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951. Advent 3

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28, Isaiah 61:1-11, Isaiah 65:17-25, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

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E. Carver McGriff

... of the prison to those who are bound." As suggested above, and as we all know anyway, there are many afflictions. Isaiah was addressing himself to a people who primarily lived in poverty, facing hardscrabble work for long days. Many must have been devastated emotionally by their imprisonment, and by the humiliation of their enslaved state. We may forget that the human mind was just as human then as it is now. Just as we struggle with self-image issues, with anxiety about the future, with guilt over words ...

952. Meaning of Advent

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E. Carver McGriff

... the children, are starting to build a level of excitement which will culminate on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It's also apparent to all who counsel as well as preach that there will be a small minority of people who find this season emotionally difficult. Advent continues through four Sundays preceding Christmas Eve and its purpose is as suggested, to prepare us for the arrival of our Lord and Savior, Jesus. In a sense, of course, Advent is a reenactment in spirit of an event which took place ...

953. All Saints

Isaiah 25:1-12, Revelation 21:1-27, John 11:38-44, John 11:17-37

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E. Carver McGriff

... when a person is not afraid to die is he not afraid to live. In other words, for the present, this is to be accepted by faith. John 11:32-44 · New Life The Dead Receive Theme: My emphasis here would be on revival of the spirit, of the emotional being. While I believe in life after death, I don't for a moment think it could happen quite as this story suggests, nor do I think this really happened. No other biblical writer alludes to such a recovery and surely they would have known about something like this ...

954. Gifts of Lent, Ash Wednesday: A Man Gives His Donkey

Matthew 21:1-11

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Donald Neidigk

... , Jesus left the temple and went back to Bethany to stay with his friends. I left too, my entire body trembling, as I made my way back to Bethphage and my little house by the road. What a week that was, a week in which I experienced every emotional extreme: hope, disappointment, fear, grief, ecstatic joy. It was a week that changed my life. I had sung with all the others, "Save, now, Lord," and he answered me. The answer I expected was victory over Rome. Instead, Jesus' victory over sin at the cross was the ...

955. On Getting Out Of The Way

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

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Charles H. Bayer

... church exists to serve them, no matter who they are. The church gets out of the way so people can see Jesus when we are more concerned about ministering to the last and the least and the lost than we are about the elegance of our building, the emotion our worship generates, how good it makes its members feel, how comfortable everybody is and how nobody unpleasant, poorly dressed or peculiar ever passes through out doors. No, we're not number one. Christ is number one. Our task is to get out of the way so ...

956. Reflections On the Sacred Head

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... sacredness of the wounds. Until ... until we know, not just with our heads, but with our hearts and souls as well, that those are his sacrifice, his love-gift for us. With grief and shame weighed down, Do you remember how he stood outside Jerusalem and with great emotion cried out, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered you to me as a hen does her chicks, but you would not?" We understand something of that kind of grief. It is the grief of a parent for a lost child, or for a prodigal that ...

957. Desires Bring Hope

Luke 16:19-31

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John G. Lynch

... Abraham," he cried out, "have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am anguished in this flame." Did he die physically? Is that what brought this change to his life? Or did he die emotionally? Did something happen in his life where suddenly he was no longer comfortable feasting sumptuously day by day? Was hell really a new place for him -- or just a new perspective on the old familiar places? The point of this story is not "after-life." The point of ...

958. The Bread That Endures

Luke 22:7-38

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... kinds of emptiness which not even the blue plate special can fill. And yet, almost as though we can't help ourselves, we keep striving to get more and more material things, more and more money, as though those things could fill up the spiritual and emotional hungers of our souls. We neglect the life of the spirit, we avoid prayer, we avoid intimacy with others, we run away from ourselves, from God, from the living Bread which gives eternal life. If one danger is that we ignore our need for spiritual bread ...

959. At The Right Place At The Right Time

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Timothy J. Smith

... rich man's heart who would steal and cook someone's pet. The rich man not only stole a precious possession, but he deliberately created the false impression of generosity in the process. David, unsure why Nathan told him this story, was caught by its drama and emotion. The parable had a profound effect on David. He was outraged at the callousness of the crime; he was appalled by the whole thing. The parable did what Nathan had hoped it would. It forced David to think of others, since he was so fixated on ...

