tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73041090020708874652024-02-07T01:42:09.228-06:00A myHT FortressRev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.comBlogger409125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-56199690706831501102015-09-09T08:57:00.000-05:002015-09-09T08:57:57.164-05:00Hear, Hear!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Anglophilia is no secret. However, this is a fine and beautiful tribute to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, delivered by British Prime Minister David Cameron in Parliament today. His speech begins a session of remarks noting the historic occasion.</span><br />
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<br />Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-42977911050872351642015-09-01T11:20:00.000-05:002015-09-01T11:20:19.253-05:00More Than Meets the Eye: A Homily on Hebrews 9:11-14<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Thursday Vespers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Higher Things: Te Deum Conference</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In the Name of the Father and of
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">There is more than meets the
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</span>And you don't <b>want</b> to see it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You hide your eyes from the blood and gore, finding the sight of Christ
crucified distasteful,violent, and scary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Lord, I love you, but working through <b>blood</b>?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Really</b>?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yuck!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">There is more than meets the
eye. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the naked eye, the wormhole is confusing,
looking like a dreadfully violent storm, the likes of which you've never
seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a while people could
actually see the Chitauri coming out of it, bringing death and destruction to
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happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people need to be
rescued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They need to be saved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to top it all, a nuclear missile is
headed for Manhattan, which will bring inescapable death to all. </span></span></div>
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result of the crafty Evil one who once overcame by a tree now being overcome on
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</span>Tony Stark enters the wormhole with an overwhelming task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while he is in the clutches of certain
death, his friends start giving up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
wait, but gradually lose hope that he will be successful, and they know they
need to protect others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in <b>unbelief</b>
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the other Avengers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>You fall into the
same unbelief</b> all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You show
disbelief that Jesus could really complete His task, as He hung on the cross
and simultaneously entered the heavenly temple, splashing His blood in the Holy
of holies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You doubt He completed the
task, and like Natasha closing the wormhole, you carry on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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that <b>you</b> need to keep <b>your</b> end of the deal--to be good and please
God, or even crying out "faith alone," but trying to please God by
being <b>sorry enough</b> for your sins and believing <b>sincerely enough</b>,
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you say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can't we talk about Jesus as <b>Teacher</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can't we just focus on Jesus <b>loving</b>
everyone?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can't we just stop and look at
the <b>nice</b> things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blood?!</span></span></div>
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lambs every year for Passover and all the sacrifices on the Day of
Atonement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The innocent creatures were
led to the Temple, and had their throats slit, pouring out their blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is said that so much blood flowed down the
mountainside from the Temple that the water of the Kidron Brook ran pink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Day of Atonement, the high priest was
clothed in his vestments and entered the Holy of holies, splattering blood all
over the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant, with his feet shackled, so that
he could be pulled out of there if the wrath of God struck him and the high
priest died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lifeblood he splashed
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blood?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's so messy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gross!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The location of God's mercy, covered in blood!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forgiveness, rescue , and salvation, welling
up from His blood that issues from the waters of the font; sprinkling you from
the mouths of His preachers; pouring forth from His chalice.</span></span></div>
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</span>[pointing to altar] There is where the Lord <b>assembles</b> you to
Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is the perfect and holy
"wormhole," if you will, through which the same Jesus who entered the
Holy of holies and splattered His blood now comes to you, pouring His blood
into your mouth, along with His holy body that He gives you to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behold, the altar of the Lord -- <b>it's more
than meets the eye</b>. It's the location of God's mercy, covered in the blood
of the Lamb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.+6%3A1-6%2C+16-21&version=ESV" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Matthew6:1-6, 16-21</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Ash
Wednesday</span></div>
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February 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">St.
John's, Chicago, IL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In
the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In
October of 1913 a crowd of thousands gathered together on 40 acres in River
Forest to dedicate <a href="https://cuchicago.edu/" target="_blank">Concordia Teachers College</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Almsgiving, you might say, gifts above and beyond tithes and offerings,
had been gathered and helped construct the campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Word of the Lord was preached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The faithful responded in prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a great day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Just
five months later, tragedy struck, as <a href="http://cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=K&word=KOHN.WILLIAMCHRISTIAN" target="_blank">President William Kohn</a> was making his
night rounds and discovered a fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
frustrating things was the fire hoses were discovered to be too short to reach
from the hydrants to the administration building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The building was gutted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Yet
from the midst of ashes, the Lord raised up the school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immediately they decided to rebuild,
undeterred by the fire and ashes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
destruction of the college -- the "death" of the building, if you
will, would not crush them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life and
hope came from Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">We
often see ashes simply as the remains of death and destruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they are also reminders of a fresh
start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new birth and rising, such as
that of the mythical Phoenix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ashes can
be signs of cleansing too, as throughout history they have often been an
ingredient in the making of soaps and cleansers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">You
are like the ashes; sad, charred, used up remains of what you were created to
be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death has laid its grip on you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, no matter how young or healthy you are,
you are dying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">So
he we are, a bunch of defiant dead people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here we are; ones who like our stuff, and would rather not give too much
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we are, people who are happy
to spend hours each night in front of a TV or on the Internet, but are simply
too busy for prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we are, ready
to gorge ourselves on Fat Tuesday, to make up for anything we might resentfully
"give up" for the next 40 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here we are, warm, dry, and comfortable, trying not to even think on the
unpleasantness and sheer evil of this fallen world -- like the struggle of
Christians who are persecuted elsewhere. In repentance and grief, we remember
21 Egyptian Christian martyrs this week, calling on Jesus as the unbelieving
agents of the devil did their wicked work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">How
do you think you stand before God, with all of this baggage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You were right; each one of you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is</b> a "poor, miserable
sinner." The value of your wretched, rebellious, commandment-breaking,
human self is less than that smudge of ash on your forehead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">But
our dear Lord does not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">want</b> you to
be "ashes to ashes and dust to dust." He is heartbroken that He ever
had to tell our Father Adam, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Dust you are, and to dust you shall
return."</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows it is a
dreadful reminder of mortality for anyone to see the 90-year-old grandma, the
40-something cancer survivor, or even the toddler with ashes on their
foreheads, reminding them all of their mortality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His heart goes out to you, as the Law crushes
you into realizing you damning sin, and the death you face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">But
our sweet Savior also gives forgiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He climbed the hill of Calvary and laid down His life for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gave to you in your need as He allowed His
body to be broken and His blood shed to remove your sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus prayed for His persecutors,
executioners, indeed for you and me as He hung there, dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And He fasted from the wealth and splendor of
His heavenly, divine power, permitting Himself to be sacrificed for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And
now, He gives cleansing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did it at
the font.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And He renews that cleansing
with Holy Absolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ashes are a common
ingredient in simple and ancient soap recipes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The charred cross on your forehead is a reminder not only of your
mortality, deserved at that, but also a reminder that our Lord Jesus cleanses
you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He washes away the guilt of
breaking His Ten Commandments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
purifies you from all unrighteousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">He
thoroughly cleanses you as His own, so that with boldness and confidence, you
also may have precious words like, "My Lord, Jesus," "Jesus,
help me!" on your lips when you face your mortality on this earth and
breathe your last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will take and keep
your dust and ashes until the day that He gathers you together in perfection
and glory, to be resurrected and live with Him forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the mean time, Jesus Christ lifts you up,
cleanses you, and makes you His holy and righteous disciple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And He bids you to come and feast on the Body
broken and Blood shed, which are the very gifts that cleanse you from
within.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A Common Language</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rev.
