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1026. Special Occasions Beginnings

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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... beginning of our salvation if we believe it. All: As we begin this new year, Father, deepen our understanding of Christ’s love for us, kindle in our hearts a brighter flame of love to you, and increase our compassion for those around us. Help us to remember that true belief reveals itself in actions.

1027. Solid as a Rock

Matthew 16:18

Children's Sermon

... a church that believed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus wanted his church to be strong. That is why Jesus said that the church would be built on a rock. Is there anything as solid as a rock? Believing in Jesus and saying so takes great belief and strength. You can build a great house on a rock, It won't cave in, or sink into the ground. A house built on a rock will stand forever as far as the rock on which it is built is concerned. The next time that you see a rock ...

1028. The Master Has Come - And Calls Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

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... to obey the commands and follow the example of a dead teacher." All the other religions have as their leader a dead teacher. Christian faith has a living Lord. I love to read theology. I value greatly the historic creeds of the church. Correct belief is vital. We need to know what we believe. But, more importantly, Christian faith is a relationship. After John Dean, one of the Watergate conspirators, left Washington, and went back to California, he went down to the library and applied for a library card ...

1029. The Master Has Come - To Build His Church

Mark 16:1-20

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... no more than a civic club which meets on Sunday. The church does not even make a good civic club. The message about who Jesus is has created the church. He is Christ. We must remember this always. Sometimes people say the church is old-fashioned, has old-fashioned beliefs, and is stubborn about holding onto them. The church had better hold onto them. That is all it has. We need to relate this message to the age in which we live, but we dare not become the age in which we live. Dean William R. Inge said when ...

1030. More Real Than Food

John 6:25-59

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Carl Jech

... celebrate during this season when the daylight hours gradually begin to lengthen. In recent years a growing number of critics seem to be taking delight in an attempt to discredit Christianity by pointing out the ways in which many features of Christian belief and practice appear to be "borrowed" from the various mystery religions and other cults that were prevalent at and before the time of Jesus. Their assumption seems to be that if the ideas are "typical" or "borrowed" or "primitive," they are therefore ...

1031. The Message of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

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... surfacing in a twisted humanity. It is to see salvation coming through the humble in spirit. It is to truly believe that the wonder of God's love can be and is embodied in flesh. To believe in a real Christmas is to stake your life and mine on the belief that God has come, not in power, but in innocence, even in the innocence of a baby which means, of course, that God is always easy to turn down. It is hard to know without question about this kind of Christmas, but to know about this kind of Christmas is ...

1032. Fog-Clearing Moments

Matthew 17:1-13

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... through social problems, political problems, economic difficulties, family troubles, and personal anxieties is more like threading through fog than flying down an open road. Often we have to follow the road even when we are most uncertain of where it leads. Likewise, matters of faith and belief are more like a fog than a clear day. Most of us live in a fog when it comes to questions like, "Who is God?", "What is God like?", and "How does God interact within human life?" What we believe and how we came to ...

1033. World Communion Sunday: A World In Communion

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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... them to the Lord. Paul had a mess on his hands. But let’s ask, what divides us today? Our great nation has experienced a unity, a bond, a common purpose. Of course the horrible tragedy of the terrorist attacks has reminded us so clearly of our common beliefs and shared values of freedom. We have come together because we had to. But before the 11th there was a great deal of division. One need only go back one year in Florida to be reminded of that. The divisions then were clearly discernable. I am sad to ...

1034. Cowherding Christians

Matthew 9:35-38

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Gary W. Houston

... his hand. The teacher, disappointed that the lesson’s point had been missed, asked: "Well, just what is it that God can’t do?" "Well," replied the boy: "He can’t please everybody." Jesus ministered to the masses. However, he never pandered to them. We cannot water down our beliefs to be accepted by everyone. Nor do we help anyone when we try to please all. Jesus Christ died in order to set us free from the power that sin has held over us. You will not read in the Bible that he approved of sin. But we ...

1035. Epiphany 6

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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... his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days, that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. 1 Corinthians 2:6-13 It is Paul's strong belief and continuing conviction that the role of the spirit in our lives is crucial, because the Holy Spirit enables us not only to see, but also to understand, what is in the heart of God. The Spirit alone is able to penetrate the mind of God, and the Spirit alone ...

