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26. God, Elvis, and O.J. Simpson

Psalm 139

Sermon

James Merritt

... that O. J. Simpson had, or ever would achieve, the stature of Elvis Presley. But all of that was changed Friday, June 17, 1994, when an entire nation was transfixed by a television scene that was more real than any fantasy. Two men were in ... he in hell? I pray for one, I fear for the other. Well, what about O. J. Simpson? Well, listen to these verses of Scripture: Acts. 17:30-31, "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on ...

27. Where Is Your Pebble?

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... preacher during the frontier days of our land. He was a humdinger of a preacher named Jesse Lee. He once preached a sermon on Acts 17:6 that reads like this in the new King James Version: “These that turned the world upside down have come here also.” The ... is the church as God’s agent, Christ’s body at work in the world. Christ came into the world to save the world. John 3:17, “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” But how does Christ ...

28. Moving At The Speed Of Light: Unknown Apostles

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and boundaries of their habitation ... for "In him we live and move and have our being"; as even some of your poets have said, "For we are indeed his offspring." -- Acts 17:22-28 Paul, an unknown apostle, helping Athenians to find, to meet, to encounter an unknown God. Paul writes: "God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God" (1 Corinthians 2:10). Likewise we search for ...

29. Elements Of Devotion

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Clement E. Lewis

... , for your answers to our problems, pains, and inward distress. In these moments of quiet contemplation, fill our souls with your Spirit. Enable us to dream dreams, see visions, and become obedient to your will and way for our lives, in Jesus' name. Amen. Scripture: Acts 17:22-28 (NRSV) Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, "Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an ...

30. Moving Words

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... was visibly upset when it heard the news that these two Christians had found their way to the town. An entire city was put in an uproar, because, the accusation went, “these people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also (Acts 17:6, NRSV).” What a testimony to those who are faithful in spreading the Word! The instructions for the movers and dispensers of the gospel include one final word: acknowledge Christ! This is more than a mere verbal expression of faith made by those who ...

31. Song of a Stargazer

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... is not speaking of humankind as Israelite. Rather, he is speaking of all humanity, anticipating Paul’s statement to certain authorities in the Court of Areopagus that God "made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth" (Acts 17:26). It was a daring proclamation for both singer and saint in their respective times. Poets, however, have a way of going directly to the heart of the truth; and the composer of the Eighth Psalm is no exception. A Universal Stewardship Universal privileges ...

32. Angels

Psalm 91:1-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... class of angels which has intimate fellowship with God such as the seraphim of Isaiah 6:2-6, indicate that angels are organized in a rigidly fixed rank system. In the early Middle Ages, a writer who claimed to be Dionysius the Areopagite (Acts 17:34), took that idea and produced a ranking of angels. His schema was later adopted by Thomas Aquinas and was not seriously challenged until the Protestant Reformation. According to Dionysius, the angels are arranged in three ranks, each rank having three groups or ...

33. Floating on Your Back

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... in trouble with the Roman authorities. The leaders of the synagogues had this to say about them, “These men . . . have turned the world upside down . . .” because, according to the leaders of the synagogue, they were “saying that there is another king, Jesus” (Acts 17:6-7). This was treason, of course, to say that there was another king besides Caesar. And yet, the church at Thessalonica became one of Paul’s success stories due to the faithfulness of the converts there. So Paul begins this letter ...

34. Is God For Real? (Series: Read Faith For Real People)

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... God gene in our spiritual DNA. The Bible makes the point numerous times. “So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them” (Genesis 1:27). “In God we live and move and have our being. We are his offspring” (Acts 17:28). “The spirit himself bears witness with our spirits that we are the children of God” (Romans 8:16). “I will put my laws on their minds and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God” (Hebrews 8:10). Our founder, John Wesley, believed ...

35. How Can We Stand on Holy Ground?

Psalm 24:1

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... him while he is near" (Isaiah 55:6). If worship makes any sense, has any meaning, fulfills any purpose, it is because people in the simple acts of worship make a vital connection with God. Psalm 24 was written to help us do that. Psalm 24 is a call to worship. Come, ... for him and find him though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:22-28). You are God breathed. You are God made. You are God known. You are God sought. You are God redeemed. You are God ...

36. Making Your Life Count

1 Timothy 2:5-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... Yahweh, and that there could be no other gods before Him. They declared the unity of God, and they declared the universality of God. Yahweh is the God of all creation. Indeed, He is the creator of all that lives and moves and has its being (Acts 17:28). This truth brings to mind an observation of Oscar Hammerstein II. He was once privileged to view the Statue of Liberty close-up from a helicopter. He was quite impressed by the great painstaking detail that the sculptor had employed on this statue—even on ...

37. Job and the Mind Storm

Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6, Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... 8:22-36) Creator God (Isaiah 40) and the Word of the Lord (Isaiah 55) Jeremiah Encounters the “Word of the Lord” (Jeremiah 1) John the Apostle Explains Jesus’ Identity (John 1) Paul Explains the Identity of God and Jesus to Greeks in Thessalonica (Acts 17:16-34) The Victory of the “Word of God” (Revelation 19) Image Exegesis: The Tempest The imagery/metaphors of storm, squall, chaos, mess, tempest are all words that frighten us. We are human beings who love control and order, form and safety. But ...

