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951. Proper 14

Ephesians 4:17--5:21, 2 Samuel 18:1-18, 2 Samuel 18:19--19:8, John 6:25-59

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John R. Brokhoff

... . This gives us example and motivation. We are to be like God and imitate him. Our lives reflect the nature of God. Our reason for being and doing good is not for self-profit nor self-glory but simply to respond to God. Outline: Because – a. You have the Holy Spirit do not grieve him v. 30. b. You have been forgiven forgive v. 32. c. You are loved love v. 2. d. You are children of God imitate him v. 1. 2. Be an imitator! (4:30 5:2). Need: Children are born imitators. Adults tend to imitate people they ...

952. Proper 15

John 6:25-59, 1 Kings 2:1-12, 1 Kings 3:1-15, Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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John R. Brokhoff

... days are evil, Christians are to make the most of the time that remains before the end and the return of Christ. The wise will understand the will of God in terms of right living in an evil world. Christians are to be filled not with alcohol, but with the Spirit. They will not carouse as drunkards, but celebrate by praising with singing and thanking God. Gospel: John 6:51-58 The first verse of this lesson is the last verse of last Sunday's gospel. It serves as a link in the chain of the theme of John 6. The ...

953. Lent 3

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:1-14, John 2:13-22, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

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B. David Hostetter

... : And also with you. Leader: God calls us to faith in the Christ nailed to the cross, as wisdom wiser than ours and power stronger than ours. People: We hear God’s call to the teaching and example of Jesus. INVOCATION God of majesty, Christ of humility, Spirit of unanimity, no one can boast in the your presence. We may not be wise by human standards, powerful in society, or noble in birthright, but we come to you in Christ, who is our wisdom, our virtue, our Redeemer, who alone is our boast. Amen. PRAYER ...

954. Easter

Psalm 118:1-29, Jeremiah 31:1-6, Matthew 28:1-10, John 20:1-18, Acts 10:23b-48, Colossians 3:1-17

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B. David Hostetter

... governments and judges all nations. As in the days of Jesus on earth, when some people came to him bringing a paralyzed man, carried by four of them, we carry to you by our prayers those who cannot come to this sanctuary to pray. By your living Spirit visit the beds of the sick, the weak, and the aged. Encourage and heal and give strength according to their day. To those who are bereaved give comfort through the Easter story of resurrection to everlasting life. Keep us all in the way that leads to life ...

955. Have You Got a Prayer? – Sermon Opener

Luke 3:21-22

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Mark Trotter

... my Son. My beloved. In thee I am well pleased." That is Luke's version. All four gospels portray this scene. But Luke's version is a little different than the others. In each version, though, the Spirit descends"like a dove." The Holy Spirit is not a bird. Luke and the other apostles use the dove as a metaphor for the Spirit's coming into our lives. It is a beautiful metaphor. Have you ever seen a dove descend and land? It is graceful, gentle, and quiet. That's the point being made. That is the way the Holy ...

956. Follow Your Mentors (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 14:15-31

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J. Howard Olds

... she lives with you and will be in you. We will not be left as orphans. God will come to us in the person of the Holy Spirit.” When it is all said and done, I do not need a crowd of people asking me a ton of questions. I do not need a ... the truth about myself and others, help show me guidance for the way, help me have strength for today and hope for tomorrow. C. When the Holy Spirit is our Mentor, we have God’s PEACE. John 14:27 says, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world ...

957. Born Again

John 3:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... to Christ, there enters into our lives a power which enables us to be, what we within our own power could never be, and to do what we within our own power could never do. We could spend a whole sermon talking about being born of the water and the Spirit – but doesn’t it excite you enough just to know that water and Sprit stand for the cleansing and strengthening power of Christ which wipes out the past and which gives us victory in the future? We can see it better in a person that we can spin ideas to ...

958. A Sunday Kind of Love

John 16:5-16

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Leonard Sweet

... too many of us consider as part of the daily expression of our faith. But it is. At least it should be. For that’s the kind of faith, hope and love this world is hungering for. Experiencing God as Father, God as Son, and God as Holy Spirit, is what keeps our faith fresh and makes it possible to rebirth Christ into the world every day. A few years ago Reba McEntire brought back a song Jo Stafford and Ella Fitzgerald independently made famous in 1947 called “A Sunday Kind of Love.” This was also the ...

