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26. A Citizen of Three Worlds

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... Acts 23:6-8) Roman Citizenship (Acts 16:16-39; 22:24-29; 25:9-12) Heavenly Citizenship (Philippians 3:20) Q-SHEET Paul - A Citizen of Three Worlds Acts 9--28 QUIZ: (Match a city with each statement, then a person with the city; try first without a Bible, then use the verses to verify each answer.) 1. Paul lowered over wall in basket (9:25) _______ _______ (9:10) 2. the name "Christian" first used (11:26) _______ _______ (11:26) 3. a sorcerer blinded (13:6-11) _______ _______ (13:11) 4. Paul stoned and left ...

27. 2025 Lent Sermon Series

Sermon

Various Authors

... 19:28-44 · Matthew 21:1-11 · Mark 11:1-11 · John 12:12-19 7. Pilate’s Ruse - Luke 22:66--23:25 8. What If It’s ALL True? - John 20:1-18 · Matthew 28:10 Living in Hope by Bonnie Bates 1. Living Through Hard Times - 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 2. Faithfulness in These Days – Romans 10:8b-13 3. Standing Firm - Philippians 3:17-4:1 4. Seeking the Presence of God – 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 5. A New Creation in Hope - 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 6. Pressing On In Faith – Philippians 3:4b-14 7. Love Lives ...

28. All About Me?

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-31

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John N. Brittain

... experience, particularly his Damascus Road revelation (Romans 2:15). But he doesn't ... 13:30). Jesus' ministry continues unhindered through the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3; 10:42-43). God has provided for the Gentiles' salvation (Acts 10:47; 11:15; 15:7-11; 22:21) and all should repent and accept salvation through name of Jesus who will one day judge the world (Acts 2:38-39; 3:19-21; 4:11-12; 10:34, 42; 17:30-31). It was with this simple outline in mind that we understood Paul's remarks to the Corinthians in 1:25 ...

29. A Man Who Wanted to Burn a City

Luke 9:46-50

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R. Blaine Detrick

... Jesus loved" (John 13:23; 19:26; 20:2; 21:7, 20) and is the one who, at the Last Supper, "was leaning on Jesus’ bosom" (John 13:23-25; 21:20). Even ... Roman power, he was sent into exile - on the island of Patmos. There, though separated from Christian society, he enjoyed intimate fellowship with Jesus, the living Lord. The Romans ... transformed when Jesus spoke about "living water," is remembered only by John (see John 4). The Good Shepherd passage: "I am the good shepherd ... the good shepherd giveth his ...

30. God Bless Santa!

Luke 2:1-20

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David E. Leininger

... December 25 remains uncertain, but most probably the reason is that early Christians wished the date to coincide with the pagan Roman ... ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.”4 It was a beautiful response to a little girl’s question. Of course, as Virginia grew older, ... do. As Paul wrote, “When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me” (1 Cornthians 13:11). But the image of that broad, happy face “and a little round belly that shook when he ...

31. Sick People Like Us Will Always Need The (Divine) Doctor

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... placed in their own rank, and that injustice is done them, when they are classed with transgressors.4 These are pretty harsh words. Calvin says that you and I are hypocritical and stupid, inclined to ... lesson, Jesus told us Pharisees that he only came for sinners, not for the righteous (Matthew 9:13). Keep in mind that insight and how selfish you are in wanting all the credit for ... ), p. 71. 7. Martin Luther, Lectures On Romans (1515-1516), in Luther's Works, Vol. 25, ed. Hilton C. Oswald (St. Louis: Concordia ...

32. Kingdom Mystery

Mark 4:26-34

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David Coffin

... has been working for his company for over 25 years. He attended college and later went back ... own honest hard work and sincere efforts to get ahead in life? Mark 4 is one of the longer set of teachings which Jesus provided in the gospel, beside the Mark 13 apocalyptic discourse. The theme is how the kingdom of God arrived and works ... , The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016), 8). Patience and practicing one’s faith ...

33. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... with pagans, with Greek and Roman polytheists who drive themselves crazy ... 4:18. 6. Bruce Wilkinson with Brian Smith, Beyond Jabez (Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 2005), 147-148. 7. Quoted in Michael Green, Matthew (Waco, TX: Word, 1988), 86. 8. PreachingToday.com search under Matthew 6:25-34. 9. David Dockery & David Garland, Seeking the Kingdom (Wheaton, ILL: Shaw, 1992), 96-97. 10. Sermon 60, “The General Deliverance,” http://gbgm-umc.org/UMHISTORY/ Wesley/sermons/serm-060. 11. Idem. 12. Idem. 13 ...

