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51. Memory And Hope

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Deborah D. Steed

... in one another, but that this ungainly group that is now your new family -- all of us with you tonight -- that we will share in that happiness, that we will support you as husband and wife, that we will find great promise in your marriage. It is a hope that we can bring the best of ourselves to your relationship, that with God's help we can fashion out of what once seemed a static world something dynamic and filled with grace. The psalmist says blessed are those who trust in the Lord. Tonight, as our memory ...

52. Hope In Christ

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Tom O. Miller

... share faith. We have gathered as friends of a special individual. We have gathered to find comfort and support. We have gathered to find hope. At the same time we gather to do so, we also hold in honor and memory the life of our friend. It is important to ... view of the victory of God over death. Paul's confidence is really the core of the Gospel message. It is the core of our hope. The life of every Christian is to be identical to the life of Jesus. Life shall triumph over death even as Jesus, the Son of ...

53. The Challenge of God Brings Hope

Genesis 9:1-17

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Richard Gribble

... they simply cannot be avoided. When these opportunities for growth come our way we have several options for our response. We can run away, hide, and pretend as if the challenge never arose. We can in so many words place our head in the sand, like the ostrich, and hope that all will pass us by and we simply won't have to deal with life and the challenges it brings. There are times when we are tested that we recognize the need for action but delegate our response to another person. We might ask others to make ...

54. The Future You Hope For

Jeremiah 29:1-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." (vs. 11) Can you believe it? God has a plan for your life. There are times in all our lives when this is almost beyond ... For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." II. Now a second word suggested by our text: Struggle is essential for growth. In the next chapter of Jeremiah's prophecy, Chapter 30, verse ...

55. Desperation to Hope

Mark 5:21-43

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Dean Feldmeyer

... and told him the whole truth. But Jesus responded to her — “Daughter, your faith has made you well, go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” Her past was now sealed. Her future was open. She had come in desperation, but she had left with hope. And that hope came to her as a gift of grace through Jesus Christ. Daughter. Did you hear that? Curious that he should use that particular word, huh? I mean, he was on his way to see another daughter, wasn’t he. A girl who was, we shall discover, twelve ...

56. Salvation as Hope

Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

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T. A. Kantonen

... from teaching that all men, whether they have faith in Christ or not, will be saved, Paul draws a distinction between those who "are being saved" and those who "are perishing" (2 Corinthians 2:15). In the depths of his heart Paul appears to have entertained the hope that love, the most abiding of all realities, would have the last word in the case of everyone of God’s creatures and that in the end the God of love would be everything to everyone. But he was also in grave earnest about the possibility of ...

57. Hope That Hangs In There

Isaiah 35:1-10

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J. Howard Olds

... think is worth sharing: Lord, I need to keep things in perspective, I get so engrossed in my ups and downs That I forget that you hold The whole world in you hands. Just for today, help me see the big picture. Fill my heart with a daring and dangerous hope. II. God Is In the Desert of Our Temptations No sooner is Jesus baptized than he is led into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan. There He struggles with the meaning of life. Is life about BREAD? Take the cash and let the credit go. Eat, drink and be ...

58. Be Faithful to the Christian Hope

Colossians 1:15-23

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Carl Hoefler

... , reconciled to God by our Lord Jesus Christ! Collect God of love and mercy, who bridged the gap caused by our sinfulness, offering us reconciliation through your Son: Strengthen our commitment to the hope Christ has given us, that our faith may be a firm foundation from which we cannot be shaken. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Father, our sins keep us separated far from you as your enemies. Yet you have offered us friendship through Christ, that ...

59. A Hope for Peace

Romans 15:4-13

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James L. Killen

... to live in peace with one another. We wish there really could be peace on earth and good will among all people. But that is more than just a Christmas wish. It is a part of the Christmas promise. It is a part of what we are invited actually to hope for, especially in this season of expectancy. It was a part of Paul's vision of the saving work of God that God is working to overcome all of the divisions between the peoples of the earth and to gather them into one harmonious whole. The letter to the Ephesians ...

60. The Hopes and Dreams of God

Matthew 1:18-25

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... of my hands." When we turned away from God and chose our own way over God's way, God didn't give up on His Hopes and Dreams for us. God sent prophet after prophet, leader after leader trying to get our attention. And when that didn't work, God decided ... hung on a cross and laid in a tomb. But now crowned in glory, alive in our hearts and in our lives . That's the Hope and Dream of God, that Christ will be Cradled in our hearts, that we humbly accept his gift of salvation, forgiveness and mercy bought with ...

61. Hope

John 12:20-33

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David E. Leininger

... he was not particularly handsome. He came from no family of influence. He had no money. Was it the miracles? Perhaps. There are always some who want to see a magic show. But on a deeper level, what Jesus must have embodied for folks was a sense of hope, the same kind of hope that ancient Judah felt when they heard the words of Jeremiah: "The time is coming, says the Lord," — in other words, you can take this to the bank — a "new covenant ... I will put my law in their minds, and I will write it on their ...

62. Afraid of Hope

John 20:19-31

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... his wife Bess. He told Bess that he would try to reach her from the other world. For ten years, Bess kept a candle burning below Harry's picture in their home. Each year on the anniversary of his death, Bess gathered in some friends and held a séance hoping she would hear from her late husband. Needless to say, she never once heard a word from him. In 1936, she snuffed out the candle and declared, "That's it! Death is the end. There is nothing more. I now know that for sure because my Harry didn't speak ...

63. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

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King Duncan

... with us. There's nobody in this room who does not have problems. Our text, though, is not about problems. It is about hope. It is about positive expectation. It is about a Creator God who is at work bringing order out of chaos, joy out ... won't help. And a positive expectation just might improve our chances. There is a mounting body of evidence that our bodies respond to hope. It is still not a foregone conclusionbut the evidence is mounting. We know we can worry ourselves sick. Is it possible to believe ...

