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2376. October 2-8

Mark 10:1-12

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... can be used as prayers.) "As Man and Woman We Were Made" "Children of the Heavenly Father" * "Heavenly Father, Hear Our Prayer" "Jesus Loves Me" "Jesus Loves the Little Children" * "O Perfect Love" * "Our Parent, by Whose Name" "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus" "'Tis the Gift to Be Simple" "When Love Is Found" * "Your Love, O God, Has Called Us Here" Reading the Scripture Divide the reading of this lesson between two readers and the men and women in the choir as follows: Verse 2 - Reader 1 Verse 3a - Reader 2 ...

2377. First Sunday After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... At the age of thirty, when rabbis can take up their calling, Jesus began his ministry. Jesus was constantly in the temple on sabbath days, as was his custom, Luke tells us. Always Jesus fulfilled the law. Never did he circumvent or destroy that precious gift that you gave us through Moses. (To be prayed by the congregation) Almighty God, Jesus fulfilled both the letter and the spirit of your law. Help us to follow Jesus' example. Transform our hearts so that we can joyfully choose the paths of obedience and ...

2378. Teach Fear To Say Its Prayers

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... days we feel we are in charge. Some days we don’t feel in charge. Some of you were born with a gift of buoyancy, have a greater ability to ride the waves. Be thankful and offer a hand to someone not so blessed. Some are, by nature, allergic to ... the anxieties of the times. They need the help of you gifted ones. William James, in Varieties of Religious Experience, deals with two types of people: those who seem to have started life with a bottle or ...

2379. You Can Never Go Home Again

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... same as he was in those earlier years. I attended an ordination of two young theologues recently. At the reception, a person from each home parish presented each of them with a gift and delivered a speech of acceptance, wishing them well as they go forth into their ministry. How would they have felt had there been no reception, no gift, no speech of acceptance? They would have been taken aback. They would have been hurt. They would have been distressed. Was Jesus taken aback? Was he upset? Was he shocked? I ...

2380. Would That God. . .

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... and dependable, even to gain her own wishes. Then the counselor gives her the chance to see into herself. If her husband is Number One in her world, then all she does and thinks and values fits into a program to keep faith with him. Had these gifts been genuinely received by her, the counselor would have helped her gain a working faith. Now, let’s imagine a bit more. The woman sees herself in the eyes of the counselor the facts are that she is a bundle of contradictions, a childish, spoiled fifty-year ...

2381. We Haven’t Got To Them Yet

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... today is that perfection is not the essential part of our religion. Rather, it is purity of heart. Perfection can become an idol. We are not to think that there’s only one right way to go about justifying our lives. Justification belongs to God and is his gift to us. Jesus teaches a simple lesson that deepens and broadens as it touches on the larger aspects of life. Put your heart on God, keep the relationship above all; then you will be free to meet, adapt, and grow with all kinds of new and exciting ...

2382. Read the Directions

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... wallets, every skill that we have, and every good thought in our minds. All of them and much, much more are the gracious gifts of a bountiful God. Truly, he has “a bountiful eye.” So, in putting together a life that pleases God and that can ... hopeless human condition before an all-holy God demanded resources outside ourselves. God provided those resources free of charge in the greatest gift ever given his only Son, condemned as a criminal, crucified as a slave, buried as a reject, raised as a Savior and ...

2383. Solomon's Song Of Love

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh. My beloved has gone down to his garden to the bed of spices, to pasture his flock in the garden, to gather lilies ... Eat O friends and drink, drink deeply of lovers. God knows we know how complicated the good gift of human sexual love is. As a church, as communities of faith, we strive to live with the most difficult questions of human sexuality - what does it mean to be faithful? What does it mean to be responsible? How can we educate our children to be intelligent ...

2384. Wisdom In A Proverb

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... can't make it drink. Birds of a feather flock together. A stitch in time, saves nine. Chickens come home to roost. What goes around, comes around. A new broom sweeps clean. Out of sight, out of mind. A rolling stone gathers no moss. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.D on't borrow trouble.Dead men tell no tales. Angels go where wise men fear to tread. From deep within the folk wisdom, we find simple truths that are stated so aptly, that they become proverbs. These are insights into human behavior, norms ...

