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2101. Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... fail when we truly love. Send your Spirit upon us as we worship that love may be rekindled in our lives, and as it burns within us it may ignite all our actions. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, when we read the Apostle Paul's description of love, we realize how often we fall short. Too often we are jealous, impatient, conceited, irritable, and ill-mannered. Forgive us, we pray, and create in us a new spirit that will demonstrate your love in all that we do. Amen. Offertory Prayer O ...

2102. Called To Be Free

Galatians 5:1-15

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... not always been your faithful servants. Sometimes we find it difficult to love as Jesus taught us, and we draw back from any involvement with those whom the world labels outcasts. Forgive us, and let your Holy Spirit work a change in us like that of the Apostle Paul. Then we will go forth with a changed heart to love and serve those whose needs we have too long neglected. Amen. Offertory Prayer Heavenly Father, let these gifts represent our love and gratitude for you. May they also serve as a sign of our ...

2103. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

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Phil Thrailkill

... faith and practice. Nothing can takes its place. When the kingdom of God finally comes we won’t need the book of God any longer. No Bible studies in the kingdom. There you get to talk with the actors themselves! It’s called, as we say in the Apostles’ Creed, the communion of the saints. When we meet our beloved in person, we no longer need the book of family photographs. When sin and death are abolished, we no longer need the means of dealing with those hostile powers, and when our hearts are set on ...

2104. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

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Phil Thrailkill

... to the need for public justice and an ordered society. Our Articles of Religion deal with this in Article XXV, titled Of a Christian Man's Oath: “As we confess that vain and rash swearing is forbidden Christian men by our Lord Jesus Christ and James his apostle, so we judge that the Christian religion doth not prohibit, but that a man may swear when the magistrate requireth, in a cause of faith and charity, so it be done according to the prophet's teaching, in justice, judgment, and truth.”6 We all have ...

2105. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

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Phil Thrailkill

... , when I don’t give her time, when I am verbally harsh), I sense a nearly immediately a change in my relationship with God. Clouds roll in and the sun grows dim. What I give her, I soon get in return from God, which is why the Apostle Peter (himself a married man) said in his first letter: “Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.”7 Where ...

2106. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... audience with the resurrected and glorified Jesus; we gaze on him and he on us. It is a conversation, but one in which he has he final say. And if you missed it in the Bible, it’s repeated near the end of the second article of the Apostle’s Creed, “And he shall come again to judge the living and the dead.” I will be judged. You will be judged. All will be judged. The living and the dead means everyone is evaluated. Some will be saved, others condemned. The oft-raised question about unbelievers and ...

2107. Encouragement To Witness

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship The Apostle Paul admonished Timothy to keep alive the gift that God gave him. May our time together be an occasion to rekindle the fire of the Holy Spirit within us that fills us with power, love, and self-control. Come, let us worship together! Collect Understanding God, when the fires grow ...

2108. The Holy Spirit Came Upon Them

Acts 2:1-13

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Christ had promised the disciples at the Last Supper that he would not leave them desolate, but that he would come to them in the Person of the Holy Spirit as their Advocate, Counselor, and Teacher (John chs. 14-16). Further, the risen Christ had promised the apostles that they would be clothed with the power of the Spirit from on high. Here now, at Pentecost, the Son of God keeps those promises, as he always keeps his promises. We can count on that. We modern Christian disciples of our Lord are never left ...

2109. Set Apart For God's Purposes

1 Kings 21:1-29

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... 's purposes. Both Israel and the church, having entered into covenant with God, are God's "set-apart" people. As the ancient oracle of Balaam puts it, Israel is "a people dwelling alone, and not reckoning itself among the nations" (Numbers 23:9). And as the Apostle Paul writes to the church, "Do not be conformed to this world" (Romans 12:2). So Israel and the church, as God's holy people, are to live differently from the society around them, and they are to see situations and events differently than other ...

2110. Resurrection

Acts 10:34-43

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King Duncan

... , were facing not just embarrassment or political disgrace, but beatings, stonings, execution. Even political zealots at the pinnacle of power will, in the crunch, save their own necks, even at the expense of the ones they profess to serve so loyally. But the apostles could not deny Jesus, because they had seen him face to face, and they knew he had risen from the dead . . . “You can take it from an expert in cover-ups,” says Colson, “nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those ...

2111. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... read verses 12 - 16 of the 6th Chapter: "Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor." There follows ...

2112. Set-Apart People

1 Kings 21:1-29

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

2113. Stick to the Knitting

John 1:43-51

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Mark Trotter

... of a Charge Conference, I would like to have us look at another mission statement. This one could be called, the "second" mission statement of the Church. The first mission statement of the Church is called, "The Great Commission." It was given by Jesus to the apostles at the end of the Gospel of Matthew. Go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. That was the first mission ...

