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4876. Epiphany 8

Luke 6:37-42

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... . All praise to, Planter of gardens, Builder of the Church, Nourisher of souls. Amen. PRAYER OF DEDICATION We would worship you, O God, with our best gifts of words and music, with our most intense attention and serious intentions, with our thoughtful contributions and our careful service, in Jesus' name. Amen. PSALM 92:1-4, 12-15 It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night, to the music ...

4877. Lent 3

Luke 13:1-9, Psalm 63:1-11

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B. David Hostetter

... are. Even then you inspire mutual helpfulness among those who suffer from them as well as those near enough to lend a hand. We are grateful that we have learned how to avoid some of the violence that is part of nature and we are committed to caring for your creation with all the wisdom you will give us in experience. We praise your wisdom, power, and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PRAYER OF DEDICATION Receive the offerings we bring, O God, and sanctify them to the holy purpose of proffering your ...

4878. Palm Sunday

Isaiah 50:1-11, Psalm 118:1-29, Psalm 31:1-24, Philippians 2:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, Luke 22:66--23:25

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B. David Hostetter

... Jesus Christ. You see us through places of affliction and set our feet again in a safe place. We praise your name, Creator, Healer, Sustainer. Amen. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Loving God, Crucified Christ, Living Spirit, to what lengths you go to manifest your caring for sinners, that Jesus should be counted a criminal to be identified with us all! To what depths, you have come from the majesty of heaven to servitude and suffering, humility and mortality! We rejoice in the glory that now you share again Risen ...

4879. Proper 10

Luke 10:25-37, Psalm 82:1-8, Amos 7:10-17, Colossians 1:1-14

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B. David Hostetter

... our way to your heavenly city, we want to be helpful to any who need our assistance. Save us from any false preoccupation with piety that would obscure the needs, both physical and spiritual, of our hurting neighbors. Grant us the spirit of the caring Christ. Amen. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Invisible God in the visible Son, Creator Spirit, holding the universe together, we acclaim your preeminence. We rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus as first-born from the dead. He is the head of the church whom we revere ...

4880. Proper 12

Luke 11:1-13, Colossians 2:6-23, Psalm 85:1-13, Hosea 1:1-2:1

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B. David Hostetter

... of his body, the church. We are grateful for the costly victory of Christ over evil powers on the cross and rejoice in the freedom won for us. Our hearts overflow with thankfulness... PRAYER OF DEDICATION Supreme Sovereign, as high as you are, you care for the lowly. Receive our humble offerings and enable us to participate with you in your unfinished work in the world; through Christ our Redeemer. Amen. PSALM 85:1-13 LORD, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob. You forgave ...

4881. Proper 24

Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 119:1-176

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B. David Hostetter

... Instruct our minds with the written word and enlarge our vocabulary, to speak it with conviction, to give support to all who are wavering, to challenge all who doubt. Amen. Prayer of Thanksgiving Guardian of Israel, Savior of the Church, we rejoice in your constant care. You have created a world that is magnificent, not without danger and excitement, but also with safeguards and places of rest. We are thankful for all who work for our physical health and safety. We are also glad for those who teach us your ...

4882. Proper 26

Luke 19:1-10, Psalm 119:1-176

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B. David Hostetter

... find, and be found by, you and counted among the children of Abraham and Sarah, faithful believers in one God. Amen. Prayer of Thanksgiving Divine Searcher, you have come to where we are and we rejoice in our salvation. You are good to all and your tender care is upon all your creatures. We will talk of the glory of your peaceable kingdom and proclaim the majesty of your mighty deeds. You give with a bountiful hand and watch over all who love you. All praise and thanksgiving we give to you, God of Abraham ...

4883. Proper 9

Psalm 30:1-12, Luke 10:1-24

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B. David Hostetter

... gentle spirit even in the midst of violence and the threat of violence. In this make us like your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer of Thanksgiving Eternal Parent, stronger than any father or mother, gentler than any father or mother, we rejoice in your care for us your children and your encircling love that seeks to draw your quarreling children into an unbroken family. We are thankful for periods of peace and places of tranquility whenever and wherever we find them. We are grateful for peacemakers, who seek ...

