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1. At The Manger By Invitation

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . Has he become your personal Savior yet? The shepherds remind us that Jesus hangs out with the least, the lost, and the marginalized. Do we have any relationships with such persons? The shepherds brought nothing to the manger of Bethlehem except a humble and contrite hearts and a glimmer of faith. That's all that Jesus requires of us. The Shepherds told everybody the good news about the Christ-child. Have you told anybody lately? Recently I ran across a personal testimony by a lady named Mary Ann Bird ...

2. In Defense Of Ceremony

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... rising sun, anointed with the oil of the Holy Spirit of God, and given new robes as symbols of the new life." Just a ceremony? Baptism is much more than that. It signifies all that God has done for us in Jesus Christ. It is an act of community, of contrition, and of commitment. It is the first outward expression of new life in Christ Jesus. It is at the heart of every Christian's walk with God. And it is available to all who confess their faith in Jesus Christ today. 1. Frank S. Mead, TARBELL'S TEACHER'S ...

3. Apples, Onions, and Cheese

Mark 7:1-23, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... than the prophet Isaiah, “For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, "I dwell on a high and holy place, and also with the contrite and lowly of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.” For “the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart. O God, you will not despise.” (Psalm 51) In Mark, Matthew, and Luke, we see Jesus having it out with some of the Pharisees from Jerusalem. The topic is ...

4. The Keys To Happiness -- Purity Of Heart

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... I shall be whiter than snow ... Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me ... a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (RSV) If you want to know what "purity of heart" is, read Psalm 51! One of the ironies of ... our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9, RSV). Or the words of King David: "A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise" (Psalm 51, v. 17b, RSV). Hear and believe. Accept God's forgiveness, freely offered at ...

5. Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany

Sermon

Russell F. Anderson

... to the son the Moslems killed, take him into the home as your son, and raise him as a Moslem." Our Lord taught that if we would worship the Lord, we must first make peace with our enemies. Reconciliation involves three things: contrition, confession, and satisfaction (to attempt to right the situation). Most of us stop after the first or, possibly, the second part of the act of reconciliation. In order for spiritual harmony to be completely restored, the peace making process must be completed. Norman ...

6. Listening or Hearing?

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, some fell ... into soil and grew, and yielded a hundred-fold." The parable does not say two-fold, six-fold, or eight-fold, but one hundred-fold! This is how God blesses the "broken and contrite heart" (Psalm 51:17). (And I believe we can safely say "always blesses," because for anyone who truly comes expecting to receive a spiritual blessing of God, he will be considerably more than overwhelmed - one hundred-fold is no exaggeration.) How much more overwhelming can ...

7. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... collectors had many ways to cheat the public and made a lot of money doing it. Respectable people despised them. No wonder the man does not dare to lift his eye to heaven. He is bitterly aware of his distance from God and can only beat his breast in contrition. He and his family are in a hopeless situation. To repent, he will need not only to quit his way of life, but also to restore his dishonest gains with an added fifth in damages. He does not even know all those with whom he has had dealings! Even ...

8. Overcoming Self

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... our iniquities are taken away forever. Nothing remains undone, nothing necessary for our salvation unfulfilled, not even the most insignificant part still to be accomplished. Judas could have been pardoned and restored, had his remorse given way to a true contrition! And if Jesus would have forgiven even his betrayer (had that desperate disciple sought forgiveness in faith), we too should believe that the Savior has pardon, love and peace for us also! No sin could possibly be worse than Judas’ treachery ...

9. Saints With Crooked Haloes

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... your heart as well as ears. No matter how often you have failed, no matter how dismal may be your record, no matter how limited may be your skills, God wants to claim you as his own and commission you in his service. If you have a humble and contrite heart, even a little bit of faith, and if you are available for God, you can be one of his saints with crooked haloes. Remember, God does not work in conventional ways. Listen to St. Paul talking to his Corinthian Christians: "Not many of you were wise by human ...

10. With All Your Heart

Joel 2:12-17, Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and purify us from all unrighteousness.” God wants a heart that confesses sin because God likes an honest heart, a contrite heart, a heart that is willing to reveal its imperfections and afflictions. Third, we must return to God with a heart of repentance ... . Repenting means acknowledging, confessing, and turning away from sin. Repentance is the act of contrition carried out to cancel sin’s transgression. To say we have sinned is one thing. To turn away from sinful ways is ...

11. Turn Right with the Right Turn

Luke 13:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... I am guilty, and I deserve to be here." The King then gave an order to the guard and said, "Release this guilty man, I do not want this man corrupting all these other innocent people." Let me tell you something else about repentance. It involves contrition over sin, but it's more than contrition. You can be sorry for your sin, and still die in your sin. Now if you are truly repentant, you will be sorry. But you can be sorry without being repentant. 2 Cor. 7:9-10 says, "Now I rejoice, not that you were made ...

12. The Place beyond Revenge

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... . The perpetrators of 9/11 had executed a flawless, surgical and liturgical blow at the central nervous system of our nation. Our response ... is the problem ... Before 9/11 we worshiped with less insight, in more insular comfort zones. Now every worship service begins with soul-searching and contrition ... we pray better and more deeply.2 Our response ... is the problem ... Before 9/11 we worshiped with less insight, in more insular comfort zones. Now every worship service begins with soul-searching and ...

