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601. The President's Religion

2 Samuel 12:1-31

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Erskine White

... the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?" This is the prophet's faith. Thus says the Lord. Amen Pastoral Prayer O Righteous God, who is Judge of all that happens in earthly affairs, we pray for our nation as we vote this Tuesday. Cleanse us of the bitterness and rancor which may have filled the land during this long and difficult campaign. Inspire those who gain power to deal justly with those who are powerless. Put in our new leaders a desire to serve even those who can be of no service to them. Lead them ...

602. Together In Christ

Acts 2:42-47

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Erskine White

... ; we also pray today for the broken community beyond our doors. Let none of Your children be satisfied so long as any of Your children are hungry and leave no one content so long as anyone is oppressed. Pour upon us the blessings of peace and save us from the bitter scourge of war. Deliver this world from its wages of sin, O God, and hasten the day when every tear is wiped away, when Your new community is established and when only Your love and glory shall fill the earth. In Jesus' name. Amen

603. Wedding: The Bondage of Marriage

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John M. Braaten

... agree with the poet Keats, who suggested in his ode (poem), "On a Grecian Urn," that anticipation provides greater enjoyment than participation. The truth is, many look back on their wedding day with feelings which range all the way from wistful nostalgia to bitter cynicism and grief. You see, the romantic dreams of marriage don't last long; what your heart desires and what your marriage becomes may be miles apart. As evidence, consider the way people talk about marriage. Some women complain that they are ...

604. Lent 3

1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Exodus 3:1-22, Psalm 126:1-6, Psalm 103:1-22, Luke 13:1-9

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George Bass

... this day in the city of David a savior, who is Christ the Lord." And God says, "This is my beloved son, listen to him!" 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12 (RC); 10:1-13 (E, L, C) - "The End Of The Story." 1. The exodus story has a "bitter end" to it; the people of Israel, ungrateful to God for his deliverance and sinful, as always, weren't allowed to enter the Promised Land. They died in the wilderness, unrepentant sinners. 2. According to Paul, their fate should be a warning to all believers, sending them down to ...

605. Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17, Psalm 116:1-19, Exodus 12:1-30, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, Mark 14:12-26, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 10:19-39, Luke 22:7-38

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George Bass

... Sunday after the Epiphany into Ash Wednesday. It was rather a "standard" retreat until Ash Wednesday arrived. The congregation was invited to a supper that was planned according to the Seder. The pastor roasted the eggs and leg of lamb, other people supplied the matzoh, the bitter herbs, the four cups of wine, and the rest of the meal. It wasn't really a "kosher" Seder, but it gave the people some idea of what the Passover Seder is like - and what the last supper that Jesus had with the disciples could have ...

606. A Habit of Happy Heirs

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Thomas Slavens

... of eternal life; the Holy Spirit; and the Christ modern Christians have occasion to be thankful. But most of all and above everything and everyone, Christians should come to this thanksgiving season thankful to God for God himself. As Joyce Kilmer put it: Thank God for the bitter and ceaseless strife, And the sting of His chastening rod!Thank God for the stress and the pain of life, And Oh, thank God for God!21 As you come to this season, may your turkey or chicken or pork chop be browned just right; may ...

607. The Highway to Peace

Luke 2:1-7

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Thomas Slavens

... pleased!” Nineteen hundred years after this song, we are still at war with one another and with God. What is the solution to this perpetual warfare? Some have given the answer that the cure for war is a more intense war; the cure for hate is a more bitter hate. Far different is the answer of the One about whom the angels sang: “You shall love your neighbors as yourself.” (Mark 12:31) Love is stronger than hate. But in the final analysis this is a matter of faith. Those who believe in God believe that ...

