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101. A Father Looks at His Son - Joseph and Jesus

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... is also correct when it doesn't bother to make mention of me for unlike Mary, I wasn't. But, and this is where what I said earlier comes into play, what history has made of my absence at so crucial a point in the story amounts to some pretty fancy speculation. And because it's essential to my own story that I clear up this pointlet me use the words of your own Mark Twain to state emphatically how even at this point in the story "The reports of my deathare greatly exaggerated." Even at this point in the ...

102. To Be Somebody

Luke 19:1-10

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... the parents of Zaccheus must have built some castles in the air. I say that because of the name they chose for him. In their language, Zaccheus means, "The one who is pure and just." I’m guessing Zaccheus might also have had some dreams, flights of fancy about overcoming his handicap. Luke says he was "small of stature." We know how cruel children can be when somebody’s a bit different. "Shorty" and "Runt" are just two of the names they hurl around. It wouldn’t have been strange if more than once ...

103. Formula for Life

Amos 5:1-17

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... for real life as Amos and Jesus outline it for us? It is to seek the Lord, pursue good rather than evil, maintain faith-filled confidence in God, and appreciate the opportunity for fulfillment in living life attuned to the will and purpose of God. No magic; no fancy frills; no artificial inducements! Just faithful servants; loving children of a loving God. If we underscore the word "live," we may discover a special meaning in Paul’s words, so prized by Martin Luther, that "the just shall live by faith."

104. The Violence Within, The Violence Without

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

... appear in more subtle and even more devastating forms. The refinement of Pharisaic violence and fraud is one form. The doctrine of "What’s the use? what good will it do anyhow?" is another. The plain, ordinary "giving up" is another. The fancy words for it are anomie, acidia, indifference, malaise, boredom. "Not Pilate, not Herod, not Caiaphas, not Judas fastened on Jesus Christ the reproach of insipidity," writes Dorothy Sayers. "That was left for pious hands to inflict. To make of His story something ...

105. A Taste of God's Tomorrow

Matthew 14:13-21

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Glenn L. Borreson

... was that here was not more of the same, but here was God's promised Messiah. Here was God's promised future actually taking its beginning shape right there in their presence. What was tasted here? What did Jesus serve that day which makes fast food and fancy cuisine shrink by comparison? Let me spread out before you the table of Jesus. There was, first, the hunger of our need. I am speaking of that deep hunger of human need, whatever that need may be. Do not think that the crowds pursuing Jesus that day ...

106. Don't Go Near The Water

Matthew 7:24-29

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... a storm in sight." Or still again, I suppose a person might decide that there is always a way out, even if a storm does hit. "We'll worry about it when the time comes; I've seen some amazing things done with a block and tackle." This fanciful scenario seems more dangerous when played elsewhere. What person would be so stupid as to build his or her life without a foundation? Not many would claim that their lives are so worthless that it does not matter if they collapse. There are others, however, who seem ...

107. Scrape Away the Barnacles

Illustration

... on occasion they must have these barnacles removed. If this is not done periodically, a ship will run sluggishly, require an excessive amount of fuel, and move more slowly through the water. And barnacles have no respect for ships - they will grow equally as well on a fancy white yacht as on some creaky old tub. You and I, my friend, are a bit like ships. If we don't exercise extreme care, we can let barnacles grow on us. Our minds and spirits can become encrusted with an undergrowth of parasites which put ...

108. The Master Has Come - And Is Moved With Compassion

Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45

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... is moved with compassion. There are three things to remember about the compassion of Jesus. I We see the pain of love in incarnation. It is the compassion God felt for his creation that caused Him to send Jesus Christ into the world. "Incarnation" is a fancy word which means God took on human flesh, and came into our experience. The pain of love was the motive force behind that incarnation. "God so loved the world that he gave his only son ..." God knew this was necessary because in spite of everything he ...