64. The Promise of Hope

Matthew 3:1-12

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... mingled. The manger can never be looked upon without the shadow of the cross falling across it. To do so would be to turn the birth of our Savior into just another sweet and perilous refugee story. To do so would be to forget the hope that was born that night. The hope that would grow into the man Jesus, who was one of us and who made the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. This morning the signs are all around us. The tree, the lights, the Chrismons, the nativity, the candles, the holly, ivy, wreaths it all ...

65. Hope Rises

Mark 9:30-37, 42

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Lori Wagner

... love, we need to sit at theirs. And here’s the question of a lifetime: do you have the humility and the patience to sit at the feet of your children and re-learn what it means to have “eyes to see” and “ears to hear”? Jesus hopes you do, because God loves children! That’s the message Jesus wants to make absolutely clear to his disciples, as we see him teaching them in our scripture for today from Mark’s gospel. Jesus and his disciples are on two different wavelengths during this time. We just ...

66. Our Living Hope

Luke 20:27-40

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Theodore F. Schneider

... human immortality. Death is real for us, biblically and existentially. There is no eternal life without God. There is no eternal hope in the Scriptures except that which flows from the love, power and faithfulness of God. If we are to live eternally, ... . There is no question that the God of creation, who created us in the first place, can raise us up if he wants to. The hope of resurrection is always rooted in our trust of God. 3. Since "Nothing Can Separate Us ... from the love of God," there is no one, ...

67. Hope Wins!

Revelation 21:1-27

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King Duncan

... the great promise that the future holds but it's also easy to become quite fearful. There is much that is wrong in this world. There is an awful deterioration in societal values, the result of which is yet to be determined. What can we say about the future? HOPE MIXED WITH FEAR. THAT IS ABOUT ALL WE CAN SAY ABOUT THE FUTURE ” UNLESS WE OPEN OUR BIBLES. And there in the book of Revelation we read these magnificent words: "And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the ...

68. Hope For A New Year

Ephesians 1:1-14

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King Duncan

... this world to keep you awake. There's a lot to both sadden us and infuriate us. And then, just when we think there is no hope for this world . . . into this world comes God. That's the good news for this first Sunday in a new year. Just when humanity was on ... we will have to do it somewhere else. In C. S. Lewis' words, we live in a God-invaded world. And where God is, there is hope. This is not to ignore the realities of our world. This is not a perfect world. Far from it. For example, there is a moral and ...

69. A New Hope

Jeremiah 18:1-10

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James Merritt

... useful and makes the clay beautiful. It is the potter that gives the clay both its form and its function. When you realize that we are the clay, God is the potter and life is the wheel, you can learn why with God there is always the possibility of new hope for anyone no matter how far they may have crossed over to the dark side. This little parable tells us three things about how God deals with all of us. I. God Is Always Working On Me "The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying, 'Arise and go ...

70. Hope Lifted Up

Numbers 21:4-9

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Ken Lentz

... 's highway and tried to enter Canaan from the east, finally to enter the promised land from the eastern side of the Jordan. Hope Lifted Up In The Wilderness Time What about the bronze snake? Between the time of the failed conquest of Canaan from the south ... self-indulgence and pride. Recourse to the faith of Sinai drove the people to cast their eyes upon the bronze snake of healing. Hope was restored and the road to the promised land was rediscovered. Today's people of God are not safe from the temptation to ...

71. Unity and Hope

Romans 14:1--15:13

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Timothy J. Smith

... apostle Paul, writing to the church at Rome, a church he had not yet visited, made an amazing claim, “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, so that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.” When we discover how others dealt with a variety of problems and setbacks yet held on to their faith, we know that we too will make it through the rough times. By reflecting on biblical characters we are encouraged to continue on our journey of ...

72. A Vision of Beauty and Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

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King Duncan

... we have been called to walk in the light of the Lord. And as we walk in God’s light, we will choose justice and peace because through Jesus we have been restored to God and restored to one another. For these next four weeks leading up to Christmas, I hope that you will focus on how you can heal any separation between you and God and between you and your brothers and sisters in this world of every race and creed, that you may share more of Jesus’ light and life with a world that needs so badly to know ...

73. Apostles of Hope

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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Lori Wagner

... now if only they would go forward and proclaim Him risen! Jesus sent His disciples out in the most scurrilous of times to heal those afflicted with doubt and grief, to encourage those who felt all was lost, to lift up those who felt dismayed, to give hope to the dying, to proclaim victory to those whose faith was faltering. They would be guarded by God’s power, fueled by their faith. But first, they would need to enter boldly into a brave new world, a different world, a changed world, to be stability in ...

74. Hope That Did Not Disappoint

Luke 7:11-17; 18:1-8

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Theodore F. Schneider

... . For Christians, it has to do with our holding to the promises of God, a holding that is determined by our confidence in the integrity of God. Here alone our hope rests, as do all of life's possibilities and probabilities. Only in this way can we talk of a hope that does not disappoint us, even if that hope's fulfillment is delayed. The air terminal was a sea of people, hurrying and pushing. It's always that way. But on this night it was especially so. A snow storm snarled schedules in the air and on the ...

75. Against All Hope

Romans 4:1-25

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King Duncan

... about that men. If you can think it, you can! Well, that’s what we would like to think! Do you remember the story of Pinocchio the wooden puppet that wanted to be a real boy. It was to Pinocchio that Jiminy Cricket sang that wondrous hymn of hope: “When you wish upon a star / Makes no difference who you are /Anything your heart desires / Will come to you . . .” (5) That’s part of our cultural psyche. Your dreams can come true. All you have to do is to believe and work really, really hard. But the ...

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