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  • The Immediate Word

    Christopher Keating
    Thomas Willadsen
    Katy Stenta
    Mary Austin
    Nazish Naseem
    Dean Feldmeyer
    George Reed
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  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Mark Ellingsen
    Bill Thomas
    Frank Ramirez
    Jeremiah 31:27-34
    John Calvin makes very clear why a new covenant is needed according to this text. He observes:

    … the fault was not to be sought in the law that there was need of a new covenant, for the law was abundantly sufficient, but that fault was in the levity and the unfaithfulness of the people. (Calvin’s Commentaries, Vol.X/2, p.130)...
  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    David Coffin
    What happens when one’s past life narrative or goals in life have drastically shifted or collapsed? How do they rebuild hope? For Israel, they lost their land, monarchy, and national identity. In the days of the New Testament,they could easily be identified as living in the “fourth world” country. That is, existing in substandard conditions in one’s own native land?

    Modern...
  • StoryShare

    Peter Andrew Smith
    Rose sat back in her chair and opened her magazine. She heard the thump of the stairs and caught a glimpse of her daughter and son in the corner of her eye. She turned her head as they put water bottles in their backpacks.

    “What are you two doing?” she looked over at the clock. “Don’t you have homework?”

    “All done,” Paul and Linda announced at the same time.

    ...
  • The Village Shepherd

    Janice B. Scott
    Call to Worship:

    Jesus told us that we should always pray and not lose heart, for God is on our side. In our worship today let us pray to the Lord for the needs of others and for all our own needs.


    Invitation to Confession:

    Jesus, sometimes you don't seem to be there when I pray and I feel like I'm talking to myself.

    Lord,...
  • SermonStudio

    James Evans
    Psalm 119 is well-known as the longest chapter in the Bible. The poem is actually an extended, and extensive, meditation on the meaning of the law. Given the sterile connotations often associated with "law" and "legalism," it's hard sometimes to appreciate the lyrical beauty of these reflections. One thing is for certain, the writer of this psalm does not view the law as either sterile or void of...
  • SermonStudio

    Schuyler Rhodes
    There is perhaps no better feeling than knowing that someone "has your back." Having someone's back is a term that arose from urban street fighting where a partner or ally would stay with you and protect your back in the thick of the fray. When someone has your back, you don't worry about being hit from behind. When someone has your back you can concentrate on the struggle in front of you without...
  • SermonStudio

    David Kalas
    I wonder how many of us here are named after someone.

    Chances are that a good many of us carry family names. We are named for a parent, a grandparent, an uncle, or an aunt somewhere on the family tree. Others of us had parents who named us after a character in the Bible, or perhaps some other significant character from history.

    All told, I expect a pretty fair number of...
  • SermonStudio

    John W. Clarke
    Our reading today from the prophet Jeremiah is one in which the Hebrew people, not knowing what else to do in terms of addressing their predicament, decide to blame it all on God. They believed their problems to be the result of their sins and the sins of their fathers. Of course, one person's sin does indeed affect other people, but all people are still held personally accountable for the sin in...
  • SermonStudio

    Donna E. Schaper
    As usual, the epistle is a little more graphic than we can quite grasp. Itchy ears: what a concept just in physical terms. Experience it for a minute. You itch, you scratch, you sort of know you shouldn't scratch because it will only make the itch worse. But still you scratch, while wondering how the itch ever got started in the first place. What a concept: itchy ears as a vehicle for spiritual...
  • SermonStudio

    John E. Berger
    Did Jesus ever do comedy? Indeed he did, and the Parable of the Unjust Judge is partly comic monologue. The routine began with a probate judge so ridiculously dishonest that he announced, "... I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone...." (There must have been a gasp of disbelief from Jesus' audience.)

    The Unjust Judge was nagged by a widow, however, who had every right to nag,...
  • CSSPlus

    And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? (v. 7)

    Good morning, boys and girls. Yesterday, I was riding in my car and I kept hearing this noise. I call it a squeak. Do you know what a squeak sounds like? (let them answer) Squeaks are very annoying. It is hard to find a squeak in your car, so it...

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