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101. Easter Day

John 20:1-9, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalm 118:1-29, Acts 10:23b-48

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... Jesus was indeed gone from the grave. Oddly enough, nothing is known about his reaction, but the other disciple, once he finally entered the tomb, believed that Christ had risen from the grave. Most of us, like Peter, have to have more evidence than an empty tomb or discarded death wrappings. Even the Shroud of Turin can't make believers of most of us, can it? Even if it were proved beyond a doubt to be the cloth that Christ had been wrapped in when he was taken down from the cross, that would not make it ...

102. The Holy Trinity

Psalm 150:1-6, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 29:1-11, Matthew 28:16-20, John 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Genesis 1:1-2:3, Exodus 34:1-28

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... save people from sin and death - and God was willing to take that action in Jesus Christ. Jesus' cross is the sign of salvation - not condemnation - offered by God for the creatures he created in his own image. For some reason or other, God could not discard his creatures and start all over again. People are too loved by God to throw away! 3. Believe! Believe! - For that is the only way you can receive the gift - salvation - which God offers in Jesus Christ the Lord. Salvation can never be earned by human ...

103. Proper 27 & Pentecost 25

Psalm 50:1-23, Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 63:1-11, Amos 5:18-27, Hosea 11:1-11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, Matthew 25:14-30

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... the profitable servants from the unprofitable ones, according to their production, or lack of it, on behalf of their Lord. Those who love and fear the Lord - and prove to be profitable servants - will be rewarded by the Lord; the others will be discarded ("into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth"). SERMON SUGGESTIONS Matthew 25:1-13 (R, E, C) See the sermon suggestion from the Lutheran reading for Pentecost 24. Matthew 25:14-30 (L) - "In the Meantime...." "The Madonna of ...

104. The Fashioning of Christians

Ezekiel 36:1-38

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... manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:22-24) The clothes that early Christians discarded as they stepped into the baptistery represented the "old nature" the former, sinful person that was about to be left behind. Saint Cyril writes that entering the baptismal waters in the nude was a symbol for a return to the innocence of the Garden ...

105. Kingdoms In Conflict

Daniel 2:24-49

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Bill Bouknight

... that point in construction, the cornerstone was needed. The chief builder sent word to the quarries, "Why haven’t you sent me the cornerstone on schedule?" The reply came back. "We did send it." The cornerstone was that strange looking stone that had been discarded. Luke, knowing that bit of history, used that incident as a metaphor. Writing in Acts 4, verses 11 and 12, he said, "He (Jesus) is the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone. Salvation is found in no one else, for there ...

106. Oppression and Liberty

Psalm 100:1-5

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Brett Blair

... government but also, it served as a vivid reminder of the tremendous liberties we enjoy. The Associated Press reported that on Monday, "In Mazar-e-Sharif, men lined up at barber shops to have their Taliban-mandated beards shaved off. Women were discarding their all-encompassing burqas, and music (banned by the Taliban) could be heard coming from cassette players in shops". This Thursday we will all sit down to a Thanksgiving meal. The holiday has been transformed by these last two months into a penetrating ...

107. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... told us about himself, we exclaim, "There is none like our God, no, not one!" Knowing God is all that we said, we want to shout, "My God, how wonderful thou art!" Is this gracious and glorious God really your God? If not, this very day, yes, this very hour, discard your false god and by faith declare with Thomas: "My Lord and my God!"

108. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... one of the east of these, my brethren, you have done it to me." In the movie, Gandhi appears at the beginning as a well-dressed young lawyer, wearing an impeccable business suit as lawyers of his day did. Later, he identified with the common people by discarding the lawyer’s suit for a homespun native cotton robe which looked like an oversized diaper. Likewise, Jesus identified with the poor and outcast to the extent that one can see Jesus in the plight of needy people. There is a legend about a woman who ...

