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2301. Joy to the World

Mark 16:1-8

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Mark Trotter

... he even wondered if God himself had forsaken him. The first verse of the Gospel of Mark reads: The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Do you know what the last words of the crucifixion scene are, which are in a real sense the last words of Mark's gospel? The Roman centurion who is there to officially witness the crucifixion, says, "Surely this was the Son of God!" This was the Son of God: rejected, betrayed, scorned, humiliated, finally killed. This was the Son of God. You know what ...

2302. Reflections on a Bumper Sticker

Mark 2:1-12

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Mark Trotter

... complained of feeling guilty. The therapist shared this with me. He said he was feeling guilty and wanted to get rid of it. It was messing up his life, making him depressed all the time. In the therapy it was revealed that the person was doing something that violated his sense of right and wrong. He wanted the therapist to get rid of the guilt so that he could continue to live the life that he was living. The therapist said to him, if you want to get rid of the guilt, to stop doing what is causing it. So ...

2303. The Heart Has Eyes

Ephesians 1:15-23

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Mark Trotter

... ." Pascal, the great French mathematician in the 17th century, right at the start of the Enlightenment, realized that reason, which in those days people believed would be invincible, had a limited realm in which to rule. It was effective only with the senses. It can work with what the senses can give it, what can be seen. But it was helpless to probe the depth of the mystery that surrounds this life. The mystery that surrounds us belongs to different modes of perception. That is why he said, "The heart has ...

2304. They Grow Up Fast

Luke 2:41-52

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Mark Trotter

... one that says what you want it to say. Only in this case, they are both the same, really. Whether he is "in my Father's house," or "about my Father's business," the point is the same. At that age, boys entered into their vocations. At that age, Jesus sensed that he had a calling from God. But then Luke says he went back to Nazareth with his parents, and "he was obedient to them," as the Jewish Law demands, "Honor your father and your mother." That means he went back to apprentice with his father. But I can ...

2305. Timing Is Everything

Matthew 11:2-11

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Mark Trotter

... little corner of the world called Palestine: Jewish, Greek and Roman. Then it was time. And the time was fulfilled. And some people sensed it, like John the Baptist. He bet his life on it. "Now is the time that we have been waiting for!" The ... and the Roman way, the belief that life isn't going anywhere. It is cyclical. That's the technical word for it. A cyclical sense of time, just the same thing, over and over. Nothing new ever. But the biblical understanding of time, the Hebrew understanding, is that time ...

2306. Until It Dawns on You

Matthew 17:1-9

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Mark Trotter

... morning star arises in your hearts." "It is seldom that the same person knows much of science and about the things known before science." What a pity. What a deprived life. If you think that all that there is to know is a result of your data gathering, or your sense experience. What a shame. People tell me from time to time, I don't believe the creeds. I don't understand the doctrines of the Church, so I don't pay any attention to them. They just dismiss them. They are not a part of their life. I tell them ...

2307. What Kind of Name Is That?

Luke 1:26-31

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Mark Trotter

... baptized with the name Haroutun, which means `Resurrection.' My father was baptized with the name, Haroutunian, which means `Son of Resurrection.' My name also means `Son of Resurrection.' I am Joseph Haroutunian, and I will be a son of the Resurrection all my days." A sense of identity, a sense of destiny, comes with the conferring of a name. And that is the kind of name that was given to Jesus. It was conferred upon him a destiny, a vocation that he was to fulfill for us. His name was given in the event ...

2308. In the Darkness of Anxiety, There Is the Light of Peace

Luke 2:8-20

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... a new baby out in an animal shed. We arrived early so we would not have to wait in line long. That probably does not make sense, since we were in line long, but not a long line being at the front of it. As we stood there waiting, after having hurried, we ... different that Bethlehem was from one so long ago. I thought about people anxiously lining up to get into Bethlehem, hoping to find some sense of peace. That we live in a time of great anxiety is not even debatable. It is ironic that all the things we have ...

