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351. Who Knows?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... , and we kept yelling, "Here! Here! Come down here!" (There is an excitement about these beautiful objects that makes adults act like children.) Some balloons, however, did not go down. They drifted slowly on and, against the odds, began to rise, ... for the door and the way out anywhere but in the wall against which we are living" (New York, The Crossroad Publishing Co., 1982, p. 17). Raines builds on Camus from a Christian perspective and writes, "The Word is as near to you as the wall against which you are ...

352. Broken Bread, Shared Cup

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

The word is from the third chapter of Mark’s Gospel, the 16, 17, and 18th verses: "So he appointed the Twelve: to Simon he gave the name Peter; then came the sons ... among us as to places of honor. It was not until Jesus girded himself with the slave’s apron and knelt to wash our dirty feet that the bickering was silenced. In an act he would teach us. "Thaddaeus," he called, "let me wash the dirt of the day’s travel from your feet. Thaddaeus, be still one moment that I may serve your need." He was ...

353. Commanded By Example

John 13:31-38

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... -fourth of the Gospel of John is devoted to that eventful night in the Upper Room. You can read it in chapters 13 through 17. Among the first words Jesus said to his disciples that night were these: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one ... people who call themselves Christians, but unless you believe as they believe, do as they do, feel as they feel, and act as they act, they want nothing to do with you. Many of these so called "saved" people will actually condemn other Christians for their ...

354. Should Christians Always Oppose War?

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... am supposed to relate to other individuals with kindness rather than force. But if I am in the United States armed forces, acting under the command of the President, I become his means of delivering justice to the evildoer. "But preacher," you might ask, " ... are the 30,000 Iraqi munitions capable of delivering chemical or biological weapons? The inspectors have thus far accounted for only 17. Iraq has not produced any. How long can the international community wait? What is a sensible midpoint between a rush to ...

355. Liberty And Civility

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . Consider what a brief time we've really been here as a nation: When Thomas Jefferson died, Abraham Lincoln was a young man of 17. When Lincoln was assassinated, Woodrow Wilson was a boy of 8. By the time Woodrow Wilson died Ronald Reagan was a boy of 12. ... they are the bedrock on which our country is founded. God gives humans freedom. We are made in his image free to live and think and act and in Christ he gives us freedom from the Law, the grace to be at liberty from our sins. Now let us be sober for a ...

356. More Than A Mannequin; Not Quite A Masterpiece

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... exciting as the first body of Christian believers. THE PICTURE THE WRITER OF ACTS GIVES US OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IS OF A CHURCH THAT WAS ... lived to tell the tale. The result was that under the impact of this selfless act of love, the whole camp was transformed, came to faith, and when the prisoners were ... Than Fiction," THE DOOR, Sept./Oct. 1996, p. 43. 2. Bruce Larson, LIVING OUT THE BOOK OF ACTS (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1984), p. 117. 3. "Letters to the Editor," SMITHSONIAN, May 1996, p. 26. 4 ...

357. Why Jesus Was Baptized

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . John came preaching, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Mt. 3:2) Interesting. According to Matthew 4:17, Jesus' first sermon was "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." The same message. This is important. There ... kind of laughter you will hear at a "beer bust" or at a cocktail party. You know what I mean: "Let's see how outrageous I can act so I can tell myself that I am having fun." How pathetic. Genuine Christian folks don't have to lose their inhibitions to have a good time ...

358. Hurting People Hurt People

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... when we're feeling down on ourselves. Especially when, like the animal in the trap, we feel vulnerable. We need to examine ourselves and ask ourselves why we act as we do. We are causing untold damage to those around us--especially to those we love, those we depend upon. FINALLY, WE NEED TO SEE THAT THE ... Church: Finding Guidance At Critical Crossroads," Ortberg, pt. 2, Seeds Tape Ministry, 1/17/96. 5. "Faith came as 'surprise of joy' for . . . Alec Guinness" by Terry Mattingly The Knoxville News Sentinel, August ...

