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1376. Some Crossroads of Family Life W. Dexter Moser

Genesis 25:19-34

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... ; Esau, older twin; and Jacob, the younger twin, and most important of all, the Lord. The verses tell us of the family of Isaac and Rebekah; the fact was that Rebekah had not conceived a child in their twenty years of marriage. This was of much concern for the early biblical woman, Rebekah, and of course to her husband, Isaac. Our biblical family’s attitude toward children may be viewed through the opening chapter in the Bible: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male ...

1377. Where Does One Go When Darkness Floods One’s Life?

Genesis 32:22-32

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James Cobb

... , good intentions are not enough when it comes to your dealings with God. That means that we must be tenacious in our wrestling with God. We must stay our course in our relationships with God. Jacob was tenacious in his relationship with God. When you are concerned about your soul salvation, cling to God. God alone is dependable; therefore cling to him. Even when your own conscience accuses you or the voice of Satan would come to disturb your fellowship with God, cling to God, he will never let you go. Your ...

1378. A Taste of God's Tomorrow

Matthew 14:13-21

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Glenn L. Borreson

... Love one another. Feed my sheep. Forgive seventy times seven." We, as church, are called to the same acts of life-giving mercy as our Lord himself. These acts affect body and soul, not just one or the other. We, as church, will seek to respond with passionate concern and concrete action to the cries of the world's hungry. We, as church, will listen to the word that America increasingly becomes a two tiered society of rich and poor. And getting up from the dining table of Jesus, we will be moved to act. It ...

1379. Easter 4

John 10:1-10, Acts 2:42-47, 1 Peter 2:19-25

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... the spirits of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Forgive us when we deny our divine nature, and ignore your call to care for one another. Help us to be a church within these walls, and around the world, which will be a true refuge where love and concern is obvious and genuine. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Hymns "All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord" "Blest Be the Tie that Binds" "In Christ There Is No East or West" "Jesus, United by Thy Grace" Second Lesson: 1 Peter 2:19-25 Theme: Be patient in suffering ...

1380. No Telltale Clues

Matthew 9:9-13

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... right to call and who has the right to demand. It may seem harsh to put it this way, but the evangelist is not concerned with what motivated Matthew, nor with what the tax collector was thinking, nor with why he took the first step away from the tax ... of our attention. As Christian people and as a Church our attention is to be on those forgotten by the world. Our major concern is to be for those people who never come to anything but despair. The list is endless: the institutionalized, the neglected child and ...

1381. Ready or Not

Matthew 10:1-42

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... live with an overwhelming sense of the presence of the living Christ. To live in communion with a new and enlarged family. To know that Christ has created an unbreakable bond between those who serve him. To know that one is part of a vast circle of prayer and concern and care. My mouth often falls silent before the witness of such disciples as Allan Boesak and Adolfo Perez Esquivel. They have lived far closer to the cross of our Lord than I. They can speak of finding life by loss in a way that I can not. I ...

1382. Invincible Harvest

Matthew 13:1-23

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... long time what a difficult thing it is to listen. All sorts of things block my ears. My mind wanders or I find myself preoccupied with my own concerns. I think I know what the other person is going to say even before the first word is spoken. I am suspicious that nothing new will be ... we wouldn't have to face another year with fewer members." Both worry and criricism of this kind grow out of a concern for the coming of God's kingdom. We long for the promised harvest. At times, however, what we may be doing by ...

1383. The Call for Proper Fasting

Isaiah 58:1-14

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... in sacrifice and fasting directed towards the helpless and the hopeless. The darkness of our lives, nationally, congregationally, and personally, may be the result of our false fasting. Our fasts seem often directed for our own selfish ends. We seem to be calculating and concerned for our own position, power, and security. Far too often we appear to be doing business as usual and thus not directing or giving our whole selves to the fast which God deems proper. What if we fasted properly? What if we whole ...

1384. Communion Is Relief

Matthew 11:25-30

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... the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. Gosh, we fall short there, don't we? And we fall equally short in loving our neighbor when we put stipulations on the kinds of neighbors we are willing to love. There is no question in our minds concerning that passage of Scripture. We know that we have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. But thanks be to God, he has not abandoned us in our sin. Because of the atoning death of Jesus Christ we can be forgiven and reconciled to God. If we ...

