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4026. Parable of the Piggy Banks

Matthew 7:7

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... you are learning to save," consoled the mother. Billy and Jimmy were saving coins of different values, so naturally the results differed. All mankind has choices to make as to what is put into life. The results in life are often determined by the sense of values employed. If our experiences are on a cheap level, our knowledge is comparable. If we enrich our minds, our friendships, our workmanship with a high standard, we may expect to share the better things in life. The Church constantly seeks to reveal ...

4027. Good News for the Multitudes

Luke 14:25-35

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Thomas C. Short

... was a disciple. Leibholz was right when he concluded his memoir of Bonhoeffer with these words: He has set a model for a new type of true leadership inspired by the gospel, daily ready for martyrdom and death and imbued by a new spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty. The victory which he has won was a victory for us all, a conquest never to be undone, of love, light and liberty.2 Of course, I am inspired by these disciples, but I am not one of them. I should not try to fool anyone ...

4028. Dear Mrs. Day

Luke 15:1-7

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Thomas C. Short

... heart. In the parable of the lost sheep Jesus says that when the lost is found, there is great joy. How true. I don’t know about the joy in heaven but I know about the joy in my heart. The parts of my life fit together now and my sense of wholeness brings me great peace and joy. Dag Hammarskjold has a couple lines in Markings in which he says what I am trying to say: "For man shall commune with all creatures to his profit, but enjoy God alone. That is why no human being can be a permanent ...

4029. A Good Picture of Bad People

Luke 16:1-15

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... job in less time than it takes to say, "Tralfamadore." Evil comes in many sizes, shapes and colors and blends so perfectly into life that we sometimes call it good. Jesus wants us to see that and to be forewarned about this power set loose in our world. In this sense, the parable is beautiful. It is a warning from one who loves us and does not want to see us confused or hurt. Another thought needs to be shared. The story is being told by the Son of Light. The characters in the story are the sons of this ...

4030. The Confessions of a Younger Brother

Luke 16:19-31

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... - I will not pay attention to the voice of my dead brother. At first, I was a little irritated with Abraham, but now I think he is right. Like the rich man in the parable, I am surrounded by people with needs. Some of these people are poor in the sense of economy and suffer the indignity of homelessness, nakedness and hunger. They are in my life just as Lazarus was in the life of the rich man. They cross my path at times when I least expect them to intersect my life. I was riding uptown on a subway in ...

4031. Thanks, Lord

Luke 17:11-19

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... , he had not posted it. On the first morning after returning home, he mounted the sign on the gatepost and named his home ESCHATON which means that God is in the world working to overcome sin and death and to complete what was begun in the creation.4 In this sense, the home and the sign offer praise and thanksgiving to God. That’s the best way to respond to God’s goodness.

4032. God Is Good But Not Easy

Luke 18:1-8

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... "Dealer eyes" of this God who was anxious to make a deal and strike a bargain. This was the only God Salieri knew and at age sixteen he approached this God to make his request, to offer his promise and do business with the Almighty. Humbly and with a "desperate sense of right" he came to bow his head and lift his heart in prayer. Up out of the depths of his soul came this prayer to the "God of the bargains:" "Signore, let me be a composer! Grant me sufficient fame to enjoy it. In returns I will live with ...

4033. A Criminal, A Cross, and the Christ

Luke 23:26-43

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Thomas C. Short

... an adult, and from that time forward he recited the famous prayer, Shema Israel, three times a day and observed the fasting days with regularity. Set in the context of the pain and drama of human life, Etaus had a good beginning. He was loved and loving. In a sense God had given him a garden of peace. Although life was not perfect, it was good; Etaus was able to enjoy his family and his God. He was never able to recall when things first began to go wrong. He continued to say his prayers and to practice his ...

4034. Parable on Love and Friendship

Hebrews 13:1-25

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... things I like. I don't mind helping such people but if they pay no attention to me, I will pay no attention to them." Bill replied, "We all like friends who know us and we all need the recognition of persons who understand us. But community friendship with a sense of welcome to all is what makes a happy community. I want to be the kind of a friend who can help a stranger gladly as well as be trusted by those who are close to me." Dick snorted, "You can sure be a sucker, a sucker for a soft ...

4035. Parable of Stringed Music and Soul Whispers

Malachi 3:6-18

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There is a sense of fineness In music of the strings That sing of life's sweet beauties And the joys they bring. Some thoughts so gentle that they speak In softer words than lips may say. Of souls that hide behind the scenes And whisper only when we pray. We travel through the ...

4036. Seek Good, Not Evil (That You May Live)

Amos 5:1-17

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... to die for us the wrongdoers that we might be justified in the eyes of God through his death. Christ did just the opposite of the people of the text. He did not make justice bitter but made it richly sweet. What a way God chose to make clear his sense of justice - to give us that which is too good to be true, to give us that which we do not deserve. He has given us the gift of life, that is the gift of himself. That is life to give oneself for the other as he has given himself ...

4037. My dear friends, let us play.

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Kendall McCabe

... ashes. A bit of ash will be placed on our foreheads and we will be told, "Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return." That's what I mean by being deadly serious. We are called to confront the fact of our own mortality and, in one sense, to get used to it by what we say and do. As children learn to live through their play, so the church helps us learn to die through our play. And, in learning to die, we learn what is important about living. So, the play in which we children of ...

4038. The First Sunday In Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

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Kendall McCabe

... and your right hand hold me fast. (Psalm 139:6-9, BCP) Here, at the beginning of Lent, it is customary to think of the trials of life, the crosses to be borne, and the discipline we need to practice in order to "fight the good fight." There is a sense in which it seems the church rolls up its shirtsleeves, spits into its hands, and says, "Let's win this one for the Gipper!" The irony is, at the very time of year when we should be concentrating the most on what Christ has done for us, we become occupied ...

