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1801. Don’t Be Alarmed

Mark 16:1-20

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... them to be sure Peter got the message! Here is hope for those who deny or forget or become apathetic; his message is, He is risen and be sure to tell them. Thank God for Peter in this Easter story! If the disciples had been perfect, I couldn’t bear it today. But they weren’t. God didn’t want to punish. He wanted to forgive and to be with even Peter! When the great battle of Waterloo in 1812 pitted the nations of Europe against the growing might of Napoleon’s dictatorship, upon its outcome hung the ...

1802. For a Nineteen-year-old Who Died of Cancer

Mark 15:1-15

Eulogy

Arthur H. Kolsti

... the cross. He who was sent in to help ended up being the one helped. Now, step back into the present, keeping in mind the experience of Simon. Every now and then life confronts us with occasions when unexpectedly we are thrust under a cross that another is bearing. If you are a friend, then fondness, friendship, and love compel you to respond. How can you be of help? What can you say or do besides just being present? If you are a clergy person, you are compelled not only by human feeling, but also by the ...

1803. Death of the Unchurched For a Recovering Alcoholic

Eulogy

Alan Bacon Bond

... 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 the fulness of your grace together with all the saints who from their labors rest. Introduction to ConfessionSilent Prayer With ConfessionKyrie Eleison (Congregation repeating)God, have mercy upon us.Christ, have mercy upon us.God, have mercy upon us ...

1804. For a Cancer Victim

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Eulogy

James W. Robinson

... . She grew in her love for God. Her love for God and others accelerated after that life-changing experience of thirty years ago. Mary's love for God and man, you see, was not a static thing. I believe that by the time she passed away, after bravely bearing her suffering and holding fast to her faith, she showed that she was perfect in love. Faith and love shone through a conversation I had with Mary about a year before she died. She was confined to the Deborah Heart and Lung Center. We spoke by phone. She ...

1805. Life Always Springs New!

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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Donald Zelle

... and so was worship at the temple. Synagogues were constructed for the study of the Law, the Prophets, and the other writings. Out of this post-exilic Jewish community, God brought other new life. Outside that reconstructed city of Jerusalem a cross was placed, years later, to bear the weight of the Son of God. Within that city, even later, Christians gathered on the Jewish Feast of Pentecost and the Spirit of God blew to bring hope again. He blew to give the ability to sort out the many voices and ideas and ...

1806. From Rooftop to Valley and to Heaven Again!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Donald Zelle

... liturgical or informal. There is something wrong in the home where there is no confessional. Christians ought, first and foremost, to be supportive people to those who confess their sins. A well-known hymn holds before us the ideal: We share our mutual woes, our mutual burdens bear, and often for each other flows the sympathizing tear. Wouldn't the church be a much greater power in the lives of people if we could admit to one another, "I am a continual liar; I am a jealous husband; I am an alcoholic; I am a ...

1807. Called in From Off-stage

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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Donald Zelle

... of children. Jesus put a child on center stage for the disciples, in order to tell the disciples of all time that he who receives a child, receives God (Mark 9:37)! We have not sufficiently learned that children are not commodities that can bear the brunt of our anger, hostility, and frustration. God has an important place for seemingly insignificant children. It was the apostle Paul who reminded the early Christians of Corinth that they, also the insignificant ones of society, had been brought by God into ...

1808. Stairways Of Heaven

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Justin Tull

... even justify the suffering. If not, it is still worthy of effort. I believe that Jacob’s struggle has many parallels to our own battles and that his rewards can be our rewards. The biblical faith as a whole and ordinary life in particular both bear out the fact that human struggle always has within it the potential for gain -- always! First, let me offer a very personal example. In December of last year I developed what was first diagnosed as a sciatic nerve problem. I had to stand through every church ...

1809. The Word Dwelt Among Us

John 1:1-18

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Come let us worship, all who would bear witness of the Word! People: For the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us; Jesus was the Word. Leader: And in Christ we were made whole and brought in the presence of God. People: For the witness of Christ was of God, that all should know the Lord. Leader: ...

1810. Candle Lighting · all five services

Matthew 3:1-12, Psalm 119:1-176, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, 1 Peter 1:1-12

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J. B. Quisenberry

... ," when the angel told her that she had been called to have God's Son. It would have certainly been easier for her than explaining her pregnancy to Joseph and her family. She knew the doubts, the whispers, the snickers that she would have to bear. She must have been confused and frightened, but she responded to God's will with obedience. "Behold the handmaid of the Lord!" she said. In Advent, we have the opportunity to rededicate ourselves to studying God's Word, and following it in our daily lives. We ...

1811. The Robe

John 6:25-59

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Robert Salzgeber

... few societies which are well off are plagued by an emptiness never filled by frantic grasping for more and more stuff. We need to boldly walk into the darkness of human existence. There we face our sin and self-centeredness. In our darkness we meet the suffering God who bears the sin of the world. This God does not crush us. Rather, Josh, he forgives us and gives us the gift of salvation. A new direction. We join the crucified Christ in his unity with the pain of the world. So do you see why that robe is so ...

1812. Changing The Rules

Mark 7:1-23

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Robert Salzgeber

... a dozen counts of vandalism." Billy was nervous but never the less he was glad his mother was with him. That's what he felt most bad about. Disappointing his mother like this. She had worked extremely hard raising Billy and his sister and he couldn't bear to break her heart like this. Through the clutter of ponderous guilt-ridden fog Billy heard his name, "Well, Billy," the judge said, "after reviewing your case do you have anything else you would like to say?" With downcast eyes Billy shook his head in the ...

