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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT size=3>THE FOLLOWING are SermonWriter materials for
<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">July 18</SPAN> (Proper 11C). They focus on the
Gospel lesson, <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Luke 10:38-42</SPAN>, the story
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PREACHING:</SPAN><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><SPAN>
</SPAN></SPAN></B>I never heard a sermon but what I got some good
out of it.<SPAN> </SPAN>However, I had some mighty close
calls.<SPAN> </SPAN>(Dr. Pierce Harris)</P><BR>
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</SPAN></B><SPAN>Passionate Spirituality</SPAN></P>
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SENTENCE:</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Jesus calls us to passionate spirituality -- the practice of
faith with joy and enthusiasm.</SPAN>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">SCRIPTURE:</SPAN><SPAN
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10:38-42</SPAN><BR></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></A>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">TRUE
STORY:</SPAN></FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">The great Leopold
Stokowski was conducting a dress rehearsal of Bach's "St. Matthew's
Passion," when he suddenly stopped and tapped for silence. He
waited for the auditorium to become perfectly still, and then he
said:</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">"Well, I guess you
know the notes well enough. </SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">But the spirit is
lacking. </SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">I want each of you
to sit down tonight with your Bible</SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">and read St.
Matthew's account of the life of Christ. </SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">Try to grasp it
all. </SPAN></FONT><BR><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">Who knows --
perhaps that message is just what our listeners
need</SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">in a time of doubt
and despair. </SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">Then let's come
back to our performance</SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">and try to convey
to our audience</SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">the meaning and
inspiration of these sacred words."</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">His comment
surprised the musicians, but they began picking up their instruments
and leaving. Many of them did as Stokowski had advised.
They went home and read the Gospel of Matthew from beginning to
end. They struggled to understand this man
Jesus.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">The following
night, at the concert, they gave an inspired
performance.</SPAN></FONT><BR><BR></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><A
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PROVOKERS:</SPAN><B><SPAN> </SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">This age will die, not from
sin, </SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">but from lack of
passion!</SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Soren Kierkegaard</SPAN></P>
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align=center>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*</P>
<P
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<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Little things come daily,
hourly, within our reach, </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">and they are not less
calculated to set forward our growth in holiness </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">than are the greater
occasions which occur but rarely.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Moreover, fidelity in
trifles, </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">and an earnest seeking to
please God in little matters, </SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">is a test of real devotion
and love.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Let our aim be to please our
dear Lord perfectly in little things, </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">and to attain a spirit of
childlike simplicity and dependence.</SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN> </P>
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Jean Nicolas Grou</SPAN></P>
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align=center>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*</P>
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<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Fire is the chosen symbol of
heaven for moral passion.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">God is love; God is
fire.<SPAN> </SPAN>The two are one.<SPAN>
</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The Holy Spirit baptizes in
fire.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Spirit-filled souls are
ablaze for God.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">They love with a love that
glows.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">They believe with a faith
that kindles.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">They serve with a devotion
that consumes.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">They hate sin with a
fierceness that burns.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">They rejoice with a joy that
radiates.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Love is perfected in the
fire of God.</SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN> </P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Samuel Chadwick</SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-CA></SPAN> </P>
<P
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align=center>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*</P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN> </P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Beware of anything that
competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ.<SPAN>
</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The greatest competitor of
devotion to Jesus is service for him.</SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN> </P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Oswald Chambers</SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center> </P>
<P
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align=center>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN>
</SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*<SPAN> </SPAN>*
<SPAN> </SPAN>*</P>
<P
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align=center> </P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The most holy practice, the
nearest to daily life, </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">and the most essential for
the spiritual life, </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">is the practice of the
presence of God, </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">that is to find joy in his
divine company </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">and to make it a habit of
life, </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">speaking humbly and
conversing lovingly with him </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">at all times, every moment,
</SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">without rule or restriction,
</SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">above all at times of
temptation, distress, dryness, and revulsion, </SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black">and even of faithlessness
and sin.</SPAN></P>
<P
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align=center><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN> </P>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Brother
Lawrence, <I>The Practice of the Presence of God</I></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></A><BR><FONT
style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">HYMN
STORY:</SPAN></FONT> <FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">Take Time to Be Holy
</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">This
hymn is a good example of the Lord making more of our work than we could
have expected. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">The man who wrote the
words to "Take Time to Be Holy" was neither a pastor nor a
songwriter. William Longstaff was an English businessman -- a
Christian layman who took his faith seriously. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">Hearing a sermon on the
text, "Be ye holy, for I am holy," Longstaff was inspired to write a poem,
"Take Time to Be Holy." Being a good businessman, Longstaff had a
practical mind. That is reflected in this hymn, which offers many
practical suggestions for becoming holy. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">· He says, "Take time to
be holy," which reflects his understanding that holiness, like every
virtue, requires time and attention to develop it.
</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">· He
says, "Speak oft with the Lord," reflecting his personal experience that
prayer deepens faith. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">· He says, "Take time to
be holy; Be calm in your soul; Each thought and each motive, Beneath His
control," telling us that we can face adversity calmly if we look to
Christ for guidance. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">Longstaff managed to get
his poem published in a Christian newspaper, but that was the end of it --
or so it seemed. But as it turned out, George Stebbins, a Christian
musician, had seen the poem and had clipped and filed it. Years
later, needing a hymn on the subject of holy living, he remembered the
poem and set it to music. It has been a favorite now for more than a
century. </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">I don't know whether
Longstaff ever knew that Stebbins had set his poem to music. I don't
know that he ever heard it sung. I know only that he felt called to
write the poem -- and that God took it from there. When we do
something good -- something for God -- we might never know the full
measure of good that we have accomplished. We can only know that God
will take what we offer, great or small, and make of it a treasure.
<BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif">NOTE: See other
hymn stories at </SPAN><A
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href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103523112194&s=1956&e=001E0sL7gnaWIrHuRnWzvG5R57nbzzrY2f5WV--J7k1CT_XRVa_eLM4g61IIGilrCH-fb7r1mjLZULSj9RyMSL07-d8qg7-uG8O6Bk-lhhby9VypaHCUUMB7g=="
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman,Times,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Richard
Niell
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