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Larry Powell
... phrased it, "common clay pots, to show that the supreme power belongs to God and not to us." (2 Corinthians 4:7) To forget that would be the biggest blunder of all. SUCCESS: ONE MAN'S OPINION Ralph Waldo Emerson's early life was marked by poverty, frustration and sickness. His father, a Unitarian minister, died in 1811, leaving Ralph's mother to raise five sons. One of Emerson's younger brothers was mentally retarded and spent most of his life in institutions. Another brother, a victim of mental illness ...
1877. T.G.I.F
John 1:43-51
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William Luoma
... . Someone counted how many jars of water were changed into wine; (John 2:6) Someone estimated that two thousand swine with unclean spirits dashed headlong into the sea; (Mark 5:13) Someone figured there were three thousand baptisms in response to Peter's sermon in Acts 2; Someone counted five thousand at the feeding of the multitude; (Mark 6:44) And the Book of Revelation is full of descriptions of impressive numbers, even the multitude which no man could number, depicting glory and greatness. Today we ...
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James W. Moore
... handed out… now in crunch time, suddenly James and John saw Simon Peter differently. Blinded by their selfish Ambition… they now saw Simon Peter the adversary, the enemy, the opponent and they tried to elbow in ahead of him. That’s the way Mark’s Gospel records it. In Mark, James and John come to Jesus with their request for the most prestigious position. Matthew was so embarrassed by the blind ambition of James and John that later when he tells the story in his gospel, he changes it. He softens it ...
Drama
Robert F. Scott
... wherever he went. He wrote my letter for mean carried it to the churches in Asia Minor. You ask what sort of a man he was. John Mark was like a son to me; Silas was more like a brother. That’s what I called him in my letter: a faithful brother. I met him ... . Silas' next big step came when Paul sent for him. Paul and Barnabas had planned another mission, but they split over taking Mark with them again. Paul needed a new partner. During that time in Antioch, Paul had learned Silas' worth, and they knew they ...
Children's Sermon
Brett Blair
... use one of your lifelines? (response) You can either phone a mom or ask the congregation. (response) You want to ask the congregation. Ok. Alright congregation Suzy needs your help. I need a show of hands. Which of the four gospels is the last? Is it Mark? (congregation show of hands) Is it Luke? (hands) Is it John? (hands) Is it Matthew? (hands) Ok, most of the congregation says it’s John. What’s your answer? (John) Is that your final answer? (response) Dramatic pause here like in the show. John is the ...
1881. The Piety That Isn't
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
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Carl Jech
... can't possibly be interpreted as "showing off." But in this sermon, Jesus is referring precisely to those who disfigure their faces as a way of showing how humble they are. Now most of us don't stand on street corners and many of us do not mark our foreheads with ashes, but in a variety of subtle ways we may well be guilty of "practicing our piety before men," contrary to the Spirit of Jesus. We Christians have been given a difficult challenge. We have been challenged to witness to our faith without being ...
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Carl Jech
... somewhat misleading to use the expression "Jesus says" as if we were always dealing with a simple and direct quote. We know that we really should rather say something like "the Gospel of Luke pictures Jesus as saying ..." or that we should speak in terms of "Mark's Jesus" or "Matthew's Jesus." But more often than not it seems that we are afraid to express ourselves in a way that inevitably brings up this whole issue of Jesus as a literary figure created by the Gospel editors, as over against Jesus as simply ...
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Carl Jech
... with Sunday morning.) What a wonderful job Dana Carvey did of keeping us church folks from taking ourselves too seriously! Together with cartoonists like Doug Marlette who gave us the comic strip "Kudzu," and Carvey's "Church Lady," satirists from Mark Twain to Mark Russell help us to see ourselves from refreshing and often enlightening new perspectives. Marlette sparked renewed appreciation for familiar biblical texts - and it reminds us that translation is as much an art as it is a science, when he gives ...
