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June felt that her fifth... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
June felt that her fifth-grade Sunday school class was slighted because it was given the only classr
Making decisions in the dark... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
Making decisions in the dark can lead to some regrettable consequences.
In his book, An Anthropologist... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
In his book, An Anthropologist on Mars, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells about Virgil, a man wh
Imagine a game of blind... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
Imagine a game of blind-man's bluff at the edge of a pool.
Imagine the glory of God... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
Imagine the glory of God filling your heart, driving away all negative or painful thoughts and feeli
Nothing is more surprising than... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
Nothing is more surprising than the rise of the new within ourselves.
Pliny the Elder was a... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
Pliny the Elder was a Roman writer who lived during the same time period as Jesus.
A new church was started... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
A new church was started with the hope of attracting young people in their twenties and thirties.
On June 11, 1962, three... -- Mark 2:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2008
On June 11, 1962, three men went through the roof, only not down through the roof, but up.
After lunch we decided to... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2003
After lunch we decided to go to the beach.
It doesn't get any better... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2003
"It doesn't get any better than this!" Remember that ad on television a few years ago?
The paintings of Jacques-Louis... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2003
The paintings of Jacques-Louis David served to fuel the intensity of the French Revolution among the
When Catherine Zeta-Jones, wife... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2003
When Catherine Zeta-Jones, wife of Michael Douglas, was asked what she liked about stardom, she desc
Stealth aircraft operate on the... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2003
Stealth aircraft operate on the principle of failing to reflect radar emissions.
Most people would say that... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2003
Most people would say that bicycle racing is an individual sport.
There are a series of... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2003
There are a series of caves near the little town of Warsaw, Ontario.
Paul knew his teaching would... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6<br> -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2003
Paul knew his teaching would be greeted by some with indifference.
In ancient times people believed... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2000
In ancient times people believed that being up high was getting closer to God.
Life can be so surprising... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2000
Life can be so surprising.
Tom had been an ordinary... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2000
Tom had been an ordinary student. Good but not great grades. Popular but not overly so.
The first question asked of... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2000
The first question asked of someone desiring baptism in the United Methodist Church is this: "Do you
As the Nazis were moving... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2000
As the Nazis were moving into the Netherlands, a Dutch theologian named Henry Kramer met with a grou
I asked members of a... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2000
I asked members of a Bible study group to imagine that they were witnessing the dying of Jesus on a
It is estimated that each... -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2000
It is estimated that each week about fifty million people watch television talk shows.
When John Barrymore, the famous... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Transfiguration Sunday - B -- 2000
When John Barrymore, the famous Shakespearean actor, was starring in Hamlet on Broadway, the then-eq

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When A Cloud Overshadows You... -- Mark 9:2-9 -- Janice B. Scott -- Transfiguration Sunday - B
In his now famous book, Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt tells the story of his miserable
Utter Confidence? -- 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 -- Janice B. Scott -- Transfiguration Sunday - B
Despite all the awful disciplinary problems there seem to be in many high schools today, the

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Christopher Keating
Thomas Willadsen
Katy Stenta
Mary Austin
Dean Feldmeyer
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Emphasis Preaching Journal

Wayne Brouwer
In Hendrik Ibsen’s famous drama Peer Gynt, the hero of the story tries to find the meaning of his life by traveling and interviewing others. At one point he visits an asylum where “lunatics” are kept. Their craziness, thinks Peer Gynt, must arise from the condition that they are, as he puts it, “outside themselves.”

Not so, says the director of the asylum.

Outside themselves? Oh no, you’re wrong.
It’s here that men are most themselves—
Themselves and nothing but themselves—
Sailing with outspread sails of self.
Bonnie Bates
Frank Ramirez
Mark Ellingsen
Bill Thomas
2 Samuel 18:5-8, 15, 31-33
David’s willingness to forgive his son Absalom suggests a comment by Victorian-era English poet William Blake: “Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.” Martin Luther offered several comments about the profound love of God (reflected here in David’s love of his wayward son). The reformer noted that “Our Lord God must be a devout man to be able to love knaves. I can’t do it, although I am myself a knave.” (Luther’s Works, Vol.54, p.32). And elsewhere he added:

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John E. Sumwalt
Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. (vv. 31-32)

Every one of us needs to forgive someone and to accept forgiveness from someone. And it is a toss-up as to which is more difficult.

I have collected a number of favorite forgiveness stories over the years. I do not know the source. If I have purloined one of your stories, please forgive me.

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John Jamison
Object: A copy of a birth certificate.

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The Village Shepherd

Janice B. Scott
Call to Worship:

In our worship today, let us come to Jesus to drink at his fountain of living water and eat of the living bread that he offers us, so that we will never be spiritually hungry or thirsty again.

Invitation to Confession:

Jesus, help us to drink your living water.
Lord, have mercy.

Jesus, help us to eat your living bread
Christ, have mercy.

Jesus, help us to live forever.
Lord, have mercy.

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Mark Ellingsen
Theme of the Day
United in the grace of Christ.

Collect of the Day
After recognizing Christ as the true bread that gives life, we pray for this bread that He may live in us and that we may live as His body in the world. Justification (as Intimate Union), Sanctification, and church are emphasized.

Psalm of the Day
Psalm 130
See Pentecost 3.

or Psalm 34:1-8
Stan Purdum
Because the organizing principle of the lectionary is that the psalm is supposed to be a meditation on the First Lesson, we may be forgiven for puzzling about the pairing of Psalm 130 with 2 Samuel 1. The two readings match in neither subject nor tone. The 2 Samuel lection gives us David's lament over the death of Saul and Jonathan, while Psalm 130 is a penitential prayer and a plea for help (and no, we don't buy that mourning over the death of a loved one is akin to mourning over one's sins).

William E. Keeney
Friends told me recently that they had bought a bread-making machine. Such machines cost from under $100 on up. They can bake a wide variety of breads depending on the type of machine bought. They can make one to two pound loaves in a couple hours, or you can set the more expensive ones to bake over a longer period of time and have fresh baked bread ready when you want it.
Thomas W. Lentz
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
-- Ephesians 4:29

Charles And Donna Cammarata
Call To Worship
A celebration of the God who is our foundation.
Leader:
The one constant,
People:
The unchanging reality,
Leader:
That we can always count on,
People:
That will never disappoint us,
Leader:
Is this,
People:
That the Father,
Leader:
Our Father,
People:
In heaven,
Leader:
Will never,
People:
Ever,
Leader:
Abandon or forsake us.
People:
Praise God!
Leader:
With hearts, and hands,

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