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Luke 3:1-20

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H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Baptism is the rite of passage into the family of God. We are baptized not only with water, but with the Holy Spirit. In this time of worship, let us strive to understand the full meaning of Baptism, as we mark the Baptism of Jesus. Collect Lord, we know that when Jesus began his ministry he was baptized with water by John the Baptist, and with the Holy Spirit as you declared he was your Son. This morning as we reflect on this event, help us to understand more fully the ...

4377. The Wedding At Cana

John 2:1-11

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... are concerned about the welfare of all your children, so we present these gifts, knowing that by the power of your Spirit you can multiply their effectiveness in reaching out to meet the needs of people everywhere. Amen. Hymns "As Man And Woman We Were Made" "How Beauteous Were The Marks" "Fairest Lord Jesus"

4378. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

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Phil Thrailkill

... grace. 4. Luke 4:16-30. was Jesus in the home of Simon and Andrew that Matthew at one point calls it “his own”? 5. 9:1. See www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/sites/TScpIntr.html for fascinating material on Capernaum archaeology, including the home of Peter. 6. Mark 1:21-34. 7. See the Scripture sheet on vv.12-15: 1 Now when he heard that John had been “handed over”, he withdrew into Galilee; 2 and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Caperna-um by the sea, 3 in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali ...

4379. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... in the meaningful service of others.” The poet Robert Louis Stephenson agrees, “To forget oneself is to be happy.”4 Turning to the Text Jesus had quite a lot to say about blessing. According to Matthew, he composed a catalog of eight blessings plus one to mark the way for his disciples. It is important not to separate the beatitudes from the one who gave them; they are first of all expressions of Jesus’ own life with God. He was the one who was poor in Spirit and radically dependent on heaven for ...

4380. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

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Phil Thrailkill

... the beginning of a revival here at Duncan, and if you do nothing, then nothing will change and my sermons will only add to the weight of your debt with God because now we know what is required. Pastor Bill Hybels got it right, “The mark of community--true biblical unity--is not the absence of conflict but the presence of a reconciling spirit.”17 In 1913, the Federal Government held a reunion at the 50 anniversary of Gettysburg. Thousands bivouacked in the old battlefield, swapping stories and looking up ...

4381. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

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Phil Thrailkill

... 2002, 26-30. 3. Two books that have pushed me over the edge on this issue are Gregory Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005) and George Hunter III, Christian, Evangelical & Democrat (Nashville, TN: Abington, 2006). 4. The four classic marks of the church from the Nicene Creed. 5. Matthew 6:1-4. 6. Matthew 6:16-18. 7. For a development of this idea, see Stephen Seamands, Ministry In The Image Of God: The Trinitarian Shape Of Christian Service (Downer’s Grove, ILL: IVP ...

4382. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... God teaching you these days? Are you hearing as clearly as Tim Shutt? And how is fear blocking your path? 1. Rewritten from PreachingToday.com search under Matthew 6:25-34. 2. For a discussion of anxiety and its current treatments, see Mark Yarhouse, et. al., Modern Psychopathologies: A Comprehensive Christian Approach (Downer’s Grove, ILL: IVP, 2005), Chapter 5, “Problems of Anxiety,” 109-146, and on depression, David B. Biebel & Harold Koenig, New Light On Depression (Grand Rapids, MI: 2004). 3. New ...

4383. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... God in a fleshly incarnation that continues through the resurrection and beyond? That is a test of truth from First Corinthians and First John. To deny any of the main doctrines found in Scripture and summarized in the Great Trinitarian Creeds is to mark oneself as a false prophet. I frankly think that those who keep stirring up the church every few years with their supposedly secret insights into when the Lord will return are false prophets spreading fear and panic instead of steadfast faith and genuine ...

4384. The Holy Spirit Came Upon Them

Acts 2:1-13

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... was what was happening there in that room at Pentecost, Peter explained. The Spirit was being given to all. In short, a new age was beginning. The coming of the Kingdom of God was being prepared. Jesus Christ had embodied in his person the powers of that kingdom (cf. Mark 1:15; Luke 11:20), and now by the gift of his Spirit to the disciples, that power was spreading through all the world. God was beginning to usher in his final rule over all the earth. His final coming would be ushered in by "wonders in the ...

4385. Wisdom and the Trinity

Proverbs 8:1-36

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... worship of Sophia has replaced the worship of our Lord Jesus Christ. We need to call such worship by its proper name, however. It is idolatry, because you and I worship the one God who has commanded us, "You shall have no other gods besides me" (Exodus 20:3; cf. Mark 10:17-20). He has revealed himself to us in his incarnation in Jesus Christ, and he continues to be our God and to be with us in the Person of the Holy Spirit, who is given to us from the Father and the Son. So how, then, are we ...

4386. Torn Curtain

Luke 23:44-49, Luke 23:26-43

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King Duncan

... Jewish women could come closer than the Gentiles. The curtain was part of a system that kept up barriers between Jew and Gentile, male and female, clergy and laity. (6) Today we celebrate the fact that at Christ’s crucifixion the curtain was torn. Matthew and Mark tell us it was torn “from top to bottom.” At that moment humanity entered into a new relationship with God and with one another. It is impossible to overstate the importance of the torn curtain. But there is one more curtain that was rent in ...

4387. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

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Michael Milton

... is wonderful! And this leads to …therefore I obey them (Psalm 119:129, niv). Obedience is the child of wonder. Do you see obedience to God in His Word as a way to prove your holiness? Or to demonstrate your thankfulness? Joyful obedience to God is the mark of genuine grace at work in the life of the grateful sinner-saved-by-grace. Obedience Flows from Knowing God’s Word and Is Available to All The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple (Psalm 119:130). This is the ...

