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Antonyms: loss, disadvantage, debt, lack, need, payment, resource, want

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1. The Lord's Prayer: A Surplus of Meaning

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... exhausted in one lesson or sitting. It is eternal in the sense that as long as it is read or experienced, it will give meaning and inspiration. I believe this prayer given by Jesus to His disciples (of which we are included today) has a "a surplus of meaning." The meaning of this prayer can never be exhausted--only experienced. This prayer contains the essential priorities that address the totality of the believer''s sacred journey and life''s experiences. This is a prayer not only to be repeated but to be ...

2. Sharing Shalom

Luke 12:13-21

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W. Robert McClelland

... to eat, drink and be merry, just as there was for him. 3 - Unlike the rich man, however, we understand ourselves as stewards entrusted with our wealth for a time. We are not merely to store it away but to put it to good use by sharing our surplus with others in direct proportion to the abundance of our blessing, as the Spirit of God indicates. Jesus' parable invites us to boldly examine our financial resources and declare at what level we have enough. We do not have to squirrel more and more of our wealth ...

3. Proper 13

Colossians 3:1-17, Hosea 11:1-11, Luke 12:13-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... he did not know where to store the products of the fields. What was he to do about it? What could he have done? Apparently, it did not occur to him to give the surplus to the poor and hungry. He might have sold the surplus and given the money to charitable causes. What he decided to do was increase his storage capacity and retire on the surplus. He never saw the point that God gives abundance to enable us to share with others. 3. Fool (v. 20). What the rich man decided to do about his abundance made him a ...

4. PROPER 13

Lk 12:13-21 · Col 3:1-11 · Ecc 1:2; 2:18-26 · 2 Ki 13:14-20a

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

5. Everything Must Go: If I Were a Rich Man

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... this world live on $1 a day. The vast majority of us are rich. We have wealth. Compared to the rest of the world, let me explain to you what I mean by wealth. We only need three things to live. We need shelter, food, and clothing. Everything else is surplus. Everything else is wealth. As you think about the wealth that you have, the closets full of clothes and shoes, the attic and the basement full of stuff that we bought and we store and we dust what I want you to learn today is this – Key Take Away: The ...

6. The Mighty Mustard Seed

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... be the child’s only meal that day. Larry returned to the U.S., but he couldn’t get this small boy out of his head. He knew that the U.S. had a surplus of wheat available. Instead of letting the wheat go to waste, why couldn’t it be donated to those who were hungry? Larry began speaking about his vision to transport surplus food to those in need. As Larry says, “What happened next was a miracle and a test of faith all in one.” Farmers in Oklahoma, Larry’s home state, began sending him shipments ...

7. First World Problems

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry ... .’ Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, ‘You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ ...

8. Sometimes, You Gotta Get Your Feet Wet First

Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... months of doing so, however, the brother who was single said to himself: "This arrangement really isn't all that fair. I mean, my brother has a wife and children to feed and take care of, while I have no one. It's not right for us to split the surplus fifty-fifty." And so, not wanting to embarrass his brother, he began that very night to take some flour out of his own barn, and under the cover of darkness, place it in his brother's barn. Ironically, it was about this same time that his brother said to ...

9. Proper 13

Mt 14:13-21 · Rom 8:31-39 · Ex 12:1-14 · Ps 143

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John R. Brokhoff

... has compassion for the hungry people. 3. A tiny amount of food was found. 4. The helplessness of the disciples to meet the need of the day. 5. Jesus offered thanks and blessed the food. 6. Jesus used the disciples to distribute the food. 7. There was a surplus of 12 baskets of food. Related Passages Exodus 16:4-5 - Food (manna) rains down from heaven. Deuteronomy 14:29 - The Israelites are instructed to provide food for the needy. 2 Kings 4:42-44 - Elisha feeds 100 men with 20 loaves of bread. Isaiah 55:1-2 ...

10. The Might of the Mite

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to give it. Every good gift must express sacrifice. Long ago King David set us a standard when he said, “I will not offer to the Lord something that cost me nothing.” Jesus' complaint about the gifts of the rich folks was that they gave out of their surplus; no sacrifice was required. Mother Teresa of India has said, “If you give what you don't need, it isn't giving.” She told of a beggar who contributed to her ministry his total day's beggings. She said that gift meant more to her than winning the ...

