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4926. Proper 28

Daniel 7:1-14, Hebrews 10:1-18, Mark 13:1-31

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Compassionate God, we confess that by cultivating unredeemed lives we are guilty of ignoring and demeaning the one great sacrifice made for us by your Son. Forgive us, we pray. Help us to accept by the power of your Spirit the tremendous gift that we are offered in Christ, and to be transformed into the new creatures that you meant and enabled us to be through him. In his precious name we pray. Amen Gospel: Mark 13:24-32 Theme: The cosmic coming of the Son of man Exegetical ...

4927. Thanksgiving Day

Joel 2:18-27, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Timothy 2:1-15

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... as thankful as we should for all the many benefits that we have received from you. Forgive us our ingratitude, and keep us ever mindful that whatever good things we have all come from you, the author of life. Make us especially conscious of your greatest gift of all, eternal life and perfect peace in Christ; let our gratitude be deep and constant; and let our thanksgiving be overflowing and acceptable in your sight. In the name of Christ Jesus we pray. Amen Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Theme: Thanksgiving ...

4928. Faithful Servants Until the Lord's Return

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... who await the Lord gather to praise and worship God! People: But we are not without sin and our hearts are not pure. Leader: Yet through Christ we are each made clean and called to serve the Lord. People: We are each one different and each one blessed with gifts for service. Leader: Then let us serve the Lord with joy until that day Christ returns. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You alone have redeemed us and called us clean. You alone have claim to our lives, and we ask Your guidance ...

4929. I Affirm

Acts 27:13-26

Sermon

... . The captain of the troop ship whose 20,000 men had been saved remarked later, "I never understood until that day those words of Jesus, ‘Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends.’ " Jesus comes to men as savior. He is the gift of God’s love. He lifts us above all that is unworthy. He sets us on the way that is everlasting. I believe this! I affirm it! I believe in Jesus as savior and as guide. III I believe in man as God’s child. Sometimes when we read the ...

4930. Sharing Brings Us Together

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... things you have a lot of with people who have very little. It works with a letter and I just know it would work with food. The next time you see someone writing a letter, think about the hungry people and see if you can help feed them with your gifts of food or money.

4931. If You Had Been Here

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... request of Augustine’s mother, but, in the denial, gave something infinitely better, in that Augustine became a saint of the church. In other words, through His silence, God speaks. The main building of the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan was the gift of a Japanese industrialist and his wife. They had one son in the war for whose safety they fervently prayed. But the son was killed. Did the father and mother accuse God of indifference, of being deaf to their prayers? No. They remembered ...

4932.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... ! Caiaphas: Then, let me remind you that if there is any more difficulty, your job, and your head, will be in jeopardy. And let me assure you that the people will be on our side. We are already prepared. It is surprising what people will do for a little gift. Pilate: Then you know that you are condemning an innocent man? Caiaphas: Perhaps of the charges listed. (Angrily) But you know that we cannot impose our own law upon him. Rome doesn’t kill a blasphemer! So we intend to let you do it for us - by your ...

4933. Free to Live as Victors

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... describe it, talk all around it, give beautiful examples of it. Yet we cannot possess faith, nor give it to another. We do not possess faith, because faith possesses us if it is genuine. We cannot give faith because it is not ours to give. Faith is God’s gift given to us. It begins as a spark, a burning ember, either eventually consuming us or dying out into a speck of soot. The ember of faith becomes a roaring fire only when we will look up God’s Christ who provides faith’s fire with fuel. Certainly ...

4934. His Risen Hand Holds Ours

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... ? God has healed us! Made us whole! No longer alienated. Free and forgiven. Released, pardoned, pulled out of our darkness. Because Christ lives, he is the light of your life! So great and glorious a truth gets mixed up with our existence all too frequently. God’s gift of light given you in all its splendor and eternity can get lost in the mundane mess of routine, and pressure of business, and the job. Perhaps, mother, the light burns low in your soul when the kids come down with the flu, and you’re the ...

4935. He Ought to Stick Out!

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... are used for brushes, my hide for luggage. Even my pickled feet are considered, by some, to be a delicacy. Why is it everyone speaks kindly about you, but never about me?" The cow replied, "Perhaps it’s because I give while I’m still alive." Possessing the gift of life, we have opportunity to give. One cannot give unless one loves. Love is the giving of self to another. "We love because he first loved us," says the writer of John in our text. In Christ, God gave to us totally from himself. With Christ ...

4936. Joseph

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... which set out to teach the laiety. We set the example which you still follow, even in your day: church school for young and adult. From our people came Jesus. From our people came religious education for all. It is your heritage, passed on from our people ... our gift to you. I wonder if you have any sense of appreciation, or do you still persecute the Jews in your day? As He grew in years, Jesus began to ask me more difficult questions which I could not answer, nor could our local rabbi answer. All I could ...

4937. Sharing with Our Brothers

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... a spontaneous spiritual miracle; he knew he was standing on holy ground. A similar feeling can overwhelm Christians today in face of the world response to world hunger. Even behind the iron Curtain, in the small diaspora congregations under Communist oppression, amazing gifts are being made to the relief agency Bread for the World. The words become again appropriate: "For in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of liberality on their part ...

