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Sleepers, Wake! -- Matthew 25:1-13 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For AdventCanticle: Benedictus Dominus Deus
Alleluia, He Is Risen! -- Job 19:21-27a, John 11:21-27 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For The Great 50 Days Of Easter
I Go To Prepare A Place For You -- John 14:1-6, Psalm 139:1-17 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For AscensionDay Until Pentecost DayCanticle: Nunc Dimittis
Where Can I Go From Your Spirit? -- Psalm 139:1-17 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For PentecostMusic: Come, Gracious Spirit
I Bind Unto Myself Today -- John 11:21-27, Psalm 139:1-17, Job 19:21-27a -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For TrinityMusic: I Bind Unto Myself Today
A Sheep Of Your Own Flock -- Revelation 7:9-17, Psalm 121, Psalm 23, John 10:11-16 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For The Season After Pentecost*
A Dwelling Place -- Psalm 27:1, 5-12, 17-18, Psalm 23, Psalm 84 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For The Season After Pentecost
Face To Face -- John 14:1-6, Job 19:21-27a -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For TheTransfiguration (August 6)*Canticle: Nunc Dimittis
Lift High The Cross -- Psalm 116:1-8, 12-13, Job 19:21-27a, 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 35-38, 42-44, 53-58 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For Holy Cross Day (September 14)Music: Lift High The Cross
For All The Saints -- Revelation 7:9-17 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For The Octave Of All Saints'Music: For All The Saints
Come, O Blessed Of My Father -- John 5:24-27 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For Christ The King SundayAnthem: Christ Is Risen
Death In The Midst Of Birth -- 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 35-38, 42-44, 53-58 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For ChristmasCanticle: Nunc Dimittis
Yet I Will Rejoice -- Habakkuk 3:17-19a -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For Thanksgiving
Changed From Glory Into Glory -- Isaiah 61:1-3 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For EpiphanyCanticle: Nunc Dimittis
You Now Have Set Your Servant Free -- Isaiah 25:6-9 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For The Feast Of The PresentationCanticle: Nunc Dimittis
A Time To Die -- Ecclesiastes 3:1-11, Psalm 90:1-12 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For LentCanticle: Pascha Nostrum
All Glory, Laud, And Honor -- Revelation 7:9-17 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For Palm Sunday
Welcome To The Banquet -- Revelation 7:9-17, Isaiah 25:6-9 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For Maundy Thursday
The Sting Of Death -- 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 35-38, 42-44, 53-58 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For Good Friday
Low In The Grave He Lay -- Isaiah 25:6-9, Psalm 130, John 5:24-27 -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1995
A Funeral Homily For Holy Saturday
Nuts And Bolts -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1993
1. Everything Is Fodder
Crafting A Sermon -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1993
1. Praying Monday Night
A Great Delivery -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1993
1. The Purpose Of A Sermon
Stuff They Never Teach You -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1993
1. First Sermon
Preaching The Big Days Of The Church Year -- Barbara G. Schmitz -- 1993
1. Smile And Don't Yell

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Welcome To The Banquet -- Isaiah 25:6-9, Revelation 7:9-17 -- Barbara G. Schmitz, Anthology -- 1994
On the night before Jesus died, he gathered with his friends in an upper room.
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Lent 2
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It is a well-known cliché that “God never gives us more than we can handle”, but I have sometimes found that not to be so. When my youngest brother died of brain cancer at age five, it was more than I could handle. When my first husband was emotionally and physically abusive, it was more than I could handle. When my second husband and I lost our twin sons at birth, it was more than I could handle. The COVID pandemic was more than we could handle. Wars and violence are often more than we can handle. Homelessness, poverty, grief, and loss are often more than we can handle.
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I suppose we are all a little bit nervous about the prospect of a sermon on a Bible story as familiar and sometimes as overworked as the Parable of the Prodigal Son. "What can I possibly say that hasn't been said before?" And I know what's going through your minds: "Are we going to be subjected to the same old sermon yet another time?" Confronting a familiar Bible passage like this mid-Lent really serves to address the discipline of reading Scripture as part of our devotional life, particularly passages that are very familiar.
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A. A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh, wrote a simple, yet telling poem in his work, Now We Are Six:

When I was One, I had just begun.
When I was Two, I was nearly new.
When I was Three, I was hardly Me.
When I was Four, I was not much more.
When I was Five, I was just alive.
But now I am Six, I'm as clever as ever.
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.1

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Call to worship:

While the Prodigal Son was still far off, his father saw him, ran to him, put his arms around him and kissed him. In our worship today, let us turn to God so that he may run to us, put his arms around and kiss us.

Invitation to confession:

Jesus, for the times when we run away from you,

Lord, have mercy.

Jesus, for the times when we have wasted our inheritance on dissolute living,

Christ, have mercy.

Jesus, when we return to you,

Lord, have mercy.

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