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1676. What To Say When You Roll Out Of Bed

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

William G. Carter

... for a world that spoke Greek, in a culture with a deep respect for the human intellect and its capacity to think. If we are called upon to love God with every possible human ability, the implications are clear for the first audience of the Gospel of Mark: we are to love God with our minds. This has always been a Jewish notion as well. A minister was getting acquainted with the newest clergyman in town, who was a rabbi at the local synagogue. Somewhat ignorant of a different religious tradition, the minister ...

1677. Are You in the Right Place?

Matthew 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’re on.” (2) But how do we reconcile the two? On one hand we read that we are not to make a show of our righteousness, and yet we have come to an Ash Wednesday service where we are invited at the end to come forward and have this mark placed on our forehead that announces to the world that we belong to Christ. It seems to be a contradiction. Of course, the explanation is in the wording. Notice Christ says, “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them . . .” In ...

1678. Good-Bye Mardi Gras, Hello Lent

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... . We replace the samba rhythms of Rio and the jazz beat of New Orleans’ Dirty Dozen Brass Band with reminders of our finitude and the gospel call: “You are dust and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19); “repent, and believe the good news” (Mark 1:15). The lectionary gospel reading for the day comes from the heart of the Sermon on the Mount. In this passage Jesus lays out a standard of behavior for three acts of piety: almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. Succinctly stated, the message is that when ...

1679. Get the Garbage Out!

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... about restoring our relationship with God. Some religions teach that sin comes from incorrect thinking or ignorance of what is good or true. But the Bible teaches us that sin comes from turning away from the love of and reverence for God. Sin is anything that misses the mark of God’s holiness. So the farther we move away from God, the closer we move to sin. So what we need most is to turn around. God created this whole universe and everyone in it to know God and to reflect God’s glory. People who know ...

1680. Is There Any Hope?

1 Cor 15:14

Illustration

Staff

... -of-uss-s-4-ss-109. On 17 December 1927, USS S-4 (SS-109), an eight-year-old S-class submarine, was running submerged just off the coast of Provincetown, MA, conducting speed and maneuverability tests between the two white buoys that marked the beginning and end of a measured nautical mile. Meanwhile, on the surface, the Coast Guard destroyer USCGC PAULDING (CG-17) was headed southeast, making 18 knots as she searched for rumrunners carrying their illegal product across the bay to thirsty buyers in Boston ...

1681. How Would You Introduce Jesus?

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... verse, it’s still meant for you and me. “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations . . .” If you claim Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then sharing your faith is not optional. It is essential. So how do you introduce Jesus to others? The books of Matthew, Mark and Luke focus on Jesus’ actions, his miracles. But the book of John is all about Jesus’ identity as the Son of God. It is our introduction to Jesus, not as a biblical hero, but as God in human form. So how do you encapsulate Christ’s ...

1682. Do you need a Pharisectomy?

Matthew 9:27-34, Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 12:15-21, Matthew 12:22-37, Matthew 12:38-45, Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s righteousness Isaiah 11: The Root of Jesse and the Coming Restoration Isaiah 42: The Lord’s Servant in Whom God’s Spirit Dwells Mark’s Witness to Jesus accused of beelzebul (3:20-3:35) Luke’s Witness to Jesus accused of beelzebul (11:14-11:36 AND 8 ... down before him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!” But he sternly ordered them not to make him known. [In Mark’s version, Jesus appoints the twelve before coming back down the mountain again.] Then he went home; and the crowd came together ...

1683. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... healing power. Now come forward to receive your Holy Communion with the living and powerful Lord. Let Jesus heal you, lift you, make you whole. Give him your trust. Give him your life. Come…in the peace and love of Christ. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Mark’s Witness to Jesus’ Healing Power at Jairus’ Home (5:21-5:43) Minor Text Genesis: The In-Breathing of Adam by the Holy Spirit and God’s Calling Out of Adam and Eve Genesis: The Story of Noah -- the Raising Up of New Life and God’s ...