34. Breaking News: A World Gone Wild

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... earthquake; the problem was the tsunami caused by the earthquake. Waves 13 stories high slammed into the eastern coast of Japan, traveling up ... Romans 8 we’ve got to go back to Genesis 1. If we go all the way back to the beginning when God first spoke this world into existence you find exactly what you would expect to find – a perfect God created a perfect world. Six different times in the first chapter of Genesis we read these words, “And God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25 ...

35. A Prayer for Persecuted Christians Everywhere

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... position. We are weak and unsure of our power and position. The Westminster Confession, chapter 25 (“On Church”), point 5 still applies: The purest churches under heaven are subject ... Romans 5:3, Romans 8:17‑18, 1 Corinthians 12:26, 2 Corinthians 1:5‑11 (2) Hebrews 13:3, Colossians 4:18 (3) Philippians 1:12‑13 (4) Philippians 1:14 (5) Romans 15:5‑6, 2 Thessalonians 1:4‑5, 11‑12 (6) Philippians 3:10 (7) Deuteronomy 31:8, Matthew 28:20, Hebrews 13:5 (8) Psalm 23:4 (9) Psalm 16:10 (10) Hebrews 13 ...

36. The Truth about Truth

John 8:31-32

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James Merritt

... reality of truth, but He has graced us with the ability to know truth. Jesus said in Jn 16:13, "When He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth." The Greek word for ... moment there was a Roman governor in the palace, Roman flags at the seaport, Roman soldiers on the streets, Roman tax collectors in their offices, and a Roman coin with the ... 25. 3. George Barna, The Barta Report: What American's Believe (Ventura, California: Regal Books, 1991) pp. 292-294. 4. Cited by James Kennedy, The ...

37. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... founder of the Royal College of Physicians and friend of the great Renaissance thinkers Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Late in life he took Roman Catholic orders and was given a copy of the Gospels to read for the first time. The Bible, of course, was still the preserve of ... under Mt. 7:20-8:1. 2. Idem. 3. Idem. 4. James 1:22. 5. vv.16-17. 6. PreachingToday.com search under Mt. 7:20-8:1. 7. Chapters 5-7, 10, 13, 18, 25-26, 8. 7:13-8:1, 11:1, 13:53, 19:1, 26:1. 9. 7:13-20. Go to www.duncanumc.com for a copy of ...

38. The Day of the Lord

Joel 2:1-11

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... message, as does Joel here in 2:1-2 (cf. Zephaniah 1; Isaiah 2:6-22; Ezekiel 7; Malachi 4:5; 3:1-5). Sinful Israel is not going to get off scot free with her sins against God ... in the judgment (cf. the epistle lessons for Ash Wednesday: Romans 13:11-13; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 3:13). Our indifferent and corrupt society does not believe that God ... 25:31-46). We, who have been made in the image of God, are responsible to him, and his question to us will be, “What is this you have done?” (Genesis 3:13 ...

39. Scrubbing Our Social Media Accounts

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... a new relationship with God. And all this was made possible by their faith in Jesus Christ. Romans 1-4 sets the stage by telling the believers that we are all equally in trouble. We have ... 13/high-school-college-students-online-profiles-clean-up/. 2. “The end of forgetting: How social media makes it impossible to escape the past.” by Sean Illing May 25, 2019 Vox.com https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/14/18510760/social-media-end-of-forgetting-kate-eichhorn 3. The Week, May 31-June 7, 2019, p. 5. 4 ...

40. Should Christians Always Oppose War?

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... President Bush as a head of state has a different responsibility, spelled out in Romans 13. He is "God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer." (Verse 4) The Bible recognizes that if there were no enforcers of justice, chaos would prevail ... inspectors to search for weapons of mass destruction. It demands that Iraq disarm and prove it has disarmed. Where are the 25,000 liters of anthrax the Iraqis had before 1998? Where are the 30,000 Iraqi munitions capable of delivering chemical or ...

41. And It Came To Pass

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... and humanity. Once so proud and beautiful, Rome had become debased, licentious. Those false Roman deities, worshiped with obscene rites, should have been discarded centuries ago. It was time ... maidens did not gain entrance to the marriage feast: "The door was shut" (Matthew 25:1-13). Life demands that we reap what we sow. Like it or not, there is ... ! I will be jovial: come, come; I am a king, My masters, know you that.4 But Lear only learned this truth after he had suffered loss of everything. In grief, we ...

42. A Clock or a Compass?

Mark 1:9-15

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David T. Ball

... miraculously able to find the land and seed he needs in order to cultivate a sustainable harvest (Mark 4:1-9).1 To the extent we lock in on our modern, linear, precise sense of time and ... fall from the heavens, and the entire cosmos will break out in convulsions (Mark 13:7-13, 24-25). Is that what has happened? No, at least not yet, and if we are ... at the world that rejected the dominant powers” of the temple priesthood and Roman rulers “as the ultimate point of reference for the world,” as the definers ...

