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1801. Praise God For Adversity

Isaiah 43:14-28

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Carl Hoefler

... the one and only source of transcendent help that we all need in order to endure adversity. When we praise God for adversity, we place our adversity into the hands of a loving and caring God who alone has the power to transform evil into good. That does make sense. Experience confirms in us that this is the only answer to adversity that can and will work. To praise God for adversity does not mean that we assume that God is the author of all evil, all suffering, and all disasters. God does not punish us with ...

1802. Mary's Song of Praise

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... be the mother of our Lord: Look down upon each of us as your servants, and breathe your Spirit upon us; that we may have the joy of Christ our Savior being born in our hearts. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We have sensed the joy that Mary must have felt, Father, when she realized she had been chosen as your servant. But our joy has been too passive when it should also have been our own experience of being your servant. Forgive us for celebrating Jesus' historical birth without experiencing ...

1803. Third Servant Song - Rejection, but Confidence in God

Isaiah 50:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... message, we may be among those who believe, and live. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear God, we see in your Son, Jesus, a real expression of your Servant rejected by those he is trying to save. While we sense grief for the way he was treated, we also sense guilt for the way we have treated him. Forgive us for turning deaf ears, for uttering unkind words, for thinking thoughts that hurt him. We pray for a commitment that will keep us in the constant love of Christ our Savior, through ...

1804. Love to God in Relation to Forgiveness Received

Luke 7:1-10

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... is God's forgiveness! May our love for him show how much he has forgiven us. Collect O Loving God, whose forgiveness is an ever-flowing expression of love to all who will receive it: Reveal our sinful nature to us, that we may sense our need of your forgiveness; and give expression to the great love we feel toward you. We pray through Christ, our Redeemer. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear Lord, we have assumed forgiveness without realizing the consequence of our sins from which your forgiveness has saved ...

1805. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

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H. J. Hizer

... : "In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land." Two: You know this whole thing about the Bridge is beginning to make some sense. Four: I'll tell you another thing that makes some sense. Two: What's that? Four: He didn't promise them any more firmament! SCENE 8 DEVIL'S COUNCIL [Scene opens with Slums pacing back and forth nervously] Three: I don't understand it -- I don't understand it -- I just don't ...

1806. Dollar Signs and Life Symbols

1 Timothy 6:3-10

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Rev. Donald R. Shank

... friends, of all the false gods this one is most treacherous because when the dollar sign becomes our life symbol we are actually worshipping ourselves. It isn't the possessions that we worship, it's our owning and control of the thing that's important to us. It's the sense of pride and power and independence that go along with it. We begin to measure off this little corner of the world and say "this is mine"; I am god here. This I own and reserve the right to determine what I shall do with it. We are right ...

1807. Living Passionately

Luke 4:14-30

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Louis H. Valbracht

... purpose, he began the fulfillment of that task. I suppose that I could say this discussion was born out of the same sense of frustration that our Lord felt when he observed the reaction of many people to the preaching of John the Baptizer. ... months who knows absolutely what he is doing in college beyond some vague objective of getting a degree in some course or another. I sense no commitment, no devotion, no goal, no zeal, no passion! Time magazine, in a study of our youth, indicated that most of them have ...

1808. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Louis H. Valbracht

... and to make a scientific estimate of the whole of humanity, he makes himself the exception that disproves his whole fundamental thesis. If humans know one thing, we know that we are responsible to someone or something else than ourselves. Our morality, our sense of guilt, our need to love and to be loved, things like this cannot be dispensed with just by calling them "cultural taboos," or "evolving herd customs." The scientist can't explain his own instinctive, dynamic imperative to search for truth in that ...

1809. People Get Ready!

Luke 12:35-48

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Brett Blair

... a role reversal. Jesus says, it will be good for those servants who are watching and meet their master at the door. That makes sense. The master will have certain needs that must be met when he arrives. They must feed him if he is hungry. The must help ... give him an accounting—what they have done since he has been gone. If they are not ready they’ll be the devil to pay. This makes sense but this is not how the story ends. Look at the end in verse 37. It is not the servants who wait on the master. It is ...

1810. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

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... . Then there was the letter written to the Hebrews, from which our scripture text for this morning comes. It was a thick letter. Probably took three stamps to mail it. And on the front of that letter I feel sure that the wrote: Special Delivery. There is a sense of urgency about this letter. The moment you open the letter up you know why. Hold on, it says. How many times does the author write—hold on. Don’t shrink back. Don’t despair. Don’t give up. Stir up each other. Encourage each other. Don’t ...

1811. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

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1812. Saving a Church - Sermon Starter

Hebrews 11 & 12

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Brett Blair

1813. Finding Life!

Matthew 16:21-28

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... a father - how alive? and how wonderful is this life. And a grown-up man or woman, believing in Christ, "born of God" - how alive? and how infinitely wonderful this life also is! Born once - of the flesh. Born again - of God. Coming alive first to the world of senses and things; coming alive then to the world of spirit. And so is the person complete, so is the person whole. By definition, that is unfinished which is not yet all that it may be. You and I may be children of God - not china dolls, but living ...

1814. On Staying Awake

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... He is operative in the common, ordinary and profane "outside-the-temple" world. We’ll see him working there if we are awake. We must stay awake to God in our joys and sufferings. We need to be awake to his presence in our search for truth, our inescapable sense of "ought," and in the mysterious depths of beauty. There is blessing to us, if by God’s grace, we can manage this. A final sign of staying awake before God is the fellowship of one another. Sartre missed it all when he said "hell is others." We ...

