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4526. Daniel Interprets the Dream of a Tree

Daniel 4:19-27

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... those who go to eternal life is whether they feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, care for the sick, and visit the prisoners (Matt. 25:31–46). Even Paul, who preaches salvation by faith (Eph. 2:8–9), ... off his wickedness by being kind to the oppressed (4:27), because this was not only an Israelite value. Kings were expected to care for the poor and downtrodden. In the prologue to his famous law code from the early second millennium B.C., Hammurabi claims that ...

4527. The Interpretation of the Vision

Daniel 8:15-27

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... is called “son of man” frequently. We are reminded of Daniel 7:13, where one appears in heaven who looks like a “son of man,” or “human being.” Gabriel tells the seer that the vision concerns the time of the end (8:17). We must be careful not to interject our own views of eschatology at this point but to consider the meaning in light of the original historical context. If the context of the book of Daniel is the second century B.C., the vision focuses on Antiochus IV and his desecration of ...

4528. Blessings for a Defiled People

Haggai 2:10-19

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... a new beginning. The opening of this new section compares particularly with 1:5. Here, as there (1:2–4), the new section continues on from a question Yahweh has raised, begins with the particle “now,” and goes on to urge the people to give careful thought. The topic of the careful thought from this day on is also to be the same (cf. 1:6): how things were before the rebuilding of the temple began. To refer to the temple, Haggai here for the first time uses the word hekal, the word for a palace, instead ...

4529. Do You Believe in Miracles?

Mark 4:26-34

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Lori Wagner

... drought, too much rain, crop diseases, insects, a bad group of seeds. A farmer does not have security; but that farmer has faith and hope. A farmer does not commit to omniscience but does commit to daily discipline, prayer, perseverance, and a team effort to seed that land and care for it to the best of his or her ability. The truth is, we don’t need to be actual farmers to plant the way God intended. In fact, God’s directive to us from the time of the Garden of Eden asked us to “till and keep” the ...

4530. Shake It Off

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... victim,” Swift instead sloughed off the vitriol with joy, creating the irresistible, driving, pop hit song, now viewed over 3 billion times online![1] The song gone viral is so enticing, you can’t help but dance! You too can throw cares away, get into the beat, and “shake off” your cares and worries, stress and frustration. All you have to do is let it all go. Just dance, dance, dance! Swift is a true performer, a seasoned stage presence. But she’s also an example of someone who doesn’t let the ...

4531. More Than Gimmicks

John 6:24-35

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David Coffin

... people feel as if this could be their church home if we do not do more than give out one bread meal for survival. How are we as a fellowship of Christians showing in our words and action that we do enjoy and share the confidence, nurture and care Jesus the Good Shepherd in John 10? A concluding story goes like this in my youth memory: My uncle was a not a great church attendee, however, my aunt was quite meticulous in her worship habits. She prayed from her devotional books often three times a day. When ...

4532. Fruit Production

Luke 3:7-18

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John B. Jamison

... , like me, but every once in a while someone would come along on a mule or with a wagon. Most of them moved slowly and carefully to give us walkers the chance to get out of the way, so it wasn’t all that bad. But then a group of Pharisees, ... things we might want to have. But we are supposed to think about what the others around us have, and need, and do whatever we can to care for them. It occurred to me that maybe it wasn’t just the ones in robes he was trying to warn. I was still trying to decide ...

4533. Repetition, Repetition, Repetition

Mark 9:30-37 · Proverbs 31:10-31 · Psalm 1

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

... myself!” Preachers live in fear of repeating ourselves. I keep a log on my desk and I record in it stories and illustrations I use to make a particular point, lest I repeat one. When I’m teaching Bible classes, I watch people’s faces carefully, because I often forget which session I have given the speech about digging biblical manuscripts out of the ground, scribal errors, or Hebrew vowel points. I love to give these speeches, I treasure, even seek, to make these digressions, but do not want to repeat ...

