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1876. The Footwashing

Luke 7:36-50

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... was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. He was walking in the woods near his farm with a couple of young scientists. The scientist came upon a turtle in a clearing, thought that it would make a nice pet for his children, picked it up and continued to walk toward his farmhouse. All of a sudden, and without a word, he stopped, turned around, went back to the clearing where he found the turtle and put it down in the exact spot where he had located it. When he rejoined his young companions who ...

1877. Emancipation Proclamation

John 8:31-41

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... tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Juries weigh the evidence, deliberate, and then announce the verdict. Did they find the truth? Recently my spouse and I sat through the trial of a young man who had been accused of murder. Though he continues to claim innocence, he was convicted by a jury vote of 12 to 0, and recommended for the penalty of death by a vote of 8 to 4. Beyond all reasonable doubt? The defendant was the only black man in the courtroom with an all white jury, prosecutor ...

1878. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

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Carveth Mitchell

... his porch and said, "Hop in, Brother, we’ll take you to safety." He replied, "Not me, thanks, the Lord will help me." The water continued to rise to the level of his porch roof, and he was perched up there. Two men came by in a motorboat. They pulled ... rope ladder. "Climb in, Brother, and we’ll take you to safety." He answered, "Not me, thank you. The Lord will help me." The water continued to rise and the man drowned. When he got to heaven, he spoke to the Lord. (How Bishops know what goes on up there I ...

1879. The Sign in the Subway

Luke 11:1-13

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Carveth Mitchell

... dollar deal? No, that’s not what Jesus said, is it? He said "How much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." God’s supreme gift is the gift of the Holy Spirit. What does the Holy Spirit do? She prompts us to continual conversation with God. She directs our energies in the direction of our prayers. She keeps us sensitive to the signs God gives to change direction and ideas. She keeps us assured of God’s love, so that when the answer is "No," we are sure it is for the ...

1880. Formula for Life

Amos 5:1-17

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A great old hymn asks, "And are we yet alive?" Last Sunday we saw in Luke’s marvelous record of Jesus’ teachings and in the prophetic injunction of Joel the contrast between life and death, and we were confronted with the challenge to live. Today as we continue with Jesus in Luke’s record and hear the powerful voice of Amos speaking we discover the simple formula for living the life of faith. For those who want life that is real, Amos says, there are two directions for their quest to take. They must ...

1881. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

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... has come to them directly from their experience with God. But there are many impediments in the way. Quite understandably, some preachers find it safer, therefore, to stay strictly with what the Bible says than to seek any fresh, updated insight into God’s continuing revelation of truth. People, they have found, seem more comfortable with the thought that God was alive and speaking in the past when the Bible was written than they are with the thought that he is still alive and interacting with his people ...

1882. Arise, O Church of God, Arise!

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... . His the kingdom, His the power! To Him all laud and glory be Through time and through eternity. Heav'n rejoices. Lift your voices. Come before him, Pray, implore him. Praise, adore him! We will fail in all these other areas if we do not worship. We cannot continue long to be a watchful, witnessing and serving church if we are not a vitally worshipping church. The noble, glad fellowship of one another's presence and song is what we need. Did you notice that I said a glad fellowship? In both the Old and New ...

1883. How Was Jesus' Death Different?

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27

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... not broken, perhaps the other two suffered even more physical pain than Jesus did. Since the time of the cross, people have continued to suffer just as much, if not more, than Jesus did. We have had the horrors and tortures of the Nazi ... that time, God began a program of winning man back to him. When man became godless, God decided to clean up the world by the Flood and continued a new humanity in Noah and his family. But this went sour and God looked to a new people, the Hebrews. He called Abraham out of a ...

1884. If Only We Would Let God Mold Us ...

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

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Wallace H. Kirby

... to have ear infections and his hearing might be impaired." Dr. Pope explained the surgical procedure and the necessity of a two-day stay at the hospital. "I wish I could guarantee," he continued, "that this one time would do it. There is always the possibility of having to repeat the procedure when John is older." The necessary arrangements were made for John to be admitted to the hospital the next week, and we went home with the tremendous task of explaining to a ...

