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676. Let God Be God

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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... compromise between unsettled commitments? Is it not time for us to make sure we are willing to let God be God in our lives? Will we be among those who have no other gods before him? Are we willing to take a personal inventory by the standards of Zephaniah’s concern? If so, we will be having to take an honest look at things that may be keeping us from calling on the Lord and serving him with gladness. Even if we are not bowing down to idols while pretending to serve the Lord, could it be that we are ...

677. If Only We Would Do The Obvious ...

2 Kings 5:1-27

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Wallace H. Kirby

... to because any decent parent loves its child." "No, they don’t have to love you, Ann. You’ve been out of graduate school for over a year. You still have not found a job. You have no income and they are hundreds of miles away, and they are concerned about your secluding yourself. That’s why your mother writes you every week. That’s why your parents want to come or help you in any way possible. They love you, and, in spite of what happened in the past, you must forgive them for their mistakes." "If I ...

678. Wellspring for the Soul

John 4:1-26

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Dean Lueking

... to me of her puzzlement over her husband who has just seemed to have lost his grip on life. Whai disturbs her most is not just his outward indifference to the marriage, the family, the job. It is his inner listlessness of soul that gives her concern. The medieval church had a word for this ailment - accidie they called it in Latin. It means a sloth - a kind of drought of soul, sadness in the face of spiritual good, a sort of "so what?" outlook that concludes that since nothing counts, anything goes. Prayer ...

679. Proper 10

Lk 10:25-37 · Col 1:1-20 · 2 Ki 2:1, 6-14 · Deut 30:9-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... to love your neighbor. In the parable, Jesus gives a new understanding of a neighbor; he is one who is in need of your assistance given out of love. The need in our day for this sermon is the fact that many church people excuse themselves from concern and sharing with suffering people because they have no connection with them. This is shown by their poor giving to human needs and the lack of interest in social problems. Outline: In this parable Jesus teaches us - a. Who our neighbor is - v. 30. The neighbor ...

680. Proper 25

Lk 18:9-14 · 2 Tim 4:9-18 · Sirach 35:12-18 · Deut 10:12-22 · Zeph 3:1-9

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... Gospel: Luke 18:9-14 1. You Are Known by Your Prayers. 18:9-14. Need: How we pray and what we pray for shows what kind of people we are. We are ever trying to learn to pray aright. We are concerned about what to pray for. This is a secondary concern. We need to be more concerned about the prayers rather than the prayers. In the parable of the two men at prayer, we see the characters of the two and why they prayed as they did. Outline: What our prayers reveal about ourselves A. Proud persons - vv. 11 ...

681. Epiphany 5

Lk 5:1-11 · 1 Cor 14:12-20; 15:1-11 · Isa 6:1-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... v. 1). What caused Isaiah to have this experience with Yahweh? Why did it not happen earlier? It happened in the year King Uzziah died after a long and successful reign. For the people, the loss was great. Who would lead the nation? It was a time of concern and upheaval. When things get bad and we are helpless in the condition, we usually turn to God. Out of anxiety, fear, and worry often comes an experience with God. 2. Saw (v. 1). Isaiah had a vision of the Almighty. It happened while he was worshiping in ...

682. Proper 14

Romans 9:1-5

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... Jews to accept Jesus Call to Worship Pastor: Jesus was born a Jew in the flesh, but many Jews did not receive him as Savior. People: The are still God's children, and are therefore to be included in God's plan of salvation. Pastor: We share Paul's concern for them, and cannot exclude them from God's love; nor can we cease to pray for their salvation. People: We pray that all descendants of Abraham may accept the love of God in Jesus Christ. Collect O loving Father, whose love for your chosen race is still ...

683. Cross Work

Matthew 5:27-30

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George Bass

... ’t? Defy a mugger and he may just kill you. Thus, Bernard Getz became a hero when he gunned down the four young men who accosted him on the New York subway train. Just asking him for money was a life-threatening request, as far as he was concerned, so he went into action as a vigilante and wound up in court instead of being a victim of the muggers. Robert Stethem, the young sailor on the TWA flight that was highjacked in June of 1985, discovered that non-resistance does not pay off; the highjackers beat ...