359. Making Sense of the Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , O’er the wonderful birth; For the virgin’s sweet boy, Is the Lord of the earth!” We have a Redeemer. How come we don’t act more redeemed? II. HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, AND IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER. Last week I told you what that means. The king ... aren’t permanent because they’ll only be on his property until the second coming of Christ (Michigan Christian Advocate, July 17., 1989, p. 3). Anybody want to bet that, if allowed to stand, they will be there longer than he will?? Again ...

360. Born Again? When?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the Fourth gospel, after Jesus had been out to death on a cruel Roman cross, Nicodemus identified himself as clearly being on Jesus’ side by coming to Pontius Pilate and claiming Jesus’ body for burial, an act which took no little amount of courage. Perhaps in the final analysis, the best proof of the new birth is the new life lived in Christ. As a dear saint of God once said to me ... he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (II Cor. 5:17-21) Amen.

361. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

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Donald B. Strobe

... to do things in groups which we would never think of doing alone. We often call ourselves children of God; but all too often we act like children of the devil. We may no longer throw ink wells at the devil as Martin Luther is reported to have done. We are ... preach the Good News of the Gospel, returning with joy, and saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!” (Luke 10:17) Then it was that Jesus said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.” What he seems to ...

362. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-31

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Donald B. Strobe

... too formal, how about "Jesus' farewell instructions to His students." That's what we have in John, chapters 13 through 17: Jesus' instructions to His infant Church...sort of His Last Will and Testament. The whole thing began as a ... Lazarus at Bethany. He came to the disciples in the Upper Room, ever after His death and resurrection. He came in the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.(Acts 2) He has continued to come to those who love and serve Him down through the ages. He continues to come to us through the medium ...

363. It Costs to Belong

Mark 10:35-45

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Donald B. Strobe

... Gospels also suggest that they had short fuses on their tempers, which earned for them the nickname “Sons of thunder” (Mark 3:17). But we’ll talk more about that next week. Just as Andrew lived in the shadow of his more famous brother Peter, ... , you have done it unto me.” (See Matthew 25:40.) When he died, the most significant thing that the writer of the Book of Acts could think to say about James, the brother of John, was simply “he belonged to the Church.” There is a curious legend about the ...

364. Who Loves More?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not realize it until it was too late to get his father a birthday present. So, he went through all his resources and came up with 17 cents. He put the dime, the nickel, and the two pennies in an envelope and gave it to his father with a note: “I love you, ... we don’t know. We suggested earlier that maybe this was the woman who had been saved from stoning when she was caught in the act of adultery. We don’t know that. But, it must have been that somehow she knew Jesus—and had been the recipient of His ...

365. Headlines and Holiness

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... ?" "Heavens, no," is Jesus' pastoral response. "Where'd you get that idea? Don't give it another thought. But before we pray, let me share this little tidbit with you. Unless you clean up your act, my friend, it's curtains for you." The gospel of the Lord. What is Jesus doing here? I'll tell you what he's doing. He is slyly shifting the conversation away from God's ... especially pages 35-62. 2. Jim Wallis, The Call To Conversion: Recovering the Gospel for These Times (Harper San Francisco, 1992), pp. 7, 17.

366. Timing

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... orders in both human life and in the natural world around us, customary ways in which both human beings and nature act. Those customary orders have been discovered by Wisdom teachers by careful observation, and the teachers have then set down in the ... you love (9:9). Appreciate the beauty of the earth (3:11), food and drink and prosperity (10:19; 9:7), and wise and proper government (10:16-17). But above all, enjoy the work that God has given you to do (2:24; 3:22; 5:18-20), as verse 13 of our text says, for ...