959. Connected to God

Luke 24:44-53

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Lee Griess

... , they will truly experience Jesus' promise in Matthew 28. Remember how that goes. We call it the Great Commission — the great command Jesus gives us — "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the age." Luke, in his account of the Ascension of Jesus, concludes the story by telling us what happened next. It was not long after he said this that [Jesus] was taken up into the sky ...

960. I Doubt It

John 20:19-31, Act 4:32-37

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... breathing, as long as you let the breath of God breathe within the doubt. Ask God to breathe life into your doubt through the Doubters Prayer. You know it. It's found in Mark 9:24 in the words of the father of the mute boy that the evil spirit kept throwing into the fire. Jesus asked the father if he believed that Jesus could heal his son. The father said, "Lord, I believe, help my unbelief." The willingness to name your doubt is the first step in living WITHIN A DOUBT. When you find yourself WITHIN A DOUBT ...

961. Advent 2

Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19, Isaiah 11:1-10, Matthew 3:1-12, Romans 15:4-13

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Amy C. Schifrin

... comes. (1 Corinthians 11:23-26) All: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. Leader: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13) All: Amen. Post-Communion Hymn Blessed Be The God Of Israel Benediction (Consider having a young child as your assisting minister for this prayer.) Leader: The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the ...

962. Baptism Of Our Lord

Psalm 29:1-11, Isaiah 42:1-9, Matthew 3:13-17, Acts 10:34-43

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Amy C. Schifrin

... Us On Baptismal Remembrance You are invited to come to the baptismal font, to dip your hand in the water, and make the sign of the cross upon your brow. Or you may come with a neighbor and sign one another. Hymn This Is The Spirit’s Entry Now (LBW 195) (alt tune: LAND OF REST, LBW 331) (After all have returned to their places) Leader: May God’s baptismal blessings sustain you in all things. All: Amen. Offering Choral Anthem “The Baptism Of Jesus” —arr. Austin C. Lovelace (Augsburg) or “Washed ...

963. Proper 11, Pentecost 9, Ordinary Time 16

Psalm 86:11-17, Isaiah 44:6-8, Matthew 13:24-30, Romans 8:12-25

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Amy C. Schifrin

... God, wheat and weeds all grow together until your great harvest. May your good seed shape our destiny until that day comes when the righteous will shine with the glory of your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. All: Amen. Intercessory Prayer After each petition: Leader: Give strength to your servants: All: That the world would praise your mercy. Offertory Prayer Leader: May these gifts be signs of the harvest to come when all creation will be set ...

964. Big "J" and Little "j"

Romans 8:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... . When we allow the Big J to become our eyes and ears, we see new things and experience new realities. The great gift of the “Big J” was acted out on the cross Good Friday and revealed in its power on Easter morning. The ongoing miracle that the incarnated Spirit of our “little j” brings daily into this world is love. Jesus cared for all, Jesus had love for all. That love is what put Jesus on the cross. That love is what shattered the power of death and rolled away the stone from the tomb. It is our ...

965. Acts 2:14a, 36-41

Acts 2:14-41

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Leonard Sweet

... way out” for his anxious audience now grows even more extensive. Even as God’s promises to Noah (Genesis 9:9) and Abraham (Genesis 13:15: 17:7-8) extended to all their future generations, so too does this new promise of forgiveness and the Holy Spirit. The redeeming power of Jesus’ name, of Jesus as Lord and Messiah, is God’s promise to those listening to Peter that day, and to all their “children,” and even to those “who are far away.” The wording of this promise echoes that found in Joel ...

966. The Inconcealable Christ!

Mark 7:31-37, Mark 7:24-30

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... ! At His Baptism ... John the Baptist told the people of one who would come, and when Jesus came John declared to the whole multitude, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29). When John baptized Jesus, the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit came in the form of a dove as the voice of heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). If such a declaration was to be made today, we would see it on the magazine racks at the checkout stands ...

