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John 1:29-34, John 1:35-42

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... had served as an officer in the artillery during World War I and as a spy for her majesty’s government in the court of the Sultan of Morocco. He was, by training, a nautical engineer who patented a ship’s hull design, a gifted artist whose pen and ink drawings continue to be on display at the Royal Academy, an accomplished archeologist, a religious non-conformist, and an enthusiastic and skilled cricketer. By 1925 he had made eight expeditions into Brazil in search of that ancient civilization which he ...

902. The True Story Wins

Matthew 28:11-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... sermon, all can participate using the hand motions of “rock, paper, scissors” Are you a liar? That might be a question asked of you if you live in the mountains of West Virginia, where the art of storytelling is called “lying.” It is every artist’s desire to become a “great liar.” To be a great “liar” meant that you could not only write a crafty short story, but you could “tell” the story out loud in an inviting, enticing and mesmerizing way that would leave your audience spellbound ...

903. A Man Under Authority / A Centurion's Faith, An Elder's Love

Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the ups and downs of life. Be an “elder” in love –mentor another to put themselves in the hands of the only one in whose hands you are totally, ultimately, entirely safe –Jesus. **Photo: James Tissot, artist, French, 1836-1902, “The Confession of the Centurion,” Brooklyn Museum at https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4594/The_Confession_of_the_Centurion_La_Confession_du_Centurion Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Matthew’s Witness to the Healing of the Centurion’s ...

904. Here I Am

Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is less confrontation, less stress, less demand, less need for compromise and emotional and spiritual depth in virtual relationships. When you are face-to-face, you can also go head-to-head. But what is the price for “playing it safe?” Here’s what musician and artist David Lynch says: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They ...

905. Elohim

John 1:29-34, Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a space under the stage. We can only relate to what we understand from what we experience. And sometimes, the thrill exists in what we do not know. If you knew all of the magician’s secrets, there would be no intrigue in the show, no respect for the artist’s craft. But something extraordinary is revealed to you. And that is your gift of attendance. What is revealed to one, who does not know, is a gift of the revealer. And if that magician takes you under his wing and shows you his secrets, you are now ...

906. Vetted

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... s generation then along with Salmon’s are the first generations to see the Promised Land. They settle in the regions of Bethlehem, where later David would tend sheep. David, also the youngest rather than eldest, would be the most famous artist King of all of Israel. Interestingly, his son Nathan, not Solomon, continues this particular lineage.** The relationship of King and High Priest continues. The lineage continues until Joseph, son of Heli. While Matthew indicates that Jacob was the father of Joseph ...

907. Apples, Onions, and Cheese

Mark 7:1-23, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Unconscious Patient,” the painting revealed two physicians administering smelling salts to an ailing young man. Suffering age and dust, when the layers of dust and a layer of lacquer were removed, not only was the beauty of the painting restored, but the renowned artist’s monogram “RF” was discovered. The painting now resides in the Getty Museum. Like a restorer of great art, Jesus too restores us from all of the “rot” we carry, inside and out. Only Jesus can return us to the way God created us ...

908. The Golden Hour

Exodus 19:1-25, Genesis 15:1-18, Ezekiel 24:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... life be saved?” is most often revealed within that crucial hour, that hour after a crisis, a time known in medical circles as “the golden hour.” The golden hour isn’t limited to the medical profession. It’s also a favorite term of photographic artists, who wait for that beautiful time of day either just after sunrise or shortly before sunset when the sunlight mutes and glows red and soft. It’s the time when shadows are at a minimum or absent altogether. Unlike the midday when the brilliance of ...

909. Deliverance

Isaiah 49:8-26, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to unlock the way to your collective freedom! You can even choose your level of escape, from easy to a bit more challenging, to nearly impossible. Forget the harry Houdini’s and Sherlock Holmes’ of the world. Now every person can be an “escape artist.” But the most interesting thing about escape rooms is that you can’t do them alone. The puzzles are designed to be solved by putting all heads together in a group effort. Each person’s unique skills contribute to the success of the escape ...

