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4076. Can I Get Some Help Over Here?

John 14:23-29

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... Jesus put it, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you... Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.” God’s response to our cry “can I get a little help over here” is the Advocate, the coming of the Holy Spirit, the bearer of the peace of God. God’s Shalom quiets our fears and gives us the strength to deal with whatever the problem. God’s Shalom offers courage to live triumphantly not only when faced by the first day of school or an empty gas tank, but to live ...

4077. Feed My Sheep

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... much needed. Before long I was coordinating bites as well as if they were entering my own mouth. He told me of his unfortunate accident, his lonesomeness, his joys, his struggles, his faith, his hope. His name was Bill. Our spirits blended—we experienced sacrament! Upon returning to my seat, my spirit was humbled as I thought of all the people who have had the Good News of the gospel set before them. It's available but no one to feed them, crippled with spiritual and psychological paralysis-and no one to ...

4078. A Hall of Fame Dad

John 16:12-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... Hall of Fame Dad was God? After all, the first two persons of the Trinity in traditional religious language are the Father and the Son. [I can see why women would feel left out whenever we use that language. I hope you know that I know that God is Spirit and not flesh and therefore has no gender. But change is slow in an institution like ours. Please bear with me.] Today we salute our fathers. Dad, we love you. The role of a Christian father is more important in today’s world than ever before. Being a Dad ...

4079. Join in the Singing

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.” The Way of Holiness starts in the heart of every person who has Jesus’ spirit living in them. Jesus promised that his spirit would live in the hearts and minds of all those who put their faith and trust in him. This spirit teaches us the truths of God and leads us into a new way of living as the people of God. We no longer wander without a purpose or aim in life. We are walking ...

4080. Joseph, When Did You Know?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... lived with each other. Sometime during the betrothal period, Joseph had this dream when the angel of the Lord came to him and told him, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” A year of betrothal is a long time for a young couple to wait. The theme song from the musical Rent is titled Seasons of ...

4081. How To Be Truly Happy

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... heart . . .” “Happy are the peacemakers . . .” “Happy are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake . . .” Jesus seems to go out of his way to turn our entire system of values upside down. What does he mean, “Happy are the poor in spirit . . . ?” We don’t want to be poor in anything except, perhaps, being poor in trouble. “Happy are those who mourn . . .” That seems like a contradictory statement. “Happy are the meek . . .” Just when you and I had signed up for assertiveness ...

4082. First the Bad News...

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In the Book of John, chapter 4, he shared a secret with a despised Samaritan woman. He told her that worship is no longer confined to the Temple. He told her “a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” In our lesson for today, Jesus reminds us that all earthly things that we put our trust in will one day be destroyed. Because the kingdom of God is not something we can touch or see ...

4083. Joy as Our Hallmark

Sermon

George Reed

... us, if not all of us, the most effective conduit for God’s love is through another human. We are made as composite beings. That wondrous story of creation where God forms a human creature out of the earth and then breathes into it God’s own breath, life, and Spirit speaks volumes about who we are. We are mortal and based on the earth. We are made of the same components as the earth on which we live. But we are more than that because there resides within us the very life breath of God. We are mortal and ...

4084. Speaking with Prophetic Authority

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!" Hosea (4:12-13) accused the leaders of idolatry: "My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have played the whore, forsaking their God. They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good." Similarly Isaiah and Jeremiah ...

4085. Re-Gifted but not Returned

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... this so there is nothing I can do about that. The lyrics of the song don’t even mention God, directly. They speak solely of love. Not until the last verse does the song say, “come Spirit, come” and then asks that our inward spirits be guided by love. For all we know the lyricist could be talking about the spirit of love. In her hurry to renounce her belief in God, the young lady also renounced any belief she may have in love, a renunciation that, if she’s like most college age girls I have known ...

4086. The Master's Voice

Matthew 13:53-58, Mark 6:1-6, Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... unbelief. Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Rejection at Nazareth [After Jesus was tempted], then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. He began to teach in their synagogues ... read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim ...

4087. The Death of John the Baptist

Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, Luke 9:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Joseph of Arimethea, John’s disciples claim his corpse and “lay it in a tomb.” Head and Beheading The head is the part of the body which houses the mind (and in the Jewish/Hebrew tradition, this is also the seat of the heart or spirit). From the head comes the voice. In John’s case, the prophetic voice and voice of God’s authority is the disembodied “voice calling from the wilderness” with the message to “repent” and turn to God. His voice is the Jewish voice, and clearly influences Herod ...

4088. Syrophoenician Lives Matter!

Mark 7:24-30, Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... takes a little bit of God’s grace to bless every one of us! God blesses us with the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, and that pouring out is an outpouring. An overflow of abundance. In fact, just one “touch” and you are blessed by grace and glory ... a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him ...

