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2001. Museum or Mission?

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10

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Wallace H. Kirby

... is to choose what seems to be the safe, but deadly way - that of becoming a museum. II So now we’re down to mission: that’s all that’s left if we want to survive. Mission means concentrating on persons and structures that have not been touched by the gospel. Jesus called them "the lost sheep" or "the lost coins." The church and its "good news" exist primarily for the sake of these lost persons or lost structures. We are not to neglect the needs of those who have already received the gospel, or ...

2002. Grateful For The Giver

Luke 17:11-19

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... was, the others would become. They all had the same living conditions; that is, they were all outcasts. They were required to cover their faces and leave their hair uncombed. They had to warn others to keep their distance by crying out, "Unclean! Unclean!" Anything they touched and any house they entered was pronounced unfit for others until it was cleansed by a special ritual. If they did come to a synagogue, they had to sit in a special place. You and I might have felt sorry for them - but their families ...

2003. Is The Gospel Only For Women?

Luke 6:17-26

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... to swagger around like movie cowboys with two guns hanging from a belt. Blessed are those who mourn. Men don’t cry. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness; blessed are the pure in heart. Sunday School stuff. He-men ought to have a touch of wickedness, shouldn’t they, to make them more interesting? Blessed are the peacemakers. Real men - they’re trained to fight. I I got some help for this sermon from an article, "Is the Religion of Jesus Effeminate?" It’s in a book called Jesus ...

2004. The Witness and the Witnesses

John 15:18--16:4

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... might put down his methodology and his fundamentalism, but his witnessing to the world puts most of our denominational efforts to shame. A line in a poem reminds us, "There are some whom a flame, ardent, unquenchable fires ..." In various ways, God seems to have touched innumerable people now, as he did after the resurrection of Christ, with the fire of the Holy Spirit and turned them into effective witnesses for Christ. But so many of us have not even been singed a little bit, let alone set ablaze by that ...

2005. Faith Bridges the Gap

Luke 7:1-10

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... deliriously, unintelligibly. But, suddenly, he regained consciousness; he looked alert and almost healthy again. The two of them talked - Jack coherently and animated - and then he asked her for a drink of water. He seemed to fall asleep again, and his wife touched his forehead, apparently to see if the fever had returned. Then she picked us the empty water container and went to fill it. When Louise discovered that the larger water container outside the room was empty, one could almost anticipate what would ...

2006. Some Man

Luke 10:38-42

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... a little bit like what Jesus did long ago, doesn’t it, when he gave himself over to his enemies and to death on a cross so that you and I might have life? Now, it would be rather easy to come to the conclusion that Jesus, in this touching story of Mary and Martha, was saying of Mary, "Some woman." Jesus rebuked Martha, gently, it seems,for his words were, "Martha, Martha, you are concerned about many things...," and he seems, at the same time, to be praising Mary. "Mary has chosen the good portion, which ...

2007. Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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... that could fit right into your car trunk and level a quarter of Manhattan." Phillips wanted to alarm people - and he did - when he insisted that "a college undergraduate with a basic foundation in physics is capable of doing what I did." Goodman said that Phillips touched a "specific nerve ending, and up through thirty years of chronic fear came another flash of acute terror. It was the nerve ending of the 40s and 50s, the doomsday terror of a youth which had a nuclear imprint." She adds, "By now we think ...

2008. The Man, the Message, and the Mission

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

George Bass

... asked me: ‘Do you drink?’ I answered negatively, but added that like all Spaniards I had a glass of wine at luncheon and dinner. He then said: ‘Well, if you want to become a great, renowned artist and avoid that laziness in your fingers, you must never touch a drop of wine or alcohol.’ I obeyed him faithfully all my life." Jesus, you see, never calls us to ministry and mission under false pretenses. When the disciples wanted places of honor next to him, he asked, "Are you able to drink the cup that ...