4388. The Blessed Promise

John 17:20-26

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King Duncan

... owes an apology to those who have suffered greatly in this world. The only thing that makes their suffering bearable is that on the other side there is no suffering, no heartache, no tears--only eternal peace and joy. Heaven is real. And heaven is a gift. As Mark Twain once put it, “Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” The scriptures are very clear on this. No one has earned the right to dwell for eternity with God. “All have sinned and fallen short ...

4389. The Perfect Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

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King Duncan

... our health. And this includes our concern for those we love. Quite obviously, God already knows our needs as well as our wants. That’s why we should not spend an inordinate time with this part of our prayer. This is again where many people miss the mark in their prayer life. The prayer is all about them, their wants, their needs. But a satisfying prayer life begins with God and ends with God. We begin with our physical needs, then move to our spiritual needs. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive ...

4390. Divine Dinner Party Decorum

Luke 14:1-14

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R. Robert Cueni

... a little higher up the table. Your worth comes from being a loved family member, not from having a better seat at the dinner party. You are a member of the family of God. A hundred years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted three qualities he deemed marks of true "success": the ability to discern and appreciate beauty, the ability to see the best in others, and a commitment to leaving the world a better place.3 Notice that Emerson does not say that success comes in having the best seat at the table, acquiring ...

4391. Out of Conflict

Genesis 25:19-34

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James L. Killen

... nation was born. All of this is part of what it means to learn to love the Lord our God with all of our heart and all of our soul and all of our mind and with all of our strength and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves (Mark 12:29-31). It will not be an easy thing to learn. But, we have nothing more important to do. The story of Jacob and Esau eventually had a happy ending. Jacob lived away from his family for years and learned a lot through interactions with God and with life ...

4392. Ten Friends Drive Us to the Promise

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

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Arley K. Fadness

... Someone has said that there was a reason why the Ten were written on stone instead of parchment. They were written in stone so that people could only keep them or break them -- they cannot bend them. A pompous gentleman once announced to a group which included Mark Twain: "Before I die I will go to the Holy Land, climb Mount Sinai, and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top." "I have a better idea," said Twain, "you could stay home and keep them." The Ten Commandments for us moderns in this country have ...

4393. View from the Mountaintop

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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Charles L. Aaron

... 's dream, a statue represented all the kingdoms of the earth. A stone not cut by human hands destroyed the statue. Then the stone became a mountain that filled the whole earth. The mountain symbolized God's everlasting, unfading reign. In Matthew and Mark, Jesus' transfiguration takes place on a "high mountain." Holy things happened on mountains. In our passage for this morning, Moses goes to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, where God gives him a view of the land of Canaan. This trip in chapter ...

4394. Healing the Pain from the Past

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

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Charles L. Aaron

... to see. Decades later, she could not recount the story without choking up. We don't like to talk about it, but, too often, parents are guilty of downright abuse. Parents betray their children verbally, emotionally, physically, and sexually. The childhood that should be marked by innocence becomes a horror. The pain, guilt, and shame stretch into a lifetime. No part of life goes untouched. Not long ago, police in Phoenix found twin boys who had been locked in cages by their parents. Even though the boys were ...

4395. Passing and Failing

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

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Charles L. Aaron

... a young single mother gets sick and can no longer work to support her children. We don't know why violent storms brew up, snuffing out lives that have barely begun. We can't answer the why question, but surely these things do not happen just simply so God can mark our papers "pass" or "fail." We also want to affirm that the biblical language of God testing us is a way of saying that things are not all set up in advance. Some people seem to want to tell us that God has so ordered the universe that all events ...

4396. Here Is Your God

Isaiah 35:1-10

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Frank Ramirez

... unstopped; that the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. We have your promise that waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. Only our own obstinacy could make us fail to see your well marked path to glory. Burst into our lives so that even we cannot go astray. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen. (Based on Isaiah 35:5-6) Hymns "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus" "Christ Is Coming! Let Creation From Its Groans And Travail Cease" "Oh, Have You Not Heard ...

4397. The Wisdom of this World Is Folly!

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship God calls the humble, the weak, those despised by the world. Come together not in pride, but in humility. Let your weakness be a mark that Christ is present among us! Collect Our boast, if boast we must, is in you, Spirit of the Living God! We praise your name in this assembly because your foolishness is greater than the so-called wisdom of human leaders. We preach Christ, Christ crucified, Christ resurrected! Amen and ...

4398. Lent 4, Lent 5

Psalm 130:1-8, Romans 8:6-11

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. All: Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! One: If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? All: But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. One: I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; All: my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than ...

4399. Christ and Him Crucified

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 (29-31)

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Frank Ramirez

... nations, pledging allegiance only to God. Collect Before we sink, cast off everything that drags us under. Hold on to the rude wooden cross, which keeps us afloat! Lord, rescue us! Amen. Prayer Of Confession You are not ashamed of us? Dare we be ashamed of the gospel, of the marks of Christ? Never! We proclaim Christ and him crucified. Amen. Hymns "I Will Sing Of My Redeemer" "I Know Not Why" "Marvelous Grace Of Our Loving Lord"

4400. Playing the Game

Romans 6:1b-11

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Frank Ramirez

... , just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:1b-4) Collect Let us die to sin and be raised in new life. Lord we have asked to carry our cross, to bear the marks of Jesus in our lives. Take us more seriously than we do ourselves, and grant us the wish to call all into your community of faith. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, our sins prove the abundance of your mercy, as you forgive us again and again. Still, we pray that ...

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