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201. Confessional Services

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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G. William Genszler

... . Congregation: Correct us according to Thy tender mercies. Commandment: You shall not commit adultery. Minister: We will not tolerate impurities in our food or water, yet we harbor pollution in our imagination and our minds. We adulterate our personal relationships with lust without affection. We treat others as "things to be used" rather than "persons to be loved." Congregation: O God, let us be kindly affectionate with one another. Commandment: You shall note steal. Minister: O Lord, it is robbery to use ...

202. The Freedom To Be Wrong

Luke 18:9-14

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... at his boasting and we may dismiss him as a hypocrite but when we check his record, we find that if he were like other Pharisees, he was really trying. For example, he mentions adulterers. The Pharisees seemed to know that the essence of adultery is lust. That’s why some of them - when they went around in public - always kept their eyes closed (so they wouldn’t see any women). The folks called them "Bleeding Pharisees," because they kept bumping into trees. Hung up on the need to be right. Paul had ...

203. Heaven Can’t Wait

Matthew 5:1-12

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... his new creation. The disciples had grown calloused through the years to the usual behavior patterns, the never-ending push for personal progress that uses others as its stepping stones, the eye-for-an-eye and the tooth-for-a-tooth philosophy, the lust for power, passion, and possession. They would often victimize themselves in that same atmosphere, as they elbowed for the seats of honor at the banquet, argued about their comparative greatness, and looked for their own names among the MVP’s. But as they ...

204. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

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Alton F. Wedel

... than caring, loving, and available for help. And the little kingdom each of us had hoped to build skids out of our control and crashes like an auto on a slippery slope in wintery Minnesota. The church, frequently it seems, has little more to offer. The lust for power, honor, glory that has been the character of people everywhere has not been lost within her pale. We struggle to achieve greatness, put in our bids in not-so-subtle ways for seats of honor in the Kingdom. There are dirty-tricks campaigns that ...

205. If Only We Would Confess ...

Ezekiel 18:1-32

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Wallace H. Kirby

... of confession was to the worshiper. Confessing our sins is difficult. Confession demands honesty. Confession must be specific. It is easy to ask God to forgive our many sins. It is painful to confess particular sins like pride and envy, anger and lust, and then feel worthy of forgiveness. We usually take a rather bland view of our conduct, preferring to congratulate ourselves on our virtues rather than dwelling much on our failures. Those who talk about being sinners in need of forgiveness are unwelcomed ...

206. If Only We Could Remember ...

Genesis 32:22-32

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Wallace H. Kirby

... but adultery and licence, one deed of blood after another. (4:1-2) New wine and old steal my people’s wits: they ask advice from a block of wood and take their orders from a fetish; for a spirit of wantonness has led them astray and in their lusts they are unfaithful to their God. (4:12) They make kings, but not by my will; they set up officers, but without my knowledge; they have made themselves idols of their silver and gold. (8:4) Biblical scholars say that Israel was spoiled by success. The nation had ...

207. Faith-Filled Living

Luke 17:1-10

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... Scriptures. He found a Bible and his eyes fell upon this passage: "Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." (Romans 13:13-14 KJV) In sharing this experience, Augustine wrote, "No further would I read, nor needed I; for instantly at the end of this sentence, by a light, as it were, of serenity infused into my heart, all the darkness of doubt vanished ...

208. Slavery and Freedom

John 8:31-41

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... liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire." (Matthew 5:21-22) Throughout his ministry, Jesus tried to identify the less obvious sins like hate, lust and pride. Those were not easy to see and Jesus helped the people recognize them as powers that could enslave them. That’s exactly what was happening in this text. The people who confronted Jesus believed that their salvation was in their ancestry. They ...

209. The Resurrection of the Body

John 11:17-37

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Dean Lueking

... we take care for the material, physical needs of all. This same resurrection hope is the motive for the Christian ethic. Sexual morality, for instance, is part of the Christian’s way of life because we know that the body is not a toy to be consumed by lust, but a work of honor to be highly regarded and truly respected. It is nonsense to despise the Christian hope as a way of escaping the present responsibilities of caring for the urgent needs of people. That is a misuse of the true biblical meaning of the ...

