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1151. They Crucified Our Lord

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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... and body wastes? A medical analysis of death on the cross leaves little to the imagination. Crucifixion resulted in severe pain because the body was hanging on nails through the wrists. The muscles extending from chest to arm were stretched and nearly stopped the ability to breathe, as they held the chest expanded. Little oxygen reached the muscles, which led to spasms and severed tendons. To relieve the pain in the arms, hands, and chest, the victim would try to push himself up using the nails through his ...

1152. God Is No Respecter Of Persons

Acts 10:23b-48

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... Could it be this same humiliated saint was the perfect choice to tell the foreigner of God's grace? God is no respecter of persons - he is not partial to one race over another, once class over another, one nation over another. Our human accomplishments and abilities simply are not very impressive to the Almighty. If God doesn't show us the same respect others do, it may be because he remembers better than we, the source of our beauty and brains, our talent and treasures. Like a child on Christmas night, who ...

1153. God in a Glimpse

Acts 17:16-34

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... novels, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey that inner voice we all have was unknown as a conscience - they called it the voice of the gods. They were not far wrong. Think of the mind's awareness of an order to existence beyond our five senses, our ability to awe and wonder, our urge to worship so all civilization has some diety. How could this longing be just an unsatisfiable illusion? Hasn't God, instead, stamped his divine image on us? He made people, said Paul, "that they should seek God in the hope they ...

1154. Chosen as Witnesses

Acts 10:23b-48

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... . I can tell you what it can mean. It can mean the most wonderful, glorious, liberating, exciting, enduring life that anyone can imagine. It can mean being fully alive right now and being able to live forever, with a reason to celebrate your life. It is not based on your ability to deserve it or to earn it. It is not based on your goodness. It is based on God’s goodness and faithfulness and your faith to embrace it as your own. God loves you. That is why you live and that is how you can live forever. So I ...

1155. The Source of Power

Acts 1:1-11

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... because of what we are afraid they might do to us. God can save us. When we claim that it is possible for us just to be and therefore to be present and to receive the presence of another, there is a tremendous energy in that. Intimacy and the ability genuinely to communicate is one of the most powerful, enabling experiences of life. When you have it you feel you can turn the world upside down. You feel free to celebrate life. Jesus assured us of the presence and the power of God in our lives through the ...

1156. Proper 17

Lk 14:1, 7-14 · Heb 12:18-19, 22-24; 13:1-8 · Eze 18:1-9, 25-29 · Prov 25:6-22

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John R. Brokhoff

... show what humility is and what it does in relation to one's self and others. Outline: What humility does A. In relation to you - vv. 7-11 1. Humility is not putting yourself down to the point of worthlessness nor the denial of value or ability. Humility is an honest knowledge of yourself, an acceptance of your true self: a sinner, servant, subject of the King. 2. Humility is knowing the source of your worth. A Christian recognizes that his strength, talents, and virtues come from God. He takes no credit for ...

1157. Reformation Sunday

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

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John R. Brokhoff

... from sin and death. It is all the work of God. Man has no part in it except to believe and accept it. This runs counter to today's humanism which insists that man is basically good and can take care of himself, if he will only believe in his ability. Luther called upon man to let God be God. It is the peculiar work of God to reconcile humanity. This does not appeal to the pride of man who wants to be self-made and self-sufficient. Outline: Let God save you. A. God saves by the truth revealed in ...

1158. Epiphany 4

Lk 4:21-30 · 1 Cor 13:1-13 · Jer 1:4-10

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John R. Brokhoff

... goose egg! Give your life to excellence in speaking or in knowledge, or in faith, or in personal sacrifice and without love you have nothing. Your life has been wasted. However, have love and the other items enrich and enforce life. A loveless life with every kind of ability is a useless, tragic life. 2. Not (vv. 4-6). When it comes to describing or defining something, often it is best to tell what a thing is not. It is a reverse way of getting to the truth. Paul uses this device when he explains the nature ...

