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926. ADVENT 1

Jeremiah 33:1-26, Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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... c. Shape up! - Lesson 2 Gospel: Luke 21:25-36 1. O Say, Can You See? (21:25-36). Need: The end of the world calls for vision. If nuclear missiles come, they will come from the sky. Our national anthem asks whether in the midst of "bombs bursting in air" we can see the star-spangled banner. In this pericope Jesus urges us to look. Outline: In these end times, Jesus says - a. Look up - for redemption - v. 28 b. Look at - the signs of the times - v. 29 c. Look to - "take heed to yourselves" - v. 34 2. Today ...

927. Fourth Sunday in Advent

Matthew 1:18-25

Bulletin Aid

... Jesus, your Son. May the joy we feel at his birth increase as we grow in our commitment to him who has brought your love to us. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen. Hymns "O Little Town of Bethlehem" "Silent Night, Holy Night" "There's a Song in the Air" "What Child Is This"

928. Christmas Eve or Day

Isaiah 62:1-12, Titus 3:1-11, Luke 2:8-20

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... . People: Joy is bursting our hearts! May all who hear of our Savior's birth prepare for his redeeming love. Collect Gracious God, who fills our hearts with the joy of salvation through the birth of your Son: Let the glad songs we sing fill the air; that our world may hear, and receive the salvation your Son has brought to all who will receive him. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession It is easy, Lord, to sing from memory, and rejoice from habit when we celebrate Christmas. Often our hearts ...

929. Christmas Eve or Day

Isaiah 51:17--52:12, John 1:1-18, Hebrews 1:1-14

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... hearing the real message of Christmas. Give us open ears and receptive hearts to the salvation which you have sent in your Son, Jesus. In his name we pray. Amen. Hymns "Away in a Manger" "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen" "There's a Song in the Air" "What Child Is This?" Second Lesson: Hebrews 1:1-12 Theme: Christ's unique superiority Call to Worship Pastor: Come, celebrate the birth of Jesus, God's greatest revelation of himself. People: Of all that God has done, Jesus most fully illustrates the true nature of ...

930. Reflection Time

John 1:1-18

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... against the pine needles (of the Christmas tree). ‘Kris Kringle’s been here. Look what he brought for you.’ It was a toy steam shovel with metal teeth and a ‘string mechanism,’ (so that) the shovel could be lifted into the air and its bottom released to dump ... dirt back onto the ground." Baker writes: "To my grandmother and father and uncles it must have seemed like an educational toy. Metalworkers, stonemasons, carpenters, people with a tradition of craftsmanship and building, they naturally ...

931. Walk in Light

Isaiah 2:1-5

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... leather boots of hikers of a century ago and the soft deerskin moccasins centuries before that. Along the trail runs a brook filled with rainbow trout. Occasionally a black bear will paw along that trail, looking for berries and trout, its snout always in the air for the smell of danger - especially the danger of human presence. In the forest nothing signals greater danger to the animals than the smell of man. Man brings to the forest not the plowshare but the sword, not the pruning hook but the spear. Man ...

932. God as Woodcutter

Isaiah 11:1-16

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... salvation (cf. 2 Corinthians 6:2), even when it seems to be a day of despair. From a trunk nearly decayed a little Twig will emerge and grow up and make holy, and it will not be prevented by heat or by rain or by all the powers of the air.(LW 16, 118) Luther’s "little Twig" was born in Bethlehem two thousand years ago to prune our forests with his death and bring new growth in his Resurrection. Thanks be to God that we have been grafted unto that Branch which is Christ.

933. Desert Springs

Isaiah 35:1-10

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Nothing stings quite like the desert. I remember standing one time in the midst of a desert at high noon, overlooking a large saline lake. It was so hot you could see the shoreline shrinking in front of you, as the sun drew the water into the air. On the far side of this dwindling lake, cattle sought shelter in caves. Only the flamingos feeding on pink larvae in the water stood untouched by the burning heat of the day. Being in that desert was really a life threatening situation. I could not stay in that ...

934. Burning Torches

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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... stove. It gives out that thick wrap-around heat which only such stoves can give. How he loves his stove, basking in the comfort and warmth which were not there before. Of course, he has to clean out the ashes every once in a while. If he doesn’t, no air circulates from beneath to keep the fire going. One day he took out half a bucket of ashes and threw them in a trash can outside his house. That night a strong wind blew up the creek, stirring the ashes. About two o’clock in the morning Bob smelled smoke ...

935. A Noble Patriotism John D. Mauney, Jr.

Exodus 2:11-25

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"The first breath of freedom stirs the air." So exclaimed President Reagan in his address to the students and faculty of Moscow State University, as he commented on his talks with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Moscow Summit of June, 1988. Mr. Reagan went to Moscow as an agent of peace and a champion of human rights. ...

936. Harnessed Power

John 20:19-23

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Richard L. Thulin

... . There is no massive display of unleashed energy. There are no sounds as of rushing wind and no tongues as of fire. No sermon, no baptisms, no "wonders and signs." It is like the slightest ripple of water rather than a tidal wave; like the gentlest movement of air rather than a hurricane. It takes special care to even notice it. Maybe we cannot be blamed for feeling a bit disappointed at the way John tells it. The story of Pentecost after all is a story of power. It records the moment when the risen Jesus ...

937. No Telltale Clues

Matthew 9:9-13

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... who stayed away from church. But that's nothing! The Denver character was a hard working, friendly, patriotic American. He was a good family man, a person who did not cheat and who was about as straightforward as a person can be. He was full of Rocky Mountain air and sunshine. You and I, George Burns and Carl Reiner, may choose followers of God like John Denver, but Jesus chose a follower like Matthew. Jesus chose a man who could not go to church even if he wanted to. He chose a man who would not be allowed ...

