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451. Mother's Day Gifts

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... only be gained through years of living. Perhaps in a few years, you will come to the same conclusion that a young man did not long ago. When he was sixteen, he thought his mother knew very little about life and the way things are supposed to be done. But when ... of your love for the Lord, but also in obedience to your mother. Children, the Bible says that you are to obey your parents as long as you are unmarried and being supported by them. If you want to offer a special gift to your mom this Mother's Day, ...

452. Encounters With Christ II: Jesus and Mary and Martha

Luke 10:38-42

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James W. Moore

... is Mary? Why isn’t she in here helping me? Who does she think she is… sitting in there with our guests… and leaving all the dirty work to me? Surely, Jesus can see the injustice of this situation,” Martha reasons. Finally, unable to contain herself any long, her resentment erupts… and she bursts out of the kitchen… into the living room and she makes a scene! Have you ever been in a scene before? Martha makes one here. She cries: “Look at this Lord. I’m having to do all the work here. Don ...

453. Divine Liturgy, Divine Play, Divine Comedy

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Carl Jech

... focuses on the women going to the merchant and buying the spices and ointments they need to embalm the body of Jesus. In more ways than one, therefore, the divine liturgy is a form of divine play. The liturgies of the Eastern Orthodox churches tend to be quite long because they are essentially an acting out of the life of Jesus. Most liturgies play around quite a bit with names, images and symbols for God. More often than not we begin "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." It ...

454. Give Them Good News...

Romans 5:1-11

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Robert V. Dodd

... spine every time I hear them sung: O Love divine, what has thou done! The incarnate God hath died for me! The Father's co-eternal Son Bore all my sins upon the tree! The Son of God for me hath died: My Lord, my Love is crucified.1 As long as sin continues to be an influential force in this world each and every one of us will continue to need the Savior and his love that will not let us go. One of my favorite contemporary Christian writers is Emerson S. Colaw, pastor of Hyde Park Community United Methodist ...

455. What Jesus Saw In Martha

Luke 10:38-42

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James W. Moore

456. Partners With the Eternal

Matthew 14:13-21

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... without the Lord it wasn't worth very much. Elsewhere Jesus says, "Without me you can do nothing." (John 15:5) It's a long leap from that to this: "With God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26) Is it not reasonable, then, that God who is a ... pupils, but participants! Not just receivers, but givers! This understanding of who they were began to come clear to the first disciples of Jesus long ago. May it be so clear to us today that it will take possession of us, mind and soul. Workers together with God! ...

457. The Importance of Believing

Matthew 16:13-20

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... our belief ready-made within us, and nobody forces them upon us along the way. We start at the youth end of a long smorgasbord, and as we pass we make our selections. Consciously or unconsciously, we pick up this or that, here or there. And what ... believing can break us, the reverse is also true: the right kind can make us. To believe in distant goals can give us courage for the long hard pull. To believe in the wonder and grandeur of life can fire within us a zest for its living. To believe in the ultimate ...

458. On Staying Awake

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... that this inner uneasiness, this sense that all of life’s achievements and successes have a hollow quality about them, is a search for God. But it’s there for believer and unbeliever alike. The Biblical testimony has words for it: As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. And these words of Augustine are as penetrating as are those of the Psalmist: ... For thou hast made us for thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest ...

459. Some Man

Luke 10:38-42

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... by the concern and ingenuity of Charlotte, who gave up her own life so that Wilbur might live. That sounds a little bit like what Jesus did long ago, doesn’t it, when he gave himself over to his enemies and to death on a cross so that you and I might have life? ... the Word and the Spirit. He not only offers and gives us the gift of the Father in himself, but he sustains it in us as long as we live. Charlotte’s Web is a delightful and much loved story, isn’t it? But it is only a kind of fairy tale about ...

460. Are There Any Questions?

Luke 20:27-40

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... brought on his heart the turmoil, the confusion, and the doubt his questions reflected, and often while away at college, he would write long letters that expressed the same. This time as he came in, he couldn’t wait to get it out: "I have found ... when life’s main course is finished. The resurrection life is now, life lived not for ourselves, but for the God who loved us long before the world was made, who redeemed us at the price of blood, and who has given us new birth. That changes everything in ...

461. Proper 9

Exodus 1:1-22

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... . However, the time came when this favorable status changed. Exodus 1:8 graphically portrays the shift in fortune which followed the death of Joseph. "Now there arose a new king over Egypt who knew not Joseph." We are not told the new king's name nor how long a period had elapsed since Joseph's death, but a good guess would be that the Pharaoh who reduced the Hebrews to slavery was Raamses 2, the mightiest sovereign of the nineteenth dynasty and ruler of Egypt for sixty-seven years, from 1292 to 1225 B.C ...

462. The Penalty for Betraying God’s Trust

Numbers 27:12-23

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... same heavenly Father, and workers with us in the Kingdom of God. Baptism is a type of ordination service for all who receive it, a call to faithful service in the Kingdom of God. And all who are called by God in Baptism are expected to serve faithful as long as, and in all ways, they can. The Christians of China are a living example for the rest of us of keeping God’s trust. When their churches were closed, when they were forbidden to gather for worship or do anything else in the name of their God, they ...

463. Proper 5 & Pentecost 3

Matthew 9:9-13, Romans 4:1-25, Hosea 6:1--7:16, Genesis 22:1-19, Psalm 13:1-6, Psalm 50:1-23, Hosea 5:1-15

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... thing when God didn't seem able to help him and his friends, but who still loves God! Kramer didn't ask, "Where were you, Lord, when I needed you?" And while the deed haunted him for three decades and what he did would be in his subconscious mind as long as he lived, he didn't blame God for what happened; he still loved and trusted God. Awful as his action was in the bunker when he smothered his son, the gift of the Torah in memory of his son must have pleased God because it answered his word given ...