1884. No Grey Area
Acts 15:1-21
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Carl Hoefler
... warring factions were united. However, this unity was not to last. The struggle for unity is a constant battle. Therefore, we need to look briefly at how unity was achieved, for a time, in the early church. There were basically five factors which marked the procedure that accomplished unity in that church convention which was held about fifty years after the death of our LOrd. First, despite their differences, they agreed to meet together in order to talk to each other, because they all accepted Jesus ...
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... of Israel!" Glory in Strange Places The Word is in the Gospel according to Saint John, that Fourth Gospel where the glory of the Lord appears in strange places. John paints the scene of Jesus’ entry to the Holy City with a different brush than Matthew uses, or Mark, or Luke. For Jesus came here, as his word predicted, to be crucified, but in that crucifixion to be glorified. In the Gospel as John writes it the cross is not a tragedy, but triumph, not a gory scene, but glory scene, for here as nowhere else ...
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... - a concern for what ought to be in terms of what is perceived to be the will of God. The purpose is to go with God’s love wherever it goes in its outreaching embrace of the whole world. This concerned purpose at its beautiful best is marked by a redeemed imagination and a confident, courageous commitment. We have seen these living features in the stories of the great saints of church history, in the lives of the missionaries who go out from our midst to selfless service in faraway places, and in the ...
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... said, they have adorned the Gospel of Jesus Christ, though it might be better to say they received the Gospel so fully that it adorned and glorified them. Who are the saints? How many can you name? Saint Peter? Saint Stephen? Saints Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? Saint Paul? Saint Barnabas - one of my favorites because his name, meaning Son of Encouragement, so appropriately describes him? Saint Francis of Assissi? Saint Augustine? The Roman Catholic Church has a long list of those who have been canonized ...
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... , "I belong to Yahweh." This latter was in the manner of a slave whose hand was tattooed to show to whom he belonged, or like a jar marked by the name of its owner. The fourth non-believer will be baptized into the people of God with a new name that will show her new ... modern individuals - is not able to accept the assurance of God's security because, as Jeremiah said centuries before, "Two marks of the pagan mentality are dismay and inanity." (10:2) Pagans are dismayed at all the outward events taking place ...
1889. To Thank Is To ...
Deuteronomy 26:1-15
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... . ‘Amazing’ is the only adequate adjective; wonder is the ambience. For amazement, wonder, and grace occur together. '... they were amazed at the graciousness of his words ...' " (Joseph Sittler) Amazed by the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, amazed by "Child of God, you are marked by the cross of Christ forever;" amazed by "My body, broken for you; my blood shed for you;" amazed by "As I have done this for you, so you also ought to do it for one another," we praise God and feed the neighbor. To ...
1890. Authority Through Servanthood
Matthew 20:20-28, Matthew 20:17-19
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Dean Lueking
... hand places in his Kingdom. We all know the stereotype of the meddlesome but well-meaning Jewish mother, but it is really only natural for all parents to want the best for their children. (As St. Mark tells this same story, the request comes from the sons themselves and no mention is made of the mother. [Mark 10:35-37] Never mind the detail; the point is the same.) The point of the request about instant places of authority is that it won’t mean authority. It will mean authoritarianism, which has nothing ...
1891. Epiphany 2
Jn 2:1-12 · 1 Cor 12:1-11 · Isa 62:1-5
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John R. Brokhoff
... a new name from her husband. Israel is the bride and Yahweh is the groom. Married to Yahweh, the bride-Israel will no longer be desolate or forsaken but she will be a delight to her husband. 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 The gifts of the Spirit. This marks the beginning of Paul's teaching concerning the Spirit and his gifts. (11-14) The Spirit is the theme of the pericope: the Spirit enables one to confess Jesus as Lord and provides nine spiritual gifts. Among these gifts, speaking in tongues comes last on the list ...
