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Wonderful Words of Life

10/13/2019

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19
October 13, 2019

Who here believes they can pass an eighth grade test to move on to the next grade? I'd like to think I could, but I do know that I'd struggle to pass such a test from a hundred years ago. Now I believe we have a pretty good school system here, but I doubt many of our eighth grades could pass this test from 1912. I'm going to give you a few questions from the test and see how you can do.
1.-2. Spelling: 50 words for the student to spell, I will give you just 2; rhinoceros and antecedent.

1. Arithmetic: At $1.62 ½ a cord what is the cost of a pile of wood 24 feet x 4 feet x 6'3”?
2. Grammar: how many parts of speech are there? Define each one. ( noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, & interjection.)

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Always More

10/6/2019

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Lamentations 1: 1-6; 2 Timothy 1: 1-14; Luke 17: 5-10
October 6, 2019 World Communion Sunday
A few weeks ago I “hired” 5 year old Conor, Richard and Heidi's little boy to help move some stuff around in the yard. We worked for a little while and went in and were eating a snack. He told me this was his first job. And I thought he'd be excited when I told him I was going to pay him $5.00. But when he heard that, he responded, “I was planning on $15.00.” I said, “I'm sorry, Conor, I'm not going to pay you $15.00.” He sighed and said, “Okay, I'll take $10.”
He wanted more. That's a bit like the disciples in today's gospel. They have walked with Jesus, seen what he could do, had in fact gone out on missions and done great works. Jesus had given them a foundation for their faith, but they wanted more. But don't we all have a bit of that wanting more? More money, better car, bigger TV, fancier clothes, more faith? Always more.

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A Lamentation

9/22/2019

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Jeremiah 18-9:1, 1 Timothy 2:1-7; Luke 16: 1-13
September 22, 2019

A lamentation is defined this way: the passionate expression of grief or sorrow. Specifically for what we are addressing, it is expressing our grief to God. In the bible, there are four books with major passages of lament; the Psalms, Job, Jeremiah and naturally the book of Lamentations. We are reading one of Jeremiah's lamentations today. And like most of the lamentations in the bible, he expresses grief on behalf of the nation of Israel/Judah also affectionately called Zion. “My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick. Hark, the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land: "Is the Lord not in Zion?'” Jeremiah is crying out because he and the nation feel the loss of the presence of God. He is lamenting the causes for that; the sin of his country, their failure to live up to God's calling and their failure to care for those unable to care for themselves.

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Overflowing Grace

9/15/2019

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Jeremiah 4: 11-12. 22-28, 1 Timothy 1:12-17, Luke 15: 1-10
September 15, 2019 Owen Lau Baptism

I've told the story of Christa's horse Romeo before, but it bears repeating today in light of our gospel reading. Christa wanted a horse her whole life. I was basically dead-set against the possibility of getting a horse. Well, Christa got her horse. She worked for the Liestman horse farm and earned a horse named Romeo. A big horse, an independent horse, a scary horse. But Christa was excited to finally have her horse. So she took him out of his pen to put his saddle on and go for a ride—this was the first day she had him. She turned to pick up the saddle and Romeo sprinted out of the yard.

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