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John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... are always the two doctrines of God's eternity and God's trinity ... The threefold experience of God the Father, God the Son, and ... that kind would live forever, but they don't. Herb suffered a heart attack and died five years later. Recently, I preached a sermon to the congregation I serve in Little Rock and referred ... I heard you have been ill and I just wanted to check on you;" (5) you attend a Sunday school class or worship service and the teacher or minister puts together just the right combination of ...

52. When Satan Comes Out of the Closet

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... is, if it was not for God, the world today would look like Sunday School. There is actually a restraining force that keeps the devil from doing ... trinity spoken of in the Bible, there is also an unholy trinity? You have God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit; that's the Holy Trinity. But then you have the devil, the beast, and the false prophet; that is the Unholy Trinity ... was a dress rehearsal for this that took place about 2500 years ago in the inter-biblical period. There was a Syrian king ...

53. A Dove Descended

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... come together--the Son being baptized, the Father expressing his approval of His Son and the Holy Spirit descending as a dove . . . No wonder on the second Sunday of Epiphany each year we celebrate Jesus’ baptism. How much closer to exaltation can we come than the concurrent presence of the Trinity? And a small dove was very much a part of it. So why should we not call a group of doves an exaltation? It’s a good reminder of what happened on the day Christ was baptized. This scene ought to also remind ...

54. Emptying and Exalting (Part XI)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... One of the great doctrinal truths of the Christian faith is that of the Trinity. We believe in the Christian faith that we have experienced and know God in ... to me that I studied this great text with an incomplete focus for a number of years. I got so involved with theology that I forgot the obvious practical truth that was to ... Fred Craddock tells the story of a certain father who was riding in the country on a Sunday afternoon with his wife and children. The father saw a cat. He hoped the children wouldn' ...

55. Who Counted the Fish?

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a vacation. It almost seems as though he is saying that he felt that he had wasted three years trying to be a follower of an unusual kind of Messiah who had managed to get himself crucified, and ... ” supper, after all! Beyond Maundy Thursday and Good Friday there was an Easter Sunday and a renewed fellowship with the risen Lord! When the disciples finally arrived ... suggested that the number could represent the Trinity. 3 x 50 + 3 = 153. Just how that represents the Trinity, I do not know. Another early Christian ...

56. Better To Be a Loner than a Loser

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... God and no time for God. The Holy Trinity of God: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have been replaced by the unholy trinity of the gods of self, sex, and ... daily provision of the king's delicacies and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might serve before ... the night of her death, Cassie's younger brother, Chris, found a poem she had written the previous Sunday. Listen to it: Now I have given up on everything else— I have found it to be the ...

57. The Gifted

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

... . No doubt some people have been confused when I have said that in the past. A few years ago, I was shopping in a religious bookstore. Another customer learned from a sales clerk that I ... . He wanted to hear a preview for Sunday morning. Maybe he figured if I could sum up my sermon in a single line, he could turn off the alarm Sunday morning and stay in bed. In any ... of them in everyone (my emphases). Spirit, Lord, and God: that's the Trinity. Of course, Paul has the order backwards. Usually we say God the ...

58. Whatever became of Kingdomtide?

John 16:17-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Pentecost” or “Sundays after Trinity.” There are a whole bunch of them, and the last liturgical calendar I consulted gave us the choice of either wearing red or green stoles during this season. I don’t like to have to make major decisions like that. I have a minister friend who says that he always wears clerical garb in the pulpit because it saves him from the trauma of having to decide what tie to pick out on a Sunday morning! I can relate to that. And I miss Kingdomtide. A few years back when ...

59. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... that same lecture for years. If it doesn't go over the first time, they can polish it up a bit and try another time. After a while it gets to be in pretty good shape. Not so with sermons. Preachers must deliver the goods Sunday after Sunday, ready or not. They ... when Christ will return might have missed this point: because we are trinitarians, we believe that wherever one Person of the Holy Trinity is present, all three are present; hence, Christ is still with us. Jesus, in the days of His flesh could only be ...

