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1701. Easter 6

John 15:18--16:4, Psalm 98:1-9

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B. David Hostetter

... what is right, but we do what is unacceptable to you. We need the forgiveness and spiritual healing that you offer us in Jesus of Nazareth and the Holy Spirit. Free us from the oppression of evil that we may be free to worship you with great joy and, bearing witness to Christ crucified and raised from the dead may see the baptism of others who put their trust in his name. Amen. DECLARATION OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS Hear the Good News! You are of God's family and the One inspiring you is greater than the evil ...

1702. Epiphany 5

Isaiah 40:1-31, Psalm 147:1-20, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27, Mark 1:29-34

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B. David Hostetter

... Christ. Amen. DECLARATION OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS Hear the Good News! In the Spirit Jesus still comes healing those who suffer from various diseases and freeing many who are captives of evil. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. EXHORTATION Bear your part in spreading the Good News, whether in illness or health, weakness or strength, in the service of God. PRAYER OF THE DAY Synagogue-preacher, sick-bed-visitor, exorcist-of-evil, so teach us, so heal us, so clear us of evil, that ...

1703. Epiphany 7

Mark 2:1-12

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B. David Hostetter

... devices and not obeying the instruction of Jesus Christ. Amen. Declaration of God's Forgiveness Hear the Good News! To us as to others, Jesus says, "Your sins are forgiven." Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Do not bear hatred for your brothers and sisters in your heart. Do not take revenge or cherish grudges. The Lord says to love your neighbor as yourself. Prayer of the Day Your goodness, O God, knows no bounds. Increase our goodness beyond its present limits to ...

1704. Proper 22

Mark 10:13-16, Mark 10:1-12

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B. David Hostetter

... in Jesus Christ. Amen. Declaration of God's Forgiveness Hear the Good News! In the Spirit Jesus still comes healing who suffer from various diseases and freeing many who are captives of evil. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Bear your part in spreading the Good News, whether in illness or health, weakness or strength, in the service of God. Prayer of the Day Synagogue-preacher, sick-bed-visitor, exorcist-of-evil, so teach us, so heal us, so clear us of evil, that ...

1705. Proper 27

Mark 12:41-44, Mark 12:35-40, Psalm 127:1-5

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B. David Hostetter

... into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Just as it is appointed for us to die once and after that the judgment, so Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. Encourage one another as you see the day drawing near. Prayer of the Day Save us, good Lord, from half-heartedness in our service ...

1706. Thanksgiving Day

Psalm 126:1-6, Joel 2:21-27, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Timothy 2:1-7

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B. David Hostetter

... said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them." The LORD has done great things for us, and we rejoiced. Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb. May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves.

1707. Christmas Day

Isaiah 51:17--52:12, Psalm 98:1-9, Hebrews 1:1-14, John 1:1-18

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B. David Hostetter

... the Good News! In Christ our release is secured and our sins are forgiven through the shedding of his blood. In receiving God's only Son, you have been received as a child of God. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Bear witness to the light of grace and truth that you have seen in Jesus Christ. There are others who have not yet recognized him as the real light that enlightens everyone coming into the world. Prayer of the Day Mender of our broken world, enable us as ...

1708. But God Can

Luke 7:11-17

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Larry Powell

... and believing faith. Genesis 17 records that Abraham was informed in his old age that he was going to be a father. He laughed so hard that he literally fell down on his face, saying, "Shall a son be born to him that is 100 years old, and shall Sarah bear a child at 90?" A similar story is found in the first chapter of Luke. Zechariah and Elizabeth, old in years, received the unbelievable news that they were to become parents of a son. Zechariah felt moved to bring the matter into focus, "But I am an old man ...

1709. What "They" Say

Luke 9:18-27

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Larry Powell

... p.m., locks up and goes home. He can't sell anything because he can't get to it. Even if he could get to it, he is too attached to it to sell it. It is his "stuff." He has become so fond of his inventory that he cannot bear to part with it. "Things" have a way of doing that to a person, crowding out everything else, accumulating to the point of excess, and becoming too dear to part with. The rich young man described in Mark 10:17-22 fell on his knees before Jesus and asked, "Good ...