2309. Advent 1

Isaiah 2:1-5, Matthew 24:36-44, Romans 13:8-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... often has Jesus' Second Coming been predicted that the cry, "Wolf!" is no longer heard. Jesus, Paul, and the early church were wrong about the time of his return. Modern humanity is skeptical about his coming soon. Is there a possible meaning of the Parousia that would make sense to twenty-first-century society? Outline: What the second coming means for you today. a. The end of the world - vv. 37, 38. For the people of Noah's time, the end of the world came with the flood. The end of the world for me is my ...

2310. Epiphany 7

Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:33-37, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... not to be perfect, what is the point of justification and the cross? This text seems to say that God does expect us to be like him: holy, merciful, perfect. Outline: God expects all of us to be perfect. a. Perfect in holiness and love. b. Perfect in the sense of fulfillment and purpose. Old Testament: Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18 1. Why Be Good? (19:1-2). Need: We are living in a society where, like Israel of old, there is no king. Each person does what is right in his own eyes. American society is experiencing ...

2311. Lent 3

Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 5:1-11, John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42

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John R. Brokhoff

... of the sorrows of Jesus as he goes through the Passion? In this passage Paul deals with the cross and yet three times he refers to "rejoicing." Since Jesus refers to "the third day," he, too, could endure the cross with a sense of joy in the knowledge of a victorious ending. It is a joy but not in the sense of frivolity nor amusement. Outline: In the face of the cross we can rejoice because – a. We will share in God's glory - v. 2. b. We suffer with hope - v. 4. c. We are reconciled with God - v. 11. 2 ...

2312. Lent 5

John 11:1-16, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Romans 8:1-17, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

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John R. Brokhoff

... to be destroyed is death. This is the Easter message. But this is Lent 5 before death occurs. Death is a friend in the sense that real, true, and eternal life cannot be experienced without first going to death. If there is no death, there can be no life ... the cross alone? Are we not believers in and lovers of Jesus? Does he not mean all the world to us? If we have any love, any sense of loyalty, we will say with Thomas, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." Outline: Can we go all the way with Jesus? a ...

2313. Easter 6

Acts 17:16-34, 1 Peter 3:8-22, John 14:15-31

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John R. Brokhoff

... he is so regarded, we will live under his lordship in every area of life. 2. Defense. A Christian in a hostile world needs to be a defender of his faith, as Peter suggests in verse 15. It is not a defense in the sense that the truth needs our defense, but it is the sense of giving a reason or explanation of the faith we hold. This calls for more than a blind, irrational faith that may be based only on feeling. It calls for reflection and thinking about our faith. Every Christian needs to be a theologian and ...

2314. Call Waiting

John 1:29-42

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Susan R. Andrews

... I was working as a seminarian with a group of junior highs in a Congregational church in Newton, Massachusetts, that I began to receive the answer to that all-important question. Those adolescents painfully reminded me of myself - with my restless energy, my peripatetic mind, my mercurial sense of self-esteem, my desire to be good and to see good and to do good in the world. What was I looking for? I was looking for a balanced life - where truth and passion could give voice to the God in me and the God in ...

2315. Transformed in Christ

John 3:1-17

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Richard Gribble

... too often the busy contemporary lifestyle we lead causes us to find and make excuses for not taking time to pray. Transformation means we make prayer a priority and make no excuses for our failures. We need to renew our baptismal commitment and take on with a renewed sense of purpose and fervor our relationship with God. The Pauline author reminds us vividly: "If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will deny us; if we are faithless ...

2316. His Last Command ... Our First Concern!

Matthew 28:16-20

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Stephen M. Crotts

... trash, this comes as quite a jolt! I know of no other statement in the Bible that can give a man more of a sense of esteem, joy, and purpose than Christ's great commission to his disciples. It turns the farm, the assembly line, the office, the kitchen, the ... the mountaintop around the ascending Christ. The Lord has just commissioned them. Filled with wonder, awe, and a deep sense of responsibility, the disciples' faces reflect the gravity of the moment. One may count them - Peter, John, James, Matthew ...

