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1751. Proper 26

Psalm 65:1-13, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 32:1-11, 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12, Haggai 2:1-9, Exodus 34:1-28, Isaiah 1:1-31, Luke 19:1-10

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George Bass

... How could the gospel be more visibly portrayed to his religious opponents than by eating and visiting with the most blatant of sinners? The love of God for his creatures becomes very evident to those who hear the story, and one begins to realize why Jesus had to ... the task, and no matter how impossible it may seem to be, the impossible becomes the possible as people tap into the power and love of God. 4. Ours is to trust in the Lord and do his works, rebuilding the temples of our lives through his Word and ...

1752. Straight Talk, Due Process and Grace

Matthew 18:15-20

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William J. Carl

... stricken Elijahs as they scold their people. Usually their congregations let them know when they get too close to that. If they don’t, you can be sure their spouses or at least close friends do. Paul, carrying on the true intention of Jesus, says speak the truth in love, for in the end it is a good word, isn’t it? Malcolm Muggeridge once put it this way: “Though this life at times seems like the theater of the absurd, there is a point where you realize that there is a reality, a meaning that as Blake ...

1753. A Parent’s Debt

Romans 13:8-14

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Thomas Slavens

... those for food, air, water, clothing, shelter, exercise, rest, cleanliness, medical attention and play. Parents also owe it to their children to love them by caring for their emotional needs. Parents owe their children a sense of achievement. Children need to feel that they are ... What they do not need, and what seldom does any good, is nagging and scolding. Parents owe their children love by caring for their religious needs. They do not owe their children narrowness, fanaticism, restraints on having clean fun ...

1754. Death of the Unchurched For a Recovering Alcoholic

Eulogy

Alan Bacon Bond

... O God, will unite us in heart and mind and spirit for this little while that our lives might be touched by the promise of your life as it has been revealed to us through Jesus Christ. If emotion wells up in us, accept our tears as tokens of our love for Bill, and with those tears release from us a burdensome grief, until at last we might truly celebrate his life. Then, O God, by your Spirit, strengthen us in the service of your realm that at the last we might be truly worthy to bear your name and experience ...

1755. How Much?

Luke 23:26-43

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... their hands to convey their affections. How much? (response) This much? Hold your hands about three feet apart. If one of the children says, "I love my grandma and grandpa," then say, Oh, you love your grandma and grandpa? If they don't say love then suggest it: If you like them this much then you must love your grandma and grandpa. I have one more question. How much do you love your mom and your dad? (response) How much? (response) They should be stretching their arms to their limit. Boy, that's a lot of ...

1756. Reality Check

Matthew 17:1-13

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Johnny Dean

... at once," replied the Skin Horse. "You BECOME. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and you eyes don’t work so well, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you cannot be ugly, except to people who don’t understand." "I suppose YOU are real," said the ...

1757. I Hate To Rain On Your Parade, But

Matthew 21:1-11

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Johnny Dean

... on a happy face and cover it up. Whenever I read the account of Palm Sunday, I remember how the event is depicted in one of my favorite movies, "Jesus Christ, Superstar." Have you seen it? In the movie, the Palm Sunday crowd sings, "Christ, you know I love you. Did you see, I waved?" But, you see, as your pastor, I take my responsibility to nurture your spiritual growth seriously. And you cannot grow being fed a steady diet of baby food. So I cannot and will not skip from Palm Sunday to Easter morning and ...

1758. WHAT IS MAN?

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Larry Powell

... wall. I suppose that is the reason some of us find particular meaning in such passages as, "Lo, I am with you ALWAYS," "Love NEVER fails," "Goodness and mercy shall follow me ALL the days of my life," "His mercy endureth FOREVER," and "For I the Lord ... our hands. We have not yet assumed the role of God. The more we learn, the larger he becomes. The miracle of his power and love remains a miracle. The next generation can assume that too! IT'S ABOUT TIME! Not far from a parsonage we once occupied, there is a ...

