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4651. Living the Gospel of Christ

Philippians 1:12-30

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James Wilson

... : For it is Christ who has given us joy and wisdom and insight. People: Christ died that we might have life even before we realized our sins. Leader: Then let our voices be raised in praise for the life we have been given. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Most wonderful and loving God, You not only call us to be a part of Your family but, through the gift of Your Holy Spirit, You also empower us to be Your living witnesses. We praise You ...

4652. The Savior is Coming

Micah 5:1-4, Luke 2:1-7

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James Wilson

... ! Collect Almighty and merciful God, in Your infinite wisdom You raised up our Messiah from the ranks of the humble and lowly, not from the ranks of the powerful and famous. We praise You, O God. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession O Lord, even though we know You were born in humble circumstances and Your life and teachings proclaimed the importance of using all that we are and have to serve You and others, we have instead sought to focus on bettering only our own lives and situations. Forgive us ...

4653. Living Christ's Love

Colossians 3:1-17

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James Wilson

... we know You are the Almighty God. Leader: In the gift of our Savior, we know You are Love. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Almighty and merciful God, in Your infinite strength You extend to us Your gentle forgiveness and grace. Lord, help us to use our strength to extend mercy and grace to others. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, in this season of giving gifts, somehow we let ourselves overlook the greatest gift of all, our Savior. We would be busy exchanging or complaining ...

4654. Natural Or Supernatural?

Luke 9:28-36

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Louis H. Valbracht

... among us, or perhaps some lost explorer who has just gotten back from the long trek through the highlands of Tibet and been out of touch with the world for the last few weeks, I have the excruciating joy of telling you that Super Sunday occurred. This is the Lord's Day on which each year we ascertain whether the AFL or the NFL plays a better brand of football. For millions in the nation, Super Sunday is the culmination of all of their hopes and dreams of the months before. But then, it's only right that we ...

4655. Remember That You Are Not Alone

John 3:1-21

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Robert V. Dodd

... to work through your doubts and emerge at the point of faith? The answer is unequivocably yes! It is possible for you to receive the promise of Christ's presence with you at this very moment. And you are never going to be a very effective witness for the Lord until you remember that you are not alone: you have a wealth of resources in Christ! The first witness to your New Life as a child of God is the Bible. The New Testament portion of the Scriptures is an historic record about a specific time when the ...

4656. Christ, the Cornerstone

1 Peter 2:4-12

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James Wilson

... ! People: For once we were of the world and did not know the love of God. Leader: And once we were not numbered among the family of the Lord. People: But in Christ we have been made beloved brothers and sisters. Leader: In Christ, God has built of us a new nation open to all. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You have taken the very Stone rejected by the builders and built upon it a spiritual temple where the hearts of all peoples may worship in joy and wonder. We praise You, O God. In ...

4657. Christian Unity

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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James Wilson

... righteousness. Leader: And God, seeing we were lost, sent the Christ to lead us home. 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 ...

4658. We Are Sent the Spirit of Truth

John 15:26-27,16:4b-15

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James Wilson

... Collect Almighty and merciful God, in Your infinite wisdom You knew we needed Your Spirit of Truth or we would always be led astray. We thank You, Lord, and ask You to give us the courage to follow. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often in the daily routine of living we are faced with important decisions, but we do not seek Your help and guidance in making them. Lord, we even feel that we, on our own, know better what is true and just, and we do not see the need to ask the Creator God ...

4659. Children of God, Adopted Through Love

Romans 8:1-17

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James Wilson

... 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 in Your light. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have lived our lives as if we had forgotten You gave us the honor and privilege to be called Children of God ...

4660. We Are the Handiwork of God

John 3:1-21

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James Wilson

... ! Collect Almighty and merciful God, in Your infinite wisdom You sent us the Christ that we might have redemption and Your gift of eternal life. You are wonderful beyond all human words yet we lift our voices in loving praise, O Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we see only our sins and failures and not Your mercy and grace. So often we focus on life's destruction and damage and feel hopeless and lost rather than opening our hearts and choosing to accept the healing and hope ...

4661. Beyond the Lay to Faith

Romans 9:30--10:21

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James Wilson

... . Leader: But the Law soon condemned us and under the Law we had little hope. People: For we are each one sinners fallen very short before God's perfection, Leader: But by our faith we are redeemed and our sins before God forgiven. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You heard our plaintive cries as we struggled under the burdens of sin and the Law. In Christ You sent us a Savior to free us and restore in us hope and life. Thank You ...

4662. Managing Disappointment

Romans 5:1-11

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Clement E. Lewis

... they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried, and were saved; in you they trusted, and were not put to shame. Hymn "What A Friend" Scripture: Romans 5:1-11 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to his grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not that only, but we also boast of our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces ...

4663. Partners With the Eternal

Matthew 14:13-21

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... . He was letting all of us know that God involves his people in working together with him to get things done in the world. In a partnership each brings to it what he has, each commits his resources to a common purpose. On his side of this partnership, our Lord has hugely given. For the purpose of redeeming the world, the Father gave his Son, and the given Christ gave his life. And so he invites all of us to bring what we have, our loaves and our fish, placing them in his hands, committing them to this same ...

4664. Is Christianity An Escape?

Luke 21:5-38

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... pummeled with stones. In the thick of the fight, the fight for our spirits. There were the hundreds and thousands of nameless disciples who were marched single file past a flame, and all they had to do was throw a pinch of incense in the fire and proclaim, "Caesar is Lord," and who didn’t do it and were then fed to lions to amuse the crowds in the Colosseum in Rome. In the thick of the fight, the fight for our spirits. There was John Huss of Bohemia and there was Joan of Arc of France - both burned at the ...