1385. Mi Casa, Su Casa

Matthew 21:33-46

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Mark Radecke

The relationship between a landlord and a tenant is at best a tenuous one: the landlord is understandably concerned about the use or abuse of his property (after all, it is his house); the tenant understandably concerned about the maintenance and privacy of the place (after all, it is his home). Our friends’ younger daughter begged - no, she positively importuned - her parents for a pastel colored bedroom. They relented, and asked permission of their landlord, offering to buy the paint, provide the labor ...

1386. The Things That Are God’s

Matthew 22:15-22

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... His image and likekess?" "Have I surrendered to Caesar what rightfully belongs to God?" Have I lost, God forbid, the ability to feel the tension between my fidelity to God and all my other obligations?" I suspect that those concerns were on at least a few minds. Tennyson has a relevant verse concerning the knights of Arthur’s Round Table: For good ye are and bad, and like to coins, Some true, some light, but everyone of you Stamped with the image of the King. (Interpreter’s Bible, Vol. 7, Abingdon Press ...

1387. Who is Greatest Among You ...

Matthew 23:1-39

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... something to say about our need to get ahead. He didn’t say that the desire to excel and achieve was wrong, but he did turn the tables on some common understandings of success. He redefined greatness, at least as far as our life in relationship with God is concerned. One evening, I was on my way to a dinner meeting at a downtown hotel. I parked my car in the parking deck adjacent to the hotel and caught the elevator down to the street level. A big sales convention of some kind was in progress and three or ...

1388. In Defense of the One-Talent Servant

Matthew 25:14-30

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... naturally accrued if you had given it half a chance. Your master never instructed you to protect your talent, but to use it. Your master never advised you to play it safe in the game of life, but to play it with faith. Your master is not nearly so concerned with the quantity of your results as with the quality of your efforts. One-Talent, as much as it pains me to say it, your error is the tragic mistake of trying to live by your own standards of security and safety instead of risking and venturing all for ...

1389. A Litany of Light and Love

Luke 15:1-7

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Leader: Dear God, today we light a candle. People: We light it in memory of those killed in this week’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania. Leader: We light this candle in concern for families who today are grieving their lost loved ones, or waiting in painful silence for news concerning one who is still missing. People: We light it in sad recognition that, for some in our world, such horror and loss is a regular part of life. Leader: We light this candle, and watch it flicker ...

1390. Let Christ Speak The Word

Luke 7:1-10

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... for one's fellow humans. In our Scripture lesson for the morning, we have another account of a healing by Jesus; however, the circumstances of this miracle are quite different from the others that we have been considering. This story concerns a Roman centurion who was presumably an officer in the Army of Herod Antipas. We need to understand that a centurion was a highly respected and powerful member of the armed forces. He would have had to have been an outstanding individual to have achieved this position ...

1391. The Primacy of Human Relationships

Matthew 5:33-37

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Joe Pennel

... primary importance of human relationships. Other things are more important than the ultimate significance of people being properly joined to one another. For many people "the bottom line" is more crucial. "What is the bottom line?" is commonly asked about almost every concern. For college students, the bottom line is the grade posted at the termination of the semester. For business people, the bottom line is the final figure in the profit and loss column. For athletic teams, the bottom line is the number ...

1392. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Romans 1:1-17, Matthew 1:18-25, Psalm 24:1-10

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CSS

... tale that Mary was pregnant by the Holy Spirit and her son would "save his people from their sins." Who can say what Joseph might, or might not, have done had the angel not come and spoken to him? He, too, was a special person - compassionate, for his concern for Mary and his unwillingness "to put her to shame," but also godly in an even deeper sense, because he accepted and obeyed without question - on this and the other two occasions when an angel visited him - what he perceived to be the will of God and ...