367. The Incarnation: What and Why?

Hebrews 2:10-18

Sermon

James L. Killen

... like we are parts of that losing team. We can't win. We feel the condemnation that always seems to rest on the losers. But God acted to reach out to us, to make known to us the things that God is always doing for our salvation. It is important to remember ... important things for our salvation. The text says he made "a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people" (Hebrews 2:17). Whenever we read about atonement in the Bible, we are reading about God forgiving our sins and not holding our guilt against ...

368. The Resurrection Is for Everyone

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... it all right. But the message of our text is that the resurrection means forgiveness, too. Did you catch that in the last sentence of our reading from Acts? “Every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name” (v. 43). Everyone who trusts in God’s act in Jesus Christ has a new beginning. The old is done away; behold, the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17). And we are given a fresh start, and a new Spirit who is the Spirit of the living Christ working in us to make us into new ...

369. Honor To Whom Honor Is Due

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... children that honor you, you must be honorable parents. Someone has said that "delinquent children are simply children who have gotten old enough to act like their mother and their father." One father was talking to his son, and he said, "You are rebellious; no father has ever had ... is a blessing to a child who obeys his parents, but there is a curse to a child who does not. Pr. 30:17 warns, "The eye that mocks his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and ...

370. My God Is Real

Psalm 14:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... be mistaken. But the reason God calls this person foolish is because deep down he knows there is a God, and yet chooses to believe and act as if there is none.2 You may not think you fall under the category of foolish, but let me give you some examples of practical ... : Murray vs Curlett in which prayer and Bible reading were removed from public schools. Thirty years after that decision, on June 17, 1993, William Murray, who since has given his life to Jesus Christ, told a crowd of almost 6,000 people this ...

371. What Church Is All About

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly before Him." (Ps. 84:11) "Every good and perfect gift comes from above." (Jas. 1:17) How good is God? "His mercy is everlasting and His truth endures to all generations." (v.5) He is a God of everlasting mercy; ... .1) The word shout literally means "a sound that splits the ear." Now that doesn't mean we are to scream or to act like a nut, but a shout signifies excitement. It symbolizes enthusiasm. I cannot get away from the fact that as I study worship ...

372. Our God Is an Awesome God

Psalm 139:1-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... ." God knows everything about everything and everyone all of the time. Have you ever been around anybody who acted like a "know it all?" Well with God, it's not acting; He is the true "know it all." I Jn. 3:20 says, "God is greater than our heart, ... sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with you." (vv.17-18) Don't pass by that word "thought" too quickly. Think about the miracle of the mind. The information content of the human brain alone ...

373. The Only Guide You Need

John 16:12-15

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James Merritt

... to guide us "into all truth." Truth is the major concern of the Holy Spirit. In fact, both here in v.13 and in John 14:17 He is called "the Spirit of truth." When we learn about this aspect of the work of the Holy Spirit, we will understand that He is ... handle it, and we can use it to give us the power that we need to be all that we need to be for God. Because He acts as the transformer of divine truth, we can receive it. II. The Holy Spirit Guides Us to Remember the Truth Has it ever occurred to you ...

374. Unlikely Election

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... which are out of print), and a good friend found a copy of his book on Pentecost and the book of Acts, The Christ of Every Road, in a church rummage sale. I cherish it. He describes the church as living between Easter and ... church's first big mistake. 2. But maybe not. Maybe Matthias's unlikely election was exactly what God had in mind. Take a look at verse 17. Catch the poignant, understated tragedy of Judas and his fate: "Judas: He was numbered among us, and was allotted his share in the ministry." He was ...

375. How to Play Fair in Foul Play

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the Christian play fair amid foul play? Sitting down in a civilized manner to determine just how brutal we may act during the uncivilized act of war is a ludicrous undertaking. Even stranger, of course, is the reality that during the actual outbreak of war ... . Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.") Work harder than your enemies; instead of vengeance, forgiveness (Mt. 6:14; Lk. 17:3, 4;23:34); instead of hatred, love (Mt. 5:43-45; Lk.6:27-31); instead of greed, sharing and sacrifice (Lk. 12: ...

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