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4626. The Sweet Scent of Death

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... t light, wisps of perfume but a pungent, aromatic, overwhelmingly oppressive scent that chokes our senses, even as it chokes us up emotionally. Why? Because for us, this is the scent of funerals and memorial services. Whether in a church or in a viewing space, the sheer number of fresh, floral arrangements, containing several deeply ambrosial kinds of flowers, fills the air in that room with a thick, sickening aroma that reminds us with every molecule of our senses that our loved one lies silent among them ...

4627. Everything You Do Bears Witness

John 10:22-30

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... give false witness every day. Increasingly, in our contemporary morass, we can say pretty much whatever we want. Statements and observations no longer have to have any shred of connection to truth or reality. We can, simply, say whatever we wish and call anyone with a different view a liar. It’s in moments like this that we need to remember that what we do bears witness to us and to our Lord. It reminds me of an old friend who would frequently wonder out loud as he glanced sideways at me, saying, “If ...

4628. Rejoice: Hints Of Heaven Are Here On Earth!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... how a vision of the end time helps us forget the trials on earth.[5] They don’t matter so much when you know that all the rottenness before us will wither away, no longer be there to plague us in heaven. What a glorious vision, what a wonderful view of life this is. When you and I are in worship, doing service to God, then take away all our earthly imperfections, and then you know just a little bit of what heaven’s going to be like. The theme of this Sunday’s historic name, Jubilate (meaning rejoice ...

4629. Death Shall Be No More

John 13:31-35 · Revelation 21:1-6

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... of former impressions as we prayerfully consider a world where all things are indeed made new! Let us envision a world where death is no more; a reality where God’s home is not in the clouds but here among us! For me, this scripture gains clarity when viewed through the lens of this passage from the gospel of John. “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you should also love another. By this everyone will know that you are disciples, if you have love for one ...

4630. A New Heaven And A New Earth: Our Problems Are Fading Away!

Revelation 21:1-6

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... be interpreted in light of God’s concern to redeem the whole world, the whole universe. Likewise our lives and our circumstances need to be interpreted in that light, in light of God’s concern to redeem the whole world, the universe. From that point of view, God is tearing us away from ourselves, tearing us away from the petty personal anxieties, form the latest trend, tearing us away from your personal hang-ups so we’re really free to recognize that God has in a sense already begun creating the new ...

4631. For Us

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... for you.[2] Amen. 1. Luther's Works, Vol. 37, ed. Robert H. Fischer (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1961), p. 72. 2. I was helped, in this sermon, by chapter five of Gerhard O. Forde's Where God Meets Man (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1972). Forde's is a wonderful exposition of a Lutheran view of the sacraments.

4632. The Call

Matthew 16:13-20, Mark 1:14-20, Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Will Willimon

... warned: If there is no intellectual difference between sanity and insanity, reason and unreason, truth and falsity, then the lunatic who believes he is a poached egg is to be condemned solely on the grounds that he is a minority. This is a desperate point of view and it is to be hoped that there may be some way whereby we can escape it. Russell is reduced to this rather emotional plea because, logician that he is, he knows that there is no free-standing, independently valid means whereby what we call ...

4633. Unbound

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... way other people see you. But secondly, the more important question is, is the image you are seeing reality? Or something else? How do you see yourself in that mirror? It’s always interesting to compare the way you see yourself to the way others view you, that is, if others are also telling you the truth. At times, we may perceive ourselves for example as overweight when others perceive us as “just right.” We may perceive ourselves as having unruly hair, whereas others may admire it. We may imagine ...

4634. Wake Up! Get Ready!

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... can be summed up in our first verse of this passage, verse 32. I challenge every one of us to commit this verse to memory this week because if we really believed this one verse, it would change how we live our lives. It would change how we view the future. It would change our priorities. It would fuel our courage. But before we read verse 32, let’s put it in context. Jesus’ ministry has become so popular that he and his disciples are being followed by a crowd of “many thousands” of people. The crowd ...

4635. A VIP Seat

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.’” What would change in our lives and in this church and in this community and in this world if all those who follow Jesus viewed life as a celebration? As an opportunity to love others as generously and joyfully as possible. An opportunity to tear down walls of prejudice and status and just celebrate each other. This isn’t a challenge to be nicer or more neighborly; this is a ...

4636. Have You Seen a Buck Flying Past?

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... have achieved on your own. 1. https://www.infoplease.com/askeds/origin-passing-buck#:~:text=The%20Answer%3A,with%20the%20responsibility%20of%20dealing. 2. Dan Miller, Career coach and author, 48days.com, September 15, 2021. 3. Our Alternate Point of View, Edward L. Poling, http://www.goomba.com/www2/edpoling/node260.html. 4. Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Pathway to Joy by Larry Crabb, (Waterbrook Press: Colorado Springs, Colo.), 2001, 2010. 5. James W. Moore, Christmas Gifts That Won't Break [Large ...

4637. Overflowing Joy and Rich Generosity

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... .org and www.kluth.org, http://givewithjoy.org/true_stories.htm#Day_1_%E2%80%93_A_single_mom%E2%80%99s_grocery_money. 5. Mary Alice Williams. Quiet Triumphs (New York: HarperResource, 1999), p. 137. 6. Rev. Mark Sargent (http://www.day1.net/index.php5?view=transcripts&tid=4). 7. Brett Blair www.eSermons.com. 8. “Twelve Giving Stories” by Randy Alcorn, February 16, 2010 Eternal Perspective Ministries, https://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Feb/16/twelve-giving-stories/. 9. Herb Caen in the San Francisco ...

