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651. PROPER 13

Lk 12:13-21 · Col 3:1-11 · Ecc 1:2; 2:18-26 · 2 Ki 13:14-20a

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John R. Brokhoff

... with his arrow. He did it three times. This enraged Elisha, for if the king had struck six times, the Syrians would have been permanently defeated. It teaches us the lesson that we can lose the fight if we give up too soon. Victory in battle, in a vocation, in life itself depends upon persistence. Don't ever give up trying and fighting for the right! Lesson 2: Colossians 3:1-11 1. Above (vv. 1, 2). Christians are people with an upward look. They look up because there is where Christ is. He is high and holy ...

652. No Shame

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 (29-31)

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William G. Carter

... be bought, compromised, lured, manipulated, enticed, or bribed. * I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity. * I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I've stayed up, prayed up, and preached up for the cause for Christ. * I am his disciple. * I must go until he comes, give until I drop, preach until all know, work until he stops me. * When he comes back ...

653. Lessons from Rephidim - Being the Lord's Intercessor

Exodus 17:8-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... , they asked what it was like out there. “Well,” he said, “It was the longest night of my life. I made out pretty well at first, but then a big wave came along and flattened me out and I felt myself slipping. I was worn out. I was ready to give up. My old father went down at sea, and I had decided my time had come. But just as I was ready to let go, I looked through the darkness and saw some body’s cap going up in the air. I said to myself, “somebody who cares enough about old ...

654. Having Trouble Sleeping Through the Night

1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)

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William J. Carl, III

... middle of the night, the most you can know is who you are as a broken human being, and admitting that to yourself is the first step toward wholeness, health, and peace in your life, in other words, Shalom. Some people toss and turn and finally cry out, "Okay I give up. Here I am, I am in trouble, I am hurting, I am even hurting other people. Yes, I admit it. Here I am." What do you mean when you say, "Here I am" in the middle of the night? People say it in different ways. "Here I am envious of ...

655. What Are You Waiting On?

John 11:1-16

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James Merritt

... for an answer to prayer, and you get so bold you even pray for something specifically and you put a specific date on it. And you’re absolutely convinced it’s the will of God for it to happen and the date passes and nothing happens. But you refuse to give up, you just push the date back, but that date comes and goes and nothing happens. I don’t know if you’ve had that experience, but I can tell you I have on more than one occasion. It’s hard not to quit praying. It’s hard not to get ...

656. Getting Down To The Local Issues

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Thomas Long

... from Chicago, disturbed the optimistic mood by saying, "Despite our happy talk, I have in my congregation a 30-year-old man just diagnosed with melanoma. Just before I left home for this meeting, a couple I have been counseling for two years told me that they were giving up and filing for divorce. Five young men in my congregation are in Vietnam fighting a war they do not understand, and one of them is my own son. Now, I hope by the end of this conference I will be celebrating with you, but if you think I ...

657. The Wisemen

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Jerry Eckert

... to go back. They couldn't believe Ihad no interest in measuring movements of the strange starand recording the data in a professional journal. Publish,publish, publish! That's all they think of! Don't take achance, don't risk anything, don't give up your seniority orsecurity unless you can get ahead. It is frightening to mehow they see the intellectual task. No wonder our schoolsturn out so many students with dead curiosity, with littlecreativity, with no sense of the wonder and mystery in theworld around ...

658. Stand Tall

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Timothy J. Smith

... burglary, Joe Bates was paroled. He knew finding full-time employment would not be easy. After all, who would want to hire an ex-convict? For three months Joe searched to find employment unsuccessfully. Joe became discouraged and depressed. He was ready to give up when he heard about a Tennessee businessperson named Henry Harrison. Henry was someone who took the words of Jesus to heart. He was a dedicated Christian who had the reputation of being willing to give someone a second chance. Henry Harrison hired ...

