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701. The Christian Life Joy in Adversity

Romans 5:1-11

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... in trials because Jesus Christ persevered, never once giving up on our salvation. Women: We develop character because he has promised to sanctify us by his truth - truth which we better understand as hardship forces us to live it. All: And character produces hope, not a vague hope as when we hope to go a certain place or buy a certain thing but faith-hope based on God’s changeless character. It is only as we endure the uncertainty of this life that we can comprehend and appreciate God’s dependability.

702. Pentecost 24

Mal 1:6-14, Lev 2:1-16, Mic 3:1-12, Am 5:18-27, Ru 4:1-1, 1Th 2:1-16, 4:13-5:11, Mt 23 and 25:1-13

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... is no water." The goal of the Christian pilgrimage is suggested in the psalmist's words, "Therefore I have gazed upon you in your holy place, that I might behold your power and your glory." With praise and thanksgiving - and more than a mere measure of hope - the psalmist throws himself upon the mercy of God in true faith and love. In this, he offers the Christian a model of eschatological piety. Psalm 127 (C) The first half of Psalm 63 might make a better responsory to the first reading of the Episcopal ...

703. The One Who Made His Cross

Drama

... I wanted to make things. I knew I had a gift ... a talent for working with my hands. So I came here. I came here hoping, if I were lucky, to be part of the Temple’s construction or, at least, to work on some of its furnishings. Anna (Fumbling ... -2 ON - SLOWLY TO MEDIUM BRIGHT) Silas (Sitting at table. Knock at door) Enter. It’s open. Justus, what a surprise. Justus I was hoping I might find you here ... working late? Silas I’m here, but not working. Justus Business is slow? Silas I’m slow. I just ...

704. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Matthew 18:15-20

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Michael L. Sherer

... reach out in service to a broken world, it needs to get its own act straightened out. Until an athlete’s body has been rid of fever or the atrophy of undeveloped muscles, he will never run a marathon, much less win it. Congregations cannot hope to bring peace to their neighborhoods or to the world at large until their members first come to terms with one another and learn to know the peace of God that binds the fellowship together. One ingredient essential to this healthy posture is communication. Some ...

705. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

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Hubert Beck

... church, his body. It is still from him that it has gained its life. It is in his cross that the people of God have their hope and forgiveness. It is in his presence among us that we have our direction. We live only by the grace of God in Christ. As Paul ... instance we are called on to show forth the glory of God in Christ by the way we handle our gifts and opinions and ideas and hopes. If they are shared with the understanding that no one person has the ability to see all angles, no one person has the gifts to ...

706. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

... translates Paul’s Greek; but J. B. Phillips’ paraphrase gives a truer insight by interpreting Paul as saying, "Do make my best hopes for you come true! Live together in harmony ..." It is well nigh impossible for any group of Christians to agree on ... the soul, it is the soul. What for crown, or what for crest? It is the heart within the breast; It is the faith, it is the hope, It is the struggle up the slope, It is the brain and eye to see, One God, and one humanity.4 "Complete my joy by being of ...

707. Only Love Can See the Star

John 1:1-18

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Allan J. Weenink

... us in all our needs, of our human inadequacies and shortcomings, we solemnly and humbly come. "Tis the season to be jolly," to be sure. But it is the season to be holy first, so that in tune with God’s purpose we can rejoice in his promise of eternal hope through Christ. Only love can see the star. From a world of confusion and concern, from a world of war and of wantoness, from a world of tension and trauma, we come before the simple elements that dramatize a coming on our behalf, a living to show us how ...

708. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... as the scene of purposeful divine operation from creation to final consummation. Jewish is his antithesis between flesh and spirit as well as the idea of corporate personality, which leads him to speak of being in the first Adam and in the last Adam. The Christian hope for him is not the Greek immortality of the soul but the Hebrew resurrection of the body. And when he speaks of the consummation of God’s purpose in history, he concludes with "And so all Israel will be saved" (Romans 11:26). Turning now to ...

709. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

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Leonard Mann

... , faith was pointing into the future. Then came Christ. He came proclaiming the Kingdom of God. He came with the promise of peace, of the triumph of right, the vindication of truth, the coronation of beauty. Now, again, for the fulfillment of the promise, faith is pointing forward. Our hopes are for a time that is yet to be. But the time is not yet. We have assurance that the "Day of the Lord" will come. But that day has not yet come. In our time we live in the interim - until. How far we have come into the ...

710. The Time of Our Visitation

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Leonard Mann

... " (Revelation 3:20). That’s present tense; I am standing, I am knocking. He who came long ago comes now. It wasn’t just yesterday, that we should find him only as a record and a memory. It isn’t just tomorrow, that we should know him only as a hope. But it’s now. This is the time of our visitation. A little while ago, writing in The Upper Room, a lady named Hazel Hughes told a story which has meant much to me. While a student, she had as her botany teacher a wonderful, kindly, elderly gentleman. She ...

711. I Believe In Heaven

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Robert Allen

... one magnificent moment and then he fell back into his cell. But that dungeon cell was no longer home. For one fleeting moment he had seen a home that lay beyond the tiny cramped cell of the dungeon. He had seen a vision of a world beyond and hope eternal towered over the despair. We, too, have a vision beyond our present existence. We are pilgrims of the future because our faith enables us to catch a glimpse of an everlasting Kingdom which lies beyond this world. Jesus said: In my Father’s house are many ...

712. Five Minutes After Death

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... in which there will be no more pain ... no more sorrow, nor tears ... nor crying ... nor parting ... nor death after death. This is the eternal hope of the New Testament. I stood once by the side of a bed in one of our hospitals where an old man lay dying. He ... Do you believe that God will never allow a life to slip through his fingers? If you believe that, then you know that the hope for a reunion with those loved ones who have gone before you is not something utterly insane. When I was in high school, ...

713. Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

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Frederick C. Edwards

... : On a high mountain get you up, O heralds of good news to Zion! Lift up your voice with strength O heralds of good news to Jerusalem! Lift it up, fear not; Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!" - Isaiah 40:9 To those who waited and hoped and prayed for vindication, and for bondage to Babylon to be thrown off, the conquering armies of Persia seemed like instruments in the hand of the Lord. "See! The Lord God is coming with might, his own arm having won him the kingdom...." The prophet’s words did ...

714. Give Us A New Name!

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Frederick C. Edwards

... the abyss of poverty and destitution is a cause that can never be won, perhaps even quoting Jesus that the poor will always be with us. But let none deny that there are victories along the way. After all, not all those to whom the hopeful words of Isaiah were addressed realized the hope of release from exile, but some did. Not all the exiles returned to Jerusalem, but a few did. Not everybody heard the angel song at the coming of Jesus, but a few shepherds did. Few even saw a star, but a handful did and ...

715. Easter: The Festival Of Joy

Isaiah 25:1-12

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... same; What joy this blest assurance gives; I know that my Redeemer lives!3 Yes, Easter is the festival of joy. That is why an unhappy Christian is a contradiction in terms. Easter tells us there is life and where there is life there is hope. Where there is hope, there is joy and laughter. We can keep celebration alive in our lives and our congregations. We don’t have to become cynical and depressed in the face of the many problems of our time. We can throw ourselves into the thick of life with exuberance ...

716. The Path of Creativity

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William Grimbol

... The Resurrection offers us the freedom of becoming brand new in Jesus Christ, the freedom of actualizing our baptism, the freedom of faith ... a faith which knows that the power of Christ - the love of Christ - the forgiveness of Christ - the healing of Christ - the hope of Christ, is all available to us everywhere ... all of the time ... to everyone. The conquering of Death, the robbing Death of its sting, is not something which we win by our own death ... is not a victory sealed with our own coffins, but ...

717. The Escape

Drama

Douglas W. Orbaker

... Caesar have to say? Guard No, he’s not going soft. It has something to do with a loophole in the Roman law that allows him to put one of you dogs back onto the streets every year. As if there wasn’t enough trash out there already. Theudas (Taking hope) Yeah! I’ve heard of that custom. Every year during the Passover festival, the Procurator is permitted to release a prisoner. But Pilate hasn’t done that for years. Why is he doing it now? Guard How should I know? If I had my way, I’d kill all of ...