4938. What's Mine Is Yours

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... is mine, only mine." "Look at it this way," Godson replied gently. "The mysterious life in the seed was placed there and sustained there by the Creator God. The sun and the rain come from him. The skill which you have to plan and manage is yours as a gift from God. You are his steward, just as your hired men are your stewards and have to render an accounting of their stewardship. As a return of gratitude you can share in creation with the Creator and help those who suffer pangs of hunger, pangs which are at ...

4939. THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH

Drama

Norman D. Dow

... , lying in a manger, swaddled in cloths. And suddenly there was with the angel who spoke a host of God’s other angels, praising God so that the whole of heaven and earth, it seemed, echoed their message: Glory be to the most high God who has given his gift of peace to his creation, thus showing his love and concern for them. The shepherds went to Bethlehem and saw with their own eyes what had come to pass and worshiped the new-born king. When they left, they made known the facts they had heard and seen ...

4940. The Overlooked

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

Most of us have had the experience of being overlooked. Perhaps it was at a Christmas gift exchange where packages with everyone’s name on them were placed under the tree, but when they were distributed, it was discovered that one name was missing. Yours! Or maybe you have been overlooked when a group was being recognized. Everyone is named and praised for their accomplishments except one ...

4941. Focused Light

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

The Epiphany story, if not mythical, is certainly mysterious. It is recorded briefly in only one Gospel and never again mentioned as such in New Testament writings. But the lovely tale of Bethlehem’s Star, of adoring wise men, of fabulous gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, strange as it all may be, is surely cherished Christian folklore indeed. It has been told and retold through all the ages as Christians have celebrated our Lord’s Nativity. We decorate homes, hearths, altars, and Yule trees with ...

4942. Extended Light

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... through which the sun could shine directly. Oh how I waited for each dawn! First its faintest pale promise and at last its full light, even through my north window! But why? Not because I would be less incapacitated in daytime or necessarily any less sick. But the gift of a new day never failed to lift my spirits and relieve my anxiety. Even though I never saw the direct beams of the sun, how good it was to know from just reflections, that outside my sickroom God’s bright sun was bringing a new day! First ...

4943. Identifying Light

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... proved costly, yet he was glad to pay the price. Surely no sacrifice on our part compares with the self-giving for others of Jesus on his cross. Epiphany’s Star can never be separated from Calvary’s Cross. Bernard Barton’s hymn describes the pain, but also the sublime gift of the Christian life. Let’s sing its assurance. Walk in the light! And thine shall be A path, though thorny, bright; For God, by grace, shall dwell in thee, And God himself is light.

4944. Glorious Light

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... inspiring, from the Black Forests of Germany to the Bernese Oberland, and down to the Italian Alps. The higher we climbed the better the view. The sun and snow nearly blinded our eyes, but the sheer loveliness of the view was breathtaking." Awe, wonder, glory! These are still God’s gifts to believing hearts.

4945. OUR LORD RISEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... a small square stool in the shadows of the darkest corner of the dark room, her mind like a lifeless boulder on the bank of a slow-moving stream reflecting a montage of past joys and present suffering. Literally, her life had begun with him. He had brought her the gift of awareness, lifted her out of a deathlike existence into the joy of living. And now he was gone. Dead. Her life had died with him. How long she had sat there she did not know when the knock sounded on the door, but she did not move, and the ...

4946. THE RECONCILED LIFE

Hebrews 9:11-28

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

... , who died to save us all." We modern folk find the words of today’s epistle strange, lacking in what we choose to call "relevance." But before we impatiently brush these ancient words aside we are asked to pause, ponder and receive the gift of reconciliation. 1. THE NEED FOR RECONCILIATION Shakespeare that "circumnavigator of the human soul" as someone has called him, knew the need of the human heart for cleansing, atonement, and reconciliation. In the tragedy of Macbeth the queen murders the man who had ...

4947. STRONG SON OF GOD

Luke 11:14-28

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

Then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Arthur John Gossip had the Celtic gift of breathing life into words, and dramatizing scripture unforgettably. Never was he more effective than in the word-picture he paints of the haunted house in the gospel for this the third Sunday in Lent. He paints for us a little cottage on a lonesome moor where the neighbors of ...

4948. HERE O MY LORD, I SEE THEE FACE TO FACE

John 6:1-15

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

... a God-forsaken place, the peace of God that passes all understanding descended, and God’s own presence was almost palpably felt. Yes, "Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. My cup runneth over." Let us give thanks for this gracious gift. 3. COMMUNION. In a way, passing our understanding, in the holy supper our ties that bind us together are strengthened. "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit" is imparted in the measure we are ...

4949. Blessed With Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... psychiatrist’s couch, others try medicine, John Barleycorn, lustful pursuits, or emotional flings. But we never will achieve peace within ourselves until we place our lives in God’s hands and live according to his will and laws. God’s peace comes to us as his gift when we seek to live in harmony with him. Martin Luther was the most restless of men. His deep sense of sin stirred within his soul and gave him no rest or peace. "Oh, my sins, my sins," he groaned. His senior priest made him repeat again ...

4950. Reinforced With Joy

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full." Our Father, help us in a time of confusion and misunderstanding to hear again the call of Christ and to follow him in faithful obedience. Where vision is faulty, bless us with the gift of sight. Where timidity keeps us walking in familiar circles, give us a hunger for adventure. Where unworthy desires and temptations seek to hold us back, free us, heal us, and empower us anew. Give us your heavenly joy. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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