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501. We Need Another Miracle

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... you believe in miracles?” The gospel writers all do. In fact, they all present the story of Jesus in terms of miracles. Mark has this story, Matthew and Luke begin with the miracle of Jesus’ birth, John starts Jesus off with the changing of the water ... , represents the most extensive look to date at the effects of climate change on oceans, ice sheets, mountain snowpack, and permafrost.[6] This is not new information. We have known about the problem for years. Elsewhere in this volume I wrote about my ...

502. Schadenfreude

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s where Schadenfreude easily creeps in. The prophet Micah tells us we must do what? Let’s look at that passage for a moment in Micah 6:8: You mortals, the LORD has told you what is good. This is what the LORD requires from you: to do what is right, to love ... will laugh and celebrate with them in their joy rather than in their sorrow. Blessed will be those…… [1] See Mark Twain, “The Awful German Language,” in A Tramp Abroad. [2] The English have a similar concept they call “epicaricacy,” but ...

503. Growing In The Lord

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... the gift of the forerunner, John the Baptist. What is the message which comes through in these stories? They are marked first by human frailty, barrenness, and despair. As humans, we are not able to secure our future by our own ... princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world (2:2, 6-8). In this song, she acknowledges the creator God. She knows the distinction between the creature and the creator and she gives proper praise to the creator. ...

504. How Does Religious Conduct Work?

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... a noise indicating great inner strain. Jesus' heart was a well-spring of sympathy - his tears at the grave of Lazarus; his weeping over Jerusalem as the Passover drew near. His humanness: "wearied (he) sat down beside the well" (John 4:6); "he was in the stern (of the ship), asleep on the cushion." (Mark 4:38) In this way, he was one with us; but more: his groan meant he felt the heavy burden of human need. Just one deaf-mute before him, but, as Alexander Maclaren wrote: "The whole weltering sea of sorrow ...

505. A Mother · A Canaanite Woman

Mt 15:21-28 · Mk 7:24-30

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... to them all. Some, recalling the mandate Jesus had delivered to the Twelve as he dispatched them on a missionary journey, (Matthew 10:5-6) think he reacted to the woman's appeal in the manner he did because she was not an Israelite. But the Master loved children ... that as the Prince of the House of David he envisioned his mission to Israel as his primary responsibility, (cf. Isaiah 56:7; Mark 11:17) and he must fulfill that responsibility at all costs. Thus, trying as the moment was for the woman, it was not ...

506. Hope in the Shadows

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... . 8) and disasters, disasters like hurricanes that rip people’s lives apart. He cautions them about deception and falsity (vv. 6, 21-22). He warns of betrayal (vv. 12-13) and persecution (vv. 9-11). He informs them of a coming ... we watch and we invest our hope in Him! When we light the candles of the Advent season, we take seriously the message of Mark 13, and we anticipate, watching and waiting, waiting and watching. We anticipate His coming in hope. This is the significance of Advent and Christmas. ...

507. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... as mixed up and confused as he was. And so, perhaps, can we. I. THIS IS A REALLY STRANGE STORY IN THE FIFTH CHAPTER OF THE GOSPEL OF MARK. There is so much we don’t know about what is going on, so much we wish we knew. It is clothed in the aura of an ... at the rate of $14 each meal. School lunch subsidies for poor children are $1.20 for each.” (Context, May 1, 1983, p. 6) This is sanity? In one of the earliest Laurel and Hardy films, Big Business (1927), Stan and Ollie are Christmas-tree salesmen in ...

508. Radical Surgery

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... don’t have to take Jesus’ words literally, we must take them seriously. “The wages of sin is death” says Paul in Romans 6. If not physical death of the body, then the spiritual death of the soul. (Though the direction our world seems to be ... it right, once is enough!” That seems to be what Jesus is saying in this passage in Mark. III. WHAT IS THE GOAL FOR WHICH EVERYTHING ELSE IS TO BE SACRIFICED? Twice Mark says it is “life,” and then, at the end of this difficult passage, he says it is “the ...

509. Knight of the Woeful Countenance

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:25) We’ve been trying for centuries to get that camel through that needle’s eye. One of the most ingenious ways is to suggest ... after him, ‘No reasonable offer will be refused. Ten percent? Twenty percent? Surely, we can work something out!’” (National Radio Pulpit, 6/70, p. 56) But Jesus did not say that. Instead, he told him that his possessions had come between himself and God ...

510. Whose Hand Is On Your Shoulder? (Part 4)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... lives to Christ we will have nothing to fear in eternity. On and on, Pastor Marks preached eloquently on this subject of nothing. A few months later, Pastor Marks returned to Ancaster and announced to the assembled crowd that this time he would preach ... down the same street . . . got to the same corner . . . only to see a sign in front of them. It read: "Students of Louis Armstrong." (6) You and I are students of Jesus. We know that only as we remain connected to him can we "get it right." Jabez turned to ...

511. A Healing Presence

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that I might track my relationship with God. I had gone through this auto accident, it was quite a trauma physically, mentally, and, to a marked degree, spiritually. And a kind of summing up of my ordeal came one day early in the morning in this prayer, which I wrote in ... Me. What most of us do not know is that because of blundering treatment, Fannie Crosby was blinded at the age of 6 weeks. Six weeks old she became blind. Over 8,000 hymns that have strengthened and cheered millions all over the world for ...

512. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the world, but He lived by a contrasting set of realities and was always in tension with the world—and to a marked degree, always in resistance to it. In one of my favorite Peanuts cartoons, Lucy demands that Linus change TV channels and then ... and the commission of the Kingdom centered in the Holy Spirit, Jesus’ commitment to provide us power is Spirit-centered. Listen to Acts 1:6-8: So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” ...

513. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and future church. We must not forget that the church is not our idea, but God’s. The church has stayed, and missed the mark when we have sought to shape her apart from God’s vision. God called Israel to be “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a ... are at war. Paul was certain of it – but he also defined the nature of the war in which we are engaged. Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of ...

514. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v1

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... bind up the broken and identify with the oppressed, we will be a sign of the Kingdom. When that happens to a marked degree within any community of faith, that community of faith becomes an enclave of resistance -- a hint, a glimpse, of the Kingdom ... school that would serve primarily at-risk children in the inner city. We had a wonderful private school in our church -- Christ Day School K - 6, one of the very best in the city. We tried desperately to bring poor children from the inner city to be a part of ...

515. Say What?

1 John 3:5-6

Sermon

Rick Brand

... is no sin. No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him" (1 John 3:5-6). What does that mean, because there are so many who testify that the deeper Christ comes into one's life the more conscious one is ... when our new clothes get washed and they are not new anymore? When that pretty, clean white sheet of paper has to have an erasure mark on it? Maybe you saw the movie Grand Canyon. Remember the scene where the immigration attorney breaks out of a traffic jam and tries to ...

516. Orient Your "itudes"

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Anger: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) 3. Avarice: Trump Hotels & Casinos 4. Sloth: La-Z-Boy 5. Envy: Allergan (AGN) Botox injections 6. Gluttony: Krispy Kreme (KKD) 7. Pride: Fair Isaac (FIC) (credit rating company) All we have to do is open a ... the end of his ministry). Jesus started one mind at a time, one spirit at a time, saving and healing person by person. Mark's text today focuses on the very start of Jesus' Galilean ministry, a ministry that begins with Jesus revealing three truths about himself ...

517. Changed Lives - Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus said on one occasion, “The Kingdom is within you.” (Luke 17:21) On another he said, “You are not far from the Kingdom.” (Mark 12:34) He even taught us to pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven . . .” The ... . he said to be sheep and enter through the narrow gate 5. he said be a merchant and sell everything to purchase a priceless pearl 6. He said to be born again 7. He said be the younger prodigal son not the resentful older brother 8. He said to become like a ...

518. You Can Take It to the Bank

2 Peter 3:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... eight-inch frying pan. b. The Flood of Creation "By which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water." (V.6) Things are not always as they have been. Things do not always continue as they were from the beginning. Because God intervened ... . God sets his own prophetic clock with equal precision. The fact that He has not come yet is not a mark of slowness or tardiness; rather it is a mark of His patience. You see, God is more interested in mercy than He is in judgment. There are people who ...

519. An Unnerving Experience

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Then he revealed to them his mission as the Messiah and predicted his death and resurrection, and swore them to secrecy. Then, says Mark, “After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone ... from Deuteronomy: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” (6:5). Three of his most famous, “You have heard it said . . ., but I say to you . . .” statements are from Deuteronomy: “You ...

520. Workaholics Anonymous

Genesis 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... Listen to this: In 1800 there were 1 billion people; In 1930, 2 billion; 1960, 3 billion; In 1975, 4 billion; 1987, 5 billion; 1998-6 billion. Life expectancy world wide was 21 years at the time of Christ; 48 years in 1955 and 65 years in 1995. By the year ... just to rest that we are told He, "blessed the seventh day." Now, we are not told that He blessed the other six days, but He marked off this day of rest as extremely special. We know a lot about this concept of rest from the very Hebrew word it comes from ...

521. Called by a New Name

Isaiah 62:1-5

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... . God promises that Abraham and Sarah will become the parents of many nations, and from them even kings will descend (Genesis 17:4-6). Their descendants are to be as numerous as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the seashore (Genesis 22: ... was over, and she felt like a charmaid in rags once again. A clergy couple, pastors Mark and Johanna, were raising three teenage sons they had named Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Then, oops, they found themselves parents again of a baby daughter. The name they ...

522. Whatever Happened to Respect?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... took her body to the highest hill and buried it, using the wagon bed to make a coffin. He drove down some wooden stakes to mark the grave, thinking that he would go on west and later come back. But as he thought about it, he said to himself, “I’ll ... . I don’t understand why we have so misunderstood the pattern of the Christian home Paul provides in Ephesians 5 and 6. We’ve distorted the instructions Paul gives there by ignoring everything but his instruction to wives to be subject to their husbands ...

523. The Forgiving Christ

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins… He said to the paralytic, ‘Get up, take your mat, and go home.'" Forgiveness is free. A. Get up. The words get up are a powerful words. They're the same words used in Mark 16:6 to describe the resurrection of Jesus. “He is not here, he got up." Like calling a dead man out of the grave, Jesus says to the paralytic lying at his feet— “Get up, your sins are forgiven." He speaks and listening to his voice, New life the dead receive ...

524. There Will Be Light

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... enough of the meaning of life, so that when the time comes he will be ready to die. It is his first Christmas Eve in the village. Mark is in the church. Everything is ready. He is alone, waiting in the hushed silence with the candlelight shining on the statue that stands in the front ... To Dance (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1972), pg. 52. 5. Cited at Drema’s Sermon, http://www.fairlingtonumc.org/sermons_2002/sermon12242002.htm. 6. Author unknown. Cited in Sermon Fodder, Sermon_Fodder?subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

525. The Inconcealable Christ!

Mark 7:31-37, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him." — Mark 16:2-6 The forces of Rome could not deny who Jesus was and could not lock him away for good because he was, and he is, the inconcealable Christ! What He Can Do Cannot Be Concealed! "It is no secret, what God can do!" If Jesus Christ "could not keep his ...

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