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501. TWO CAN BECOME ONE

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Pentecost - and a Wedding Celebration Two people, a man and a woman, stand on opposite sides of the stage from one another. They each speak with dignity and authority. They are stating strongly felt opinions. 1: I speak wisdom! 2: Truth is mine to share! 1: Wisdom is the thought that ... 2: Truth carries its own weight ... 1: In joy, which eventually becomes ... 2: Bombs, which have always been the only way to ... 1: Happiness causes life to ... 2: Lose its meaning in a swamp ...

502. Kingdoms In Conflict

Daniel 2:24-49

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Bill Bouknight

... was quite involved in the kingdoms of this world; Mother Teresa was totally devoted to the Kingdom of God. I wonder which of those women was happier and more fulfilled. In which kingdom is your heart invested? 1. Justice Goldberg’s dissenting opinion in Abington Township School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (June 17, 1963) is cited in Miller and Flowers, Toward Benevolent Neutrality, p. 372. 2. Quoted in an article entitled, "College Christian Group Caught in Culture Wars," by Terry Mattingly, leader ...

503. An Unhappy Homecoming

Luke 4:14-30

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Bill Bouknight

... to take something out of my pocket, hold it up inside my fist, and ask you what it is, you would probably guess that it is a coin. But you don’t know for sure. You would be making a guess. A guess is not faith. It is just reasonable opinion. But let’s suppose that I told you that I have a quarter in my hand. Do you believe that? If so, you now have faith, faith that what I told you is true. Watch me destroy your faith. By showing you the quarter, you no longer need faith. You ...

504. The Dogmatics of Aluminum Foil

Luke 20:27-38

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Brett Blair

... up and Jesus sees their trivial behavior so plainly. Let me give you a little illustration from the realm of cooking. This story comes from a Houston Chronicle Editorial column: Ask any great cook about aluminum foil and you're bound to get an opinion on which side is "best." Some swear the shiny side must always be on the outside of a baked potato, while others condemn such nonsense and emphatically claim exactly the opposite. Meanwhile, the manufacturer stays amused and gives a good lesson in dogmatism ...

505. Faith, Love, and Fakers at Ephesus

Acts 18:18-28

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... among them. The chief conflict was between Jew and Gentile. Although the decision reached by the first council at Jerusalem had presumably healed the breach with a compromise acceptable to all, "a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." In Jerusalem, the Hebrew faction continued its efforts to discredit the Gentiles, claiming that they were second-class Christians unless they embraced Jewish law and traditions. In some distant places, the two sides seemed either unaware of or unmoved ...

506. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

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Barbara Brokhoff

... said, "If St. Stephen had not spoken thus, if he had not prayed thus, the Church would not have had Paul." The Jesus that Stephen died for captured the attention of Saul of Tarsus on a Damascus Road, claimed him for his own and thus (in my opinion), the greatest Christian of all times was born: the Apostle Paul. Paul preached the gospel in Philippi and many were brought to faith in Christ. Now, in today’s lesson, Paul is in the city of Thessalonica, in the Synagogue, preaching again. It is a vital place ...

507. Power to Forgive

John 20:19-23

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Dennis Kastens

... my patients show some resentment in their lives. Ill will and grudges help to make these people sick. Forgiveness will do more toward getting them well than any medication." Leslie D. Weatherhead echoes this same truth when he says, "The forgiveness of God, in my opinion, is the most therapeutic idea in the world." (Psychology, Religion and Healing, 1952) And so with no eternal life, no answered prayers, no life given to God, and no general well-being of body and mind - with all of this in mind, we heed the ...

508. The Triune God

Matthew 28:16-20

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Dennis Kastens

... him from a different stance. The first man, as he encountered the side of the elephant, said it was like a wall. The second, as he felt the tusk, said that the elephant was like a spear. The third, taking the squirming trunk in his hands, offered the opinion that an elephant was like a snake. The fourth, touching the elephant’s knee, said that he was like a tree. The fifth, feeling his ear, said that he was like a fan. The sixth, grasping the tail, countered with the thought that an elephant was like a ...

509. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... were convinced that Israel was God’s country, and God dwelt in the temple at Jerusalem. Now look where they were - in a strange land of false gods, pagan temples, and strange people. Being away from country and temple, they felt separated from God. This was the opinion of Jonah who fled out of Israel to Tarshish to avoid obeying God’s command that he preach to Nineveh. He thought that getting out of the country was getting away from God. And this is still the belief of some Jews. In 1961, Israeli Prime ...

510. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

... is most concerned about our sins. This was shown in the very beginning of the human race. After Adam and Eve disobeyed God, he came to the garden, calling, "Adam, where are you? What is this that you have done?" God does care when we sin against ourselves. The popular opinion is that this is my life and I can do with it what I please. If I smoke cigarettes and shorten my life, that is my business. If I get sclerosis of the liver from drinking too much alcohol, that is my business. If I twist my mind and ...

511. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... society is one that is silent about the presence of God in society. One reason we do not hear of God is the fact that Hollywood writers of our movie scenarios and elite editors of our TV shows are not generally God-conscious. A Public Opinion poll indicates that forty-five percent claim they have no religion. Eight percent go to church to worship and eighty-six percent seldom if ever go. Accordingly, their attitude toward God and their moral positions are not godly. Fifty percent say that homosexuality is ...

512. Two Bodies for Two Worlds

Isaiah 26:1-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... of the Holy Spirit. Since the body is a house of God, we need to make it a fit and holy place for God to dwell. To serve as a container for God the Spirit the body should be clean, pure, strong, healthy, and beautiful. Our bodies, contrary to popular opinion, are not our own to do with as we please. They belong to God the Maker. We are only trustees of this marvelous machine. We have no right to harm the body by overindulgence, over-work, or over-exercise. How can we justify from a Christian standpoint the ...

513. Your Money and Your Life

Matthew 6:19-24

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Robert Bachelder

... it begins to feel good and we come to see it is no sacrifice at all. We should come at last to understand with Plato that, "True poverty consists not in the decrease of one’s possessions, but in the increase of one’s greed." In the opinion of Gibbon, what destroyed Rome was the disintegration of family life within the home, not the power of the enemy without the gate. America’s families are disintegrating, and by this I have more in mind than just the divorce statistics. So many of our families appear ...

514. Out of the Darkness

John 9:1-12

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Robert Bachelder

... immediate questions. We are given a compass, not a map." Yet it seems to me that in the matter of capital punishment, the compass points more clearly than it does for some other issues. The first thing we need to know is that contrary to some popular opinion, there is no blanket endorsement of capital punishment in our Bible, not even in the Old Testament. Not even in the passage we have in Deuteronomy which says: "It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." This ...

515. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

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Robert Bachelder

... Adams wrote of his chronic irritability. He thought it was the result of knowing too much about his neighbors and thinking too much of himself. We have in Luke’s parable of the Pharisee and the publican a man who, like the early Henry Adams, combines a low opinion of his neighbors with a high estimate of his own qualities. The Pharisee’s prayer in chapter eighteen is taken from life, for a similar prayer comes to us in the Talmud in the first century A.D.: I thank thee, O Lord, my God, that thou has ...

516. No Condemnation!

Romans 8:1-17

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Dennis Kastens

... there is forgiveness of sins, there is peace. "Being justified by faith, we have peace with God," says St. Paul. Where there is forgiveness of sins, there is also healing. Leslie D. Weatherhead, a distinguished psychiatrist has said, "The forgiveness of God, in my opinion, is the most powerful therapeutic idea in the world." Here is something many of us have never realized. We come to church, confess our sins, and hear the absolution, "In the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ I forgive you ...

517. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

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Robert G. Tuttle

... fruits to sustain them. There is something about a crisis that enables us to see life as it really is, to see values as they really are. In the Christian Century, Paul Martin makes an interesting statement: A growing measure of responsible opinion argues convincingly that had religion been doing the job it should have done, psychiatry would never have arisen as a profession. Proponents of this view say that the problem is generally not a guilt complex. The problem is guilt. Depression, anxiety, hostility ...

518. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

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Robert G. Tuttle

... I commit myself to the covenant of my mission group. By this I declare my willingness to be held accountable for the disciplines that the members have made explicit ... I am committing myself to involvement with people who are not like me - whose opinions and ways may be in opposition to my own. I thus declare my willingness to be stretched in uncomfortable ways ... until differences shall be transcended and hurt transmuted. "I acknowledge that the cornerstone of this community is Jesus Christ, servant and ...

519. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Hubert Beck

... such awe that we use words like "revealed" and "inspired," because these truths transcend normal human wisdom. They somehow bridge our world and some existence that understands our world with a wisdom quite outside our realm of experience. Many of our most treasured opinions are called into question here, and most certainly the lessons before us this morning are prime examples of how the Scripture takes on and assaults things we cling to most dearly. How can there be any strength in poverty? It is a good ...

520. Christian Maturity

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

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James Wilson

... Lord, so often we have allowed ourselves to become involved in the childlike bickering and petty divisions that would divide the Body of Christ. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to mature and develop the wisdom to know when to stand firm and when to extend the same freedom of opinion we would claim for ourselves. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Morning Has Broken" "Jesus, Keep Me Near The Cross" "I Surrender All"

521. Journey To The Cross V: Jesus and Simon Peter

Mark 14:66-72

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James W. Moore

... . Let me underscore some of the ways we deny our Lord by being profane. Let’s start with the most obvious. I. First, Our Words Can Be Profane. Have you ever wondered why people swear? It’s an interesting question to raise. I asked several people (whose opinions I respect) about that last week… and I got a variety of answers. Some said that people curse because they don’t know any better. When I was a child, my parents used to say that to me… that it’s a sign of ignorance… and that people ...

522. PASS THE SALT

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John H. Krahn

... should pass the salt to an increasingly tasteless world. What the world needs is an ever-expanding number of salty characters - salty Christians who stimulate the spiritual appetites of everyone who comes into contact with them. Jesus Christ was no passive patsy. He engendered strong opinion during his lifetime. He was the salt of the earth, and people’s lives changed as they encountered his. Pass the salt! For God’s sake, pass the salt! Yes, for God’s sake, let’s see some more salt. God needs us to ...

523. DISCOVER THE JOAN AROUND YOU

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John H. Krahn

... at our church. She refused it. "Can’t handle that stuff," she said. I asked her if she was down on the church or on God. "Both," she answered. She said she believed you had to make your own way through life. God was little help in her opinion. Her father had died suddenly; she had a recent illness which left her paralyzed; before she recovered, her fiance left her. Now she was in the hospital with infected ovaries. I listened intently and said I could understand why she felt as she did. Then I told her ...

524. IN THE PROVERBIAL PITS

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John H. Krahn

... books discourage us from seeing ourselves in a negative light, unable to be in control over every situation in life - even over our life beyond life. Therefore, if someone says to you, "Go to hell," it is an affront. The person who says such a thing infers that in his opinion you are not number one but that you are the pits. We have no right to say such a thing, for it is much like the pot calling the kettle black. Yet, when Jesus Christ returns to earth at the end of time, he will have to tell billions of ...

525. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

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Richard Hoefler

... law, which forbade works of healing, and also kneading which was involved in making clay of spittle and dust."17 Raymond Brown adds a third and fourth reason that added to the seriousness of what Jesus had done: in the Jewish tradition, "there was an opinion that it was not permitted to anoint an eye on the Sabbath," and "one may not put fasting spittle on the eyes on the Sabbath."18 So the exclusive concern of the Pharisees with their religious rules blinded them to anything except the legal implications ...

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