659. The S & L That Didn't Fail!

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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Barbara Brokhoff

... this wondrous S & L. Their deviltry only declared his divinity! Then there was the betrayal and the denial of his very own disciples. How that must have hurt his heart. They scourged his back and left it open and bleeding like a plowed field. Surely God's suffering Lord will give up on us, and call us all a bad lot, a lost cause, a bad debt unworthy of redemption - but he does not! There is more: they must mock him longer and proclaim him a king. So they borrow a robe and a reed for a scepter. And there was ...

660. Good News From A Graveyard

John 20:1-9

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John M. Braaten

... will be cured and world recreated, so that it recovers its lost beauty, its lost meaning, through the suffering of Christians in this world. God's people are called to share the sufferings of Christ. In its milder forms it might mean we are called to give up the status symbols others think are so important or we might take seriously the whole matter of ecology. On a deeper level we might be required to take unpopular stands that will result in lost friends or alienated family. There is another aspect to the ...

661. The Passover and the Passion

Drama

Denny C. Wise

... rich at their expense collecting taxes for that tyrant Caesar. But then we both met Jesus, and he transformed our lives. He taught me to overcome evil with good, and he taught Matthew here that you cannot serve God and money. How about you? What do you refuse to give up for Jesus? Choir: "Were You There When We Failed to Take a Stand?" (Mary puts out two more candles.) Narrator: Jesus knew the time of his death was at hand, and so he arose from the table to go and pray in the Garden of Gethsemane, on the ...

662. Grace and Golf

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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David E. Leininger

... 35. He won the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1979, and again in 1982, when he became the winningest golfer on the tour. Now he is a successful competitor on the PGA Senior tour. Calvin's persistent belief that God has a plan for his life enabled him to persevere without giving up. "It's been a long road from the fields to the fairways," Calvin says. "One a lot of people said was impossible. But you see, I knew something maybe they didn't. That God had a plan for me -- but I HAD TO BE WILLING TO WORK AT IT. When ...

663. Persistence In Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

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King Duncan

... out the candidate, “But in the event that your friend doesn’t run, may I have your support?” Well, that’s one candidate who wasn’t put off by a little opposition. That’s good. The mark of a successful person is that he or she doesn’t give up just because things are not going his or her way. One man who never gave up was Thomas Edison. Edison’s wife died at a very young age. Two years later he remarried. During the time he was single he became accustomed to going to his lab at all hours ...

664. Freedom's Year

Galatians 3:26--4:7

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Wayne Brouwer

... hand in hand. "You are free!" says Paul, "When you belong to Christ!" Do you see the irony in that? You are free ” when you give up your freedom! But how can that be? How can you be free at the same time that you belong to someone else? How can ... her finger, and all you can say is: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! A mother has a child. She belongs to that child. She could give up that child, but she chooses to be held by her commitments to that child. Day and night that child rules over her with a power ...

665. Birdbaths and Flagpoles

Matthew 13:1-23

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King Duncan

... 't about to take "no" for an answer. He began talking to reporters and legislators about changing the consent laws for bone marrow donation. He also met and befriended Michael Peñon. Just before Michael's death in 1999, Alden promised him that he would never give up the campaign to change bone marrow donation laws. In March 2000, the Michael Peñon Law allowing bone marrow testing and donation by people under the age of eighteen was signed into law in the state of Washington. (5) He was only a teenager but ...

666. The Fifth Commandment: The Value of Family

Exodus 20:1-21

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Eric Ritz

... are worth their weight in gold. They invest themselves in the lives of their children even when the final harvest cannot be seen. Parenting is simply tough stuff. However, our faith is a great resource. So, mothers and fathers, hang in there. Do not give up. Remember love believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. When our children are youngsters we protect them like a lioness protects her cubs. As they grow older we provide for them. The toughest part is that there comes a day when we ...