4039. Was I Baptized Right?

John 3:1-21

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Kendall K. McCabe

... will renew our baptismal vows and "remember our baptism." When Christians use "remember" in that way, they are not talking about some mere exercise of the brain. To remember means to re-present, to make present again. We have all had those experiences of the senses that have brought back to us, in a flash, some memorable event, and we say it is almost like being there again. This is what happens when we remember our baptism. That event of the past becomes present now, not because we are remembering, but ...

4040. The Sunday of the Passion

Matthew 26:14--27:66

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Kendall McCabe

... man so defeated, so alone, the only account we have of his final words in today's Gospel is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Here is a man who felt even God would not look upon him. Because of that lonely anguish, theologians have said his sense of rejection by God was his taking our sin upon himself and suffering and dying in our place. That may be true. I don't know. I can't prove it. But I can act upon it. I know what it is to be alone; but I've never been ...

4041. Good Friday

John 18:1-19:42

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Kendall McCabe

... Christ wants us to see this in him, that he is able to be whatever the miseries of this world call for. "You would have no power over me unless it were given to you." Jesus was a man of sorrows, yes, but he was a man with a satisfying sense of his own destiny and his ability to meet and overcome the power of evil, sin, and death. With his capacity for tragedy, Jesus comes with power into the tragedies of the lives of others. There are sore places to which the human heart comes and in which it may ...

4042. The Fifth Sunday of Easter

John 14:1-4

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Kendall McCabe

... , because they already had a place in the heart of God. What greater security can we seek than this, Jesus has promised a place for us! Jesus promises us a path to walk in. "I am the way," he says in reply to Thomas' question. After all, it makes no sense to have a place if you can't get to it! Jesus makes clear we can trust him to get us there. Making that possible is the work he has been given to do by his Father. The path he opens for us is the path of truth and life ...

4043. A Wandering Aramean

Genesis 12:1-8

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... 's a recognition that our present has no security in anything temporal. Wandering means lacking home, lacking many possessions, lacking even a country. As God's children, we inherit nothing except his blessing, his name, and his promise to be with us and help us make sense out of a senseless world. Having roots in God's family means our roots cannot be in the world we see around us today. The starkness of that reality is demonstrated poignantly in a well-known movie of the 1960's -- Fiddler on the Roof. As ...

4044. God Is No Respecter Of Persons

Acts 10:23b-48

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... positions? I had a great urge to send the questioner a "sensitivity survey" which Dr. Robert McCracken once composed! It asked - "Have you a quick eye, an outgoing nature, a heart tender and sympathetic? Do you care when others are hurt? Are you swift to sense their hurt and to do what you can to relieve it? Is anything human alien to you?" (McCraken, et. a!. The Riverside Preachers, p. 71) Those were the traits of Jesus and the early Christians - quick eye, tender heart, eagerness to help, and be involved ...

4045. God's Passion

Acts 2:42-47

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... love has another side, too. How much truer, and more humbling, to recognize God seeks us because, in his own mysterious way, he sees us as lovable. And how much more exhilarating to return that love with the same rapture, rather than as a sense of duty. Without understanding the early Christians were "in love," the details of early church life seem extravagant. However, their relations toward each other, and toward God, seem very familiar to anyone who's been "head over heels." Lovers go to dinner and a ...

4046. I Kid You Not

2 Kings 4:8-37

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... , he immediately became the favorite of his father and the envy of his brothers. First Samuel, Chapter one, is the poignant account of the woman named Hannah, who was deeply distressed because she had no children. If you read between the lines, you can sense the tension between Hannah and the other wife, Peninnah who had children. "Peninnah (her rival) used to provoke her sorely to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb." (1 Samuel 1:6) You can imagine Peninnah fussing with her babies in front ...

4047. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Jeremiah 20:7-18

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... considering today, one commentator said this: "This is one of the most powerful and impressive passages in the whole of prophetic literature." That’s quite a statement. He adds, "No other passage in all the prophetic literature expresses so clearly as this, the prophet’s sense of divine compulsion to his task."5 Here is a lament, a complaint, a prayer. Here is Jeremiah, baring his soul. It’s almost as if we were walking by Jeremiah’s room, the door is open, and we hear him talking to God. Jeremiah ...

4048. The Cracked Crystal Ball

Jeremiah 28:1-17

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... prophets: Do you think a seducer will brandish a new heresy and flaunt it before the people? He will speak the words of righteousness and truth and will appear as a minister of light, declaring the Word. Seeing that, I have to admit that it makes sense. The best of the false prophets are those who appear most authentic. Some wolves have learned how to tailor and to wear sheep’s clothing so well that few can tell the difference. Jesus gave his classic advice in the Sermon on the Mount. "Beware of false ...

4049. The God Who Doesn’t Give Up

Hosea 11:1-11

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... to both mothers and fathers. Commentator James Ward says, "The parental metaphor which is the underlying image of Hosea 11 transcends the masculine-feminine dichotomy and is therefore one of the most adequate symbols of God in the Bible."10 If that doesn’t make sense, we can put it in other words. God is both father and mother and cares for us with the best qualities that a mother or father combined, can give. Being a parent can be an enjoyable experience. Do you remember bringing your first child home ...

4050. Let the Journey Begin

Matthew 6:1-4

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Dean Lueking

... souls at the same time. Day after day we are pounded hard by forces which tempt us to give our all for the treasures that are earth-bound. But in our hearts we know that these things cannot ultimately satisfy. Eager for the Journey And so, with a deep sense of peace and hope in God, let us begin the Lenten journey. What guides us through is not what we give up, but the sacred life given for us upon the cross. Whatever we choose to lay aside and do without, let God alone know and refrain from broadcasting ...

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