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1001. Proper 24

Lk 18:1-8 · 2 Tim 3:14--4:5 · Gen 32:22-30 · Ex 17:8-13 · Hab 1:1-3, 2:1-4

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John R. Brokhoff

... course, the one book he had in mind was the Bible. Is the Bible the book of a Christian's life today? While it continues year after year to be the nation's best-selling book, it is one of the least read books. This accounts for shallowness of beliefs and our apathy in the church. A revival and reformation of the church have their source in the Scriptures. In this sermon we want to motivate the congregation to make the Bible the book of their lives. Outline: To make the Bible the book of your life - A. Know ...

1002. Reformation Sunday

Jn 8:31-36 · Rom 3:19-28 · Jer 31:31-34

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John R. Brokhoff

... religious freedom if we ever sever ourselves from the Word. 3. Free (v. 32). The truth of Christ frees. It does not mean necessarily women's liberation or political independence. These may follow. It is freedom in and of religion. Truth frees us from false religious beliefs, superstitions, and practices. Christ's truth frees us from the Law. Christ frees us from the bondage of sin by his death on the cross. Out of his spiritual freedom come other freedoms. If we are free before and in God, we will not be ...

1003. Ordinary 32

Lk 20:27-38 · Zech 7:1-10 · 2 Thess 2:13--3:5 · 1 Chron 29:10-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... poll, 69 percent of the American people believe there is life after death. While the figure is encouraging, it says that almost one-third do not believe anything follows death. There are more Sadducecs today than when Jesus lived. Do we have any basis for a belief in life after death other than wishful thinking or a personal longing to continue to live? In Jesus' day, the Sadducees used the ridiculous story of a man with seven wives to prove there was no resurrection. In this sermon, we want to show that ...

1004. Lent 1

Lk 4:1-13 · Rom 10:8-13 · Deut 26:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... of Yahweh in Israel's behalf. Romans 10:8-13 They who confess Jesus is Lord will be saved. Paul repeats the point he made in chapter 3 of Romans that salvation is not by works of the Law but by faith in Christ. That faith is belief in Christ as Lord who was raised from the dead. This faith results in justification and the confession of that faith means salvation. Faith involves expression as confession. Salvation will come to those who through confession call upon Christ for salvation. Luke 4:1-13 Jesus ...

1005. Responsive Reading for Transfiguration

Matthew 17:1-13

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... of hell. Assistant: We are aware that many times, and at any time, we could fall away from you, O God. People: The fact that we believe is a miracle; that we try to live our faith is an evidence of your power; that we persevere in our belief is your marvelous doing. Assistant: We are conscious that every generation might be the last one to be your church, O God. People: The fact that corruption, envy, malice, pride, greed, and so many more sins have not destroyed your church is a miracle; that your church ...

1006. The Lamb of God

John 1:29-34

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... confusion by claiming he was Jesus Christ, and, therefore, he was doing the bidding of God in his attempt to rid the world of one who really wasn’t on the side of God. From one twisted perspective, this could have been seen, if it were a genuine belief on his part, as a real power struggle. Suppose Ali Agca had killed the pope when he shot him. What would have happened? Would he have claimed the right to the primary seat of authority in the Roman Catholic Church? At times, he seemed to be convinced that ...

1007. The Importance of Forgiving Others

Matthew 5:17-20

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... the Black Sash. She also allowed her black servant’s husband to live on their compound; she entertained Indians living in South Africa in her home. The Beens had a lovely home. It was only five years old when life became unbearable for them. In the belief that they had done all they could do at that time, and also to protect their four children from recriminations by the authorities and other people, they sold their home; Dr. Been gave up his practice, and they moved to Edinburgh. There they had to start ...

1008. God as Woodcutter

Isaiah 11:1-16

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... to be changing. First, God called Abraham to leave his homeland and journey to another land which God would show him. Abraham believed, and thus became the father of many nations. The first step of God’s strategy was to fill a man’s heart with belief so he could leave his home for a better land. That strategy God worked through Abraham. Then, when Abraham’s descendants fell into bondage in Egypt, God moved to the next stage in his strategy towards his people. He raised for them a strong and powerful ...

