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1. Responsible Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... may be weird,” he said, “But it’s like I handed over the remote.” (5) Let me ask the men in our congregation . . . is it easy to hand over the remote . . . any remote? How about the remote that controls your life? God created us to be responsible responsible parents, responsible members of our nation, of our community and of our church. We can do that without Christ, but many of us will feel we are living in a straitjacket. There will be no joy in our lives, only a sense of duty. If we will make a ...

2. If Only We Would Accept Responsibility ...

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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Wallace H. Kirby

... told me to get money from you to go to Florida, but you won’t listen to God! I’ll go find someone who does listen, as I do!" He left without a bus ticket to Florida, but I hope he had begun to think about his need to accept responsibility for his life and his decisions. The telephone rang at one o’clock in the morning at a minister’s home. As he reached to answer it, his mind raced through his list of hospital patients. A late call usually meant critical illness or death, but this call was from ...

3. Responsibility And Motivation

Ruth 1:1-22

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John N. Brittain

... come to recognize the God of Elimelech's family as the God of her life. She had learned of this God who had seen the distress of the Israelites in Egypt and come to their aid. She now worshiped the same God who would not allow Cain to evade responsibility by asking, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Of course he was! So it was this faith in the Hebrew God that led to her insistence on staying with Naomi: "É Your people shall be my people, and your God my God." Could Ruth really have foreseen the situation into ...

4. Responsibility Comes with Privilege

Acts 8:4-8

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Richard Gribble

... with great zeal and persistence carried on the work of their master amongst the people of their day and locale. Peter and John, two of the inner circle, realized that the privilege they had received in being apostles required that they take seriously their responsibilities. Thus, as we hear in the reading, they brought the Holy Spirit, the same gift they had received at Pentecost to the people of Samaria. Recall that these people were the remnant of the so-called "ten lost tribes of Israel," overrun by the ...

5. Response Ability

Luke 17:5-10

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Lori Wagner

... . So, he firmly states their purpose: their job as disciples is to serve God’s people in the world, to serve as examples of true faith, and to carry out God’s mission in the world. They aren’t to expect free passes. Discipleship is a real and active responsibility that they will need to carry out. One of my favorite stories when I was young was the story of The Little Red Hen. In the timeless tale, a hen asks a duck, a cat, and a dog for help in planting, cutting, threshing, and milling the wheat and ...

6. Accepting Responsibility

Lamentations 1:1-22

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Robert P. Hines

... the blame game. One little girl was seen hitting her younger brother. When confronted with her behavior, the girl justified her action by claiming, "He made me do it. He wouldn't give me my doll." The truth is that all of us often try to avoid responsibility for our behavior. And when bad things happen to us, we automatically look to blame someone else, something outside ourselves. When we flunk a test in school, it must be because the teacher did not like us, or the test was unfair. It was not because we ...

7. The Parables About Response

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

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Ron Lavin

... . The front side context is the parable of the four soils in Mark 4:1-20. Jesus says that there are four kinds of response to his word about the kingdom of God. People's attitudes are like four kinds of soil in which the seeds are scattered. In ... slow-moving process in others. That's why we need patience like Jesus had. If when Jesus planted seeds of the word, there were different responses, so it will be when we plant seeds. We should not expect that all seeds which we plant will take root and bear fruit. Our ...

8. What Is Your Response toe the Resurrection?

Mark 16:1-20

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Eric Ritz

... no longer bystanders but witnesses to the greatest news the world has ever heard. The day you believe in the resurrection is the day you change the world. I urge you not to look in all the wrong places this year. Look at the Lord Jesus Christ! If your response to the Resurrection has been and is one of silence or fear, I plead with you to stay with the story and allow the truth of this Glorious Day to lead you from "fear" to "faith" in Jesus Christ. Remember, the day you believe in the Resurrection, you ...

9. What Is Your Response to the Resurrection?

Mark 16:1-20

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Eric Ritz

... witnesses to the greatest news the world has ever heard or ever will hear. Yes, the day you believe in the resurrection is the day you change the world. I urge you not to look in all the wrong places this year. Look at the Lord, Jesus Christ! If your response to the Resurrection has been and is one of silence or fear, I plead with you to stay with the story and allow the truth of this glorious day to lead you from "fear" to "faith" in Jesus Christ. Because the day you believe in the resurrection, you change ...