1159. Proper 15

Matthew 15:21-28

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Call to Worship Pastor: Many barriers come between God and his people, limiting his ability to give wholeness. People: It seemed the Canaanite woman would be rejected; but her faith overcame her barriers, and brought healing to her daughter. Pastor: The gift of faith is available to everyone, and breaks through any barrier to God's grace. People: May God give us faith to overcome ...

1160. Proper 18

Romans 13:1-7

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... who abuse us; for they too, are God's children. People: May our lives become instruments of God whereby he can bring peace and joy to our world. Collect Eternal God, our heavenly Father, who loves us even when we are unlovable: Grant us the desire and ability to love one another with sincerity, that the example of your children may usher in the day of peace and brotherhood. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear Father, we know our high calling is to love; and we do profess our ...

1161. The Cost of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-35

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Brett Blair

... was traveling with Jesus. Now, in large crowds you will have many motives. Some, in this crowd, are following because they have seen Jesus feed a multitude of people and they are waiting to be fed. Some are following because they have heard of Jesus’ ability to heal and they are waiting for an opportunity to approach him and be healed. Still others are following for the excitement. It is safe to say that only a few are truly committed to this itinerant preachers teaching. Aware of their multiplicity of ...

1162. Parable of the Three Stewards

Matthew 25:14-30

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... he expects us to invest ourselves in it, that life may become more rewarding. People: May God help us be faithful with our stewardship, as we invest our lives in the joy of his love. Collect Gracious Father, whose gift of life includes abilities which demand responsibility: Keep us faithful in commiting our whole being to living the Christian life, that discipleship may lead us into an ever growing and maturing experience of salvation through Christ. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Father ...

1163. Third Sunday in Lent

Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 5:1-11, John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42

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... today through all kinds of hardships: Melt the hardness of our hearts; that we may not bring you hurt, but give you the joy of our love and devotion. We pray in our Savior's name. Amen. Prayer of Confession You have blessed us beyond our ability to be blessed, Father; and so we occupy ourselves with finding fault and voicing our complaints. Forgive us for hardened hearts when we ought to be bubbling over with joy for our redemption. Make the refreshing salvation of Christ known to us, that our thirst for ...

1164. Deliverance by a Dream

Matthew 2:13-18

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... child; the other was Joseph’s. Joseph seems to have been directed and guided by dreams more than anything else in the crucial decisions he had to make about Mary and Jesus. In this, he was a bit like Radar O’Reilly in M*A *S*H, who had the ability to hear helicopters before anyone else could hear them; he had a kind of sixth sense, a special type of intuition. When Colonel Potter took over command of M*A*S*H 4077, one of the first things he asked of Radar, as they were decorating the walls of the ...

1165. Beginning a Ministry

Matthew 4:18-22

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... never see. But his mother, Ethel, is a remarkable woman who accepted his blindness when he was quite young and determined to do all she could to enable him to get along on his own in the world. She has not worked since Calvin was born and has acquired the ability to be an extraordinary teacher. "Child," she once told him, "one day I won’t be here and I won’t be able to pick you up - so you have to try to be something on your own. You have to learn to deal with this (blindness), and to do ...

1166. Magic Mountain

Matthew 17:1-13

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... the other. And when I’m done, I’m going to untie the rope and let the people take the two pieces back to their seats with them," apparently, to try to figure out how he did the trick, or simply to wonder about it and marvel at his ability to do magic.52 If the disciples were at all inclined to think that what was happening was an act of magic, they soon changed their minds, because two other figures appeared and, immediately, they knew who they were - Moses and Elijah. Suddenly they knew that they were ...

1167. Daily Choice

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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... choice ... Lord, help me to choose life." I add that prayer because choosing life is not that easy. I believe that we choose evil spontaneously and willingly. Only God’s Spirit saves us from choosing death and curse. Moses’ command made us aware of our inner ability to choose life. Such an order leads us to despair of our own power of choice and to seek out help from God. So captive are we to death, that in our friendships, families, and careers our powers of choice are tilted toward destruction, misery ...

