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176. Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12, Psalm 1:1-6

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... loved you." Jesus expects his disciples to live this way; it was not simply a request on his part. Love is the basis for kindness to others, genuine concern for people which recognizes that one must live a "life of love" that reflects genuine affection for the Lord in one's life style. It is passing along to others the treatment one has received from God, love, mercy, kindness, as totally unmerited grace. 3. Priority number three: to respond to God's mercy with genuine humility, knowing that without the ...

177. Lent 1

Genesis 3:1-24, Romans 5:12-21, Matthew 4:1-11, Genesis 2:4-25, Psalm 130:1-8

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... , and sharing in their pain and suffering, healing their hurts, instead of inflicting anguish and sorrow upon them. Jesus was just too much for Satan! Satan couldn't handle him. That's why he is just right for us; he has done what we can't do - his obedience affected our restoration to God - and he was willing to go to the cross to accomplish our release from the devil and win for us the victory over death. In this story, his fate was sealed - our future secured - and God gave all of us a new lease on life ...

178. Epiphany 6

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

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... Exegetical note Paul continues to concern himself with the party loyalties that have arisen at Corinth, and perhaps the charge that his teachings have been too simplistic, especially as compared to the professional rhetoricians who abounded and appealed to the affections of the "mere mortals" who were "still of the flesh." In the process he now wishes to relativize both himself and his chief rival Apollos, on the grounds that it is really God who deserves the credit for the growth of (presumably) the ...

179. Your Money and Your Life

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... , that thoughts and feelings determine actions and not the other way around. We say, for example, "I felt like doing it," as if it is the feeling that gives rise to the act. We know how very stubborn feelings can be. If our fine possessions have captured our affections, then our liberation would not seem to be in the offing. If we are going to wait for our feelings or thinking to change, then we are going to wait for a very long time indeed. But Jesus says: "Where your treasure is, there will be your heart ...

180. Anne Sullivan

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... the course of her visit, the woman said to my friend, "We were never really close friends, but I always admired you and was always grateful for your great spirit of caring and loving." We never really know how we are affecting others, or whom we might be affecting. In the case of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller, the effect was quite obvious. Anne Sullivan had met the Master whose name is love. She shared that love with Helen Keller. Helen Keller met the Master through that love and became - spiritually ...

181. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

This miracle is not simply the story of a mother and her demon-possessed child; it is really an international incident which was to affect the future shape of Christendom. What happened to the Canaanite woman that day affects us today in a most direct and vital way. Like most international incidents it happened at the border between two adversaries. Jesus had traveled to the extreme north end of the Jordan Valley. He was standing at the border line between Syria and Galilee. The inhabitants of Syria were ...

182. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR PENTECOST

Drama

Tom Eberle

... a lot invested in my creation. [pause] Here we sit, frozen in time on a flight going nowhere. Voice 2: If I believed your spirit would remit my father’s tumor, I would let you pour away. But I think I know it might not affect his tumor at all. H.S.: It might affect your attitude about facing a dying person. Voice 4: [sarcastically] And you will solve his/her marriage problem, and make me want to go back home. Anthing else in your magic wand? H.S.: Nothing magic, just the gift of my Spirit. I suppose I ...

183. The Unexplainable Reality

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... gathering where, suddenly, people were transformed in such a way that they were accused of being intoxicated. And so they were. Not with bottled spirits, but with the Holy Spirit, Christ’s power unleashed in the world so that human lives were affected and in turn affected others. So, you do not prove Pentecost. You don’t even explain it. You measure its reality and effectiveness by the results. This was no self-generated orgy. This was God at work! Then blustering, blundering Peter stood up to speak ...

184. John Wesley: Religion of the Heart

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... the Christian religion around the world. From then on, John Wesley’s mother called him "a brand plucked out of the burning." He became the founder of Methodism and profoundly affected the shape of our church. Mother Suzanna educated the kids. She was a strict disciplinarian. From her, Wesley must have received his methodical way of organizing. While in college, John started a "Holy Club" for students who wanted to practice the religious life. Methodism points to its origin in those ...

185. All Dressed Up and No Place To Go

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... a lifetime of growing up to it? Graduation is a similar event. Years of investment and effort go into the marvelous day when the diploma is granted. The whole world seems waiting to reward the graduate. Ready in cap and gown, surrounded by plaudits, honors, and affection the future seems merely a footnote to the day. But, not so. In the same way the graduates go to desert tracks, to mountain tops, to dusty roads, to service, to rejections, and finally to surrender to the demands of life and work until they ...

186. The Remnant Year

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Thomas D. Peterson

... we put up the ornaments, eat up the leftovers, and silence the sounds. Perhaps we have already put away the openness and ready affection that marked us during these weeks. If the house looks bleak and sterile, maybe we do a bit ourselves. We are in the ... in once more. In the cold light of practicality the blessings and serendipities of Christmas - unsolicited acts of affection, unexpected kindnesses, and shocks of intimate goodwill - are embarrassing. However, they need not be discarded as the season ...

187. The Good News of the Cross

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... to beautiful life, then to see him grow coarse and cheap, to see him throw away his birthright like a fool, to dream of the best for him and see him choose the worst, to seek fellowship with your children and get cold indifference, to long for affection and get harsh ingratitude, to provide a lovely home and surroundings and then have the son look for life outside of any attachment to that home - that is the sorrow of God at the estrangement of His children. No wonder the prophets thundered, "To see people ...