1036. Lent 2

Genesis 12:1-8, Psalm 105:1-45, Matthew 17:1-13, John 3:1-21; 4:5-42, Romans 4:1-25

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George Bass

... to people through the gift of himself in his Word and the sacraments of the church. The woman, after Jesus confronted her with her marital immorality and talked to her about the age when people would worship God "in spirit and in truth," not only demonstrated her belief in God but also revealed her expectation of the coming of the Messiah. Then and there she came to understand what Jesus was talking about all the time, and she received another precious gift when he said to her, "I who speak am he." In and ...

1037. Easter 2

Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 105:1-45, 1 Peter 1:1-12, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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... ...." Thomas ought to be called "Fortunate Thomas," because he did get his wish; the risen Christ appeared to him and invited him to touch his wounds, and believe; his doubt immediately vanished in genuine faith. Some people have mystical experiences like that to bolster their belief in the risen Christ, but not many are that fortunate. All that most people will ever have on which to base their faith is a word, the witness of believers, the good news. We're not going to get anything more than the Word and ...

1038. The Holy Trinity

Psalm 150:1-6, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 29:1-11, Matthew 28:16-20, John 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Genesis 1:1-2:3, Exodus 34:1-28

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... Jesus Christ in order to deliver people from sin and death. Jesus came to "save" the world, not condemn it, and everyone in it; from the beginning, this meant that Jesus would have to die to accomplish God's purpose. Faith in Christ, in the form of genuine belief in his person as the Son of God and the Savior of the world, assures people that they have been saved, not condemned, by Jesus. But the refusal to believe that Jesus is Lord, Son of God and Savior of all, means "automatic condemnation" by those who ...

1039. Proper 5 & Pentecost 3

Matthew 9:9-13, Romans 4:1-25, Hosea 6:1--7:16, Genesis 22:1-19, Psalm 13:1-6, Psalm 50:1-23, Hosea 5:1-15

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... alike - "steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings." Romans 4:18-25 Paul was thoroughly convinced that God is a powerful God, able to do all that he promised to his people - even able to raise Jesus Christ from the dead. His belief in the ability of God to do what he said he would do was not based upon wishful thinking or empty flights of fancy; it was grounded in the past experience of the Hebrews with God, and, in this passage, on the promise God made to Abraham ...

1040. Proper 24 & Pentecost 22

Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Ruth 1:1-22, Psalm 96:1-13, Isaiah 44:24--45:25

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... to Israel in the last week, simply to vote in the election; after they voted, they went back to America. This was the reason that the Likud was elected. The resentment raised the fear that the ultra-conservative Likud theologians would impose their beliefs and their rigid obedience of the Torah upon the citizens who really live in Israel, suggesting that there will be real trouble if this happens. Civil disobedience in Israel may break new ground should the Likud get anything resembling total control of the ...

1041. Bound for Glory

1 Samuel 25:1-44

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... a book that is bound by ties which bind it together. To fall out of this bundle meant to lose eternal life, to fall into the chaos of hellish darkness and to be forgotten by God. Later, we Christians used the concept of the "bundle of life" as we developed belief in that roll which will be called up yonder. The "bundle of life" is the Lamb’s Book of Life. Abigail was telling David that we are not to let anger and vengeance, Hatfield and McCoy feuds conquer our spirits. We are to let the Lord deal with the ...

1042. Color It Purple

2 Samuel 5:1-5

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... the weapons of war in David’s cause. Now the promise of David was to be fulfilled by his being granted the sceptre of royal rule. The elders called David to the throne because of his kinship with them, his military prowess, and their belief it was God calling him to lead his people. David accepted the challenge, and the dynasty linking God, Israel, and David’s family became an invulnerable trinity whose glory would become realized in the Messiah - Jesus Christ. In his commentary, First and Second Samuel ...

1043. Death Watch

2 Samuel 12:1-31

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... that his son’s face would no longer light up his day. King David knew too that he must go on living, learning, and worshiping the living God. He hoped for a reunion with his son, but he did not love and worship God because of his certainty of belief in immortal life. David loved the Lord because He had never forsaken him in moments of sin and in seasons of sorrow. God was the Covenant Lord whose "hesed," or loving mercy was never AWOL from hurting people. All of us face the death of people we love. We ...

1044. January 1

Lk 2:15-21 · Php 2:5-11 · Num 6:22-27 · Ps 67

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Paul A. Laughlin

... (vv. 9-11), which exalts Jesus' name, to the admonition to the reader (vv. 12-13) to work out her or his own salvation "with fear and trembling" and with a sense of God's being "at work" within. But the connective presupposition may well be the ancient belief that one's name entails one's very power and presence. Call to Worship (based on Psalm 67) Leader: Let all the nations be glad and sing! People: FOR GOD JUDGES THEIR PEOPLE WITH EQUITY! Leader: Let all the peoples yield praise to God! People: FOR GOD ...

