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951. Affirmation and Alienation

Genesis 2:4-25

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... arrogance and disobedience of a person wanting to be equal with God, saying, "I’ll do what I please; you do what you please"; then discovering in the midst of that decision that doing what he pleased cost him paradise, and gave him a feeling of alienation. There is a sense in which Adam is in every man; and Eve, in every woman. Listen to their excuses. "It is that snake you made. You know how afraid I am of snakes. That is why I ate the apple." Adam said, "It is that woman you gave me. It is your fault ...

952. Life in the Community of Believers

Acts 2:42-47

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... are a part of the fellowship. Every stranger, every lonely person ought to be able to know that here you can find a friend. Every sinner can know he is accepted and will be helped to find forgiveness. Every person who is confused and has no sense of direction for life can know the way of Christ. The sick and homebound need to be visited. The hungry and homeless need to know someone cares. Young children need help to grow up into significant, contributing teenagers and be confirmed. We are a fellowship in ...

953. Advent 2

Malachi 2:17--3:5, Philippians 1:1-11, Luke 3:1-20

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... . Righteous - pure and blameless - Lesson 2. c. Repentant - return to God - Gospel. Gospel: Luke 3:1-6 1. No John, No Jesus! (3:2-4). Need: We cannot have Jesus unless we first have John. God sends John to prepare people for the acceptance of Jesus. If there is no sense of sin, there is no need for a Savior. If there is no repentance, there can be no forgiveness. If there is no death to self, there can be no new life. Because John is the only prophet who prepares for the Savior's coming, Jesus calls him the ...

954. Proper 11

Lk 10:38-42 · Col 1:21-29 · Gen 18:1-10 · 2 Ki 4:8-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... for food. What made her think he was a man of God? Did he bless the food before eating? Was it his kindness and courtesy? She sensed that here was a man who lived close to God, who knew God. Do strangers see us as "men" of God? 2. What? (vv. 13, 14). ... of life - v. 42 B. Mary's wisdom - vv. 39, 42 1. Seized the opportunity to confer with Jesus 2. Listened and learned - v. 39 3. Sense of true value: "Mary has chosen the good part" - v. 42 2. The One Need of People. 10:41-42. Need: Was Jesus right when he ...

955. Proper 18

Lk 14:25-33 · Eze 33:1-11 · Phm 1-20 · Prov 9:8-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... 1-20 1. Child (v. 10). Paul refers to the run-away slave as his "child." But Onesimus was a grown man. Paul is not speaking of the physical but the spiritual person. Under Paul's influence and instruction, the slave became a Christian. In that sense Paul was the spiritual father in his faith, and therefore he and Onesimus were very close to each other. Paul identified with Onesimus. In sending him home, Paul was "sending my very heart." He asked Philemon to "receive him as you would receive me." Christians ...

956. Treasure's Tug

Matthew 13:44-46

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... to win big, so she takes those two dollars and buys two more lottery tickets. She is going to win. She knows it. She can sense it. What you know is that you have come dangerously close to becoming a strangler while she was all caught up in the excitement of ... final judgment. Yet, there is another ending at stake here which is no less in the hands of God. It is "our end" in the sense of what we shall become - or more accurately, what God is making of us. Jesus says that the one trained for the kingdom is "like ...

957. Prayer in a Pinch

Matthew 14:22-36

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... seems to come loose, like a picnic dinner where a wild wind comes up and everything flies around. You grab your plate and your napkin goes flying. You snatch your napkin and you tip over your Kool-Aid, and on it goes. At a picnic you need perspective and a sense of humor; after all, you will survive! In life you need to focus again on Jesus Christ and allow yourself to be upheld. What Peter did right that day was to direct his prayer of panic to Christ who did not desert him. Let us remember that when we ...

958. The Promise of Emmanuel

Isaiah 7:1-25

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... also, bring with it death, destruction, and defeat for a disobedient king in the future. Assyria will arise and be the instrument of God to judge Ahaz for his unfaithfulness. It is this dual anticipation, this enigmatic expectation that we rarely apprehend. Or if we do sense it, we quickly push it into the deepest recesses of our hearts and minds, because it is not at all pleasant. Advent is anticipation. It is anticipation of God's coming to us. And on the Fourth Sunday in Advent it is anticipation of the ...

