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1876. A DRAMA OF LOST WORDS

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... Person gets closer, the words of Man 1 and Woman 1 become more distinct.] Woman 1: I don’t see how you expect to accomplish anything with a plan like that. It just doesn’t make any sense! Man 1: But that’s the beauty of it, don’t you see. They’ll all think it should. Woman 1: "Should" what? Man 1: Should make sense to them; but it won’t, so they’ll pretend it does, out of embarrassment, and I’ll be able to lead them into anything I want to and nobody will know. They’ll all agree ...

1877. Is Jesus Still in the Healing Business?

Luke 4:38-44, Luke 4:31-37

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Bill Bouknight

... life and ministry, but much about it during Jesus’ lifetime. Of course, our world is different and much better because of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Ever since Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has been poured out upon all Christians. Therefore, it makes sense that demon possession would be less of a problem now than it was before Jesus. Nevertheless, I suspect that we underestimate today the problem of people being possessed by evil spirits. How else do you explain what happened in the mind of ...

1878. "Gone Fishing!"

Luke 5:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... . We checked all the blueprints and parts, and could find nothing wrong. I went back to my office, closed the door, got on my knees and prayed, "Lord, what’s wrong with those amplifiers?" Suddenly the idea came to me to cross two particular wires. It made no sense to do it but I went back and tried it. It worked. All those sets were delivered in perfect working order. It suddenly occurred to me that Jesus knew more about electronics than I did." (1) Then in verse 8, Simon Peter falls to his knees before ...

1879. A Brass Cross and a Barometer

Luke 6:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... not walk more than 3/4th of a mile. No burials could take place on the Sabbath. A child trapped in a locked room could be released, but a crippled man could not be healed. In short, the Pharisees' rules were at least a quart low on common sense and compassion. Verses 1 through 5 of Luke's sixth chapter tell us that Jesus and his disciples were walking through a grainfield on the Sabbath day. They were being spied on by the Pharisees who hoped to catch them doing something wrong. Perhaps they were monitoring ...

1880. The First Council

Acts 15:1-21

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... for support, he declares, "Therefore my judgment is ..." This is the phrasing of a judge who is sure of his ground and certain that his decision will be accepted, as indeed it was. The conditions James attached to his ruling made good common sense. He set only four general rules or restrictions for Gentiles who sought admission into the Christian community. The first was that they abstain from eating food which had been offered to idols, since this was abhorrent to Jews and would conflict with the Christian ...

1881. Revival at Corinth

Acts 18:1-17

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... haircut! At Ephesus, Paul made a brief stop. He went into the synagogue and "argued with the Jews," but there is no indication that he won any converts. Some people asked him to stay for a longer time, but Paul refused, adding to the mystery about the sense of urgency that drove him back to Judea. Paul was evidently alone when he went on from Ephesus. Certainly Luke was not with him, for the report of what happens on the rest of this trip is sketchy and incomplete. Maybe Paul desired privacy as he completed ...

1882. Return to Jerusalem

Acts 20:7-12

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... must be willingness to sacrifice even life itself to fulfill a commitment. Reluctantly accepting Paul’s decision, his friends finally stopped trying to deter him and said, "The will of the Lord be done." Either to rally round for Paul’s protection or because they sensed excitement, a group of the disciples from Caesarea joined the others on the final leg of Paul’s journey. Whether they went on foot or horseback, it was a dusty sixty-four mile trip along hot roads and would have taken two or three days ...

1883. Shipwrecked on Malta

Acts 27:1-12, Acts 27:13-26, Acts 27:27-44

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... ship’s planks ran fore and aft and the ropes were some assurance that the planks would be held together so that the ship would not split apart. If its cargo was indeed grain, the soaking with water might cause the grain to expand and in a sense blow the ship apart. As they made the ship secure in this fashion, they lowered the mainsail, leaving just enough sail surface to permit the ship to be steered. Since Cauda offered little safety, they once again put out to sea, running before the wind. They tried ...