1393. Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12, Psalm 1:1-6

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... 8 is "to love tenderly." This is echoed in Jesus' command, "Love one another as I have loved you." Jesus expects his disciples to live this way; it was not simply a request on his part. Love is the basis for kindness to others, genuine concern for people which recognizes that one must live a "life of love" that reflects genuine affection for the Lord in one's life style. It is passing along to others the treatment one has received from God, love, mercy, kindness, as totally unmerited grace. 3. Priority ...

1394. Proper 17 & Pentecost 15

Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Exodus 19:1-25, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Psalm 114:1-8, Psalm 63:1-11

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... meeting with God. Unfortunately, life tends to be like that for many people. 2. God speaks again - he was still with them. The people of Israel felt only the absence, rather than the presence, of God when they were in trouble. Like them, we doubt God's concern and even his ability to come to our aid, and we test him. God assured Moses -and us, in Jesus - that he will attend the summit; he is always present. 3. God trusts again - That's what sacred history, before and after Jesus' ministry, continues to tell ...

1395. Pentecost 23

Exodus 22:16-31, Leviticus 19:1-37, Ruth 2:1-23, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46, Psalm 1:1-6

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... love of God and people as the key to the kingdom of God. The Prayer of the Day (LBW) This revision of a classic collect has been shifted from the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity/Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost to this Sunday, partly because it has a deep concern for the ultimate things of God ("increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity"), but also because it anticipates what the Gospel for the Day has to say about the love of God and human beings ("and that we may obtain what you promise, make ...

1396. Pentecost 24

Mal 1:6-14, Lev 2:1-16, Mic 3:1-12, Am 5:18-27, Ru 4:1-1, 1Th 2:1-16, 4:13-5:11, Mt 23 and 25:1-13

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CSS

... psalmist, "Put your trust in God; ... who is the help of my countenance and my God" - even, and especially, in the face of death. Psalm 63:1-8 (L) - As a responsory to the first reading, this psalm doesn't seem to work, but it is relevant to the theological concerns of people who are conscious that the last things are close at hand. It is also suited to people who are in any sort of trouble, as surely as the psalmist was: "O God, you are my God; eagerly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints ...

1397. Christ The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31, Matthew 25:31-46, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, Psalm 95:1-11, Psalm 23:1-6

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... , you know. Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17 (R); 34:11-16, 20-24 (C); 34:11-16, 23-24 (L); 34:11-17 (E) - "God as the Shepherd-King." 1. He is deeply concerned about the welfare of his sheep. God loves and cares for his people the way that a good shepherd cares for his/her sheep, and the way that the church should be concerned about all people. God really loves us, you know. 2. He is ready to rescue his own people and set them free from bondage - the bondage to sin and death, as well as a ...

1398. Reformation Sunday

Jeremiah 32:1-44, Romans 3:21-31, John 8:31-41

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... reformation, the authority of the sacred scriptures. It is, in a way, a "demanding" prayer, for the address includes a request: "Almighty God, gracious Lord, pour out your Holy Spirit upon your faithful people." The key phrase follows, one of Luther's concerns, which was expressed in his hymn, "Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word:" "Keep them steadfast in your Word," followed by, "protect and comfort them in all temptations, defend them against all their enemies, and bestow on the Church your saving peace ...

1399. Giving Thanks Before Thanksgiving

Luke 17:11-19

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Brett Blair

... that a leper could not get within fifty yards of a clean person. Everywhere these poor men journeyed they heard familiar words yelled out: “Unclean,” “Leper.” And then some would hurl stones at them to keep them away. Leprosy was a serious public health concern but it was tinged with the religious element of ritual uncleanness. So it was that they not only had to live with their physical handicap, but they were also isolated. They had to live in the hell of loneliness. That can do more to drain ...

1400. Born One Of Us

Drama

... every event, dreams of a love to come, still enjoys a joke and a riddle. Mother: The mother may wear a long-sleeved blouse, a long, rather plain skirt. She also will wear a shawl going in or out. She is an intelligent, sensitive, perceptive woman, concerned for her family and for the community. She herself does not completely understand what happens this night, but she believes the birth of the baby means everything to her and her family. Abner: The son of the house, about 18. He may wear blue jeans, a ...

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