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2151. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

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... went to a lonely place by himself. The people heard about it, left their towns, and followed him by land. Jesus got out of the boat, and when he saw the large crowd his heart was filled with pity for them, and he healed their sick. That evening his disciples came to him and said, 'It is already very late, and this is a lonely place. Send the people away and let them go to the villages and buy food for themselves.' 'They don't have to leave,' answered Jesus. 'You yourselves give them something to eat.' 'All ...

2152. The Second Sunday of Easter

John 20:19-23

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Kendall K. McCabe

... called to proclaim it! If the good news is good news, then it must be that forgiveness and a right relationship with God is to be had without payment on our part. That is the scandal of the cross; somebody else paid for us. It is still what we disciples don't want to understand. But it is the good news of Easter; it is the good news into which some of us were baptized last week, into which still others will be confirmed on Pentecost, and into which still others of us have been both baptized and confirmed ...

2153. Ascension Day

Luke 24:36-49

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Kendall McCabe

... in Jesus Christ. Each week we will return to our roots in Scripture. If our gospel, our proclamation, is datable in history as an event that actually occurred, it is also dateless because it is not restricted to that particular time and place. Jesus says to the disciples in the lesson from Acts, "You shall be my witnesses ... to the end of the earth." In other words, the Gospel to which we bear witness is not simply an event in the past; it is a redeeming word for our world. The risen Christ, through the ...

2154. Where Easter Begins

John 20:1-9

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Dean Lueking

... , but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and he went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, which had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. (John 20:1-9) As That Dawn Broke As St. John’s Gospel begins to tell us the greatest news that ...

2155. A Place for You

John 14:1-4

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Dean Lueking

... : rooms or mansions. The point is the spaciousness, the ample, open, and eternal dwelling place that awaits God’s faithful people after death has closed their eyes on this life. Such a magnificent future is in contrast to the present room in which the disciples and Jesus were gathered. Then and there the obvious thing was the temporary and the transitory, and that is the hallmark of everything temporal. We have here no abiding dwelling place. In this life the dwelling place given to God’s Spirit in our ...

2156. The Source of Power

Acts 1:1-11

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... , Jesus reaffirms that promise and expands it to say "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." What a blessed and empowering assurance. The disciples knew he would always be with them and he would always affirm their lives. "When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up and a cloud took him out of their sight." Thus, the earthly life of Jesus was ended. While I ...

2157. Seeing Things Clearly

John 20:19-23

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Wesley T. Runk

... hard on his glasses and when he wipes them off he has clean glasses. Though he couldn't see before, he can now see well. Just by breathing on the glasses and wiping them off, a person can see clearly whatever he wants to see. Now Jesus breathed on the disciples and when he did he breathed into them the Holy Spirit and they could not only see, they could see things they had never seen before. The Holy Spirit is God's gift to people and it helps them to believe what they could not believe without him. We need ...

2158. Proper 12

Lk 11:1-13 · Col 2:6-15 · Gen 18:20-32 · 2 Ki 5:1-15

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John R. Brokhoff

... cross. He paid the debt. We are free from paying the penalty of our sins. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Luke 11:1-13 1. Jesus Teaches a Lesson on Prayer. Need: There is a universal need to increase prayer knowledge and power. John the Baptizer taught his disciples to pray. Jesus' disciples asked for a lesson on prayer. We pray but we are not satisfied. As Paul says, we do not know how to pray as we ought. How do you approach God in prayer? What is proper to ask of God? Is petition appropriate? These and ...

2159. All Saints' Sunday

Mt 5:1-12 · Is 26:1-21 · Rev 21:9-11, 21-27

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John R. Brokhoff

... tense. The present tense is used in connection with the kingdom of Heaven which is a present possession. The kingdom does not begin after death, but begins when Jesus is confessed as Lord. The future tense, "shall" refers to the future condition of the disciple in heaven. It is significant that "shall" is used rather than "will." "Shall" is much stronger than "will." It has an imperative in it, a certainty. The dead in Christ shall most certainly enjoy these rewards. The "shall" is backed up by Jesus' own ...

