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751. Preaching Because We Have Something To Say

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James Angell

The pulpit is less than half of the mystery of preaching. If we attempt to separate it from what is happening on the listening side, it can be an empty gong or a clanging cymbal. Sermons are one-dimensional until a warming current begins to flow along the fragile wiring of the heart. One Sunday at 10:55 a.m. I was stopped in the hallway by a young church member who appeared in great distress. He asked me, as the preacher who would be leading the service, if it would be all right if I asked the congregation ...

752. Remember That You Are Not Alone

John 3:1-21

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Robert V. Dodd

You have a wealth of resources in Christ! We had just moved into our new parsonage and we were right in the middle of unpacking when the doorbell rang. I went to the door, and there stood two women who engaged me in a friendly but general conversation. Supposing that they were members of my new congregation, I invited them inside. But as it turned out, they were Jehovah's Witnesses who were in our community to make evangelistic calls. During our conversation I learned that one of the women had formerly ...

753. Mission to Unbelievers

Luke 16:19-31

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Wallace H. Kirby

Dives, if we can take tradition’s name for him, first wanted personal relief from his eternal torments. But when Father Abraham, God’s stand-in, refused, Dives asked for a weekend pass to return and warn his brothers. Request denied! Abraham simply said that Moses and the prophets were sufficient. And even if Abraham should go himself, it would not lead Dives’ brothers to repentance. They would only see it as an extraordinary event making no claim upon their lives. So Dives and his brothers, and their ...

754. Proper 12

Lk 11:1-13 · Col 2:6-15 · Gen 18:20-32 · 2 Ki 5:1-15

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John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY 2 Kings 5:1-15 General Naaman of Syria is healed of leprosy by obeying Elisha's order to bathe in the Jordan. The confession of faith by an unknown Jewish slave girl in the home of Syria's chief of staff results in the cure of leprosy for her master, Naaman. On the basis of the confession Naaman goes to Israel. When Elisha the prophet orders him to wash in the Jordan seven times, he goes off in a rage feeling insulted. But his aides convince him to stay. Naaman then dips himself in the Jordan ...

755. Lent 4

Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 · 1 Cor 1:18-31 · 2 Cor 5:17-21 · Isa 12:1-6 · Jos 5:9-12

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John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Joshua 5:9-12 Joshua and his people keep the Passover at Gilgal. Under Joshua's leadership the Israelites cross the Jordan to the Promised Land. In preparation for the conquest of the land, all were circumcised as a renewal of the Abrahamic covenant. Also, the first Passover was kept in the Promised Land at Gilgal. It marked the end of the wilderness wanderings. On the day of the Passover, manna from heaven ceased and the people began to eat the fruit of the land. Isaiah 12:1-6 Rejoice in God's ...

756. Joseph’s Dream

Matthew 1:18-25

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God was working overtime when he visited Joseph, Mary’s fiance, in a fantastic dream shortly before the two of them were to be married. An angel - it must have been Gabriel - appeared in his dream and told him to go ahead with the marriage, despite the fact Mary was pregnant. That would make a story in itself; who would think of marrying someone who was going to deliver a child fathered by another person, especially in those times and that kind of society? But this is not the beginning of the story. ...

757. Communion Is Real Presence

John 1:1-18

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came for testimony, to bear witness to the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear ...

758. Giving Thanks Before Thanksgiving

Luke 17:11-19

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Brett Blair

Greg Anderson, in Living Life on Purpose tells a story about a man whose wife had left him. He was completely depressed. He had lost faith in himself, in other people, in God--he found no joy in living. One rainy morning this man went to a small neighborhood restaurant for breakfast. Although several people were at the diner, no one was speaking to anyone else. Our miserable friend hunched over the counter, stirring his coffee with a spoon. In one of the small booths along the window was a young mother ...

