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1176. The Things That Are God’s

Matthew 22:15-22

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... them the truth that was surely there, they had to ask of themselves some troubling questions. "Have I rendered to God my life, which life bears His image and likekess?" "Have I surrendered to Caesar what rightfully belongs to God?" Have I lost, God forbid, the ability to feel the tension between my fidelity to God and all my other obligations?" I suspect that those concerns were on at least a few minds. Tennyson has a relevant verse concerning the knights of Arthur’s Round Table: For good ye are and bad ...

1177. In Defense of the One-Talent Servant

Matthew 25:14-30

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... only the one talent entrusted to your care. One-Talent: (speaking in meek and tender voice, seeking to win over the minds and hearts of all present) Your Honor, I, well, I guess I was just afraid. Afraid I might fail. I’m not blessed with a lot of natural ability, your Honor. Oh, I can work alright; I’m not afraid of work. Ask anybody. But that one talent was it, all I had been given. You know how things are these days. The market goes up and down like a roller coaster; we have even seen some long ...

1178. The Penalty for Betraying God’s Trust

Numbers 27:12-23

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... him to complete that with which he had begun in the name of the Lord? With people, who have been called by God to special service and ministry, particularly the ordained ministry, it is critical that they keep God’s trust in them to the best of their ability. To betray that trust in any way tends to break down the faith in God of the people they are ministering to, or leading in various ways. The least that happens is that they become spiritually confused and do not know what to believe or do. Not long ...

1179. What the End Will Be Like

Zephaniah 1:4-13

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... save me and others, but He healed our wounds. And so I have a love affair with America because the healing process took place in the land of the free ... and that gave me the courage and the motivation and the determination to use whatever abilities I have to seek religious understanding, tolerance and religious freedom for those who are deprived of it in countries which lack the religious freedom which we enjoy. Rabbi Schneier is like all of us, but different. He says, "I would say that the two significant ...

1180. What To Do When Everyone's Doing It

Judges 6:1-40

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Harold Warlick

... to do?" he roared. I'm more realistic than W. T. Leitze. I don't expect massive change. But I do have hope for some change on our campus and some change in the world. It's been said that the degree, B.A., stands for bachelor of abilities. To some degree it might. I know that whenever rationale is summoned for questionable behavior, the first line of defense is the alibi: but everybody is doing it. In fact, talk to some people and you get the opinion that everyone is drinking to excess; everyone is sexually ...

1181. Power

2 Corinthians 6:7

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Harold Warlick

... her almost to the brink, and then knock everything off the wall and start over. At other times God would take all the irritation he could handle from Israel herself. Then he would use another nation to knock Israel off the wall. Power! Certainly power is the ability to forcefully effect a change. One of the critical issues in the ministry of Jesus Christ was this issue of power. He contended that most of us do not understand the way God uses power. We often ask, "Why does this powerful God allow so much ...

1182. The Cracking Point

Mark 12:1-12

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Harold Warlick

... own ambition wildly leads us to covet things that are not ours, we crack up. When we sever relationships with other people and jealously try to steal for ourselves the integrity of those other people, we crack up. But humans and God have in common more than the ability to reach the cracking point and shout into the rain. "I just can't take it any more." We and God still live on after our cracking points. There's life beyond the cracking point. In fact what we do with life beyond the cracking point is more ...

1183. Wheels Instead Of Walls

Ezekiel 1:1-28

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Harold Warlick

... . He saw living creations. Beside each creature was a wheel. Each wheel seemed to intersect another wheel. When the living creatures rose, the wheels rose. If the creatures faced north, south, east or west, the wheels went in that direction. What a tremendous vision about the ability of God to move where the human creatures go. To a people who believed God was found within the walls of an ark, or a temple, or a city, or a nation, this was a shocking revelation. God doesn't have a favorite place, a favorite ...

1184. Christian Values: Order and Confusion

Isaiah 45:11

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Call to Worship Leader: God, our Creator, has given us the gift of creating in our ability to have children. Men: And he has given us the responsibility of creation in our obligation to raise those children. Women: In our job of parenting, we catch a glimpse of God’s responsibility to all of us, to his creation. Leader: What would we do if our children said, " ...

1185. The Christian Life Farmland

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

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Call to Worship Leader: Land that soaks up the rain and produces a useful crop for the farmer receives a blessing from God. It speaks to the ability of the farmer and the owner. Congregation: Land that produces thorns and weeds is worthless and in danger of being cursed. It speaks to the neglect of the farmer and brings reproach to the owner. Leader: Our lives are farms owned by God and under our own managemant. If we ...

1186. The Christian Life False Humility

Colossians 2:6-23

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... : Whatever good thing we do cannot remain good if it as done with a spirit of superiority, We are all equal in our inability to earn salvation. If God grants one the opportunity to hear certain speakers, another good judgment about appearance, and another the ability to eat temperately, let them all praise God for his goodness towards them. All: Only in connection with Christ can we truly be good. Only in connection with Christ can we keep from being puffed up. May we be in communion with him moment by ...

1187. Consecration Help Our Unbelief

Mark 9:14-32

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... . "Everything is possible for him who believes." Women: "I do believe; help me overcome my Unbelief!" the fat her exclaimed. The boy was freed of the demon. All: Help us overcome our unbelief today, Lord. Cancel our doubts about your love and power. Replace them with unshakable trust in your ability to take care of our every need. Amen.

1188. The Collateral Damage of Our Attitudes

Luke 16:19-31

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Brett Blair

... this morning. It was the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. And this is the second thing we can learn from this parable. Some people you have to shake in order to wake. Money, power, material possessions can become such strong distractions they effect our ability to share with others. In figurative language, Jesus creates stark images of a rich man burning in hell because he ignored the poor man in front of his home. It is a disturbing image. But, sometimes disturbing images are what we need to shape our ...

