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701. Lovers Never Ask, 'What's the Least I Can Do?'

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

... stinking, fly-infested dungeon, and if we - like them - should use the occasion to sing hymns to God, it’s only natural. "We have done only what was our duty." To sum it all up: For those of us who’ve found that guilt breeds more guilt, that when we feel we’re no good we fall into the pit even deeper - it’s Good News to hear that for Jesus’ sake God declares us good and calls us daughters and sons. We’re not unmoved by this. "We love because he first loved us." And lovers never ask, "What’s ...

702. Time to Get Ready

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

... plans were "wrecked" by an unexpected survival of the operation she underwent and an equally unexpected recovery. Chemotherapy gave her some degree of normalcy - for someone who knew she was going to die. She said: "I feel like I’m in a free-fall from an airplane. It’s an other-world feeling. I don’t feel part of anything. I have no sense of vocation." As one of five women on the eighty-member Board of Educational Ministries of the American Baptist Church, she discovered that her causes no longer had ...

703. Bringing Back the Shine

Romans 6:6

Children's Sermon

... It’s something that happens to your favorite toys, your dad’s automobile, and other things that mean a lot to us. When it happens, we feel bad about it. Have you ever left a toy that you liked very much (like this toy truck) out in the yard and it rained and ... ’re able to move better and better and the first thing you know, we’ve put our lives in the hands of God and we feel free. We can play and work much better because we’re not covered with sin and what we thought was like sandpaper is now smooth ...

704. If Only We Would Hold On ...

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... been appointed to serve a two-point charge. Bill and Evelyn were conscientious young people and wanted to give their best to their studies and to their church members. "I need some time to back away and get a new perspective on my life," she continued. "I still feel a call to ministry, but I need some relief from all the pressures. One of us in seminary right now is about all we can handle." Who of us has not at some time felt overwhelmed by our duties and responsibilities? A boy trudging a school thinks of ...

705. Estranged Hands

Psalm 143:1-12

Sermon

... , I received the following note, enclosed in a package with a small trinket. The writer says, "I write this to my shame. You may feel this is nothing, but to me I've made myself lower than Judas who received thirty pieces of silver for his soul. I must make ... of our Lord? When we consider all the history of God's grace as it relates to us individually and personally, we must feel affirmed. Through the waters of our Baptism, God has attached us to the history of his grace. The testimony of his grace reassures ...

706. The Mystery of Christ's Life

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

... who had seen it. He was not there on Easter Sunday: but he heard from the disciples what had taken place. And neither did the Corinthians, to whom he was writing, witness these things. St. Paul and the Corinthians could have felt this way: a feeling of being cheated, a feeling of disappointment. But yet, they did not. And St. Paul tells us why. In his letter to the Church at Corinth, he says this: "For as often as you eat this bread, and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes." (And ...

707. Life in the Community of Believers

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

... church. It is always asking for money." Usually I find that the ones who say that are the ones who are not giving anyway. I think it is important that we are aware of the concerns and needs of others around us. It is important to know the faith, to feel the fellowship; but also when you are hungry, hurting and homeless to know there is someone somewhere who cares and that God has called us to be a means of his presence. I am concerned that we have not yet recognized that we would not have to ask for money ...

708. PROPER 10

Exodus 2:11-25

Bulletin Aid

... care Call to Worship Pastor: We worship a God who is always present, no matter where we are. People: Many times we are not sure what life has in store for us, but we trust God to make his will known. Pastor: God will never abandon us, even when we feel we have left him. People: Thanks be to God who is the author of our life! Collect Almighty God, who always knows where we are in the wandering of our lives: Assure us of your presence in all our life situations; that we may yield ourselves to your purpose ...

709. Proper 12

Romans 8:28-39, Exodus 3:1-22

Bulletin Aid

... God's Spirit comes to us in prayer, and communicates to God with words we are unable to express. People: We praise God for his Spirit which intercedes on our behalf! Collect Gracious Father, whose Spirit joins us in our prayers, enabling us to share our deepest feelings with you: Make us sensitive to the presence of your Spirit as we pray, that we may be honest and sincere in the sharing of our souls with you. Hear us through Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer of Confession We believe in prayer, Father, but we ...

710. Given as Light

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

... nothing but darkness and dungeon. Who can always believe that, when we seem to be seeing and in paradise? ... All lights apart from Christ are darkness, as is free will." (LW 17, 69) Even when we feel the darkness inside, the light of Christ is there. Even when we feel in Exile, God calls us home. When we feel brokenness in our villages or families, God moves us through those experiences to his Word. God’s Word will not break the bruised reed, nor will it quench the dimly burning wick. He will light the ...

711. Some Crossroads of Family Life W. Dexter Moser

Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

... this? Because of his love for his wife, who was a helper fit for him, suitable to him, meant for him; he undoubtedly felt her despair, her feelings of not being a helper, fit for or suitable to the needs which are satisfied through the birth and life of children in the home. He ... sons. She said, "I knew there had to be twins because there was too much activity for just one child. The sense, the feeling in the womb that one pair of feet can’t kick that many places, one set of hands can’t cause that much ...

712. Forgiveness Forever

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

... chance under those conditions. I don't want to see that happen to you. You are worth so much, you have so much good to give the world. Maybe this isn't the first time this has happened to you and you doubt if you can forgive again. You are feeling this has happened once too often. That makes it harder, I admit. Maybe your friend doesn't deserve your trust, at least for a time. The other thing I find myself thinking is, that even if you forgive him, there will be days when your anger over what happened will ...

