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1676. An Easter-Life

Acts 10:23b-48

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Carl Hoefler

... to live today. If we fail to serve God, rest assured that God will find other means of making that presence of the Living Lord a life-giving force in our world. This truly means that God has granted us the privilege of witnessing. He has honored us ... on to others. God never asks us to do anything that he does not, at the same time, give us the power to achieve. The living Lord is alive in you. He will enlighten and enliven you to proclaim his Gospel to the world. In the novel, Green Street, the story is told ...

1677. Lovers Never Ask, 'What's the Least I Can Do?'

Luke 17:1-10

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Alvin Rueter

... from destroying the souls of those for whom he died. "Perpetual responsibility"? Yes. But for lovers it’s only natural. Another duty our Lord lays upon us in today’s Gospel is that of forgiving: If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him ... say "a million mosquitoes" and we all know that Jesus was saying, "It’s not the size of your faith but the quality." For our Lord that was too flat to say it like that, so he said it far more effectively: If you had faith as a grain of mustard ...

1678. The Season of the Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

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... death Jesus confidently proclaimed, "Father, into your hands I now give my spirit." Christian friends, the Holy Spirit wants to give you that kind of quality living and dying. The Holy Spirit wants to lead you to Jesus Christ, and thus show you that he really is the Lord and giver of life. The season of the Spirit is an on-going life of living under God's forgiveness, knowing that Christ has died and paid for all our sins, and then turning the focus of our lives outward in loving service to all people. The ...

1679. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Jeremiah 20:7-18

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... re 46 years old. You’re the principal, and you have to go to school." 2. Confronted (Verses 10-11) The word "confronted" points in two directions. On the one hand, Jeremiah’s enemies are confronting him with threats and revenge. On the other hand, the Lord confronts the enemies and causes them to stumble. Being confronted with enemies is not a pleasant experience. I remember a boy in elementary school who somehow drew abuse and meanness from the other boys. As I look back, I’m not sure if it was his ...

1680. Advent 2

Malachi 2:17--3:5, Philippians 1:1-11, Luke 3:1-20

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... when he is in the wilderness and carries out his call by preaching repentance to the region around the Jordan river. His call and mission are considered a fulfillment of Isaiah 40 as preparation for the coming of Christ. Prayer of the Day: "Stir up our hearts, O Lord, to prepare the way for your only Son. By his coming give us strength in our conflicts and shed light on our paths through the darkness of this world." Hymn of the Day: "On Jordan's Banks, the Baptist's Cry" Theme of the Day: Prepare for The ...

1681. The Glance of God

Isaiah 9:1-7

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... off the mark. Worshiping golden calves or hurling their children to gods called Baal, they tried to win God’s favor. Believing in their own potential to control God, they tried to be perfect in his presence. So the Lord God of Israel stared at his people. With a long, hard look, he raised up the prophet Isaiah. "The Lord God says your potential is like that of grass," said Isaiah, "to wither in the heat of the sun, and your potential is like that of the flower, to fade away after a few days of glory. But ...

1682. Wait and Hope

Isaiah 9:1-7

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... was half dead. Many years later Paul wrote, "I count everything as loss for the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord." (Philippians 3:8) Both Isaiah and Paul had been raised with their flesh steeped in belief in God’s strength. God’s ... that he wanted to put them all into chains to kill them. Instead, they took this blinded lion in. One of them said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the ...

1683. Easter Day

Matthew 28:1-10, John 20:1-18, Acts 10:34-43, Colossians 3:1-4

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... and put on our new nature. Collect Most gracious Father, whose power over sin and death raises us to a new life in Christ: Fill our minds with Christlike desires; that we may put to death our earthly desires, and live a new life in fellowship with our risen Lord, through whom we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We are full of praise, Father, for Christ's resurrection. But our praise is due more to a fear of death, than to love for life. We want security as we prepare for death, but we have put to death the ...

1684. Epiphany 3

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, Psalm 27:1-14, Isaiah 9:1-7

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... who seek you face in times of trouble may see your goodness in the land of the living, through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. THE READINGS Isaiah 9:1b-4 This is, of course, in part, the Old Testament reading for the first service of Christmas. On that ... Psalm 27 - "God Turns on the Light of the World" 1. The "lights" went out in all the world when Adam and Eve disobeyed the Lord God in the garden; no one, except God, could turn them on again. We live - and walk - more in the "land of deep darkness" than ...

