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1951. Trinity Sunday

Matthew 28:16-20

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... reason we came, we celebrate on behalf of all those who decided not to come for whatever reason. We come to celebrate the Christ-event, life in its fullness, and to declare that life has new purpose and possibilities. Rejoice!" You may want to continue with this litany between pastor and ministers: Pastor: We are here because we believe that God accepts us. To respond to God's acceptance means that God invites us to discover new truths about ourselves and the world. Ministers: We receive God's acceptance ...

1952. Proper 4

Matthew 7:15-23

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... words similar to these. "Welcome to the Name of God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit; or if you prefer, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit." You may want to continue with this litany between pastor and ministers: Pastor: We continue to celebrate. Ministers: Celebrate what? Ourselves? Others? Things? Objects? Success? Money? Pastor: No! We celebrate the Word made flesh; we celebrate the Presence of the Spirit. Ministers: Is that word, is that spirit here today? Can we hear ...

1953. Proper 6

Matthew 9:35-38

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... - you and one another. We open ourselves anew to your Holy Spirit of love, and pray that you will love others through us. Warm our hearts; soften our rigid wills; and bend our false pride, so may loving be our reason for being." (author unknown, revised) Continue the assurance of pardon with these words: "The grace of God is the power of God in people; it represents an accession of resources which we do not have of ourselves." (author unknown) Then, you may want to sing the West Indies version of the Lord ...

1954. Pentecost 27

Matthew 24:1-35

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... began this way: "We are here to celebrate the presence and power of God; we prefer to celebrate God's comforting; we also, however, celebrate God's confronting. We can't have one without the other. We can't have the crown without the cross." You may want to continue with this litany between pastor and ministers: Pastor: You have heard it said that God is dead, or at least, absent. I say to you that God is living and is here. Ministers: Praise be to the living God. Pastor: God is here! Do you hear God's ...

1955. True And False Prophecy

Mark 14:27-31

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... the sabbath holy is one of the marks which separates us from the pagans. The Lord God himself set aside the sabbath for rest, for the quiet and thoughtful reflecting on his words. Only God is the Lord of the sabbath, and this Jesus of Nazareth continuously violated the sabbath codes. PETER: One sabbath day we were walking with Jesus through a grain field, and being more than a little hungry that day, we were plucking some of the ears from the end rows set aside for sojourners, rolling and threshing it in ...

1956. The Fashioning of Christians

Ezekiel 36:1-38

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... of baptism, the person would step out of the baptistery and be robed in a new, white gown - a symbol of the new person, the new creation, empowered to live the new life in Christ. The Easter custom of a baptismal gown continues right down to the present. And, it continues among Christians everywhere who "dress up" on every Sunday - after all, every Sunday is a little Easter, and Easter is the Great Sunday. This custom of dressing up for Sunday worship very nearly put my father in debtor’s prison one year ...

1957. THE FINAL TRIUMPH

Drama

... . None of you scare me! My Lord lives! You have lost False Priest. CAIAPHAS: (Starting toward her in a rage) I’ll have your impertinent tongue torn from your head! You ... ANNAS: (Stopping Caiaphas with an out-stretched hand) Please son-in-law! Restrain yourself! Now Mary, continue your story, but with a bit more respect. We are the Priests of the Lord God, and you are in his holy temple. MARY MAGDALENE: Yes, well as I was saying, I sat in the garden crying. I was suddenly aware of someone near me. When I ...

1958. Leadership: the Moses Model

Numbers 27:12-23

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... be a misprint. They are: "Moreover, some, even very many of the most significant elements and endowments which together go to build up and give life to the Church itself, can exist outside of the visible boundaries of the Catholic Church." It is with continuing visions that the document proceeds, exciting and challenging its readers to the end. From the Protestant side, in The COCU Consensus: In Quest of a Church of Christ Uniting, we discover the fruition of more than twenty years of work. The very first ...

