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4426. Reconciled Enemies

Romans 5:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. (based on Romans 5:1-5) Collect Great are you Lord, and great is our anguish. Great are you Lord, and great are our joys. Today we present before you our concerns and our celebration, our sorrows and our happiness. Hear us in the words we have spoken. Hear us in the silent depths of our hearts. Even as we ask you to grant us our requests we also ask you to act on the basis of your wisdom. We recognize that ...

4427. As Children of the Light!

Psalm 23, Ephesians 5:8-14

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... and our hearing towards your message for us this morning. These things we pray in your name as Shepherd and King. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Once more, Lord, we offer up to you the sum and total of our lives, the successes and failures, the joys and concerns. We share these aloud in the midst of the community of faith. We whisper these softly with a trusted friend. We offer them up silently from the depths of our hearts. Nothing is hidden from you, God. For this we are thankful. Hear our prayers, grant our ...

4428. A Cup of Cold Water

Matthew 10:40-42

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Frank Ramirez

... and hunger, Lord you have dealt bountifully with us. In gratitude we accept the lessons of our difficulties as well as the blessings of that measure of prosperity that is ours. Call us to share your blessings with all nations. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord in our concern for our own salvation we can lose sight of the need to give the cup of cold water in season. We preserve our salvation by faith against the world so well that our faith becomes dead, and no longer pleasing to you. In this age of instant ...

4429. Worth Waiting For

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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Frank Ramirez

... love and respect. Collect Give thanks to God for the ministry that we share in Christ Jesus. Give thanks to God for the wealth of Christian experience here and around the world. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we hear so much about the coming wrath, and our concern is to save ourselves from its horrors. Forgive us our selfish fears and challenge us this day with your help and grace to save others from the world. Amen. Hymns "A Wonderful Savior Is Jesus My Lord" "Take Time To Be Holy" "God Be With You"

4430. But Some Doubted

Matthew 28:16-20

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Frank Ramirez

... witnesses. Help us in our healing that we might heal others. Open our hearts to the possibilities of ministering both within and beyond our congregation. Challenge us to take your message to all people, and to receive from all people as well. Lord, our joys and our concerns we offer this morning as we seek your will for our lives. These things we pray in your name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Thank you, Lord, for telling us in your word that your work was so vital that you included the doubters in the great ...

4431. A Hope for Peace

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

James L. Killen

... the earth and to gather them into one harmonious whole. The letter to the Ephesians speaks of God's "plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth" (Ephesians 1:10). Paul was especially concerned about the hostility that existed between Jews and Greeks in his society. It was a bitter division that could turn violent. It was probably that hostility that eventually caused Paul's death. But Paul found that conflict very painful because he loved both his own ...

4432. Removing Obstacles

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Sermon

James L. Killen

... says, "That is what is supposed to be going on in the church." In another place, when an issue came up about the Christian's freedom to do certain things, Paul said, "Yes, we ought to claim our freedom. But we ought to use our freedom in loving concern for others and be careful not to do anything that will be a hindrance to others" (1 Corinthians 9 and 10). Again and again, Paul reminds the people that they should put their mission first and be of one mind and purpose. Paul provides us with three beautiful ...

4433. Still Under Construction

1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Sermon

James L. Killen

... is. Our perception of the goal may change as we move along. Early in the process, we may be looking forward to liberation and blessedness, happiness, and maybe goodness. Later, we may find ourselves hoping to love more completely. Then later on, we may be more concerned about being more able to serve the purposes of God. All of these hopes are appropriate in their times. Just keep looking forward to the new visions that God will show you and to the new fulfillments into which God will lead you. Be careful ...

4434. Dealing with Criticism

1 Corinthians 4:1-5

Sermon

James L. Killen

... person he was. His writings include profound theological reflections on the shape of reality and the way to fullness of life, practical advice about how to live a Christian life in the real world, directions on how to run a church, and expressions of the loving concern of a good pastor for his people. But we will also find quite a lot of argument intended to defend his authority as an apostle, to refute the arguments of those who disagreed with him, and to defend himself against his critics. That is the ...

4435. Remembering Jesus

2 Peter 1:16-21

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James L. Killen

... an invitation to remember that, at one time in history, God did something very special through a young teacher named Jesus. It is not enough just to remember that there was a Jesus. We need to remember the story of Jesus, what he did, what he said, what happened concerning him. If, to be honest, you really don't know the story, or if it has been a long time since you read it, you would do well to read it again. Each of the first four books of the New Testament - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - tell the ...

4436. Light Is as Light Does

Ephesians 5:8-14

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... are revealed so that they might be forgiven and corrected. Sins are revealed so that what is done in the darkness might be overcome by what is done in the light. We are not to attack our brothers and sisters for their sinfulness, but are to admonish them concerning the dangers of being drawn to the darkness. Light is as light does. We are children of light who walk in the light. And while this passage tells us more about what life in the light is not than what life in the light is, like a parent pleading ...

4437. The Church that Jesus Built

1 Peter 2:2-10

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Richard W. Ferris

... still get hung up on the "church building." Is it meeting our needs? Do we need to make major repairs rather than just continued maintenance? Should we add-on or rebuild? Should we renovate our sanctuary and modernize to fit the times? Jesus is more concerned with building the church than the church building. "If you build it, they will come." Ever since that line emerged from the movie Field of Dreams we have been using it to describe everything from a shopping mall to a major league baseball stadium. But ...