759. White, The color of purity, holiness

Luke 2:1-7

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Yesteday morning, amid the cold, the snow, and the blowing wind, I ventured down to the church to work on this Christmas message. I made two stops on the way ... one at the gas station to top off my gas tank. There I saw several cars being jumped, pushed, coaxed, and begged into running. I was very thankful that my key brought the engine to life. My other stop was at the grocery store to pick up a gallon of milk. The store was busy, crowded with people picking up those last minute necessities for Christmas ...

760. Proper 6

Matthew 9:35-38

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Liturgical Color: Green Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:8 Theme: The cycle of giving and receiving. Pastoral Invitation to the Celebration One pastor began this way: "Good morning to the corporate celebration of the community of faith, hope, love. When worship is truly corporate, it is a celebration of the wholeness of life. We view life, not from B.C., but rather from A.D. Therefore, we rejoice, not because Jesus had to suffer, but because he won the victory over life and death. So, let's worship as if he were ...

761. Opportunism? Or Opportunity?

Matthew 21:33-46

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A striking television commercial came into our living rooms not long ago. It showed a funeral procession of expensive vehicles, driving single file behind a hearse, toward a cemetery. As the camera focused on the passengers in the first one, and then the next and the next of the procession of luxurious automobiles, a voice could be heard. It was that of the lawyer, reading the will, which each would soon be hearing. "To my nephew," said the voice, "who didn’t know the value of a dollar - I leave one dollar ...

762. Journey To The Cross VI: Jesus And Pontius Pilate

Matthew 27:11-26

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James W. Moore

Jesus came riding triumphantly into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday... the picture of success. But then, just a few days later, he was nailed to a cross like a common criminal. What happened? What do we make of this? Was Jesus a success? What do you think? Well, for many years now, we in America... have been highly “success-conscious,” “success-oriented.” And most have agreed with Webster’s definition: “Success is the attainment of wealth and fame.” Think about it. Isn’t it true that when we think of success... ...

763. A Thinking Person’s Thankful Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

Dr. Wayne Dehoney, a Baptist pastor in Louisville, Kentucky, tells of a college freshman who attended his first dormitory prayer meeting. Rather unexpectedly he was called upon to pray a sentence prayer. The young man had a slight speech defect which became pronounced when he was under pressure, and thus he prayed: "Lord, make us more thinkful for all our blessings." That young man prayed a better prayer than he realized. Our English word thank stems from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "think," and certainly ...

764. Old and New

Mk 2:22 · 2 Cor 5:17 · Is 43:19

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Robert Noblett

Something old, something new; Something borrowed, something blue. That’s what the old rhyme suggests every new bride ought to have on her person come the wedding day. We’re not going to spend any time talking about "borrowed" and "blue," but we do want to spend some time on "old" and "new." Those words have a way of cropping up more than just occasionally. Nearly every day we hear them used. They are used religiously. "As for me," says Carol, "you can give me that old-time religion." They are used ...

765. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

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Robert Noblett

If you still haven’t heard of Murphy’s law, let me tell you how it reads: Says Murphy’s law, "If anything can go wrong, it will." Murphy’s law and others like it are not laws in a scientific sense; they are not laws in the sense that the law of gravity is a law. But they do capture human moments that are repeatable among us to the point where they seem more the rule than the exception. An enterprising fellow by the name of Arthur Bloch has put laws of this kind together between two covers and the result ...

766. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

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Leonard Mann

Anyone who has browsed through a gift shop sooner or later has come to a polite but insistent sign, "Please Do Not Touch." It was refreshing, therefore, to come recently upon a sign of different tone. In the gift shop at O’Hare Airport the word above some African wood carvings said, "Please touch. You can’t appreciate these until you do." There are many evidences that this in fact was the mood in which the New Testament writings first came into being. Those writers were sure they had come upon something ...

767. Is Someone Knocking?

Luke 2:1-7

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Bill Bouknight

Have you ever been blamed for something that was not your fault? It's not pleasant. I heard about a retired Admiral who had such an experience. He was taking his six-year-old grandson on a tour of the great Plaza Hotel in Detroit. They were riding the elevator to the top when suddenly a young woman turned and slapped the Admiral sharply across the face. The Admiral, with great restraint, kept his dignity. As a true gentleman he said nothing. Up a few floors the young lady got off the elevator. Then the boy ...

