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451. Marduk? or Yahweh?

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... W. camp to the exiles: Yahweh’s P.O.W. camp for Israel. So the harps were hung up on the willows. It was not a time for singing. In the midst of this time of trial, Isaiah is told by God to "comfort my people." Speaking tenderly to Jerusalem, Isaiah is to announce that the warfare is ended. Yahweh has declared peace with Israel. The chosen people have more than suffered for their sin. Pardon has been pronounced by their God. Amnesty for draft evaders, pardon for Nixon, and now this: acquittal for a guilty ...

452. Human Nature Revisited

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... his own ambitious ends, David thought only of his son, to the exclusion of his own - and his country’s - interests. So the King said to his commanders: Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom. - 2 Samuel 18:5 Such tender and difficult words! Hasn’t every parent been torn between helping their children and letting matters take their course? One of our contemporary writers has captured this dilemma beautifully - mysteriously echoing the relationship between David and Absalom: I see my son is ...

453. Paul of Tarsus

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... double-talk than anything I’ve heard in quite a while. No wonder we have trouble getting people to join the church. With a plan like that, you’d have to be a fool to sign on, wouldn’t you? PROTAGONIST: I wonder if it’s foolish, showing tenderness and understanding to somebody who refuses to return it. I’ve done that a time or two. You may not see any quick results, but in the long run, sometimes miracles do happen. On the other hand, if I’d just ridiculed them or written them off as hopeless ...

454. Do Children Like You?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Richard Patt

... kind of human relationship - that between a man and woman who are married to one another. Despite the fact that our current talk about marriage often involves contracts and rights of equality and tests for compatibility, the central dynamic of marriage remains the tender love and commitment that a man and woman have for one another. What relationship can surpass the self-giving love and devotion that go on, year after year, in the sacred bonds of matrimony? But the Pharisees here do not seem interested in ...

455. What Do You Mean 'Born Again?'

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... made all the difference. So he concluded that there had been many burning bushes in his life as well. He could recall his confirmation day when God seemed closer to him than at any other time in his life. He thought of the first awakening to the tender, sweet love of his wife, and the precious gift God had given him. He recalled the moment he looked through the nursery window at this first son and knew God had wrought another miracle. He thought of when he stood at his father’s graveside and felt peace ...

456. The Healing Community

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... Church," are called to be like him. We often ask new members to express what the church means to them. Recently, one new member wrote: "I feel an inner strength here at Our Saviour’s, a strength I need to get me through a week. The touch of tenderness and caring from this congregation gives me such a warm feeling. Someone really cares through a smile and a handshake." And a hug! Remember we all need ten hugs per day, just for maintenance. The church, a healing community? Yes, not all it should be; not all ...

457. Saved!

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... wicked? No more than the young man who came to Jesus. But, just like the young man, they lack. Or better: we lack! What is missing? We lack the one, eternal truth which Francis of Assisi found when he removed every stitch of clothing and tenderly handed it all to his furious father, saying, as he renounced the world and its respectable, upper-class values, that he was taking Lady Poverty as his bride. It was this same little friar who embraced and kissed the leper, simply because the leper was repulsive ...

458. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... To all who aspire for preferment, to those who dream of high offices in the church, hear the words which Shakespeare gives to the dying Cardinal Wolsey: Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes afrost, a killing frost; And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I ...

459. The Marriage of Adam and Eve

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... we are not, or whether we are yet to be or not to be. The desire to be God was Adam’s fall, and Eve’s and it is ours - both with marriage and without it, although the ugliness of "personal rights insistence" probably breaks loose in no more tender place than marriage. Now the purposes of marriage have been fouled - a way to "legalize" the bed, to satisfy the urge and be respectable about it; or for many in our time, a stifling way of life to be avoided lest they cross the forty mark without their fair ...

460. A Reason

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... about our gifts of talent, personality, and inadequacy. Thank you for the capacity to grow. Through your Holy Spirit. Amen. Prayer of Confession We know, God, that when we stop complaining about our weaknesses and cease mourning what we can no longer do, something tender begins to happen within us. We let our frailties awaken alternative ways of doing things. We find other ways to use our talents. We learn patience and hope because we become "can do" people again. The "I can't" keeps us realistic but no ...

461. Christ and Time

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... . It is Christ who has shown the senselessness of violence and war in settling the tensions in human relations. It is Christ who has elevated woman from a position of domestic slavery to dignity and honor. It is Christ who has inspired a new attitude of tender care for the child. It is Christ who has led men to realize their responsibility to treat with sympathy those who are unfortunate and need help. It is Christ who stirs the world’s conscience to sorrow over wrong and to struggle for the right. Not ...

462. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world." Appreciation of motherhood is thus a sound Christian attitude, and we do well to designate a special day for according mothers the recognition which they deserve. Mother’s Day has a tenderness all its own. It is fitting to celebrate it with flowers, for mothers do their work in just that way. As quietly as a flower, or as the sunshine that calls it into being, mother love sheds its fragrance and its life-giving warmth. As ...

463. The Heart of the Reformation

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... , I ask you to lift up your eyes and see no one but Jesus. Not Luther or anyone else - only Jesus. See him as the incarnate Son of God as he enters into all our experiences of joy and of pain, as he makes God real to us, as he tenderly lures us to himself, "Come to me you that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest." Above all, see him as the crucified Savior as he endures the anguish of your sins and mine and gives his life so that we might be reconciled to God. Through ...