608. The Still Small Voice

1 Kings 19:1-8

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Steven Burt

... the repeated story of his troubles, and the result is that he is left more and more to himself. Thus he becomes the only audience to which he can pour out his woes, and as these are poured back into himself, they foam up into an ever more bitter and intoxicating drug. It’s then that a voice comes to him. Every version of the Bible but one says, “the voice came to him.” Not “the voice spoke to him.” The voice -- and it doesn’t say whose voice -- came to him, asking simply, “EIijah, what are ...

609. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

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Steven Burt

... . I like the way Luke’s gospel captures Peter’s emotion at that point, saying, “And Peter remembered the word of the Lord,” how he had said to him, “Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.” “And [Peter] went out and wept bitterly.” Now the connection is made -- the connection we see in the use of the phrase “charcoal fire” both in the courtyard and on the beach here. Try to feel, if you will, the immense weight of guilt and shame that Peter is carrying. He is, after ...

610. You Must Become As A Child

Mark 10:13-16

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Brett Blair

... a position. It strikes us today as rather uncaring and cold. I can assure you, however, that I have been in churches that, in their own subtle way, are not child friendly. I well remember one of my former congregations where a group of people bitterly fought opening up the annual children's Easter party to the community. Their reasoning went something like this: We don't know who these kids are, they will run wild through the building, they will damage the building. Now, doubtless they thought they were ...

611. God Is Love

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C. David Godshall

... they cannot defeat evil on their own - but through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has shown us his power to win the victory over this enemy of us all. When we turn to God with trust and hope, evil is defeated and does not win us to bitterness and hatred and despair. Though having him/her for only a short time, we can see in the childlike trust and love which had the very qualities which we need to have in this hour and in the days ahead. God gave up his only Son to die for us ...

612. Redeeming Grief

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Eulogy

Charles L. Koester

... , our feelings of injustice and anger. It is God's alternative, and I would bring it to each of us here this morning. As you are able in these moments, please listen as you can. We can live life now, and from this day forward, in a futile, endless, bitter grief, a grief which questions, but will find no answers. St. Paul put it pointedly, as he said, "Truly, if our hope in Christ were limited to this life only, we should, of all men, be most miserable." The other alternative: we can live life now, and from ...

613. African-American Spirituality: The African's Gift To America

Exodus 3:1-22

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... for making positive statements nor do I need to get permission from anyone to do so. Every other group can do whatever it wants to enhance and empower its community and it presents no problem, but the moment we do something positive to make our people better and not bitter, to make positive strides to help our people be the best that they can be so that America can be the best that it can be, certain people have problems. If you've got a problem, turn the channel, but don't ever expect me to stop saying the ...

614. Living Beyond Unhappily Ever After

Genesis 21:8-21

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... In fact, the thing that happens to us makes us virtually unhappy for the rest of our lives. That one episode becomes the defining element of all our remaining experiences. Jilted lovers can sometimes never love again because that one tragedy has made them so bitter that they can't start over. One writer said, "Success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get." We don't know about Hagar, but we know about those countless millions who can't get beyond the one heartbreak, the one calamity ...

615. Where Does That Leave Us?

Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... them aside and go your way. You appear too busy to be bothered. You may think “I’m really teaching that youngster a lesson she won’t forget.” Your feelings are hurt, and you are determined to show her. The child goes through the day or the week in bitter distress, wearing in the soul a load of sand with no way to wash it out. 5. Failing to show up for a group responsibility, leaving it for the others to carry your load. Not only is this an extra burden to others, but it causes friction among the ...

616. A Sign Of Divine Protection

Exodus 12:1-30

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Walter Kimbrough

... will be passed over when the death angel comes through the town. Life will be spared if you have the blood in place. The blood represents a sign of divine protection. 7. “That same night the meat is to be eaten, roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs and bread made without yeast.” The entire animal was to be cooked. God is most explicit in giving directions. Whenever human life is at stake, it is most important to be not only detailed, but accurate. God was both. We are still faced with the ...