2160. Epiphany 6

Lk 6:17-26 · 1 Cor 15:12-20 · Jer 17:5-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... would be able to fulfill the ethical expectations by virtue of receiving grace. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION Gospel: Luke 6:17-26 1. Crowd (vv. 1 7, 19). Sometimes we forget that Jesus was a very popular person in his day. He had a "crowd" of disciples, but we usually think of only twelve. The masses came to see and hear Jesus - "all the crowd sought to touch him." Why wouldn't he be popular? No other person taught with so much authority. No other person could heal as he did. Just a touch of his garment ...

2161. Sunday of the Passion

Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... , sinners, and those in need of compassion and help. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION Gospel: Luke 22:14--23:56 1. Stone's Throw (22:41). Prayer is essentially a private matter especially at a time of crisis. When Jesus entered the Garden to pray before his arrest, he left eight Disciples at the gate and went into the Garden with his three closest friends. But even these he did not want close when he prayed. He left them and went a "stone's throw" from them to be alone where he and his Father could fight it out to ...

2162. A Desperate Question

Matthew 11:1-19

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George Bass

... They know Jesus is "the One" and they don’t have to seek another for faith and satisfaction. In a way, they were better off than was John the Baptizer when he faced death in prison.9 Jesus didn’t give John a straight answer; he simply told John’s disciples, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is he who takes no offense at me ...

2163. Prayer in a Pinch

Matthew 14:22-36

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... impose themselves on him and he gives himself to them in a miracle. He feeds more than 5,000 hungry people just at a time when he probably felt torn apart both by grief over John and gnawing fears for himself. Finally, getting rid of crowds and disciples, he was able to pray. Pinched by the pressures of circumstances, pressures of ministry, pressures of his own need, he prayed. He "prayed in a pinch." Tell me, was that wrong? No, it was not wrong, because it was, after all, prayer. It was what he could ...

2164. No Appeal

Matthew 20:1-16

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... shameful. Have you ever wondered what problem in the early church this parable may have addressed by the time Matthew included it in the writing of his gospel? The year may have been A.D. 85, more than fifty years after Jesus' death and resurrection. The disciples of Jesus and all his first followers were now old, very old. New leadership was emerging in the church. In fact, this had to happen if the church was going to continue. Gentiles or non-Jews were entering the community of Christ in greater numbers ...

2165. The Family Reunion

Matthew 9:35-38

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Glenn L. Borreson

... include just God and me and a few others like me. Why, from the very beginning, the family gathering of God was more than people "just like us." Jesus the Jew called other Jews, yes, but he planted the seeds of a new creation. Not only did his disciples include loyal Jews, but they included also Matthew the tax collector - one regarded as a traitor to his people. And there was John who had a way with words and gentle love, but beside him stood brash, foot-in-the-mouth, impulsive Peter. And there was Judas ...

2166. Help! We’re Sinking!

Luke 8:22-25

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... began to make big waves. These were not ordinary waves; these were giant waves. The boat went this way and that way and the disciples were holding on for dear life. Soon they thought they were going to be thrown into the sea and drown. They were so busy ... had just seen. Jesus had spoken to the sea and it behaved for him. Even the wind and the water listened to Jesus. All of the disciples were tilled with awe for they knew only God could make the winds and the water do what he wanted them to do. That was the ...

2167. Interrupting Worship

Mark 1:21-28

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... the free will of all who committed the crucifixion. From whence does the world’s evil come? It comes from the collective hearts of people. Evil not only comes from the hearts of people, it comes from our hearts, our minds, our imaginations. When Jesus told the disciples that one of them would betray him, we are told that they all asked: “Is it I, Lord?’ All of them saw within themselves the capacity of doing the unthinkable. What will be a greater tragedy than the events of this past week will be if ...

