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2176. How Would You Introduce Jesus?

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... verse at a Vacation Bible School, but she heard it in the King James Version, which begins like this, “Go YE therefore, and teach all nations.” Yi didn’t understand that in King James English, the word “ye” just means “you.” This young Asian girl thought her name was in the Bible! She became truly excited that Jesus was telling her—“Ye” to personally go spread his message to the world. (4) Wouldn’t you sit up and pay attention if you heard your name in that verse? “Go [David], and ...

2177. The Gospel in Miniature

John 3:16

Sermon

King Duncan

... to save your soul. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” We’ve heard this beautiful verse so often we’re tempted to take it for granted. But have you ever thought what it would mean if you just changed one or two key words in this sentence? Let’s change one verb: For God so rejected the world. Makes a big difference in the sentence, doesn’t it? It nearly happened in the story of Noah, didn’t it? God ...

2178. Blessed

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... thing. We’re all clear about that, right? Our heart pumps blood. What we’re talking about, here, is actually, the brain. Usually we think of people who have a pure heart as people whose brains are free of bad or impure thoughts. They don’t have inappropriate sexual thoughts. They don’t think about things like revenge. They don’t fantasize about getting even or doing unto others as has been done unto them. But that’s not the pure heart that is spoken of, here. Here, the pure heart is simply ...

2179. Sitting Shiva Behind Closed Doors

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and that He had to first die for the sins of the people. They have missed the signs Jesus kept trying to give them. They were Jesus’ closest followers, and yet they did not truly “believe” that the bodily resurrection was true. Maybe they thought they did. But Jesus’ gruesome death squashed their convictions and their hopes. And so, as tradition demands, they are carrying out the rituals of mourning together, as shiva requires a quorum of at least 10 men and women. The Pharisees and Essenes of Jesus ...

2180. The Sign of Jonah

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... serve. Even in his post-resurrection appearances, Jesus is still teaching. Just as in his foot-washing story, Jesus uses that moment around the fire to remind (re-mind) his disciples what their role must be. In this third appearance, Jesus’ power (symbolized in Jewish thought by 3 x 3) is again confirmed, even post death. (Note the three days from death to resurrection are also mentioned by Jesus, as he mentions the Sign of Jonah in Luke 11 and Matthew 12). The moment of reckoning, or perhaps the moment ...

2181. Syrophoenician Lives Matter!

Mark 7:24-30, Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish. Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know?” You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”? In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile ...

2182. Scandal

Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jesus berates him, calling him a “stumbling block” (skandalon) to his mission, to God’s mission. Jesus, we learn in these moments during his final year of ministry, is distressed. He knows what is coming. And even though he knows he will be resurrected, still, the thought of his impending ordeal overwhelms him at times, and it takes all he can muster to keep his mind on the mission. He needs to keep focused, keep his faith strong, stay loyal to God no matter what is asked of him, no matter what he ...

2183. God Gives the Pharisees the Finger!

John 7:25-44, John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... into the pit. Instead, lift me up into your gracious arms. Purge my soul from sin and bitterness. Take away the stone that binds me. And etch your Name into the pure flesh of my heart, so that no matter where I go, or what I do, my every thought and deed honors you, and puts you first. And may then the Light of Jesus that shines from my eyes illuminate your glory to every soul. Amen. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text John’s Witness to Jesus’ Encounter With a Woman Accused of Adultery (7:37--8 ...

2184. Grounds for Blessing

Matthew 13:1-23, Luke 8:1-15, Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Word of God. And sometimes, that’s what it takes. A crackdown. A crackup. And we need YOU, all of you who are mustard trees to seek out those people. So look for those moments. Look for those people who have had it all and lost it, who thought they had life figured out, until it fell down all around them, whose lives have been devastated by something they can no longer handle without the help of God. Those cracks in the façade can begin to reveal a hurting and fertile heart. Jesus tells us too that ...

2185. Seat of Power

Mark 10:35-45, Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... standing by Him on his right hand and on his left.” (I Kings 22:19) “Why shouldn’t it be them?” they thought. But Jesus’ kingdom was not his own –but God’s. Even Jesus could not determine who sat at the right hand of His ... Jesus in his glory would be to share the positions of power, honor, respect, and glory that Jesus does, to bask in his ….you thought I was going to say light….more like “power.” The language James and John use for this “seat” is that of a physical “king” ...

2186. The Prophet of Locusts and Honey

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... from their land. She didn’t know what to do. In a nearby village, a missionary pastor had come to teach the people, and Julaka thought it couldn’t hurt to go to see if the pastor man could help. So she went, and she listened to the words of God ... with you I am well pleased.” Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melki, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, ...

2187. Sparkle

Luke 4:31-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... high God." Then I wrote this:] "When I was afflicted for seven years [by the most high God] with an evil ulcer during my stay at Tem�, I prayed [to] The gods of silver and gold, [bronze and iron,] wood, stone and lime, because [I thought and considered] them gods [..."'] Image Exegesis: Sparkle “See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. But exhort one another daily, lest one be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” (Hebrews 13-14 ...

2188. A Piggy Pudding

Matthew 8:28-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... he hadn’t been asked in a while. The man answered, “Legion,” for “we are many.” Whether the man meant many demons, or referred to the Romans, is for you to decide. I think that “demons” is a kind of metaphor for the way the Jewish people thought about the Romans –and the pigs! But that part is coming. Whether man or demons, they recognize Jesus immediately and were very frightened. So here Jesus is in a non-Jewish territory with a non-Jewish crazy person filled with demons in the land of the ...

