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1326. Three Wise Women

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Judea, where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his ...

1327. Beautiful

John 20:19-23, Song of Songs 4:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... trial)….Jesus answers with a Hebrew understanding: Only God is good. Only God is true. Only God is beauty. There is One God….. you are to LOVE God with all of your heart, soul, strength. (The Shema) And like Solomon, he describes a garden. You shall bear fruit. The Persian “paradisio” means garden. “This day you shall be with me…..in paradisio…..in the Garden,” says Jesus to the thief on his right hand. For God’s plan is always to be with each and every one of us in a “personal garden ...

1328. The Catch

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25, Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Or maybe you threw the baby’s bottle in there. Or maybe that’s where this church bulletin will go when you leave today. You carry with you at any given time, not only things of yours, but things of others as well –others for whom you bear a responsibility to care and carry. Does anyone also have business cards that others have given you? A gift perhaps that someone has given you? A menu from breakfast? A ticket from the theatre? You carry with you bits and pieces of many lives that yours has touched ...

1329. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... visage of Esau, and he treats him, as God has treated him. The symbols of Canaan and Israel are also important as metaphors for how Israel needs to think of its neighbors, as brothers, and in service to the world. The “face” we bear to the world needs to be the face we bear to God. The metaphor of “face” is so very important in this story, as is the metaphor of the crossing of the river, of wrestling/struggling, of the name Israel, and of “twins.” The metaphor of the hip, and the hidden metaphor ...

1330. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Solomon (1 Kings 10) Psalm 45: Gifts for God’s King Psalm 72: Gold from Sheba Will Be Given to God’s King King Hezekiah Shows Marduk-Baladan (son of the King of Babylon) His Treasures (2 Kings 20; Isaiah 39) The Prophecy of Isaiah: The Bearing of Gifts from Medea and Sheba (Isaiah 60) Paul’s Letter to the Philippians: Following Jesus Can Be Bittersweet The Visit of the Magi [Fulfilling of Hebrew prophecy: From Bethlehem in Judea, Out of Egypt, Jesus the Nazarene] After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in ...

1331. Faith is a River That Flows

Genesis 19:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... be the high diving board at the pool. Or that insanely high ferris wheel. We all have that one ride that we just can’t bear to go on. Ask our wise ones here this morning, and they will tell you something about life: life takes us in places we do ... She’s grieving. She’s traumatized. She’s upset. And so, she falters. She wavers. She stands frozen, rooted to the spot. She can’t bear to go forward. She can’t go back. She falls further and further behind. She looks back. Back at what was, back at what ...

1332. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... saver, the “needing to be saved” can hop onto it and be transported to safety. When fire is surging all around you, that ladder is a godsend. You see the tip of that ladder rising before your eyes, and despair turns to hope. Ladders are lifelines. Ladders bear an unwritten message that someone out there cares if you live or die. Someone has come through fire and flames to bring you out of the horror of a fiery furnace and back into the light of day. The ladder is the firefighter’s life preserver. The ...

1333. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any ... relationship, in a marriage covenant that can only be described in the beautiful and organic terms of a living, fruit-bearing garden. The final words of this chapter reveal a people in love with God. In a sense, this must be ...

1334. Unfettered Faith

Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:40-45, Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... as partial persons, lonely and burdened. This can also be the case when we do something wrong. Our guilty conscience can literally eat us up inside. Some sins are placed upon us. If you were abused as a child, you bear shame and guilt that are not yours (but sins of the father or mother). Yet you bear that shame upon yourself. The reality then of sin is that it can be with or without actual fault! Sin is a condition, and like the condition of leprosy, can be healed (made clean). That begs the question then ...

1335. What is Your Golden Calf?

Exodus 32:1-33:6, Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is taken into battle, but a tattoo engraved directly into the skin of that soldier, a covenantal marker that he bears with him into battle that reminds him that he is not alone, but a relational part of another human being who loves him even though far away. We ... as followers of Jesus and children of God bear the holy “image” of God upon us. All of us wear God’s engraving of love and commitment upon our hearts and our ...

