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826. The Burnt Offering

Leviticus 1:1-17

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... , which belongs to God, because the blood already belonged to God and is thus returned to God rather than participating in the gift portion of the sacrifice. 1:6 The worshiper then prepares the animal’s carcass for sacrifice by skinning it and cutting it ... tearing enables the offering to burn better and perhaps increases its apparent size, giving the impression of a more substantial gift. The paragraph ends with the same conclusion as in verses 9 and 13. The whole burnt offering provides a possibility ...

827. Accusations

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... in mind when he wrote 2 Corinthians 2:14. In Jewish tradition Psalm 68:18 refers not to God’s ascent on high, corresponding to his merkabah descent to Mount Sinai in verse 18, but to the ascent of Moses, who took captive the Torah and gave the gift of Torah to humanity. Thus, for example, the Targum interprets Psalm 68:18 as a reference to Moses, who ascended into heaven, received the Torah there, and brought the Torah to the people (cf. Exod. Rab. 28:1). According to Midr.Ps. 68:18, Moses ascended to ...

828. Praise to God for a Living Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... s readers in every generation are eligible for such a blessing—which he interprets as inexpressible and glorious joy. That joy is inexpressible, beyond human description, for in truth it does not belong to this world-order, and it is certainly not of human origin. It is a divine gift (Ps. 16:11; John 15:9–11; 16:24; Rom. 15:13; Gal. 5:22) and a direct consequence of a living relationship with the Lord (1 Cor. 2:9). As such, it is a witness to others (Luke 15:4–10) of divine care and loving activity in ...

829. Jacob Wrestles with God

Genesis 32:1-32

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... terms tie these two passages into the flow of the Jacob narrative. Jacob meets the angels or messengers of God (mal’ake ’elohim), and he sends “messengers” (mal’akim) to meet Esau. There is a play on “camp” (makhaneh; 32:2, 8, 10, 21) and “gift” (minkhah; 32:13, 20; 33:8, 10). Two terms for grace reverberate the sounds from these last two words: khanan (“give graciously,” 33:5) and hen (“favor,” 33:8, 10). Throughout this story “face” (panim) is a key term (32:19–20, 30; 33 ...

830. Deathbed Confessions

Matthew 20:1-16

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King Duncan

... have labored since six o’clock in the morning, this may be one of Jesus’ most difficult teachings to accept. Is it true? Can a person be an absolute scoundrel right up until the moment of his or her death and then repent, confess faith in Christ and receive the gift of eternal life as if he or she had been a saint all their lives? Why not then, someone asks, go ahead and live a life of sin and wait until the last moment to repent? Actually the question is more troubling to me than the answer. Why would ...

831. The God Who Comforts

Isaiah 40:1-11

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King Duncan

... hold on to.” (4) Young Rachel was comforted by those new earrings because they symbolized her father’s love for her. And, of course, that is the meaning of Christmas. “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son . . .” And that is why we exchange gifts with one another. Christ came to us not because we deserve it, nor because he approves of everything we are or have done. He came because of his Father’s great love for us. Take a few moment this Christmas to listen again to the opening lines ...

832. Commitment Beyond Calculation

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

William G. Carter

... cradle? We don't know where she lived, what she did with her days, or what kind of support she received from the extended family. Mark suggests only three details about her. First, she was a widow. Second, she was poor. And third, she gave everything she had as a gift to support her place of worship. Ever since, the question before the church is whether or not we will keep her on our list of saints. Is she really the kind of role model we wish to hold up? What does she give? Two lepta, or two copper coins ...

833. Fourth Sunday of Advent

John 1:1-18

Bulletin Aid

Heth H. Corl

... me for my selfishness. Christmas has always had such a strong meaning of receiving. Even when I stop thinking about Christmas presents, I still limit my thinking to receiving your Son without thought of giving myself to you. I know I can't really receive your gift without giving myself to you. Redirect my thinking away from myself to you. May this Christmas be a special celebration as I learn to give myself to you. In Jesus' name. Amen. HYMNS "O Come, All Ye Faithful" "Hail to the Lord's Anointed" "As With ...

834. Hosanna! Please Save Us!

Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... and screaming and crying. When we leave, we all leave at peace, with our hands open. There’s a reason why this is: we all carry into this world a special and unique gift—a gift you clench in your fists as a baby. Your job, the point of your life, is to discover what that gift is and then give of that gift. When you are done giving of that gift, then it will be your time and you will pass at peace.” (5) Jesus faced the last week of his life with peace because he knew that he was giving the ultimate ...

835. The Death of John the Baptist

Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, Luke 9:1-9

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Lori Wagner

... --stick your own neck out– for the sake of the gospel, and show the face of grace and mercy to the world? A “charge” or platter is a decorative centerpiece. It holds decor, fruit, and other finger foods. The fruit is a gift to the guests, just as the offering plate or sacrificial plate was the gift upon the altar to God. What do you bring to the altar to please God? Or do you please your peers instead? What fruit will you bear as a witness to your face, your image? Is it the fruit of God’s image ...

836. Praise God! Selah!

Luke 1:67-80, Luke 1:57-66, Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:5-25, Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ! Not down! That’s the essence of hope . . . Look up! Not down! Because God is busy in your life and mine ….making something good happen from all of the bad of this world. God has already made something extraordinarily good happen in each of our lives…in the gift of Jesus! This is God’s specialty, isn’t it? God always can take something bad, and make something good out of it. The question is, can we find that something good? Can we trust God enough to allow God to work God’s good through our bad ...