2385. Living By Faith And Trust

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... God that nothing could defeat him. It was a faith and trust that prompted his good deeds, out of a shear gratitude to God for the gift of life. It was a faith and trust that carried him through trials and rejections. It was a faith and trust that opened to him ... next morning. As we held hands during those moments of prayer, he said, "I don't worry. I have always known that life is a gift to me. I have always believed in God's care. I have no reason to change my mind now, no matter what happens tomorrow." I ...

2386. The M And M Factor

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... a special reverie all his own, he said, "You know, I have been very, very blessed in my life and I don't have to make these gifts. I just want to give to something that will be of some help to others so that they can someday say how lucky they are." It wasn' ... They mean that God's love comes upon us whether we are deserving of that love or not. God's love comes to us as a grace, a gift that we never earned. We never earn it with a long list of good works, nor a long list of unbroken laws. God's love and care ...

2387. Pathway To God's Kingdom

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... planted, growing into a great bush that is part of the value of nature. Even the birds of the air can use its protection for nesting. (Mark 4:30-32) I want to tell you an incredible story about the mysterious growth of God's kingdom that resulted in a gift of great worth. It is not, like that of Jacob the farmer, a make-believe story. This is a true story about another Jacob! On April 18, 1942, into gun-gray sky, sixteen B-25 planes took off from a pitching aircraft-carrier deck and headed for Japan. They ...

2388. When Something Is About To Happen

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Long

... to conceive a child, in vain. Or again, plans are changed; the dignitary travels by another route, bypassing the town, leaving the once-festive bunting to droop in the rain. Even Christmas day has its own measure of disappointment. The packages are opened, the gifts admired and put away. The tree comes down; the shepherds and angels are stored for another year, and the long-awaited day passes with a sense that nothing, nothing really, has happened. In a far more profound way, the church has always struggled ...

2389. The Healing Of Simon Peter's Mother-In-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... , that is, to change their wrong ways. His healing ministry did not suggest the suffering were guilty of doing anything wrong. Their action was not to repent but to have faith to become well. In the Old Testament, the faithful considered health a divine gift. They expected good health. The practice of medicine as we know it had not yet developed. So when disease struck, people had only God to look to for aid. They saw sickness as a spiritual matter. They linked it somehow with sin. Jesus carried forward ...

2390. Maundy Thursday/Holy Thursday

John 13:1-17, Exodus 12:1-30, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, John 13:31-38

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... is to pass on to others that which he has received. Knowledge of God's redemptive actions has been passed on to us as a gift. Our duty and privilege consists in passing it on to others. Broken for you (v. 24). Jesus' body was broken like bread for you and ... God whom we worship in Jesus Christ gives himself to us and for us. The Lord's Supper is the most personal of God's gifts. Gospel: John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Lasting love (v. 1). The RSV translation has it that Jesus loved his disciples "to the end." This ...

2391. Proper 14

Ephesians 4:17--5:21, 2 Samuel 18:1-18, John 6:25-59

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Mary and Joseph. Jesus makes the sublimest of claims for himself: that anyone who eats of him (receives in faith) will be given the gift of eternal life. However, no one can come to him unless he is drawn by the Father. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Old Testament: 2 Samuel ... Bread Of Life, who has come down to earth from heaven (v. 41). Why did he come? To raise us up, to give us the gift of eternal life (v. 44). We could say that Jesus came to free us from our earthboundness, so that we might learn to soar with ...

2392. The Baptism Of Our Lord

Mk 1:4-11 · Act 19:1-7 · Acts 10:34-38 · Isa 42:1-9 · Gen 1:1-5 · Ps 29

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... upon the waters..." (v. 3). Psalm 89:1-29 -- "I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth" (v. 27). Psalm 28 Prayer Of The Day: God of favor, you acclaimed Jesus your beloved Son in his baptism by John in the Jordan River and gifted him mightily with your Spirit. As you have also shone your favor upon us through our baptism, so fill us with the fullness of your Spirit that we might accomplish the tasks you have given us to do. In the holy name of Jesus. Amen. Theme For The Day: The ...

