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126. Acts 9:1-20

Acts 9:1-20

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Leonard Sweet

... close. This construction allows Peter's reboarding of the ship (now from the water, not the shore) in order to empty the net (verse 11) to serve as his somewhat graceful re-entry into the party - showing Jesus he is there and that he is eager to be useful. The entire group's trepidation about being in the company of this resurrected presence is then eased by Jesus' invitation to breakfast. After the eucharistically-styled meal, the second section of this week's text continues Peter's reassimilation into the ...

127. John 6:24-35

John 6:24-35

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Leonard Sweet

... , 1984), 122. But the crowd is not satisfied. Despite the fact that a scant twenty-four hours has passed since Jesus miraculously fed the whole lot of them with a handful of loaves and fishes, they have the audacity to demand that he give them a sign. Eager to re-direct this conversation in the way they want it to go, the crowd turns back to the topic of tangible, especially edible, gifts that God has provided in the past. If Jesus has any connection to Yahweh, then surely he will continue this concern for ...

128. Mark 10:46-52

Mark 10:46-52

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Leonard Sweet

... voice brought before him (vs. 49). The crowd's urging that Bartimaeus "take heart" seems fairly redundant. Bartimaeus' heart has obviously already gone out to meet the one whom he believes will heal him. Little wonder, then, that verse 50 records the wild eagerness Bartimaeus' body displayed as it sought to catch up to his voice and his heart. Piteously portrayed in verse 46 as a desolate blind beggar "sitting by the roadside," the man is now invigorated and animated as he responds to Jesus' call. Mark ...

129. Acts 9:1-20

Acts 9:1-20

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Leonard Sweet

130. Acts 2:1-21

Acts 2:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... mission was born. Relating the Texts Paul's pastoral counsel to the contentious Corinthians is both decisive and diplomatic. The Corinthian church is evidently a strong, growing, vital faith community - charged up for Christ and eagerly committed to the gospel. But, in their eagerness to create the "perfect" church, the Corinthians were tempted to streamline and oversimplify the complexities of Christian faithfulness. In chapter 12, Paul undertakes the task of re-directing some of their wrong-headed notions ...

131. Mark 10:17-31

Mark 10:17-31

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Leonard Sweet

... what he has and give it all to the poor. Second, he is to come and follow Jesus _ a path that will lead him to the eternal life he seeks. Now all comes crashing down. This man is no longer enthusiastic but "shocked." This man is no longer eager; he is "sorrowful" or "grieving," "for he had many possessions." He judges the cost of eternal life too high and sadly leaves. Verses 23-31 continue the lesson begun in verse 17, but Jesus' audience has now changed. The seeking man, now revealed as a rich man, has ...

132. Proper 22

Job 1:1-5, Job 2:1-10, Hebrews 1:1-14, Hebrews 2:5-18, Mark 10:1-12, Mark 10:13-16

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John R. Brokhoff

... to be childish. A person enters the kingdom "like" a child. There is an innocence, openness and a receptivity on the part of a child that a person wanting to enter the kingdom of God must have. A child is ready to believe and trust what an adult says. Children eagerly believe myths such as Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. They readily obey without questioning. Old Testament: Job 1:1; 2:1-10 1. Fears (1:1; 2:3). Twice Job is described as a man who feared God, not in the sense of being afraid of God, but in ...

133. Proper 27

Ruth 3:1-18, Psalm 127:1-5, Mark 12:38-44, Hebrews 9:11-28

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B. David Hostetter

... Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Just as it is appointed for us to die once and after that comes the judgment, so Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. Encourage one another as you see the day drawing near. PRAYER OF THE DAY Save us, good Lord, from half-heartedness in our service of your church. Help us to find joy in the full use of all that we are and have in the saving name ...

134. The Hard Task of Truth-telling

Jeremiah 1:4-10

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Lee Ann Dunlap

... called to expose all these false idols by pointing to the one, true God. Not only must we refuse to give homage to whatever would claim our ultimate loyalty, but we must strive to live in loyalty to the Christ who ultimately claims us. Who of us is eager to assume such a task? Who of us is adequate to speak such invisible truths? Like Jeremiah and his fellow prophets before us, we plead our own incompetence and beg to be discharged from such service. But God is not so willing to excuse us from duty, because ...