910. Against the Grain

Mark 3:13-19, Isaiah 28:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... which was light and bore no weight would be carried off with the wind.* The process of threshing required “going against the grain” in order to release the sustenance inside and release the chaff containing it.** The chaff is but “dust in the wind,” as the artist “Kansas” implies about the brevity of our lives. But in reality, we are so much more in Jesus. As Jesus tells us again and again, we are the wheat. We are the grain. When we are one with God and God with us, we are “heavy” with ...

911. Feasting on Leviathan

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and divine nature, the yetzer ha tov. While the yetzer ha tov pleases God, the yetzer ha Ra, defies God. But unlike Hobbes, Milton suggests that man cannot master his own leviathan. Not without God. For Milton, we were born to be creative, artistic, beautiful beings. But our animal drives (behemoth) and our evil inclinations (leviathan nature) must first be overcome by the grace of God –and the grace of Jesus.*** For the Jewish people, and we Christians, this grace occurs manifestly and finally in the ...

912. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... 600 per month cheaper than his former plan and a gold plan that offered virtually the exact same coverage and would allow him to keep his doctor for about $300 less than his former plan. As it happened, before he contracted leukemia, Mr. Cerpok was a martial artist and one of his students who saw the erroneous report on ABC15 owned an insurance agency and helped his former teacher find a comparable plan for about the same price he had been paying. If we count the truth as important and we value honesty and ...

913. Our Strange, Strong Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... like that to me, and left me just as lulled or befuddled. Some clergy’s sermons come across leaving me similarly lulled. The mental picture that recurs for me of Jesus doing his farewell monologue at the table is birthed from various artists’ renderings, especially Leonardo De Vinci’s Last Supper and Salvador Dali’s The Sacrament of the Last Supper. These are beatific forms of Jesus, bestowing blessings and peace in a calm before the storm. Little wonder then that Jesus’ directives to those ...

914. Good for What Ails Us

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

Before modern medical science really took off in the last fifty years of the past millennium, there were a lot of home and folk remedies being prescribed by well-meaning individuals, but also by con artists and charlatans. The remedy was often administered accompanied by the phrase that the supposed cure was “good for what ails you.” The classic, all-purpose remedy for nearly every condition was a table-spoonful of castor oil. Perhaps some of you suffered through that treatment or gave it to someone ...

915. Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... million—the most ever paid for a medieval painting. (1) That was a pretty nice find, I believe you will agree. Not too long ago, another homeowner in Toulouse, France, opened up his leaky attic for repairs and discovered a painting by the Renaissance artist Caravaggio. This painting is also estimated to be worth millions. However, I don’t want you to think that the French have a franchise on such discoveries. A brother and sister in the United Kingdom were cleaning out their parents’ house after their ...

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

Abraham Maslow

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes de Mille

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

Albert Camus

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Albert Pike

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Aldous Huxley

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

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901. Lost in Plain Sight

John 1:29-34, John 1:35-42

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

902. The True Story Wins

Matthew 28:11-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

903. A Man Under Authority / A Centurion's Faith, An Elder's Love

Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

904. Here I Am

Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

905. Elohim

John 1:29-34, Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

906. Vetted

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

907. Apples, Onions, and Cheese

Mark 7:1-23, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

908. The Golden Hour

Exodus 19:1-25, Genesis 15:1-18, Ezekiel 24:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

909. Deliverance

Isaiah 49:8-26, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

910. Against the Grain

Mark 3:13-19, Isaiah 28:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

911. Feasting on Leviathan

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

912. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

913. Our Strange, Strong Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

914. Good for What Ails Us

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

915. Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

Abraham Maslow

Agnes de Mille

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

Albert Camus

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

Albert Pike

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Aldous Huxley

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

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