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4526. Mary Of Nazareth

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ephesians 1:15-23

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... to visit my cousin Elizabeth and listen to what she had to say about her coming baby and her relationship with God. I wanted to see her and be with her and learn about the angel's message to her. When I arrived, Elizabeth was filled with God's holy spirit and she knew immediately that I was expecting the Messiah when I came into her home. She was six months pregnant and filled with overflowing joy in the Lord. At times, it was hard for me to believe what was happening to me, that I was chosen to be the ...

4527. How to Settle an Argument

Acts 15:22

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... it. But Peter stood up and told his story about how God had done away with all of those laws when He sent the Holy Spirit to bless them and baptize them in love. Christians did things because they wanted to do them, and not because a law said they had ... so many laws to keep. Why should a Gentile first become a Jew before he could become a Christian? It was the same Holy Spirit that blessed both the Jew and the Gentile. That was a good point. Now Paul and Barnabas felt they should tell the Jews about the ...

4528. Love Is Down to Earth

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... unity today. Perhaps if both sides will be more humble and recognize the dangers of yelling too stridently about who represents the true church, we will all remain true to the simple piety that Jesus referred to when he said "Blessed are the poor in spirit." Finally, let us ask what down-to-earth evangelism should be all about. Some would insist that it means concrete concern for adding numbers of people to membership rolls. But it should ever be our conscious goal. It is likely that people can tell whether ...

4529. Divine Liturgy, Divine Play, Divine Comedy

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Carl Jech

... be quite long because they are essentially an acting out of the life of Jesus. Most liturgies play around quite a bit with names, images and symbols for God. More often than not we begin "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." It is fair to say that we are playing with the imagery of parent and child when we use this way of naming, of describing God. Surely we realize that these ways of describing God are inadequate symbols and that we should not take them too seriously. God may ...

4530. Jail House Joy

Acts 16:16-40

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... and to discredit the effects of the witnessing of Paul and Silas. Paul, however, was able to discern the difference between the words of a demonically-possessed fortune teller and the authentic proclamation of one who had been blessed with a gift of prophecy from the Holy Spirit. So, Paul turned to the deranged girl and, on the spot, performed a miracle of exorcism which drove the demon from her. What Paul did not know, but what he was soon to find out, was that the con-men in the city, those who owned the ...

4531. When Faith Rejects Redemption

Luke 13:31-35

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... love, not by any righteousness of ours. We are your children, and we want to be gathered under your protective arms. By faith, we ask for your forgiveness. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Hymns “I Am Thine, O Lord” “My Faith Looks Up to Thee” “Savior, Thy Dying Love” “Spirit of Faith, Come Down” “Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart"

4532. The Apostles Perform Miracles

Acts 5:12-16

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... the risen Lord. Pastor: That power is alive in the church today as we reach out into our world with the healing ministry of our risen Lord. People: We are filled with praise to God when we see the power of his Spirit at work in our world. Collect Almighty God, who gave to the apostles power to perform miracles in the name of Christ, for the benefit of mankind: Endow your church today with that same power to bring new hope to our world that the cries of pain may be met ...

4533. Justification Leads to Reconciliation with God

Romans 5:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... fellowship with him. People: Praise God for our reconciliation that transforms even our troubles into reasons to rejoice! Collect Loving God, our heavenly Father, who has given your Son to redeem us, and who also gives us faith to believe in him: Cause your Holy Spirit to reveal your love to us that we may experience the restored fellowship of being at peace with you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear Lord, we do believe in your Son. We depend on him for forgiveness; we depend ...

4534. Knowledge to Live by God's Will

Colossians 1:1-14

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... be strengthened to live according to your growing knowledge of God. People: We are anxious to please God with our lives, and lead a life worthy of our Lord. Collect Father in heaven, who gives wisdom and understanding to your children: Inspire us with your Spirit that we may grow in our knowledge of your will, enabling us to live lives pleasing to you, full of good works in thanksgiving for our salvation; through Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, willpower is such a powerful force. But we ...

4535. Material Wealth and Spritual Poverty

Luke 12:13-21

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... you own. True worth is not determined by what you own, but by who owns you. People: Life is our most prized possession. And we want God to be in control of it. Collect God our Father, whose providence fills our pockets to overflowing, and whose Spirit enriches our souls beyond description: Grant us the insight to make wise investments in life, that we may see our true worth in terms of our relationship with you. We pray through Christ, who has shared his riches with us. Amen. Prayer of Confession Father, we ...

4536. Faith Beyond Doubt

John 20:19-23

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call to Worship Leader: There is but one God, Creator of the universe, who loves us all. People: And all who are led by the Holy Spirit are indeed children of God. Leader: Come then, and let us walk in the ways of the Lord with gladness! People: The Holy Spirit is with each one who calls upon the Lord in truth. Leader: So let us lift our hearts to God in joyful praise and song! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You are greater than all we might imagine or even dream, yet in Christ ...

4537. Keeping the Word of Christ

John 14:15-31

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... be present in all that we do or wherever we go. People: One who bears witness of the resurrection and eternity. Leader: The Holy Spirit is come that we might know the Lord and have life. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O merciful and loving ... of the world around us. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, we often choose to face life alone and ignore Your Holy Spirit. So often we read in the Scriptures only what we want to read, and we forget Your promises to be with us in every way ...