1815. The Spirit and the Truth

John 16:5-16

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George Bass

... gazing and speculation lead us to scientific exploration and research - and some understanding of the mysteries of the universe - but it takes an act of revelation on God’s part if we are to make any sense out of life and its problems and complications. The naturalist may gaze at life with awe and wonder and develop some sense of the sacredness of life and responsibility to care for it, but he/she can’t go much farther than that. God has to step in at that point. The Truth of God’s Intervention The ...

1816. Booby Trap

Luke 10:25-37

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... year, something had to be done. My colleague says, "We organized - on our street - a ‘neighborhood watch.’ For the first time since I’ve lived there, I met all of the neighbors on our street." He adds, "We came together and organized, not out of a sense of neighborliness, but so that we could stand guard over each other’s worldly goods." The people call it a neighborhood, but it isn’t a neighborhood at all, he contends, admitting that he has been part of the problem. And most of the people are ...

1817. An Encounter With Two Old Friends

Luke 18:9-14

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... week, and the other, one who slyly sneaks into the back seat of our worship bus, who has not been aboard of late. The first one will be noticed as he leads the aerobics of the liturgy in sitting, standing, kneeling, and in many ways conveys a sense of leadership. If we could see the records, we would probably discover, too, that he is top contributor. The other is an individual whose name is on the visitation list for special admonition. But no one wanted his name on a list for visitation. No one wanted ...

1818. How to Stay on Top of It

Luke 21:5-38

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... and have not even now attained. It has to do with faith, and trust, and hope, and how to stay on top of it. Life With Its Ups and Downs In this frenetic century, which has always seemed to be on the edge of a nervous breakdown, the sense of being on top of it needs careful cultivation. I suspect that there are many like myself who have a problem here, for statistics on this ulcered, hypertensive generation seem to bear out that suspicion. Children of the heavenly Father are bombarded in this anxious age as ...

1819. The Sign in the Subway

Luke 11:1-13

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Carveth Mitchell

... I prayed for something to happen, and it didn’t. Prayer failed." No, Sir. I suggest that you did not want God - you wanted God to do something, and that’s different. You have missed the purpose of prayer: to be in harmony with God, to have a sense of God’s presence; to feel the assurance that God is in, around and greater than any circumstance; that, come what may, we belong to him and underneath are the everlasting arms. Prayer is not a trading post, but a line of communication. Who needs lessons in ...

1820. The Man Who Came to Dinner

Luke 14:1-14

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Carveth Mitchell

... the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. Coleridge, The Devil’s Thoughts The Devil owned with a grin that his favorite Is pride that apes humility. Southey, The Devil’s Walk There is much to keep us humble if we have the sense to see it. We compare ourselves to the experts in any line of work or sport rather than to our inferiors. In moral and spiritual things we can compare ourselves to Jesus rather than to one another or to the person down the street. Or, we can remember ...

1821. Dead or Alive?

Joel 2:28-32

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... Dead to God. The good news of the Gospel, however, is that death can be turned into life: physical death by means of the Resurrection; spiritual death by means of what Jesus spoke of as being born again. What does it mean to be born again in this spiritual sense? If I had the wisdom to understand it fully, I would not have the words to explain it. One thing about it is clear, however. It means coming alive to God, opening the door to him, responding to his love, receiving his grace. It’s a miracle of God ...

1822. The Reins of Power

2 Samuel 5:1-5

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... he had received it, to live victoriously. The requirements, as the Apostle Paul put them in the Phillips translation of his letter to the Ephesians (5:1-15), are simply that we live our lives "in love ... as children of the light ... with a due sense of responsibility." So why, then, do we live with so much defeat in our lives? Why do we struggle so hard to get control of such powers as money, prestige, education, success, which cannot assure us happiness and fulfillment, while neglecting to take the reins ...

1823. The Season of the Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

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... overtook them. II. But what exactly was this spirited existence, this new quality life? Who can say? What's quality for one may not be quality for another. Where do we look for authentic, quality life? Well, the Holy Spirit is the Lord and giver of life in this sense that he always directs us to that which is the quality life - or shall I say, to him who is the sum of quality life, Jesus Christ. In the Nicene Creed, you will remember, we say, "The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son." That is ...

1824. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

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... inside, "C'mon, preacher! That's preachertalk. We'd expect you to say that, yes. But do you yourself really believe that's an answer?" Well, yes I do, because God answers prayer, and most of us need some answers about our daily jobs. We need to pray in the sense that prayer is aligning our will with God's will. I think the most-often quoted petition of the Lord's Prayer is the one that pleads, "Thy will be done." How true that is in connection with our daily work. To be praying and asking what God wants me ...

1825. The Demanding Word

Matthew 13:1-23

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... of God, listening to what it says and going wherever it leads. What kind of Word is God's Word? What is it for? This biblical text would have us see the radical truth that God's Word is always a demanding Word. And specifically it's demanding in the sense that it uproots and lays a claim. It is a Word that kills. If that sounds strange, let us recall the primary imagery behind our own baptism. Yes, the earliest acquaintance most of us had with God's Word - with his Word in baptism - was to experience it as ...

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