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4601. All

Mark 12:38-44

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... we give of our energy, wisdom, experience, and understanding so that another might improve, so that another might know we join the journey into hope. Collect When we give of ourselves in service, our attention is on others rather than on ourselves. Instead of sensing depletion of our energy, we know fullness of spirit and purpose. Giving of ourselves, like loving, opens us more fully to you, O God. In the name of Christ. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear God, help us to rise above our selfishness, our greed ...

4602. Birthpangs of Change

Mark 13:1-31

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... : Into the birthing of change -- People: The birthing of an idea, a new business, Leader: A new lifestyle, a new honesty, a new way of meeting life, People: An infant -- Leader: Into all of this change comes at once the sharpening of our sense of threat and the vigor of expectation. Collect As the birthpangs of change intensify in the midst of a broken world, Creator God, sustain our wisdom and fortify our hope of wholeness. As new realities push toward birth, increase our curiosity and our appreciation ...

4603. Thanksgivings for Everyone

1 Timothy 2:1-15

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... are God of all. Amen. Prayer of Confession When we start giving thanks for everything, Gracious God, something happens within us. We reach farther beyond ourselves than ordinary. We reach more deeply into ourselves than usual. We see others in a different light. We are surprised by an ever-extending sense of gratitude. Remind us, O God, to live with a daily attitude of thanksgiving. In the name of Christ. Amen. Hymns "We Praise Thee O God" "In Everything Give Thanks" "We Give Thee But Thine Own"

4604. Touchable

2 Samuel 23:1-7

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Dallas A. Brauninger

Call to Worship Leader: When we are without God, we are untouchable thorns. People protect themselves from us and keep their distance. People: When we are with God, we become touchable and kind. People sense an invitation and approach us. Collect Gracious God, we yearn to be in a right relationship with you, with ourselves, and with those around us. In a rebirth of connecting, let the deserts of our relationships burst into soft flower and dance in the wind. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear ...

4605. "Grace to You"

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... peace from God our Holy Parent and from our Savior Jesus Christ. This is the grace God gives. Come, let us worship God this Advent day and receive our Savior's grace. Collect Your grace slips into our lives at Advent, O God, as a renewed sense of generosity. Your generous action toward us in the birth of Christ awakens our own good will and our own helpful spirit toward others. More than the fleeting musical embellishment of a grace note, your grace brings sturdiness to our fragile souls. Amen. Prayer of ...

4606. Cedar Or Goat's Hair

2 Samuel 7:1-17

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... , let flickers of prayer light our day. In the name of Jesus. Amen. Prayer of Confession Amid the constant uprooting of change, we yearn for a stable home, O God. In the middle of both wanted and unwelcome transitions, we search for something lasting. Let our sense of your presence in our lives be as crumble-resistant as cedar and our capacity to meet life changes as easily resettled as the goat hair walls of the nomad's tent. Amen. Hymns "O Come, All Ye Faithful" "Now Bless The God Of Israel" "Return ...

4607. Mary's Acceptance

Luke 1:26-38

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... lives should go. For the sake of Jesus. Amen. Prayer of Confession When you come into our lives, O great Designer, you change our future. When you walk with us, what at first seemed inconceivable and impossible by ourselves takes on a trace of hope and then a sense of certainty. Help us to listen for your plans for us and to recognize the ways you are with us as hope. Through Jesus. Amen. Hymns "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful" "My Heart Sings Out With Joyful Praise" "Born In The Night, Mary's Child" 1. Sing verse ...

4608. Beginning to Weep

John 11:32-44

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Dallas A. Brauninger

Call to Worship When Jesus saw the grief of Mary after the death of her brother Lazarus, he began to weep. The shortest verse in the Bible, "Jesus wept," brings us close to Jesus. We sense that God understands and accepts our tears when we begin to weep. Collect Help us, O God, to endure the regrets, the blame and self-blame, the anger, and all the other emotions of loss when we have sorrow. Guide us through the craziness that overtakes our lives. Through the ...

