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  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    Mark Ellingsen
    Bill Thomas
    Frank Ramirez
    Deuteronomy 26:1-11
    According to Martin Luther our thanksgiving is brought about only by justification by grace:

    But bringing of tithes denotes that we are wholly given to the service of the neighbor through love…  This, however, does not happen unless, being first justified by faith. (Luther’s Works, Vol.9, p.255)

    The Reformer also...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    Wayne Brouwer
    A schoolteacher asked her students to make a list of the things for which they were thankful. Right at the top of Chad’s list was the word “glasses.” Some children resent having to wear glasses, but evidently not Chad! She asked him about it. Why was he thankful that he wore glasses?

    “Well,” he said, “my glasses keep the boys from hitting me and the girls from kissing me.”
    ...

  • StoryShare

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    John E. Sumwalt
    The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (v. 6)

    We just received word about the passing of our friend, Rosmarie Trapp. We had lost touch with her in recent years, so I was shocked when I stumbled onto her obituary in The New York Times from May 18,...

  • CSSPlus

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    John Jamison
    Object: The activity for this message is the Be Thank You! game.

    * * *

    Hello, everyone! (Let them respond.) I have an easy question for you. Can anyone tell us what is special about today? (Let them respond.) It’s Thanksgiving, isn’t it? I told you it was an easy question. And what do we do on Thanksgiving? (Let them respond.) ...

  • SermonStudio

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    Carlos Wilton
    This brief psalm is among the most familiar in the psalter, but that is primarily because its verses have been excerpted in so many hymns and liturgical texts. There is something to be gained from looking at Psalm 100 in its entirety, and trying to recover its ancient liturgical context.

    Psalm 100 is a hymn of approach. Very likely it was sung by pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem,...

  • SermonStudio

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    John W. Clarke
    In this the sixth chapter of John's Gospel, Jesus begins to withdraw to the east side of the Sea of Galilee. He has fed the 5,000, and he has walked on water. The press of the crowds had become all consuming and he needs some solitude to prepare himself for what lay ahead. Considering that the crowds that followed him more than likely knew of the feeding of the 5,000, and some may even have heard...

  • SermonStudio

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    Robert R. Kopp
    My favorite eighth grader just confessed his aspiration for becoming President of the United States.

    When I foolishly asked the inspiration of his lofty goal, he replied, "Bill Clinton." Then my hormone-raging adolescent proceeded to list perceived presidential perks that have nothing to do with God or country.

    My prayer list has been altered.

    And my attitude...

  • SermonStudio

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    John E. Berger
    Thanksgiving, according to one newspaper columnist, has kept its original meaning better than any other holiday. That original meaning, he wrote, was family reunions around large dinner tables.

    In contrast, Christmas has changed into Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Easter has come to emphasize new spring clothes and the Easter bunny. Even our national holidays --...

  • SermonStudio

    Thanksgiving Day - C
    Mark Ellingson
    Thanksgiving: How do we say thanks authentically and not lapse into the platitudes so often associated with this holiday? There are several dangers associated with the holiday. Ever since it was instituted as a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln, and even before when various state governors instituted it in their states, Thanksgiving has not been a strictly Christian holiday. There has been a...

  • The Immediate Word

    First Sunday of Advent - A
    Christopher Keating
    Thomas Willadsen
    Katy Stenta
    Mary Austin
    Nazish Naseem
    Dean Feldmeyer
    George Reed
    For November 30, 2025:
    • Time Change by Chris Keating. The First Sunday of Advent invites God’s people to tell time differently. While the secular Christmas machine keeps rolling, the church is called to a time of waiting and remaining alert.
    • Second Thoughts:...

  • The Village Shepherd

    First Sunday of Advent - A
    Janice B. Scott
    Rosemary was 33 years old. She'd been married to James for four years and they had two children, Sam who was two and the baby, Elizabeth, who was just three weeks old. Apart from the baby blues and extreme fatigue, both of which got her down a bit when James was at work, Rosemary was happy. They had recently moved to the London suburbs and James commuted each day by train.

    Life was...

  • StoryShare

    First Sunday of Advent - A
    David E. Leininger
    John Jamison
    Contents
    What's Up This Week
    "The Reason for the Season" by David Leininger
    "Time's Up" by John Jamison


    What's Up This Week
    Advent is all about time. We think back to the time when Mary was chosen to bring the Son of God into the world and the anticipation that led up to that world-changing event. We also look forward to the time when Christ...

  • SermonStudio

    First Sunday of Advent - A
    James Evans
    "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem" (v. 6). What better way could there be for us to begin the Advent season than by focusing our prayers on peace? The word, shalom, translated "peace," means much more than the mere absence of conflict. And of course, it is not only Jerusalem that is in need of peace; the whole world needs the shalom that the psalmist dreams about. So perhaps we...

  • SermonStudio

    First Sunday of Advent - A
    John R. Brokhoff
    THE LESSONS

    Lesson 1: Isaiah 2:1--5 (C, RC, E)
    In the "latter days" all the nations will come to Yahweh and make peace. This passage is repeated in Micah 4:1--3. Scholars claim that it was a later insertion. It tells us what will happen in the latter days, the end--time of earth. The house of the Lord, or Yahweh, will be the highest mountain and center of the earth. All nations...

  • SermonStudio

    First Sunday of Advent - A
    Tony S. Everett
    A popular skit at church camps involves about a dozen folks lined up side-by-side, looking anxious and frustrated facing the audience. Each person rests a left elbow on the right shoulder of their neighbor. Then, from left to right, each member asks, "Is it time yet?" When the question arrives at the end of the line, the last person looks at his/her wristwatch and responds, "No." This reply is...

  • SermonStudio

    First Sunday of Advent - A
    Linda Schiphorst Mccoy
    Just a few days before writing this message, I conducted a memorial service for a 60-year-old man who was the picture of health until three months before his death. He was active, vibrant, only recently retired, and looking forward to years of good life with his wife and family and friends. Nonetheless, pancreatic cancer had done its work, and quickly, and he was gone. It was the general...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    First Sunday of Advent - A
    William H. Shepherd
    Christianity is, among other things, an intellectual quest. The curriculum to know God truly. The lesson plans interact creatively with other aspects of faith: worship is vain if not grounded in truth, while service is misguided if based on faulty premises. While faith certainly cannot be reduced to knowledge, it cannot be divorced from it, either.

    The intrinsic intellectual character...

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