4089. Precocious

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Samuel (also dedicated to God in the Temple and prophesied with a Song by his mother similar to Mary’s), to David (also anointed as King in his youth). Jesus is Prophet, Priest, and King. His precocious nature comes through in that in mind, body, heart, and spirit, Jesus is blooming and bearing fruit far beyond his years. This is a sign that God’s plan for Jerusalem is coming to fruition. *Note: Mary and Joseph may have been trying to “protect” their son by ushering him out of the Temple and back to ...

4090. Fleeced

Judges 6:1-40, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a sign of God’s presence. And God is always there for us, always ready to assure us in our love and in our faith. God has never left us without guidance from above: The Cloud, the Fire Pillar, the guiding star, the inspired Word, the inner Spirit, the Holy Spirit. Thomas is probably, next to Peter and Paul, one of the most courageous disciples in our gospels. He walked the talk. He was a loyal follower, ready to die with Jesus if he had to. Courage is what courage does. And Thomas’s dismissing of his ...

4091. The Curse of the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 2:14-26, Psalm 34:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is Jesus telling the healed man not to proclaim the glory of God after he was healed. And what does the man do? He leaps up. He proclaims God’s glory loudly and vigorously. Why? Because the opposite is also true. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit’s power, you can’t help but praise, sing, revere God with all of your heart and might. A soul that is true will issue with beautiful words of praise and prayer. And will result in skin “like a newborn child.” A soul that is tarred with hateful ...

4092. A Piggy Pudding

Matthew 8:28-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in Antiquities of the Jews 2,5,8, 4-48. Origen in his arguments against Celsus book 4 credits Jews with special talents for exorcising demons as well. Required was a pious man, Hasidic master, or rabbi, as was Jesus. The goal was to learn the name of the evil spirit…to cast it out by calling it by name. We know that Jesus wasn’t the only one who did such things, because Matthew 12:24-28 Jesus notes that others cast out demons as well. But no one was more powerful than Jesus, as He used the power of ...

4093. Song of Joy

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we love: Gloria in excelsis deo! In a sense, I think the angels back then were singing. I think God’s voice is just like a song that we hear in the reaches of our souls. It just reaches down into the depths of our being and reverberates our spirit. And it’s like God touching us in the most intimate place in our hearts. Just imagine that heavenly host….that brilliance of God….that booming voice like a shofar, or like a rumble….or like all of the stars and the heavens crying out in song! Whatever it ...

4094. The Birth of the Bridegroom

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.” Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah. Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required, Simeon took him in his arms and praised God ...

4095. Sycamore Blues

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... my every worry, is aware of each mistake I’ve made, I come to you revealed in all of my sorrow. Bless and heal me Lord, that I may bathe in your forgiveness, stand washed in your mercy, rise up in your joy, go out anew in your Holy Spirit. I open up every secret of my life to you. Amen. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Jesus Sees Zacchaeus in a Sycamore and Invites Himself to Zacchaeus’s Table (Luke 19) Minor Text Adam and Eve Hide from God (Genesis 3) Rehoboam Overtaxes the People (1 Kings ...

4096. Lazarus Rising

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57, John 12:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying ...

4097. The Good Husband

Isaiah 54:1-17, Isaiah 55:1-13, Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you will remember no more. “For your husband is your Maker, whose name is the Lord of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, who is called the God of all the earth. “For the Lord has called you, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” says your God. For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. “In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting lovingkindness I ...

4098. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . And in fact, he was greeted with love as the brother he truly had become. Not as Jacob the Deceiver, the hardy and feisty, weak in faith and broken in relationships. But as Israel, the Blessed, humble and limping, but strong in identity and fortified in spirit. Because Israel walks with God. Israel struggles with God. And in struggle and wrestling, there is relationship. In struggle, we find who we truly are --those who walk with God. This is the story of God’s amazing grace. It’s Jacob’s story. And ...

4099. Song of the Sabbath

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35, Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 3:7-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... feel God’s smiling face upon us, blessing us and renewing us. It’s a timelessness of time in which to mend broken relationships, to heal woundedness, to take off the clothes of mourning, and to put on bells for dancing. The sabbath is God’s “sanctuary” of the Spirit, a sanctuary we enter into and experience the “goodness” and creative energy of the One True God. It is a day in which the work of our hands are laid down, and a day in which we put our souls into God’s hands, a day in which we ...

4100. The Mustard and the Cedar

Ezekiel 17:1-24, Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... by the very idea that a Lebanon Cedar could even be grown on the little hill in Israel, where it would not have enough water to sustain it, let alone to grow it to such heights. But God prevails. “Not by power, not by might, but by the Spirit, says the Lord.” God can grow anything God wants to, anytime, and anywhere, and in any condition, and with any people. And it will spread out its branches, says Ezekiel, and bear fruit, and birds of every kind will nest in it. Israel would become the destination ...

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