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2426. Praying the Lectionary: Palm/Passion Sunday

Mark 14:1-15:47 or 15:1-39 · Philippians 2:5-11 · Isaiah 50:4-9a · Psalm 31:9-16

Bulletin Aid

Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson

... , the denial of Peter, the scheming of the Jewish leaders, the corruption of the Roman leaders, the rejection of the crowds and the abandonment of the disciples, remind us all that we continue to share the responsibility of similar crimes and sins. Forgive us, Jesus our Lord and king! God of grace: C: Have mercy on us. P: Cross-bearing Savior: May your Spirit be with us as we embark upon our journey into Holy Week. Lighten our darkness and make us keenly aware of the priceless gift that is ours through your ...

2427.

Psalm 99:1-9

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... 1 Sam. 4:4). Thus, this title and perhaps the symbol of the cherubim-ark itself face the congregation with the enthroned King Yahweh. In response, the nations are to tremble. The reason is made clear by the prepositions of the next verse: Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations. The notion of Israel’s privileged position in Yahweh’s self-revelation is the focus of later verses. But the nations are not excluded from enjoying the benefits of his revelation channeled through this one ...

2428. The Seventy “Sevens”

Daniel 9:20-27

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... again before Jesus returns, but we cannot predict exactly what or when. However, one thing is certain: God will one day destroy all evil human kingdoms and set up his righteous, eternal reign in an obvious way. In the meantime, his more hidden kingdom has already been inaugurated by our Lord in his first advent (Matt. 4:17; 10:7; 11:11–12; 12:28; Luke 10:9; 11:20; 16:16; 17:20–21), so that he rules in the hearts of his disciples. We can advance his kingdom in a number of ways. First of all, we can allow ...

2429. Building Trust

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

David Coffin

... journey. This is an ongoing lifestyle of living with an addicted person, which takes time and practice. This is precisely what Jesus is attempting to teach his disciples, as they will inevitably face persecution for their faith in the crucified and risen Jesus as Lord. Historically, these disciples were not quick learners. By today’s standards they flunked the ACT and SAT many times. They will have to attend community or junior college before they are ready to step up to the next level. The good news is ...

2430. A Responsive Prayer for Advent 1

Luke 21:26-36 · 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 · Psalm 25 · Jeremiah 33:14-16

Bulletin Aid

Garth Wehrfritz-Hanson

... Hear us and come, Jesus, our righteous branch. P: God of the covenant, as we begin a new church year, grant us grace to turn away from our sins, and teach us humility to walk on your paths of steadfast love and faithfulness. The days are surely coming, says the LORD: C: Hear us and come, Jesus, our righteous branch. P: God of Advent, give us grateful hearts as people of faith to abound in love for one another and for all, as we serve you in the church and the world and prepare for your coming. The days are ...

2431. All Stirred Up

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Richard Patt

... me if you want, but I'll have to get back to you." There are few front porches left. We allow limited access into most parts of our lives. Is it allowable to pop in on anyone any more? Hurray for Martha! She was accessible; she thereby provided for the Lord's human need. Sad to say, her best intentions turned into a sour situation. It was not too long before she felt all stirred up. This blessed, felicitous woman had set out to do a noble deed. But soon the air was full of tension. How did all this develop ...

2432. Why Did Pastor Hypnotize Jenny?

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Tony Everett

... at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: "Yahweh Sidquenu" (The Lord is our righteousness). Here is God in action. Here is a promise of comfort and hope to those who are discouraged. Here is an admonition to remain faithful to those who are ready to give up. And, best of all, here is a promise that the ...

2433. Roots Near The River

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... by Jeremiah, we need roots near the river -- the river of the water of life in Jesus Christ; the river of the water of baptism. Paul continues: "Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 7:24-25). It is the cross of Christ that expands our perception of reality. When you are overcome by the pressures and anxieties of daily living, when you feel burdened by a heavy load of sin, look to the cross through the lens of faith. This ...

