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1676. Trinity Sunday

John 16:5-16

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... Our Stay God, Whose Almighty Word Prayer for Holy Trinity Sunday Creator of the universe, when we press the limits of our understanding, you are surrounded by mystery. You reveal yourself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit and, when we attempt to probe the depths of ... this mystery, we find we cannot. We do not fully understand you or ourselves. Help us to see that we do not need to have the answers today for every question. Help us to accept ...

1677. When God Asks The Unreasonable

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... son, his only heir? How are we to make sense of the scripture when it says that God did that to test Abraham? Are we supposed to believe that God might order one of us to kill our firstborn "just to see if we are willing to do it"? To understand Genesis 22 it would be helpful if we had more information. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac is told without revealing the human side. In verse two, God tells Abraham to take his beloved son and kill him. In verse three, Abraham does. It doesn't say what went ...

1678. Facing Up To Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Thomas Long

... to generate self-doubt -- "If you are the Son of God" -- since self-doubt is the cancer that eats away at identity. Once, when my daughter was a teenager, we had one of those stormy father-daughter arguments. It blew over quickly, resolving itself in tenderness and understanding. But at the height of the squall I said, "Now you listen to me! If you're my daughter you ...." If you are my daughter? If you are my daughter? Flesh of my flesh, heart of my heart, my cherished and beloved daughter. I could hardly ...

1679. The Wheat Among The Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... God's shelter. This faith and hope -- and the prayer, witness and works of love that issue from them -- bear witness to our true citizenship, much like the witness of those members of the French resistance movement. (This modern parable also helps to shift our understanding away from the focus on evil weeds in the midst of the good wheat -- primarily a defensive way of looking at the mission of the church -- to emphasizing the presence of the wheat in the midst of the weeds -- possibly a more positive way ...

1680. Epiphany 5

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20, Isaiah 58:1-14, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... appeal of the gospel was not in its plausible wisdom but in the power of the Spirit which it unleashed. Paul does not deny that the gospel contains wisdom but it is of a different order and only those who possess the Spirit of God can receive it or understand it. Those who do not have the discernment of the Spirit regard the gospel as utter foolishness. The believer can thank God that he has the mind of Christ. Gospel: Matthew 5:13-20 (C, E, L); Matthew 5:13-16 (RC) Our Lord teaches his disciples the true ...

1681. End times

Mt 24:1-14 · 1 Thess 3:7-13 · Jer 26:1-6 · Ps 105:1-7

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... known by all. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Lesson 1: Jeremiah 26:1-6 Sermon Title: How To Make God Repent. Sermon Angle: Repentance means to turn around in the opposite direction that you were going. We don't normally think of God as needing repentance because we usually understand repentance to mean that we turn away from our sins and that our holy God is sinless. However, the Bible doesn't present a deterministic God but a God who is flexible enough to respond to the actions of his people (v. 3). In this text ...

1682. Proper 9

Genesis 24:1-67, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 7:7-25, Zechariah 9:9-13, Matthew 11:25-30, Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... of the class. Our daughter despised school because of the harsh judgment of that teacher, who saddled unnecessary burdens on her. The second grade teacher, however, gave her special attention, making her Cinderella in the class play. Lu blossomed under her loving care. Love and understanding can lighten any burden. Sermon Title: Saddle Ready. Sermon Angle: You can't just hop on a wild horse and ride into the sunset. First of all, you couldn't catch him. Secondly, you couldn't mount him if you did catch him ...

1683. Easter Day

John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9, Colossians 3:1-17, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... feel sorry for ourselves? That's a futile kind of weeping. Do we weep because someone we love has been hurt or has died? Such tears can prove healing if we can get them out and then move on. Do we weep because we feel like an orphaned child? Christ understands that feeling and will come to console us. We may not recognize him, at first, but the living Lord stands ready to speak our names and wipes the tears away from our eyes. Weeping may last the night but joy comes in the morning. We're all in the family ...

1684. The Babel Disaster -- You Are There

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... is there in this great tragedy? Pastor: Maybe what we need is for God to come downhere Himself, to meet with us, give us some advice on how tolive together, warn us about how dangerous bad motives are,maybe give us a new spirit so we will understand each otherand care about each other better. That will be the new birthof religion. FA: Thank you, Pastor. This has been a great tragedy. Despite the winds, thereis still dust enough to darken this city early in theevening. The tar smell remains strong in the air ...

1685. God, The Father

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... thought it would be good if I came down north to think over my spiritual roots. He ordered me to take a pilgrimage to Mount Tabor. I guess he had enough of my questions about his administration. I don't like how impersonal our leaders are getting. I don't understand it. But the Lord will decide among us who is right and who is wrong. Enough of my troubles. What are you doing here? The last time I saw you was just after bar mitzvah in Bethlehem. That's thirty years ago! What are you doing? How's your mother ...

1686. Children

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... leave the 99 and hunt until you find out what happened to that lamb. If you are that good with animals, you surely can understand how God is about children. The last thing in the world God wants is to have anything bad happen to children." "He can talk ... every bad story about a crazy, mean, or willful thing they had ever heard of a child doing. I was glad Birdie was too little to understand what they were talking about. And I wasn't sure I wanted to even have her hear their tone of voice. But the crowd was ...

1687. The Pure In Heart

Sermon

John A. Terry

... she left and returned one week later. Once again she made her plea. This time the teacher agreed to talk with her son. After the conversation was completed, the mother thanked the teacher. "I am grateful that you took the time to talk with my son, but I don't understand why it took three requests for you to do so." The teacher looked back at the mother and said, "I didn't realize how hard it would be for me to give up sugar." 1 The teacher could not teach the lesson with her lips without teaching the lesson ...

