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176. Proper 15

Hebrews 12:1-13, Luke 12:54-59, Luke 12:49-53, Psalm 82:1-8, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Jeremiah 23:9-32, Jeremiah 38:1-13

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George Bass

... , Jesus Christ Our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen." The Psalm Of The Day Psalm 40:1-3, 17 (RC) - If nothing else, this psalm offers the people of God a pattern for prayer that is worth adopting. The faithful begin their prayers with praise to God for all he has done, then offer thanksgiving for his goodness and grace, and only then do they offer their petitions to God for the needs of all people and themselves. At the time the New Testament was ...

177. Marked For Community

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George Bass

... of a celebration, maybe nothing more than the lighting of the Paschal candle and a prayer, be arranged to acknowledge them. Three decades ago, my wife and I were sponsors for the baptism of her nephew. This was a very special baptism, because the boy, Greg, had been adopted by my wife’s sister and her husband. He had been made part of their family by a legal process, and at the font, he became a member of a larger, a world-wide, family through water, word, and Holy Spirit. Greg was a toddler when he was ...

178. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

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Harold Warlick

... -sleeved shirts and subtle ties, then you should dress in outfits where the jackets and skirts are matching material. If the men wear sports coats with contrasting slacks, then you can mix and match your wardrobe, too. Even if the image is different from your personality, you should adopt it if you wish to succeed. Your goal is to make money, even if you have to compromise your dress during the work day in order to meet your goal. It's all a part of the game. You want to exhibit the right "signs." When you ...

179. You Can't Start a Car With a Cross

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Ron Lavin

... people. Alice tells of being raised in an orphanage. She remembers not being very pretty. She also remembers wanting to be adopted into a family. "I tried too hard to please everybody who came to look me over," she said. "All I did was drive people away." One day ... a family said they wanted to adopt Alice. She was so excited that she could hardly wait. Sure enough, the day came and the family took her home. The matron from ...

180. Giving Away the Store

Luke 22:7-38, John 13:1-17

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Carl Jech

... life over death. It has little or nothing to do with winning. To be able to affirm life in spite of all the reasons not to do so - that is true victory! From the Cross, Jesus looks at his beloved friend and disciple, John, and tells him to adopt his mother, Mary, as his own mother. In the midst of death, Jesus shows his concern for the continuation of life by turning his attention to his mother. What better way to affirm life than by affirming motherhood - (an obvious symbol of life)? Far from wishing that ...

181. Who Lives In You?

Luke 13:31-35

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Lee Griess

... Adams replied, "and he is doing much better now." "All I can say to you, Paul," Cronin muttered, "is that you're a pretty lucky boy." "Dr. Cronin," Henry interrupted, "you don't need to bother trying to pronounce his name anymore, either. He is now Paul Adams. We have adopted him. He is now the son we lost." That's the kind of love God has for us. A love that Jesus expresses in the face of threatened death, a love that goes about its business, in spite of the consequences. Love that ...

182. Proper 10

Exodus 2:11-25

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... have been doing nothing more than his duty; his victim may have deserved the punishment. Of course, it has long been a common temptation to want to help the underdog, whether or not the individual is in the right. It seems safe to assume Moses, though adopted by the royal family of Egypt, learned enough from his true parents during the years when he was being wet-nursed by his own mother, that he might well have identified with the Hebrews and, perhaps, even secretly offered his allegiance to the Hebrew god ...

183. Sole Brother

Luke 10:25-37

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... evening and the bakery job at night, but with the heavy medical bills it seemed the only way to keep financial ends somewhere close to meeting. She knew he was doing it for her and really wanted to. Quite a son ... even though he had been adopted. Seemed closer, more devoted to her than her own children. They often joked about German immigrant mom and Mexican-American boy getting along so well. It seemed as though they had been together all their lives. As he approached the interstate, he thought about that ...