1884. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Matthew 18:15-20

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Michael L. Sherer

... the world at large until their members first come to terms with one another and learn to know the peace of God that binds the fellowship together. One ingredient essential to this healthy posture is communication. Some folks think that Christians automatically should sense what’s on each other’s minds now that they’re "one in Christ" or have "the mind of Christ." Some of the same folks think that, once a Christian, all the passions common to the world - such as competitiveness, rancor, jealousy, greed ...

1885. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

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Barbara Brokhoff

... , our lives are bound up with all the people of God. There are no limits to this bond. We can never disassociate ourselves in our relationship with God from our relationships with others. Hence, in our corporate worship, we sense the fellowship of all of God’s family. In Holy Communion, we partake with a world-wide, heaven-included community of saints. In our prayers, we pray not only for our own needs, but the needs of the community of faith, the nation, and the world. The clearer our vision ...

1886. No Other Way To Be Happy

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

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John R. Brokhoff

... own security and well-being, the parent lays down the law. Likewise, there are many of God’s laws we as Christians cannot understand or agree with. Why, we ask, must we go the second mile? Why must we forgive others before we can be forgiven by God? What sense does it make to love your enemies? At the time when Peter and his associates fished all night and caught nothing, Jesus tells them to let down their nets for a catch. To Peter this was a foolish thing to do. But Peter learned to trust and obey, for ...

1887. A King Worth Having

Zechariah 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... Lord of life, the King of kings, that performs a most humble task for underlings. What a king! A chief characteristic of a child of the king is also humility. A Christian is one who knows who he is - a child of God. As such, a Christian has a sense of worth, importance, and dignity. He/she has it made. No higher honor or status can be given. Though a Christian has this high honor, he/she is humble about it. This humility was demonstrated by Pope John Paul I. At his direction, his installation as Pope was ...

1888. Claim Your Ministry

Matthew 20:20-28

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Robert Bachelder

... as inferior. In no way was the priest entitled to lord it over the worker. Who was the greatest? Both were great so long as they served their Lord. To my mind it is the saddest feature of the contemporary Church that we have lost a vital sense of lay ministry. By and large the Church takes much too limited a view of Christian service. We eagerly recruit people necessary to maintain ourselves as an institutuion, but we do not equip you to be ministers in the world, in your daily lives within your occupations ...

1889. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

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Robert Bachelder

... understand that he depends for life upon God. Can we not see how Isaac Watts could consider Jesus’ life and write: "I survey the wondrous cross and pour contempt on all my pride." This morning we come to our Lord’s house as publicans, with a sense of our unworthiness, leaving behind the Pharisee’s pretence. We come as brothers and sisters who share the full range of human sinfulness, but we know, too, of God’s fathomless mercy which covers our heads. We come unhappy with others in our midst, perhaps ...

1890. Peter’s Net

Luke 5:1-11

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Richard F. Bansemer

... common longing. Here are men or women who would believe anything, if only they could, and do anything, if only shown the way, but faith escapes them. Like the lover whom no one loves, or the bereft and the bereaved, ‘so now the believer who senses no faith senses a certain helplessness on earth. What is such a person to do? If there is a difference between faith-lacking and other "impossible" situations, what is it? As we turn to Peter’s’activities in the sermon text for today we see what happened to ...

1891. Solomon’s Search

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

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Richard F. Bansemer

... Yes, that’s it. Some logical explanation somewhere. God doesn’t talk, at least he never did before. And that question doesn’t make much sense: What do I want? What do I want? Before you know it, you’re praying again: "I guess I want a lot of things, God ... a lot of book reading that I don’t like, and a lot of intellectual jazz that I don’t buy. Wisdom. If you mean common sense, I’d like some more of that, but I’m pretty good with that right now. Or, if you mean figuring out the stock market, now ...

1892. Job’s Joy

Job 38:1--41:34

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Richard F. Bansemer

... . But God’s chosen persevere. Though we may curse the darkness, we keep moving and looking for light. Nothing is worthwhile, we say, if darkness does rule. Even our laments are senseless syllables, and our lives are sick illusions if darkness is all there is. Nothing makes any sense unless God visits his own. Nothing is real without this God who puts on flesh and becomes one of us on earth. He came to Job in a whirlwind. He came to us in a manger. And he keeps coming back, in forms too varied to describe ...