4638. We Have Waited

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... to those whose sad lives mock our facile assertions of deliverance. And pity the poor God who has no better defense than the church. Only a church which is able to keep ranks in a waiting world, only the church which does not flinch at open wounds, which views the world from the underside, can hope to stand one day at the summit. Only the church which can forego its desire to sing Alleluia and claim victory, which dares to join its voice with those who know only dirges, only this church can hope to be part ...

4639. Lamb and Wolves

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... travel. He sent them in pairs and gave them some pretty wild instructions. First of all, he warned them that there was a large harvest out in the hinterlands, but there were very few people going into the harvest field. The obvious reference was to his view that there were a lot of lost souls out there that needed his compassion, his embrace, and his forgiveness. He apparently wanted to have the widest, most effective preaching tour possible. If a lot of people needed reaching, he wanted to make sure he had ...

4640. I Need

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... is better. (Luke 10:42). What she (Mary) had received could not be taken from her. I have to admit at that point, I would have become somewhat annoyed with Jesus if I had been Martha. Not only was he taking sides with my sister (who from my point of view had done zilch), he was also implying that what I was doing could be taken away from me — it could be lost. Really? I was the one waiting on him hand and foot and it amounted to nothing? In today’s world I would have been thinking, “Shots fired!” I ...

4641. Shameless!

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

One of the reasons I want to preach on this passage of scripture is because I’ve never really understood it. The only way to really make sense of it is to view the story of the friend at midnight as a parable. You may remember the old definition of the word, parable. It goes something like this. A parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. We could flesh that out considerably, but this little quip really captures it quite nicely. ...

4642. Lose the Cape

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... Christ do it with a cape representing something — a cape to be noticed by others so they will think we are so good; a cape representing something we are against or some judgment we hold for certain people; a cape symbolizing our denomination, political views, or our interpretation of scripture. Soon we become known by our capes and not by Jesus. Our capes hide our light (Bob Goff, Love Does, Nashville, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2012, page 159). Another problem is that if we go around serving Jesus with ...

4643. What If You Could Change the Ending?

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... the love of Jesus Christ, then I hope you will pray and ask Jesus to be your Lord and Savior. And in that prayer, you will change the ending to your story too. 1. “China Censors ‘Fight Club’ With New Ending, but Some Execs View It as Bizarre ‘Win-Win’” by Patrick Frater Variety https://variety.com/2022/film/asia/fight-club-china-ending-censored-1235162643/. 2. “We’re going to feel stupid for eternity if we waste this life” interview with Jackie Pullinger by Sam Hailes, “Premier ...

4644. The Dishonest Manager

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... same words, “There was a rich man…” In the first section the words are addressed to the disciples (v. 1). In the second section the words are addressed to the Pharisees (v. 14). The first part is a constructive use of money, whereas the second part is a view of money that is spiritually fatal.[2] Luke had much to say about wealth and poverty in his gospel. For example in the following passages: the song of Mary (1:46-55), the sermons of John the Baptist (3:10-14), the prophecy of Isaiah (61:1-2) (4 ...

4645. The Accounting

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and pledge loyalty to God instead of to the world, you feel an urge and compelling desire to carry out mitzvot (to live this halakha) in your life. This is the “way” of Jesus. To embrace mitzvah in your life is to embrace an entirely different world view: not to serve yourself, the world,or its goals, but to serve God and God’s vision for self and others. This radically changes the reading of Jesus parable, doesn’t it? For what does the fired manager do? He cuts the prices and the bills of several ...

4646. Persistence And Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... opposite wall. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eye, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”[4] Now let us look at World War II from a different perspective, namely from the point of view of a German officer who participated in this horrible war. Lewis B. Smedes who taught at Fuller Theological Seminary for many years called our attention to Michael Christopher’s powerful play called The Black Angel. The story was about a former German officer who tried to ...

4647. A Trick Resurrection

Luke 20:27-38

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... will continue after the grave. The resurrection of the dead, on the other hand, affirms that when people die they are dead and only the power of God can restore life. That is what resurrection means. In exploring the New Testament there seems to be two views of the resurrection of the dead. We have the teaching that when the follower of Jesus dies that the person is immediately in the presence of God. For example, in the last chapter of the book we heard Jesus say to the believing criminal alongside him ...

4648. Stay the Course

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and frightening as that rafting trip. Sometimes, we can feel that there must be an easier way. Sometimes we would like to believe those voices that tell us, they know the way, the answer, the future. That they are sure of their rules, their readings, their view. In those times, remember Jesus’ voice, saying,“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”Hear my voice. Follow my lead.Proclaim my message.Keep your eyes on me. Testify to my truth. Hold on tight. Never let go. Stay the course. [1] Paul Ekman ...

4649. A Pep Talk for a New Year

Matthew 2:13-23

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... lives are sometimes affected by circumstances beyond our control. Disasters, tragedies, injustices—none of us are immune to them. There are frightening circumstances beyond our control. There are powerful forces that shape our society, our world, that are beyond our control. And how we view this truth, how we let it shape our lives, is the only thing we do have under our control. Rebecca Stott is the author of the book The Days of Rain, which tells the true story of her upbringing in a group called The ...

4650. The Complete Picture

John 11:1-45

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... and death. Hans said that we tend to notice the miracle stories in the Bible, but there are many more stories of suffering and despair that God could have addressed and didn’t. Hans said that when we only notice the miracle stories, we get too big a view of God’s will. God’s will is to redeem all of creation and heal humanity someday. In the meantime, God came in the flesh in Jesus Christ to walk with us through our suffering and brokenness and grief. (3) But in the life of Lazarus, Jesus showed ...

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