11. Lessons from a Shrewd Crook

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... doing with the affluence that God has enabled you to earn? I'm not talking about just the top 10 percent of your income that belongs to God in the first place. I'm talking about the surplus we have beyond that which is required for adequate food, shelter, taxes, and other necessities. You are probably thinking, "What surplus, Bill? Our family budget is more often in the red than in the black." But isn't that because we are just as materialistic as the non-believers? We are just as hooked on jewelry, furs ...

12. The Lord's Prayer: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

Matthew 6:5-15

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Eric Ritz

... the Gospel of Matthew, after Jesus instructs his disciples how to pray, we see our Lord further teach that we are to "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness." The Kingdom of God is the central petition in this perfect pattern prayer. It has a surplus of meaning. Jesus often used everyday symbols to communicate his thinking on this very important concept. In one sense the Kingdom of God is never completely defined in the word of God. It is so rich in meaning that it is hard to reduce it to one ...

13. My Precious, My Precious

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... community of which he's a part safe from unexpected droughts, famines, or plagues. Instead, the rich man's intentions for his good fortune are entirely directed toward his own self. He intends only to relax, eat, drink, be merry and assumes that because of his great surpluses he'll be able to keep up this self-serving behavior for many years (verse 19). But the rich man is exposed for who and whose he is by none other than God, who informs the hopeful hedonist that all his selfish plans, all his gloating ...

14. John 6:1-21

John 6:1-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... verse: After a blessing, Jesus distributes the food, and all had "as much as they wanted" (v.11). John now attends to the "cleaning up" that follows again under Jesus' strict supervision. A more telling translation would read "Gather up the surplus left over, so that nothing may be lost" (v.12). These leftovers are not inconsequential "fragments" but the true abundance of Jesus' provisions and God's providence. Such a careful ingathering seems to hold several meanings. On one hand, scholars have determined ...

15. Proper 12

Ephesians 3:14-21, John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, 2 Samuel 11:1-27

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John R. Brokhoff

... Jesus was the Son of God, he recognized his Father as the giver of every good thing. He acknowledged his dependence on the Father. 4. Twelve (v. 13). Here we see the generosity of God. Not only did 5,000 eat all they wanted, but there was a surplus of 12 baskets of leftovers. God is so generous that he does exceedingly above all that we ask. His generosity is seen throughout nature always an abundance of seed, a generosity of food. The ultimate generosity is the giving of his Son. 5. Force (v. 15). Force is ...

16. Luke 12:13-21

Luke 12:13-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... rich” has bad implications (see Luke 1:52-53; 6:24) and greediness has been clearly coupled with “wickedness” (11:39). In Jesus’ parable the rich farmer’s first reaction to his bumper crop is not to praise God for the bounty or to offer his surplus to the poor and hungry. Rather, his first thoughts are wholly self-centered: “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops” (v.17). Despite the size of his harvest the farmer obviously plans to store, not sell, his bounty. Perhaps this ...

17. Woe to Nineveh

Nahum 3:1-19

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... to one another; they do this to help each other, not to make more for themselves. Similarly, doing business with one another, where (for instance) one person makes pots, another makes jewelry, another has expertise in medicine, or where one person may have a surplus of grain, another of olives, is meant to be an aspect of living in community. It is only when sharing and exchange comes to focus on profit that it becomes prostitution. Isaiah thus links trade and prostitution in speaking of Tyre (Isa. 23). And ...

18. Pharaoh's Dreams

Genesis 41:1-40

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... heads of grain stood for seven years of bumper crops throughout Egypt, while the seven lean, ugly cows and the seven worthless heads of grain represented seven years of famine. The seven years of famine would be so severe that they would consume all the surplus produced during the seven years of bumper crops. God had shown Pharaoh the future in two different forms because the matter had been firmly decided by God and the cycle was about to begin. A variety of texts from Egypt and Mesopotamia attest that one ...

