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4351. The Gardener

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and farm. Gardens we’ve re-discovered, in addition to their food-growing abilities also add beauty and relieve stress. Even city roofs are establishing garden places, “sky gardens” they’re called, where people can get away and feel in touch with the land. Some of the most up and coming jobs in fact today are for “landscape architects” and “professional organic farmers.” Gardeners today are some of those revered people who seem to instinctively communicate with the plants and vegetables ...

4352. Lay It All Down

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... what it meant to live a godly life, who represented the might and power of God. We know Jesus represented the healing power of God. We remember, as Jesus was going to heal a leader’s daughter, that on his way, a woman reached out and touched the “wings,” that is, the braids, the tzitzit, of his garment, and immediately she was healed. For the messiah will have “healing in his wings” (Malachi 4:2). The people laid down their tallits, because they knew who Jesus was, and they knew what he could ...

4353. Dry As Toast

Matthew 12:15-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... know is that this man recognizes Jesus. Somehow, he recognizes Jesus right in the midst of that synagogue. And more importantly, Jesus recognizes him. And Jesus bids the man: “Stretch out your hand.” He doesn’t say some hocus-pocus words over him. He doesn’t touch him. He doesn’t wave his hands over him. He simply says, “Stretch . . . out your hand.” As the man’s hand is stretched out, it is healed. But wait a minute! We can’t read over this line. We are forgetting something, aren’t we ...

4354. Lady of the House / The Practice of Joy

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , Be Happy!” The song quickly reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Music 100 charts and remained there for weeks! Everyone everywhere was singing, “Don’t worry, be happy now!” In fact, the song became the unofficial anthem in Jamaica after Hurricane Gilbert touched down on the island that September, causing over a month of severe hardship for the entire population. Listen to what I’m saying. The song didn’t make people in Jamaica happy, because they already were happy people! It made people smile in ...

4355. Are You a Lemming or a Lassie?

Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:35-48, Luke 12:49-53, Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... can feast eternally. The Yeast of the Pharisees is corrupt doctrines made to enslave people to materialism and senseless rules, rather than to encourage them in loving relationship with God the Sovereign. One of the best examples of the senselessness and out-of-touch-ness of the current state of affairs is when Jesus is speaking with his disciples about the importance of staying rooted in God, and someone from the crowd interrupts wanting Jesus to referee a petty fight for money between him and his brother ...

4356. Mending Fences

Luke 16:1-15, Luke 16:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... he is teaching his disciples or among people in the open air. Here, he is appealing to the authorities, who are educated, knowledgeable, and astute enough to know what he is referring to with his use of phonis. Jesus also is bringing in a touch of his end times talk –“when money fails….and it soon will….you should be most concerned with the treasure you have stored in heaven, so that you may enter into God’s “everlasting tabernacles.” The word tabernacle, or house, or dwelling suggests that ...

4357. Song of Joy

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ! 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 was, it sent chills down the ...

4358. Oh That Cookie Jar Goodness!

Matthew 19:16-30, Mark 10:17-31, Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... say, “NO cookies before dinner!” Or you’re just about to sneak a bit of icing from off of the side of the cake someone made for your sister’s birthday, when you hear a voice from the laundry room two rooms away say, “…and by the way, don’t touch that cake!” Doesn’t that just creep you out? Really? How do they know? Do they really know us SO well? Yup. They do. Love implants X-ray eyes in the lover. People who love us best know our worst. They know our penchants to sneak sweets, our sly ...

4359. Pilate's Ruse

Matthew 27:1-26 · Luke 22:66--23:25 · John 18:28-40; 19:1-16 · Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... arrived at his palace in the wee hours of the morning, disturbing him, wanting him to dispose of their problem. On top of it, they wouldn’t even come inside, for fear of “degrading themselves” before the Passover by allowing their feet to touch his “desecrated” palace. No, Pilate held no sympathy, only sneers for this group of “officials.” But he held no sympathy for Jesus either. He did however have to pacify his wife. Asking the Jewish authorities therefore if they wanted Barabbas or Jesus ...

4360. Joey and Nicky at Skull Mountain

Mark 15:42-47

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... wanting to kill him, Herod spent an hour trying to quiz him on all kinds of religious matters. But Jesus wasn’t talking. Herod wouldn’t make the same mistake again. This guy spooked him. Who knew? Maybe he was John come back to haunt him. Herod wouldn’t touch Jesus with a ten-foot pole. He sent him back to Pilate. But not until he had a little bit of fun. Adorning him with a purple robe and crown of thorns….he poked some fun at this guy who dared declare himself ‘king.’ Only Herod was king after ...

4361. The Thorn of Discontent

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... boat that is chained to shore, The wild unrest of the heart in my breast Tortures me more and more. I wot not why, it should wail and cry Like a child that is lost at night, For it knew no grief, but has found relief, And it is not touched with blight. It has had of pleasure full many a measure; It has thrilled with love's red wine; It has hope and health, and youth's rare wealth-- Oh rich is this heart of mine. Yet it is not glad--it is wild and mad Like a billow before ...

4362. Dressed for Success?

Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here ...

4363. Deep Faith

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Genesis 5:1-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... no return. For The Deep will change you. Once you enter The Deep, you can no longer be content to live in the shallows. From then on, that voice of Jesus will call you. Go Deep. Jesus is calling you: Be with me, love with me, see me, hear me, touch me, know me. Go Deep. Go Deeper Still. Today, we read in scripture about the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, marked by a baptism. And in that baptism of Jesus, as he went down into the water, and rose out of it again, a voice was heard…..a light, brilliant and ...