4884. Trinity Sunday

John 16:5-16, Psalm 8:1-9

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B. David Hostetter

... you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the ...

4885. A Vision For The Future

Isaiah 65:17-25

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Richard A. Jensen

... bishop was clearly fond of this woman scientist. He had a chance to visit with her at the end of the five days they were together. He reported to his staff on that conversation as well. "She told me," the bishop began, "that she had been very carefully observing our group over our five days together. And she was impressed. 'These are wonderful leaders,' she told me. 'As a group you are incredibly bright and talented. I've never heard any group that is so knowledgeable of the kind of issues you discuss with ...

4886. Lent 2

Luke 13:31-35

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Dennis Koch

... Loving Hearts "Take Up Your Cross," The Savior Said Lent 2 Jesus followed your plan, Lord, although people tried to deter him. First, Herod tried to stop him. Then, many others took their turn along the way. The words leveled at Jesus havea familiar ring. Be careful! Are you sure you want to do that? What will people think? But Jesus followed your plan, Lord. He knew who to listen to for guidance! There will always be those who stand in the way of accomplishing your plans, Lord. Opportunities to serve you ...

4887. Proper 11

Luke 10:38-42

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Dennis Koch

... intended to balance the activism implied in the Good Samaritan story (vv. 30-35). The contrast in the present story, however, is not really between Martha's activity and Mary's inactivity, but between the former's distraction and annoyance because of temporal cares and the latter's discipleship and attentiveness to eternal things. Liturgical Color Green Suggested Hymns O Holy Spirit, Enter In On What Has Now Been Sown O God Of Light Have No Fear, Little Flock Proper 11 -- Pentecost 9 -- OT 16 Mary had ...

4888. Proper 5

Luke 7:11-17

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Dennis Koch

... times of loss, we do not know what to think. We find it difficult to share our feelings. We do not know what to say. Help us to remember that your love is more powerful than death. You always know what we are feeling and you always communicate that you care about us. When death frightens us, draw our attention to the cross. Remind us what you accomplished there on our behalf. Comfort us with the knowledge that people of faith belong to you. Forever. Amen.

4889. Would We Rather Be Comfortable Or Comforted?

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... twentieth century suburban America: all of these things and dozens more are guaranteed to make us uncomfortable. Those who are determined to keep their comfort level high therefore avoid dealing with these things, or at least minimize their exposure to them. Let's be careful: Not all people of wealth are comfortable in this sense of the word, nor does one have to be wealthy to be comfortable in this way. What one needs to be in order to be comfortable in this way is apathetic, dispassionate, detached, aloof ...

4890. Jesus' Countercultural Sermon

Matthew 5:38-42, Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... proclaims are not very widely in evidence among those who name the name of Jesus: Serbs and Croats -- many of them Christians -- murder each other in a protracted and bloody war whose root causes few of us comprehend, and even fewer of us care about. In our land, where Christians still comprise a plurality if not a majority, there is a growing resentment not only of anti-poverty programs, the effectiveness of which is certainly open to reasonable debate, but more dangerously, a resentment of poor people ...

4891. Main Features And Coming Attractions

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... to myself." That's the main attraction: the cross of Christ, hard though it is to understand, hard though it is for our Lord to bear. Obedient to the divine command, "Listen to him," we focus on that cross this coming season of Lent, and attend carefully to the story that unfolds. The empty tomb of Easter is for now a coming attraction, and the Transfiguration is the preview. Jesus has literally to go through Hell before that picture opens, and with it, the graves of all God's beloved daughters and sons ...