2009. An Encounter With Two Old Friends

Luke 18:9-14

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... we do if every member of this church would tithe as he did, not only on his wages, but on all possessions, even dividends and capital gains? We could reach out to the highways and the byways for the lost to bring them in, and we could touch the lives of sufferers whose pain is at our doorstep. We welcome Pharisees as members of the congregation, and might even write a special paragraph in our newsletter as we proudly introduce them to the rest of us. Are we not fortunate to number folks like this among ...

2010. The Gospel of the Little Man

Luke 19:1-10

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... be swept along somehow. "He’s got the whole world in his hands," but he’s got you and me, baby, in his hands as well. The best is that he knows us by our names, that he can read our hearts, that he knows our peril, and that he touches each of us personally with his love. We can say he is "our God," and "we believe," but we can also say he is "my God," and "I believe." If we dare speculate on what that confrontation with Zacchaeus, face to face, involved, I think that it involved a lot ...

2011. Are There Any Questions?

Luke 20:27-40

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... run our business, the way we play the game, the language that we use, the way we deal with our oppressors, the way we make investments. It frees us from the chains of our own forging. It removes the handcuffs of our fears, self-centeredness, and selfishness - to touch the leper and the sin-stained and the burdened. In my first year as a pastor, on one of my first nights in western Canada, I mistakenly tried driving home along a section road. It was just long enough beyond a rain so that the soil had become ...

2012. Our Splintered World

Luke 12:49-53

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Carveth Mitchell

... they stood. There was a knight of Bethlehem Whose wealth was tears and sorrows His men at arms were little lambs His trumpeters were sparrows His castle was a wooden cross On which he hung so high His helmet was a crown of thorns Whose crest did touch the sky. - Author unknown This is the man that brought the judgment of God upon the people. This is the man that divides families, communities and nations. The division he brought extends from his day to our day, and each person must decide which side he or ...

2013. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

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... to go against the grain of public opinion on such matters as homosexuality, abortion, welfare policy, treatment of criminals, the merits of capitalism, or the ethics of nuclear deterrence? Yes, preachers are supposed to be called of God. They are supposed to be in touch with the living God. They, like Micah, are supposed to deliver the word, not merely as it has been derived from past revelation but also as it has come to them directly from their experience with God. But there are many impediments in the ...

2014. Arise, O Church of God, Arise!

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... us. We tend to see a conglamorate mess, obviously much too large a challenge for any one of us to deal with alone. We fail to observe the individual soul who is so near us. It is, after all, single human beings, one-by-one, who have needs. The touching secret of Jesus was his ability to see people amid the masses, to see an individual soul among the vast congregation, to zero in on one struggling person in the tumult of human uproar. Jesus had zoom lens vision as he moved among the crowds. He was acquainted ...

2015. The Challenge of God's Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

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... harvest is great. The saddest thing in the world is that the laborers are so few - when there might be so many. As Christians we find it hard to live and embody the message of God's love to all people. In a host of key issues that really touch on people's problems as persons, we would rather sit in our antiseptic churches, lest the dust along the road of love contaminate us. Throughout the four Gospels Jesus has strong words for those who are only able to say, "Lord, Lord," but who refuse to bring the love ...

2016. Exercising to be a Christian

1 Peter 5:10

Children's Sermon

... side. The rest of you can just sit there and watch what we are going to do. Now I have some exercises that I want you to follow. I am going to show you and then you are going to keep doing the exercise until I stop counting. (Have them touch their toes to a particular count. After finishing that you can have them do some others if you want, depending on your time.) That’s fine, but exercises sure do make you tired. Look at the group over there that didn’t do any exercises; they’re not tired at ...

2017. Little Repeaters

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Children's Sermon

... make it go very well.] Of course, that isn't the only friend who works fairly slowly. Here is Peter Paddle. Peter used to swat the ball so well that he would wear out the rubber band and we would have to replace it. Not now! Why, Peter hardly even touches the ball when I use him. Oh, I know what you are saying. You are thinking to yourself, "It isn't Peter and Yancy who are wrong, but the Pastor who is goofing it up." You know what? You're right. I am goofing it up because I haven't ...

