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901. The Temptations Of Christ And Our Temptations

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... wilderness during the Exodus under Moses would be repeated. Thus like Moses, the Messiah would be expected to provide manna from heaven (Exodus 16:15-36).1 And just as the miracles that God did through Moses helped set the people of Israel free, so the ... you received Christ, so that the new life in him that conquered death and evil on Easter is yours. The great 16th century reformer John Calvin put it this way: "Lastly, our faith receives from baptism the advantage of its sure testimony to us that we are not ...

902. One Flock, One Shepherd

John 10:1-21

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd (v. 15, 16).” Notice Jesus says one shepherd and one flock, but not one fold. One of the hardest things in the world to unlearn is exclusiveness. Once ... , Christian, United Church of Christ, Church of God, Nazarene, Lutheran, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic. Jesus prayed for his disciples in John 17:18-20a: “As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And ...

903. Jerusalem: City for All Time

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... of his own crucifixion experience outside the walls of Jerusalem, "When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself." (John 12:32) There was, of course, no other reason for Jesus to draw people to himself except to draw them to God! He knew that ... , a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he had prepared for them a city." (Hebrews 11:16) The Book of Revelation presents a picture of the future city. "I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven ...

904. Desert Springs

Isaiah 35:1-10

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... shimmering to the sky to warn any living thing that the desert could kill. The prophet Isaiah, like his counterpart John the Baptizer many years later, knew the desert. He knew the shimmering rays, the mirages, the lakes dwindling in the ... Luther, "since the lions, that is, the disturbers and teachers of traditions, will not be there, but sincere pastors of the Gospel ..." (LW 16, 304) We will have our desert moments and our wilderness times. We will have the jackals tearing at our hearts from time to time ...

905. The Daniel Diet

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to take with you, it should be the first part of verse 8: "But Daniel resolved not to defile himself...." In verses 11 through 16 Daniel requested a special diet for himself and his friends. He said, "Give me and my friends nothing but vegetables to eat and water to ... The people of faith lift up this book as God's authoritative word. I'm so grateful for our Methodist founder John Wesley who declared, "I build on no authority, ancient or modern, but the Scripture. If Scripture supports my doctrine, it will ...

906. The Stiller of Storms

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... or the Apostle Peter strangely torn by strength and weakness, Jesus stands near at hand to whisper, "Peace I leave with you ..." (John 14:27) In our text (Matthew 14) we learn of three different kinds of storms stilled by Jesus. Those storms continue to ... Christians. For Jesus says, "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Matthew 16:26a) But in stilling the storm of selfishness, Jesus deals with individuals. He did not change the multitudes of his day, so he ...

907. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... very clearly when he says, "What the Pharisees were among the Jews, that the Jews were themselves at that time among the nations."16 This approach presents Jesus as role-playing the inner thoughts and attitudes of his followers. It is sort of an "Archie Bunker" approach ... self-esteem, her self-concern. What better picture could we have in the New Testament to summarize the meaning of faith. When John G. Paton went as a missionary to the cannibals of the South Sea Islands, one of the first things he did was ...

908. God’s Great Promise To Sarah!

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... Abraham. The next significant event in Sarah’s life has to do with the truth that "Sarah, Abram’s wife, bore him no children" (Genesis 16:1). According to the customs of that time it was right and generous of Sarah to be willing to let her maid, Hagar bear a child ... to grow with the centuries and comes to fulfillment when the "Word became flesh and lived among us ... full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). So we see in this powerful story the faithfulness of God and the power of God’s promises. Faith in ...

909. Dual Citizenship II - What Do We Owe To God?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... businessman asked a friend in his Bible study group, "Isn't it possible to live a Christian life in secret?" His wise friend replied, "John, it is impossible for you to have Jesus living within you without some of Him leaking out." In I Peter 3:15 we read ... in Jesus' parables are always nameless? We don't have a name for the Good Samaritan or the Prodigal Son. Ah, but here in Luke 16 we have an exception. Not the rich man. Though he was known far and wide on earth, he has no name in this parable. The ...

910. What Makes People Great?

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... shepherds were famous for their accuracy with a sling. "Everyone of them," says the author of the Book of Judges, "could sling a stone at a strand of hair and never miss" (Judges 20:16, TEV). By killing the Philistine giant, David proved most helpful to King Saul. When Jesus spoke about greatness, he said, "If one of you wants to be great, he must be the servant of ... in God, and yours is the victory ... because the Spirit who is in you is greater than the spirit who is in the world" (1 John 4:4, Barclay).

911. How To Be Used By God

1 Samuel 16:14-23

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... was a man of valor; a man of war; a man prudent in speech; a man of good presence, and the Lord was with him (1 Samuel 16:18). His training as a shepherd and as a warrior was excellent. Not only young people, but all of us would do well to continue to ... out of the brook was doing the most significant work of the day. - Eugene H. Peterson* (*Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work, John Knox Press, 1980, pp. 187-188.) Conclusion David didn’t engineer his appointment to Saul’s court. It seemed, in fact, to ...

912. Just Follow The Signs

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... knows exactly where. God loved the world, even nasty, murderous, old King Herod, who tried to kill his only-begotten, just-born Son. "God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). God loved you and me. God’s love for the world expresses itself chiefly in his strong desire for the salvation of the world. Because God loved the world he sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. "God wants all people to be saved ...

913. Secondhand Religion

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... for your guilt and doubt. “To all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God” (John 1:12). The widow needed one thing more. She needed sufficient grace. Even Saint Paul needed to learn that when we see ... first: “She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days” (1 Kings 17:15, 16). God will take care of you if you read his word, believe its promises and put him first. The third faith principle is that faith portrays ...

