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1051. Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:1-11, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 6:3-13, Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... : Brothers and sisters: we are here, not to go through external motions for a show, but to engage in inner devotion for the soul. People: FOR ALL OF OUR RITES AND RITUALS ARE WORTHLESS UNLESS THEY COME FROM THE HEART. Leader: We are here, not to impress others but to worship God! People: FOR ALL OF OUR PRAISES AND PRAYERS, SONGS AND SERMONS MEAN NOTHING UNLESS THEY ARE DONE FOR GOD’S GLORY. Collect Almighty God, who taught us proper devotion through Christ, teach us this day how to feel and express heart ...

1052. Easter 6

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

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... friends that he wished us to be. In his name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Caring God, it shames us to admit how difficult we find it to love in a self-giving, much less a self-sacrificing way. Forgive us, our selfishness. Fill us with your love and impress upon us Christ’s love: that by your grace and his example, we may more truly be worthy disciples and loving friends of the one who died for us. In his name we pray. Amen

1053. Ascension Day

Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Mark 16:1-20

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... have promised. In the name of the ascended Christ we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of mercy, we confess how much we often long to be rid of this world, to leave it behind and ascend to a heavenly state of bliss. Forgive us our impatience. Impress upon us the commission of Christ. Remind us again and again that there is still work to be done on earth for your Kingdom in his name. Amen Second Lesson: Ephesians 1:15-23 Theme: The power and might of the exalted Christ Exegetical note This passage begins ...

1054. Easter 7

Acts 1:12-26, 1 John 5:1-12, John 17:6-19

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... , ministry, and mission. In his name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, we confess how often we have failed to take seriously our roles as disciples and apostles, and to be even adequate agents of your Gospel. Forgive us our failures, and impress upon us the importance of our respective ministries; that through us your Kingdom may be more effectively realized in our troubled world. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Second Lesson: 1 John 5:9-13 Theme: God’s testimony to life Exegetical note The ...

1055. Proper 7

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 2 Samuel 5:6-16, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Mark 4:35-41

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... us worship the God of Jesus, for establishing in him the present and future Kingdom of God. People: FOR IT WAS GOD WHO MADE JESUS A GREAT KING OVER THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD! Collect Almighty God, who founded in David a mighty and unified Kingdom, impress upon us your dominion and majesty over the world and its people; that we may exercise responsible citizenship in your holy Kingdom, and lead others to partake of its power and promise. In the Christ’s name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Most merciful ...

1056. Proper 8

2 Samuel 6:1-23, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, Mark 5:21-43

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... REVERENCE AND RESPECT. Collect God of might, who foster both faith and fear with your awesome majesty, instill in us a deeper understanding of the complexity of your nature; that, even as we are comforted by the depths of your mercy and love, we may be impressed as well with the dimensions of your power. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Almighty and all-merciful God, we confess to you our tendency to cherish our image of you as a friend, and to forget your role and status as Sovereign ...

1057. Proper 9

2 Samuel 7:1-17, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10, Mark 6:1-6

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... THE CLOSENESS TO HIM WE FEEL. Leader: But let us remember the rejection of Jesus by those closest to him: his neighbors and family members. People: FOR IT IS ALTOGETHER TOO EASY TO PRESUME WE KNOW JESUS AND UNDERSTAND HIS MISSION, WHILE YET MAINTAINING A FALSE IMPRESSION AND DISTORTED IMAGE. Collect Almighty God, who sent Jesus on an earthly ministry of healing and life-giving, help us to learn a lesson from his encounter with his neighbors; that we may see him and his work for what they truly are, and not ...

1058. Proper 11

2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 2:11-22, Mark 6:30-44

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... accident, or by our ability to obey God’s laws. People: OUR RECONCILIATION CAME THROUGH CHRIST AND HIS SACRIFICE, FOR WHICH WE NOW GATHER TO THANK AND PRAISE GOD. Collect God of power and might, who have reconciled us to you and one another in Christ, impress us anew with the significance of that gift; that, seeing again the walls of hostility destroyed, we may feel truly closer to you and to one another. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Forgiving God, we confess that we do not always ...

