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Midweek Sermon: February 24, 2010, "Hearts"

"A Sure Evidence"

Midweek Lent 2

“Hearts”

A sermon by the Rev Roland Kubke

Ezekiel 36:24-28

There is a prairie bird that has an unusual behaviour pattern. When you walk through the prairie grasses and come too close to the nest hidden on the ground, the bird shoots up into the air and then drops back down again. It acts like it has been injured, holding its wing out to the side and fluttering around as if the wing were broken. It hops around just out of reach, enticing you to chase it or try to catch it. Then, when you are far enough from the nest, it simply flies away and circles around until you are out of sight.

This behaviour works quite well if you play along with this bird's bluff. If you call the bluff, however, and go right to where the bird first flew up, you can find the nest every time. In fact, because of all the commotion the bird makes, the nests of this species are the easiest to find of all the ground nesting birds of the prairies. This prairie bird defends its nest and its young by deception, but that deception often gives away more than the bird intends.

You can find a similar thing in the lives of some people who call themselves Christians. There are people who look like the very picture of devotion to God. They portray a great deal of confidence in how they live their religion. However, they do not really believe, and they hide their unbelief under an outward show of piety. They use their appearance of faith to deceive. They use their appearance of faith to deflect themselves and others from the truth that they don’t really trust in God at all.

This year, our Lenten series is looking at the human body as a source of pictures that illustrate important truths in regard to our saving faith. This evening we are looking at the heart. The heart is a very interesting part of the human body. It pumps millions of times in a lifetime, and it just never takes a break. It is the only muscle that never tires out and never has to relax in order to keep going.

Many people use the heart as a picture of love. You may be surprised to see that the Bible goes much deeper than that when using the heart as a picture of who we are. In a biblical sense, the heart is actually a picture of the soul. The status of your heart is actually a description of who you are as a person and it is a picture of your character. In the Bible, your heart is really about your genuineness. It is a picture of your integrity.

We thank God that we are people who have received a new heart by God so that, through Christ, we are people of spiritual integrity!

Midweek Sermon: March 10, "Voice"

Lenten Midweek 3

Voices

March 10, 2010

A sermon by the Rev Roland Kubke

Luke 23:23-25, Mark 15:33-35

Have you ever searched for a radio station and then come across a station that was broadcasting in another language? If you stayed on that station for a little bit, you may have been able to guess what language you were hearing. Then again, it may have been so foreign to your ears that you couldn’t even do that much. You knew you were listening to words, but, as far as you were concerned, you were only hearing sounds. You were hearing the sound of a voice or the sounds of voices together. You were hearing the tone of those voices, and you probably could tell if the people were angry or excited or nervous or calm or confident, but other than getting a sense of emotion out of those voices, you were doing nothing much more than hearing voices.

So far in our Midweek Lenten series this year, we have looked at tears, hearts and hands and seen how these things related to our human body give us pictures to help us understand God’s plan for salvation. Today, we are looking at voices. Today we have the opportunity to see how God has equipped us not just to hear voices, but to respond to them with understanding. God has enabled us in faith, through the power of the Holy Spirit to hear the voice of our salvation!