617. In The Presence Of God

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... was unwilling to part with them. How many of us today are like this young man, possessing something that is so important to us that we will refuse to give it up, even if so ordered by God. Whenever this is the case, we, too, will go away bitterly. Shame, shame on us. The Bible teaches us that “obedience is better than sacrifice… (1 Samuel 15:22).” Then Peter informs us that “We must obey God rather than men… (Acts 5:29).” To obey has never destroyed anyone, but rather we are all enhanced as we ...

618. A Mother's Pride And Joy

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... Mother's Pride And Joy As Hanna and her husband arrived at Shiloh for a religious pilgrimage to the place of worship, Hannah prayed. We pick up this prayer at verse one of chapter one of the book of 1 Samuel. She (Hannah) was in deep anguish and was crying bitterly as she prayed to the Lord. She made this vow: "0 Lord of heaven, if you will look down upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you, and he'll be yours for his entire lifetime... (1 Samuel ...

619. Mourning Turned To Joy

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Ron Lavin

... God and other people. The major sin was idolatry. They have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hand (Jeremiah 1:16). Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God..." (Jeremiah 2:19). Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk (Jeremiah 10:5). Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel ...

620. No One Enters The Kingdom… Save With Empty Hands

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... .” Der Fuehrer was Chancellor Adolph Hitler who had recently risen to power championing an arrogant theory that his “Aryan race” of “supermen” would conquer the world. In implementing his theory he began systematically to stamp out the Jews in a bitter expression of prejudice and discrimination. Hitler also publicly denounced Blacks, Negroes as they were called then, as an inferior race. Jesse Owens, in his estimation, should not even be present at the Games. Jesse Owens was not only present, but ...

621. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... ex perienced the worst. Jesus had apparently claimed a victory, but now they have seen his utter defeat. Jesus had stood for the kingdom of God, but the power of Rome was standing over him. Jesus had promised a better life, but is now the victim of a bitter death. Have you ever experienced anything like this in your own life? Have there been some times when you have about lost your way? Has your life been filled with nothing but sunsets, when all you ever wanted was a little bit of sunrise? I wonder if I ...

622. "Something's Coming"

Isaiah 2:1-5

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Robert Beringer

... of God's coming kingdom are able to see the advance signs that, even now, something is about to happen. Every time we as a congregation recite those time-honored words from the Apostles' Creed, "He will come to speaks a word of forgiveness in a situation of bitterness and hatred, that Christian is speaking in the future present tense. We are giving the world a foretaste of how God will help us to live together in God's kingdom. Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord! Every time a congregation stands up ...

623. The Baby Who Changes Everything

Isaiah 7:1-25

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Robert Beringer

... yellow in her hair and with eyes just as blue. The turquoise necklace had been hers. But there had come a rainy night - a 'truck skidding on a slippery' road - and the life was crushed out of his dream. Since then, Pete Richards had lived with grief and bitterness and an emptiness in his soul that until this little girl had come into his shop, he had carefully buried from the eyes of the world. The blue eyes of little Jean jolted him into acute remembrance of what he had lost. Carefully he wrapped the blue ...

624. What Will He Find ... When He Comes?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... provide." "I hope so!" he replied. From the inflection of his voice, I knew he did not "expect" so. One is reminded of Lucy's encouragement to Charlie Brown in one of the Peanuts cartoons. "Look at it this way, Charlie Brown," she consoles. "These are your bitter days. These are the days of your hardship and struggle ..." The next frame goes on: "... but if you just hold your head up high and keep on fighting, you'll triumph!" "Gee, do you really think so, Lucy?" Charlie asks. As she walks away Lucy says ...

625. Wounded Glory

John 20:24-31

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Erskine White

... life they lead, with the power of the police, the wealthy elite and the North American colossus all lined up against them. If you are wondering why there is so much anti-American sentiment in most parts of the Third World today, you must look at the bitter reality of imperialism. You must ask yourself why our national government and multinational corporations have so often lined up on the side of the wealthy few at the expense of the many who are poor. Where can we recognize Christ in a world such as this ...

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