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51. Christ the King

Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46

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William E. Keeney

... he lived, slept, and moved among them. He had made up his mind that his life-span was to be short at the best, and faced it all without anxiety or fear.... He gloried in the belief that Christianity is not a religion of sensible men, but of men gone mad with love for God and man.1 4. Victim Offender Reconciliation Program · The Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) has had some remarkable success in bringing victims and those who perpetrated crimes against them together. When the criminal confronts ...

52. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

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Rolland R. Reece

... is unknown. Either way nature's course seems senseless and cruel. But then we often think that when things don't go our way. If we look for a positive outcome to our musing, we are driven back to faith. This holocaust of nature isn't going to be made sensible by our thought or our logic. It's purpose, if there is one, eludes us. We simply know that you are God and that you are at the helm not only of our planet, but of our universe and all other universes. We trust you regardless what happens. We offer ...

53. The Church

Acts 6:8-15, Acts 6:1-7

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Robert F. Crowley

... right to be heard and I'll have to ask you to be respectful. MARTHA: I don't think we should be arguing. We've got a problem to solve. I don't think it can ever be solved unless we help each other. JAMES: We've got to be sensible. JOHN: (RUNNING INTO THE MIDST OF THE COMMITTEE) Stop! This is getting nowhere! (TO GUY) This isn't working. You've set them in this different time but they haven't learned anything. (THE COMMITTEE FREEZES) GUY: Well, maybe you can teach them. JOHN: Me? GUY: You are their leader ...

54. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 7:1-23

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Wayne H. Keller

... called status ... Terrified by this dramatic vista, most people just exist; they turn from the turbulence of change and try to hide in their private make-believe harbors, called in politics, conservatism; in the church, prudence; and in everyday life, being sensible ..." (Saul D. Alinski). "In the world today, rigidity is fatal; and so is letting other people make our personal decisions" (WHK). MUSIC POSSIBILITIES Music for Preparation "Rejoice, O Pure in Heart" Hymn of Preparation "I To the Hills Will Lift ...

55. Silly Love Songs

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Timothy J. Smith

"I can see no trace of the passions which make for deeper joy," wrote the French writer Stendhal about Americans in his 1822 essay titled "Love." "It is as if the sources of sensibility have dried up among these people," he observed. "They are just, they are rational, and they are not happy at all," he wrote. One cannot help but wonder what Stendhal would say today. It's no secret that relationships suffer in the fast-paced, impersonal world in which we live. ...

56. The Man From Galilee IV: The Treasure Of His Kingdom

Matthew 13:44-46

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... racetrack one time, and I've spent about three million dollars trying to get it back." Anything we commit our lives to can wind up costing us everything. Everything we choose, every choice we make can cost us everything. That being the case, we have only one sane and sensible choice, and that is to choose the kingdom of God. Yes, it will cost us everything. A woman in New York earned her living selling pretzels out on the street for 25 cents each. A man came by every day and gave her 25 cents, but he never ...

57. How Unexpected Can Christmas Be?

Matthew 24:36-51

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William B. Kincaid, III

... one to the death and devastation of the flood during Noah's time. We are looking forward to being reunited with family and friends while this lesson speaks of untimely separation and unpredictable departure. And then, in the event our Advent and Christmas sensibilities are not offended completely, the coming of Jesus is compared to a thief who breaks into a house at an unexpected hour. Matthew doesn't know much about the holidays. It is for these reasons that dismissing this passage would be an easy ...

58. Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Matthew 5:1-12

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William B. Kincaid, III

... , for you will be comforted in your honesty." Still another reason to mourn, especially in those losses which can only be called tragic, is to release our anger. When a person lives a full life, even though it is hard to let go, it does not offend our sensibilities as much as when a young person gets cheated on the seasons. What a horrible thing we have done to healthy anger by looking upon it as a social taboo. We are taught from an early age that polite people control their emotions. More than that, some ...

