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4601. A Call for a Change in Lifestyle

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

... . But I wonder if we do not equally need a simple bowl of water at our bedside into which we might dip our finger tips when we get up and when we go to bed, making the sign of the cross "In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" as an act of devotion, an act of repentance and death, and in assurance that our sins have been forgiven and heaven is our final destiny. Dying in baptism comes no more easily than physical death; we avoid acts of penitence and contrition like a plague. Yet spiritual death is ...

4602. The Importance of Forgiving Others

Matthew 5:17-20

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... as his enemies. And isn’t that a picture of us, too, at our worst? "Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees" by sharing the gift of forgiveness with others, "you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven." There’s a bit of Spencer’s unforgiving spirit in us, too, isn’t there? Does this mean that, to be counted among the forgiven because we forgive those who hurt and harm us, that we are to turn our backs on all forms of evil in the world and let evil have its way? Are we ...

4603. Cross Work

Matthew 5:27-30

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George Bass

... him to go into all of the known world preaching the Gospel to all people and telling them, in a sense, "God loves you," and by his deeds, "I love you, too." Almost everywhere one goes in the ancient city, there are reminders of the living and loving spirits of the Christians of that incredible way of life offered to the world by Jesus Christ. They loved their enemies enough to die for them, as Jesus did, and not simply to guarantee their own salvation. Truly, that is living a new kind of life, the Christian ...

4604. A Faith-Life To Emulate John W. Cobb

Genesis 12:1-8

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... reason Terah was willing to leave the place the world knew as the "fertile crescent" to journey into the unknown. This quotation of King George V of England, made in his 1939 Christmas message to his people during the darkest days of World War II, seems to express the spirit that motivated Terah and was likely caught and shared by his eldest son. I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year "give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." But the man replied, "Go out into the darkness and ...

4605. Remembering the Name of God John W. Cobb

Exodus 3:1-22

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... when he said, "Even the Christian’s groan is a prayer to God." The important thing to know, however, is that God hears our groanings as St. Paul says in Romans 8:26b. "Through our inarticulate groanings the Spirit himself is pleading for us, and God who searches our inmost being knows what the Spirit means, because he pleads for God’s people in God’s own way." (NEB) God’s initiative for man’s deliverance reverses the dictum of the rabbinic legend which seems to make religious devotion a matter of ...

4606. A Protecting Grace

Matthew 18:15-20

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Glenn L. Borreson

... any direct sense. I am interested in pointing out their purpose: that these carefully outlined procedures were a protecting grace for the sake of the many people who are affected when one person offends, or hurts, or even sins against another human being. In these steps is a spirit of care for people. Maybe we usually do not notice that. I think what we ordinarily see is a way to "whip people back into shape." Here's a way to "crack down on sin and sinners." And if they don't "come around," we can be done ...

4607. Easter 4

John 10:1-10, Acts 2:42-47, 1 Peter 2:19-25

Bulletin Aid

... with sincere love and service. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We give thanks to you, O God, for your church. Within its fellowship we are nurtured in faith. But also within its fellowship we manifest our human nature, and wound the spirits of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Forgive us when we deny our divine nature, and ignore your call to care for one another. Help us to be a church within these walls, and around the world, which will be a true refuge where love and concern ...

4608. Don't Go Near The Water

Matthew 7:24-29

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... from taking full responsibility for them. I remember preaching on the Sunday several years ago when people were gathering in Alabama for the civil rights march on Selma. I said, among other things, that we sometimes wonder if and where the Spirit of God is at work in our times. Then I suggested that the Spirit was in Selma waiting for the others to arrive. After the service a young man told me that he was ready to obey my words. Over the objections of his friends and in spite of the fear of his wife, he ...

4609. Ready or Not

Matthew 10:1-42

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... 's finger dipped in blood, were the words: "God doesn't kill." Esquivel later writes about hope and about grace. In that cell he felt the strong and abiding presence of Christ's Spirit. He also felt surrounded by brothers and sisters in the faith, surrounded by walls alive with acts of faith and hope. "Bars can't lock up the spirit, infinite presence in every one of us."4 Surely this also is to find life. To live with an overwhelming sense of the presence of the living Christ. To live in communion with ...

4610. Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Exodus 19:1-25

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... to take for granted the high and wondrous privilege of speaking with him, worshiping him, and having him come into a relationship with us. Ananias and Sapphira took too casually their dealing with God. They lied about the money they were giving in their worship, and the Holy Spirit struck them dead. When David was bringing the ark of God from Baalejudah to Jerusalem, (2 Samuel 6:1-15) it was placed on a cart, and when the ark began to slip on the cart, Uzzah put out his hand to steady it and was struck dead ...

4611. Talents and Trust

Matthew 25:14-30

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... That’s life, and God called it good. But what about the persistent old problem of sin and human cussedness - the propensity to screw things up? God does not leave us alone. As Sustainer and Sanctifier of life, God continues to meddle in our affairs. As counselor, God’s Spirit gently and persistently guides us - and guides us always back to the God who says, "Go on. Live the life I give you. Enjoy it. Savor it. I gave my Son that you might live and not die, love me and not fear me. Your security is in me ...

4612. Enter, the Conductor

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Staff

... the scene before him - all the musicians and all their instruments. He lifts his baton, pauses there for a moment. Then he gives the downbeat. Instantly there is music, all instruments blending into one harmonious whole. The cacophony becomes symphony. You know, our human spirits are a lot like orchestras. Within us there may be discordant elements, warring factions that pull this way or that, and we are out of focus, out of tune - we are just not together within. As an orchestra needs a master control, so ...

