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526. Proper 22

Philippians 4:2-9, Philippians 3:1-11, Philippians 3:12-4:1, Isaiah 5:1-7, Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 21:33-46

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Russell F. Anderson

... , we infringe God's copyright law. God comes to represent that which is alien to him. Old Testament: Isaiah 5:1-7 1. Sermon Title: Does God Give Up? Sermon Angle: According to Isaiah, God expected more from his people than he received. It was a bitter harvest. It seems that the prophet is claiming that the Lord was abandoning his people, letting them go a-wilding. It appears that God is giving up on his people. The Old Testament suggests that God does reach a point where he gives humankind over to their ...

527. Christmas 1

Galatians 3:26--4:7, Galatians 3:15-25, Colossians 3:1-17, Hebrews 2:5-18, Isaiah 61:1-11, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

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Russell F. Anderson

... , vacationing with her husband. The woman is in severe depression caused by the loss of her baby and a troubled marriage. The short of it is that Clara becomes their live-in maid and the confidant of their son, about ten years old, who at first bitterly resents her intrusion. He hungers for intimacy and warmth from his parents. The problem is that the mother is so caught up in her own grief and the father with his toys that the boy's feelings are totally discounted. For both of them, individual happiness ...

528. Moses' New Job

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Jerry Eckert

... is, Igot up after fighting and the foreman didn't. He was dead. Iburied him in the sand and carried the injured relative whowas still unconscious back to the camp. I was still upsetover the foreman's cruelty and over what I saw in the camp,the bitterness, the despair, the slum conditions of thefamilies. It was bad. I knew I had to do something. Now ismy chance. And, God is with me! Your husband,Moses Dear Moses, Prophet of the Lord, Your God! Your obsession. You were so caught up inyour crusade that you ...

529. God, The Father

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Jerry Eckert

... friend. Anyway, when we left the rabbi's, my father collapsed on the street. We took him back to the shop, but he died before we could get any help for him." "God could no longer tolerate his sin," Samuel began. "God took his time about it," Jacob said bitterly. "So, how is your mother?" "She's okay. She has been a widow and not remarried. I don't believe she trusts her judgment about men. But outside of that, she has lived with me and my wife and family." "Two women in your household? That must make things ...

530. Those Who Mourn

Sermon

John A. Terry

... was the clue that death had come to his body and little by little would take possession. How much better for him if that boiling water had caused him pain. It is like the man whose feet had been amputated, who told of his experience being caught out in the bitter cold of the far north. So long as his feet pained him he was happy, but after a while, the pain was gone, and he knew then that his feet were doomed. The pain diminished as they froze. How deadly, how horrible to be unable to feel the pain of ...

531. The Persecuted

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John A. Terry

... the words of this beatitude and understand the persecution in the light of God's will, and way through eternity, and the final promise that God's kingdom will come. One night after the porch of his home was bombed, Martin Luther King wrote, "To our most bitter opponents we say ... 'Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you ... throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into ...

532. Evergreen Wreath And Faded Leaf

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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Harold Warlick

... and have his name changed to Paul. He was silent from the Scriptures for at least two years. Those two years must have been quite painful as the "faded leaf" of existence was juxtaposed with his newly-found eternal Savior. He felt the bitter disappointment of his family as they saw the young scholar espouse a controversial cause. He experienced the disillusionment of his fellow Jews when he turned his back on a brilliant rabbinical career. He knew the high cost of renouncing his family, childhood faith ...

533. Wind -- Word -- Spirit -- Community

Acts 2:1-13

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Arthur H. Kolsti

... wielded a sharp whip that cut into the flesh, the sarx, of his horse. There is the origin of our English word sarcasm. There are cutting words that can wound our sensibilities. The psalmist speaks of "those who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows" (Psalm 64:3). The late Gordon W. Alport of Harvard in his monumental book, The Nature of Prejudice, described the context of genocide in terms of a pyramid. The word for genocide current today is ethnic cleansing. Think of a pyramid ...

534. Flesh For Our Life

John 6:25-59

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George W. Hoyer

... grace, commended his love to us, while we were sinners, by having his anointed one die, die on a cross. Jesus said, "I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people unto me." God in flesh dying -- how attractive even as it causes us to weep bitterly, how it draws us even though each detail grieves us. Could it be that our Lord thought in some way as the nails were driven into his hands, "This is my flesh, given to me that I can give it for the life of the world? This greater love I ...

535. The Highest In The Lowest

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

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John A. Stroman

... came by. She was weary and, out of compassion, Conrad brought her in and gave her some of the food he had prepared for his special, anticipated guest. She ate with relish, for she was hungry. Refreshed, she went on her way. As night came a lost child, crying bitterly, into his shop. The cobbler was annoyed by the child's presence, because he felt it necessary to leave his shop and take the child to his home. As he returned to his shop he was convinced that he had missed his Lord. Sadly, he sat down, and in ...

536. Called out of Death

John 11:17-37

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RobertT D. Ingram

... the Power of Jesus' Name" *"Eternal Light, Shine in My Heart" *"Even as We Live Each Day" "How Firm a Foundation" "Hymn of Promise" "I Know Whom I Have Believed" "My Heart Is Longing" "Oh, Sing, My Soul, Your Maker's Praise" "Peace, to Soothe Our Bitter Woes" "Rejoice, the Lord Is King" "Sing with All the Saints in Glory" Reading the Scripture If the suggestion in "Drama and Movement" below is not used, then divide the reading among several people. Someone to read Mary's, Martha's and Jesus' words would be ...

