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1. Fixing The Fox!

Luke 13:31-35

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John R. Brokhoff

... that ignores God as being valid and vital in life. This enemy attacks us every day and throughout much of the day. The enemy of secularism uses as a tool our mass media: the press, radio, and television. Think for a moment of the time we give to the mass media. It is said that the average American spends forty-five minutes a day with his newspaper. How much time do we give to listening to the radio? It wakes us up in the morning and puts us to sleep at night. The transistor radio is a constant companion ...

2. Marked At The Table

Sermon

George Bass

... to enter the United States illegally. On a previous visit, he learned that the boy had literally nothing to his name, so he made an appeal, raised some money and collected a considerable amount of clothing, which he had presented to the boy. During his visit before the mass, he asked the boy where the new clothing was. The boy answered, “I sent it all (including the money) to my brothers in Mexico; they need it more than I do.” That’s the spirit of loving service that Jesus was attempting to teach his ...

3. Communion Is Reformed

Luke 22:7-38

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... priest was closer to God than any other human, except the Pope of course. Only a priest had the privilege of talking directly to God, everyone else had to pray through the priests. Only a priest had the privilege of performing the miracle of the Mass: transforming the Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. Despite these privileges, as his first celebration of Holy Communion approached, Luther became more and more frightened. He knew that he was not worthy to hold in his hands the flesh and blood ...

4. The Danger of Being Religious

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... Bible for the people to read. Yet, the irony of our times is that while the average home in America owns four Bibles, very few read the Bible. In the area of worship, the people at best were spectators at the Mass. The people had no part in it. They were told to use their rosaries for personal devotions while the priests went through the Mass. Luther was convinced that this was not true worship. He claimed that every Christian has the need and the duty to thank and praise God. Accordingly, he translated ...

5. When The Cheering Stopped

Luke 19:28-44

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Brett Blair

... it occurred in full view of the people. A rich young ruler came enthusiastically running to Jesus. You are all familiar with the dialogue that took place. Jesus says: Go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor and then come follow me. The masses were stunned. They were troubled first of all, for a theological reason. They had been raised to believe that God had especially blessed rich men. Yet, here is Jesus turning the big money away. I wonder how many churches would do that today. We think that ...

6. When The Cheering Stopped

Matthew 21:1-11

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Brett Blair

... occurred in full view of the people. A rich young ruler came enthusiastically running to Jesus. You are all familiar with the dialogue that took place. Jesus says: Go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor and then come follow me. The masses were stunned. They were troubled first for a theological reason. They had been raised to believe that God had especially blessed rich men. Yet, here is Jesus turning the big money away. I wonder how many churches would do that today. We think that people who ...

7. When The Cheering Stopped

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

8. Flying High

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... saint” and bore on his body the “stigmata” or the wounds of Christ. On the day Greene was due to meet with this revered mystic, Greene first attended a mass where Padre Pio officiated. Their appointment was to begin immediately after the mass. However, when the mass was over, instead of keeping this much awaited appointment, Greene left the church, headed for the airport and flew directly back to London. When asked why he broke the appointment he had waited on for two and a half years, Greene said ...

9. A Christian Style Of Being And Doing

Colossians 3:18-4:1

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Maxie Dunnam

... in prayer. For a good part of the time, completely removed from what was going on around her, as she buried her face in her hands and became even more stooped, as she rested her elbows on her knees and cradled her head in deep prayer. After the Mass, she spoke. She spoke simply, but her words penetrated the conscience of the audience because her words flowed out of a life of prayer and service. She called us to prayer, and to a life of tender mercy -- which she would say are inseparable. She punctuated her ...

10. Answers To Life's Three Critical Questions

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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King Duncan

... a mass. The mechanic will see the carburetor and the fuel pump, and he will reach into a part of the motor that I do not even see and tighten a connecting wire. You see, the more you know about cars, the less you think in terms of the blob, the mass, and the more you think about individual parts. Let's use another analogy. Let's imagine an illiterate person walks into a public library. What does he see in that library? A mass of books walls and walls of books. They don't mean anything to him. They are just ...

11. Yes!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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Leonard Sweet

... is different. Learning to say no . . . no to bullies, no to common cruelties, no to demeaning social conventions, no to all-consuming appetites . . . no has never been an easy word to learn. How are you at speaking up and speaking out against the mass mind-set - whether the mass consists of the popular crowd in high school, or the scheming and shirking and smirking crowd at work? Where would you and I have been in that crowded mass that called with a unison voice for Barabbas? Where would we have been in ...

12. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

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Robert G. Tuttle

... letdown, spiritual negligence, compromise with evil, a playing with fire, a surrender to undisciplined living, that creeps in, and before we know it we are dead to life. A high level of moral living by the masses tends to produce individuals of great character; a low level of moral living by the masses tends to produce individual perversion and violent group behavior. We in America are becoming victims of mass dishonesty, which we have helped to develop by our own personal negligence. There is a factor that ...

13. Jesus Brings Hope

Revelation 1:4-8

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Richard Gribble

... plane happened to fly close to the building. The pilot observed the scene, and remembering from his history lessons, realized what was happening. He radioed the IGW headquarters; the master was informed. "The mass must be stopped; it must be stopped," he cried. Planes were sent, bombs were dropped, gunfire was applied, but the mass continued. Then the words were spoken, "This is my body, given for you." With that, a crack of thunder was heard and a streak of lightning flashed through the sky. The clouds ...