1684. Scandal

Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God Knows the Name of the Son (Proverbs 30:3-6) The Prophecy of Amos (8) Zechariah’s Oracle for Jerusalem (12) Jeremiah’s Prophecy of a New Covenant (31) Isaiah: The Suffering Servant (53) The Book of Hosea Hebrews 1 and 2: The Son of God Who Will Suffer Mark’s Witness to Jesus’ Prophecies of His Death and Resurrection (8:31-33; 9:30-32; 10:32-34) Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Prophecies of His Death and Resurrection (9:18-22; 9:44-45; 12:49-50; 18: 31-34) John’s Witness to Jesus’ Prophecies of ...

1685. Praise God! Selah!

Luke 1:67-80, Luke 1:57-66, Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:5-25, Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of that Selah. You’ve all seen that word, Selah, particularly in the psalms. Some say it’s a musical “pause” mark which means “stop and listen.” Others equate the meaning of Selah with “lifting up, of exalting” or even “to weigh” or ... And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” (Mark 4:39) “And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, ...

1686. The Curse of the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 2:14-26, Psalm 34:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Esther) God’s People Deceiver and Slander Each Other and God (Jeremiah 9) The “Leprosy” of the Deeds of Sodom and Gomorrah (Isaiah 1) Matthew’s Witness to Jesus’ Healing of a Leper (8:1-4) Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Healing of a Leper (5:12-16) Mark’s Witness to Jesus’ Healing of a Leper (1:35-45) Image Exegesis: The Curse of the Tongue “You [Jesus] are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” (Hebrews 5:6) “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will ...

1687. Reveille

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Compassion and Remembers that We are Dust Psalm 113: The Lord Raises the Needy from the Dust Psalm 119: Follow the Lord for the Enduring Reward God’s Warning to Samaria and Jerusalem (Micah 1) The Crowd Tosses Dust at Paul’s Proclamation (Acts 22) Mark Records Jesus’ Sending Out of His Disciples in Order to Call People to Repentance Then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. Calling the Twelve to him, he began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits. These ...

1688. Apples, Onions, and Cheese

Mark 7:1-23, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart. O God, you will not despise.” (Psalm 51) In Mark, Matthew, and Luke, we see Jesus having it out with some of the Pharisees from Jerusalem. The topic is “defilement.” What ... state of our hearts and the depth of our love for God? Really! How is it…with YOUR soul? Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Mark’s Witness to Jesus’ Teaching on Defilement and God’s True Way (7:1-23 and 24-30) Minor Text The Story of Dinah and Schechem ...

1689. Unstoppable Joy!

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... photo for this sermon is taken from www.CherryChapman.com Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Jesus Heals a Man Born Deaf and Mute (Mark 7:31-37) Minor Text The Story of Noah When the Floodgates of Heaven were Opened Up (Genesis 7) The Enabling of the Tongue of ... command is indeed heard, comprehended, and his hearing, as well as his tongue is unleashed in a torrent of praise! In Mark’s gospel, this miracle is followed by Jesus’ feeding of 4000 gentiles in the region of the Decapolis. The ears and ...

1690. The Balm of Gilead

Mark 8:1-13, Mark 8:14-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , click on this link and go to 11 minutes, 40 seconds, where it begins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpHUhRcJJnc ] *The photo for this sermon is from the blog of drleg. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Jesus Heals Many and Feeds 4000 in the Decapolis (Mark 8:1-21) Minor Text The Lord’s Covenant With Abram of Chaldea and the Gift of the Land of Canaan (Genesis 15) The Story of Joseph and His Brothers from Canaan (Genesis 37) The Land of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh is Established East of the Jordan ...

1691. Translucent Grace

Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36, Revelation 1:9-20, Revelation 2:12-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and the Living Stones (1 Peter 2) Peter Confirms the Disciples’ Witness to Jesus’ Transfiguration (2 Peter 1:16-18) The Seal of the Multitude Washed White in the Blood of Jesus (Revelation 7) The Light of the Lord’s Eternal City (Revelation 21) Mark’s Account of Jesus’ Transfiguration After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the ...