13. A Call for Repentance - Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... the portico and the altar. Let them say, ‘Spare your people, Lord. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?’” This was a call for Israel to be truly penitent and contrite before the Lord in order to gain God’s favor. It was a common practice for the people to tear their clothes and go into fasting and prayer with sackcloth and ashes to show penitence for sin but Joel contends this is not enough. True ...

14. Are You in the Right Place?

Matthew 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... others to be seen by them . . .” In other words, if you have come to this service tonight to make a show of your piety, you do not belong here. The reason you are here is all important. Is it a show to impress others or is it an act of contrition? Notice what Jesus says in the rest of this passage: “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full ...

15. Mending Fences

Luke 16:1-15, Luke 16:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Storing Up Treasure in Heaven from Father to Son (Tobit 4) Love Your Neighbor with the Entirety of Your Means (Sirach 29) The Book of Jubilees Psalm 15: Who May Live in the Lord’s Tents? Psalm 40: The Lord’s Mercy to the Contrite Psalm 51: David’s Psalm of Contrition Psalm 118: The Lord Will Save The Story of Jonah and God’s Forgiveness of Ninevah’s Greed Joshua Witnesses God’s People’s Vow to Serve God as Master at Shechem (Joshua 24) James’ Warning to Those Who Have Made Riches Their God ...

16. What is Your Golden Calf?

Exodus 32:1-33:6, Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

17. Beware Of Your Piety

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... Lord's Day, a little Easter, in which both the crucifixion and the resurrection of our Lord were observed. In time, however, as people fixed more and more on the need to consider why our Lord was crucified, the stress was placed on the need for contrition and repentance. Soon the Lenten period was extended to a week, then to two weeks. Ultimately, the forty hours were extended to forty days. At one time this was a period of eight weeks of five days of fasting. By the seventh century the time was calculated ...

18. How Long Will You Limp? (Because God Is Tired Of The Bull)

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... to the priests of Baal, the act itself had deep spiritual meaning. The aim here was to please God and not to appease God. Appeasing God means coaxing God to answer on our terms. The sacrifice therefore is not sincere. It is not offered from humble, contrite, and penitent hearts. It is done for show, to bribe God so we can obtain what we want. Pleasing God is accepting what God gives on God's terms and not using the sacrifice as a form of manipulation and machination. Pleasing God means offering the ...

19. Will The Real Messiah Please Stand Up?

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

William L. Self

... beasts. But we must understand that even in the most disastrous human situations, when sorrow robs the heart of its last resources and strengths, the Bible discovers an opportunity for the coming God. The Lord hears those whose hearts are broken. "A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." Every kind of human helplessness is a recommendation to God. The third category of people in this audience will be the captives. The world is full of captives. They are the victims of evil habits and ill ...

20. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Christians

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

William L. Self

... income through the local congregation (I would be so bold as to recommend that we heed the biblical admonition to tithe). 7. This newly cleansed person should become engaged in personal acts of ministry. These seven habits will make this new life effective. The act of contrition to be washed in the old muddy Jordan, not once but seven times, heals a life and sets it on a new course. A soldier in the Second World War serving in the South Pacific wrote a letter to his father, who had been an alcoholic. The ...

21. Forsaking All Others

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... faces. Do we ever ponder the greatness and holiness of God, and then consider our lowliness and unworthiness, so that we are almost shaken? If God were not merciful, we'd all shake with fear! What about our hearts? God says he will not despise a broken and contrite heart. Do our hearts break over our sin and the sin around us more than when our favorite team loses? What about tears? They don't have to be visible, but does our soul grieve for the lost in this world and for the way America has rejected ...

22. Week Three Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... them. The Hebrews have received the second, the third, the hundredth chance from God. Azariah has complete confidence that God will again forgive the people and return them to Israel from their captivity in Babylon. All Azariah can offer God is a contrite heart and a humble spirit. Still, Azariah believes that this is all that God truly wants. God wants a forgiving spirit in our attitude toward others as well. The confidence which Azariah displays is brought to fruition in the parable of the forgiving ...

23. Safely Through The Waters

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... comfort, but it is also a great challenge. In his Small Catechism, Luther tells us that going under the water in baptism and coming out again signifies "that the old person in us should be drowned, together with all sins and evil lusts, by means of daily contrition and repentance; it should be put to death, and it signifies that a new person should come forth daily and rise up, cleansed and righteous, to live forever in God's presence."2 Our whole life, then, is a renewal of our baptism. It is a growing ...

24. Grapes Of Wrath Or Grace?

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... when he sees a sinner who is truly sorry for his/her sin, he is ready, willing, and anxious to forgive. The psalmist David, who was brought to repentance by the faithful prophet, Nathan, threw himself on the mercy of God and cried out, "A broken and a contrite heart thou wilt not despise" (Psalm 51:17). Luther said, "To sin no more is the highest repentance." So when God's message comes to us, let us know that it is the concern of love and its gentle rebuke that is meant to save us from awful consequences ...

25. God’s Flowing and Our Ebbing

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... we worship, even if we don’t fully understand or comprehend it. God can take very ordinary, unsung and fallen people like you and me and utilize our lives as the vessels of his grace. The psalmist very neatly ties together what this commissioning of Isaiah declares: “... a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” (Psalm 51:17) At the point of our deepest ebbing, God turns the tide, reclaims us, and invites us to flow toward and for the Kingdom.

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