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2251. The Sign For Home

John 6:1-15

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... , grow by it. And when by a sign like this miracle God offers us forgiveness, life, and salvation, surely we "sign on"; we receive it; we give thanks. Jesus, who knew then what he was doing, and knows now, tells us again, "Take and eat." That crowd received his gifts and was satisfied. We, too, who eat of this bread which he blesses and taste of this cup which he offers, know that the Lord is good! Some bumpers carry a sign that says, "If you can read this, you're too close. Back off." This Sunday's sign ...

2252. Himself The Real Presence

John 6:25-59

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... wine, to give us his body and his blood in a meal. And so Jesus Christ continues to be, to be among us, God, filling all things, with us always, incarnate but invisible, making his presence known, making his blessings available to us in his body and blood with the gifts of bread and wine in this meal of remembrance. Ours not to reason why this way, of course, but does not this attempt to understand help us as we hear Jesus say, "Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink ...

2253. It's OK To Stir Up God

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Richard Patt

... him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" Yes, even a human father doesn' ... stop trusting God and believing in God when we are in a jam. In fact, especially then God will be the good Father who knows what gift will be best for us. We live in a time when people seem to have given up such hope and trust. Little in life seems ...

2254. Rich In God's Sight

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Richard Patt

... Christian faith; they also proclaim their Christian values. For instance, when we say we believe in God the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth, we affirm a gracious and loving God as the giver of the earth to us all. But we are also saying that we value the gift of the earth; we will care for it and be good stewards of it. These Christian values not only need to be affirmed; they need to be put into practice. In fact in our day there is an urgency about the need to care for the earth. Yes, it is ...

2255. Sabotaging The Sabath

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Richard Patt

... be condemned. But God did not come around reminding us, "You made your bed; now sleep in it." Maybe you have been in a gift shop or a pottery store where all kinds of fragile vases and plates were for sale. Perhaps you noticed a warning sign on the ... come back at us with the indictment, "You broke it; you pay for it." No, even though we didn't accidentally break the treasured gift of life but willfully dashed it to pieces, God has not thrown the book at us, demanding payment. God did not appeal to the ...

2256. Nobody Owes You Anything

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Richard Patt

... you and me. So let's dare to tackle the topic, despite its unpromising sound -- "Nobody Owes You Anything." In a way, we know this is true. You and I ought to be grateful for everything we have; we ought to consider the whole sweep of our life as a gift that is given to us from the hand of providence. We owe our lives to God! This is partly what the parable before us says. On the surface that's exactly what it seems to mean. Jesus portrays for us here a typical rural laborer of his day, perhaps a ...

2257. Made New By Interior Design

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... who stand by us in our stupidity until the light of new sanity dawns upon us. Those who do this in our lives are gifts from God. The love of God is the kind that cares for us just as we are and not as we ought to be. In time, we become ... the way we are treated, not the way we deserve to be treated. This is God's finest gift. So, "watch -- for your anxiety is God's opportunity." During the Civil War, Mary Chestnut wrote a diary. She wrote it with great anxiety. As she witnessed ...

2258. Love Your Enemies--It Will Drive Them Crazy

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... I need your forgiveness, and I want to thank you for your forgiveness this night." He held out his hand to her and she started to sweat and shake all over. She could not reach out her hand, and finally a prayer came to her that was really a gift to herself. She said, "God, give me your forgiveness," knowing that only in receiving that forgiveness can you give it away. In that prayer she was able to reach out her trembling hand and begin a very long path, a path that will last our entire lives: forgiving our ...

2259. Why Did Pastor Hypnotize Jenny?

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Tony Everett

... not depend on our own action. Our right relationship with God does not depend on planning a wonderful Christmas program, preparing a magnificent meal, singing a super anthem, giving the "perfect" gift, or even on designing a prize-winning outdoor lighting system. Our relationship with God depends solely on the truly perfect gift of love that God has already given, God's only begotten son, Jesus Christ. We are well aware that our own efforts all too often end in discouragement. Expecting perfection usually ...

