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4276. Proper 18

Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, Jeremiah 18:1-11, Luke 14:25-35, Philemon 1-21

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... friends who walk with us on life’s journey. Leader: I, too, appreciate our relationship and the vision we share of showcasing Divine Presence. People: With open minds and souls, we express our experience with Holy Spirit in music and words and we anticipate God’s thoughts coming to us! Prayer Of Thanksgiving Creator of this Slowdown Season — you know us and this global village. You know what we think and why we behave as we do. Thank you for caring for us even when our minds are narrow and our hearts ...

4277. A Rock Thrown, A Lesson Learned

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... pastor in New England. “How’s your building program going?” Dr. Lundblad asked her friend one day. “Oh, we ran out of money before we got to the worship space,” this pastor said. Dr. Lundblad thought to herself, “What could be more important than the worship space?” But she kept her thoughts to herself. “We renovated the basement,” this pastor explained. “You know, we have a shelter there for homeless men. We put in new showers and renovated the old kitchen. The basement was so drab, and ...

4278. The Truth about Warren Buffet's Secretary

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... Scott Weimer first came to the church he is now serving, he received in the mail a very unusual financial gift for his church. The gift was a money order made payable to the church in the amount of $5, along with a personal note of gratitude. At first he thought the note and the gift were some kind of a joke. Who sends a money order for $5 as a stewardship pledge to a Presbyterian church? In the note, a woman named Lillian Hafer, from Washington, D.C., wrote of how much his church meant to her. She believed ...

4279. Open the Window, Aunt Minnie, Here It Comes!

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... it as a sign of God’s faithfulness. Frankl sums up the meaning of his experience like this: “How should I have interpreted such a ‘coincidence’ other than as a challenge to live my thoughts instead of merely putting them on paper?” (3) That is the best way to interpret any experience: resolve to live your thoughts instead of merely putting them on paper. God is faithful. You can trust His promises. Martin Luther King, Jr. trusted God’s promises. He, too, was a prophet of God speaking words of ...

4280. Not So With You

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... little wonder that the audacity of the request made by James and John, and Jesus’ response to their rude request, causes the other disciples to be “angry.” It is hardly unlikely that some of the disciples were angry because they hadn’t thought to ask for these front row seats first. While Jesus did not directly accost James and John, he now takes the time to “summon” (“proskaleonai”) or “call together” all of his disciples to once again try and impress upon them the radically different ...

4281. Reformation Day

Psalm 46:1-11, Jeremiah 31:31-34, John 8:31-41, Romans 3:19-28

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... quiet, we acknowledge your presence and we open ourselves to your love. We speak and sing our gratitude. Amen. Community Confession Leader: It is good to be still and to be aware of what we have done well and where we might have behaved or thought differently. In these moments we confess generalities; then silently, make your conversation with God personal and let the Spirit free you from shame. All: From time to time, God of the Mountains, we neglect to behave as your children. Now and then we are hurtful ...

4282. Hidden Potential

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... has for us, * liberty in the vision God has for us, and * living the vision God has for us. Samuel Was Attentive To God The priest, Eli, was faithful in transmitting the faith of his generation to the next through Samuel. When God was calling Samuel, the boy thought it was the voice of Eli. Samuel ran to where Eli was sleeping and said, “Here am I.” Three times Samuel appears before Eli. Finally Eli realizes that it is God who is speaking to the child and tells him to be attentive to God’s voice. We ...

4283. From Tragedy to Salvation

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... our lips. Both are praises of God. In Worship: Rediscovering the Missing Jewel, Ronald Allen reminds his readers that when we worship we extol God, we sound praises and we boast of him and his incredible deeds on our behalf. Allen concludes with these words, “As a thoughtful gift is a celebration of a birthday, as a special evening out is a celebration of an anniversary, as a warm eulogy is a celebration of a life, as a sexual embrace is a celebration of a marriage"3 — so a shout in worship is a ...

4284. Love - The Basic Christian Call

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... this great love of God? Joan Baez, the famous folk singer of the 1960s, sang a song titled "Love Is Just A Four Letter Word." The lyrics of the song express the idea that because love is a short word of only four letters it might be thought to be a simple concept. We know, however, that this base virtue of the Christian life is anything but simple. Its manifestations are many. As Private Schultz understood by his heroic actions, love never delights in evil, but rather rejoices in the truth. The Greeks, a ...

4285. Don’t Compromise Your Beliefs

Galatians 1:1-10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... only decent one of the lot. Nobody did the parish census; Nobody joined the parish council. One day there was an announcement in the parish bulletin for a person to volunteer to teach in the Sunday school program. Everybody thought Anybody would volunteer; Anybody thought Somebody would take the job. So, guess who volunteered? You are right, Nobody! This is the apathetic attitude against which Christians must fight in our contemporary American society. Apathy can be a significant concern for all of us. Many ...

4286. Did God Really Say...?

Romans 10:8-13

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... to judgment" (Matthew 5:21-22 RSV). We are all murderers. We all have hands covered with blood. We are all liable to God's judgment. God's word says, "Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 7:21). We thought our confession of faith and our flawless recitation of the Creed for memory mattered, but now we can't even be sure of that. The voice continues to speak softly, gently, persuasively, "Did God really say all that? But you know the truth. You know that you ...

4287. Enemies of the Cross

Philippians 3:17 - 4:1

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... and "born again," to receive the words of peace and consolation, it is under the cross. For it is here at the foot of the cross that we are given the status we crave. The hunger in our "bellies" is satisfied. Here God welcomes us home with the hug we thought we could find elsewhere. Here God dresses us in the finest clothes, kills for us the fatted calf for the feast in our honor, puts a ring on our finger, and declares to the whole company of heaven that the lost have come home. Those who once had been his ...