4892. For All The People

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... world needs to hear this unifying message this Christmas! This Christmas when ethnic and religious differences account for the torture, rape and murder of thousands in and around Bosnia. This Christmas when anarchy reigns in Rwanda and warring parties care little about the resulting starvation of literally millions of human beings. This Christmas when religious intolerance and racial bigotry make themselves felt and heard in such sundry forms as neo-Nazism in Germany, cross-burning Klansmen in America, and ...

4893. Whispering The Lyrics

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Thomas Long

... to capture the pain-soaked cries of his mahogany voice in our too-tight, too-white, suburban throats. However, in placing the phonograph needle again and again in the grooves of Jimmy Reed's records, we began to notice something curious. If one listened very carefully, there could sometimes be heard, ever so faintly in the background, a soft woman's voice murmuring in advance the next verse of the song. The story that grew up around this -- and perhaps it is true -- was that Jimmy Reed was so absorbed in ...

4894. The Spreading Word

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... you've heard sermons like that, haven't you? What kind of soil should you be? Not hard soil, like the path, where the word doesn't sink in. Not rocky ground, which welcomes the word but doesn't allow it to take root. Not someone so absorbed in the cares of the world that the word gets choked. Don't be like that, these sermons continue; be good soil! Be people who believe the word, who study it, who take it seriously, and live it. Now, you ask, what's wrong with that? What's wrong is that this is ...

4895. God Deep In The Flesh

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... It is important to remember that the church has never claimed that it is Jesus' maleness that is important in the incarnation; it is his humanness that is essential. In Christ, we believe, God took our human nature into the divine life. So today we need to be careful that when we speak of Father, Son and Holy Spirit we do so because that is the way that we clearly identify God as the God who saves us in Jesus (that is what is essential). But we must not use that triune identity in ways that would denigrate ...

4896. The Temptation Of His Life

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... in a time of fasting, and the Tempter told Him He could use His power to get bread, to feed Himself. What a temptation that must have been. But, Jesus knew He must not give in. He was not to use His power, the power God had given Him, to care for Himself, for any kind of personal gain or comfort. Instead, Jesus found out how He was to use what God had given Him, the correct use of who He was and what He had. Isn't this a temptation we face: the wrong use of who we are and ...

4897. Envy - Where Is The Grass Greener?

Gn 4:1-26, Mt 20:1-16, Philip 4:10-20

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... yet it wasn't enough for Adam and Eve. "Count your blessings, one by one." "Oh, no, I want what you have, God, and then life will be better." They took the forbidden fruit, and sin and death entered the world, all because of envy. You had better be careful with envy because it's still deadly stuff. A postal worker in Dearborn, Michigan, lost a job promotion to a fellow worker. He became so enraged with envy that he took a gun and shot this fellow worker twice in the head and then turned the gun on himself ...

4898. How Unexpected Can Christmas Be?

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... is not for the faint of heart. Christmas trees start standing up in living rooms and sanctuaries alike. Advent wreaths are aglow with promise and light. We attend special services. Greeting cards from loved ones, complete with quotes from scripture, are taped to the mantle with care. We don't want to be too hard on Matthew, especially since the gospel writer did not have two thousand years worth of tradition to draw upon, but we have lots of preparation for Christmas. Don't you see why it would be so easy ...

4899. And Then Came The Angel

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... . The very promise which the angel brought to Joseph is our promise as well. The angel said, "The virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him 'Emmanuel,' which means 'God with us.' " The promise of Emmanuel is that when we are weighing the options carefully in the midst of difficult decisions, we are in the presence of the one true God who is always for us and always with us. One of these days we will find ourselves telling a friend about the time when we thought we wouldn't make it. The ...

4900. Baptism In Three Movements

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... , of course, twisted his own family tree to the point that he put himself in line for the honor. The rest of the townspeople felt special just because someone among them was related to the hero. Everyone was shocked when the news came. A careful analysis of the genealogical records determined that the hero's descendant was Otis Campbell, the town drunk. Despite instructions to find a "substitute Otis" for the presentation, the real Otis showed up for the ceremony. When the ladies gave him the plaque which ...

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