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601. Pentecost

Jn 14:8-17, 25-27; 20:19-23 · Acts 2:1-21 · 1 Cor 3-7, 12-13 · Gen 11:1-9

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John R. Brokhoff

... Holy Spirit is an unknown God. Is the congregation divided over the Spirit, especially as related to speaking in tongues? Is there a claim that unless one speaks in tongues, he/she does not have the Spirit? Gospel: John 14:8-17, 25-27 1. Your Spiritual Advisor ... comes from, how we get him or if he can leave us. We are not sure the Spirit is a personal possession. In this text, Jesus claims that the Disciples know the Spirit. If we do not know him, Jesus tells us in the text who he is and what he does. Outline ...

602. Advent 3

Lk 3:7-18 · Php 4:4-13 · Zeph 3:14-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... . The axe is a symbol of the wrath of God. The tree of an evil life will be cut down and burned. Moreover, he claims that Christ will burn the chaff "with unquenchable fire." Here is a word of warning: repent or experience the wrath of God! Dare we ... church in a parking lot. The mind is important, for as a person thinks, so is he. What we say and do result from our thinking. Paul claims that the peace of God keeps our minds in Christ. He suggests what we are to think about - v. 8. We are to have the mind of ...

603. Proper 23

Lk 17:11-19 · 2 Tim 2:8-15 · 2 Ki 5:14-17 · Mic 1:2, 2:1-10 · Ru 1:1-19a

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John R. Brokhoff

... slavery in a foreign land. 3. Preach (2:6). "Don't preach to me!" is often heard from one who does not want to hear about sins or to learn of evil results from sin. The people told Micah not to preach of "woe" or of a coming captivity. They claimed, "That can't happen to us!" God would not disgrace us like that! In 2:11 the people want the preacher to approve their strong drinking. They say, "That's the preacher for us!" A preacher must decide whether he/she shall preach what the people want to hear or ...

604. Lent 1

Lk 4:1-13 · Rom 10:8-13 · Deut 26:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... the wilderness for temptation. In the Lord's Prayer Jesus taught us to say, "Lead us not into temptation." Some Biblical scholars translate the phrase "led in the Spirit" rather than by the Spirit. This translation seems to overcome the difficulty. 2. Delivered (v. 6). Satan claims that the world has been delivered to him and therefore he can give the world to Jesus. This is one of Satan's many lies. Indeed, there is much evidence that evil flourishes in the world and corrupts the world. Thus, in one of his ...

605. Sunday of the Passion

Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... . God was near and ready to help. Though God allows suffering, he sustains the sufferer who suffers for his sake. When Jesus cried, "My God, why?" we sense the trauma and tragedy of God's apparent withdrawal. Lesson 2: Philippians 2:5-11 1. Equality (v. 6). Paul claims that Jesus before the Incarnation was on an equality with God - "very God of very God," as the Creed says. If he were equal with God, there was no need for Jesus to grasp any honor, authority, or power. This is a confession of the deity of ...

606. Parking Lots and Traffic Jams

John 3:1-21

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Richard L. Thulin

... his poverty, his power in his self-surrender."1 He was and is among us as one who shares our common way. All in all, I guess the chartreuse and yellow bumper sticker and I did not do well together. There is no doubt that it warmed me. It openly claimed Jesus and implied his ability to help us in our need. But it kept wanting to turn the good news of God reaching me into the bad news of my having to reach God. It urged me to see Jesus in a place other than where the New Testament says ...

607. Soap Opera Silence

Matthew 10:1-42

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... feel in one way or another that the best thing we can do is step aside and be quiet. In such a situation our fear is not that we will be beaten or put in jail. Our fear, rather, is of personal ridicule. We fear being laughed at for our claim that "the kingdom of heaven is at hand." We may also fear at times that our ridiculers are right, that the words we have been given are empty of power, that they are only pious sentiments which will fall away in a time of real testing. In such a situation ...

608. Image and Inscription

Matthew 22:15-22

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... his answer: "The coins you carry belong to Caesar: they bear his image and inscription. Certainly he can claim a tax from you." But there is something else - another, more important element in this controversy, something Jesus’ ... and Zachary Aaron in their baptism today; a permanent and indelible inscription. You render to God the "things" that are God’s when you claim your baptismal identity and so see all of your life, time, talents and possessions as instruments for the accomplishment of his just and ...

