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Matthew 1:18-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... the betrothal the girl or boy could break the engagement. If they consented to a betrothal, they were as good as married. To break the betrothal called for a divorce. The betrothal lasted for a year when the wedding took place and the union was consummated. Consequently, Joseph planned a divorce because Mary was pregnant. Found (v. 18). Mary was found to be pregnant. This was the reason for a divorce. In Mary's day it was a horrible disgrace to become pregnant before marriage, especially if the father was ...

77. Sharing Shalom

Luke 12:13-21

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W. Robert McClelland

... surplus with others. He might even have been spoken of by Jesus as "rich toward God." But as it stands, the story addresses us as affluent western Christians. Let us hype the point of it by supposing that we are millionaries. Now that is a consummation devoutly to be wished, but probably not a present prospect. Nevertheless, it is a fantasy worth entertaining for a moment. If you had a million dollars what would you do with it? Specifically, how would you change the world? I find that an intriguing question ...

78. Mourning Turned To Joy

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Ron Lavin

... . Israel needed nothing less than salvation. We need that salvation, too. In the Bible, salvation does not just mean going to heaven when we die. Only one-fifth of the 150 references to "save" or "saved" in the New Testament refer to the consummation at the last day, according to Alan Richardson's Theological Word Study of the Bible. Nearly one-third of the New Testament references denote deliverance from specific ills such as captivity, disease and devil possession. Like Israel, we need to be saved from ...

79. Wedding: All in One Sentence

John 2:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

... in kindness, in understanding that he acted. He had been invited to the wedding — and by his presence and through his gracious action, he “adorned and beautified” it. It was at a wedding — a wedding with many similarities to the one soon to be consummated here — that Jesus performed “the first of his signs ... at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and (because he did) his disciples believed in him.” (John 2:11) In the presence of God is a marriage initiated; by obedience to the will of ...

80. Mary Remembers

Luke 1:26-38

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Edward G. Hunter

... , his countenance so wondrous. He said to me, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus." "How can this be?" I said. "Joseph and I have not yet consummated our marriage." "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God." "The Son of God? This cannot be! I am not worthy. I am the ...

81. The Two Fires

Luke 12:49-53

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Wallace H. Kirby

... tells of "tongues of fire" sent by the Holy Spirit as gifts to enable proclaiming the gospel in word and deed. And in the scriptural images of the end of nature and history in the eternal love of God, fire is central to the pointing toward this consummation. Perhaps the most significant scriptural statement concerning fire is in Hebrews. It says simply, "Our God is a consuming fire." I All of this is to run toward Jesus’ words, "I came to cast fire upon the earth." Unless one seizes upon such words with a ...

82. Proper 26

Lk 19:1-10 · 2 Thes 1:5-12 · Ex 34:5-9 · Hag 2:1-9

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John R. Brokhoff

... real - vv. 6-8 B. The inhabitants of hell - v. 8 C. The condition in hell - v. 9 WORSHIP RESOURCES Prayer of the Day: "Lord, when the day of wrath comes we have no hope except in your grace. Make us so to watch for the last days that the consummation of our hope may be the marriage feast of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." Hymn of the Day: "If You But Trust in God to Guide You"

83. The Unforgiving Servant

Matthew 18:21-35

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... : May God help us forgive others as he forgives us. Collect Almighty God, who requires that we forgive those who wrong us, just as you forgive our sins: Give us the grace to forgive one another; that we may restore broken fellowships, and consummate our forgiveness in Christ, through whom we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession As sinners, we depend on your forgiveness, Father. Yet it is that same sinful nature which makes us so unforgiving toward other sinners. Forgive us for holding grudges, and wishing for ...

84. Joseph’s Dream

Matthew 1:18-25

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... obeyed the directions which the angel gave to him and married Mary! Their marriage must have been interesting, but neither Matthew nor Luke gives any account of it; they only tell us that Mary carried Jesus until it was time for his birth, and they didn’t consummate the marriage until after Jesus was born. But surely Joseph must have had some thoughts about this child who was to be born. What would he be like, this child of God through the Holy Spirit? Would he be fully human or, perhaps, super-human? At ...

