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126. Joseph Sold by His Brothers

Genesis 37:12-36

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

37:12–22 Some time later, after Joseph had recounted his dreams to his family, his brothers were shepherding the flocks in the good pastures in the vicinity of Shechem, some distance from the Valley of Hebron. Concerned about their welfare, Israel sent Joseph to visit them and bring back news. The fact that they were shepherding in the vicinity of the town they had pillaged might have heightened his concern for his sons (ch. 34). Joseph had not accompanied his brothers, either because they had prevented ...

127. A Glory Revealed in Grace and Love

John 13:1-17

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Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel. Then he ...

128. Taking Time To Love

Matthew 22:34-40

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King Duncan

Billy Rose once told a story about a young man and his father who had a small farm. Several times a year they would make a trip to market with their oxcart loaded with vegetables. The son was an impatient sort. He would always prod the ox with a stick to hurry it along. His father, however, believed in following a more leisurely gait. The son wanted to get to market first thing the next morning in order to beat the other vendors to the best spot. The father, however, had other priorities. At one point ...

129. Love Without Limits

Matthew 15:21-28

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Roger G. Talbott

The epitaph on the grave of Albert Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, reads: "Here I understand what they call glory: the right to love without limits." In our gospel lesson we see two people who love without limits. Neither of them seem very glorious. One is a tired itinerant preacher named Jesus. The other is a woman who has no name -- only a racial designation: a Canaanite woman. "Canaanite" was to the Jews of Jesus' time what "Native American" is to the majority of North Americans. ...

130. Loving Our Enemies, Christian or Crazy?

Matthew 5:43-47

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J. Howard Olds

In Bill Adler's popular book of letters from kids, an 8 year old boy from Nashville, Tennessee makes this contribution: “Dear Pastor, I know God wants us to love everybody, but he surely never met my sister." Sincerely, Arnold. There is an old jingle I learned as a child that puts it another way: To live above with those we love, well that will be glory. To live below, with those we know, well, that is a different story. In our Quest for Christian Values, we concluded last week that it boils down to loving ...

131. What, Then, Would You Be?

2 Corinthians 5:20b—6:10

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Dr. Ronald Love

John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was an enthusiastic swimmer. Before starting each day’s work he would swim and bathe naked in the Potomac River. There was a newspaper woman, Anne Royall, who tried for weeks to get an interview with the president, but she was always rebuffed. One day she followed Adams to his watering hole. After he disrobed and got into the river, she promptly sat down on his clothes. Recognizing who she was, Adams pleaded, “Let me get out and dress, and I ...

132. Love in Action

1 John 3:16-24

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Nancy Kraft

Love one another. It sounds so simple, doesn't it? Of course, if you've ever really tried it, you know that this love stuff is incredibly hard. I guess that's why Jesus made such a big deal out of it, because he knows how hard it for us. Love one another. It's his big commandment. In the gospel of John we hear Jesus saying it in as many ways as he possibly can. But he does more than just say it. He also shows it. In today's gospel passage, Jesus teaches his disciples about the good shepherd, saying quite ...

133. Radical Love is Truthful (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Ephesians 4:1-16

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J. Howard Olds

Every time I preach a sermon on “Loving Your Enemies” it seems to conjure up more questions than answers. Such was the case with the sermon last week. I was hardly out of the pulpit when people wanted to know: What about truth and justice? How could Jesus teach non-violence and then announce that he came not to bring peace but a sword? Did not the same Jesus who said turn the other cheek also turn the tables in the temple and drive out the moneychangers in a moment of, at best, righteous anger if not ...

134. Transforming Love

Acts 9:1-19a

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Douglas J. Deuel

Edwin Markham's little poem has so much to say to us about the ability of love to transform. He drew a circle that shut me out -- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.1 One of the most amazing stories to come out of the Bible is the account of Saul's life. Through this story we see a leading opponent of the church being transformed into the church's greatest advocate. In today's passage of scripture, we encounter the conversion experience of ...

135. Joseph and His Brothers

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

The Life of Joseph (37:1–50:26): Joseph gives his brothers three reasons to dislike him. First, he “snitches” on them (37:2). Second, their father openly loves Joseph more than any other of his children (37:3–4). Third, he has two dreams that his brothers interpret as arrogant and egotistical (37:5–11). The younger brother will have authority over the older brother, just as Jacob did over Esau. Even Jacob is jolted by Joseph’s second dream. Will he too bow the knee to his son? Jacob’s “will your mother and ...

136. A Tale Of Two Brothers

Matthew 21:28-32

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King Duncan

Americans are amazingly law-abiding folk. We obey the rules. If you don't think so, travel to other countries. Watch people in countries we normally think of as civilized push in front of one another while waiting in line. Try driving in many of the great cities of the world. Those who travel greatly have horror stories to report. People drive through stop signs as if they were not there. And traffic lights receive not much more respect. Meanwhile, in the home of the free and the brave, we passively do ...

137. The Unsilenced Voice

Mark 6:14-29

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Kristin Borsgard Wee

There is a book on my shelf titled Texts of Terror. Phyllis Trible, the author, has a lot of courage. In this book, she has examined the most awful texts in the Old Testament. These are the pages from the Bible we wish we could accidentally drop between our desk and the wall, lost forever. For example, there is the heart-wrenching story of Jephthah's daughter in the book of Judges. The little girl loses her life because of her father's foolish promise. There is another horrific story in Judges about a ...

138. The Love That Conquers the World

Matthew 22:34-46; Mark 12:28-34

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Frederick Buechner

The love for equals is a human thing--of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing--the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world. The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing--to love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for ...