1885. If Only We could Be Loyal ...

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

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Wallace H. Kirby

... knew he could not force Gomer, his wife, to change her ways, to return to her family, to accept the love they offered her. He could foresee only destruction unless she did change, the same darkness that stared his nation in the face if it continued its present waywardness. Hosea’s lessons are so powerful that they can either haunt us with their inevitability or help us in our relationship with God. That relationship is based on convenant love. The people of Israel had become "wedded" to God when they ...

1886. Serving Hands

Psalm 92:1-15

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... salvation can be summed up by saying, "Jesus came to serve us in our needs." That is no more clearly seen than in these final days of his earthly ministry. The passion of Holy Week paints the picture of Jesus as a suffering servant. He came to serve and he continues to serve you and me in special ways. I Jesus comes as "the work of the Lord's hands" to serve our needs This is Maundy Thursday, the day on which we recognize and celebrate that Jesus, as part of his service to us, instituted the special meal of ...

1887. Being Wealthy, Religious and Powerful

Micah 2:1-5

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... moved beyond Micah, but not beyond the conditions he describes, not beyond the message he proclaims. When the poor and the widows and the orphans end up with the short end of the stick, there can be nothing so good as to excuse that. The message still continues among the righteous and the unrighteous. Finally God sent the Prophet of prophets, the Teacher of teachers, the Preacher of preachers - himself in the person of his Son. You know what they did to him. They cast him out of the city in hopes that they ...

1888. Religion - One Way to Get in God’s Way

Zechariah 7:1-14

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... of such actions to the most ornate and complex imaginable, using buildings of surpassing grandeur, responding to music of the most ethereal kind. It is this concrete action, inescapable as it is, that all too easily becomes the focus for its own sake. "Should they continue fasting?" was the question of the people of Zechariah’s time. It was a seventy-year practice which reminded them of the destruction of the temple. "No," says Zechariah, that is not at the heart of God’s desires. "Then the word of the ...

1889. The First Sunday In Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

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Kendall McCabe

... as thou wilt." The way of the cross is the way in which we have been called to walk; there can be no short cuts for a follower of Jesus Christ. Jesus faced those temptations two thousand years ago. His church has continually faced them since, and we can be certain they will continue to make their attractiveness felt by us all, as individuals and as the body corporately. But we do not have to walk that valley of temptation alone. The Christ who faced those temptations faced them for us, and he will not fail ...

1890. Seeing as the Lord Sees

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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... , God was there ready to lift him up and to give him the best. You, too, are a child of God. God saw in David one who, even in the midst of adversity and alienation, nevertheless refused to give up love - especially the love of God and through faith he continued. So what did God see in David that he might also see in us? I believe he saw there a heart that was open to the heart of God with which he could make connection and with whom he could do significant things. David is still considered to be the ...

1891. Breath for Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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... the people of Israel to be a spokesperson for God. He was not a casual bystander in the history of their lives. He was a full participant in the trials, tests and calamities which befell the people. He had told them that their prosperity would not continue and their joys in the land would not last unless they were faithful to God; but they had not heard him. Now the Babylonians had come, had devastated them and their land. Jerusalem had fallen and the people had been taken into exile. Ezekiel was standing ...

1892. Easter 2

Acts 5:17-42, Revelation 1:4-8, Revelation 1:9-20, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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... 16 Let's Get Growing! Need: The picture of the first church, following the resurrection of the Lord, is one of growth, enthusiasm and excitement. There is no reason to see this as a one-time, first-time-out-of-the-chute sort of phenomenon. The church can and must continue to grow today, and needs to recover the spirit of the first community. 1. Growth is God's plan for all life a. When we stop growing, we start to die b. Just as we expect our bodies to grow, we ought to expect our congregation to grow 1. In ...

1893. Proper 8

Lk 9:51-62 · Gal 5:1, 13-25 · 1 Ki 19:15-21

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... were not as bad as he thought. God, not man, knows who are faithful. We are not the only ones fighting battles for God. There are untold multitudes even in our godless generation that are still true to God. This fact should not only humble us but encourage us in continuing the fight for God. 3. Mantle (v. 19). How does God call a person to be his prophet? The call may come in various ways: an Isaiah worshiping in a temple and a Paul on a Damascus road. In the case of Elisha, his call came in having Elijah's ...