60. The One Habit of Highly Effective Christians

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... of their own heathen people in the land of Israel. Down through the years those heathen Assyrians and the Jews began to intermarry. They produced a ... worship Him must worship Him in spirit." Keep in mind that just as God is a trinity, man is a trinity. He has a body, soul, and spirit. But true worship must take place in man's ... word of God is de-emphasized, to that extent the worship of God will be falsified. One Sunday night a little boy knelt down beside his mother and daddy to say his evening prayers before ...

61. It’s All About Him

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... left on Mount Gerazim, and they still worship there. So a debate had raged over the years over whether or not it was proper to worship in a place other than the temple ... come in here worshiping and you ought to leave here worshiping. Worship is not what you do on Sunday morning for one hour in a church. Worship is what you do 24-7 from here to heaven. ... ." (v.24) Now let me tell you what that means. Just as God is a Trinity, man is a trinity. He has a body, a soul, and a spirit. Jesus said true worship takes place ...

62. Flesh and Spirit

Romans 8:12-17

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... stages, this discovery is terrifying. Almost every Sunday we witness it in our nursery, when young children cry as their parents leave them ... beyond, Paul found a new and stunning answer, an answer that we have come to call the Holy Trinity. Paul suggests an answer to our captivity: In Jesus Christ, God is offering us a new way of ... news by which we have life; this is life in the Spirit. At my mother's funeral several years ago, the pastor of the church in which I was raised read powerful words from Dorothy Sayers as ...

63. Congratulations, Joseph, It's A God!

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... hold on to!" This is the first Sunday of a new year. Marjorie Holmes once said that each New Year is like opening an intriguing mystery story. What's going to happen? Where will it lead? Charles Lamb once contended that New Year's Day is every person's birthday. ... choose?" The top three choices of those 8,000 young people were God, Jesus and Lee Iacocca. What do you know? A new Trinity. (2) Our college students could find worse heroes than Iococca. There is a place in our society for heroes. As one writer ...

64. Blessed With Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... . One thought was quite normal for a preacher as well as a basic necessity. What shall I emphasize Sunday morning when I am using for my text the words of Jesus which he spoke on his last night upon earth to his disciples? "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you ..." The other thought was quite different. I remembered that 31 years ago last Wednesday I was ordained into the ministry at the fiftieth anniversary of Trinity Church. After my father gave the sermon, I stood before him; Dr. Hugh Bannen ...

65. Chapter IV

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... rarely crosses many minds, and if it does, it is probably quickly cancelled out. A lot of talking has been done in recent years in an effort to change all that. We have preached, and written, and film-stripped the message that all men who function in ... other things that we have, and do. Because it helps me to do that, I like the Old Testament lesson read on the 16th Sunday after Trinity in the church to which I belong. The passage is from Job chapter 5, and has nestled in it an especially meaningful line. ...

66. Go ... Be the Church ... Do the Gospel

Sermon

... years ago, or at another place since our congregation was founded one 125 years ago? How many saints of God have traveled this aisle, Sunday after Sunday, as they have entered to worship and then left to be witnesses? II. Go ... Be ... Do A. The year was 1833, 25 years ... account so that intangible ministries like church camp at Mowana, higher education at Wittenberg, and theological education at Trinity can be real for our children and young adults. * We respond to church-wide appeals for funds for world ...

67. The Blood of The Lamb and The Voice of The Shepherd

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... spent a whole day making a Christmas card for Uncle Marv and Aunt Mary Jane last year, then got so proud of the card that she refused to mail it to anybody but ... He's the messiah, then oops, He's a rabbi, and then a fraction — a third of the Trinity — then a fisherman, then a broken loaf of bread. I guess even God when He's human, ... think that there were many reasons for your coming: your parents made you, this is your Sunday routine and you wouldn't feel right without it, you would feel guilty if you didn' ...

