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4226. Pentecost

John 20:19-23, Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13, Psalm 104:1-35, Numbers 11:4-35

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... credentials. He is the assistant to Moses and one of the seventy elders. He is part of the power structure that has been established with its clear and controllable boundaries. His reactions to the unexpected prophesying of Eldad and Medad are negative. "Stop them!" he commands Moses. Is the Lord's power limited according to Joshua? Clearly yes, and thus the unexpected prophesying cannot be tolerated. Moses: Moses is the ideal in this story. He is presented as affirming the orderly distribution of power ...

4227. Proper 8

Matthew 10:1-42, Romans 6:15-23, Psalm 13:1-6, Genesis 22:1-19

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... which case Abraham is simply stating the opening divine command that the son will be the lamb for this sacrifice and that God will see it. The repetition in vv. 13 and 14 has none of the ominous quality of vv. 4, 8, because these verses occur after God stops the sacrifice of Isaac in vv. 11-12. Now when Abraham "lifts up his eyes and sees" it is not the impending location of a child sacrifice, but a substitute for the boy in the form of a ram. Furthermore, when Abraham repeats the statement that "God sees ...

4228. Proper 20

Exodus 16:1-36, Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Psalm 105:1-45

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... point at the end of the section on significance. Significance. The gift of manna in the wilderness is a story of grace. Israel is threatened by starvation, and God responds with bread from heaven. This is certainly the central message if the story is stopped at v. 15, as it presently is in the lectionary. Yet this simplistic reading of the text will force closure or resolution too quickly, for these biblical writers have qualifications to add on the subject of grace, especially when trying to avoid a self ...

4229. Proper 24

Exodus 33:12-23, Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Psalm 99:1-9

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... of Moses underscores that there is no limit to what we can expect from a gracious God. Moses' immediate problems were solved after his first petition was granted, which resulted in his knowing God's ways, yet he received three more gifts of grace before he finally stopped petitioning God. Psalm 99 - "In Praise of Power" Setting. Psalm 99 begins with the phrase, "The Lord is king." A number of psalms begin with this phrase (see for example, Psalms 93:3, 97) and then proceed to praise the power of God as king ...

4230. Proper 26

Joshua 3:1-4:24, Matthew 23:1-39, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, Psalm 107:1-43

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... 's gift and not something that Israel has earned (v. 10). This point is underscored by the central role of the Ark in the story, which has come to symbolize the saving power of God as a Holy Warrior (see, for example, Numbers 10:35-36). The Ark is what stops the flow of the river (v. 15), and as long as it is in the middle of the Jordan Israel can cross over safely. The point of the story is that what is true for the Jordan will also be true for the Canaanites. Second, in the larger context of ...

4231. Transfiguration

Psalm 2:1-12, Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Exodus 24:1-18

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... - "The Presence of God as Fire on the Mountain" Setting. The setting of Exodus 24:12-18 is Mount Sinai. Israel has been liberated from Egypt by God, they have passed through the water of the Red Sea and entered the wilderness, and now they have stopped at Mount Sinai as they march toward the promised land of Canaan. The setting of Mount Sinai takes over at Exodus 19 for nearly seventy-two chapters until Numbers 10. Mount Sinai is the most important setting in Israel's wilderness travels. It is so important ...

4232. Thanksgiving Day, North America

Luke 17:11-19, Deuteronomy 8:1-20, Psalm 65:1-13, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... the story today is so great that all possibility of using this account as a critique of Judaism is gone. Rather, what is to be critiqued today is the tendency merely to do what is necessary to get what we need for life without ever bothering to stop and give rightful thanks to God for all life's blessings. If we have a headache and taking aspirin works the cure, why thank God? Because the substance, the science, and the scientists that made the aspirin are parts of God's creation; they are even God ...