4288. Freedom Calling

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... as "you bite and devour one another." Verses 19-21 list some of their destructive behaviors: "fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these." They thought they were exercising their freedom by engaging in such behaviors, but they were actually destroying themselves as a community. They were actually destroying one another. Instead, the biblical view of freedom is not freedom to ...

4289. From Slave to Brother

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... have gone in the opposite direction from where Paul sent him. He might have used the letter to start a campfire to keep himself warm. He might have wanted nothing to do with Philemon, doubting Paul's confidence that it would turn out well. He might have thought that whatever caused him to run off the first time had not really changed. We might have expected that Philemon would read the letter, wad it up, and toss it in file thirteen. Even if Philemon had done just what Paul asked, why did he preserve the ...

4290. Endurance

2 Corinthians 11:24-27, 2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... end of his life, Paul has no regrets. That would be great, wouldn't it? But you know that there were times Paul thought about quitting. Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was ... easier way"? How many times do you have to go hungry, be thirsty or cold, and say, "I am so out of here"? You know Paul thought about quitting often. But he didn't. He endured. Before he died, he left us with three keys to his endurance. Fight The Good Fight It ...

4291. Sarah

2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... saw A Beautiful Mind. It has been a long time since a movie has made such an impact on me. It's about a lot of things — friendship, marriage, commitment, and love. It is also about mental illness. The movie suggests what I have always thought was most often the case with mental illness. That is, most people suffering from mental illness are not "cured" like some physical diseases through treatment, drugs, or surgery. Most often those with mental illness learn how to cope or live with or even ignore their ...

4292. Rally or Rail?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... smiled, because many men hoped for the wisdom which had taken him a lifetime to accumulate. He replied, “To begin, go to the graveyard and spend the day cursing the dead. Tell them they lived useless lives, and the world is better off without them.” The man thought this was strange, but he did as he was asked. The next day, the abbot asked the traveler, “So, what did the dead say?” The man replied, “Nothing, they’re all dead!” The abbot told him, “Today, go to the graveyard and spend all day ...

4293. Lessons From a Hurricane

Jeremiah 17:5-10

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... His desire is for intimate connection with us. Humanity is his parish! God comes to seek and to save all people who desire his divine love. Some of us are faced with nervousness when we consider the implications of having an encounter with God. The very thought of coming into the presence of a holy God means that there is bound to be power — even radical transformation. As we spend time in the word, we can't help but be surprised by the outcomes of the many encounters between God and his people through ...

4294. God All Along

Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... whom you are persecuting" (v. 5b). But Jesus was dead. It was Jesus' troublesome followers with whom Paul took issue, not Jesus. The Jesus problem had already been dealt with some time before by the Sanhedrin and by Pilate. We don't know precisely what Paul thought of Jesus prior to this moment on the way to Damascus. Perhaps Paul regarded him as a failed political figure, as a heretic rabbi, as a false prophet, or as a fanatical cult leader. We don't know. But on this occasion, Paul discovered that Jesus ...

4295. The Good Works We Leave Behind

Acts 9:36-43

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... we ask, "What is it that I leave in my wake? What is the impact and effect of you or I having been in a community, a church, a school, a workplace, a family?" Where Tabitha had been, she left behind symbols of love and generosity, tokens of thoughtfulness and sweetness. Where Peter had been, he left behind life and health, gladness and rejoicing. We consider the example of Tabitha, and we observe that the good works she left behind remind us of her Lord. For he is the original artisan, after all, and he has ...

4296. Making Something Out Of Nothing

Haggai 1:15b—2:9

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... shouldn't be surprising to us now. Making something out of nothing seems to be God's preferred modus operandi — God's normal method of operation. "In the beginning" scripture informs us, God quite literally made all matter out of nothing other than God's own thought and plan and spoke it all into existence. Later, God started a nation out of two senior citizens, Abraham and Sarah, whom, we are told by the apostle Paul, were so advanced in age that they were as good as dead (Romans 4:10). When the ...

4297. The Joy of the Lord

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... bottle with something hurtful or with something helpful.” Then the doctor looked her straight in the eye and said, “Each day that God gives us is like one of those empty bottles. We can choose to fill it with positive thoughts that lift us and other people; or we can fill it with negative thoughts that depress us and everyone else. The choice is ours.” (2) The ability to choose the attitude with which we confront life can be powerful. Let me give you example of that power at work. It is a true story ...

4298. The Ultimate Mountain Top Experience

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... .” Don’t you think that it is significant that Christ felt the need from time to time to go off by himself or in the company of a few select friends and pray? After all, he was Christ! Surely he was in constant communion with God. His thoughts and God’s thoughts were one and the same. And yet, he felt the need for a time of prayer. Doesn’t that say something to us about how we spend our time? Peter Story, an Anglican priest, who served in South Africa, tells a story about Archbishop Desmond Tutu and ...

4299. When We Are Uncertain about The Future

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Most frightening was the fear that he was not alone! His fear turned to panic. He was afraid he was losing his mind. Then suddenly, as he was approaching his psychological breaking point, Smith thought to himself, “Whatever the monster looks like, I will hug it.” “That simple, almost silly thought brought great relief to his restless mind. He soon fell into a deep and peaceful sleep until morning. He learned that embracing his fear, literally or figuratively, allowed him to subdue it.” The next ...

4300. When the Drought Gets Really Bad

Isaiah 55:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... way of saying this is that people become spiritually thirsty when they sin. A few verses further on in this passage we read, “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon . . .” We don’t use the word “wicked” much anymore or the word, “unrighteous.” That doesn’t mean that people no longer do wicked or ...

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