609. Possession is Nine Tenths of the Fall

Matthew 21:33-46

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D. Wayne Burkette

... and only way. God’s grace opens the gates of the Kingdom to those who, from the possessors’ point of view, do not deserve it. The gospel of grace denies our ownership of anything and boldly proclaims that even faith itself is a gift. So what makes God’s claim upon life the good news that it is? Nothing less than the mystery that the God who owns all is also the God who loves all. In that mystery we experience the joy and freedom which come with the assurance that our lives belong totally to God, God ...

610. The Master Has Come - And Is Calling For You

John 11:38-44

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... on our living. John Baillie wrote, "My earliest memories have a definitely religious atmosphere. I cannot recall a time when I did not feel in some dim way that I was not my own to do with as I pleased, but was claimed by a higher power which had authority over me." God has a claim on our living - whoever we are. III The Master can use us whatever we are. That is the third thing to remember. When Jesus called Lazarus out of the tomb he said to those standing nearby, "Unbind him, and set him free." Jesus ...

611. Baptism of Our Lord

Matthew 3:13-17, Acts 10:23b-48, Psalm 45:1-17, Isaiah 42:1-9

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... gospel is necessary to the completion of this sermon, especially in the light of Satan's word to Christ, "If you are the Son of God," followed by the three "temptations.") 4. The baptismal font stands always as a silent witness to the sacrament in which God has spoken and claimed us as his people. It reminds us that we live by the power of the Holy Spirit, allowing God to allay any doubts we may have that Jesus really is the Son of God and has taken away the sin of the world - of each one of us - and has ...

612. Proper 4

Deuteronomy 11:1-32, Genesis 12:1-8, Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29, Romans 3:21-31, Psalm 31:1-24, Psalm 33:1-22

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... -29 (C) The conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount declares that Jesus expects his teachings to be learned and obeyed by those who claim to be his disciples. The faithful are required to do "the will of my Father who is in heaven," not to win salvation, Paul ... much about God as did Abram? 4. Journeying south. Abram trusted God; he and his family went where God told them to go, claiming the land that God had promised to him and his offspring. Christ has taught us again to love and trust God - through his cross. ...

613. Pentecost 24

Mal 1:6-14, Lev 2:1-16, Mic 3:1-12, Am 5:18-27, Ru 4:1-1, 1Th 2:1-16, 4:13-5:11, Mt 23 and 25:1-13

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CSS

... way they have lived. 2. It will be a day of darkness or a day of deliverance. Which will it be? The choice is ours; we can bring judgment and destruction down upon ourselves and our world. 3. Fidelity and obedience. Those are what God expects from people who claim to love him. Godly people will work for the "good" and for peace among all people. 4. The faithful have nothing to fear - in this life or at the end of it. Ruth 4:7-17 - "The Happy Ending." 1. Ruth and Boaz apparently did "live happily ever after ...

614. Proper 27 & Pentecost 25

Psalm 50:1-23, Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 63:1-11, Amos 5:18-27, Hosea 11:1-11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, Matthew 25:14-30

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... two things: First, "offer to God a sacrifice ofthanksgiving," and, second, "make good your vows to the Most High." Those who claim to love God and offer him thanks for his blessings as their "sacrifice of thanksgiving" are required to prove their ... complete: "Seek good and not evil, so as that you may live, and that Yahweh, God of Sabboth, may really be with you, as you claim he is." The children of Israel, who long for "the day of the Lord," are called upon to "let justice flow like water, and integrity ...

615. Tuesday in Holy Week

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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... , we may still trust in your incredible love. In the spirit of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of love, we admit that we often feel and show contempt for the very characteristics displayed by the Jesus whom we claim to serve: humility, gentleness, selflessness, poverty, and pacifism; and we even find ways to baptize their opposites and call them "Christian." Forgive us, we pray, and teach us to look always to the image of the despised, defeated, and finally dead "loser" on the cross, and to ...