4534. For the Love of Children

Mark 10:2-16

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Lori Wagner

... churches. We are called to cherish them, call them, bless them, and protect their faith not only in Jesus but in humankind. For Jesus has harsh words indeed for those who do not. We are not simply called to compassion, a loving nature, and a caring spirit. But we are called as disciples to take up the cross! To bear responsibility and accountability for our congregations, our community members, and our neighbors and to defend the weak, protect the innocent, give voice to the voiceless. We are called to a ...

4535. Pay Attention!

Luke 21:25-36

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Lori Wagner

... the National Institutes of Health, the instances of ADD in the United States has risen from 6.1% in 1997 to a whopping 10.2% in 2016 –the significant increase happening over a mere 10 years.[1] According to a 2021 report in the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, 8.7 million adults in the U.S. have ADHD.[2] The count continues to rise. Is it because we are “paying attention” to the prevalence of ADD in our country today? (Pun intended). Or are we as a nation becoming more and more distracted ...

4536. Whose Fault Is It?

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... attention possible. The mother was inconsolable. When we prayed, she felt no peace and could not find God. For three hours we watched her daughter’s life slip away. The mother stopped going to church. The young husband grew angry and did not know how to care for his young child. Where was God? I hear his voice echoing that of Elie Wiesel, who endured the horror of the Nazi death camps. Wiesel watched women and children herded into gas chambers. He cried with men beaten down by cruel soldiers. He saw a ...

4537. Seeking the Presence of God

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... spared. The choice is really ours ― that is our gift, and sometimes our curse, of free will. Bad things happen to all of us. Struggles come into the lives of most of us. None of us are spared the loss of someone we love, the illness of someone we care about. Many of us experience natural disasters and sometimes disasters of our own making. Yet, we are never alone. When we do not feel God, God has not moved away from us; more likely we have moved away from God. The question for the Jesus follower is: who ...

4538. Who Is This Jesus?

John 2:1-11

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John B. Jamison

... disciple as well. That was then. This day, Jesus was in Cana of Galilee, 25 miles west of Bethsaida, where he and his disciples, and his mother, had been invited to attend a wedding. Are you with me so far? It was a busy few days, and John was very careful to try and keep things straight for us. I wonder why? One of our questions was why Jesus had been invited to the wedding, and why he made the long trip to be there. Maybe it was because Cana was Nathanael’s hometown. But that doesn’t explain why Jesus ...

4539. Fox in the Henhouse

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... into an outhouse or hen house, in which a hen is sitting just out of reach. The fox tries to cajole the hen to come down, but the hen wisely declines, seeing through the fox’s sly maneuverings. Sometimes, under the guise of flattery or care, a manipulative person may take advantage for his or her own gain. The moral of the story? “Beware of interested friendships.” Or rather fake friendships based in self interest. In Greek writer Luke’s gospel, we often see these kinds of references, as he tells ...

4540. Upside Down Christmas

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Will Willimon

... that's come upside down in our lives is set, at least for a couple of days in December, right side up. Yet in the Bible, Christmas was that time when everything was turned upside down. It wasn't about a loving, family-value mother caring for a conventional child. It was about Mary, an unwed mother, expectant in a most unconventional, upside down way. The message came not through the official, governmentally-sanctioned communication channels; it was delivered in song by angels. The good news came not to the ...

4541. God Encounter

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... again in a brand, new way! The phrase “the golden hour” isn’t just confined to spirituality and photography. It has yet a third meaning! The medical field calls “the golden hour” that brief and transitory time in trauma care when a patient lingers between life and death and urgent medical care can save a patient’s life. If a patient has had a traumatic accident, a heart attack, a stroke, or an aneurysm, time is of the essence. The patient may even pass briefly away only to be resuscitated and ...

4542. Messiah’s Community

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... of-life spiritual centers. Each Friday, before Shabbat began, the rabbi and the abbot would walk for a while in the woods. They would laugh. They would feel the cool breezes and enjoy the songs of the birds. They would also commiserate about the people under their care. One Friday, when the abbot got to the forest, the rabbi was waiting for him, and rather impatiently. “I have to tell you something,” said the rabbi in nervous and excited tones. “I don’t know really how to say it, but here goes. Last ...

