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976. Ephesians 1:3-14

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... of his glory" (vv.6,12,14) and the numerous recurrences of the "in Christ"/"in him" refrain. But while indications of a hymnic source haunt these texts, it is quite difficult to actually identify a specific hymn running through this berakah section. The skill of the Ephesians' author is such that the style of writing in verses 3-14 and in the rest of the epistle is basically the same. So while the language and certain sentence constructs suggest hymnic origins, the hymn itself cannot actually be dissected ...

977. Rainbows and Roses

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... and solely the gift of a loving and gracious God. They are the best evidence we have of God’s love. An unknown man tells about a reproduction he once saw a reproduction of the Constitution of the United States. This reproduction had been skillfully engraved on a copper plate. At first glance this reproduction seemed to be nothing more than a piece of noble writing. However, if you looked at it from the proper perspective, you could discern the portrait of our first President George Washington artistically ...

978. No More Static Cling!

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... and honor to their college application. Jamie has a condition called global developmental delay. In other words, Jamie isn’t your typical candidate for an honor like “Mr. Anything.” Jamie is viewed by students and faculty as an ambassador for other challenged, “life-skills” students. They say that he doesn’t care whether you’re a cheerleader or super jock. He doesn’t care what clothes or shoes you wear. He just looks at what is in your heart. And a school that contends with poverty, broken ...

979. The Planted Seed

Illustration

Robert Noblett

Kids are our planted seeds. For nine months a mom and dad wait for an embryo to grow into a person; for the next year or so they wait for the child to speak and walk; then they wait for the child to master the skills necessary to begin a program of formal education that might last up through graduate school; during the years of adolescence they simply "wait out" the youngster; and then they wait for the young adult to get up and running economically, so they can recall the credit card. Then in time, ...

980. Every Link of the Chain

John 17:6-19

Illustration

Keith Wagner

... in its steering apparatus while nearing the coast in a storm. Only a secure anchorage could prevent the vessel from being driven onto the rocky coast. Thus the fate of the ship and hundreds of passengers depended on the strength of that chain. No one knew of the care and skill that had been lavished on each link of that chain by an obscure smith who was only doing his best. The chain held, and the ship, its passengers and its crew were saved. A man from a "different world" had saved the day.

981. Where the Spirit Moves

John 3:1-17

Illustration

Donald B. Strobe

... God's grace. While sitting in a sailboat, have you ever tried to make the wind blow? It cannot be done. Neither can you, by your own efforts, cause God's grace to come upon you. While sailing, you are entirely at the mercy of the wind (along with your skill at capturing it). You may capture the wind in your sails for a time, but it can disappear suddenly, leaving you stranded in the middle of the lake, and, if you do not have a motor, too embarrassed to ask for a tow. Sailing is a humbling experience. You ...

982. The Third Ear and the Imagination of Jesus

Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... climbed to 22 minutes longer. Okay, make that 23 minutes, above the average drive-time to go from Point A to Point B. These days our commuting time can be put to productive work. Your commuting time can be used to practice new language skills, or test the effectiveness of your blood pressure medication, or boost your caffeine intake with some double Venti mocha mash-up mix. As more people keep smashing into things while talking or texting on their mobile phones, more states keep passing stricter anti-cell ...

983. The Ride of Your Life

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... nonetheless: to find a way, or a person, to bring in all the possibilities and probabilities that are part of the richness of having both a Mom and a Dad to engage the lives of children. I thank God Dads are optimists. Dads take chances based upon skills and knowledge they know they possess and they trust they have taught to the next generation. I thank God for all Dads who offer this gift of confidence. A gift of conviction. A gift of risk and courage based on trust. It is a gift every child needs ...

984. Proper 9

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10, Psalm 48:1-14, Mark 6:1-6, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Eulogy

B. David Hostetter

... from hometown prophets. Touch our hearts with healing gifts that you have granted to our neighbors, so that your work may not be obstructed by our unbelief. Amen PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING God of surprises, you bring the wise to birth in unlikely places and skills of art and healing from families of unpromising histories. We are grateful for all wisdom expressed in speech, in writing, in music, in arts of all kinds. We appreciate healing words and touches that make us whole, especially the words of your Son ...

985. Proper 13

2 Samuel 11:26–12:13a, Psalm 51:1-19, John 6:24-35, Ephesians 4:1-16

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... or other addiction, or emotional distress, or single parenting. Break down the pride that prevents some who need such help to seek it for themselves and then in turn share their experience by helping others. Great Physician, heal those whose illness is beyond the skill of human medicine, as well as those in the care of our hospitals and clinics and nursing services. Grant wisdom to all who are in a position to improve and expand the availability of such services. God of all times and places, we praise ...

