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Proper 19 | OT 24 | Pentecost 16 ›
Matthew 18:21-35
Romans 14:1-12
Exodus 14:19-31
Genesis 50:15-21
Psalm 114
Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21
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  • Children's sermon, Illustration, Preaching, Sermon, Worship

    Nazish Naseem
    Katy Stenta
    Dean Feldmeyer
    Thomas Willadsen
    Christopher Keating
    Mary Austin
    George Reed
    For September 13, 2026:

  • Commentary

    David Coffin
    As the school year has begun and the autumn has churches back into their routines, these texts raise the question of what God has for practicing Christian faith or discipleship in the year to come. N.T. Wright has been writing volumes to suggest that the end game of the Christian life is not merely obtaining salvation or being made with God, then waiting out our years until we die and go up to...

  • Children's Story

    Janice B. Scott
    "Where's Ruth?" asked Jamie's mother.

    Jamie scowled. "I hate Ruth," she muttered angrily.

    "You do?" said Jamie's mother, surprised. About an hour ago Jamie and Ruth had been best friends. "What happened?" she added.

    Jamie's eyes filled with tears. Wordlessly, she took her mother's hand and led her out into the back garden. Jamie's mum...

  • Stories

    John E. Sumwalt
    Anne Le Bas
    Steve Philip
    Steven Fortney
    Sue D'alessio
    Contents
    What's Up This Week: "When the Big One Hits"
    A Story to Live By: "What's God Up To?"
    Sermon Starters: "In the Wake of the Storm" by John Sumwalt
    "The Storm Voice and the Voice of God" by Anne Le Bas
    Modern Epistle: "Dispatch from the Front" by Steve Philip
    Scrap Pile: "The Tremendum of Whirlwinds" by Steven Fortney
    "Response to the Poem...

  • Stories

    Frank Ramirez
    John E. Sumwalt
    Contents
    What's Up This Week
    "The Unsecret Weapon" by Frank Ramirez
    "The Unknown Churchgoers" by John Sumwalt


    What's Up This Week
    For soldiers fighting in a war, it is essential to have the proper weapons. Those weapons can mean the difference between living to see another day and dying on the battlefield. In "The Unsecret Weapon," Frank...

  • Preaching

    Jerry L. Schmalenberger
    Seasonal Theme
    The teaching and ministry of Jesus the Christ.

    Theme For The Day
    Making right decisions for Christian behavior.

    Old Testament Lesson
    Exodus 14:19-31
    Parting Of The Sea
    This story need not be explained scientifically. It's a story of witness to God's power and a call to faith. The journey to freedom...

  • Preaching

    Carlos Wilton
    This alternate psalm follows immediately after this morning's Old Testament Lesson, the story of the parting of the Red Sea. It contains two ancient hymns -- known, respectively, as the Song of Moses and the Song of Miriam.

    Of the two, the Song of Miriam is unquestionably the oldest. It is composed of just two lines -- lines which have been incorporated into the opening of the...

  • Preaching

    Stan Purdum
    This psalm falls into four cantos. Verses 1-2 refer to Israel's foundation story and most importantly, to how God selected that nation as a dwelling place. Verses 3-4 explain that God's presence with Israel had an effect on the actual workings of nature. Verses 5-6 revel in the wonder of how the earth responded obediently to God's presence in Israel. Verses 7-8 are a summons for the rest of...

  • Preaching

    Russell F. Anderson
    BRIEF COMMENTARY ON THE LESSONS

    Lesson 1: Exodus 14:19--31 (C)
    The presence of the Lord in the pillar of fire, that normally went ahead of the people to lead them, moved to the rear of the community as an obscuring cloud, a kind of buffer between them and the army of the Pharaoh. The Lord caused a strong wind to dry up a pathway through the sea so that the Hebrews passed to the...

  • Sermon

    Larry Lange
    Once upon a time, in a garage in the ancient city of Rome, a man developed a computer operating system that became the digital lingua franca for the ancient world. How his operating system defeated its competitor is one of the great mysteries of all time. There must have been something about its ugly, utilitarian appearance and its proclivity toward redundancy that appealed to the brutal...

  • Sermon

    Tempe Fussell
    Curtis Fussell
    I suppose when we hear this passage about the parting of the Reed Sea, many of us cannot help but recall that scene in the movie The Ten Commandments. There is Moses, played by Charlton Heston, in a flowing black robe, long hair blowing in the wind, and his arms lifted up with one hand holding the staff that God had given him. The sea suddenly heaves and parts, creating a path with rolling walls...

  • Sermon

    William J. Carl, III
    What we have in our passage is the contrast between a theology of grace and a theology of keeping score. The first is the one Jesus espouses in this text. The second is the one Peter is pushing and, by the way, the one our world has bought into for centuries.

    Anne Herbert once suggested that the whole thing started in Eden when Adam and Eve began keeping score. Certainly it was carried...

  • Preaching, Sermon

    John R. Brokhoff
    In 1988 former Texas governor, John Connally, auctioned off his personal belongings ranging from saddles to paintings for $2.75 million. This was only a fraction of the almost 50 million he owed because of failure in real estate and oil holdings.

    Suppose Connally's creditor had forgiven him the huge debt. Suppose he then found a man who owed him only $1,000, he demanded to be paid at...

  • Sermon

    Tom M. Garrison
    While I was still in seminary, I thought it would be good to go back to my roots and try to understand a little more about my past and myself. There were things that I faintly remembered from my childhood. There were, however, large chunks of the past that completely escaped my awareness. So I took a trip to Samantha, Alabama, to see my great aunt Sally Boone who was already in her seventies. I...

  • Sermon

    Stan Purdum
    French author Victor Hugo has a short story titled, "93." In the midst of this tale a ship at sea is caught in a terrific storm. Buffeted by the waves, the boat rocks to and fro, when suddenly the crew hears an awesome crashing sound below deck. They know what it is. A cannon they are carrying has broken loose and is smashing into the ship's sides with every list of the ship. Two brave sailors,...

  • Commentary

    Anger is like a volcano. Deep in many of us there is a lake of pain, pure molten hurt. From the outside no one sees it, usually. We cover it over so well. But one day the heat rises, and the dam breaks, and the cork blows, and anger erupts like an explosion. And dogs get kicked. And triggers get pulled. And wives get beaten. And missiles get launched.

    There are five levels of pain...

  • Children's sermon

    Good morning! Did anyone feel this week like someone else was present even though you couldn't see or hear him? If you did, it was me. I thought and prayed about all of you this week, and I tried to tell each one of you how much I love you. When praying, I tried to picture you in my mind. I pictured Sally with her long hair and Mike with his big muscles. (give more examples) You seemed so real...

  • Children's sermon

    Good morning, boys and girls. Here we are to celebrate another great Sunday. I am so happy you are here that I asked the organist to play something special just for you. (have the organist play a short fanfare) Wow! Now do you believe how happy I am to see you? Sunday is a very special day for all of us.

    Do you know why we come to our church on Sunday? (let them answer) Do you...

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