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776. For I Have Chosen You!

Haggai 2:20-23

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... seems to be a re-enactment of the death and resurrection of Jesus, the child, upon being born, is carried up to the throne of God, while the woman, who may now represent the early Christian church which abandoned Jerusalem before its destruction, flees to the desert. "Now war arose in heaven," reads Revelation 12:7. Michael is on one side and the dragon is on the earth, and the dragon "was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him" (Revelation 12:9). Is something wrong here? The ...

777. Advent 2

Mark 1:1-8, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... of a loving, forgiving God. "Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem," God counsels the prophet. The prophet assures the returnees that God will help them as they resettle in their own land. They are to "make straight in the desert a highway for ... God." On the one hand, their lives are limited, analogous to grass which flourishes briefly, then dries up and blows away. Yet "the word of God will stand forever." They need "fear not." God will gather them up as a shepherd ...

778. Gifts of Lent II: Mary Gives Her Perfume

Matthew 26:6-13

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... and still refused to believe in Jesus. These went to the Pharisees, who together with the priests decided that Jesus must be killed. But it wasn't God's time just yet for Jesus to die. He left our town, staying in Ephraim, a small place in the desert northeast of Jerusalem. We wouldn't see Jesus again until the week of Passover. How incomplete it seemed. Our brother once dead but now alive, and we couldn't openly thank Jesus or celebrate? It simply wasn't right. Our hearts cried out for a joyous feast of ...

779. Just In Time

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... in time for production." Thus, manufacturers do not have capital tied up in warehouses full of that which is waiting to be processed. Often we pray to a "just in time" God. We desire for our benevolent God to send healing, hope, manna in the desert, rain on the parched earth, peace, prosperity, guidance and direction, all "just in time." And when healing does come, when help arrives, when our position is clarified and direction is found, sometimes we have the presence of mind to pray thankful prayers to the ...

780. Reflections On the Sacred Head

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... in great pain? The face, indeed, becomes pale. But any pain we have ever experienced is nothing compared to the cross, a pain that was not just from the nails, the thorns, the beatings, the suffocation, but also from the rejection of those he came to save, the desertion of those who were closest to him, the derision of those who claimed to be closest to God. "Pale" is not strong enough a word. He looked like death. He became death for us. How does that visage languish Which once was bright as morn! It was ...

781. Hard Questions!

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... was going a bit too far, doesn't it? Obedience is always a matter of faith, born of total trust. Archibald Rutledge told the story of meeting a black turpentine worker whose faithful dog had just died a few moments earlier in a great forest fire because he would not desert his master's dinner pail, which he had been told to watch. With tears streaming down his face, the old man said, "I always had to be careful what I told him to do, because I knowed he'd do it." Do we offer God full obedience, or do we ...

782. Baptism of Our Lord

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 43:1-13, Isaiah 42:1-9, Acts 8:9-25, Acts 10:23b-48

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John R. Brokhoff

... a family with father and mother. The result is that they feel they belong to nobody. They may not be in orphanages or foster families, but they are bereft. In this passage nobody needs to feel all alone in the world and belonging to nobody. Though persons may desert us, God claims us as his own. In and through baptism God accepts us as his children. Outline: You belong to God because -- a. He created you -- v. 1. b. He redeemed you -- v. 1. c. He claims you -- v. 1. 2. The benefits of baptism. Isaiah 43 ...

783. Lent 5

John 7:45--8:11, Luke 20:9-19, John 12:1-11, Philippians 3:12-4:1, Philippians 3:1-11, Isaiah 43:14-28

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John R. Brokhoff

... " (v. 19) Yahweh promises is a new exodus from bondage in Babylon. The "former things" (v. 18) refer to the exodus from Egypt. As in the first exodus, Yahweh will make a way through the wilderness and provide water as the people cross 600 miles of desert from Babylon to Jerusalem. A third exodus is the sacrifice of Christ who redeemed us from the bondage of sin and who now provides food and water in the Sacrament of the new covenant. Epistle: Philippians 3:4b-14 Paul forgets the past as refuse and presses ...