4364. Massah and Meribah

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” Image Exegesis: The Source Split rock –that’s the rock associated with the fountain of water at the Rock of Horeb. Where Moses touched the rock with his staff, water sprung forth from below and out through the rock, a sign of God’s presence, as well as a thirst quencher for a people parched of faith in their long desert journey toward the Promised Land. The Source –YHWH ...

4365. The Raising of Paul

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of everyone watching! As they gather around him in prayer…, Paul is raised….raised again for service, for mission, for proclaiming Jesus Lord! What kind of power is that!? Jesus told His disciples, His apostles, before He was ascended, that when they were touched by the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost that they would be clothed or “endued” with power from on high, This endowment of enduement would empower them to work miracles in Jesus’ Name to the glory of God. Wherever people were in doubt ...

4366. God Powered Impact

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . She mentions being in partnership with God, nurtured by God, equipped by the Holy Spirit, living by prayer, being guided by scripture, living to serve, serving as a place of transformation, practicing discernment. These and others are signs that God’s powerful Spirit has touched down in your church. Just as in the kinetic energy burst of Pentecost, God’s Spirit never appears on demand nor can be dispatched as we may desire. But wherever two or more are gathered in Jesus’ holy name, you can be sure ...

4367. Bringing in the Sheaves

Ruth 1:1-22, Ruth 2:1-23, Ruth 3:1-18, Ruth 4:1-12, Ruth 4:13-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Church, we think we need to be responsible for the harvest. We spend a lot of time worrying about results, and fretting when things don’t turn out like we hoped they would. We plan events, and few come. We try ministries that sometimes don’t work. We touch lives, and we fret, because those people aren’t in our pews. And sometimes, we start to feel down, because we feel that our efforts don’t matter. But we are not in charge of the Harvest crops. We are in charge of the sowing and the scattering ...

4368. Mercy Me!

Romans 14:1--15:13, Luke 6:27-36, Luke 6:37-42, Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... mercy supercedes all of the rules. Love transcends all control. When your heart becomes weighed down like a dead weight with toxic spirit, we bring down everyone around us too. The heart must repent of its toxic addictions in order to receive the healing touch of Jesus and the merciful cleansing of God. In Jesus, the load is not just lightened, but the heart changed out. The metaphor of the heart is primary in these scriptures. Metaphors of tree, vine, fruit, eye all serve that primal metaphor, the heart ...

4369. Crossing Over

Luke 10:25-37, Genesis 48:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... worship in the same Temple, or their refusal to attend the same festivals in Jerusalem.] But the bottom line is –these guys did not mix company! And the “law” of the Jews, upheld by the Pharisees and Priests of the time, seconded that! If you touched a Samaritan, you had been “defiled!” “Defiled” was a big thing to them in those days. You could be defiled by doing a lot of things. And once defiled, you couldn’t enter back into the Jewish community without some fairly extensive and expensive ...

4370. Unfettered Faith

Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:40-45, Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Teaching (2 Timothy 2) Jesus Heals a Leper When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to ...

4371. Sweet Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of the Almighty God has the power to reshape our hearts and redirect our thoughts, to create in our lives and in our churches the kind of Vineyard that will bear the sweetest fruit in the world, so that all will be fed, and all may be touched. I invite you now to come forward to the altar….to receive a handful of grapes from the bowl…and as you taste each one…..receive into your life Jesus’ gift of Truth, Authenticity, and Life. *Acronym as used in “The Human Sacrifice” by Irislynn Russell, 2005 ...

4372. Jubilaeum

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Genesis 2:4-25, Leviticus 25:8-55, Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s anointed. You know what it’s like to walk in the Spirit. You know what it’s like to embrace the mystery of faith and to live it out in your lives, to walk where others won’t go, and to reach out to those no one else will touch. You are the fruit of God’s love, followers of Jesus, the Son of God, who Himself was the first fruits of all who have fallen asleep. You are His alarm clocks to a world that has fallen asleep to the presence and power of God. You know God restores ...

4373. The Healing Tree

Revelation 22:1-6, Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to heal in His holy Name the wounded of the world. And you know this: there are plenty of wounded out there. Jesus begins his ministry with healing. He ends his ministry with healing. And in the Holy Spirit, Jesus continues that healing ministry. When we are touched by the power of the Holy Spirit, we too are given the power to heal in Jesus’ Name. This kind of healing and wholeness is a foretaste of the “heavenly feast” to come. We know that from our communion liturgy. This is just a little taste of ...

4374. Let It Loose!

Mark 7:31-37, Exodus 4:1-17, Exodus 4:18-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Decapolis. There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him. After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!”(which means “Be opened!”). At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly. Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone ...

4375. Hiding in Plain Sight

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23, Exodus 2:1-10, Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s love and salvation hope for humanity. And even then, at times, he will tell his disciples to “keep hidden” as best they can his miracles and his identity. The world would not be ready to “see” and “hear” and “taste” and “touch” what Jesus had to give them. But like a mustard seed that spreads quietly and discreetly, God will reveal bit by bit the enormous implications of Jesus’ life and mission until his momentous death, resurrection and ascension when many would suddenly “see ...

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