10. Parables Discourse: Importance of Response to the Kingdom Message

Matthew 13:1-23

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... yet responded to Jesus in faith. Yet God’s revelation is a gift, and God often “gifts” it to those whom we least expect to receive it (9:9–13; 11:25–27). So we ought to be careful not to presume to know who will and will not be responsive to the message of the kingdom. As the parable of the soils indicates, the message goes out to all. In addition, there is an ebb and flow to the giving of revelation, as Matthew tells it. Chapter 13 sits midpoint in the story line of Jesus’ Galilean ministry and ...

11. The Gift That Claims Our Response

Matthew 22:1-14

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... garment itself is God’s own gift. I would like to think that all of us are eager to put on those garments of grateful response, and that most of us have so clothed ourselves. But if we have put them on, we still must be attentive to the garment’s ... to become so involved with enjoyment of the feast through the years of our lives that we forget to check the garment of our response every now and then to see whether it’s wearing a little thin here or there, or whether some repair or mending is needed. It ...

12. Reviving Our Moral Responsibility

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

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Donald Macleod

... nations could continue to live selfishly and recklessly and still end up at the Gates of Life, then who could have faith in God? Is this not what our pericope from the Book of Chronicles is all about? It’s a drama in which a people are being held responsible for the disorder of their times. Who did they think God was? St. Paul wrote, "Behold the goodness and severity of God" (Romans 11:22 RSV). Our God is both. Were he good without severity, he’d be an indulgent, fuddy-duddy being; and if he were severe ...

13. Negative Responses to Jesus

Luke 11:33-36, Luke 11:29-32, Luke 11:14-28

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... within you is not darkness. This little complex of sayings about light, with parallels in different contexts in Mark 4:21 (= Luke 8:16 [see above]); Matthew 5:15; 6:22–23, is difficult to interpret. In this context it probably reflects on the response of Jesus’s contemporaries to the “light” that his ministry has now openly revealed (the “something greater” of 11:31–32?). The main point seems to be a warning against ignoring or distorting that light. Those who wish to please God must be fully ...

14. “Not Responsible for…”

Matthew 4:1-11

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David E. Leininger

... an amount agreed upon at a convention they held in Warsaw in 1955. Park your car in some high-priced garage or lot, and a sign will tell you that management is not responsible for any items lost or stolen from your vehicle. Do those "Not responsible for..." disclaimers bother you? They do me. It seems no one takes responsibility for anything anymore. I read about a man who was suing a hospital. A doctor had performed staple surgery on his stomach to help him lose weight. A couple of days after his operation ...

15. Blessing, Testing, Response

Matthew 25:31-46

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King Duncan

... bread in the wilderness to feed the multitudes certainly can feed the hungry in the world today. With just one word he could make food appear on all tables. But this world and this life are a testing ground for God's people. He has given us the responsibility for each other. Is it simply good luck that America has some of the most fertile and productive farm land in the world? No, we Christians believe it is God's blessing! Is it purely a coincidence that our average annual income in America is 60 times as ...

16. With Privilege Comes Responsibility

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Don't take a position of leadership in church unless you are prepared to be honest, pure, and loving in your lifestyle. Leadership is a privilege, and with privilege comes responsibility. God holds teachers of His truth doubly responsible because we who lead are in a position where we can either draw people toward Christ or drive them away from Him. This is illustrated in the life of the famous author Mark Twain. Church leaders were largely to blame for his becoming hostile to the Bible and the Christian ...

17. A Defiant Response to a Dangerous Theology: Does God Desire to Wipe Us Out?

Gn 6:1-8. 9:6-17

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... 11:00. None of them read Psalm 29. None of them equated earthquakes and tidal waves with divine authority or activity. And none of them suggested that an appropriate response to the tsunami might be to shout "Glory." The bishop clearly said (I mean, I heard it twice) that he saw God at work in the outpouring of compassionate response….its immediacy….its generosity….its universality. In those same services, I stood in front of you, appealing on behalf of UMCOR (and the opportunity it afforded you). And ...

