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2026. Lord of the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of their hands, they let the climbers know when and where it is safe to climb, and where and when not to. Often, they lead them up the slopes, guiding them to safety, and rescuing those who fall. They teach them how to climb, and the best places to stop and rest. Many die doing this life-long duty for others. But it is the pride of their people to care for those who venture into their beloved mountains. When God called His people together from the mountain of Sinai those many years ago, God too gave his ...

2027. The Curse of the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 2:14-26, Psalm 34:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of the leper, Jesus imparts God’s healing of body and soul, and spiritual birth is indicated by the man’s inability to stop praising God. Jesus sends him to the priest to do the appropriate ritual, but only AFTER He has already taken upon himself the ... praise God! Since his “evil speech” has been removed, he is restored to pure speech –praise, worship, prayer! And he can’t stop doing it even when warned not to! J Because good speech is also infective! “All patter is bad with the exception of ...

2028. The Plank

Matthew 5:38-48; 7:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... what you’ll see. Remember the quarter you thought was in my hand? How do you see clearly enough to help your brother or sister? First help yourself and remove the inhibitors, whatever they may be, that are blocking you from seeing that person clearly and properly. Stop judging him or her unjustly or blindly or quickly! Then you can help in the ways that are needed and wanted. Has anyone ridden in an airplane? What’s the first thing they tell you in regard to the oxygen masks as they are showing you all ...

2029. Unstoppable Joy!

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... reaches for a new level of being. When the music of our soul hears and recognizes the voice of God, when our souls begin to vibrate and resonate with the sound of Jesus’ voice, we too …must change. We too WILL change. And we won’t be able to stop praising and worshiping God! Jesus’ command then is not just a sound of a voice, not just a literal command to listen! It’s a command that stimulates resonance. It’s a kind of tuning fork that brings peoples’ souls in tune with the Song of God! It’s ...

2030. Masks Off!

John 7:25-45 and 8:11-59

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . His brothers don’t believe in who he is, and so goad him to prove it and show his disciples what he can do during the time of the festival. After all, he is a public-figure “wanna-be,” they say. Jesus leaves after they do, no doubt stopping at Bethany, the home of Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, and then proceeding on to Jerusalem in secret. He lays low initially, but then when the time is right, he goes to teach in the Temple courtyard to a divided crowd. From there, things get testy, as Jesus and the ...

2031. Deep Faith

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Genesis 5:1-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you….into relationship…..into love….into prayer….into discipleship. Go Deep, he calls you. Go deeper still. Go to that place in prayer, in worship, in your heart, where only God resides, where Jesus waits. Go to that place where your mind stops racing, and your will stops fighting, and your doubt doubts itself to the point where you can’t argue the vastness of God’s presence and power. Go to that place in your life where Jesus stands waiting, where your mistakes are drowned in mercy, where God ...

2032. House of God

Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . So what? Remy: [voiceover] This is my dad. He's never impressed. Gusteau: [on the TV] How can I describe it? Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell. There is excellence all around you. You need only to be aware to stop and savor it. [Remy tastes food accompanied by synesthetic visions of color and music] Remy: Oh, Gusteau was right. Oh, mmm, yeah. Each flavor was totally unique. But, combine one flavor with another, and something new was created! One chef says it this way: “Odd ...

2033. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... doesn’t say, if you turn to the Jewish God, I’ll heal you. If you turn from YOUR gods, I’ll heal you. If you give up your servant girl and return her, I’ll heal you. If you start coming to synagogue, I’ll heal you. If you stop fighting for the King of Aram and become a citizen of Israel, I’ll heal you. No. Elisha simply heals him, and wants nothing in return. This kind of unconditional gift from God, this totally unreasonable mercy and grace is so foreign to us, that we often miss it, even ...

2034. One Stone Faith

1 Sam. Chapters 16-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... farmer. God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So God made a farmer. God said, " ... somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight ...

2035. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and ...

2036. Faith is a River That Flows

Genesis 19:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... felt out of control, like things were going faster than he could do. All he thought about was getting back to the shore, stopping the course of the raft, so he could slow things down. He let go of the sides and tried to grab hold of ... was merciful to them. As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! Your servant has ...

2037. House of Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... any one truth. We all have our own versions of truth. Couple that with selective memory, and you have the inalienable right to your own selective memory. And the right to be your own authority. But for Christians, that’s a problem. When for Christians this means, we stop hearing the voice of Jesus as our authority, and the challenges of Jesus as our Truth, we have lost our ability to be disciples of Jesus. For Jesus IS the Truth. And no matter how much we know or think we know, God is our authority. And ...

