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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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God is the Potter, We are the Clay

9/8/2019

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Jeremiah18: 1-11, Philemon 1-21, Luke 14: 25-33
September 8, 2019


We've been reading from the Old Testament book of Jeremiah for the past few weeks. I haven't given you an in-depth background of this prophet, but we did look closely at his call and commissioning by God. He was consecrated by God to announce God's judgment on the nation Israel. Jeremiah's life was filled with loneliness, violence, rejection. We are up to chapter 18 and he has been busy calling for Israel to repent. He has listed their sins and their unfaithfulness. He has warned that they would be invaded and the land made desolate. And he felt their pain, chapter 4, “My anguish, my anguish, I writhe in pain...for my people are foolish, they are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.” Do you remember his nickname? The weeping prophet.

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Live Big Inside

9/1/2019

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eremiah 2: 4-13, Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16, Luke 14:1, 7-14
September 1, 2019


Last week's reading from Hebrews was confusing to say the least. This week's reading is much more straightforward; “Let mutual love continue... show hospitality to strangers... Remember those who are in prison... let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have.. Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you... and imitate their faith... Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have... continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God.” The author shares a list of ways we ought to live. And smack dab in the middle of our passage, he tells us how we can manage to live like this, “The Lord is my helper.”
I do want to talk about some of these traits, but it starts with what's inside us. We can try to do on these things on our own, and we will fail. We can seek after the Lord Jesus and center our lives around him, and we will still fail... to live perfectly. But the key to some level of success is having our heart right, the proper source of the good we can do comes from inside as we claim the promise that the Lord is our helper.

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