2260. Taking Grace Seriously

Ephesian 1:18-20

Illustration

John R. Steward

... Then one day something happened that no one expected. No one knew that a monkey had gotten loose in the palace. When the holy man presented his gift of fruit to the king, the monkey jumped up on the stage and grabbed the fruit out of the hand of the king. Then the monkey took ... the rotten and decaying fruit a fortune in jewels. We fail to take the grace of God seriously. Perhaps because it is a free gift that comes to us in the form of a cross. It does not seem very valuable. Let us pray that God will give us ...

2261. Proper 13

Luke 11:1-13, Hosea 11:1-11, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalm 107:1-43

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... great possessions. He thought they offered him security. The second was that he considered the fulfillment of life to be the satisfaction of his desires. He neglected to honor God who gave him life and riches. 7. "Your Life is Being Demanded." (v. 20) Life is a gift from God. We do not have final ownership of our bodies. The God who bestows life can demand its return at his own time. 8. "Not Rich Toward God." (v. 21) The wise person knows that both goods and life itself are not entrusted to be used without ...

2262. Proper 19

Psalm 14:1-7, 1 Timothy 1:12-20, Jeremiah 4:5-31, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... . A. Every Person Unique. No person has the peculiar combination of traits of any other person. B. Respect the Differences. Gifts are given that differ according to personal uniqueness. Value and accept them. C. Infinite Worth. Every person is to be ... his last name and hometown in the bag. They called the other fellow in trying to trace the owner. He got the cameras back and sent a gift to the maid who recovered them. He told the story to a group of friends. Now he has six cameras! 3. We were in the process ...

2263. Proper 22

Luke 17:1-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Lamentations 1:1-22, Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... we are able to love. It is because God gives life that we live. So thanks be to God who is the giver of all good and worthwhile gifts. 4. Stars in My Crown. Some people still say that people who do good works get stars in their crowns. Or they say you will get your ... Fair article by Christopher Hitchens and in The Door, a magazine of a Texas-based religious order. She had received major gifts from Charles Keating, who was convicted for junk bond dealings in a savings and loan scandal. He had contributed over ...

2264. God's Most Unmistakable Message

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... promises resurrection for all believers, and there is comfort in that promise. You and I, as members of Christ's body, realize that our days here are numbered. But that need not lead us to despair. Far from it. It says that God has given us a gift -- the gift of life here and now. Easter says to us, "Live! Love! Experience everything God has for you!" Of all people on this earth, Christians should be the ones who enjoy life the most. I do not mean that they should have an overabundance of things, but rather ...

2265. What To Do With A Self-willed Child

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... the rest of us. I rather like the way Mary handled it. To her Jesus was not some divine son of God, far above all mortals. He was a self-willed child! I have known boys who think they are God's gift to the human race. They are obnoxious. If their mothers also think they are God's gift to the human race, they are insufferable. Any good mother will realize when her darling boy needs to be taken down a peg or two, and Mary was a good mother. She gets his attention. He is not going to get away ...

2266. Rich Toward God

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

John G. Lynn

... commentary on Psalm 147. He later wrote to Hans that this was his happiest hunt and grandest game. He also went on to say that he was sharing all of it -- 100 percent -- with his friend. In this way Luther demonstrates how we can give away God's gifts of grace and mercy and still have all of it left for our own needs. This kind of magnanimity is what Jesus is talking about in today's gospel: an open-hearted attitude toward abundance and a positive outlook about the goods of the earth, prayer, possessions ...

2267. Ashamed To Beg

Luke 16:1-15

Illustration

John G. Lynn

... that time in his life he felt he could not be Martin Luther unless he ended each day with a tray full of good works to present to God. In praying over Paul, he learned the difference between works righteousness and faith. He learned he was wasting God's gift of Martin Luther's identity in that daily tray full of good works. He wrote: "Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that the just shall live by faith. Then I grasped that the justice of God is ...

