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2176. Three Wise Women

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we attempt to plan. But it’s in turning over our lives to Jesus, and trusting in God’s mission that we truly find God’s gifts for us. And those gifts will beyond a doubt change us and life as we know down to the very core. We know as we celebrate today, just as The Three ... hope. A “plan” is set into motion that will inevitably result in something new and alive for the people. And this gift comes from God. Just as the creator brought the world forth from the womb of nothingness, so does the Lord bring ...

2177. Don't Stop Praying!

Luke 18:1-8, Luke 18:35-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:1-13) No matter what….never give up on prayer. Never give up on Jesus. He does hear you. He will heal you. Whose sight has been healed ...

2178. She Waits

Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom ...

2179. The Stone is My Witness

Matthew 28:1-10, Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... sins, to break through our walls, and to recreate us and reform us, so that we can be released again from our bondage –a bondage of our own making—and brought back to into glorious and magnificent life! This is the gift of Jesus! This is the gift of resurrection. Jesus frees us from our captivity in a formless and meaningless existence, and restores us to true Life, to authenticity, and to beauty. Jesus –our tekton, our builder, our architect, and our divine sculptor—specializes in “stone masonry ...

2180. Dressed for Success?

Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... with Jesus’ power and glory, the power of the Holy Spirit’s presence upon us and within us and throughout our lives. And listen again to the scripture. This is so that we can go out and witness to Jesus in the world. This is why we receive this wonderful gift of the Holy Spirit’s power. For witness. For now, we are living for Jesus. And this clothing of the Holy Spirit is a clothing we don’t take off. Once we receive Jesus into our lives and allow the Holy Spirit to clothe us with power and God’s ...

2181. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... descendants are to spread throughout all generations and places. This “spreading” theme comes up for Jesus many times. John notes that Jesus is the “ladder” of God. Jesus becomes the “way” for God to be “with us” intervening in our lives with a salvation gift of love and grace to bring us out of sin and into life. Jesus is God With Us in the flesh. And like the metaphor of the ladder, He is the “altar”, the “well” and “living water” and the connection between God and humankind ...

2182. Sweet Salvation

John 2:1-11, Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , these are empty acts, and bold attempts to reach an unattainable hill of honey, cake of sugar, mountain of grapes, kingdom of plenty. What makes God’s covenant true, good, and beautiful is the gift of Jesus –God’s salvation gift who will be the fulfillment of God’s eternal plan to return us to that place of paradise where we live in unity with God in an eternal marriage, without want, without bitterness, without pain, without thirst. Jesus is the wine. Jesus is the blood. Jesus is the living water ...

2183. The Well Watered Soul

Ezekiel 17:1-24, Ezekiel 47:1-12, Matthew 12:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... grow red, thick, and protective again. Let God renew our hearts and our faith this morning by learning lessons about who we are from the Madrona tree. As human beings, we are born with what I like to call a God-skin. Our God-skin is a gift of innocence, purity, freshness, sinlessness created fresh from the Master Potter’s art studio. God-skin is endowed upon every person born on this earth. Along with being endowed with God-skin, we are endued with the tools to thrive in this world. But our participation ...

2184. The Healing Tree

Revelation 22:1-6, Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life. Image Exegesis: Tree of Life and Poisonous Plants Trees are a vital part of our world from the beginning of time. In scripture, trees have important meaning for our core story. Scripture begins and ends with the metaphor of the “tree of ...

2185. The Flock Paradox

2 Samuel 5:1-5, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Christmas is a time of joy and enjoy, but also a time of unprecedented envy. The great gifts one person receives are inevitably desired by any number of that person’s friends. The gifts one child receives are immediately coveted by their sister or brother. Shopping for a gift for others, we often find things we desire for ourselves as well! We like to have what others have. We like to do what others do. Some call it “keeping up with the Joneses.” Scientists call it the “flock syndrome.” It’s ...

2186. The Overtaxed Soul (Even Me)

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... underwriter and primary investor, was coming to town, the company buzzed with excitement. Everyone got their offices cleaned up and ready. The CEO prepared a special luncheon with all of the stockholders. The company put up welcome signs. Human Resources prepared a special gift for the visiting President. But when he arrived, he moved past all of the big wigs and investors, past the outstretched hands and nodding heads. On he strode all the way to the farthest part of the company, where Phyllis was watching ...

2187. Deep Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jews did not associate with Samaritans. But Jesus then says something even more shocking that she would never forget: “If you knew the gift of God –and who it is who asks you for a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you ... We need to go deep. We need to seek that “pearl” in the field of our world as though we are explorers seeking the most valuable gift in the world. But that pearl can be found right in the hands of God. Faith is a journey and an excavation of the soul. God can ...

2188. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... hair." We can't avoid becoming angry, but we can control what we do with our anger! Sometimes we can see our anger as a gift. The television show Highway to Heaven once included an episode about a young man who had lost his legs in a motorcycle accident. Angry ... it! It is part of God's job to deal with our anger!" Our willingness to give and receive anger can be a great gift. It can show that we care. Rabbi Harold Kushner, in his bestselling book When Bad Things Happen To Good People, suggests that, rather ...

