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2201. The Lord's Prayer: A Surplus of Meaning

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . The prayer calls for the forgiveness of sins and, of course, Jesus Christ was sinless. He was tempted to sin--he had the ability to sin--but he did not. Jesus also would have said, "My Father," rather than "Our Father." However, it is The Lord''s Prayer in the sense that he is the author and designer of its words. The real Lord''s Prayer as known in the Christian Community is found in John 17:1-26. However, for our work and witness, we will use the traditional title for the words found in Matthew 6:9-13 ...

2202. The Lord's Prayer: Hallowed be Thy Name

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... that the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a report on crime in America that was anything but flattering. It said that rape and violent crimes were up by 66%. I have had so many of you say to me, "Pastor, is there nothing sacred anymore? Have we lost all sense of decency?" Many of us heard on CNN about the person who was setting churches on fire in the state of Florida. I have never forgotten a story told by Dr. Fred B. Craddock about a time he conducted a worship service at the conclusion of a week ...

2203. The Lord's Prayer: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of the Zoad and the rich young ruler is not your best choice. Jesus declares in Luke 9:62, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God." To pray this petition in the model prayer is in the finest sense of the word "a rebellion" against all the other small kingdoms that seek to claim us and destroy us. THE KINGDOM OF GOD COMES DESPITE ALL THE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY AND ALL THE HUMAN EFFORTS TO PREVENT IT. Will Campbell, a voice of great insight and conscience from the ...

2204. The Lord's Prayer: Deliver us from Evil

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to do so. Dr. M. Scott Peck has shared with us the insight that EVIL is the word LIVE spelled backwards. So Evil, in the sense that Dr. Peck shares, is the exact opposite of the way that God intended us to LIVE. Instead of living life with God''s design ... this helpful insight when he writes: "It used to be that we could believe in some kind of evolutionary progress which imparted a sense of destiny and optimism. But not any longer. Who would wish to say now with Emil Coue that `every day in every way ...

2205. Dealing with the "F" Words of Life

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of talent and energy. Very few if any of you have experienced poverty, failure, defeat, heartbreak or a brick wall that stops you dead in your tracks. So tell me, what in God''s name can any of you know of a dark harsh world which only makes sense if Christ is raised from the dead?" Recently Pastor Jim Dethmer of the Willow Creek Community Church in Illinois said this: "The culture in which we live hates the notion of failure. It will use all kinds of fancy academic words to keep from saying the "F" word ...

2206. The Fourth Commandment: The Rhythm of Rest or the Rat Race

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... have noticed in this commandment is that everything and everybody was to rest. Gone are the labels "Master" or "servant" or "slave" or "alien"--everyone is honored. The Sabbath embraced all living things, including the animals. Even they did not work on the Sabbath. It brought a sense of the sacred and holy to life, which can be so easily lost in our world which moves so fast and so coldly. The Sabbath is one of the great gifts that Judaism gave to the world. The Sabbath day reminds us that the world really ...

2207. Nightline

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of an ancient prophecy. Joseph, can you please tell us how you got here and why." Of course, there was an interpreter present to translate when Joseph tried to share some of the sense of desperation and total fright of traveling on donkey during the night to escape the ongoing search of Herod''s army for their child. Joseph was fortunate in the sense that he awoke during the night. He said an angel told him to hurry up and gather the family and flee as quickly as possible to Egypt land. "Now, I want to turn ...

2208. A Faith that Works with a Victorious Attitude

Philippians 2:12-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... out to you. But when you say, `You can''t imagine what it is like to be in prison,'' I feel compelled to say that you are mistaken. There are all kinds of prisons, Waymon. When at age 31, I awoke one day completely paralyzed, I was overwhelmed by a sense of being imprisoned in a body that would no longer allow me to run through a meadow, or dance, or carry my child in my arms. For a long time, I lay asking myself whether life was worth living. It seemed I had lost everything that ever mattered. Then one ...

2209. Taxes and Tightwads

James 5:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to worship in the same church. We know this is so because in James 2:1-13 the rich were getting the better seats and pastoral service at the church-house. James writes these words to make sure that we don''t confuse wealth and possessions with a sense of personal worth and a purpose for life. Our identity comes from Jesus Christ, not the cash register. So let us dig in today and learn from our good friend, James, so that we do not become tightwads in our spiritual life and always find ourselves trying to ...

2210. The Tender Touch (Part 1)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... cathedral is hundreds of years old: Give me a good digestion, Lord, And give me something to digest; Give me a healthy body, Lord, With sense to keep it at its best. Give me a healthy mind, Good Lord, To keep the good and pure in sight, Which seeing sin is ... that is not bored, That does not whimper, whine, not sigh; Don''t let me worry overmuch About the fussy thing called "I." Give me a sense of humor, Lord, Give me the grace to see a joke, To get some pleasure out of life, And pass it on to other folk. Your ...

2211. A Full House

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: You knew that these jobs needed doing so you are not surprised. Presently, he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of--throwing up a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be ...

2212. Depression: When the Spirit Is Faint

Psalm 142:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... resources of interior power. We never produce power. We always appropriate it. That is true from the harnessing of the Niagara to taking a walk in the fresh air. We never create power--we assimilate it. So, a man with a real faith in GOD senses around his spiritual life a spiritual presence as truly as the physical world is around his body. He knows of the deep well of staying power that divine companionship can replenish." (3) I also believe and celebrate with Dr. Fosdick the resources that the Christian ...