2393. Epiphany 8

Hosea 2:2-23, Mark 2:18-22, 2 Corinthians 3:1-6

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... that he has empowered us to put into practice. Outline: 1. Confidence and competence are needed for success. 2. The apostle Paul had both confidence and competence. His confidence was based on the Lord's faithfulness (vv. 4-5). His competence was a gift of God. 3. Overconfidence in ourselves leads to the sin of pride but to excuse ourselves from ministry for lack of competence indicates a lack of faith in God's Spirit. 4. The Lord imparts to each believer and to the whole church competence for ministry ...

2394. Epiphany

Ephesians 3:1-13, Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... stars. In some mysterious sense we are star children, both physically and spiritually. When the wise men laid before the Christ child their treasure of gold, they were giving him star dust, the substance of another world that had been reborn. It made a fitting gift for the One who had come from the eternal God and would one day return to the eternal God, who was himself the light of God's presence. Sermon Title: Mission Mandate: Follow The Light! Sermon Angle: The Magi followed the star in hopes of finding ...

2395. Proper 18

Mark 7:24-30, Mark 7:31-37, Proverbs 22:1-16, James 2:1-13

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Bible). Outline: 1. What our eyes see depends on what's in our hearts. 2. Many behold the world with covetous eyes because they are misers. 3. The believer sees the world with bountiful eyes that flow from a redeemed heart. 4. Those with bountiful eyes behold God's many gifts and share them freely (v. 1). Lesson 2: James 2:1-10 (11-13) 14-17 Sermon Title: Don't Be A Cur. Sermon Angle: A cur is a little dog or pup which characteristically yaps and jumps at the feet of its master in order to win attention and ...

2396. Proper 25

Hebrews 7:11-28, Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6, Mark 10:46-52

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... man was not blind his whole life. He eyes had once soaked in the beauty of God's creation. What he was asking for was the gift of second sight. I see this as a type of metaphor of our life with God. As a child, God created us to behold the beauty ... by Jesus (v. 52). 5. We too are beggars for our lives and the lives of others. Don't let Jesus pass you by without receiving this gift of new life. One of the Hebrew words for mercy, racham, is related to the word for womb. It has the connotation of the mother's ...

2397. Proper 28

Mk 13:1-32 · Heb 10:11-25 · 1 Sam 1:4-20 · Ps 16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... now know that there are some genetic factors and that every birth is not a direct manifestation of God's will. Nevertheless, it's still safe to say that God is the giver of all life. When God brings a new life into this world it is both a gift and a blessing. Love without strings (vv. 5, 8). For much of the history of humankind, women have been judged according to how well they fulfilled their role as mothers. A childless woman was like a parched spring or a fruitless vine. In spite of this, Elkanah loved ...

2398. Proper 6

Mk 4:26-34 · 2 Cor 5:6-17 · 1 Sam 15:34 - 16:13 · Ps 20

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... mystery of the kingdom is revealed to the disciples but remains obscure for outsiders. The first parable (vv. 26-29) lifts up the mystery of growth. The seed sprouts and grows of its own, not because of human efforts. The growth of the kingdom is a gift of God. The second parable (vv. 30-32) emphasizes the magnitude of the kingdom's growth and its small beginnings. The mustard seed begins as one of the smallest seeds and grows into one of the largest shrubs, habitat for countless creatures; so it is with ...

2399. Proper 9

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10, Mark 6:1-13, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... him from being too proud of all the revelations he has received. There has been much speculation about the nature of this "thorn" but nothing can be proved. Paul accepts this affliction as a means of keeping his focus on God's grace rather than his own gifts (v. 9). Paul feels foolish in having to defend himself like this but blames the Corinthians for forcing him to do this. Gospel: Mark 6:1-13 After a whirlwind teaching and healing tour, Jesus returns to his boyhood home. On the Sabbath he taught in the ...

2400. Trinity Sunday

Jn 3:1-17 · Mt 28:16-21 · Rom 8:12-17 · Isa 6:1-8 · Ps 29

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... must be born of water (baptism) and the Holy Spirit to enter the kingdom of God. In the final part of this text (vv. 16-17) Jesus reveals that the way to be born of the Spirit is to believe in God's Son. He is the Father's love gift for the redemption of the world. Gospel: Matthew 28:16-21 Just prior to this lection, the risen Christ orders his disciples to meet him at a certain mountain in Galilee. They worship him but some have doubts. Christ announces that God has given him all authority. He commands ...

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