4438. Still Sinners, Still Forgiven

Romans 5:1-8

Sermon

William G. Carter

I have an announcement to make. Today's sermon is not for everybody. It was not planned for a general audience. It was not written to whom it may concern. No, today's sermon is intended for people who have a hard time feeling forgiven. The rest of you can listen in. Once in a while, I run across somebody who has difficulty feeling that the good news of the gospel is for them. They don't have any problem ...

4439. Thank God, We're Already Dead

Romans 6:1b-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... being circumcised. Life is going to be different from that day forward. In one of her short stories, Flannery O'Connor tells about a four-year-old boy named Harry Ashfield. He lives in an apartment with parents who neglect him. Their lives are more concerned with drinking, partying, and recovering from hangovers. A cleaning lady takes young Harry to hear a preacher down by the river. Harry has never heard anything like that preacher. As the preacher stands hip deep in the river, he speaks about Jesus and a ...

4440. Speaking of the Spirit

Romans 8:12-17

Sermon

William G. Carter

... stock of the gifts and abilities which God has given us. No, the gifts of God are to be used by God. If you are a baker or a painter, you need to bake or paint because God gave you that gift and intended it to be used. Rather, my concern is getting out from under the burden of being an individual, getting free of the burden of being "your own person" while the rest of the world is ignored and left to rot. The gospel of Jesus Christ lifts the burden of thinking the world is mine to conquer, mine ...

4441. Irrevocable Gifts

Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... God. We begin with potential, but that means only that we must work on that potential to bring it to its full flowering. This was exactly the case with a young lady named Mary Alice. Everyone said she had potential. And she did. But she was deeply concerned that she might misuse her potential, or that it might somehow be taken from her, or that if she used it, it would somehow be diminished and go away. So she hoarded the potential very carefully. Mary Alice never actually used any of her potential, but she ...

4442. Always?

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Rick Brand

... other. In fact, there are days when I never get to my devotional life. So there goes "always" automatically. Even more typically, the focus of our prayer life changes almost daily. We do not pray for the same thing over and over. We have different issues and concerns each day. We bring to God our prayers to help us deal with our daily issues, and if it takes more than two weeks for God to fix our problems, we are probably praying for something different by then. Always? Paul is praying for the church in ...

4443. Say What?

1 John 3:5-6

Sermon

Rick Brand

... answer to the question, "What is sin?" Answer: "Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the Law of God." But that just throws us back to the next question: What is the Law of God? And that is why the Old Testament and the Jews are so concerned with the law. You have to know the rules so that you can keep them. And then sin is disobedience. Sin is when you break the rules, and yet all that rule keeping slowly makes you numb. You begin to feel like U2 in their Zooropa album: "Don't move ...

4444. Thanks Be to God

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Sermon

Rick Brand

It is at this point that so many of us feel the temptation to tune out. "Now concerning the offering for the saints at Jerusalem" is another request for money. That is supposed to be one of the problems with the church. It is always asking for money. If it is not the saints in Jerusalem, it is the hungry in Africa, the earthquake victims in Turkey, or ...

4445. A Place for You

Ruth 1:16-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of people are named Ruth. And it is celebrated in song, as you heard this morning in the beautiful solo. Ruth was a Moabite woman. Which meant for the Jews reading this story for the first time, that she was a foreigner. By definition, as far as a Jew was concerned, that meant that she was a nobody, she had no status at all. Naomi and her husband and their two sons are Jews. They traveled to Moab during a famine, which was a common occurrence in those days. In fact, it was how the Jews got into Egypt. There ...

4446. All Your Facilities Intact

Acts 17:16-34, Colossians 1:15-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to be important. Maybe first we lose the sense of beauty and harmony. We can no longer sense those thing in the world and in nature about us. Especially when we live in environments of ugliness and dissonance, tawdriness and violence. It is why some of us are so concerned about the quality of life in our cities. It can dull your senses. Pretty soon you no longer look for God. You have lost the sense of the holy. Years ago I read J. D. Salinger's famous short story, For Esme With Love And Squalor. In it Esme ...

4447. Are You Feeling Sheepish?

Psalm 23, John 10:11-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... was called the "Shepherd King." So all the kings after King David, the greatest king of all, were called shepherds. Being a shepherd was more than a title. It was a job description. Shepherds are supposed to care for the people. Shepherds are supposed to be concerned about the needs of the people, especially the needs of the poor and those who have to have some help in order to get through this life. Instead of spending all of their time raising money to keep themselves in office, shepherds are supposed to ...

4448. Blind Ambition

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... and poverty, young people who could be helped by successful people paying attention to them. Not only would these athletes today not think of humbling themselves for the sake of other people, but they blatantly announce, as models for our society, that their only concern is for themselves. And society supports that. That is the model that is lifted up in our society, not just by athletes, but nearly universally the model is that to live a successful life you can think only of yourself. In the context of ...

4449. Coming Home

Luke 15:1-3,11b-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . There would never be pigs in a Jewish country. And the worst state of all is when the younger son finally, in desperation, has to tend the pigs. Which means, now he is banned, ostracized, shunned--forever. As far as any Jewish family in those days was concerned, the younger son is now dead. His memory erased from the family. He can never come home. Never. But he comes home. And not only does he come home, but the father receives him. And not only does the father receive him, he blesses him, which is the ...

4450. Dig In

Jeremiah 29:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... in that series, it was studiously avoided. Any sort of commitment or obligation to anything, or anyone, beyond the self was impossible. It could not happen. The city exists for opportunity. But cities will become uninhabitable if they don't also create community, concern for one's neighbor, sacrifice of a portion of one's well-being for the common well-being, contributing to the welfare of all. What is amazing about this passage in Jeremiah is the advice to exiles twenty-five hundred years ago. He ...

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