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4676. Deliverance

Isaiah 49:8-26, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and no visibility. You put on your headlights, and the beam of those lights shines just far enough forward, so that you can see to keep on driving. Only a few feet in front of you at a time, as you steadily and surely make your way forward. Then sure enough ... dry ground will appear. Jesus is the Door. Jesus holds the keys to God’s kingdom in our midst. The church was not created to keep us safe from the world. The church was created to exist as a living force of the Holy Spirit active within and in the midst ...

4677. The Excellent Meal Ticket

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36, John 21:15-25, Mark 8:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... “tickets to ride” for free?” Did you know you can tame a deer? All you need is to feed it? Feed it and it will keep coming back for more. We are the Church of Christ. And as the Church of Christ, we are called to be a different kind of people ... you can plant the ground.24 But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.” 25 “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May ...

4678. Hiding in Plain Sight

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23, Exodus 2:1-10, Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... death revealing God’s love and salvation hope for humanity. And even then, at times, he will tell his disciples to “keep hidden” as best they can his miracles and his identity. The world would not be ready to “see” and “hear” and “ ... tell. How else can we know our mission in the world and point to the miracles all around us? Failing to notice God around us can keep us from experiencing the full joy of God’s love and mercy. Failing to receive and recognize the power of Jesus in our midst can ...

4679. Metathesiophobia

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , fear of public places. Still others may have claustrophobia, fear of small spaces. Many people have some form of aerophobia, fear of flying. One of the biggest phobias in the world? Glossophobia. Have you heard of it? It’s the fear of public speaking. We keep coming up with new phobias all the time. Today, we love to say that many people have “commitment phobia” a term coined in the 1987 book, “Men Who Can’t Love.” Hence the lack of the Greek terminology. Commitment phobia in fact is a rather ...

4680. Written on the Palms of His Hands

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... allows us to “kill” Him with our apathy, and our anger, and our defiance, and our deviousness. And yet, God’s voice keeps resounding in our heads…. “Even so, I will never forget you, never stop loving you. Look, I have engraved you in the ... in Acts 5:17-25, even the bars of prisons could not hold the disciples from their life-giving mission. No lock could ever keep them from their proclamation! For in His sacrifice, we have been healed. Jesus bears the wounds on the palms of God, as a reminder of ...

4681. The Overtaxed Soul (Even Me)

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . When our souls become overtaxed by the guilt and the shame we heap upon ourselves, we find ourselves in a difficult place. Whether it’s anger or jealousy, sadness or fear, these are burdens that overtax our spirit in such a way that keep us in chains. They keep us from showing our face in the world. We find ourselves unable to present ourselves authentically to others, unable to hold our heads high. Instead, we hide away and resist investing in anything except digging deeper into our own muck and mire ...

4682. A Spooky Kind of Love

1 Samuel 28:1-25, Matthew 28:11-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... for me!” we please. But what we are really saying is: “God I expect you to fix this problem for me, if you want me to keep believing in you.” This is what I like to call “The Job Fallacy.” Just like Job, we expect that if we have done all the right ... several people in His own ministry and mission: “Your faith has healed you.” You see, it is our faith that assures us and keeps God close to us through our turmoils and troubles. It is our faith that protects us and carries us through the billows and ...

4683. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

... our shadows. Three weeks from now, for example, we will take a look at anger. Now anger certainly can be a dark and evil thing ... but not necessarily! The psalmist makes that clear when he says: "Be angry, but do not sin ..." (Psalm 4:4). We cannot keep anger from casting its shadow over our lives, but we can do something about how we handle that anger. Today our text brings to mind the phenomenon known in common parlance as a fixation or an obsession. The Israelites are reminded over and over again to fix ...

4684. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... anger eat away at us, says Buechner, we will be shocked to discover that we are the skeleton at the feast! 2. It's What We Do With Our Anger That Counts None of us can avoid being angry. As Luther said, "We can't keep the birds from flying over our heads, but we can keep them from building a nest in our hair." We can't avoid becoming angry, but we can control what we do with our anger! Sometimes we can see our anger as a gift. The television show Highway to Heaven once included an episode about a ...

4685. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... should receive the Gospel. That is the primary reason for the existence of the Christian church. We are still called to be a missionary church. The Gospel still overcomes barriers of race, language and culture. It was never intended that we should keep the gospel to ourselves. One statistician reports that 90 percent of all Protestant preaching today is preached to English speaking people, who comprise 9 percent of the world’s people. Ninety-four percent of every Christian dollar is spent to witness to ...

4686. Daddy's Love

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... we will miss him but he is too much work for one person and since I’m the one that has to do all the work, I say he goes.” “But,” protested another child, “if he wouldn’t eat so much and wouldn’t be so messy, could we keep him?” Mom held her ground, “It’s time to take Danny to his new home.” With one voice and in tearful outrage the children reacted, “DANNY?” they sobbed. “We thought you said Daddy!” (2) Well, it’s true, Daddies would be easier to deal with if they wouldn’t ...

4687. Breath of God · COVID-19 and the Resurrection

John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . We hide our faces; we guard our lungs. We walk zombie-like through our homes and streets, frightened, and covered in our own kind of “funerary” cloths, so that the cold breath of death might pass us by, that invisible breath-stealing beast that threatens us and keeps us locked away, for a time. But only for a time. Life in waiting is merely that, a time of waiting. And yet a time of expectation. For we know that no matter what, that beast has no power over us. God’s resurrection breath will raise ...

4688. True Colors

John 14:15-31, Psalm 66:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , YOU can stand firmly in your faith and find joy in your heart? God sees your heart and knows your true colors. God sees who you are and will promise you salvation and eternal life. In the gospel of John, Jesus says likewise, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” “I won’t leave you as orphans. I will come to you.” “Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too.” “Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and ...

4689. The Magic Ingredient

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... gave in to doubt and fear. They were certain that God was with them and that God would see them through. They embodied St. Paul’s words—their “present sufferings were not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” How else could they keep going if they did not have that hope? Years ago, a husband, wife, and their grown son emigrated from Sicily to southern Illinois. There both father and son found work in a coal mine. But then tragedy struck. There was an explosion in the mine. The ...

4690. Desperate Times Call For...

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... cries for help. Matthew tells us that after she made this desperate request of him, “Jesus did not answer a word.” That surely was not encouraging to this woman. His disciples were no help. They came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” At this Jesus answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” I am surprised this woman was not crushed at Jesus’ response. However, she didn’t give up. She came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said ...

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

Adam Carolla

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Andrew Shue

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Anonymous

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Ben Jonson

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life; but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Bible

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.

Bob Newhart

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddhist Proverb

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles De Gaulle

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

David Remnick

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4676. Deliverance

Isaiah 49:8-26, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4677. The Excellent Meal Ticket

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36, John 21:15-25, Mark 8:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4678. Hiding in Plain Sight

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23, Exodus 2:1-10, Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4679. Metathesiophobia

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4680. Written on the Palms of His Hands

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4681. The Overtaxed Soul (Even Me)

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4682. A Spooky Kind of Love

1 Samuel 28:1-25, Matthew 28:11-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4683. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

4684. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

4685. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

4686. Daddy's Love

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

4687. Breath of God · COVID-19 and the Resurrection

John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4688. True Colors

John 14:15-31, Psalm 66:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4689. The Magic Ingredient

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

4690. Desperate Times Call For...

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

Adam Carolla

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Andrew Shue

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Anonymous

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Ben Jonson

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life; but he that opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

Bible

Bob Newhart

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddhist Proverb

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles De Gaulle

David Remnick

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