Peter Bender, arguably one of our Synod’s foremost experts on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Small Catechism</i>, is fond of saying that
one of the functions of fixed terms, translations, and figures of speech in our
regular liturgy and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Small Catechism</i>
is having “a common language” to understand the Lord and His Word, and the
faith He gives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Children
learn language even before they can speak it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They soak it up like sponges!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This happens even more so when certain phrases and responses are in
patterns and can be anticipated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
most basic example is a two-year-old picking up on responding to a prayer with
a hearty “Amen.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">An Example</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Of
course, we have had challenges even in our hymnals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 1970’s and 80’s, there was a movement
to give fresh translations to even basic phrases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “salutation” and response that precede
some prayers is a good example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Latin phrase spoken by the pastor was, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Dominus
vobiscum.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The congregation
responds, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Et cum spiritu tuo.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In German, the excellent translation is, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Der Herr sei mit euch.” “Und mit deinem
Geist.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For centuries, the English
of this was the precise, “The Lord be with you.” “And with your spirit.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, committees in the later 20<sup>th</sup>
century felt the language of the response was outdated, and wanted to jump on
the Vatican II band wagon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They changed
it to: “And also with you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, that
is the “gist” of it, but it is more paraphrase than translation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ironically,
while Lutheran Service Book was being compiled and edited, Rome returned to the
translation, “And with your spirit,” while <i>LSB</i> kept a mixed bag of using one
response in some services, and the other for the rest. The result is we have
mixed, garbled responses even within the same congregation, since no one is
sure from memory which way to respond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People are confused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The elderly
who have learned one way are frustrated, while the very young are confused by
multiple possibilities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Luther
said in his preface to the <i>Small Catechism</i> that pastors should choose a
translation and stick with it, for multiple generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This serves the Church in caring for her
people and serving them God’s Word with the repetition of it in preaching,
teaching, and liturgy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1986, a new
translation of the Catechism was produced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a number of ways, it is not as strong as the 1943 translation that
many of us grew up with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, over 90%
of our Synod uses the 1986 edition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
for the sake of this common language, we use it, and simply incorporate some
explaining into catechesis, to be sure our people understand it better.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Serving Your Neighbor</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When
I was in confirmation instruction, my home parish purchased the 1982 hymnal,
<i>Lutheran Worship</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>LW </i>had changed a great
number of hymns to push for updated language, and in the process, often changed
the entire poetry and rhyme scheme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
few of us in the youth group took pride in singing the older Jacobean/Elizabethan
English, while everyone else was singing the new words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time, we felt we were being more
authentically “Lutheran,” and took pride that we sang hymns the “right” way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Looking
back, I see that we were <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not</b> serving
our neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though it may have
been more helpful to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">our </b>understanding
of those hymns, it was confusing (or at least distracting) to those in the pews
around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Singing “you” rather than
“Thee” in a particular hymn may feel right, but if it is delaying the
pre-schooler from learning it by heart, or throwing off the grandmother whose
sight is failing, is not helpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Repetition is the Mother of
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“new” translation of the Catechism is now 28 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “new” hymnal is now eight years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “new” translation of Scriptures in our
midst, the English Standard Version, is now 13 years old, and many pastors like
myself have been preaching from it for at least 12 years now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No translation is perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, we have agreed to “walk together” as a
Synod, and part of walking together is using that “common language.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Speak it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again and again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy Spirit uses this to nourish and sustain
you, and builds you up with your neighbors to receive Christ’s forgiveness and
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Treasure the tools the Lord has
given for that common language: The Scriptures, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lutheran Service Book</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Luther’s
Small Catechism</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learn them by
heart, according to your ability, and the Lord will use that as a blessing to
you and your neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when you
fail, or when you have moments of speaking in other “dialects,” that are not
helpful in walking together, remember your loving and forgiving Lord has rescued
and redeemed you, His baptized child, washing that guilt away, that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you ”may be His own and live under Him in
His kingdom and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and
blessedness, just as He is risen from the dead, lives and reigns to all
eternity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is most certainly true.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span>A Series of Articles on <i>Luther’s Small Catechism</i></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><span>by Rev. Richard A. Heinz </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thank you, Rick Arndt, for nominating me to list 15 Movies
That Have Stayed With You!<span> </span>We are
kindred spirits with the enjoyment of many of the movies you listed, and yet, I
will go off on some different tangents.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I will nominate Matt Pahnke, Jacob Tomaw, Mark Zanders, Sr.,
and Ben Heinz.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Naming the best film ever, or even limiting the list, has
always been difficult for me, as well.<span> </span>I
have so many, and for just as wide a variety of factors.<span> </span>So here we go…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Indiana Jones and the
Raiders of the Lost Ark</i>.<span> </span>What do you
get when you bring George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Harrison Ford together
in one film?<span> </span>Absolute magnificence!<span> </span>This thrilling adventure was amazing.<span> </span>I still remember the moms of our 6<sup>th</sup>
grade class dropping us off at the theatre that May, and a group of us feeling
all grown up watching this action-packed classic unfold!</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2. <i>Star Wars: Episode IV –
A New Hope</i>.<span> </span>I actually love all
six.<span> </span>Yes, prequel haters can hate me,
but I must confess I even enjoyed Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan more than Sir Alec
Guiness.<span> </span>But this is where it all
began.<span> </span>This is where modern cinema was
revived, and science fiction grew up into a legitimate category of film.<span> </span>From the very first moments of “A long time
ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a great adventure took place” scrolling up the
screen, this entire mythology was absorbed into my imagination!</span></span></div>
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again, the whole Christopher Nolan trilogy) is brilliant!<span> </span>Christian Bale has become the consummate
Batman.<span> </span>Michael Caine simply IS
Alfred.<span> </span>The story swept us into a
believably corrupt Gotham, with a hero who is greater than we deserved.</span></span></div>
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displays Nolan’s extreme talent in directing.<span>
</span>With each layer of dreaming, I felt sucked in more.<span> </span>The intensity is amazing!<span> </span>The effects marvelous.<span> </span>The cast tremendous!<span> </span>You will feel tired when the film is
finished, since your heart has been pounding the entire time.<span> </span>And yet, you cannot fall asleep.<span> </span>Not because you are scared to do so, but
because your mind is racing, trying to analyze what happened at what level of
dream, and what *really* became of each member of the team.<span> </span>Does the top keep spinning, or no?!</span></span></div>
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Caribbean</i>.<span> </span>This is a film that
Kristi and I left the theatre saying, “We will own this one!”<span> </span>Non-stop action.<span> </span>Great comedic timing.<span> </span>Fun storyline.<span> </span>And a soundtrack that I could listen to for
days!<span> </span>Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow
is one of the most amazingly “stick with you” characters ever developed, and he
plays him magnificently!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Star Trek II: The
Wrath of Khan</i>.<span> </span>This film drew me
into the Star Trek universe.<span> </span>I became a
fan of 2,3, and 4, and then The Next Generation even more so.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Star Trek IV: Save the
Whales</i>.<span> </span>Okay, that wasn’t its real
name.<span> </span>And it definitely is not one of
the strongest of those films.<span> </span>Yet the
comedic one-liners have definitely “stuck with me.”<span> </span>Spock’s use of “colorful metaphors” are full
of laughs.<span> </span>The old lady giddy in her
wheel chair in the hospital, after Bones has helped her: “Doctor gave me a pill
and I grew a new kidney!!!”<span> </span>And Scotty,
dealing with the primitive 1980’s computer, talking into the mouse: “Computer?<span> </span>Hello, Computer!?”<span> </span>“Just use the keyboard.”<span> </span>“A keyboard! How quaint.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Super 8</i>.<span> </span>Perhaps because the boys in this film are the
age I would have been in that era.<span> </span>This
was a fabulous story of creativity and imagination, as well as helping
something unknown, while pulling together to help your neighbors.</span></span></div>
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can admit that they like some romantic comedies or dramas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">6. <i>The Princess Bride</i>.<span> </span>Inconceivable? It’s the consummate quotable
film.<span> </span>Every quote you’ll ever need,
packed into one movie.<span> </span>It is an action
film, as well.<span> </span>Sword fights, magic, and
love.<span> </span>True love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">7. <i>Sleepless in Seattle</i>.<span> </span>“You don’t want to be in love; you want to be
in love in the movies.”<span> </span>Tom Hanks and
Meg Ryan tug at your own heart as you root for this pair who keep crossing
paths without meeting, and yet you *know* they belong together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">8. <i>The Notebook</i>.<span> </span>There.<span>
</span>I said it.<span> </span>This is a touching
film about love and devotion across the years.<span>
</span>Perhaps it is the Alzheimer’s in my own family that makes this strike a
chord.<span> </span>But it is well done,
nevertheless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love comedies.<span> </span>I
enjoy them, laugh at them, and would watch them repeatedly.<span> </span>But many don’t make their way onto such a
list of greats.<span> </span>Except…maybe... one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">9. <i>Young Frankenstein</i>.<span> </span>Mel Brooks directs a hilarious, but irreverent
reboot of the Frankenstein story.<span> </span>Gene
Wilder, Madeline Khan, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, and many others come
together with splendid humor, lines, timing, and a classic black-and-white
filming that lend to the power of this humorous tale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">10. <i>Aladdin</i>.<span> </span>Disney films have so many classics among
them.<span> </span>And I love so many of them!<span> </span>I guess Aladdin appeals to me as one of the
few Disney animated films with a male lead.<span>
</span>Being authentic to who you really are, and people loving the real person,
not the phony façade, is at the heart of this movie’s message.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">11. <i>Casablanca</i> is one
of the greatest ever!<span> </span>Humphrey Bogart
and Ingrid Bergman give splendid portrayals of this would-be couple in the
Second World War. <span> </span>The ensemble cast with
Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre draw your eyes and ears to
each line and minute detail.<span> </span>True love
and the sacrifices it makes, especially in wartime, are well played throughout.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">12. <i>Holiday Inn</i>.<span> </span>This is another “oldie but goodie.”<span> </span>Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire pair up for one
of the greatest song and dance films of the 1940’s. <span> </span>A year full of “red letter” days is portrayed
at the inn. Maybe this is even more special than some other Bing Crosby greats,
since I stole my first kiss with Kristi during “Thanksgiving” the first time we
watched it together.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">13. <i>It’s a Wonderful Life</i>.<span> </span>I love Jimmy Stewart!<span> </span>He is the most awesome “everyman.”<span> </span>This tale of love and loss, dreams that are
dashed, and finally realizing the amazing qualities of “ordinary” things in
life, will touch you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">14. <i>The Ten Commandments</i>.<span> </span>This great epic, directed by Cecil B.
