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676. Two Doors; One Choice

Luke 13:22-30

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W. Robert McClelland

... , had a spitfire temper and the impetuosity of a school boy. A psychiatrist would have said, "That's going to be a problem for a church leader. Better get some counseling or not enter the ministry." But Jesus looked at his neurosis and said, "That's the rock-like quality on which I can build a church (cf. Matthew 16:18)." In 1933 Carl Jung observed in his book, Modern Man In Search Of A Soul, that it is no easy matter to live a life modeled on Christ, but it is unspeakably more difficult to live one's ...

677. Beware! Caution! Danger!

Acts 14:8-20

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Barbara Brokhoff

... another." This is not always easy to achieve; this shifting of attention away from one's self. A lot of the messenger's effectiveness, be it preacher, teacher, singer, worker, or whatever representative of the gospel, comes from his personal qualities. Marshall MacLuhen, mass media expert, said, "The medium is the message," and Phillips Brooks spoke of the same truth when he said, "truth through personality." When one deletes entirely the play of personal gifts, talents, and graces, it sometimes enfeebles ...

678. Proper 13

Mt 14:13-21 · Rom 8:31-39 · Ex 12:1-14 · Ps 143

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John R. Brokhoff

... of a Jew's daily attire. Today we carry instead a purse or bag. Since there were 12 disciples, 12 baskets, one for each disciple, were filled with the fragments. Satisfied (v. 20). The people were content with the food served. They had both quantity and quality of sustenance. Jesus serves us nothing but the best. Because of his generosity, he gives more than we need. This is shown by the fact that there were 12 baskets full of leftovers. Jesus does more and gives more than is necessary. Yet, though he is ...

679. Fish Miracle

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... at the rate of one congregation per day. Yet, it is illegal for one church to have an evangelism program, to hold mass rallies or to confront people with Christ. When asked how then the church could be growing under these circumstances, the reply was: "It is the quality of life of our members that brings inquirers to attend church and eventually to become a part of it." Waiting to be "caught:" One day a boy came in from a game of hide-and-seek with tears streaming down his face. His father asked him what ...

680. Walking The Familiar

Mark 6:1-6

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Leonard H. Budd

... which God is at work for the good nurturing of children! Your role as a parent, a grandparent, is doing the work of God! The nurture you provide is part of the working of God. That divine nurturing consists of the simple, ordinary human qualities of love and encouragement and steadfastness and interest. Almost anyone can provide it, sensing that God is at work in the ordinary and the routine. From those ordinary human characteristics, through that children's home, God is mending that little eight-year-old ...

681. Our Own Mountaintop Walk

Matthew 28:16-20

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Leonard H. Budd

... life. In Jesus' century, no death was more tortuous, brutal, demeaning than that of hanging naked upon a wooden cross and publicly dying of thirst and hunger and sheer exposure. It was cruel. To the Jew it was shameful. It was meant to break every possible quality of human will, and in the end to break the physical body as that last breath was expelled, or that last drop of blood issued. The possibility of crucifixion hung over the head of every human life in that Roman world. But the reports that emerged ...

682. What's a Good God Doing In a World Like This?

John 16:5-16

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James Weekley

... been on vacation too long, and it's time we earned our keep." "I suppose you're right. There has to be a good world out there brimming with the possibilities of organic gardening, yard sales, and jazzercise." What is the "good," that peaches-and-cream quality philosophers have punted around for centuries? What is a "good" child or even a "good" marriage? My wife, Rosalyn, and I agree that whatever it is, it can't be achieved overnight. It never comes easy. Although there can never be a perfect marriage, we ...

683. Keeping God First in the Polls

John 3:1-21

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James Weekley

... doesn't argue; it outlives our griefs. Truth doesn't argue either. It stands with the stars. As Nicodemus discovered in his encounter with Jesus, truth wasn't on the far side or "out of touch." It was on our side, sticking like molasses. It had a "God with us" quality, flowing in our blood line. "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth." (John 1:14) God's truth was fashioned into a human species - capable of joy and pain. He lived among us. He died among us. He came back to be ...