2434. Fire Wood

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

John G. Lynn

... rock in pieces?' " Before Jeremiah, when the prophet Isaiah was lit to action by God, he saw the seraphim come to him with a burning coal, touch his lips and then say, "Who will serve me?" Only after God's fire touched him could Isaiah say, "Here am I, Lord, here am I." Like the Lodgepole Pine, we all need the fire of God's Word in our lives, or we will grow cold. We will be ice-capped. Our job will cease. Our friendships will cease. Our marriages will cease. Our very lives will cease, because human nature ...

2435. Taking The Good With The Bad

Job 1:1-5

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... doubt about it!" God replied, "We'll see about that. Go ahead and do to him all you want, but don't hurt him." What God is saying is -- you can go so far and no further. Having gained access to Job's possessions, Satan left the presence of the Lord scheming in his mind what he might do to Job. He was going to take advantage of his opportunity. One day a messenger came running in from the range in a state of panic. He said to Job, "While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding in the ...

2436. Too Good To Be True

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... of Jeremiah Yahweh speaks through the prophet describing the way in which the people were ignoring the covenant. In chapter 7 of Jeremiah the Lord says, "This command I gave them, 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk only ... ; with a diamond point it is engraved on the tablet of their hearts" (17:1). What a different message in our text for today! The Lord says, "I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall ...

2437. How Costly Grace? Or Does Spelling Count?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... all people should be the most humble, for we know of the greatness and the mystery of God Almighty. It is we who should know the words of scripture from Isaiah 55:8 and 9: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher then your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Humility before God is the beginning of faith, and opens our hearts and minds up to search for how we may need to change in our thinking ...

2438. Daring To Trust The Roots

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... into the soil and history of the Hebrew people and our nearer roots in the greatest product of the Hebrew line, Jesus of Nazareth, our Lord and Savior, whose birth we are preparing to celebrate. And so let us ask ourselves as we move into Advent: Do we trust these roots ... all you can now for tomorrow we die." Isaiah said, "It's a sure thingg." Isaiah said you can trust the roots; you can trust the Lord; in God's timing the Kingdom will come. I have a garden. One of the new things I have added to it is a bed of ...

2439. It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... as they were in the time of the Zealots on Masada, and their doomed resistance to the Romans. "Can these bones live?" "Lord, you know." What is the life we hope for? Where is fulfilled Ezekiel's vision of life out of death? Several miles ... be returned after death to this world. Lazarus again will die. As Martha and Mary and you and I and all of us will die. Our Lord raises Lazarus to show that all power in life and death belongs to him -- even in this world! Such a gospel thunders against the hopelessness we ...

2440. Holy Week

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... web of conspiracy and death about Jesus is almost complete. The night and with it the sin of the world is now upon the Lord in full force. Our lives are part light and part darkness. We are daily challenged to seek the light, the way of God. God ... God is his help; he will in the end never be put to shame. In the Gospel we see the end is near for Jesus. The Lord names his own betrayer, but like the Ragman does nothing to avoid the pain. Rather, he willingly takes on the pain of rejection and treason by ...

2441. Maundy Thursday Service

1 Corinthians 11:17-34, John 13:1-17

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... us be true to you, kneeling as you knelt, girding ourselves with a towel, washing each other's feet, and coming to your table. We thank you for this invitation, and pray that we might widen the circle so many others will come to know you as servant and Lord, as gentle savior and master. As we come to this special place and hour, we bless the darkness which called all indoors to share your Passover from the slavery of sin to the glory of salvation, and ask for the courage to follow you to that holy hill, and ...

2442. King Ahaz,Idolater

Drama

Peter C. Garrison

... academic question at this point, I guess. Especially for me. When I got stressed out being king, I grew even more faithless to the Lord. Other: What did you do? (Moving a little way off) Maybe I ought not to be talking with you. Ahaz: I'm ashamed to ... the doors of the temple and put up altars all over Jerusalem. Then I made high places for offerings to other gods. I ignored the Lord, the God of my ancestors. Other: Well, maybe that's why we're just standing around. We ignored God or wanted him to leave us ...

