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1226. Mark 9:2-9

Mark 9:2-9

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Leonard Sweet

... , James and John, as well as Jesus, are all blessed with these moments of glory. When they descend, Jesus will encounter the hard way of the cross and his companions will be challenged to practice faithful discipleship. Jesus' transfiguration apparently affects his whole body transforming even his clothing. (Recall that Moses' mountaintop experience in Exodus 34:30 left its marks only on his face.) While Luke's version of the Transfiguration reveals that the topic of conversation between Elijah, Moses and ...

1227. The Heart of the Matter

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... do you explain the fact that twenty percent more people have fatal heart attacks on Monday mornings than any other day or time in the week? When you say, “My job is killing me!” you may be speaking a literal truth. Our emotions, our feelings, can affect our overall well being, including the state of our heart. Which brings us to our text for the day. The Psalmist writes, “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me . . .” The Psalmist isn’t praying that God will give ...

1228. Jesus Is Contagious!

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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Leonard Sweet

... I’ll bet if you look to your right, then look to your left, one of you pew-mates has some kind of communicable wheezing thing: a cold, the flu, bronchitis, walking pneumonia, winter allergies . . . or maybe just the dreaded ennui of winter SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) syndrome. Whatever is gnawing away at you this mid-winter morning I doubt if it is an “infection” you would like to share. But “sharing” is a trait that is hugely human. We share good things. We share bad things. No matter how ...

1229. Jesus Baptism and Ours

Isaiah 42:1-9

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Mike Ripski

... speak of the glory of God, they are making a profession of faith. They are saying, “What we have seen we recognize as of God. It is self-authenticating. Self-validating. We can’t prove it. We can only testify to our experience and how it has affected us.” The Baptism of the Lord is included in the season of Epiphany, because it is one of those thin spaces where the heavenly intersects the earthly. It is an experience of the veil being pulled back, so we might see and hear the truth about Jesus ...

1230. Jesus Radical Prescription

Matthew 5:21-26

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Mike Ripski

... that makes others angry. I learned to pretend it didn’t exist. Which only makes it that much more powerful and potentially destructive. The truth is that denying it is a self-delusion. If you’ve ever been around an angry person, you know it. You’re affected by it. An angry person oozes poison. It is deadly not only to the angry person, but like second-hand smoke, it harms those around it. Anger denied always leaks out. It leaks out in sarcasm. In snide remarks. In what is said and how one says ...

1231. Love that Kneels

Luke 15:11-32

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Mike Ripski

... because love, mercy, and forgiveness are not reasonable. The arms of the father’s love are long enough to embrace both of his sons. As we noted last Sunday, each suffers from the darkness of his own creating. Its origin is different, but it has the same deadly affect. The father’s love can dispel the darkness with holy light and help each son find his way home, only if each surrenders to it. Each must let go of the way he has been seeking the life that truly satisfies, in order to receive the Way, Truth ...

1232. Memories of Home: The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

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Mike Ripski

... sons and daughters and all sorts of elder sons and daughters; with those who are hurting but who are afraid of letting anyone know; with those whose darkness is so dark, they’ve considered suicide; with the tired and lonely; with those anxious over how the recession will affect them; with those who need a job or worry about whether they’ll lose the one they have. Do you know of someone who is hungry for Light and Love, someone you’d like to invite to the table, but you haven’t because you don’t ...

1233. Jesus' Good News of a New World · Part 1

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... retiring professor is emptying his office, putting books in boxes. A woman enters and greets him. She gives her name. He recalls the title of a paper she wrote for his class. She gives him a card that he reads aloud. It expresses gratitude to him for how he affected her life. As she turns to leave, he asks her, “What did you end up doing with your life? Did you become one of those high-tech gurus, or something?” She answers, “I became a teacher.” Do you mourn over a world that could be, but isn’t ...