210. Lent 4

Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 · 1 Cor 1:18-31 · 2 Cor 5:17-21 · Isa 12:1-6 · Jos 5:9-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... there is a right and a wrong way to associate with "sinners." A. Sinners are Bad company. Jesus mingled with the dregs of society: tax-collectors who made themselves rich by demanding exorbitant taxes, women who sold their bodies to satisfy the sexual lust of their customers. These were people who told dirty stories and used profane language. In our day they are the Charles Mansons, the Gary Gilmores, the Himmlers, the Bonnie and Clydes, the John Dillingers. These people are atheists, anti-God, anti-church ...

211. Walking the Streets

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:35-38

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Richard L. Thulin

... heap burden after burden, at the same time as they willfully ignored their rights (Matthew 23:4, 23). They saw them as people whose yearnings for better times were to be thwarted and blocked (Matthew 23; 13). They saw them as targets for their power lust and as audiences for their showy performances (Matthew 23:2, 5-7). It must be that compassion makes all the difference in what one sees. It was compassion that propelled Jesus through "all the towns and villages." It was compassion that he enacted when he ...

212. The Call to Choose Life

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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... of the Lord God. In choosing life, we obey the command of God to love the Lord with the totality of our lives in every today of our lives. The call to chose life promises us that we shall live in a world free from hatred and contempt, lusting and lies, a world into which God in Christ continually calls us and for which God's love liberates us and empowers our obedience. In Covenant, James Michener tells the story of Hillary Saltwood. Hillary was sent as a missionary to South Africa by the London Missionary ...

213. Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Exodus 19:1-25

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... at all. We have not understood the marvelous condescension of God that he would deign to communicate with us under any circumstances. The media - newspapers, books, magazines, TV - has made sin so common that we forget it offends a holy God. Sexual promiscuity, adultery, lust, greed, violence, cheating, lying, gluttony - we are so familiar with it we are no longer shocked by it. In fact, we seem to make an effort to replace those words that imply moral absolutes, or the existence of sin, with neutral, non ...

214. One Commandment is Enough!

Exodus 20:1-21

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... other story in the Bible of adulterous love), he cried out in his confession of sin, "Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, O God." (Psalm 51:4) Jesus went even further, and said, "But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28) This commandment can be violated, not only in physical, overt practice, but in the mind, where the beginning of sin always originates. Anytime we sin, the mind goes first, s,o Jesus wanted to cut ...

215. Communion Is Running No More

Mark 9:42-50

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... as a bolt of lightning? Then perhaps Jesus' word to you is to remove yourself from those situations which call forth your anger just long enough for you to be able to talk calmly and sensibly about the problem and find a solution. Perhaps you find that lust can rise quickly in your heart and mind? Than the Lord would tell you to be careful about the movies you see and magazines you look at. Maybe you have difficulty saying "No" to your friends when they want you to participate with them in activities which ...

216. "He Who Commands Is He Who Fulfills"

Matthew 22:34-40

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... is another matter entirely. But on the other hand, doesn’t Jesus go beyond the matter of behavior and actions and into the realm of motives and attitudes when he suggests that anger receives the same judgment as killing (Matthew 5:22) or when he says that lust is a form of adultery (5:27)? Even the commandment against coveting is a matter of the heart and soul and not yet of outward action. So what does it mean when he tells the testy Pharisees that the greatest and heaviest commandment is the one ...

217. The Christian Life Children of Light

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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... live as the Gentiles do in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God. Having lost all sensitivity they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. Congregation: We did not come to know Christ that way. We heard of him and were taught in accordance with the truth that is in him. Leader: You were taught to put off your former way of life, to be made new in the attitude ...