109. The Life We Prize

Luke 9:18-27

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Various Authors

... himself going to his father and finding reconciliation. Fred finally went to his father’s bedside. The son said, "Dad, I love you and I ask you to forgive me for any way in which I have hurt you." The father shouted, "Why don’t you go back to your fancy living and just leave me alone!" Fred had the choice of whether to quit and to give up or to go to the Cross and to die to any claims for himself. He identified with Jesus’ humiliation and suffering. He went back again to a father who could only be ...

110. The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

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Thomas D. Peterson

... with a literal view. "Give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." If she had the water Jesus offered, she would not need to work any further to obtain drink. She would actually be in control of her life, even as she fancied herself to be in control. We see a pattern emerging. Everything the woman said to Jesus was an effort to justify her life. Was it selfishness? Ignorance? Lack of intelligence? I don’t think so. She must have been fairly well put together or she would not have ...

111. Worth More Than Anything

Philippians 3:8

Children's Sermon

... the book of Philippians. Paul had to give up a lot of things that we think are important, but things he was glad to give up so that he could teach people about Jesus. Paul said he was glad to give up things like beautiful clothes, a fine house, and fancy foods to teach people about Jesus. In those days it was against the law to tell others about Jesus, so Paul spent many days in prison. He also had to walk from town to town and work hard as a tentmaker so that he would have some food to eat ...

112. Responding to What We Hear and See

Matthew 11:1-19

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Joe Pennel

... . All those nice shepherds and angels, And we felt just awful about King Herod. Look at all we did for you. We made a national holiday in your honor. We built big industries around it - Christmas cards, Toy machine guns for the kiddies And all those fancy gift-wrapped whiskey bottles. We built pretty churches in your honor, Stained glass, organs, the works, And when the people moved away from the riff raff, The church followed them Straight out into the suburbs. Looking at all we've done for you, Jesus, Why ...

113. Searching for Peace

Matthew 10:1-42

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... . Jesus also attacked traditional theology with its lists of what one should do or not do. It is most unfortunate that much of modern Christianity has fallen back into this aspect of dogma. Aldous Huxley says in his book The Perennial Philosophy. It has been fancied that souls are saved if assent is given to what is locally regarded as the correct formula, lost if it is withheld ... To suppose that people can be saved by studying and giving assent to formulae is like supposing that one can get to Timbuktu ...

114. 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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... 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 would have a son in their old age. God took a seemingly impossible situation and turned it completely around in the conception ...

115. Proper 8 & Pentecost 6

2 Kings 4:8-37, Genesis 32:22-32, Psalm 89:1-52, Psalm 17:1-15, Isaiah 2:6-22, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon Aid

... of his time. He was worthy of her hospitality. 2. Believable prophets. They are commited to the Word they preach, and they live by the Word which has been given them by God. Their faith is Bible-based, not the result of mystical - or fanciful - experiences. 3. Surprise guest. Jesus himself comes to those who receive the prophets and preachers and believe the Word they deliver to people. Theirs indeed is a "prophet's reward" - the blessed assurance that they belong to God forever. Isaiah 2:10-17 (E) - "A ...

116. April Showers

1 Samuel 20:1-42

Sermon

... in the wilderness. He told them that the Son of David would come and that their worries about the coming of the Messiah would drown like a sparrow in the sea. Fear knocked on the door; faith answered; there was no one there. Faith is not a fancy Sunday go-to-meeting gentleman dismissed with the dispatch of a Sunday dinner. Alexander Maclaren, the doughty Scot, said faith to him was a visitor, ... When we are afraid ... we trust in God not in easy times when things are going smoothly with us. Not when the ...

117. The One Who Made His Cross

Drama

... You were so young! Didn’t it bother you? Mary At first it did. I felt nothing but guilt. I felt rotten and worthless and cheap each time it would happen. But after awhile, I stopped feeling anything. I became numb ... and empty. I put on some cheap jewelry, a fancy dress, and painted my face. I smiled ... Anna But you are not like that at all now. What happened? Mary One day I met Jesus. He was having supper at a Pharisee’s house. Of course, I hadn’t been invited, but I had heard so much about him ...