1234. The Big E

John 9:1-12

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Mike Ripski

... lot of attention. It’s title says it all: God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer. In the book he traces his journey from belief to unbelief. He’s a good example of how the glasses we wear affect what we are able to see. If you go to the Bible looking for an explanation for suffering, because your job description for God entails God’s protecting the innocent, you’re going to be disappointed. In my opinion, the most important question we humans ask ...

1235. Mark 1:40-45

Mark 1:40-45

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Leonard Sweet

... picture of this new kind of messiah that Mark’s text ultimately draws. Most translations render Jesus’ reaction as one of compassion or pity, based on the Greek term “splanchnistheis.” The noun “splanchion” describes the center of affective feeling, literally the “gut” reaction, but sometimes updated and translated as the “heart’s” reaction. But several Western manuscripts read that Jesus’ reaction was one of “orgistheis,” of “being angered,” an emotion that would seem to put ...

1236. The Compassionate Christ

Mark 1:40-45

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King Duncan

... tracks down her face, said, “Whenever we heard his old Model T turning into our yard, we started to get better.” (6) My guess is that is how people felt when Jesus came into their community. We know how people’s expectations can affect their physical response. Here was a compassionate healer. He didn’t heal everyone in the community, but those who found themselves in his presence discovered that the stories about him were true; he did have power to heal. Sometimes he healed the body. Sometimes ...

1237. He Made Me Whole

Mark 1:40-45

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Keith Wagner

... creatures and we need interaction with one another to survive. He stressed our responsibility for others and held to the religious principle of "Love thy neighbor." Adler believed that the social environment, especially the one that a person is raised in, affects their personality. A lack of human contact and interaction will make it difficult for an individual to have healthy relationships and can result in the person having an inferiority complex. For Adler, a "malajusted" child is not a sick child, but ...

1238. Genesis 9: 8-17

Genesis 9:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... animals that had ridden out the storm in the ark have thankfully returned to dry land. God speaks first to Noah, describing to him the new circumstances that surround this new creation. But as soon as God sets forth the rules and relationships that will affect the co-existence of human beings with all other earthly creatures, the divine also elaborates a new facet of the relationship between God and the world. In v.9 God gives the Godself a divine directive, revealing to Noah and his sons what the divine ...

1239. At The Right Time

Mark 1:9-13

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Brett Blair

... sense of timing between the two actors and the material helps this to be one of the funniest routines in American entertainment. It is a brilliantly written peace of comedy but it is the timing that makes it funny. Timing is also important in sports. Timing affects the outcome of an event in two major ways - it dictates the order out of the gate and it sets the pace for each of the competitors. In order to be successful in humor, sports and relationships and yes even faith, one must be attentive to ...

1240. Easter 4

1 John 3:11-24, Acts 4:1-22, John 10:1-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... but only in deed. Rather, does it not mean that we should love not only in word but also in deed? It is an overstatement to show us the danger of loving only in word and not in deed. It is important to express love in word. We all need affection and assurance in addition to our deeds. A husband may say, "My fidelity and support of my family are proof of my love." True, but the family also needs to hear, "I love you." But "I love you" without deeds to back up the words is empty. 3. Spirit (v ...

1241. Lent 3

Exodus 20:1-21, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, John 2:12-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... reflect the person who gave them. Morality is the result of religion. "Be holy as I am holy." How we live indicates the kind of God we have. It also means that when we break a law, we do it not only against society but against God. Stealing adversely affects human victims, but at the same time stealing is a sin against God. 3. Shall (v. 3). Each law in the Decalogue uses the word "shall," not "will," which refers to the future. "Shall" indicates an imperative. This is a "must," an absolute. It is not up to ...

1242. Lent 2

Mark 8:31--9:1, Romans 4:1-25, Genesis 17:1-27

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John R. Brokhoff

... he was their God and they were his people. Women today may look at this as a case of male chauvinism, for only males entered the covenant by circumcision and women were included through their husbands. It needs to be seen that circumcision does not affect the relationship but follows as a sign of a fait accompli. In the first century, circumcision was a point of hot controversy in the church, for some, Judaizers, insisted that to be a Christian one had to be circumcised. Paul called for a circumcision of ...

