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2276. Focus On The Son

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... the Advent season what would be the results? Where are our eyes focused today? The sights and sounds of the fast-approaching Christmas season make this a wonderful time of the year. Colorfully decorated Christmas trees, family gatherings and parties, the exchanging of gifts and cards, the singing of Christmas carols and other popular festive music all combine to thrill us. One would have to be an old Scrooge not to enjoy all these pleasing sights and sounds. But we also know that the exhilarating "high" of ...

2277. Sacrificial Giving

Mark 12:41-44

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... then anyone because while they gave of their extra money, she, in her poverty, gave all she had to live on." The lesson that we can learn from this story is that it isn't necessarily how much you give, but what it costs you to give it. A small gift given through sacrifice is of more value than a large gift which really doesn't cost much to the giver. When you see a little coin, remember the widow's mite. (Prayer to help us learn how to love God and help the poor.)

2278. Holy Week

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... glory of the Risen Christ to fill our lives with the brilliance which only God can give. Let us spend this day in calmness, but with great anticipation. As the early Christian homily says, God has raised up all who have fallen asleep. The promise of God, the gift of eternal life, will be ours as well. Easter SundayActs 10:34, 37-43Colossians 3:1-4John 20:1-9 He Saw And Believed "He saw and believed." These powerful words come from today's Gospel. What do they tell us about the Easter message? The words say ...

2279. Week Of Ash Wednesday

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... bondage in Egypt is saying that the people need to choose life for others. Thus, there is not a contradiction, but rather, a correlation in today's readings. Both tell us that we need to live for others so as to find God. We have a choice from God's gift of free will. We can choose life for ourselves. On the surface this seems to be the only logical way to go. It is the only path by which we can find that which society says is so important, even vital, the material things of this world. But the paradox ...

2280. Week One Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... from others just as if we had murdered a person. As Jesus suggests, we need to be reconciled. We need to settle with our opponents. We need to be reunited with our brothers and sisters. This must come before we can adequately and sincerely offer our gift to God. Reconciliation is an active virtue with an initial passive component. God welcomes us back into the divine fold with open arms at any and all times. We merely need as God's children to passively accept God's love and forgiveness. After this, however ...

2281. God Made My Day

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

Carl B. Rife

... that; we can rejoice even in those days when the kid puts spaghetti over his head. One commentator said that "life is one damnned thing after another." That is not the view of the Psalmist at all. Each day, says the Psalmist, is a gift from God. Each day is an opportunity to rejoice, to appreciate the gift of life. Not long ago I attended a seminar for clergy and the leader got up in front of the group and said, "This is the day that the Lord has made, don't blow it." Could we wake up in the morning and ...

2282. Satisfaction Gauranteed

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... we are focused on coming to know God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, daily praising God for the bounty around us, even on our worst days, then we will find ourselves, "radiant over the goodness of the Lord." If we daily give thanks to God for the gift of life and hope and eternal life, even in the midst of the incredibly difficult challenges in our lives, then we will be satisfied, for we will be consciously in the presence of God. If we try any other way of life we will be sent reeling in times ...

2283. A Birthday Party

Luke 2:1-20

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

... on your birthday. That's just not right. It's not fair. Guess what? That happens to Jesus every year on his birthday. Really. His birthday comes around and we spend lots of time worrying about gifts, but many times we forget that Christmas is Jesus' birthday, not ours. Maybe we should spend more time giving Jesus gifts at Christmas. Jesus probably doesn't care about video games or mittens or toys, but what kinds of things can we give him for his birthday? (Children respond.) We could give him our time by ...

2284. Boast In The Lord

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... give her the key. When she left her room, she would turn over her key to the same woman. On the first night when she left her key at the desk, Madeleine was wearing a Swedish silver cross that had been given to her by a dear friend, a gift that had precious memories attached to it. The key-lady admired the cross with great emotion. During the last night of their stay Madeleine approached the key-lady and placed her key on the desk, and alongside it set a cross wrapped in paper which she had just purchased ...

2285. Discern How Things Grow

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... their individual stars.2 How can a congregation learn to function like the Celtics and not like the Red Sox? The Epiphany season is an ideal time for us to remind ourselves that all the members of our congregation are important. Each one has gifts and talents to fuse together in strengthening the unity and the mission of the whole congregation. But there is another principle of church growth that is even more crucial to Paul's understanding of how things grow. All church leaders while performing a valuable ...

2286. The First Meal

Sermon

Robert F. Scott

... this life. Leader: God of wholeness, we thank you that you have made us to be whole in body and in spirit. People: God of wholeness, we thank you for ourselves, your gift. Leader: God of healing, we thank you for Jesus Christ, the great physician, who came to restore our wholeness. People: God of healing, we thank you for ourselves, your gift. Leader: God of all grace, we thank you that in Christ you have loved us, sought us, called us to yourself, and healed our aching spirits. People: God of creation, God ...

2287. Pentecost -- A Wild, Weird, Wonderful Day

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... in tongues, the rush of a mighty wind, and the spectacle of tongues as of fire. The miracle of Pentecost was that they were able to hear and understand each 29 other. This is why Paul lists the gifts of the Spirit, as healing, prophecy, teaching, tongues, and the "greatest" gift -- love. Love brings an openness to one another. Love makes understanding possible. Pentecost is the miracle of hearing being restored. Here were people from the four corners of the earth, different in language and culture, but they ...

2288. Life's Loose Threads and The Tie That Binds

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... there, is the rugged stitch of a mountain or gentle seam of a valley. Much as one might caution a child in a gift shop, though, the Lord has given Moses strict instructions: Look but don't touch! And so, with childlike curiosity, his eyes softly trace ... by encouraging them to tell their own story.4 And when everything is said and done, that might have been the greatest gift he possibly could have given them: the self-confidence that, although setbackss will inevitably occur, they can now make it on their ...

