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751. Reconciliation: The Heart of Love

Hosea 2:14-20

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... forgive others. Some may fear that they have responded too late to Jesus' invitation, but the parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16) tells us that it is never too late to accept God's invitation. Many of us, like the workers in the parable who accept the ... cannot be overcome by God's love. A dramatic example of this is the drama played out in chapter 21 of Saint John's gospel. We recall in the early morning hours of Good Friday Peter fulfilled the prophecy that Jesus had articulated at the ...

752. The Uniquely Christian Commandment

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... feel for one another but rather something he wants us to do for one another. As to how this love should be measured, our standard comes from the clause, "as I have loved you" (John 13:34). That is a broad and lofty standard indeed. The love that Jesus had for his disciples began with a willingness to ignore the limits of society. He did not content himself with ... share it with the world. His invitation is, "Come, be magnetized." 1. Henry Drummond, Addresses (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1892), pp. 16-77.

753. Peace Be With You

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... any security or real peace, so they just keep running. It was the evening of the first Easter Sunday. Earlier that morning Peter and John had been to the tomb. They had discovered it was empty. They saw the strips of linen as well as the cloth that had been ... peace. A number of years ago a major American magazine published the results of a most fascinating survey. The editors had asked 16 prominent Americans what they did in order to find peace of mind in the midst of our stressful world. The responses were ...

754. Get Out the Ticker Tape - Palm Sunday

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... come because their family expects it. If I were to ask you today why are you here, what would your answer be? In Matthew 16:15-17, Jesus questioned his disciples. He said to them, “And who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are ... . That brings us to the last thing we need to see: What Palm Sunday means for us. More than four decades ago, Beatle superstar John Lennon caused a worldwide storm. Some of you know what I’m referring to. In an interview with the press, Lennon claimed that the ...

755. Saved By the Light

Isaiah 60:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Jesus Christ, we were spiritually dead and walking in darkness. Sounds like the opening to a great zombie movie. But what does John say in verse 9 of this Bible passage? “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.” A ... York, wrote about working during a horrible storm, when thousands of customers were without power and utility crews were working 16-hour days to repair the damage. One customer called the customer service line and complained about the power outage, then ...

756. Masks Off!

John 7:25-45 and 8:11-59

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... (Genesis 33) Moses Encounters the “I Am Who I Am” in the Burning Bush (Exodus 3) The Feast of Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16) God’s Mission of Salvation (Isaiah 43) The Day of the Living Water (Zechariah 14) Psalm 27: To Dwell in the ... King Psalm 103: The Lord Establishes His Kingdom Psalm 130: De Profundis Jesus the is the Logos from the Beginning of Time (John 1) The Day of the Seventh Trumpet (Revelation 11) The New Jerusalem (Revelation 21) Jesus and the Pharisees Dispute Jesus’ Identity After this ...

757. God Encounter

Luke 1:1-4, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... move uncontrollably forward and nothing can stand in its way. For it IS a way. “Prepare the Way of the Lord,” John will declare! The “Way” in the wilderness, that metaphorical road of journey will call all of God’s children to “turn” ( ... in Nazareth (Luke 1:1-4; 26-38) Minor Text Handmaiden Hagar and Ishmael, Her Son, Sent Into the Wilderness, Encounter God (Genesis 16:1-14) Handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah Bear Sons Who Will Become Lost Tribes of Israel (Genesis 30) Psalm 34: I Will Glory in ...

758. What Really Matters

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... from home. These they carried with them. Today we want to talk about love—the kind of love that caused those explorers to leave behind material things and cling to pictures and letters from their loved ones. Our text is the best-loved verse in all the Bible—John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” I know, that’s not the kind of love that we hear so much about nowadays. The word love is used and ...

759. Darkness

Mt 27:45 · Jn 1:5 · 1 Jn 1:5

Sermon

Will Willimon

... God has left us to our own darkened devices and desires. Did you not hear the words read here scarcely three months ago? "And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it" (John 1:5). The people who sat in darkness, us, upon those who sat in the region of death, us, light has dawned (Matthew 4:16). It is the peculiar nature of our faith to assert that, in entering our darkness, God is preparing to take back the night. Darkness shall not be the last word. Let us sit in the dark. Let ...

760. A New Identity for a New Year

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the true light of the world, and full of grace and truth. Notice that John describes Jesus in terms of his essential, eternal, unchanging nature. And then we read this promise in John 1, verse 12, “Yet to all who did receive him (Jesus), to those who ... Smith, a successful businessman from Knoxville, Tennessee. At age 11, Joshua Smith was removed from an abusive home environment. By age 16, he had racked up ten felony convictions. By age 21, he was sentenced to prison for drug trafficking. It would be ...

761. Hanging Around Jesus Changes You

Philippians 3:17 — 4:1

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... bigger than the 1973 average home. We can’t afford it. CNBC reported that in 2016, the average American household had $16,000 in credit-card debt. Lent is a time for coming to terms with our unfaithfulness, without our waywardness and ... love. It is like the seventeenth-century Scottish clergyman Samuel Rutherford once put it: “How soon would faith freeze without a cross.” Again John Calvin put it nicely: ... when we are called by the Lord we emerge from nothing; for whatever we seem to be we have not ...

762. On the Mountaintop

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... . When Peter later described this mountaintop experience in a church letter, he skipped over his own impulsive contribution to the scene to highlight instead the main elements centered on Jesus. The apostle said, “we had been eye witnesses of his majesty” (2 Peter 1:16). Peter, James, and John had seen Jesus bathed in glorious light, and they had heard God’s voice of affirmation. In his letter, Peter sought to pass on the good news: “You will do well to be attentive to this as to a lamp shining in a ...