18. Responsible for the Crucifixion

Humor Illustration

... Jewish lady asked another Jewish lady, "Tell me, have you heard what's going on in Rome?" "No," said the second. "I haven't. What's going on in Rome?" The first lady said with great pleasure, "A meeting of high Catholic churchmen has decided that we Jews are not responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus." The second Jewish lady raised her eyebrows. "And who is responsible then?" she asked. "I'm not sure," said the first. "I think they suspect the Puerto Ricans."

19. Ten Commandments and the People’s Response

Exodus 20:1-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... is death (Exod. 21:17); rebellion and disobedience receive a like punishment (Deut. 21:18–21). The Hebrew word translated “honor” literally means “to be heavy” or “give weight to” and may be directed to those children who are already adults and responsible for providing for their parents. This aspect of the commandment seems to underlie Jesus’s rebuke of the Pharisees in Mark 7:9–13. Finally, the promise regarding the land may refer to the fact that poor family relationships will mean ...

20. Social Responsibility

Exodus 22:16-31

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... on the land’s productivity, a more tenuous situation. Israelites could add interest to loans for foreigners because they were likely traveling with commercial and trade interests and, being more mobile, posed a greater financial risk. Both the individual and society were equally responsible to meet the needs of those who were in poverty; singular as well as plural verbs are woven into the commands. The command not to blaspheme (22:28) may refer to God or to judges (Hebrew elohim); in this context it may ...

21. Response to Redemption

Isaiah 56:1-8

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... is the act of God in which he gathers his people, both Jew and Gentile, and unites them with himself and with one another (56:1–2). To these he extends the privilege of being subjects under his righteous rule along with all its benefits. The proper response of the people of God is that of covenant loyalty. The Lord expects his people to act like him. He expects that the people who have been justified and thereby have entered into a relationship with him will act in accordance with his own standards. There ...

22. Individual Responsibility

Ezekiel 18:1-32

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... –23), showing preoccupation with repentance rather than with backsliding. Verses 30–32 are a clarion call to repentance, for God takes no joy in the death of anyone. What Ezekiel is hoping to accomplish is that the people in exile will accept responsibility for their circumstances. Because their relationship to God is not an intractable or inherited fate, they can return to the Lord. And that is good news. Ezekiel’s teaching in chapter 14 (no vicarious salvation) needs to be set alongside his teaching ...

23. Daniel’s Interpretation and Nebuchadnezzar’s Response

Daniel 2:24-49

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... be taken to Nebuchadnezzar by Arioch, the king’s hatchet man, is granted. It is possible that Daniel already had a reputation for integrity and for God’s being with him. The manner of Daniel’s speech (2:24) shows his confidence, and Arioch’s quick response reveals his trust in Daniel. In the presence of the king Daniel gives God the glory, as, together with the sages, he admits that “no wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about” (2:27). Only ...

24. Jonah’s Unjustified Anger and God’s Response

Jonah 4:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... the will of God, which is not constrained or dictated by his creatures. God questions Jonah’s right to be angry, since God has also extended grace and compassion toward Jonah despite his disobedience to the Lord’s commands (Jonah 1:4). 4:5–11 · God’s response to Jonah’s unjustified anger: Jonah travels east of Nineveh and settles down to wait for Nineveh’s demise, as if it is inconceivable that the city will be spared by God (4:5). In an expression of his divine mercy and compassion, the Lord ...

25. Step Twelve - Responsibility

Lk 19:1-10 · Gal 6:1-10 · Is 61:1-4

Sermon

John A. Terry

... . As they gain strength, they have someone with them helping to bear up the weight in case it gets too much, because to drop it would be disaster. It has to do with being willing to bear one another's burdens, but not to eliminate one another's responsibilities. The calling of the church is to help those who get caught up to bear their burdens while God gives them strength. It is very easy for the caregiver to become the careneeder. Back in the 1960s one of the "in" things for clergy was to have what ...

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