DeMille, is the greatest old-time biblical epic.<span> </span>Charleton Heston will always be the image
burned in my mind for Moses.<span> </span>The cheesy
lines and artistic liberties do add some caution in taking this as biblical
history, and the special effects are SO dated, but it’s a beautifully portrayed
film, and will always be dear to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">15. <i>I Confess</i>.<span> </span>This gem of <i>film noir</i> is one of the best kept secrets of Alfred Hitchcock’s
career.<span> </span>The tale is of a Roman Catholic
priest in Quebec in the 1950’s.<span> </span>By doing
the right thing and keeping the seal of the confessional, he ends up being the
chief suspect in a murder.<span> </span>Will he die
for another man’s sins, or not?<span> </span>True to
form, Hitchcock provides twists and turns to the very end!<span> </span>I show this in every year’s catechism class,
as we talk about individual confession!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are so many others!<span>
</span>But since Rick’s challenge was to list 15, I will stop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>9<sup>th</sup> Sunday after
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span>St. John’s, Chicago, IL</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy
Spirit.<span> </span>Amen.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span></span>Ponder
for a moment the passages from Scripture that you hear about rich men, as Saint
Luke records:<span> </span>The prodigal son wastes
his wealth immorally, the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Zacchaeus—a rich
tax collector, even in the first chapter of Luke’s Gospel, we hear the Blessed
Virgin Mary praising God that <b><i>“the rich He has sent empty away.”</i></b><span> </span>There are many other examples, most of which
do not paint a pretty picture for the wealthy.<span>
</span>Attempting to get great riches would not, then, appear to be the
virtuous lesson.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span></span>And
yet, that is the goal of our world.<span> </span>In
this era, students are often selecting careers, not on the basis that they have
talents and abilities for them, or that these careers are fulfilling vocations,
but on the basis of what makes the most money.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Guidance
counselors, friends, and teachers will promote this attitude, often telling those
who choose vocations of service that they are “wasting” their intelligence and
abilities. <span> </span>Students are making huge
mistakes according to some professors and leaders if they choose to be
counselors or therapists, work in the field of child care, or choose to work in
a vocation of serving that will never produce much of a salary.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Riches also
make the divorces of the wealthy and famous far more nasty than others.<span> </span>Even our entertainment encourages a pursuit
of wealth, both for the actor or athlete, as well as the message they send to
their spectators.<span> </span>And yet, we see the
tragedy of comedian Robin Williams this week, and are mindful that for all the
wealth he had received, it could not relieve depression and free him from
despair.<span> </span>A sad reminder to pray for
those who seem to “have it all,” that they may receive God’ peace and mercy.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">So
how is it that this rich man commends the unjust steward—the dishonest
manager?<span> </span>And who are these men?<span> </span>Too often we read ourselves into parables,
and try to twist them into lessons on “how to behave.”<span> </span>In reality, this story is one of Jesus
describing the saving Gospel coming to us, His lowly debtors.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span></span>Yes,
you and I are the poor people with gigantic bills.<span> </span>We owe the Lord more than we can ever pay
Him.<span> </span>We are the ones who have their
bills slashed. And in spite of the unfavorable image that our Lord paints of
the often unbelieving rich, the rich man here represents our Heavenly
Father.<span> </span>Those who are indebted to Him
are all people.<span> </span>And, believe it or not, <b>JESUS is the Unjust Steward</b>—<b>the Dishonest Manager.<span> </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">What?<span> </span>Jesus – dishonest?<span> </span>Jesus – unjust?<span> </span>But wait.<span>
</span>Don’t get hung up on that.<span> </span>He is
called unjust.<span> </span>Accused of being
wasteful. However the better title would be “<b>the Merciful Steward</b>.”<span> </span>Note
also that the Rich Man (God the Father) is not the one bringing charges – He
simply has <b>heard</b> the charges.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Think
about it.<span> </span>The scribes and Pharisees,
religious leaders of the Jews, were accusing Jesus of wastefulness.<span> </span>He wasted His time and energy, and even Table
Fellowship (!) with public sinners.<span>
</span>Jesus would teach and eat with tax collectors, adulterers, and others
who had bad reputations.<span> </span>He welcomed
them, in order to preach and teach God’s Law and Gospel.<span> </span>He was (and is) the Steward tearing up their
bills and freeing them of their eternal indebtedness.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yes, Our Lord Jesus is the unjust steward, who
has been accused of wasting his time, energy, talents, on those
"sinners." [The Jewish leaders] want to take away from him his
authority to teach,</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> since they believe that He is not tending to those
who deserve His time and teaching.<span> </span>They
consider Jesus to be contaminating Himself by associating with lowlifes who are
so indebted to God that they can never earn His favor.<span> </span>However,<i>
Jesus has a rather unique solution: “You think I wasted before, just
wait! I'll show you some genuine waste! I'm going to waste
everything I've been given on these sinners.”</i><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span></span>Of
course, knowing the generosity of our Great Merciful Steward, we still cannot
plan to take advantage of Him.<span> </span>“Oh, I
know that Jesus makes up for my faults and failures.<span> </span>He pays my true debts.<span> </span><span> </span>Besides, we have how many other members here –
let them take some responsibility!<span> </span>So I
can just keep on racking up earthly debt, and give a little less to God—He’ll understand.”
Thinking and saying such thoughts is a shameful sin in itself.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span></span>Vacationing,
and then conveniently “forgetting” to present our scheduled tithe or offering
to the Lord is poor stewardship on our part.<span>
</span>Or thinking that we are punishing only certain individuals, pastors, or church
bureaucrats by <b>withholding gifts from
God</b>, simply because we disagree with His <b>servants</b>, or <b>dare</b> to
push our own earthly standards of success on the Lord, is also poor stewardship
on our part.<span> </span>And the selfishness that
often accompanies such supposed lapses of memory or expectations of the Holy
Spirit regarding His work, is harmful to our souls.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span></span>Another
shameful sin is refusing to admit that we are hopelessly indebted to God, and
deserve nothing but the debtors prison of hell.<span>
</span>In our society we are used to the idea of large debts. We don’t see the
downfall of such bondage.<span> </span>And when it
carries over to matters spiritual, we don’t see the comparison.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span></span>You
and I are poor, miserable sinners.<span> </span>We
have racked up astronomical debt of sin and rebellion against our rich master,
our Heavenly Father.<span> </span>But thanks be to
God!<span> </span>He does <b>not </b>want us rotting in prison.<span>
</span>He praises His Steward who has taken our bill and actually <b>paid it in full</b>.</span></span></span></div>
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He bore the scourge of the whip and the piercing of the nails, when He quietly
suffered the punctures of the crown of thorns, when He endured the hanging and
slow, cruel death on the cross, He was <b>taking
your bill</b>, and <b>marking it</b> – <b>not</b> simply a <b>reduction</b> in what you owe, but signing it as <b>paid in full</b>!<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Jesus, our
Great Steward, has indeed been faithful in delivering to you “unrighteous
wealth.”<span> </span>That is to say, <b>you have received wealth that does not
belong to you through your own work and investing</b>.<span> </span><span> </span>Dr.
