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1451. Well of Wisdom, Water of Life

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... through digging wells in the earth, as mysterious acts of God, the presence and proof of God’s creative power flowing beneath the earth. Therefore, finding water was not only an answer to physical sustenance, but a gift from God, a healing gift, a sustaining gift, a life-giving gift, a promise of prolonged life. Our early ancestors were nomads. And in fact, we learn that Ishmael himself, would become a nomadic desert dweller, knowing where to find water and food, knowing how to live successfully in ...

1452. The Stop-and-Think Chair

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

... who hear the truth and open their hearts to a new way of life. Here’s more good news: my brother in Christ is still my best friend on the planet. We have spoken honestly to one another now for years. That friendship is one of the finest gifts of my life. I doubt I could say that today if he had not spoken so honestly and so kindly years ago. If we lived in a perfect world, with perfect families, marriages, friendships, communities, and congregations there would be no need for such truth telling. But that ...

1453. Not Such a Difficult Question

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Texas. The Petersons’ have five adopted daughters, all from Russian orphanages. Today, Claire Peterson hopes to become a missionary herself to orphaned children around the world. As representatives of Operation Christmas Child, she and her adopted sister, Julianne, have already delivered gifts to children at an orphanage in Belize. As the children hugged her and cried, Claire shared the love of Jesus with them, just as someone had done with her. (5) It’s a wondrous thing to behold. God spoke to a ...

1454. About Those Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... with him.” I doubt that three nobodies would have had such an impact. Maybe they were kings. Scholars have surmised that these magi traveled as many as twelve hundred miles across the ancient highways from Persia to Judea in order to see the child, bring him gifts, and pay him homage. This means they had been traveling for at least five months, guided by this wondrous star. Of course, we don’t even know for certain the year that Christ was born. We date our calendars according to his coming and yet we ...

1455. God’s Evite: Wait!

Philippians 1:3-11

Sermon

Mary Austin

... all of those things, it’s a skill we develop. Advent invites us to let go of the frenzy outside us, and develop our gift for waiting on God. As Paul wrote to the Philippian church, there was a lot in his mind to remember. The book of Acts, ... we remember God’s great love for us. May we slow down enough to know God’s presence with us, in this season. May we become gifted at waiting, knowing that God is coming into the world again, and we want to be ready. In the name of the Christ Child, Amen. Prayer ...

1456. Joy on an Elephant

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

Mary Austin

... the airport. In being truly ourselves, the people God created us to be, there is the deepest joy we know. In embracing our whole lives, happiness and sorrow, grief and delight, failure and success, we come into God’s presence as whole people. And there, joy is our gift, the gift that no one can rush us through, or wear out, or take away. In the name of the joy-giver, Amen. Prayer: God of mystery, our lives hold sorrow and worry, and yet, underneath it all is your promise of joy, ready for us to reach out ...

1457. The Family

Genesis 37:1-36

Sermon

Will Willimon

... it had not been for the added nuisance of a little brother and his arrogant, pushy, Martin Luther King ''I have a dream'' sort of dreams. It is a story about the resentment felt by those who do not dream, who seethe with burning envy as pushy, upstart little brother, gifted in ways we are not, begins to assert his dreams over us. So it's a story about killers of the dream, about people who can't stand to make room for pushy little brother and his dreams. I told you it was a family story, our family. In this ...

1458. Nose Hairs And Disney

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

Sermon

Mary Austin

... legs. But, coordinated or not, good-looking or not, Paul says that all of us who follow Christ are all part of one body. In last week’s reading, Paul made a case for the diversity of the church, and the way we need each other’s gifts. The thinkers need the do-ers, and the action people need the prayer warriors. To have a church be complete, we need ushers, bookkeepers, and quiet listeners. We need planners and people who are peaceful to be with. We need older people with wisdom and younger people ...