218. The Life We Prize

Luke 9:18-27

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Various Authors

... events to my own benefit. This self-centeredness constitutes the most serious sin besetting me, for I rebel against God and distort life. So Jesus said, "Deny yourself." Jesus’ words convict me; I am guilty of excluding Jesus from areas of my life where I harbor dishonesty, lust, and bitterness. To deny self primarily means to die to all within myself which is not consistent with the Word and the love of Christ. Christ’s call is that I be crucified with him so "it is no longer I who live, but Christ who ...

219. Responding to Christ's Birth

Matthew 2:1-12

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... , at best, a mixture of devotion and denial. We are neither one nor the other, but an uneasy mixture of both. Many country music artists understand the dual nature that exists within humankind. While on stage, the country musician can sing about sex, lust, cheating, gambling, and unfaithfulness and, then, close the program by singing "Amazing Grace". The contradiction is shockingly apparent, but so typical of how we really are. What happens on the country music stage is a microcosm of what much of our lives ...

220. Lent 1

Genesis 3:1-24, Romans 5:12-21, Matthew 4:1-11, Genesis 2:4-25, Psalm 130:1-8

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... and sin, and to obey him and become subservient to Satan, as all other mortals had done. But Jesus resisted and rejected the temptations, for he is the Second Adam, of whom Paul speaks, and he will not give in to hunger, or to doubt, or to the lust for power. God called him his Son at his baptism; he proved to be the Son of God in his temptation. SERMON STARTERS A sermon on the Gospel, Matthew 4:1-11 - "Temptation, Triumph, and the Tree." Baptisms are usually times of family reunion, special dinners, video ...

221. The Singer and the Siren

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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... to destruction by their singing. But Odysseus foiled their plans. He stuffed the ears of his crewmen with wax and had them tie him to the mast, so that the sirens could not woo him to his doom. David had no wax and no rope available. His lust was as unbridled as a three-year-old rounding the clubhouse turn on Derby Day at Churchhill Downs. Biblical scholars know little about Bathsheba, the bathing beauty who became David’s mistress and wife. It is known, however, that she was married to Uriah, a Hittite ...

222. A Princely Passion

2 Samuel 13:1-22

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... in reporting on human sin. David and his family in no way resemble lily white gods to be worshiped. It shows, too, what happens when parents spoil their children. David gave Amnon everything but himself. The Lion of Judah was too busy fighting, feuding, and lusting to have much time to devote to Amnon. Like many a busy suburbanite mom or dad, he had time for everyone and everything, but no time for his family. Centuries rolled by with the inevitable ebb and tide of events washing over humanity’s shore ...

223. Epiphany 7

Matthew 5:27-30

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Theme: Jesus' "higher righteousness" Exegetical note These verses contain three of the so-called "antitheses" of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, in which he intensifies the demands of the Law. Here, lust is equated with adultery, divorce is forbidden (the exception being Matthew's, not Jesus'), and swearing (as opposed to merely false swearing) is prohibited. In each case, Jesus is calling for a "higher righteousness" that moves beyond external obedience to a moral code, to an internal orientation toward God's ...

224. Proper 6

Psalm 46:1-11, Genesis 25:19-34

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... in this story comes out looking very good: Jacob is portrayed as greedy (albeit clever), and Esau as short-sighted (or downright stupid). Perhaps the best truly timeless lesson here is in the materialism that diverts both from righteousness: Jacob's lust for his brother's rightful double inheritance overcomes both fairness and brotherly love, while Esau's concern to meet immediate physical need (in this case, hunger) clouds his judgment about the future. Call to Worship Leader: God is our refuge! God ...

225. Proper 9

Matthew 11:25-30

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... the world that (God) gave ..." (John 3:16, R.S.V.) Ministers: God loves the world. Pastor: You mean, of course, the good people, the church in the world? Ministers: No! Pastor: Are you saying that God loves the proud, self-righteous, cruel, greedy, lustful, lost and lonely, sinful people of the world? Ministers: Indeed! God gave his/her unique Son for them. They have not yet believed, and still, God loves them. God lives in their midst, wooing, nudging, and prompting them, at work in the world through them ...

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