2189. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... of language? Think what a barrier the diversity of languages is in the world today. How else can you explain the rapid spread of the Christian faith throughout the known world including some parts considered by the Romans still barbarous? God gave them a special gift of languages, for it has always been God’s will that all people in all places should receive the Gospel. That is the primary reason for the existence of the Christian church. We are still called to be a missionary church. The Gospel still ...

2190. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... through life. When we are tethered to God it makes it easier to resist those temptations that may appeal to our baser instincts, but in the long run bring only heartache and estrangement from those we love and from God. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” The truth of the matter is that you and I don’t have to be trapped. Ask the Chilean miners how it is possible they are still alive and free today from their fallen tunnel. They will credit ...

2191. Sheep Just Wanna Have Fun

John 10:1-21, Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... pathways when gates are opened and will discover new ways of living when old ones are stymied. Open a door, and we will dare to enter in. Give us the gift of freedom, and we will dare to grasp it by the tail and create new ways to do life. God gives us the gift of freedom in Jesus not to inhibit us into following blindly and mindlessly, but God gives us the gift of freedom in Jesus, because he will open doors and gates for us when we feel shut in. He will lead the way to open fields and clean waters ...

2192. Our Strange, Strong Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... wouldn’t be orphaned, promised they wouldn’t be without someone to look after them. I’m going away [code for dying] and I’m coming to you. After death you’ll see me. God and I are one and God will see to my return. Before Jesus died, Jesus gifted the disciples and by association all followers who came after them with peace. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.” Here in the twenty ...

2193. All You Can Do is Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 21:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of being boxed in. Laughter is a kind of “breaking free” from that existential cage, and a spit in the eye of the darker side of life. Laughter is our deep outburst of defiance against the gravity of the world.It is God’s gift to the human spirit, spontaneous laughter, the ultimate defiance to hopelessness and death. Laughter takes us by surprise. Laughter is an “anti-gravity” miracle. Levity. It “levitates” your spirit, your mood, lifts you up out of your grounded reality and into a place of ...

2194. When Someone Disagrees with You

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... and tell him his fault, between you and him alone . . .” You will remember that, earlier in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “If you are offering your gift at the altar and remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift . . .” In other words, regardless of who is at fault, when a relationship within the body of Christ is broken, get it mended as quickly as possible! Jesus ...

2195. Welcome, Inc.

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... in fact, that we are invited and challenged to actually take the message into us and, in a certain sense, become the message. When that happens, we become welcoming to and welcome-able by others so that, they too can have access to God’s free gift — eternal life. It is our mission to share that life with others. At this and every branch of Welcome, Inc. sharing the welcoming good news of Jesus Christ is our business, our only business. Amen. Some concepts from No Small Gestures, by David Lose, 2014, at ...

2196. Stay Awake!

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... and seeking and doing and stumbling and succeeding, the source of all energy unloads in our midst a generous measure of energizing dunamis (a Greek word that gave rise to the English word “dynamite”). Jesus, the Christ, is the agent of God’s great gift, the energy that launches a revolution in the human family. In our experience, Jesus the revolutionary comes to us as Spirit power — energy that can turn our lives God-ward. That Spirit power is at work in our midst right now, largely through people ...

2197. Beyond Fairness

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Roy Howard

... a loving God (Ephesians 2). In a mostly workaholic culture, one might think that his is the greatest news of all even though it overturns the notion that all the best things in life come to us by hard work. The greatest thing in our life actually comes as a gift from God, not as a reward for our work. That is an occasion for joy! But before we wrap up that package, we should note that there is no mention of the word grace in this parable, and there is certainly no denunciation of work implied, as if the ...

2198. Measured Salvation

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... than what we deem as “fair” treatment feels like a royal smack in the face of everything we’ve learned to believe in. Hard work. Success. Achievement. Long-term goals. Profit and gain. Winning. Let’s face it. We are a people driven by challenge, not by gifts. And we measure our worth largely not by who we are and our relationships, but by what we have and what we’ve gained. This isn’t limited to our jobs. It’s the same paradigm we follow in our education, in our vacations, in our community ...

2199. Words Are Not Enough

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Roy Howard

... their belief in Jesus as the saving one of God. Matthew’s gospel in particular has a moral earnestness that is deeply concerned that the gift of salvation we have been given issues forth in lives reflecting the way of the giver. There can be no separation of grace from ... life that goes with being the followers of Jesus. To release the tension of grace and practice would cheapen the gift. That is why I think it is best not to avoid these difficult, easily misunderstood parables. There is enough pressure ...

2200. Cherish the Moment

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... We can’t keep the good news of God’s love to ourselves. It’s like a Japanese billionaire who on January 1st of last year announced that he would give away more than $9 million to 1,000 people on Twitter to see if the monetary gift improved their happiness. The only catch was that the recipients of the money had to retweet his announcement by midnight on January 7. The billionaire wanted to measure the impact of the money—which would translate to about $9,000 per person—on the recipients’ level ...

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