713. The Family Reunion

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Glenn L. Borreson

... human race. It's people I can't stand." What's going on when people, who are part of the church of Jesus Christ, want nothing to do with others who are part of that same church? What's happening when some folks are not welcome and are made to feel second class? What's wrong when certain members are absent from worship week after week, month after month, and others who are present are content? What's wrong is sin, a pint-sized reduction of the gospel to include just God and me and a few others like me. Why ...

714. Being Different

Daniel 3:1-30

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... business to be out of step with the crowd. Many a person will throw away all his ideas, ideals and knowledge, simply to feel like "one of the boys" or "one of the girls." There's something nice about belonging to an easy, comfortable group whose talk reaches ... forming bank account. You never know when you'll have to draw a little out to pay a bill some day. There's no worse feeling than not having enough spiritual currency inside your soul to pull out in a tempting situation. You can't spend what you don't ...

715. Come, Learn Your Worth

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Various Authors

... Mayor not to be fashing himself. Wherever MacDonald is sitting, that is the head of the table." Such is our mood this morning as we kneel at the table of the Lord. Whether you or the world about you sees you or me as success or failure, whether we feel pretty or ordinary, whether we are solvent or destitute, hear this: Where Jesus Christ sits, is the head of the table; and he has chosen that you and I sit next to him. Come to this Table, my friend, and learn your worth. - Ellsworth Kalas 1. 2 Corinthians 5 ...

716. Repentance

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

... some prescribed behavior when one gets caught, is in a bind, or wants to start with a clean slate. In fact, John the Baptizer gave a strange twist to repentance. In most of Scripture, repentance expresses a variety of ideas: (a) a change of mind, (b) the feeling of regret or remorse, or (c) in the ethico-religious sense, the act of turning away from and back to God. The last of these is the most prominent and most significant in the Bible. In both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, repentance refers to ...

717. Settling Our Differences

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... each other, some symptoms begin to appear. First, separating people, become quietly indifferent to one another. Next, there is a coolness where persons treat one another with a cold shoulder or with a frozen stare. Next, there is lack of tenderness where touching, feeling, and talking in soft voices seems to be absent resulting in routine communication. After a while, there is only enough communication to keep things going. A little boy was asked, "What do you talk about at your house?" He said, "We don't ...

718. I ... Oh ... U

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

... the man in back didn’t seem to hear. He seemed very engrossed in his own meditation and it was very difficult to hear his words. All we could hear him say was "God, be merciful to me a sinner!" Very simple, very short, but you could tell he was feeling every word of it. The contrast was striking and it was tough to forget. That man in front seemed to be praying more to himself than to anyone else. There was no doubt that he was pious in religious acts. Jewish law didn’t require private fasting, and he ...

719. Recovering From the Blahs

1 Kings 19:9-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... ? When a day like that comes, you wear negative glasses so that everything appears negative. You cannot see any good about yourself or about those around you. If so, you are normal, because life consists of ups and downs. There are days when you have a right to feel low. Life is like a sailboat. When the wind blows, one side of the boat is up and the other is down perilously close to the water. When the sailboat turns about, the down side becomes the up side, and the former upside is now downside. Only when ...

720. Christian The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... grabbed the lion by the tail, twirled him around, and threw him fifty feet. The lion picked himself up and huffed, "Just because you don’t know the answer is no reason to get tough!" Another wrong way to become a king is to use drugs to make you feel you are a royal person. One of these mind-lifting drugs used by five million Americans costing five billion dollars annually is cocaine. The number taking cocaine is growing at the rate of 5,000 per day. Users claim they take the drug in order to get a high ...

721. "I Was Hoping for a Longines"

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... -thousand years ago God’s people were under the domination of Rome; their identity was being challenged, and the Messiah came to speak to that identity crisis. "You’re still God’s people" is the message. Today the experts tell us that our great overall need is to feel fulfilled, to feel we have a reason for being here. God sends a son to say, "You have a reason for living." The reason is to love and to serve the Lord, our God, to love and to serve the person sitting next to us. God has heard our cry ...

722. "Lite Beer by Miller"

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... on how you do ministry. A close relationship was soon divided by an ocean. We could not be in the same room together without feeling tension. It hurt. One day it was suggested to me that I pray for my friend. What a good idea. If I couldn’t ... errors; rather, I prayed that God bless him in the gifts that God had given to him. After a week of such prayer, I began to feel different. The anger began to leave me. The ocean became a river and then a creek. Now we are comfortable in the same room. The ...

723. The Impartiality of God

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... . In himself Cornelius was not, at least to any outward appearance, a "bad man," nor are most of us. But to "not be bad" is quite different from being Godly. To be Godly we need deliverance even from our own selves, from the deceits into which we fall, the feeling that our piety is pleasing and meritorious in and of itself, the sense that our seeking after God is the same as having found him! We are called from that, as was Cornelius, by turning us to a Savior. If we have no need to be saved, there was ...

724. The Need for Transfiguration

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... not felt so drab, so hum-drum, so dull, so boring even to one’s own self that one could hardly stand it? In moments like that - and for some people a good part of their life seems to be spent like that! - we feel that we simply must get beyond ourselves. We want to feel transfigured at least, to feel bright and cheery and extraordinary and unique and charming and interesting so that we may gain a new sense of self-importance. The world offers a variety of ways to do that, for it knows how to play off of ...

725. GOD MADE ME, AND GOD DOESN’T MAKE ANY JUNK

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... family, less and less time is left to spend together sharing one another’s love and happiness. There is little wonder that we so often feel uptight and junky. But God’s good word is that he made us, and he doesn’t make junk. In the Bible we read that ... the junk in our lives when we let temptation get the best of us, when we try to attain unattainable goals and then labor under feelings of failure, when we get our priorities all mixed up, and when we walk life’s way apart from God. Let’s not live ...

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