118. The Most Beautiful Sacrifice

Mark 14:1-11

Drama

... and bickered ... A MAN IN THE CONGREGATION: (Stands up and interrupts her description with a loud complaint) You know very well why they were shocked, too! You are talking about incredible waste here: 300 denarii ... two years’ wages ... for what? No one, especially Jesus, needs your fancy perfume. But there are many poor people who need the money. Why didn’t you remember them? THE WOMAN: (In an angry voice) Who are you to preach to me about the poor, or the oppressed? Do you know what it is to be poor ...

119. "The Return"

Drama

... person, but that part about your Bride being like you - clothing the naked, feeding the poor - why she never did any of that. Woman That’s a lie. I’ve fed lots of hungry. Liberal Lady Sure you have, chicky, with what was left after you bought the fancy clothes, cars and mansions, a summer home. Woman Lies, lies! I’ve lived quite modestly, and done all I could. Liberal Lady Yeah, sure. Here, ask him how much she helped him. (She grabs a skinny man in beggar’s clothes and pushes him up the aisle.) Ask ...

120. Train Whistle In The Night

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

... new religion. Machines and gadgets give us a sense of power, and it’s very real power ... so long as the machine or gadget works. But all of us have come to know all too well our moment of helplessness with a huge machine or a fancy gadget not working. So our human portrait becomes one of having power when the machine works and powerlessness when it doesn’t. And as we begin to define ourselves at personal computers or beside electronic ovens, Christ asks the hauntingly bothersome question - "Who are you ...

121. The Wizard of Yoj

Psalm 100:1-5

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Edward L. Palmer

... joy in your life." Few words in our language are used to span such a wide range of human experience - from our finest, peak moments, to the seamiest, pornographic hard core. If some opportunistic merchandiser thought joy could be captured in some fancy mechanical gadget with an electric motor, rotating base, and side panels, undoubtedly there would be one advertised in our latest mail order catalog. You can imagine the caption - the perfect gift for all ages, collects joy in three different sizes, only ...

122. This God’s For Real!

Matthew 16:13-20

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... of Choice, one people in a thousand who would not, could not, think of their God as a lifeless ornament, nor merely as one deity among a pantheon of equals. Israel came to know one they could only call "The Living God." The title wasn’t merely fancy language. Somehow, in the great mix of things, the Israelites were brought to know that there must be a living, overpowering force in whom all things were centered, who was not to be manipulated, who, in spite of all the "god-talk" they were hearing, was for ...

123. Opportunism? Or Opportunity?

Matthew 21:33-46

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... they would be profligate with anything entrusted to them. As the sequence closed, a young man in a spartan-looking foreign compact car (just incidentally, the product being advertised) brings up the rear, looking like a fool for having come. His clothes are not as fancy as the others, and his vehicle is clearly out of place. The voice, however, ended the recital with words to this effect: "... And to my grandnephew, who believed that a penny saved is a penny earned, I leave my entire fortune of one-hundred ...

124. No Other Way To Be Happy

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

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John R. Brokhoff

... God. But for many, the very word obedience is a dirty, nasty, and unpopular word. "Obey" was dropped from the marriage vows. For children, permissiveness has replaced obedience. Our slogans today are, "Have it your own way," or "Do as you please," or "Foot loose and fancy free." No doubt, everyone wants happiness, but few are interested in the price - obedience. Our text tells us simply that we have a choice: Obey God and be happy or disobey and be cursed. Is that really a choice? Who wants to be cursed? So ...

125. Your Money and Your Life

Matthew 6:19-24

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Robert Bachelder

... so very far. We are glad to bend the knee to some current incarnation of Baal, to some Gucci or Halston, say. While we Protestants are familiar with the great teaching of justification by grace through faith, we nevertheless attempt to justify our existence by building fancy houses and taking expensive vacations. Malcom Muggeridge was right to call ours the "Age of Credulity"! Such a course is a dead end in every way. If we are looking to the things of this world to make us happy, we are looking in the ...

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