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4551. Wedding: The Beauty of Marriage

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John M. Braaten

... is love! And so, _______ and _______, when John tells you to love one another, he is not saying something that is patently obvious. In reality he is saying nothing less than this: you are both dearly loved by God. Now he has given each of you the responsibility of bearing that sacrificial kind of love into your relationship. In other words, God's love and grace take human form as you care for and share with each other. That means the love you are to foster in your marriage is not simply a feeling, no matter ...

4552. Wedding: Marriage as Gift-giving

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John M. Braaten

... all on stage. We are participants in the Service of Worship you have created to honor our Lord, as he comes to bless your new life together. You designed this worship experience to praise God for all he has done for us through our Lord Jesus Christ. It is your response to the good news that God gave his only Son as a free gift to redeem us. It is in this spirit of gift-giving that we listen to Paul's words from Romans: "I appeal to you therefore, by the mercies of God, to present yourselves as a living ...

4553. Wedding: One from Two

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John M. Braaten

... , your lives are blended into one entity. We've even got a name for it. You are now a couple. A couple. It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Instead of being single, you are a married couple. Your two pasts become one present. Shared responsibility is fashioned out of individual freedoms. Individual goals are now mutual dreams. There are lots of ways in which two are transformed into one. Jesus said that a man leaves his parents (of course the woman does, too), so two homes are left and a new home is ...

4554. Wedding: Love as Grace

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John M. Braaten

... lived out in down-to-earth ways. And because the emotions of courtship are so explosive and heady, it can be startling to wake up one morning to the realization that marriage is not just hugging and kissing and all that, but is also, pressures, responsibilities, cares, and anxieties. The romantic dreams harbored in your hearts can be cruelly shattered by the harsh realities of life. That is not to say that the consuming emotional feelings which are the content of courtship are bad; we just can't expect them ...

4555. Wedding: How God Blesses a Marriage

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John M. Braaten

... fact that we do not have to earn it, or work for it, or trade for it. It is simply given to us - no strings attached! This is the kind of love which God would have us reflect toward each other in marriage. It is a love that demands no response, a love that gives without thought of return, a love which seeks only the joy of the beloved. It is grace. Grace is, at once, the most powerful and the least powerful ingredient in a joy-filled marriage. It is powerful because it is the only power that can conquer ...

4556. Wedding: The Foundation of Faithfulness

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John M. Braaten

... sounds as though love creates the grounds for marriage, but marriage cannot sustain love. I tell you that just the opposite is true. Love does not make marriage possible; marriage makes love possible. It's true. Just think about it for a while. Deep, responsive love is possible only when the element of faithfulness is present. You can love someone as friend only when trust is present, when you know you can rely on them. The serious love of a relationship begins to blossom when you find someone who accepts ...

4557. Alive Again!

1 Corinthians 15:24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... home and put in a vase. It is a special gift, because really it will be coming from you. You are going to be the person delivering the flowers. The flowers will come from you because you are delivering them to your mother and father. That is a real responsibility to deliver them to the right person. If you don't treat them well, or if you give them to someone else, you will not be a very good deliverer. But, I know that you can do the job. Jesus also delivered something once that was even more important ...

4558. I'm Really Sorry

Mark 6:7-13

Children's Sermon

... a powerful lesson. Discuss with your children the part of the worship service called "The Confession of Sins." Talk about what it means to you to confess or repent. Talk not only about the words we say, but the feelings inside. Discuss also some appropriate responses to someone else's apology to us. Even though we, as adults, know that God forgives us, children don't always understand this concept. Perhaps making a list of things we frequently do is something the family can do together. Make sure it doesn't ...

4559. The Faith of the Cannanite Woman

Mark 7:24-30

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Brett Blair

... people at the Sea of Galilee. They said the same thing when a poor crippled beggar cried out for help at the Pool of Bethesda. Even when the children tried to see Jesus, they tried to send them away. Too often this has been the church's response to human suffering. Send them away--to prisons, to welfare agencies, to ghettos. The disciples, like the church today, had become fatigued under the constant pressure of the demands made upon them. Part of this woman's faith, however, was that she would not be put ...