938. The Promise of Wholeness

Isaiah 35:1-10

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Nicholas Berg is the protagonist in Wilbur Smith's novel Hungry as the Sea. We meet Nicholas as he walks up the gangplank to his sea-going tug in the cold, damp air. He is thinking of his life as it now confronts him. He had been the prime mover at Christie Marine, one of the world's largest and best shipping companies. He had married old man Christie's beautiful daughter and they had a son. Their marriage seemed to be solid ...

939. God Turns Darkness to Light

Isaiah 49:8-26

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... ultimately to restore us and the whole creation to a condition of light, life, and peace, where enmity, strife, and powerful oppression will not be present. God promises that acid rain, chemical agents and other pollutants will not destroy the water, forest, air of our world. And there are agents of God at work, seeking to bring that promise to reality by combating the structures of greed. God promises that all people will live together in community, in which political and institutional structures are just ...

940. The Call to be Holy in Love

Leviticus 19:1-37

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... and pay $1.80 for chemical garbage. Blacks and Hispanics* have moved into the neighborhood. There is garbage in the streets. I've seen them go to the bathroom in doorways. Garbage! Nobody gives a damn about life anymore!" (* In the actual over-the-air TV dialogue, Mr. Poppovich said, "Niggers and Spicks.") This harsh and profane slice of life shown on Hill Street Blues reveals a neighborhood that is not a community in which people live together with mutual concern and respect. There is no care for one ...

941. God's Glory Manifest

Exodus 24:1-18

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On hot summer nights before air conditioning, when I was a child in North Carolina, my family would sit on the front porch. We hoped to catch any slight breeze that would cool us off. We would watch the night sky with its stars blinking brightly and the moon shining gloriously and be at peace and ...

942. So Soon We Forget!

Exodus 16:1-36

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... earth? A Word of Warning! One word of warning: just as the Jews could have manna all around them and starve to death if they failed to gather and eat it, do not personally appropriate Christ, our heavenly Manna, to ourselves, we will starve to death! As we must have air to breathe, so we must have Christ, our Bread, to live! Let's not forget!

943. God Is Into Birds!

Exodus 19:1-25

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... passage is pictured the Eagle-Father, beginning with us as mere eaglets (babes, new to the walk of faith). The eagle teaches its young to fly on their own. The parent pushes the baby bird out of the nest and the little creature tumbles helplessly through the air, plummeting to earth and certain death. But then, just in time, the parent-eagle swoops under its young, catches the bird on its own strong, spreading wings, and bears it aloft again on sturdy pinions to try once more to fly. God, who is majestic in ...

944. Miracle In the Bethlehem Inn

Drama

... don't have to be so sharp with us! Come children, we will find a clean place to sit for dinner. It may not be worth eating, but at least we can have a clean place to eat it. (The three of them walk away with their noses in the air. Marcus stands looking bewildered.) Marcus: (To no one in particular - shrugging his shoulders.) Oh, well. What else could I do? I can never seem to please them. (Turns to follow his wife and children. Music begins to play "Star Of The East" as players get in position for Scene ...

945. Mi Casa, Su Casa

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... freezing to death in unheated homes and owners claiming no responsibility to provide more than the law demands. And - for our part, at least - how often is our relationship with God like that of haughty tenant and landlord? Callous and careless, we poison God’s air, trash God’s streams, toxify God’s land, corrupt creation and, as if that were not enough, do a danse macabre with our nuclear partners, leading the whole world to the edge of a mushroom-shaped grave. Never mind that we are but tenants; we ...

946. The Sounds at the Summit

Exodus 19:1-25

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... , but the mountain on which it sits. Mountains make marvellous places of safety and are relatively easy to defend, as the Russians found out in Afghanistan. They could not defeat the rebel forces after nearly a decade of fighting, despite overwhelming superiority in the air, and on the ground. But mountains are not only safe places for human beings; they have always been the abode of the gods, and the Lord, our God, spoke from a mountain and demonstrated his power and glory for all to behold. The Lord ...

947. The Abiding Presence

Exodus 33:12-23

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... us but who is constantly watching over us. Edmund Steimle says that the biblical promise, "He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep" might be freely translated, "You never catch God napping." He says, "That’s a comforting thought in a day when the air is full of phrases suggesting that God is absent or dead." But it’s a frightening thought, too: you never catch God napping. Is it really so? He continues: Every now and then in visiting churches across countryside you run across the symbol of a ...

948. The Surprising Twist to the Story

Ruth 4:1-12

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... The farmers welcome the buses and the tourists, not because they would spend any great amount of money on souvenirs in those places, but simply because they were unwitting partners in the harvesting process. After the buses crushed the grain, they tossed in into the air to winnow it, separating the chaff from the kernels of wheat. It is a disquieting thought to realize, as my wife suggested to those around us on the bus, "Just think, that wheat could become the bread that we eat tomorrow." Ruth did not face ...

949. The World Series

Illustration

... in our country there is an event called the World Series. Of baseball, that is. Much attention is given to it. Millions of people see it, or watch it on television, or listen to it on radio. A great deal is written about it, a lot of air time is used to describe it, to analyze it, and hold postmortems about it. Well, let me call your attention to another world series, one which had already continued for centuries before baseball was ever invented. I am thinking of the world series of Christian worship. It ...

950. Let Christ Speak The Word

Luke 7:1-10

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... ?" he asked himself. "What would happen to their kingdom and their freedom when the war was finally settled?" A few days later, when the heavy monsoon rains came, Dooley writes that in this land and in this season, God was everywhere. He saw God in the mountains, in the air, in the mist, in the morning fog. He heard God in the monsoon rain tapping on the thatched roof. God's hand of life was also present in the people he served as a doctor.1 Now I share this story with you because I think that it speaks ...

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