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1. Just Common People?

Romans 12:1-8

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Louis H. Valbracht

... one, all of the constructive, worthwhile things that I intended to do, and more and more, I am becoming just a slave to this endless, meaningless routine. The weeks and the months and the years go by, and I have nothing to show for them." It’s a common fear that grips all of us. The days pass by with ever increasing speed, while we lie, the slaves of trivia, chained to "Insignificance, U.S.A." And there is always this plaguing sense of guilt that WE ARE JUST NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THIS WITH A LIFE. Remember ...

2. A Streak of Common Sense

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

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Thomas D. Peterson

... twigs and repeats his request to come in. The pig refuses, so the wolf huffs and puffs and blows the house in. The second little pig is done for. A new long-range consequence had come to pass. Now we have to ask whether the two little pigs showed genuine common sense or not? Coming to the brick house the wolf calls out, is refused entrance, blows as hard as he can, but the brick house stays safe. Furious, the wolf comes down the chimney only to land in a kettle of boiling water set there for just such an ...

3. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... for it. That’s what we are all looking for. How can it be so? Paul answers that in vss. 2, 3, and 4. Listen: “Fill up my cup of happiness by thinking and feeling alike, with the same love for one another, the same turn of mind, and a common care for unity. There must be no room for rivalry and personal vanity among you, but you must humbly reckon others better than yourselves. Look to each other’s interests and not merely to your own.” (Phil. 2:2-4 NEB) That’s tough, isn’t it – but that is ...

4. Our Most Common Sin

Luke 18:9-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... ’s-eye—but those who know that they’ve missed the mark, those who know that they’re sinners and are willing to confess and seek mercy. For them the gates are opened, and they go away from God’s presence justified. So that’s the parable—revealing our most common sin. It’s a tough story, but if we deal with it honestly, if we face the lessons it teaches us, it will drive us to our knees. That’s the necessary position for us—on our knees—if we expect to enter the Kingdom of God. 1. The ...

5. The Common People Heard Him Gladly

Mark 12:35-40

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James W. Moore

... the good news of the Christian faith; this is the good news that Jesus came to deliver. We can be forgiven. We can make a new start. We can have a new life. We can, with the help of Christ, make a new beginning. And this is why the common people in New Testament times heard Jesus Gladly. He gave them hope. He told them that they were special to God. He treated them with love and respect. He valued them, prized them, treasured the, included them in the circle of acceptance. I have a minister friend named Tom ...

6. Baptism: The Common Call To Holiness

Mark 1:4-11

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Richard Gribble

... others. As God's children through baptism we are privileged to share God's life, but this privilege does not come without the consequent command to go forward. Baptism, the sacrament which unites all Christians in one family, also unites us in the common call to discipleship. The concept of baptism as a rite is rather straightforward, but the responsibilities that come with this sacrament are more complex. We all know that baptism makes us children of God and all the privileges that come with this elect ...

7. Song of a Commoner

Psalm 138:1-8

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Gordon Pratt Baker

The author of the One hundred and thirty-eighth Psalm is one of Israel’s common people. Poets come from all walks of life, and this poet refuses to permit his humble place to silence ... against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me. (Psalm 138:7) It is little wonder that, in closing his song, this poet of the common people should both marvel and rejoice that, surrounded by the divine love from its beginning to its end, his life is nothing less than "the work of thy hands." In all reverence he ...

8. Death: Commonality Explored

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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... us, it must have been very much a part of the reading, studying, and discussion of those who had barely separated themselves from the synagogues to become more than a sect of Judaism. Regardless of how death comes upon us, our passage points to a commonality and a value for Christian unity. There are four elements in the story which speak to us across all denominational lines. Self-Acceptance Moses was allowed to view the Promised Land. However, the Lord said, "but you shall not go over there." There is no ...

