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The story is told of... -- Proverbs 8:22-31 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
The story is told of certain sailors who were near death because of thirst.
Magician, Doug Henning, says that... -- Exodus 3:1-6 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
Magician, Doug Henning, says that the basic goal of his performances is to create wonder!
We rejoice in our sufferings... -- Romans 5:1-5 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
"We rejoice in our sufferings." (verse 3)
Fear paralyzes and binds a... -- Romans 8:12-17 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
Fear paralyzes and binds a person; love liberates and frees a person.
In his California backyard, a... -- Romans 5:1-5 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
In his California backyard, a man put on a parachute and strapped himself into an aluminum lawn chai
We live in the midst... -- Romans 8:12-17 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
We live in the midst of a very mechanically-minded world.
Belief in a Trinity of... -- Romans 5:1-5 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
Belief in a Trinity of persons in the Godhead runs through and through the New Testament and especia
It would be great to... -- Romans 8:12-17 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
It would be great to say I owe no one and no one owes me. But, life isn't like that.
We often expect much less... -- John 16:12-15 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
We often expect much less than will come to us in the future.
Phillips Brooks possessed the gift... -- Romans 8:12-17 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
Phillips Brooks possessed the gift of putting things in proper perspective.
Recently the youth group at... -- John 16:12-15 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
Recently the youth group at our church performed a realistic drama for Good Friday.
Nicodemus came to Jesus at... -- John 3:1-17 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
Nicodemus came to Jesus at night.
Some people have worried, as... -- Proverbs 8:22-31 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
Some people have worried, as science pushes back the frontiers of knowledge and clears up areas of m
In this remarkable conversation of... -- John 3:1-17 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
In this remarkable conversation of Jesus with Nicodemus, one truth comes through as crystal clear: w
To walk in the dark... -- John 3:1-17 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
To walk in the dark is always dangerous.
A man from Portland, Oregon... -- John 3:1-17 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
A man from Portland, Oregon, tried an old-fashioned way to woo his lady.
The commandment of Jesus to... -- Matthew 28:16-20 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
The commandment of Jesus to the disciples was, "Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my
When I was a young... -- Matthew 28:16-20 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
When I was a young seminarian, I heard a professor of Far Eastern religions make the following state
The church has always regarded... -- Matthew 28:16-20 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
The church has always regarded as members those who have been validly baptized with water in the nam
The Word remains. This is... -- Matthew 28:16-20 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
"The Word remains. This is the great comfort of one who preaches.
What happens when we fail... -- Isaiah 6:1-8 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
What happens when we fail in the work of the Lord -- when there is a mega-effort and a mini-return?
On December 14, 1986, two... -- Isaiah 6:1-8 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
On December 14, 1986, two courageous flyers, Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan, boarded their now-famous a
Isaiah was moved by the... -- Isaiah 6:1-8 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
Isaiah was moved by the power of a vision, a dream. It stood him on his feet and got him going.
It was a cold, rainy... -- Isaiah 6:1-8 -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
It was a cold, rainy, January day.

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A Preternaturally Gifted Triune God -- John 3:1-17, Romans 8:12-17, Isaiah 6:1-8 -- Carter Shelley, Thom M. Shuman -- Trinity Sunday | 1st Sunday after Pentecost - B
As we make our way into the 21st century, our world faces a host of challenges that potentially enda

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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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