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651. He Who Vindicates is Near

Isaiah 50:1-11

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... relationships. They when they are told to try the way of Jesus, of forgiveness, of turning the other cheek, of praying for those who spitefully use them, they laugh and say, "It is too late for that." In other situations and circumstances of life, like unemployment, hunger, homelessness and loneliness; if you recommend that they listen to the words of our Lord, and try his way, they will ask, "How can he vindicate us? We need a friend." It is so easy to write off this man Jesus, who comes humbly, lowly ...

652. The Cost of Being Christian

Acts 7:54--8:1a

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... clear in the Parable of the Final Judgement that if we want to have the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven as we pray, it is going to cost us something also. If we are to get rid of the root causes of injustice, prejudice, racism, hunger, ignorance, crime, disease and many of the other ills of our society, we must get at the root causes of those and we know where they begin. They begin in the hearts of human beings. Being Christian means being wholehearted for Christ and living life God’s way. A ...

653. The God You Worship

Acts 17:16-34

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... that God is a God of love. God is a God of compassion who does not seek our condemnation because of our sins but our salvation from them. God does not seek our hurt, or desire our hurting. God desires our healing. God does not desire our hunger. God desires that we may be filled with food and with the fullness of life. God does not desire our alienation. God desires our reconciliation to God and to one another. God does not desire our death. God desires that we might have life everlasting. The Sacrament ...

654. Easter 5

Jn 13:31-35 · Acts 13:44-52; 14:8-18; 21-27 · Rev 21:1-5

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Russell F. Anderson

... the process of transforming the old into a new world. This is what we want and need. Our present world is saturated with the power of evil. Satan struts across the continents inciting the nations to nuclear war. People are morally corrupt, killing one another in terrorism, and dying of hunger. It is time for a new heaven and a new earth. Outline: A new world is a-borning - a. The old order of evil is on the way out - v. 1 b. God is in the new world - vv. 2-3 c. Living conditions in the new world - v. 4 ...

655. Proper 20

Lk 16:1-13 · 1 Tim 2:1-8 · Amos 8:4-7 · Hos 11:1-11

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... wasted his employer's goods. To waste is a serious crime. It means a loss for no good purpose. It is a sin to waste a mind by not providing an education. It is a sin to waste our bodies by excessive alcohol or drugs. At a time of world hunger, it is a crime to waste food. 2. Account (v. 2). The master calls upon the steward to give an account of his work and financial dealings. Much wrongdoing is done because we think we can get away with it and nobody will know about it. But there is always ...

656. Proper 21

Lk 16:19-31 · 1 Tim 6:6-19 · Joel 2:23-30 · Am 6:1-7

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John R. Brokhoff

... a description of wealth and total depravity. This is a description of today's world. On the one hand is America's wealth giving us the highest standard of living in the history of the world. On the other hand, we have a third world of poverty and hunger. It could be that the so-called wealthy, either nation or individual, is really the poor man as was the case in the parable. Americans may be the richest on earth, but they can be suffering from the poverty of abundance. Outline: Like Dives, you can be a ...

657. Proper 24

Lk 18:1-8 · 2 Tim 3:14--4:5 · Gen 32:22-30 · Ex 17:8-13 · Hab 1:1-3, 2:1-4

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John R. Brokhoff

... : Our subject has plagued humankind from the time of Job and Habbakuk. Job considered the problem from a personal situation and Habbakuk faced the problem on a national basis. Why do innocent people suffer all kinds of adversity: premature death, poverty, hunger, innocent imprisonment, flood, tornado, hurricane, etc.? People need to know that there is no answer to this problem but that God shows how we can conquer the tribulation of the world. Outline: When bad times come to good people - A. They complain ...

658. Ordinary 32

Lk 20:27-38 · Zech 7:1-10 · 2 Thess 2:13--3:5 · 1 Chron 29:10-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... nobody dies. B. Is this good or bad news? 1 . Good news to those unhappily married. 2. Bad news to those - a. Happily married b. Singles who want to get married 4. No Cemetery in Heaven! 20:36-38. Need: Heaven lacks a number of things: no church, no hunger, no tears. Best of all, there is no cemetery there, because there is no need for one. Heaven is where the living God is and where his people live in and with him. These people do not die but share eternal life with Christ. Outline: There is no death ...

