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1701. Proper 11

Matthew 13:24-30

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... and choose those with whom we share the good news of your mercy and forgiveness, both in word and in deed. Forgive us our narrowness of mind and smallness of heart, we pray, and fill us with your Spirit of universal love and grace. Make us determined disciples and able apostles, whose mission to the world has no boundaries, and whose message to humankind has no limits. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen

1702. Advent 1

Matthew 24:36-51

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... fron us to others until faith in the living Lord encircles the earth. And make us know, O Lord, that you call us daily, hourly, that the time is now for action. Amen After a few moments of, again, looking in the mirror, use this: Pastor: The Apostle Paul said, "I am convinced that neither life nor death nor anything can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (my translation) Your life at this moment is sustained by the Lord. Your being is utterly significant. Your decisions are received ...

1703. A Zealot’s Greatest Battle

Drama

... for you! Barabbas That’s what I hear. A religious fanatic who was very popular with the people. By the way, I’ve heard, via the prison grapevine, that you were linked up with him in some way. Is that true? Simon It’s true! I’m one of his apostles. One of the twelve chosen to help him change the world. Barabbas Too bad he failed. But, I’ll say one thing for him: he knew how to choose a good man when he chose you. I certainly had high hopes for you in the Zealot movement. Say ... come with ...

1704. Respect: Lesson for Victorious Living

Ruth 4:1-12

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... throughout the Judeo-Christian heritage. Abraham is the father of both Christians and Jews; our Islamic relatives also claim him. To practice convenanting, in our quest for unity, is to borrow a marvelous understanding from God’s Word to us early in Hebrew Scriptures. The Apostle Paul, in good rabbinical style, says to Timothy, "I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and now, I am sure, dwells in you." (2 Timothy 1:5) I have a strong ...

1705. Security: Deeply Personal

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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... helping hand in Ephesians 2:19-20, depicting the new life in Christ: "So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the Saints and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone." The universal church is composed not of strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household. The "Decree on Ecumenism" from Vatican II calls our attention to God’s ...

1706. Kingdoms In Conflict

Daniel 2:24-49

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Bill Bouknight

... Isaiah wrote: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed." (Isaiah 28:16, I Peter 2:6) St. Paul echoed the same truth: "...you are...built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone." (Ephesians 2:20) We know from Jewish history, not from the Bible, some details about the building of Solomon’s great temple in Jerusalem. None of the gigantic stones of the temple were quarried on ...

1707. A Brass Cross and a Barometer

Luke 6:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... in the way of the Big Two, he broke them. (1) We Methodists are compulsive rule makers. I love our denomination deeply and fully subscribe to her doctrine, but we are obsessive-compulsive about rules. If we had been around when Jesus selected the twelve apostles, we would have insisted that they could not serve until they had been approved by Charge Conference vote. We would have also insisted that half of the disciples be women and that 2/3rds of them come from outside Galilee. Ah, we Methodists could have ...

1708. Return to Jerusalem

Acts 20:7-12

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... began at dusk on Saturday. At that time the congregation would gather in similarity to the Last Supper, meeting at about 7 p.m. to break bread in a common meal, then to hear the Scriptures read, and finally to join in the solemn eucharist. The visiting apostle Paul preached a little too long. With the heat, the many lights in the room and the satisfying common meal, we can’t be too hard on poor Eutychus. Probably he had worked hard all day. Young Eutychus had picked a favorable seat on the window sill ...

1709. "I appeal to Caesar!"

Acts 24:1-27, Acts 25:1-12

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CSS

... wife of Felix, was a student of religions and might have been the source of Felix’s "rather accurate knowledge of the Way." On at least one occasion, Drusilla was present with Felix to converse with Paul. Her presence did not inhibit the doughty apostle. Knowing that Drusilla was Felix’s third "wife" and that her previous marriage to Azizus, king of the little Syrian state of Emesa, had never been dissolved, Paul began to talk seriously to the couple about "justice and self-control and future judgment ...

1710. Shipwrecked on Malta

Acts 27:1-12, Acts 27:13-26, Acts 27:27-44

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... to Rome, even noting the names of the ships and the travel time? Is this needless detail or does it add to the authenticity of the account? How does it relate to Luke’s reputation as a good journalist and careful reporter? 2. Though Paul was an apostle and a tentmaker, he did not hesitate to offer advice about travel conditions. As it happened, it was good advice. To what degree should we listen to (or offer) advice? An old saying goes, "Any fool can give advice but only a wise man knows when to accept ...

1711. The Deeper Magic

Luke 23:26-43

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Brett Blair

... , while still others denied him. The tricky thing about Christian theology is its proposition that even the best of us are sinners. We are worthless no good scoundrels. We are deceitfully bitter people. Ruin and misery is the mark we make upon this world. That is how the Apostle Paul describes all of us in Romans chapter three. The good and bad, he says, are all ugly! So how do we, the good and the bad, find salvation? How do we find our way back home? III I want to answer that in my third point. Listen ...

1712. Which Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

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... from Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theatre. When all the others had gone home, we awe-struck Protestants sat waiting in our solid oak pews, entranced by huge Italian marble pillars holding the stone altar canopy in place, in a cavernous chancel surveyed on three sides by stone apostles, replicas of those which stand in St. John Lateran in Rome. When the lay tour guide arrived, we learned that when the building had been raised in A.D. 1904, it had cost two million dollars. "Maybe it will stand here for five hundred ...

