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Antonyms: do nothing

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326. The Biggest Prayer Ever Prayed Under Heaven

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... given for our benefit. In this book we find the love of God demonstrated and explained as nowhere else. Like a pinnacle, John 17 rises above the other high peaks in John's book. Here we are allowed to glimpse into Jesus' very soul. We never get ... yours, and you gave them to me" (v. 6). He is telling us that salvation is not received by human merit but that it is the act of the sovereign God who by grace saves us. Long before Jesus came to earth, David, under the Holy Spirit's influence, wrote: "The salvation ...

327. A Child of the Resurrection

Luke 20:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... for all those people who will believe in him until the day he returns. And this is how he begins his prayer in John 17: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he ... 7) God did not create us so that He could declare on our tombstone, “Game Over.” And if death is the final act of all creation, then God’s ultimate plan for creation is forever corrupted. Forever left incomplete. Can a perfect, all-knowing, all- ...

328. Lord of the Sabbath

Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Breaking of the Sabbath, calling himself God, and the Questions of the Pharisees (5:33--6:11 and 7:17-35) Minor Text Genesis 1:1-2:3: God’s Creative Power and Rest; all things in relationship Exodus 16:22-20; 20: ... saw as his breaking of the Sabbath law and 2) his claim to have the authority of God to forgive sins. Both acts were regarded as heresy and blasphemy and were punishable by death. However, the Pharisees’ interpretation of the Sabbath “laws” had become picayune ...

329. Bringing in the Sheaves

Ruth 1:1-22, Ruth 2:1-23, Ruth 3:1-18, Ruth 4:1-12, Ruth 4:13-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ) A Raining Down of Manna (Exodus 16 and Numbers 11) Elijah’s Healing/Raising of a Phoenician Woman’s Son and a Gift of Bread (1 Kings 17) The Story of Jezebel (of Phoenicia, Daughter of King of Tyre), Ahab, and Elijah (1 Kings 9: 16-21) Elisha’s Healing/Raising of a Shunammanite Woman’ ... :22-23; 20:17-19; 26:1-5; Mark 8:31-33; 9:3-32; 10:32-24; Luke 9:18-22; 9:44-45; 12:49-50; 18:31-34; John 7:12-24; 12:20-36; 13:31-14:7; 16:16) Jesus the Son of God (Acts of the Apostles 13) Christ’s Suffering (1 ...

330. Babel

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... his own fate. With every brick, the voice of his friend subsides. But in the end, Montresor’s heart grew sick. Through his vengeful act, his own heart had become entombed. We in the church too seal our own fate when we lurk within our walls and refuse ... God’s Power and Goodness (Genesis 18) Moses and Pharaoh (Exodus 5-6) The Budding of Aaron’s Rod (Numbers 17) The Story of David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17) Joshua’s Victory Over Jericho (Joshua 5-6) Psalm 34: Taste and See that the Lord is Good Psalm 37 ...

331. Lamb Parade

John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Crushes the Head of Abimelech Saving the People (Judges 9) David Strikes the Head of Goliath of Gath (1 Samuel 17) King David Brings the Ark of the Covenant Back to Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 15 and 2 Samuel 6) David’s ... Stones of Gilgal (Joshua 4) Joshua Assigns Territories to All of Israel’s Tribes and Reaffirms the Covenant (Joshua 17-24) The Death of Jezebel and Ahab and the Declaration of King Jehu with Cloaks Strewn (2 Kings 9 ... 17-42) James, Brother of John is Killed with a Sword, and Peter is Arrested ...

332. The Thorny Price of Perfidy

Esther 3:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... prophet Habakkuk says, “though the fig does not bud, I will rejoice in the Lord” (3:17-19). Even though obstacles seem to rise in our path, even though we may be fooled ... the Mt. of Olives Weeping as He Realizes His Trusted Advisor, Ahithophel’s Betrayal (2 Samuel 15-17) Josiah’s Passover Celebration and Following Death (2 Chronicles 35 and 1 Esdras 1) Psalm 2: Kiss ... in the Lord My Strength (Habakkuk 3:17-19) A Prophecy of Betrayal (Micah 7:1-7) Judas Betrays Jesus (Matthew 25:31-6:25; Mark ...