19. Joseph in Charge of Egypt

Genesis 41:41-57

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

20. A Word to the Wealthy

Mark 10:17-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... that Jesus warned time and time again against the danger of materialism--of loving money more than God. He says in this passage that a rich man will have a hard time getting into heaven. On another occasion he talked about a rich man who built barns to hold his surplus crops and then died in the night. Jesus called him a fool because he had not laid up treasure in heaven. In another story he describes a man who woke up one day in hell because the man had great wealth and he ignored the needs of a beggar who ...

The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows that he is not.

G. K. Chesterton

22. All Mine To Give!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... Corinthians 8:20 Paul writes, "We intend that no one should blame us about this liberal gift which we are administering." The word for "liberal gift we are administering" is hadrotes and it means abundance. The notion here is that God will meet our needs and give us a surplus, even beyond ten percent, that we can give away to others. You can see this type of giving in the book of Ruth. Ruth and Naomi are widows down on their luck looking for their next meal and a new start in life. Boaz is a wealthy farmer ...

23. Emmanuel: An Advent Dayenu

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... The problem in Africa in general and the Horn of Africa in particular is not lack of food but overpopulation. Starvation may be cruel and hard to watch, but as Ebeneezer Scrooge once observed at this very time of year, it does decrease the surplus population." And what of this matter of choice that has in the past few decades become enshrined as the idol before whom all Americans are expected to bow down and do obeisance? The culture genuflects reverently before the altar of Choice. Political leaders preach ...

24. Confidence To Spare

Psalm 27:1-6, 13-14

Sermon

Robert G. McCreight

... by falling from a tightrope stunned us all. His widow reported later that for three months before the accident, all he had been thinking about was falling. He was apparently putting all his energy into not falling instead of into walking the tightrope. Just as a surplus of confidence can help a person to achieve great heights, the loss of confidence can produce failure and tragedy in any area of life. B Today our scripture text is from Psalm 27, and this psalm exudes confidence. It is one of many psalms of ...

25. Thanksgiving Day

Deuteronomy 26:1-15, John 6:25-59, Philippians 4:2-9, Psalm 100:1-5

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B. David Hostetter

... life. Amen. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Generous Creator, gracious Savior, over-flowing Spirit, you have created a magnificent planet for us to live in and an abundant harvest of land and sea. We are thankful for all that we enjoy in our own households and for the surplus that we may share with the hungry of the world. We appreciate all who are co-producers with you of the harvest and pray that we may learn even wiser ways of using and preserving the good earth you have given us with future generations in ...

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Antonyms: loss, disadvantage, debt, lack, need, payment, resource, want

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1. The Lord's Prayer: A Surplus of Meaning

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

2. Sharing Shalom

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

3. Proper 13

Colossians 3:1-17, Hosea 11:1-11, Luke 12:13-21

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

4. PROPER 13

Lk 12:13-21 · Col 3:1-11 · Ecc 1:2; 2:18-26 · 2 Ki 13:14-20a

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

5. Everything Must Go: If I Were a Rich Man

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

James Merritt

6. The Mighty Mustard Seed

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

King Duncan

7. First World Problems

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

8. Sometimes, You Gotta Get Your Feet Wet First

Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

9. Proper 13

Mt 14:13-21 · Rom 8:31-39 · Ex 12:1-14 · Ps 143

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

10. The Might of the Mite

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

11. Lessons from a Shrewd Crook

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

12. The Lord's Prayer: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

13. My Precious, My Precious

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

14. John 6:1-21

John 6:1-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

15. Proper 12

Ephesians 3:14-21, John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, 2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

16. Luke 12:13-21

Luke 12:13-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

17. Woe to Nineveh

Nahum 3:1-19

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

18. Pharaoh's Dreams

Genesis 41:1-40

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

19. Joseph in Charge of Egypt

Genesis 41:41-57

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

20. A Word to the Wealthy

Mark 10:17-30

Sermon

King Duncan

The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him whether he is the surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows that he is not.

G. K. Chesterton

22. All Mine To Give!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

23. Emmanuel: An Advent Dayenu

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Mark Radecke

24. Confidence To Spare

Psalm 27:1-6, 13-14

Sermon

Robert G. McCreight

25. Thanksgiving Day

Deuteronomy 26:1-15, John 6:25-59, Philippians 4:2-9, Psalm 100:1-5

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

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