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The Working Word which Wisens, Watches, and Wakes---Last Sunday of the Church Year

11/24/2013

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In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  

Last week we heard Our Lord warn His disciples to flee from Jerusalem when it would be destroyed (Matthew 24:15-28).  He was no longer talking to the masses at that moment, but privately with those who were His own, to His intimate followers.  That means the Word of God in the flesh speaks to us this day, not to the world, but to we who live by Him and His Word alone.  For we listen to Him as believers in Him.  We walk by faith in His Word and not by sight.  Our five senses may tell us one thing.  But if His Word says something that seems to disagree with what senses tell us, then we follow His Word.  For instance, your five senses say you are eating only wafer and wine in His Holy Supper.  Meanwhile, His Word tells you that you eat the Word of God in the flesh by which He inhabits you and casts out wickedness, and drink His blood which cleanses you from all sin and defilement.  


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Jesus is Not Your Boyfriend---25th Sunday after Trinity

11/17/2013

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In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  

Jesus loves you.  Not like a lover.  Like a Father.  His Father used Him, the Word of God, to speak all things into existence.  All things were made through Him, and apart from Him nothing was made that was made (John 1:1-3).  He loves you.  Because He made you.  Get those twisted romantic notions of love that our world pours down your throat out of your head and heart!  Jesus is not your boyfriend.  He loves like you like a Father!  He will do anything for you.  He will suffer all to save you.  He looks at you and sees that infant child who captured His heart the moment you were born.  


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Death Flings its Feces---24th Sunday after Trinity

11/10/2013

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Matthew 9:18-26
18 While saying these things to them behold one ruler coming prostrated himself (as before your deity) saying that, “My daughter is coming to the end of her life immediately; but coming You must lay your hand upon her, and she will live.”
19 And standing up Jesus and His disciples followed behind (became a disciple of) him.  
20 And behold a woman bleeding for 12 years approaching from behind held onto the tassel of His robe;
21 for she said in herself, “If I only hold the tassel of His robe I will be saved.”
22 But Jesus turning and seeing her said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith [has] saved you.”  And the woman was saved from that hour.
23 And Jesus coming to the house of the ruler and seeing the flute players and the crowd making a commotion
24 He said, “Leave, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they mocked Him.  
25 But when the crowd was thrown out (or exorcized) entering in He grabbed hold of her hand, and the girl arose.  
26 And the report of this went out to the whole of that land.  
In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  

Death.  It is everywhere.  It hounds us.  Our lives are lived in its shadow.  We spend our days cowering, running from it, hiding from it, denying its existence but never able to forget that it is there.  For it constantly rears its ugly head when we least expect it.  War, famine, plague, natural disaster, disease.  It robs us of young and old alike.  We who live in the midst of death have made an uneasy truce, a sort of alliance with it to keep it at bay.  But from time to time it overwhelms us.  Especially when too many whom we know and love are assaulted by cardiac arrest, Crohn's, cancer, alzheimers, dementia, or full on death.  The hordes of death rob us of life, loved ones, and joy.  

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