1813. Beasts, Saints and Chaos

Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... weather it. If God is to help, he needs to remove the circumstances which cause the pain. Such action, and only such action, will mean that he is of any help. And that, of course, is one possibility. There is another: to pray for a double measure of strength to bear the load. The vision of the Daniel text is the latter: the vision of the sea of chaos, the four beasts ready to devour people. But it's not the beasts, nor the chaos but the saints of the King who will reign for ever and ever. Christ vivifies ...

1814. Time and Timing

Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4

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Paul W. F. Harms

... way that starts from faith and ends in faith: as the Scripture says, 'He who is righteous by faith shall live.' " (Romans 16:17) And again, "But now, quite independently of law, God's justice has been brought to life. The law and the prophets both bear witness to it; it is God's way of righting wrong, effective through faith in Christ for all who have faith - all, without distinction. For all alike have sinned, and are deprived of the divine splendor, and all are justified by God's free grace alone, through ...

1815. Opposites

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... hard, and the spear was real sharp. So much was happening that no one saw God working until later. No one saw the opposites; the other Power at work.If you were able to listen to the meditation text you heard four sets of opposites, each having a direct bearing on the future of _____________. In a sense, our sister has "gone to seed." That means, in the language of the faith, that her work is done and now she becomes sow~i, like a seed planted in the springtime.These were the four sets of opposites in our ...

1816. Opposites

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

1817. The Easy Yoke

Matthew 11:25-30

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... with her during the last few years, or, for very good reasons, couldn't be with her as often as we wished. Each of us has a very unique kind of grief work to do, and it is work. Each of us can succeed only with effort, taking the yoke, bearing the burden, doing the same kind of difficult thing you did when you sent your child to school on the very first day. Nevertheless, you let the child go. We must do the same kind of thing we did when we stepped off the side of a swimming pool, as ...

1818. Honor by Serving

Revelation 14:6-13

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... , done with the job, done with honoring the blessed, the beloved. Dead man's talk is our talk about there being no way left to honor our Lord, or ___________, or anyone else we've loved on earth and lost (for a while) to death.Dead man's talk cannot bear to hear what you will hear now, the one way left to honor the dead: We honor the dead by serving the living. We honor the dead by serving the living Lor4. That's what Jesus said when he told his disciples, his bereavea disciples on the seashore: "Do not ...

1819. Doing Love

Revelation 21:1-27

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... command allegiance and get it (all heavenly creatures are faithful). He could create life and get it, but even God could not demand love and get it. He could only show us love and hope that we would do it.People of the hurt family, you cannot, on your own, bear this burden well, but God has sent you all these people to share the sorrow, the pain and the future. You will find among us God at work, doing what he could not command: doing love. Don't look in the sky for an answer to the many questions you ...

1820. Step Ten - Perseverance

Lk 12:35-48 · 1 Cor 10:1-13 · Ps 15:1-5

Sermon

John A. Terry

... of Paul. We know what is required. We have heard the gospel read. We know what is required. We have heard Psalm 15 read. We know what is required. Therefore more is required of us than if we had not heard, and the failure to obey bears more serious consequences. It is Psalm 15 that specifically talks about the things God requires of us. The psalm is addressed to the sojourner, the permanent guest. This is like the theme we have chosen for our church stewardship campaign this fall: This is not my church ...

1821. Step Eleven - Spirituality

Mt 26:36-46 · 1 Thess 5:12-22 · Ps 25:1-15

Sermon

John A. Terry

... the pain. I was listening to a radio talk show this week in which there was a discussion about adjusting to divorce. One woman called and voiced what is a common complaint. When she and her husband got divorced, she lost all her friends. Most people cannot bear to watch friends have such troubles, so they simply stop seeing them. We can go to God for the strength to face the troubles and to receive the knowledge of what to do, because even if we are like Peter, turning our back on our best friend, perhaps ...

1822. Step Eight - Love

Mt 7:7-14 · 2 Cor 5:16-21 · Ps 19:7-13

Sermon

John A. Terry

... professions generally rate attorneys about the same level as sellers of used cars. They defend guilty and innocent. But the polls do not reflect that. Police who are sworn to uphold the law can become objects of protest. Judges who manage the courts can bear the wrath of much anger. Passion for the law is generally expressed when the law is broken, not when it is being kept. In Scripture the prophets passionately decry injustice when God's Law is broken. Keeping the law generally does not generate that ...

1823. Altered Expectations

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

... and, in all likelihood, ruining any chance she had for future happiness. Option two allowed the man to quietly and simply break off the engage-met, without a lot of fanfare and public involvement, but still leaving the woman with the burden of bearing and raising the child alone. Matthew tells us that this latter option was the one Joseph was planning to exercise. This tells us that Joseph was a compassionate man, and that he likely had deep feelings for Mary. Joseph’s expectations of his married ...

1824. See the Light, Be the Light

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... the eloquence of the person in the pulpit that counts, nor is it a confident manner, a flair for the dramatic or innovative insights into human nature. It’s not any of these, but rather it is the power and promise of God to whom the preacher must bear witness "in weakness and in fear and in trembling." John the Baptist, another preacher, said of Jesus, "He must increase and I must decrease." If that was true for John the Baptist, it is also true of every prophet or preacher who has come along since then ...

1825. Sowing Seed Is Never A Waste of Time

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... grass are growing out from the cracks. I am made to think of other times and places where a lot of effort in some areas seems largely wasted, while yet in unexpected situations goodness flourishes." There is a lot of waste in God’s dealings with us. Few of us bear fruit in our lives the way God would like. And yet, wonder of wonders, by the persistent grace of God, there is a harvest, although it doesn’t always happen as we expect. I wish I could say that the rest of the week at camp was a breeze after ...

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