684. Christians Trust in God

Matthew 6:25-34

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Joe Pennel

... our hearts, minds, and strength to do all those things that need to be done to support our lives and to help others meet their daily needs, too. Trusting in God is our response to the faith-knowledge that he cares about us and all people, and is concerned about our physical welfare and the quality of our lives. But trusting in God is not simply sitting idly, watching the world go by, and waiting for God to do something to help us and others; it is responding to the opportunities we have to do something for ...

685. Pilgrimage of Faith John M. Cobb

Exodus 3:1-22

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... worship of God? Think about that this week. Carry that thought with you when you go to work in the grocery store, or the hospital, or when you make a few rounds with the haybine this week. How, specifically, can my life be oriented or directed to concern itself mostly with the needs of others and the praise and worship of God ... God ... has already done everything necessary to save us and make us willing servants of him. And he continues to speak to us in our daily devotions and in Bible reading to give ...

686. The Promise of Emmanuel

Isaiah 7:1-25

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... aware of our sisters and brothers in need. God with us challenges us and enables us to let our lives become a source of life for others. God with us is the promise of God that calls us to take our present life and world with utmost seriousness and concern. I was at Duke University in the year Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death. Students at Duke moved to the aid of the non-academic employees at the university, most of whom were black. The students held a vigil in which they asked the university to pay ...

687. The Call to be Holy in Love

Leviticus 19:1-37

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... to be holy. There is to be no separation of our lives into sacred and secular, holy and profane. All of life is holy to God, and should be holy for us. The 19th chapter of Leviticus combines together a series of laws that deals with religious, cultic concerns and the everyday stuff of our life. In all of life we are called to be holy. Specifically, in living together in community, we are called to be holy through living life as God structures and wills it. In our text for today, the commandments of our holy ...

688. And You Thought God Didn't Care!

Exodus 3:1-22

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... Name, but also told them of - God's Interest in Them (v. 16) God does a far better job of giving evidence of his concern and interest in us than we often do for one another. It's hard to find someone who really cares about you. Everybody knows ... that you had a fuss today with someone in your home. Both the infinitesimal and the magnitudinous problems are in his range of concern. A little girl laid aside her rosiest apple to give to a little sick friend, and her cousin, Billy, asked, "Do you suppose God ...

689. Promise or Threat?

Matthew 24:1-35

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... to try to scare folks into conversions. Still others dismiss the doctrine altogether as outdated and irrelevant. After all, we’ve seen a person walk on the moon. So we think that scientific minded, post-lunar-landing-people like us shouldn’t be too concerned with a biblical image which pictures Christ coming amidst signs in sun and moon and stars. Reports of famine and earthquake are hardly news anymore. And as for turmoil among nations, has any generation lived in a time of total world peace? So, with ...

690. The End is a New Beginning

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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... on to try to save a person’s life. This time she collapsed, had an almost fatal heart attack herself. She had known she was in danger of suffering a heart attack if she exerted herself too much, but that did not stop her from attempting to help others. Her concern almost cost her her life, but she was willing to pay such a high price to do what she thought she ought to be doing. Not many of us would risk a heart attack to help other people, let alone jeopardize our health or risk our future to protect the ...

691. Judgment and Justice

Amos 5:18-27

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... as a "folk religion" in England - and, increasingly in America, too. "Only for the middle of these ("four-wheeler Christianity" - the wedding)" writes Parish, "is there a chance to explain to the stars of the service something of the Christian faith, and the concern then is more about flowers and the video than the prayers and the sermon." And, one might add, that too many of the wedding sermons take the shape of mini-counseling messages rather than explication of the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the ...

