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476. Proper 28

Judges 4:1-24, Proverbs 31:10-31, Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18, Malachi 2:1-9, Matthew 25:14-30, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... WORSHIP RESOURCES Psalm Of The Day: Psalm 123 "To you I lift up my eyes ..." (v. 1); Psalm 128:1-5 "Happy is everyone who fears the Lord ..." (v. 1); Psalm 90 (E) "Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations" (v. 1); Psalm 131 "O Israel, hope in the Lord ..." (v. 3). Prayer Of The Day: Lord Christ, you have shown us that the road to discipleship is never easy or safe. Your commitment to the Father led to a cross. Give us the boldness to fully invest ourselves and our abilities in the cause of ...

477. Advent 2

2 Peter 3:1-18, Isaiah 40:1-31, Mark 1:1-8

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Russell F. Anderson

... mortality. This is the same thought lifted up by Isaiah in verses 6-8. Like flowers and grass we fade and die. Even so, the Creator raises the flowers and the grass to newness of life. Will he not do the same for all who turn to him in hope? The Shepherd King. Disney tells the story of the Lion King and the Bible proclaims the truth of the Shepherd King (vv. 10-11). He is the Sovereign Lord who comes in demonstration of power (v. 10). Yet this mighty king is also the gentle and compassionate Shepherd who ...

478. Proper 7

1 Kings 19:9-18, Psalm 63:1-11, Zechariah 12:1-9, Luke 8:26-39, Galatians 3:23-29

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George Bass

... of the time. Well, some say, "Jesus' teachings are beautiful, but so impractical. Savior? Hardly that." 4. So, Christians who believe that Jesus is the risen Lord must tell the story of Jesus Christ to the world, to unbelievers and those who have a lukewarm faith, in the hope that the Word and the Spirit can touch the hearts and minds of people so that they may answer the question that was put to Peter and the disciples: "But who do you say that I am?" with, "You are the Christ of God" and give him control ...

479. Living Sacrifices

Matthew 16:21-28

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William J. Carl

... tell the ones who have never heard the Song of the Lord beginning with trumpets. These are the ones who are cranky and hard to live with, the ones who say “poor me,” “look what life has done to me!” So sacrifice can lead to deeper faith and peace and hope or it can lead to bitterness. It all depends on how you take it. If the truth be known, we have to admit that we do make some sacrifices if only for ourselves or our own. We sacrifice for our children so they can go to school. We sacrifice here ...

480. Our Dwelling Place In All Generations

Psalm 90:1-17

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... we don’t want to claim for him something which he would not claim for himself. In * we could see the works of God, not because he claimed to be special, but because he, like the one who wrote the psalm, knew how to number his days and live in hope. “Let thy works be manifest to thy servants,” the psalmist says, and they were in the special humanness we saw in *. Psalm 90 ends with a little prayer, a portion of which I think * would have me pray for you today. “Let the favor of the Lord our God be ...

481. Step Three - Faith

Mt 8:5-13 · Heb 11:1-7 · Is 55:6-9

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John A. Terry

... skill needed in prayer. If God's ways are higher than our ways and God's thoughts higher than our thoughts, how can we ever hope to hear what God says? We can, because, even though God is infinitely higher, God is not removed. We are created in God's ... what to call that power. We know because we can look at what our God has done in the past and have the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen. We do not have to call on the power of a Greyhound bus or any other human creation. We have ...

482. Hard Times May Drop In For A Visit

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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Joann Hary

... tree and sat down and wept. And if that wasn't bad enough, their Babylonian captors came along and required them to sing songs and told them to act as if they were happy. Out of that pain they cried out to Ezekiel, "Behold, our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, we are clean cut off ..." and, "How can we sing the Lord's songs in a foreign land?" Now, get the picture: They weren't physically dead! They weren't bodies of bones scattered in the desert, but they felt like they would have been better off if ...

483. Death Stinks

John 11:17-37

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Johnny Dean

... has become a time to fortify our optimism, to celebrate the coming of spring, to celebrate our status as a privileged nation among all the nations of the world. But the first resurrection came to a devastated group of people who had no hope of finding anything positive in this latest tragedy. Resurrection came, not with trumphets blaring amidst the Easter lilies, but quietly, in the early morning mist, while it was still too dark to see. Through tears and weariness, through fear and confusion, through the ...

