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Feb. 18, 2007 |
Exodus 34:29-35; |
We live in an age of icons. It is interesting that in this most secular of ages, the icon has taken on renewed importance. Growing up as a child of Protestantism, I knew nothing of icons. I was probably nearly grown before I even heard the word. |
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Nov. 5, 2006 |
Ruth 1:1-18; |
"It was an exchange the likes of which we might hope to find in our Adult Sunday School class on any given Sunday morning. Sum up our beliefs about the ways God has called us to worship and live." |
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Feb. 6, 2005 |
Exodus 24:12-18; |
"On the summit of that high mountain Jesus' clothes became a dazzling white, and his face shone like the sun. Jesus changed right before the disciples." |
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Jan. 23, 2005 |
Psalm 27:1, 4-9, 13-14; |
"To whom do you belong? Sometimes it feels like we belong to our jobs, our children's activities, homework, our snow shovels, our bills, the endless list of jobs around the house, or even our ambitions." |
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Jan. 16, 2005 |
Psalm 40:1-11; |
"In the last several days our community has experienced a lot. We know what it means to lose power, and go without it for several days." |
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Jan. 2, 2005 |
Isaiah 60:1-6; |
"Paul's prayer for us continues just as it did for the church in Ephesus. Paul prays that we stand with the saints and comprehend, understand, and know the wideness of Christ's love. Paul prays that we see that Christ's love is deep, that Christ's love is wide, that Christ's love is tall, and that Christ's love encompasses all." |
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Dec. 12, 2004 |
Isaiah 35:1-10 |
"'Tis the season for noise and traffic, and buying and selling, and cooking and trimming, and all that other stuff that goes with celebrating something 'silent,' something 'holy,' something 'calm.'" |
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Dec. 5, 2004 |
Isaiah 11:1-9 |
"Isaiah intended to convey the same certainty that is in Ainger's hymn, in a world just as uncertain as yours and mine." |
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Nov. 28, 2004 |
Matthew 24:36-44 |
"It's what we don't expect that most fulfills our expectations! That's my whole point this morning. Take that home and mull it over." |
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Nov. 21, 2004 |
Colossians 1:11-20 |
"I'm going to keep saying this, until I've got you believing this too. This isn't about you. This isn't about me. This is about God!" |
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Nov. 14, 2004 |
1 Samuel 3:1-10 |
"I've had a restless year. Since a year ago last October, when I got a call. Not from heaven. But from Washington, D.C." |
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Oct. 31, 2004 |
Psalm 119:137-144; |
"We can relate to Zacchaeus. It seems like something is always getting in our way and preventing us from encountering Jesus." |
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Oct. 24, 2004 |
Joel 2:23-32 |
"Wherever you are, in your career, in your relationships, in your sense of physical or spiritual well-being, in your life, if you don't like wherever that is, get moving." |
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Oct. 17, 2004 |
Luke 18:1-8; |
"God is listening. Don't quit on God. God won't quit on you. So don't you quit on you either." |
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Oct. 10, 2004 |
Luke 17:11-19; |
"Stewardship isn't about money. Stewardship is about me. Stewardship is about me saying 'Thanks!'" |
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Oct. 3, 2004 |
Lamentations 3:1-16; |
"Salvation is given in spite of who we are. It is given because we are the beloved children of God." |
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Sep. 5, 2004 |
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; |
"Jesus Christ asks us, 'what are you prepared do?' He asks us if we are prepared to pay the cost of discipleship." |
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Aug. 29, 2004 |
1 Samuel 17:1-58 |
"David stepped onto the battlefield confident in who he was... David does not try and pretend to be a warrior and fight Goliath with sword, spear, and javelin. David fights Goliath with what he knows: faith in God and his sling and staff." |
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Aug. 22, 2004 |
Psalm 71:1-6; |
"God told Jeremiah He appointed him to be a prophet to the nations. God tells us how we can best serve the church of Jesus Christ." |
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Aug. 15, 2004 |
Hebrews 11:1-3; |
"Perseverance, pertinacity, is more than just trying harder to hang on; it's hanging on and trying even when it's hard." |
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Aug. 8, 2004 |
Luke 12:32-40 |
"The bottom line when it comes to money is the same: All that money can buy is not enough." |
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Aug. 1, 2004 |
Genesis 33:1-11; |
"'No Longer Strangers' was our theme for six days on the campus of Purdue University [at Triennium] ... We saw our theme everywhere." |
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July 25, 2004 |
Luke 1:26-38; |
"'Christmas' isn't in the Bible. Christ is. And it's when Christ is as real in us as he was in Mary that 'Christmas' happens." |
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July 4, 2004 |
Galatians 5:1, 13-26; |
"Presbyterians, historically, theologically, politically, and personally, take freedom seriously. So seriously that some historians would count John Calvin, the father of Presbyterianism, among the founding fathers of the United States." |