135. Hebrews 9:24-28

Hebrews 9:11-28

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Leonard Sweet

... removed all human sin “by the sacrifice of himself,” and that this sacrifice though offered only once was “to bear the sins of many” (v.27). In fact “the many” is an open-ended number. Christ's saving action was taken for the sake of any and all who are “eagerly waiting for him” (v.28). For those who hear the story of Christ's sacrifice and believe in his resurrected presence, the promise is that Christ will “save those who are ...

136. I Am the Vine

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... the coming week. One of the biggest problems of our day is that that people have lost the sense of the Holy. If we don’t have an alter before which we are eager to bow, the time will come in our lives when our lives will become so heavy that we’ll be flattened out in the world. And that before which most of us are eager to bow is not sacred, but secular, and in many instances profane. We bow before the alter of our jobs and success and our professions. We humble ourselves before the crass materialism of ...

137. On the Road with the Little Children

Luke 18:15-17

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James W. Moore

... hands go up. ‘What kind of music do you like to dance to?’ ‘It doesn’t matter, any kind. Let’s dance.’ Right here? (Right now?) ‘Sure why not?’ Their answer to anything you ask them to do is ‘Yes.’ Children are confident in spirit, eager to learn and they believe that everything is still possible for them. But, Fulghum said if you go ask a college audience the same questions: can you draw? Can you sing? Can you dance?... only the smallest percentage of hands will go up… and even those ...

138. Getting in S.H.A.P.E. for Ministry

Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-16

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J. Howard Olds

... created you with such a design, that you have a particular gift to share for the good of the whole. We are wise to discover our spiritual gifts. And when we play the game according to our spiritual gifts, there is an excitement about what we do, an eagerness about it, and we can hardly wait to try again because we want to feel the goodness of what God has entrusted to us. Have you discovered your spiritual gifts? Follow your heart. What do you feel passionate about? Where is your heart? There is a group of ...

139. We Are the Champions

Romans 12:1-8

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Larry Lange

... welcome the gifts of the other members of the congregation. It wasn't so much that the Nitpickers crucified him, as it was that Jack had crucified himself. Finally, the congregation was all too willing to sit back and watch it all happen. They weren't particularly eager to share their gifts. They said stuff like this to themselves: Hey, Jack is doing fine handling everything. If Jack's going to do everything, I don't have to anything. One less evening out for me! No one came up to Jack and said, "Hey Jack ...

140. Eyewitness News

John 20:1-9

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King Duncan

... hearts we know it’s true. We talk about heaven, but regardless of how wonderful we have heard it described, most of us are not eager to make the journey. We’re like the man who was sentenced to death. He was asked if he had any last requests. He said ... it would take to sing all the choruses to “One Billion Bottles of Beer on the Wall,” but suffice it to say, he wasn’t eager to face death. And that’s the way most of us are. And the question is, why? Isn’t the grave simply a passageway to eternity ...

141. Never, Never, Never, NEVER GIVE UP!

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

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David E. Leininger

... graduating class of England's most prestigious university. The hall was packed. Young students perched on their chairs, eager to catch every word from the statesman. Finally, Churchill approached the podium. What seemed like minutes passed as the crowd waited in silence for ... their hero to speak. He stared up at the eager faces and said these words:"Never ... give ... up!" Another minute passed in silence. Finally, Churchill said to the students, "Never ...

142. Just Deal with It

Luke 20:27-38

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Scott Bryte

... day and night. They dealt with life's big questions. It's pretty much all they did. So here is the opportunity of a lifetime. Here is God in the flesh walking around among them. Here is Jesus, perfectly willing to talk about the meaning of scripture. Here is Jesus, eager to shed light on the will of God. The opportunity of a lifetime and they blew it. Some Sadducees came up to Jesus and told him this big, long hypothetical story: an elaborate and drawn-out set-up. And then for the punch line, they asked a ...