537. Moses's New Job

Exodus 4:18-31

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Jerry Eckert

... I got up after fighting and the foreman didn't. He was dead. I buried him in the sand and carried the injured relative who was still unconscious back to the camp. I was still upset over the foreman's cruelty and over what I saw in the camp, the bitterness, the despair, the slum conditions of the families. It was bad. I knew I had to do something. Now is my chance. And, God is with me! Your husband,Moses Dear Moses, Prophet of the Lord, Your God! Your obsession. You were so caught up in your crusade that you ...

538. Those Who Mourn

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

John A. Terry

539. The Persecuted

John 15:18-27

Sermon

John A. Terry

540. Seeking Honor

Mark 10:35-45

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RobertT D. Ingram

... : Jesus, Servant King of the new world, we come seeking to learn this new way of living. Left: Jesus, fill us with your love. Right: Show us how to serve.(Have the congregation join in singing the hymn "Jesu, Jesu.") Prayer Teacher of Truth, though the cup you drink is bitter with suffering and death, we will drink of it, too. Though your baptism drowns you in hell's flames, we will be baptized, too. Where you go, we will go. Then, as we join you in death, may we be lifted with you into new life. To sit at ...

541. How Do You Remain Religious?

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... must be religious in one way - their way. As long as men and women carried out their worship and obedience to the Law in a supposedly correct ritual, these persons were automatically good. What does it matter if they hate others or carry envy, bitterness, or jealousy in their hearts? These are the attitudes and forces Jesus was up against. He bore down upon blind bondage to tradition among these supposedly religious people and what he told them was revolutionary. No wonder they hated him! But he stood ...

542. Mission Ready!

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... Next Sunday, instead of taking flowers to the cemetery, why don’t you take them to those two lonely patients? Just say, 'Hello,’ to them and see if they need anything; see what you can do for them.” Reluctantly, she did it. By that simple act the bitterness started to melt away. Gradually she began to take more flowers to the hospital and fewer to the cemetery. She was on her way to recovery. Someone said, regarding death, “None of us is given the luxury of sorrow for very long we must go on.” The ...

543. Winners Losers

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... word has become your own, ground into the very blood and bones and mental fibers of your being. Being thus free, you are a winner, since you keep on going no matter circumstances and consequences. No person can ask more of themselves. In early winter, on a bitterly cold night, ice forms on the pond. The next day when the sun comes out it melts. After a few more nights it reforms. Thus it cycles for days or weeks; the ice forms and reforms, continuing the process. At last the temperature plummets and the ice ...

544. I Saw a New Heaven

Revelation 21:1-27

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John R. Brokhoff

... of that morning. Another hymn writer, Hans Brorson, who wrote seventy hymns the year before he died, wrote this one among them, “Who is This Host Arrayed in White.” Part of that hymn, written in the year 1764 reads: On earth they wept through bitter years;Now God has wiped away their tears,Transformed their strife to heav’nly life,And freed them from their fears. No so-called “crying towel” is needed in Heaven. God personally dries those tears of earth. The vision goes on to say, “And death ...

545. Absalom, Absalom

2 Samuel 18:1-18

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Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... Lord. David's life is spared graciously but God's judgment is pronounced and secured. "The sword will never depart from your house." And since last week, that judgment has played itself out. There has been rape and murder and rebellion, lust and bitterness, strife and dishonesty, cowardice, especially cowardice. It is a grim narrative and the writer spares us no details of the wickedness. Amnon rapes Tamar, his own half-sister, who is sister of Absalom. Amnon is David's firstborn, successor to the throne ...

546. Living By Faith And Trust

Mark 5:21-43

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Leonard H. Budd

... . And so the message comes at us from many directions: Have faith in God's care. Trust God and the life God has given in Christ Jesus. Yet, there are some folks, some we know, who have little or no trust, whose lives are filled with complaint and bitterness. Even the American Medical Association says that will kill you! An old southern evangelist was preaching up a storm and ended his long sermon by asking the people to come to the front of the church and give testimony to what God had done for them. People ...

547. The Presence Of The Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

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Charles Curley

... person. He had the Spirit. We knew he had the Spirit because he himself told us he did, and that quite often. He preached fiery sermons, with nary a note. He said he preached what the Spirit wanted him to say. He was an angry man. He was a competitive, bitter, driven man. I have to admit that every time I hear someone say you have to get the Spirit (like you get a new car or get a new suit), I remember those two men: the angry one who told us he had the Spirit, and the gentle one who ...

548. Listen

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Charles Curley

... ." The sons of Eli did no good, and they also did much harm. They were lazy, greedy and corrupt. As a result, community life was chaotic and violent, religious life was factious and insecure. The people were waiting for a change and were becoming bitter and restless in their waiting. Life was filled with violence, brutality, corruption and ineffectiveness. Are we talking about the 11th century before Christ or the 20th century after? Change does not come easily or simply for nation or church, as it did not ...

549. The Saving Grace Of Gratitude

Luke 17:11-19

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... over against such pride and power, and takes the part of the weak and the poor. God's judgment is not based on human standards, but on God's own truth and righteousness, and God makes it clear that oppression and exploitation will bear its own bitter fruit. The people, of course, do not want to hear this message of the prophet. "Don't preach this way," they tell him, "One should not preach this way; disgrace will not overtake us" (Micah 2:6). Micah, however, rages against such moral and spiritual blindness ...

550. When Something Is About To Happen

Mark 13:32-37

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Thomas Long

... because they live today in the light of God's tomorrow, when all will be clothed in garments of light and the banquet table of the kingdom will hold a feast. Come, Lord Jesus. Every time Christian people speak words of forgiveness in circumstances of bitterness, words of love in situations of hatred, they are speaking in the future present tense. That is, they are using in the present a language which the whole creation will learn to speak in God's tomorrow. Come, Lord Jesus. Every time worshippers struggle ...

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