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1201. Lent 1

Mt 4:1-11 · Rom 5:12-21 · Gen 2:7 - 3:7 · Ps 32

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Russell F. Anderson

... importance of knowing who you are. All sin proceeds from a deluded or perverted sense of the self. In his baptism, Jesus received affirmation of his identity as the Son of God. In all of these temptations, Satan's tactic is to engender doubt in the mind of Jesus concerning the veracity of this identity. Satan led off his assault, "If you are the Son of God ...." When we think that we have to prove to ourselves or somebody else who we are or what we can do, we are already on thin ice. Text or pretext? It is ...

1202. Lent 4

Matthew 20:20-28, Matthew 20:17-19, John 9:35-41, John 9:13-34, Romans 8:1-17, Ephesians 4:17--5:21, 1 Samuel 16:1-13, John 9:1-12

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Russell F. Anderson

... kingdom. 1. The world honors those who attain fame, money, power and position 2. God glorified his son because he was willing to give his life for the world 3. God honors those who are willing to serve the needs of others Conclusion: Don't concern yourself with the values of this world. Lose yourself in serving the Lord. In the spring quarter of the 1981 Pulpit Resource, J. Glendon Harris draws an interesting analogy between Plato's Allegory Of The Cave and the state of those portrayed as spiritually blind ...

1203. Pentecost

1 Corinthians 12:1-11, Joel 2:28-32, John 7:25-44, Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13, John 20:19-23

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Russell F. Anderson

... is only one Spirit but various gifts that flow from the same Spirit. God is not in the business of turning out carbon copies, only first edition masterpieces. Gospel: John 7:37-39 Well within. Living in a semiarid part of the world, the Hebrews were always concerned that they be near a source of water. Aridity for the spirit is every bit as deadly as for the land. Jesus promises that those who come to him in faith will not only have their spiritual thirst quenched but that he will provide an artesian well ...

1204. Proper 14

Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 19:9-18, Jonah 2:1-10, Matthew 14:22-36, Romans 9:1-5; 10:5-15

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Russell F. Anderson

... the heart always leads to profession with the lips (v. 9) and our lives. Christian faith is never purely a private matter. Epistle: Romans 9:1-5 The witness of conscience. Paul uses an interesting statement when he is trying to establish the credibility of his concern for the spiritual well-being of his people. He states: "My conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit" (v. 1). Paul connects his conscience to the Holy Spirit, which informs it. If conscience is to point to that which is good and true, it must ...

1205. Proper 15

Mt 15:10-28 · Rom 11:13-15, 29-32 · Gen 45:1-15 · Is 56:1-7 · Ps 133

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Russell F. Anderson

... 56:1 (2-5) 6-8 Good news for outcasts. This lesson speaks to two sets of outcasts. The Israelites were outcasts and God was promising to bring them back to their homeland and the holy city. The Gentiles were also outcasts, as far as the Jews were concerned. The prophet foresees a time when they will be part of the family of God, ministering to the Lord and worshipping him in the holy temple. Both Jew and Gentile, those on the inside and those on the outside, are outcasts. The common denominator is sin. God ...

1206. Proper 4

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Deuteronomy 11:1-32, Matthew 7:21-29, Romans 1:1-17, Romans 3:21-31

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Russell F. Anderson

... issue that is crucial to the state of religion in American culture. How can I connect my faith, my religion, with my everyday existence? The membership in mainline Protestant churches continues to hemorrhage because we have neglected this vital concern. Consequently, church members increasingly feel that the institutional expression of religion is irrelevant to where they live. George Gallup discovered in 1988 that the number of unchurched in America had increased some three percent. This equates to a loss ...

1207. Those Who Mourn

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John A. Terry

... to seek strength and consolation beyond ourselves. Blessed is the person who cares intensely for the suffering and the sorrows and the needs of others. Blessed is the one who knows God is the ultimate source of our comfort. Mourning is a response of deep concern, of tender care. It is a godly sorrow. And God has promised that in sharing our sorrow, we shall be strengthened and encouraged. When I was working as the chaplain of an adolescent psychiatric hospital, I was asked to lead a group for patients who ...

1208. The Pure In Heart

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John A. Terry

... for proof. He wanted just what his namesake, the disciple Philip, wanted. He believed that if he could just see God, he would be satisfied and life would be whole. As he sat there, a friend came along whose name also happened to be Philip. Phil Mitchell shared the heavy concerns of his heart with the friend, saying, "I feel so immature, so childish in my faith. All I seem to know of God is what I see of him in the lives of other people. That's all that is convincing and it's so inadequate." Of the statement ...

1209. The Persecuted

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John A. Terry

... When we try to be the best Christians we can, but find ourselves being reviled and persecuted, having all kinds of evil uttered against us falsely, we can say it is not fair, which it is not. If our concern is our immediate reward, we will pity ourselves for the injustice done us. However, if our concern is to do what we do for Jesus' sake, then the things that happen to us are seen in the larger context of these Beatitudes. In fact, the normal and healthy response to being reviled and persecuted and having ...

1210. The Warrior And The Shepherd Are One!

Isaiah 40:1-31

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Harold Warlick

... not only a triumphant return but a new understanding of her role in life. She not only has to experience some kind of magnified warrior but prepare herself to respond in kind to the same type of tender care that is shepherding her. Personal regeneration and social concern are fused into one vocation as early as 2500 years ago. She has to walk in the same way in which her God walks. There is a strong ethical meaning in the very process of her redemption. Her tradition of chosenness and redemption is now set ...

