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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

Sermon

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

Sermon

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

Sermon

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. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. Communion Is Response to an Invitation

John 6:25-59

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Jesus said, "I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." I want to begin this morning by reading an important letter to you (Note: Please amend this letter so it is appropriate for your congregation): Dear ...

16. Response To The Resurrection: Christian People In A Pluralistic Society

Acts 17:16-34

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King Duncan

The Reverend Pat Robertson was being interviewed on the television program "Cross Fire" by Mark Greene, representing the political left, and Robert Novak, representing the right. They asked Robertson some very pointed questions. One of these concerned a fundraising letter that was mailed out by the Robertson Organization following his victory in the Michigan state caucus in which he said to his supporters, "The Christians are winning." Mark Greene wanted to know how nonChristians were to feel about ...

17. Saintly Citizenship - Earthly Responsibilities

Philippians 3:1-11

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Eric Ritz

I have shared with some of you in this congregation and some of my closest friends in the ministry that the writings of Dr. R. Maurice Boyd and C. S. Lewis have been a tremendous source of insight and inspiration for me these past years in my spiritual journey. Those insights are especially helpful in reaching an understanding of what Paul was sharing in this passage of scripture we are looking at today from the Philippian Letter. Dr. Boyd writes in a printed sermon, "Permit Me Voyage:" "Walking through ...

18. Week Two Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... to wait for the Parousia to build the Kingdom. In fact, building the Kingdom is our task, a challenge that can only be accomplished by effectively empowering people to be the cornerstones in our society. Let us use the responsibility given us wisely. Let us build up the people for whom we have been asked to responsibly act. Let us build the city of God this day! Saturday Week TwoMicah 7:14-15, 18-20Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Be Reconciled To God Life is a journey. Like all journeys life has a beginning, a middle ...

19. Sermons

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John R. Bodo

... I know are quite honestly not concerned about death. But even in an affluent society, the death rate is still 100 percent -- and few people die laughing...." What do you make of Job's question (14:14), "If a man die, shall he live again?" Or of our Lord's response (John 14:19), "Because I live, you also shall live"? Of course, as long as death seems far away, we are quite unconcerned. While we are young and/or in good health, death holds no personal reality for us unless we happen to be living in a war zone ...

20. From Father Failure to Divine Father

Romans 8:12-17

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Maurice A. Fetty

... . People speak then of the silence of God or even of the death of God as we did a few years ago. Bonhoeffer suggested that humankind, in our time, had come of age, and that it must be weaned from dependency upon the divine Father and take responsibility for itself. And, just as an infant feels rejected in being weaned, or just as an adolescent feels rejected in coming of age, so too humankind, in our time, has felt rejected by God. God is silent. God is indifferent. God is dead. The other side of abnormal ...

21. If Only -- In Spite Of

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... the flesh, what great things I could do for God." The nobility of Paul -- the power of his life-- was that the "If only" response of life did not prevail. He lived and acted daily "in spite of". Let's talk about it. I. Register first this suggestion: "If ... we know -- and we should know as Christians -- if we know that God's grace is sufficient, we can move from the "if only" response to life and begin to live triumphantly "in spite of". Let's go back to our scripture lesson -- that word of Paul. Listen to ...

22. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... use your training, your gifts, and your powers, and (2) be flexible and open to change. Walk through the new doors that open. Stay alert to new possibilities of using your gifts and training. Be willing to make on-course adjustments. But, above all, don’t take responsibility now for what you will have no control over 20 years from now. Be willing to allow God to guide you every phase along the way. Parents, here is a good word for us as well. Notice I underscore us. I speak notably to myself. There is ...

23. Don't Be Stupid

Jeremiah 4:5-31

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Richard L. Sheffield

... beset by stupid, childish squabbles: "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways" (1 Corinthians 13:11). I grew up. I took responsibility for myself and my life. Neither Paul nor Jeremiah, by the way, is saying that children are stupid, or that a child being childish is stupid. They are addressing us adults with the message that stupidity comes in holding onto childish ways in adult situations: situations ...

24. Living Free

Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... of not respecting their freedom, and of not conceding that they might just be doing God’s “thing”? Why is American society so flawed as we enter the new millennium? We have not lived as free as God has made us. Enjoy your freedom, friends; use it! Use it responsibly; use it to set others free. God is pouring his love into you, giving you all sorts of opportunities to serve him and to work to set others free of all that still binds them. God is pouring his love and all those good things into you. They ...

25. The Devil Made Me Do It

Matthew 4:1-11

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David E. Leininger

... of times we don't know what right or wrong is, but lots of times we do, and c'mon, this is one. I may not have had sinister intent at the outset, but there were plenty of opportunities for me to make it right. No one in government takes responsibility for anything anymore. We foster, we obfuscate, we rationalize. 'Everybody does it,' that's what we say, so we come to occupy a moral safehouse where everyone's to blame so no one's guilty... I'm to blame. I was wrong."(9) Wow. How refreshing. Oh, that's right ...

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