1692. The Stone is My Witness

Matthew 28:1-10, Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... 12) Put Off the Garment of Mourning: God’s Ingathering (Baruch 4:36-5:9) Signs of Coming (2 Esdras) Peter is Rescued and Spared by an Angel Who Opens the Doors of His Cell (Acts 5 and 12) The Women Come to Find the Stone Rolled Away According to Mark When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each ...

1693. Jubilaeum

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Genesis 2:4-25, Leviticus 25:8-55, Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... mine. Lord move me and change me. Lord cleanse me and send me!” Let’s say that together: “Lord, your will, not mine. Lord move me and change me. Lord cleanse me and send me!” And as you pray today in that Holy Spirit power, I want you to mark in your mind to forgive someone today that you’ve been unable to forgive. I know we all have that someone. We all do. Somewhere in your life, someone has hurt you, injured you, and in doing so, has placed anger upon your spirit, and it has fettered your soul ...

1694. The Well Watered Soul

Ezekiel 17:1-24, Ezekiel 47:1-12, Matthew 12:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in unity with God. After our departure from the garden, God insures us with a new “skin,” one that will enable us to be in relationship with God in a new way, even while in the world and part of the world.** This God-skin is our sacred cloak that marks us in the world as “made by God” to be in union with God. How we see, use, and take care of our spiritual skin, that living and organic God-sponge, will determine if our lives will wither, or if they will flourish. For the power over life is God ...

1695. Dusted

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . To be “dusted” then may be most of all a “warning.” What you do with that “dusting” is then up to you. Far from a judgment in which you are cursed and given up on, perhaps to be “dusted” in the prophetic sense meant to be marked in need of repentance. When one has the dust thrown upon them (note Shimei who throws stones and dirt at David and who accepts that dust in humility recognizing his deeds), one is faced with a choice. One can turn (repent) and seek the heavenly “sprinkling” or ...

1696. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... even freedom to let go of the handles—at least for a moment. Why did he feel so free? Ironically he says it was because he was utterly constrained. “The coaster train ran on a meticulously constructed steel track that wasn’t going anywhere,” says Mark Roberts, “thank God and Magic Mountain’s engineers.” He was restrained in his seat with a steel harness that clamped tightly around his torso. So he was able to experience—and even to enjoy—the freedom of speed and the sense of danger because ...

1697. OK Boomer

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... said he originally grew the moustache as a form of rebellion against the clean-cut look imposed on him in college. “It took a long time to grow,” he said, but he grew to take pride in his moustache. A coach of the Soviet Union team once asked Mark Spitz whether having a moustache in the pool slowed him down. Spitz replied in jest that no, in fact, he said, it deflected water from his mouth, which made him even faster. Then he added that this was the actual reason he was such a terrific swimmer—his ...

1698. Returning

Isaiah 40:1-11

Sermon

Will Willimon

... up your voice with strength, ...say to the cities of Judah, 'Here is your God!"' Wilderness is metaphor for lostness, exile, homelessness. It was from the wilderness that John the Baptist appeared, quoting Isaiah, "Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight" (Mark 1:1-3). Mark says in his first chapter, first verse, "The beginning of the good news of Jesus..." The beginning of good news is the announcement, a voice "crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his highway straight ...

1699. Good Sex

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Will Willimon

... unjust, that even the sacred institution of marriage has often legitimated the subjection of women, the arrogance of men. When asked about the sorry state of affairs between women and men, Jesus went on record as saying, “From the beginning, this was not so.” (Mark 10:2-16) That is, let no one declare that relationships between men and women today are God’s intended pattern for all time. Something has gone wrong, bad wrong between the sexes, says Jesus. God, in creating male and female has (as God so ...

1700. For The Love Of God Is Biblical

2 Timothy 3:14-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 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, I thought we would look at and celebrate the Bible today. Why is the Bible so important? 1. INSPIRED WORD OF GOD: We believe the Bible is the INSPIRED WORD OF GOD. Basically that ...

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