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1501. Leaping For Joy

Malachi 4:1-6

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Richard Hasler

... heart? Not a few so-called prophetic teachers of the Bible make a living out of feeding on fear of the end time. How tempting it is for prognosticators to pretend to know the exact date and to know the key figures involved when the day of the Lord will come. All my life I have heard predictions that the particular decade in which I happened to be living would be the one when Christ would return. The antichrist was supposed to be Hitler, then he was supposed to be Stalin. He became whomever the latest, most ...

1502. Can A Nation Repent?

2 Chronicles 34:14-33

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Erskine White

... law which God had given Moses. It had been lost and forgotten for many years, but now it was found. They dusted off the scroll and brought it to the king. The book was read to the king. It contained the Shema of Deuteronomy 6:4 - "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind." It gave rules for worship, and rules for the administration of justice. It also spelled out God's plan of government welfare for the poor, and it said that "there will be no poor ...

1503. Christ the King (A Kingdom Not of This World)

John 18:28-40

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James Wilson

... bow and every tongue will confess. Leader: Praise God, our Messiah; lift our hearts in praise for the Christ! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Almighty and loving God, only You could have established the eternal kingdom into which You call each one who will accept the kingship of Christ. We give You our praise and thanksgiving, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, as the days of life roll by, we often let it slip our minds that You are truly the King above all kings and the ...

1504. Lent

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Betty Lynn Schwab

... fruit because of our faith in Christ. Amen. (Bowl of fruit set up with the label: Lent 1 First Fruits) Lent 2 Reader 1: God spoke to Moses saying: "You shall keep the Festival of Shavuot for the Lord your God, contributing a freewill offering in proportion to the blessing that you have received from the Lord." Reader 2: In Jesus' day, the Festival of Shavuot required every male in Israel to travel to the Temple of Jerusalem. There he offered God the gift of baked bread. Shavuot was the only time an offering ...

1505. St. Jim, Your Halo Is Tipped

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Ron Lavin

... gods sleeping? Have they taken a little trip? Are they away on a long journey?" No voice. No answer. No one heeded the prayer to Baal. Then it was Elijah's turn. "Come near to me," he said to the people. They watched him repair the altar of the Lord which had been torn down and neglected as the people were caught in the chaos of idolatry. Elijah placed twelve stones around the altar to remind the people of their heritage of the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he dug a trench around the altar and put wood in ...

1506. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

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Larry Powell

... grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people are grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever." ( ... the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower of it falls away: but the word of the Lord endures forever." (1:24) A man will go down into the snake pit in search of his glory and in search of the longest ...

1507. Encounters With Christ VII (Easter): Jesus & Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:1-20

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James W. Moore

... ! Love will win! God will ultimately win! And, through faith in Him, the victory can be ours as well. If that doesn’t encourage you, I don’t know what will. That’s the joy of Easter and that’s the encouragement of Easter. III. THIRD AND FINALLY, THE RISEN LORD WANTS TO SHARE WITH US THE FORGIVENESS OF EASTER. On Good Friday, Jesus died on the cross for our sins and then on Easter morning He arose to assure us that we are forgiven. Let me tell you a true story that happened some time ago: A young boy ...

1508. The Secret of Survival

Joshua 5:1-12

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Carl Hoefler

... that they received from God, together with their unswerving belief that their God could do the impossible. How big is your God? Is he the Lord over all of history? Does he hold the whole world in his hand? Or, is your God so small that he is confined to the ... ends of the tunnel. God is the God of the past, the present, and the future. Trust in him. Have faith in him. He is the Lord of light. In every moment of darkness, no matter how long the tunnel may be, God is with us. He can and will console and comfort ...

1509. A Faith To Live By John D. Mauney, Jr.

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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... forever to be her very own. God has done it all! It is ours, therefore, to accept his gift and to believe. For, "The Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other." The latter part of our text admonishes us, "Therefore you ... will go well with you and with your children after you." So ask yourself, "Is this Triune God my God? Do I behold in him the Lord who is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath?" And ask also, "Have I been baptized in his Name as Jesus requires in Matthew ...

1510. The Cry for God

Exodus 17:1-7

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James G. Cobb

... Sea and led on their way by God out of Egypt, the time came at Masseh and Meribeh when they were thirsty; and because they were in great want of water, they accused God of abandonment. In the seventeenth chapter of Exodus, they tempt the Lord with their question and ask, "Is the Lord among us or not?" This cry to God has gone up early in the history of God’s people and it continues ... The cry for God would be echoed by the Psalmist who would talk of a time when his life was filled with troubles, where ...

1511. A Renewed Call

Isaiah 49:1-7

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... of his ministry. The hard-hearted and stiff-necked people quickly drained Moses' enthusiasm and energy. The apparent silence of God, at times, drove Moses bonkers. He seems almost constantly ready to give up. Elijah the Tishbite was called to be a prophet of the Lord. He was sent to King Ahab and did his task. Elijah, on behalf of God, engaged in a great contest on Mt. Carmel with the priests of Baal, to demonstrate whether it was Baal or Yahweh God who provided rain for fertility. The contest demonstrated ...

1512. The Trifocal Festival

Matthew 5:1-12

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... a copy of Henri Nouwen’s little book, A Letter of Consolation. It is a letter from son to father written six months after the death of the author’s mother. With poignance and simple eloquence Nouwen spoke the gospel to my need. At one point he writes: II. "The Lord who died, died for us - for you, for me, for mother, and for all people. He died not because of any death or darkness in him, but only to free us from the death and darkness in us. If the God who revealed life to us, and whose only desire ...

