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201. When God Began to Create ...

Genesis 1:1-5

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... . Let this be a day of new beginnings for us, for your people, for your world. Amen. Prayer Of Confession What a world you have put in our keeping! What a creation whose height and depth and width and length we can never fully plumb. We confess our callous disregard for the small portion of the cosmos you have put in our keeping and pledge to worship you by caring for creation. Amen. Hymns I Sing The Mighty Power Of God Songs Of Praise The Angels Sang God, Who Stretched The Spangled Heavens (Holy Manna)

202. Stupid Questions, Real Life

Mark 10:2-16

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Go ahead. Make God's day. The Pharisees asked a question to justify their callous disregard for the rights of women, and Jesus slapped them with a law they couldn't live with. Would that they — and we — approach him as the children of his day — economic burdens, marginalized, useless — and loved by Jesus. Collect Jesus, we know you love us. We approach you not with ...

203. Let Me Count The Ways

Hebrews 1:1-14

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... equal confidence the one who has removed all the barriers and made us whole. Amen. Prayer Of Confession How many ways, God of change, yet unchanging, have you tried to get our attention? How many times have you attempted to get us to change our ways? As we confess our disregard for your word and your actions, we dedicate ourselves anew to the cause of the Christ Child, the Holy Infant who we adore. Amen. Hymns Christ The Lord Is Given Today O Come, All Ye Faithful To Us A Child Of Hope Is Born

204. Give Us a Little Longer

Mark 13:24-37

Illustration

King Duncan

... She would then give each child a task before she left. The oldest child would be given more complicated tasks while the simpler ones would go to the younger children. Then she would leave. The children would either do as she told them or else disregard her instructions. When she returned, sometimes she would come quietly up the stairs and see through the half-open door that they were quarreling or fooling around or just absorbed in something. Then there were other times when she would see that her children ...

205. Scissors, Paper, Rock

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... once put it, "The unspoken question which dominates many of our conferences on evangelism is not, 'Does he reign - and where?', but 'How can we win? How do we reverse the Church's downward drift and shake society out of its almost contemptuous disregard of us?"' Even among those less military minded, there is a persistent clamor these days for "strong leadership." But what does that really translate into for most of us? Someone who will make all our hard decisions for us, relieving us of any responsibility ...

206. I Love You, Man... And I Don't Want Your Beer

John 15:9-17

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Leonard Sweet

... law-based, secular society, we are outraged when the legal barriers we have so carefully constructed are thrown down by human sinfulness through greed, evil, lust, decay. We are righteously indignant that our laws, our safeguards, have been so callously disregarded. A law-based community's reaction to the failure of its laws is to grow angry, defensive, frustrated and vengeful. The church cannot count itself as one with these legislatively directed reactions. We must act differently because the church is ...

207. Anywhere Goes

Romans 14:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... , reaching out to and welcoming all God's children home to Christ even those we dislike and find distasteful. While walking along a street with one of his disciples, a sage met his rival. The sage politely greeted his rival, but the man arrogantly disregarded the greeting. The sage's young disciple was furious, condemning the ostentatious behavior of the rival sage. Waiting for a while, the sage asked his disciple a question: "Are you angry at a person with an ugly face?" "No," replied his disciple. "Then ...

208. Mark 1:21-28

Mark 1:21-28

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... act of eating. The Corinthians are mistaken, Paul insists, when they separate the physical need to eat from any larger spiritual implications and responsibilities. Convinced that food is simply necessary sustenance for the body, these believers are disregarding any ethical implications that might accompany what and when and how they eat. Paul begins this chapter's conversation by disavowing this premise and challenging the purely intellectual approach to the ethical issues confronting the Corinthian church ...

209. Ephesians 2:4-25

Ephesians 2:4-25

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Leonard Sweet

... being. We are judged by God's righteousness according to our present deeds now (verses 18-21; 1 John 3: 14) and these affect our future destiny (John 5:28-29; 1 1 John4:17). The First Testament lesson vividly illustrates that the immense penalty for disregarding God and ridiculing God's love is great. Second Chronicles 36:14-23 tells the terrible story of the Israelites' exile to Babylon - an exile they earned through repeatedly mocking God, God's messengers, and God's mandates. This week's Psalm (137:1-6 ...

210. Mark 4:35-41

Mark 4:35-41

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Leonard Sweet

... were themselves fishermen, and thus presumably used to the turbulent moods of the sea, it is the disciples who grow terrified and panicky while Jesus serenely sleeps in the stern. Unable to control their fears the disciples wake Jesus up - accusing him of disregarding their safety. Jesus' response is immediate - first he attends to the physical danger confronting them. His words "Peace! Be still!" are the same words he used to banish the demon he exorcised at the beginning of Mark's gospel (1:25). The words ...

211. 2 Timothy 1:1-14

2 Timothy 1:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... from the small, struggling farmers, they will not see the fruits of their labors - that is, they will never taste the wine from these vineyards. Amos' words emphasize the root evil behind the grasping landowners' actions and attitudes: a complete disregard for God's righteousness and the flowering of injustice. Three times in this week's texts Amos mentions "the gate" as a prime location for examples of the discrepancy between righteousness and injustice. This "gate" was the square courtyard established ...