43. Lazarus Rising

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57, John 12:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and 42) Tobit’s Prayer of Thanksgiving for What God Has Done (13) The Power and Mercy of God Who Loves Life (The Wisdom of ... on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our ... -19:1-23; Death of Moses (Deuteronomy 31-34); Death of Abraham (Genesis 25:7-11); Death of Rachel and Isaac (Genesis 35); Jacob’s Last Words ... 4:36-5:9); Resurrection (Daniel 12); Restoration (Amos 9:11-15; Isaiah 55; 2 Esdras); Resurrected Life (Ezekiel 36 and 37 ...

44. Liar, Liar

Exodus 20:16

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James Merritt

... God the Father is true. The Bible says in Romans 3:4 "...Let God be found true though every man be found a liar." (Romans 3:4, NASB) God the Son is true. Jesus said in ... the Bible says in Proverbs 25:18, "Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor." (Proverbs 25:18, NASB) Two of the ... is long and good? Then watch your tongue! Keep your lips from telling lies!" (Psalms 34:12-13, NLT) You are never more like the devil when you lie and never more like God ...

45. Still Surprised After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... in scripture. The Old Testament emphasis on the name of the Lord (see Genesis 4:26b; Exodus 3:13-15, 20:7; 1 Kings 8:14-29; Psalm 113:3; Proverbs 18:10) ... a point in time, but in a person — “I am the resurrection and the life” (11:25). Likewise, Simeon recognized that God’s salvation was not found in an event, an action, or ... that awaits the long-awaited Messiah, and indeed “the whole creation (that) has been groaning” (Romans 8:22). Now the promise is fulfilled. Now Simeon may depart in peace. But ...

46. A Protestant (And Catholic) Way To Confess

Romans 10:8b-13

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... of the faith in the Book of Romans. Recall that this book is a letter ... on the name of the Lord will be saved” (v.13). We have other examples of Paul’s version of confession ... to the devil’s temptations (in Luke 4:4,8,12). It is clear that ... Americans still believe in God (Gallup polls report).[4] A number of social analysts think that ... justification by grace through faith (vv.10,13). What we do, our works, are not ... (December 22, 2016). [4] See Jean Twenge, ... Romans” (1515-1516), in Luther’s Works, Vol ...

47. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... :5), sharing material possessions (2 Cor. 8:4), having fellowship in Christ (1 Cor. 1:9), and sharing life together in the Spirit (2Cor. 13:14). Above all koinonia is fellowship with ... had spent a week in our home as a runaway. One of them was, even then, paying me $25.00 per month on a loan 1 had arranged for him to pay the hospital bill of the ... put on a good outward demonstration. Two, to avoid persecution. The Romans recognized the Jewish religion and officially allowed its practice. Since circumcision was ...

48. Ready!

Mark 13:24-37

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David E. Leininger

... is going on? Our lesson from Mark 13 is part of a chapter that is often ... to worship the Roman emperor. While this ... had asked for a sign (Mark 13:4), so Jesus offers one. Most of ... they knew about instructions to Roman legionnaires who pulled guard duty ... to you I say to all: Keep awake.”(Mark 13:37) In some churches, the emphasis is very heavily ... in. That will help us find the one that leads out.”4 That is exactly what Christ’s church is all about. We make ... 4. Harold Kushner, When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn ...

49. Competition In The Kingdom?

Matthew 20:17-19

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Mark Ellingsen

... among the other disciples. When Matthew lists the disciples, the brothers are at the top of the list (Matthew 10:1-4; Mark 3:14-19; Luke 6:13-16). Along with Peter, James and John were the three disciples whom Jesus wanted with him when he struggled with ... Paul which were once the words of the prophet Hosea ring in our ears: "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people' ... (Romans 9:25; cf. Hosea 1-10; 2:23)" God has made us his people. What more could you and I want? Yet so very often we members of ...

50. The Plank

Matthew 5:38-48; 7:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Would Judge With Love (2 Chronicles 19:4-11) The Song of Deborah (Judges 5) Psalm 7: We Fall into the Pits We Dig Psalm 25: No One who Hopes in You Will ... ) Paul Preaches of God’s Righteous Judgment –Measure for Measure (Romans 2) Paul Entreats to Stop Judging One Another (Romans 14) Matthew’s Witness to Jesus’ Teaching About Loving and ... will burn with unquenchable fire.” (Matthew 3:12) We see the metaphor again in Matthew 13:24-30 in the parable of the tares in which darnel (a weed that looks like ...

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