768. Christmas Is Coming

Luke 2:21-40

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James Bjorge

To an old man looking for the "consolation of Israel," Christmas would have been on that day when he stood in the temple and held the Christ-child in his arms. The old man’s name was Simeon. The good Book doesn’t tell much about him except that he was righteous and devout. But then if a man is characterized by those words, he must have lived well. As we approach the Christmas celebration, perhaps we can learn a few lessons from this old gentleman that will enhance the glow of the holidays. In fact, in a ...

769. Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

1 Kings 18:16-46

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Don Yocom

"And he (Elijah) repaired the altar of the Lord ..." (1 Kings 18:30) The biblical setting for this message is a showdown as to who really is God. It is a contest between 450 prophets of Baal and the God of the prophet Elijah. God, through His messenger, the prophet, had informed the king that no rain would fall of the land because of the wickedness and idolatry of King Ahab and his wicked Queen, Jezebel. For more than two years, no rain had fallen, and the country was in a severe drought. How would we feel ...

770. A Time to Dance

Psalm 30:1-12

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Bill Bouknight

My maternal grandfather was a railroad engineer and a Presbyterian elder. During the 1930s he had three teenaged children. It was his custom on many Saturday nights to invite all the local teenagers into his large living room for a dance. He would hire a little three-piece band and roll back the rugs. Grandfather was thrilled that the teenaged girls would invite him to dance and then would break in on each other. Some of the other elders at the church did not share Grandfather's enthusiasm for those dances ...

771. Song of a Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

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Gordon Pratt Baker

The author of the Twenty-third Psalm is quite possibly an old man who has lived the better part of a lifetime. In his day he may have been a shepherd. But now the years have siphoned his stamina. So he sits and reminisces on what used to be. And as he does so he observes another shepherd silhouetted against the sky leading a flock to a greener pasture. Instinctively, the sight turns the poet’s mind to the numberless days and nights he tended his own flocks under God’s watchful eye; and once again, as has ...

772. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

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Frederick C. Edwards

There is a story that a university in Scotland once wished to honor a scholar who had done some significant inquiry into the life and work of one of its own most illustrious former scholars, the 16th century Scottish reformer, John Knox. The tradition in that and several other universities was that, if possible, a cap belonging to the subject of the study - in this case John Knox - would be given to the person being honored, if such a cap could be found. In that way the honoree would have something ...

773. Party in Room 210 ... Everyone Invited

John 1:35-42

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Thomas Long

William Muehl has a bone to pick with ministers. Muehl is on the faculty of Yale Divinity School, and he has spent many years teaching people who are about to become ministers and those who are already ministers. William Muehl is well acquainted with ministers, and he has a complaint. What bothers Professor Muehl is what he sees as a widespread tendency among ministers to do some romantic editorial work on the nature of Christian calling. To hear most ministers talk, claims Muehl, God calls people only in ...

774. Christmas Gift

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Thomas D. Peterson

My Father worked long hours six days a week, so there was not much time for father-son things. Those few times when we touched at a deep level are very precious to me. One of them was Christmas, especially Christmas morning. We four children had hung our stockings and left fruit cake and wine for Santa Claus on the hearth. It was always consumed. Early Christmas morning Daddy went into the rooms, bent down, and whispered into the ear of each child, "Christmas gift." I was awake instantly. Visions of ...

775. Believable Light

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

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William F. Dunkle

Ambiguity and ambivalence, relativity and equivocation are what make the gray world which lies between black darkness and bright light. So much of life must be lived in the twilight zone. Lines of demarkation between right and wrong, good and evil, seem so often blurred or fuzzy. Marilyn Monroe said wistfully, "I believe a little of everything." That's the same as saying, "I don’t believe all of anything." It's the human condition. Sometimes we dignify this by praising "the validity of honest doubt." May ...

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