784. Passion Sunday

Isaiah 50:1-11, Luke 22:14--23:56, Philippians 2:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... mental, emotional, suffering of loneliness and abandonment. This nonphysical suffering was symbolized by the spear thrust in Jesus' side and we can suffer most deeply from the slurs, gossip, and verbal abuse of unkind people. Outline: No greater suffering than this a. Desertion of friends "They all forsook him and fled." b. Mockery crown of thorns, scepter, regal robes. c. Rejection "Crucify him." d. Abandonment "Why hast thou forsaken me?" Epistle: Philippians 2:5-11 1. Being in your right mind (2:5-11 ...

785. Proper 19

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10, Jeremiah 4:5-31, 1 Timothy 1:12-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... (vv. 23, 24, 25, 26). Four times "I looked" appears in four verses. Look at God's people now. See the horrible destruction that awaits them. Why will Yahweh do this to his chosen people? They are morally corrupt. They have turned to pagan gods. They deserted their God. The consequences are judgment and divine penalty of exile and slavery. 3. End (v. 27). The picture of desolution is terrifying. Yet, in the worst, in the darkest hour, Yahweh gives a glimmer of hope: "I will not make a full end." Because of ...

786. Face To Face

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Barbara G. Schmitz

... the first parent for encouragement. But at a critical moment near the middle of the journey, the child starts looking ahead to the second parent, puts out his or her hands, and hurries into the welcoming arms (borrowed from Demetrius Dumm in Flowers in the Desert, page 95). Such a critical moment in Christ's journey happened shortly after the feeding of the 5,000 and Peter's confession of Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus had just finished explaining to the disciples that he must suffer, and be rejected, and die ...

787. Proper 13

Luke 12:13-21, Psalm 107:1-43

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, those he redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town; hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, he led them by a straight way, until they reached an inhabited town. Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love ...

788. Lent 1

Luke 4:1-13

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Note The devil's temptation of Jesus in the desert, as depicted by Luke, is a veritable "battle of the Titans," each of whom rallies Scripture to support his case. In the end, the devil departs "until an opportune time" (which for Luke means the pre-Passion period), having been put off by Jesus' single-minded commitment to his mission ...

789. Passion Sunday

Luke 22:54-62

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... for both betrayal and Passover unfold simultaneously and we are stung by the irony. We would like to have been present in the upper room, but the anguish in the garden is not something we would choose to share. The rapid succession of events bewilders us. Desertion, Denial, Mockery, Trial and Death. We want to close our ears and shut out the story. Lord, this story hits rather close to home. It is our story too. Guide and direct our impressions and our actions so that this story becomes a part of our ...

790. The Baptist's Prophecy

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... fire. He is coming with his winnowing fork in his hand to clear the threshing floor and the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." Matthew and Luke tell the story quite similarly, and in both cases John comes off like a wild man, a desert wanderer, a religious fanatic, an "end-of-the-world-is-near" prophet judgmental and impatient. Indeed, this is usually how he is portrayed in movies and dramatizations. The Baptist in Mark and John's Gospels is decidedly more restrained, but still with an unqualified ...

791. What A Friend He Had In Judas

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Thomas Long

... of his own, there is another level of meaning in his words. Jesus calls Judas "friend" because, at the deepest level of all, Jesus is his friend. At the deepest level of all, Jesus is the friend of Judas, and he is the friend of all the disciples who "deserted him and fled" (Matthew 26:56), and he is the friend of all of us ... we who, like Judas, do not know how to love him and are betrayers of his trust. The late Lewis Grizzard was a newspaper columnist and essayist known for his offbeat, often outrageous ...

