Sermon podcast from our 6-28-20 online worship service - St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove, IL. Matthew 10:40-42
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7/02/2017
Welcome
Sunday sermon podcast from St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove, IL. Matthew 10:40-42.
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6/29/2014
Welcome
This week's Bible reflection (Pay Attention) started off a kind of rousing sermon today at St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove, IL.
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"Welcome" podcast
6/23/2014
Pay Attention
This week’s
Bible reading from Matthew 10:40-42, just two verses long, includes one word
written six times.
Welcome.
I think the
repetition says, “Pay attention to this.”
The reading
comes at the end of how to treat missionaries and prophets when they visit and
preach. I think the long instructions
about visiting preachers has to do with the poor treatment many had received in
the past. I also think that the overabundance of the word “welcome” expresses the message beyond how folks treat
visiting preachers.
Welcome is
essential in Jesus’ teachings. Welcome the stranger. Welcome the poor. Welcome
the outcast. Welcome the immigrant. Welcome the powerless. Welcome the tired.
Welcome the lost. Welcome the children.
Welcome
everyone.
6/24/2011
Welcome
This week's Bible reflection (Six times) provides the beginning for Sunday's sermon at Union Congregational United Church of Christ in Somonauk, IL
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"Welcome" text
"Welcome" podcast
6/21/2011
Six times
This week’s Bible reading from Matthew 10:40-42, just two verses long, includes one word written six times.
Welcome.
The reading comes at the end of how to treat missionaries and prophets when they visit and preach. I think the long instructions about visiting preachers has to do with the poor treatment many had received in the past. I also think that the overabundance of the word “welcome” goes beyond how the people were to treat visiting preachers.
Welcome is essential in Jesus’ teachings. Welcome the stranger. Welcome the poor. Welcome the outcast. Welcome the immigrant. Welcome the powerless. Welcome the tired. Welcome the lost. Welcome the children.
Welcome everyone.
Welcome.
The reading comes at the end of how to treat missionaries and prophets when they visit and preach. I think the long instructions about visiting preachers has to do with the poor treatment many had received in the past. I also think that the overabundance of the word “welcome” goes beyond how the people were to treat visiting preachers.
Welcome is essential in Jesus’ teachings. Welcome the stranger. Welcome the poor. Welcome the outcast. Welcome the immigrant. Welcome the powerless. Welcome the tired. Welcome the lost. Welcome the children.
Welcome everyone.
6/29/2008
Refreshing
At the beginning of the week I posted a Bible study blog entry at i.ucc (Keep hydrated) After a week at Habitat/Volunteer camp in Michigan (and Indiana) that post became today's sermon at Union Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in Somonauk.
"Refreshing" text
"Refreshing" podcast
"Refreshing" text
"Refreshing" podcast
6/23/2008
Keep hydrated
It'll be important not to get dehydrated while I'm working on job sites this week at Habitat/Volunteer camp at Tower Hill in Michigan - and with that in mind, here's this week's Bible study blog entry for i.ucc:
How much water are we supposed to drink everyday? For so long I’ve read that it is 8- 8 oz glasses per day. It’s been reported that drinking that much per day lets your body do a better job of cleaning out toxins, helps weight loss and results in healthier skin. More recently, however, researchers have questioned the claims and the recommendation – even going as far as saying, ‘Just drink when you’re thirsty.”
“whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple--truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”
In this week’s short Bible reading from Matthew 10:40-42, Jesus finishes up the instructions he gave to the disciples (filled with warnings about difficulties and assurances that God would provide what was necessary) with a reference the disciples and anyone else hearing and reading would understand, “Help refresh the helpless and forgotten – and you’ll be rewarded.”
Jesus had spent plenty of time previously reminding the disciples that seeking rewards for showing love towards others wasn’t what the whole “Love God and love others” was all about – so I don’t think this talk of rewards was meant to bring out the greed in the hearers. I think it was really meant to leave a lasting, refreshing image in the mind of the hearers.
Jesus brings refreshment – share that refreshment with others.
What are your thoughts?
How much water are we supposed to drink everyday? For so long I’ve read that it is 8- 8 oz glasses per day. It’s been reported that drinking that much per day lets your body do a better job of cleaning out toxins, helps weight loss and results in healthier skin. More recently, however, researchers have questioned the claims and the recommendation – even going as far as saying, ‘Just drink when you’re thirsty.”
“whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple--truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”
In this week’s short Bible reading from Matthew 10:40-42, Jesus finishes up the instructions he gave to the disciples (filled with warnings about difficulties and assurances that God would provide what was necessary) with a reference the disciples and anyone else hearing and reading would understand, “Help refresh the helpless and forgotten – and you’ll be rewarded.”
Jesus had spent plenty of time previously reminding the disciples that seeking rewards for showing love towards others wasn’t what the whole “Love God and love others” was all about – so I don’t think this talk of rewards was meant to bring out the greed in the hearers. I think it was really meant to leave a lasting, refreshing image in the mind of the hearers.
Jesus brings refreshment – share that refreshment with others.
What are your thoughts?
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