959. Up And Down The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

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Donald Dotterer

... in prayer. There are times when God reveals himself to individuals with great power and glory, inspiring reverence and a sense of wonder. When God appears in such a magnificent and wonderful way, the Holy Spirit inspires people to bow down in ... hearts are lifted as we hand over all that troubles us to the loving God who created us in his image. If we are suffering, we sense God's spirit suffering with us in our pain. These moments on the mountain with God in prayer are absolutely necessary if we are to live ...

960. Advent 1

Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 122:1-9, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 24:36-51

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... end quickly through nuclear accident or nuclear war. Could this kind of an end fit into the plan of God for bringing this age to a close? If so, what would remain for Christ to judge and reign over? How is the preacher to make theological sense out of all of this? Is there any hope for humanity and the world? Matthew's eschatological theology of the age of salvation, when viewed from the perspective of his entire Gospel, provides a fitting conclusion to his version of the Good News and positively shapes ...

961. Success: Ultimate and Unlimited

Revelation 7:9-17

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... by "God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." We know what ultimate and unlimited success is. It is spending eternity with our Savior and Lord. Heaven is for real; there will be representation from every sector. The saints have arrived in the only sense that it counts. There is much cause for jubilation and great thanksgiving. Indeed, "the Lord be with you." Have we told others about all of this? Mission and evangelism are not to be implemented in isolation from one another. I bid you to tell those ...

962. Train Whistle In The Night

Matthew 25:1-13

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... well adjusted to the Sears, Roebuck Translation of the Bible, and it satisfies wants in very tangible ways. But the nagging reminder from Christ’s message is what we may stand to lose in our complete devotion to the new religion. Machines and gadgets give us a sense of power, and it’s very real power ... so long as the machine or gadget works. But all of us have come to know all too well our moment of helplessness with a huge machine or a fancy gadget not working. So our human portrait becomes one ...

963. It’s How It Ends That Matters

Matthew 21:28-32

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... or the risk to set out in the first place. Or, he could conclude that there are better destinations than the one he sees marked on the map - destinations that he’d rather choose himself. Or, a person could decide a scenic route would make more sense than going straight toward the destination (only to discover, down the road, that he miscalculated on resources, and that, having gone too far out of the way, he cannot get there after all). Or, he could decide to chart a course that leads directly to the ...

964. If You Had But One Request

1 Kings 3:1-15

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John R. Brokhoff

... my mind to stay." Another way to acquire wisdom is to receive the Holy Spirit. He is God who abides in us. Jesus taught that the Holy Spirit will guide us into truth. He is the one who will enlighten us so that we will have good judgment and common sense. Stupidity is being in the dark. Wisdom is being in the light of truth. Every person’s problem is stated in the proverb, "Too soon old, too late smart." Who will not admit to that?! Before you and I get one day older, we can get smart, real wise, by ...

965. Heart To Heart

Ezekiel 18:1-32

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John R. Brokhoff

... of the soul. In our conversations, we acknowledge the heart’s central position when we refer to the "heart of the matter." In a physical sense, nothing, no other organ, can take the place of the heart. Why doesn’t God command us to get new eyes or ears or ... which sends food via the blood and attacks germs. It is as simple as this: When the heart stops, you stop living. In a physical sense, the heart is not much of an organ. It weighs only eleven ounces. Yet, it beats at the rate of seventy-five times a ...

966. Out of the Darkness

John 9:1-12

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Robert Bachelder

... address the causes of poverty. Which brings me at last to the nuclear freeze. President Eisenhower made this connection between poverty and crime and the arms race explicit when he said: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed ... and those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labors and the hopes of its children. This is not a ...

