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<p><font size=3 color="#666666" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sermons
for Easter 7:</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> John 17:1-11 - "The Meaning of
Life"</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'> Luke 24:44-53 - "The 4 Words
that Tell What It Means to Be a Christian" by Leonard Sweet</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>John 17<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>,</span></font>
the sermon titled "The Meaning of Life"<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font> </span></font><font size=1
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>In Act 5 scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the
character Macbeth has heard that the queen is dead and he knows his own death
is imminent. At this time he delivers his famous soliloquy:</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>creeps in this petty pace from day to day, </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>To the last syllable of recorded time, </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>And all our yesterdays have lighted fools </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The way to dusty death. Out, Out, brief candle </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>That struts and frets his hour upon the stage </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>and then is heard no more. It is a tale </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury signifying
nothing.</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Is Macbeth right? Is life nothing but a shadow having no
substance, no meaning? Writers and philosophers since recorded time have tried
to answer the question. I don’t think any of them have been successful in
answering the question to everyone’s satisfaction. Some one once said
that "Trying to speak about the ultimate reality is like sending a kiss
through a messenger." I understand their point: Something of its truth is
lost in the translation.</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>What is the meaning of life? A philosophical question to
be sure but this is not only the philosopher’s question. It is a
genuinely human question and therefore a question that we all ask. It might be
a question that is asked in despair or hope, out of cynicism, or out of sincere
curiosity and a deep desire to have goals and guidance in life. However we
raise the question about the meaning of life, it is our most basic and
fundamental question.</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>And so it comes as no surprise that Jesus deals with this
question and answers it. Surprisingly, the answer is not given in the context
of an argument with the Jewish leaders or in a discussion with his disciples,
and it is not given in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus deals with so many
fundamental issues. It is telling that Jesus deals with the meaning of life in
the context of prayer.</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>In the context of what has been called, by many scholars,
Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer. The Disciples are in the upper room, now.
They have just finished the Passover meal and Jesus is thinking about his
crucifixion which will occur within the next 24 hours. He knows he is about to
leave his disciples alone in the world and he goes before God as a priest
would, to intercede for them, to pray for them.</span></font><font size=1
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Listen again to his prayer. I am lifting out a few key
verses: "While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe, but I
will remain in the world no longer…Holy Father, protect them by the power
of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are
one. Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your son may glorify
you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal
life…and this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." It is in this third verse that
Jesus delivers the meaning of eternal life and in essence the meaning of life
itself. He says, "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the
only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>In essence, Jesus says, "the meaning of life is this:
that you have a relationship with God, and me his Son, Jesus Christ." And
that’s the long and short of it! But, Jesus himself, understood just how
difficult it was going to be not only for his disciples but for all of us to
come to this very simple realization in life and so he prays for two key
things. First, in order that we might understand the meaning of life…</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>1. He Prays for Our Protection from the World.</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>2. He Prays That We Might Know God.</span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The rest of this sermon following the outline above can be
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>_______________________</span></font><font size=1
color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Luke 24<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>,</span></font>
the sermon titled "The 4 Words that Tell What It Means to Be a
Christian" by Leonard Sweet<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font></span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Is life becoming more complex, or what? I don’t know
about you, but I’m needing some simplicity to offset that complexity. </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>I’m looking out at some of you: we have in our midst
some people who are tech-savants, up-to-the-nanosecond in every new app and
digital advance, every new social media minutia; and we have in our midst some
“off-the-grid,” computer-phobic, techno-anaphylactic Luddites. </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>And then there are the rest of us, the most of us--the
in-betweeners. </span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>But whoever you are, we can agree on one thing: our
twenty-first century lives are amazingly complex. </span></font><font size=1
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Every day we live in these soon-to-be teenage years of the
21st century, we use skills that would befuddle previous generations. Driving
computers masquerading as cars. Using microwave ovens. Functioning
simultaneously in different time zones all across the world. Understanding how
events in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
tonight will give our world a different tomorrow. Grasping the enormity of
destruction and loss that tornados and fires, hurricanes and tsunamis, have
done, even thousands of miles away from us, only hours after those wounds have
been inflicted.</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>We accept and even thrive in this complex, interwoven
world. Our most abandoned moments in this new world? When our electronic umbilical
cords get severed. When the power goes out don’t you still find yourself
reaching for the light-switch? How about trying to “google” some
piece of information? Or longing for news-updates that you cannot access? </span></font><font
size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>The great blessing of local, regional, and national
emergency response networks is that they are comprehensive and coordinated with
all sorts of emergency services. The curse of our twenty-first century response
to emergencies is that they depend upon the power grid to work. If you are really
in the middle of a major emergency — like the killer tornadoes that have
so decimated the Midwest and South this spring — you do not have access
to any of the vast sources of information and “new updates” that
are available to all those who are not personally caught up in the whirlwind.
Those most in need of information are those who are most cut off from
information.</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>When the disciples hunkered down in the upper room after
the crucifixion — let’s call them ‘upper room shut-ins’
-- they were “off the grid” of their cultural information
highway…</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Keepers of the Aquarium<br>
<br>
Paul Harvey, the well known radio broadcaster, once said, "Too many
Christians are no longer fishers of men but keepers of the aquarium."<br>
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I take that to mean that we Christians are more concerned about preserving the
Church than we are about touching the lives of other people, more concerned
about preserving our "religion" than we are about helping people
discover the source of wholeness, the fountain of living water that wells up to
eternal life.<br>
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Richard J. Fairchild, The Last Words of Jesus<br>
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font-family:Verdana'>In a scene from Shadowlands, a film based on the life of
C.S. Lewis, Lewis has returned to <st1:City w:st="on">Oxford</st1:City> from <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>, where he has just
been married to Joy Gresham, an American woman, in a private Episcopal ceremony
performed at her hospital bedside. She is dying from cancer, and, through the
struggle with her illness, she and Lewis have been discovering the depth of
their love for each other. As Lewis arrives at the college where he teaches, he
is met by Harry Harrington, an Episcopal priest, who asks what news there is.
Lewis hesitates; then, deciding to speak of the marriage and not the cancer, he
says, "Ah, good news, I think, Harry. Yes, good news."</span></font><font
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Lewis is referring to Joy's medical situation, replies, "I know how hard
you've been praying .... Now, God is answering your prayer."</span></font><font
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font-family:Verdana'>"That's not why I pray, Harry," Lewis responds.
"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray
because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't
change God; it changes me."</span></font><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Thomas G. Long, Whispering the Lyrics, CSS Publishing
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