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Proper 12 | OT 17 | Pentecost 9 ›
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
Romans 8:26-39
Genesis 29:15-28
1 Kings 3:5-12
Psalm 105:1-11, 45b
Psalm 119:129-136
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  • Children's sermon, Illustration, Prayer, Preaching, Sermon

    Mary Austin
    Christopher Keating
    Katy Stenta
    Dean Feldmeyer
    George Reed
    Thomas Willadsen
    As Jesus invites us to imagine the realm of God in these parables, no one is resting in the presence of God. There’s a remarkable amount of activity happening here. People are planting, baking, weeding, digging, selling, raising money and burying. The characters in the parables are all in motion. 

    As Matthew collates the parables of Jesus, certain themes emerge from these ordinary...

  • Children's Liturgy and Story

    Janice B. Scott
    Call to Worship:
    We may sometimes feel as though we are too inferior and too insignificant to be of any use to God. But God can make the tiniest of seeds grow into a huge bush. In our worship today let us offer to God all that we can and ask him to use us as yeast to enable his kingdom to grow.

    Invitation to Confession:
    Jesus, sometimes I'm afraid of being...

  • Stories

    David O. Bales
    Craig Kelly
    Contents
    What's Up This Week
    "Never Again Separate" by David O. Bales
    "Switching Treasures" by Craig Kelly


    What's Up This Week
    Hospital chaplains offer a different perspective on what it means to witness for Christ in desperate times. "Never Again Separate" shows us how reconciliation can help heal years of anger. "Switching Treasures" reminds us...

  • Stories

    C. David Mckirachan
    Larry Winebrenner
    Keith Hewitt
    Contents
    "Jerry Springer" by C. David McKirachan
    "Circumstantial Evidence" by C. David McKirachan
    "People and Sheep" by Larry Winebrenner
    "Learning to Pray" by Larry Winebrenner
    "The Wall" by Keith Hewitt


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    Jerry Springer
    by C. David McKirachan
    Genesis 29:15-28

    The first...

  • Preaching

    Carlos Wilton
    This Psalm is difficult to preach in our modern culture, because of the central section (vv. 3-4) which addresses devout men exclusively, and which celebrates the gifts of a fertile wife and many children as a blessing from God. That portion of this psalm may preach in Amish country, but in any other part of the twenty-first-century Christian church, its message seems quaint at best and archaic...

  • Preaching

    James Evans
    Stan Purdum
    Carlos Wilton
    (See Proper 14/Pentecost 12/Ordinary Time 19, Cycle A, for an alternative approach to vv. 1-6, 16-22, 45b; and see Proper 20/Pentecost 18/Ordinary Time 25, Cycle A, for an alternative approach to vv. 1-6, 37-45.)

    The portion of this psalm selected by the lectionary committee is in support of today's Old Testament Reading about the ongoing events in Jacob's life, the one who...

  • Sermon

    Richard E. Gribble, CSC
    When she was a little girl her parents bought a cottage by the lake. It was a small and humble place, but it would soon be filled with many memories. Each summer the family would go to the lake. She and her brother and sisters went swimming almost every day. On special occasions her father would rent a boat and the whole family would paddle around the lake. She learned how to fish and even...

  • Sermon

    Tempe Fussell
    Curtis Fussell
    If you have ever made an in-depth investigation of your family history, a genealogy, then you probably came across some ancestors who would qualify as so-called "black sheep of the family." Among my own ancestors my father came across a family will dating back to shortly before the Civil War. In that will it speaks of my great-great-great-grandmother selling off slaves. In fact, the will...

  • Sermon

    Tom M. Garrison
    It was the July 22, 1999, CNN live coverage of the burial at sea of John F. Kennedy, Jr. All his family members were dressed in black, knowing that in a few minutes the remains of someone they loved would be forever committed to the sea. When the coverage from the first news of the plane crash began to air -- one of the main subjects was all the tragedy that this family has suffered, beginning...

  • Sermon

    Stan Purdum
    I'd quit the ministry were it not for what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 13! Here Jesus is brutally honest in telling his ministers both then and now what to expect. In the best of times ministry is difficult. In the worst of times it is downright intolerable. But there is hope! For in Jesus Christ, nothing is wasted!

    Matthew 13 is a unique Bible chapter. It is all but the first time...

  • Sermon

    Jeff Wedge
    Many people have heard a part of this lesson before. Most particularly, the last two verses, the part about "neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

    These verses are often a part of funeral...

  • Worship

    Dallas A. Brauninger
    First Lesson: Genesis 29:15-28
    Theme: Apprentice

    Call To Worship
    Leader: Remember that God still guides us today. God always finds new ways of shedding light on our paths. We rejoice in an ever-present, ever-creating, and ever-sustaining God.
    People: Praise be to God.

    Collect

    God of purpose, God of design, God who knows the way: We come with...

  • Worship

    Beverly S. Bailey
    Hymns
    Sing Praise To God (NCH6, UM126, PH483)
    Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (CBH582, NCH18, 19, UM127, PH281)
    Like The Murmur Of The Dove's Song (NCH270, UM544, PH314)
    O Love That Will Not Let Me Go (NCH485, UM480, PH342)
    Jesus Priceless Treasure (CBH595, NCH480, UM532, PH365)
    Thine Is The Glory (CBH269, NCH253, UM308...

  • Commentary

    William H. Shepherd
    God works in hidden ways.

    It's an oft-heard saying, perhaps a cliché, but there is a reason certain phrases become clichés. The Bible gives plenty of evidence of a God who works in hidden ways.

    Our lections this morning give us three such pieces of evidence. In Jacob, God was at work to fulfill the promise given to Abraham that he would become a great nation -- even in...

  • Commentary

    Wayne Brouwer
    According to social researchers there are five basic reasons why people fail to make long- term commitments such as marriage. First, some are hurt by a past relationship that came undone in a nasty or painful way. "Once bitten, twice shy" is the way the modern proverb puts it. Troublesome difficulties in a passionate romance where we allowed ourselves to become vulnerable and then felt abused...

  • Children's sermon

    The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field. (Matthew 13:31)

    Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever visited the kingdom of heaven? (let them answer) Where is the kingdom of heaven? (let them answer) None of you have ever been there, but I suppose all of you want to go there some day, don't you?...

  • Children's sermon

    Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35)

    Good morning, boys and girls. Do you feel close to Jesus? (let them answer) When you are in church, can you feel Jesus all around you? (let them answer) Do you feel close to Jesus when you go home from church...

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