Luther had it “Right on the money,” so to speak, when he teaches us to confess,
<i>“I believe that I cannot by my own reason
or strength believe in Jesus Christ my Lord, or come to Him</i>…”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Without
the burden of the work and the time and wisdom needed for investing, you have
received wealth from the Lord that belongs to Him, and is given to you on
account of the work of this Great Steward Jesus Christ!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">And I tell
you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when
it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.</span></i></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span> </span>This unrighteous wealth – wealth that does
not belong to you, but is freely given to you by the Great Merciful Steward
Jesus – is a joyous gift.<span> </span>It’s a
tremendous gift that urges us to share.<span>
</span>We mimic our Lord Steward, making friends by means of this Gospel, that
we may see them in the Lord’s eternal dwellings of heaven!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Take
opportunities to let your friends of this world hear the Message of heavenly
wealth.<span> </span>Speak the encouragement of
Christ, who has paid your eternal debts, to your family and loved ones.<span> </span>Call those who are not with you this morning,
and let them know that you missed them, and that the Great Steward wants to
cancel their debts, and desires their presence around His pulpit and altar.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Will you
be a good steward of such responsibilities?<span>
</span>Perhaps you will try, as each one of us should, but not one of us will
do it perfectly.<span> </span>And that will go onto
our bills of debt before the Lord.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">But <b>thanks and praise be to our Loving Lord
Jesus</b>, the Great Merciful Steward who tears up those bills, and frees us
from indebtedness, praising us for the righteousness that He Himself has placed
upon us!</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">My dear
friends in Christ, <b>rejoice</b>!<span> </span><b>Your
debt is paid!</b><span> </span>Now come and receive
the pledge of that forgiveness, tasting the body broken and blood shed to make
that payment, all out of His immeasurable love for you!<span> </span>Amen.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><u>Reference</u> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Just, Arthur A. (1997). <i>Luke 9:51--24:53</i> (pp. 612-621). Saint Louis: Concordia Publ. House.</span></span>Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-74761772088328511402014-07-23T19:48:00.000-05:002014-07-23T22:19:42.140-05:00Today is Day Zero<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Today is “Day Zero.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what the doctor said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this day forward, our lives our
different – in a good way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A healthy
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Kristi slept off some anesthesia
in the recovery area, I had some thoughts about our life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are wrapped up in a culture of food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Community festivals and events are all about
the fried, portable foods that are found there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we have thought of showing Chicago to visiting friends and family,
we have always thought in terms of where we would take them to eat: Chicago hot
dogs, Chicago-style pizza, Italian beef, Chi Tung (our favorite Chinese
restaurant,) etc. Family gatherings and holidays are surrounded by our grandmas’
recipes, and overeating all the appetizers, entrees, and fattening desserts
that define Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even church events are filled with dinners
and sweets with coffee or tea.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPSNZTbQKFbkwBcEaZlEuksh1I-uUL_CQbDLrYnuVmeqjvF3xe5fRZ59n2VRW8LIJvPCVISi4QmnixBbl0yz9Aed1Cr7M-aZdv5Zun9xdvMOhvJu8kuzMAbR0IazjzlObGcjNIgQg0LqxB/s1600/389358_10151780067645725_136905902_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPSNZTbQKFbkwBcEaZlEuksh1I-uUL_CQbDLrYnuVmeqjvF3xe5fRZ59n2VRW8LIJvPCVISi4QmnixBbl0yz9Aed1Cr7M-aZdv5Zun9xdvMOhvJu8kuzMAbR0IazjzlObGcjNIgQg0LqxB/s1600/389358_10151780067645725_136905902_n.jpg" height="308" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now comes a shift in thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The culture of our own family is transforming,
so that the food no longer controls or determines the enjoyment of the
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is not to say that food will
be absent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It simply cannot – will not –
be the focus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My wife will no longer be physically able to eat
the sweet temptations, filled with added sugar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The reality is, Ben and I need to join her, at least more often than
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proteins and vegetables/fruits need
to be the vast majority of our diet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this an easy
culture-change?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is the change for the better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A few thoughts can guide our nutrition from “Day
Zero,” forward.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hydration.</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Few people really
drink the amount of water their bodies need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Adults should be drinking 64 oz. – TWO QUARTS – every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some trainers such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/theworkoutcorner" target="_blank">Ryan Masters</a> actually
teach that you should be drinking an entire gallon daily!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all, your body needs water to be in
its prime condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition,
sometimes people eat when their bodies really are simply thirsty.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Slowing down.</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We eat way to
fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the car, on the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scarfing down in front of the TV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the kitchen table, but rushing to get to
ball practice, band, karate, meetings, or whatever we are cramming into our
schedules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In preparing for bariatric
surgery, people are taught that we need to be chewing our food about 30 times
per bite-full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fork or spoon should
be set down each time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>S L O W down.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Balance.</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Everyone has told you
already: we eat way too many fats, and way too many of the wrong carbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically, the South Beach Diet has good
advice: if you have carbs, they should be the right kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sugary, white flour-filled things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a heap of potatoes or rice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not even your typical “wheat” breads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truly whole grain items, fresh fruit,
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the fats you eat should be the
ones that will contain the “good” cholesterol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plenty of protein and plenty of fruits and veggies for the typical
person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the bariatric patient, it
will mean just focusing on the protein at first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure that <a href="http://kristiheinz.blogspot.com/">Kristi’s blog</a> will go into all the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Activity.</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here is where we have
been lacking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In general, we don’t eat
poorly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe we haven’t always made the
best choices, but we haven’t overeaten either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Still, we don’t move enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too
much of a pastor’s time is spent sedentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Writing at a computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting in
on meetings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting in hospital waiting
rooms with families, or bringing the Sacrament to a shut-in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teaching a catechism class or Bible class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am one of the rare people that actually enjoys
walking on a treadmill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have one in
our basement, which I enjoy using while listening to podcasts on <a href="http://www.disunplugged.com/" target="_blank">Disney</a>, <a href="http://higherthings.org/radio" target="_blank">youth ministry</a>,
<a href="http://issuesetc.org/" target="_blank">theology</a>, or <a href="https://brushnsoapnblade.wordpress.com/category/podcast/" target="_blank">wet shaving</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is
I rarely justify the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t have
time to do this,” I convince myself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
so there I stay, sedentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, guess
what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today is “Day Zero.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is much more walking in my future, and
some weight training down the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our family events are going to be
transformed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can we DO together,
rather than what can we EAT together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bottom line is the slogan that has been around for a while and has much
wisdom: <span style="color: red;">Eat Less and Move More.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>That’s a good family motto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Today is “Day Zero” not just for Kristi, but for
the entire Heinz family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want to join
us?</span></div>
Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-62131812298259249862014-07-21T10:02:00.003-05:002014-07-21T10:02:43.914-05:00Caught Alive: A Homily on Luke 5:1-11<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.<span> </span>Amen.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Throughout
my childhood, my family would typically spend a week at the end of July at a
certain fishing resort in Bemidji, Minnesota.<span>
</span>And a little over thirty years ago was when our parents first allowed my
cousin and I to go alone in the small boat for the day. It turned out to be
amazing!<span> </span>We ended up in a little inlet
on the lake, and must have found a favorite spot for the blue gills and
perch.<span> </span>There was a point when it seemed
that one of us had just reeled in a decent-sized fish, and the next would have
a bite on his line, and catch it, too!<span>
</span>It was the best day of fishing we had ever experienced.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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disciples were <b>not</b> having as much
success.<span> </span>They had fished all night, and
caught nothing.<span> </span>Not just with a pole,
either.<span> </span>Large nets were cast to drag in
greater quantities of fish at once.<span>
</span>Still, they spent hours, all night on the lake, and caught nothing.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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forget about the disciples for a moment.<span>
</span>Think about the fish.<span> </span>Have you
ever thought that life would be easy for fish in the sea?<span> </span>Well, it is not.<span> </span>Imagine yourself as one of these
creatures.<span> </span>Other fish, stronger fish,
larger fish can be predators that are ready to eat you alive, just like the
vicious barracuda in the opening sequence of Disney</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">s <i>Finding Nemo</i>. Storms also can make the
water you live in rough and perilous.<span>
</span>And some human can come along with a boat and a large net, and catch you
to end your life and eat you.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">My
friends, you are such fish.<span> </span>Others may
be stronger, or larger than you.<span> </span>They
can preach the gospel of a godless system of (or lack of) morals; which is no
gospel at all.<span> </span>You are attacked by those
other fish for your so-called </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">narrow
mindedness</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
or </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">simple</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> or </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">foolish</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> biblical
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thing is, you are prone to giving in, swimming with the fast and easy currents,
wanting the attention and prestige and popularity of the bigger fish.<span> </span>So you cannot lay all the blame on others; you
become a glad and willing party to the very ones who eat you up.<span> </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yes,
indeed, these are rough waters all around you.<span>
</span>And the Old Adam is enjoying the thrill of the danger.<span> </span>Well, stop!<span>
</span>Repent!<span> </span>Repent of the arrogance
of thinking you can go to the brink of danger and then help yourself out of