967. Elijah’s If

Mark 9:2-13, 2 Kings 2:1-18

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Richard F. Bansemer

... but it is loaded - should we say super-saturated - with the mysterious. Jesus climbs a high mountain with Peter, James, and John, and the text says he was "transfigured before them." Every once in a great while studying Greek for years makes sense. This is one of those occasions. The Greek word for "transfigured" is metamorphotha. To be transfigured is to undergo a metamorphosis! That’s important. Jesus’ garments were not shining so brightly because some outside spotlight was shining on him. He wasn’t ...

968. The New Covenant

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Dennis Kastens

... the Sacrament? If I receive forgiveness of sins through faith in Christ, why must I go to the Lord’s Supper to receive the forgiveness of sins?" And here we reply, "Yes, of course, we receive forgiveness of sins in the written and spoken gospel, and in that sense the Sacrament is not an absolute necessity. But, you can live, too, if you have only one lung. You can exist with only one kidney. You can see with only one eye, or hear with only one ear. But when you have both your intended organs, your life ...

969. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

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Robert G. Tuttle

... and sins, he would say to each of us: ‘What has been wrong with you, and what is wrong with you still, is that as yet you have not enough faith in God.’ "2 It is too true. If we don’t really believe in God, life doesn’t make sense, and we are confused and lost. We do not make an investment of our lives in that which we do not trust. My son Robert G. Tuttle, Jr., tells of a young doctor coming to him for counseling. The doctor opened with this strange declaration: "I’ve got everything I ...

970. The Impartiality of God

Acts 10:23b-48

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Hubert Beck

... "bad man," nor are most of us. But to "not be bad" is quite different from being Godly. To be Godly we need deliverance even from our own selves, from the deceits into which we fall, the feeling that our piety is pleasing and meritorious in and of itself, the sense that our seeking after God is the same as having found him! We are called from that, as was Cornelius, by turning us to a Savior. If we have no need to be saved, there was no need for Jesus. To be confronted by Jesus, though, is to be confronted ...

971. Called to Be Saints

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

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Hubert Beck

... If the first burden of realizing how huge a demand your chosenness places on you seems immense, is not the second burden even greater - to go faithfully to the task set before you and see and hear people ignoring the Word of the Lord that is given you? One senses it in Isaiah, and also in Paul’s letter as he proceeds from this point. Turn to the Gospel for the day, however, to try to catch the full glimpse of this burdensome frustration. Here is the Christ, being announced to the world as "the Lamb of God ...

972. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR PENTECOST

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Tom Eberle

... is going. So with everyone who is born from spirit. [John 3:8] Voice 2: Look again - though pushed into the darkest corner - that childlike sense of wonder still lives on. Voice 3: It comes blowing in upon us. It is not a medal for service rendered, but a gift. Voice 4: ... . Voice 2: Leukemia, multiple sclerosis, heart attack - death. Tornado, earthquake, famine - death. So many things that don’t make sense. So many problems that seem to say no to your presence. And yet your Spirit has drawn us together ...

973. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

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Robert Noblett

... record to be unworthy. A dent in the bell of a trumpet is not going to effect the sound of the instrument one little bit. And to in effect hang a sign over the life of a handicapped individual that reads "useless" makes about as much sense as discarding a dozen jelly donuts because one has been found bereft of jelly! Easily could we compile a lengthy list of very impressive people who functioned in an exemplary way with a handicap. Lord Byron, the English poet, had a club foot. Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...

974. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

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Robert Noblett

... . If supplies could not be taken by land to the Allied zones, they would be taken by aid and for 321 days 2.5 million tons of supplies were flown in to the Allied zones and the city’s products flown out. The plan made a great deal of sense and was a striking demonstration of what airpower could accomplish, but quite literally the goods would not have been delivered had all concerned reveled in the genius of the plan and never gotten down to flying the planes in and out. Really, it is no different with the ...

975. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

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Robert Noblett

... fully met. There are so many questions for which there are no satisfactory answers. To be sure, we can make some suggestions. We can say, for example, that the death of a five-year-old child is not the will of God. But more than answers, we all need a sense of God with us. Bernard Martin, a Genevan pastor, tells of receiving a call one morning from a family in his parish conveying word that the only son of that family - seven years of age - had died. He went quickly to the home and found the mother in a ...

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