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4451. Reading the Signs

Luke 21:5-19

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... with the morning wind that set up a low whistle in the trees. 'She's coming alive,' he said soft and low, without taking his eyes from the mountain. 'Yes sir,' I said, 'she's coming alive.' And I knew right then that me and Grandpa had us an understanding that most folks didn't know." Little Tree learned from his Grandpa how to read the signs of nature. Reading signs, not the printed ones we see on our streets and highways, but the signs of nature and life and living is an art that takes time, practice and ...

4452. Counting Our Spiritual Blessings

John 6:25-59

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King Duncan

... people who followed Jesus after the multiplication of the fishes and the loaves were fixated on the physical miracle. What Jesus wanted them to focus on was the faith that produced that miracle. They were fixated on the bread and the fish, he wanted them to understand that there was a new bread from heaven, he himself. He says to them, “For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” “Sir,” they said, “from now on give us this bread.” Then Jesus declared, “I ...

4453. What Is Time?

Matthew 24:36-44

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What is time? Who can easily and briefly explain this? Who can comprehend this, even in thought, so as to express it in a word? Yet what do we discuss more familiarly and knowingly in conversation than time? Surely, we understand it when we talk about it, and also understand it when we hear others talk about it. What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who asks me, I do not know.

4454. He Moved Into the Ward With Us

Matthew 2:13-23

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Mark Berg

... among their beds. He lives the life they must live. Day-to-day, he shares it. He loves them. If they don't talk, he doesn't talk either. It is as if he understands what is happening. His being there, being with them, communicates something that they haven't experienced in years — somebody understands. But then he does something else. He puts his arms around them and hugs them. He holds these unattractive, unlovable, sometimes incontinent persons, and loves them back into life. Often, the first words they ...

4455. Two Kinds of Preaching

1 Cor. 9:22; John 1:1-18

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Scott Hoezee

... ? You speak in English but each time you repeat yourself, you say it a little louder. We operate on the assumption that if only we speak English loudly, slowly, and distinctly enough, everyone in the world will be able to understand us. It doesn't work that way. The only language people understand is their own. We need to be sure that when we talk to people about God, it is in speech they can comprehend. The other kind of preaching that fails to connect, Buechner says, is "algebraic preaching." x + y = z ...

4456. The True Nature of Happiness

Matthew 5:1-12

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Brett Blair

... mind saying that it hit me hard. To this day I still think of them often. But the truth is that because I experienced that sorrow in my life, I can more effectively minister to those who are in sorrow. Perhaps before those events I did not fully understand, but now I truly know how people feel when I go to minister to them about the loss of their loved ones. Blessed are those who mourn, for they have the potential of being more sensitive, more open to God, more caring individuals. What about you? What loses ...

4457. You Can’t Make It “By The Book”

Matthew 5:1-12

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Gary Roth

... ? He NEVER made mistakes. He ALWAYS followed the book. To which his boss replied, "Yes, but what will you do someday when something comes up that isn't covered by the book. You know the rules, but he knows what we are doing here, and why we are here. He UNDERSTANDS the company. And that's why he was promoted over you." How do we obtain God's blessing? Well, let me ask you. Do you ...

4458. Leaving Home

Genesis 12:1-8

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King Duncan

... be coming back to this school anymore. I don’t know where I’m going. But I won’t be coming back here. And this is my dolly; I’m going to give her to you because I know that you will give her a wonderful home.” (5) Children sometimes understand things in a way that adults never can. It’s not an easy thing to leave home. Home is where the heart is, says the old platitude. And it is true. God told Abram to leave his home. That must have been difficult for both Abram and Sarai. However, God ...

4459. Playing the Blame Game

John 9:1-12

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King Duncan

... a devastating time financially, it is not because God willed it. God’s will is always for wholeness and health. God’s will is for your needs to be met. That is why Christ healed this man. Healing is God’s will. This is so important for us to understand. If, when we are going through a time of extreme heartache and we insist on playing the blame game, we may be cutting ourselves off from the very power that can heal us. Notice how Christ heals this man. According to our lesson, he spits on the ground ...