it.<span> </span>Repent of laying all the blame on
culture, society, Hollywood, and any politician who promotes different values
and virtues than you.<span> </span>They all play a
role, to be sure, but you are right there with them.<span> </span>Turn from this!</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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friends in Christ, the Lord Jesus today shows us that he is the Master
Fisherman.<span> </span>And He has sent His
disciples, and all the generations of ordained pastors who follow them, to be
fishers of men.<span> </span>What?!<span> </span>But isn</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">t that commanding them to catch us!<span> </span>And you know what happens when fish get
caught?!<span> </span>They get eaten!<span> </span>And perhaps hung as a trophy on a wall.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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so, with our dear Lord Christ.<span> </span>The word
Jesus uses for the verb, </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">to
catch,</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">
describes catching <b>alive</b>.<span> </span>And He will<b> keep</b> you alive.<span> </span>In fact, He
gives new birth into an everlasting new life!</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">It
is amazingly Good News that Jesus sends His fishers-of-men to cast the net of
the Gospel, and haul you into the boat of His Church </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">–</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> a boat
filled with baptismal water that rescues and enlivens you.<span> </span>Here in His Church you are nourished,
sustained, and you thrive!<span> </span>No longer in
clutches that are ready to deceive you and drag you into hell, but safe and
sound in the loving care of our Savior.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">So
many will try to take this passage, and turn it into a guilt-ridden mandate
that every Christian should be evangelizing; that somehow you are all </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">fishers of
men.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span> </span>To be sure, the Lord gives you the joy of
witnessing in your various vocations, speaking the Good News of Jesus</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> life, death,
and resurrection for you!<span> </span>And yes, you
are to speak that to those whom God places in your lives.<span> </span>And yes, when you fail to do that constantly,
your compassionate Savior constantly forgives and renews you.<span> </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">It
is a good thing that we gather each Sunday, and park in our lot, with our very
presence drawing attention to the church on the corner of Montrose and
LaVergne.<span> </span>It is good that the behavior
and talk of Zach Moore, as a college volunteer, will impact several hundred youth
and their leaders in Utah this week and be a witness of faith in day-to-day
life.<span> </span>It is good that visitors come and
witness our rejoicing in the forgiveness and salvation given in Holy
Baptism!<span> </span>Still that is not the main
point of this passage from Luke.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Jesus
is the Lord God in the flesh.<span> </span>He casts
His nets to save you from your enemies of the devil, the world, and your own
sinful flesh.<span> </span>The nets are tearing, the
boats are filling, and yet Jesus gathers them all into His Church.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Along
with Peter, when you recognize Jesus as God Himself, you may be filled with
fear, as you know your own sin.<span> </span>But
Jesus does not depart from Simon Peter.<span>
</span>He does not see your sin, and abandon you.<span> </span>He does not rid Himself of undesirable
friends.<span> </span>He reaches out in love and
forgiveness, absolving you and welcoming you into His midst.</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></span></div>
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comfort, dear friends in Christ!<span> </span>Jesus
has caught you alive, and gifts you with eternal life, body and soul, with
Him!<span> </span>Your precious Savior keeps you safe
and sound in His Church on earth, and His Spirit brings you to follow Him,
until you are caught alive through death and the grave to be gathered in His
Church Triumphant!<span> </span>Rejoice, dear
Baptized ones, because when you are caught in Jesus</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">’</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> nets, it is
not the end, but the beginning of your blessed, eternal life, with Him!<span> </span>Amen. </span></span></span><span lang="en-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2019:28-29&version=ESV"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">John19:28-29</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Good
Friday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">29
March 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In
the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokxjcrPtBqOHRb1DQ0rTdKkHqF-6l_ihwby8p1MA0fXOkrEmBTyLHl-SqTJIu0arjwZAmdF4sbVub4l4IGMe4UtvkUzg4GDNv9Mv8J9qqIKLR7tAS8fQ9omFwUvfhmQ_zTvc96NTtG8P7/s1600/thirst.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokxjcrPtBqOHRb1DQ0rTdKkHqF-6l_ihwby8p1MA0fXOkrEmBTyLHl-SqTJIu0arjwZAmdF4sbVub4l4IGMe4UtvkUzg4GDNv9Mv8J9qqIKLR7tAS8fQ9omFwUvfhmQ_zTvc96NTtG8P7/s320/thirst.jpg" width="235" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"After
this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the
Scripture), "I thirst."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A jar
full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a
hyssop branch and held it to his mouth."</span></i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"I
thirst."</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do you drink your eight glasses of water --
two quarts -- every day?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While some are
very faithful, most do not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So your
body's systems are denied this source of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Water is needed for your body, so that all the functions of your cells
work in good order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they, in turn,
keep your organs strong and functioning, and alive.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Our
loving Savior endured every need of His human body, just like you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would get tired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hungered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And He thirsted.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A
thousand years before suffering on the cross, Jesus prayed through King David: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"They
gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to
drink"</i></b> (Psalm 69:21.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
were actually two moments when Jesus was offered something to drink during the
crucifixion: when He first was lifted up, and later, when He cries out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">At
the beginning of His ordeal on the cross, soldiers offered Jesus wine mixed
with gall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This gall would be a potent
antiseptic, perhaps even with narcotic capabilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was actually an act of mercy, meant to
lessen the pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe because they
figured He wasn't a real criminal, but just some religious nut, they felt a
little sorry for Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as soon as
Jesus tasted it, and recognized it, He refused this drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would not deaden the pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would endure the complete suffering of
crucifixion for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">But
this time, they offered the sour wine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Vinegar, basically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sainted
Dr. Erich Kiehl, from our seminary in St. Louis,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pointed out that while this beverage may
sound disgusting to most of us, this particular variety of sour wine was
considered a refreshing drink in first century Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, once again, this was an act of mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">As
Jesus was suffering in His body, He felt the thirst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With labored breathing, and loss of blood,
His body was feeling the need for more fluids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He thirsted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And He knew it.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sometimes
you have gotten used to a lack of water, a smaller amount keeps you going, and
you get to the point that you don't know any better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your body would burn more fat, eat less, feel
less tired, and simply function at a better level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, since you do not realize you are
thirsty, you get by with less water, while your health unknowingly suffers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dear
friends, it is not only physical thirst of your body that plagues you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have a spiritual thirsting of body and
soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if you neglect it, you begin
to no longer feel it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I'm not
thirsty," you say, as you suffer from dehydration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I'm not thirsty," you say, as you
decide to go to the park district game rather than church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I'm not thirsty," you say, as you
imagine you need the Sacrament less than you do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Our
Lord who thirsted for you, has paid the complete price for your sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has redeemed you, and rescued you from
sin, death, and the devil. And bound to His salvation in Holy Baptism, you have
been given faith that now recognizes this thirst, and yearns for the Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My soul
thirsts for God, for the living God."</i></b> (Psalm 42:1-2.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Your
dear Lord Christ then hung there, having cried out and given up His
Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pierced by the spear, from the
side of the dead Son of God issued life-giving blood and water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Refreshed
and renewed by the One who is Living Water, you are given an eternal quenching,
receiving the precious blood and water, flowing from the Savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you are blessed to be drawn to your
Savior and drink from Him, speaking back His own words: “I thirst.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-89790899675669829632013-04-02T08:43:00.000-05:002013-04-02T08:43:11.056-05:00Love One Another: A Homily for Holy Thursday<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2013:1-15,%2034-35&version=ESV"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">John13:1-15, 34-35</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Holy
Thursday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">28
March 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">St.
John's, Chicago, IL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In
the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pastor
Matthew Harrison, our Synod President would say, "Show mercy."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Love one another."</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Francis, the new bishop of Rome is known for
encouraging works of charity; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Love one another."</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such love naturally flows from faith in
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is expected by Him; yet it is
given by Him.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18R6SafgaTEw1KlB5l1cdZysi-FzMP0lDdd06IAy7N4dd8hxoRTcavBgontbjqi0uiAVkX60DnXEGJ992Qt-tGX8Bx6ZWKlyvXhpV7nJRTTT8y6R_NKu_8tXBVsEUu3VLFEWWG3yOr1dj/s1600/John.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18R6SafgaTEw1KlB5l1cdZysi-FzMP0lDdd06IAy7N4dd8hxoRTcavBgontbjqi0uiAVkX60DnXEGJ992Qt-tGX8Bx6ZWKlyvXhpV7nJRTTT8y6R_NKu_8tXBVsEUu3VLFEWWG3yOr1dj/s320/John.jpg" width="257" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Think
back to first-century Ephesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
congregation has their beloved pastor who had seemed to be there forever,
coming out of retirement to preach -- THE Pastor of Ephesus -- "the
Elder" as he had come to be known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The door opened, and everyone turned to see him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little old man, frail, bald, with a long,
white beard, was being carried in on a litter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was over 100 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
summoned his strength, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>preached the
Word of God: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Little children, love one another."</i></b> And as quickly
as it began, the sermon ended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
little sentence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. John the Apostle
and Evangelist did not seem to have the strength to say more, and yet, what
more needed to be said?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Little
children, love one another."</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">
At first, that is Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"A
new commandment I give you, that you love one another."</i></b> When St.