1892. Sunday of the Passion
Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11
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John R. Brokhoff
... right minds. Paul felt that way about members of his Philippian church - they were haughty and proud. This resulted in divisions. The solution was a change of mind to one of humility as illustrated by Jesus. "Have this mind among yourselves" - what mind? Outline: Marks of being in your right mind - A. A mind of humility - "he humbled himself. - v. 8 B. A mind of obedience - "became obedient unto death. - v. 8 C. A mind of consecration - "every knee should bow ... every tongue confess" - vv. 10, 11 2. Going ...
1893. PROPER 13
Exodus 12:1-30
Bulletin Aid
... From the first Passover to the Last Supper, we are reminded that God is our Deliverer. The blood of the Lamb is the mark of our salvation. People: We celebrate with thanksgiving, the assurance we have that God will most certainly bring us into his glory forever ... death of your Son, you deliver us out of the power of sin. Come to us now as we remember these great events, and mark us as people of your Kingdom now and forever; that we may celebrate these great acts in history as symbols of our own deliverance. ...
1894. Magic Mountain
Matthew 17:1-13
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... , and not simply a magic show on the mountain; that’s why Peter spoke to Jesus and said, "Lord, it’s good that we are here; if you wish, I will make three booths here, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." He wanted to mark the spot and turn the place into a religious shrine, which he and the disciples and others might visit to worship the Lord their God. Perhaps Peter believed that God was going to take Jesus from the mountain, as he did Moses and Elijah centuries before. Do you remember ...
1895. Hid in God
Isaiah 49:1-7
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... . Only then does he pull us out, string the bow, and say, "Now, I’m ready for you. I’m ready to shoot you to the mark." While we are in God’s quiver, so nicely polished, pointed and feathered, we may feel like things are not going well for us. Isaiah felt ... him and not on our high polish, sharp points or fine feathers. It is God, after all, who shoots the arrow to the mark. Luther certainly had his quiver years. God polished, pointed and feathered him for a long time in the monastery where he gave him ...
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... a condition which is both weakening and embarrassing. Like the illness of so many we know personally in our lives, this woman's affliction had left her both poor and discouraged. We learn from Mark's account that she had "suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was not better, but grew worse (Mark 5:26)." She had exhausted all earthly possibilities for a cure, and had become a broken and depressed human being. She was ready to grab at any solution that could bring her relief ...
Bulletin Aid
... of this man’s blood. It is your responsibility." Men: The people answered, "Let his blood be on us and all our children." Women: And it is on us, all our children and all the generations of man that ever lived. For those who accept his lordship, it is a mark that cancels sin. For those who ignore him or despise him, it is a fearsome mark of the final death. All: Lord, may all who worship here today accept your death on the cross. May each take that death upon himself as an atonement for his sins. Amen.
Sermon
Various Authors
... longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." (Galatians 2:20) I have to be willing to go to the Cross in self-denial; I reluctantly do so. Even then I rationalize taking back my own schemes. When I compromise God’s commandments, I leave a mark, often invisible, on everything I touch. But eventually these flaws show up as my apparently self-sufficient life begins to fall apart. As Jesus emptied himself and went to the Cross, so I must die to all within myself which is not of him. Paul said, "If we have ...
1899. Come, Learn Your Worth
2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2
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Various Authors
... that thoughtless praise isn’t praise at all. Rather, it’s the ultimate insult, because it says that the person doesn’t really matter. I think of a seminary professor who wrote no comments on term papers and offered no grade; he simply put a check mark in the corner to indicate he had seen the paper. I dreaded writing for him because I didn’t feel he took me seriously. By contrast I remember a professor in graduate school who often wrote scathing comments about grammar, logic and scholarship, in half ...
Sermon
Various Authors
... death by exposure to the sun’s blast and self-suffocation - I was about to say "an excruciating death," but we get that word excruciating from the word for cross; that’s exactly what it means. And Jesus cries out, "I thirst! I thirst!" And Saint Mark reports, "And one ran" - ran - to get something moist to hold to the parched lips of Jesus. There ran the spiritual ancestor of Gunga Din and Onesiphorus and all the other ministers of refreshing. Of all that crowd who stood around the cross with vengeful ...
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