4538. Prepared for Service

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... together and serve Christ with all we have been given. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Almighty and most gracious God, You have called us to service and have even provided for us all we would need in order to serve through the presence of Your Holy Spirit. We praise You, O Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession O God, You have called us to be Your children and empowered us to be witnesses of Your mercy and grace, yet so often we have each one turned to our own ways and used Your ...

4539. The Other Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , first of all, how unforgiving we are. Second, we don’t see this behavior as prodigal behavior for which we need forgiveness. And third, we don’t seem to realize how much the Father loves us too. Our lives lack a certain luster. We don’t have the spirit of celebration about us that the Father has. We don’t rejoice over redemption. But we must also cultivate in our hearts the knowledge that God loves us as much as he does the younger brother. I’ll say it again: God loves the older brother just as ...

4540. After A Lost Election, Field Of Dreams

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

James Angell

... cast the deciding vote, and he voted for Jones. I wasn't shattered by that turn of events. I would have been surprised to have been chosen, given my very junior qualifications. But I remember walking home from the council chamber that night with a new lightness of spirit, with some feelings of freedom that seemed to say, "If you're determined to go to Seminary, you can still go. The light has just gone green." I was ordained on a February night in 1950, after it had snowed most of the afternoon. Many of the ...

4541. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... ecstasy? Where meditation risks getting separated from the prayers of the people, and the sacramental character of the commonplace is forfeited in the pursuit of the discipline for discipline's sake? That sounds hostile. And shouldn't be - after my own spirit-shaping experiences of reading (in addition to Seven-Story Mountain), Thomas Kelly's Testament Of Devotion, John Woolman's Journal, Luther's A Simple Way To Pray, The Ladder Of Devotion by Caspar Calvor, the writings of John Watson, the Scriptures ...

4542. The New Birth in Christ

John 3:1-21

Bulletin Aid

Heth H. Corl

... give ourselves to you in praise and adoration during this hour of worship. We want this hour to be refreshing and challenging, not a time of inactive daydreaming. Help us to quiet our souls in your presence, that we may be receptive to the breath of your Spirit, transforming our existence into a new being. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear God, I know I need a new kind of life. I've learned things about you with my mind; but I've prevented them from getting to my heart. Intellectually, I want to be Christian ...

4543. The Messiah For All

Ephesians 3:4-6

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the New Israel, the Church. We worship every week in his Temple. We read the Scriptures. We know all about the promises about the Second Coming of Christ. And yet, we are so preoccupied with our own little projects that when Christ comes in Spirit in revolutionary power in our culture, we don't even recognize him. In fact, we even resent and resist the upsetting influence the gospel has when it interjects itself into our social and national and international lives. It threatens our self-assumed position as ...

4544. The Ultimate Question

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... to those who walk in it: "I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have taken you by the hand and kept you ..." In other words, God created us for himself and filled us with his Spirit. We have, thus, become the object of his love, his very nature. There is no other explanation for the existence of man.For a Christian to dangle before people the tantalizing fact that God exists, is sheer nonsense, unless that God has revealed himself as a God who cares, a ...

4545. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... today. But the Word was clothed in flesh. God's Word, his love, his grace, his concern for us his children, all became real for us in the person of Jesus Christ. As Christ himself reminds us:"The witness of the Holy Spirit is true to us, because he speaks to us of Christ." If the Spirit had spoken to us of an unseen, unknowable, transcendent God, we would find no truth in that Word. All through Jesus' ministry, his way was the way of deed, of the demonstration first and then the word. In our Gospel for the ...

4546. Is Christianity Practical?

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... is real. It does not reject the world and life in the flesh - it redeems the flesh. Jesus, of course, was the divine Son of God, but he had dirty feet, because he walked theroadways of life in this world with us. In the incarnation of Christ, the spirit and the flesh were forever joined together, and what God has joined together, let not man put asunder. And that is why, for instance, that we Christians do not believe in the pagan idea of the immortality of the soul. We don't believe in the immortality of ...

4547. Give Them Good News...

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... man. Everyone wants to be loved and accepted as a person of worth. Everyone longs for a kind word or a ray of hope to light up their personal darkness. But most of what we hear today is bad news: political scandal, social decadence, economic disaster. Today's secular spirit has taken away man's fear of hell and judgment. But many people live out their daily lives in their own private hells. Modern man may no longer believe in sin, but he is certainly bothered by it. We can waste a lot of time trying to make ...

4548. Speak From Personal Experience

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... simply don't like for people to make waves. We like things the way they are. But whenever the Spirit of Christ is released in a person's life or let loose on a congregation, things begin to happen: Broken relationships are healed as reconciliation takes ... the place of alienation. The fruits of the Spirit, such as love, joy, peace, patience, and kindness, begin to emerge. And people catch fire for the Lord! No one can deny that ...

4549. Christian Unity

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... . People: Our beloved Christ died on the Cross that we should have life. Leader: And God sent us the Holy Spirit that we should never again be lost. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, In Your loving mercy You sent us Christ when we were yet ... lost and filled with sin. Then You sent the Holy Spirit to lead us if we will only follow. We praise You, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have ...

4550. Children of God, Adopted Through Love

Romans 8:1-17

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... as the family of God, sisters and brothers to Christ. Leader: And we are to carry God's Light into all of the world for people to see. People: That others may know of Christ and the redeeming love of God. Leader: We are promised the witness of the Holy Spirit for all who will serve. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Almighty and merciful God, in Your infinite wisdom and love You have opened the way for us to become Your adopted children. We thank You, Lord, and ask You to help us always to walk ...

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