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4076. Lent 1

Lk 4:1-13 · Rom 10:8-13 · Deut 26:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... Phillipians Paul urges us to work out our salvation as though we do not already have it. By justification we are saved, but now we are becoming what we already are. Now we are saved in "name only" and we now are being saved in the sense that justification and sanctification are one. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Preaching During Lent Preaching during Lent should be done in the light of the cross. Lent is cross time. Since the trend is to eliminate mid-week Lenten services because of the busyness of the times, it ...

4077. Lent 2

Lk 9:18-36; 13:31-35 · Php 3:17--4:1 · Jer 26:8-15 · Gen 15:1-12, 17-18

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John R. Brokhoff

... that he has a work to do and a mission to fill and no enemy is going to stop him. He knows his end will not be in Herod's jurisdiction, for he is sure that his death will occur in Jerusalem which has killed other prophets. Jesus has a sense of destiny and this erases any fear he might have of even his worst opponents. 3. How (v. 34). This word expresses the desire and intense longing of Jesus for his people to turn to him for life and salvation. Not once does he appeal to them to repent, but ...

4078. Lent 4

Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 · 1 Cor 1:18-31 · 2 Cor 5:17-21 · Isa 12:1-6 · Jos 5:9-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... to be new people. Outline: How to become a new person - A. Be in Christ - "If anyone is in Christ ..." B. Forsake the past - "The old has passed away ..." C. Live the new life - "The new has come ..." Lesson 2: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 In a sense Lesson 2 is the key to today's pericopes. Lesson 1 tells us of God's coming salvation. The gospel describes God's reception of sinners. But how is salvation, forgiveness, and acceptance made possible? The answer is in the cross where the work of salvation is completed ...

4079. Lent 5

Jn 8:1-11; 12:1-8 · Lk 20:9-19 · Isa 43:16-21 · Php 3:8-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... Jesus. It was more than a romantic love; it was deeper and more meaningful. Among the women who loved him was Mary of Bethany. She serves as a model for us in the love we want to have for Jesus. Outline: More love for Christ - A. Understanding of Jesus: Mary sensed Jesus' passion was near - v. 7 B. Gave only the best to Jesus: costly ointment - v. 3 C. Gave her self in humility: dried his feet with her hair - v. 3 2. Before Your Loved One Dies. 12:1-8. Need: Some people wait until a loved one dies to ...

4080. Sunday of the Passion

Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... Confidence. The Servant is successful in taking the suffering because of his confidence in God's presence and help. God was near and ready to help. Though God allows suffering, he sustains the sufferer who suffers for his sake. When Jesus cried, "My God, why?" we sense the trauma and tragedy of God's apparent withdrawal. Lesson 2: Philippians 2:5-11 1. Equality (v. 6). Paul claims that Jesus before the Incarnation was on an equality with God - "very God of very God," as the Creed says. If he were equal with ...

4081. Proper 9

Matthew 11:25-30

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... leisure time, we seldom find rest: our minds worry on, our bodies are tense, our spirits are down-cast. Pastor: Jesus, our Redeemer, we beseech you to give us rest which will refresh our minds and bodies and revitalize our spirits, that we may live with a sense of purpose and confidence and worth. People: We thank you for the tranquility available to your people as they experience your presence with them and come to depend on you. Assistant: Jesus said: "The yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will ...

4082. CHRISTMAS 1

Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Hebrews 2:5-18, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

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... Father, for taking so much for granted in the Christian Faith. You have constantly had to pour out your love to people who seem bent on resisting that love. And we who want to accept your love, do so without considering the price you have paid. Sharpen our senses to see what wonderful feats you have performed in order that we might be redeemed from sin. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Hymns "Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies" "Fairest Lord Jesus" "Go Tell It on the Mountain" "How Beauteous Were the Marks"

4083. First Sunday in Lent

Matthew 4:1-11, Romans 5:12-21, Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

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... victory over the power of temptation. May our hearts be submissive to him, that his victory may become ours, and our wills may become yours. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer of Confession We have learned to accept temptation's power without feeling a sense of guilt, Father. It surrounds us like the atmosphere, and we let it become the breath that sustains our life. But such life does not grow, and we feel close to death. Forgive us for our ignorance of the truth of temptation's power to kill ...