1759. Mother's Day Gifts

Ephesians 6:10-20

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R. E. Lybrand

... One day, several convicts were in a prison library flipping through a merchandise catalog. On one of the pages there was the picture of a lovely home. One of the prisoners said, "Man, I sure wish I could give my mother a house like that to live in." Another prisoner ... mother tells you to get up and go to Sunday School and worship, then do it. You should go, not only because of your love for the Lord, but also in obedience to your mother. Children, the Bible says that you are to obey your parents as long as ...

1760. Encounters With Christ III: Jesus and Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

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James W. Moore

... can make penicillin out of moldy bread, -He can make something out of you.” This is the good news of John 3. Because God so loved the world, He SENT His only son to make something out of us… when we accept Him into our lives and commit our hearts to Him ... are other worlds to sing in. You can be re-born from above. You can come alive to the Bible and you can come alive to Love. Give me your hand Nicodemus; I’ll pull you out.” III. THIRD AND FINALLY, TO BE BORN FROM ABOVE MEANS TO COME ALIVE TO ETERNAL ...

1761. Winning Isn't the Only Thing ... It's Irrelevant

Luke 13:31-35

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Carl Jech

... indeed well-described not so much as an organization but as a movement, like a permeating salt or leaven, which channels God's free and unconditional grace to a world that can never have too much of that grace. "To tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love." (Katherine Hankey) But you may want to ask again, why trudge off to the ends of the earth doing mission work if you don't believe in the universal claims of Christ as Savior and Messiah - if you think that Jesus was just another great man or prophet ...

1762. If Only We could Be Loyal ...

Hosea 4:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16

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Wallace H. Kirby

... disappear like mist and dew. If you persist in being disloyal, Hosea said, you will render God helpless and bring destruction on yourself. Hosea’s prophetic words were born out of his personal life. He could speak of the depth of God’s covenant love because of his own love for a wife who rejected him. He knew that disloyalty broke God’s heart, for his heart had been broken when the wife became unfaithful. This prophet knew he could not force Gomer, his wife, to change her ways, to return to her family ...

1763. Honest to Goodness Religion

Hosea 4:1-19

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... wonder that the Lord is exasperated with his people. He speaks to them: "What am I going to do with you? You come to me only when you want something from me. You come to me only when there is no place else to go and you need help. Your ‘love’ is like the morning haze, or the dew in the front yard. It’s there for a short time, then it is gone. I have sent prophets to urge you to change your ways, but it hasn’t seemed to have helped. What am I to do with you?" The ...

1764. Proper 6

Lk 7:36--8:3 · Gal 2:11-21 · 1 Ki 19:1-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... not the sinful woman but the "good," proud Pharisee. His life was empty. There are many "good" Christians who claim guiltlessness but are perfectly miserable. Outline: The values of a true confession of sin. a. The value of being forgiven - v. 48 b. The value of loving - v. 47 c. The value of having peace - v. 50 2. Our Church is Too Small (7:36-50). Need: One of our problems is, we have too many small churches. In a population that is forty percent unchurched, our churches should be forty percent larger ...

1765. Proper 26

Lk 19:1-10 · 2 Thes 1:5-12 · Ex 34:5-9 · Hag 2:1-9

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John R. Brokhoff

... to the mountain top to get a second edition. God explains why he is giving the people a second chance - he is a God of mercy. 1. God Can 'I Help It! 34:5-7. Need: It is hard for many to realize that God is one of mercy and love. They can understand his power as they live in a natural world of hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. They can understand his justice, for they can believe their sin deserves judgment - punishment is a law of life. People need to know that the basic nature of God is compassion ...

1766. Expectations of a Vital Faith James K. Cobb

Exodus 1:1-22

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... that God really is? The faith that cannot be shaken is the faith that holds fast saying, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust him. I know that my redeemer liveth." The faith that cannot be shaken is found at the Cross as the final assurance of God’s love. When the home burns down and we stand over the ashes of all that we had; when the floods descend and sweep away crops before the harvest; when death comes to our home and takes from our midst our dearest child, it may seem as if God has forgotten us ...