967. Strength through Diversity

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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Richard Gribble

... power and presence of God has its positive effects on us. We cannot go astray with God, but there are many lessons we need to learn in order to achieve this result. The apostle then enumerates the many gifts of the Spirit. Each is unique and special; each is given, Paul says, as the Spirit chooses. Each gift is different and must be used in a collective sense with others in building the kingdom of God. It is through this diversity of gifts that we find our source of sustenance. We need all the gifts, but ...

968. Luke 3:15-17; 21-22

Luke 3:1-20

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Leonard Sweet

... ’s baptism may begin the winnowing process, as people chose to turn away from their old lives and about-face towards God in expectation of the coming judgment. Those who aligned their lives with God’s chosen one will be “gathered” by the Holy Spirit that comes in his wake, while those who fail to heed John’s words and seek redemption will find themselves with the same fate as the chaff in judgment day, facing the “unquenchable fire.” Luke’s text separate Jesus’ actual baptism from John’s ...

969. Duuuh!

John 14:15-31

Sermon

David O. Bales

... without a glimpse of an eternal destiny. We’re God’s family through Jesus Christ, and we can hold our head up wherever we are and whatever we’re going through. It won’t all be fun. Jesus didn’t always have fun. But we’ll find that Jesus’ Spirit within us will get us through whatever we face. He’ll be with us. He promises he will abide with us, meaning he’ll stick with us. If even our parents or children won’t stick with us, Jesus will. We’re in Jesus’ heavenly family. Jesus within us ...

970. A Breath of Fresh Air

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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Tony Everett

... .” In scripture, especially in today’s text, hope is the sure and certain anticipation and expectation of what God has done, is doing, and promises to continue to do with and for God’s people. Hope is given through the breath of fresh air... and the Spirit that God has given to us. Hope includes the wisdom to see things as they are and the vision to see what they will become when the Lord breathes on them. What does hope look like when dry bones are connected, muscles develop, skin grows, and God ...

971. The Nano-Punch of Pentecost

Matthew 28:16-20

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Leonard Sweet

... disposal, and because someone forgot to fill the tank their float was helpless and without power to move, and it held up everyone else. This is the parable and plight of the church that is not living out of Pentecost. We are rich in the oil reserves of the Spirit, but refuse to fill up our little tanks with the fuel we need for the mission God has given us. From our studies of physics we all know that apples fall from the tree because of gravity. What we didn’t learn, however, is that the only reason we ...

972. Daddy, I'm Afraid

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... themselves to face up to their fears. Others live in denial about their fears and remained crippled by them. The best thing you can do with fear, of course, is to turn it over to God. St. Paul writes, “For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear . . .” In other words, it is never God’s will for His children to live in fear. One of the reasons Christ came into the world was so that we would no longer be ...

973. Ignite: The Fire Burns Brightly

Acts 2:42-47

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James Merritt

... the earliest moment of church history on record. We have just witnessed the birth of the first church. The fire of God’s Spirit had fallen on the disciples. They had gone out into the streets preaching the Gospel and 3000 people in one day came to faith ... no codes, and not even a complete Bible. All they had was a faith in the Son of God and a fire ignited by the Spirit of God. You are looking at the charter membership of the first church in history. These 3000 converts needed to be instructed in the truth ...

974. Ignite: Fight Fire with Fire

Acts 4:1-22

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James Merritt

... thought to himself, “I may never get a chance like this again and I’m going to take it.” “Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by ... going to kill you here and now.” Josef Tson said, “I knew that he meant it. At that moment, I was filled by the Holy Spirit like I have never been before. I looked at him and here is what I said, ‘Captain, I want to warn you. If you use ...

975. Ignite: Man on Fire

Acts 9:1-19a

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James Merritt

... Christ and Christ is the head of the body. I want you to listen carefully. When you are really set on fire by the Holy Spirit, when you have seen the light of God’s truth, you will no longer separate the church from Jesus. When you give to the church ... you see that light you will be on fire. The second part of being on fire is – II. You Receive The Life Of God’s Spirit Now Saul has been blinded by this light. That is where we get the phrase, “Blinded by the light.” Paul’s companions take him by ...

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