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426. Proper 8

Matthew 10:1-42

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... of your gracious Word for the world. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of tenderness, we are sad to say how much we have made Christian discipleship a way of comfort and ease rather than one of challenge and exertion. We have abandoned any notion of sacrifice, and put out of our minds any thought of crosses that might have to be borne or costs that might need to be paid. Forgive us, O God, and set before us again both the words and the way of Christ Jesus. Make us bold to accept ...

427. Proper 11

Romans 8:18-27

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Theme: Sin as earth-shaking Exegetical note Though a literal reading of Genesis 3 is untenable to the modern scientific worldview (and contemporary exegesis!), the notion of the world itself "groaning" because of Adam's original disobedience does point to the far-reaching, earth-shaking effects of human sin that belie our tendency to individualize the human plight and its remedy through the gospel. One need only think of our potentially catastrophic pollution or the potential ...

428. Proper 24

Ruth 1:1-22

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... extraordinarily liberal idea, namely, that membership in God's chosen people should be open even to (hated) foreigners and that the God of Abraham could be their God, too. The fact that the book (named after this foreigner!) achieved canonical status suggests that the notion prevailed. Call to Worship Leader: Let us praise God as long as we live! People: LET US PRAISE GOD AS LONG AS WE BREATHE! Leader: We shall not entrust ourselves to humankind! People: WE SHALL RATHER FIND OUR HELP AND HOPE AND HAPPINESS ...

429. Pentecost 27

Matthew 24:1-35

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... time trying to "psych out" God that we miss the essence of the moment? Print this following personal inventory. Ask for a response of "yes, no, or maybe." 1. I freely choose to believe that I am personally responsible for my decisions and actions. 2. I reject the notion that someone else is responsible for my decisions and actions. 3. I choose to accept responsibility for my own way of life as I live it; and I accept the consequences for my own decisions. 4. I am pleased with myself in that I am willing to ...

430. A Glory Revealed in the King

John 12:12-19

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Charles M. Mountain

... to act as God’s agent or instrument; and it means also to act with his full authority and approval. We see this in a negative way in Iran these days. Much of the cruelty and blood-letting going on there has its ideological roots in this notion. The Ayatollah is Allah’s representative and agent on earth. To resist him is to resist and rebel against Allah himself. That’s why Khomeini’s word was so powerful. To the "faithful" he was the earthly representative of God, with all the powers and privileges ...

431. From Beast to Believer

Daniel 4:28-37, Daniel 4:19-27, Daniel 4:1-18

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Bill Bouknight

... you can imagine, and as long as you live on this earth will never fail or forsake you. I delight in telling you that. But I also have to tell you that the wages of sin is death and that hell is a dreadful reality. Hell is not some weird notion of an obscure biblical writer after he had eaten too much Italian food. Most of what we know about hell was taught to us by Jesus. Hell is no torture chamber invented by a diabolical, sadistic god. Hell is simply a place where God is totally absent; therefore, it is ...

432. Is Jesus Still in the Healing Business?

Luke 4:38-44, Luke 4:31-37

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Bill Bouknight

... no doubt that Jesus did such deeds, which were, in his and his contemporaries’ understanding, miracles; that is to say, events that were the result of supernatural divine causality. Doubtless he healed the sick and cast out demons." (1) Jesus overturned the common notions of his day about how God views sick and disabled people. He denied that all sickness is God’s judgment on immoral people. Jesus wanted the sick to know they are especially loved, not cursed, by God. Every one of his miracles of healing ...

433. The Yestermorrow Eclipse

John 10:1-21

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... , gloom, and a helpless reflection upon a past event. The objective of the corporation is to keep us preoccupied with thoughts of past sins and iniquities. If successful, they can keep us immobilized. And if we buy the entire sales pitch, we subscribe to the notion that a good Christian is someone who spends the majority of his waking hours wallowing in the guilt and sins of mankind. He becomes a sort of "Mankind Muller," obsessed with "If onlies" that go something like this: "If only Cain hadn’t killed ...