484. Give Them Good News...

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... is all bad news. We neglect the good news about God's love and power to forgive. We fail to lift up for others the hope of a New Way of Life in Christ. I remember a lady from my youth who was a brilliant witness for Christ. But her marriage ... bone in order to have. Do you get the message? Instead of condemning the world and everything and everyone in it, offer people the Resurrection Hope. Give people Christ and a vision of what they can become in Christ. Make his far more excellent way of life so real and so ...

485. Trinity Sunday

Jn 16:12-15 · Rom 5:1-5 · Prov 8:22-31

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John R. Brokhoff

... point out the blessedness of being right with God. Paul in the text tells what comes to those who are justified, the blessing from God through the three persons. Outline: What more could you want of God. a. Peace with God the Father - v. 1 b. Joy of the Hope of God's glory through the grace of the Son - v. 2 c. Love of God in your heart through the Spirit - v. 5 WORSHIP RESOURCES Prayer of the Day: "Almighty and everliving God, you have given us grace, by the confession of the true faith, to acknowledge the ...

486. Lent 5

Ezekiel 37:1-14, John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, Romans 8:1-17

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... And we know he wants to share it with us. Praise his name! Collect O merciful God, who blesses your children with new life: Resurrect us through faith in your Son, that life may become a living experience of joy and happiness. We pray through Christ, our resurrection hope. Amen. Prayer of Confession Life is a new gift each day, Father; but sin ruins it, and what we have left is hardly what we can call living. Forgive us for playing into the hands of that which takes away the very thing we need. Breathe into ...

487. All Saints' Day

Revelation 7:1-8, Isaiah 26:1-21, 1 John 2:28--3:10, Revelation 21:1-27, Matthew 5:1-12, Psalm 24:1-10, Psalm 149:1-9, Psalm 34:1-22

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... worth waiting for. Sealed by the Holy Spirit and marked by the cross of Christ forever, we can wait for that day with assurance and hope. Isaiah 26:1-4, 8-9, 12-13, 19-21 (L) - "The City Where the Dead Shall Live Again." 1. A city for the ... We Can Know About Death." 1. We know right now that we are children of God. God loves us, especially in Jesus, and that gives us hope. 2. We know very little about heaven itself. Even Jesus could tell very little about it, but he could assure us that "In my Father's ...

488. Because He Lives

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... truth from the scripture: IF OUR FAITH IS FOCUSED ON THIS WORLD ONLY, IT IS A PITIFUL FRAUD. Paul writes, "If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied." If I were to plan a two-week vacation at Destin, Florida, I would be ... them. There is much about heaven I don't know. Whether the streets will be paved with gold doesn't concern me in the least. I hope that I'll be smarter there than I am here. I won't complain if my golf game is better. But things like that don't ...

489. Crowned With Victory

John 14:15-31

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O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... the Resurrection." Mary answers, "I went to the tomb early in the morning on the first day of the week. We carried spices hoping the soldiers would let us into the tomb to anoint the body of our Lord, but the place was deserted. The stone was ... day be: "Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigns." Our Father, we thank, you for this day, for the joy that it brings and for the hope which it gives. We praise you for the risen Lord. As he revealed himself to his disciples of old, we pray that he will reveal ...

490. Reproached Rolled Away

Joshua 5:1-12

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... first Passover they hovered in fear as they ate their unleavened bread, roasted lamb, and bitter herbs and prayed to God in hope that the blood of sacrifice which marked the door frames of their homes would allow God to pass them over and ... from the empty tomb. Today our reproach is rolled away by the love, grace, and mercy of Christ. The empty tomb is a symbol of our hope and promise for eternal life. The pain of our lament, the penalty of our sin, and the iniquity of our strife are rolled away by Christ ...

491. Are We On Speaking Terms With The Almighty?

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... sin and his need. When we talk with God, we need to be totally honest. The Pharisee talked at God, not with God. The Pharisee was not honest in confessing his need to God. And this brings us to our final insight. THE PHARISEE PLACED HIS HOPE IN HIS OWN VIRTUE; THE TAX COLLECTOR KNEW HIS HOPE WAS IN GOD. That's a valuable lesson for anyone to learn. People who experience God's power are those who know they need God's power. Hazel B. Goddard has spent many years counseling people who thought that they had no ...