2018. If Only We Would Confess ...

Ezekiel 18:1-32

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... sins of omission, that gray one was included and forgiven. Strange to say, I only felt real forgiveness when I openly confessed that particular sin in a sermon on forgiveness. Keith Miller, an Episcopal layman, has written a number of books on commitment. In The Second Touch, he tells how sharing himself with his family through prayer led to a kind of openness. For a long time he and his wife had a standard prayer ritual with their children at bedtime. It consisted of "Now I lay me down to sleep," followed ...

2019. GOD IS LOVE

1 John 4:7-21

Children's Sermon

... best of all, love, is what God is made of and because he is love we are happy and safe and, if we believe in him, we can also be filled with love. I am glad that God is love and not corn or paper or rubber. I can't touch him, or squeeze him, or eat him, but I can love him and that is the best part of all. When someone is full of love, he is kind and generous and helpful. Well, God is all love and he is the kindest, most generous, and the biggest helper the ...

2020. God's Thermometer

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Children's Sermon

... me show you something I brought along that helps us know a warning. [Hold up the thermometer.] What do you call this? That's right, a thermometer. I suppose all of you have noticed that when you are not feeling well, your mom or dad comes over and touches your head. If you feel even a little bit warm, the next thing you know they are putting this thermometer in your mouth and waiting to see what your temperature is. Is there anyone here who knows what your temperature should be if you are all right? That ...

2021. Confidence In Jesus

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Children's Sermon

... very special movie. Do you think that your mom would like to go? You think that she would. Fine. Now, what do you think that your mother would do? I think that she would get all cleaned up, put on her prettiest dress, and then just for an extra special touch she would add her confidence. Do you know what I mean by her confidence? I think that she would put on just a little bit of this. [Show them the perfume bottle.] Would you like to take a little smell of her confidence? Doesn't that smell good? No ...

2022. Proper 8

Genesis 32:22-32

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... 255) After Jacob received his blessing, through the change of his name, he then asked to know this stranger's name. But the Mysterious One refused to tell him, and simply left as the sun rose. However, before he departed, he did a strange thing - he touched Jacob on the hip and wounded him, so later, as he departed the area, Jacob left the River Jabbok limping. An interesting point is the ease with which this combatant disabled Jacob. It gives us every reason to think he could have won the battle at any ...

2023. All Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Bulletin Aid

... the poor, the mighty and the meek? Leader: In God's eyes we are all beloved children in God's eternal family. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, In Your wisdom You have granted us the privilege of being a part of Your Eternal Church. Touch our hearts, Lord; let us stand with pride beside the Saints from across the ages. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O Lord, few behaviors are worse than to treat a gift of love with a lack of true respect. Lord, You gave us the privilege of ...

2024. The Simplicity of God's Call

Romans 8:28-39

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... that can satisfy us is God. This very moment, Our Lord stands beside each one of us just as He did by the young man in mourning. Right now, we may have a lot of questions, and a lot of different feelings: we may wonder if something or Someone could touch our lives; we may wonder if something so simple and so marvelous could be true; we may have a deep sense of longing inside of us; we may feel a deep emptiness that longs to be filled; we may feel afraid of dying, or be wracked with suffering, or be ...

2025. Faith-Filled Living

Luke 17:1-10

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... we allow God to enter our lives. When God enters there is new strength. Faith is the key which unlocks the door so God can enter. It allows us to experience new strength, the strength God brings to human lives. John Powell concludes his book, He Touched Me, by sharing this personal incident from his life. He calls his problem the cigarette habit and says that he first started to smoke when he was eight years old, although it did not become a steady habit until later. Eventually, he was "hooked" and could ...

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