333. The Physician

Isaiah 38:1-22, Matthew 8:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... saving health) Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Hezekiah’s Illness (Isaiah 38) This Week’s Passage Emphasizes Jesus’ Healing of Peter’s Mother in Law (Matthew 8:14-17) Minor Text I Am the Lord Who Heals You (Exodus 15:26) I Will Take All Sickness Away from You (Deuteronomy 7;15) The Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53) The Promise ... then Continues His ministry Though the Synagogues in Judea (Luke 4:31-44) Jesus Begins His Ministry in Capernaum (John 2:12) Peter Heals and Proclaim Restoration (Acts 3)

334. Wrapped in a Cloud

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... creation. This Christmas Eve, may your head be wrapped in a cloud of beauty and light, hope and faith, and may your sacred time of prayer become the first day of your new and glorious life! Merry Christmas! He is born. [1] See Strongs 1982; Exodus 40:34-35; Luke 17:5; Mark 9:7; Matthew 17:5; Acts 5:15; Psalm 91:4; Cambridge Dictionary: “head in the clouds.”

335. More Than Gimmicks

John 6:24-35

Sermon

David Coffin

... for his life that he gave for the sins of humanity, that all of us may have life and have it abundantly now John 3:16-17; 10:10 (RSV). So where is the “rub?” In this text, the crowds were products of their time and sought daily food for survival and ... whom he had sent, that being Jesus as the Messiah. The crowd wanted what would be seen today as “proof” or another magic act or gimmick. This is why some clergy do not like doing entertainment or tricks up in the pulpit during Sunday sermons. Once ...

336. The Beginning And The Ending

Luke 1:1-4; 24:44-53

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... the joyful news that his aged wife, Elizabeth, would bear a son who would "make ready a people prepared for the Lord" (Luke 1:17). The story has come full circle. Luke completes his story, but not his book. Luke cannot write "The End" on the last page. A ... . We have already noticed how Luke's gospel cries out for a sequel. And Luke does not disappoint us. In the book of the Acts of the Apostles he continues the story. There we find a fuller account of Jesus' ascension into heaven. We see the promise of the ...

337. Sabotaging The Sabath

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Richard Patt

... is marred by contention: our childhood, our school days, marriage, family life, our jobs and careers, and on and on. Likewise here, an act of kindness on the Lord's day ends in an uproar. Things ended up the way they did (and do in our lives), ... on the cross. This story ends on a positive note: "... all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him" (v. 17). Christ did a glorious deed here when he responded to human need by healing this woman, no matter what day of the week it was. ...

338. Our Defense In A Stone-littered World

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... lives we admire people who appear to be strong. At nine that may be the tough little kid who challenges his classmates on the playground. At 17 it could be the guy who has a hot car and breaks all the girls' hearts. At 25 it might be the aggressive young executive ... Spirit, is that inner strength and the courage to act upon our convictions. Jews who believed in Jesus as the Messiah still comprised the earliest Christian community as Luke describes it in Acts. But among them were Greek-speaking Jews, and ...

339. Toward A More Sensuous Christianity

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... and at times emotional. The apostle reminds us, "For the kingdom of God is ... joy in the Holy Spirit" (Romans 14:17). When electricity was first introduced some Frenchmen wanted to know how fast electricity moves, so the abbot of a large monastery ... they are led by the Spirit," but rather, "It is those who are led by the Spirit who are the children of God." Again in Acts 19 Paul asks those at Ephesus whether they received the Spirit when they took their step of commitment. He expects an answer. As with all ...

340. Getting Down To The Local Issues

Sermon

Thomas Long

... chant continues, but how does this connect to the woman in the choir whose cancer has just returned after years of remission, the 17-year-old anxiously trying to decide what to do with his life, the young attorney who is seeing unethical practices at her firm, the ... early Christians were called, by friends and enemies alike, "the Way" -- in other words, they were nicknamed "people of the road" (see Acts 9:2). So, in a literal sense the risen Christ became a local issue on the road to Emmaus, but, in a deeper ...