914. Look Up and Live

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... to turn whinING into anything. Sometimes we might NEED snakes. There is a story of three men who live on a ranch out West, the father John, the sons, Jake and Joe. They never had any use for the church until one day Jake is bitten by a rattlesnake. The doctor is ... ; And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of his glory and grace.(10) Amen! 1. Exodus 16:13-36 2. Barbara Bruce, "Manna," Holman Bible Dictionary, electronic edition, (Hiawatha, IO: Parsons Technology, 1994) 3. Numbers 11:11-15 ...

915. When God Is Gone

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now, the dwelling of God is WITH mortals...with Bill and Bob and Jane and Susan, with Jean and Joan and John and Jack...and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be WITH them and be their God. He will wipe every ... 11) GLORY! That IS good news! Amen! 1. Job 1:1 2. Job 1:10-11 3. Job 1:21 4. Job 2:9 5. Job 7:11, 16 6. Job 2:13 7. Job 4:7-8 8. Robert Bohl, sermon, "What Has Religion Done For You?" The Protestant Hour, 4/20/97 9. Philip Yancey ...

916. Angels

Psalm 91:1-16

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David E. Leininger

... host. Some scholars suggest that a heavenly "host" (i.e. "army") must have order and that references to archangels (I Thess. 4:16; Jude 9) and a special class of angels which has intimate fellowship with God such as the seraphim of Isaiah 6:2- ... us and this whole world so much that God's own son Jesus Christ came to redeem us. Twice the angel messenger in Revelation tells John, "Do not [worship me]! I am a fellow servant with you and with your comrades who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!" (Rev. 19: ...

917. Salvation

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... SAVES and what we are saved FROM is Hell and FOR is heaven. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). We are SAVED by grace through our faith in Jesus. "Are you saved?" is still the question of the TV preachers and tent- ... Gospel writer has it, "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be SAVED" (John 3:17). Salvation is something much more than a promise of "Jesus and I, bye and bye, in the sky." It is nothing less than ...

918. Theology in Snow

Psalm 147:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... snow came down, the thought came up: "Why can't we all become nine-years-old again?" Why? After all, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become as little children...nine-year-olds...you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Amen! 1. Psalm 147:16 2. John 15:11 3. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1964

919. God and Hurricanes

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Beach. Three survivors who became separated from the life raft launched shortly before the tug sank were picked up first by helicopters from the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy. The helicopters then refueled and returned to the scene to pick up the other five men, who were in the raft riding out huge ... /weekly/mcurrent.htm 7. NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, 9/16/99 8. http://dispatch.mail-list.com/archives/heartwarmers/msg00421.html 9. Quoted in The Joyful Noiseletter, April, 1991, p. 5 10. Isaiah 43:2

920. Hang in There!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... his native land). He had been having trouble escaping the demanding crowds; things were dangerous politically (King Herod had recently beheaded his cousin, John the Baptist); he was frustrated in his efforts to make any headway with the religious establishment and he was regularly misunderstood by ... 6.Susan O'Shea, vis PresbyNet, "SERMONSHOP 1996 08 18," #124, 8/16/96 7.David Redding, The Miracles of Christ, (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 140 8.William R. White, Speaking in Stories, (Minneapolis: Augsburg ...

921. Would a Loving God Really Let Anyone Go to Hell?

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... you already have an answer. Whether that answer is truly reflective of the Biblical witness is what we will deal with. Let us hear the word of the Lord: (Luke 16:19-31) Would a loving God really let anyone go to Hell? Our parable seems to indicate the answer is Yes. The righteous will be rewarded with an eternity of ... Matthew 23:14 10. Matthew 25:41, 46; I Thessalonians 1:9 11. John 12:32; Rom. 11:32; I Cor. 15:24-28; I Tim. 2:4-6; etc. 12. C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, (New York; MacMillan, 1946), p. 72

922. Family Resemblance

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... God's people in all that we do. 1. From "Children's Letters to God," compiled by Stuart Hample and Eric Marshall. Cited in "Helping Teens Make Good Choices," by Bob DeMoss, DECISION, October 1995, p. 16. 2. Tony Campolo, CARPE DIEM (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1994), pp. 39-40. 3. John P. Koster, Jr., THE ATHEIST SYNDROME (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1989), p. 26-29, 52-53. 4. THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMEBACKS (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1988), pp. 68-69. 5. Larry H. Winget, THE ...

923. Grumblers Among God's People

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... irritating behavior as adults. Thus, we read in Exodus 16 that the people began to complain and murmur against Moses and Aaron, "We're starving! You just brought us out here to watch us die of hunger." (Exodus 16:13) FIRST WE NEED TO DEFINE A GRUMBLER. Just ... St. Paul. That's a good word for us all. 1. Adapted from a sermon by Dr. Fred Craddock. 2. John White, "Breaking the Grumblers' Grip," LEADERSHIP (Spring, 1993), p. 98. 3. Bob Phillips, THE BEST OF GOOD CLEAN JOKES (Eugene: Harvest House, 1989), p. 93. ...

924. A Powerful Testimony

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, "Who do people say I am?" They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets." "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say ... just over 8 hours. To Mike first place did not count in this race. The Father and son team crossed the finish line in just over 16 hours. As they did Mike cried watching this man and his son rejoice in their achievement. Mike writes, "We may not be running a race as ...

925. Timing

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... then how you walk, not as unwise persons but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil" (Ephesians 5:15-16). We can live our lives joyfully in the service of God, or we can waste them on foolish and evil practices. One thing is certain, ... 9:7), and wise and proper government (10:16-17). But above all, enjoy the work that God has given you to do (2:24; 3:22; 5:18-20), as verse 13 of our text says, for the "night comes, when no one can work" (John 9:4), even death. Ecclesiastes is also ...

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