1059. Proper 20

Job 26:1--31:40, James 3:13-18, Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:33-37

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... sacrifice for your Kingdom. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Forgiving God, we confess that we often take our discipleship to Christ as a role and status to be flaunted, as a way of gaining respectability and reward in the eyes of others. Forgive us, we pray. Impress upon us that being Christians is above all to be beneath all, as children to you and servants to humanity. In the name of the Christ, who achieved greatness in humility, we pray. Amen

1060. Proper 25

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, Mark 10:46-52

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... priest, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, we confess that we regularly fail to be mediators of your divine will, and often use the excuse that we have hired professionals to do your work for us. Forgive us, we pray. Impress upon us our own vocations and responsibilities as disciples of Christ, and make us more effective vehicles of your grace and agents of your Kingdom in a troubled world. In Christ’s holy name we pray. Amen Gospel: Mark 10:46-52 Theme: Spiritual blindness ...

1061. Proper 26

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... , and that it be preserved as a pillar of piety through all coming generations forever. Call to Worship Leader: We meet to worship one God. People: WE LOVE THIS GOD WITH ALL OUR HEARTS, ALL OUR SOULS, AND ALL OUR STRENGTH. Leader: Let us pledge this day to impress our faith in God, not only upon our own minds, but into the memories of our children. People: THAT KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE OF GOD SHALL NEVER PERISH FROM THE EARTH, BUT MAY DWELL IN HUMAN MINDS AND HEARTS FOREVER! Collect One true God, who led the tiny ...

1062. Christmas Carols · O Little Town of Bethlehem

Luke 2:1-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... knew that Pastor Brooks loved to write poetry about Jesus, and so they felt sure that he would say yes. Well, the children were not disappointed. Pastor Brooks said yes, and he began immediately to think about what he wanted to say. He remembered how impressed he had been when he had visited the Holy Land and stood in the square of Bethlehem on Christmas Eve a few years before. Bethlehem was a beautiful town and just made, he thought, for the birthplace of the savior. In just one night Pastor Brooks ...

1063. Looking Ahead with Hope

John 1:43-51

Sermon

... campus about their own personal lives and their problems. They covered a wide range of anxieties. Then the young man who was the leader said, "Shall we bow in prayer?" One after another the young men prayed. I suppose you wouldn’t call them impressive prayers but for me, they were eloquent ... simple ... they spoke to God as if he were close by. There was a simplicity about their dedication and an assurance about the expectations in their fellowship together. After we finished, I learned that they meet ...

1064. THE NEIGHBORHOOD GAP

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... means of calling attention to ourselves? So listen ... and realize what your neighbor is saying when he drives up in his new car and makes a point of leaving it out in his driveway for you to see. At least a part of it is, "I want you to be impressed; I want you to think I’m important; I want you to care about me." That his methodology is wrong is beside the point - just as the woman who thinks that clean windows will cause others to think she’s great is equally mistaken. People really want to be loved ...

1065. What's Mine Is Yours

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... is only one of many agencies which the Sons of God have founded to train the Lord’s poor to help themselves to produce life-sustaining food, and in the meantime, to give them emergency food to keep them from death by starvation." Barnes was not impressed. He could not, however, prevent Godson from pressing the appeal to his better nature. Godson said he was serious when he told the butler that what he had to say to the millionaire farmer would be for his great benefit. "A relief organization such as CROP ...

1066. Extended Light

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... question in our time. Even when we may not see the final fulfillment. A wife shared this sweet memory of her husband’s last days. Among other effects of leukemia, his sight was fading, leaving him with only partial vision. One evening the wife was impressed by an especially beautiful sunset. The western sky was splashed with vivid colors as an artist’s pallet. Hoping her husband could enjoy it with her, she got him out of his chair and helped him stand in front of the western window. But his failing ...

