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876. Passing the Easter Miracle On

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

Donald Macleod

Three short illustrations fit aptly into the pattern of our thinking today: 1. Mark Antony, in his eulogy at the funeral of Julius Caesar, had just whipped up the emotions ... give him as much as a glance. But Peter stopped and, looking at him, said: "Look on us! Silver and gold have I none, but what I have I give to you" (v. 6). What did he have? Something unique: inner power, a blessing from a deep spiritual experience, the result of an encounter with the reality of a Living Lord. "In the name of Jesus ...

877. A Man Whose Dreams Came True

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... circumstances and use them to accomplish his eternal purposes. This does not weaken or dilute his power. Rather, is not this a mark of his omnipotence - that he can take that which is contrary to his will and use it to fulfill his will? ... Joseph sold as a slave (37:26, 27) 4. _________ Joseph’s master in Egypt (37:36) 5. _________ in prison with Joseph (40:2-4) 6. _________ in prison with Joseph (40:2-4) 7. _________ Egyptian name given to Joseph (41:45) 8. _________ stayed home when brothers first went to ...

878. Hot Tubs and Fishing Trips

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Thomas Long

... this way in an essay: People no longer seem to know why they are alive; existence is simply a string of near-experiences marked off by periods of stupefying spiritual and psychological stasis, and the good life is basically an amused one.3 Many people, however, ... Away from external valuations and accreditations, in search of an inner validation. You are moving out of roles and into the self.6 And so, people do "let go" and "let the changes." People make courageous changes in their lives trying to "get their ...

879. All-Out Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... Abingdon Press, 1962), E-J, p. 549. 2. Leviticus 19:18b. "It was probably Jesus who first combined the two great commandments of Deuteronomy 6:4 and Leviticus 19:18b into a summary of the law." (The Interpreter’s Bible [New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1951] , Vol. ... would not have included the Gentile, whom it was quite permissible to hate." (William Barclay, "The Gospel of Mark," The Daily Study Bible Series, [Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1975], p. 295.) 3. The Interpreter’s Bible, (New ...

880. How Can We Meet Grief?

2 Samuel 18:19--19:8

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... damp from my weeping; my pillow is soaked with tears. I can hardly see; my eyes are swollen from my weeping" (Psalm 6:6, TEV). What is grief? The word grief comes from the Latin word "gravis," meaning "heavy." When you grieve, you have a ... his journey and travel another stage of his journey. In effect, Christ was saying to us, "Within my Father’s world, there are many ‘stations’ marking the stages of growth in the journey of a soul. If it were not so, I surely would have told you." Because of Christ, ...

881. Feed My Sheep

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... his disciples, "let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy one" (Luke 22:36). He meant, as Paul meant in Ephesians 6, "the sword of the Spirit." His dazed disciples did not translate the striking figure that he used into the Master’s intended meaning. ... to wider medical care, and this offsets in Asia and Africa the increased food production. This Christian concern for children marked the Wesleyan revival in England. When John Wesley was born a chief cause of infant mortality was drunken mothers ...

882. The Call of the Trumpet

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

George Bass

... Jesus Christ. That’s why we need to cock our ears and listen intently for the trumpet call that marks the beginning of this forty-day fast that spills over, through Good Friday and Easter, into the fifty-day celebration of Jesus’ resurrection and the ... new life. The traditional gospel for Ash Wednesday, Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21, puts the notes of the trumpet’s call in terms of long-established Lenten discipline? - almsgiving, prayer, ...

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

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

... into and identification with suffering, both physical suffering and mental-spiritual confusion, are of high genius and are marked by personal experience. Job is a haunting challenge that you as well-educated Christians must be able and ... in death, in a return to the clay. "If my troubles and griefs were weighed on scales, they would weigh more than the sands of the sea ..." (Job 6:1-3a), said Job, "I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone. My life makes no sense ..." (Job 7:16). "When an innocent man ...

884. Spiritual Blindness

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... 52) Blind Bartimaeus! What a haunting theme; what a never-to-be-forgotten scene. It is the concluding narrative in Mark. The setting is Jericho, some fifteen miles from Jerusalem. The point of this dramatic occurrence is simple: Only a blind ... due to the ignorance of a country physician who applied hot poultices to her inflamed eyes, she lived 95 years. In all she composed almost 6,000 hymns. Yes, she wrote too much, and a great many - probably most - of her hymns have little value. But who can forget "Pass Me ...

885. Not Far From the Kingdom

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... . he read from 2 Peter 1:4: "There are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises." Later that morning he opened his Bible to Mark 12:34, reading "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." At noon Wesley attended services at St. Paul’s where the choir used ... usually comes in a manner commensurate with the personality of the one invited. We are all different; we respond in different ways. 6. Will God receive me, at some point? Yes, yes, yes! This is the life of faith. Your entering the Kingdom may ...

886. Christ and Time

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... the time is 1:51 p.m. If you are 40 years of age, the time is 4:08 p.m. If you are 50 years of age, the time is 6:25 p.m. If you are 60 years of age, the time is 8:42 p.m. If you are 70 years of age, the time is 11 p.m. ... the fulfillment of God’s purpose. Thus when our Lord began his ministry, he announced, "The kairos is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand" (Mark 1:15). This is also the word which Paul uses in our text, "When the kairos had fully come, God sent forth his Son." There was nothing ...

887. The Choice Is Always Ours

Ecclesiastes 9:1-12

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... . It is "impossible." As you know, for all of my ministry I have preached from the text: "All things are possible ... only believe." (Mark 9:23) I have taught that if one used one’s most loving efforts, engaged the cooperation of the most devoted and able ... "a striving after the wind!" And he says: Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after the wind. (4:6) How easy it is to blather! "If only I had done this, if only it had not rained, if only I had not got up out of ...