85. Shaped by the Future

Matthew 24:36-51

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Joe Pennel

... to prepare for her homecoming. This was precisely the problem of the early church. First-century Christians believed that the Christ who had come before would come again, but they did not know when. They lived in tension between the past Incarnation of Christ and the future consummation of all things in Christ at the end of time. How to live in the "meantime" remained a persistent issue of the early church. And how to live in the meantime is our problem today! How are we to live if we do not know when God ...

86. Searching for Peace

Matthew 10:1-42

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... exciting movie background for television shows than does peace. Ministers Research Service has concluded that since 1919, the nations of Europe have signed more than two hundred treaties of peace. Each treaty, simply another scrap of paper, was broken more easily than consummated. From the years 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1860 more than eight-thousand treaties of peace, meant to remain in force forever, were concluded. The average time that they remained in effect was two years. In his address to the United States ...

87. Proper 4

Deuteronomy 11:1-32, Genesis 12:1-8, Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29, Romans 3:21-31, Psalm 31:1-24, Psalm 33:1-22

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... , not marking time, until the Lord returns. Pentecost is the annual countdown of the church, not merely to the end of the church year, but in anticipation of the Parousia, which will occur at the end of the age as determined by God the Father. The final consummation of the Gospel of the Lord, with its promise of resurrection and eternal life is yet to come. Pentecost reminds us of that and turns us into pilgrims who are assured of salvation and who are on their way to the kingdom of heaven. The Prayer of ...

88. Pentecost 24

Mal 1:6-14, Lev 2:1-16, Mic 3:1-12, Am 5:18-27, Ru 4:1-1, 1Th 2:1-16, 4:13-5:11, Mt 23 and 25:1-13

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CSS

... Day, the familiar story of the ten maidens "who went to meet the bridegroom." It declares: "Lord, when the day of wrath comes we have no hope except in your grace...." The petition pleads: "Make us so to watch for the last days that the consummation of our hope may be the joy of the marriage feast of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." The eschatological theme of the remainder of Pentecost, therefore, surfaces in the liturgy on the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost every year (in the LBW), simply because ...

89. Second Sunday in Advent

Isaiah 11:1-16

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... God's chosen One come in justice! People: MAY GOD'S APPOINTED ONE COME IN RIGHTEOUSNESS! Leader: May God's Messiah defend the poor and deliver the needy! People: MAY GOD'S MESSIAH BRING PROSPERITY TO US ALL! (Based on Psalm 72) Collect God of consummate justice, you promised a ruler of wisdom and understanding, of counsel and might, of knowledge and fear of you, one full of your Spirit and clothed in your righteousness. Help us to see this hope fulfilled in the coming Christ: that, inspired by these godly ...

90. Ascension Day

Ephesians 1:15-23

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... US SING PRAISES TO THE ONE WHO REIGNS OVER ALL CREATION! Leader: For God rules the earth! People: AND ALL NATIONS BOW BEFORE THE ONE EXALTED GOD! Collect Most mighty God, you raised Jesus and lifted him to your right hand. Keep us ever mindful of your consummate power over the world; that, as your Church and the Christ's body, we may become a redemptive force in mission to the world and formidable opponents of all the forces of death and destruction that threaten its people. In the exalted Christ's name we ...

91. Proper 27

Amos 5:18-27

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... US PAY OUR VOWS TO THE MOST HIGH! Leader: Let us call upon God in the day of trouble! People: FOR GOD WILL DELIVER US, AND WE SHALL GLORIFY GOD! (Based on Psalm 50) Collect God of redemption, you have instilled in us a hope for your final consummation of history. Keep us now from idle speculation: that, trusting you to act in good time, we may make every moment count in your service and to your glory. In Jesus' holy name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of reconciliation, we confess that we are guilty ...