1459. Fear and Blessing

Psalm 128:1-6

Sermon

Will Willimon

... endeavor. There are these gaps, these unaccountable glitches between what we want and what we get in love. Love is a fearful thing. Gifts, blessings, are fearful things. It used to really get me when this couple would show up at my church with a little child ... is this vocation to which they have been called. The “fear of the Lord” is, in part, respect for the Lord's gifts and the responsibilities they entail. Nor is the way clear for those who are the recipients of parental love. “Honor thy father and ...

1460. The Dare Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ! God, give to us as human beings what we need to do your will,…..and what will is that? “forgive us our sins as [to the degree that] we forgive all who are indebted to us.” Wow is that sentence tricky! Here’s where we truly can cherish the gift of sacrifice that Jesus made for us, because right here in this sentence, we are asking God to forgive us….just the way we forgive others! Yikes! If that sentence doesn’t bring you down to the floor, I don’t know what will! Who wants to be treated by ...

1461. What Power Fears Most

Matthew 2:13-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... grew into the man he was to become. Once Jesus set out on God’s mission at the age of 30, the countdown to his death would begin. God would have 3 years to accomplish a plan of salvation, to provide an unknowing world with an unconditional gift. But he would be victorious. Jesus’ birth, life, and death all come with moments of great joy and moments of great sorrow. The story of Life inherited too comes with the experience of both sorrow and joy. But in the end, joy always wins. Love always wins. Today ...

1462. Casters and Menders

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... magi” who could advise them on any number of matters, not to mention prophets, who served as truth tellers and readers of culture and spirituality for those they served. It’s no wonder then that Jesus would choose his disciples carefully, according to the gifts he saw in them. He didn’t post a “Help Wanted” sign with specific requirements for his team. He didn’t have people interested in him go through a lengthy application process in order to qualify for his discipleship internship. He didn’t ...

1463. A Waste of Time?

Mark 14:1-15:47

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... cake from scratch! Then I went across town to my aunt’s house and picked her a bouquet of flowers. Then I decided that, for a gift, I would put together a scrapbook of all my baby pictures. I started in the morning and didn’t get done until late afternoon. That’s ... cost them much, and that same crowd was gone when Jesus was arrested. What the woman offered came from her heart, and her gift of love went with Jesus and gave him strength through his trial and death. Give each child a palm branch and a ...

1464. That Mountaintop Moment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... construct a “reality” that works for us. We live by our senses. We understand through what our brains absorb and categorize according to those sensory stimuli. This is the human experience. It’s normal and part of being human. But we humans are also gifted with the unique ability to imagine the infinite and to understand our own limitations. In other words, we grasp how much we do not know. We are willing to embrace that much of life consists of mysteries that we cannot begin to fathom or understand ...

1465. The Possibility Mindset

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ” for life and for the world that comes from the goodness and grace of God! If that’s not a weight off of your shoulders, I don’t know what is! This is the good news! Your inheritance was never up to you to achieve. But only a gift in faith for you to receive. For Jesus, you don’t need to be super successful, a high-level achiever, rich or poor, and definitely not perfectly “good”! But your greatest potential as a servant of God lies first in being a humble receiver. May you receive Jesus ...

1466. Living Through Hard Times

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... photographs he took of nature framed and hanging in my home. I think of him often. I could look back with regret, and sometimes I do, but I try to think of our last years together, the years of our reconciliation and renewed relationship, as a gift from God. The coming together in relationships is what Paul was writing about. Despite any suffering, challenges, pain, and anger we feel, we are called to walk into our relationships with the open heart of love. Paul loved the people of the churches he found ...

1467. Seeking the Presence of God

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... bad or tragic things happen to us. We have two choices: we can move into the embrace of God and seek to feel deeply God’s presence or we can move away from God angrily asking God why we were not spared. The choice is really ours ― that is our gift, and sometimes our curse, of free will. Bad things happen to all of us. Struggles come into the lives of most of us. None of us are spared the loss of someone we love, the illness of someone we care about. Many of us experience natural disasters and sometimes ...