14. The Hillside and the Basket

John 6:1-15

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Stephen M. Crotts

... midst of 5,000 rumbling stomachs. There was a huge need! There was a woeful inadequacy! And these few loaves and fishes were the paltry offering. But see what happened next! There Was a Miracle Jesus received the scant fish and bread, and, causing the masses to be seated, gave thanks to God, and began to break the loaves and distribute them. The Bible says the crowd ate until they were "filled"; in the Greek they were literally "glutted." And Philip so pessimistic, Andrew so full of questions, the little ...

15. A Voice Crying In The Wilderness

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28

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John A. Stroman

... by John. Why was Jesus baptized by John? There seems to be only one reason. It was not because Jesus needed to repent of his sins, but rather because Jesus wanted to identify with both John's message and the people. The only way for Jesus to minister to the masses and reveal his love for them was to enter the water and be baptized with them. Jesus felt the need to stand with them on their level. He got down in the water with John and the people. Jesus' identifying with masses of people at the level of their ...

16. The Nano-Punch of Pentecost

Matthew 28:16-20

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Leonard Sweet

... s resurrection power; charges us with his presence; fuels our faith for mission. You don’t think a tiny charge of the Holy Spirit has power? Since energy and mass are different forms of the same thing (remember e=mc2), if you could convert the mass of one raisin into energy, it would supply the energy needs of New York City for a day. Or more technically, a kilogram of mass converts into 25 billion kilowatt hours of electricity (see Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe [Simon & Schuster, 2008 ...

17. Which Parade Are You In?

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

18. Why Prophets Get Under Our Skin

Luke 3:1-20

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Maurice A. Fetty

... , these prophets get under our skin because they have a universal mission and an all-encompassing compassion which reaches beyond our ethnic group or business or union or nation. They know that in the long run economic reform must take place to enable the masses of poverty-stricken peoples of the world to share in the earth's fabulous wealth. There will never be peace on earth without it. There is more than enough wealth for everyone. The prophets get under our skin, challenging us, especially our business ...

19. How Is Your Memory?

Exodus 20:1-21

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Mark Trotter

... never before seen in him, or conceived him capable of. I watched him kneel and take the sacrament, and I could not doubt the fullness and totality of communion, the perfect alignment of his spirit with the spirit of the mass. Here there was no forgetting. There was no loss of meaning when he was participating in the mass. For he was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism, but he was absorbed in an act, an act of his whole being which gave him meaning. Jimmy couldn't make any sense out of ...

20. The Fifth Sunday of Easter

John 14:1-4

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Kendall McCabe

... mass ever on that island. For the first time, the people got to know a Roman Catholic priest on a personal basis and realized they do not hide horns with birettas, or cloven hooves with cassocks! And even more importantly, they saw the similarity between the mass and the form of the Holy Communion they had been used to celebrating in the Methodist liturgy. After the final service of the weekend was over, a lady of some age, who doubtless had been reared in the anti-Roman prejudice that had so characterized ...

21. Jesus: The Ultimate Ordinary

John 18:28-40

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Thomas Peterson

... that “do not vary from day to day” are ordinary. (Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary) So important are these parts that they must be the same every time the mass is performed. The hub around which the mass revolves, they are not to be tampered with. Genuine worship hangs on them. What in Jesus was ordinary in this way? It would be a quality that was always the same, a peg around which everything revolved, on which all else was hung. With Jesus, that which did not vary ...

22. The Gift Unwrapped

Luke 2:1-20

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... for that? So, you can see why, according to the world's standards, it was the wrong gift. II. Wrong Time Besides, this Gift came at the wrong time. If God were to do it all over again, NOW would be a much better time. Look at all the mass communication we've got today. Mass communication back then was a town crier or announcement at the local synagogue. Why, if Jesus had been born today we could capture the whole thing on video and broadcast it live throughout the world. We could text message everyone with ...

23. Lessons from a Fool

Luke 12:13-21

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King Duncan

... have so much that we rent mini-warehouses to hold it all. Does it make us happy? No. We’ve simply become addicted to acquiring. Randy Alcorn in his book The Treasure Principle describes our problem like this: “It’s a matter of basic physics. The greater the mass, the greater the hold that mass exerts. The more things we own the greater their total mass the more they grip us, setting us in orbit around them. Finally, like a black hole, they suck us in . . . Every item we buy is one more thing to think ...

24. They're Drunk

Acts 2:1-21

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Will Willimon

... empirical evidence to back them up. In every study I know about, psychological studies of deeply religious people find a positive, rather than a negative relationship between strong religious activity and mental health. In the recent revolution in Eastern Europe, it is ironic that Marx dismissed religion as "opiate of the masses," when it was the churches and religion which fueled the fires of revolt against the ruling communist elite. We now know what poor Marx did not: religion is not the opiate of ...

25. The Ordinary in God’s Hands

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

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David O. Bales

... the list of how God works in ordinary life, he could leap ahead to our Lord Jesus as the greatest example of God's grace in our ordinary existence. After Jesus started preaching, he mostly traveled in Galilee's smaller villages, and, along with healing the masses as well as the privileged, he told parables of how God works in ordinary life. He presented parables about laborers who stood in the bazaar waiting to be hired and of children playing wedding who, when tired of that, played funeral. Jesus talked of ...

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