1685. Proper 13 & Pentecost 11

Matthew 14:13-21, Nehemiah 9:1-37, Exodus 12:1-30, Romans 8:28-39, Isaiah 55:1-13

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... gives life to the world," and, not unexpectedly, asks, "Give us this bread, that he may live in us and we in him, Jesus Christ our Lord." The Psalm of the Day - Psalm 104:25-31 (L) Verses 28 and 29 pick up the "food" theme in Isaiah 55, which also finds ... with the Romans 8 reading for the day. THE READINGS Isaiah 55:1-3 (R); 55:1-5 (L) The prophet pictures the Lord God "throwing a banquet" for the nation, Israel, after the people have returned to their homeland from exile. It is eschatobogical in nature ...

1686. Proper 20 & Pentecost 18

Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Philippians 1:1-11, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 106:1-48

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... our tasks in the work of your kingdom, and help us to order our lives by your wisdom; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." The Prayer of the Day reveals the fact that for most Sundays three collects are needed, if the prayer is to have any real ... your servants who seek your face in times of trouble may see your goodness in the land of the living, through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Psalm 106:7-8, 19-23 (C) The choice of this psalm as a responsory to the first reading, Exodus 32:1-14, could hardly be ...

1687. "Gone Fishing!"

Luke 5:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... . So many fish were netted that another boat had to be sent out to help gather them. This is one of the great fish stories of all time, and it really happened, which is more than I can say for many fish stories I have heard. I suspect that the Lord grants all fishermen a 20 percent flex of the truth before they actually get into lying. I think that is somewhere in the book of Calamities. Like the wife who went on a fishing trip with her husband. Describing it to a neighbor, she said, "I did everything wrong ...

1688. Separation of God and State?

Isaiah 44:24--45:25

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John R. Brokhoff

... King of Kings God is over the state. He is the ruler of the nations and King of kings. In our text, God says, "I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God." If there is no other God, there is no person or power greater than he. In ... or any nation depend upon saying and practicing, "This nation under God." The Bible says, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." May we as a nation pay heed to the words of President Reagan, uttered in a 1983 address in Orlando, Florida: "While America ...

1689. The Church’s Fear and Comfort

Acts 9:19b-31

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Richard F. Bansemer

... in such a place, so he goes on a trip, boards a boat and goes sailing. You remember the rest. The great fish brings him back, and Jonah gets the message: do God’s will, or pay the consequences. How many more examples do we need? The fear of the Lord is something other than respect. It’s more than awe. It’s more than some earthly despot who has his time and is seen no more. God is the king of life, the creator, and the great destroyer! Those first Christians knew about it. They walked in the fear of ...

1690. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

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George Bass

... this be, since I have no husband?" Isn’t that a loaded question? Nevertheless, she could say, "I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." Countless young girls - virgins as was Mary - went to their deaths as martyrs with ... earth I used to love with my whole soul." She, too, might have said, as that other Virgin before her, "I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." Mary’s role in God’s drama of redemption was unique; only she could fulfill it. ...

1691. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

... and so great that I can scarce contain them." The tuba player in a Salvation Army band was playing so loudly that his loud "um-pa, um-pa" was drowning out the rest of the band. The conductor suggested that he lower the volume a bit. The tuba player replied, "Lord bless you, sir, but I just can’t help myself! Ever since I was converted and found Christ, I am so happy that I must express it. I am doing the best I can to restrain myself. If I should let myself go, I would blow this bloomin’ horn straight ...

1692. Song of a Prophet

Psalm 46:1-11

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... very awareness that God is with them will hold them fast in the faith (Psalm 46:4, 5). A Championing God The singer’s prophetic instincts, however, will not let him rest his case here. For he realizes that none but a powerful King can accomplish what the Lord has done. Nor has the Almighty ceased to achieve victory "in the midst of the earth" (cf. Psalm 74:12). The times are still in God’s hands, and the children of Zion may rejoice in the fact God will always champion his own. Seated in Jerusalem as ...

1693. Call Waiting

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

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Frederick C. Edwards

... writers of the scriptures regarded a child born late in life as an indication of God’s special favor. Hannah, Samuel’s mother, must have thought so too, and while he was still an infant, as soon as he was weaned, he was offered into the service of the Lord in thanks to God for his birth. That’s how it happened that this young boy named Samuel came to live with and serve as a kind of apprentice under a priest named Eli. Samuel lived and slept right there in what was called the Tent of Meeting, which ...

