Embracing Discipleship: The Power of Words and Suffering
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1. "Well, friends, we all make mistakes, sometimes many of them. We hurt ourselves, we hurt others, we hurt God with our words and deeds and sometimes also with our silence in action. So let us confess to God our sins, trusting in the one who blesses us with mercy as we say together our unison." [16:14] (20 seconds)
2. "We confess, O God, that we are so often a people who want Easter without Good Friday. An empty tomb without the cross. The fellowship of the family without the discipline of discipleship. Help us, God, to overcome our greed and our fear and walk the path that Jesus shows us." [23:08] (21 seconds)
3. "Help us to serve you without counting the cost and so bring your power and glory to light in our lives and in our communities. Caring God for all of our siblings and all the diverse needs, we also pray this day. We pray with thankfulness for those prayers you have already answered and with hearts of hope for those things yet to be." [24:03] (27 seconds)
4. "For the past couple of weeks or more in my sermons, we've had a sort of recurring theme about not just being the church, but doing church, doing the things that turn our faith into action. And so over the next few weeks, we're going to hear from some of the teams of the church as they speak to what they do, how they take both our financial contributions and our time and our talent, and put those to work in the many missions and ministries that we are about." [25:41] (60 seconds)
5. "Jesus asked, who do people say I am? And the disciples answered, John the Baptist or Elijah, one of the prophets. Good answers, complimentary to Jesus, but they didn't go far enough. If Jesus were only John the Baptist or Elijah, one of the prophets, he would just be one great man among many, hardly one of a kind, hardly the son of God, hardly the one to split history in half." [38:35] (28 seconds)
6. "The thing about following Jesus is that you don't do the right thing because it works, you do it because it's the right thing. Jesus put it this way, whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake and for the sake of the good news will save it." [49:19] (32 seconds)
7. "When faced with those temptations, remember the word of the priest who said the thing about following Jesus is that you don't do the right thing because it works, we do it because it's the right thing. Remember the words of Jesus, whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me because that's the purpose right to save lives ours and others the self-denial and cross-bearing do not have suffering as their purpose but life." [52:46] (42 seconds)
8. "May God deny you peace and give you glory and there's a part of me that wants God to give you a peaceful life a trouble-free life a life where everything always goes right but there's another part of me that knows that life is never so neatly packaged but in the midst of the hardest parts we can still do the right thing and so today I pray that God might deny you peace and instead give you glory." [54:21] (44 seconds)
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2. "We confess, O God, that we are so often a people who want Easter without Good Friday. An empty tomb without the cross. The fellowship of the family without the discipline of discipleship. Help us, God, to overcome our greed and our fear and walk the path that Jesus shows us." [23:08] (21 seconds)
3. "Help us to serve you without counting the cost and so bring your power and glory to light in our lives and in our communities. Caring God for all of our siblings and all the diverse needs, we also pray this day. We pray with thankfulness for those prayers you have already answered and with hearts of hope for those things yet to be." [24:03] (27 seconds)
4. "For the past couple of weeks or more in my sermons, we've had a sort of recurring theme about not just being the church, but doing church, doing the things that turn our faith into action. And so over the next few weeks, we're going to hear from some of the teams of the church as they speak to what they do, how they take both our financial contributions and our time and our talent, and put those to work in the many missions and ministries that we are about." [25:41] (60 seconds)
5. "Jesus asked, who do people say I am? And the disciples answered, John the Baptist or Elijah, one of the prophets. Good answers, complimentary to Jesus, but they didn't go far enough. If Jesus were only John the Baptist or Elijah, one of the prophets, he would just be one great man among many, hardly one of a kind, hardly the son of God, hardly the one to split history in half." [38:35] (28 seconds)
6. "The thing about following Jesus is that you don't do the right thing because it works, you do it because it's the right thing. Jesus put it this way, whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake and for the sake of the good news will save it." [49:19] (32 seconds)
7. "When faced with those temptations, remember the word of the priest who said the thing about following Jesus is that you don't do the right thing because it works, we do it because it's the right thing. Remember the words of Jesus, whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me because that's the purpose right to save lives ours and others the self-denial and cross-bearing do not have suffering as their purpose but life." [52:46] (42 seconds)
8. "May God deny you peace and give you glory and there's a part of me that wants God to give you a peaceful life a trouble-free life a life where everything always goes right but there's another part of me that knows that life is never so neatly packaged but in the midst of the hardest parts we can still do the right thing and so today I pray that God might deny you peace and instead give you glory." [54:21] (44 seconds)
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