92. Success: Ultimate and Unlimited

Revelation 7:9-17

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... and all the glories it entails. That - my dear friends in Christ - is arriving! HOPE AND PURPOSE ARE FOUND in indelible ink as we bring to conclusion our visit, based upon this moving passage in the Book of Revelation. Christian unity finds its own consummation as well. Those who have labored long and hard await the honor - some having already received it - given expression by "God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." We know what ultimate and unlimited success is. It is spending eternity with our ...

93. Call Him a Story Teller

Luke 1:1-4

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George Bass

... according to Scripture, was a physician and a companion of Paul as well as, tradition tells us, an artist and one of the seventy commissioned by the Lord for the first evangelism effort of the church. But it is chiefly as an artist with words - a consummate story teller - that we remember him on the traditional date of his death, October 18. He may have healed people and ministered to them as a physician, and he may have painted portraits of Jesus, Mary, and even of himself. We’ll never know the complete ...

94. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

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Robert G. Tuttle

... Life will not work any other way! The collapse of human relations all over the world begins to bring this fact home to us. The kingdom of God is within you. It is in your nature; there is no peace of mind any other way. "All history shall find its consummation in Christ," Paul prophesied. I believe it is a "fact." It is not I, really, but Christ who liveth in me; who brings the new dimension. My needs are met in meeting the needs of others. Let’s get it straight. Every life is called to be an adventure of ...

95. Bezaleel

Exodus 35:30--36:7

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Warren Thomas Smith

... "... sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving." Generations of artists and artisans gave their best. We have no record of their names, but the "fruit of their hands" will endure as long as human beings appreciate the aesthetic. Yes, longer, for their work was consummated as an expression of faith in the God who will never die. Whenever we recognize beauty in the midst of the commonplace, we know the spirit of ancient Bezaleel still lives. How well I recall trips I frequently made through the underprivileged ...

96. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

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T. A. Kantonen

... has been fully accomplished "through our Lord Jesus Christ," by what he did for us on the cross. By faith we have obtained access into his saving grace and now stand in it, enjoying peace with God. but we look forward in joy and hope to the consummation of salvation in glory. Grace In whichever tense Paul speaks of salvation his key word is charis, grace. This word occurs 88 times in his Epistles. Its basic meaning is expressed also in other words, such as agape, love, Paul’s theology is a theology of ...

97. The Waiting Game

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James Bjorge

... question, "What will happen in order that the ending, which I already know, will ensue?" God appears to have written the history of world events in the pen of the old classical writers. He tells us from the start that all things are going to be consummated in Christ. History is not a vicious circle, going nowhere fast, but it is moving toward a completion date when a new heaven and earth shall be established. We know that he is coming. The great adventure is to watch the unfolding of events, to be involved ...

98. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... with his head in his hands, he struggles to discover what is wrong. Then it comes to him, and you can sense his face light up when it does. He knows what he needs to fill that void that he has: "I’ll make me a man!" Then, with consummate tenderness, Johnson describes how God proceeds to make his wish become a reality. The Creation story in Genesis 1:26ff., while it does not include any declaration by God that he is lonely, does show the desire to "make him a man!" Moreover, the man he determines to make ...

99. Called Into Covenant

Genesis 9:1-17

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Bill Bouknight

... his earlier promises to Noah, Abraham and Moses. But God added this vital word: A Messiah who is directly from God, and this Messiah will be a descendent of King David. Finally, after 1000 years, we come to the climax of the covenant story--the consummation of what a rainbow began thousands of years earlier. Jesus was born! An old prophet named Zechariah, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, declared "God has raised up a mighty savior for us in servant David...thus he has shown the mercy promised to ...

100. The King's Reception (What Are You Wearing to the Wedding?)

Matthew 22:1-14

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Brett Blair

... . Surely he was not so naïve as to purchase acreage without having even seen it. The second man said: I have just purchased five yoke of oxen and I must go examine them. But hadn’t he already examined them. And now that the deal had been consummated, what possible bearing could one more inspection have upon the transaction. The third man’s excuse was equally as ridiculous. He said I have just gotten married and therefore I cannot come. But that was no excuse, for, believe you me, in that day and time a ...

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