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526. Time to Listen

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... .” (Isaiah 49:6) The story of the salvation of humankind. Let’s put this moment in context. Just before this, in Matthew 16: 21-28, Jesus had announced that he must suffer and die and be raised to life again. And Peter had rebuked Jesus. That ... could receive eternal life. But before we can receive these gifts of reconciliation and salvation, we need to see Jesus as Peter, James and John did, as he really is: the Savior of the world. Romans 10: 9 says, “If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe ...

527. Pathway To God's Kingdom

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... title, is not mentioned in the Old Testament, and is seldom mentioned in the New Testament except in the synoptics. In the gospel of John it is cited only twice. In the book of Acts, describing the beginnings of the Christian church, it is only noted six times. ... on Japanese-held land. Both crews were captured. The crew of one plane was killed. The crew of the other plane - plane No. 16 named "Bat Out Of Hell" - was held prisoner throughout the war. One of the five-man crew died in captivity. The others were ...

528. In Quest of Fire

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Sermon

Larry Powell

... in camel hair proclaim, "There cometh one after me whose shoes I am not worthy to untie," and they would answer, "John was a true prophet." We could ask multitudes of others and they would attest to the credentials of prophets known and unknown ... God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, till the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, till there was no remedy. (36:15, 16) Is this a caricature of our lives? The watchmen of the fire have stoked the coals of your soul; and have we said, "I do ...

529. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... as we repent. For we pray in Jesus name, Amen! 1. Richard Nilsen, "Ten Commandments leads list of lists, Greensboro News & Record, 8/16/98, D1 2. Quoted by Greg Laurie, via Internet, "The Ten Commandments, Part I," http://www.harvest.org/tools/ffl/comand1.html 3. ... 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

530. I'm Thankful for...

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of tragedies such as we get news of every day. Some are particularly poignant. Just three weeks ago we heard about 16 soldiers killed when their helicopter was shot down, 16 soldiers who were not going into combat, but rather were leaving it - they were coming home for R & R. Ernie Bucklew ... Lincoln, October 3, 1863 6. Colossians 3:15-17 7. Albert Curry Winn, A Christian Primer, (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990), pp. 79-80 8. "For One Soldier's Family, a Double Funeral," The Washington Post, ...

531. On Keeping Quiet about Easter

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... are fulfilled, but the second shoe (appearance to the disciples in Galilee) never drops.” (INTERPRETATION: Mark, Atlanta, John Knox Press, 1983, P. 28) BUT- THANK GOD THE STORY DIDN’T END THERE! There were other Gospels ... went out and fled from the tomb for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.” (Mark 16:8) II. I WONDER WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THEY HAD KEPT SILENT? For one thing, There would have been no New Testament. Not another word ...

532. Lord of the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God’s Gift of the Torah on Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19 and 34) The Lord’s Command to Celebrate the Feast of Weeks (Deuteronomy 16 and Exodus 23:14-19 and Leviticus 23) Leave Some Grain in the Field for Foreigners and Others (Deuteronomy 24:19-22) David and ... now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. (John 4:35-36) So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who ...

533. You are Anointed

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... King Solomon Anointed King (1 Kings 1:38-50) The Son of God Anointed (Hebrews 1) Luke’s Witness to a Sinful Woman Who Anointed Jesus at the Home of a Pharisee (7:36-50) Jesus’ Anointing at Bethany Just Before His Betrayal (Matthew 26:6-16; Mark 14:3-11) John’s Witness to Jesus’ Anointing at Bethany by Mary Six Days Before the Passover (12:1-11) The Fragrance of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:12-17) Image Exegesis: The Fragrance of Faith / The Scent of Holiness The scent of holiness. The scent of joy. Jesus ...

534. New Creations

2 Corinthians 5:6-10; 14-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the beginning of a new Conference appointment. Even though I'm being reappointed as pastor of St. John the Apostle, each year is a new appointment. Preachers are only appointed one year at a time. That ... service, he saw through the eyes of faith. He learned that as New Creations in Christ, "we regard no one from a human point of view." (2 Cor. 5:16) CONCLUSION: Back when I was in High School, every afternoon I would come home from school, open the refrigerator door and get out all the ingredients to build me ...

535. The Seven Last Words Of Pilate

Sermon

Thomas Long

... by this mysterious presence. Pilate is no poised diplomat; he is a ping-pong ball slapped back and forth between his public fears and his inner doubts. He pleads, he bullies, he begs, he vacillates, and finally he folds: "Then he handed Jesus over to them to be crucified" (John 19:16). The irony is clear: It is Jesus who is convicted, but it is Pilate who is guilty. It is Jesus who is to be crucified, but it is Pilate and all like him who are defeated. It is Jesus who will suffer death, but it is the world ...

536. Liberating Truth

John 8:31-41

Sermon

William G. Carter

... him. Then he read, "And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ" (Galatians 2:16). That was it! That was the way out of every illusion, falsehood, and sin: through faith in the Christ who sets us free. You ... perspective, an overarching scheme, or the hidden structure behind all reality. The truth is a person named Jesus. He himself says, "I am the truth" (John 14:6). He is not only the way and the life; he is the truth. We do not have to go looking for him, ...

537. Trusting In The Lord

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... Ephesians 2:8)." Paul, who wrote these words, also wrote, "The gospel is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe (Romans 1:16)." The gospel is the good news that we can trust God in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Lord. Paul had trusted his own ... put it in Jeremiah's words. The blessed ones trust God instead of self. Trusting God is not easy. It is hard for Paul, Karl and John. It is hard for all of us to trust the Lord. When people have disappointed us, we find it hard to trust God. At a ...

