Sermon and Worship Resources

Synonyms: disciple, evangelist, the 12, the twelve, son of Zebedee, fisherman, incarnation, word became flesh, I Am sayings, apostle, sons of thunder, eternal life, darkness and light, eyewitness

Showing 626 to 650 of 1652 results

626. Why Not Walk On What Jesus Walked On When He Walked On Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... by winning the whole world at the cost of [your] true self? Or what can [you] give that will buy that self back?" (Matthew 16:26 NEB). Do you remember how, right after he was baptized, Jesus went out and fasted in the wilderness, perhaps the very one he ... become the ruler of the world? Well, Jesus had just created bread. He had performed a spectacular miracle and John's gospel tells us that the crowd wanted to make him king (John 6:15). Jesus went up to the mountain to hang on to his soul. To let go of the ...

627. Are You Born Again?

John 3:1-15

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... to be born again. "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5)." Unless you are baptized, born of water and Spirit. That is what it means to be born again: To be baptized and to receive ... on us at all. Our salvation depends only on Jesus Christ, and that has long ago been accomplished (Romans 3:21ff; Galatians 2:16). Consequently, even in the times when my Christian life does not measure up, I still have the promise of God's love. One ...

628. God as Woodcutter

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

... be felled, the tall ones will be brought low. He will cut down the forest thickets with an ax ... (10:33-34) Isaiah knew, as later John the Baptizer and Jesus would teach, that sometimes God comes into our lives like a woodcutter, ax in hand, to cut down the trees. For I can ... it will not be prevented by heat or by rain or by all the powers of the air.(LW 16, 118) Luther’s "little Twig" was born in Bethlehem two thousand years ago to prune our forests with his death and bring new growth in his Resurrection ...

629. Respect: Lesson for Victorious Living

Ruth 4:1-12

Sermon

... ’t Christ call his church out of the world so it may be a great nation and a blessing to all of humankind? In John’s Gospel, soon to be crucified, Christ prays: "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the ... truth; thy word is truth. As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world." (17:16-18) His mother was also given a glimpse into this realm of respect connecting the generations; in the Magnificat, she declares, "He has helped ...

630. I Knew You’d Come

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... and that is our only hope. A Pool in My Savior’s Hand Of the three accounts of this story in our Gospels, John has the shortest - only four verses (6:16-20). Here the bare facts are presented. It is night. The disciples are in a boat. Jesus comes to them walking on the ... such as Harvey point out that Matthew and Mark leave the reader no doubt that Jesus miraculously walked across the water. In John, however, the details are not so clear: "Jesus could have been in shallow water near the edge of the lake."2 ...

631. What It Takes to Stay Christian

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... ... which does not keep a record of wrongs ... which never gives up" (T.E.V.). Agape-love is tough-minded love, love at which you have to work and work and work, day after day. It is the kind of love which is perfectly and succinctly described in John 3:16 when "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." That most familiar of all Bible verses not only illustrates agape-love but also describes its labor. The key word is believe ...

632. Not of the World

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... we experience a new birth. Reborn Christians are not of this world. Since we are not of this world, Jesus says, the world hates us. (See John 17:14.) The world and the evil one do not give up on us easily. They work to conform us to the world’s values. ... called out, "Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue ..." (Luke 16:22-24a) Lazarus was a poor man as the world counts riches. But he was rich towards God. In Luke 18:18-30, we hear yet ...

633. God With A Human Face

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... being. To look at Jesus is to see God. Look into the face of Christ and you look into the true nature of God. In the text John says, "We have seen his glory ..." In Jesus' face we see the glory of God. A Face Of Life On this Christmas day the Christ child ... upon grace." In this same text, we see God's love in that by faith in Christ we become children of God. Luther considered John 3:16 the greatest text in the Bible: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son ..." It is like Hallmark advertises, "When ...

634. Embedded In Bedrock Or Destroyed By A Typhoon

John 18:25-27

Sermon

Dale Dickerson

... to the Apostle Peter as the rock on which he would build his church. "And I tell you, you are Peter," Jesus says in Matthew 16:18, "and on this rock I will build my church" (NRSV). Peter WAS a rock--a man of faith who was a devoted follower ... turn away. We who sometimes think we are so strong can prove to be weaklings after all. Let me give you an example. When Ben's son, John, was two he fell and cut his lip badly on a stone step at his grandmother's house. While the doctor stuck the anesthetic needle in his ...

635. Angels in the Wilderness

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... God.” We call it the “Word of God,” which is slightly incorrect, for the Bible itself tells us that Jesus is the word of God (See John 1) So what does it mean to say this book is “the Word of God?” It does not mean that God sat down at a word ... you will see him, as he told you.” (16:6-8) Later Gospels tend to embellish the story. Luke says that it was two men who deliver the message to the women. Matthew is the only one who says that it was an angel! And John caps the climax by insisting that it is ...

636. Mother's Day

Proverbs 1:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to be grammatically cute today--but rather to share an insight that was told to me 16 years ago. My son, John, learned in the third grade that a noun is a person, place or thing. He further learned that a verb is a ... who had faith in God and a father as well who taught us by word and deed. They weren't perfect-- but they were consistent. In late June, John and I will be going to share in my mother''s and father''s 50th wedding anniversary in Bangor, Maine. I now have the great privilege of ...

637. Grace in the Midst of Weakness

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... remarkable expression of the heart, especially from a lynch mob organizer and murderer of members of Christ's Body like Saul of Tarsus. In 3 John verse 2 we read: "Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it ... clay. Our adequacy is not the point. Our inadequacy is not the point. God's adequacy is the point. As Paul summarizes in verse 16, "So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day." That ...

638. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , of which the details of the story are the setting, the better to display its facets." (William M. Logan, In the Beginning, John Knox Press, Richmond, VA, 1957, pp. 13-14) So, it's in these first eleven chapters that we have God's story ... is my own society in action, and I am part and parcel of that society." (William M. Logan, In the Beginning, John Knox Press, Richmond, VA, 1957, pp. 15-16). So, with that, let's begin. No, let's continue. We focus on that magnificent first line: "In the beginning, God ...

639. The Nuclear Truth Of Christianity

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... died. That's not it at all. It's the other way around. Christ died because God loves. That's precisely what Jesus himself said. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). You see, the truth is this: God, who is rich in mercy and great in love, had to have a way to bring those who are dead in trespasses and sin to life again. And so, he gives us Jesus Christ to be the channel, the medium, through which ...

640. A Fragrant Offering

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have us be -- is to practice a love that, one, hangs tough; two, expresses itself in understanding; and three, shows itself in the little things. I. First, love hangs tough. Love hangs tough. If we know any scripture related to love, we know two. We know John 3: 16: "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in Him should not perish." That's tough, demanding, serious business. God's love is deep enough that God is willing to die for us. And the second scripture we ...

641. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... psalmist: “My God in His steadfast love will meet me” (59:10). “I call upon God; and the Lord will save me” (55:16). “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (46:1). “For thou, O God, art my fortress, the God ... shall become in the future. We only know that when He appears we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is!” (1 John 3:1-2). John had been with Jesus in the upper room. He had heard Jesus say, “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his ...

642. A Holy Way for Us All

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... that in the babe of Bethlehem, we have in fact seen his glory, glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14)? God has in truth come to us in his Son. So those who are fearful, can take courage, and those who are weak can ... , the lame and dumb will be restored to wholeness (vv. 5-6; cf. Isaiah 29:18-20; 32:3-4; 33:24; 42:7, 16). Thus when John the Baptist inquires who Jesus is, in our gospel lesson, he learns that the Son of God has indeed fulfilled that ancient prophecy (Matthew ...

643. Four Cornerstones

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... earliest worship image is of Jesus as redeemer, as savior, as the Good Shepherd who saves his sheep and calls his sheep by name. (John 10:11). The earliest Christians first knew Jesus as savior of the world and shepherd of their souls. "You can never be sure ... , he had so mastered Latin that he could read Horace and Virgil with ease. · The atheist Sigmund Freud lived in constant pain the last 16 years of his life and endured 33 operations. But he stuck to his work to the very end. · A friend of U.S. Senate ...

644. A New Attitude

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.” I’ve known some unbearable people, haven’t you? Lloyd John Ogilvie wrote a book some years ago titled, Falling into Greatness. In it he tells about an old friend who called him one day. “I can’t talk about it ... a new you. 1. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1984), pp. 15-16. 2. Linda Neukrug. Daily Guideposts, 1998 (Carmel, NY: Guideposts, 1997), p. 14. 3. Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air (Villard Books, 1997).

645. God Really Cares

Matthew 27:46

Sermon

James Merritt

... has not left Me alone." (Jn. 8:29) He could say again: "I am not alone, because the Father is with Me." (Jn. 16:32b) All He had known was an enduring relationship and an intimate fellowship with His Heavenly Father. But now there was total separation ... is found in Hab. 1:13: "You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness." The great British preacher, John R. W. Stott, explains it this way: What is common to the biblical concepts of the holiness and the wrath of God, is the truth ...

646. How to Connect With God

1 John 5:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... answers to prayer that God gave him, said, "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, it is laying hold of His willingness." Heb. 4:16 tells us, "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time ... in v.13 we see it is the people who believe in the name of the Son of God. Those who believe in that name, according to John 1:12, are the children of God. The reason why we ought to be confident when we pray is because we are children of God. When we ...

647. A Trip to God's Woodshed

Hebrews 12: 5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... other step is death. Do you know that you can rebel against God to the point that death is the only remedy. That is why v.9 says, "Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?" The Apostle John tells, in I Jn. 5:16, that there is "sin unto death." There were people in the church at Corinth who were dying right and left because they were abusing and misusing the Lord's Supper. Dr. Homer Lindsay, Jr., the Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida, once ...

648. Out of Solitude

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... as with all good poetry, it is open to a variety of interpretations and it certainly seems an appropriate invitation to Sabbath rest. This is the first sermon in a series related to the Lenten study book, Traveling the Prayer Paths of Jesus by John Indermark, available from The Upper Room and from the church office. 1. Time Magazine, January 16, 2006, page 73 2. Rev. Laurie Haller, FUMC Grand Rapids, MI, February 19, 2006 3. UM Hymnal, page 358 4. Talitha Arnold, Christian Century, Oct. 23, 2002, page 19

649. God's Workmanship

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the town of Center, these words are engraved on a granite monument: “In Memory of Hazel Miner . . . April 11, 1904-March 16, 1920 . . . To the dead a tribute . . . To the living a memory . . . To posterity an inspiration . . . The story of her life ... slid to a stop in front of the partially completed house. They noticed that it wasn’t the regular maintenance man for the port-a-john who got out of the truck. Instead, it was a big, burly guy, covered with tattoos. He was singing at the top of his lungs ...

650. Where Does God Start?

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... the house of God. True giving is an expression of love. "God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son." (John 3:16) You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. The Christian life begins and ends with a love for God. Jesus ... get hung up on methods, and we forget motives. I heard about a young lady who wrote this note to her ex-FIANCÉ. It read: Dear John: I have been unable to sleep since we broke off our engagement. It has shattered me. I just can't live any longer without you. ...

Showing results