434. Surprise! Surprise!

Matthew 25:31-46

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Michael L. Sherer

... so many of them had the same idea. There was a generous number of female cast-offs as well. Some were dressed as waitresses, others as cleaning women, and some even looked like ladies of the evening. Clever! That was what it was. Nobody had the slightest notion who any of them might be. In the midst of everything, nobody seemed to know just where the host was. Was he here? Was he in costume? If so, which one? Some close friends of the architect began to locate one another and to guess each others’ true ...

435. The Lacking Christian?

Matthew 14:13-21

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Dennis Kastens

... son, Augustine; Luther expressed heavy loss at the death of his thirteen-year-old daughter Margareta; missionaries to foreign lands over the years have experienced impoverishment. Why should it be different now with Christ’s followers? Some Christians have the mistaken notion that, if they follow Christ, they will never lack anything. Such persons need to read once more Hebrews 12:6, "For the Lord disciplines him who loves, and chastises every son whom he receives." (RSV) Even though we are Christians, we ...

436. God Is Not Yet Finished With You

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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John R. Brokhoff

... miles per hour. Likewise, the creation of an individual is a process that involves a continuous creation. Indeed, God is not finished with us. He is continually trying to make us what we are meant to be. Who is this God who creates continuously? The popular notion is that God the Father is the creator. We get this idea from the traditional division of the Apostles’ Creed which is divided into three parts. The articles deal with God the Father as creator, God the Son as redeemer, and God the Holy Spirit as ...

437. Christian The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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John R. Brokhoff

... was king! Even kings are conquered by death. But the kings of God’s realm live in spite of death. As kings, we Christians have no fear of death, for by the power of the cross, death was defeated. The Work of a King Does a king work? The popular notion is that a king gets other people to work and wait on him. The truth is that God’s kind of king or queen involves more than prestige and power. The royal potentate is expected to produce. In our text, God appoints David as shepherd-king in order that "he ...

438. Claim Your Ministry

Matthew 20:20-28

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Robert Bachelder

... appointed to special tasks. In the way that the arm or hand or tongue labors for the body in its specific way, so too, these members were to labor for the Church in the specific tasks of preaching and teaching. Indeed, so far from the medieval notion of clergy rule was the Protestant conception of ministry that Calvin could say the act of ordination should be looked upon as one of the principal modes employed by God to school men in humility. The Reformers believed that all ministry derived from God who was ...

439. The Glory of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Hubert Beck

... twenty centuries of its proclamation because within it resides "the power of God." And so we dare to continue to proclaim it today. It bears its own fruit by the power of the Spirit. Anyone who submits to this way of glorifying the name of God forsakes the notions of fame and wealth and honor and power. For, as Paul has said in some of those words we have been hearing in recent weeks, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart," which is the very promise of God ...

440. Journey To The Cross V: Jesus and Simon Peter

Mark 14:66-72

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James W. Moore

... , that is a sign of insecurity. Some said that people use profanity because they are angry. They are seething inside… and every now and then that anger bubbles out in the form of profane language. Another reason why people use profane language is the mistaken notion that it brings acceptance. They think this is the way to be “one of the ‘guys’ or ‘gals.’” “Cussing a blue streak” will show how “with it” and how “grown up I am,” they think… but really it only shows how childish and ...

441. THE SCANDALOUS GOSPEL

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John H. Krahn

... Christ means standing up for what is right, being principled rather than practical, serving the truth rather than the expedient even when it produces disharmony in the community, in the church, and within our family. Biblical Christianity, as opposed to many popular notions of Christianity, is a venture for the strong and mature. It is forever impatient with the old, stubborn, bloodstained ways of the world. When we are in touch with God’s Word and the demands it produces in our lives, conflict and ...