1009. Wait and Hope

Isaiah 9:1-7

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... once pummeled him with stones until he was half dead. Many years later Paul wrote, "I count everything as loss for the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord." (Philippians 3:8) Both Isaiah and Paul had been raised with their flesh steeped in belief in God’s strength. God’s zeal, they believed, smote thousands with a glance; he won battles and divided the spoil. But God had other shows of strength as well, when he burned Isaiah’s lips with a coal or blinded Saul with his brilliant ...

1010. Micah’s Orders

Micah 6:1-8

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... serve him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness, even as he is risen from the dead and lives and reigns to all eternity. Luther believed he stood under the judgment of the Lord who loved him. Nothing mattered more in his life. This belief kept him restless for God. Did the pastors at New Shiloh Baptist church face a congregation growing cozy in their beautiful new building? Did they "do justice and love mercy and walk humbly before their God" because their congregation was in danger of ...

1011. Never Forgotten

Isaiah 49:8-26

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... don’t care; they have forgotten me." God never forgets us. No matter how often we forget God or forget each other, he never forgets us. It has taken me a long time to believe that, but I believe it now. I hope I will never lose that belief, because I know how much it feels like a post hole digger in the stomach to feel forgotten. Luther said some beautiful things about this passage from Isaiah when he was lecturing to those seminary students, as Margaret of Angouleme was marrying Henry of Bourbon, Duke of ...

1012. A Faith-Life To Emulate John W. Cobb

Genesis 12:1-8

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... the same spirit that prompted the Apostle Paul to say: "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision." (Acts 26:19) Abraham was trusting. The element of trust is vital to the life of faith. It goes far beyond the mere intellectual assent suggested in the term "belief." Paul says it well: "Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. And these words ‘counted to him’ have not been written for him alone but for us as well; faith will be counted to us as we believe in him who raised our ...

1013. The Choice

Matthew 16:13-20

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... paraphrased in the prayer of St. Francis, "For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." (Lutheran Book of Worship, Minneapolis: Augsburg, p. 48) Peter's choice of belief in this Jesus was nothing short of a miracle, the miracle of faith. In the account itself, Jesus seems almost to burst with joy in response to him, "Blessed are you, Simon! For flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my Father...!" God. Peter ...

1014. One Commandment is Enough!

Exodus 20:1-21

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... year) was working for him or against him. It must not have been very comforting to pray, in panic, to a god with whom you might or might not be in favor. Monotheism, the worship of one God, was at the very heart of Israel's national life. This belief was strange and unorthodox to the rest of the world, and separated the Jews from all other people. For them, their one God, (Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD - Deuteronomy 6:4), the great "I AM," was not a wooden or stony impersonal something, but ...

1015. Communion Is Reunion

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

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... Now of course Baptists no longer officially teach that doctrine, but there are Christian groups which still think they have a corner on salvation - that if you are not a member of their church you will have no place in heaven. And because of such closed minded beliefs, because of such spiritual snobbery, those Christians will have little to do with the likes of you and me. They will not even share Holy Communion with us at the Lord's Table. Now that's sad when the Lord's Supper becomes a symbol of division ...

1016. Promise or Threat?

Matthew 24:1-35

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... still we agree to continue to meet secretly for worship and fellowship as Christians. In spite of fear and harrassment, and even an occasional arrest of one of our members, we covenant with each other to carry on with the practice of our beliefs. Now imagine that one Friday afternoon, just before the workday ends, you are informed that all Christians, including yourself, should not bother to report for work on Monday. It seems that your employer can no longer withstand the pressure from the government and ...

