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1826. Table For Talkers

Luke 22:7-38

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... it I, Lord?" The answer is, "Yes, it is I. I have let you down, Jesus. I have denied you. I have betrayed you. If I have done this in the past, I am liable to do it again." This makes us come to the Table with a sense of sin and with a sense of complete unworthiness. We come to the Table because we are sinners, for the purpose of the meal is to assure us of mercy and forgiveness. Jesus said the wine-blood was for the remission of sins. So, as I come to the Table and kneel here ...

1827. Prayer

Matthew 5:27-30

Bulletin Aid

... not say it very often (Not right out loud), But I do love them. Love my neighbor? (Maybe you haven't met my neighbors!) People I come into contact with regularly At work • At play • On the street Love ... in the popular sense ... May be a little strong, But ... in the sense of wishing them well Helping them when they need it Not doing them harm, Yes, I guess I love my neighbors. Love my enemies? The kid who always picked on me? The mean teacher? The nasty boss? The thief ... the rapist ... the murderer ...

1828. Proper 7

Genesis 28:10-22

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... spot where he lay to the starry heights above him. And on that staircase, angels came and went in multitudes. Moreover, they showed some evident concern for the sleeper, Jacob, who lay there at the foot of the stairway. Jacob may have been overcome with some sense of his own insignificance out there in the middle of this vast wilderness. Moreover, he may have been bothered by his trickery, especially by the fact that his own actions had forced him to leave his home. At any rate, Jacob was in a psychological ...

1829. Proper 10

Exodus 2:11-25

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... Apparently, he thought the slaves would protect him by keeping his secret, and his crime against the state would be well hidden. But in this he was wrong. The very next day he went out into the area again, and this time saw two Hebrews quarreling. Again, his sense of justice led him to interfere in favor of the underdog. However, the other Hebrew was not intimidated either by Moses' rank or by his action of the previous day. He turned on Moses: "Do you think to kill me as you killed that Egyptian?" To make ...

1830. A Word About the Right Time

Haggai 2:1-9

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... reasonable, thoughtful and religious is in fact self-centered. The Biblical way is that it is in loving others that the love one wants to store up for oneself comes to be. It is in losing one’s life that one finds it. So delay doesn’t make the deepest sense. Not in this case. Delay here meant, "God is coming in second, and he cannot come in second even for those who are less than well off. He always asks first place. So now is the time." Paul Scherer had a good word about the preacher and time: "Because ...

1831. Preaching Your Life

Acts 2:14-41

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... gets across. And more than a message - an enthusiasm, joy, or fire is conveyed. More than hearing simple statements of belief, you sense a spirit which can be shared. Our faith is more caught than taught. And what's the content of that talking? A ... with the hero. We do it when we go to a ball game and root for "our team" as if somehow we possessed them. We have a sense of vicarious experience - that these people on the screen or on the field are living on our behalf and their fate is ours. It's the same ...

1832. God in a Glimpse

Acts 17:16-34

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... s earliest novels, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey that inner voice we all have was unknown as a conscience - they called it the voice of the gods. They were not far wrong. Think of the mind's awareness of an order to existence beyond our five senses, our ability to awe and wonder, our urge to worship so all civilization has some diety. How could this longing be just an unsatisfiable illusion? Hasn't God, instead, stamped his divine image on us? He made people, said Paul, "that they should seek God in the ...

1833. The Preposterous Prescription

2 Kings 5:1-27

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... they’re talking about, you ought to be willing to follow it." The lesson Earl learned was a good one. It doesn’t make much sense to go to a doctor for treatment and then ignore it. You might as well save your money. Some folks have the notion that a ... know who she was or how old she was, but she was old enough to remember the prophet in Israel who had helped many people. Sensing the cloud of gloom that had come over the family, she said to her mistress, "I wish that my master could go to the prophet ...

1834. Why I Can’t Sleep in Church

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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... the classic description of a preacher’s job. The pastor’s job is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. Even though that description has become somewhat hackneyed over the years, it still has a kernel of truth in it. In a broader sense, the same description fits the purpose of the church. The church is there to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. The first of these two functions is always the more popular and well received. Who can argue with a mission of mercy and ...