837. Redeemed

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... baptism or two here in our church. And a couple of weddings this year. And most of those people have given the church a small gift for that wedding or baptism. A couple hundred dollars maybe. For some $50 or so. Now let’s look at the presentation in the Temple ... nativity star hoisted upon his head. The baby spruce, his branches strong in the world, had become the one to symbolize the most beautiful gift from God and to tell the story of His Son’s birth. We all have a place in God’s kingdom. Some of us ...

838. The Great Dinner

Luke 14:1-14, Luke 14:15-24

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Lori Wagner

... say “Jesus loves you.” Take one or more of those with you as you depart. As we celebrate this love feast today, I want your prayers to be that you might bless someone else this week with something of your best, whatever that may be. And to give them a gift of this cross to remind them that Jesus loves them and is waiting for them to come and eat with him today and always. Jesus has a seat at his table for everyone who wants it. Can you think of someone in need, someone whose life doesn’t yet have ...

839. No Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ready, Lord. Give me what’s fair!” We’re asking for God’s mercy! All of us want God’s mercy…even though we don’t deserve it. “Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.” God is not fair. God is merciful. Not one of us “deserves” the gifts that God bestows upon us. Not one of us deserves anything from God. And yet God has invited us to live and work in God’s own vineyard and eat and drink from God’s bountiful table. As Jesus tells us, we don’t go to take the best seats ...

840. Redemption

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... which we walk with God in the winds of the Spirit. Jesus tells us that story in the scriptures: What began with a seed dying and in the ground, continued when that seed broke through its encasement, to sprout with new life. Upon the watering of the rains and gift of nurturing, that seed will grow to bear fruit, and those seeds will again be planted. So it is with God’s love and covenant relationship with us. The birth of the Church is a union of God and those who swear to follow only Him --the Father, Son ...

841. The Order of the Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. Image Exegesis: The Search for the Messiah / Signs “In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured ...

842. The Catch

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25, Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... many lives that yours has touched. In a sense, everyone you come in contact with, you put into contact with Jesus. Everyone you touch will also have an experience of Jesus. Because wherever a follower of Jesus goes, Jesus goes with you. And when you exchange a token or a gift with someone in the name of Jesus, you and they carry not only a bit of you with them, and they with you, but Jesus is there too. When Peter went to visit Cornelius, he didn’t know exactly why he was going. Only when he got there did ...

843. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... .” He instructed the one in the lead: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you?’ then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us.’” He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him. And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming ...

844. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and return her, I’ll heal you. If you start coming to synagogue, I’ll heal you. If you stop fighting for the King of Aram and become a citizen of Israel, I’ll heal you. No. Elisha simply heals him, and wants nothing in return. This kind of unconditional gift from God, this totally unreasonable mercy and grace is so foreign to us, that we often miss it, even when it smacks us in the face in these stories. So much so have we missed it, that Jesus needed to reframe the story again in his own ministry to ...

845. Holy Goat!

Leviticus 16:1-34, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... cannot dare to exit, or a goatskin (a false skin) that we present to the world instead of our authentic self, or a cave of depression in which we cower from the world and God –in all cases, these “separations” or “sins” require atonement. This is the continuing gift Jesus offers us by His presence in the form of the Holy Spirit. Jesus allows us not only to see Him, but to touch Him. He allows us to place our fears and doubts upon Him, and He willingly takes them from us and upon Himself. Jesus is ...

846. Christmas Snapshots

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... in a barn; anyone can go there. The lowly shepherds did not hesitate to enter a stable and bow before the Child. Then and now anyone willing to humble himself may come to Jesus.” (5) As we reduce Christmas in our time to an occasion for extravagant gift-giving and tinsel and all manner of glitter, let us consider what it means that the Christ was born in some of the most deprived circumstances in this world. The angel Gabriel came to a humble maiden in an obscure village called Nazareth to tell her that ...

847. Choosing to Be Grateful

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... lives will prove worth dying for. This is where love comes into the picture. The one thing that can’t be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we die.”4 “Life is not a given,” he added. “Life is a wondrous gift. That gift comes with a price attached. One day something will steal it from us. That doesn’t diminish our lives; it increases their value. Earlier in my life,” he wrote, “it took a crazed driver in a car which almost ran over my children and me to awaken me ...

848. Good Sex

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Will Willimon

... life in the Garden abruptly ends. They are ashamed of their nakedness. The once bountiful garden becomes choked with weeds and thorns. The once mutual man and woman become locked in the deadly struggle of a superior and subordinate. Sex and childbearing—joyful, delightful gifts of God—become acts of pain and anguish. You know the story. You know the story because you and I live it. The tragic results of our culture’s subjugation of women are all around us in the battered wives, and unfulfilled lives ...

849. Like a Phoenix

Mark 6:1-13

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Dean Feldmeyer

... you through this. I will never abandon you. I will be with you through the end.” Thank you very much.1 Our Failures — Our Gifts Our failures in life can be painful, even heartbreaking. No one is denying that. But what our faith offers us is a choice. My ... there and dwell in them. I can ignore them or I can learn from them. We can, with time, come to see our failures as gifts, given to us to share, along with the lessons we have learned from them, with others. Or we can simply pretend they didn’t happen ...

850. Desperation to Hope

Mark 5:21-43

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Dean Feldmeyer

... 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 years old, who was born the very ...

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