692. Beginning A Healing Ministry

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... ill. The church that is present to provide the means of grace to sick people is one that is responding to the call of Jesus to minister to those who are in need. We need to remember that sickness and healing are not merely individual concerns, but the responsibility of the whole body of Christ. Before beginning a healing ministry, it is of critical importance that the pastor be very clear about the purpose and design of this worship experience. The reason for this is, as mentioned, that the healing ministry ...

693. Submission

Matthew 3:13-17

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... of Christ, neither the member nor the church will ever be the same again. During baptism, the church commits itself to the nurturing of its new member - through worship, church school classes and other nurturing groups, pastoral care, and the ongoing love and concern of other members - regardless of whether the one baptized is an infant or a mature adult. Likewise, every time a person is baptized in our congregation, it should remind us of the importance of renewing the vows which we made, or which were ...

694. Searching for Peace

Matthew 10:1-42

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... from the mark to say that today some people want peace at any cost. We run from conflict. We want unanimous agreement in our committees even if it means letting an ego maniac run things. We seem, at times, to be more afraid of what people think than concerned with what God desires. Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned fear of God? You and I do not need peace if it means complacency and stagnation. Rather let us have war! Let us have war against selfcenteredness and the power of the ego! Let us have war ...

695. Proper 24 & Pentecost 22

Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Ruth 1:1-22, Psalm 96:1-13, Isaiah 44:24--45:25

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... , to free us from death and the grave. That's mystifying, indeed. 3. Weal and woe: God is in charge of all that happens, and rejoices in our welfare and supports us in times of sorrow and need. He is the Lord our God, mysterious and mystifying, but always concerned about us and available when we call upon him, especially in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Our God is unique in all the world. 4. Worship and work: That is our business as citizens of the kingdom of God. Ruth 1:1-19a - "Return of a Refugee ...

696. Proper 13 - The Feeding of 5,000

Matthew 14:13-21

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... ourselves, about a disease which seems to gain more and more power over our bodies, about old age which is no longer creeping up on us but which has overtaken us, or about whether or not we have the strength to go on. We bring to you, God, concern about the shape, size, waist-line of our bodies, our receding hair line, our waning physical attraction, our inability to remember or to hear or to see as we did a few years ago. "God, we come with our minds often dulled and insensitive by the world's noises ...

697. A Glory Revealed in the Cross

John 8:12-30

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... Son of Man, then you will know that ‘I Am.’ " - John 8:28 The contemporary German theologian, Jurgen Moltmann, wrote: Since I first studied theology, I have been concerned with the theology of the cross.... It is the basic theme of my theological thought. No doubt this goes back to the period of my first concern with questions concerning Christian faith and theology in real life, as a prisoner of war behind the barbed wire.... Shattered and broken, the survivors of my generation were then returning from ...

698. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Matthew 8:3, Luke 7:14, Luke 8:44

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Frank Luchsinger

... place. Finally she broke from the group. Down the hallway she fled, trying not to be noticed, pretending to read a bulletin board, flushed with tears, mortified, wishing she had never come. Soon footsteps approached from behind. It was Cash Box. The youth pastor edged closer to the scene, concerned over what Cash might say. "Hey, I saw you in there. Don't worry, this song's kinda hard; don't really know it myself. But we can't learn it standing out here. C'mon, let's go back in. You won't be alone. I know ...

699. Stuffed Bodies and Skinny Souls!

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... little man, what do you want?" Turning up his little face, he said, "Please, sir, I want to be loved." Isn’t that the longing in every one’s heart? And where can we buy love? It is without money or price. Love is in Christ who showers us with concern and compassion. If you are in doubt that God loves you, look to Jesus and see him on the cross dying for you. Above his crucified head, there could be this inscription: "Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Hear the ...

700. The Danger of Being Religious

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... projects than a single person, one individual. Julia Ward Howe was once talking with Charles Sumner, the distinguished senator from Massachusetts. She begged him to help a certain person. The Senator replied, "Julia, I’ve become so busy I can no longer concern myself with individuals." She responded, "Charles, that is quite remarkable. Even God has not reached that point yet." Some of us in the church minimize and overlook the individual in place of numbers. How we love to boast of our church attendance ...

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