1894. Proper 11

Lk 10:38-42 · Col 1:21-29 · Gen 18:1-10 · 2 Ki 4:8-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... "hostile in mind" against God. Through the reconciliation with God through the cross, our minds are now friendly and are used in the service of God. A Christian experiences a change of mind, from hostility to friendship. Outline: How Christians can use their minds. A. By continuing in the faith of the gospel - v. 23 B. By using your suffering for the good of the church - v. 24 C. By knowing the mystery of the ages revealed in Christ - vv. 26, 27 D. By teaching the gospel in wisdom - v. 28 WORSHIP RESOURCES ...

1895. Proper 21

Lk 16:19-31 · 1 Tim 6:6-19 · Joel 2:23-30 · Am 6:1-7

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John R. Brokhoff

... the condition of the country as did the people in Amos' day. We refuse to see the eventual decline and doom resulting from our corrupt way of life. The view of many today is "While we have it, let's enjoy it. We may not have it tomorrow." We continue to waste energy in spite of the fact that the world's resources of oil and gas will someday be depleted. We squander and waste, ruin and ravage nature while we refuse to see the consequences for the next generation. The sermon is needed to show it can happen ...

1896. Reformation Sunday

Jn 8:31-36 · Rom 3:19-28 · Jer 31:31-34

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John R. Brokhoff

... science, politics, nor economics. It is religious truth personified and spoken by Christ. It is the truth of God and life. 2. If (v. 31). Though it has only two letters, it is a big word. Jesus says we will know the truth and be free "if" we continue in his word. It is possible to lose the word of Jesus through negligence or unconcern. We can fall from the truth and lose our religious freedom if we ever sever ourselves from the Word. 3. Free (v. 32). The truth of Christ frees. It does not mean necessarily ...

1897. Christmas 2

Jn 1:1-18 · Eph 1:3-6, 15-18 · Isa 61:10--62:3 · Jer 31:7-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... our call today is to respond to such a God by loving "particularly" rather than in unfocused, "general" ways. A. From General to Specific 1. Wisdom first covered the universe "like a mist" 2. God "laser-beamed" it in to serve his chosen people 3. We continue Israel's tradition: wisdom is focused in Christ's community B. From Specific to General 1. We are burdened with the gift of ages: Christ, God's Wisdom 2. We, God's specific community, have an undifferentiated world to serve 3. Let us take our "narrow ...

1898. The Epiphany Season

Mt 2:1-12 · Eph 3:1-12 · Isa 60:1-6 · Ps 72:1-7, 10-14

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... of Jesus were celebrated at this time. January 6 was chosen as Epiphany Day because it was the winter solstice, a pagan festival celebrating the birthday of the sun god. In 331 B.C. the solstice was moved to December 25, but January 6 continued to be observed. Christians substituted Epiphany for the solstice. The emphasis was upon the re-birth of light. In keeping with this time, the First Lesson for Epiphany Day is appropriate: "Arise, shine; for your light has come." The unitive Festival of Epiphany was ...

1899. Epiphany 2

Jn 2:1-12 · 1 Cor 12:1-11 · Isa 62:1-5

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John R. Brokhoff

... God transforms his people from "forsaken" to "married." Lesson 2 - God's Spirit transforms "Jesus be cursed" to "Jesus is Lord." The Epiphany theme of the manifestation of God's glory in Christ continues today by dealing with transforming power. At a wedding in Cana Jesus by the power of God changes water into wine. Continuing the marriage metaphor, Yahweh marries the land and changes the people from desolate to delighted expressed in the giving of a new name. A series on 1 Corinthians begins with today's ...

1900. Epiphany 7

Lk 6:27-38 · 1 Cor 15:45-49 · 1 Sam 26:1-25 · Gen 45:3-11, 15

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John R. Brokhoff

... glorified. A soul (spirit) cannot exist without a body, and therefore at the resurrection we are given a fit body for a spiritual realm. A flesh and blood body cannot exist in God's spiritual Kingdom. Luke 6:27-38 Jesus continues to describe the moral life of disciples. The Sermon on the Plain continues with a further description of the ethical life of disciples. He explains what kind of people God expects us to be. When we suffer abuse, we are not to retaliate - vv. 27-31. Christians are to do more and be ...

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