1710. Kingdom Etiquette

Luke 14:1-14

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W. Robert McClelland

... There is, after all, a certain security in being a servant. A servant cannot be blamed for the actions of the Master. A servant simply reports for duty and carries out orders. Nor does a servant have to think or make decisions. A servant bears no responsibility and takes neither credit nor blame. It was a defense often heard at the Nuremberg trials, and more recently, one used by Oliver North in the Contragate affair. Freidrich Nietzsche drew the distinction between a servant morality and a master morality ...

1711. His Suffering Servant

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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George Paul Mocko

... , novelists and artists asked those questions out of the ruins of the Second World War. "Why? Why in a world ruled, they try to tell us, by a good God, why? Why this? Why this death and pain and suffering? Why have we had to bear this holocaust at the hands of this evil empire of Babylon? Our cities pillaged and devastated, our daughters, wives and mothers raped and murdered, our children starved and slaughtered, we, in chains. Why?" That is the question the exiled prophet, Isaiah of Babylon, tried to ...

1712. Right When the World is Wrong

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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George Paul Mocko

... it and do because I know you have the power to grant it. I can ask it and do because you are a God of grace and you welcome my asking. Should you grant it, I will be grateful. If you should not, I will ask for your strength to bear that. You have promised to hear; I have spoken. You have promised to answer; I wait." Not by deserving. Not by proper technique. By Grace that is first and central, that we can take as lesson one in this experience of deliverance - restoration. Our job, our doing is in the ...

1713. Confusion Over a Questioned Book

Daniel 7:1-14

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George Paul Mocko

... pathetically small and ridiculously simple. They asked Luther once what he would do if he knew the world was to end tomorrow. His answer was that he had planned to plant his garden, and so he would. Plant a garden that would not even sprout, much less bear fruit? That seems even smaller and more foolish than Daniel's answer. But you see, we are not called upon to seize the beasts by the seven horns and bulldog them to the ground and crack their necks. Oh, I write to my congressmen, senators, Secretary of ...

1714. Liking the New and Improving the Old

Isaiah 43:14-28

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Barbara Brokhoff

... as we ought to be. It is only in Jesus that our sins can be forgiven. It is only in Jesus that we can be made new creatures. It is only in Jesus that we have any hope at all. The horrible truth is that most of us bear very little similarity to Christ, our great Example. A Peanuts cartoon, some years ago, showed Lucy saying to Charlie Brown, "I hate everything! I hate everybody! I hate the whole world!" Charlie Brown responds, "But I thought you had inner peace." "I do have inner peace," retorted Lucy ...

1715. Preaching The Miracles

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John R. Brokhoff

... the costs of his education under one condition. He was not to join a fraternity. Yielding to temptation, young Luther went against his father's will, for he thought his father would never know about it. For years he lived that lie until one day he could not bear it any longer. With tears he wrote a long letter to his father asking for forgiveness and promising to pay back his college expenses. The very next day Luther received a telegram from his father saying, "I forgive you. I knew it the day you did it ...

1716. The Big Hand

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

James Weekley

... alienation that has been wedged against us. As blacks, we may have been passed over for a job promotion by a white employer. As whites, we may have been victims of reverse discrimination from a black supervisor. Both forms of intolerance still bear their cancer in our society. When Jesus commands forgiveness, he means absolution ... hook, line, and sinker. Forgiveness means forgetting the pain and getting on with the business of healing and growing. If we, in his name, fumble in our relationships, then we ...

1717. Are Half-Painted Rainbows Enough?

Mark 4:30-34

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James Weekley

... care), then the harvest is on its way. Before dying, Governor James Stephen Hogg requested that no monument be placed on his grave. Instead, he asked that a pecan tree be planted at his head and a walnut tree be planted at his foot. "When these trees shall bear, let the pecans and walnuts be given out among the Plains people of Texas, so that they may plant them and make Texas a land of trees." Jesus is both the Lord of the mustard seed and the harvest. As with the mustard seed, it makes no difference ...