139. I Love a Parade

Isaiah 50:4-9a

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Schuyler Rhodes

I love Palm Sunday. It's that wonderful day when we march boldly into town waving our palm branches and loving the parade. Yes, yes, I admit. It's probably the parade I like as much as what we're shouting about as the donkey saunters by. But I do. I love Palm Sunday. And did I say, I love parades, too? I remember as a kid going with my mom every year to the Memorial Day parade in the small upstate New York town where we lived. It was exactly what you might imagine it to be. The high school band marched ...

140. A Brother Like That

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C. Roy Angell

Pastor Roy Angell tells this story: A college friend of mine named Paul received a new automobile from his brother as a pre-Christmas present. On Christmas Eve, when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin (poor kid who hangs out in the streets) was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it. "Is this your car, mister?" he asked. Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy looked astounded."You mean your brother gave it to you, and it didn’t cost you nothing? Boy, I wish…" He ...

141. The Question of Sin and the Commandment to Love

1 John 1:5--2:14, 1 John 2:15-17

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

The question of those claiming to be “without sin” is an intriguing one in 1 John. On one hand, it might appear that we have an alien gnostic group claiming perfectionism as a factor of direct access to God without need of the atonement. After all, the first commentary on John was written by Heracleon, a second-century gnostic, and the flesh-denying antichrists of 1 John 4:1–3 might point in that direction. This view has several problems to it, however. (1) The elder also speaks of the impossibility of ...

142. Building Bridges

Matthew 18:15-20

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Bob Tasler

Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in their 40 years of working together. It began with a small misunderstanding, and grew into a major difference, and finally exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence. One morning, there was a knock on John's door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter's toolbox. "I'm looking for a few days' work," he said. "Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there ...

143. Love of Enemies

Matthew 5:43-48

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Joyce Hollyday

Sarah Corson, a founder of Servant in faith and Technology (SIFAT) in Alabama, was on a mission in the South American jungles to set up an agricultural project in a village where she and her husband had earlier started a church and built a fish hatchery. She was with seventeen young people, including two of her sons. One Thursday night, around midnight, thirty soldiers rushed toward the house where they were all staying. Sarah was paralyzed with shock as the soldiers stormed over the clearing leading to ...

144. Revenge or Love

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Frederick Keller Stamm

Out of the Armenian atrocities in the early 20th century comes the story of a young woman and her brother who were pursued down the street by a Turkish soldier, cornered in an angle of the wall, and the brother slain before the sister's eyes. She dodged down an alley, leaped a wall, and escaped. Later, being a nurse, she was forced by the Turkish authorities to work in a military hospital. One day the same Turkish soldier who had slain her brother was brought into the ward. He was very ill, and a slight ...

145. For The Love Of God Is Biblical

2 Timothy 3:14-17

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Billy D. Strayhorn

At various times it has been called: The Road Less Traveled -- Life's Little Instruction Book -- Our Owner's Manual and Warranty -- The Promise and The Spiritual Guide To Life, The Universe and Everything On $5.00 A Day Or Less. Some people find it repulsive. Some love it; Some love it so much they have made it their god. It's been on best seller list for more weeks than we can count. What is it? The Bible. Next Sun marks beginning of National Bible Week and since we want to pause and give Thanks next week ...

146. One In Christ

Galatians 3:15-25

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Dr. Ronald Love

It was Christmas Eve. A young Norman Vincent Peale was shopping with his father, Dr. Charles Clifford Peale. Clifford Peale was a physician who gave up his medical practice to become a pastor in the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were walking along Fourth Street in Cincinnati when a bum ” what we would call today a street person ” approached them. The man stretched out his filthy hand, placing it like a claw on young Norman's shoulder. Frightened and repulsed, Norman shook himself free and ran down the ...

147. Bear Love

Acts 1:1-11

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Bill Mosley

Do you remember everything your mother told you? Here's a list which sounded familiar when I first heard it. It's called Things My MOTHER Taught Me My Mother taught me LOGIC ... "If you fall off that swing and break your neck, you can't go to the store with me." My Mother taught me MEDICINE ... "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they're going to freeze that way." My Mother taught me TO THINK AHEAD ... "If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job!" My Mother taught me ESP ... "Put ...

148. Curiosity and Questions

John 3:1-7

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Kristin Borsgard Wee

When I was sorting through household items in Minnesota, preparing for a move to Florida, I came across my old Nancy Drew mysteries. The pages were worn, some had my childhood scribbles on them, the pictures on the covers had started to fade. The question was, "Should I keep them or not?" Reluctantly, I decided not to keep them. I took the books to an antiquarian bookstore where a man offered me $30 for the 25 books. I took the money and walked out the door. When I got to the corner, I turned around and ...

149. Take Your Job and Love It

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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King Duncan

A company president was addressing her employees: “I know you’ve all heard that we’re going to be automated,” she said, “and you’re worried that these robots will take over your jobs. Well, I’m happy to tell you that not only will no one be laid off, but you will only be required to come to work one day a week for a full week’s pay. That’s right, you’ll only have to work on Wednesdays but you’ll still receive your full salary!” And then a voice piped up from the back of the room. Someone asked, “Do you ...

150. Family Values

Mark 3:20-35

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Kristin Borsgard Wee

Last week I was reading a newspaper article on family values. The gist of the article was that everyone wants strong family values but few can agree on what they are. Then I heard Roger Rosenblatt on public radio being cynical about family values. Rosenblatt said that there are plenty of perfect families around like yours and mine. But, there are so many others that fall short, families like the Walker spy family or the Medicis in Italy or the Macbeths of Scotland or the Oedipus Rexes of Greece. Rosenblatt ...

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