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1101. Easter 7

Jn 17:20-26 · Acts 7:55-60; 16:16-34 · Rev 22:12-20

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Russell F. Anderson

... rose petals and good feeling 1. Some people misunderstand the good news 2. Some people understand it all too well - and fight it off 3. The resurrection overcomes even the ugly side of Easter a. Stephen wasn't destroyed merely because people killed him b. Nothing can stop the resurrection - nor our partnership in it Lesson 2: Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20 1. A Promise and a Prayer (22:12-14). Need: Jesus has ascended to heaven. Is that the end of the story? At the Ascension two men promised, "This Jesus ...

1102. Proper 14

Lk 12:32-48 · Gen 15:1-6 · Jer 18:1-11 · Heb 11:1-3, 8-19

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John R. Brokhoff

... that the Exiles will return in two years. 1. Who's Boss Here? 18:1-11. Need: Is anyone in charge of our world? Can a nation or an individual do what it jolly well pleases? Is there no stopping this nuclear arms race? Must the nations experience a cosmic holocaust? Who can make a nation stop the brutality and torture of minorities? Jeremiah in our text tells us about the sovereignty of God as the potter who holds in his hands the future destiny of nations. The peoples are nothing but soft clay in the ...

1103. 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

... from him and from his family. As humans we are prone to give up what we believe and do. In Lesson 1 Habbakuk says God's people live by faithfulness to God. Jesus taught that we should be faithful unto death. We can lose our faith. We can stop praying and worshiping. We can drop out of church. In view of these possibilities we need Paul's admonition to continue in our faith. 2. Inspired (3:16). The Scriptures are "inspired." Most of us do not have any trouble accepting the claim. When we consider the beauty ...

1104. Christmas 1

Lk 2:41-52 · Col 3:12-17 · 1 Sam 2:18-20, 26

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John R. Brokhoff

... given to us by Christ. 3. Continued (v. 26). Samuel "continued" to grow physically, spiritually, and socially. Jesus went one step further in his growth - mentally. For how long does one need to grow? Each needs a continual growth as long as we live. When we stop growing, we begin to ripen, rot, and die. One never reaches the point of perfection. The Christian keeps growing in faith, grace, and godly living until death. Lesson 2: Colossians 3:12-17 1. Put on (v. 12). When Christ comes into a person, there ...

1105. Epiphany 8

Lk 6:39-49 · 1 Cor 15:51-58 · Jer 7:1-7 · Isa 55:10-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... death - Lesson 2 Gospel: Luke 6:39-45 1. Can We Change People? Need: Many think they can change people into better persons. Before marriage a girl may think she will change the bad habits of her husband-to-be. A spouse thinks he or she can stop a partner from drinking alcohol or from smoking or taking drugs. Some think a change in neighborhood or job will change a person for the good. This sermon examines this problem and concludes that only Christ can change the heart, the source of behavior. Outline: Can ...

1106. Lent 5

Jn 8:1-11; 12:1-8 · Lk 20:9-19 · Isa 43:16-21 · Php 3:8-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... . 9 C. The future - we look to the future goal of oneness in Christ - vv. 12-14 2. A Lot of Living to Do. A Christian never "has it made." He is a Christian in process from sinner to saint. There is much yet to be done. Only physical death stops the onward progress. What still lies ahead for Christians to do: A. To know him and the power of his resurrection - v. 10 B. To share his sufferings and death - v. 10 C. To attain the resurrection - v. 11 D. To strain forward toward the goal of matching Christ - vv ...

1107. Sunday of the Passion

Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... You are cooperative - v. 30: "On which no one ever sat." C. You can carry Jesus to others - v. 35 2. When You've Got To Say It! 19:40. There are times when you cannot stop things: waves coming to shore, winds blowing, the passing of time, the sun's rising. On Palm Sunday the disciples could not stop praising Jesus. In answer to the Pharisees' complaint, Jesus said that if the disciples were silent, the stones would cry out. What was so great and wonderful that people had to break out in praise? 3. Christian ...

