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551. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... disclosure of God” without having to say He’s the “only one or without even saying he’s the best one.” He described the Bible and Jesus as simply a helpful “lens” through which to view the sacred. “If we stop using the Christian lens, then we cease to be Christian and that’s not the end of the world. If humanity lasts 10,000 years, then I expect that if Christianity lasts at all then it will be a tiny sect like Zoroastrianism. We’re not going to last forever in the Christian tradition ...

552. A Time of Transition

Joshua 5:9-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... for forty years. During this time God has provided for them quite miraculously with water and manna. Now the Israelites have entered the Promised Land and are beginning to take possession of it. Then we come to this important verse, Joshua 5:12: “The manna ceased on the day they ate the produce of the land, and the Israelites no longer had manna; they ate the crops of the land of Canaan that year.” This was a time of transition. No longer would they gather manna fresh every morning, provided by ...

553. The Promise Of The Holy Spirit

John 14:15-31

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... when you no longer walked among them they would not be left alone, for you would dwell within them. We thank you for this promise, and for the reality of your presence with us even today. Bestow upon us now that peace which passes understanding that we may cease to worry or to be upset or afraid. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we do love you, but we confess we have not always kept your commandments. By your mercy, grant us forgiveness, and by the power of your Holy Spirit, enable us always to show forth ...

554. God Has Come To Save His People

Luke 7:11-17

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H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness, O God. Come, let us worship together. Collect Merciful God, through your Son, Jesus Christ, we have come to know you as a loving and compassionate Father. We know that your Son came into ...

555. The Good News Brings Hope

Colossians 1:1-14

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H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Leader: Faith in Christ Jesus brings with it love for all God's people. People: Our faith and love are based on the hope offered to us by the Good News we received from Jesus Christ. Leader: Let us not cease praying for one another and asking that we may be filled with the knowledge of God's will; People: so that we may lead lives worthy of the Lord. Leader: Come, let us worship God. Collect O God, you have saved us from the power of darkness and made us ...

556. God Has Made You His Friends

Colossians 1:15-23

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H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness, O God! Come, let us worship the God of love and mercy. Collect Merciful God, Creator of the universe, through your Son, Jesus Christ, we have come to know you as our friend. Bless ...

557. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to do both well is an art taught by the Holy Spirit with many mistakes along the way. Enrolling in his school of truth telling and holy love will change your life. Jesus was under no illusion that upon the announcement of his teaching all use of oaths would cease; he was after a people who knew the stakes and who, in his company, learned the power of integrity. Now what about the issue of oaths in the courts? Courts will always be necessary this side of the kingdom of God as a resistance to evil and crime ...

558. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... Jesus devoted such repetitive teaching to the issue of what to do with anxiety means that he knows how deep and difficult it is to root out. The Episcopal evangelist John Guest wrote these wise words: “When Scripture encourages us to pray without ceasing, and to cast all our care upon him, it is literally saying redirect those restless, energetic minds into a positive stream of communication with God. Turn it all into prayer! Instead of nursing wounds of self-pity, pray for the grace to forgive. Instead ...

559. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... watch over one another in love, then we may have a chance in the church to enter a new world in the midst of the current one, a place where it is safe not to be perfect or to have to play like you are for religious reasons, where fear ceases and love grows, and where people can actually learn what it means to live a holy and a happy life in partnership with Christ and in communion with the saints, all of whom are still in process. Having a critical spirit is not a gift of the Holy Spirit. It ...

560. Oskar’s Cruelty

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... you feel the devastation Ezekiel says the Israelite people in exile felt? In his autobiography, It Doesn't Take A Hero, Desert Storm Coalition Forces Commander-in-Chief Norman Schwarzkopf writes of his reactions flying back to his headquarters after the cease-fire talks with the Iraqis. "We had to bring Kuwait City back to life, which meant repairing and turning on the water supply, electrical power grid, and telephones, helping the police maintain order, searching for booby traps and clearing the beaches ...

561. Chimps, Mount Saint Helens, and the Holy Gust

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... 1980 the volcano began to wake up. It erupted on May 18, 1980. The top of the mountain blew off. A cloud of ash and gases was sent to an altitude of twelve miles. At least sixty people were killed. All life in an area of some seventy square miles ceased and a vast area was covered with ash and debris. The mountain's elevation lowered from 9,677 feet to 8,364 feet. There is a fire that lives within the earth even when one forgets about its presence. Forgetting about that presence of fire (molten lava) in the ...

562. Bloody Lintels — Broken Bread

Exodus 12:1-14

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... took turns lying on an operating table beside a critically-ill patient, according to the then government newspaper, Izvestia, and saved the patient's life with direct transfusions of their own blood. Fresh blood was needed because the patient's own blood had ceased to coagulate. In such a case, conserved blood, would not be effective. The three women practitioners each gave what they could -- a half pint of blood. A television show depicts a traveler lost in the Sahara Desert and dying of thirst; he removes ...

563. Saved (Again)!

Exodus 14:19-31

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... for spiritual cleansing and the gift of life itself. At a later time, Isaiah appeals to the inhabitants of Jerusalem to reject injustices and be washed clean. "Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow" (Isaiah 1:16-17). The Psalmist used the metaphor of water to describe forgiveness. "Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from ...