59. Wind -- Word -- Spirit -- Community

Acts 2:1-13

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Arthur H. Kolsti

... and wound others. In Greek the word for flesh is sarx. The Roman charioteer wielded a sharp whip that cut into the flesh, the sarx, of his horse. There is the origin of our English word sarcasm. There are cutting words that can wound our sensibilities. The psalmist speaks of "those who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows" (Psalm 64:3). The late Gordon W. Alport of Harvard in his monumental book, The Nature of Prejudice, described the context of genocide in terms of a pyramid ...

60. When All Is Said And Done

Matthew 13:24-30

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William G. Carter

... our Lord." So why don't people like us have a place on the religious airwaves? Iwan Russell-Jones admits, "It's difficult to make a mark in the communications business when you don't have anything much to say." Then he concludes: The time for us sensible, "mainline" folk to make a serious move into the world of television will be when we can pray with Jack and Rexella "Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus." And mean it.4 1. John Dart, "Jehovah's Witnesses Abandon End-of-the-world Prediction," Religious News ...

61. What Do You Mean, "Repent"?

Mark 1:1-8

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Thomas Long

... crowds, "Repent!" A God and a History, a Community ... but what a haircut! There is a truth, and there is a falsehood, in this portrait of John. The truth in the image is that John is intended to jar the readers of Mark, to shock our sensibilities. His presence sounds a willful note of discord in the initial harmonies of the gospel narrative. John is as out of place as a dayglow orange "Ye Must Be Born Again" sign alongside a tranquil country highway. But what is genuinely shocking about John is not ...

62. Where's The Treasure?

Luke 1:5-25, Luke 1:26-38

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Thomas Long

... us numb to the intrusion of the holy in our lives. The novelist and essayist Annie Dillard has written about this kind of over-familiarity with the holy. She says that she does not find Christians, outside of those who worshiped in the catacombs, "sufficiently sensible of conditions." She thinks of church people in worship as children who think they are playing around with a chemistry set, but who are actually mixing up a batch of TNT. She maintains: It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats ...

63. Proper 16

John 6:25-59, John 6:60-71, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Ephesians 6:10-20

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Russell F. Anderson

... his parents. We live because of the grace of the Father who created us and the grace of the Son who redeemed us. The non-politically correct Jesus. Jesus had many more disciples than the twelve. Most of them dropped away because Jesus offended their sensibilities with all this talk of being the bread of life, coming down from heaven and the like. They complained: "This is a hard saying: who can listen to it?" (v. 60). If only Jesus would have known about the gospel of political correctness, he could have ...

64. Proper 5

2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 1 Samuel 8:1-22, Mark 3:31-35, Mark 3:20-30

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Russell F. Anderson

... Jesus; they tried to put him in a straightjacket (v. 21). Jesus was an embarrassment to his family. As you know, Jesus won't let himself be placed in a straightjacket. He may embarrass us in the presence of our friends; he may disturb our sensibilities, but if we try to tie him down, he has a way of coming back. The unpardonable sin (vv. 28-30). Countless believers have feared that they have committed the unpardonable sin. What is the unpardonable sin? Mark answers this question forthrightly. It is the ...

65. If We Are Dreamers

Joel 2:18-27, Joel 2:28-32

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Clement E. Lewis

... of what dreams are: the subconscious feelings or imaginations occurring just below the threshold of consciousness. We need to find means for dealing with dreams that disturb us, by discovery of means for dealing with them in ways of appropriate conscious understanding and sensible disposal. A boy in his preschool until young adult years had a frequent nightmare in which he would be on a railroad track over an elevated earthen mound. Suddenly a train would come over the horizon, and he would do his best to ...

66. Proper 15

1 Kings 2:1-12, Psalm 111:1-10, Ephesians 4:17--5:21, John 6:25-59, 1 Kings 3:1-15

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B. David Hostetter

... News! Jesus said, "As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me shall live because of me." Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus, Christ, we are forgiven. EXHORTATION Be most careful how you conduct yourselves: like sensible people, not thoughtlessly. Use the present opportunity to the full, for these are evil days. PRAYER OF THE DAY Whet our appetite, Giver of life, for the bread of life, Jesus Christ, that through our faith in him and our reception of him we may ...