1336. Ask Jacob!

Matthew 6:25-34, Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... It is in the moment of turning away that we lose sight of God. The word “despised” (bazah) as in “Esau despised his birthright” means to dis-esteem, to scorn, to be reckless or careless with, to disdain.* The birthright of Esau is a sacred right to bear or carry the covenant forward. But Esau doesn’t not seem to care much about that. He easily gives away that honor with God in order to seek that “red stuff.” Whether red stew or vegetables of the field or earth, the word adom (red stuff), Edom ...

1337. Metathesiophobia

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... apathy is a form of hoarding or stasis. To engage is to be alert, prepared, busy about the work that needs to be done, open to new relationships, busy cultivating current ones, tilling and keeping the covenant, and bearing its fruit. Those who do nothing but stay still in their faith are not carrying out the command of God to bear fruit, sow seed, be people of the “field.” The scriptures are filled with encouragement to “engage” and “invest.” And yet, this is what the church fears the most.

1338. Written on the Palms of His Hands

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and Hades.” (Rev 1:17-18) And as we read today in Acts 5:17-25, even the bars of prisons could not hold the disciples from their life-giving mission. No lock could ever keep them from their proclamation! For in His sacrifice, we have been healed. Jesus bears the wounds on the palms of God, as a reminder of His resurrecting grace, so that we might be made whole and live again. For He is our eternal salvation. Our names and the names of our forgiven sins are inscribed on the palms of His hands. “Shalom ...

1339. The Art of Keeping Quiet

Luke 1:5-25, Ezekiel 3:16-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... his mind couldn’t keep quiet the suspicion that his prayers were in vain. His doubts consumed him so much that he couldn’t believe it when God actually appeared in the form of an angelic presence to tell him that his wife, now barren for years, would bear him a son. Zechariah had lost his sense of quietness. He had lost his sense of faith, of trust, of hope. He had lost his belief in the mystery and miracle of God. His critical voice, his grief, his inner tumult, his despair had overtaken him. And his ...

1340. And a Child Will Lead Them

Exodus 2:1-10, Matthew 18:1-9, Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the 7th time that month, she did the most painful thing a mother can do. She sent them away. She secretly arranged for them to be rescued and adopted, so that she could ensure their safety when she knew she could no longer fend for them. She couldn’t bear to leave them with him while she spent her last days in the hospital. Maria gave up the chance to spend the last moments of her life with her children in order to make sure they would have a safe and healthy life. Parents and grandparents out there, you ...

1341. How Did That Hole Get There?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... truly is the Way, the Truth and the Life. That is because when Christ’s work on earth was done he ascended to be with his Father so that we might receive the gift of the Holy Spirit so that we might bear witness that Jesus lives today. And people are bearing witness. How about us? Don’t you want to join such an exciting movement? 1. Just As Long As I’m Riding Up Front (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1995), pp. 81-82. 2. Contributed. Source unknown. 3. Pastor Ken Jack, http://www.firstpresbyterianhuntsville ...

1342. God’s HS Smart App is Always Watching

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... cheating our employees, or worse, letting our anger and our need for control guide our actions and make excuses for our behavior. Most of you work in some kind of workplace or have at one time or another. If you do, you know that the job you do bears a huge responsibility. If you can work with minimal supervision, all the better. It makes it easier on the boss. If you can bring out the best in others, maximize the bottom line for the owner, handle relationships wisely, and make the world a better place, you ...

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

Elizabeth Goudge

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

John F. Kennedy

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Samuel Richardson

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Thomas a Kempis

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Thomas Aquinas

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1326. Three Wise Women

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1327. Beautiful

John 20:19-23, Song of Songs 4:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1328. The Catch

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25, Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1329. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1330. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1331. Faith is a River That Flows

Genesis 19:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1332. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1333. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1334. Unfettered Faith

Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:40-45, Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1335. What is Your Golden Calf?

Exodus 32:1-33:6, Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1336. Ask Jacob!

Matthew 6:25-34, Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1337. Metathesiophobia

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1338. Written on the Palms of His Hands

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1339. The Art of Keeping Quiet

Luke 1:5-25, Ezekiel 3:16-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1340. And a Child Will Lead Them

Exodus 2:1-10, Matthew 18:1-9, Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1341. How Did That Hole Get There?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

1342. God’s HS Smart App is Always Watching

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Aristotle

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

Elizabeth Goudge

John F. Kennedy

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind, and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Samuel Richardson

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Thomas a Kempis

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Thomas Aquinas

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