1513. The Miracle Comes at the Breaking

Luke 24:13-35

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Various Authors

... moment as a peak of mystery, when something quite beyond them happened. Hocus pocus, indeed. But believe me, the breaking of this bread is no "hocus pocus." It is a profound and magnificent mystery, but it is no clever magic. It is, rather, the very essence of who our Lord is, and of how he works. He came to our world to be broken. His body comes to us, not in sublime and delicate beauty, but broken. He makes us whole by himself being broken. And as it is with the Master, so it is with his servants. The ...

1514. Epiphany 6

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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... losing the really "good life." 3. Jesus lived the "good life" - perfectly; He is the only person to do so. He is our role model, and our hope when we discover that we cannot keep all of God's Commandments. 4. Walk in the light of the Lord - and celebrate Epiphany every day of your life, and know the joy of the "good life" as God prescribes, orders, and supports it. Lesson 2, 1 Corinthians 2:6-13 - "The Holy Spirit - Our Teacher." 1. True spiritual maturity means that people are ready for learning the truth ...

1515. Sovereignty: God’s Domain

Zephaniah 1:4-13

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... because that is the way it is! THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD comes glowingly alive for the church in Saint Paul’s Letter to the Ephesisans. He tells us: "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all." (4:4-6) Christian unity does not forsake this message of hopeful truth. In fact, it builds upon it and recognizes its destiny as being bound to it. The ...

1516. Faith isn’t Easy - But it Works!

Genesis 12:1-8

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Barbara Brokhoff

... , and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you, I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves." So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten Haran; and they ...

1517. We Are Driven!

Jeremiah 20:7-18

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John R. Brokhoff

... witnessing would be automatic. The Fire of Faith The fire in Jeremiah’s bones was the fire of faith, for in our text he said, "The Lord is with me as a dread warrior ..." If God were not with us, we would be scared to death to take a stand which the ... raised his hand, and I saw the nailprints on it." "That is your way," he said, "and there is no other." And she said, "So be it, Lord. Will you go with me?" "I will be with you," he answered, "to the end." What does it mean to have this fire of faith that ...

1518. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... thirsts for the living God." With that longing for God, we begin our search. Who Seeks Whom? You may rightly ask, "Why seek the Lord? Is he lost?" Obviously, God is not lost; humanity is. A little boy at a state fair was directed to a booth for lost ... enough for any searching soul! This search for God is not something we can put off until a more convenient time. Our text says, "Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near." At a later date, God may not be available. You may be too sick ...

1519. Song of an Exile

Psalm 16:1-11

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... martyred for their faith, and the poet knows only too well that at any time he may meet the same fate. Thus, understandably, he begins his song with an appeal for divine protection. Preserve me, O God, for in thee I take refuge. I say to the Lord, Thou art my Lord; I have no good apart from thee. (Psalm 16:1-2) Yet, even as the psalmist petitions the Almighty’s help, he reminds himself he is not alone in his predicament. For others around him are exiles, too. As for the saints in the land [the psalmist ...

1520. The Easter Story Is Our Story

John 20:1-9

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Richard A. Jensen

... not hold me," Jesus said to her, "for I have not yet ascended to my Father ..." Mary Magdalene did as she was told. She did not hold him. She let him complete his journey to his Father. She let him go as an act of faith. "I have seen the Lord." That was Mary’s testimony of faith to the disciples. I have already said that Mary Magdalene could not have this Easter story all to herself. Jesus’ mission was not yet accomplished. He had yet to ascend to his Father. He had yet to send the Spirit. There is a ...

1521. Wait and Witness

Luke 24:36-49

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Richard A. Jensen

... . We certainly learn somthing about waiting. Our life of discipleship, our will to be witnesses for Jesus Christ, our need to gather power to be in mission, begins in waiting! We wait for the Spirit. We do not have the strength and power in ourselves to be witnesses for the Lord. We need the presence of the Spirit in our lives. "All right," we say. "What do we have to do to get the Spirit? Where do we have to go? What prayers do we need to pray? What action must we take in order to get the Spirit?" Activity ...

1522. All-Out Love

Mark 12:28-34

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James W. Robinson

... said. He did indeed love God, and he would have suffered and died for him. The pastor was greatly moved by this simple, uneducated man’s outburst. Later he said, "I saw, in that man the true meaning of loving God with all the soul." D. You shall love the Lord your God with all your strength, and with all your mind, and with all your soul. And when you have loved him in all these ways you will have loved him with all your heart, because in both the Old and New Testaments, the heart is: • a part of the ...

1523. The Passing of the Peace

John 20:24-31

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George Bass

... our failure to realize that the Christian life is lived in Lent." He might simply have said that "our powerlessness stems from our failure to realize that the Christian life is lived in Lent." We have to remember that on this side of the cross, or else the risen Lord and his mission in the world will not be quite real to us. True faith, born of recognition of our plight and true repentance in the face of the good news, finds us conformed to Christ, not the world, and ready to carry on with his work. At the ...

1524. Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-18

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Larry Powell

... the cup in full view of his disciples to say, with a foreboding sense of finality; "Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you." The prophets had said, "Behold the days will come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a New Covenant with the ... his walking ministry until a short time before his death at age 88. We could name others, but it would not remove our Lord’s scathing rebuke to the disciples from the scriptures; "Could you not watch with me for one hour?" 3. Giving In to Hidden ...

1525. Behold! Chariots of Fire!

2 Kings 2:1-18

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Richard L. Eslinger

... , and it is parted "till the two of them could go over on dry ground." And they cross the River Jordan. It seems as though Israel’s whole life with the God of the covenant can be summed up by these "crossings" of the waters. Just think about it! The Lord God acts to free a little band of slaves in Egypt and leads them to freedom across the sea. After the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, the tribes of Israel come to the Jordan and the Ark is carried out to the middle of the Jordan, stopped, and ...

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