184. Return to Jerusalem

Acts 20:7-12

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CSS

... because of the resurrection. The Jews had a seven-day week, and the sabbath, which means repose, was the last day of the week. The Romans had an eight-day market week until well into the Christian era, when the seven-day Jewish formula was adopted. Early Christians therefore tied their calendar to the Jewish custom. But just as the Jewish sabbath was considered to begin at dusk on Friday, so the Christian Sunday began at dusk on Saturday. At that time the congregation would gather in similarity to the Last ...

185. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

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T. A. Kantonen

... of darkness" and transferred "to the kingdom of his beloved Son" (Colossians 1:13). They have a new status and level of existence, for they now "stand in grace" (Romans 5:2). They have been admitted into God’s family as adopted children (Galatians 4:5; Romans 8:15). The metaphor of adoption stands for the fact that we have become God’s children by grace, only Christ being Son by nature. But we are children who are to grow "to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ ...

186. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

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Kent Moorehead

... , but by how much we can give; not by our power to dominate and exploit, but by our ability to emancipate and empower; not by prominence, position, popularity, but by humility, loyalty, and unselfish service. Talk about evangelizing the world. If we dared adopt, here and now in the U.S.A., such an emphasis on true greatness, could we not transform the present, suicidal, armament race into some sort of a redemptive rivalry in mutual helpfulness? If that is taking in too much territory, suppose we experiment ...

187. PREACHER

Mark 1:14

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Stephen Stewart

... teaching of truth and duty. Whichever is emphasized in preaching, the preacher is one who believes himself to be the ambassador of God, charged with a message which it is his duty to deliver. From the Acts of the Apostles we gather something of the methods adopted by St. Peter and St. Paul, and these we may believe were more or less general for the preachers of the Primitive Church. The Apostles who had known the Lord would naturally recall the facts of his life, and the story of his words and works would ...

188. Thy Kingdom Come

Luke 17:20-37

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Bill Bouknight

... . This would be a young person who shows promise for rehabilitation. You could train him or her and offer the kind of supportive encouragement that would maximize his or her chances for success. If you do, the Kingdom will come a bit closer. What if you or your group adopted a shut-in. Then, one afternoon per week, you could give the full-time care-giver a much needed break. It sounds like a small thing, but the Kingdom would come a bit closer. Let's suppose that you were to keep a list in your wallet or ...

189. A Personal God in an Impersonal World

Luke 2:1-7

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Bill Bouknight

... forces than all the laws ever passed. The Bible says: "This is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish persons." Here in America we have over 1.5 million couples yearning to adopt a child, but only about 25,000 infants are available for adoption. Most of us were horrified by a recent news report of a bright college couple who went to a motel room in Delaware. There she gave birth to their little boy. They promptly fractured its skull, put it in a plastic bag ...

190. The New Birth

John 3:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... scriptural truth of new birth, allow me to ask and answer three questions. THE FIRST QUESTION IS THE OBVIOUS ONE: WHAT IS NEW BIRTH? John Wesley described the essence of new birth as follows: "I feel that Jesus died for my sins and I have been pardoned. I feel adopted as God's child. Faith, hope and love are alive in me and growing." New birth is the change brought about in a human life by the Holy Spirit after one repents of sin and trusts in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. One experiences forgiveness ...

191. Children of God

Romans 8:18-27, Romans 8:1-17

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James Wilson

... : For once we were servants and knew not of God's redeeming love. Leader: But in Christ all who believe are adopted into the Family of God. People: Then let us celebrate and give praise for we are loved by God. Leader: And ... we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have let the ways of the world blind us to Your promise that in Christ we are Your adopted Children. Too often, Lord, we have let the fears and anxieties of daily living keep us from knowing the peace and joy of Your presence in our ...

192. Stewards of Life, Death, and Beyond

Matthew 6:19-24

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... can separate us from his love: neither death nor life ... there is nothing in all creation that will be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39) The Lutheran Church in America adopted a social statement entitled Death and Dying.* Listen to some interpretive principles that help us make our decisions: 1. Life is a gift from God, to be received with Thanksgiving. 2. The integrity of the life process which God has created should be respected; both ...