4609. Called By A New Name

Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... bids us find our voices. Leader: God calls us by a new name. This is the story of Christmas. All: We are God's family. Alleluia! Alleluia! Collect As we gather here, O God, to sing again the tunes of Christmas, let us renew our own sense of empowerment. As members of your spiritual family, let us carry forth the songs of Christmas into the silent chasms of human misunderstanding. For the sake of Jesus. Amen. Prayer of Confession In the midst of winter's constraints, embolden our hearts to leave behind what ...

4610. Called Forever

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... an attitude that anticipates high quality and satisfaction of purpose, an integrity surrounds us that has little to do with length of time or amount of money. Collect You offer to your people, O God, the sustenance of having a purpose and a sense of meaning. You bring us energy of spirit for accomplishing our daily tasks despite weaknesses and frailties. We give you thanks for your bolstering support. Amen. Prayer of Confession We are told, God, that we are better people for our suffering. Suffering makes ...

4611. The Three Poison Pills of Position, Prestige, and Power

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and have yet to make that hard climb up the treacherous path to Jerusalem. The disciples know that whatever messianic plans Jesus has are about to be put into effect. With this in mind James and John, two brothers born to a man named Zebedee, sense their opportunity to claim leadership positions. Perhaps, they said to one another, Jesus is partial to Peter and we must act now to gain his affections. Perhaps they felt they were better leaders and Jesus would come around to their view if they could but ...

4612. You Are A Name!

Luke 2:21-40

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John R. Brokhoff

... shocked when they read the transcripts of President Nixon with repeated blanks and the explanation, "Expletive Deleted." A Christian will have no part of this and will refrain from any use of God's name except for prayer and worship. God's name is to be used with a sense of awe and respect and with a holy reverence. Because the name and nature are one, we can understand, too, the power of God's name. If the name is the same as God's nature, we know that God is all-powerful. As a God of omnipotence, there ...

4613. Happy New Year?

Isaiah 61:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... the happiest people in the world regardless of what happens in the world. Mine Is The Victory There is another reason why you as a Christian can be happy throughout the coming year. It is because you can say in Christ, "I shall overcome." A Christian lives with a sense of victory over the world. This is taught by our text: "For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations ...

4614. The Advent-ure of Peace

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... with ourselves and disagreeing with others. People: We come wanting to resolve and settle. All: Come, Christ, we await your peace. Collect Peace-giving God, who promises to lead us toward agreement and who calls us home to our true selves, renew within us a sense of your enduring peace. Amen. Prayer Of Confession God who removes disaster from us, God who turns away enemies of fear and turmoil, God who rejoices over us with gladness, renew us with the lasting peace of your love. In the name of Christ. Amen ...

4615. A Stronger Hand

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... Confession Sometimes, God, we feel as if we were a remnant, torn and waving in the wind. Sometimes we feel as if we were broken pieces scattered over a tiled floor. Sometimes we feel like an overturned, uprooted houseplant. Gather us in. Breathe your life into us again. Renew our sense of wholeness through your saving grace. Amen. Hymns “God Of The Ages” “O Breath Of Life” “Let It Breathe On Me” “Take My Life, And Let It Be Consecrated”

4616. This Is He

John 1:1-18

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... your word to come alive through the being of Jesus the Christ. We praise your name, O God. Amen. Prayer Of Confession We fail to recognize you, O Holy One, until we understand that all has come into being through you. We fail to understand until we sense that the compassionate Jesus knows through and through what is happening in our lives because of his being human. Teach us through the one who lived among us to trust and to believe. Amen. Hymns “Be Thou My Vision” “Dear Jesus, In Whose Life I See ...

