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776. Epiphany

Isaiah 60:1-22

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Theme: The magnetism of God's light Exegetical Note This postexilic poem of Third Isaiah anticipates a time in which, because of God's arrival in glory, Jerusalem will be so radiant that all nations will be drawn to its light, bearing not only the children that have stayed behind in the land of captivity, but treasures, such as gold and frankincense. This passage, together with the responsorial Psalm 72, was apparently one of Matthew's sources for his story of the Magi. Call to Worship Leader: Blessed is ...

777. The Resurrection of Our Lord

Mt 28:1-10 · Col 3:1-4 · Acts 10:34-43 · Ps 118

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... to your majesty, mercy, power, and grace. In the name of the resurrected Christ we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of all mercies, we are sorry to admit how feeble our witness to the resurrection of Christ Jesus really is. We affirm it in our hearts, but bear little testimony to it either in our words or our lives, which often have the appearance and odor of death rather than of new life. Forgive us, we pray, and set before us again the fact of the open tomb and empty grave. Fill us with resurrection ...

778. Proper 16

Matthew 16:13-20

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... pasture! People: WE ARE THE SHEEP OF GOD'S HAND! Collect God of glory, you have placed upon your Church the responsibility of bearing witness to your will, word, and work. Make us worthy of this calling: that, assisted by your Spirit, our testimony may do justice ... . Amen Prayer of Confession God of grace, we confess that as both individuals and your Church, we have failed miserably to bear the kind of witness that would do justice to your message of love, mercy, and forgiveness for the world. We have ...

779. Proper 17

Matthew 16:21-28

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... gospel and constant in our faith in the Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, it embarrasses us to admit, to you and to ourselves, just how weak and timid we have been in our service to the gospel, and how reluctant to bear any hardship, much less a cross, in our Christian witness. Forgive us our faint-heartedness, O God, and grant us a measure of your own infinite strength, so that we may be willing and able to face any terror and make any sacrifice in the fulfilling of our ...

780. Proper 18

Exodus 19:1-25

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... Let all who fear God also trust in God! People: FOR GOD IS OUR HELP AND OUR SHIELD! (Based on Psalm 115) Collect God of infinite grandeur, you have given a few the privilege of a direct encounter with you. Let us see as much of you as we can bear: that, filled with the experience of you, we may better serve you in our age of doubt and disbelief. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of boundless grace, we confess that we often allow our lack of direct and dramatic experiences of you to lead ...

781. A Glory Revealed in the King

John 12:12-19

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Charles M. Mountain

... new life, but only through his death. He would become the seed of his own parable that must die, be buried - but then live again to bear much fruit. He said, "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified." The lifting up of Jesus on the cross - that is ... was really the beginning. His Kingship will never die. With every new-born Christian of every age his Kingship grows and grows, bearing much fruit, at times a hundredfold. One day, Jesus will be King over all the earth without a single rival. For the ...

782. Bitter-Sweet Recollections

Isaiah 50:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... something of our deepest character. They laughed at him on the cross! They laughed while they killed him. And because he still loves us, when we play the fool, it kills him! Probably the hardest of all to bear was the weight and load of sin he carried for us all. He had never known sin, and now he bears the sin of the world! We have trouble understanding how heavy this staggering weight was to Jesus. We sin, often easily and casually, but we don’t always feel it. As an Indian evangelist was preaching, a ...

783. What Do You See?

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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Barbara Brokhoff

... shall see the travail of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge my righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because ... wish I were not so sinful and impure," and the guilt of our sinning hangs heavily upon us. Once we get a clear picture of Jesus bearing our sins on the tree (I mean your sins and mine actually nailing him to the cross), then we shall never be able to sin ...

784. Are There Two Baptisms?

Acts 2:14-41

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Barbara Brokhoff

... girl whose family lived across the street from the cemetery. Often she listened to the minister as he spoke the words of the committal service. She decided to have one of her own in her backyard. She thought she would bury her teddy bear. After digging a grave, she solemnly lowered the toy bear into the ground, saying ever so seriously the words she thought she had heard the preachers say again and again in the burial service: "In the name of the Father and of the Son and in the hole you goes!" We cannot ...

785. Suffering for Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

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Dennis Kastens

... , "He who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me." (10:38) Speaking for Christ, the poet has said, "Come, follow me, the Savior spake, all in my way abiding; deny yourselves, the world forsake, obey my call and guiding. For who bears not the battle’s strain, the crown of life shall not obtain." (The Lutheran Hymnal, St. Louis: Concordia c. 1941, hymn 421.) The highest honor that can be bestowed upon any Christian is the privilege to suffer for Christ. This is higher than the title of ...

786. As Good As God

Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... down as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand forth against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord. You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord." Once upon a time a prince was born physically deformed. He was known as the hunchback prince. His physical posture troubled ...

787. Loving Unconditionally

John 13:31-38

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Robert Bachelder

... the right hand of God. But let us go on to ask if we know what it means to participate in his power and to bear his authority. For in answering these questions, we shall discover that we have in fact a prescription not for righteous persecution, but only for love ... the gospel of Jesus Christ and in the words of the gospel’s greatest exponent, a formula for a love which can "bear all things," even the presence about us of people with whom we vigorously disagree. God loves everyone, we are told, whether they ...

788. Job’s Joy

Job 38:1--41:34

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Richard F. Bansemer

... his suffering tolerantly, nobly, and without complaint. But it is all a lie. It is one huge mistake. Job was no patient sufferer. He was a passionate sufferer. He did not hide his grief and bear it quietly. He complained bitterly before the throne of God and challenged God to debate his cause with him. The patience of Job would better be phrased the perseverance of Job. He persisted, but not patiently. The story starts out properly enough. Job, a blameless and upright man who feared ...

789. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams

Luke 1:67-80

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Carroll Gunkel

... at each other, now they sang - together - hymns of praise to the one God and Father of all. This was made possible because Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan had met the Master. In other times, Protestants and Roman Catholics had carried placards bearing slogans of hatred, but on this occasion their signs were ones of peace and goodwill. This was made possible because Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan had met the Master. Prior to these events, many people in Northern Ireland were distressed by the ...

790. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

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Esther R. Russ

... me, but God reassured me in a dream last night. An angel told me not to he afraid to marry you, because what is conceived in you is from the Holy Spirit. After I awoke, I remembered the prophecy of Isaiah, that a virgin would be with child and bear a Son I know Isaiah was talking about you, Mary!" How my heart thrilled that afternoon! Our faith and trust in God increased with such blessing, and we soon married, just as we planned before the angel came. I’ll never forget a particular day. Joseph came to me ...

791. A Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Acts 9:1-19a

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George Bass

... "station" churches common to the liturgical heritage of Rome, the Church of St. Sebastian. It is located south of Rome on the Appian Way, not too far from where the Apostle Paul was supposed to have been beheaded, and it is situated over an ancient catacomb which bears Sebastian’s name. Tradition has it that both Peter and Paul were executed by Nero on June 29, possibly in the same year, 67 A.D. Or, according to another tradition, they were executed on the same day, June 29, one year apart. What is known ...

792. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

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George Bass

... popularizes the words that the angel Gabriel spoke to Mary: Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you ... Do not be afraid ... you will conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; ... the Lord God ... spoke to Mary long ago, "Hail, Mary, ... you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus." In Jesus, God began creating a new world, and that process will go on ...

793. Pardon for Sin

Romans 5:12-21

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Dennis Kastens

... toward us." (Ephesians 1:6, 7) That is, of course, the most profound message in all of history, namely, that God left heaven to come here to this earth in the person of Christ to take the full burden of our sins and to bear it as our substitute upon the cross, that we might not have to bear it through eternity in condemnation. And yet how easy it is for us to overlook this truth, probably for two reasons: (1) We think our being saved has to be by a more complicated method on our part. (We’ve got to do ...

794. Sowing to the Flesh

Romans 8:1-17

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Dennis Kastens

... completely forgiven. Although it is true that the man who holds up a gas station, if given a jail sentence, and then accepts Christ as his Savior will still have to serve his term in prison, yet he will never have to enter the eternal prison. He may bear the scar of his indiscretion, but he will receive no eternal scar because Christ Jesus came into the world to remove the eternal penalty of his sin. This is why we say, "Turn to this Christ. Turn to him who gives what you ultimately need. He offers eternal ...

795. The Need for Transfiguration

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... no power over me; but I do as the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father." (John 14:30, 31) The glory of God is revealed in the humble obedience of a Son who can bear the eternal glory to the mountain that holds our attention on this day and can also bear the sins of humankind on another mountain that shall hold our attention not many weeks from now. In this way the love of God takes up the sins of the world, nailing them to the cross of Jesus, and the transfiguration of ...

796. LOVING UNCONDITIONALLY

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John H. Krahn

... his head in the clouds but rather with his feet firmly planted on an earth filled with conflict and hatred. In the holiness code of Leviticus, God says that those who consider themselves among his children are not to take revenge on one another and are not to bear any grudges. I am sure that some of us have felt vengeful in the last week. Perhaps we have even sought to hurt or discredit someone who first hurt us. The feeling of wanting to even the score is what God is speaking against. Perhaps some of us ...

797. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

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Raymond Gibson

... I’ll go anywhere ‘Tis heaven to me, where’er I may be If he is there! I count it a privilege here, his cross to bear; If Jesus goes with me, I’ll go anywhere. That old hymn has only one theological flaw: the word "if." Christians know that there is ... to my warders freely and friendly and clearly, as though it were mine to command. Who am I? They also tell me I would bear the days of misfortune equably, smilingly, proudly, like one accustomed to win. Am I then really all that which other men tell of? ...

798. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

... the Catholic Spirit," said it this way: Every wise man, therefore, will allow others the same liberty of thinking which he desires they should allow him; and will no more insist on their embracing his opinions, than he would have them to insist on his embracing theirs. He bears with those who differ from him, and only asks him with whom he desires to unite in love that single question, "Is thy heart right as my heart is with thy heart?" That is harmony, that is what it means to be the same mind, that is how ...

799. It Is Finished

John 19:28-37

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Bill Bouknight

... life. She screams, "It's done!" Something incredibly significant has happened. When Jesus threw back his head and screamed "Tetelestai," he was declaring, "I have accomplished this awesome, painful mission. I have poured out every ounce of devotion, almost beyond my capacity to bear. Now it's done. I have taken the enemy's best shot but have not been defeated. History's most difficult assignment has been accomplished. Free at last, free at last, Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. What precisely had Jesus ...

800. A Matter of Life and Breath

John 20:19-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... between power and force. God’s power at our disposal is not the power to send a man to Mars. A son who was a chemist working on the development of rocket fuel called his father, a Seminary professor, after the successful launching of the first man-bearing satellite. He asked, "Dad, did you see it? Wasn’t that real power?" The father replied, "No, that wasn’t real power." "What do you mean that wasn’t real power?" "That was force," replied the father, "when that rocket went up not one broken home was ...

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