1713. Kindness That Makes You Sorry!

Joel 2:12-17

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Barbara Brokhoff

... from God, for he is so very compassionate and kind. Frederick W. Faber wrote a lovely hymn, one stanza of which says: "For the love of God is broader, Than the measure of man’s mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind." The Apostle Paul found the same to be true, for he said, in Romans, "... the kindness of God leads you to repentance." God Relents of Evil God relents when we repent! The gracious, lovingkindness of God is more ready to relent than we are to repent. He stands anxiously ...

1714. Are There Two Baptisms?

Acts 2:14-41

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Barbara Brokhoff

... the Kingdom must be born of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes to us at our baptism, and in the words of the Baptismal formula, causes us to be born anew. It is the work of the Holy Spirit to create faith in Christ. This is the witness of the Apostle Paul who said, "No man can say Jesus is Lord except by the spirit." This is sometimes difficult to believe. It is "too good to be true!" After all, how can one man, by his death on an ugly cross, do away with my sins? That man died hundreds of ...

1715. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

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Barbara Brokhoff

... not prayed thus, the Church would not have had Paul." The Jesus that Stephen died for captured the attention of Saul of Tarsus on a Damascus Road, claimed him for his own and thus (in my opinion), the greatest Christian of all times was born: the Apostle Paul. Paul preached the gospel in Philippi and many were brought to faith in Christ. Now, in today’s lesson, Paul is in the city of Thessalonica, in the Synagogue, preaching again. It is a vital place for this prince of missionaries to herald the Gospel ...

1716. "Sneak Up On ‘Em!"

Acts 17:16-34

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Barbara Brokhoff

... Damaris, and others with them. George Whitefield once said, "I’m willing to go to prison for you, I’m willing to go to death with you, But I’m not willing to go to heaven without you!" Not everyone likes or agrees with the Apostle Paul, but few discount his magnificent mind and his passion to make Christ known. He was a man for all seasons and cleverly planned his strategy for the most effectiveness. This master communicator, guided by the Holy Spirit, had preached in Philippi, Thessalonica, Beroea ...

1717. Power to Forgive

John 20:19-23

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Dennis Kastens

... idea in the world." (Psychology, Religion and Healing, 1952) And so with no eternal life, no answered prayers, no life given to God, and no general well-being of body and mind - with all of this in mind, we heed the Spirit-directed words of the Apostle, "... Be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you." (Ephesians 4:32) No man can treat his Savior well, Who treats his neighbor ill; No man can hate his fellow man And be a Christian ...

1718. The Triune God

Matthew 28:16-20

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Dennis Kastens

... 2 Corinthians 13:15: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God (the Father) and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." Also in the General Epistles, in 1 Peter 1:1, 2, we note: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the exiles of the Dispersion ... chosen ... by God the Father, and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ ... May grace and peace be multiplied to you. The Athanasian Creed, which liturgical churches generally confess on Trinity Sunday, simply restates ...

1719. Sinners Anonymous

Matthew 9:9-13

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Dennis Kastens

... with the sick. One day Jesus found a sick man, Matthew, practicing his sickness in his tax collector’s office, and said to him, "Follow me." And he followed him. The impertinence of God to call sick, sick, sick St. Matthew, the sinner - the professional one - to make him an apostle (just plain forgiveness would have suited us better) and ask him to write one of the Gospels! Perhaps, just perhaps, he has something like that in mind for us. Amen.

1720. Laborers Needed for the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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Dennis Kastens

... the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every infirmity. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot ...

1721. God Is Not Yet Finished With You

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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John R. Brokhoff

... is not finished with us. He is continually trying to make us what we are meant to be. Who is this God who creates continuously? The popular notion is that God the Father is the creator. We get this idea from the traditional division of the Apostles’ Creed which is divided into three parts. The articles deal with God the Father as creator, God the Son as redeemer, and God the Holy Spirit as sanctifier. These three constitute the Trinity which we are celebrating today. God is one but manifests himself in ...

1722. No Other Way To Be Happy

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

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John R. Brokhoff

... it? If a parent ordered you as a child to shoplift so that your father could sell the stolen goods, would you do it? There are laws that oppose God’s laws. Since we have a higher loyalty to God than to country or parents, we must say with the Apostles, "We must obey God rather than men." When we refuse to obey laws that contradict God’s laws, we must be prepared to suffer the consequences of civil disobedience. You and I are doing the right thing when we obey God’s laws. When we obey, we recognize the ...

1723. No Sooner Said Than Done!

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... life and power as our text declares, "And prosper in the thing for which I sent it." The Word has the very power of God in it to do what it says. This power is the power of the Holy Spirit, for Jesus, upon his departure from earth, told the Apostles, "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you." In, with, and under the Word is the Spirit of God, and God is almighty. Nothing is too hard for God. With him, all things are possible. The Word has the power to be and to do what ...

1724. The Danger of Being Religious

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... We need look no farther for greater truth. God’s last word is Christ, the perfect revelation of the Father. Again, you may protest that the truth as Christ is too broad for us to know. The church comes to our rescue with the ecumenical creeds: Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian. Since the first century, the church has summed up the whole truth of the Bible in the short paragraphs of the creeds. For these twenty centuries, Christian people have been reciting the creeds as an adequate summary of God’s truth ...

1725. Out of the Darkness

John 9:1-12

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Robert Bachelder

... well as faithless, for the religious community knows that repentance is possible on the basis of its own tradition. Repentance turned a murderer named Moses into the deliverer of a great nation. Repentance turned a bigot named Paul into the greatest apostle of the Christian faith. A few summers ago in a federal prison, I did transactional analysis therapy with some men convicted of armed robbery. Through their experiences in Yokefellows, a religious organization for prisoners, two of them have come into a ...

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