2443. The Wicked Pie Bakers

Matthew 21:33-46

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... import -- Danish pastry. SAM: I see I can't talk to you. JO: You can talk, but will you listen? SAM: I get so fed up with people not doing right around here. I told Pam just the other day that she had to get her act together or the Lord was going to punish her. DON: Remember those chocolate chip cookies Nancy baked for the Christmas party last year? JO: Why don't you pray for people in the church? When's the last time you prayed for Roger? SAM: Roger, the pastor? Well, I don't know. JO: Instead ...

2444. Yes, It Becomes Unclean

Haggai 2:11-17

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... twenty. I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not return to me, says the LORD. -- Haggai 2:11-17 When my family grew large enough, not so much in numbers, but in the size of its members, it was time to ... "victimless" crimes, that our own personal pollution infects and affects everyone around us. We are one in the spirit, one in the Lord, and we need to take stoc_esermonsk of the four walls of our own temple. As the poet John Donne wrote many centuries ago ...

2445. Divine Providence

Genesis 45:1-28

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... of our tomorrows in Your loving care while we cannot see what will come even in the next hour. Give us faith, Lord, to truly entrust our lives to You. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we plan our lives day by day thinking we are in control of our own futures. Too often, Lord, we fail to even ask for Your leadership and guidance as we make our plans for life. Forgive us, Lord, and give us the vision to understand You are truly God and You hold the destiny of all people and nations ...

2446. The Short-lived Nature Of Miracles

Exodus 17:1-7

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... this place for worship. People: Truly God has provided in the past, but will God care for us tomorrow? Leader: The Lord God of hosts is faithful to all who would serve Christ. People: But some followers of Christ have suffered and some were even killed. Leader: Eternity belongs to the Lord and in Christ we will know joy forever. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You are the Lord of Miracles, yet like the manna for ancient Israel, we are so quick to forget Your gifts. Send us miracles ...

2447. Jesus Prays for His Disciples

John 17:6-19

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... would change, my life would be great." Consider, silently, the content of our prayers of confession. (One minute of silence.) Unison Prayer of Confession (Pray only that part of the prayer that you are willing to believe and obey.) Lord of all time and space, Lord of our generation, Lord of our society, Lord of our personal lives, we confess our slowness to bathe ourselves in your prayer. You have called us to use our minds to discover the mind of Christ, yet we are lethargic. We have so many problems and ...

2448. Hope Against Hope

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... I speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore I am deeply moved for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord" (31:20). Like a protective parent sorrowing over a child, God sorrows over Israel. "... they have called you an outcast," they have said "no ... falsified, the prophet returns to the tradition. Although Judah is a vassal state and there is no dynasty, no ruling family, the Lord says in our text: The days are surely coming ... when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel ...

2449. The Right Child

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... two chapters earlier, in chapter 7, we read of the sign given to Ahaz, the terrified king. Though he refused to ask for a sign, the Lord gave him one. "Behold a young woman will conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel, God with us." And a child ... only this time it was the Messiah, and Isaiah's words were there in the Jewish scripture like a verbal cradle to receive the Lord Jesus, a symphony of words for a manger: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government ...

2450. Advent 4

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56, Micah 5:1-4, Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... was written from a post-Easter perspective. The Magnificat expresses theology in a poetic and narrative poem. Psalm Of The Day Psalm 80:1-7 -- "Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock." (v. 1) Prayer Of The Day "Stir up your power, O Lord, and come. Take away the hindrance of our sins and make us ready for the celebration of your birth, that we may receive you in joy and serve you always." Hymn Of The Day "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" Theme Of The Day How God Sent His Son Gospel -- The ...

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