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1976. Is God With You, Or Not?

Exodus 17:1-7

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... His cause Or blush to speak His name? Must I be carried to the skies On flow'ry beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize And sailed through bloody seas? And the answer: Sure I must fight if I would reign Increase my courage, Lord! I'll bear the toil, endure the pain Supported by thy Word. Life, even for the Christian, has its share of difficulty, but it doesn't mean God is gone! Even preachers don't have a bed of roses all the time. (Can you believe that?) The great George Whitefield spent a total ...

1977. He Lights Up My Life!

Exodus 33:12-23

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... . Then I would try to avert disaster by shaping up as soon as I got home. I'd wash the dishes, do the dusting, carry out the garbage, say "Yes, ma'm," and "No, ma'm," walk softly and speak respectfully. Anything to make the retribution I deserved easier to bear! "I Will Not Go With You" (Exodus 33:13) The first word from God was a good news-bad news" Word - rather like the son who came to his father and said, "Dad, I've got good news and bad news for you. The good news is you get a ...

1978. Communion Is Rejoicing In Christ's Return

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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... to go on and face tomorrow with him. God gives us a sampling of his love as he invites us to lay all of our burdens into his hands and leave them there as we anticipate the day when he will make sure we have no burdens at all to bear. But in Holy Communion, we must remember, we receive only a morsel, only a sampling, only a foretaste of what Christ has in store for us around his heavenly banquet table where we will feast with him for eternity. The Bread and Wine of which we are about to partake ...

1979. Communion Is Running No More

Mark 9:42-50

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... forbid him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon after to speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is for us. For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ, will by no means lose his reward. Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand ...

1980. Communion Is Reconciliation

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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... . We are to begin treating them with love as though they had never done anything against us. Reconciliation with our neighbor is the direct result of our forgiveness. There can be no genuine reconciliation without genuine forgiveness. There is a story which bears repeating today. It is about two African tribes who were bitter enemies. Warriors from each tribe dipped their spears into the other's blood, stole each other's wives, killed the other's children, and burned each other's villages. Then a Christian ...

1981. Communion Is Response to an Invitation

John 6:25-59

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... the reason for what Lutherans sing in the Post-Communion Canticle in their service. Just after all have received communion, they sing together: "Thank the Lord and sing his praise: Tell everyone what he has done. Let all who seek the Lord rejoice and proudly bear his name. He recalls his promises and leads his people forth in joy with shouts of thanksgiving. Alleluia! Alleluia!" (From the Lutheran Book of Worship) This is what we sing but is that what we show? Do we radiate with joy at the Lord's invitation ...

1982. The Servant’s Credentials

Matthew 23:1-39

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... , are privileged to live that humble servant life and so bring Christ to one another and to those outside the family of God. The world will pay little heed to those who say, "Don’t do as I do; do as I say do." But a just and humble lifestyle bearing witness to the Christ in whom we live and move and have our being will shine like a beacon on a dark and starless light. And when the whole community, the whole family of God, lives the gift of humble service, who knows what our Father could make of a ...

1983. The Trifocal Festival

Matthew 5:1-12

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... at once a saint and a sinner, obedient and rebellious, alive and dead, faithful and faithless, continues throughout this life. I: Nor is this a morbid, maudlin, depressing doctrine meant to moderate the joy of being a child of God. II: It is a truthful teaching bearing honest witness to the paradox and ambiguity of the Christian life: we know ourselves to be broken and sinful; at the same time, we hear and cling to the gospel’s promise of forgiveness for Christ’s sake. We know we do not deserve the ...

1984. The Divine-Human Nexus

Matthew 25:31-46

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... celebrated during the twelve day season of Christmas; Christ’s baptism, transfiguration and manifestation to the world marked the season of Epiphany; his temptation, his challenge to the religious establishment and his call to costly discipleship and cross bearing form the stuff of our Lenten proclamation; his last days, his torment, sufferings and death, contemplated during Holy Week; his bursting forth from death’s dark tomb, love triumphant over death we joyfully recalled and reclaimed during Easter ...

1985. The Things That Are God’s

Matthew 22:15-22

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... , I suspect, having entangled themselves in an inner controversy. If they took Jesus’ words to heart and found in them the truth that was surely there, they had to ask of themselves some troubling questions. "Have I rendered to God my life, which life bears His image and likekess?" "Have I surrendered to Caesar what rightfully belongs to God?" Have I lost, God forbid, the ability to feel the tension between my fidelity to God and all my other obligations?" I suspect that those concerns were on at least ...

1986. Promise or Threat?

Matthew 24:1-35

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... . So there you are, separated from your loved ones and friends, your life in disorder, your future highly foreboding. You long for the way things used to be, and the memories of lost laughter and happiness play across your mind like a cinema. Can you bear up under the hopelessness of your situation? Will you be strong enough in faith? What will become of your loved ones? Is this to be the reward of a life of faith in Jesus Christ? Now, one last effort of imagination. Given those circumstances, given ...

1987. The Penalty for Betraying God’s Trust

Numbers 27:12-23

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... the Lutheran Book of Worship. The first is an announcement from a representative of the congregation: Through Baptism God has made these new sisters and brothers members of the priesthood we all share in Christ Jesus, that we may proclaim the praise of God and bear his creative and redeeming Word to all the world. The congregation makes this response: We welcome you into the Lord’s family. We receive you as fellow members of the body of Christ, children of the same heavenly Father, and workers with us in ...