538. Watching The Eyes

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

John Jamison

... all right, because when I read it I never get all the way to the end, anyway. My mind starts to wander back there when John first looks up and recognizes who Jesus was. That part I understand, and it haunts me. It haunts me every time I perform a ... for a sucker? Are you running to, or from, something? Or, are you the Christ? I really do want to recognize him. And the 16-year-old girl sitting in my living room on Sunday night. There have been worship services, classes to teach, a potluck meal, three visits, ...

539. The Real Jesus is Channeling Grace

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Carl Jech

... and peace. Of course, to the degree that this is a success-mad and merciless world in which many things are wrong, the world needs to face judgment. But God's desire is to convert the world, not to condemn or destroy it. God loves the world! (Remember John 3:16.) The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord ... One holy name she blesses ... Lord, save us by your grace. (Samuel J. Stone) When Jesus says "I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they ...

540. No Withdrawal

Sermon

James Bjorge

... I am well pleased,’ we heard this voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain" (2 Peter 1:16-18). Christmas can be a mountain top as the Good News is proclaimed, carols sung, love spread all around. And as we head back ... call sounding imperiously deep in the forest. But as often as he gained the soft unbroken earth and the green shade, the love of John Thornton brought him hack to the fire again." Is not this the parable of life? May the love of God so gloriously demonstrated at ...

541. Simon Peter: Strong Stone or Crumbling Clay?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... not gather with me scatters." What are you doing for Jesus? Are you really gathering in his lost sheep? Oh, you bring your children to church to get a Christian education. But what about the day-to-day example you give them at home? You say that you believe John 3:16. But if you believe that God does love the world, what are you doing in the world, right where you are, to bring someone else to Jesus? You sing the hymn, "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds," but then you let that name slip from your lips in ...

542. The Explosive Power Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... our situation or condition. There is no finer illustration of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit than that seen in the life of John Jasper. Many who have studied the place of preaching in the life of our land consider Jasper to the greatest genius in ... from Christ. "I will pray the Father and he will give you another Counselor to be with you for ever." (John 14:16). He may not make us a great preacher like John Jasper. He might not even make us a very eloquent lay speaker. But he will give us strength in our ...

543. Needed: Peacemakers

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... ,"--out of Jews and Gentiles--"thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility." (Vs. 15b-16) Jesus came to destroy the barriers that separated people. Jesus also demonstrated a lifestyle devoted to peace by his opposition to injustice and oppression. In John, chapter 2, Jesus drove the moneychangers from the temple because they were cheating people in the name of God. He told the story of a rich man who ended up in eternal ...

544. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... lives! Go and tell the disciples AND PETER that He goes before you into Galilee.. There you will see Him.” (Mark 16:7) And it was so. The disciples had been fishing all night and had caught nothing. Suddenly, a faintly familiar figure calls ... do is open your hearts to receive that love!” One of the world’s favorite hymns was written by a man named John Newton. Let me tell you about John Newton. He was born in 1725, the son of a Mediterranean sea captain. His mother died when he was seven. He quit school ...

545. On Being in the Wrong Place

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... boys would be well known to his readers. And so they were...for in Paul’s Letter to the Church at Rome, he refers to them. (Romans 16:13) That terrible experience on that first Good Friday must have had such an impact on Simon of Cyrene that he became a Christian...and his ... not marry since his great-great-grandmother had left a husband behind in England. They bore a son named John who was pretty much a worthless fellow. He had problems with alcohol, to tell the truth. One day a friend of his died and ...

546. Easter Transportation

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... deep despair and it felt all the time like it was three o'clock in the morning? Then the despair lifted -- and it was more than the St. John's Wort that did it. Help came, and to speak figuratively, you thought it was the gardener. It wasn't the gardener! Do you recall that time when your ... Map (New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1952), p. 88. 3. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (New York: Bantam Books, 1963), pp. 15, 16. 4. Marilyn Brown Oden, Wilderness Wanderings (Nashville: The Upper Room, 1995), pp. ...

547. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not know these things?" It's a question relevant to us -- because it's the question of grace. Let's look at Nicodemus for a moment. John doesn't dwell on him, doesn't tell us much about him. Yet I doubt if there is an any more intriguing person in the gospels. ... very special thing happened. In the middle of the dance program that evening, a slow number was played by the band, and a tall 16-year-old boy went over to this girl, held out his hand and said to her, "Please, would you dance with me?"She looked up ...

548. Catch of the Day

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... haul of fish. In that sense, I guess you could say that Jesus pulled in the "Catch of the Day" when he hauled in Peter, James, John and Andrew that day by the Sea of Galilee. It might not have been his biggest catch, but it certainly was the "Catch of the Day" ... might be fulfilled: [15] "Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles [16] the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death ...

549. What Should We Do?

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... him, "And we, what should we do?" He said to them, "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages." [15] As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, [16] John answered all of them by saying, "I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. [17 ...

550. Laugh, Thomas, Laugh!

John 20:19-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... we have called the doubter all these many centuries, and what do we find? No doubter now. We find a Thomas who says to the rest, "Let us also go ... that we may die with him" (John 11:16). Thomas, a faithful friend, faithful even unto death. The next time we find Thomas mentioned in scripture is in chapter 14 of John. The apostles had gathered to celebrate the Passover. Their master was trying to explain to them that the task for which he had come to earth was about to be undertaken. Jesus would be leaving ...

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