38. When God Leads

Joshua 3:7-17

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... a consistent theme from Genesis to Revelation is, “I am with you.” I did not form you in My image and breathe the breath of life into you and declare you alone in all My creation as “very good,” just to leave you alone in this world. In Acts 17: 27-28, Paul and some of the other apostles visit the city of Athens. Among the many idols Paul sees in the city, one stands out to him: an altar bearing the inscription, “To an unknown god.” Paul preaches to the Athenians that there is only one true God ...

39. Take Dead Aim

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... disappointing our larger than life expectations. Aside from breaking the commandment about having only one God (see Exodus 20:3), human heroes just aren't up to divine prerogatives. That's why Paul so mockingly addressed the people in the middle of the Areopagus (see Acts 17:16ff NIV): "Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I found an altar with this inscription, 'To an unknown god.' " Or as the Psalmist simply ...

40. A House! a House! and a House!

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... , a House for God was not a great idea! It was the apostle Paul who put it well in his sermon to the people of Athens. "The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man." (Acts 17:24) There is also something about the nature of a temple that would make its building less than desirable. To localize God in a House tends to give more attention to the House than to God. That it happened among the Hebrews is exactly the complaint of the prophet ...

41. A Cosmic Announcement

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Susan Hedahl

... already intuited - that the Jesus he preached was the One that had been among them all the time! "Yet, he is not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’ as even some of your poets have said" (Acts 17:2 RSV). Truly a word of cosmic scope! Certainly a birth for all seasons and for all hearts. Alice Meynell speculated about the many ways God has been magnificently revealed in the universe and points to the particular cluster of humble signs which humanity has been given ...

42. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , A Christian Primer: The Prayer, The Creed, The Commandments, (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990), p. 189 5. Matt. 22:37-39; Mark 12:30-31; Luke 10:27 6. Winn, p. 196 7. I Tim. 6:10 8. Matthew 19:16-22 9. Luke 12:16-20 10. Acts 17:23 11. Winn, p. 198

43. Good News in the Ashes

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... 4. II Samuel 12:1-14 5. http://www.homileticsonline.com/Installments/feb2094.htm 6. James A. Harnish, Tampa, Fla., 4/4/93 7. J. Clinton McCann, Jr., "The Book of Psalms," The New Interpreter's Bible, Vol. IV, (Nashville: Abingdon, 1998), p. 887-888 8. Isaiah 55:3 9. Acts 17:6

44. I’ve Lost the Cutting Edge

2 Kings 6:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... you serve God, and you ought to serve God with joy. You see serving God is totally different from serving anyone else. The Bible says, "Serve the Lord with gladness?" (Ps. 100:2) Now why should we serve the Lord with gladness? I'll tell you why. In Acts 17:25 (ESV) we read, "[God is not] served by human hands as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all mankind life an breath and everything." We serve God with gladness because we do not bear the burden of meeting His needs; we rejoice in a ...

45. No Doubt about It

John 20:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... about those wonderful people. "And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul's message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to check up on Paul and Silas, to see if they were really teaching the truth." (Acts 17:11, NLT) May I give you one of the most practical ways that you can apply this message to your own life so you can starve your doubt and feed your faith? Study the Bible. Read God's Word. There is even an entire book in the New ...

46. The Word that Changed the World

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you . . .” (Acts 17:22-23) Paul then gave them a name for their unknown god. He introduced them to Jesus. In the same way, the writer of John was evidently familiar with the philosophy of Heraclitus. And thus he says to his Greek readers, as well as to us, “Look ...

47. Engaging the Master Designer

Psalm 139: 1-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... for living, so we could seek after God, and not just grope around in the dark, but actually find him. He doesn’t play hide and seek with us. He is not remote; he is near. For in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17, The Message). It has been said that Americans are incurably religious. There are hungers in our souls that no success can satisfy, no accomplishment can quench, no achievement can abate. We are made by God and for God and our souls are forever restless until they make peace ...

48. Getting the Big Picture

Romans 8:14-17

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... Of God, We Are No Longer Afraid Wherever we may go in life, we need never be afraid. The Spirit of God goes with us, is behind, and before us. As Paul preached to the Athenians at the Areopagus, "In him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). As he wrote to Christians in Rome, For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the ...

49. Waking the Giant

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , we read that mobs attacked believers meeting in Jason’s house and dragged Jason out. Why were they so threatened by these early believers? Listen to what they shouted, “These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also” (Acts 17:6). What I would give, if people would accuse us like that: “These people . . . have been turning the world upside down . . .” What would it take for us to make a difference in our community? We know there are people in our community we ...

50. Written In Stone

Luke 24:36b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the words of Paul: Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days, he reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah, he said. (Acts 17:2-3) For I passed onto you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised up on the third day, according to the scriptures, that he appeared ...

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