1017. Judgment and Justice

Amos 5:18-27

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... because that helps them to find true joy in their relationship to the Father through the Son. He says, "It’s the joy of reflecting, as seeing religion as faith not ideology and then looking within to see what you’re willing to risk or pay to put belief into action." That is what J. Paul Santmire observed when he spent a month in China a couple of years ago. He learned, as others of us have, that the Chinese Christians have paid a great price to keep the faith during the years since the missionaries were ...

1018. The City Unshakeable

Psalm 46:1-11, Hebrews 12:25-29

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... more than buildings of mortar and steel were shaken up by the events of this past Tuesday, America experienced a shaking that reached into it's very roots. The assumption that "it can't happen here" has been jolted out of us. The belief that even when a terrorist attack succeeds, its damage will be limited and isolated has been demolished. "Airport security" has become an oxymoron. Confidence in our intelligence services and national defenses has fallen. And any lingering notion that being on the side of ...

1019. Being Different

Daniel 3:1-30

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Harold Warlick

... into the fire he saw not three but four men walking. And the form of the fourth was like the son of God. Obviously the author of the Book of Daniel was writing a philosophy of history. When people have had to be different, to stand firm in their belief in God, they have indeed had to go through a fiery ordeal. But in that ordeal they have found a god able to deliver them. The world has revolved around heroic souls who have been willing to dare any danger, brave any death, rather than prove disloyal to the ...

1020. Real Strength

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Harold Warlick

... that are beyond human understanding. The Bible is a book to help us understand, avoid and move beyond getting trapped by our inability to say "no." Dickens said, "I wear the chains I forged in life." Is not the pivotal and age-old sin the human belief that we have advanced ourselves to the position where we consider ourselves beyond being trapped? I'm too smart, too experienced, too rich, to fall for that. Is that not the very fabric of the Bible, from Adam and Eve getting trapped by the serpent and the ...

1021. Repairing Your Broken Dreams

Luke 24:13-35

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Harold Warlick

... families. As a result of his work, all bomb survivors became eligible for free medical treatment. Rev. Tanimoto also created a Peace Foundation. In that Foundation's museum a little girl named Sadako placed two cranes made of folded paper. It was her belief that if a person who was ill made these little paper cranes, the person would get better. Well, Rev. Tanimoto died and little Sadako also died, after 10 years of horrible suffering.4 Two people who loved their enemies, whose righteousness was greater ...

1022. Don't Give Up Too Soon!

Acts 15:36-41

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Harold Warlick

... is loneliness. When you get out on the point pushing a new idea, it is sometimes lonely out there. And when your cause turns from an immediate success to a minority position in the world, you can find yourself stretched thin beyond your belief. That happened to Paul. In his valiant effort to include the Gentiles in Christianity, his Jewish friends abandoned him. Alone and disconsolate in prison, he wrote these words to the church at Colossae: "Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and John Mark, the ...

1023. The Shortest Distance Is Not A Straight Line

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Harold Warlick

... the straight line. God is a mysterious presence in time of absence. He does not demand order. God is revealed and present. That is the history of the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible is different from any god known to humans. In Egypt the belief was in the status quo of the cosmic order. The Pharaoh was the divine head of this cosmic order, the sun god. Everything had a place, a royal line, a formula. Mesopotamia was a chaotic place. The people there believed that men and women were created evil. So ...

1024. Christian Values

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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... I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, without love I am nothing. If I give all my possessions and even die for my beliefs, without love I gain nothing. Women: "Love is patient and kind. It does not boast or act proudly. It is not rude, self-seeking or easily angered. It holds no grudges and doesn’t rejoice at misfortune. Men: "Love never fails, but prophecies will cease, tongues will be ...

1025. The Christian Life Faith and Deeds

James 2:14-26

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... claims to have faith but has no deeds? Suppose someone you care about needs food and clothing. Will it help to say, "I wish you well; may you keep warm and be well fed?" Congregation: We believe that God supplies all our needs. What good is this belief if we refuse to provide the needs of our friends, our neighbors, our church? Leader: Show me your faith without deeds and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe there is one God. Good! Even the devils believe that - and shudder. Congregation: We ...

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