... he betrayed a man who had totally betrayed him ... first ... first ... Jesus betrayed Judas first. MOTHER OF JUDAS: Judas was different. He was so different from my other children. He was so intense ... so serious ... so very passionate ... his eyes were always on fire, they always glowed with some question or belief or dream. He was an unusual child. Not strange or weird, just different. He always asked a million questions ... serious questions, even as a little boy ... he wanted ...

394. The Clop, Clop, Clop of a Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

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Wallace H. Kirby

... on the pavement: clop, clop, clop. We have been listening to some sounds, sounds that are not unusual, yet unusually significant because we can associate them with events that took place during the last week of Jesus' earthly life. We've called them sounds of the passion. We heard the sound of crying as Jesus wept because what he came to offer was rejected. We were able to identify with that sound because we, too, have cried out with the pain of rejection. We heard clanking coins which reminded us of all ...

395. The Sound of Everlasting Joy

Luke 15:11-32, Matthew 28:1-10

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Wallace H. Kirby

... you have been preaching prior to Easter? I was amazed at how interested the reporter was in what had gone on in our services prior to that day. He was fascinated by the idea of sounds, especially the way we have attempted to hear some sounds of the passion over the past six Sundays, and how the sound of everlasting joy can be heard on Easter day. My conversation with that reporter made me stop and think about some of the unusual sounds that are heard in an Easter worship service - sounds that we do not hear ...

396. Encounters With Christ VI: Jesus and Caiaphas

Matthew 26:57-68

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James W. Moore

... question is found in the intriguing personality of a man called Caiaphas. Caiaphas was the high priest at the time Jesus was crucified. The Bible indicates that he was highly responsible for Jesus’ death. In fact, in his book, Personalities of the Passion, Leslie Weatherhead dramatically says that more than any other human being, Caiaphas was responsible for putting Jesus on the cross. Listen to his powerful words: “When we come to Caiaphas, we are getting nearer the forces of evil… which drove Jesus ...

397. Prayers for Year A

Bulletin Aid

William S. Carter

... to you. But we miss so many and misread others. Help us to see the signs of your glory, and respond in faith; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. SUNDAY OF THE PASSION [Palm Sunday] · Matthew 26:1--27:66 [or 27:11-54] Dear Lord, there is so much involved in loving someone. There is sorrow and pain as well as joy and gladness. Thank you for loving us. Help us to become aware of the depth of your love; through Jesus ...

398. Rejoice! It's Lent

Joel 2:1-11

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Carl Hoefler

... service of the liturgy. Social celebrations are cancelled - or at least curtailed. Our attention is focused exclusively on the crucified body of a young man dying in agony on a criminal's cross. Our emotions are moved to tears by such words as suffering, sacrifice, passion, and death. All of this emphasis on the cross is intended to drive us to repentance and to acts of fasting. This Lenten emphasis on the death and suffering of our Lord is not only a distortion of the biblical witness and the practice of ...

399. A Sword and a Sacrament

Isaiah 50:1-11

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Carl Hoefler

... Sunday. It is Palm Sunday. Which is it? According to our church calendar, it is both. At first, it may sound that these two Sundays just do not belong together. Passion Sunday has to do with the cries of the crucified one hanging on a rough and splintery cross. Palm Sunday has to do with joyous "Alleluias" and palm branches raised in a salute to a king and to his victory. Suffering and salutes seem out of harmony with each other. ...

400. An Encounter With Two Old Friends

Luke 18:9-14

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... , even as we are today. They came to worship, to give thanks, to praise the Lord, just as each one of us has done, I trust. But as we watch them carefully and tune in on their conversation with their God, some differences emerge that tempt our passion for instant analysis. What happened, for example, to this Pharisee in childhood that he felt the need to list his virtues in the presence of the Lord. Was this the mark of an inferior emotion, an attempt at bold bravado to convince himself, to justify himself ...

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