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

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... deal, we discover suddenly that we have riches untold, beyond measure. We become overwhelmed by the value of the treasure we have found, the treasure of His kingdom. There is an ancient legend about some men who were on a long journey. They came across a great desert, and rode into a wilderness area. At sundown they came to a river. They got off their horses and knelt down by the river to drink water. Suddenly a voice spoke to them. The voice said, "Fill your pockets up with pebbles from along the river ...

793. Anger - Eleven Ways To Blow Up, Seven Ways To Cool Off

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... , Raymond's businessman brother, did in the movie Rain Man. Driving back to California Charlie learns that his business is going bankrupt, he owes $75,000, and some of his property has been confiscated. In a fit of anger he walks out into the desert and starts kicking dirt and rocks and swearing vehemently at his predicament. Then calmly he gets back into the car and continues heading west. If you find yourself getting really angry, maybe you should follow Charlie's example: kick some dirt, kick a rock ...

794. Baptism In Three Movements

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... Christ. This incorporation came about as a result of a love that was determined to draw us in. And long after the act of baptism, that love holds us together without ranking us as more or less important, allows us to disagree with each other without deserting one another, and leads us to use our different gifts without any need to compare them with somebody else's gifts. Our baptism is personal, but it is not private. We are included alongside others. The waters of baptism are not only symbolic of being ...

795. Advent 4

Mt 1:18-25 · Rom 1:1-7 · Isa 7:10-17 · Ps 80

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... of a son. The promise is not of a righteous king for some future time but of a child who will be born in Ahaz's day; by the time this child is able to know what food he likes (age 2 or 3), those countries threatening Ahaz will be deserted. How then do we handle this text? God gave Ahaz a sign of salvation through Isaiah -- the birth of a child. God has given to the world a much more potent sign -- the sign of God's Son. As in Isaiah's day, the sign of the son was unsolicited ...

796. Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!

Exodus 1:1-22, 2:1-10

Sermon

... in the hiddenness of being a fugitive that Moses met that other hidden one: the living God. We're told later in the account of Exodus: Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him as a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, but the bush was not consumed. -- Exodus 3:1-2 (NKJV God ...

797. Growing No Feathers

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

... are known around the world. He went back into harm's way, even into death. But in doing so he showed us the way of God. It is said that some American slaves used an expression when speaking highly of another slave who would not escape and desert his family. It was said he "grew no feathers." Bonhoeffer knew he belonged in Germany. Moses knew that despite his Egyptian upbringing and his Midianite family he was first a Hebrew, and it was time to go home and help his people. Bonhoeffer and Moses "grew no ...

798. Adam And Eve And God

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... stories of the creation in the opening chapters of Genesis. The story from those who live by the sea tells of how God created the heavens and the earth by water and the Word. The second story, the one we will see today, is from those who live in the desert and tells of how we not only have feet of clay but are of the very essence of dirt from head to toe. To share this story, let's pretend we are in a theater. I ask that you bow your heads when the curtains close and raise them again ...

799. Lent 1

Mt 4:1-11 · Rom 5:12-21 · Gen 2:7 - 3:7 · Ps 32

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... losing struggle, which Cooper's character has, to convince the townspeople to join him in taking a stand against the bandits. The ultimate confrontation between good and evil occurs at noon, high noon, but I won't tell you the outcome. Our Lord went unaccompanied into the desert to duel with the devil. He knew that the only way to defeat the Evil One was to shoot it out with him, not with guns but the word of God. Outline: Introduction - How does one duel with the devil? 1. Know your opponent 2. Know his ...

800. Lent 3

John 4:1-26, Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 5:1-11, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42, Isaiah 42:18-25

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Christ, is like an artesian well that gushes forth eternally. The source of life is not external but internal, since God has placed his Spirit within our hearts. Therefore, the Christian should be like an oasis of life in the midst of a barren and life-threatening desert. Word And Witness was the name of a program that ran quite successfully in the Lutheran Church for a number of years. The premise was that witness flows from the Word. The attempt was made to ground people in the Word and, at the same time ...

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