1835. Let God Be God

John 3:1-21

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Dean Lueking

... been noted that Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, out of fear of being found out. No doubt he did come with concern that some of his fellow Pharisees might see him and report his visit. But the point is that he came. He came with a sense of searching and desire to know more of this unconventional rabbi from Galilee who was performing such signs as Jerusalem had not seen before. Jesus gave Nicodemus far more than the man was seeking. Before the conversation is two or three sentences along, it is clear that ...

1836. Believing Is Seeing

John 20:24-31

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Dean Lueking

... currents that would incline us to escape from the world. But God calls us to live in the faith which overcomes the world. The Scripture underlies that faith. We have texts. And so, if today finds you concerned by anxieties or worn down by a late afternoon sense of how futile it is to even try to believe anymore, listen to the text. That text has strengthened and renewed the hearts of many like yours before. Believing the text gives us the vision of faith to see faces. From whatever vantage point one begins ...

1837. The Will of God

John 21:15-25

Children's Sermon

... that I took this pencil and wrote a letter to my best friend, Homer. Then you could say that I willed myself to write a letter. I want to show you that it is important how you use your will, for it can be used in a bad sense as well as a good sense. You could will yourself to start a fight or say something mean, just as you can use this money to buy something good or something bad. Your will is important and God gave you a will to use freely just as he uses his will. God has ...

1838. The Resurrection of Our Lord

Acts 10:23b-48, Exodus 10:1-20, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Colossians 3:1-17

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... . He is not afraid to enter where angels may fear to tread. He sees the absence of Jesus' body, the grave clothes, and the facial napkin. But, the evidence does not lead him to believe Jesus has risen. His bravado is fruitless. Only timid John, now in the tomb, senses the meaning of the evidence and believes. Lesson 1: Acts 10:34-43 1. Blame Easter on God! (10:34-43). Need: From beginning to end, from birth to re-birth, Jesus was the work of God. The Incarnation was God's work. The cross had to be because ...

1839. Proper 15

Lk 12:49-56 · Jer 20:7-13; 23:23-29; 38:4-10

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John R. Brokhoff

... word. Would Christ reject anyone? The author of Hebrews felt that a Christian, who deserted Christ, could not be re-instated. In that sense, like Esau, he/she would be rejected. Probably the meaning is this: Though Esau wanted his father's blessing, he could not get ... : Jeremiah 20:7-13 1. "I Got to Tell You!" 20:9. Need: When a person is excited or has some special good news, or a sense of guilt, or a serious problem, one often says, "I just got to tell you." It is too good or possibly too bad to keep. There ...

1840. Proper 16

Lk 13:22-30 · Heb 12:5-7, 11-13, 18-29 · Jer 28:1-9 · Isa 66:18-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... tells us who is in the city of God. A. Innumerable angels - v. 22 B. Assembly of true believers - v. 23 C. God the judge - v. 23 D. Jesus the mediator - v. 24 2. How Glorious is This Place! 12:18-24. Need: In recent years we have lost the sense of awe and adoration in our religion and worship. We may have lost it in the craze for informality and in the emphasis upon being human. The immanence of God was emphasized to the point that we lost sight of a transcendent God full of majesty, power, and glory. Out ...

1841. Epiphany 3

Lk 4:14-21 · 1 Cor 12:12-30 · Neh 8:1-10 · Isa 61:1-6

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John R. Brokhoff

... is one purpose of the sermon - it gives an understanding of the Lessons preceding the sermon. Lesson 2: 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 1. Body (v. 12). In this pericope the word "body" is used seventeen times. It is the primary subject of the passage. In one sense, it is a metaphor. The church is like a human body with various members. Another meaning is that literally the church is the body of Christ. The church is the contemporary incarnation of Christ. The Christian is the church, at least an integral part of it ...