1108. A Manger is Christ’s Cradle

Luke 2:1-7

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... tell the children that we had to drive on in approaching darkness until we found a place to spend the night. Besides, we wanted to spend part of a day in this lovely resort city, so we continued to look. The twenty-second place where we stopped just happened to have space for us - on the ground floor. Gratefully, we took it, and we weren’t even perturbed when we discovered, upon awakening the next morning, that people were eating breakfast in the courtyard right outside of our bedroom windows. We had an ...

1109. Deliverance by a Dream

Matthew 2:13-18

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... for the innocent children who are slaughtered unmercifully in the wars of humanity. The complaint of the atheist, who says, "I can’t believe in a God who allows little children to suffer and die," seems to be valid, sometimes. Why didn’t God step in and stop Herod from murdering the baby boys of Bethlehem? Find the answer to that question and we will be able to comprehend why he doesn’t intervene in all of those awful situations in which little children are made to suffer, to die, or are left to ...

1110. Reflection Time

John 1:1-18

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... . His glory is reflected in our expressions of faith and our attempts to serve him and his people in this world. It is fitting, in the light of Christmas and the rest of his story, that a nine-year-old child should develop a game aimed at stopping war. Michelle Alexander, it was recently reported, has developed a board game that she calls "Give Peace a Chance" as a project in her class for gifted children in Fresno, California. It is a game of the superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, and is ...

1111. Second Lesson

Matthew 5:13-16

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... a fight. I was afraid they would go out behind the church building and engage in a really bitter argument or even exchange blows, so I tried to defuse the controversy by saying, "Let’s look at all sides of this question before we make any decision." It stopped the near-argument of the two men, and other people entered into the discussion. The strange thing was the two were not as far apart on the question as they thought they were, and when they saw that, they laughed and actually went out and had coffee ...

1112. God's Push

Matthew 15:21-28

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... . As it turns out, he was in a pool where, many times, he was pushed back into and under the water by several instructors. Perhaps they were using a technique they had used before, but for this young man it was too much. In his fear and panic, his heart stopped and he died. The push was one of death - even though, I'm sure, that was not its intention. In contrast, there's Eleanor Roosevelt, "up in the years" at the time, spending part of her day diving from the board into a pool. People by the score filled ...

1113. Trouble on the Mountain

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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... the kid kept yelling. Finally, the man smacked the kid on the seat and told her to shut up. A nice old lady across the aisle stopped him and said, "Mister, I'm going to call the conductor and make trouble for you!" The guy said, "Lady, you're gonna make trouble for ... believe that, too. So the defectors, the despisers of God's law, are in big trouble now! God says to Moses, "Don't try to stop me! I am angry with them, and I am going to destroy them! Then I will make you and your descendants into a great nation ...

1114. Communion Is Reformed

Luke 22:7-38

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... sorry for you. Just think for a bit and see how many ticks lay ahead of you. You'll never make it! You'd better stop now." The new clock took the advice and began counting the ticks: "Each second requires two ticks which means 120 per minute, 172,800 per ... a total of 62,899,200 ticks in a year! Horrors!" said the new clock and then he had a nervous breakdown and stopped ticking. On the other side was a wise old mantel clock who overheard the conversation. She chimed in and said, "You silly youngster, don ...

1115. Communion Is Relief

Matthew 11:25-30

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... bending over as she walked. Pretty soon a farmer and his family came along in a truck. He saw the old woman struggling along. He stopped his truck beside her and asked if she would like a ride. The lady smiled and said, "The sun is hot; the load is heavy, ... gone several miles, the farmer looked into his mirror and noticed that the woman still had the heavy load of wood on her back. He stopped the truck, walked around to the back and said t her, "Maam, why don't you lay down that load. You no longer have to ...

1116. Death of a Blacksnake

Luke 17:11-19, Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Staff

... . The driver jumped out of the car and ran up a small bank, grabbing a large stick with which he immediately began to flail wildly at the ground. I stopped and rushed up to the man, certain that he had encountered some vicious threat to human life. But I was wrong. "Why did you kill it?" I asked. "It was only a blacksnake." "Blacksnake or rattlesnake, it makes no difference to me," the man said, still beating the now lifeless ...

1117. Beginning A Healing Ministry

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... prayers are uttered on behalf of one who is sick, "something" happens, and that there are indeed "results" of one sort or another. William Temple is said to have remarked that when he prayed for people "coincidences" happened, and that when he stopped praying, the "coincidences" stopped happening.3 It is true that some people do not receive the particular healing for which they and their loved ones have prayed. However, in every instance, healing of one sort or another does happen. There is no such thing as ...