2213. Maundy Thursday: Two Memorials

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... way, while Astor did leave a fortune of over $20 million, he left only $200 to his faithful servant who had worked for him for many years. John Jacob Astor, one of America''s most prosperous citizens, left this life with a sense of greed that defies description, having been blind to the faintest sense of charity even to the very end. This was a sad memorial and legacy. It was a memorial to meanness and to the destructive power of money that makes cold the human heart. It seems to me that the deeper meaning ...

2214. Do You Know What Time It Is?

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... would have preferred Martha''s fellowship to her service. But Martha''s idea of what had to be done was different from Christ''s, and as we can now see, it was false. She meant well, she loved the Lord, and she thought she was serving him, but her sense of proportion with regard to what was necessary was in fact depriving the Lord of what he most wished for and depriving her of what was most necessary. And it had come about precisely because she had not first sat at his feet and listened to him long enough ...

2215. Thanksgiving - The Biblical Version

1 Chronicles 16:7-43

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... a plural pronoun and speaks of God''s goodness to the nation that God has blessed and called to be a "light to the nations." One of the tragic results of the Me/Self-fulfillment philosophy has been the loss of any sense of community. The "us against them" mentality produces little sense of unity. Today, the other Bible reading weaves a story through the books of I and II Samuel before it reaches its climax in I Chronicles 16. It begins with a terrible battle in which the Philistines defeated the sons of ...

2216. Your Sins Are Forgiven

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... words which, over the centuries, have drawn people to the cross of Jesus Christ. In the shadow of that cross there is a strange sense of peace. There we know that we are loved and accepted -- not because of our brains or wit or good looks or career -- not ... of it is merely commentary. "Your sins are forgiven!" This is what makes it possible for us to go out into the world with a sense of confidence that we are part of God's creative answer to the needs of our times. "Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are ...

2217. Heaven's Applause

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... with the wishes of God. What's more, it is a satisfaction and delight that is all the sweeter and purer because it is between us and God. The longer I live the surer I am that God sees the heart for what it holds and grants the heart that sense of well-being we awkwardly refer to as a reward. Ultimately it does not matter whether what we do is acknowledged in a plaque, or written on a piece of paper, or covered in the press, or carried on the Internet, or announced on the evening news. The only applause ...

2218. Entrustment

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... completed developmental tasks, reflective of the child's experience that others in her life have proved themselves trustworthy. Ironically, this reliance on the trustworthiness of others eventually leads to the ability to trust ourselves -- our little inside voices, senses, and intuition. We can swim. We can ride the bike. We can go off to unfamiliar territory, establish ourselves, and be successful. Louise Kaplan has written beautifully about this process: ... we manage to hold together when the world ...

2219. Presented to the Lord

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... from your children and your spouse and other people important in your life. You were never really presented to God--not as a person of worth, of value, a person who deserves to enjoy abundant life. Is it too late? Are you doomed to always feeling a terrible sense of inadequacy? Are you doomed to a lifetime of being on the outside looking in at the lucky people who did receive this precious gift? The answer is no. There is hope--if you realize that you and I have been presented to God--by Christ. This is ...

2220. Follow That Star

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... up to Mary and Joseph at the stable, the first one handed over his present and said, “Gold.” The second presented his gift and said, “Myrrh.” The third one then gave them his treasure and said, “And Frank sent this.” “And Frank sent this.” Makes sense to me. What do children know about frankincense and myrrh? Of course, as someone has noted, if it had been the Three Wise Women who came seeking the newborn king, instead of the Three Wise Men, they would have asked directions, arrived on time ...

2221. Only Sex? (New)

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Many married people need to be reminded that while sex is for intimacy and playfulness and joy within the marriage relationship, it was designed to be entirely exclusive. There is no room for more than two people in a sexual relationship. In her book Common Sense Christian Living, Edith Schaeffer tells of her husband’s intervention in saving a friend’s marriage. A man in their church had fallen in love with a woman from his workplace. He planned to run away with her and abandon his family. Dr. Francis ...

2222. Is Anything Unforgivable?

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... worrying. And if they are sensitive, they are not blind to the light. It is this very awareness that we are not all that we could be, that our conduct leaves something to be desired, that leads to our salvation, to our right relationship with God. This awareness is a sense of sin, and it is a healthy thing to have. It doesn't have to be the conviction that one is the worst person who ever lived, or that one is utterly unlovable. It is simply an awareness that we have, thus far, missed the mark, and that our ...

2223. When the Boat Begins to Sink

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... Jesus asks the disciples: "Have you no faith?" Faith is not the conviction that everyone is going to have things work out in their favor. We often talk about faith as though that is what it means. No wonder we are disappointed. In a world that makes sense, everyone cannot have everything work out favorably for them. A ministerial colleague tells of a conversation he had one day with a female medical assistant in a doctor's office, as he was waiting to see the doctor. The woman recognized him because she had ...

2224. With a Bang or a Whimper?

2 Peter 3:1-18

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... life that causes this world to fade into insignificance! Nevertheless, though we can do without the world, the world, whether it knows it or not, cannot do without us and the message of hope our faith embraces. We warmly offer this hope to all who sense the emptiness of life without it. Professor Rudolph H. Harm, from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, often told his students, "The Christian faith takes a person out of this world and puts a person into it." This was not only a striking arrangement of words, but ...

2225. The Story behind the Glory

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... control. A childless couple, anxious to pour their love into a needy child, learn about him, see him, fall in love with him, and choose to make him part of their family with all the rights of one born to them naturally. He is adopted! In a similar sense, our text tells us, every Christian has passed through this experience. Orphaned because of our sin, separated from the God who made us, we later became the objects of a love that would not let us go. So great was that love that it entered our world, lived ...

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