109. The Danger of Being Religious

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... . What happened to the condition of religion in the sixteenth century also took place in the sixth century B.C., when Jeremiah lived. The religion of Judah was in a deplorable condition. It was so rotten that God told Jeremiah that it should be discarded and abandoned for a new religion, a new covenant. God inferred that the old religion of Judaism was too far gone to be repaired, reformed, or rejuvenated. God promised Jeremiah that he would make a new start, give Israel another chance, and inaugurate a ...

110. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

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Robert G. Tuttle

... . When he was pastor of the Myers Park (Charlotte, North Carolina) Baptist Church, he was watching, as he waited for someone, the janitor tidying up the sanctuary after the morning service. He was picking up such articles as lost umbrellas, old gloves, discarded bulletins. Dr. Marney was thinking out loud: "If this service had really been effective, many other things would be gathered up by the janitor: Some man’s deep sorrow, a woman’s disappointment, another person’s private quarrel with God and man ...

111. The Joy of Being a Caring Person

Mt 25:31-46 · Lk 16:19-31

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Robert G. Tuttle

... Lazarus away. He didn’t even see him. William Barclay reminds us that in a wealthy home of those days there were no spoons. People ate greasy foods with their hands and wiped their hands on hunks of bread, and then threw the bread away. Evidently, this discarded bread was what Lazarus was living on. In his story, Jesus reveals a switch in the whole situation. Life is not really the way it looks on the surface - not at all. Lazarus is amazed upon death to find himself in heaven. Dives is equally amazed to ...

112. The Only Fact That Really Matters

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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Raymond Gibson

... pastor I know prepared 200 church bulletins for the day. In each bulletin was inserted a leaflet which contained the Resurrection account from the Gospel of Luke. At the end of the day, he was able to gather up only forty bulletins, but the number of discarded Scripture inserts amounted to almost double that number. Apparently, the words typed on a church bulletin were of more interest to many people than the Word of God. The Bible is the revealed Word of God, a record of God’s self-giving, a statement of ...

113. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

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Robert Noblett

... to be unworthy. A dent in the bell of a trumpet is not going to effect the sound of the instrument one little bit. And to in effect hang a sign over the life of a handicapped individual that reads "useless" makes about as much sense as discarding a dozen jelly donuts because one has been found bereft of jelly! Easily could we compile a lengthy list of very impressive people who functioned in an exemplary way with a handicap. Lord Byron, the English poet, had a club foot. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a ...

114. On Being a Tenant

Matthew 21:33-46

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... what a responsibility and privilege that is. And then it tells us Jesus has a certain claim on us because of the sacrifice he made for us. The parable ends with a picture of the stone. Jesus said that the stone which the builders had discarded became the most important stone of all. The picture comes from Psalms 118:22: "The stone which the builders rejected is become the headstone of the corner." Originally the Psalmist was talking about the nation of Israel; and in this parable certainly Jesus meant that ...

115. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... s will that must be done. So we not only are citizens, we are also the conscience of our government - we have an extra responsibility in our citizenship. Charles L. Wallis wrote: "For many years the famous and now fortunately discarded motto which a leading newspaper blazoned across its editorial masthead, ‘My country, right or wrong!’ was the accepted philosophy of too many patriotic Americans. Today the truly patriotic American accepts John Sutherland Bonnell’s revised version: ‘My country, when ...

116. Achieving An All-In Victory - 1952

1 John 5:1-12

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Kent Moorehead

... be lightly dismissed. Plenty of sophisticated scoffers certainly have been munching the core sufficiently to suffer the same unfortunate results so clearly described in that timeless tale. The idea of the Devil, only a little while ago so definitely discarded by so many moderns, has been brought back into our contemporary literature with such persuasive plausibility by such urbane writers as C. S. Lewis that even the most disillusioned doubters applaud. But perhaps the most highly accredited explanations of ...

117. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... greatness of God." The second wrapping from which I need to be set free is guilt. The Gospel at Christmas tells it clearly, "She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). We can never discard the words like "sin" and "guilt." If we do we shall only have to manufacture new ones for them. Sin is pictured in the Old Testament as "missing the mark." God’s moral order has been violated. Man has fallen short of what he was made to be. And ...

