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Gen 2:2-3 · Ex 20:8-11

Children's Sermon

Materials to have on hand: Four or five hats used by different occupations, such as: Baker Construction Worker Police Officer Nurse Farmer Firefighter Good morning, boys and girls. Today we celebrate those people who are in the labor force of our country. I have some hats here which represent several occupations. Can you tell what the people who wear these hats do? (Hold up each one in turn. Al...

77. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12

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Robert Noblett

Children go through a period when they are frightened of the dark. They are convinced that there is a robber inside their clothes closet. They are sure there is some kind of ethereal character lurking about in the basement. Beyond a doubt, they are of the conviction that there is a ghost-like essence biding time beneath their bed. Children usually outgrow that stage, but occasionally you find thos...

78. Our Light

Genesis 1:1-5 · Mark 1:9-11

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Will Willimon

Carl Michaelson knew a philosophy professor at Colgate who, whenever a student used the word "God" in his classroom, would stop and beckon the student to come forward and stand with him at an open window. "Show him to me," the professor asked. What a disadvantage believers have when it comes to empirical evidence for God! At first glance, this seems to be a uniquely modern problem. In the old day...

79. Test

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Genesis 1:1-2:3

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82. Sermon Thursday

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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83. Test

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Genesis 1:1-2:3

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85. Down by the Riverside

Mark 1:4-11 · Genesis 1:1-5

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Billy D. Strayhorn

In one of my favorite commentaries, the comic strip "Peanuts", Linus says to Charlie Brown: "I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today." To that, Charlie Brown responded: "No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better." Haven't you ever fellt like that? The Good News is that Jesus says "YES" even to our yesterdays. H...

86. First Things First

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Will Willimon

“In the beginning…God.'' The lection for the first Sunday after Pentecost is the first verse of the first chapter of the first book of the Bible, ''In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth…” How fitting a text for Father's Day--a reflection upon the work of God the Father. For whether you take this as a description of God as Father or God as Mother (all this creating and bega...

87. The Crown of Creation

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Psalm 19:1-14

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John R. Brokhoff

Creation was something only the triune God could do. To create an infinite universe, it took an infinite God. Think of the vastness of the universe. Today astronomers study stars so distant that their light, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, has been moving toward the earth for more than ten billion years. Or consider the age of the universe. Some astrophysicists claim that the universe is fr...

88. Easter Vigil

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Romans 6:1-14, Matthew 28:1-10

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS The Old Testament lessons for the Easter Vigil represent a wide sweep of texts that explore the mighty acts of God as both savior and creator. The central text for the Easter Vigil is the account of Israel's salvation at the Reed Sea in Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21. The actions of God in our world—from creation to the full realization of a distant future salvation—are all viewed...

89. Trinity Sunday

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Matthew 28:16-20, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Psalm 8:1-9

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS The two Old Testament texts for Trinity Sunday focus on the creative power of God, and, as such, they provide commentary on the Gospel lesson, where Jesus proclaims to his disciples in Matthew 28:18 that "all authority in heaven and on earth" has been given to him. Genesis 1:1-2:4a is the sweeping account of creation of order from chaos. Psalm 8 is a hymn that celebrates the...

90. The Pale Blue Dot

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Carl Sagan

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was...

91. Your Image of Yourself

Genesis 1:27

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Maxie Dunnam

Peter Ustinov was one of the great actors of his day. I don’t know much about him, but I was impressed by an interview some years ago during the filing of the movie “Death on the Nile.” He was talking about the images actors have to live with. “An image is an awful thing,” he said. “An actor says, ‘I’m going to do this or that.’ And someone will say, ‘What about your image?’” Ustinov said, “I...

92. Adam’s Prime Rib

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John R. Brokhoff

When William Jennings Bryan went to the father of the young woman whom he loved to ask her hand in marriage, he remembered that the father was a strong religious believer, so he quoted a proverb of Solomon from the Bible: “He who finds a wife finds a good thing.” But the father surprised him by responding with a quote from St. Paul, “He who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from...

93. Alone

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George Paul Mocko

The central point of the text before us is contained in that phrase, "It is not good for the man to be alone." (Genesis 2:18) We all need solitude from time to time, to pull away, look at ourselves, ponder and evaluate. We need time to pray with a thorough honesty, to purge, to meditate; and then to find and re-establish and reground our roots and foundations. We all need that. We should take time...

94. Marriage: God's Idea

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Bill Bouknight

Guess who is celebrating a 50th wedding anniversary! Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Great Britain. I was delighted to read that they are giving a big party at Buckingham Palace for all couples who were married in 1947. I was reminded of the couple in their upper 70's who were celebrating their golden anniversary. It was a wonderful day, but long and tiring, with guests from out of town. Fi...

95. THE MARRIAGE GAP

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William McKee Aber

It’s interesting to me that the Christian Church, which makes a great use of symbols - both pictorial and verbal - has chosen to retain the symbol of sacrifice when describing the faith, and has rejected another symbol that is widely used throughout Scripture. I refer to marriage. Christ calls himself a "bridegroom"; the church (and also Israel) is referred to as the bride; the covenant relationsh...

96. The Marriage of Adam and Eve

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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 ...

97. And God Breathed Into Man

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Maxie Dunnam

Forty years ago, in 1948, two of our nation's outstanding educators entered into a debate which was printed. These outstanding educators were Robert Hutchins, then Chancellor of the University of Chicago, and James B. Connant, then President of Harvard. The discussion dealt with the structure of a university curriculum. The basis for the debate was the recognition that persons in leadership must d...

98. Our Sin Against God

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

The first thing we should realize about our texts from Genesis is that they are intended as depictions of our life with God. The Hebrew word for “Adam” means “humankind,” and the writer of Genesis 2-3 is telling us that this is our story, that this is the way we all have walked with our Lord. Thus we learn from Genesis 2 that while we were created in the most intimate fashion by God and given his...

99. Global Warming

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Leonard Sweet

An original twist is given the phrase "global warming," as the climate-altering effects of thinking "we" over "me" would bring healthy and health-giving atmospheric changes to people who are freezing to death in our well-heated churches and warmed-up planet. The Bible is a book about relationships; the relationship between God and creation, heavenly beings and human beings, humanity and nat...

100. Genesis 2:18-24

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Leonard Sweet

This time of year is high noon sports season. Post season baseball, leading up to the World Series. NFL games are the reason no one stays after church for coffee hour anymore. Football is also why any board meeting scheduled for Monday night is doomed. It is the full moon time for the “Friday Night Lights” of high school football, and Saturday mornings are filled with small-fry soccer games. Every...

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