986. Proper 19

Psalm 19:1-14, Proverbs 1:20-33, Mark 8:27-38, James 3:1-12

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... and good and beautiful. Save us from making pronouncements that issue from partial understanding and limited information. Bless our schools with teachers and administrators who appreciate knowledge and truth in its fullness and are committed to pass along that wisdom as skillfully as they are able. Help those who write textbooks to be fair and thorough in their writing of history that our understanding of the past may be as clear and unprejudiced as is humanly possible. Grant to parents patience in teaching ...

987. Proper 21

Esther 7:1-10, Esther 9:20-22, Psalm 124:1-8, Mark 9:38-50, James 5:13-20

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... may not be ruined by their overtures and exploitation. Spare our aged from the scams of greedy and dishonest business operators. Bless all who seek to be good neighbors in helpfulness. Bless all leaders in the world of sports, that genuine skill may be honestly rewarded and good examples be set for the young who look for role models among athletes. May our young people find their heroes in many kinds of activity: the arts, entertainment, education, business, government, the healing arts, cooperative ...

988. Proper 26

Mark 12:28-34, Psalm 146:1-10, Ruth 1:1-22, Hebrews 9:11-28

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... community pantries, refugee and catastrophe relief, agricultural self-help, fish farming, and animal husbandry. Grant grace and wisdom to prison chaplains and all who counsel with prisoners before their return to freedom in our society. We pray for those with surgical skills to open the eyes of the blind or sight impaired and all agencies who provide braille and recorded books to those who cannot see. Minister to all who are bowed down, to the depressed and the addicted through healers and counselors ...

989. Proper 28

1 Samuel 1:1-20, Psalm 16:1-11, Mark 13:1-8, Hebrews 10:1-18

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... in self-promotion. Keep the innocent from the grasp of such proselytizers and grant freedom to those already in their hands. Bless all who are called to marry and establish a family. Comfort the childless and the infertile and guide those with medical skills to overcome their emptiness. Save us from thoughtless abuse of the means of procreation. Teach us to value all life, the children of the poor as well as the rich, the promising and the disadvantaged. Heavenly Householder, we celebrate the eternal home ...

990. Proper 8

Mark 5:21-43, Psalm 130:1-8, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... distress. Prevent all of us who are married from taking for granted our spouses and families that we may seek every means to enrich and secure our marital and family ties. Recruit for places of leadership in the nations persons with skills in communicating clearly and without equivocation that peace may not be jeopardized by bellicose threats and provocative acts, nor by protestations of peaceful intentions that are meant to obscure devious and covert belligerent activities. Bless the leaders of our nation ...

991. All Saints

Psalm 24:1-10, Isaiah 25:1-12, John 11:32-44, Revelation 21:1-27

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... that both our private lives and our street lives may be more orderly and peaceful. Bless every program that seeks to provide for the hungry both in emergency situations and where famine is endemic. May we share both surpluses of food and skills to help the hungry raise more food for themselves. Be with your church everywhere, but especially we remember Christian minorities that are persecuted for their faith by people and governments committed to another faith. Grant them consolations in their suffering and ...

992. Christ the King

2 Samuel 23:1-7, Psalm 132:1-18, John 18:33-37, Revelation 1:4-8

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... cosmic views from space to solve such problems, as we get new perspectives on our global village. We pray for Peace Corps volunteers and agricultural missionaries who have gone to share knowledge and experience with less developed countries and peoples. Give them skill in teaching and demonstrating the practices that have improved our diets and health in this bountiful country. While enjoying the bounty and variety of the harvest, teach us to avoid waste that we may have more to share with others in need ...

993. Christmas 1

Psalm 148:1-14, Isaiah 61:10--62:3, Luke 2:21-40, Galatians 4:4-7

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... learning that will enable each person to achieve his or her fullest potential in organizing, teaching, learning, doing. Grant to coaches and athletes a concern for every individual that healthful activity may encourage full development of skills without unhealthy stress and hateful competitiveness. Encourage in the mass media a commitment to excellence that seeks to challenge people to serious thinking, sensitive concern for the disadvantaged, careful evaluation in decision making, full responsibility for ...

994. Easter 6

Psalm 98:1-9, John 15:9-17, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 John 5:1-12

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... we can, with voices and instruments of all kinds. We worship you with all kindred souls in every time and place with humility and love and obedience. Amen PRAYER OF DEDICATION We serve you, Great God, with whatever we have, with our financial resources, with our musical skills, with our voices and our pens, with hands that can be folded in prayer and open in the service of others, with our feet that bring us here and take us out again into the world for which you gave your Son Jesus in life and resurrection ...

995. Advent 3

Psalm 126:1-6, Isaiah 61:1-11, John 1:6-8, 19-28, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... in private decision-making by individuals and by parents for their minor children. Bless and uphold all who live on the borderline between life and death and those who keep watch with them. May your love and grace be sufficient for all. Give continuing wisdom and skill to all in the medical community who look for new ways of healing and helping us to live longer. Bless as well all who are involved in hospice and others also dedicated to helping us through the final valley of the shadow of death. May your ...