667. With a Little Help from My Friends

Mark 2:1-12

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King Duncan

There was an interesting article in People magazine recently. It was about a young man, eighteen-year-old Kevin Hines, who, in September of 2000, decided to give up his fight with depression by jumping off San Francisco’s Golden GateBridge. As he paced and cried along the bridge sidewalk, Kevin looked for someone who would talk him out of his crazy decision. If even one person expressed concern for him, then Kevin was prepared to back down. But ...

668. Grace in the Midst of the Crush of Time

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

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Glenn McDonald

... Contemporary culture clearly wants to remove the boundaries customarily imposed by the more classic shapes and rhythms of time. In an act that is flagrantly counter-cultural, the guides of certain spiritual retreats demand that weekend participants give up their watches. Giving up one's watch is tantamount to giving up control -- which is precisely the act of faith God asks of us moment by moment when it comes to time. Our call is to trust God and to pay attention to three important rhythms connected to our ...

669. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... has paid our debts. The Father has paid our debts. We are forgiven. Faith in what God has done in Jesus Christ is what justifies it. So the call of faith then is simply the call to repentance. Repentance means turning around. And the call of faith is to give up our attempts at saving ourselves. For those who are in the far country, the gospel simply says, come home. And all of us are in the far country to some degree. We’re in the far country if we’re still caught up in trying to save ourselves. We ...

670. As Real As It Gets

Luke 9:57-62

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Maxie Dunnam

... would obviously involve a disciple in a similar homeless journey. But there is more to the scripture than that--a deeper level of meaning. That meaning is for you and me. If we are going to follow Christ on the road to glory, we must be prepared to give up the idea of this world as our home. Do you remember that old gospel hymn? "This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through, My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue." We usually accuse the writers of those gospel songs of being totally ...

671. Adopted! (New)

Ephesians 1:1-14

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King Duncan

... this: at the time he made this commitment, Jimmy Gibson was an inmate in Ireland's McGilligan Prison. Gibson was a Protestant terrorist, and he made a career of killing Catholics in terrorist attacks. Jimmy Gibson knew that his new life in Christ would mean giving up his hatred of Catholics. So one evening at dinner, he deliberately sat down at a table full of Catholic inmates. That was asking for trouble. Jimmy sat next to an inmate named Liam McCloskey and said, "Brother, I want to tell you about Jesus ...

672. Uses of the Past

Philippians 3:4b-16

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Mark Trotter

... whole story. I couldn't help but notice that Paul concludes our text by saying, "Let those of us who are mature be thus minded." Which means, if you are a mature Christian, Paul is saying that you are going to be like me, and you will be ready to give up the past and journey into the future with Christ. But then he adds this line. "Only let us hold on to what we have attained." That is a fascinating line. In a letter in which all of his emotions seem to run over, a letter filled with crescendos of prose ...

673. On Trusting the Work of God

Mark 4:1-20

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George Reed

... done. When the results are few or none at all, then we are quick to blame the soil that has yielded no crop. Jesus invites us to give up taking the credit or assessing blame in the coming of the full reign of God. Our task is to be faithful in the planting. God's task ... must guard against the danger that we will become a closed club that only cares about its members, but we must not give up the caring atmosphere of a group of people who look out for one another. Probably the hardest seeds for most of us ...

674. New Beginnings

John 1:1-18

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King Duncan

... thing that is. Given the proper environment, the human creature is capable of acquiring an amazing amount of information and skills in a short time. It is truly sad that so much of this potential is neglected. By the way, parents should not give up on a child who seems lacking in potential. Albert Einstein couldn’t speak fluently even when he was nine years old. His parents actually thought he might be mentally challenged. Children develop differently and children are gifted in different ways. You and I ...

675. A Sense of Place

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

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Stan Purdum

... so was not really part of either kingdom. This reminds me of what sometimes happens when two congregations of the same denomination in the same area decide to unite. One of the problems that often arises is the question of which congregation will give up its building. People get very attached to their buildings. Sometimes, when the decision is made to abandon building A and move its congregation A into building B along with congregation B, some members of congregation A say, "No way," and use that uniting ...

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