888. Jerusalem, Emmaus and the Meaning of Life

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... suffered." "Ought not these men to have suffered?" Christ himself, his person, his life is so beautifully rich in its rhythms, its marked contrasts of hope, despair, and hope again. "Father, I do not want to die." "I will not leave you orphans ... I ... , in the years ahead will see things I’ll never see. You have much to look forward to, much to learn. L-6 What would you teach me, looking back? D-6 Oh, I guess I would teach you to find those things that are natural. Like the river winding its way here and ...

889. Make Up Your Mind!

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... all, he was the One who had delivered their ancestors out of bondage. To give up on him completely would be a mark of disrespect to their forebears. They could never fully give up on the God of their national heritage, and so they politely ... and takes any of them, they are taken away in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at the sentinel’s hand” (Ezekiel 33:6). “Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve ... but as for me and my household, we will serve ...

890. The ABC Gospel

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy’ ” (2 Kings 5:6). Now he wanted to use his political influence. He looked to the King of Israel for a cure instead of the King of kings. Even when ... , acknowledging that what he heard was once a fact. “What happened?” Birrell asked the miner. The man tipped his hat as a mark of respect and replied, “There came among us once a man whose name was John Wesley and we have not been the same ...

891. Keeping the Glow On

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... ourselves, what we are, and how we got here. Families have ways of recalling the important events in their lives. The marking of anniversaries of more than just birthdays can be very important in helping families to stress achievements and special acts of ... “has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6). Paul is saying that what God has done for us is to permit the glory that was so evident both at Sinai and the mount of ...

892. There's No Such Thing as Too Much Sugar

Psalm 91:1-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... miles from Rome in Michael's honor. The day became especially popular in northern Europe and England and, even today "Michaelmas" marks the beginning of the fall term in the law courts and the fall academic terms at Oxford and Cambridge.(2) Next ... nothing. I like H. L. Mencken's description: "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."(6) For Dorothy and Frank, their cynicism is especially directed at the opposite sex. Well, Michael being Michael, with all that pent-up power, ...

893. The Lord's Prayer: "Thy Will Be Done"

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... for and from you and me is right here in the Bible. We might not want to HEAR it, but that is our problem, not God's. As Mark Twain said, "It ain't those parts of the Bible I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I DO understand."(5) But the ... will is flawed by our own limitations and that the complexity of many human situations... [defies] precise prescriptions for human behavior..."(6) Some issues will be difficult! But scripture says, "If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives ...

894. Peace in the Midst of the Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... fish but never made it back. You have good reason to be afraid. It has been a good day for you up to this point. According to Mark's Gospel, the hours have been spent listening to Jesus teach a huge crowd there at the water's edge. As a matter of fact, the crowd ... we read, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me."(6) Even when we fear that our situation would PREVENT his presence and help, we hear "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ...

895. The News from Nazareth

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... is the opiate of the people, but, as Stanley Jones once noted, "the 'Magnificat' is the most revolutionary document in the world."(6) The words in young Mary's mouth sing of a world that is different from hers, a world that has experienced three ... . Because this is news we need to hear again and again and again, and the more I bring the news, the more I know it. Tonight will mark my 20th Christmas Eve in a row of bringing that news. I am older and wiser than when I started. I have seen many things in my own ...

896. A Fool and his Money

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... and go as he wished. He was tied to the work of guarding his feeder, his STUFF. He was possessed by his possession.(6) That leads us back to our rich fool. One more problem he appears to share with that hummingbird is selfishness. Remember what ... while they tended to the various matters and arrangements of their father's affairs. After their father had been buried surveyors came and marked the land to allow for equal distribution. One night the older brother was lying in his bed, and he thought of his younger ...

897. Leaping Lepers - Thanksgiving

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... it were, happened to be blotched or mottled or visibly birthmarked were often equally rejected. Their condition was seen as a mark of divine judgment. They were shunted off to the fringes, out of sight, if not out of mind. They were encouraged ... not return to give thanks?" That is how Martin Bell begins his essay on this text in an intriguing collection entitled The Way of the Wolf.(6) "What about the others? It's simple really," Bell writes. And then he goes on to tell of the one who was so frightened that he ...

898. Merry XMas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... populated by human beings? The latter, I fear, because after all, institutions are merely OUR creations to better organize society. Mark Twain said it best - "Man is the only animal that blushes...or needs to." But the most disheartening thought is ... ." He is the Lord. Go, tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere; Go, tell it on the mountain, That Jesus Christ is born.(6) Amen! 1. Al Fasol, Humor with a Halo, (Lima, OH: C.S.S. Publishing, 1989), pp. 25-26 2. Lewis, C. S., Letters to an American ...

899. Mary's Song

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... point of emaciation, apparently in his middle thirties, and was shabbily dressed. His pockets were empty and there were no marks of identification upon his person. Store officials believe that he was trampled in the Christmas rush and crawled under the counter ... future in which all people are treated with dignity and equity a future in which everyone has an opportunity to participate in the society. (6) That was Jesus' dream as well. It is still Jesus' dream today, and he is at work in the lives of those who ...

900. How To Stay Young Forever

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... out at home ” looking after the outer person and neglecting the spiritual life within. Some of you may know that Samuel Clemens, or Mark Twain as we know him, was not a happy man. Particularly in his later years, he was quite crusty and cynical. Twain was ... engraved invitations from various presidents. The wife proudly said, "All the money in the world could not buy an invitation like that." (6) Here in the last chapter in our Bibles is an invitation that all the money in the world will not buy. "Come . . ...

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