2038. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Songs is a resurrection song. Every time you hear its voice, it calls you to living and into Life. Like a song that you can’t stop hearing, like the wind that caresses your face on a warm summer day, the Song of Songs has a “lure” to it, an invitation, to ... lure your heart with God’s Voice and Breath, you enter into a kind of holy of holies, a resurrection moment, where time stops and life moves within God’s own continuum. God’s Song is a wedding song, and you are His beloved and cherished Bride ...

2039. Deliverance (Angel on Your Shoulder)

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... road!” “Don’t step onto that bridge!” Or ….“Don’t worry! Go ahead and take that job. You will be alright! I am with you.” Intuitively, when we bring the heart and head together, we know to listen. There’s something about that inner voice that stops us in our tracks and makes us pay attention. We know it. We trust it. So, whether we hear God’s voice in a dream, or a daydream, or an intuitive feeling so strong, it intrudes into our thoughts, we know that sometimes, we have that “angel on ...

2040. God Has Not Forgotten You

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the future that we miss the beauty of today. Sometimes, we can get so caught up in lamenting the past that we can miss the mission God is calling us to do and the kind of disciples Jesus is calling us to become. It’s time, church, to stop fearing our neighbors or perceiving them merely through their difference from us. God calls the church to “put down roots” right where we are. God calls us to spend time prospering our communities. And in doing so, we too will prosper. The church prospers not by its ...

2041. A Spooky Kind of Love

1 Samuel 28:1-25, Matthew 28:11-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ordered his men to find him a medium. “There’s one living in a cave in Endor,” they told him. So Saul disguised himself and set out for Endor’s cave. After all, he could hardly let anyone see him contradicting his own edict. But that didn’t stop him from doing so himself if it suited his own ends. So Saul appeared in Endor and asked the woman there to “Bring up a spirit!” Ironically, the woman at first refuses. She is obeying Saul’s own edict better than he, and so she says to the stranger ...

2042. Deep Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Samaria to get to Galilee or to Jerusalem as his colleagues would do, but he deliberately traveled straight through. And he stopped at Jacob’s well. The people of Jesus’ time continued to be fascinated by the concept of water flowing beneath the ... were heating up in Judea, he decided to travel back to Galilee for a while. So, in doing so, he journeyed through Samaria and stopped at Sychar, Jacob’s ancestral land. And Jesus sat down by Jacob’s well to rest. When a Samaritan woman came by to draw ...

2043. Raison d’Etre

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... to continue his journey. He had been warned that the greatest danger in such frigid temperatures was water. There were springs deep below the snow that, because the snow had insulated them, had not completely frozen over. If he stepped into one of these he would have to stop and immediately build a fire to stay warm and dry out his feet and legs. To do otherwise was to freeze to death in minutes. He had always made the dog cross any suspect areas first to make sure they were safe but now, refreshed from his ...

2044. Fake News vs. Fantastic Good News

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... he couldn’t take care of them. He sat in the college chapel and prayed. He said that most of his prayers centered around the question, “Why?” Why was his family going through this crisis without him? Why had his father died young? Why couldn’t God stop the storms and the floods hitting his family’s home? And as he sat there feeling helpless, he sensed a voice inside of him saying, “You don’t have to do this alone. You’re not by yourself.” At that moment, Okung reports that he realized he ...

2045. The Secret to Happiness

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... and forth on this particular stretch of road because he was waiting for his mother. Victor believed that she was coming back to get him, and so he waited. For three years, he had been waiting for her return. Ginger, touched by Victor’s story, began stopping by to visit with Victor. When the weather turned cold, she and her husband invited Victor to stay with them. Ginger even started a GoFundMe page to raise money for Victor. Soon, he had food and clothing and a few other necessities. But he still didn ...

2046. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... restaurant in the Bronx was making a delivery one Friday evening to a thirty‑eight story apartment building. He took an express elevator to his customer’s apartment. That meant there were no stops, and no exit doors for the elevator, between the second and twenty‑first floors. At least, there were not supposed to be any stops. Chen had made his delivery and was on his way down when suddenly the elevator halted just below the fourth floor. Suddenly he realized he was trapped with no means of escape ...

2047. Let’s Really Know Jesus

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... — do you not know me? After all this time? Ask, and I will explain it again. Ask, because the mansion I have prepared is for all who do as I did for them, such as heal, pray, love, raise up the poor, bring down the powerful, break down the barriers, stop playing at religion, and be me to others just like I showed you. In this passage is the root of why pastors so often preach the same topic. It is why the lectionary repeats itself every few years. We keep missing or misreading the way to go. We become ...

2048. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Think about those important words for just a few moments. The first thing Jesus is saying to us is, “You have a soul.” Or to be more accurate, you are a soul. Have you stopped to think about that lately? You are not a random collection of cells. You are not the sum of your current circumstances. You are a work of art, made in the image of God. You have the imprint of the eternal, all-powerful God Almighty within you. Your soul is ...

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening.

Anonymous

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

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