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2126. Taking Something Up for Lent

John 3:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... Lent? Do you remember what you gave up? (You may want to make this a karaoke moment.) Perhaps you gave up sweets, or you gave up meat, or you gave up cartoons, or you gave up movies. Whatever you gave up for Lent, it was with the strict understanding that as soon as the resurrection was successfully accomplished, you would stuff your face with candies and honey-glazed ham, zone out in front of the tube on Saturday mornings, and hit the local cinema every Friday night. In fact few of us ever really gave up ...

2127. Straw Polls and Soul Quakes

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a beverage with. (From KOMO TV, Amy Shafer, "The Key to Your Inner Self?" 25 April 2002.) Jan Hargrave is a Body Language Expert and self-proclaimed strawologist. "Over 90 percent of a person’s behavior is nonverbal," she says. "The thing you have to understand is your body doesn't know how to lie, your body will always give you away." Hargrave's straw poll delineated several distinct straw sipping signals we give away. First, there's The Chewer – if you chew your straw, you're looking for praise in ...

2128. I've Got Your Back Covered

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , the protective presence of the Paraclete brings along with it more than just reminders about Jesus' teaching, more than the counsel of an Advocate. The Paraclete brings with it Jesus' ultimate gift: the presence of his peace, the peace that Paul said passes all understanding. No wonder Jesus specified in today's gospel text that the peace he promised his disciples wasn't the kind of peace the world gives. Worldly peace is achieved for only moments at a time. Worldly peace is enforced by the threat of the ...

2129. Can You Jump for Joy?

Luke 1:39-45

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Leonard Sweet

... 't we imagine Jesus and the disciples dissolving into a joyous food fight with all those baskets of leftovers, reveling in the unabashed excess of God's gifts? Perhaps we need Santa at Christmas to help us be merry and joyous because we have a flawed understanding of Jesus. From today's gospel text we learn that the first reaction to Jesus' presence on earth, of God-in-our-midst, was joy. Joy so tremendous, joy so utterly overwhelming that it must somehow escape the bounds of earth itself and jump towards ...

2130. Show and Listen

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... that had brought him to Jerusalem to worship, was a quest that had driven him to purchase and study the Hebrew Scriptures himself. He was seeking information, insight, inspiration. He was, as the Spirit knew, the perfect candidate to respond to Philip's question, "Do you understand?" The Ethiopian's mind is hungry and his heart is ready. He knows he needs "someone to guide me." What he doesn't know is that God is already guiding him. It's the Ethiopian who extends his hand first, who invites Philip to join ...

2131. Not What We Expected

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Isaiah 11which foretells the coming of Christ. Here is part of what Isaiah had to say: “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. “The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him--the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord and he will delight in the fear of the Lord. “He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with ...

2132. It Was for Us

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

James McCormick

... . All he had wanted to do was to give them life at its best. But you see what they did to him. How would you expect him to respond to all of that? With a curse? With a threat? With a vow to get even? Such a response would be understandable. But that is not what Jesus did. Through it all, he trusted his Father. Through it all, he continued to love. And, amazingly, he looked down at the very ones who nailed him to the cross and prayed for them, and for us. He prayed, “Father, forgive them, for they ...

2133. Nothing but Christ, and Him Crucified

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

James McCormick

... was where it all came together. For all the time they were together, Jesus had been teaching them, trying to help them understand. But, early on, they just didn’t get it. Even at the crucifixion, they ran away in fear, afraid they would be ... cross? Can I say it this way? It is to sit for a few minutes on the lap of God, who hurts because you hurt.” Do you understand? The most powerfully redemptive force in the world is that love that loves enough to suffer. That’s what the cross is all about. It’s an ...

2134. What Is That in Your Hand?

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

James McCormick

... ’s God’s business. All we are responsible for is doing the best we can with what we have. And the remarkable thing is that, once God has added His touch to our efforts, our efforts are enough. I can’t tell you how important it is to understand that the result is not our responsibility, the effort is. As someone said, the point is not our ability, the point is our availability! Once we begin to calculate our chances for success in the big enterprises of life, we will feel like giving up before we begin ...

2135. It's My Life, Isn't It?

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... do. If you want really to enjoy driving your car, you need to take seriously the way the designer and builder intends it to function. Understand how the designer has built the car and then cooperate with that. You may say: “Why can’t I do it my way? Why can ... ? Oh, we’re free to do it. We can walk away from it and do our own thing if we’re determined to. But just understand, when we reject that love and its claim upon us, we are turning our backs on our best selves. And we are letting that abundant ...

2136. In Life Nothing Works but the Impossible

Matthew 1:18-25

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Leonard Sweet

... feed me. You pet me You shelter me. You love me. You must be God!” In “Cat Theology” . . . . “You feed me. You pet me. You shelter me. You love me. I must be God.” A Far Side cartoon once depicted a scientist announcing a breakthrough in understanding cat language: “They say only two things: ‘Where’s my dinner?’ and ‘Everything here is mine.’” This morning I want to repent of my dog-mongering ways and begin the last Sunday in Advent with a cat story. You may have seen the story I’m ...

2137. Water That Brings a New Beginning - Sermon Starter

Mt 3:13-17

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Brett Blair

... of that, but would add to it significantly. This idea affirms baptism as the time when God's love and forgiveness are experienced. It also recognizes baptism as a time of change. However, where the first approach isolates the act of baptism as the most important moment, the second approach understands baptism more as a beginning. While it is true that in the waters of baptism God laid claim on our lives, it is also true that we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out what that means. The first ...

2138. Cha-cha-cha Christians: The Dance that Advances

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... we dance? Shall we then say "Goodnight and mean "Goodbye"? Or perchance, When the last little star has left the sky, Shall we still be together With are arms around each other And shall you be my new romance? On the clear understanding That this kind of thing can happen, Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Can you hear the divine music this morning? It is God’s invitation to you: “Shall We Dance?” Illustrations, Illuminations, Animations, Ruminations, Applications There is a wonderful ...

2139. Advent 4

Psalm 80:1-19, Isaiah 7:1-25, Romans 1:1-17, Matthew 1:18-25

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