4233. Hypocrites

Matthew 6:1-4

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King Duncan

... by his own blood. (4) Staring at the cross, we are confronted with the fact that the blood that saved us is labeled “Jesus Christ,” and it took all the blood he had to do the job. In light of such a sacrifice, isn’t it time to stop “playing the game?” Isn’t it time to get real in our commitment to him? 1. http://www.chapel.duke.edu/worship/sunday/viewsermon.aspx?id=33 2. (Grand Rapids, MI.: Zondervan, 2001), pp. 82-83. 3. Cited in Charles R. Swindoll, Laugh Again (Dallas, Texas: Word Publishing ...

4234. What Is Eternal Life?

John 3:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... said. "When I tried to shut the door, [it] seemed like the door was lifting up. So I just dove and I lay flat on the floor." Lying there, time stood still as everything in the house flew over him, scraping and banging his back, Kruger said. Then the chaos stopped. "I was laying in the dirt. There was no floor. No nothing." The house was gone. But Kruger says he knows why he survived. "I think God was holding my leg, teaching me that I hadn't been doing everything he wanted me to do," he said. There is an ...

4235. The Promises of God Are True

John 3:1-17

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Lane Alderman

... over to the youth correctional center. Sometimes we play basketball, or play games. Usually we share a Bible story. But mostly we just get to know these kids and listen to them. "I started going because Christians are supposed to do those kind of things. But now I could never stop. Sharing the love of God at that youth center has changed my life." And then he said this profound statement. "You cannot prove the promises of God in advance, but if you live them, they're true, every one."

4236. You've Been What?

John 3:1-17

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Richard Lischer

In a church I served, one of the pillars of the congregation stopped by my office just before services to tell me he'd been born again. You've been what? I asked. Yes, he said, last week I visited my brother-in-law's church, the Running River of Life Tabernacle, and I don't know what it was, but something happened ...

4237. God's Dirty Job

Romans 5:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... ?” I slowly opened my hands and stared down at them. I turned them over, palms up and then palms down. No, I guess I had never really looked at my hands as I tried to figure out the point she was making. Grandma smiled and related this story: “Stop and think for a moment about the hands you have, how they have served you well throughout your years. These hands, though wrinkled, shriveled and weak have been the tools I have used all my life to reach out and grab and embrace life. They braced and caught ...

4238. Noticed That You Passed Away

John 11:1-45

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A few years ago, a letter appeared in the national news that was sent to a deceased person by the Indiana Department of Social Services. It read as follows: "Your food stamps will be stopped in March because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." Unless your name is Lazarus, there haven't been too many who have seen a change in those circumstances!

4239. Parable of the Crabby Grass

Matthew 13:24-30

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... trying to pull up all of the bad crabgrass. There is so much crabgrass in this world, it would take a zillion years to pull it up and you might pull up the good grass with it. So I have a suggestion for you and for your mom and dad: Stop trying. There's too much of it and it will just keep coming back anyway! Application: That's also true for people. There are so many crabby people and so many crabby things going on in this world it would take a lifetime to get rid of them all. So ...

4240. Changed Lives: Judas

Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... . William P. Barker tells about a display in New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage. In this display are casts of some leather gloves. They are the gloves that Israeli agent Peter Malkin wore when he grabbed Nazi Adolf Eichmann as he walked home from his bus stop in Buenos Aires on May 11, 1960. Eichmann was the man who organized the transport and death of six million Jews in the death camps of World War II. He was the one who first coined the phrase “final solution.” Malkin wore gloves when he arrested ...

4241. Nine Winners

Matthew 21:1-11

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... a few yards into the race, one of the children fell and began to cry. For some reason these challenged children did not understand the world's concept of competition and getting ahead and taking advantage when a competitor was down. The other eight children stopped running and came back to their fallen comrade. A young girl with Down's Syndrome kissed him and brushed him off. The children lifted him up together, arm in arm, they ran over the finish line. The audience rose to their feet in applause. There ...

4242. An Empty Stage, An Empty Tomb

Jn 20:1-18

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King Duncan

... at a pool of light wandering around the stage, accompanied by the orchestral theme. As the light danced and the orchestra played, they remembered Anna Pavlova. In their hearts they could see her on stage, dressed in white with flashing dark eyes. And when the music stopped at last, they gave the departed Anna a thunderous ovation that echoed on and on in the night. An empty stage with only a spotlight, but in their hearts she was alive. For some, this is the experience of Easter. The Lord was crucified, he ...