659. Lent 3

John 4:1-26

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... by coming to Moses and by sending him to release the captives. God not only gives us a task but equips us for the task. How does this apply to the modern situation? In our day God is aware of and concerned about the Third World's hunger, poverty, and ignorance. He hears its cries for liberation. Those in the first and second worlds today are also in need of liberation from the bondage of their sin. God identifies with his people through the Incarnation. His concern for us was shown in the ministry of ...

660. PROPER 29

Ezekiel 34:1-31, Matthew 25:31-46, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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... Him with Many Crowns" "Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned" Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46 Theme: The final judgment Call to Worship Pastor: Our Lord comes to us through servants who witness on his behalf. People: Many of his servants suffer with physical needs such as hunger, thirst, or sickness; and we fail to recognize our Lord. Pastor: The Judgment, Jesus said, separates those who are receptive from those who reject our Lord's witnesses. People: We do want to receive our Lord. May we be responsive as he speaks ...

661. Thanksgiving

2 Corinthians 9:6-15, Luke 17:11-19, Deuteronomy 8:1-20

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... Almighty God, you have blessed our soil with sun, and rain, and fertility. We give you thanks for the fertile land by which we are fed; and pray that the bounty of our land will be used to feed not just ourselves, but those who know the pain of hunger. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We are grateful for our harvest, O God. You have blessed us in abundance; and we still will be well nourished. But our thanksgiving is not without the murmurs of our human nature when we worry about ...

662. A Claim to a Crown

Matthew 24:36-51

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George Bass

... pages of newspapers and had the following quote from the late and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower printed beside his picture in his military uniform: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children ... This is not a way of ...

663. Micah’s Orders

Micah 6:1-8

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... played melody from Bach? What I did find was an enormous arched chamber, like the inside of a giant bell. Around the walls at the top, painted into the plaster were the Beatitudes, "Blessed are the poor in Spirit ... Blessed are the meek ... Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after justice." Where the altar once stood were choir benches, with the pulpit front and center. On the back wall of the chancel was stretched a mural of a black man in a large wheat field with the bold words: "My strength is in ...

664. Jacob’s Dream - A Dream Come True W. Dexter Moser

Genesis 27:1-40

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... off to Uncle Laban, he probably wondered, "can I ever be forgiven for one of my deeds to Esau, much less the two deeds, even though the first was many years past?" A wry flicker of a smile may have flashed across his face as he recalled Esau’s hunger for the soup bowl of lentils following his hunting trip and his vow to give Jacob the two-thirds of the birthright (given to the older son) to go with Jacob’s one-third for the younger. However, the memory of Rebekah’s recent conversation was flooding his ...

665. Where Does One Go When Darkness Floods One’s Life?

Genesis 32:22-32

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James Cobb

... suggest that communion with God can help. Abraham faced the pain of sacrificing his only son; he was alone and it was dark. Jacob wrestled with an angel; he was alone and it was dark. Joseph had to pretend he didn’t even know his brothers in time of hunger; he was alone and it was dark. Moses led his people to, but could not go into, the promised land; he was alone and it was dark. Peter, after living with Jesus for three years, denied him three times; he was alone and it was dark. Saul tried desperately ...

666. When God Provides, It’s a Manna Miracle James G. Cobb

Exodus 16:1-36

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... with heaven and every common bush afire with God. But only he who sees takes off his shoes, the rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.2 Do we see? Does God provide? God provides our life. He may save us with popcorn, a meal, a word, a world hunger offering, a kindness of a person never forgotten, an apartment deposit, quails or manna. But these are still the minor gifts. The greatest gift is God himself. The One who chooses not to abandon us but to accompany us all the days of our lives. He has come to ...