464. God’s Wounded Healers

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... and try to overcome the separation and incompleteness we feel - too soon we easily relate to our human world with devastating expectations. We ignore what we already know with the deep-seated intuitive knowledge that no love or friendship, no intimate embrace or tender kiss, no community, commune, or collective, no man or woman, will ever be able to satisfy our desire to be released from our lonely condition. This truth is so disconcerting and painful that we are more prone to play games with our fantasies ...

465. When Jesus Speaks Your Name

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... for: you might get it." Christ will be. "a dead fact, stranded on the shore of the oblivious years." - Whittier if we expect him to be that. And if, in faith, we expect him to be our external contemporary, he will be that for us: Warm, sweet, tender even yet A present help is He; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. - Whittier 2) Mary Magdalene was found by Christ, even while she sought him unsuccessfully. Her earnest searching did not go unanswered. It was right for her to be seeking and ...

466. The Choice Is Always Ours

Ecclesiastes 9:1-12

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... with - and no amount of railing or resistance will accomplish anything but daydreams and nightsweats. The revision of our appetites and attitudes in the direction of service and fellowship rather than competition and conquest could well create an atmosphere of tenderness and realism which would lift all of life. Freedom from the frenzy for outdistancing others might free up other acts to lessen the distances between human hearts. Conclusion I close with this reference to Bruno Bettelheim concerning the day ...

467. The Flow of Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... hate...." It had gotten her to thinking that maybe it wasn’t such a terrible and unforgivable thing to feel intense resentment, even to the point of hatred. There may have been something natural about those feelings, just as there was something natural about the tender and loving feelings that had always been acceptable to her. It now seemed that God may not have been as hard on her as she was for those things that she thought and felt. This was a realization that was helping her begin to accept herself ...

468. In These Days

Luke 2:1-20

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... miracle of God comes into our lives. Collect Let us be like the shepherds of old and confirm the unexpected despite apprehension. Let our curiosity carry us onward. Let us bring a torch to see the newborn Jesus and light the way for others to come tenderly, gently this silent, holy night. Amen. Prayer of Confession We come today to hear the angels sing. We gather at the stable only as curious onlookers but find the birth of Jesus has something important to do with us. Yes, both within our hymns and beyond ...

469. Good News for Bad Times

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... text for today. The good news for bad times is a message of comfort: "Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God." Good News Of Pardon There is, first of all, the good news of mercy. God tells Isaiah to tell the people and us, "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem ... her penalty is paid." This is good news for a people who have suffered a lot. The Israelites paid double for their sins. Before their captivity the Jews were faithless to God by worshipping and following other gods of the day. They practiced social ...

470. God With A Human Face

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is a candle in a dark world, the world will be brighter because we let our little lights shine and God will be glorified by our good works. A Face Of Love When we look at the God with the human face, we see love. There is nothing but kindness, tenderness and understanding in that face of Jesus. And this is the way it is with God. In a letter John simply says, "God is love." In our text we are told that "from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace." In this same text, we see God's ...

471. How to Profit from Prophets

Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... pointing his trembling finger at King David, so they, in fearless voice and fierce demeanor point the finger at us and say, "Thou art the man. Thou art the woman." But once the judgment is made and our contrition is noted, the prophets point to the tender mercies of God, and affirm that his kindness is greater than his wrath, that his love prevails over his judgment. It is this message of acceptance and forgiveness we can receive from God alone which gives us such profit. II Another way the prophets give us ...

472. Someone Greater Than a Prophet

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... when a sparrow falls, we praise and adore you for your mind which encompasses and sustains the universe, and for your heart which loves each one of us as though there were only one to love. Lovingly and ingeniously you have shaped us in your image. Patiently and tenderly you have led us by the hand over our many years of growth and development. We give you thanks. In the rush of this season and the pressure of presents yet to buy and wrap and send, we gather here to catch our breath, to inhale deeply your ...

473. The Long Lonliness

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... universes there may be within the power of your Being, and whose presence encompasses all the void of infinite space and time beyond time, we adore and worship you. By your exalted majesty you call us out of our small selves to tremble in your holy presence, and by your tender mercies, you draw us to yourself as children to a wise and loving father. How can we but stand in awe of your power, and how can we but come to you as lovers as your soul speaks to our soul, more deeply than we speak to ourselves? We ...

474. The Unexpected Universe

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... challenged the old, introduced the new, and have brought us into an unexpected universe. O God, be pleased to attend us with your Spirit and grace that we might continue to develop the potential that is within us all. And now in your fatherly tenderness, hear the requests we make for those in special need -- for the student bogged down by discouragement, worried that she will never achieve more than her parents; for the young man discouraged in his career because of reversals and misfortune; for the parents ...

475. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... . Release us from the compulsion always to demand from you and others and never to give. Enlarge our souls so at least to embrace anew those nearest and dearest. Father of us all, speak in fatherly tones to the recalcitrant and wayward. Grant your tender compassion to those who mourn and your healing power to those ill in hospitals struggling with the powers of disease. And we pray for those in all sorts and conditions -- for all children lost and alone, for families fractured by divorce or alienated by ...

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