1168. Boundaries or Frontiers?

Leviticus 19:1-37

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... L. Shirer notes how in 1942 Hitler had stretched his frontiers so wide in Russia that he simply could not defend them anymore. Ignoring Field General Franz Halder’s advice, the Fuhrer dismissed him saying, "We need National Socialist ardor now, not professional ability. I cannot expect this of an officer of the old school such as you." Halder later described the Furhrer as "no longer a responsible warlord, but a political fanatic." The more Hitler’s vision of the Thousand Year Reich took over, the more ...

1169. Parking Lots and Traffic Jams

John 3:1-21

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Richard L. Thulin

... his self-surrender."1 He was and is among us as one who shares our common way. All in all, I guess the chartreuse and yellow bumper sticker and I did not do well together. There is no doubt that it warmed me. It openly claimed Jesus and implied his ability to help us in our need. But it kept wanting to turn the good news of God reaching me into the bad news of my having to reach God. It urged me to see Jesus in a place other than where the New Testament says he was and is, namely ...

1170. Walking the Streets

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:35-38

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Richard L. Thulin

... are greater than income. We cannot give the gifts away fast enough. God's treasure house cannot be emptied. What a marvelous task this is that gives shape to our days and send us out to spend what is not even ours! We need not worry about our abilities or our resources. What we need is given to us. Everything essential is supplied in exorbitant quantity. All we nee to do is spend it in his name. "Come," he says. "Go," he says. "Come, go and freely spend." 1. Cynthia Ozick, Art and Ardor: Essays. New York ...

1171. Invincible Harvest

Matthew 13:1-23

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... waving grain. Against all obstacles the harvest comes. The good soil even outdoes itself. A tenfold yield could be considered a successful harvest. This sower's yield peaks at ten times that amount. Jesus' story of the sower fairly bursts with confidence in the ability of God to complete what he has begun. The story insists that nothing can keep the harvest from coming. Nothing can keep the seed from yielding one hundred fold. In Matthew's language this means that the kingdom of heaven brought near in Jesus ...

1172. No Weedless Garden

Matthew 13:24-30

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Richard L. Thulin

... be, we are not telling him anything that he does not know already. "I know all about the weeds growing among the grain," he says. "But you are still my field. My care for you is not based upon your purity. My esteem for you does not depend upon your ability to uproot weeds. You are not pure. Weeds are mingled with your wheat. But you are still my field." Not only is there nothing that we can hide from God, but there is also no reason for us to try and hide anything. God knows all about us and it ...

1173. Communion Is Relief

Matthew 11:25-30

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... say if such a reporter asked me, "How do you spell relief?" I would say "J-E-S-U-S." Perhaps Rolaids can give physical relief but Jesus can give Spiritual relief. Rolaids might comfort a painful stomach but Jesus can comfort a broken heart. Rolaids may have the ability to calm a gaseous tummy, but Jesus has the power to calm a troubled soul. How would I spell Relief? - "J-E-S-U-S." We Christians believe that Jesus is with us today in a very special way. We believe that he is really present in the Sacrament ...

1174. Real Absence

Matthew 25:1-13

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... honest with others within and without the church about our own experiences of God’s absence, God’s delay, and God’s silence. They’ve experienced it too and have not likely come to terms with it. Your honesty may give another person the ability to wrap words around her emptiness and the permission to share that emptiness with you. And your love and understanding acceptance can be itself a sign of God’s presence breaking into the awful experience of God’s absence, the liberating power of God’s ...

1175. Possession is Nine Tenths of the Fall

Matthew 21:33-46

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D. Wayne Burkette

... life is an all-consuming need to be in control, to be our own gods. Mind you, the need to possess things is not intrinsically evil. Specialists in child development tell us that one of the essential steps in personality growth is a child’s ability to distinguish what belongs to him or her from the surrounding environment. Infants learn very early that the hand or foot they glimpse occasionally is theirs and not part of the crib. Later on, children learn, or should, that property which belongs to another ...

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