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Luke 4:14-21

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Scott-Hoezee
Scott Hoezee

Suspense! If you stop at verse 21 as the Lectionary would have you to do and hold off on what happens in verses 22 and following next week, then a sermon on this text ends in some suspense as we wait to see how the people will react to what Jesus has just said and…

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1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

Epiphany 3C

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Stan Mast

Today there is a great deal of concern about the weak state of the church in western civilization. Millions have left the church to join the ranks of the “nones.” That is a serious problem, but I want to suggest that an even greater problem is the one Paul addresses in our text on this…

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Matthew 15:1-20

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Marc Nelesen

Angles, insights, and illustrations as entry points into the text and sermon Inside and Out Preachers as well as parishioners know intuitively that there is much at stake in a text like Matthew 15.  What is at stake here, and how high the stakes are becomes obvious as we probe more deeply.  In the text,…

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Luke 1:5-25

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Marc Nelesen

Introduction of important themes – teeing up the text Luke’s gospel begins with his acknowledgement that he is not an eyewitness but a researcher, corresponder and narrator of what he will share with us.  The author has done his homework.  Seen as a unit, Luke and Acts reveal a keen awareness of important theological themes…

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Revelation 12:1-17

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Marc Nelesen

Special Handling Instructions:  Revelation’s Imagery  Older preaching audiences are going to be more challenged by Revelation’s images than younger ones.  Younger audiences have been shaped by apocalyptic television and movie images which include tsunamis higher than skyscrapers, seismic yawns that swallow whole cities, and asteroids whose impact effectively uncreate creation.  Younger hearers have had an…

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Matthew 11:7-19

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Sam Perry

Have you ever said that about yourself that you are greater than King David?  Or have you ever said that you are greater than Solomon?  Jesus says that the least in the kingdom are greater than John the Baptist and John the Baptist is greater than all who came before him.  Which means you are…

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2 Corinthians 2:12-3:6

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Sam Perry

The gospel brings trials and trouble and in life.  Paul has suffered greatly for the sake of the gospel and because of this there are those who doubt his apostolic authority.  Paul in vss. 12-13 describes the burden on his heart for the church.  There is cause for thanks however.  If you choose to take…

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Hebrews 3

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Sam Perry

Observations The journey of God’s people in the Old Testament from Egypt to Canaan is a pattern and a picture of the Christian life.  In the Old Testament they were moving toward promised rest, and in the same way we are moving toward promised rest when we will see Christ and be made like him….

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Revelation 2 & 3

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Sam Perry

In these two chapters are seven letters to the seven churches.  In some measure each letter has the same form.  Each letter begins “To the angel of the church in ______  write: These are the words of Him who….”  And there is some description of Jesus Christ drawn from chapter 1.  This is followed by…

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Matthew 9:27-34

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Kory Plockmeyer

Comments and Observations I hate it when someone acts one way when we’re with one group of people and then is a completely different person in a different context. Perhaps that explains some of my discomfort with this passage from Matthew 9. These back-to-back healings are, in many ways, nondescript. We are given few details,…

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