2114. You Are Somebody!

Galatians 3:26--4:7

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King Duncan

... the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven." (1 Corinthians 15:46‑48) Those words were written by the apostle Paul to the church in Corinth nearly 2,000 years ago. We’ve heard that we were created from the dust of the earth, but have you ever thought of it being star-dust? You are somebody. Because Christ has come down from heaven, you are now part of his ...

2115. Fire in the Hold

Acts 2:14a, 22-32

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Bill Mosley

... is seven Sundays: a week of Sundays. And since the Old Testament does not know the risen Lord, throughout the Easter season the First Reading is a passage from the history book of the New Testament -- the book of the beginnings of the church, called the Acts of the Apostles. Today we join Peter in Jerusalem for the first part of his sermon on the day of Pentecost. George Burns, the old vaudevillian, was fond of saying, "I'm not going to die -- it's been done." He was saying, in show business we have to keep ...

2116. My Laughin’ Place

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

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Bill Mosley

2117. Bear Love

Acts 1:1-11

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Bill Mosley

... . Parenting, mothering, is something you do. Among the 27 books of the New Testament, just after the four gospels, we find the first book of church history. It's by the writer of Luke, who was a companion of Paul. We have called this book, the Acts of the Apostles. Acts. Actions. Deeds. Something you do. But really the book should be named something else. To be true to the book, we should call it the Acts of the Holy Spirit. Acts is a report of the action of the Holy Spirit in the early church. To begin his ...

2118. The Way to Happy Endings

Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67

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James L. Killen

... that will probably be the best life possible for you under the circumstances. There are many who can give their own witnesses to their experience with God and the blessedness that they experienced. One of the most impressive witnesses of all times was the Apostle Paul whose witness is included in the Bible itself. Paul had been a rising star among the young men of Israel. Then he had a life-shaping encounter with the risen Christ whose followers he was persecuting. After that experience, Paul moved into a ...

2119. Out of Conflict

Genesis 25:19-34

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James L. Killen

... future father-in-law, conflicts within his family, conflicts with other people and groups. But he would be better able to deal with them because he knew who he was in relationship with God. In the eighth chapter of the letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul describes his own experience of coming into relationship with God, and also the relationship with God into which we can come. The chapter starts with the words, "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1). Paul ...

2120. Surprised by God

Genesis 28:10-19a

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James L. Killen

... God's covenant, had been living as if there were no God. We understand too well what it means to live as if there is no God, don't we? Most of us have been trained to live lives shaped by the values and expectations of our secular culture. The Apostle Paul called that "living according to the flesh." He contrasted it with another way of life that he called "living by the Spirit." Paul said that people who live by the flesh are very likely to fall into a life-shaping fear that will lead to death. Most of us ...

2121. Can You Hear Me Now?

Exodus 3:1-15

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Arley K. Fadness

... called as Christians, not necessarily from burning bushes and fiery theophanies, but in more common and ordinary ways. We are called, chosen, and summoned through word and sacrament, through both mundane and extraordinary experiences, and also through the body of believers. The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1:26-27: "Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards ... but God chose what is foolish...." The Greek word for call is klesis and kletos. In the New ...

2122. Bloody Lintels — Broken Bread

Exodus 12:1-14

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Arley K. Fadness

... would take on a new meaning as would Passover when on the night of the Passover Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper. Jesus, the unblemished lamb, would be sacrificed for the sins of the world and be a guarantor of salvation for all who believe. Paul, the Apostle, writes in Ephesians 2:13, "But now in Christ Jesus you who were once afar off have been brought near by the blood of Christ." Jesus, the Lamb whose blood sets us free, saves and brings redemption to all. A story from Norway dramatizes this truth ...

2123. Free Living Water for All

Exodus 17:1-7

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Arley K. Fadness

... knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, â€˜Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The Samaritan woman asks for this living water. Jesus tells her he is the living water. The Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:2-4 allegorizes the Israelite story and sees Jesus as the "spiritual rock": "... and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea and all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank ...

2124. Jesus' Most Perplexing Parable

Luke 16:1-15

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R. Robert Cueni

... Jacob, the patriarch, deceived his father, cheated his brother, and scammed his father-in-law out of most of his flock. Great King David lusted after the neighbor lady, committed adultery, and when he got her pregnant, plotted to have her husband killed. The apostle that Jesus chose to head the church, Peter, denied he even knew the Lord on the night of Jesus' arrest. Ordinary people like us love stories about imperfect people doing something good. As imperfect people ourselves it gives us a little hope. I ...

2125. The Glory of God and Our Neighbor’s Good

Romans 15:4-13

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Frank Ramirez

... water the earth. One: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. All: Blessed be his glorious name forever; may his glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen. (based on Psalm 72) Prayer Of Confession Heavenly Father, the Apostle Paul felt confident about his brothers and sisters, near and far, that they were filled with goodness, all knowledge, and the ability to instruct each other. Remove the barriers in our midst that prevent us from seeing the gifts which have been showered ...

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