684. Even God Called Time Out

Mark 2:23-3:6

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James Weekley

... you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16) The Spirit's housing must keep a tight ship. Here is the bottom line. It's not how much prime worship time we spend with him on Sunday, but how much quality time we allow for him the remainder of the week. We can't get away with Sunday-only worship anymore. Although grace before meals is commendable, he relishes more in-depth encounters. Although personal prayer before bedtime and upon awakening helps us to stay in touch, what ...

685. When God Is Silent

Psalm 35:1-28

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Erskine White

... when you pray, or do you travel the desert from time to time, waiting to hear a Word that does not come? The Canaanite woman experienced this silence when she came to Jesus, so we can learn from her story today. In fact, there are four things she did - four qualities she showed -that can help us when we experience the silence of God in our own lives. The first is that she had to overcome many barriers to get to Jesus. She was a woman, and women weren't supposed to speak to rabbis in public, so that was one ...

686. What About The Holy Spirit?

John 15:18--16:4

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Erskine White

... pride or boastfulness or being sure of your faith or knowing chapter and verse of Scripture. Paul simply says that the signs of the Spirit are these: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control" (Galatians 5:22). Live in these qualities and you live with God and the Holy Spirit lives in you. Sometimes the Holy Spirit is the quiet strength of a faithful heart and sometimes She is the rush of a mighty wind. But She is here with us: our Comforter, our Counselor ...

687. Blind Beggars All

Mark 10:46-52

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Erskine White

... my lungs, the cataracts in my eyes." We are living longer lives today, thanks to the wonders of technology and medicine which money can buy, but we are not necessarily living better or happier lives. As often happens in our materialistic culture, we confuse quantity in life with quality of life. "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me! I've had this condition for many years; won't You make me well?" Yet even those who are in perfect health could cry out as a blind beggar did for the mercy of Jesus Christ. As ...

688. Unfinished Journeys

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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Erskine White

... the gospel in Spain, he would preach it to the guards in prison. As he lay in his cell and reflected on the prize in Spain which now lay behind, Paul avoided all bitterness by remembering the greater prize which lay ahead. We see that same quality in Moses - especially in his final speech, as recorded in the last few chapters of Deuteronomy. It really is a remarkable statement. As he gives his speech on the very banks of the Promised Land, Moses doesn't talk about his own disappointment, or try to settle ...

689. Wedding: The Beauty of Marriage

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John M. Braaten

... in you both, and his promise is that he will stand by you to provide you with his mercies, that your marriage might grow in depth and glory. St. John writes of how God shares his love with us, but he also suggests how a marriage can develop an enduring quality of loveliness: "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the ...

690. Wedding: Christian Love

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John M. Braaten

... granted. Let the offenses go and don't forget to be grateful. There is no limit to the faith, hope, and endurance of love. Throughout a lifetime there are many problems, anxieties, disappointments, and sorrows. But a relationship which develops the qualities of which Paul speaks can meet, face to face, all that life flings at them. The love which bears all things confronts obstacles, not with calm resignation, but with triumphant fortitude. Christian love can overcome anything because it is not a feeling ...

691. Wedding: Grounds for Marriage

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John M. Braaten

... , this love is not an emotion, for feelings can be momentary; they fluctuate at a moment's notice; they rise and fall, flash and fade. Love is not an emotion because you cannot be in love one day and out of love the next. True love has an enduring quality; it is like a rock. That is why love is something you can build a life upon. To use a crude analogy, love is a lot like concrete. The substance is at first very warm and soft, and easily disturbed. However, as time passes the concrete solidifies until it ...

692. 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

THEOLOGICAL CLUE The Third Sunday in Lent had the quality of "looking toward God" in trust, as the introit put it, "Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord" (Psalm 25:6, 2b, 22, 1, 2a), in the classic set of propers. The other readings and parts of the propers concentrated on the preparation of the catechumens for baptism at Easter; ...

