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4326. You Are What You Wear

Luke 24:1-12, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... feelings, your motif, your intentions, your personality, your affiliations, your deeply-seeded values and even your faith. Wearing clothing is an art, and art is a window into the soul. Your clothing can be the cross you wear, or a tattoo you bear, the jewelry and accessories you choose, the hairstyle you coif, the glasses you don. Even the absence of clothing or accessories makes a statement about who you are and what means something …or not…to you. Your outward appearance, the “art” of imagining ...

4327. House of Stone

Psalm 118:1-29, Isaiah 18:1-7, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Remembering happens in relationship. Jesus as “tekton” is our relational cornerstone, even also as our substance and mortar. Jacob at Bethel, Moses at Sinai, Joshua at Jordan and Schechem –we too as living stones are covenant markers, signposts of Jesus within the world that bear witness to the glory and promise of God. In John’s Revelation, each follower clothed and bathed in the white Light of God are given both white robes and a white stone with his or her name written on it. In this, we know ...

4328. The First Songs of Christmas

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... priceless! The scriptures tell us: “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.” “In a loud voice, she exclaimed: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!’ … ‘Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!’ Now, we can’t be sure that Elizabeth or Mary actually sang, but her emotional reaction to Mary’s visage in her doorway is phenomenal! The scriptures ...

4329. The Unclean Palate

Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... more, than he is. Who in your life do you know who is radically different in some way than you are? Are you friends? Why or why not? Jesus tells us, as does Paul and the other apostles of the early church, that the way you treat people bears witness to the way Christ’s Spirit is living and working in and through you. Or in other words, your ability to be in relationship with people who seem different than you are has much more to do with your culture, your tastes and your predispositions, and especially ...

4330. Immersed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... symbol –a red cord or tikva (an uncommon color…and so very significant) in the stone frame of the city wall/window. This sacrificial “blood on the altar” act ensured her life and the life of her family. Rahab would later marry Salmon and bear Boaz, husband of Ruth, forebear of David, and Messiah Jesus.[10] In fact the word “tikva” (red cord) means lifeline, hope, expectation in Hebrew. Just as in the original Passover story in the Exodus of Israel, that same lifeline is inherent in the mezuzah ...

4331. The Crack in the Wall

Joshua 2:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a follower of JHWH, or if she in that visitation, converted and decided to follow the God she believed would be victorious over Jericho, but we know, she made that pact, she followed it through, and later she would marry Salmon, one of Joshua’s men, bearing a son named Boaz, who would go on to become the husband of Ruth, in the lineage of Messiah Jesus. Rachab plays an important role in Israel’s entry into the promised land, and in preparing the genealogy that would inform Jesus’ ministry and mission ...

4332. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

... an addiction. No human being can stand to be worshiped, to have others depend totally and exclusively upon him or her for everything! Furthermore, it would not be fair for me to depend on someone else in this way. Only God is capable of bearing the burden of our total and absolute trust! Only God is always completely available to us in unconditional love and acceptance. Unconditional love is important in our close human relationships, but our best approaches to this love are limited. Even those who are ...

4333. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... who had lost his legs in a motorcycle accident. Angry and bitter, in the hospital he lashed out at those who tried to help him, including the young woman who loved him. Then, suddenly, during one encounter the anger turned to tears and now, instead of bearing the brunt of his anger, the young woman achieved the kind of tender closeness she had hoped for. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the famous authority on death and dying, tells us that we should consider it a compliment when a dying person shares his or her ...

4334. The Phrase We Never Want to Hear

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... at the sight of his scars? It is because Jesus’ scars proved God’s love for them . . . and for us. Jesus could have escaped his arrest and crucifixion. He could have found 100 other ways to save the world. He chose instead to sacrifice himself, to bear the full penalty of suffering and death, to save us from our sins. Those scars prove Jesus’ commitment to his mission: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). Let me tell you about an American soldier whose body bore many ...

4335. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... alongside Caleb for the rest of recess. (6) Tyler didn’t take away Caleb’s burdens. He simply walked with him and loved him in his weakness. Jesus does the same thing for us, and having that love and power freely available to us makes any burden easier to bear. “Take my yoke upon you . . .” We have a soul and we have a Savior. And finally, Jesus is saying to us in this passage, we have a solution to our weariness and burdens. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you ...

4336. Faking It or Making It?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus Christ accomplishes its mission—our children’s children will not know the old, old story of Jesus and his love. It is sad but true—many of us don’t want to do anything that requires us to sacrifice some of our time and resources. We sing “Must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free? No there’s a cross for everyone and there’s a cross for me.” But some of us are just faking it. The story is told of a worker in an inner-city mission who had given many years to a ...

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Abu Bakr

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Alexandre Dumas

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Alexander Pope

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Ambrose Bierce

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Anais Nin

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Ann Landers

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral (or A pile of rocks ceases to be a pile a rocks when someone has a cathedral in mind).

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

Arthur E. Waite

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4326. You Are What You Wear

Luke 24:1-12, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4327. House of Stone

Psalm 118:1-29, Isaiah 18:1-7, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4328. The First Songs of Christmas

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4329. The Unclean Palate

Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4330. Immersed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4331. The Crack in the Wall

Joshua 2:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4332. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

4333. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

4334. The Phrase We Never Want to Hear

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

4335. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

4336. Faking It or Making It?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Abraham Lincoln

Abu Bakr

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Alexandre Dumas

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Alexander Pope

Ambrose Bierce

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Anais Nin

Ann Landers

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

Arthur E. Waite

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