1718. The Strength To Wait

Isaiah 40:1-31

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Erskine White

... of William Wilberforce in this regard, a devoted Christian and abolitionist leader in England in the last century. He worked tirelessly his whole life to outlaw the practice of slavery, but he never complained as decade after decade passed and his efforts seemed to bear no fruit. After all, he had just been waiting those past fifty or sixty years for slavery to end; God had been waiting for centuries for men and women to give up this odious evil. Finally, as Wilberforce lay on his deathbed, exhausted from ...

1719. A Chosen Race?

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

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Erskine White

... no one is chosen who is not needed by the One who does the choosing. You choose a doctor or a babysitter because you need them for the services they can provide. Similarly, God has chosen you and needs you for the service you can provide. God needs you to bear witness to the Spirit of love, mercy, justice and peace which came to the world when the Word became flesh and dwelled among us. If you or I won't do this for God, who will? In one sense, a chosen people is a collection of chosen persons - a ...

1720. The Lion, The Lamb And Herod’s Rage

Matthew 2:1-12

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Erskine White

... and the world receive the promises He has made. Feed the lion with the food of peace, that he might no longer prey upon the lamb. Let the leopard and the calf share the bounty of a world which can sustain them both; let the eagle lie down with the bear. If there need be struggle in this world, O God, let nations struggle for wisdom and progress, not power and dominion. Let all the rulers of the earth bow before the manger, not to show off their piety to others, but to show You how they resolve to serve in ...

1721. Forgiveness Freely Given

Isaiah 55:1-13

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Erskine White

As a minister, I am continually reminded of the many burdens people bear in this life - the emotional scars, the painful memories, the gut-wrenching guilt and feelings of regret. Sometimes the stories I hear are staggering. Really, there are three kinds of people in this world: those who need to be forgiven, those who need to be forgiving of someone else, and ...

1722. A Perfect Prayer

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Erskine White

... from vain praises and selfish piety. Never let us forget the human family with whom You have called us to be as one. Put in our hearts a desire to make our prayers pure and our lives a reflection of our perfect prayers. Make us worthy of the name we bear in honor of Your Son, worthy of the name "Christian." Most Holy and Gracious Lord, we ask all these things with confidence and infinite hope, for we look, not to ourselves but to You for the answer to all our prayers. Let Yours be the power and the glory ...

1723. Who Do You say He Is?

Mark 8:27-30

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Erskine White

... God. Perhaps we all could imagine ourselves in Peter's place today. We are walking with Jesus alongside the roadway of life and suddenly He is asking us: "Who do the people say I am?" Right now, in the United States of America and in the church which bears My name ... who do the people say I am?" Again, just as in Peter's day, people have their own ideas about Christ and many different answers to His question. Millions of people have answered it on their bumper stickers: "Jesus (or God) is my co-pilot." I ...

1724. The Unity Of The Church

Ephesians 4:1-16

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Erskine White

... the children of God who are scattered abroad" (11:52). My friends, if Jesus suffered and died on Calvary's cross to make all believers one (John 17:20-21), how do you think He feels today as He looks upon the fractured and fractious church which bears His name? To put it another way: imagine Jesus walking into town today, your town or my town, indeed, any town or city anywhere in the world. What would Jesus think as He came into town and saw the perpetual proliferation of Christian churches? "Over here is ...

1725. Is It God's Will?

Hebrews 2:5-18

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Erskine White

... walked every valley before us. Keep us from the temptations of bitterness and recrimination, that we may make the most of whatever path liesbefore us. And keep us from doubting our faith in You, O God, that we may be perfected and not weakened by the crosses we must bear in life. God of all grace and Lord of all worlds, we also pray today for the innocent millions of the earth, who suffer every evil people can do to one another. We pray for the poor in the midst of our plenty and the poor who languish in ...

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