4460. What Kind of Pillar Are You?

Matthew 5:13-16

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Leonard Sweet

... But becoming “salt” is not always good. Wasn’t becoming salt the curse that petrified Lot’s wife? What kind of “saltiness” did Jesus envision for the people whom he was challenging to walk towards the kingdom of God? The key to understanding Jesus’ image of salt as positive is combining saltiness with mobility — a “moveable” pillar of salt. What might have been a new image for Jesus’ Galilean audience is something that is now found on every dining table. A “moveable” pillar of salt ...

4461. Worry Not

Matthew 6:25-34

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King Duncan

... leg for about 45 minutes and then emerged and took off for shore. (8) The birds of the air “do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” Do you understand how much God loves you? Our lesson from Isaiah today contains some beautiful words. Listen closely, “But Zion said, ‘The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.’” Then God answers this plaintive cry: “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have ...

4462. My Pastor Will Find Me

Matthew 6:25-34

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Leonard Sweet

... 's no food! NO water! We're going to die!" The second man, in a quite relaxed manner, propped himself up against a palm tree. He was acting so calmly, it drove the first man crazy. He began to shout, ‘Don't you understand? We're going to die!" The second man replied, "You don't understand. I make $100,000 a week." The first man looked at him quite dumbfounded and asked, "What difference does that make? We're on an island with no food and no water. We're going to DIE!" The second man, with great serenity ...

4463. John 9:1-41

John 9:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... after the healed man had been cast out does Jesus come and find him. This one feature of the story is worth its own sermon: Jesus takes the initiative to find he man and bring full illumination to his healing. Jesus challenges the healed man to a new understanding of God’s presence in human history by introducing him to the “Son of Man” or “The Human Being.” It is as the “Son of Man” that Jesus incarnates the logos in this world. Face to face with the one who gave him sight, the one who he ...

4464. All Boxed In?

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , of “out of the box.” People began to intentionally think about a life lived outside pre-established boundaries. Living “outside the box” has become a common litany in the last half century. Even a hackneyed cliche. The continuing challenge, however, is understanding the ever evolving “boxes” that people are living in as our world, our technologies, continue to unfold. I bought a box recently to put my tax documents in, and couldn’t believe what I saw. If you examine the flattened pattern for ...

4465. Loving Deeply (Mother's Day)

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

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King Duncan

... about it?” said the man at DIA. Finally, after four nitro tablets, and after almost 30 minutes had passed, the wheelchair attendant arrived. Ellie told him she needed to go to the medical part of the airport right away. But the attendant didn’t understand English. He could tell that something was wrong, though, so he took her to a friend, another airport worker, who translated for them. As soon as he figured out what was wrong, the attendant sped her through the crowds to the infirmary, where Ellie was ...

4466. John 10:1-10

John 10:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... recognize, remember and respond only to the voice of the shepherd and only that of their own shepherd. All other voices are ignored and not influential. Interestingly, Jesus the stone‑worker, has described a typical shepherding scenario. Yet his audience “did not understand.” They did not get the gist of his words. This obduracy leads Jesus to offer a further explanation of his allegory. Now Jesus focuses more on the human agents than on the sheep. He declares himself to be unequivocally “the gate ...

4467. It’s Like Water

Matthew 28:16-20

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Thomas Tindell

... . I couldn't get how one and one and one, can be One, and not three, and I definitely couldn't get why it was important to say that God is three and God is One, if it was something that by definition was a mystery, something we can't understand. The answer I remember well. I was told that the Trinity is like H20 – it can be ice or water or steam, but it's all water. Well, that makes sense – there's no contradictions there! The illustration of water, steam, and ice brought some clarity of this to me ...