188. The Establishment of An Empire

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... Life Who knows when our career/lives really begin? At 12? 15? 20? For David it seems it was when he was 30 years old. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. - 2 Samuel 5:4 It was a beginning that would affect the world as nothing else could. A modern writer sums up where this beginning would lead: He had feet of clay like the rest of us if not more so - self-serving and deceitful, lustful and vain - but ... you can see why it was David more than anybody else that ...

189. Lessons From A Girl In Trouble

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... ." She got pregnant because God was bringing his only-begotten Son into the world through her. Mary was not the only one affected by the angel’s marvelous news and its development. Her parents, about whom we are told nothing, surely must have suspected their ... me whatever he wants!" When I can’t find a job; when the doctor wants to do surgery; when my spouse doesn’t give me any affection any more; in every trial of life? Trust God with the trust of Mary: "I am the slave of the Lord; he can do with me ...

190. The Best Advertising of All

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... be healthier, happier, sexier; smell better; look better; feel better; get just about everything we want. I’d hate to add up the amount of time each day that is ruined by commercials. Kids, especially, are fascinated with them and affected by them (most of the time affected badly). As much advertising as takes place, however, everyone knows that the best form of advertising ever invented and the one that is still most successful is word-of-mouth - people telling other people. About forty years ago there ...

191. The Three Poison Pills of Position, Prestige, and Power

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... yes to a question they haven’t even asked? We want you to do whatever we ask. But Jesus makes no such promise. Be straight with me, he tells them, what is it you want? I think they knew the answer to the question was no. But they wanted to affect the outcome. They didn’t want to be told no. And this reveals their selfish motive. It is a motive we all are guilty of. Throughout human history, the road to power is paved upon the backs of conquered men. It is a history, which now must change ad will ...

192. Old Favorite

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... crashing into the head of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.1 Stories such as this rivet our attention. Love is important. Lack of love is tragedy. So we try to express love to people who are deprived of elementary things in life — food, clothing, shelter, and affection. We try to love countless refugees who have lost their homeland, many who lack financial security, and the sick who are deprived of health. Love is a solution to many people’s problems. But this is not the only kind of love 1 Corinthians ...

193. Light for Beauty

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... and joy is just as much for God as it is for us. For Or Against The Marriage? Edward Koch, former mayor of New York City, confesses to a nostalgia and lingering love for the office he held for a number of terms. To nurse his continuing affection for the job, he wrote a novel, Murder in City Hall. He spins a mystery tale about his willingness to perform a marriage ceremony for the daughter of a friend. He does this against his better judgment because of the political implications and usual criticisms of ...

194. There's No Such Thing as Too Much Sugar

Psalm 91:1-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the angel expert/dog-trainer/country singer and the jaded reporter past their deep-seated cynicism long enough to fall in love with each other (which apparently, was his angel assignment all along). Tough job. We live in a pretty cynical age, and everyone is affected - not just movie characters, but you and me too. Everyone knows Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic: someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. I like H. L. Mencken's description: "A cynic is a man who, when he smells ...

195. The Lord's Prayer: Please Forgive Us as We Forgive

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... anyone else. We are responsible. Another thing that happens when we use "debts" for sins is that we are reminded that sin jeopardizes our relationship with God. Has anyone ever owed you money and not paid you, or have you owed and not paid? Did that affect your relationship? You bet your life. "Forgive us our DEBTS," O Lord, so our relationship can be made whole again. Of course, the Gospel says that God DOES hear that prayer and DOES forgive those debts. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just ...

196. Jesus and Divorce

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... for a man to divorce his wife?'" Now 2000 years later, WE ask Jesus the same thing, not as a test, but because we really want to know. After all, as Erin's observation attests, divorce is a fact of American life - everyone of us here has been affected by divorce one way or another, even if only trying to figure whether Billy can come over to play or not. Tell us, Jesus, tell us. Jesus responds with a question of his own: "What did Moses command you?" The response: that Moses allowed it - if a man wanted ...

197. The Apostles' Creed: "Suffered, Dead, and Buried..."

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... would not be repeated. So the violence stopped. Ghandi was weakened to the point where the doctors could not be sure that he would live even if the fast were ended. Then the guarantees were given; the fast was broken and Ghandi recovered. Through his suffering, he had so affected even those who disagreed with him that they were willing to give up what their leader considered wrong methods. Such is the stuff of moral influence. This is what some scholars want to say concerning the way the death of Christ ...

198. The Forgiveness Business

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... think this would be uncomfortable in our day, it would have been almost unimaginable back then. Women did not intrude into the company of men who were sitting at table for dinner; in fact, even wives were often not included. As to her very public show of affection, it would have been excessive in the extreme - letting down her long hair in public (not done), wiping his feet with it and kissing them (please - this is getting just too, too intimate). On top of all that, what does this do to Jesus' stature as ...

199. Wrestling In A Title Bout

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mark Clark

... , but Israel." What a relief! That would have been better than giving up a name like "Ichabod" or "Sue" if you are a boy. God was saying, "You will no longer be called `the supplanter'; you will no longer be called `the cheat.' " How do you think it affected Jacob the Supplanter to get a new name? Names are interesting. A name change can bring a complete change of identity. We're told that when a Hindu mother fears that her child is going to die, she sometimes gives it some obnoxious name such as "dirt" or ...

200. Swimming With The Sharks

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , etc. ” but for the most part these sorts of things haven't happened to us. And we are a little suspicious when they happen to other people. And we would be suspicious of Peter, James and John's report ” except for the way in which it affected their lives. This experience, as well as many other experiences they had with Jesus, transformed them radically. You and I 2,000 years removed can make light of their experience, but it was so very real to them that they gave their lives for Christ, literally ...

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