4613. The Stop That Keeps Us Going

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... beside her dining table, for we must give our bodies food, if we are to keep them going. Also a similar sign might be posted at the entrance doorway of any place of worship. For as an automobile needs gasoline and our bodies need food, so do our souls and spirits and minds need a refueling from time to time. As the body can be starved, so can the soul. As the body can be fed upon "junk food" until it becomes sick, so can the soul. So, welcome, friends, to the stop that helps to keep you going! And may ...

4614. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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... and love. Now as we go from this place, may your richest blessings be upon us as we go out into the world to spread the good news that we are forgiven and saved and healed. The blessing of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen. 1. "The Beautiful Story of Warrior Brown." Lenten Meditation. 240000 Research Drive, Farmington Hills, Michigan: Parish Service Company. No author or date given. 2. Agnes Sanford, The Healing Light (St. Paul: Macalester Park Publishing Co ...

4615. To Touch The Untouchable

Luke 5:12-16

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... even a woman with a menstrual condition.2 His hand went out to the ones whom everyone else avoided like the plague. There is a story about Saint Francis which may help us to understand how Jesus heals, and how we can be a conductor through which God's Holy Spirit heals others. One day Francis was riding home to Assisi. He was struggling with his call to God's work, but he was still living the life of a fashionably dressed son of an aristocrat. Suddenly he saw the sight that he was most afraid of - a person ...

4616. Who Is This?

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Let us pray: Gracious and eternal God, we come to you this day seeking to have your Holy Spirit lead us as we enter the week which is called "holy." May we in these moments deepen our faith ... glory come Easter morning, as Christ is risen. Now may the love of God, the peace of Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you always, Amen. 1. Dorothee Soelle, Suffering, trans. Everett Kahn (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975), p. 146. 2. Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas, trans. Alan Blair (New York: Bantam Books, ...

4617. The Christian Life The Armor of God

Ephesians 6:10-20

Bulletin Aid

... the Gospel with others. Leader Take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Congregation: May we take faith and use it, rather than talk faith and lose it. Leader: Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Congregation: May we recognize that Christ is our head in all things and your ...

4618. The Church Called into the Kingdom

Esther 4:1-17

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... you have come into the kingdom for such a time as this? Congregation: Mordecai asked this of Queen Esther when he was requesting her help for the Jews, who were destined for destruction. Leader: We were all baptized by one Spirit into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free - and we were all given by the one Spirit to drink. Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. Congregation: Each part has its work to do - tasks which no other part can do as well. We are all different so that we can ...

4619. Consecration Prepare the Way of the Lord

Isaiah 40:1-31

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... for repentance," called John in the wilderness. "But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." Congregation: And now we are baptizad into the life and death of Jesus Christ. Empowered by the Holy Spirit we become the voice calling in a new wilderness - a wilderness of sin, confusion and loneliness - calling, "Repent for the king is returning in power and majesty." Leader: Father, take this your people ...

4620. Gratitude and Praise God’s Mercy

Titus 3:1-11

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... our position in society. Neither are we saved by our intellect or our talents. We are saved by God’s steadfast mercy. Leader: He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior. Congregation: Praised be God’s Spirit who convicts us of sin and leads us to repentance. He shows the way to salvation. Leader: So that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having eternal life. This is a trustworthy ...

4621. At Table With The Lord

Drama

... John ...! Thomas: Enough! Let the Master continue. Let him finish. Narrator: Thank you, Thomas. (A pause) Whoever eats of my flesh and drinks my blood will have eternal life; he shall live through me. It is the spirit that matters, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and life. Judas: Ah, that's more like it. Eternal life! Eternal life with you. An eternity to enjoy seeing the humiliation and defeat of Rome. A thousand lifetimes to enjoy all the benefits and rewards for having ...

4622. Eating at the King’s Table

2 Samuel 9:1-13

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Various Authors

... to each of us to receive such an invitation, as it was a surprise to Mephibosheth, because most of us are crippled in some way: maybe in spirit, maybe in morals, maybe in commitment. But we are still treated as a child of the King. Each time I take the bread and the cup in ... James and John with their impulsive behavior - all make me aware that he accepts me even though I am often crippled in spirit. I was standing in the emergency room of a hospital some years ago with an injured child when my eye caught a ...

4623. What kind of Cup Do You Bring?

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

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Various Authors

... this is a patently homely and ridiculous illustration; none of us would intentionally do such a thing. And yet many of us come to worship in this way. We come with our resentments, our animosities, our bitterness, our unforgiving spirits. And we are content to let these concoctions of our spirits contaminate the gifts God pours in our cup. This is what Jesus was getting at when he advised his disciples: "If you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against ...

4624. Managing Our Memories

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Leonard W. Mann

... is a good word for us in Job 11:6: "Forget the misery and remember it as waters that pass away." Clara Barton was once reminded of an injury cruelly inflicted upon her by someone long before. She answered, "I distinctly remember forgetting that!" I just love the spirit of that, don’t you? 3. In the third place, it is important in the management of our memories that we practice remembering the right things at the right times. It is a mark of personal discipline to be able to call up from the past that ...

4625. Two Gifts From God

1 Corinthians 14:15

Children's Sermon

... speak in languages that they do not understand. The noise that they make sounds like another language, but it is not usually any language that people in this world speak. They say that it is the language of the Spirit of God. This is a gift of God and a very fine gift to be able to speak the language of the Spirit. But Saint Paul says that it is even a greater gift to be able to understand the gift of tongues and tell others what God wants us to hear. A needle is a very fine tool, but you should ...

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