1842. Epiphany 5

Lk 5:1-11 · 1 Cor 14:12-20; 15:1-11 · Isa 6:1-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... in Isaiah's and Peter's call. Outline: What God's call involves - A. Being overwhelmed by experiencing the presence of God (Recognize the Divine). 1. Isaiah's experience in the temple - in church. 2. Peter's experience at the Sea of Galilee - in nature. B. Sense of unworthiness because of sin (Realize your sin). 1. Isaiah: "I am a man of unclean lips." 2. Peter: "I am a sinful man." C. Obedience to the call (Respond in obedience). 1. Isaiah: "Here am I, Send me." 2. Peter: "They left everything and followed ...

1843. A Claim to a Crown

Matthew 24:36-51

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George Bass

... his picture in his military uniform: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in ... sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children ... This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."3 Beyond our voiced or written objections to the arms race ...

1844. Deliverance by a Dream

Matthew 2:13-18

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... more than anything else in the crucial decisions he had to make about Mary and Jesus. In this, he was a bit like Radar O’Reilly in M*A *S*H, who had the ability to hear helicopters before anyone else could hear them; he had a kind of sixth sense, a special type of intuition. When Colonel Potter took over command of M*A*S*H 4077, one of the first things he asked of Radar, as they were decorating the walls of the office, was "Why (are you called) Radar?" The corporal/company clerk answered, "Sometimes I can ...

1845. Cross Work

Matthew 5:27-30

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George Bass

... day.46 That’s why they named the place Three Fountains, but it is a viable symbol of Paul’s love of Christ and the Gospel that compelled him to go into all of the known world preaching the Gospel to all people and telling them, in a sense, "God loves you," and by his deeds, "I love you, too." Almost everywhere one goes in the ancient city, there are reminders of the living and loving spirits of the Christians of that incredible way of life offered to the world by Jesus Christ. They loved their enemies ...

1846. The Glance of God

Isaiah 9:1-7

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... spirit of wisdom and understanding so that you may bind up the broken-hearted and bring light to the blind and let the crippled walk." I have never been to Bethlehem at Christmas or at any other time. If I ever am there, I hope I will come with a sense of how blind, crippled, and broken-hearted I am without God. I hope, too, that I will reach out like a child for the light, power, and healing of God. Children love to reach for things. That is why, I think, the Word became flesh not in a thirty-three ...

1847. Some Crossroads of Family Life W. Dexter Moser

Genesis 25:19-34

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... about the words "The children struggled together within her ..." Why was "children," plural used rather than "child" singular? I asked a friend, the mother of twin sons. She said, "I knew there had to be twins because there was too much activity for just one child. The sense, the feeling in the womb that one pair of feet can’t kick that many places, one set of hands can’t cause that much action; I just knew there must be twins." At the crossroad Rebekah, as did Isaac previously, went to her Lord for ...

1848. Expectations of a Vital Faith James K. Cobb

Exodus 1:1-22

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... and pain? Here is a woman whose husband has been taken in the prime of life. She just cannot understand it. It is not that she doesn’t believe in God and his infinite love. It is just that she cannot fit the two together, and they do not make sense. If the Lord be with us, she says, why has this befallen me? One hears it time and again from people who look around at the agony of our world today. The love of God seems an empty phrase amid the bursting bombs, hostility between nations, the horror of ruined ...

1849. Remembering the Name of God John W. Cobb

Exodus 3:1-22

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... time a new name for God revealed, Yahweh, along with the statement "This is my name forever and thus I am to be remembered." (Exodus 3:15b) So much is involved in the use of this name. Although untranslatable, the new name for God, Yahweh invokes the sense of mystery regarding the one whom it represents. It is significant that to man was given the responsibility to "name" the creatures of the earth, but only God names himself, and in that name is the concept of eternity. God is Lord of the past, present and ...

1850. Forgiveness Forever

Matthew 18:21-35

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... new world of God's future where there is forgiveness without numbering, yes, forgiveness forever. You need to be so full of a sense of God's grace toward you that you are not measuring out forgiveness with the fears of someone facing a shortage. And ... sets you off again, doesn't it? I'm not surprised. A famous preacher by the name of Harry Emerson Fosdick had a line that makes sense for times like these. It goes, "Hating someone is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat." In other words, we can hate ...

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