9. Finding Common Ground

Galatians 3:15-25

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J. Howard Olds

After visiting six different countries the past two weeks, I found myself humming the tune of Lee Greenwood’s song as I touched back down in the U.S.A. a couple of days ago. While we were treated well everywhere we went, I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free. The Apostle Paul was proud to be a Christian for Christ had set him free. Spiritual freedom was on his mind when he wrote this little letter to the churches in the region of Galatia. Some might call this letter in the Bible a ...

10. Syncing with the Spirit

Matthew 24:36-51

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Leonard Sweet

... faith communities, and our individual selves. We all have our individual concerns. We all have our individual priorities. We all have our individual emergencies. But as Advent calls us to focus and fuse ourselves we realize that we share a common bond, a common faith, a common commitment. So let us get “in synch” during this Advent Season. As you watch the metronomes on the video you begin to notice that the individual meters of each dance slowly begin to regulate themselves. They are beginning to be ...

11. The Majesty Of God's Love

John 17:1-11

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Mark Ellingsen

... in describing his phenomenon are beautiful. Here is what he wrote: "Therefore the Holy Spirit, whatever it is, is something common both to Father and Son. But that communion itself is consubstantial and co-eternal; and it may fitly be called ... sin and evil). It is making us new - making us one. A love that will not quit until it makes us one family. What a rich common inheritance you and I, all Christians and all creatures, share. We share in the love of the triune God - a love that makes one out of ...

12. The Fellowship of Joy

Philippians 1:3-11

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James Merritt

... at the Executive Committee Meeting in Nashville a couple of weeks ago, a dear lady got up and read one verse, Philippians 1:3, and the Lord impressed me immediately to preach this message. First Baptist Snellville and the church at Philippi have so much in common, even concerning the time period when Paul wrote this letter. It had been ten years since Paul had founded this church in Philippi, just as it has been ten years since I came to pastor this church. In the beginning of his ministry there, Paul faced ...

13. Moses: A Traveling God in a Pop-Up Camper

Exodus 13:17-22, 33:7-11

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John E. Harnish

... ahead of us and we've got to find His will and catch up with him." [3] So Moses pitched his pop-up tent, this portable holy space, the tabernacle. It was just a tent, but it was sacred space, holy ground where God met his people. It was common space, common ground, where the people met together. It was portable space, changing ground…because God is always on the move. And when they were all done…the cloud of the Lord descended, and the spirit of the Lord filled the place. May it be so in our tent of ...

14. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

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Hubert Beck

... to do all things, no one person can hold him/herself up as the model for what ought to be, we will know that in our common life together a richness can he found. There we are gifted by others to the glory of God as we in turn gift others with what ... if we always had our own way - that may well be further removed from God’s way than the way of mutuality born of the common vision of all of his people gathered together in his name! Perhaps the classic example of how such a vision and hope can stop disunity ...

15. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

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William J. Carl, III

... Christ in England and the Congregational Union of Scotland. Fortunately, the northern and southern wings of the Presbyterian church here in the United States finally came together in 1983 to form the PCUSA. So, as we look at our roots we see that we have a lot in common in both adversity and in unity as did David of old. That coming together was never more evident than when in both Cambridge and Oxford I shared in the leadership of the Lord's Supper as we broke bread and shared the cup together, all in the ...

16. Teammates in the Cause of the Lord

Acts 4:32-37

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Richard Gribble

... will always be present, but we cannot allow these to cloud our vision. Our mission and cause, the work of Jesus Christ, is far too valuable to allow personal pride, arrogance, or need for self-gratification to get in the way. We need to be teammates in our common goal of building the Kingdom of God in our world. Our work is the work of Christ for we are his body, as Saint Paul reminds us (1 Corinthians 12). We act most strongly as teammates when we become the Christ to others. Saint Teresa of Avila, the ...

17. House of God

Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22

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Lori Wagner

... –one that I like very much is the song by Eric Whitacre, a kind of music of the spheres with many voices in common from 12 countries in the world, a virtual choir. Listen to it here. It’s called “Lux Aurumque.”: https://youtu.be/D7o7BrlbaDs Or ... so, you can also find youtubes from 2012 or 2015 (Voices Around the World), videos of children singing from different countries in a common song. No matter which metaphor you love the most, Paul’s message is just as important today as it ever was. We live ...

