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151. Proper 7 & Pentecost 5

Jeremiah 20:7-18, Psalm 69:1-36, Psalm 91:1-16, Genesis 28:10-22

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... something of Augustine in us, "make me a Christian, Lord, but not yet." Opposition by indifference may be the more rampant form of resistance to the gospel today. 3. Boldness is required of the church that claims to be apostolic in its creeds and actions. Jesus continues to assure his followers, who obey his command to go and preach and minister in his name, that they have nothing to fear. God, who is with them, will be faithful and receive them into eternal life. 4. The bold, for Christ, will overcome! God ...

152. Jailbreak at Midnight

Acts 16:16-40

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... police to the jail saying, "Let those men go." After all, the only charge against them was that they were Jews and that they had healed an unfortunate slave girl from her affliction. They had been beaten and kept in jail overnight. Nothing was to be gained from continuing the case. So the jailer came and reported this to Paul, adding, "Therefore come out and go in peace." Paul by this time was beginning to feel his power. The jailer was now on his side and other people in the city must have been outraged by ...

153. Reach Out and Touch Someone

Acts 2:1-13

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Peter Rudowski

... walked with them. He talked with them. He shared with them. On the fortieth day, he said, "Now you just stay right here. Don’t go away, because I will send the counsellor." And, he ascended into Heaven. The disciples waited for a week. Nothing happened. They continued to wait. I can picture the tension and the anxiety building. It seems to me that wait had to have been exactly like that of a person sitting in the hospital, waiting in the lounge reserved for the families of patients in surgery. At 7:00 in ...

154. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

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Robert G. Tuttle

... of this to any man.4 It is the old, old secret of all of us: "I have met the enemy and it is I." We destroy ourselves and others. "Against thee, and thee only, O God, have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight." Dr. Menninger continues in his book to outline the steps by which humankind, and particularly ourselves, have allowed our concept of responsibility and sin to erode, so that is not real any longer. And we perish in our ignorance. Sin is any thought or act of mine that separates me from God ...

155. The Miracle of Christ

Ephesians 3:14-21

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Robert G. Tuttle

... is no God, then life has no meaning. Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide?" Boris answers: "Well, let’s not get hysterical. I could be wrong. I would hate to blow my brains out and then read in the papers that they found something." Boris continues with his yearning hunger throughout the play: He wants some signal from God, that HE is. "If he would only speak just once. If he would just cough!" The computer age without the Spirit is a sad and shallow, collapsing way of life. There is deep meaning ...

156. The Vine That Lives Forever

John 15:1-17

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George Bass

... He is risen!" may be difficult to discern a month after Christ’s resurrection was first announced this year. Another word needs to be added, if not invented, so that our celebration of his resurrection - "all of him, in every inch of his great stature" - might not only continue, but find fulfillment in our lives. And the word that John offers us is that very familiar, "I am the vine, my Father is the vinedresser ... you are the branches ... He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit ...

157. A Good God and the Problem of Suffering

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Robert G. Tuttle

... . He knew he was not perfect. But he knew he loved God and tried to serve him. He knew there was a deeper reason. Even though Job was "patient," he got fed-up with his cliche-speaking friends and declared, "I am sure that wisdom will die with you!" Job continued his desperate quest: "O that I knew where I might find him, that I could lay my case before him." Job challenged God: "What’s wrong? Where did I miss it? Is it my fault? What are you doing, God? Is there an answer? Just explain it to me, God ...

158. The Holy Trinity

John 16:5-16

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T. A. Kantonen

... raise the question of how God could be both one and three, once the question was raised, the church could be true to itself only by replying in terms of the Trinity. It is the only answer which does justice both to the centrality of Christ and to the continuing reality of the presence of Christ. The Trinity is, first of all, an affirmation of the centrality of Christ in the faith of the church. Worship of the one God whom Jesus worshiped and whom he revealed as "Father" is of course self-evident. But as the ...

159. You Were Saying?

Drama

Dave Marsh

... Walkman Schoolbooks & Backpack Telephone Setting: Home (LIGHTS UP CENTER STAGE where the Bible is on a table.) Dad: (Walks in stage right carrying a newspaper he just picked up. He opens the paper and when he reaches the Bible. He looks around like he heard something ("Hello?"). He shrugs and continues walking, reading the paper until he is off stage left). Mom: (Walks in stage left a basket of cloths. When she reaches the Bible. She looks around like she heard something ("Are you there?"). She shrugs and ...

160. What If

1 Chronicles 7:1-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... and confessed that whatever happened to him, the Lord would sustain him in prayer. I was humbled by that witness and the question became more searching. What if -- What if there are some things God either cannot or will not do until people pray. Prayer is the continuing source of power for us to be obedient in love. A third principle has come clear. Prayer is the basic identification we have with the world and with the God. Now does that sound strange? It's not just the basic identification we have with God ...

161. A Prophet Among Them

Ezekiel 2:1-3:15

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Maxie Dunnam

... that underneath her were His everlasting arms. She received that with thankfulness. Now it doesn’t always happen this way – but it happens just enough to cause us to know the power of it, and to give us the joy of it, and to inspire us to continue the practice. I spoke to God for a person and was given the marvelous opportunity of speaking to a person for God. How is the test stirring in your mind and hear? “Whether they hear…? How do you resonate to my understanding – that as prophets/priests our ...

162. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

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Phil Thrailkill

... life of the church, though it has sometimes been misused for that purpose; it is against the perennial human temptation to forget who the holy God is and to create God in our own image. The primary purpose of the church and thus of it own politics is to continue pointing to God first. The first concern of the Lord’s Prayer is not our needs, pressing as they are, but God’s glory. That God’s name as Father be worshiped as holy, that God’s kingdom descend to set the earth right, and that God’s will ...

163. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... my case and hear yours as well. Our lives are of a single piece. The political convenience we have come up with of dividing between public life and a private or personal life is a fraud. Corruption in one area always leaks into others. There is a thread of continuity between what we think and believe, what we choose, who we listen to, what we value, how we behave, and where we end up. It is outlined in a proverb I first found it in the book The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey, but it ...

164. Accepting the Lord Once Again

John 1:1-18

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Richard Gribble

... , the life he led, his message, and certainly his death by crucifixion all militated against his claims. Yet, the evangelist goes on to say that those who received him and believed in his name were given the power to become children of God. Thus the Christmas message continues to echo — God's Son was sent to the human race so that we could unite ourselves in a close and unbreakable bond with the Lord. Yet, if we look at our world and our personal lives, have we done any better than the people of Seville ...

165. Galatians 5:1, 13-25

Galatians 5:1, 13-25

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Leonard Sweet

... that this ritual be observed, Paul contends, flies in the face of Christian freedom. Clarifying the scope of this freedom is what directs and informs the rest of Paul's epistle to the Galatians. In the face of his opponents' arguments about the law's continued centrality in a true believer's life, Paul counters that Christ's gift to all his disciples is true freedom. In Galatians 5:1, Paul affirms this freedom as a deliverance from the "yoke of slavery." The first example Paul uses to demonstrate this ...

166. John 16:12-15

John 16:12-15

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Leonard Sweet

... nature of the environment Jesus' disciples must inhabit, the promised Spirit will ultimately prevail against the hate and sin of this world (vv.7-11). Verse 12 has been used by certain theologians and preachers as a possible argument for continuing revelations. The very phrase comes with varying definitions. Some church "fathers" as early as Tertullian argued that Jesus' intimation of more information to come meant that the church's teachings could change over the course of time. But in the context ...

167. A New Beginning for Everyone

Exodus 35:4-29

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James Merritt

... have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name." (Rev. 3:8) I want God to say about us, "I opened a great door for that church; a door to continue a work in Snellville, a door to start a work at Gwinnett Center, and they pulled together and made it happen, and their ministry has been multiplied." To those who are staying I'm asking you to walk through the door of retiring the debt on this church, strengthening the ...

168. Jesus Rewards the Just

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

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Richard Gribble

... to sound in our ears. In his letter to the Romans he wrote, "If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9). In the pastoral epistles, the Pauline author continues the theme of Jesus' reward for the just: "If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him he will also deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful — for he cannot deny himself ...

169. We Serve a Risen [and Rising] Savior

Luke 24:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... who embrace resurrection to rise to every occasion. If Jesus had only defeated death’s power in a cave-tomb in first century Jerusalem, how could that possibly empower us in the 21st century? Jesus defeats death daily. His resurrection is a continual re-run, a miracle replayed and rewound for every generation, for every situation, for everyone who reaches out in the darkness in search of the light. Jesus’ resurrection was perfect. But every generation of disciples have to keep practicing. And this is ...

170. Actions Speak Louder than Words

John 17:6-19

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John Smylie

... that our Lord offers in today's gospel text he has already lived out through his life and teaching among his disciples and those who've come to him and who have been blessed by his ministry. Jesus' own life is a kind of perpetual prayer. His life is a continual offering of self to God and to those whom God has given him to serve. In today's gospel text, we hear his high priestly prayer, praying that the work he has done, the efforts he has made, the word he has spoken, the witness he has shown will not ...

171. Baptism: The Light Shatters the Darkness

Genesis 1:1-5

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Richard Gribble

... must concentrate our daily activity on removing the darkness and bringing light to others. Yes, it is our primary responsibility as Christians to transform the darkness of ignorance into the light of the knowledge of Christ. In order to do this well we must continue our own education in the faith. We cannot assume that what we were taught as children (that is a teenager's level of Christian knowledge) is sufficient to adequately provide the light. We would never dare to think we could adequately operate as ...

172. Strength through Diversity

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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Richard Gribble

... . We are not autonomous operators; God is here to inspire and encourage us. God does not force us to do anything, but the inspiration is given to lead us in the proper direction - the one and only path that leads back to God. Thus, the Spirit is necessary to continue toward God. Paul also says that if we have the Spirit, we cannot speak ill of God. Living in the power and presence of God has its positive effects on us. We cannot go astray with God, but there are many lessons we need to learn in order to ...

173. Passing the Test

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Steven E. Albertin

... childlike faith we believe is already within them. We will whisper into their ears, "Where is your home?" Why? So that when they find themselves in their wilderness, when they must face their trials and tribulations, which they surely will as they become adults and continue to live their lives, they will get to confess their faith and say with old Doc Christman, "with the Lord." And then they will have discovered that they have passed the test. And God will smile and all the company of heaven will sing with ...

174. Unity and Hope

Romans 14:1--15:13

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Timothy J. Smith

... As we live out our faith in our church, in our community, and ultimately in our world, we do so knowing that we are part of God’s larger plan. Like the prophets of old, we might not live to see the results of all of our efforts, but we continue in the name of Christ, trusting that God will bless our efforts. It was as if Paul visualized Jesus surrounded by all people, Jew and Gentile alike when he wrote, “So that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The ...

175. Praise and Blame

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

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Timothy J. Smith

... not something that Paul sought. For Paul praise or blame really did not matter. Praise and blame was the same. He would continue to speak the gospel truth boldly despite the praise or blame he received. This concept is something that we in the ... to say, or have kind words for us, or maybe even call us names. We cannot allow such bad experiences to slow us down — we must continue. There may be times when we take a stand based on our faith that is viewed as unpopular among our peers. Paul teaches us that as ...

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