1767. Epiphany 5

Psalm 112:1-10, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Isaiah 58:1-14, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

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... lives to himself through the Holy Spirit and the power of the cross event. There are implications in this, of course, for the Christian's life; the children of God are to allow the power of the Lord God to change their lives so that they witness to the love of God by the good works they do in his name. The cross lights up the world and those who live in it. Paul wants no one ever to forget this essential and theological truth. Matthew 5:13-20 This selection, gleaned from Jesus' authoritative teaching on the ...

1768. Easter 6

John 14:15-31

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... Recognizing our Humanness and Receiving New Life Suggested: Introduce the confession with words similar to these. "One purpose of confession is not so much to realize that how we respond to life is wrong, but to realize that what we fail to do, in the eyes of God, is called love. God so loved the world that God gave what he/she had only one of - a Son. We certainly aren't asked to give that much. It is time for us to think about the response appropriate for us. Jesus has shown by his life that ...

1769. Count Me In!

Isaiah 56:1-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... pagan, Naaman of Syria, rather than a leper of Israel. You’re In, But - It is true that God has an open door for all peoples everywhere for all time. But there is a "but" to it! Just because we are human, are we in God’s Kingdom? Indeed, he loves every person and wants each to be his child. Though all peoples are welcome and are invited, people need to be qualified. In other words, we are not saved automatically because God is good or because we are human. It is not a matter of God’s having to fill ...

1770. ARE CHRISTIANS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES?

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... to the Ephesians, encourages us to put on God’s armour so that we will be able to stand safe against all the strategies and tricks of Satan. We are encouraged to use every piece of God’s armor available to us. Self-centeredness, inhibited love, and nonchalance - three sins from within that endanger Christianity. And so we return to our question, "Are Christians an endangered species?" Some are and some are not. Although we have the promise of God that the light will never go completely out, our task ...

1771. FOR UNTO YOU

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John H. Krahn

... Father put his arms around his Son and said, "When you get down there, all you need to do is tell them that I love them. That is all. Just tell them that I love them." At Christmas all of us gladly hear these words of love: "For unto you," the angel said, "is born ... a Savior." He is ours, each one of us individually. In Christ the Father says, "I love you, Bill. I love you, Barbara. I love you, Jim, Bob, Peggy, Marge. I sent my Son unto you, Ralph, Betty, Fred." The baby Jesus is the Father’s message of ...

1772. Leah

Genesis 49:29--50:14

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Warren Thomas Smith

... Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel." (Ruth 4:11) In the quiet "... patience of unanswered prayer," Leah found fulfillment. There is a victory for those who "... only stand and wait." Love brings a reward, and such a reward comes to Leah and the nameless millions like her. Time moved slowly for the aged Jacob. He saw his son Joseph rise in Egypt, from prison, to a post second only to Pharaoh. The family fortune never ran so high ...

1773. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

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John R. Brokhoff

... saying he does not consider his worth to be a penny’s worth! In a great prayer, St. Augustine said, "Let me hate myself and love thee." Luther taught that God created something out of nothing. For God to create something out of us we must first be nothing. When he ... ! And don’t forget who was on that cross. It was God’s Son - "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself." God so loved you that he gave his only Son. So that is what you mean to God. You are worth God’s self-giving in Christ. It ...

1774. A Knife of Many Uses

Matthew 22:34-40

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Thou shalt not steal" or "honor thy father and mother." Which one of them is the most important? They are all important, but which is the most important? They thought that they had stumped Jesus. Not so. Jesus told them that they should love the Lord with all their heart, soul, and mind, and they should love their neighbor as much as they loved themselves. If you do that, Jesus said, you will do all of the things that the law tells you to do. All of the laws are in the two things that Jesus told them to do ...

1775. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

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T. A. Kantonen

... faith is the life of the open palm. Day by day and moment by moment we receive the new life, empowered by the living Christ, in the open palm of faith. And day by day and moment by moment we give it back to him in works of love, but we never enclose possessing fingers around it as though it were our own. The problem of the relation of God’s activity and man’s activity is one which theologians have debated through the centuries. Paul, like other New Testament writers, clearly ascribes all good works to ...

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