4084. Wednesday in Holy Week

Isaiah 50:1-11, Hebrews 12:1-13, John 13:18-30

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... be to God for our Lord Jesus Christ! Collect Almighty God, whose Son obediently fulfilled his mission to bring salvation, even when rejected by those he came to save: Make us aware of the resistance we unconsciously express; that we may arise to a new sense of commitment, and respond wholeheartedly to your salvation. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We are dependent on our Lord's obedience to the mission you gave him, Father. He was faithful to death, yet we are so careless with ...

4085. Joseph’s Dream

Matthew 1:18-25

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... s incarnation. Joseph affirmed Mary’s experience with Gabriel in an kind of "So be it. Let God do his miracle. We will abide by it." They were probably more aware than we are that every birth is a miracle wrought by God. God, in a sense, is the ultimate magician, continuing to work his miracles of creation in our world. Human magicians are best at making things disappear and, sometimes, reappear. But they cannot do what God has done and is doing in his creation. Doug Henning, for example, began by making ...

4086. Beginning a Ministry

Matthew 4:18-22

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... its spiritual leader, founded the Amal movement in 1974. Amal is the Arabic word for hope, and that is the doctrine preached and taught to the Shiite Muslims by Moussa Sadr and the present leader, Nabir Bern. They have sought to develop in the Shiites "a sense of identity, purpose and belonging." That they have succeeded in this has been seen in their growing influence in Lebanon and the Middle East, and in the important role they are playing in the future of that area of the world. The Shiites have rallied ...

4087. Training Session

Matthew 5:1-12

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... Christian response, the kind of thing Jesus was talking about in his training session with the disciples. Nor could their participation in the fund for Susan be taken away from the people who responded. They, too, were "blessed" by God, not in the sense of gaining riches or worldly goods in return for their monetary gifts, but from the perspective of knowing that in giving they had received a gift from God which gave them lasting joy. A headline in the newspaper announced, " ‘We are the World’ sponsors ...

4088. Magic Mountain

Matthew 17:1-13

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... John Manz, told about such an experience: "I suppose because all of us have received bad news over the phone there is something about its ringing at an odd hour which makes the heart beat just a little quicker. That happened in our house ... I had the sense that something was wrong. The voice on the other end belonged to a college friend; ‘Kent is dead,’ she said. ‘He drowned in Mexico.’ I hadn’t seen him for a long time. Lives which intersect unfold along different lines. Perhaps because he was a ...

4089. Burning Torches

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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... that God is not afflicting me." (LW 17, 357) If death comes into my life, God is hidden there. The Spirit will fan that presence to a flame lit for me. When shame buries me, God will bring light and heat for me from that tomb. Whenever I sense affliction close by, God is sending the Spirit, sometimes like a tempest, sometimes like a soft, still breeze, to fan that ember of faith to a burning torch. Mr. Spock, in Star Trek IV, stood before the computer and could not answer the question, "How do you feel ...

4090. Given as Light

Isaiah 42:1-9

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... eyes on the man by the shore. "Behold the Lamb of God," he cried, "Behold him who takes away the sin of the world." (John 1:29) John the Baptizer startled Jesus. Jesus had no followers at this time. He was alone. But he did have a sense, deep in his heart, that something lay in store for him, perhaps something he had discovered in his meditation on the prophet Isaiah. Jesus took very literally the words from Isaiah: "Behold my servant whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights." Perhaps, as with ...

4091. Never Forgotten

Isaiah 49:8-26

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... eat us away from within. God’s gift of faith is blocked, and we sit in the dust of exile forever. Isaiah was speaking to people discouraged for so long they were comfortable in their discouragement. They had forgotten any other feeling but that deep-down sense of being lost and forgotten. Most of the time they covered those feelings with busy little tasks, just the way the Bourbon king Louis fixed clocks to forget how abandoned he felt inside. We all feel a little lost and forgotten. Parents feel it when ...

