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751. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... follows right afterward "... if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector" (Matthew 18:17). V. The advice to treat him as a Gentile and a tax collector seems like very tough advice from Jesus. If you don’t succeed, Jesus advises ... be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone, therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we ...

752. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... summer of 1971, Cheryl A. Forbes made an interesting observation about it. She said that the show was for the young, in conception and spirit. It was written, acted, and sung by young people to give young people an answer to their despair. But she pointed out that not many youth were there to get the message; ... , p. 223. London: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, 1921. 8. "Christianity Today," March 26, 1971, p. 17. 9. Plutarch. The Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans, Great Books edition, Vol. 14, p. 37.

753. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... 14:9). "I am come, not to be ministered unto, but to minister" (Matthew 20:28). "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" (John 5:17). "He that would be greatest among you, let him be servant of all" (Matthew 20:26). "I am come that you might have life, and have ... , jealousy, pride, and arbitrary power. Because "it was said of old," we still assume it must be so - and we act that way. So we persist in wrestling against flesh and blood, forever wounding each other, dismembering ourselves, destroying the family ...

754. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... rose. It was on the seventh day that I suddenly wondered if word prayers were enough. In the Bible, men didn’t only say they believed, they acted like it. They went out and made bold, foolish, extravagant gestures to prove it. I switched on my head lamp. "Boys," I said, "I’m going ... today’s technological society, mused over the astronauts’ "conversions" as he watched the ascent of Apollo 17. In space, Thompson says, the astronauts felt "their consciousness being transformed to behold God making all ...

755. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... cure one day when a woman was brought to him by a group of proud, judgmental Pharisees. She had been caught in the very act of adultery. Perhaps she was dragged half naked to Jesus. Quickly a crowd gathered to leer and lust and condemn and execute her. This ... in a life-long marriage commitment. Teenagers, don't let something second-rate and dangerous rob you of the best. Shannon, a 17-year-old high school student, announced last December that she is HIV positive. Now she is on a crusade. Every morning she ...

756. "Almost" Is A Sad Word

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... don't want, and I don't want nothin' I ain't got." The rich young ruler would have given half his riches to feel that way. In verse 17 Jesus asks him a strange question in reply: "Why do you call me good? God alone is truly good." Jesus was really asking, "Do you have a clue as ... Christian denomination, the vast majority of them don't know the basic teachings of the faith and don't act significantly different from non-Christians. Gallup says that the 10 percent who are deeply committed Christians are a breed ...

757. Chapter I

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... the love each had for the partner to whom they were bound. If God was loved enough to be central in their lives, his people would act in ways that demonstrated that. If he, indeed, were their Lord then it simply would follow as a matter of course that they would have no ... kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:17-19). Rather than wipe out these guides for life recorded in the Old Testament, Jesus stressed the need for the same sort ...

758. Whispering The Lyrics (revised)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Thomas Long

... ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth ..." (John 14:15-17). The primary task, then, of the Holy Spirit is reminding the faithful of the truth, jogging the memories of the followers of Jesus about all ... 's point, of course, is the lure of forgetfulness. One way to describe sin is willful forgetfulness. We choose amnesia; we decide as an act of the will not to remember that we are God's very own son, God's very own daughter. God's mercy is, in ...

759. How to Handle Criticism

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... being a glutton, a drunkard, a Samaritan, and a friend of sinners. The Bible refers to him as “despised and rejected of men.” His own family thought he was acting irresponsibly. In the 11th chapter of Matthew’s gospel, one can feel the pressure of Jesus’ opposition building. John the Baptist has been arrested by King Herod. In verses 16 and 17, Jesus says that people are like children: “I invite them to play like we’re having a wedding; in other words, to play a happy game, but they refuse. So ...

760. Song of an Historian

Psalm 78:1-72

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... her down the years. Accordingly, he divides his song into two parts. The first he devotes to the Lord’s mighty acts of deliverance at the Red Sea and in the wilderness wanderings following it. In the second he reminds the Israelites of ... Almighty has poured out his blessings upon Israel; and time and time again, her moment of need past, she has forgotten them (Psalm 78:11-17). Moreover, she has not only failed to appreciate what the Lord has done; she has even been so brash as to make grumbling demands ...

761. Song of an Evangelist

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... his own country. The Almighty, he declares works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed. He made known his way to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel. (Psalm 103:6, 7) Historian that he is, he remembers how often the Eternal has come to Israel’s ... reverence - whatever their name or sign receive his blessings, not for a passing moment, but "from everlasting to everlasting" (Psalm 103:17). Hence it is grace with which the author of the One hundred and third Psalm is concerned. For it is grace ...

762. Give Us A New Name!

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... the covenant which the Lord established with Abraham, together with the promise that Sarah would bear a son (Genesis 17:5f, 15-16). In the New Testament, Saul became Paul, significant of his life-changing conversion on the road to ... a new name. This is where we proclaim the love of God and the unity of the family of God. Practicing our faith means to declare it and act it out over and over again that we are all children of God, and that we are brothers and sisters to each other. That must be for us ...

763. A Man Whose Dreams Came True

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... ; he does not send sorrow. He is not responsible for our misdeeds, our foolish mistakes, our unwise choices, or our sinful acts. But he can - and does - take these damaging and painful circumstances and use them to accomplish his eternal purposes. This does ... ) 14. ________ captain of the guard (37:36) 15. ________ executed by Pharaoh (40:22) 16. ________ restored by Pharaoh (40:21) 17. ________ wife of Joseph (41:45) 18. ________ Joseph’s eldest brother (46:8) 19. ________ his wife tempted Joseph (39:7) ...