1893. The Disciples’ Dumb Dream

Mark 9:33-37

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Richard F. Bansemer

... was unimportant. Jesus was still young, about thirty, and in good health. He was coming into power, no doubt about that, and when he did, then what about us? Can’t you hear them speculating? Can’t you hear them whispering? Their dumb dream made sense to them. Jesus was another David, a king! He’ll need generals and diplomats. Someone will have to be his secretary of state. He’ll need publicity, ambassadors, a whole cabinet, and a vice-president. And Jesus said, "The Son of man will be delivered ...

1894. Doctor Thomas Dooley

Matthew 9:1-8

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Carroll Gunkel

... . In his struggle with that disease he once again met the Master. He was ordered home for surgery, surgery which would only "buy" him time. This physician who had been described as a "young man in a hurry" was subsequently propelled by an even greater sense of urgency. Like Father Damien, he had much to do and too little time in which to accomplish what needed to be done. On this occasion Dooley wrote to his friend and mentor, Father Theodore Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame: "... I think ...

1895. Anne Sullivan

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Carroll Gunkel

... great teacher because she had met the Master. That Master was known respectfully as "rabbi." Anne Sullivan lived and taught as faithfully as the Master - the Rabbi - whom she had met. It was not by chance that Helen called Anne, "My teacher." One can sense the awe, the wonder, the respect, the love, embodied in that simple appellation. And like that great teacher of another time, Anne Sullivan taught not just facts, but the ability to conceptualize and the desire to dream. The Teacher was able to teach her ...

1896. "At Beneficial You’re Good for More"

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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Peter Rudowski

... seem childish; they are not childish to us. God promises us a relationship that can never be broken. Very simply put, in this relationship, we are good for more. From the relationship that we have with God, because of Jesus Christ, we also find that we have a sense of peace. In this relationship, we are secure. We find that we know ourselves better because it is in the relationships with others that we really learn who we are. We find that we have a reason for existing because it is in the service of God ...

1897. "Preference by L’oreal"

Lk 17:11-19 · Mt 6:25-33 · Jn 6:25-35

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Peter Rudowski

... of the things that we can give thanks for, I notice how quickly we come to only those things that speak to our five senses, the things we can touch, the things that we can taste, the things that we can feel, the things that we can hear. I ... we still worth the special attention we seem to get? As Christians on Thanksgiving Day we go a step beyond that specialness of the five senses. We go a step beyond just those things that we hear and see and touch. We know we really are special no matter what happens ...

1898. Facing Up to a Power Problem

Acts 2:1-13

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Robert G. Tuttle

... make this $30,000 tomorrow, $3,000 of it will belong to God.’ I answered without hesitation: ‘All right, Lord, it’s yours!’ Strangely, I experienced a peace and glow and a sense of Presence I had never known before. I followed through on my commitment, and ever since I have felt closer to God than ever, a sense of joyful, powerful partnership. "Do you think that God was speaking to me that night?" "Yes," I answered. "God has been speaking to young men in different life situations for thousands of ...

1899. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

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Robert G. Tuttle

... thorns." Too many of us are stuck with a dying humanism, seeking to teach the next generation to depend on a dying humanism, when we might rediscover what the struggle of life is all about. Accept it by faith and break through into the God-relationship where life makes sense and you begin to realize in your own being the unfolding of the eternal. This is why God gives each of us a span of life. The tragedy is that true life is aborted by many of us. With divine stubbornness God refuses to be outdone, and he ...

1900. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Romans 8:28-39

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Robert G. Tuttle

... of Heaven. Nothing can save us but blood spilled - Our own or Another’s. We find the answer in Christ, or we do not find it. Emily Dickinson says: "No person can be truly happy until they can say: ‘I love Christ.’ " Albert Einstein revealed a deep sense of the divine when he said, "Anyone who is not in awe at the mind behind the universe is as good as a burned out candle." Madeleine L’Engle suggests, however, that God is always shattering his own image.1 Look how throughout the Old Testament he ...

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