118. Judgement Day Is Coming

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

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Bill Bouknight

... that, you will terrorize people." Today many Christians are being herded aboard another train of false promises called universalism. It is the belief that all persons are bound for heaven whether they wish it or not. Scriptural verses contradicting this false belief are discarded as spurious additions by early churchmen with hearts full of judgment. But real love does not tell people what they want to hear; real love tells the truth. It does not pretend that a train to Auschwitz is a train to triumph. One ...

119. Humankind: The Climax of Creation

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Bill Bouknight

... , and shavers. I am told that they even have disposable wedding gowns! Now, we know some of the problems that come with this disposability mania. We are trashing our oceans and landscapes. Unless we learn to recycle more, we will choke on our own discarded junk. But there is an even more significant problem: we sometimes regard human beings as cheap and disposable. Recently a young woman left her high school prom, went to the bathroom, had a baby, disposed of it, and returned to the dance. Dr. Kavorkian ...

120. Judgment Day is Coming (Adapted)

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

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Bill Bouknight

121. A Steadfast Love

Psalm 103:1-22

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Larry Powell

... and Ira Sankey boarded a train in Glasgow, Scotland, on their way to Edinburgh where Moody was to preach and Sankey was to lead the singing. Sankey perused a newspaper while Moody tended to some correspondence and jotted down notes for his sermon. Sankey was about to discard the newspaper when he noticed a little poem appearing in the corner of one of the pages. It had been written by a little orphaned Scottish girl who had died five years before the Glasgow paper had printed it as a "filler." Her name was ...

122. The More Excellent Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Robert Allen

... by the corner of the building. They began going through the trash, and I thought they were collecting the cola cans in the dumpster to sell. But they were doing something else ... something that startled me. They were collecting scraps of food that had been discarded. They were picking up half-eaten sandwiches; they were shaking potato chip bags to see if there were any crumbs left in them; they were salvaging what food they could from the trash dumpster. Here were three human beings in the shadow of our ...

123. Resurrection: From Sin to a Second Chance

Psalm 23:1-6

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Leonard H. Budd

... self-deception when we start lying to ourselves. One of the most effective lies begins with the words, "At least I’m not ..." Perhaps David said to himself, "I may be an adulterer, but at least I’m not the kind of man who just uses a woman and then discards her. I may have arranged for Uriah’s death in battle, but at least I’m not a cold-blooded murderer." We need to be aware of the "at-least-I’m-not" game right now while we listen to David’s story. It is easy for any of us ...

124. Christmas Gift

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Thomas D. Peterson

... with mystery. Indeed, the jacket or pants that clothed me was cloaked in promises that went beyond it. After all, it was a Christmas gift, and I wore it proudly until day gave way to day and its mystery wore down to a practical use, and it was eventually discarded. Know you what it is to be a child? ... it is to be so little that elves can whisper in your ear: it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything ... it is to know not as yet that you ...

125. What Do We Do Now That We’re Happy?

Isaiah 62:1-12

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Thomas D. Peterson

... in our lives the reality of our two sayings: what do we do now that we’re happy? and, the only thing worse than not getting what we want is getting it. Now that we’re happy - Christmas builds up to such a frenzy that the crush of discarded paper, broken toys, hurt feelings, slighted hopes, and shattered expectations cause the day to slide out from under us just as the earth does to a skier on a steep slope. I remember Christmas after Christmas when I was young, the feeling of being lost when the final ...

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101. Easter Day

John 20:1-9, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalm 118:1-29, Acts 10:23b-48

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102. The Holy Trinity

Psalm 150:1-6, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 29:1-11, Matthew 28:16-20, John 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Genesis 1:1-2:3, Exodus 34:1-28

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103. Proper 27 & Pentecost 25

Psalm 50:1-23, Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 63:1-11, Amos 5:18-27, Hosea 11:1-11, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, Matthew 25:14-30

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104. The Fashioning of Christians

Ezekiel 36:1-38

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105. Kingdoms In Conflict

Daniel 2:24-49

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Bill Bouknight

106. Oppression and Liberty