1694. Mission Accomplished!

Luke 24:50-53

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Charles L. Koester

... come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven." Grandma is with the Father. It is as simple as that. She loved her Lord. She believed in him. She has more life today than any of us who remain in this body. She ascended, as Christ ascended, to live with ... new life yet to come. In the whole expanse of human history, there is only one point of contact with he who is the Lord of all history. This present moment. Through the door of the present moment, Christ enters your life. And it is through your life and ...

1695. Candlelight Service

John 1:1-18

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Brett Blair

... our lives. Let us pray. The Christ Candle Is Lit Dear God, who comes to us in Jesus, on this night as we celebrate the birth of Jesus, let the power of Christ come into our hears that we might find peace with you forever. Amen. The Bidding Prayer The Lord's Prayer Solo "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" THE LIGHT RECEIVED FIRST LESSON - Luke 1:26-35 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David; and the ...

1696. The Final Farewell

Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

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George Bass

... his return - the day on which the trumpet will sound to usher in the fullness of his kingdom. For us, the Ascension of the Lord ought to mean that the resurrection of Jesus is now complete. His God-given mission, which ended so suddenly and, in the eyes of ... have been passed on to us by the faithful of other times and places. We know the Story. We believe that Christ is the risen, ascended Lord. And we are convinced that it is now up to us to tell the Story to all people, so that our joy might be theirs. ...

1697. All I Need Is A Little Rest!

Mark 1:35-39

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Daniel G. Mueller

... his death, in the closing moments before his arrest, Jesus went to be alone for a while and to pray. What a beautiful vision of the Lord Jesus this is. He is true God, who has the power to heal all those who were brought to him. And he is true man, who ... did because we don’t do with them what he did when he went away. Jesus went away to pray. We just go away. For our Lord, rest from all the tension of life came through prayer and quiet time with his Father in heaven. Rest came not just from "doing nothing," ...

1698. The Advent Hope

Romans 14:1--15:13

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T. A. Kantonen

... the determiner of destiny. The hope of the world lies in the mighty power by which he conquered death and which he releases into the world through his church. The kingdoms of the world, however, will not be gradually transformed into the kingdom of Christ. As our Lord expresses it, the world is like a field in which wheat and weeds grow side by side. The weeds are not changed into wheat, but both mature until the harvest. Good gets better and evil gets worse. The final scene in the drama of history is not ...

1699. No Fifth Wheels in God’s Economy

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

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Gregory J. Johanson

... a zero-sum game, in which the more we love one, the less we must love others. Rather, the more we learn HOW to love one, the more we are able to love everybody. We need to "legitimatize" love between brothers and sisters who don’t feel the Lord leading them to marriage. I have begun to see that there is really no back door in any relationship. Once a relationship is started among God’s people, even if it starts to get difficult, we have a responsibilty and opportunity to work that difficulty out with ...

1700. The Second Touch for the Out of Touch

1 Kings 19:1-18

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.’ He got up, and ate ... you that God’s love for you has never failed. Don’t give up when depression comes. Don’t be a spiritual has-been. “The Lord said to him, ‘Go, return on your way’ ” (1 Kings 19:15). It’s another way of saying to Elijah and to you and me, “Go ...

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1676. An Easter-Life

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

1677. Lovers Never Ask, 'What's the Least I Can Do?'

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

1678. The Season of the Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

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1679. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Jeremiah 20:7-18

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1680. Advent 2

Malachi 2:17--3:5, Philippians 1:1-11, Luke 3:1-20

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1681. The Glance of God

Isaiah 9:1-7

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1682. Wait and Hope

Isaiah 9:1-7

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1683. Easter Day

Matthew 28:1-10, John 20:1-18, Acts 10:34-43, Colossians 3:1-4

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1684. Epiphany 3

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, Psalm 27:1-14, Isaiah 9:1-7

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1685. Proper 13 & Pentecost 11

Matthew 14:13-21, Nehemiah 9:1-37, Exodus 12:1-30, Romans 8:28-39, Isaiah 55:1-13

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1686. Proper 20 & Pentecost 18

Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Philippians 1:1-11, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 106:1-48

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1687. "Gone Fishing!"

Luke 5:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

1688. Separation of God and State?

Isaiah 44:24--45:25

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John R. Brokhoff

1689. The Church’s Fear and Comfort

Acts 9:19b-31

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