667. Victory and Protest

John 6:25-59

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Richard L. Thulin

... us to all people and to their condition. We cannot eat this living bread without asking how we might be able to pass life on to others. We must "be present to others," Walter Burghardt suggests, "present where they are, present in ways that respond to their hungers - for food or freedom, for peace or truth, for understanding or God."6 In the name of the risen Christ who now lives beyond wounds, we can demand that the making of wounds cease. In the name of the risen Christ who now lives beyond suffering, we ...

668. Communion Is Realizing Forgiveness

Matthew 26:17-30

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... reason we still think God wants revenge. So to reinforce his Word - to help us realize his forgiveness, our Living, Loving Lord comes into our midst bringing us, not cookies and Kool-Aid, but bread and wine. But more happens than the mere quenching of thirst and hunger - we receive refreshments for our heart and soul. The bread reminds us of Christ's body - beaten, pierced and broken for us. The wine reminds us of Christ's blood - spilled and poured out on the cross for one purpose - that you and I might be ...

669. The Trifocal Festival

Matthew 5:1-12

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... who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. (Proverbs 29:23) II: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5) I: The meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity. (Psalm 37:11) II: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. (Matthew 5:6) I: For he satisfies him who is thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things. (Psalm 107:9) II: An unlikely collection on whom to hang the handle "saints". I: The merciful ...

670. The Sounds at the Summit

Exodus 19:1-25

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... . As it was, he was really a mute witness to the heroic and self-sacrificing action of Fr. Kolbe. The full story of how Fr. Maximilian stepped forward and offered to take his place, when Francis was selected as one of ten men to die in the "Hunger Bunker" because one man had escaped from the concentration camp, was not heard that day. Francis Gawoniczek did not speak, was not invited to, so the newspapers had to speak for him, and since then articles and books have repeated that story of something good that ...

671. Prayer

Matthew 5:1-12

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David MacKinnon

... friends, those hurt, all of us) 5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. (pray that God would direct our responses as individuals and as a nation, pray specifically for our President and governmental leaders) 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. (pray that as a nation we would pursue righteousness, leaving fear, hate, revenge and violence behind) 7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (pray for the rescue-workers, and that ...

672. The Cracking Point

Mark 12:1-12

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Harold Warlick

... God has reached his cracking point. That point for God seems to come when humans attempt to forget they are tenants of this world and not owners. It started with Adam and Eve. The Lord gave them everything. He put up with everything they did except one thing. The hunger of man he put up with and even built a garden. The loneliness of man beat him down so he built a companion. The dominance of humans gnawed at him so he let the humans name every living thing on the planet and have dominion over them. All he ...

673. The Life We Prize

Luke 9:18-27

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Various Authors

... to the maturity, stature, and "fulness of Christ." (Ephesians 4:13) After the seige of Rome in 1849, Garibaldi, the Italian patriot proclaimed: Soldiers, all our efforts against superior forces have been unavailing. I have nothing to offer but hunger, thirst, hardships, and death. Those Italian soldiers rose to the occasion, liberated their people, and established a nation. In a similar manner, Christ’s call to sacrificial commitment releases the heroic dimension of the human personality, giving ultimate ...

674. The Miracle Comes at the Breaking

Luke 24:13-35

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Various Authors

... have suggested that the two men were present when Jesus fed the multitude with the few loaves and fish. Thus they would remember the awesome moment when Jesus took a boy’s luncheon loaf in hand, looked to his Father in prayer, and began to satisfy the hunger of a great crowd by the miracle of what happened to crumbs of bread under his touch. This is certainly possible, even likely. It’s quite probable that these two men were part of the crowd on that special occasion, and if they were, they would no ...

675. What kind of Cup Do You Bring?

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

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Various Authors

... and love, and serve as God intends them to do, their cups need to be constantly refilled by a never depleted source. And so they come - we come - bringing, expecting, desperately needing our cups to be filled. And we will not be disappointed. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for God and his way of life, for they shall be satisfied." (Matthew 5:6) Those who know themselves to be empty will be filled. What kind of cup do you bring? Is your cup empty, waiting to be filled to overflowing? - Carl B. Rife ...

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