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The post office was trying... -- Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
The post office was trying to run advertisements to get people to stop sending away for guaranteed f
Before the invention of steam... -- Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
Before the invention of steam and diesel engines, transoceanic commerce was conveyed in huge sailing
Have you ever had someone... -- Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
Have you ever had someone criticize you for something you could not help?
Leo Tolstoi, the Russian novelist... -- Hebrews 4:4-16; 5:7-9 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
Leo Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, is celebrated as one of the best authors of all time.
Wes was an 86-year... -- Hebrews 10:1-25 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
Wes was an 86-year-old bachelor. He's quit school at an early age to go to work in the city.
Don't you talk to me... -- Isaiah 52:13-53:12 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
Don't you talk to me about compassion, God, until you know what it is like down here.
Church conventions can be some... -- Isaiah 52:13-53:12 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
Church conventions can be some of the most down-and-dirty occasions in the church.
The imago dei of the... -- Isaiah 52:13-53:12 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
The imago dei of the suffering servant who brings salvation to the people of God is depicted by Isai
Katherine looked around the room... -- Isaiah 52:13-53:12 -- Good Friday - C -- 1995
Katherine looked around the room, taking in the characteristics of her audience: women, for the most
The end is the beginning... -- John 18:1-19:42 -- Good Friday - C
The end is the beginning. How Often that is true in our experience.
It is indeed a triumphant... -- Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 -- Good Friday - C
It is indeed a triumphant and glorious image here: Jesus has become a great high priest, after the o
April 17, 1961, was the... -- John 18:1-40; 19:1-37 -- Good Friday - C
April 17, 1961, was the day of failure of the Bay of Pigs as the invasion of Cuba by U.S trained Cub
When a French army officer... -- Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 -- Good Friday - C
When a French army officer had been successfully forced into a scapegoat role by a reactionary milit
How could they do such... -- John 18:1-19:44 -- Good Friday - C
How could they do such a thing? How could Judas betray Jesus? How could Peter deny he even new him?
The Only Helpbr... -- Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 -- Good Friday - C
The Only HelpIt is not the many spoken words
Appearance means so much to... -- Isaiah 52:13-53:12 -- Good Friday - C
Appearance means so much to us.
This scripture directly challenges the... -- Hebrews 10:1-25 -- Good Friday - C
This scripture directly challenges the privatistic religion of our day.
I suspect that many of... -- Isaiah 52:13-53:12 -- Good Friday - C
I suspect that many of us question the statement in Today's English Version, "There was nothing attr
Since we have a great... -- Hebrews 10:1-25 -- Good Friday - C
"Since we have a great high priest ... let us draw near ..." (Hebrews 10:21-22)
In The Ragman, the... -- Isaiah 52:13-53:12 -- Good Friday - C
In The Ragman, the Ragman, the Christ, Walter Wangerin tells of following a ragpicker through
God's election and protection are... -- Hebrews 10:1-25 -- Good Friday - C
God's election and protection are not always seen as a blessing.
Martin Luther was a person... -- Hebrews 10:1-25 -- Good Friday - C
Martin Luther was a person of deep conscience and a faithful son of the church.
A story I read in... -- Hosea 6:1-6 -- Good Friday - C
A story I read in a devotional booklet, "Our Daily Bread," about an incident from the Korean War ill
Preaching on Good Friday is... -- John 18:1-19:42 -- Good Friday - C
Preaching on Good Friday is an impossible task.
A male German shepherd gave... -- Hosea 6:1-6 -- Good Friday - C
A male German shepherd gave freeway travelers in Los Angeles a poignant lesson in steadfast compassi

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John Jamison
Object: A sheep stuffy or toy.

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Hello, everyone! (Let them respond.) Are you ready for our story today? (Let them respond.) Great! Let’s get started!

Did you know that Jesus traveled around and hunted for people who were doing something illegal and breaking the laws? (Let them respond.) He really did.And when he found someone who was doing something illegal, do you know what he did with them? (Let them respond.)

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Mark Ellingsen
Bill Thomas
Frank Ramirez
Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28
Our text tells us that we are skilled in doing evil (v.22). An anonymous late medieval treatise titled German Theology tells us why:

It is the nature and property of the creature to seek itself and its own things, and this and that, here and there, and in all that it does and leaves undone as desire is to its own advantage and benefit. (Varieties of Mystic Experience, p.162)

Martin Luther King, Jr. offers an alternative to this vision:
David Coffin
All three of today’s texts can be viewed as good news that God never gives up on God’s people. This is despite their resistance to repent or simple straying from the community of faith. We can observe family and loved ones at various points of their faith journey through the lens of each of these texts. Jeremiah 4 informs the people their neglect of honoring their covenant with God is about to result in disastrous consequences. Paul recalls in 1 Timothy 1 how he thought he was falling God’s will until he had his literal come to Jesus moment!

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John E. Sumwalt
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. (vv. 6-7)

The Village Shepherd

Janice B. Scott
Call to Worship:

Jesus told stories to illustrate to the people God's gladness whenever anyone turned to him and chose life. There is still rejoicing in heaven whenever any one of us turns to God.



Invitation to Confession:

Jesus, sometimes I think I'm too insignificant for you to bother with me.

Lord, have mercy.

Jesus, sometimes I don't bother with you.

Christ, have mercy.

Jesus, sometimes I don't bother with other people, but only with myself.

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James Evans
(See Proper 12/Pentecost 10/Ordinary Time 17, Cycle B, for an alternative approach.)

The psalm writer has an interesting perspective on the origin of injustice in our world. He begins this psalm with the assertion that those who do not believe in God are "fools." He goes on to accuse them of corruption and of being incapable of doing good. Later on he writes, "Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?" (v. 4).

Elizabeth Achtemeier
"Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them" (v. 12). Ours is a society that does not accept that as the Word of God. Many people do not believe that God judges anyone. Rather, the Lord is a forgiving God, a kindly deity who overlooks all wrong. As in the Gospel lesson for the morning, the Lord searches for the one lost sheep and returns it gently to the fold, or he hunts for the one lost coin until he finds it. God accepts the lost as they are, we think, overlooking Jesus' teaching about repentance and transformation of life.
Scott Suskovic
We usually don't spend too much time thinking about our own sinfulness. On occasion, of course, our feelings of guilt overwhelm us. We can't stop thinking about our sinfulness. If we are in that situation, we may need to talk that out with someone. Apart from times like that, we don't think much about our own sinfulness. We have ways of getting around that.

R. Robert Cueni
Back before the ways of the Taliban became common knowledge, there was a fascinating little article about how they jailed barbers when they didn't do culturally correct haircuts.1 The newspaper reported that young men in Kabul, Afghanistan, have started wearing their hair the way the actor Leonardo DiCaprio wears his. Long, not only on the sides, but so long in the front that hair can drop over the eyes. They call the style, "the Titanic," named for the blockbuster movie starring DiCaprio about the 1912 sinking of the cruise ship by that name.

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