212. Mark 1:21-28

Mark 1:21-28

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

213. Ephesians 2:4-25

Ephesians 2:4-25

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

214. Mark 4:35-41

Mark 4:35-41

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

215. 2 Timothy 1:1-14

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

216. 1 Peter 3:18-22

1 Peter 3:18-22

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... spirits of that age. Along with these disagreements over exactly what kind of "alive-in-the-spirit" Christ the author is portraying, there is debate about who these imprisoned spirits actually are. The various suggestions include the spirits of those who disregarded Noah's witness about the flood and thus perished in God's watery judgment. Other scholars understand these imprisoned spirits as "evil angels" an interpretation that makes the Noah connection by drawing on the Genesis 6 discussion of the "sons ...

217. Mark 2:23-3:6

Mark 2:23-3:6

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Leonard Sweet

... it. Verses 23-24 and 27 make Jesus' response to the Pharisees' quite legitimate question stand out as a radical departure from accepted Jewish theology. By simply declaring, "The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath," Jesus disregards the unique divine foundation undergirding the rite and rituals that define the Jewish Sabbath. Consider now how much the "explanatory" texts of verses 25-26 and the Christological focus of verse 28 soften the harshness of Jesus' conclusion in verse ...

218. Luke 9:51-62

Luke 9:51-62

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... react to the Samaritan village's rejection of Jesus with characteristically defective discipleship. Luke has already shown the significant gaps in the disciples' ability to comprehend their role (9:45-50), but here in verse 54 James and John patently disregard Jesus' earlier instructions about how they are to behave when they and their message are rejected (9:5). Because this is a Samaritan village, the punishment James and John eagerly suggest and happily volunteer to inflict recalls the judgmental fire ...

219. Luke 17:11-19

Luke 17:11-19

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... and their defective state so that purified Jews could steer clear of them and avoid any risk of contamination. Believed to be a disease not just of the skin, but of the soul as well, leprosy was attributed to a divine judgment, earned by parental disregard of purity laws or the leper's own slanderous tongue, dishonest behavior, disrespect for the cult and the priesthood, or some other violation of Mosaic Law. As in Luke's first leper-cleansing account, the 10 men in today's story are dispatched to the ...

220. Genesis 1:1-2:4a

Genesis 1:1-2:4a

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... the unique relationship that is to exist between the human being and the rest of the created cosmos. It is hardly necessary to elaborate on how our post-fall perception of God's gift of "dominion" (better translated "trusteeship") has wreaked wanton destruction and disregard for this planet and our creaturely co-inhabitants. For a scholarly look at the impact of this text on history see Jeremy Cohen's Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It: The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text ...

221. John 10:11-18

John 10:11-18

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... v.10). The "hired hand" kills the sheep just as surely as do the thieves for by abandoning any interest in the sheep's welfare, the hired hand condemns the helpless creatures to death at the jaws of the wolf (vv.12-13). The hired hand's callous disregard for the sheep is based on two facts he does not "own" the sheep (v.12) nor does he "care" for the sheep (v.13). With no financial or emotional investment in these animals, hired hands have little incentive to stand by the helpless sheep when serious danger ...

222. Ephesians 5:15-20

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... a definite warning to avoid foolishness and the dangers that the enticing ways of the "unwise" present, verse 17 rephrases the author's earlier urgings in verses 9-10. The "will of the Lord" is the standard for all Christian behavior. Disregard or disobedience will be evident by ensuing "unfruitful works of darkness." The second negative/positive antithesis contrasts being "drunk with wine" with being "filled with the Spirit" (v.18). The equation of drunkenness with "debauchery" may stem from the common ...

223. Mark 7:24-37

Mark 7:24-37

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... the whole group bursts into enthusiastic praise. As before, Jesus attempts to silence the crowd and keep this healing a private affair. But to no avail. Not just the healed man, but all who were involved in bringing the man to Jesus disregard Jesus' admonition and "zealously proclaimed" the news of Jesus' healing, redemptive, restorative powers. In their astonishment the people announce: "He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak" (v.37). All that needs doing, Jesus ...

224. Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

John 20:24-31, John 20:19-23

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... ? What does he mean? I don’t know for sure. But I’ve got a couple of hunches. One is that, while forgiveness is always available, those who need it aren’t always at the point of acknowledging they need it. There are those who are still disregarding God’s Will for God’s Creation. There are those who are oppressing, hurting, and killing by neglect as well as intent. Their behavior must be judged, not condoned. To stand in judgment of it is to retain their sins until they confess them. Then we can ...

225. Barking Dogs and Daily Bread

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... defects they harbor become too obvious. One “puppy-farmer” was cited by local authorities and ordered to get his eighty breeding dogs vaccinated. Instead, the next day the puppy farmer shot all eighty dogs. The defense some Amish offer for their disregard of these dogs is theological, “faith-based” even: “God gave us animals to use as we see fit.” This is the “Genesis-defense” for animal abuse. Apparently some of these Amish and convicted animal abuser/NFL player Michael Vick (who bred ...

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