John heard Jesus speak those words, decades earlier, they stuck with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Profound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus, who loved
everyone perfectly, now commanded His disciples to do the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And He tells you to do it too!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"Love one
another."</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you don't.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are not constantly thinking about the
actions to do and the words to say to serve your neighbor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You really don't perfectly keep your spouse
or parents or children above yourself, much less friends, acquaintances or even
strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You constantly fail this
simple command from Christ. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many times
every hour, simply by what you omit or avoid, you do not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"love one another."</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And
then there is the fact that you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">actively</b>
break this command.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You gossip and hurt
reputations, defiling the eighth commandment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You fool yourself into thinking that God does not detest your sins as
much as those of your neighbor, and refuse to love him, because for whatever
reason, you find his sin more repulsive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You show a lack of love as you steal from others, whether time, or
effort, attention, or things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You refuse
love to those who suffer or have no voice when you keep silent regarding the
unborn, the downtrodden, the sick and the poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In these and many ways, you are selfish and put your own wants and needs
first, loving yourself rather than others in your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, little children, you do <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not</b> love one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that is a damning situation for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">But
St. John also tells you, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"God is love."</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord Jesus is Love incarnate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took on flesh to perfectly love you and
every other human being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your loving God became Man in order to be
perfect love in life, in death, and in His resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved you perfectly as He kept God's Law
in your place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved you perfectly as
He bore your sin of failing to love, as He suffered and died in your
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved you perfectly as He rose
to new life for you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loves you
perfectly even now, as He lives and reigns to all eternity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Perhaps
the clearest and most direct way that He gives this love to you is the very
gift He instituted on this night: the Holy Supper of our Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this gift of His very Body and Blood,
Jesus is loving you completely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here He
unites His Body and Blood with bread and wine, giving you the thrilling gift of
seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting the love of God!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ultimate in loving others -- laying down
one's life for them -- that is what Jesus did on that next day, Good
Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He blesses you with that gift of
love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">So
really, even though it was Law for those Ephesian Christians, they were also
hearing Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not Gospel in the
command to love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when they heard the
very word, "love," their thoughts were turned to Jesus Christ, who is
the very embodiment of God's Love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
hearing, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Love one another,"</i></b> the Lord led them to focus on
Christ who is the One of whom we say, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"God is love."</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, He is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God is love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the perfect
Love who gives His life as the ransom for the many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the Love that has redeemed and saved
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the Love that has rescued you
from sin, death, and the devil, gifting you with forgiveness, life, and
salvation in this Blessed Sacrament of Love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And
having been given His love in such a pure and profound and holy way, He fills
you with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loves you and now loves
through you, showing mercy and compassion and holy love to those around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are not loving on your own, but as His
redeemed and baptized creatures, Jesus shares His love through works He has
prepared in advance for you to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">So
you do love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when you fail, you have
the calm and sweet assurance that Jesus Christ loves you perfectly, and
mercifully forgives you, that you may forever abide in His love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Little children, love one
another."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b>Amen.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">“He has remembered his steadfast love
and faithfulness to the house of Israel. </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span> </span>All
the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.”<span> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Psalm 98:3</span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Any
family that has dealt with dementia or Alzheimer’s knows the hardships of not
remembering.<span> </span>Our hearts go out to anyone
who has dealt, or continues to deal, with such memory loss and the emotional
suffering that accompanies it.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRusRbOYfv5s45bu4oCrJ9YuxpKv3yNPuXdpesAO6wUA8M9mY0WyVs1nDKuJegIKhkkFSeYDuUJqWDXyBqFAJri9WkqS4f7r15T1orYUYm_JScqMOP6MjqNpY_S627F13wqvQ0tummseil/s1600/Lutz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRusRbOYfv5s45bu4oCrJ9YuxpKv3yNPuXdpesAO6wUA8M9mY0WyVs1nDKuJegIKhkkFSeYDuUJqWDXyBqFAJri9WkqS4f7r15T1orYUYm_JScqMOP6MjqNpY_S627F13wqvQ0tummseil/s320/Lutz.jpg" width="270" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Pastor
Lutz had endured such memory loss for a number of years now.<span> </span>Like so many who suffer from it, he fondly
recalled many people and events of the past, while having more difficulty with
newer memories.<span> </span>We hope and pray for the
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also have a sure and certain hope in the One who remembers us!<span> </span>Christ Jesus “remembers” His steadfast love
and faithfulness to you, His beloved, baptized children.<span> </span>At the same time, because He has nourished
and sustained you with His Means of Grace, He remembers your sin no more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We
rejoice that this week, after a long and fulfilling pilgrimage on earth, Jesus
welcomed Pastor John Lutz, remembering none of his sin, and echoing, <b><i>“Well
done, thou good and faithful servant! Enter into the joy of your Master.”</i></b><span> </span>(Matthew 25:21) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Thanks
be to God for the 93 wonderful years that He gave His servant, and especially
for the 33 years that He called Pastor Lutz to serve His people here at St.
John’s!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Yours
in Christ’s service,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Rev.
Richard A. Heinz,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Pastor,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">St.
John’s Lutheran Church,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Chicago,
Illinois</span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Judica</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">: the
5th Sunday in Lent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">17
March 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">St.
John's, Chicago, IL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Truly,
truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What
about Abraham?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ha! Gotcha, Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abraham was a good and righteous man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone knows he kept God's Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he died, just like everyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus, are You trying to say that You are
more important than Abraham?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Why,
Abraham was definitely the greatest man ever!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He did not spare his only son, but offered him up when God commanded
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And God blessed him with so much
wealth, he had to be doing something right!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What
about the prophets?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, Jesus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They died too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you saying that the men whom God sent to
preach His Word did not keep it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">You
know that these Jewish leaders were wrong in trying to lie about Jesus, and
twist His words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know the irony of
them sticking up for the prophets, when many of their people persecuted and
even killed the prophets of the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What
about Jesus!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He obviously, and
perfectly kept His Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet He
never was blessed with tremendous wealth or exercised great earthly power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And He died!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He died in the
physical, bodily way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The temporal way,
here in space and time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was not
an eternal spiritual death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not
being permanently and eternally cut off from God, as one who has rejected Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"Never
seeing death,"</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> here, is talking about not going to
hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not enduring eternal death and separation
from God, on account of rejecting Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What
about you?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you rejected
Jesus?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you keep His Word?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Careful, now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Be honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every single day you
mess things up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You fail to do what He
commands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might do a good job in
other people's eyes, but when judged on a scale of perfection, you come up
short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">You
are in the same situation as these men testing Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deep down, if you are honest, you hear Jesus
talking and saying that you will die if you do not keep His Word, and you want
Him to stop talking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Be quiet,
Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those are not the words we want
to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are being too exclusive, Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a lot of really nice people who do
good things, even if they don't believe in You."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They may seem to be nice, and their actions and words may look good, but
if not done in faith in Christ, they are empty and still lead to death and
separation from the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And your
defending them means that you are straying from Jesus and His Word, as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so you are drifting from life
in Christ, to death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Beware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are joining Jesus' antagonists and
refusing to hear what He says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saint
John, who records this exchange, would beg you at this point, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Little
children, love one another," </i></b>yes,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in the love of Christ alone, which comes through faith in Him.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus
said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ Jesus is indeed greater than Abraham;
He is the Lord God Himself, I AM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
created Abraham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He called Abraham to
faith, and led Him to Canaan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He spoke
His promises to Abraham, and blessed him to believe them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"And it was credited to him as
righteousness."</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But
there you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is the difference
between Abraham and the Jewish leaders challenging Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abraham heard the Word of the Lord and
received it in faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These men in the
Gospel reading do not have faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
reject the Lord and His Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would
have more trust in any of their self-sacrifice, than in Jesus Himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
now here you are. The Lord has not tested you, telling you to sacrifice your
only son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has not miraculously
provided a baby when you were a hundred years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But He has poured out His Holy Spirit, that you
may have the same faith as His servant Abraham. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus
has made you a child of God in Holy Baptism, and it was credited to you as
righteousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He speaks His Gospel week
after week, and you receive it in faith, and it is credited to you as
righteousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He nourishes you with His
Holy Eucharist, and the Bread of Life is credited to you as righteousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Through
these Means of Grace, the Lord, I AM, makes you His own, that you may keep His
Word and never see death. He removes all guilt of trusting in yourself, and
closing your ears to the God of Abraham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He cleanses you from the iniquity of thinking Jesus is inferior, to
Abraham, the prophets, or anyone, for that matter!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gifts you with faith, and credits it to
you as righteousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Yet
even as you are sure and certain of what Christ Jesus has done for you, He is
veiled in this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Veiled in Word and
Sacrament, Christ comes to you with forgiveness and life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Veiled, the glory of God renews and restores
you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There
is an old Lutheran tradition to veil works of art, including crosses, statues,
and paintings during the last two weeks of Lent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cloth covers these images of Jesus,
reminding us of how God comes to us, veiled in human flesh and blood, to save
us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Christ
Jesus is God, veiled in the flesh, for you. He reminds you today, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Before
Abraham was, I AM."</i></b> And He has endured all suffering and death for
you, so that you may never die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jn.%206:1-15&version=ESV"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">John6:1-15 </span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Laetare:
The 4th Sunday in Lent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">10
March 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">St.
