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2226. Communion Is Relief

Matthew 11:25-30

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... 1:8-9, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." If we are truly sorry for our sins and desire to start over in life, God will relieve us of that burden of guilt with forgiveness and grant us new life. The sad thing is that too many of us don't really confess our sins. Too many of us just read through the confession at the beginning of worship ...

2227. Communion Is Reconciliation

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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... them the kind of Christian example which we promised on the day of their baptisms. And it goes without saying, that we fall short as Christians when we adopt the thoughts, attitudes and ways of our hedonistic world. God knows how miserably we fail to live up to his desires and expectations, but contrary to those men in the lava flow, he does not allow us to fall to eternal death. He invites us to come dine with him at his table of grace, where he will restore us to life by his forgiveness. We come to our ...

2228. Communion Is Repentance

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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... our sins. He knows how we act behind closed doors. He knows how we speak to our spouses. He knows how we dishonor our parents. He knows how we treat our children. He knows how we act on the job and at school. He even knows the secret thoughts and desires of our hearts. Realizing that God caught us in our sins should strip away our pretentious attitudes and leave us with penitent hearts. We go to the altar as sinners in need of forgiveness. We go to the Lord's Table as beggars who have nothing to offer but ...

2229. Communion Is Remedial

Matthew 9:1-8

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... , whenever Holy Communion is offered at this altar we should be here. We should come regularly because our need is great. We should come eagerly because we are sick with sin and in him is healing! Martin Luther wrote in 1529, "... anyone who does not desire to receive the Lord's Supper at least three or four times during the year, despises the Sacrament and is no Christian." (Ewald Plass; What Luther Says, Vol. II, p. 814-815) Luther was never one to mince words. He was quite emphatic about the importance ...

2230. Image and Inscription

Matthew 22:15-22

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... God can use to accomplish his good purposes on earth: his work of maintaining order, waging peace, preventing chaos, restraining evildoers and protecting the innocent. If the government is God’s legitimate agent for temporal affairs, then it is appropriate and desirable for God’s people to involve themselves in the work of government. And this requires judgment and discernment on the part of believers who must continually decide whether, when and to what extent the government is carrying out its God ...

2231. The Servant’s Credentials

Matthew 23:1-39

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... God in heaven! Is that what ordination and the laying on of hands is all about - a credentialing ceremony so that one can "run a church"? Nor was this merely a poor choice of words: further discussion revealed that this candidate had neither the inclination nor the desire to be a servant, either of the gospel, of the church or least of all of the people who might eventually call him to be their pastor. No; he had been honest - he admitted he was often impatient with people and their needs. He was out for ...

2232. The Trifocal Festival

Matthew 5:1-12

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... Lord who died, died for us - for you, for me, for mother, and for all people. He died not because of any death or darkness in him, but only to free us from the death and darkness in us. If the God who revealed life to us, and whose only desire is to bring us to life, loved us so much that he wanted to experience with us the total absurdity of death, then - yes, then there must be hope; then there must be something more than death; then there must be a promise that is not fulfilled in our short ...

2233. The Love God Wants

Matthew 22:34-40

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... commitment. His words were hollow, self-serving, and deceitful. He captivated people by eloquently parading before them the beauty and sentimentality of love, and exhorting them to be more loving; but there was little love in Gantry himself, only an all-consuming desire to build a religious empire and garner its fame and fortune. In the end, Gantry perished, and with him the hopes of those whom he manipulated. In dramatic contrast, Jesus was the personification of the very thing he commanded. Thus, persons ...

2234. Promise or Threat?

Matthew 24:1-35

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... ? Will you be strong enough in faith? What will become of your loved ones? Is this to be the reward of a life of faith in Jesus Christ? Now, one last effort of imagination. Given those circumstances, given that feeling of longing and a desperate desire for a better world, would it not be possible, even probable, that the sincerest prayer in your heart would be, "Even so, Lord Jesus, come; come quickly? Return now, Lord, and set the world right; deliver your people from the awful plight and persecution under ...

2235. God’s Safety Net

Matthew 25:31-46

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D. Wayne Burkette

... Intercessor before the Father? We never did that for you." "O but you did," the Shepherd King will say, "for inasmuch as you did for the least and lost and lonely, the little and the limited, you did for me. So come close to me, for you see I still desire the touch of those who care."

2236. The Freedom of Necessity

John 8:31-41

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... freedom as "doing things our way" or "doing our own thing." Sadly, some people spend lifetimes searching for that vague "something" which will enable them to sing along with Frank Sinatra, "I Did It My Way," but end up slaves to their own wants and desires, slaves to sin, as the Gospel calls it. Fred Buechner describes it this way, "It is to feel, inside our own lives, as helpless to escape as slaves are helpless, because the one thing we can’t escape is ourselves." (A Room Called Remember, San Francisco ...