2289. The Lamb's Book Of Life

Sermon

Phyllis Faaborg Wolk

... was big enough to have the names of all the saints engraved on its walls, you would see printed, along with Abraham: Helen, Ralph, Jean, Don, Jim, Alice, Brenda, as well as many others, including your very own name. People of God, today we celebrate! We celebrate the gift of sainthood that Jesus has given us. We remember those saints who have gone before us to heaven. We thank God for the saints who continue to support us in this life. And we celebrate the fact that we, too, are included in the Lamb's book ...

2290. The Promise Of The Spirit

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... modes of knowledge are at the end of their effective rule among us. (See Brueggemann's Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile.) We are children of the Enlightenment which has brought us enormous gifts of human reason, freedom and possibility. Although we would not want to relinquish these gifts, they have come with high cost resulting in the concentration of power in monopolistic ways, often without ever being criticized. There are those who see the Spirit at work in the transforming of ...

2291. Words, Words, Words

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Thomas Long

... hiding place, the woman fires a flurry of words at Jesus. But beneath the words, Jesus hears the person; in the windstorm of her words, Jesus hears the woman: "Why is it that you, a Jew, ask for water from a Samaritan woman?" she asks. "If you knew the gift of God," he replies, "you could have asked, and he would have given living water." "Who do you think you are? You haven't even got a bucket. Even Jacob had to have a bucket. Are you greater than Jacob?" Hearing her need, Jesus makes an offer. "Every one ...

2292. Confidence To Spare

Psalm 27:1-6, 13-14

Sermon

Robert G. McCreight

... and his love for us is so great that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. This is not the result of your own efforts, but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it. Amen and amen. (Ephesians 2:1, 4-5, 8-9) Hymn of Response (Please sing after the organist plays the melody once) Eternal are Thy mercies, Lord; Eternal truth attends Thy word. Alleluia! Alleluia! Thy praise shall sound from shore to ...

2293. The Peace That Jesus Gives

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Lee Griess

... we serve? What is our purpose for living? And here's a possible answer: To live my days making my life and the lives of those around me more pleasing to God. Or: To enrich someone else's life with the love that God gives me. Or: To use my gifts, abilities, and opportunities to the utmost for God's glory. Would that kind of mission statement make a difference in how we live? In 1991 an Air Canada flight ran into big trouble. Passengers were enjoying an in-flight movie on the Boeing 767 when the jumbo jet's ...

2294. Standing On The Shore

John 20:1-18 · Mark 16:1-8

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... , "I do not know." We never know. We only leap to accept the best life has to offer, for Easter is a gift of love and perfect love casts out fear. The text says that they "said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid." The ... questions remain, the seeking for answers continues, but though the questions remain unanswered, accepting the gift of Easter, of Christ's resurrection, feels like one. Once I was closely involved with a dying friend. We daily visited her in ...

2295. Easter Sunday

John 20:1-9

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... Father, that the Good News of the Resurrection is not to be kept a secret, hidden away as the private promise to a few. Rather, it is to be a universal communication of hope and joy to all people; and to that world-wide proclamation we dedicate our gifts today. Amen. Benediction For this amazing day, may God's name be praised! And may the creative love of God, the power of Jesus' resurrection, and the sustaining grace of the Holy Spirit be with you and with the ones you love, wherever they may be, this day ...

2296. More Than Sex

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... the spirit of our times, and one of which is not; but both of which I suspect at least some couples understand. The first reason the Song of Solomon made it into the canon is that it is about sexuality and sexuality is a good, God-given gift. This is the part of the argument that twentieth century Americans understand. Sex must be good -- we talk and think about it all the time and use it to market everything. Of course the assumption of the Song, like the assumption of the whole Bible, is that sexuality ...

2297. The Christian Journey II: The Mountain

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... was on a mountain that God inexplicably spoke to Moses, revealing not just God's name, but God's will for a whole people and the role this shepherd was to play in God's plan. It was on a mountain that God gave the people of Israel the great gift of the law, those ten words which would lead them in the paths of righteousness and life. It was from a mountain that Jesus spoke those words that stand in such stark contrast to the world's way of looking at things: Blessed are the poor in spirit, ... those who ...

2298. Eighteen Years Is Long Enough

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... also know that eighteen years is long enough for a lot to happen. God has been at work in your life in particular ways; you have background and experiences and strengths that are yours alone. And I believe that God is calling you to use those gifts in unique and new and different ways on our campus and in our community. Our situation is not identical to Jeremiah's. But there are many needs for ministry and service for which seventeen or eighteen or nineteen years of preparation is plenty of time, especially ...

2299. Table Manners

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... shaken, replied, "Charles the Great, a good and honest man of the earth." "Him I know not," the Bishop said again. "Who comes?" The herald, now completely crushed, responded, "Charles, a lowly sinner, who begs the gift of Christ." To which the Bishop, Christ's representative, responded, "Enter! Receive Christ's gift of life!" The point, of course, is that in God's eyes, we're all equally needy. Charlemagne, Mother Teresa, you and me. None of us will ever be "good enough" to force entrance into the presence ...

2300. Wedding: Second Marriage With Children

Bulletin Aid

Derl G. Keefer

... from God to treasure for the rest of my life. Pastor: (Bride), place this ring on (Groom's) finger and repeat after me. Pastor (Bride Repeats): I, (Bride), take you, (Groom), to be my husband as a gift from God to treasure for the rest of my life. Solo: "With This Ring" (by Clyde Otis and Vincent Corso, Hudson Bay Music, Inc.) Prayer Of Thanksgiving By Family Friend Lighting Of The Unity Candle By Couple(as a reading from Sonnets from the Portugese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is ...

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