4560. How Does Your Garden Grow?

Mark 4:26-29

Children's Sermon

... is new to you, you may wish to consult a professional, or a friend with a green thumb, before you begin. If your child is used to helping you with your garden, you may wish to set aside a special plot of ground for which your child can be completely responsible this year. If you do not have a plot of ground available to you, you can try a small window box with your child's favorite variety of flowers. Discuss today's Gospel with your child, and help her to understand that the seeds of God's love in our ...

4561. A Different Undead

Mark 16:1-20

Children's Sermon

... . Ask your students to begin by listing some of the other stories they have heard or seen about people who have been raised from the dead. How did they feel when they heard or saw these stories? Were they scared? Why? Who do they think was responsible for these other "resurrections"? Was it God or the devil? Do they think that the people in these stories were really alive again, or was it only their bodies that seemed to be alive? Where were their spirits? Ask your class whether they think God had the ...

4562. Witnesses for Jesus

Luke 24:36-49

Children's Sermon

... Theme in Sunday Church School Teachers: This week's project makes a good companion to the activity suggestion for May 29, and you may wish to combine the two as a long-term evangelism challenge. Start off today with a discussion on the responsibilities of witnesses. Ask your students to imagine a situation in which they are falsely accused of doing something wrong or making a mistake. (Perhaps their parents come home and find that an expensive vase has been broken.) Ask them also to imagine that someone ...

4563. Trust and Believe

Mark 10:13-16

Children's Sermon

... one must open his or her envelope. Charge everyone with bringing the unopened envelope to class next week for return to its owner. Parents: This week's lesson is a good opportunity for you to give your children strict guidelines for safety with strangers. Discuss various possible scenarios and appropriate responses.

4564. Worth the Price

Mark 10:45

Children's Sermon

... limit, then redeem your savings at the end of that time. Encourage your entire congregation to participate (you can make special collection boxes for the chancel, or special envelopes for the collection plate), but let your students take most of the responsibility for seeing this project to completion. You and your pastor may even want to plan a special dedication service led by your students when all the coupons have been redeemed. Parents: Your household probably throws away hundreds of dollars worth of ...

4565. Add a Little Salt

Mark 9:50

Children's Sermon

Object: a saltshaker with salt in it. Boys and girls, what's your favorite flavor? (Be prepared for a variety of responses.) One of God's good gifts to us is the gift of taste. We can tell the difference between sweet and sour, bland and sharp, chocolate and vanilla, and all the other good flavors that come to us in our food. Have you ever eaten food that didn't seem ...

4566. Epiphany 4

Psalm 71:1-24, 1 Corinthians 14:1-25, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31, Jeremiah 1:1-19, Luke 4:14-30

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George Bass

... a genuine blessing to others. Such people transmit the Christian faith by the good that they do in the world; they love God and they really care about other people, much as God loves and cares for all of his own. The Christian life begins with faith as a response to God's activity in Jesus and the Holy Spirit, it grows into the expectation of that which is yet to come - life forever in the kingdom of God - and it expresses itself in worship and the world through love for God, for others, and for one's self ...

4567. Lent 1

Romans 9:30--10:21, Deuteronomy 26:1-15, Luke 4:1-13, Psalm 91:1-16

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George Bass

... Prayer Of The Day It is this "pilgrimage" theme during Lent that the new collect in the LBW picks up and makes into a prayer to God that reflects the theme of the first reading in Cycle/Year C. The Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship, which was responsible for revising the liturgy and the lectionary, might have had the Deuteronomy 26:5-10 reading - with its exodus motif - in mind when this prayer was prepared. At any rate, it is most appropriate for this Sunday at the beginning of Lent: "O Lord God, you ...

4568. Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17, Psalm 116:1-19, Exodus 12:1-30, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, Mark 14:12-26, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 10:19-39, Luke 22:7-38

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George Bass

... . They have been washed clean of their sins in baptism, and have been prepared to do the work of the Lord in the world until the final "Day" arrives. But those who go on sinning lose their claim on Christ and the kingdom. Instead of continuing to sin, Christians, in response to God's grace, need to extend to others the compassion and mercy given them by Christ. Luke 22:7-20 (L); 22:14-30 (E), alternate For the second time in five days, a portion of Luke 22 will be read in the worship of the churches. Luke ...