1988. To Touch The Untouchable

Luke 5:12-16

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... However, you and I both know that there are many people who go through life holding the weight of the world on their shoulders. Furthermore, it is probably true that most of us have this problem ourselves to some extent. We feel that we must bear all of our burdens by ourselves. We believe that we stand alone when we are faced with either crisis situations or ongoing problems. This tendency often becomes more evident whenever we are confronted with a serious illness or injury. In a town named Lourdes which ...

1989. Power

2 Corinthians 6:7

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Harold Warlick

... years before he left and eliminated Kadafy long ago. Now that would be power. Or would it? Jesus Christ maintained that it takes far less real power to act like that than to use power the way God actually exercises power. Jesus said, "God is love." God bears our griefs and carries our sorrows: not just at Calvary but all the time. That is certainly a sobering thought. It means that God's power is love and not might. It also means that God's power is directed toward a purpose: The whole world coming ...

1990. Compassion

Luke 10:25-37

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Harold Warlick

... of Easter without passing by the dusty roads of Galilee and Judea, places where Jesus was showing compassion. Think of it. He heals 10 lepers and one returns to thank him. If that were me, I'd make the other nine sick again. But he doesn't. He bears it. He asks his friends to stay up with him while he goes off to a garden and, in great anxiety and depression, sweats big drops of sweat so big, one writer says they flowed like blood. Then he comes out and witnesses those friends sound asleep. "Could you ...

1991. Christian Values Temptation

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Call to Worship Leader: If you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall. No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. When you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. Youth: We can only stand firm if our feet are planted on the solid rock, Jesus Christ. Lord, help us to recognize shaky foundations and forsake them. Women: Pity can lead ...

1992. Christian Values Judgment

Romans 2:1-16

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... same way you judge others, will you be judged. How can you look critically at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye when there is a plank in your own? All: Lord, spare us from the judgment we bring upon ourselves. Keep us from tearing down those who bear our faults. Teach us to accept them as graciously as Christ has accepted us. Amen.

1993. The Christian Life Take Time to Heal

Psalm 34:1-22

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Call to Worship Leader: Lord, sometimes life’s cares press in on us so hard that we think we cannot bear them - illness, death, financial troubles, children who have gone astray. The list of heartbraaks is endless. It hurts so much that we just want to be alone. Congregation: Help us to accept the loneliness that comes with these troubles. Remind us as we stand apart that you are close to ...

1994. Consecration Come Unto Jesus

Luke 7:36-50

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... tears, dried them with her hair and poured perfume on them. Women: She ministered to Jesus where Simon failed to minister. She served without worrying what others would think. Men: Simon was upset that this sinner touched Jesus. If he were a prophet, how could he bear this woman touching him? Leader: But he was God and knew Simon’s thoughts. He told Simon a story: "Two men owed money to a banker. One owed five-hundred dollars and the other fifty. Since neither of them could pay, he cancelled both debts ...

1995. Special Occasions Rejoice, Our Redeemer Has Come

Luke 1:39-45

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Leader: "My soul praises the Lord," sang Mary. "My spirit rejoices in God my Saviour." Congregation: She did not fear disgrace but rejoiced in her part in the redemption of Israel. Leader: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear," exclaimed Elizabeth. Congregation: She did not resent her cousin’s good fortune but rejoiced in the coming of the redeemer. Leader: Zechariah sang, "And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High: for you will go on before the Lord to ...

1996. Special Occasions The Day of the Lord

2 Peter 3:1-18

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... look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. Youth: We look forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness - a new place that shall endure forever! Leader: Make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation. Be on your guard that you may not be carried away by error. Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Congregation: May we grow in grace by sharing our knowledge, our very lives in ...

1997. Growing in God's Freedom

John 8:31-41

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... and war. Adults do it as they learn to quit running their children's lives. Or when they lose their jobs, or divorce strikes, or a spouse dies, or one's home burns up, or when an investment fails. But we are free to grow up and bear fruit by the grace of God. I remember Norman. He and his wife were in our Twelves group in a past parish. This particular group consisted of Lutheran and Roman Catholic mixed couples. They met together in homes, discussed the faith -- both similarities and differences -- and ...

1998. The Master Has Come - To Proclaim God’s Kingdom

Mark 1:9-13

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... is like. He said the Kingdom of God is like a man who will sell all he has in order to purchase a pearl of great price. He said it is like a seed growing secretly. No one knows it is there, but it grows up and becomes something which bears much fruit. He said it is like a grain of mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seed, but becomes the greatest of all shrubs. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom within us - all around us, in the world and beyond the world - which knows no boundaries, which ...

1999. The Master Has Come - And Is Calling For You

John 11:38-44

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... letters he wrote back home to relatives. I have seen the Bible he and his family read each night. And, I have thought often of how God used the life of a country boy from Georgia to open the way for the Gospel in China. His great work there still bears fruit even today. I The Master has come - and is calling for you. The story of Jesus coming to Bethany at the death of Lazarus is filled with beauty and despair, drama and pathos, joy and sorrow. It is a human story which touches our human hearts. It sweeps ...

2000. The Master Has Come - To Face Jerusalem

Mark 11:1-11

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... off the stand was the problem, and then winding my way down the steps to the basement fellowship hall, and placing the cross on the stage for the children’s program. It was not too heavy, but, heavy enough. And, I said to someone I met on the steps, "If bearing the cross was this much trouble for Jesus, I don’t know why he did it." But we do know why he did it. Centuries ago, on the island of Formosa, there was a ruler named Goho. He was a forward-thinking man who convinced the savage tribes under his ...

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