718.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... tears) How long will it be? Joanna: He was nailed to the cross about noon. It won’t be long now. At least I hope that he doesn’t have to suffer much longer. (Claudia enters right.) Claudia: Joanna! Have you any news? (She is very sad.) Joanna: My ... Do you blame him for sending Jesus back to you? Pilate: No, I can’t blame him. They tell me that Herod questioned Jesus at some length, hoping for a miracle, as he called it. He just got confused as to who was on trial, as I did when I questioned him. No, I ...

719. Job - A Probe Into the Shadow World of Despair

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

... abyss of terror. No longer a whisper, but now a cry is heard that perhaps there is no meaning to all the everyday encounters that form our being; that just perhaps our lives are insignificant, that there is no rhyme or reason in the realm of destiny and the only hope for peace is to become dust again in death, in a return to the clay. "If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales, they would weigh more than the sands of the sea ..." (Job 6:1-3a), said Job, "I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me ...

720. And He Shall Reign

Jeremiah 23:1-8

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Alton F. Wedel

... jokers who pretend to run our world). The Prophet Speaks The Word today is good news on the lips of Jeremiah, a Word of hope when everything is hopeless, even "The Day After." We should note that in his word this prophet had no comment on the Lord as ... would be continued in that righteous Branch who would be called "The Lord our justice." Now we can overlay on Jeremiah’s word of hope the good news of Christ, the righteous Branch. This prophetic legacy our Lord could not forget. He came to heal the sick, to ...

721. Easter People

Colossians 3:1-17

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T. A. Kantonen

... art just." The righteous and loving God who put the craving for eternity into the hearts of his children does not mock our highest hope. He does not give us a tombstone when we ask for the bread of life. Just as the cross did not end the career ... of death. These are uncharted waters. No scientist faithful to the scientific method of basing conclusions only on observable facts can offer any hope of survival. He must say that when the life process comes to an end we are really dead. The voyage of life has ...

722. A Voice to be Heard

John 1:19-28

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Maurice A. Fetty

... stubborn, the word of faith over fear; if we are arrogant, the word of humility; if we are legalistic, the word of grace; if we are hateful and revengeful, the word of forgiveness; if we are bitter, the word of charity; if we are mournful, the word of comfort and hope. O Eternal God, the very Word of the universe and all life, in your mercy speak to us anew the word we need in our inmost heart and soul. And help us most to rejoice in your Son, the very Word which became flesh, who came to dwell among us ...

723. What's in a Name?

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20

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David E. Leininger

... . Barbara Brown Taylor writes, “I will never forget the woman who listened to my speech on the ministry of the laity as God's best hope for the world and said, "I'm sorry, but I don't want to be that important." Like many of those who sit beside her ... that in baptism we are also named a child of God. That is where we find strength for the struggle, courage for the crises, and hope for the future. You are part of God's family, God's own child, never alone, and nothing can separate you from that love of ...

724. Light

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... Louisiana. What kept her going in spite of the odds? "I seen," she said, "I seen a new world coming." What a powerful message of hope that is. He is what the world is looking for. He is where the world is headed. One thing more. HE IS ALSO THE ONE ... BRINGS LIGHT INTO OUR LIVES. The message of Christmas is not only "Joy to the World." It also is a very personal message of hope and encouragement. Jo Carr and Donna Cash tell an amusing story of a family out in Texas whose custom was to put large plywood letters ...

725. Peace

Isaiah 11:1-16

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King Duncan

... shall lead them." LET’S BEGIN THIS MORNING BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE HORROR OF WAR. I know we are living in a time of relative peace right now, but we dare not relax our vigilance. Human history has been all too often a record of battles and bullets, not hope and harmony. It may be a sexist statement, but as soon as there were two young men on earth ”two brothers ”there was war and death. War has always been with us. The pages of the Old Testament are drenched with blood as are the chronicles of nearly ...

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