4569. Easter 2

John 20:19-23, Acts 5:12-16, Acts 5:17-42, Job 42:1-6, Revelation 1:4-8, Revelation 1:9-20, John 20:24-31, Psalm 149:1-9

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George Bass

... glove" treatment when officers were sent to summon the escaped prisoners to the council. They were told that they must keep silence about Jesus, if they wanted to stay out of jail. They refused, because they had to obey god, not human beings. 4. The miracle in the response of Peter and the apostles is simply that those who were afraid to be near to Jesus at his arrest and trial suddenly were afraid of nothing, of no one on earth. They were willing to pay any price they might have to in order to witness for ...

4570. Easter 5

John 13:31-38, Revelation 21:1-27, Revelation 19:1-10, Acts 14:8-20, Leviticus 19:1-37, Acts 14:21-28, Psalm 145:1-21

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George Bass

... to his promise. Revelation 19:1, 4-9 (E) In this part of John's vision of heaven and the risen Lord, he sees the Lamb of God, Jesus and his Bride, the church, which is ready for the marriage. It is a vision of the church's response to the goodness of God that, over the years and centuries, prepares it for the final consummation when there will no longer be a church triumphant and a church militant. An angel of the Lord dictated to John: "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage ...

4571. Easter 6

John 14:15-31, Psalm 67:1-7, Acts 15:22-35, Joel 2:18-27, Revelation 21:1-27

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George Bass

... ascension. The Prayer Of The Day The classic collect for the Fifth Sunday after Easter speaks to the concern that the people of God have for the earth and everything in it, in the light of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It picks up the themes of responsiveness to the reality of the resurrection and obedience, that is living the "new life," to God's commands. It reads: "O God, from whom all good things do come: Grant to thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be ...

4572. Ascension

Acts 1:1-11, Psalm 110:1-7, Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, 2 Kings 2:1-18

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George Bass

... into heaven; the stone has an indentation in the top of it, which, it is claimed, was made when Jesus "took off" into the heavens. It suggests that Jesus exerted "tremendous thrust" - much like the rockets at Cape Kennedy - and that's what is responsible for the imprint in the rock. It makes Jesus into a kind of Superman, flying through the air, self-propelled, and out into space to disappear until he returns again. Unlike Superman, Jesus makes only one "flight" - his ascension to the Father. 1. Before ...

4573. Easter 7

John 17:20-26, Psalm 47:1-9, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Acts 16:6-10, Acts 16:16-40, 1 Samuel 12:1-25, Revelation 22:7-21

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George Bass

... a throne. It has been suggested that he may be standing, either to plead with God on Stephen's behalf or to receive him as he enters the everlasting realm of God the Father. The fact that Jesus is standing ostensibly to receive a martyr, may be responsible for the fact that in the ancient mosaics in the Church of Santa Costanza, Rome, Jesus is seated on a throne in one scene, but standing in another. The vision is of the ascended and reigning Lord, which makes the reading suitable for this Seventh Sunday of ...

4574. Proper 7

1 Kings 19:9-18, Psalm 63:1-11, Zechariah 12:1-9, Luke 8:26-39, Galatians 3:23-29

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George Bass

... ." And those who listen will hear it and know who it is that is speaking to them in the Word. 4. When we listen diligently to the good news, the gospel of our Lord, God's voice becomes louder and more distinct, and the Spirit prompts our response, "My Lord and my God." Note: One could build a narrative sermon out of the following story, or simply use it as an illustration. Dr. Wayne Robinson, in his chapter in Journeys Toward Narrative Preaching, tells how he became a minister. He had a definite aversion to ...

4575. Proper 9

Galatians 6:11-18, Galatians 6:1-10, 1 Kings 21:1-29, Isaiah 66:1-24, Psalm 66:1-20, Luke 10:1-24

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George Bass

... . You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a parent.") 3. The missionary function of the church in the world today is to "do good to people," to show mercy in all of the ways suggested and shown by Jesus. But above all, the church is responsible for proclaiming the good news, not only that the kingdom of God has come in Jesus Christ, but that he, the risen and ascended Lord, has begun his reign over heaven and earth, a reign that will last forever. 4. And so it is that missionaries molded in ...

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