2317. Wondering Wonder

Luke 2:1-7

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Leonard Sweet

... the natural world from her own experience and study of the stretch of Maine coastline she called home. She could write magnificently and movingly even about plankton, because she spent time observing the workings of nature close at hand. In her small book, The Sense of Wonder, she describes introducing her small nephew to the woods and waters of her homeland. "'If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children,' she writes, 'I should ask that her gift to ...

2318. A High FLOSS Church

Romans 14:1--15:13

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Leonard Sweet

... sea or cities under siege. What the Bible does offer instead of easy answers is the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus. Along with all the obvious damage, Hurricane Katrina blew away our sense of security and control, destroyed any notion of first-world superiority over third-world catastrophes, and has drowned out any sense of differences among all those who live in the underwater city of New Orleans. There will be nothing BUT labor for years to come in order to rebuild and restore the cities, roads ...

2319. How to Beat the Devil

Matthew 4:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... of timing than the devil: and he bides his time for you and for me . . . where you are most vulnerable when you are most vulnerable and how you are most vulnerable The devil has a profoundly developed sense of timing. The devil is a master at biding his time for when we are most vulnerable, waiting for where we are most vulnerable, patiently calculating HOW we are most vulnerable. So: where are you most vulnerable? At your weakest. So: when are you most vulnerable? At your strongest. So: ...

2320. Humans, Inc.

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , He has mighty nigh ruint me.' Mr. President, that's about what Senator McCarthy has done to the Senate." (Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Humor of a Country Lawyer (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1983]). One of the things that separates a human from a Neanderthal is a sense of humor, the ability to make jokes, to find the laughing matter of life, and to smile in the midst of adversity. 3) The third H of Humans, Inc. is Hospitality. When Jesus invited himself over to his house, Zacchaeus immediately showed him hospitality. He ...

2321. Addiction Free

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... him to keep to keep his seizures at bay also pulled a hazy, softening cloud over all the information and experiences that bombard any new-to-this-world child. As the medication level drops the decibel level of the world goes up, jarring all Egil's sense. The other addiction is one Egil has used as a self-calming mechanism, a kind of self-medication. Sucking his thumb has been a comforting activity, a reliable constant. Without it he is even more disturbed by the ever-sharpening environment in which he finds ...

2322. House of Jesus

John 14:5-14

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Leonard Sweet

... . It's perhaps surprising that Jesus, who intentionally choose rootless-ness and wandering as marks of his ministry ("foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head" – Matthew 8:20, Luke 9:58) refers to the sense of house and home in order to offer comfort and promise peace to his disciples. But the fact is that while Jesus may have been without a settled space to call his own, he was always at home in the house of his Father. Jesus, as the divine Logos ...

2323. The Real Winning Attitude

1 Timothy 6:3-10

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Leonard Sweet

... who dies with the most toys wins!" Everybody loves to win. And everyone loves a winner. Winning brings a sense of power, achievement, success, and yes, great happiness. Who wouldn't want to win? But winning can come with ... that most boys would not want him on their team. But Shaya's father understood that if his son were chosen to play it would give him a sense of belonging. Shaya's father approached one of the boys in the field and asked if Shaya could play. The boy looked around for guidance from his ...

2324. Your Cheatin' Heart

Luke 6:17-26

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Leonard Sweet

... , nothing else can function properly. Without its heart, its central core, the complex web of information stored inside is torn apart, losing all sense and structure. A hard drive is really a "heart drive." When your "heart drive" fails, your entire machine is doomed to death. Men ... song lyrics, biblical references to heart-stealing are serious accusations. Heart-stealing was tantamount to taking another's whole sense of self. 2 Samuel 15:16 bemoans that "Absalom stole the hearts of the people of Israel." By ...

2325. Greeting and Meeting Jesus

Philippians 3:12-4:1

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Leonard Sweet

... to share with his friends and followers grew more dear. Mary's stupefying, spontaneous, prescient act, anointing Jesus' feet with the aromatic oil, brought sweetness both to the household it perfumed and to the moment it marked. The sense of smell is the most memory-evoking of all human sense. As the pungency of the perfume permeated the atmosphere, that aroma also became forever linked in the minds and memories of Jesus and his dinner companions. It smelled like a quiet dinner with friends. It smelled like ...

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