1118. No More Begging

Mark 10:46-52

Children's Sermon

... sitting by the road with his tin cup begging all of the people who came by. He could not believe how lucky he was to be there when Jesus was coming, and he yelled as loud as he could for Jesus to stop to see him. The people who were close by told him to be quiet and to stop making such a noise. They were embarrassed by the sound that this blind man was making. But Bartimaeus had heard about Jesus and all of the wonderful things that he did, and he wanted Jesus to heal him. He called louder than ...

1119. Is There No Balm in Gilead?

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

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Brett Blair

... the end to have nothing but a mountain of rubble and the vanquishing of human life. That was Jeremiah’s experience and it is ours. At the beginning of his ministry, Jeremiah hoped that the destruction would not come. But alas, he knew it could not be stopped. Israel had gone too far and God’s decision had now been made. In his grief Jeremiah remembered Gilead—a region to the east where great spices grow, which physicians use to heal wounds. Is there no balm in Gilead? He asked. Is there no physician ...

1120. The Collateral Damage of Our Attitudes

Luke 16:19-31

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Brett Blair

... we need to shape our convictions and give us the courage to make tough decisions. It is a sad fact though that some people just can’t be reached. The story is told of a well-dressed European woman who was on a safari in Africa. The group stopped briefly at a hospital for lepers. The heat was intense, the flies buzzing, the conditions unsanitary. She noticed a nurse bending down in the dirt, tending to the pus-filled sores of a leper. With disdain the woman remarked, "Why, I wouldn't do that for all the ...

1121. Settling Our Differences

Matthew 5:21-26

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Joe Pennel

... wrong to murder, it is also morally wrong to hate. If I had the power to call a great world summit and could give the leaders of the world a topic to consider, I would not ask them to talk about how to stop war or how to deter "Star Wars." I would not ask them how to stop the arms race. Rather I would ask, "What is it that causes us to be angry with each other?" I would beg the leaders of the world to probe that question, to study it, and to reflect upon it. If we could understand ...

1122. It Takes More than Sun to Grow

Matthew 13:1-23

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... to grow seeds, but here we are still speaking of the sower’s responsibility. Like I had to break up the soil and prepare it, in a similar manner we Christian sowers have a responsibility to prepare the ground before throwing seeds around. I think that it is time we stopped blaming others if we are not doing our part. If you and I are going to be in the gospel business we must love those to whom we minister. And, if we are going to spread the seeds of the Christian "Good News" then it need be good news and ...

1123. 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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... and his wife, their young son, and forty-five of their Jewish friends and neighbors, were hidden in the bunker. The noise of tanks and the tramping sounds of the foot-soldiers frightened the baby; Kramer and his wife did everything they could to calm the child and stop its crying, which was so loud and near-hysterical that the Nazis might have heard it and found the bunker. Desperate, Joseph Kramer did the only thing that he could do to save all those people; he put his hand across the nose and mouth of the ...

1124. Pentecost 7

Matthew 18:21-35, Romans 14:1--15:13, Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:1-14, Psalm 103:1-22, Genesis 50:15-21

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... the Gospel for the Day. Verse 4, chapter 28, asks - over against the unforgiving debtor - "Showing no pity for a man like himself, can he then plead for his own sins?" At the end of the reading, this exhortation is given: "Remember the last things, and stop hating, remember dissolution and death, and live by the commandments." Genesis 50:15-21 (L) The LBW replaced the Sirach reading with a concrete example of forgiving others who really owe you a very large debt. Here is the story of Joseph's brothers, who ...

1125. Giving Thanks Before Thanksgiving

Luke 17:11-19

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Brett Blair

... for. It is easy to find ourselves on an island of despair. Perhaps it is time that we sit down and take an inventory of our blessings. II Even in the middle of suffering reasons can be found to give thanks. That is the first lesson. But we cannot stop there. Finding reasons to be grateful is well and good but the second lesson of the story is far more important: In the midst of problems thanksgiving needs to be expressed. Look at the story again with me. As Jesus entered this village this band of ten lepers ...

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