996. All Saints

Psalm 149:1-9, Daniel 7:1-3, 15-28, Luke 6:20-31, Ephesians 1:11-23

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... both our private life and our street life may be more orderly and peaceful. Bless every program that seeks to provide for the hungry both in emergency situations and where famine is endemic. May we share both surpluses of food and skills to help the hungry raise more food for themselves. Be with your church everywhere but especially we remember Christian minorities that are persecuted for their faith by people and governments around the world. Grant them consolations in their suffering and grace sufficient ...

997. Proper 4

1 Kings 18:16-46, Psalm 96:1-13, Luke 7:1-10, Galatians 1:1-12

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... to those who seek to uproot networks of crime and illegal drug distribution. Continue among us an appropriate reverence for human life. May our physicians and nurses, medical technicians and social workers emulate the gentle approach of Jesus the healer. Give them skill of mind and hand that they may both heal the body and relieve the mind. Give them wisdom in consulting both with their patients and with those concerned about their patients. Comforting Spirit, bring cheer to the discouraged, rest to the ...

998. Epiphany 3

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10, Psalm 19:1-14, Luke 4:14-21, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... and peace, with reverence and learning. Bless those who nurse the sick at home or in hospitals and those who take food to the hungry and help to those needing aid. Bless and guide doctors and nurses, pharmacists, and therapists, that their knowledge of medicine and skill in healing may bring new health and strength to all who need hope and help. Everlasting God, from whose love nothing can sever us, we bless your name for all your servants who have endured the toils and temptations of this life and are now ...

999. All Saints

Psalm 24:1-10, Isaiah 25:1-12, John 11:32-44, Revelation 21:1-27

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... that both our private life and our public life may be more orderly and peaceful. Bless every program that seeks to provide for the hungry both in emergency situations and where famine is endemic. May we share both surpluses of food and skills to help the hungry raise more food for themselves. Be with your church everywhere, but especially we remember Christian minorities that are persecuted for their faith by people and governments committed to another faith. Grant them consolations in their suffering and ...

1000. Christ the King

Matthew 25:31-46, Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... new cosmic views from space to solve such problems as we get new perspectives on our global village. We pray for Peace Corps volunteers and agricultural missionaries who have gone to share knowledge and experience with less developed countries and peoples. Give them skill in teaching and demonstrating the practices that have improved our diets and health in this bountiful country. Although we enjoy the bounty and variety of the harvest, teach us to avoid waste, that we may have more to share with others in ...

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976. Ephesians 1:3-14

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

977. Rainbows and Roses

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

978. No More Static Cling!

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Mike Ripski

979. The Planted Seed

Illustration

Robert Noblett

980. Every Link of the Chain

John 17:6-19

Illustration

Keith Wagner

981. Where the Spirit Moves

John 3:1-17

Illustration

Donald B. Strobe

982. The Third Ear and the Imagination of Jesus

Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

983. The Ride of Your Life

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

984. Proper 9

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10, Psalm 48:1-14, Mark 6:1-6, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Eulogy

B. David Hostetter

985. Proper 13

2 Samuel 11:26–12:13a, Psalm 51:1-19, John 6:24-35, Ephesians 4:1-16

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

986. Proper 19

Psalm 19:1-14, Proverbs 1:20-33, Mark 8:27-38, James 3:1-12

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

987. Proper 21

Esther 7:1-10, Esther 9:20-22, Psalm 124:1-8, Mark 9:38-50, James 5:13-20

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

988. Proper 26

Mark 12:28-34, Psalm 146:1-10, Ruth 1:1-22, Hebrews 9:11-28

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

989. Proper 28

1 Samuel 1:1-20, Psalm 16:1-11, Mark 13:1-8, Hebrews 10:1-18

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

990. Proper 8

Mark 5:21-43, Psalm 130:1-8, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

991. All Saints

Psalm 24:1-10, Isaiah 25:1-12, John 11:32-44, Revelation 21:1-27

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

992. Christ the King

2 Samuel 23:1-7, Psalm 132:1-18, John 18:33-37, Revelation 1:4-8

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

993. Christmas 1

Psalm 148:1-14, Isaiah 61:10--62:3, Luke 2:21-40, Galatians 4:4-7

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

994. Easter 6

Psalm 98:1-9, John 15:9-17, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 John 5:1-12

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

995. Advent 3

Psalm 126:1-6, Isaiah 61:1-11, John 1:6-8, 19-28, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

996. All Saints

Psalm 149:1-9, Daniel 7:1-3, 15-28, Luke 6:20-31, Ephesians 1:11-23

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

997. Proper 4

1 Kings 18:16-46, Psalm 96:1-13, Luke 7:1-10, Galatians 1:1-12

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

998. Epiphany 3

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10, Psalm 19:1-14, Luke 4:14-21, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

999. All Saints

Psalm 24:1-10, Isaiah 25:1-12, John 11:32-44, Revelation 21:1-27

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

1000. Christ the King

Matthew 25:31-46, Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

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