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Living Water
John van de Laar | Sacredise
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Commenting on John 4:5-42, John van de Laar observes that we are to be not only recipients of living waters but givers of it, especially to the poor and marginalized.
John 4:5-42
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Christ, God, Life, Samaritans
Using Our Resources Mindfully
John van de Laar | Sacredise
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John van de Laar's sermon starter draws on Judges 4:1-7, Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18, Psalm 90:1-12, 123, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, and Matthew 25:14-30 to discuss our call to use our resources to further God's reign.
Psalms 90:1-11; 123 Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18
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God, Talent, Wealth, Reign Of God
God's Place and an Important Dualism
John van de Laar | Sacredise
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John van de Laar's sermon starter draws on Exodus 33:12-23, Isaiah 45:1-7, Psalm 96:1-13, 99, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, and Matthew 22:15-22 to discuss both God's glory and honor and the importance of separating God and government.
Psalms 96:1-9; 99 Isaiah 45:1-7
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Glory, God's Presence, Caesar, Government
God Comes to Us as Christ
John van de Laar | Sacredise
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John van de Laar looks at these Christmas Eve texts that focus on the coming of Christ. Specifically, he wants to present the ideas of how we see it, recognize it, appropriate it, and make it...
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Christmas, Coming Of Christ, God
Great God Of Miracles And Surprises
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer
This Christmas prayer by John van de Laar focuses on God as a God of miracles and surprises.
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Miracles, God, Miracle
Seeing and Perceiving
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Scripture Meditation or Sermon
A worship planning guide for Psalm 23, John 9, 1 Samuel 16:1-13, and Ephesians 5:8-14. It includes hymns, prayers, and reflections centered on the themes of blindness and sight, light and darkness.
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Lent, Christ, God, Light
The Transformative Call of Pentecost
John van de Laar | Sacredise
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Notes on Numbers 11:24-30; Psalm 104:24-35; John 7:37-39, 20:19-23; Acts 2:1-21; and 1 Corinthians 12:3 bring together disparate themes which all invite us to a deeper, closer, more transformative relationship with God.
Numbers 11:24-30; Psalm 104:24-35 John 7:37-39, 20:19-23
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Pentecost, Calling, God, World
Resurrection Every Day
John van de Laar | Sacredise
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A worship planning guide for Easter including hymns, prayers, reflections, and more. Based on Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24, Isaiah 25:6-9, Mark 16:1-8, John 20:1-18, Acts 10:34-43, and 1 Corinthians 15:1-11.
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Isaiah 25:6-9 Mark 16:1-8
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Easter, Resurrection, God, Life
Serving and Generous Power
John van de Laar | Sacredise
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A worship planning guide including hymns, prayers, reflections, and more. The theme is Christ's power, based on 1 Samuel 17-18, Job 38:1-11, Psalms 9:9-20, 107 and 133; Mark 4:35-41, and 2 Corinthians 6:1-13.
1 Samuel 17:10-16, 57-58, 18:1-5; Job 38:1-11 Psalms 9:9-20
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Gospel, Weakness, Power, God
Ascension of the Lord
John van de Laar | Sacredise
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When reading Psalms 47, 93, Luke 24:44-53, Acts 1:1-11, and Ephesians 1:15-23, we realize "the Ascension offers us a number of crucial truths that, in this world of injustice and inequality, we desperately need to...
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Ascension, God's Will, Power, Christ
God
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving
This prayer praises God for being "comfortable" in allowing the word "God" to enter our frail language. And that God with such humility and sacrifice would become flesh as well.
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Language, God, Words, Prayer
A Prayer for Healing In The World
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer
A prayer for healing.
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Healing, Prayer, God's Will, Offering
Weak And Poor God
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer
This poetic prayer contrasts the world's worship of money and status with Christ's coming into the world to be among the poor, thanking God for humbly becoming human to bring salvation to humankind.
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God, Wealth, The Poor, Poetry
We Celebrate Your Life
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer
This prayer celebrates the life of God and what it means for us. The life that reveals our true colours, teaches us our place, and keeps only that which nourishes.
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God's Will, God, Life, Prayer
The Life That Is Truly Good
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving
This prayer acknowledges God's exclusive role of being everything we need. No matter the need listed in this prayer, whether it's our need for love, grace, or direction, the good life is found in God.
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Goodness, Life, Prayer, God
The One We Worship
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer
This poetic prayer is about how attributes of creation, biblical law, and prophecy are embodied by the "Shining One, who transfigures all things."
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Transfiguration, Worship, God, Prophecy
Life-Giving, Restoring, Fulfilling God
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer, Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving
This prayer gives praise to the Spirit of God for speaking the Word, giving Life, and for the Spirit's breath. The prayer closes with statements of devotion to the God who gives.
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Recreation, Devotion, God, Life
Whole-y God
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer
This poetic prayer is focused on how even though we may feel our indifference or apathy to doing good, God never grows weary in doing good toward us.
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Beauty, Truthfulness, Truth, God
Praise Be To You
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving
This poetic prayer praises God by describing Jesus like a tree the fruit of which is a blessing to humankind. The prayer also recognizes our call to follow and offer the fruit of our lives in...
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Praise, Offering, God, Parable
In the Face of It All
John van de Laar | Sacredise
Prayer
A prayer of confession: Unbelief, fear, and faithlessness trouble us, and too often we despair. God help us to find faith and hope again.
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Unbelief, God's Will, God, Confession
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