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  • Sadness Series

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Feb 11, 2016
     | 10,590 views

    We never quite know what to do with the emotion of sadness. Here's a biblical look at dealing with sadness.

    In the Disney Pixar film, Inside Out, we get to journey inside the mind of 11 year-old Riley Anderson as she wrestles with all the conflicting emotions that comes from a stressful move from a simple, stable life in rural Minnesota to a hurried, unknown life in San Francisco. Chief among these ...read more

  • Storytellers Of The Lost Scroll

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Feb 10, 2019
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,816 views

    "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your presence" Five real stories of how it might be fulfilled in our presence

    He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to ...read more

  • The End Does Not Justify The Means

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Feb 12, 2005
    based on 21 ratings
     | 3,011 views

    Family Sermon: What can we learn from Jesus’ temptations

    NR 13-02-05 Family Service Talk on The Temptations of Jesus Lent is a period of 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday when we remember Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness It was a time of quiet, fasting and prayer, in preparation for the beginning of his ministry in Galilee and beyond. It ...read more

  • Is That Thunder I Hear?

    Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Mar 28, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,422 views

    Do we hear the message of Christ Jesus and willingly follow? Or do we think his words are only like the thunder the people heard?

    John 12: 20 – 33 / Is That Thunder I Hear? Intro: There was a family from Boston who left the crowded city for Montana. They bought a ranch to raise cattle. Friends came for a visit and wanted to know what they named the place. Bar-J, Suzy-Q, Flying-W, Lazy-Y, Last Chance, Big Kahuna Cattle ...read more

  • Validating Our Christian Identity

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 4, 2025
     | 185 views

    Lent is a time in which we engage our interior self with its brokenness, weakness and intentional wrongdoing. We are all sinners, but we are sinners endeavoring to become saints, by our faith and practice.

    Friday after Ash Wednesday 2025 A priest of my acquaintance many years ago was in conversation with a Lutheran minister. He asked the minister if he believed that Martin Luther had made any big mistakes setting up a parallel Christian church. The minister candidly admitted that he thought Luther ...read more

  • The Patient Gardner

    Contributed by Mary Erickson on Mar 21, 2022
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,380 views

    A sermon for the third Sunday in Lent, Year C

    March 20, 2022 Hope Lutheran Church Rev. Mary Erickson Luke 13:1-9; Joel 2:13 The Patient Gardner Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. So says the ...read more

  • Beauty For Ashes, Joy For Mourning, Praise For Heaviness.

    Contributed by Thomas Dibble on May 22, 2003
    based on 356 ratings
     | 221,277 views

    God will console those who mourn in Zion. There is enough of God to comfort all who mourn around the world. But his word specifically states those in Zion or those in God’s house are going to get God’s attention.

    The Bible speaks of the Holy Ghost as being the comforter. Aren’t you glad for the spirit of the Lord? He is the comforter. In our scripture text it says that God would appoint, or as the NKJV says, God would console those who mourn in Zion. There is enough of God to comfort all who mourn ...read more

  • Nehemiah, The Rebuild Begins, Dealing With Rubble And Ash! Series

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Feb 7, 2010
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,749 views

    A narrative of the first two chapters of Nehemiah, Nehemiah tells his story up to the beginning of the work of restoration.

    Introduction: Thanks to the NIV Bible and Message paraphrase, both of which I’ve leaned fairly heavily upon for this attempt at a narrative of the first two chapters of Nehemiah. This is a narrative that has been Kiwified, i.e. easily understood by New Zealanders. The Narrator’s words are in ...read more

  • It's Time To Get The Ashes Off The Altar

    Contributed by Bishop William Bryant Wilmore, Jr. on Jul 19, 2007
    based on 145 ratings
     | 71,359 views

    Often our lives are cluttered by the residue of past experiences, making it difficult for us to receive the full blessings of God.

    Text: Numbers 4:13 "And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon..." My brothers and sisters, biblically, the origin of the altar goes clear back to Genesis when Noah built an altar to offer sacrifices after the flood. Genesis 8 & 20 says: "And Noah ...read more

  • Section (2) Answers From An Ash Heap Series

    Contributed by Luther Sexton on Feb 19, 2019
     | 2,750 views

    Looking for answers for reason of suffering.

    IV. ANSWERS FROM AN ASH HEAP A. Suffering can be for 1. Participation -- Being Human -- Because we are a part of the human race, and the human race (thanks to Adam and Eve) is conceived and born in sin. Rom 5:12&19 Ps 51:5 Romans 8:22 "whole creation groaneth" ...read more

  • True Value Series

    Contributed by Kevin Ruffcorn on Feb 15, 2016
     | 6,108 views

    A rich man is called to sell all he has and to follow Jesus

    “Mark 10:17-31 “True Value” INTRODUCTION Mark continues to explain to us what Jesus meant when he said, “The time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is here. Repent and believe.” Mark has helped us understand what Jesus meant by telling us stories and parables of ...read more

  • Prepare Series

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Feb 12, 2008
    based on 9 ratings
     | 13,724 views

    This is the 1st in a Lenten Series, and deals with ’preparation".

    It was said that Martin Luther King never prepared, but always preached based on what the Holy Spirit gave him to say. One day upon walking in to a large Cathedral to preach for a crowd, he asked God what he was to preach on, the answer came "You should have prepared". John Wooden once said ...read more

  • The Time Is Fulfilled

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 11, 2018
     | 5,509 views

    Isn’t it true that when humans fail, sin, even commit the most awful injustices, God’s mercy is ever present, ever able to forgive when we repent?

    First Sunday of Lent 2018 We come to Mass on the First Sunday of Lent, full of energy that has not diminished since we crowded the churches on Ash Wednesday. We know that the Word of God on this special Lord’s Day reminds us of the Lord Jesus’s battle with the Enemy of mankind, the one Scripture ...read more

  • Easter Wisdom - April 1st

    Contributed by Geoffrey Foot on Apr 2, 2018
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,015 views

    Easter Day and April 1st doesn't coincide very often but it has a valuable lesson for us in that God's wisdom in raising Jesus from the dead corrects forever the foolishness of mankind.

    EASTER Wisdom - April 1st!? 'Who says God doesn't have a sense of humour!' Twitter erupts with hilarious posts about the fact that Easter Day falls on the same day as April Fool's day - while Ash Wednesday is on Valentine's Day. But we all like a joke, a laugh - life would be very boring if we ...read more

  • Unity Over Conflict Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Feb 6, 2016
     | 4,936 views

    Christ has made all things one in himself, and we must strive for unity if we are to have peace.

    Thursday after Ash Wednesday 2016 Joy of the Gospel There really is only one choice in this life. We either choose to walk in the path set down by Our Lord or we don’t. Psalm 1, which we just prayed, says it very well: “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, ...read more