1688. Doing The Right Thing

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... explanation, they were distracted from the real world by the wonders of an important religious experience. Then the two strangers asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?" Now I have to think the men in white robes, whoever they were, would understand why the apostles were temporarily thunderstruck by all this. But this was a re-call to reality. Their unspoken counsel was to get back to the real world, get to work, as it were, for there was much now to be done. They probably understood ...

1689. The Sadness Of God

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... boy to decide for himself when the time was right. That's what God does with us. We're free to decide. But God paid the price of sharing our sometimes painful life situations in the hope that we'd make the right decisions. Here's what we need to understand. Our choices do matter. What kind of person I become does matter. My moral conduct does affect other people, and therefore it affects God. It's up to me to choose what sort of person I shall be, but God has decided to bet on me, as it were, to ...

1690. Leaving A Legacy

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... to call someone on the phone to hear them say, 'You're okay.' I still turn to people to pray for me," Cindy explained, "but God can help, too. When I get desperate, I go to church." Another spoke of the "assurance of salvation." Faith helped another "in understanding the past part of my life and putting it in proper perspective, and in knowing that life does work out and there is eternity of peace to come." There is not much in life that we can believe in. Everything and everyone seem to let us down, but ...

1691. He Abides In Us

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... humanity is of good wholesome relationships. The Vinedresser What Jesus says in the Holy Gospel about vines and the failure of vines offers insight into the poor human relations of our time. Yet what Jesus has to say has deeper significance. Obviously, we are to understand our dependence upon him for life, for the sustenance and for the redemption of life. Our total life is dependent upon him in every way. However, the point of this saying of Jesus is that the vine exists under the care and scrutiny of the ...

1692. Ascension Day

Luke 24:44-53

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... , and empower us to be your witnesses, beginning in our community and extending to all nations. Amen. Prayer for Illumination Leader: Awesome God of heaven and earth, Jesus opened the minds of the disciples to understand the scriptures. Congregation: Let our minds be opened too, God. Leader: Jesus blessed the disciples and filled them with great joy. Congregation: Let us also be blessed and filled with your joy, O God. (Read the lesson. Then have the congregation break into a joyful hymn or song ...

1693. Joseph's Pit

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... I smiled. I went over to my bed and nearly fainted. I wasn't hurt. He wasn't hurt. But no one took a chance with me after that," Joseph ended his story. "But you surely must have been affected by that time in jail. You were there unfairly, I understand," I went on. "No, interestingly, as bad as that place was, I got along with everyone. I was in prison, but I was still free inside myself. I could have let the terror and loneliness of the place shape me, but I decided a long time ago to look for ...

1694. Cats, And Mice, And Mercy

Matthew 5:7

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... really bad." "Are you saying that you're nicer or kinder than you could be or than they might expect?" I question. The young man agrees. "That's a good example of mercy," I tell the group. "I've brought something this morning to help us try to understand mercy better." With these words, I hold up a catnip mouse and ask the children, "What is this?" "A mouse!" the kids practically shout. "Is it a real mouse?" I ask, teasing them just a little. "No!" they assure me. "Well, I've brought something else for our ...

1695. God And Groundhogs

Psalm 56:1-13

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... you. Do you know who that might be?" "A groundhog?" comes the logical guess. "No, not really," I respond, "because I don't mean you would really go hide in a hole in the ground. Think of where you would go to feel safe if you were afraid." Understanding dawns, brightening Maria's face as she says, "To my parents!" "Yes," I agree. "And there is someone else you can turn to as well, someone who also loves you very much." As Maria considers my statement, Andrew raises his hand. "All right, Andrew. Tell us whom ...

1696. When Hope Is Gone

Luke 7:11-17

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... . "There will be times in all of our lives when it will seem like everything is lost. There will be times when it seems like all hope for our future is gone. When those times come, it will be important to remember this story of the widow of Nain -- to understand that just as Jesus met her on the road and restored her future, Jesus can come into our lives too and give us hope for life where we thought there was none." Prayer: "God, thank you for the gift of your only son, Jesus, whom you sent to all of ...

1697. The Pure In Heart

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

John A. Terry

1698. Called To Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... covenant with God. It was a bodily reminder that we are a part of that covenant. Benjamin and his group are teaching essentially the same thing. How come you are so angry with them? Paul: Which question do you want me to answer? Barnabas: I don't understand. Paul: I know that! You asked two things: Is there a difference between what we taught and what Benjamin teaches? That's one question. The other is: Why am I so angry? Well, Benjamin is not teaching the same thing at all. When we were there, you remember ...

1699. A Lack of Faith

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... to himself the twelve and sent them out in mission. Are the twelve sent out because they are men of great faith? Hardly. And their hardness of heart will continue to grow! What kind of role models are the twelve anyway? But, in spite of their seeming lack of understanding and fear (Mark 4:40-41), the twelve are sent on a mission to do what Jesus does in his mission. When they return from their sojourn they are called apostles for the first and only time in Mark's Gospel (6:30). This is surely a sign of ...

1700. Third Sunday of Easter

Luke 24:36b-48

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... Each received new vocations in the Lord's service. In the same way, the course for your life while you still have fears and doubts, while you still wonder what all this means, has already been established. Even though you have only just begun to understand Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, you have received a new direction for your life's work. As you take up this service to our Messiah, our Father will give you everything you need, even the Power from on high. Congregation: Thanks be to God. Amen. Hymns ...

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