693. Advent 3

Zephaniah 3:1-20, Philippians 4:2-9, Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 12:1-6

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George Bass

... (a return to Jerusalem for the Hebrews, the cross for all of us?): "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation." There is such a lilting and lyric quality to this excerpt from Isaiah 12 that it is easy to comprehend why at least one of the churches has chosen it as a canticle for the Daily Office (Canticle 9 in Morning Prayer II). Beyond its specific response to the first reading on this Sunday, it sums up ...

694. Proper 4

Luke 7:1-10, Psalm 117:1-2, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Galatians 1:1-10

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George Bass

... . He lives in a care home and has to have everything done for him. In contrast to the hair care commercial - "I'm worth it" - he doesn't seem to be worth very much. Klobuchar says, "His mother finds herself groping for some message in his life, a quality to make him important or memorable to at least one person other than those who love him, in a world that does not seem to need him." He asks, "What would make Eric important?" And then, a few paragraphs later, he answers his own question: "But I think there ...

695. Proper 10

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14, 2 Kings 2:1-18, Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Psalm 69:1-36, Psalm 25:1-22, Luke 10:25-37

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George Bass

... why I asked him the question. Without hesitation, he replied, "Oh, yes, I certainly would, because the church is the salvation of the world, and the church needs preachers and teachers to assist its life and growth that enable it to witness for Christ in the world." Those are the qualities that Paul prayed to God for the Colossian congregation, and which would make it a model church/congregation in Jesus Christ.

696. Proper 12

Luke 11:1-13, Psalm 138:1-8, Genesis 18:16-33, 2 Kings 5:1-27, Colossians 2:6-23

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George Bass

... have trouble with one petition, "Give us each day our daily bread," if they are hungry, starving. But it is a prayer we can lift to God in the knowledge that he will answer it. 2. Jesus addressed God as Father, because, in his eyes, God has all the qualities of a good father; he knows how to give good gifts to his children, how to deal with their requests and prayers, and he is able to fulfill the promises that Jesus Christ has made in his name. Therefore, the faithful may pray and pray again safe in the ...

697. Proper 18

Luke 14:25-35, Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Proverbs 9:1-18, Ezekiel 33:1-20, Philemon 1:8-25

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George Bass

... to his people the very intentions and plans of God for heaven and earth. 2. He sends Wisdom through the Holy Spirit. The Wisdom, which enlightens and enables them to receive salvation in Jesus Christ, is a gift of the Spirit of God, not a quality that is in-born or developed by human effort. 3. Wisdom is not a source of pride; people of limited mental ability may receive the Wisdom of God - his Spirit - and receive the accompanying gift, faith in Jesus Christ. 4. Christians, looking back to the writer ...

698. Epiphany 2

John 1:43-51, John 1:35-42

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Wayne B. Keller

... for witnessing, with some new symbols. Some new symbols for me include Snoopy who dances to life amidst absurdity (maybe you will want to review Samuel Beckett's writings and the theater of the absurd), the hymn, "The Lord of the Dance," the qualities of a good fisherman, or even, the old "Mission-Impossible" series. Stewardship Challenge Consider this:The Stewardship of our Calling to share the good news, not only with our money, but also through our lives. Invite the people to replace, "I can't ...

699. Friendship with God

John 15:18--16:4

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Wayne B. Keller

... be said in the presence of his wife-to-be, about his ex-wife, "She is my best friend." Not likely! Reality: We have many acquaintances; few friends. The poet says that three friends in a lifetime makes us rich. Identify some of the qualities of friendship: 1. Willingness to listen. 2. Trust. 3. Patience. 4. Confrontation, assertively, not aggressively. 5. Commitment. In my book, "Achieving and Receiving Intimacy," I define love this way: "Love is not a feeling; love is a commitment which contains all of the ...

700. An Invitation to Rest

Mark 6:30-44

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Wayne B. Keller

... behind people's backs when they could not defend themselves. I have held on selfishly to spiritual and material idols when I knew better. Forgive me again, Lord, Help me to see a joyful tomorrow, where you and I and we will work together for this quality that we call compassion. (silence) Begin the assurance with this statement: If we believe that God has forgiven us, why, in God's Name, have we not forgiven ourselves? Phillips Brooks has said that "life is too short to be vengeful/malicious; life is too ...

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