1959. Is Jesus Still in the Healing Business?

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

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Bill Bouknight

... ’s four miracle medications have kept us going. We have faith that God is taking care of our son. We have a firm hope that we will see him again. We know that God loves our son and us more than we can imagine. And, God has continued to pump joy into our souls. Dear friends, we ought to be the healthiest people on the planet. The world’s most powerful medications are free! (1) Bultmann, Rudolf, Jesus, (Berlin, 1926), p. 159. (2) Yancey, Philip, The Jesus I Never Knew, (Zondervan: Grand Rapids, 1995), p ...

1960. Don't Let the Parade Pass You By

Luke 19:28-44

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Bill Bouknight

... break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven…" (Matthew 6:19-20) The only part of our wealth that will bring eternal peace is that part which we gave away for God’s glory. IV. Pray Continually Here is the fourth and final prescription for peace: pray continually. Do you remember the inspired words from Joseph Scriven’s beloved hymn, "What a friend"? "O what peace we often forfeit, o what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer." Luke gives ...

1961. Sole Brother

Luke 10:25-37

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... God ... someone who stopped and helped in a fellow traveler’s darkest hour. Beyond the caution message there is hope ... the hope that as we travel we can rise above duty to a genuine helping outreach. Duty is a sophisticated computer which runs continually day and night, estimating the reward and cost of every interaction. It moves us out and away from any situation which might have dangers, either real or imagined. Maybe there are robbers in the caves ... maybe there are thugs crouched down behind the ...

1962. Mugwumps

Luke 6:1-11

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... can take a slightly divergent route where engine noise is in the background and voices can come to the foreground. I suspect that many of you have taken divergent routes - expending tremendous effort to meet human needs in very meaningful ways. No doubt this kind of effort will continue. But we must never forget that the diesel engine humm of large organization and big business is always with us. We have to remain alert and never let it deafen us to human needs. It is up to us to make sure the two C’s in ...

1963. The First Council

Acts 15:1-21

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CSS

... and it seemed to them that the floodgates were being opened. How could the Jewish nature of their religion be maintained if gentiles, who did not know about Moses and the many laws of the Jews, were admitted wholesale into the church? How could they continue eating and drinking and having conversations with non-Christian Jews, if they were to share the Lord’s Table equally with Gentiles? An orthodox Jew at that time would not enter the house of a Gentile or eat or drink with him. Was not an "orthodox ...

1964. Welcome to the Training Table!

Matthew 22:1-14

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... cutting practice and not showing up at the training table. Somebody waiting in the wings gets the nod we once had gotten. It need not be so. The need for an elite corps for the Lord goes on. It will continue as long as there are people on this planet. God will continue to recruit candidates for his team. The resources will still be offered, the opportunities still laid out, the training table still provided. There is still no more satisfying investment that a person can make than the investment of one’s ...

1965. Changing the "Too Much Syndrome"

Luke 2:1-7

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David M. Oliver

... off the West Coast of Scotland. Centuries ago Christians built a monastery on the island of Iona which became a vital mission station from which to evangelize the Scots. The testimony and faithfulness of the Christians at Iona Abbey impacted a nation, and its influence continues to be felt today. The Scots call Iona a "thin" place. What they mean is that heaven and earth come close together in this place. In other words, God's presence is experienced there in a profound way. The result is that life is ...

1966. Faith isn’t Easy - But it Works!

Genesis 12:1-8

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Barbara Brokhoff

... of chicken soup. The little boy didn’t want to go alone, and he said, "Mommy, it’s dark down there, and I’m scared." "It’s all right, Johnny," she said, "you go on down and get that soup for me. I need it for this recipe." Then she continued, as she saw his hesitation, "Besides, Jesus will be there with you, now go and get me that soup!" Johnny went down the stairs, slowly opened the basement door, and peeked inside. It was darker than a sack of black cats, and he was scared. His hands began to ...