4468. What to Do with the Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

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King Duncan

... is what God said, “Ken, you just witnessed a squirrel that was unable to climb because it was wounded. I have a lot of children who have been wounded by Satan . . . but they are still my children. Do not condemn because you don’t understand but do all you can to help them now that you do understand.” There is much wisdom in those words. F.B. Meyer once said that when we see a brother or sister in sin, there are two things we do not know: First, we do not know how hard he or she tried not to sin ...

4469. Matthew 14:22-36

Matthew 14:22-36

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Leonard Sweet

... with Jesus, as long as it is on “the wild side.” Jesus’ invitation is simple and immediate. So too is Peter’s response. He gamely clamors out of the boat and steps onto the water. The tense of the verbs here makes possible various understandings of Peter’s actions. If an “inceptive aorist” is understood, it would suggest that Peter’s intent was to walk on the water out to Jesus, but that he never fully accomplished this goal. Most commentators assign a simple aorist to the verb, which means ...

4470. Send Her Away!

Matthew 15:21-28

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King Duncan

... impression of Jesus was just the same. Both told her that in their hours of suffering and great need they thought it was useless to pray to God the Father or to Jesus so, each said, “I pray to Mary, because she’s a woman and she understands.” Francis Hubbard is a Protestant. Inwardly she cringed at the idea of praying to Mary. Still she wanted to minister to these two women. She prayed with them, trying to emphasize God’s love and compassion. Then, after she left their bedsides, it hit her: what if ...

4471. Giving It Up for Lent

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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David E. Leininger

... at other people's worst points. Instead concentrate on their best points. We all have faults. It is a lot easier to have people overlook our shortcomings when we overlook theirs first. * Give up speaking unkindly. Instead, let your speech be generous and understanding. It costs so little to say something kind and uplifting. Why not check that sharp tongue at the door? * Give up your hatred of anyone or anything! Instead, learn the discipline of love. "Love covers a multitude of sins." * Give up your worries ...

4472. Laugh, Thomas, Laugh!

John 20:19-31

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David E. Leininger

... it so these twelve, as well as all the countless others who would believe throughout history, would be able to join him there. It might have been very easy for them all to just let Jesus keep on talking in hopes that they would somehow begin to understand. You can almost climb inside a disciple's mind as he hears about "My father's house" and "many dwelling places" and "going to prepare a place" and so on, wondering just what in the world Jesus is talking about, but being afraid to sound stupid by asking ...

4473. A Winsome Witness

Acts 8:26-40

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David E. Leininger

... swarthy friend. He chases down this chariot and talks to this guy while jogging along side. He finds him struggling over scripture, and asks (between attempts at catching his breath), "Do you understand what you are reading?" "How can I, unless someone guides me? Can you help? Climb on in here. I would love to understand." Once Philip was in the chariot, the eunuch asks, "About whom, may I ask you, does the prophet say this — sheep to slaughter, a lamb before its shearer, justice denied, life taken away ...

4474. God's Battleship

John 17:6-19

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David E. Leininger

... them. The church — God's battleship, and you and I are invited to the captain's table along with crew members from around the world. We will not all understand what we do there in the same way. But, you know what? So what! — that's what! As John Calvin said hundreds of years ago, "I would rather experience it than understand it." 1. February 13-15, 1996. 2. Schisma — a split or gap ("schism"), lit. or fig.: — division, rent, schism. Strong's Hebrew-Greek Dictionary. 3. Hairesis — a choice, i ...

4475. He Descended Into Hell

1 Peter 3:18-22

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David E. Leininger

... cup of death, that the triumph of Christ is universal, and that there is no corner of the universe into which the grace of God has not reached.[1] That last statement is where I find my batteries charged when I hear the words, "He descended into hell." I understand the woman who said that this was the most meaningful affirmation in the entire creed for her, because this statement told her, "He has been where I live every day." I will give you a descent into hell. It was a late spring night, June 7, 1998 in ...

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