John's, Chicago, IL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Bread?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really, Jesus?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's not very 21st century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You're disrespecting the disciples of Dr. Atkins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The serious South Beach Dieters will be
looking at Your fiber content, to see if Your bread is acceptable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the Paleo Diet folks are right out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">From
the very beginning, at the Fall of man, the Lord God tells Adam that he will be
eating bread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a very basic element
to the human diet, and a tool for the Lord to give you nourishment and
sustenance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
course, there it is part of the punishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to
the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you
shall return."</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are
mortal, and you will die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the mean
time, you will have to work for what you eat, and it will be difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdanEdr3LtKbwP3GleldDf4zsVzJ0BsaeNtAitfbwJmTttmGv0JsbRJwkREOrqO2qSccaFwQt8FvCXJJw7bHAJrRACIhLGHqr-uMFleYvdO6Z8lQ3qlsm5a_OJOkuZ_8IYjWDTZvhNAF0/s1600/Little+Red+Hen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdanEdr3LtKbwP3GleldDf4zsVzJ0BsaeNtAitfbwJmTttmGv0JsbRJwkREOrqO2qSccaFwQt8FvCXJJw7bHAJrRACIhLGHqr-uMFleYvdO6Z8lQ3qlsm5a_OJOkuZ_8IYjWDTZvhNAF0/s320/Little+Red+Hen.jpg" width="266" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I'm
sure many of the little ones here could tell you the story of the Little Red
Hen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every step of the way, while
growing wheat, harvesting, milling, and baking, she asks around the barnyard,
"Who will help me?" and no one lifts a finger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in the end, she keeps the warm,
fresh-baked bread all for herself and her chicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is all Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Whoever will not work, will not
eat."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Today,
Jesus turns that all around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, you
can rejoice, for He is the One who has worked to bring you the Bread of heaven,
while you simply receive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rejoice,
because having the Bread of Life placed in your mouth does not come only if you
are worthy enough or sincere enough, or have worked hard, like the Little Red
Hen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blessing of the Bread of heaven
is that it is purely a gift, from Jesus Christ to you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">You
will never be able to work hard enough or perfectly enough to earn this Bread,
and so you can rejoice that when Jesus asks the Little Red Hen's question,
"Who will help me eat this bread?" He gifts you to answer, "I
will!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus gives His very Body to
be the bread that keeps you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">steadfast in
the true faith, to life everlasting</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
yet, how often do you stand there and think of yourself as more of an Atkins'
Diet kind of Christian?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I think
I'll pass on this bread, Lord. I'm kind of watching what I eat, and I just
think I'd better hold off on this."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"I don't need to come to services <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">that</b> often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And hearing the
sermon is just fine; I just communed last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'm not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">that</b> bad; I don't
need it yet, right?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Luther would remind you to look at
yourself and touch your body, to make sure that you are still on this earth,
with flesh and bone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If so, you are a
sinner, and need God's mercy and grace that come through His Blessed Sacrament
of the Altar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In
today's Gospel lesson, the Passover was at hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rescuing of Israel some 1,400 years
earlier, delivering them out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched
arm was in the forefront of everyone's mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That was the amazing night when all the people heard the promise of the
Lord and ate His meal, feasting on the Passover Lamb, and eating unleavened
bread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, as the people of God
wandered in the wilderness, He nourished them with Manna--bread from
heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He kept them alive with this
gracious gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So
when Jesus suddenly and miraculously provides bread from heaven, in the
wilderness, at Passover time, it is most definitely a sign that He is the
Christ!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the same Lord who brought
Israel up out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Of
course, even many who experienced this had their own thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They set aside their spiritual needs, and
thought with the gods of their bellies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"If Jesus were King, we wouldn't have to work anymore!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could always make us bread!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We'd be set!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Don't
look at today's Gospel, and see only a bunch of people being fed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not focus on the Lord keeping that
multitude from starving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, He did
that, but that is not the main point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you gloss over Jesus as Christ and Savior, the Lord of the Eucharist, giving
Himself as the Bread of Life, then you are overlooking the heart of His message
for today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are treating Jesus like
some Protestant church's symbol or image, rather than the real deal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus
took bread, gave thanks, and distributed the loaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did this, foreshadowing His own Last
Supper at a Passover in the not-so-distant future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And pointing ahead to our own liturgy,
rejoicing at His altar, where week after week you hear: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Our Lord Jesus Christ, in
the same night I which He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given
thanks, He broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, 'Take, eat, this is
My Body.'"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
He gathered up the fragments so nothing would be lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First, this was a miracle!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A gift
from God, and none of it should be wasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYqyl5O0T7PzZs9kgIldAkrgJv82CleSlHJSWwSA7tvEp8kTKk2kkb5CyUBDHHTqQmbqPu8WUFD2ZwoVaTWRwWh7o0CdLOR2SdC2hWY_-uV3phfOpUG2uPozgF7PWyIPU10QtYdT14OsUM/s1600/all-were-satisfied-by-james-seward-5446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYqyl5O0T7PzZs9kgIldAkrgJv82CleSlHJSWwSA7tvEp8kTKk2kkb5CyUBDHHTqQmbqPu8WUFD2ZwoVaTWRwWh7o0CdLOR2SdC2hWY_-uV3phfOpUG2uPozgF7PWyIPU10QtYdT14OsUM/s400/all-were-satisfied-by-james-seward-5446.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
then, He is teaching His Church about the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When He regularly provides His own Flesh and
Blood week after week, He is showing that none of it should be wasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is holy, and precious, even if some remains
after the celebration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is why Lutherans keep consecrated elements separate from unblessed bread and
wine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not mix the Body and Blood
of Jesus with common things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We either
eat and drink it all, or keep it saved and separate, to use for another
celebration of the Lord's Supper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
will be consumed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of it lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we rejoice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Rejoice,
dear friends in Christ, Jesus IS the Bread of Life, feeding you Himself to keep
you steadfast in the true faith, to life everlasting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rejoice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Lord who provided for Israel in the wilderness, provides you with
the Body of Christ Jesus, feeding you forgiveness, life, and salvation as you
wander in the wilderness of this earth, until you cross the Jordan of death and
the grave into His Promised Land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rejoice, your Jesus is not some "Bread King," but the real,
true, and everlasting King who provides for you and protects you, body and
soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rejoice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to the Body of Christ, who will
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Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-43318365661838445552013-02-11T14:01:00.001-06:002013-02-11T14:01:44.639-06:00President Harrison on the Newtown, Conn., Statement of Unity and Pastora...<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thanks be to God for our loving, humble, and compassionate father in Christ, the Rev. President Matt Harrison. I love him as a brother, and pray for him regularly!</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2018:31-43&version=ESV"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Luke 18:31-43</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Quinquagesima</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">10 February 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">St. John’s,
Chicago, IL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the Name of the Father and of the
+Son and of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“How
many times do I have to tell you!?” the frustrated parent tells the
disobedient child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We’ve
been over this before.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jesus does not lose His patience, but
this is the third time He has plainly told the disciples that He will be handed
over, suffer, die, and on the third day rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And yet, when it all comes to fulfillment a short time later, they are
blown away, not expecting any of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Really!?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, guys!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The disciples are like everyone
else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have lost sight of why Jesus
has come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ Jesus did not come in
the flesh to simply show off with some miracles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did not walk the roads of Galilee and
Judea simply to be popular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was not
on His way to Jerusalem to force His way into earthly government and enforce
His rule over some geographic empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is easy for you to lose sight of why
Jesus has come too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times you focus
too much on sound bites and quotes, liking Jesus to fit neatly in some Facebook
meme or 30-second television commercial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At other times you jump on some bandwagon with other Christians who work
for some cause – that may be good and helpful to
others, yet lacking in a true proclamation of the Gospel of forgiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still other times you ignore Jesus
altogether, and think you can dismiss Him throughout the week, and make up for
it next Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, you have lost your
sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That is one of the problems, actually, when
we sing, “Amazing Grace.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The song goes, “I
once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is, we go back and forth from
blindness to seeing, all the time -- even after being brought to faith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The topic is all over in our entertainment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary Ingalls, the older sister of Laura
Ingalls Wilder, of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little House on the
Prairie</i> fame, became blind in real life, as well as in the television
series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On TV, she adjusted to it, fell
in love with her dashing,young teacher, and lived happily ever after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In real life, she briefly went to a school
for the blind, and then spent the rest of her life living with her parents and
then her sisters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Soap opera stories will sometimes have
someone who dramatically loses her sight in an accident or illness, only to
have something trigger the return of vision at a dramatic moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when the plot needs a new twist, another
relapse into blindness may occur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Daily <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">you</b> fall back into various sin and failure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You become blind once more to our Savior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet Jesus still has compassion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And just as with Bartimeus, He rescues you
and restores your sight, day after day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jesus,
Son of David, have mercy on me!</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bartimeus was blessed with the gift of faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had the trouble and struggle of a first century
man, challenged with blindness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet even
