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Luke 2:(1-7), 8-20

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John B. Jamison

... . Or, maybe a Pharisee, or a Sadducee. Maybe even a rabbi if they were from a decent size synagogue in a well-known city like Jerusalem, and as long as he taught the proper things. A strong, well-known religious leader would seem to be the ideal person to make this type of announcement from God. Maybe even someone in government leadership? Those are people who can pull an audience and have their message be heard. If one of those people said that God had talked to them, it would certainly get people’s ...

1227. Life in the Future

Philippians 1:3-11

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Scott Bryte & Kimberly Miller van Driel

... , more faithful, more secure, and just generally better. “If only” we say: “if only we could be the church that I remember from…” “If only we could go back to when…”. But the Holy Spirit doesn’t work that way either. God is not the God of the ideal. Jesus didn’t wait until we got everything perfect to come among us. God doesn’t wait for us to get there. God comes to us, whether we’re ready or not. God comes to us as we are, and then moves us forward. The Holy Spirit moves, and ...

1228. Good News from the Threshing Floor

Mark 12:38-44

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Thomas C. Willadsen

... Ruth follows Proverbs. The last part of Proverbs is an ode to the Eshet Ḥayil. There is not a precise translation for this term. It can be rendered as “women of valor” or “capable wife.” The book of Ruth follows this poem in praise of the ideal woman. It is as though Ruth was the personification of all the attributes listed in the twenty verses that conclude the book of Proverbs. Back to the story of Ruth. Ruth and another woman named Orpah married two sons of Elimelech and Naomi. The story began ...

1229. All in God’s Time

Mark 13:1-8

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Lori Wagner

... miracles still happen, and that throughout our lives, God is still speaking to us and to those around us. All we must do is carry on with our lives in an attitude of “trust and wait.” Trust and wait keeps us from following temporary fixes, trends, or false ideals. Trust and wait means we lower our expectations. We don’t expect God to “make” things go the way we believe they should at the exact time we imagine. Trust and wait means we have faith that God has a better plan than we do. Trust and wait ...

1230. For a Special Woman

Proverbs 31:10-31, Luke 10:38-42

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... inclination to help other people. You could also say that if there was anyone born to work with the Special Needs Community, it was Kate Wirth. And for my two cents, I wish the church would wake up to the need to ordain women because Kate would’ve been the ideal priest. And she had the empathy to be a great one. Besides the fact of her kindness loaded DNA, there was also the fact that no one could “light up a room” more so than Kate Wirth. She had a set of eyes that were not only beautiful, but which ...

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