960. A Homecoming To Remember

1 Kings 8:22-61

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Timothy J. Smith

... sensed the presence of God. When the music began she says she felt lost. The opening hymn was "Praise To The Lord, The Almighty," and she managed to sing a word or two and then stopped singing altogether. "I was being battered by tidal waves of emotion," Diane claims, so she was unable to sing. Her experience of God in worship was unlike any experience she had ever had. By the time the scripture lessons were read, Diane was hiding behind sunglasses. She was hoping no one sitting near her would notice her ...

961. You Can Be Forever Young

Genesis 25:1-11

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Michael B. Brown

... . In the foothills of western North Carolina is a woman who manages a nursing center. She has a personal relationship with all the residents in her facility and looks after them tirelessly. She is assiduous in trying to meet not only their physical but their emotional needs, as well. She loves her work, she says, because she loves doing nice things for elderly people. An expert gardener, she grows roses behind the nursing center and, when in season, she cuts fresh roses for bud vases and places one in every ...

962. Reversing The Flow

Isaiah 2:1-5

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Paul E. Robinson

... there lived a man named Isaiah, a prophet, whose name means "the salvation of God." Isaiah brought together as did no other prophet the vital duo of reality and hope. I want us to begin to look at that great message today as we step into the sacred, emotional and culturally colored period of Advent, the weeks leading up to our celebration of Jesus' birth, which we call Christmas. Isaiah's ministry stretched over a period of 40 years, from 742 B.C. to 701 B.C. His father's name was Amoz, not to be confused ...

963. Easter 5

Jn 13:31-35 · Acts 11:1-18; 13:44-52; 14:21-27 · Rev 21:1-6 · Ps 148

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John R. Brokhoff

... Speak (v. 15). As Peter began to "speak" to Cornelius and to his household, the Holy Spirit came to them. Through the Word of God, the Spirit comes no matter if the Word is heard or read. To receive the Holy Spirit one does not have necessarily an emotional or ecstatic experience. The Holy Spirit can come in a Biblical sermon! 3. Hinder (v. 17). Peter asked his critics how he could hinder the Gentiles from accepting Christ. To do so would be to hinder God, for God called them through the Gospel and gave the ...

964. Epiphany 7

1 Corinthians 15:35-58, 1 Samuel 26:1-25, Genesis 45:1-28, Luke 6:27-36

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John R. Brokhoff

... sin v. 4. b. God used the consequences of sin v. 5a. c. God used adversity for good v. 5b. Old Testament: 1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 1. It's in your hands. Need: Psychologists report that revenge is the most destructive of all human emotions. We need desperately to get this impulse under control, and to see how and why Jesus, in the "Sermon on the Plain" (see today's gospel), stressed the opposite: forgive your enemies. Outline: a. We can do our worst 1. All of us are double-minded: good and evil tug ...

965. Christmas Eve

Lk 2:1-20 · Tit 2:11-14 · Isa 9:2-7 · Ps 96

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John R. Brokhoff

... only a major holiday for vacationing and fun. There is very little spirituality. God is almost forgotten. The text tells us why Jesus was born. Unless we know this, our Christmas celebration is simply humanism, leaving us after Christmas with empty purses and physically and emotionally exhausted. Outline: Why Jesus was born -- a. Born for our salvation -- vv. 11, 14. b. Born to make us godly -- vv. 12, 14. c. Born to gain ultimate victory over the world -- v. 13. 2. Born to make us good! (2:12, 14). Need: A ...

966. Proper 16

Hebrews 12:14-29, Jeremiah 1:1-19, Luke 13:10-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... truly present in the worship service. His presence causes us to worship with reverence and awe. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Luke 13:10-17 1. A psychosomatic condition. 13:10-13. Need: As many physicians will tell you, a majority of illnesses result from mental, emotional, or spiritual conditions. Many need to see a pastor rather than a physician. People need to know that a bad spirit can cause a bad physical condition. A good spirit, the Holy Spirit, results in health of body and mind. In today's gospel ...