564. The Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... to a statue; it's not being secure enough to trust the unseen God with an uncertain future. Idolatry is being afraid to make ourselves vulnerable to God's future, even if we don't quite know where we are going. Our temptation to idolatry is not that we will cease to believe in God; it is doubting that God alone is enough. It is wanting to control God, to bend God to our wishes. We respond to our anxiety by creating idols. We turn the wisdom of investing money into the idol of trusting our money. We turn the ...

565. Here Is Your God

Isaiah 35:1-10

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Frank Ramirez

... could make us fail to see your well marked path to glory. Burst into our lives so that even we cannot go astray. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen. (Based on Isaiah 35:5-6) Hymns "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus" "Christ Is Coming! Let Creation From Its Groans And Travail Cease" "Oh, Have You Not Heard?"

566. Effective Suffering

Romans 8:26-39

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... up embarrassing stories about growing up. Stories about odd manners of dress, especially when backed up with pictures; stories about difficulties with toilet training or bed wetting; stories about the things a child once did when growing up, but has long since ceased to do. No matter how cute the story might seem, particularly to the parents, the result for the child is often utter embarrassment, diminished self-esteem, and humiliation. And here we are, at the beginning of this lesson, speaking of our ...

567. Body Parts and Pride

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... situation today, and they should carry a lot of meaning for us. It is worth our while to make the effort to listen carefully to what is being said in our lesson this morning. After all, it isn't as if the issues Paul speaks about have ceased to afflict humanity. Consider, for example, a man who was promoted to a position that had the title of vice-president. The man was exceedingly proud of the new position and developed the annoying habit of speaking of himself in the third person. Many of his sentences ...

568. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Matthew 1:18-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... , carnal and spiritual, mortal and immortal. Most folks think of themselves only in one dimension - being human, flesh, and blood, material creatures. This results in the neglect of the spiritual dimension of life. On the other hand, we cannot be so spiritual that we cease to be human. Outline: Like Jesus, each of us has a double dimension. a. Descended - v. 3. Jesus descends to man to be man through the royal lineage of David. He honors our humanity by becoming one of us. As humans we have descended from ...

569. Proper 18

Exodus 12:1-30, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20, Ezekiel 33:1-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... a just God and violations of his holy Law will bring the wrath of God upon the offender. The "watchman" needs not be limited to the professional preacher, but since we believe in the priesthood of believers, each Christian has the responsibility to warn sinners to cease and desist lest death overtake them. 2. Warn (v. 9). In the three verses of this Lesson, the word "warn" is used three times. It is a key word. A Christian is to be God's person who warns sinners. Many have overlooked this responsibility of ...

570. 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

... better than God does, for God seldom gets a tenth of our income. Lesson 1: Exodus 33:12-23 (C) 1. Rest (v. 14). Yahweh promises to give Moses rest. It is a great promise for anyone. For Moses the "rest" could mean that eventually Israel would cease the wilderness wandering and settle down in the Promised Land. It could also mean "rest" from the labor and concern of leading a stiff-necked, grumbling, cantankerous people. For us "rest" can mean comfort in the knowledge that God is with us and will lead us to ...

571. Visions and Voices

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... ." She became an ember carried upward by the heat of the invisible flame ... until the vacuum sucked the feeble light out of her. A darkness so pure it glistened, then out of the darkness ... nova.... More luminous than any sun ... all that was her ceased to exist. Only what was God remained.2 Unfortunately for Sister John, there is a complication. Along with her visions come excruciating headaches, which demolish her for days at a time, making her unavailable for the work of the cloister and causing her to ...

572. Transformed in Christ

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... a time to transform our personal habits. We need to heed the warnings and advice we have received with respect to personal health and have the courage to change to a more sane, healthier, and more productive lifestyle. We know what we need - to lose weight, stop smoking, cease certain activity - but we often balk. At times we are lazy or do not want to pay the price that the removal of a certain habit will cost. All of us need to transform our faith practice; there is always more that can be done. We need ...

573. The Choice for God or the World

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... precisely what he needed to do. He now realized that the bird was a sign that change was needed, but he had ignored the sign. Thus, the king ordered that all the people must have all the colors. Again there were no differences and dissension, strife, and conflict ceased. All the people lived happily ever after.1 John Aurelio's story "Colors" speaks of how a king was given a choice - follow the sign of God or ignore the sign and go your own way. His failure to heed the sign almost brought disaster for him ...

574. Try This on For Size!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... , but no; For from the room far back, an old gray-haired man arose, And coming forward and taking the bow, And wiping the dust from the old violin And tuning the loosened strings, He played a melody sweet and pure as the caroling angel sings. The music ceased and the auctioneer with a voice That was quiet and low, said, "Now, what am I bid for the old violin?" And he held it up with its bow. "A thousand dollars," someone cried. "Two thousand" and "Who'll make it three? Three thousand once, three thousand ...

575. The Incomparable Christ

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... office. Yet no officer or king ever had more volunteers who have, under his orders, marched into every valley of human need to begin orphanages, schools, hospitals, to right wrongs, and institute justice. Every Lord's Day, the wheels of commerce cease their churning and multitudes assemble in churches worldwide to worship him as Savior and Lord. The names of athletes, senators, artists, emperors, and soldiers have come and gone; but the name of this person grows with time. Though nearly 2,000 years ...

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