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Jeremiah 23:1-8

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Alton F. Wedel

Just one more word we need to say and one more thing we need to do on this last Sunday of another year with Christ. We said it last year and the year before, and we will say it next year and the year beyond, and we will say it when the morning of his glory dawns and every knee will bend with us before his throne: Christ is King! lie shall reign forever! While the Ronald Reagans and the Walter Mond...

2. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

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Alton F. Wedel

When Jesus came to Galilee, he began his preaching with the message, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." And the expectations of the people soared to heights not known since Solomon. They had been oppressed, depressed, distressed, and had been waiting for the day when from their midst a hero would arise to lay a left hook on the jaw of the hated Roman Empire, restore the glory of the d...

3. Home Economy

1 Kings 17:7-24

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Alton F. Wedel

This style of home economy is difficult to find today. In fact, the story that God spreads before us as our diet for this harvest Sunday is so far removed from the complexities of poverty in our society, the issues of world hunger, and the problems of production that it seems a legend, something out of this world. Things like this don’t happen any more. We would hardly want to teach this style of ...

4. Man, Where Are You?

Genesis 3:1-24

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Alton F. Wedel

The story of the fall of Adam and Eve disturbs a lot of people, raises many questions, and poses many problems. How can anyone who lives in this advanced society with our advanced technology and our unlimited horizons believe in talking serpents? • Or with our advanced theology how are we to understand a God who hangs our fate in trees? • Or when we have passed the finals and the orals and have ga...

5. Ode to Wisdom

Job 26:1--31:40

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Alton F. Wedel

This is an Ode to Wisdom - wisdom that is not discovered in computer banks, nor taught in schools and colleges, nor learned from parents, nor symbolized in Wall Street winnings. "Where, then, shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?" (v. 12). In this age of new enlightenment, in our high tech society, this Ode to Wisdom simply doesn’t fly. When God came down from heaven to ...

6. Questions Without Answers

Job 42:1-6

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Alton F. Wedel

The Word today is the bottom line in the book of Job, the story of the man from the land of Uz who was blameless and upright and who feared God and turned away from evil. The man had prospered. He had seven sons and three daughters, 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 she-asses and very many servants. We could say that he belonged to the affluent society, a rather rare type in his day...

7. The Acid Test of Wisdom

Proverbs 10:1-32

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Alton F. Wedel

"We hold these truths to be self-evident ..." but not as evident in fact as they are held in theory - "That all men are created equal ..." and while that word "men" is the inclusive language of the opening biblical salute of Genesis 1:27, some in reality are more equal than others ... "... that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights ..." - qualified in practice to mean t...

8. The Father Who Wanted His Son To Succeed

1 Kings 2:1-12

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Alton F. Wedel

Every father who is worthy of the name would like to see his son succeed. From the day the child is born, whether son or daughter, through infancy and childhood and the teenage years, Dad wants to be around to train, to guide, to mold, to love, and to enjoy the child who has been given as a heritage from God. He entertains great hopes and visions for the future, when his child will follow in his f...

9. The Heart of The Gospel

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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Alton F. Wedel

[While the following sermon may be adapted to the usual solo style of the parish parson, it could also be used in the more dramatic form. The copy indicates a role for seven resonant voices, strategically placed at various locations in the church, not visible to the congregation. The lines should be carefully rehearsed so that they are spoken with effective accent, and in a manner that flows with ...

10. The Lord Has Saved His People

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Alton F. Wedel

Perhaps this is the best that I can offer you today as good news in a world of grizzled news, this shout of praise from Jeremiah’s lips: "The Lord has saved his people." "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘The Lord has saved his people.’ " But it seems to this observer who is more than casual in his observing that th...

11. The Marriage of Adam and Eve

Genesis 2:4-25

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Alton F. Wedel

This is how it started! It happened long ago and far away, in a place called Eden (Eden Prairie to the southwest of Minneapolis bears no resemblance to it), that the masculine and feminine were joined together as complement (not compliment) for each other ... that the man became a husband and the woman became a wife ... that the differences between the sexes formed a blend of unity and love. This ...

12. The Word To The Wise

Proverbs 2:1-22

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Alton F. Wedel

Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! Life seems to be one long succession of decisions - • some of them of small significance that could go either way without upsetting anything; • others of a knotty nature that defy a simple choice and may well be life-changing in their consequence; • some of no more hurt than being left outside the candy store, looking in; • others that can mean the difference betwe...

13. What Was That About?

Daniel 7:1-14

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Alton F. Wedel

Our first reaction to the reading of a paragraph like this one from the book of Daniel is to shake loose from the long, blank stare of disbelief and ask, "Just what was that about?" If we heard aright, it seemed to paint the picture of an old man sitting on a throne of fiery flame, surrounded by ten thousand times ten thousand equally strange looking creatures, and it seemed to say that this was s...

14. When the Mood Shifts

Luke 23:33-43

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Alton F. Wedel

15. Your Undivided Attention, Please

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

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Alton F. Wedel

The story has been told about a beggar (I have not the faintest notion where I might have heard it) who each day took his position just outside the gate of a very rich man’s house. The wealthy owner of the mansion, kind and sympathetic to the poor man’s problem, but sometimes on a guilt trip over what he had and others didn’t have, each day gave the beggar food and clothing and whatever else he ne...

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