193. The Shepherd Who Loved His Sheep

John 10:1-21

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George Bass

... ’t find anyone to help, thus the frustration and desperation. Both of them love Amy very much, have since they first saw her at three years of age and, knowing that she was retarded, adopted her as their own child, and cannot bear the thought of losing her. In a way, too, they have laid down their lives for another, their adopted and retarded daughter Amy. Some of us get to do such acts of love and selflessness. And such works of love and mercy must make glad the heart of Christ, partly because they are ...

194. The Family Was God’s Idea

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Gregory J. Johanson

... makes a family is not blood, but faith, the common love of God, of the truth, of ideals. To see this vindicated, I think we need only to look at the adopted child. Every once in awhile, we will meet a child and we will say, "My, you look just exactly like your mother." "Well, I don’t know why, because I’m adopted." And yet, we sense somehow that even physiologically, certainly characterologically, the flavor of a family comes through to a child. And the family exists for that child and for that parent ...

195. When You Reach Wit’s End

Psalm 107:1-43

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Gregory J. Johanson

... and saying to a war-orphan: "They didn’t ask me who should get the trip, Kid." After it was published in a national syndicate, he got a letter from a woman in Chicago who had lost her son in the war. She wanted to know how to go about adopting a D.P. child. He, of course, put in a special long-distance telephone call to reassure her and explain that he hadn’t meant for persons like her to take on an additional burden, but only hoped to stimulate Congressional action to aid the living. But she hadn’t ...

196. The Bush Is Still Burning

Exodus 3:1-22

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David E. Leininger

... mean old Pharaoh had issued a population-control decree saying that Hebrew baby boys should be put to death, the floating basket in the bullrushes to hide our infant hero. Finally, Pharaoh's daughter to the rescue with Moses being brought into the palace as an adopted member of the royal family. We also remember that Moses was not allowed to forget his heritage. A clever bit of deception by his big sister Miriam had allowed him to be wetnursed by his own mother with Pharaoh's money paying for the privilege ...

197. Remembering Charlie

Job 38:1--41:34

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David E. Leininger

... away, he was at that church every time the doors were open - Sunday School, morning and evening worship, youth groups, choir. If his parents could not bring him, he would thumb a ride or hike or ride his bike. It would almost be fair to say that Charlie adopted that church as his second family, but it really was his third. His second family was the Leiningers. He even looked like one of us. Charlie and I could easily have passed for brothers - he was blond, blue-eyed, and fat. He was at our house as much ...

198. The Nightmare before Christmas

Matthew 1:18-25

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David E. Leininger

... underway in Central America. The bombing in Baghdad has stopped; it soon will in Washington. Since the outcome in the Senate is as much a foregone conclusion as the vote in the House, perhaps cooler heads will prevail, a bipartisan resolution of censure will be adopted, and a months-long trial will be avoided. We can only hope. But as Richard Gephardt, the House Minority leader, said in the debate on Friday, "It's no wonder to me and to you that the people of our country today are cynical and indifferent ...

199. Be Joyful

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

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King Duncan

... you ready for Christmas?" With a smile she replied, "Almost. Just one more Care Bear to stuff." Figuring she was making the bears for her grandchildren, he asked, "How many grandchildren do you have?" "None," she replied. "But that's okay. I went out into my neighborhood and adopted some. I figured that if I'm going to have a family at Christmas, then I'd better go round them up!" With a little coaxing from Maxwell, she began to explain some of the problems she'd had with her own family. The more she told ...

200. Whoever Would Have Thought?

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

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King Duncan

... we think nothing will happen, growth will take place. We need to be patient and not give up, because sometimes growth takes longer than we expect. God works in ways we don't understand, often hidden from view. And we have to be patient. Clarence and his wife adopted a daughter whom they were told had emotional problems. The administrator at the orphanage told Clarence frankly that the child would be better off staying there. But Clarence and his wife said faith and love would conquer any problems, and they ...

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