1468. At the Table

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... to be arrested and crucified, knowing this was all necessary because human beings don’t know how to reconcile themselves with God and need his intercession. When you partake of this meal on this day, or on any other day, please remember, this table is a gift. This table is a welcome. This table is the hospitality of the one who came to live, teach, heal, die, and rise so we could be in relationship with God and with one another. Remember the sanctity and the celebration of this moment, this encounter with ...

1469. Becoming A Faithful Witness

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... our calling to be God's ambassadors in this world, we must begin by listening for God's message for us. Speak Not only does God waken our ears to hear, but God also gives us tongues to speak. We have been given the gift of speech. Speech is a gift and we are charged to use that gift in ways that would be pleasing to God. Isaiah was addressing the people of Israel who were living in an alien city. They had been exiled and by now they had become disheartened. They were weary of the struggle to be faithful in ...

1470. Noah

Luke 12:22-34

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... flood. SHEM: No one can swim in that much water for forty days. NOAH: That's why we're building the ark. SHEM: But all the people ... NOAH: The Lord knows best. SHEM: Not all those people can get in the ark, Dad. That doesn't sound like a good gift. That sounds like a harsh judgment. Why would the Lord ...? NOAH: The Lord said He gave them 119 years to change. SHEM: The time the ark was being built. NOAH: That's right. Whenever someone obeys the Lord, it becomes a judgment for all those who don't obey. SHEM ...

1471. Noah

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... What is rain?\nNOAH: It's water that comes down. Don't ask from where.\nSHEM: Is it good?\nNOAH: It's a gift from the Lord. The Lord's gifts are always \ngood. He says it will rain for forty days and ... \nSHEM: That's going to be a lot of water.\ ... people ...\nNOAH: The Lord knows best.\nSHEM: Not all those people can get in the ark, Dad. That \ndoesn't sound like a good gift. That sounds like a harsh \njudgment. Why would the Lord ...? \nNOAH: The Lord said He gave them 119 years to change. \nSHEM: The time ...

1472. The Spice of Death

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... Christ. The spices would leave their aroma for all who would come to see. All that says to us that there is nothing we can do for our salvation either. No matter how beautiful the act, how large the contribution, how serious the motives, nothing adds to the eternal gift won and given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ. An Act of Certainty If the act of the burial of our Lord with the costly spices in a beautiful new tomb in Joseph's lovely garden was irrelevant as far as contributing to our salvation, it was ...

1473. A Ministry Of Hospitality

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Richard Patt

... than showing good manners in public. It is a redemptive ministry, like Christ's, whereby we bring a sense of healing and genuine acceptance to all other people. And we should get specific about our own ministry of hospitality. Perhaps, for instance, you have the gift of gab -- the ability to talk at ease with just about anyone. You could be an effective greeter to the strangers who visit your church. You could be that little spark of light to many longtime members of the parish to whom no one else seems ...

1474. The Fourth Wise Man

Luke 6:27-36

Illustration

John R. Steward

... stood with the crowd hoping that he still might see Jesus. As he stood waiting to see Jesus, a tile from a nearby roof fell and landed on the wise man's head and killed him. Some might argue that his life was a failure because he never brought his gifts to Jesus. Yet, because he believed in Jesus as God's anointed, he was transported to heaven. There in heaven he finally saw Jesus. Jesus was on his throne and wearing a crown. The wise man could barely believe his eyes when he saw the crown of Jesus. In the ...

1475. Lent 3

Luke 13:1-9, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Psalm 63:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... the tree productive. Someone has observed that Christians are like manure. They tend to stink when all piled together. They fertilize when spread around properly. 4. Wasted Gifts. In the summer of 1995 two gifted persons died, partially because of abuse of their bodies. Mickey Mantle, the great Yankee baseball player, died shortly after acknowledging that he wasted the gifts given to him as an athlete. He did so by the excessive use of alcohol. He admonished people not to consider him as a role model. Jerry ...

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