2189. Translucent Grace

Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36, Revelation 1:9-20, Revelation 2:12-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... spirit was not that of Christ. Let’s look at the example of Carl once again. Here was a man who could talk the talk, behave in all of the ways the church admired and hoped for, and yet, they discovered that Carl was not the man everyone thought he was. There were secret visits to unsavory places, his meetings with women on the side, his run-ins with people in his past work history. Some of the signs even were there. But no one paid attention. Their zeal for the church, their blind faith in their hero ...

2190. Lazarus Rising

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57, John 12:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... light.” After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.” His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples ...

2191. Wave Riders and Deep-Sea Divers

Jonah 1:1-17, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 4:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... he cheered! But God wanted Jonah to give them a warning first. And Jonah was truly bummed. I’m not doing that, he thought. They’re terrible people! They’re doing bad stuff. They deserve to be knocked down! But God still urged him to try. Jonah ... qualities that God valued in a preacher and a prophet. But Jonah got a bit big for his britches, my grandmother might say. And he thought he could say “no” to God. Anyone here ever tried saying “no” to God? Doesn’t work too well, does it? If you try to ...

2192. Sweet Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God desires us to be. All we have to do is surrender ourselves to Him. For on our own we can do nothing. But God can do anything with us and through us. The Divine Nature of the Almighty God has the power to reshape our hearts and redirect our thoughts, to create in our lives and in our churches the kind of Vineyard that will bear the sweetest fruit in the world, so that all will be fed, and all may be touched. I invite you now to come forward to the altar….to receive a handful of grapes from ...

2193. Trust Your Intuition

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... /2017/02/21/intuition-is-the-highest-form-of-intelligence/#6487202d3860 ^The clay tablet is said to contain the messianic prophecy that the Messiah will rise in three days. This is said today to be a prominent strain of theology before Jesus’ day in Jewish thought. The tablet was found near the Dead Sea. The author of the prophecy is ascribed to the angel Gabriel. And its contents have a style similar to the prophetic style of Ezra and Baruch. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text The Resurrection of ...

2194. Stop Talking and Start Walking

Luke 24:13-35, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , we do an about face and go exactly in the opposite direction we were going to begin with. This was the case with the folk on the road to Emmaus, wasn’t it? They had set their own navigator for home, based on what they thought had happened, the direction they thought their lives were going to take. But once, they were following Jesus’ voice, they had to do an about face, and go all the way back to where they had been to set a new and unexpected course for places unknown and sights unseen! Their lives ...

2195. How Did That Hole Get There?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... some challenging questions for his pastor to answer. Bruce tells about one Sunday after church when Blair came up to him and asked Bruce if he could have a conference with him. “Of course, Blair,” Bruce replied, “I’d be happy to visit with you anytime.” Blair thought for a moment and then said that he had better talk first with his parents to see when they could bring him to the church. Bruce said he smiled and wondered what was on Blair’s mind. Three days later he found out. Blair sat in his ...

2196. Desperate Times Call For...

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In 2015, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in her abdomen. She was a divinity professor at Duke University, and mother to a one-year-old son. Kate and her husband were devastated by her diagnosis. In Guideposts magazine, Kate writes of how she always thought she had a deal with God—a quid pro quo, if you will. That’s a phrase that has been bandied about quite a bit this past year. It means “a favor or advantage granted or expected in return for something.” Kate secretly felt she had a ...

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Bertrand Russell

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

2199. Movable Stone, Portable House

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jesus’ way, as He tries to heal and help those in the world that we may be trying to label, ignore, dispute, or disdain. In Peter’s case, he did not want Jesus to have to die in order to fulfill God’s mission. Peter was a thinker, and he thought, there must be a better alternative, another way. Peter let his audacity get in the way of his obedience to Jesus. He let his certainty and his desire to be “right” get in the way of his ability to adapt and follow Jesus, to be second instead of first ...

2200. "Cathedra"

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Ron Love

... years, make the transition in your own spiritual lives from hearers to kneelers to being the chosen. Your home can become its own cathedral, or learning center. If you take time to read the Bible each day, pray, read devotional literature, and read thought provoking books by good Christian authors. If you engage yourself in these daily spiritual exercises you will become a more knowledgeable Christian. It is with this knowledge that you will become a more confident speaker. That is why Paul in his letter ...

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2176. How Would You Introduce Jesus?

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

2177. The Gospel in Miniature

John 3:16

Sermon

King Duncan

2178. Blessed

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

2179. Sitting Shiva Behind Closed Doors

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2180. The Sign of Jonah

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2181. Syrophoenician Lives Matter!

Mark 7:24-30, Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2182. Scandal

Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2183. God Gives the Pharisees the Finger!

John 7:25-44, John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2184. Grounds for Blessing

Matthew 13:1-23, Luke 8:1-15, Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2185. Seat of Power

Mark 10:35-45, Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2186. The Prophet of Locusts and Honey

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2187. Sparkle

Luke 4:31-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2188. A Piggy Pudding

Matthew 8:28-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2189. Translucent Grace

Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36, Revelation 1:9-20, Revelation 2:12-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2190. Lazarus Rising

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57, John 12:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2191. Wave Riders and Deep-Sea Divers

Jonah 1:1-17, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 4:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2192. Sweet Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2193. Trust Your Intuition

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2194. Stop Talking and Start Walking

Luke 24:13-35, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2195. How Did That Hole Get There?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

2196. Desperate Times Call For...

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Bertrand Russell

Oliver Wendell Holmes

2199. Movable Stone, Portable House

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2200. "Cathedra"

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Ron Love

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