4617. When the Word Comes to the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

William G. Carter

... of Annas and Caiaphas, God didn’t speak to the religious functionaries. No, “the word of God came to John, son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.” And people knew it. When John the Baptist spoke, it was as if God was speaking. They could sense the power. Farmers left their plows in the fields. Merchants left their stores unattended. Everybody came to hear the strange prophet cry out that God was at hand. When they heard John, they knew in their bones that it was true. Walt Wangerin tells about ...

4618. Two Blessings for an Unwed Mother

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Like what?” “Like the virgin birth,” I said. “I’ve taken a lot of biology, as you know,” skillfully avoiding that “a lot” constituted a single course where I received a B-. “And I think this whole business of a virgin birth doesn’t make much sense to me. It doesn’t fit with what I have learned in biology class.” “What’s the problem?” he asked. “There had to be a father,” I announced. “Either it was Joseph or somebody else.” My pastor looked at me with a coy smile and ...

4619. Light of the World

John 1:1-18

Sermon

William G. Carter

... beginning, a new birth, for “Christ the Savior is born.” And “to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,” children re-born not through human means, but through the bright, shining grace of God (1:12). In that sense, Jesus is the light of the world. “Light and life to all he brings”; that’s the promise for all who can believe it and embrace it. And yet, I also need to warn you: Jesus is the light of the world. His light comes into our darkness ...

4620. What a Star Can't Tell You

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

William G. Carter

... topics heard about it and sought out the teacher. “Why are you teaching a class like this at a Christian gathering?” The teacher said, “Look — a lot of people have questions about their own experiences. I am inviting them into my class so we can make some sense out of these things from the perspective of Christian faith.” I don’t know how you feel about the appropriateness of that class, but I think the teacher’s intention was right on target. A star can tell you that God is at work in the ...

4621. Today

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

William G. Carter

... using a table of contents. Nevertheless, Luke says Jesus was a prophet. His role had nothing to do with his appearance. It had little to do with his familiarity with the traditions of Israel. Rather it had everything to do with his sense of timing. The prophet Jesus says, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” That is striking. Jesus could have said, “Yesterday,” as in, “Yesterday, this scripture was fulfilled.” Looking backward holds some appeal for us. To believe in God is ...

4622. Anything Better Than the Golden Rule?

Luke 6:27-36

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William G. Carter

... And love your enemies.” These are nearly impossible words to put into practice, much less hear, and I said as much in my sermon. Jesus is instructing us to take the initiative for making peace, to move beyond revenge and retaliation. We cannot make sense out of these words, I said, unless we see one another from the perspective of God’s coming kingdom. The day is coming when there shall be no distinction between “friends” and “enemies.” So when the opportunity arises, sometimes we can act as if ...

4623. Divide and Destroy

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... is but one single gospel. Consequently he can forcefully remind his hearer that they are in partnership with the gospel. In our contemporary world of specialization, division, and quantification, no greater need looms before us in the Advent season than this sense of connectedness. Advent and Easter, darkness and light, bondage and exodus, exile and homecoming, Jew and Gentile, Shepherd and King, stable and star, baby and Messiah and, yes, prison and joy — all are one. In Paul’s statement of gratitude ...

4624. Truce or Peace?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of the ecclesiastical calendar. Advent and Christmas at their best take us into the hidden places of the human adventure where all languages and all symbols are transcended by a peace which cannot be fully understood. This peace, not a truce, makes no more human sense than did its first coming in the presence of the baby in a manger. God certainly did not wait until the nations were at peace before sending the Christ to be born in Bethlehem’s manger. God crashed the human experience when the prisoners ...

4625. Role Reversal: Baby and Priest

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... her own way has in hand the personal accumulations of a lifetime, hoping these little offerings of money, understanding, and trinkets will sustain them. Some are in agony, seeking to retain their faith and dignity in the face of crippling sorrow and a sense of loss. Some hope to survive the unbending rules of social structures that have disintegrated their courage. Some have been the butt of crude jokes. Having been “flashed down” on the highway of life, yet trying to remain serene and controlled in the ...

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