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Deaths, Our Teacher For an Eighty-four-year-old Woman -- Psalm 90 -- Anthology, Allen Puffenberger -- 1989
The outline of this meditation has enabled me to address a number of the vital issues that are raise
If I Take the Wings of the Morning Death Following Lung Cancer -- Psalm 55:5-8 -- Alan Bacon Bond, Anthology -- 1989
Barbara's first hint of trouble came with coughing and pain in the chest.
When Death Comes Too Soon Death Following Lung Surgery -- 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 -- Anthology -- 1989
How can you summarize the life of Curtis Ryan?
Except We Become Like Children Death of a Twelve-year-old Boy -- Matthew 18:1-5 -- John M. Braaten, Anthology -- 1989
Preached at the funeral of a twelve-year-old boy who died of a congenital heart defect.
The Backside of the Mountain For a Thirty-three-year-old Cancer Victim -- Matthew 13:24-30, John 14:1-7 -- Anthology -- 1989
We have come here this day to find comfort and understanding in the sickness and death of Charles Wh
Strong in the Lord Death of a Twenty-nine-year-old Athlete -- Ephesians 6:10 -- Palmer L. Gedde, Anthology -- 1989
Preached on the occasion of the death of a twenty-nine-year-old man whose death came as the result o
Never Separated Death of an Alzheimer's Victim -- Romans 8:31-39 -- John M. Braaten, Anthology -- 1989
Who shall separate us from the love of God?
A Time For Thanksgiving -- Mark 15:21 -- Anthology, Arthur H. Kolsti -- 1989
This meditation was delivered at a memorial service for a young man of nineteen whose death was caus
Norberth, My Son Death in a Hang-glider Accident -- 2 Samuel 18:31-33 -- George Paul Mocko, Anthology -- 1989
They had come as immigrants from Germany about 1950 - Isa, strikingly beautiful and capable; Horst,
God Cares For a Mother Who Died in Traffic -- John 14:1-6 -- William Luoma, Anthology -- 1989
Members of the family and friends, in the name of Jesus Christ, our loving Lord and Savior:
A Strange Victory Death of a Nineteen-year-old -- Job 13, Philippians 4:4-13 -- Anthology, Louis M. Pratt -- 1989
Death is seen as a friend when it comes to a loved one in the fulness of years, when the prospect is
My God! Why? Teenage Death Due to Drinking and Driving -- Job 3:2-26< -- Carl B. Rife, Anthology -- 1989
May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
Let God Be The Go--Between -- Anthology -- 1972
By Paul L. Winemiller, Jr.
The Beauty Of Marriage -- Anthology -- 1972
By John M. Braaten
Grow Not In Each Other's Shadow -- Anthology -- 1972
By Leslie F. Brandt
A Motto For Marriage -- Anthology -- 1972
By Duane T. Wuggazer
Christian Marriage -- Anthology -- 1972
By Elmer E. Flack
Hope In Christ -- Anthology -- 1972
By Elmer E. Flack
Living In Harmony -- Anthology -- 1972
By Elmer E. Flack
The Greatest Of These Is Love -- Anthology -- 1972
By Kenneth H. Sauer
Self--Disclosure - Self--Surrender -- Anthology -- 1972
By Leslie F. Brandt
Mystical And Real -- Anthology -- 1972
By Paul O. Hamsher
Love, Honor, Forgive -- Anthology -- 1972
By Leslie F. Brandt
Service For The Fiftieth Anniversary -- Anthology -- 1972
By Michael B. GoldnerWesley T. RunkOrder Of Service
A Personal Approach -- Anthology -- 1972
By Thomas W. Lentz

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In the sometimes-tiresome debate over science and scripture with respect to creation, it’s easy to become distracted. While the argument typically requires a focus on the how, we may lose sight of the what. And so, for just a moment, let me invite us to think for a moment about what God created.
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As a local church pastor, I was often asked if I would baptize a child whose family were not members of the church. Some churches rebelled against this, but I remember this scripture — the hunger for understanding and inclusion of the Eunuch and Philp’s response — to teach and share and baptize in the name of our God. How could we turn anyone away from the rite of baptism?

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“Dad, I think you worked a miracle.” Rolf slowly walked around the tree. “After that windstorm, I assumed this tree was as good as gone.”

“We just needed to give the branches time to heal and come back,” Michael replied.

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Object: A live plant that produces fruit, and a broken branch from that plant. I used a tomato plant from a local greenhouse. Ideally, find a plant with blossoms or small fruit already growing. If you use a different kind of fruit-producing plant, just change the script to fit.

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The Village Shepherd

Janice B. Scott
Call to Worship:

Jesus is the vine, we are the branches. In our service today, let us absorb from the vine all the nourishment we need.

Invitation to Confession:

Jesus, sometimes our branches become cut off from the vine.
Lord, have mercy.

Jesus, sometimes our branches are withered.
Christ, have mercy.

Jesus, sometimes we fail to produce good fruit.
Lord, have mercy.

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Stan Purdum
We will meet Psalm 22 in its entirety on Good Friday, but here the lectionary designates just verses 23-31. The lectionary psalms generally illuminate the week's First Lesson, which in this case is about the covenant initiated by God with Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 17. The nine verses from this psalm, while not inappropriate, nonetheless leave us looking for an obvious connection with the First Lesson.

John S. Smylie
I think some people are natural-born gardeners. Our Lord grew up in a society that was familiar with agriculture. The images that he used to explain the ways of his Father in heaven are familiar to his audience. Growing up, my closest experience to agriculture was living in, "the Garden State." Most people, when they pass through New Jersey, are surprised to see that expression on the license plates of vehicles registered in New Jersey. Most folks traveling through New Jersey experience the megalopolis, the corridor between New York City and Washington DC.
Ron Lavin
A pastor in Indiana went to visit an 87-year-old man named Ermil, who was a hospital patient. A member of his church told the pastor about this old man who was an acquaintance. "He's not a believer, but he is really in need," the church member said. "I met him at the county home for the elderly. He's a lonely old man with no family and no money."

Paul E. Robinson
"Love is a many splendored thing...." Or so we heard Don Cornwall and the Four Aces sing time and again. Of course you or I might have other words to describe love, depending on our situation.

Love. "I love you." "I love to play golf." "I just love pistachio lush!" "It's tough to love some people." "Jesus loves me, this I know."

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