616. Proper 24

Matthew 22:15-22

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Theme: Separation of church and state Exegetical note The conversation depicted here must be understood in its original setting, in which the distinction between state and religion was blurred in a number of ways, not the least being the claim of the Roman emperor to be divine (and so designated on coins)! Jesus' famous dictum about "rendering," therefore, is a cleverly "safe" way of dealing with a question meant to entrap him, but also a profound statement about the appropriate separation between the ...

617. "The Return"

Drama

... ’s all? Beggar Well, there are so many of us. It was something. Liberal Lady Crumbs! She gave him crumbs! The most serious moral issue of our time and she’s giving out crumbs with her lily-white gloves. You who come from the poor of the earth yourself, you claim her as your wife? I can’t believe it. (Jesus reaches in brown bag he is carrying, pulls out a banana, breaks it in half, gives half to beggar, eats other half himself.) She is not worthy of you. Why, I hear (aside to him) she’s not even been ...

618. Don't Let the Parade Pass You By

Luke 19:28-44

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Bill Bouknight

... to borrow your colt during Passover. I’ll send my disciples to get the animal at the right time." This triumphal entry was Jesus’ "coming out" party. Earlier he had hushed up talk about his being the Messiah. But now he claims the title boldly and publicly. Jesus rode into Jerusalem in a way that was an unmistakable claim to be the Messiah, God’s anointed King. This was an act of glorious defiance and superlative courage. Here was a man with a price on his head riding into the city in broad daylight ...

619. Faith isn’t Easy - But it Works!

Genesis 12:1-8

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Barbara Brokhoff

... his sure, true Word is to stand on solid rock. It has been reported that there are some 33,000 promises in the Bible that God has made to his people. Would we not be wise to find the ones that apply to our present needs and situation and claim them for ourselves in the name of our Faithful Promiser? No matter how fool-hardy it seems, God can always be trusted. These promises to Abraham are new and fresh, encompassing not only Abraham and his future, but even the future of the outsiders. They were "too good ...

620. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

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Barbara Brokhoff

... an-angel-face and was never the same again! Augustine 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 ...

621. Religion at a Minimum

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

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Dennis Kastens

... realize that unless he repented of his sin, he would face endless suffering - the consequences of divine wrath and justice - for his misdeeds. So what was needed for Zacchaeus was a distinct, vivid and absolutely astounding confrontation with Christ and his claims! How each of us needs such an encounter with Jesus today, especially in our culture where we regard everyone (except gross criminals) as innocent. The Bible says, however: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can ...

622. Bad Good News Won’t Sell!

Jeremiah 28:1-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... life. We are determined to see and hear no evil. We want to live always on the up-beat and wear rose-colored glasses. "God is in his heaven. All’s right with the world." Tell people what they want to hear - nothing but good news. One popular TV preacher claims that he never uses the word "sin." This same preacher believes in self-exaltation, for he writes, "Don’t worry about humility. The easiest job for God to do is to keep you and me humble. God’s biggest job is to get us to believe that we are ...

623. As Good As God

Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... world does not have enough food to eat, is it just for America’s farmers under governmental support not to plant one-third of their land in order to increase the price of next year’s crops and to reduce the national stockpile of grain? Can we claim we are as just as God in our present system of taxation? The low and middle class citizen pays taxes through the nose while the wealthy people and corporations pay comparatively little. Is it just for a millionaire to use tax loopholes and tax shelters to the ...

624. Loving Unconditionally

John 13:31-38

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Robert Bachelder

... to suggest a drastically different attitude. In his Pentecost sermon, for example, Peter says of Jesus: "And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." According to the Gospel of John, Jesus claimed: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes unto the Father but by me." The risen Christ of Matthew’s Gospel declares: "All power in both heaven and earth has been given to me." Paul in his letter to Philippi says that all ...

625. The Glory of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Hubert Beck

... it all along ... or at least suspect it? It is not the kind of time one would usually think of as being the moment to claim glory for oneself or for God. We think of glory as strength, power, wealth, honor, fame. That is why it is so difficult to capture the ... all that goes with it has met with God’s grace and deliverance, so that holding his hand in life and death, sin cannot claim us when it wants to. Have I spoken according to human reason or logically thought out wisdom? No really. Much as we might, as ...

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