764. John Wesley: Religion of the Heart

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... not remember for sure), and she gave birth to 19 children in 20 years. Nine survived. John was number 15, born June 17, 1703. The Wesley family lived in severe poverty. The Reverend Samuel Wesley was jailed once for three months for bad debts. When ... preaching what you practice?" Does how we treat minorities, does what we give in the offering, does our language, does how we act at home, does our attitude here toward other members, does how many we have invited into church reflect our religion? Or, have ...

765. Abide In Me

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... yourselves; for I tell you that from now on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God comes." (Luke 22:17-18) "I am the vine and this cup is the fruit of the vine. When you drink of this cup you partake of the fruit of my ... branches of his body and that nourishment produces fruit, good fruit, ripe fruit, fruit of God’s own making. In Jesus’ analogy, God acts as the gardener or the vinedresser of the vine. "Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, God takes away, and every branch ...

766. In Control

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." At his Ascension, as recorded in Acts 1:7, he told his disciples, "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority." It is ... S. Kepler, A Journey With the Saints (Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1951), p. 17. 4. The "prominent religious leader" was William Miller, whose followers were called "Millerites." Their movement developed ...

767. Is Your Religion Second-Hand?

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... to destroy that place. Maybe that is why Christ nicknamed those two men "the Sons of Thunder" (Mark 3:17). This Samaritan village did not welcome Christ. Because of that refusal, their knowledge of Christ remained a second-hand ... ). By that question, we are challenged to wonder, to think about, to explore the religious dimension in the human life of Jesus Christ. That act of wondering transforms our faith from a second-hand inheritance to a first-hand experience. Like Job, we end our exploration of Christ by ...

768. Everybody a Cinderella

Hosea 2:2-23

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... But, love moves through the unfairness and says, "So what? I love you." People become magnificent heroes as they stand up and act with assurance. People are tempted to give up when overburdened with work. Love sparks unsuspected sources of energy, so that the ... live in slavery," for slavery is a slow form of death. Rather we are to have abundant life. But, my favorite verse is John 3:17, "For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him." Not to ...

769. COMMAND TO SHARE

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... this John preaching a God of revolutionary morality, based on sharing with the needy, but John had sensed a swiftly oncoming act of God for the redemption of his people. Messiah, God’s anointed one, was at hand. Not the longed-for national ... He will be baptized with fire and the chaff of formalized and heartless religion "he will burn with unquenchable fire" (Luke 3:17). The foregleam of the message and the imminence of the Messiah - those announcements by John carved his greatness in history. Wait, there ...

770. Confrontation in the Temple

John 2:12-25

Sermon

George Bass

... . But Luke evidently considered the incident to be a true story that was important enough to be included in the gospel that bears his name; he was interested, as his Acts of the Apostles affirms, in telling the whole story. This incident sets the stage for what is bound to happen after Jesus grows up and begins his compassionate yet controversial ... ). 14. Also front Human Options. 15. Carl Proffer, "A terminal patient turns test subject in fight to survive," in the Minneapolis Star ann Tribune, June 17, 1983.

771. Job - A Probe Into the Shadow World of Despair

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

... to sleep in the dark. I will call the grave my father, and the worms that cut me I will call my mother and my sisters" (Job 17:13-14). There is no resurrection perception or ascension dimension, but only the cry for escape into the abyss of nothingness. And it is not just the ... to have been shifted to the fringes of priority? The answer to Job was that God is aware, does care, and does act. The third section of Job is an editorial epilogue in prose that tries, with too much ease, to make things right. It ...

772. Twenty-First Century Reformation

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... makes us worthy to stand before God, and to pray for others ... Christ redeemed us that we might be able spiritually to act and pray on behalf of one another ... But nothing avails to the benefit of a person who does not believe in Christ ... frustration and sense of hopelessness. Have we not learned from Paul what Luther came to understand, "The righteous live by faith"? (Romans 1:17). We are not saved by our own efforts, goodness, or gifts. Salvation is never earned or deserved. It is given by a gracious God ...

773. Easter People

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... ’s case the worst enemy and persecutor of the church was changed into its greatest missionary. He could say from his own experience, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation" (2 Corinthians 5:17). Saul of Tarsus is dead. Paul, a new man in Christ, has taken his place. Here is something as wonderful as the act of creation, when God made heaven and earth out of nothing. Here is a duplication of the miracle by which the man of Nazareth, crucified on Good Friday, became the living Christ of Easter. The ...

774. Christian Thanksgiving

Philippians 1:1-7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... in Old Testament times. They said, "Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving" (Psalm 95:2) and "I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving" (Psalm 116:17). Paul describes the worship in the New Testament church as "always and for everything giving thanks ... to God" (Ephesians 5:20). The early Christians named their sublimest act of worship, the reception of the body and blood of their Lord, Eucharist, which means thanksgiving. And when they envisioned worship as it was to be in heaven, it ...

775. The Big Snow

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... By 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 13, 6.8 inches of it had arrived. By noon 12.2 inches had fallen; by 6:00 p.m. 17.7 inches had arrived. And by the end of it all on Sunday, January 14, over twenty inches of it had paralyzed the great urban complex of Chicago ... how angry so many of us got? Murders went up; patience went down. Of course, there were exceptions, and there were many acts of compassion. But generally people got angrier and angrier. Chairs came out into the street to declare turf for one’s prized ...

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