464. Proper 15 & Pentecost 13

Isaiah 56:1-8, Psalm 67:1-7, Psalm 78:1-72, Exodus 16:1-36, Romans 11:11-24, Romans 11:25-32, Matthew 15:21-28

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... and his desire to gather them all to himself in his Son, Jesus Christ. SERMON SUGGESTIONS Matthew 15:21-28 - "A Long Distance Miracle." Four decades ago, an inner-city Episcopal Church in Philadelphia was engaged in a weekly healing ministry that took ... us so that we might live confidently in the world and be of service to God and other human beings. Faith - great faith - is the long-distance miracle that God gives to the world. Receive it and exercise it, in the name of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 56:1, 5-7 (R); ...

465. Violet, The Color of Royalty

Luke 1:31-35, Luke 23:33-38

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... this Jesus. They missed the royal King when he came knocking on their door. Only at Jesus’ death, did they call him King ... King of the Jews, but this was simply a cruel, humorless joke. In retrospect, how can we blame them? Given their political situation and their longings for a king, how can we blame them? Did Jesus look like a king? Did he act like a king? How was this Jesus dressed? Did he wear the purple robe of a king? Actually, he did wear a purple robe once in his life. Mark’s Gospel reports ...

466. Blue, The Color of Eternity

Romans 6:1-14

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... point, the angel put his hand on the Lord’s shoulder. "Umm, that won’t be necessary! I don’t know how to tell you this, but we’re sending you in the same way all humans enter the world ... we’re sending you as a baby." There was a long, long silence. "As a baby! As a baby? Are you sure ... why, there isn’t even a decent hospital in Bethlehem!" "I know ... I know," said the angel gently. "You’ll just have to make the best of things." Slowly the Lord walked out of the angel’s office, mumbling ...

467. A Most Amazing Night

Luke 2:1-7

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... into our darkness. He comes that all people may find their peace in Him. He comes with the promise of everlasting life. Never again can anyone say, "My salvation is too far away; I cannot reach it" - because now our salvation is very near. On that most amazing night so long ago, good news of a great joy was given to all people, and we are heirs to that joy today. By faith, we are witnesses as God’s only begotten Son is born into the world. Be like the shepherds, who came to see Him and rejoice. Be like ...

468. Clear Conscience

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Martin L. Wolf

My friend, Kermit Long, told me of a visit he made to Albert Schweitzer in Africa. Long went out one day and painted one of the buildings to relieve his guilt over the contrast of his life-style and that of Schweitzer. At dinner that evening the following conversation took place: Schweitzer: How are you today, Dr. Long? Long: Wonderful! Today I have a clear conscience. Schweitzer: Dr. Long, a clear conscience is the invention of the devil.

469. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... sinning, in getting out of sin. When St. Paul considered the duel between his old Adam and the new Adam, in despair he cried out, "O miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" Because we sin, we feel dirty inside and long for cleansing. This was expressed by Bobby Ewing in the popular TV serial, Dallas. He had just engaged in blackmail. When he returned home that night, he told his wife Pam what he had done and remorsefully confessed, "I feel dirty inside." As a people, we know ...

470. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... come to an end. The Bible says that God created man on the sixth day and rested, but each of those days was a million years long. That day of rest must have been a short one. Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second ... lifetime!" Madam Curie reacted: "If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I dare not do less than work for it so long as I have life." She won! And because of her, we have the gift of healing radiation. Hers was a living sacrifice. In the play, The ...

471. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

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Robert G. Tuttle

... shoot chemicals, thus making it impossible to know whether or not it does make sense? Does it make sense by careless, thoughtless, undisciplined boy and girl relationships to rob yourselves of the deep joy and lasting love that your home should give to you and your loved one as long as you live? If it doesn’t make sense, it’s wrong! 2. What does it do to others? "Is it fair?" If it’s right for me, it’s right for the other person. Good and evil are democratic. If it’s wrong for others, it’s wrong ...

472. The Impartiality of God

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... -encompassing impartiality of God who stirs up a creation to seek after him. So Peter, too, has a vision. It is too long to tell all of it here, but suffice it to say, the vision convinces Peter that things he had heretofore considered unthinkable were ... Peter went on to tell him about Jesus as the one in whom the salvation of the world had been effected. His sermon went on long after the words of our text, telling in brief fashion that which was begun in the ministry of Jesus, whose baptism and beginning of ...

473. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

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Hubert Beck

... held in the midst of diversity. It is a bringing together of many ideas, perspectives, personalities, and thoughts around a common, unifying, over-arching concern or theme. There is room for much variation of opinion and feeling when one is seeking unity, so long as all that variation is given over to the achievement of the common goal, the adoration of the common center of all these variations. Artists, for example, may have great differences of opinion about how to paint, about styles of work, about color ...

474. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... of God’s great gift of faith operating effectively in the life of this particular woman. There was once a little old man with a long white beard. He had a great amount of faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. With everyone he met, he just had ... have no more faith left. I am not worthy to enter into your kingdom." But Jesus just looked at the little old man’s long white beard stained with tears and smiled, "Fret not, little friend," the Lord said. "True, you have given away all your faith, but it ...

475. Magnify Your Ministry!

Romans 11:11-24

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... we often do not seem to know who or what God looks like. We are like the apostle Philip who asked of Jesus, "Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied." Jesus was deeply disappointed by Philip’s request and said, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:8-9). Jesus thought Philip would surely recognize the image of God in him after three years of association; and the world surely expects those who have been reading about ...

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