1967. God Can’t Keep a Good Secret!

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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Barbara Brokhoff

... take a pound of butter, and I’ll pay you twenty-five cents for it - but you must learn not to tell everything you know. If you hadn’t told me you’d take a quarter, then I’d have been glad to give you the half-dollar." Then he continued, "Now, do you think you can remember that?" "Yes, sir," replied the boy, "but I didn’t tell everything I know. I didn’t say nothin’ about the cat fallin’ into the cream!" God is giving clues away in this Ezekiel lesson. It is way ahead of its time. Its ...

1968. "Hold Your Horses!"

Acts 1:12-26

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Barbara Brokhoff

... in God, we need to learn to be still and wait. If we ever learn this good lesson, we would receive far more power and courage and peace. Waiting Indicates Faith If you have an appointment with someone, and if that person is late, or appears to be, your continued waiting for him/her to arrive indicates your faith in his/her word. The disciples were able to wait and wait and wait in the upper room for the Holy Spirit to come because they had learned that the word of Jesus is always good. David was able to ...

1969. Religion at a Minimum

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

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Dennis Kastens

... witnessing today, we need to stress much more the seriousness of sin, not only in terms of what it will do to destroy our civilization and way of life, but its far worse consequence of dooming us to everlasting torment and damnation. We should not continue giving people "underdoses" of spiritual antibiotics, telling them little things like, "You ought to take a little more interest in religion. You ought to come to church once in awhile. You ought to cut down a little on your profanity. You ought to try to ...

1970. Echoes of Eternity

Matthew 10:24-32

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Dennis Kastens

... many sparrows. So every one who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven." In our world where fashions and customs continue to change, where new cars come from the salesroom with built-in obsolescence, where furniture and gadgets quickly go out of style, where children’s toys hardly last from one birthday or holiday to the next, and where more and more items become dispensable ...

1971. The Stiller of Storms

Matthew 14:22-36

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Dennis Kastens

... his past sins, or the Apostle Peter strangely torn by strength and weakness, Jesus stands near at hand to whisper, "Peace I leave with you ..." (John 14:27) In our text (Matthew 14) we learn of three different kinds of storms stilled by Jesus. Those storms continue to rage in human hearts, but Jesus is able to speak the word that calms and brings peace. I. The Storm in the Souls of the Multitude. (Greed) In the words just prior to our Gospel, Jesus had fed a large multitude in a miraculous manner. Because ...

1972. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

... in two. The one half he gave to the beggar and covered himself with the remaining half. This attire caused many to deride him as he continued down the road. But that night he had a dream in which he saw his Lord clothed in half of a soldier’s cloak. If we ... . Though Christ has ascended to the right hand of God, he is still with us in Spirit. He walks and talks with us as we continue on our earthly pilgrimage. He shares our sorrows and joys. At all times, he is by our side even though we may not realize it. ...

1973. Claim Your Ministry

Matthew 20:20-28

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Robert Bachelder

... we do not equip you to be ministers in the world, in your daily lives within your occupations and public life. A decade ago, the National Council of Churches presented the results of its "Listening-to-Lay People Project." The report concluded: Lay people continue to see themselves in their expected role of servants of the institutional church. No one proposed that the church should see as its major task to encourage and enable its laypeople to function as crucial change agents in the various institutions in ...

1974. Father Damien

Luke 17:11-19

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Carroll Gunkel

... needed to be done and how if should be done. While some saw this strong sense of purpose as evidence of Damien’s dedication, others saw instead a stubborn man. If he was stubborn, it was because of the great sense of urgency which continually surrounded and motivated him. Father Damien literally lived out Benjamin Franklin’s proverb, "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." Much of what we can learn as a result of Father Damien’s meeting would center on the aforementioned adage. Damien ...

1975. Anne Sullivan

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Carroll Gunkel

... wonder if Anne felt it to be a privilege during those first months with Helen? Her charge was a tyro of obstinate, self-willed brattiness. While Anne could understand what moved Helen Keller to act as she did, she could not allow Helen’s actions to continue unchecked. Only because Anne Sullivan had met the Master, and because she had the Master’s love dwelling in her, did she have the ability to mold Helen Keller into a human being. Helen did not immediately perceive the love of God in Anne’s actions ...

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