67. A Fireside Chat

Exodus 3:1-22

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Barbara Brokhoff

... figure it out. I'll see why!" How typical of us humans. Most of us figure that anything we don't fully understand, just give us time and we can figure it out. We can find the answer, we can solve it. After all, everything has a sane, sensible, logical, rational, cause-and-effect solution. "Give me time and I'll find it!" Of course, God created us to think, and human solutions are fine in most instances. But some things you can never explain by human logic. Miracles are not "explained" away. The only reason ...

68. The Story Of The Scandalized Neighbors

Luke 15:11-32

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John M. Braaten

... am no longer worthy to be called your son." Worthy! He had no worth! He had long ago turned his back on sonship and asked to be considered as a dead man. He had trampled on everything his father held in reverence. How dare he appeal to his father's sensibilities in that way. I suppose he dared because he was desperate, and he knew his father, he knew his father's love, his hopes and dreams and so he used Eli's strength against him in this way. "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no ...

69. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... cannot be poetic. But there is something about the poetry of black preaching that reaches into corridors of being where prose dares not go. The rhythms and fires of the poetic venue in black sermonizing both escalate and titillate the spiritual sensibilities of black believers. It reaches black audiences in ways which distinguish it from other forms of sermonizing. When we say that black preaching is poetic, we are suggesting that it not only provides a mode of cognitive-spiritual orientation which reaches ...

70. African-American Spirituality: The African's Gift To America

Exodus 3:1-22

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... in God. We have always been a spiritual people who believed in a higher power and a God who controlled the universe and providence. We believed that God would bring a brighter day for our people. This belief in a higher power helped us develop a sensibility about our condition that made us hold out for a better day. We had nothing else but a firm belief that God would somehow see us through the trials and terrors of living black in America. A hallmark of African-American spirituality is first the ability ...

71. Is It Hard To Believe?

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Erskine White

... . They had little public credibility, yet the first testimony to the Risen Christ was given by a woman. More than that, the woman was Mary Magdalene, a former prostitute! If the gospel writers were concocting a story, and if they wanted to appeal to the strict moral sensibilities of their world, don't you think they would have had a man - and a righteous man at that - as the first witness to the Resurrection? And what of the disciples, the pillars of the early church? They were too scared to go out to the ...

72. Recollections of Reuben, Uncle of a Young Bethlehem Shepherd

Matthew 2:13-18

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Robert A. Morgan

... don't know where he's gone! He's gone where his parents have taken him out of the country, I'd imagine. Anyone who fears the threat of Herod's guards had better get out of the territories of Herod's jurisdiction. Wouldn't that be the smart and sensible thing to do? Which direction did they go? I have no idea - I wasn't watching. But there are only two directions - back to Jerusalem, and down toward Egypt; and if I were trying to get away from Herod and his soldiers, I certainly wouldn't have gone to ...

73. Life is Messy

John 1:29-34

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Johnny Dean

... but the blood of Jesus." Or at least we USED to sing that. Most of the "blood" hymns have been taken out of our hymnals now, have you noticed? All that talk of blood and human sacrifice is just too messy, too barbaric for our modern, refined sensibilities. And we don’t want all that messy stuff cluttering up our worship services. Don’t get me wrong. I’m thankful that the blood sacrifice of Jesus was final. I’m glad "Animal Sacrifice 101" was not one of the required courses at seminary. I hate ...

74. Dancing with the Wind

Acts 2:1-13

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Johnny Dean

... are EXCITED about being here in church, and if you were honest about, I don’t think very many of you would raise your hand. Excitement is hard to generate these days. We Americans have literally had so much for so long that our senses and sensibilities have become numb. It’s difficult to get us excited about anything any more. And I believe the media has played a key role in the desensitization of our society. Michael Slaughter, in his book Out on the Edge, reports that a recent national survey tried ...

75. The Emmaus Stranger

Luke 24:13-35

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Dean Lueking

... this "if only" phrase which starts agonizing sentences. If only I would have prayed more, believed more, done more - then my child would not have run out from behind the parked car and under the wheels of the oncoming traffic. If only I could have been more sensible and not so idealistic when falling in love and marrying the person who has made my life such a grinding misery and seemingly unending burden. If only I could have been told that those first tell-tale pains in the upper back were not a muscle ...

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