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Proper 13 | OT 18 | Pentecost 10 ›
Matthew 14:13-21
Romans 9:1-5
Genesis 32:22-31
Isaiah 55:1-5
Psalm 17:1-7, 15
Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21
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  • Children's sermon, Illustration, Preaching, Sermon, Worship

    Dean Feldmeyer
    Katy Stenta
    Thomas Willadsen
    Christopher Keating
    Mary Austin
    George Reed
    For August 2, 2026:

  • Sermon

    Janice B. Scott
    Tom and Ben couldn't stand each other. They'd known each other for a very long time since they had been at school together years ago and had lived in the same village ever since. But they'd never hit it off. Unfortunately, being a village there was only one church, and Tom and Ben were both churchgoers.

    The atmosphere in church can only be described as tense. Both Tom and Ben were...

  • Stories

    Frank Ramirez
    Argile Smith
    Contents
    What's Up This Week
    "Not a Cup but a Cow" by Frank Ramirez
    "Compassion at Work" by Argile Smith


    What's Up This Week
    Christ calls us to be compassionate and giving in a world of cruelty and greed. In "Not a Cup but a Cow," we see how one man's compassion for those in need, even those considered enemies, was able to affect countless lives...

  • Preaching

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

    Theme For The Day
    God's blessing from our troubles and the kingdom's invitation to share with others.

    Old Testament Lesson
    Genesis 32:22-31
    Jacob Wrestles At Peniel
    The Jabbok is a small creek in the middle of a large ravine which is often dry. Still at...

  • Preaching

    Stan Purdum
    This psalm belongs in the category of "personal lament," which means it probably was not used for corporate worship, but by an individual pray-er. From the tone, the person is clearly in some unspecified distress, probably from persecutors of some sort. Protesting his innocence and his faithfulness to God, the psalmist asks for divine relief, and concludes with an expression of confidence that...

  • Sermon

    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...

  • Sermon

    Larry Lange
    To Jim it seemed like an opportunity to right decades of wrongs.

    As Jim learned more and more about the congregation he had joined, he began to discover it languished from a festering tumor lodged deep within it. The previous two pastors, over their fifty-plus-year tenure, had never made much headway trying to move people from merely being members of the big fancy downtown church to...

  • Sermon

    Wayne Brouwer
    Yogi Berra, the great baseball player of an earlier age, was known for his unusual and creative use of the English language. In giving directions to his home, for example, he often told people, "When you come to the fork in the road, take it." His formula for success, as some heard it, was this: "Ninety percent perspiration, and the rest mostly just plain hard work." Then there was the time he...

  • Sermon

    Richard E. Gribble, CSC
    Willy Loman lived in a world of indifference; nobody seemed to care about him and others. It was a world where people thought mostly of themselves. Willy was a traveling salesman, but not a very good one. For many years he had been on the road, traveling from one city to another, one hotel to a second. His area was all of New England. Several times each year he would make his rounds, going...

  • Sermon

    Jeff Wedge
    Aren't families fun, at times? Paul reminds us in the lesson for today that families can be a source of many things in our lives.

    Consider the husband who had promised his wife to replace the kitchen cabinets, but kept putting off the home improvement. The wife had to leave to care for her sick mother for two weeks and returned to find the new cabinets installed in the kitchen....

  • Worship

    Thom M. Shuman
    Call To Worship
    One: We come to this place of worship,
    to encounter the One who has called us here.
    All: This Holy One -- our God --
    is with us in every moment.
    One: God is in our celebrations and joys,
    God is in our darkest nights of loneliness.
    All: This Holy God -- our God --
    blesses us and calls us by name.
    One: As...

  • Worship

    Beverly S. Bailey
    Hymns
    Break Now The Bread Of Life (NCH321, CBH360, UM599, PH329)
    Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown (UM386, CBH503)
    God Is Here (NCH70, PH461)
    Holy Spirit, Truth Divine (LBW257, NCH63, PH321)
    Our God, To Whom We Turn (NCH37, PH278)
    Sweet Hour Of Prayer (NCH505)
    Sheaves Of Summer/Una Espiga (NCH338, PH518)
    ...

  • Worship

    Frank Ramirez
    First Lesson: Genesis 32:22-31
    Theme: Out Of Joint

    Call To Worship (based on Psalm 145:1-4)

    One:     We will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.

    All:     We will proclaim you as God and King in the midst of our community.

    One:     Every day we will bless you, and praise your name...

  • Commentary

    We all love stories of courage among those who wrestle with daunting difficulties in life and actually pull out a win:

    * Francis Parkman suffered from both arthritic muscles and poor eyesight. He could work only five minutes at a time, scrawling huge letters on his manuscript, yet he managed to complete a massive twenty-volume historical masterpiece.

    * Thomas Edison...

  • Commentary

    David Kalas
    Early in the cherished 1965 movie, The Sound of Music, we see the sisters at the abbey wondering about their whimsical novice, Maria. At the moment, no one can find her, and one of the sisters dutifully reports to the Reverend Mother that she has looked in all the usual places. "Considering that it's Maria," responds the wise, old woman, "perhaps you should look someplace unusual."...

  • Children's sermon

    Leah Thompson
    Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. (v. 19)

    Good morning, boys and girls! How are you this morning? (allow answers) Today we are going to talk about bread. How many of you have...

  • Children's sermon

    Cynthia E. Cowen
    The Point: Jesus wants us to work together to spread the kingdom of God.

    The Lesson: Thank you, boys and girls, for joining me during this time of sharing. Do you know what this is? (let children answer) You see this offering plate passed around every time we gather to worship. What do our members place in the offering plate? (let children answer) For what...

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