1045. Epiphany

Matthew 2:1-12

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... specific Old Testament texts (foreigners drawn to a divine light and bringing gold and frankincense from Isaiah 60:1-6; foreigners bearing gifts and paying tribute to a new king from Psalm 72; Bethlehem from Micah 5:2), in order to express the common belief that the salvation under the Messiah would apply to all nations. Later popular imagination went back to those source texts in order to turn the Magi into kings, name their kingdoms, and give them camels. Call to Worship Leader: And the wise men followed ...

1046. Last Sunday after the Epiphany

Exodus 24:1-18

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Theme: The hidden majesty of God Exegetical Note The fact that in this theophany on the mountain Moses beholds, not God, but God's glory reflects the recurring Old Testament belief that to behold the "face" of the Deity is unbearable and potentially fatal. The images of cloud and fire for God's presence are a recurring motif of the Priestly writer (cf. the two "pillars" in 13:21-22), again signifying that although God is always present, that presence is ...

1047. Proper 28

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

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... united by the hope we share. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of all ages, we confess that, as a Church, we are not always as supportive of one another as we should be and as you would like us to be. We use disagreements over belief and practices, and even budgets and personalities to foster disunity, and thus to get in the way of our being a loving community in ministry for you. Forgive us, we pray, and help us to put aside petty differences, so that we can at last live as your holy ...

1048. All Saints' Day

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Theme: God's unfinished children Exegetical note The writer here is probably countering the Gnostic belief that was circulating in the early church that saving knowledge (gnosis) brought instant perfection. Verse 2 here makes it clear that, while Christians are indeed God's children now, they are in a sense "unfinished," for their ultimate destiny is to be like Christ Jesus at the parousia. Meanwhile, says ...

1049. Advent 1

Matthew 24:36-51

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... Try this: Following the concluding hymn and preceding the benediction, challenge the congregation and welcome the future by summarizing the theme of worship into one brief statement, as for example, on this Sunday, use this: "The test of the genuineness of a person's belief lies in his/her readiness to act upon it." (author unknown) Then, print a brief statement at the end of the order of worship which also summarizes the theme of the day. You may want to use a quote from "Fiddler on the Roof:" "It ...

1050. Lent 2

John 3:1-21

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... Me" source unknown) Stewardship Challenge Suggestion: Build around the stewardship of listening to where people are, rather than where we assume they are. Christ considered no one worthless, as we do. You may want to use Jimmy Carter's comment about his emotional belief that his daughter is of more worth than the children in Africa. All of us believe that about our children. To prove that, we need only listen to our prayers. Charge to the Congregation Suggestion: Keep before the people, the essence of Lent ...

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1026. Special Occasions Beginnings

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Bulletin Aid

1027. Solid as a Rock

Matthew 16:18

Children's Sermon

1028. The Master Has Come - And Calls Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

1029. The Master Has Come - To Build His Church

Mark 16:1-20

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1030. More Real Than Food

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Carl Jech

1031. The Message of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

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1032. Fog-Clearing Moments

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

1033. World Communion Sunday: A World In Communion

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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1034. Cowherding Christians

Matthew 9:35-38

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Gary W. Houston

1035. Epiphany 6

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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1036. Lent 2

Genesis 12:1-8, Psalm 105:1-45, Matthew 17:1-13, John 3:1-21; 4:5-42, Romans 4:1-25

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George Bass

1037. Easter 2

Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 105:1-45, 1 Peter 1:1-12, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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1038. The Holy Trinity

Psalm 150:1-6, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 29:1-11, Matthew 28:16-20, John 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Genesis 1:1-2:3, Exodus 34:1-28

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1039. Proper 5 & Pentecost 3

Matthew 9:9-13, Romans 4:1-25, Hosea 6:1--7:16, Genesis 22:1-19, Psalm 13:1-6, Psalm 50:1-23, Hosea 5:1-15

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1040. Proper 24 & Pentecost 22

Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Ruth 1:1-22, Psalm 96:1-13, Isaiah 44:24--45:25

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1041. Bound for Glory

1 Samuel 25:1-44

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1042. Color It Purple

2 Samuel 5:1-5