763. New Life Goes On

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David Coffin

... 11. In John’s gospel for Jesus to have such a power over life and death was viewed as a threat to the Judean authorities. In Mark, people were amazed. The girl was given a meal to eat and Jesus ordered strict secrecy of this miracle. We already see a glimpse of resurrection teachings here in Mark’s gospel. Scholars have often pointed to the abrupt ending in Mark 16:8, where the women are simply frightened but nobody has yet seen the risen Christ. This text and the passion prediction in Mark 9:31 (RSV ...

764. In Pursuit Of The Promise

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you forever ... you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you" (John 14:16-17). Luke referred to that promise in today's passage when he wrote, "And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father ... for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 1:4-5). Jesus assured his followers that he would continue to ...

765. Week Four Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... s belief and trust were rewarded with the renewed health of his son. Jesus' action is more than a miracle; it is an act of hope. John says that Jesus realized that the people of Galilee would not esteem him. Yet, the Lord returned to the area of his childhood in order ... in God's hands. The path which Jesus gives will lead to eternal life. Tuesday Week FourEzekiel 47:1-9, 12John 5:1-3, 5-16 The Greater Power Of God Anyone who has had any contact with the sea knows both the power and the life-giving nature of ...

766. The Oil For Squeaking People

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... of Luke, we are informed of how an old priest named Zechariah and his wife, Elizabeth, were to become parents of the fellow we know as John the Baptist. Zechariah was at work in the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem when an angel appeared to him. This angel blurts out: "You ... we use people rather than value them, we pay a price. Let me cast this lesson in the form of a story. A young 16-year-old boy entered the local pharmacy. He asked the pharmacist for three boxes of candy. "I want a two dollar box, a four ...

767. The Holy Spirit As The Dove Of Peace

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... . I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. -- John 14:26-27 NRSV A Shalom Community The Holy Spirit desires peace. This was true from the beginning chapter of Genesis, where the Spirit of ... The church in the New Testament has a parallel vision of all persons being drawn under the lordship and fellowship of Jesus (Matthew 28:16-20). In the book of Acts there is the Holy Spirit who seeks to create a single community (Acts 2:43-47). The biblical ...

768. In The Flesh

John 1:1-18

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... earth, who gives power and dominion to human beings, and whose knowledge and goodness are always beyond reproach. But isn't that the point of John's statement? There is in the earth the presence of the Holy One. The Eternal has appeared in time. The God whom no one has ... call us to take seriously the fact that our bodies are God's temple and God's spirit dwells in our flesh (1 Corinthians 3:16). We can't be perfect people, but we can be so responsive to the spirit of God that "the life of Jesus may be made ...

769. With Our Heads In The Clouds

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... waiting for someone to answer. Peter spoke up, "What do you mean?" "Who do the people say that I am?" replied Jesus. They answered, "John the Baptist," "Elijah," "One of the prophets from the dead." After a brief silence Jesus asked, "Who do you say that I am?" Peter ... confused. Peter took Jesus aside and said to him, "God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you" (Matthew 16:22). He was saying, "Lord, tell us that this is not true." This is not what Peter had in mind when he called Jesus the "Messiah." ...

770. A Mother · A Canaanite Woman

Mt 15:21-28 · Mk 7:24-30

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... manner he did because she was not an Israelite. But the Master loved children and wanted only the best for them. (cf. Matthew 18:16; 19:13-15) So there must have been some other reason for his seeming insensitivity. And there was. Jesus was trying to keep ... he incurred the wrath of Herod Antipas, thus facing the threat of suffering the same fate as the Tetrarch had meted out to John the Baptist; he had likewise experienced a bitter encounter with a delegation Israel's hierarchy had sent to grill him on his ...

771. Reformation Sunday

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... rationalized arrogance, we are hiding from him. It is not what I determine to do, but what he determines to do. Not my willpower, but the power of his will. "You have not chosen me. I have chosen you," said Jesus (John 15:16). "Not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us," said John (1 John 4:10). "I sought the Lord and afterward I knew he moved my soul to seek him, seeking me," penned the nineteenth century hymn writer. Thus faith is not as it is so often represented, faith in the power of faith ...

772. The King Who Came To Die

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... of hate did their worst: humiliation, lashings, ridicule and public condemnation. Hear the spineless, craven Pilate say, " 'Shall I crucify your king?' The chief priests answered, 'We have no king but Caesar.' Then he handed him over to them to be crucified (John 19:15-16)." So they took the deposed king and led him to Golgotha, the place of the skull, a garbage dump where lives were discarded without the usual funeral formalities. And there he hung, our Lord, suspended between heaven and earth as though ...

773. Marked For Mission

Sermon

George Bass

... . He who believes and is baptized will be saved; he who does not believe will be condemned.” Mark 16:14-20 Yes, “the cross is still there,” and that means that we are all responsible for the business ... malaria had also become acute in the meantime. All four of them paid a tremendous price to engage in missionary work in Zaire, Africa. When Anita, John’s wife, became pregnant with her third child, her pregnancy became so complicated that she had to be returned to the United States; her very life ...

774. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... enough to change the focus of our attention.26 In the light of this fact about life, Jesus speaks to us in Luke 16 a parable. It begins, "There was a rich man." The words haunt us because it is a terrible thing if the only statement ... entire message of the gospel comes down to one earthshaking vision, one eternal scene that shivers its way out of the cold corridors of doom - John saw two crowds entering the Kingdom - the fit few and the unfit public! It is enough to make you want to run outside and ...

775. Believing The Living Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... what God says. Logos is used 300 times; rhema, 70 times. Perhaps the most familiar passage about the Word is the opening passage of the Gospel of John. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things ... me ranks before me, for he was before me.' ") And from his fullness have we all received grace upon grace. - John 1:1-16, RSV In other words, in the New Testament the primary affirmation is that the Word goes forth in the person of ...

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