1189. The Master Has Come - And Is Calling For You

John 11:38-44

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... . That is the third thing to remember. When Jesus called Lazarus out of the tomb he said to those standing nearby, "Unbind him, and set him free." Jesus used those people to remove the cloth bindings from Lazarus - to unwrap and unbind him. It took no particular talent or ability to do it - just the willingness to help. The Master can use us, whatever we are, whatever we can do, whether or not we think we can even do anything. He can use us to set someone free. He can use us to lift someone’s hope. He can ...

1190. The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

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Thomas D. Peterson

... she carved out as her own. At last Jesus got her attention. "Certainly," she said, "you are a prophet." Then, as though she had opened too wide, she instructed Jesus again. "Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; you say Jerusalem is the only place to worship." Her ability to keep everything and everyone at arm’s length was still at work. But this time, that which had preserved her life came to the end of its usefulness. She was in the presence of the Truth of God in Jesus. Here was someone mightier than ...

1191. Responding to Christ's Birth

Matthew 2:1-12

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... . Revelation is like the Kingdom of God not only by its immediate worth but also by its instrumental value in leading to secondary goods, and revelation proves itself to be revelation of reality not only by its intrinsic verity, but also by its ability to guide people to many other truths. Disciples of Jesus, having been led to "many other truths," can expect both affirmation and rejection. Therefore, there are two reactions to the appearance of the Messiah: homage and rejection. It is too easy and clean ...

1192. Settling Our Differences

Matthew 5:21-26

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Joe Pennel

... in books and enacted by legislators, will not take us far enough. We can pass all of the legislation we wish; but, if our hearts do not change, we will find ways to deny women opportunities which correspond with their interests and their abilities. Jesus did not say, "Let your righteousness be based upon a whim morality." Nor did he say, "Let your righteousness be based upon what your reference group thinks." Nor did he utter, "Let your righteousness be based upon what everybody else does." In justifying ...

1193. Fog-Clearing Moments

Matthew 17:1-13

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... with a knife. That is, they stayed with him until the cross loomed large and heavy. Then they deserted. But, until then, they followed though the way was not clear. Perhaps the story of the Transfiguration gives us a clue to understanding the disciples' ability to follow, even when they did not understand. Jesus took four of the disciples with him to a high mountain. While there, he was transfigured before them. His face became as bright as the sun. His garments became as white as light. Moses and Elijah ...

1194. The Doubting Sum

Matthew 28:16-20

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... ? It is easy for us to tell others what to do, isn’t it? But if you and I want to change we need help. This help comes not in a quick fix or a fad diet. It comes rather in a changed attitude. Change requires hard work and the ability to hang in there like the Christian in that old classic The Pilgrim's Progress. We have had enough of fads haven’t we? Somehow you and I want to change into faithful, dynamic, courageous Christians. How can we do this? Let me suggest a few aids: 1. Start looking ...

1195. Epiphany 6

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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... to our confession of our sin. 4. Jesus' ethical and moral teachings constantly make it clear to us that we have to depend entirely on him - and the grace of God - for our salvation. The law, especially as Jesus gave it new interpretation, will always be beyond our ability - or even our will - to fulfill it. Jesus' teachings about the law, ethics, and morals, in this light, turn us toward the Gospel and Jesus only, if we are to have any hope at all. Deuteronomy 30:15-30 - "God's Idea of 'the Good Life.' " 1 ...

1196. 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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... 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 that he and Sarah ...

1197. Proper 10 & Pentecost 8

Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 65:1-13, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 8:18-27, Exodus 2:11-25, Matthew 13:1-23

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... germinate and grow because it is good. Isaiah knew that long before Jesus gave the parable of sower, seed, and soil. 2. The inhospitable soil. That's what the church often encounters when the good news is proclaimed to people. Some Christians wonder about the ability of God to reach human hearts and turn them to himself, when he is unable to guarantee an actual harvest in the fields in many parts of the world. Droughts and devastating famines occur just about every year. Numerous people cannot begin to sing ...

1198. Proper 17 & Pentecost 15

Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Exodus 19:1-25, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Psalm 114:1-8, Psalm 63:1-11

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... , life tends to be like that for many people. 2. God speaks again - he was still with them. The people of Israel felt only the absence, rather than the presence, of God when they were in trouble. Like them, we doubt God's concern and even his ability to come to our aid, and we test him. God assured Moses -and us, in Jesus - that he will attend the summit; he is always present. 3. God trusts again - That's what sacred history, before and after Jesus' ministry, continues to tell us. His presence in ...

1199. The Effect of Leprosy

Luke 17:11-19

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Brett Blair

... a bone had broken in his ankle. By overriding pain's warning system with the anesthetic, the doctor had caused permanent damage and ended the basketball career of Bob Gross. Leprosy has the same end result. It ends the life of the person it infects because it destroys the bodies ability to feel pain. Note: Quotation from Rev. Yancy is from Where Is God When It Hurts, p. 34.

1200. The Prodigal Prince

2 Samuel 14:1-33

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... sheepfold. Joab decided to revive the spirits of his commander in chief. He traveled to Tekoa, which would later cradle the head of the prophet Amos. There, on the outskirts of the barren Judean desert, he met a wise woman noted for her storytelling ability. Together Joab and the old crone created a fictitious parable. The woman dressed in black as if she were mourning. Joab saw to it that she was allowed to pass through the checkpoints guarding the entrance to the palace of Zion, usually as impregnable ...

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