4243. Defining Moments

John 20:1-18

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John P. Jewell

... time she said, "Yes." The first date. A look on the doctor's face. The day a child was born. The time your mortgage was approved on the first house. The time you lost the person you loved most. These are moments locked in place and time. We stop when these frozen moments are called to mind. The most dramatic of them all are those moments of life and death that make up the greatest most wonderful, and the worst most devastating events of our living. "Defining" moments some folks might call them. As we gather ...

4244. Totally Awesome!

John 20:1-18

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James W. Moore

... , quietly said, "Oh, that's too bad!" But then the teacher quickly related that Christ rose again and came back to life. Hearing that, the little boy's eyes got as big as saucers. His face lit up, and he exclaimed, "Totally awesome!" Well, it is totally awesome, when you stop to think about it. The place of the skull has become a throne. Evil had its best chance to defeat God and couldn't do it. The victory is God's, and God wants to share the victory with us. God is on both sides of the grave, and nothing ...

4245. When Tragedy Strikes

Psalm 23:1-6

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James W. Moore

... alone… God walks with us. Some years ago, Dr. William Barclay had to face a great tragedy. His 21-year-old daughter and her fiancé were both drowned in a tragic yachting accident just a few weeks before they were to be married. Later, Dr. Barclay said, "God did not stop that accident at sea, but He did still the storm in my own heart, so that somehow my wife and I came through that terrible time still on our own two feet." He continued to say: "The day my daughter was lost at sea, there was sorrow in the ...

4246. The Lost and Found Coin

Luke 15:8-10

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James W. Moore

... s incredible that she would undertake such a faith venture in such a scary, dangerous place. We can only imagine the horrible things that could have happened to her there. But, in faith she went… and the very first day she did a very courageous thing. She stopped a drug addict on the street and asked him: “Who’s the ‘baddest of the bad’ in the Badlands?” The addict answered: “That would be Seville, the Doctor. No question about it, he’s ‘the baddest of the bad down here, but if you go near ...

4247. Changed Lives - Simon Peter (Maundy Thursday)

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

Master story-teller Dr. Fred Craddock tells about something that happened many years ago while he was driving cross‑country. He had stopped at a small diner somewhere in the South to refresh himself with an early breakfast and some coffee. He had been driving through the night and now it was getting close to dawn. And he was sleepy. As he waited for his breakfast order to come, Craddock spied a black ...

4248. The Lost and Found Coin

Luke 15:8-10

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James W. Moore

... It's incredible that she would undertake such a faith venture in such a scary, dangerous place. We can only imagine the horrible things that could have happened to her there. But, in faith she went… and the very first day she did a very courageous thing. She stopped a drug addict on the street and asked him: "Who's the ‘baddest of the bad' in the Badlands?" The addict answered: "That would be Seville, the Doctor. No question about it, he's ‘the baddest of the bad down here, but if you go near him, you ...

4249. The Lost and Found Elder Brother

Luke 15:25-32

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James W. Moore

... -three years. He rarely comes to church anymore and when he does, he sits in the congregation with bitterness written all over his face. He is mad most of the time: He is cynical and critical of the church, especially the music program; but people long ago stopped listening to him. Here is a man who has wasted his talent and who has wasted 33 years. Think of what he has missed while making himself miserable through pettiness and jealousy and envy. Jesus knew how destructive envy can be and that’s why he ...

4250. The Lost and Found Celebration

Luke 15:15-24

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James W. Moore

... We excuse ourselves by blaming other people. We learned this tactic early when our son, Jeff, was 6 yrs. old. He ran thru the kitchen one Saturday morning and “karate-chopped” the dishwasher accidentally hitting the “on” button. When the dishwasher started up, he stopped in his tracks. He knew he had done something he shouldn’t have done, but quickly he rose to the occasion. He said: “It’s O.K. Dad… we’ll tell Mom you did it!” - We excuse ourselves by blaming circumstances or past events ...

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