18. Finding Unity through Christ

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Richard Gribble

... of all" (4:5-6a). Paul is clearly trying to demonstrate that the Christian community must be one of heart, attitude, and way of life if it wants to survive in the hostile environment of pagan Ephesus. While Paul is clear that a commonality in mind and heart is essential, there are several routes that individuals can follow to achieve this unified belief. There are various ways that the Spirit manifests himself as we practice different vocations depending on our talents and the opportunities that life sends ...

19. Partners with the Divine

John 17:20-26

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Schuyler Rhodes

... other, so much as it is about the building of the kingdom. I know, for example, that my spouse and I are together, not only to fulfill one another, but to be a blessing to the world around us. I know that we are deeply linked in this common purpose, so much so that John’s language makes sense. Partnership with the divine goes beyond our religiosity. It is deeper than our play-acting at church and it is more powerful than our own private agendas. Like all good partnerships, this one comes to fruition in ...

20. Nothing Special Friday

John 18:1-19:42

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Mary Austin

... , there was one special incentive. The people doing the crucifixion were in a hurry. Jesus had to be dead and buried before sundown, to comply with the religious law. Some people were nailed in place, and others tied in place. The placard that Jesus got was also common — passers-by could look and see what the criminal had done. “The King of the Jews” was a title that the Romans used for Herod. The title makes fun of Herod, the ruler of a small province, very far from all the important business of Rome ...

21. The Spirit Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... they spoke different languages spiritually. What unifies a people nationally? The national language! What unifies the people spiritually? A common language of faith and belief from which they derive meaning, power, and purpose. Language has the power to unify ... which keep them fragmented. The Spirit of Pentecost is the Spirit of unity, of realizing the things we have in common through a unified language of faith and belief. Such language recognizes the right to be different but ultimately unifies people ...

22. The Healing of the Man with the Withered Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

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James W. Moore

... . I’m glad that Jesus was a child of Grace and a servant of Love, rather than a slave of Law. Sometime blinded by the law, we miss the love. II. SECOND, SOMETIMES BLINDED BY COMMON PRACTICE WE MISS THE COMMON SENSE. The Pharisees were so trapped in their usual rigid common ways of doing things that they were blind to the common sense of helping a man in need. Remember the classic story about the young man who found his new wife in the kitchen preparing a roast for dinner. Very carefully, she cut the roast ...

23. Why We Gather At The Table

Exodus 12:1-30

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Eric Ritz

... another. Many of us have been enslaved to the mindset of the ME generation. So many neighborhoods are only 27 inches wide. They are only occupied by one person--ourselves. At Christ's table we are reminded that we are a community. WE ARE ALSO REMINDED OF OUR COMMON HUNGER. That is what we do at a table, is it not? We satisfy our hunger. Jesus knew that the greatest human hunger, beyond all our other hungers and desires, is the hunger for God. When we deny that hunger, or attempt to satisfy it with false and ...

24. Low Carb Christianity

Luke 14:25-35

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Leonard Sweet

... But if disciples could hate, that is reject, the earthly ties that bound them to human allegiances and loyalties first and foremost, then they could focus their faith and draw their strength from God's power, God's love, God's kingdom. Jesus went against common sense, against conventional wisdom, by declaring the family's strength couldn't be the source of his disciples' strength. Our primary identity isn't in family but in Christ. Only by letting go of family, letting go even of one's own life and picking ...

25. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

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Russell Conwell

... greatest men. Who are the great men of the world? The young man and young woman may well ask the question. It is not necessary that they should hold an office, and yet that is the popular idea. That is the idea we teach now in our high schools and common schools, that the great men of the world are those who hold some high office, and unless we change that very soon and do away with that prejudice, we are going to change to an empire. There is no question about it. We must teach that men are great only ...

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