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June 27, 2004 |
2 Kings 2:1-14 |
"We, the people of Market Street Presbyterian Church are one of the prophets God sends into the world. We assume a mantle that is fitted for us. It is a mantle worn by all of us." |
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June 20, 2004 |
Luke 8:26-39 |
"The Gerasenes saw for themselves what life could look like with Jesus, and worried themselves right out of it." |
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June 13, 2004 |
Luke 7:36-8:3 |
"What Jesus said is well summed up in the words of the former President: 'There is purpose and worth to each and every life.'" |
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June 6, 2004 |
Romans 5:1-5; |
"Treating the Trinity as a 'problem,' to be solved with 'understanding' is how we get into trouble in the first place with this central doctrine of Christian faith." |
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May 30, 2004 |
Acts 2:1-8, 11-17; |
"In that sense every Sunday is a 'memorial day' for Christians. A day of remembering, of re-membering, of bringing members together in the Body of Christ which is the Church." |
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May 23, 2004 |
Psalm 47; |
"Because we understand Christ to be up in the heavenly places with God we often listen for the voice of Christ from above. Sometimes we do mistake any voice from above as the voice of Christ." |
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May 16, 2004 |
John 5:1-9 |
"It's always easier to read the future as the past. But the past is not the future – we are. No matter who we are, if we are the present, we are the future." |
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May 9, 2004 |
Selected Psalms |
"The Psalmist calls us always to be a singing people. And apparently isn't too worried about how well we sing, just whether we do." |
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May 2, 2004 |
Revelation 7:9-1; |
"John didn't foresee an apocalypse, he had one. That's an important distinction. He didn't foresee an 'apocalypse,' he had an 'apocalypse.' He had a 'vision.' A 'revelation.'" |
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Apr. 25, 2004 |
Luke 24:13-35 |
"As Christians, as members of the body of Christ, we believe that we do not travel life's journey alone. We are guided by the Holy Spirt, and comforted by the love and grace in Jesus Christ." |
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Apr. 18, 2004 |
John 20:19-31 |
"Clearly John, in his Gospel, means to say that 'seeing' Jesus is important. It's practically all he talks about as he tells about that first Easter and the first reactions of Jesus' disciples to his resurrection." |
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Apr. 11, 2004 |
John 20:1-18 |
"Mary may have come to the Garden alone, maybe not. But, in truth, she was never alone. There was always the one she mistook for 'the gardener.'" |
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Apr. 4, 2004 |
Luke 9:28-23:56 |
"That's the way we should read Gospels. The way the writers wrote them. With care not to add anything to them, as though "more" is better than the "less" that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John felt was enough." |
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Mar. 28, 2004 |
Isaiah 43:16-21; |
"Despite experiencing extreme suffering, imprisonment, and rejection Paul presses on. Paul presses on because Christ Jesus has taken hold of him." |
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Mar. 14, 2004 |
Isaiah 11:1-3, 6-9; |
"Jesus did not live, we do not live, in a peaceful world. But Scriptures hold out a vision of such a world, a world to come." |
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Mar. 7, 2004 |
Luke 13:31-35 |
"The image Jesus portrays of God in this short passage is not of the high and mighty one sitting far up and far away and rendering judgment; but of one brought low by his own choice and sitting near, nesting actually, like a hen sitting on her chicks." |
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Feb. 29, 2004 |
Romans 10:8b-13 |
"Jesus Christ saves. Jesus Christ lived, died, and was resurrected. I believe that you, the people of the church, have been and will be used by God as a tool to introduce people to Jesus Christ and the salvation he brings." |
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Feb. 22, 2004 |
Luke 9:28-43 |
"What I know now is that the cross on which Jesus died "stands empty to the sky," as one hymn puts it. And that we worship a risen, not just a crucified Lord." |
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Feb. 15, 2004 |
Luke 6:17-26 |
"[Jesus] is not extolling the virtues of being poor, going hungry, and being miserable. Neither is he condemning the virtues of working hard to succeed, enjoying your tea and chocolates, and being happy." |
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Feb. 8, 2004 |
Luke 5:1-11 |
"Luke is concerned that we hear more than a 'fish story,' or even a 'miracle story.' This is a story about our relationship with God as we know him in Jesus, God's Christ." |
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Feb. 1, 2004 |
Matthew 5:1-2, |
"That's what it means to be born a child of God: To be naive enough to believe what Jesus said, and amidst the worries of this world live without worrying." |
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Jan. 25, 2004 |
Psalm 19:1-4, 14; |
"We are not here this morning to condemn the people of Galilee. For the good news of Jesus Christ is for them just as it is for us. The good news of Christ is for all of God's people." |
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Jan. 18, 2004 |
Psalm 36:5-10 |
"For you and I the foundational statement of our life together, as a community of faith, as members of the church of Jesus Christ is, 'Jesus is Lord.'" |