442. THE MOST WONDERFUL GIFT

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John H. Krahn

One of the things that most young children fear are monsters. Unlike the imagined monsters of children, the early church had a real monster of its own. It was a most deadly enemy that roamed about. The monster was the notion that Christ alone was not adequate for a person’s salvation. And this monster gave birth to another monster, the monster of uncertainty over our own salvation. Both monsters were real - both were inspired by the devil. Unfortunately, they are still very much with us today. Many of us ...

443. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EPIPHANY

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Tom Eberle

... first manifestation of this. Our observance of Epiphany can be made richer by the understanding contributed by the Eastern Church. Epiphany is the celebration of the God who has come to us. To use a detail from the Magi story, it attacks the notion that truth is a matter of subjective star-gazing. Truth is not something we stumble across, but something which searches out and discovers us. Epiphany is the celebration of the reaching out of God which challenges the Socratic assumption that truth lies within ...

444. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

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Robert Noblett

... , however, that we need moisture for the balance of nature, and what we curse because of inconvenience would be welcomed as blessing in a place like California where the water table often dips dangerously low. Robert Loveman’s words serve as a corrective to the prevailing notion of foul weather: It is not raining rain to me, It’s raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wildflowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It’s raining ...

445. Embalmed Alive

John 14:5-14

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Louis H. Valbracht

... fumes. We worm our way into that little place where we do our job. We work out our hours there, and then we go home to sit in the middle of a little piece of real estate. And this is our life! Do you have for one minute the insane notion that this is what Almighty God meant for your life to be, he who created you in his image? In Chapter 6 of 2 Corinthians, Paul lists for us some of the prime paradoxes of the Christian life. You remember the list: Poor, yet rich; sorrowful, yet rejoicing; unknown, yet ...

446. Justification and Reconciliation

Romans 3:21-31

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T. A. Kantonen

... , "Note this fact carefully, that when you find in the Scriptures the word God’s Justice ... it means the revealed grace and mercy of God through Jesus Christ."15 John Wesley has the same interpretation: "The plain scriptural notion of justification is pardon, the forgiveness of sins."16 Joachim Jeremias, contemporary New Testament scholar, states emphatically: "Justification is forgiveness, nothing but forgiveness, for Christ’s sake."17 Thus what Paul means by "justifying the ungodly" may be expressed ...

447. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

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T. A. Kantonen

... into a personal fellowship with him which transforms his entire existence. The basic Pauline meaning of faith is trust. As a concrete example of trust Paul presents Abraham. Abraham trusted in God to make good his promise that Abraham would become the father of many notions. "He did not weaken in faith," says Paul, "when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. No distrust made him waver concerning ...

448. Salvation as Hope

Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

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T. A. Kantonen

... were familiar with the Greek idea of immortality, but the Jewish idea of resurrection was strange to them. He therefore expected them to ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" (1 Corinthians 15:35). Paul rejects sharply the notion that the body which was buried in the grave will rise, that resurrection will be a revivification of physical relics. "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 15:50). Yet Paul’s hope is not in an immortality of the soul ...

449. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

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Kent Moorehead

... as she has in death; Rome died merely in order to get a better clutch on humanity’s throat. Tenacious has been the hold of Caesar’s ghost in politics. There are but two forms under which the idea of world government presents itself: one, the dead notion of Empire, the thing for which Caesar stood, the very name of the man still clinging on in the words Czar and Kaiser, and the name of his idea remaining in the word Emperor; the other, the living idea of Federation. When once we have come to understand ...

450. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

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Leonard Mann

... beyond, the untraveled lands and the uncrossed seas? Maps from before the adventures of Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan? How grotesquely inaccurate those maps were! How vastly they differed from what the explorer eventually found! How fantastic were the notions the ancients had about what was out there - a dropping-off-place, mammoth sea serpents to swallow up ships. But as things turned out, it wasn’t that way at all. You know, if Columbus had believed half the maps and legends ...

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