1243. Proper 8

2 Samuel 1:1-16, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, Mark 5:21-43

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John R. Brokhoff

... was distressed and grieved over the death of Jonathon, his best friend. Epistle: 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 1. Genuine (v. 8). Paul calls upon the Corinthians to prove that their love for Christ and people is genuine. It is easy to love in words or in expression of affection such as a hug and a kiss. The real proof of love is in service, in giving to those who are in need and who cannot return the gift. The poor in Jerusalem were hungry. In contrast, the Corinthian church was affluent. If we say we love God and ...

1244. Ascension Day: Power Unleashed on Earth

Luke 24:44-53

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John D. Witvliet

Ascension Day is not really about the power of Jesus vanishing into heaven. It's about having that power unleashed into all the earth. While on earth, Jesus affected those right around him. After he ascended, this powerful presence was unleashed on the whole globe, the whole cosmos. One theologian (Walter Wink) once noted that killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it (Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew, 226). Christ was ...

1245. A World of Difference

Mark 4:26-34

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King Duncan

... carried it with her everywhere she went. Helen was simply overwhelmed. Whoever would have thought that what a teacher did out of desperation on a Friday afternoon would have such a lasting effect on her students? You never know. You never know how something you or I might do might affect someone else. The funny thing is that we may not even think that what we did was all that important, but to another person it made a world of difference. Jesus taught us that the kingdom of God is like that.

1246. Stilling Storms

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... have around 30,000 quills attached to their bodies. Each quill can be driven into an enemy, and the enemy’s body heat will cause the microscopic barb to expand and become more firmly embedded. The wounds can fester; the more dangerous ones, affecting vital organs, can be fatal. The porcupine is not generally regarded as a lovable animal, Ortberg continues. Books and movies celebrate almost every other conceivable animal. Dogs, cats, horses, pigs like Babe or Arnold Ziffel in the old TV show Green Acres ...

1247. Epiphany 7

Genesis 45:1-28, Psalm 37:1-40, Luke 6:27-38, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

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B. David Hostetter

... for them as Jesus did. Amen. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Life Giver, Life Sharer, Life Sustainer, many of us have experienced the nearness of death and give thanks for your restorative gifts of healing and health. We rejoice in your constant love and in the tender affection of our closest family and friends. When we have been wronged, we are happy again when justice has been brought about. Most of all we are grateful that you do not treat us as our sins deserve but with measureless forgiveness. All praise to you ...

1248. Hurry Hinders Ministry - Sermon Opener

Mark 6:30-34,45-56

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Staff

... their assignments. The professor divided the students into three groups of five each. He gave the first group envelopes telling them to proceed immediately across campus to Stewart Hall. He told them that they had 15 minutes and if they didn't arrive on time, it would affect their grade. A minute or two later, he handed out envelopes to five others. They were also to go over to Stewart Hall, but they had 45 minutes. The third group had three hours to get to Stewart Hall. The students weren't aware of it ...

1249. First Sunday of Advent

Matthew 26:36-46, Psalm 122:1-9, Isaiah 2:1-5, Romans 13:8-14

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B. David Hostetter

... itself but a means of ordering and enriching our common life and providing meaningful occupations for all of us and opportunities for continuing learning and recreation. Bless our families gathered about us and at a distance. May the ties that bind us in kinship and affection also serve to prevent our wandering from the way of Christ. Teach us to love you as we ought and our neighbors as ourselves. Hear our prayers for the sick and those who are in any kind of difficulty and distress. Comfort the bereaved ...

1250. Proper 5

Genesis 12:1-9, Psalm 33:1-12, Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 9:18-26, Romans 4:13-25

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B. David Hostetter

... in that love so that we may be in communion with you and all your people in this world and the next and come to them and you at last, never to be separated again by misunderstanding or disagreement. To you, O God, be ascribed all paternal power, all brotherly affection, and all motherly love, as One God forever. Amen

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