2268. God Remembers

1 Samuel 1:1-20

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... and presented him to the Lord. Hannah told the Lord that Samuel was God's for as long as he lived. Hannah's response to the gift of God's grace was to give back what she had received. We too must give back the grace we have received. This would include worship, ... as well as ending the plight of her barrenness and the disgraceful and hurtful taunting of Peninnah. Because Hannah gave back this gift of grace to God, Samuel would bring a blessing to the entire country of Israel. Bruce Birch reminds us "that we, ...

2269. Godly Sexual Passion For An X-Rated World

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... ). Love Triangle A second interpretation of the Song has it as a failed love triangle. First Kings 2 tells us Solomon had a harem of over 1,000 wives. Some were wives he'd taken in the custom of the time to seal a military alliance. Others were taken as gifts to satisfy the ego of a visiting king. Convenience wives, territorial wives, the product of political expedience. All this, then one day Solomon spied the lovely Shulamite maiden working in the fields. And he was smitten! So he sent and wooed her with ...

2270. Baptism And Self-Esteem

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... the church proclaims to the world that what we cannot ever seem to attain for ourselves has been given to us by God. It is a gift. It is grace. You people sitting here this morning, this is the Good News that I have to tell you today! You can love God with ... probably no other action in the church's liturgical and worship life which so dramatically reveals that our self-esteem is purely a gift of God, that we don't have to do anything to prove ourselves, than the sacrament of Holy Baptism. A few moments ago ...

2271. Miracles Seven and Eight: Healing An Issue Of Blood & Healing The Rulers Daughter

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... a tomb. But three days later he came back to life on earth, to be seen by scores of people. To the disciple who doubted his return, he gave undeniable proof that it was so. Christianity has so much to offer, but its most highly prized gift is the assurance of eternal life. The miracle of raising the daughter of Jairus from the dead substantiates our confidence in Christ, the Lord of Life. Pride · Everyone has heard the axiom, "Pride goes before a fall." One of the demands of Christianity is the willingness ...

2272. What It Takes To Be A Winner

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

William L. Self

... soul power. Hopeful waiting would put them well along the way to running a successful race. They needed to know the key ingredients to being able to win over their own weariness and discouragement, and that is what Isaiah gave them in this poetic expression of God's gift of courage. Soul power is available to each of us just as it was to God's people in exile, and this is what will win the race of life. Athletes who participate in the Olympic Games know well the importance of hopeful waiting. It is the time ...

2273. Just What The Doctor Ordered

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... him, held and comforted him, but instead of thanking God, she looked toward heaven and said, "Where's his hat? He had a hat when he went out there." What about us? Impatience before God is not something we often think of as a sin. Discontentment, despite his good gifts, indeed is an offense against God. No, it's not as visible as other sins, but how often do we get an attitude about the way life is dealt us or look up toward heaven and complain about the "food" God has sent us? The "food" could be physical ...

2274. Held In His Arms

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... hours later, after the soldier had departed, the old man set about his task. True to his word, the painting went above the fireplace, pushing aside thousands of dollars worth of art. The old man sat in his chair and spent the rest of the holiday gazing at the gift he had been given. On this holy, somber Good Friday we talk about another Son who gave his life for us. (We'll finish our story later.) To understand the sacrifice he delivered to us, I ask you to do something you've never done in church before ...

2275. God's A Catcher

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... care for us. Of course, it may not always be when and how and as we expect. Not only does he provide us with food and clothing, home and family (though we dare never take these precious gifts for granted), but also he provides for us the constant reassurance of his abiding love and forgiveness, his gifts of discernment and determination, the strength and nurture of the gospel and the sacraments, the power and pleasure of his presence. Dear friends, we are on a journey. Our lives are full of so many changes ...

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