in his darkness, Bartimeus recognized Jesus as the Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Son of David!</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>King David was
promised that he would be the ancestor of the Christ. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Son
of David</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b>became a proper title, much like the British title “Prince
of Wales” can only refer to the heir who will
one day be King.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jesus, the Son of David does indeed
have mercy on you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has mercy on you
in being far more than some earthly king.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is the King of kings, who comes into His glory at the cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wins and secures mercy for you in the
blood and water that issue from His holy wounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mercy of Christ, the Son of David, is
washed onto you in Baptism, and fed you in His Holy Supper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Like Bartimeus, like the disciples, you
had lost your sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But having received
His mercy, Jesus blesses you to recover your sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Lord, let me recover my sight.</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus responds, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Recover
your sight.</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">”</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And you do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The recovered sight of faith looks, and
says with Jesus, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written
about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished."</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blindness of sin refuses, and merely
looks to Jesus as one option among many; a single part of the crazy
"Coexist" bumper sticker mentality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jesus the rabbi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus the good man who teaches people to love
each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus the all-powerful,
mighty sovereign One.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, Jesus is the
almighty One, and great teacher of love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But that should never be the what you dwell on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you focus on these items, you remain
blind.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizuZHyKz5FqKGJAhW0L65WvC5Pfg8-Mco9b2i-6mMpYBKh_4YNIhmLd2oA6SwSVzebtKO3qxTfyGqMQm5cqOJ3o3K_i10Rz_18kIKM8uEEHSO_DBHCNRQuow19wYVJu0mzfxQQnIpNhu7u/s1600/Crucifixion_JativaMaster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizuZHyKz5FqKGJAhW0L65WvC5Pfg8-Mco9b2i-6mMpYBKh_4YNIhmLd2oA6SwSVzebtKO3qxTfyGqMQm5cqOJ3o3K_i10Rz_18kIKM8uEEHSO_DBHCNRQuow19wYVJu0mzfxQQnIpNhu7u/s320/Crucifixion_JativaMaster.jpg" width="304" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yet the Holy Spirit has led you to cry
out, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Lord,
have mercy!"</i></b> and Christ has opened your eyes, washing them in
Baptism, and giving you godly sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Son of David restored the eyes He created in Bartimeus to see, and He restores
the eyes of faith that He created in you, to look for Jesus in Jerusalem, in
His suffering and death on Calvary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our Savior brings this ultimate truth
that will shed light on the subject of salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dear friends in Christ, you are
baptized, and you have received your sight!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus has heard your pleas for mercy, and has lovingly answered them
with His abundant grace and love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
now, you see Jesus, setting His face toward Jerusalem, for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see Jesus, suffering and dying for
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see Jesus, rising for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Your dear Lord and Savior is about to
usher you into the holy season of Lent, to prepare you for the blessed and
amazing Feast of the Resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
today, before plunging into the depths of that season, he does not raise His
voice and use that parental tone, saying, "How many times do I have to
tell you?!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He speaks tenderly, preparing you for the
preparation: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written
about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished."</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"></span></div>
Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-3520167847688882422012-12-19T15:19:00.001-06:002012-12-19T15:19:51.408-06:0030 Days of Thankfulness: Day 20 - Heartfelt Holidays<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Heartfelt Holidays</i> is one of the CD's in our collection, that is a collection itself. Every song is by a different artist, from varying styles and eras. This album made its way into our home over ten years ago, purchased through <i>Bath & Body Works</i>, of all places!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The album starts off with Andy Williams crooning "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." Lou Rawls follows up with a jazzy "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, quite a few albums have some setting of "Santa Baby," but Eartha Kitt seems to be the ultimate artist for this song. You can't help but imagine this sleek, sultry "Catwoman," as she tries purr-suading Santa to "hurry down the chimney" and leave absolutely everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nat "King" Cole once again is gathered into a collection CD, with "O Holy Night." Of course, He does a smooth and splendid rendition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Judy Garland is the only voice I can ever imagine singing, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." She beautifully delivers that wish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am not that fond of "Little St. Nick," but the Beach Boys give a great performance of it here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Variety. Variety in artists. Variety in songs. Variety in styles. If you enjoy that kind of variety, you will enjoy <i>Heartfelt Holidays</i>.</span></div>
Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-40385423790672315192012-12-12T00:00:00.000-06:002012-12-12T00:00:04.118-06:0030 Days of Thankfulness: Day 19 - Tony Bennett's "Snowfall: The Christmas Album"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tony Bennett is one o<span style="font-size: large;">f those classic singers from recent decades that can<span style="font-size: large;">not help b<span style="font-size: large;">ut be pleasing to th<span style="font-size: large;">e ear. He has a very smooth, endearing sound for any a<span style="font-size: large;">ge.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">His album <i>"Snowfall"</i> is a great Christmas collection that can please several generations of the family.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The CD begins with <span style="font-size: large;">"My Favorite Things," to which he gives a fine ma<span style="font-size: large;">le voice. (Sorry, ladies, for female voices you cannot beat Julie Andrews<span style="font-size: large;">; but Tony gives an outstanding masculine vocal.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The Christmas Song" is next, and Tony does great with this, too!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The album includes a track that combines "I Love the W<span style="font-size: large;">inter W<span style="font-size: large;">eather" and "I've Got My Love to Keep Me War<span style="font-size: large;">m." Again, his smooth, cla<span style="font-size: large;">ssic cool style is <span style="font-size: large;">wonderful! (I'm st<span style="font-size: large;">ill kin<span style="font-size: large;">d of partial to Dean Martin on "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," but this is thoroughly entertaining.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even Bing's <span style="font-size: large;">numbers, like "White Christmas" and "I'll <span style="font-size: large;">Be Home for Christmas" have a fabulous s<span style="font-size: large;">ound when Tony croons them.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since the 1990's he has been introduced to a completely new generation of fans, and <span style="font-size: large;">that rekindled fame is well-deserved. <i>"Snowfall"</i> is a case in po<span style="font-size: large;">int.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-91987417764228418052012-12-11T00:00:00.000-06:002012-12-11T00:00:12.072-06:0030 Days of Thankfulness: Day 18 - A Very Special Christmas<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAvWYXtR2PpcFw-v_pWYYg8EwCb5gaLIhEcLRO-ecY2iN7GEkknwoWu6pHjs-_Khd0CqBer-89bDocWnVu9VSkVatYZmlQs1Pfu9aZtZKR-bm6K2BHrJERo3IDXre2_sN3LKmdBgtVMEy/s1600/A+Very+Special+Christmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAvWYXtR2PpcFw-v_pWYYg8EwCb5gaLIhEcLRO-ecY2iN7GEkknwoWu6pHjs-_Khd0CqBer-89bDocWnVu9VSkVatYZmlQs1Pfu9aZtZKR-bm6K2BHrJERo3IDXre2_sN3LKmdBgtVMEy/s1600/A+Very+Special+Christmas.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, for some of you who have commented, I am finally posting my agreement that this is a great assortment of songs to add to your Christmas collection: <span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Very Special Christmas</i>!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The album</span> begins with the Pointer Sist<span style="font-size: large;">ers' </span>exhilirating "Santa Cla<span style="font-size: large;">us is Comin to Town." The Eurythmics follow that with a rather techno "Winter Wonderland." Whitney Houston's "Do You Hear What I Hear" breath<span style="font-size: large;">es a little life into what can often end up being a sleeper on other albums. John Mellencamp gives his distinct<span style="font-size: large;"> style to "I Saw Mommy Ki<span style="font-size: large;">ssing Sant<span style="font-size: large;">a Claus." </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, I have alluded before how much I enjoy Sting's rendition of "<span style="font-size: large;">Gabriel's Message<span style="font-size: large;">!" It sounds like it is soar<span style="font-size: large;">ing in the stone arches of a Medie<span style="font-size: large;">val cathedral.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This album will be a lot of fun, both for the person who likes fresh twists <span style="font-size: large;">on old songs, as well as the rock fan in your house.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-44678793625410313862012-12-10T00:00:00.000-06:002012-12-10T00:00:06.554-06:0030 Days of Thankfulness: Day 17 - NBC Celebrity Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have a number of compilations in our Christmas library. One of those compilations is the <i>NBC Celebrity Christmas</i>, realeased in 2001. While not all of these celebrities are Harry Connick, Jr.'s or Michael Buble's caliber, they are entertaining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sean Hayes ("Jack" from "Will and Grace") sings "The Christmas Song." He does fine, but is no Nat "King" Cole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Notable mention goes to Bebe Neuwirth and John Lithgow, with "Baby, It's Cold Outside." That is probably the best track for the album, and for me, their playful rendition made it worth the purchase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Coventry Carol" is sung by Alex Kingston (Dr. Elizabeth Corday on ER.) She does a fine job on this sorrow-filled lullaby for one of the Holy Innocents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While not our favorite, this CD does provide some nice variety for the Christmas season.</span>Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-26541166635326038522012-12-09T00:00:00.000-06:002012-12-09T20:21:24.360-06:0030 Days of Thankfulness: Day 16 - Our Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1995, a collection of various CCM artists put together a Christmas album that is a nice addition to our library. The disc begins with Michael W. Smith's "R<i>eve du Noel</i>." ("Sing we now of Christmas; sing we all 'Noel'...")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Three tracks in is my favorite, a song I had not previously heard; "One Small Child." David Meece sings this hauntingly beautiful song. (I have heard others sing it since, and most do not do this song justice.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" is arranged on the album with a rather Jewish "sound," in the woodwinds. This hymn has been a favorite of mine since I was around seven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Angels We Have Heard on High" almost has a fun, glee club/a capella sound (although it is accompanied.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" has been another favorite of mine, as long as I can remember. Guess I am just drawn to Rennaisance era and other Old English sounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am not debating here the issue of CCM styles in other contexts. That is not the point of this blog post. But as a Christmas CD to simply enjoy at home or in the car, this is a nice addition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Rev. Richard A. Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11181928056271673053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7304109002070887465.post-6600051633175089992012-12-08T00:00:00.000-06:002012-12-09T19:06:35.387-06:0030 Days of Thankfulness: Day 15 - The Sinatra Christmas Album<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Among the "classics" in Christmas music libraries is "the Chairman" himself, Mr. Sinatra. This collection is from a great era when most Christmas albums were not afraid to be Christmas albums, were full of sacred carols as well as fun-filled secular numbers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">His version of "Jingle Bells" is one of the greats. You are sure to have heard his fun spelling out of "J-i-n-g-l-e - bells" in the opening.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">With "The Christmas Song," the version ingrained On everyone's mind is that of Nat "King" Cole. Yet, Sinatra does a fine job, as well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The Christmas Waltz" presents a great and flowing rendition of that "song of mine, in three-quarter time."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The truth and joy of the Christmas message are witnessed in "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Adeste Fideles," "Silent Night," and more.</span>
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