1067. Believable Light

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... limited." God makes it possible for us to believe in him. He gears his self-disclosures to the levels of our intelligence, of our needs, of our acceptance. You remember the experience of the disciples with Jesus in the storm at sea. I get the impression that Jesus did not intend to still the waves in the first instance. He was confident that they could have weathered the storm. But Jesus always adjusted himself to the sufferer’s level of understanding. He always knew the exact remedy for any person’s ...

1068. OUR LORD DELIVERED UP

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... a fortress. On the north was the Antonia, the praetorium of the Roman procurator, Pilate, rising higher than the temple building itself. The tops of the porticoes enclosing the temple gleamed in the moonlight and the whole was surrounded by heavy walls that supported impressive colonnades. The three men hastened down the slope into the deep shadows of the valley and when they reached the stairs leading to the main gate in Herod’s wall, Nicodemus took the steps two at a time. Through the portals of the ...

1069. THE JOY OF CHRISTIAN LIVING

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

... of Sarah. How could a man turn his back upon Christ, and freedom, and joy (the very name of Isaac means LAUGHTER in Hebrew) and live in slavery and bondage? And he takes up the old refrain of scripture, "Rejoice ... break forth and shout!" We may not be impressed with Paul’s reading of history (though it is authentic New Testament reading). But there can be no doubt that one of the marks of Christian living is to be found in the quality and quantity of our joy. As someone has said, "In the New Testament ...

1070. A New Kind of Teaching

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... or shadow of turning, we who live in the twilight zone of knowledge come to you for clarity of mind and purpose. Sometimes we have congratulated ourselves for humankind's educational progress. We have pointed to our learned faculties, our hallowed campuses, our impressive libraries and laboratories. Yet, what are all these but feeble glimpses into the light of thy truth, O God. Your foolishness is wiser than all the Phi Beta Kappa wisdom ever collected. The intelligence of our most gifted geniuses is but a ...

1071. The Passing of the Peace

John 20:24-31

Sermon

George Bass

... , it was agony, but it was all I had." It was the ministry of a chaplain in the horror of Vietnam, near the end of the seige of Khe San, that brought him deliverance from his agony. Calhoun writes: The mere fact that he came to us impressed me. I remembered him, preaching no sermon, simply going about among those of us who were left with bread saying, "the body of Christ," "the body of Christ." We had not washed or shaved, changed clothes, eaten properly, or had sufficient medical attention for three months ...

1072. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... a wiener roast for the youth to clean-up day at the church, to car pools, to meetings, to a new can opener for the church kitchen is referred to, at least once, as a "special" event or "special" gesture. I rejoice that he is so enthusiastically impressed that everything which comes to his attention is "special," but he has innocently neutralized his strongest word by causing it to be too predictable, too familiar. It is not as though the word no longer exists; it is just that it has become a sentence-filler ...

1073. An Old Plan For New People

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... by night off the coast of Cuba in an open boat. He disappeared into the jungle and in three weeks came out on the other side of the island, having traversed a hostile country on foot. More importantly, he had delivered the message to Garcia. The thing which impressed Hubbard was this: When McKinley gave Rowan the message to Garcia, Rowan did not ask, "Where is he ... how shall I do it ... couldn’t somebody else go?" Nor, we might add, did he ask, "Why now, and why in this way?" He was willing to be used ...

1074. A Thimble Full Of Ocean

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Larry Powell

... window shade. It was a tense moment as the family huddled in the middle of the floor. It was only later that day that the strange man’s identity became known. He was a meter reader for the electric company. Memory impresses individual experiences, images, and feelings upon a single fiber and when that particular fiber is stimulated, many things come into play. Consequently, some things are not easily forgotten. * A trusted friend wrongs you by betraying a confidence. * A salesman misrepresents a product ...

1075. Luther of Wittenberg

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... . Led by Martin Luther’s theologian/friend, Philip Melanchthon, the princes presented a confession of faith designed to show how truly Christian they are and how much false information has been circulated about them by their enemies. Reportedly, the emperor was not impressed. Martin Luther, who approved the document, stayed away, since the ban on him is still honored in southern Germany. Some experts think the two sides in the conflict may end up in war. The Emperor is holding off, however, hoping to keep ...

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