2237. When the Poor Become Rich

Matthew 5:1-12

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... in a book and retire independently wealthy. The whole truth must include the reality that happiness is illusive. Although surveys show that most people consider themselves to be happy persons, few people, if any, are happy all the time. Furthermore, most people admit to a desire to be happier than they are presently. But as to what causes a person to be happy, who can say for sure? In his novel, Dr. Fischer of Geneva, Graham Greene reflects on the subject in this way: But how does one convey happiness ...

2238. The Penalty for Betraying God’s Trust

Numbers 27:12-23

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... television, are required to accommodate the overflow of people who come to each of the two services on Sunday. The church is supported entirely by the free-will offerings from the Chinese who attend; they do not receive, nor do they desire, any financial subsidies from beyond their borders. This particular congregation supports five ordained pastors, one of whom is a woman, and has developed a fine, well-organized program of educational and other activities. There is no formal membership roll, but the ...

2239. Up And Down The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

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Donald Dotterer

... God, he is overcome with a deep feeling of reverence, awe and fascination. The person also feels a great sense of energy all around. Those who work with the healing ministry of the church recognize that the contact point with God's healing power is the personal desire to tap into that omnipresent divine energy. O how we treasure those quiet moments alone with God! It is in prayer that we find strength and peace, as our spirits are filled with the spirit of God. In those moments we know that God will take ...

2240. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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... they act in selfish, greedy and harmful ways toward other people. But Jesus taught us that our God is a God who loves us, one who wants us to live healthy and happy lives. Our God is a God who forgives us for our trespasses. The Lord desires that we be healed. What is more poisonous than the petty hatreds and grudges that we hold against co-workers, family members and former friends? How seldom are the concerns that so bitterly divide us of any great consequence? So often they are rooted in squabbles over ...

2241. Let Christ Speak The Word

Luke 7:1-10

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... the nature of the man. According to Roman Law, slaves were considered to be merely a thing or a tool, for they had no civil rights. The master could treat a slave in any way he liked; he was free even to take the slave's life if he so desired. When a slave was past the time when he could work productively, he would be put out of the household to die. So clearly, for this army officer to love a slave was indeed unusual. This tells us that he was a man of great compassion. You will remember the ...

2242. To Touch The Untouchable

Luke 5:12-16

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... physical and mental well-being of the people whom he met. Nearly one-fifth of the gospel narrative is devoted to the healing ministry. Jesus' words and actions prove that for our Lord, sickness and pain were in direct opposition to God's love and his desire that people live joyful and healthy lives. Therefore, if we take the records of the New Testament seriously, we realize that the God revealed in Jesus wants us to come directly to him in the first place, and not be afraid to ask for healing. For reasons ...

2243. The Housing Problem

Luke 11:14-28

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Harold Warlick

... in our world forces which "tear apart" and "divide" our households; the devil still goes house-hunting and there are plenty of fallen angels in the world. In fact, sometimes we are fallen angels. Consequently, I suggest that since we are a people possessed with desires that force us into deeds of evil, perhaps we should look again at what the Bible tells us to do when demons attack us and the devil goes house-hunting. It's an area we cannot neglect. Jesus told this parable about an empty house because ...

2244. Coping With Anger In A Close-up World

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Harold Warlick

... gets. He or she who chooses to keep what he has and not share it, really winds up losing everything in the end. Look at women. The greatest frustration for a woman is to feel that she is not loved or lovable. That can produce tremendous rage or an unconscious desire on her part to get people to tell her she is lovable. If all she does is hold on to that, she gets along with no one. Her husband isn't loving enough and she is ripe for an affair with anyone who will tell her, however temporarily, that she ...

2245. Christ’s Life Messiah

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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... our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. Women: He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. Like a man from whom men hide their faces, he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Men: Surely he took our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken ...

2246. The Christian Life A New Name

Proverbs 10:1-32

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Call to Worship Leader: A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed better than silver or gold. Men: Lord, in your eyes a name has great meaning. As Abram grew in faith, he became Abraham - father of many. Women: Sarai became Sarah - princess of a new nation - despite her attempts to work God’s will in ...

2247. The Church Living Stones

1 Peter 2:4-12

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... are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, declaring the praises of him who called us out of darkness into his wonderful light. Leader: Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. Congregation: We are living stones built into a temple for ...

2248. Consecration Crucified to Sin

Galatians 2:11-21, Galatians 5:16-26

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Call to Worship Leader: The Apostle Paul wrote, "Those who belong to Jesus Christ have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires." Congregation: We no longer live, but Christ lives in us. The life we live in the body, we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave himself for us. Leader: May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which ...

2249. Consecration Take up His Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

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Leader: "If anyone would come after me," spoke Jesus, "he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." Congregation: We lay aside our desires and ambitions, subjecting them to the path of service you have chosen for us, Lord. Leader: "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it." Congregation: May we become so interested in your work, Lord, ...

2250. Consecration Come Unto Jesus

Luke 7:36-50

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... Jesus more because she had been forgiven more; the debt of sin had been cancelled by God. All: No matter how large our account, we can have it cancelled by the blood of Jesus. Father, help us to see our need and come to Jesus. Replace our fear with a desire to come to the throne of mercy.

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