4092. A Faith To Live By John D. Mauney, Jr.

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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... to develop ways to overcome the problem of illiteracy. But there is yet another type of poverty not so easily defined - a type difficult to measure against a scale of either material or academic abundance. It is a poverty of morality - of a sense of values - a poverty that can besmirch even people blessed with great material and educational wealth. I refer to a poverty of faith in God, a poverty of those convictions basic to Christian living and Christian action. Our convictions are actually an expression ...

4093. A Faith-Life To Emulate John W. Cobb

Genesis 12:1-8

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... will pray to be blessed as you are blessed." (Genesis 12:3) Abraham’s reward involved a divine relationship. As Hebrews 11:16b has it "God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he has a city ready for them." Abraham’s blessedness involved a sense of his own self-sufficiency, because he depended on God and the deep knowledge that his own blessedness was to become a blessing to the whole earth. And so for us, heirs also of the promises of God, we believe the everlasting covenant has found fulfillment ...

4094. Remember Toward the Future John M. Cobb

Exodus 12:1-30

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... And he gets restless, and I have heard that some go around and even chew on tree trunks. Crazy behavior, isn’t it? But, if you know that something essential is missing, and can’t be gotten just by normal eating, then that funny behavior makes sense! Thus, today, people are searching also in the past because there is the feeling that something from the past is missing. And - this thing becomes more serious. Familiar to some of you, I’m sure, is our Provincial Archives. That is, in Edmonton, that place ...

4095. An Easier Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

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... suffer so we don't have to suffer, I found myself thinking, but not just so that we can endure suffering ourselves. What kind of life is that? Let me say this: I liked Jesus the teacher. When he taught - and he did it so well - I always had some sense of being able to pick-and-choose, that I could take what I thought applied to me and just let the rest go. But the teacher-become-suffering-Messiah was too much, and yet, as I later learned, it was the saving truth. I thought I had the answers to ...

4096. A Protecting Grace

Matthew 18:15-20

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Glenn L. Borreson

... community of believers. And step four: if none of this succeeds, regard the person as "a Gentile and a tax collector." I am not interested in elaborating on these steps today, outlining how they may apply to the church today, especially in any direct sense. I am interested in pointing out their purpose: that these carefully outlined procedures were a protecting grace for the sake of the many people who are affected when one person offends, or hurts, or even sins against another human being. In these steps ...

4097. Beyond Good Intentions

Matthew 21:28-32

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... "shootin' straight," saying exactly what he thought. A bit later, however, he starts thinking about what he's done, about his father, about the crop that'll rot while he has "fun in the sun" of a different kind. And in his own words, he "comes to his senses." He calls his friends to say that he's not coming and then goes off to spend the day working for his father. Now that is a real change of mind. Matthew wrote about him that "afterward he repented and went." Sometimes we have said that repentance means ...

4098. The Family Reunion

Matthew 9:35-38

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Glenn L. Borreson

... of us would have invited to stay home, Jesus invites to attend. Why? Because they, too, belong to the family. And where it happens that people hear Jesus' voice, there is a reunion the likes of which the world has never seen. There is family in the fullest sense, a restored creation of God. The church is the family reunion of Jesus, and this congregation is one part of that great gathering. There are times when the call of Jesus must be heard as a word which directs us to family members right next to us. Oh ...

4099. The Power and the Glory

Matthew 20:20-28

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... else wants to do. Sometimes it is not easy to be present with people filled with anger because they have been deserted in a relationship or with others crying their heart out as you share their pain. Nobody loves being in situations such as these; in that sense no one wants to be there. Yet, convinced of the way of Christ and able to see another's need, those may be the exact places you find yourself. Number six: remember Jesus. If you just think about yourself, your strengths and weaknesses, you'll lose ...

4100. Teachers Without Chalkboards

Matthew 28:16-20

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... article set the goal as "discipled people." The Great Commission labels it obedience. The goal of this teaching is not information but commitment. The outcome is to be a following of Jesus, a going where he sends and a doing of what he commands. In a real sense, the pupils in this classroom are to become the alter egoof Christ, matching the pattern of his life by their own.2 Such teaching, we have noted, is the task of the Church. At least that has been our initial frame of reference. But "Church" is too ...

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