1211. Jesus: The Only Way To God?

Acts 4:1-22

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E. Carver McGriff

... mortals. Jesus' interpretation of the nature of God is unique. He taught of a God who is also intimately, lovingly present to us. He used a wonderful story which we find in Luke to define the concept of "Father." We know the story of The Lost Boy. It concerns a young fellow who persuaded his dad to give him an apparently large sum of money as an advance on his inheritance. The dad was wise enough to know that when young people reach a certain age, the juices start to flow and they're ready to break free ...

1212. The Sadness Of God

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

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E. Carver McGriff

... boy stumbled home, obviously having had way too much to drink. He ignored his parents, staggered up the stairs and disappeared into his room. For a time the parents sat before the hearth fire in silence. Finally, Mother got up and left the room. After a time Dad, concerned for his wife, went upstairs and peeked in his son's room. The boy lay sound asleep on his bed. As the father watched, his wife, who was sitting quietly nearby, leaned over and gently kissed her son's cheek. When she looked up and saw her ...

1213. Wind -- Word -- Spirit -- Community

Acts 2:1-13

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Arthur H. Kolsti

... another person evoked the response, "You have just made my day." Words, words, words! Words that hurt and words that heal. Words that set person against person, group against group. Words that disrupt community and words that create community. You and I have a central concern with words, for in the kingdom enterprise we traffic in words. The imperatives of our Lord involve us in the use of words. The Word, capital W, is central to our experience. "The Word, the Word, I say, is the bearer of grace." Luther ...

1214. Learning to Live Without Jesus

John 16:5-16, John 15:18--16:4

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William G. Carter

... would be held accountable if I didn't tell you the truth." By this point, dying wouldn't have been so bad. At least she would have been free of silly fools in Christian bookstores. Somehow she found the strength to speak to him. She said, "If you're so concerned with truth, let me tell you what I know. In life and death, I belong to God. God called me to serve him, regardless of whether or not that's written down in your Bible. My 'place' was choosing to obey him. I believe the Holy Spirit led me into ...

1215. Can Christians Dance?

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William G. Carter

... is hungry and traveling through a neighbor's field, it is legal to take your neighbor's excess food. That's what neighbors are for: to keep one another well-fed (Deuteronomy 23:25). On the other hand, that particular day was the Sabbath. And everybody knew the rules concerning the Holy Day of God. "Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work -- you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox ...

1216. Have You Heard The Good News?

Mark 1:1-8

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John A. Stroman

... made to the people of the first century was to reveal a God who cares desperately, a God who is involved in human situations. Against the backdrop of this first century world that considered all the deities as being insulated from human need and emotionless to human concern comes the good news of Jesus Christ. Barbara Taylor Brown reminds us that "when you look at him (Jesus), you see God. When you listen to him, you hear God. Not because he has taken God's place, but because he is the clear window God has ...

1217. Hate Evil

John 3:1-21

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Harry N. Huxhold

... the freedom under God in the desert. In the same way the world is in the dark today. There is all kind of evidence to support that also. There was a time when the great thinkers of the world, the philosophers, struggled with the great questions concerning life. The philosophers of the past wrestled with questions about God and the nature of people. Today that exercise of stretching the mind to try to touch God is over. Philosophers have declared bankruptcy on that score. They simply feel that the questions ...

1218. Reach Out And Touch Someone

Mark 5:21-43

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Brett Blair

... flow from me." Whatever happened the important matter of course is that in the midst of the crowd, Christ felt the touch of a single person. Don't ever say that in the enormity of the cosmos God cannot care about my concerns and me. Not only does God care, he actually solicits our concerns "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you peace." Daughter, said Jesus (and I might add parenthetically at this point that that is the only recorded time in scripture that Jesus used that term ...

1219. Those Who Mourn

Isaiah 40:1-31

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John A. Terry

1220. The Pure In Heart

Psalm 42:1-11

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John A. Terry

1221. The Persecuted

John 15:18-27

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John A. Terry

1222. A Man with Leprosy

Mark 1:40-45

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Richard A. Jensen

... -formed way of telling us what faith is. Faith is people in deep need who come to Jesus in their desperation! In the case of the leper we could add to this definition. The leper comes believing that Jesus does, indeed, have authority over leprosy. (Remember the discussion concerning Jesus' authority in the story told in Mark 1:21-28, see v. 27.) "If you choose," the leper says to Jesus, "you can make me clean." A man in need comes to Jesus, trusting that Jesus has the authority in his word to make him clean ...

1223. A Solitary Witness

Mark 6:14-29

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Leonard H. Budd

... that the chains had rubbed raw the young skin. Never mind that the healing would take time, and would leave a life-long scar. Never mind that the cut, extending clear around his ankle, hurt with each step. Marcus was a slave. One did not have such concerns about slaves. They were expendable, like the clay tablets that the money counters used. And, even if someone did care about the new slave, there were much more important things to think about. Herod's palace had been in an uproar since the jailing of the ...

1224. Holy Arithmetic

John 6:1-15

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Donald Macleod

... perceived they were about to take him by force and make him a king, he withdrew again to the hills by himself." His ministry was besieged increasingly now by the crowds. His private life was shrinking. The needy, the curious (Nicodemus, for example), the concerned beleaguered him by day and night. The crowds, however, wanted to add (revive the lost glories of Israel); subtract (smash Rome); divide (carve out a new Jewish empire); but Jesus wanted to plant, in each soul, the seedling of God's kingdom and, by ...

1225. How Can We Restore the Christian Home?

Mark 10:1-12

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Donald Macleod

... are other exceptions: someone was the product of a broken home and, by some grace, rose above it. Nevertheless, the facts of history, past and present, present us with a more or less preliminary question: what should we work towards, as far as the contemporary home is concerned? We have tried many remedies, but these have merely taught us that we cannot patch up a mess. Maybe the Gospel of the New Testament has something to tell us, if only we could take time to read and listen. Let us come to Jesus where ...

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