2168. The Master Has Come - To Build His Church

Mark 16:1-20

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... my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven." Then Jesus and the twelve took that road which led them down toward Jerusalem. Matthew tells us, "From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things." The Master has come - to build his church. We are in the church today because the Master has come - because he has put the church here, and has called us to be in it. Carlyle Marney said, "The ...

2169. The Primacy of Human Relationships

Matthew 5:33-37

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Joe Pennel

... of Jesus should have an integrity of character that does not need the scaffolding of an oath to persuade others of her or his truthfulness. Disciples do not need super-structure to support their words. Truth, for the disciple, does not need to call in outside help. The disciple who tries to live by the standards of "over-abundant" righteousness does not need any props for truth-telling. This was "bottom line" talk for Jesus. And, there was a reason that Jesus spoke about the importance of integrity ...

2170. Cowherding Christians

Matthew 9:35-38

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Gary W. Houston

... for laborers," he said. Why go to prayer first? Because it reminds us, right up front, that the seed is the Lord’s, the fields are the Lord’s, and the harvest belongs to the Lord. The Lord felt so strongly about prayer that he taught his disciples the famous prayer which Protestants call today "The Lord’s Prayer" and the Catholics call "Our Father." John Wesley felt strongly about prayer, as well. He once wrote a prayer that went like this: Fix thou our steps, O Lord, that we stagger not at the uneven ...

2171. Advent 3

Isaiah 35:1-10, Psalm 146:1-10, James 5:7-12, Matthew 11:1-19

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... John sent asking him, "Are you he who is to come (the Messiah)?" The church prays for such wisdom in order to witness to the Christ and prepare his way in the world. The Psalm of the Day Psalm 146 was selected because it centers on Jesus' answer to the disciples of John who asked him, "Are you he who is to come, or do we look for another?" - and is a fitting response to the First Lesson, Isaiah 35:1-10. It asserts that people who know and trust the Lord are happy and hopeful because they depend on the ...

2172. Transfiguration of Our Lord

Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Exodus 24:1-18, Psalm 2:1-12

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... affairs, and to bring about reconciliation of God and his people - no matter if it cost him his life. The connection between Jesus' Transfiguration and his crucifixion, which Luke links up on top of the mountain, is made by Matthew as Jesus and the three disciples descend from the mountain and he says, "Tell no one the vision, until the Son of man is raised from the dead." Therefore, when the Transfiguration of Our Lord is celebrated on the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, the gap from Epiphany into Lent is ...

2173. Easter 2

Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 105:1-45, 1 Peter 1:1-12, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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... has known all sorts of medical marvels connected to death and resurrection. But the first part of the story tends to be overlooked by the natural appeal that Thomas' honest difficulty in believing the incredible news of Jesus; resurrection has for most people. Jesus greeted the disciples with "Peace be with you," and that has remained to this day as the greeting of the risen Lord to his church, as well as the greeting of the faithful to one another. Next, he made it clear that they were not to spend the ...

2174. Easter 3

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:42-47, Isaiah 43:1-13, 1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Luke 24:13-35

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... own. Luke 24:13-35 Luke alone heard - and wrote down for time and eternity - this beautiful story of Christ and the two disciples whom he joined on the road to Emmaus. How much of the seven-or-so-mile walk he made with them is unknown, ... . Such a sermon might take this shape: 1. A strange thing happened on the way to Emmaus; Jesus appeared and went unrecognized by two of his disciples, and gave them a case of heartburn. 2. He gave them heartburn by what he said to them as they walked to Emmaus; later on they ...

2175. Proper 7 & Pentecost 5

Jeremiah 20:7-18, Psalm 69:1-36, Psalm 91:1-16, Genesis 28:10-22

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... to face a sure and painful death as a martyr. More than one person has felt as did Jeremiah, when he said, "I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me." But not God, nor Jesus Christ. 3. Zeal for the word of the Lord consumes true disciples of the Lord. With Luther, we are compelled by the Spirit to declare, "My tongue is the pen of a ready writer" - because we just have to tell the story, regardless of the consequences. 4. All will be well for God's witnesses. He has promised to deliver ...

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