492. Unwrapping Christmas

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... wadded up wrapping paper, crushed and broken and cast aside. And the empty tomb is the package in which the true gift came. It is empty because the true gift lives on in our hearts and souls and spirits. It is the gift of salvation, grace, new life, forgiveness, hope, and redemption embodied in Christ, God with us. That is the message of Christmas. And that's really what we're each trying to say with our gifts. "You matter to me. I love you. There is nothing in this world that is as important to me as you ...

493. Way Down In Egypt's Land

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... on the last Sunday of 1992, but they knew three things: they knew no matter how bad things got, God was with them; they knew that the child they protected was the Savior of the world; and they knew that at the center of faith is hope and love. "Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. 1. Ron Gullion, "A Giant Beside Our House," SNOWFLAKES IN SEPTEMBER (Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1992), pp. 70-75. 2. Richard P. Olson,THE PRACTICAL DREAMER (Nashville: Upper ...

494. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... , one of the men left his cane behind. He left it behind! His faith in Jesus was so great that he assumed he wouldn’t need his cane anymore after meeting the Master. (6) That is what Easter faith is all about. It is about hope. Writer H.G. Wells, reflecting on the glory of Easter, wrote, “All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things.” That’s the first characteristic of resurrection living: a tranquil mind. THE SECOND MARK OF RESURRECTION LIVING IS AN UNQUENCHABLE JOY. Father Richard ...

495. A Song, A Dance, A Savior

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... into exile in any generation to be gathered to him. It is his desire that all exiles will come home to his joy. This Old Testament story of song, dance, and Savior finds more obvious fulfillment in the opening chapters of Luke's Gospel. Here Jeremiah's hopes are realized. Young Mary and Priest Zachariah burst forth in eloquent praise to God who cares and is concerned about his people. It is old Simeon who realizes that in the baby who is brought to the Temple by his parents is the fulfillment of Israel's ...

496. When the Doctors Can't Help You

Mark 5:21-43

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King Duncan

... "she had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.” The doctors had taken her money, yet had not given her any relief. So, here she is impoverished, an outcast, almost without hope. What do you do when the doctors have done all they can do and you are no better? It happens, doesn’t it? Even today it happens. The whole world was saddened last winter when Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died in a ...

497. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... honestly confess that what I have to share right now is not expertise, but conviction. If you want one who is committed to Christ, who believes He (Christ) is the key, and the secret of life is what Paul said,”Yes, Christ in you bringing with Him the hope of all the glorious things to come” (Col. 1:27, Phillips) – if you want someone who has the deepest conviction that the most pressing need of our day is God-power which is available and is tapped primarily through prayer, if you will accept me and my ...

498. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

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Michael Milton

... their lives. But when I say, no wonder, I also mean that such men and women lack the wonder of life that comes from hope in eternity. If this life is all we have, we are most sad, most pitiable. Some of you will remember the movie Schindler’s ... me, awakened my dead soul, and allowed me to come to life in Jesus Christ. I want to testify to His love, to His grace, to the hope that comes from following the One who lives forever. [1] Mark 11:27-12:12 [2] “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and ...

499. What Time Is It?

Matthew 24:36-51

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Mark Trotter

... time. Mainline churches tended to stay away from this stuff. That's a mistake. There is an important message here, a message of hope. I want us to look at it, using the epistle lesson read to us this morning from Paul's letter to the ... Kingdom is coming, live in the light, in the new day. So he says, live accordingly, live as those who have seen the light. So live with hope. Live as those who know that the Kingdom of God is coming. So live lives that become the Kingdom. That is the same message that is in ...

500. Proper 24

Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 33:12-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... 22:15-22 (C, E); Matthew 22:15-21 (RC) 1. Malice (v. 18). Someone like Jesus may be able to say, "I never met a person I did not like," but not everyone likes a Christian. Even Jesus had enemies who in this passage swarm around him with the hope of undoing him. His enemies were the Pharisees and the Herodians who tried to put him on the spot. Their malice is shown by their intention to "entangle him." Then they used flattery (v. 16). Their question was a trap. To say, "pay taxes," would bring the people's ...

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