967. Proper 23

Luke 17:11-19, Jeremiah 29:1-23, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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John R. Brokhoff

... others?" 3. Faith (v. 19.) Jesus told the grateful leper that "your faith has made you well." If faith made him well, what healed the other nine? Were they not cleansed without faith? The nine were healed physically, but the Samaritan in addition was healed emotionally and spiritually. Furthermore, faith is related to gratitude. When we believe that God healed us, we return thanks. The unbeliever does not bother to say, "Thank you, Lord." Old Testament: Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 1. I (vv. 4, 7). Who sent the Jews ...

968. What Do You Do When Life Ain't Fair?

Genesis 29:15-30

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Steve Burt

... at it, branch by branch by branch. In Burlington, Vermont, there's an organization called Vermont Cares, a non-profit volunteer network created to help people with HIV/AIDS and their families and friends to get the physical, financial and emotional support they need. But there have been difficulties since its beginnings -- funding difficulties, prejudice, hatemongers and fearmongers stirring up the community against it, acts of vandalism. What appeared at first to be its death knell came in the spring of ...

969. Spirit-anointed Son Of God The Father

John 1:29-34

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Mark Radecke

... with other triadic formulas, such as "Mother-Lover-Friend" or "Parent-Child-Spirit." In part, the intent of these advocates is laudable. They seek to repudiate the unbiblical notion that the transcendent God is male. They denounce the physical, emotional, economic and spiritual degradation of women, especially when such degradation cloaks itself in a mantle of religious righteousness. They decry any attempt to use God as a prop to buttress the wall that holds women back from full and essential ...

970. Main Features And Coming Attractions

Matthew 17:1-13

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Mark Radecke

... previews of coming attractions end and the real story we came to see unfolds. God has done this, I think, not only out of divine necessity, but out of divine mercy and compassion as well. Constant ecstatic stimulation, like constant conflict, can and does lead to emotional burnout. As with Jesus, Peter, James and John on the mountaintop, what goes up must come down. And that's a mercy. A cause for thanksgiving and not lament. All of which brings us back to those six men on the mountain, and the voice from ...

971. Praying To The Congregation

John 17:6-19

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Thomas Long

... . Most praying to the congregation -- the adverse kind -- occurs when the one praying forgets about God, loses sight of the true character of prayer, and merely uses prayer language to mask a teachy lecture, a commercial for a church program, or a self-serving emotional pitch. The second type, the kind that we find in the Bible and in the prayer life of Jesus, is altogether different. Here, the one praying never loses sight of God, never breaks free of the primary bond with God, and is, therefore, always ...

972. When Jesus Arrives Late

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37

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Thomas Long

... he in sorrow over the unbelief around him? Is he anticipating his own death, too? John does not say.1 But even though the reasons for his feelings remain somewhat mysterious, we are still drawn to this picture in the middle of the story of an emotionally affected Jesus, tears slowly falling down his cheeks. Because Lazarus' raising at the end of this story is so dramatic and Jesus weeping in the middle so enigmatic, it is, therefore, easy to overlook the beginning of this story. What at the beginning could ...

973. The Man From Galilee III: The Touch Of His Hand

Matthew 8:14-17

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... examples of people who have been healed of some physical illness when the doctors saw no cure. And many times the doctors have said, "This is not my doing." Sometimes it is not the touch of any human hand, but the touch of God's hand. Sometimes it is an emotional illness, an illness of the mind. Barbara Brokhoff told about a lady who is listed in the book, Who's Nobody In America. Her name is Mildred. She has been under the care of her therapist for a number of years. But he still calls her Sarah.1 No ...

974. Pride: The Deadliest of the Seven Deadly Sins

Luke 18:9-14

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R. Curtis Fussell

... praising them, in part to encourage their self-esteem. In fact, this encouragement can lead children to be overachievers, or cause them to think of themselves as better than anyone else. We may never know how many children have been psychologically and emotionally damaged because their parents pushed them to be outstanding based on pride. You also see pride in Christians who quote Bible passages, not in an effort to help others gain spiritual wisdom, but to show others how much they know. Quoting the ...

975. Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Matthew 5:1-12

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William B. Kincaid, III

... not offend our sensibilities as much as when a young person gets cheated on the seasons. What a horrible thing we have done to healthy anger by looking upon it as a social taboo. We are taught from an early age that polite people control their emotions. More than that, some Christian people were raised with the idea that questioning God is wrong. In scripture, the people who cut loose on God were those who finally were comforted. Something happens when we break down and demand a hearing in the presence of ...

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