4665. The Beginning of the End

Luke 9:57-62

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... "small Good Friday." We remember and celebrate his death as well as his resurrection - what he suffered on our behalf in the Holy City. Only when our worship has both of these dimensions - death and resurrection - will we begin to understand what it means to call him "Lord" and to declare, "I will follow you and do whatever you want me to do with my life." Instead of being cheap and optional, in the face of the cross we are able to comprehend the cost of discipleship and learn to pray regularly for God’s ...

4666. Booby Trap

Luke 10:25-37

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... we love ourselves. And that is the gift God gives us in Jesus Christ - in the new life that comes to us when we - recognizing our lovelessness - repent daily of our sins, dying again as in baptism, and being raised up to new life and new love by the risen Lord. It is indeed true that "we love because he first loved us," and that’s what makes us neighbors to every person on God’s earth, thereby avoiding the booby trap that the law sets for us when we rely on it instead of love - God’s love. And when ...

4667. Heaven Can’t Wait

Matthew 5:1-12

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... of Life. That’s our future, the new Jerusalem where God is not just something, but where God is everything, where he will dwell with us and we with him, where every tear is dried, where death shall be no more, and where the glory of the Lord, its radiance like a most rare jewel, shall fill the city. That’s our future - the day beyond the last check from the government where our security is vested, beyond the coronary, or the cancer, or the hospice, or the other dreadful possibilities. Heaven is our home ...

4668. Saving Sinners

Matthew 9:9-13

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... sitting in the $50,000 home of a parishioner, he said to me, "You know, Pastor, Christianity is really quite a simple thing when you get down to it. For me it's like this. Every day I look around at all I have here, and I thank the good Lord for giving me all these blessings. I promise him I'll always try harder the next day, and then I go to sleep like a baby." We can't deny that God wants a kind of inner contentment for us. But somehow, in the context, the man's remarks struck ...

4669. The Godness Of God

Exodus 3:1-22

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... man: God is both able and willing to help man. Why, then, not go to God with all your needs and problems? Take them to the Lord in prayer. Once more gain a new confidence in the power of prayer, because, through prayer, God can do all things. The Holiness of God It ... had a vision of the holiness of God and saw God seated on a throne high and lifted up. He heard the words, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts." He fell on his face and cried out, "Woe is me, for I am undone. I am a man of unclean lips." Before ...

4670. The Day of Pentecost

Isaiah 44:1-5

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... -believers will enter and become the people of God by profession of faith, just as they do today in our churches and in the mission fields. Who is this God to whom the unbelieving masses will so happily turn? He is the King and Redeemer of Israel, but also the Lord of Hosts, and the Ruler of all the powers of the realm above. He is the beginning of all things and the end of all things. He is a God who has a missionary purpose to work through his people. He is Yahweh, the covenant God of Israel. God had ...

4671. The Holy Trinity

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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... the past. Rememberance of yesterday is valuable only as it gives people an impetus toward greater achievements for tomorrow. "Hitherto has the Lord helped us ..." (1 Samuel 7:12) And that is important to know. Such a recollection is a source of vital encouragement ... . It demands too much of us. It is far easier to attempt to confine him to the past, and to be able to say, "Yes, the Lord did some great things back there. That is all true, but those things do not apply to our time." We do this because we don't ...

4672. In the Cross

Zechariah 9:9-13

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... warm, caring less. To hell with you, God! [Be careful of course with the use of this line] - Crucify Him. And a rejection of God then, 2,000 years ago, and God today - because of excuses. "This Christ," says the crowd, is too religious, and I'm no fanatic." "Pray, Lord, have me excused, for I have bought an ox, and I must examine him." "Listen, I work six days a week, and Sunday is the only day I can sleep." "The kids will get religion on their own. (After all, we did, didn't we?)" A rejection of God ...

4673. Faith-Filled Living

Luke 17:1-10

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... , I believe in God, even when he is silent." Faith is a trust in God to be present, loving and good to us in every circumstance of life. Pnat’s what the disciples wanted, and that’s what we want. From Whom Does Faith Come? "The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith!’ " (Luke 17:5) Faith is God’s gift. It is through the goodness and grace of God that we are able to trust God. This may sound like a vicious cycle, but it is true. God enables us to trust God. The disciples knew this, and that ...

4674. The First Sunday In Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

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Kendall McCabe

... have to walk that valley of temptation alone. The Christ who faced those temptations faced them for us, and he will not fail nor forsake us in our present need. As we prepare for Easter baptism or renewal, for confirmation or re-dedication, we can be certain our loving Lord will be with us each step of the way and he will aid us in our moments of greatest need. Christ leads us through no darker rooms Than he went through before; And they that to God's kingdom comes Must enter by this door. Our knowledge of ...

4675. The Seventh Sunday of Easter

John 17:1-5

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Kendall McCabe

... trying to be dignified in any way other than loving service to our neighbor, to the one in need. When we look upon the ascended Lord with wounds in hands and feet and side we see his glory is derived from the splendor of sacrifice. Such was the experience of the ... his life. And we will know there is no other glory than that of the cross which is the glory of love. The risen and ascended Lord has prayed we may be one with him. He has prayed that we share in the glory he has with the Father. His prayer will be ...

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