341. A Cultural Breakthrough

Acts 16:6-10

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... he should travel to Macedonia. Several different dynamics occur at this point in our text. The writer, Luke, suddenly shifts to the first person plural and without warning a series of "we" passages begins at 16:10. There are 97 such passages recorded in Acts 16:10-17; 20:5-15; 21:2-18 and 27:1--28:16. Several theories have been suggested in an attempt to clarify the "we" passages. Some suggest that Luke was a traveling companion of Paul. Others suggest that he incorporated the accounts of Paul's travels ...

342. The Unveiled Truth

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... second point Paul makes is that we should then act with boldness. Paul seems to suggest that Moses' attempt to hide the passing of the glory by using a veil was an act of timidity (3:12-13). Contrary to Moses, we ought to act with great boldness, since we have the hope of ... For "the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Corinthians 3:17). That freedom is found under the cross. If we lose our life, we will find it. That is the message of Lent which we hear again ...

343. The Problem With A Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... Waiting For Let us never forget: the promises of God are worth waiting for! In a rather restrained fashion, our text suggests (vv. 17, 18) that somehow the mysterious and unseen presence of Yahweh is engaged in this action. Abraham has prepared a sacrifice of a heifer ... fire moves among the pieces of the sacrifice that Abraham has placed upon the altar. This is a curious, old, ritual act which suggests a solemn, weighty, binding of the two parties to each other. God is here making a covenant with Abraham, ...

344. When God’s “No” Means “Yes”

Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... while, but it took so long. Finally, he decided to help the poor creature along. He breathed on the butterfly to warm it, and that act did speed up the process. The butterfly started to come out, but to the horror of Zorba its wings were folded back and crumpled. ... with the young churches in the gentile world. He wrote: “He who through faith is righteous shall live (Cf. Romans 1:17 and Galatians 3:11).” After an agonizing spiritual quest Martin Luther rediscovered the same biblical truth and made it the ...

345. Mother's Day Gifts

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... every day is honor!One of our Ten Commandments says, "Honor your Father and Mother ..." That means that we children are to treat our mothers with great respect, in how we act toward them and in the way we speak to them. Did you realize that in ancient Israel, if a child cursed his mother, he was to be stoned to death? (Exodus 21:17) They took God's law very seriously. Nothing angers me more than to hear children speak sarcastically, hatefully, or sharply to their mothers. That is contrary to God's will! The ...

346. Come, Learn Your Worth

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Various Authors

... Christ, [they are] new creation[s]; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come. (v. 17) John Bishop tells of a London slum child whose major refuge was his Roman Catholic day school. In ... fact that I am capable of sin. When the communion ritual asks me to repent, it reminds me that I have the capacity for decision. I am no puppet, acting from pulled strings; I am no animal, responding helplessly to instincts; I am a human being, able to choose between right and wrong. If I were incapable of wrong, ...

347. The New Covenant

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... sacredness of it, and years later still wondered about it until he read of the covenant between God and Abraham in Genesis 17 and Genesis 22. There he saw the striking parallel. And when he read further of various covenant renewal ceremonies in the Old ... shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt." (Exodus 12:13) It took a mighty act of faith on the part of the Israelites to believe this and to perform such a ceremony. But every house that was marked was spared that night! And ...

348. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... , keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one" (John 17:11). One of the greatest tragedies of history and of biblical understanding is that many churchmen and scholars are content to ... and to the end of the earth" only if they worked together. The amazing growth of the New Testament church described in the early chapters of The Acts of the Apostles would never have happened if the disciples had not been "in full accord and of one mind." If it was true in Jesus’ ...

349. How Fares Your Christian Sight?

Is 6:8-10

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with some sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.1 Isaiah expressed that same sentiment centuries before. "Then I ... to Christ, there is a new world; the old order has gone, and a new order has already begun. (2 Corinthians 5:16-17, NEB) It would be easy to make a case for the thought that the ministry of Jesus was in total a ministry ...

350. When Things Don’t Work Out, What Then?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... this problem through. but it was too difficult for me until I went into your Temple. Then I understood ... (Psalm 73:16-17, TEV) David put himself into the environment where he was open to hear God speak his message. When things don’t work out ... in Macedonia, the near edge of Europe, across that Aegean Sea. The man called out to him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us!" (Acts 16:9, TEV). In his disappointment Paul discovered that God had a new appointment in mind for him. God gave to Paul a new experience ...

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