4543. As a Fire Exists by Burning

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... spread that good news to the whole world. Spread it first in our families, then in our communities, then our regions, and beyond. Maybe even to West Virginia. We do so through words, yes, telling our stories, but through acts also ― acts of kindness, of generosity, of compassion, and care. We do so through hospitality, how we offer it to others, and how we receive it when it is offered to us. May God grant us all the grace to make a faithful witness to the grace and love of Jesus in all that we do and say ...

4544. Getters of Things Done

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... parable. Jesus then asked the lawyer, “Who was this man’s neighbor?” And by “this man,” he was talking about the victim. Who was the victim’s neighbor? The lawyer rightly said, “the one who helped him.” This is important because, if we aren’t careful, we will flip- flop the roles. We will make the parable into a morality play; the lesson that anyone who is in need of help should be considered our neighbor. But that is decidedly not the point that Jesus made with his question to the lawyer ...

4545. For Someone Who Will Be Terribly Missed

Job 19:23-27 · John 12:23-26 · John 14:1-6 · Acts 1:21-26

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... behind plenty of examples of positive living that can well be used to make something of the stain. Think if you will, of the great care which Pat provided his family. Think if you will of how he gave of himself for the sake of others, the way he gave ... Pat’s life, when you look back at his unselfishness, his dedication to duty, his giving ways, his striving for excellence, his love and his care for others, his good humor, his love of parties, his love for fun; they can all be seen as the paint Pat’s left ...

4546. The Rhythm of Your Heart

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and call, but our hearts begin to resonate more deeply and fully with those around us. We become compassionate, empathetic, caring creatures. We echo God’s voice and intent for Creation. No matter how much wealth that may bless our doorsteps, ... has. He warns him about where he is placing his values! God does not ask us to deprive ourselves or decline to take care of ourselves as we should. Christian faith does not celebrate self-inflicted destitution. We must neither long for more and more things, nor ...

4547. In Those Days: The Voice Of The Time Keeper

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... as crude as VHS tape let us record television and watch it later. When we got our first video recorder I taped a lot of shows. Then something funny happened. I never watched them. Without the need to live by the network’s schedule, I realized I didn’t care about what they were offering anyway. Now you can watch on your own terms, and watch lots of shows that the major networks would never make. You decide what you’ll see and when you’ll see it. Life should be like that. We shouldn’t march to the ...

4548. Will You Sing With Me?

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

Heather Sugden

... on Christmas Eve. “Perhaps the Youth Group would want to carol,” someone suggested. “Maybe they could cheer up the residents of the nursing home down the street.” That did sound like a good idea. We set a date and arranged with the long-term care facility for a spirit-filled visit in the month of December. We advertised, cajoled, and rounded up parents and children. We did what any great youth program does, and ordered crazy amounts of pizza to feed everyone after worship one Advent Sunday before we ...

4549. The Art and Agony of Patience

James 5:7-10

Sermon

Heather Sugden

... set of building blocks to create a toy. These were all great ideas but often seemed to push against the finer points of patience’s art, as chocolates magically disappeared days in advance, the paper doors carefully reclosed as to appear they had never been opened… Who said my children could not be careful? For me, though, the Advent calendar that was most effective was the one that encouraged me to do something every day during the season. One day, for example, it instructed me to call a friend who ...

4550. God Is Like...a Name

Exodus 3:1-15

Sermon

Kenneth L. Gibble

... will have when they grow up. Names should never be taken lightly. You call a person what that person wants to be called. If he prefers James, don’t call him Jim. When you are introduced to a person for the first time, pronounce the name carefully. This is especially important when you meet someone who speaks another language. If a man tells you his name is Francisco, don’t call him Frankie unless he tells you he prefers that nickname. Years ago when I began attending seminary, one of the seniors took ...

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