143. Epiphany 9

1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43, Psalm 96:1-9, Luke 7:1-10, Galatians 1:1-12

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Julia Ross Strope

... with God. God is the creator of all that is; God invites us to work and pray, sing and play so that a new reign can come to earth. We are people of God, eager to make this world a benevolent home for all creatures. Let us take hope and wisdom into the world. Amen. Let it be so! Offertory Statement Though we are eager to help the kingdom of God manifest, we need skills, supplies, and money. Let’s fill the baskets! Doxology "Great Are Your Mercies" Great are your mercies, O my Maker, Food and raiment You ...

144. When We Feel Lost

Luke 15:11-32

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King Duncan

... to condemn those who are weaker and have given into temptation. They are still our brothers and sisters. The elder son peers with critical eyes and a cold unforgiving heart at both his brother who has broken all the rules and his father, so eager to welcome his wayward son back home. The elder brother is spiteful, angry, resentful. And some of us understand that. We sometimes wonder why God bends over backward to welcome back the wayward and seems to ignore those of us who have always played by the rulebook ...

145. A Matter of Trust

Galatians 1:11-24

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King Duncan

... Wilder discovered that each of them had been either a storm trooper or a member of the Gestapo. So, he said, he would give them permission to put on the play depicting the crucifixion of Christ as long as they used real nails. (4) Evidently Billy Wilder wasn’t eager to forgive and forget the sins of the German people. It took time for Paul to win people’s trust. We might get the idea that once Paul was converted he was accepted almost at once by the entire church and then he went sailing merrily off on ...

146. Spirit-Direct

Acts 10:23b-48

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Timothy J. Smith

... gospel to the next level, to the Gentiles and to all people. It is “God working in our hearts that produces change in our lives.” As our lesson from the Acts of the Apostles opens Peter is giving a sermon in Cornelius’ house. His audience was eager to hear what he had to say. Peter told them, “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.” This was a radical departure for Peter to believe that, “God shows ...

147. Lost, But Not the TV Show!

Luke 15:1-7

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King Duncan

... polite” company. Imagine their joy, comfort, and relief in knowing that someone loved and accepted them, that God was eagerly searching them out. No wonder the tax collectors and sinners gathered around to hear Jesus. They knew what it ... the presence of the Father. Then here comes Jesus telling them that they are deeply loved and valued, precious in His sight, and that God is eagerly seeking them to bring them back home. It must have sounded too good to be true. Yet that is the Gospel. Jesus came to save ...

148. Drowsy Disciples

Mark 13:1-31

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David J. Kalas

... 11; 13:1-2; 14:9-19). Paul also references here their “spiritual gifts,” which becomes a major topic later. Finally, Paul looks to the future — “the day of our Lord Jesus Christ” — which ties this passage to our other two lections. He is eager that they should be “blameless” on that day, and he recognizes — as we have seen in Isaiah and will see again in Mark — that the present involves waiting (“you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ”). Mark 13:24-37 All three synoptic ...

149. Night of Light

Luke 2:1-7

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Timothy Cargal

... system have only slightly obscured the fact that Christmas Day originally coincided with the date of the winter solstice, the date with the longest period between sunset and sunrise in the entire year. It seems more than likely that one reason that we so eagerly embrace all this use of artificially generated light for a celebration during this particular season of the year for us is in order to deal with the depression in energy and often in mood that accompanies the shortening of daylight hours. Yes, the ...

150. Waiting in Life's Waiting Rooms

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

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Leonard Sweet

... the tree. Everyone is waiting . . . for the wrong things. Advent is not about waiting for sales, stuff, or Santa. Advent is about waiting for the appearance of something both eagerly anticipated and yet wholly unexpected. No, let me try again. Advent is about waiting for the appearance, not of something but of someone eagerly anticipated yet wholly unexpected. Jesus is not an Advent cut‑away or cut‑out. Jesus is the whole cut, the whole shebang, the whole story of Advent, Christmas, and Christmastide ...

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