68. Christ Signs The Letter Of The Church

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... tie it all together with a marvelous story that Bishop Goodson tells. It is the story of the radio program aired on Sunday nights probably 35 years ago now. "All of America fell in love with a little man who sang his songs, clapped his hands, and rolled his eyes ... to the house. And there was the porch. But it was not a nice man's house...or was it? It was the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Hollywood. He climbed the steps, opened the door, stuck his head in and said, "Hello! Hello!" But no one answered. He ...

69. A Matter of Life and Breath

John 20:19-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... of the Spirit the church had its first birthday almost 2,000 years ago. But what about this year? Does the church - your church - need a new birth? If so, then ... as we receive it from a pulpit. This is one of the major reasons for going to church every Sunday. It is to hear the Word which brings the Spirit to those whose hearts are open. If the ... God. The Holy Spirit has the same ability because he is the third person of the Trinity. To have the Spirit is to have the power of almighty God at our disposal. Thus ...

70. A Little Theology at Christmas

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... Christmas celebration merely an acquiescence to cultural norms? Were those churches that cancelled their Christmas celebrations a few years ago when December 25 fell on Sunday on the right track after all? The lesson from the short book of Titus summarizes, it seems to ... that the text refers to the birth of Jesus as the "appearing" of the grace of God. When the Second Person of the Trinity became a human being, he made the loving-kindness of God an overarching theme of both testaments, visible in a way that ...

71. Some Things To Get Choked Up About

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... church, had Christmas dinner, and opened the gifts, Christmas is the most boring day of the year."(1) It is not unusual, I suppose, for highly charged individuals to feel that Christmas Day ... to the Holy Land, he decided to write a Christmas song for his Sunday School children. After he had composed the words, he took them to Mr. ... of bed and wrote the notes down, and that Christmas morning in 1868 the children of Holy Trinity Church sang for the first time "O Little Town of Bethlehem."(2) I can't express my ...

72. Come On Baby, Light My Fire

Matthew 3:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... to think of the Holy Spirit in very impersonal terms. I heard about a first grade Sunday School class that was having a party. The teacher asked all of the children to come ... not God the Son, but He is God the Spirit. He is not a junior partner in the Trinity. He is as much God as the Father and the Son. The Son is submissive to the Father. ... now free. Even though, in fact, they had been American citizens for almost twenty years, it was only at that moment that they were American citizens in knowledge. The ...

73. What's So Great About Jesus?

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... significance of our celebration of Christ the King Sunday. A grandmother wanted her granddaughter to attend Sunday school. So she arranged to pick her up ... God, but also he showed us a God who loves and cares for all. In this liturgical year we have discovered many encounters that Jesus had, but none is more interesting than his encounter with ... this world" (John 18:36). Burghardt stated that through the birth of Jesus a trinity of tyrants, Satan, sin, and death, were defeated by the lordship of Christ. Not ...

74. When What You Signed Up For...

Acts 16:9-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... long-time members of the church got upset when these young people tracked oil on the church’s brand-new carpet. One Sunday, Pastor Smith got to church and found a sign on the door that said, “Shirts and shoes please.” And he realized that ... happen when we follow God’s leading to an unexpected place and an unexpected opportunity. Many years ago, Pastor John Cochran was called to lead Trinity Lutheran Church, Northside, in Pittsburgh, PA. When God first called him to this congregation, John thought ...

75. No ... On

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... who one day was stunned to find out that he had ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. For years he was tenderly cared for by his wife. I used to visit them almost weekly and watch ... pay back. We want our "pound of flesh." The same crowd that had cheered on Sunday praising Jesus was cheering again on Friday. But this time they were cheering for blood ... the carpenter's son. This is the Son of God! This is the second person of the Trinity! This is the Son of the creator of the cosmos! We are playing with fire here. We ...

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