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76. A Man With a Scalpel and a Pen

Acts 16:6-10

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... We could call him Dr. Luke, because we read that he was "Luke, the beloved physician" (Colossians 4:14). Actually, we know very little about the man. We do know that he was a doctor. That ... well-known stories: of Mary and Martha preparing a big meal for Jesus and the disciples (Luke 10:38-42) ... of the widow of Nain and the funeral of her son (Luke 7:11-15) ... of the healing ... of the angel to Zacharias, the father of John the Baptizer (Luke 1:5-23) ... of the annunciation of the angel Gabriel to the virgin Mary ...

77. Don't Let the Parade Pass You By

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the people and even some of their animals. He had probably said to his friend John in Bethphage, "Look, I’m going to need to borrow your colt during Passover. I ... the time. It is where Jews congregate to pray. Jesus’ haunting statement in verse 42 demands our attention. He said, "If you only knew the things that make for ... 4, 2000 issue, p. 40. 3. Davis, Patti, Angels Don’t Die, cited in the Quoteletter, December, 1996. 4. Dobson, James, When God Doesn’t Make Sense, (Tyndale: Wheaton, 1993), p. 153. 5 ...

78. Are You Sorry Enough to Wash Your Face?

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... . On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister became the first man in history to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. Within two months, John Landy eclipsed the record by 1.4 seconds. On August 7, 1954, the two met for a historic race. As they moved into the last lap, Landy ... the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:5-6). Job, changing the tenor of his previous calls, recognized that his earlier cries for explanation now paled in significance to his ...

79. The Servant Song

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the morning forms the third Servant Song in Second Isaiah, the others being Isaiah 42:1-4; 49:1-6; and the famous Suffering Servant Song in Isaiah 52:13—53:12, which we will treat ... be his fate! Yet, he does not shrink from his task, given him by God (v. 5). He sets his face “like a flint” (cf. the Greek of Luke 9:51) to proclaim ... the week of his passion. Our Lord speaks and does only what he hears from God (cf. John 8:28). He willingly accepts the suffering that comes with that ministry. “Not my will, but ...

80. May Christ Be Born In You

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... John the Baptist. Something just doesn't seem right. It seems that we are in the wrong place. Or at the very least John ... straight." Somehow John the Baptist ... John the Baptist showed up. While it is true that the people of old were awaiting the arrival of the Messiah, they were taken by surprise by John ... ." John ... John the Baptist was out in the desert proclaiming that ... of coming home. John the Baptist's ... . (4) ... ." (5) ... John the ... John Oglivie. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1976. 4. Op. cit. WHEN THE HEART WAITS. Kidd. 5 ...

81. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... reason that it is so utterly offensive to modern sensibilities. Jesus believed in the devil; so did John Wesley; so does Pastor Phil, and for two reasons: the Bible tells me he is real, and ... , Christian, Evangelical & Democrat (Nashville, TN: Abington, 2006). 4. The four classic marks of the church from the Nicene Creed. 5. Matthew 6:1-4. 6. Matthew 6:16-18. 7. For a ... eternity—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.” 12. Among them Is. 42:14, 49:15, 66:13, Lk. 13:34b. 13. For treatments of this position ...

82. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of it. Koinonia means sharing, all kinds of sharing: sharing in friendship (Acts 2:42), being partners in the Gospel (Phil. 1:5), sharing material possessions (2 Cor. 8:4), having fellowship in Christ (1 Cor. 1:9), and sharing life together in the ... it isn’t bent on always testing who is strong and who is weak. People who sense this power have about them what John Ruskin called “an under sense of powerlessness.” Martin Luther King witnessed to this. He described the power dynamic of the shared life ...

83. Via Maris

Luke 4:14-30, Matthew 4:12-17, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:23-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Derech HaYam (Is 9:1 and Matt 4:15), was known as the Way of the ... such as Sepphoris, about 3.5 miles from the Jewish ... in Galilee (Luke 4:14-30) Simon (called Peter) and Andrew, James and John (Matthew 4:12-25) ... John the Baptizer is arrested, and he calls his first Disciples: Simon (called Peter) and Andrew, James and John (Mark 1:14-25 or 45) Jesus Calls His First Disciples from those of John the Baptizer: Andrew and Simon Peter; Jesus Returns to Galilee and Bethsaida) and Calls Philip and Nathanael (John ...

84. Seeing God In The Ordinary: Friends

John 11:1-45

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... see the glory of God?" [41] So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. [42] I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that ... Story File (Saratoga Press, P.O. Box 8, Platteville, CO, 80651, February 2002 4. Adapted: John C. Maxwell and Dan Reiland, The Treasure of a Friend (J. Countryman Books, 1999) 5. Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D, Walden Media and New Line ...

85. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... Wisdom (Lexington, Massachusetts:The Stephen Greene Press, 1988). 4. The Romance of Victory by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (Pawling, N.Y.:Foundation for Christian Living, 1979) pp. 28-29. 5. Christianity Today, October 5, 1992, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “A Prisoner of ... . Tony Campolo. Following Jesus Without Embarrassing God (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1997), pp. 41-42. 10. W. Herschel Ford, Simple Sermons from the Gospel of John, vol. 2, (Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan Press, 1958), p. 223. Cited in Living ...

86. The Potter Almighty

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... form that the potter intends. And to live life praying as Jesus himself prayed to God as he faced the cross: "... not my will but yours be done" (Luke 22:42). To pray as Jesus taught us to pray: "... Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). And then to live life as in the ... , 1955). 3. Martin Marty. Righteous Remarks, (quoting Abraham Lincoln), p. 65. 4. The Presbyterian Hymnal, 293 (Westminster/John Knox Press 1990). 5. The Hymnbook, 302 (Presbyterian Church in the United Staets, 1955)

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

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... this what a Christian would do?" To be sure, we will still have questions. As John Leith, one of our denomination's most respected teachers of theology, wrote about the controversy ... the night before the crucifixion, his prayer in Gethsemane was "Not what I want but what you want" (Matt. 26:42). It must have been a horrifying time for him, knowing what was about to happen. But after he made ... 4. Psalm 139:14 5. Quoted by Jon Winokur, Ed., The Portable Curmudgeon, (New York: New American Library, 1987), p. 32 6 ...

88. I Believe That Jesus Was Conceived By The Holy Spirit

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... BEST. That’s the message of John 3:16 : “For God so ... 4) The National College Health Assessment Survey found that 71 percent of college students are sexually active. (5 ... what St. Paul taught us in Second Corinthians 5:21, which is becoming one of my ... Christ died for us.” (Rom. 5:8) “Therefore, there is now ... became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” (John 1:14) How did Jesus come among us ... 4) Howell, Op. Cit., p. 55. (5) The Commercial Appeal newspaper, Memphis, TN, Friday, March 23, 2007 issue, p. A.4 ...

89. Remembering Charlie

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."(4) But this morning I want to take the part of old Job ( ... stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers? (Job 38:2-4 TEV) On and on an indignant God goes...three chapters worth, not of answers, but ... all I have said and repent in dust and ashes."(5) One commentator writes, "I have a hunch God could have ... and that is enough." Amen! 1. "Two Cathedrals," NBC, 5/16/01, John Wells Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. ...

90. Safely Through The Waters

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... and in contrast to the wrath and punishment of the Lord (Isaiah 42:18-25), now comes a new thing. "But now thus says the ... as God can command the four winds, which are his servants (Psalm 104:4), so God can command the four quarters of the earth to give up ... name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made" (vv. 5-6). This is the restoration of the people chosen and beloved by God ... need to stand under the bright light of Christ's judgment. John the Baptist made that clear in his preaching about Jesus: He ...

91. The View from the Mountaintop

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... back from the mountain. Life is lived in the valley. But for Peter, James and John, life in the valley would never be the same again. For despite the fights ... 2. ibid., p. 88 3. ibid., p. 16 4. ibid., p. 75 5. Clifton Fadiman, Gen. Ed., The Little, Brown Book ... of Anecdotes, (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1985), p. 358 6. Watson F. Pindell, Milestones to Immortality (Baltimore: Role Models, Inc., 1988), p. 30 7. ibid., p. 94 8. ibid., pp. 8-9 9. ibid., p. 42 ...

92. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... pain, no more war... a time when every valley would be exalted and every mountain made a plain. Peter, James, and John had seen who was in charge, and with the lyric of the spiritual that slaves of Lincoln’s day would sing, ... 4. Ed. Robert R, Mathisen, “Good Men and Angels Will Cry Out,” The Routledge Sourcebook of Religion and the American Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2015), 447. 5 ... . 11. Watson F. Pindell, Milestones, 8-9. 12. Milestones, 42. 13. Milestones, 78-79. 14. Milestones, 37. 15. Milestones ...

93. The Power of the Trust Factor

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you" (Job 42:1-5). Today's scripture stands as an immoveable rock of trust when we come to moments like those ... disciples, "And you know the way to the place where I am going" (v. 4). The Lord could say this because he has been speaking about the faith that ... evening? Where will you go when you die? Jesus says, "Because I live, you also will live" (John 14:19). But, where will we live forever? That is the most important question that will ever ...

94. God's GPS

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... on the right path. That path was the Lord’s “highway of holiness,” as Isaiah would later put it (35:4-35:8): “it shall be for His people as they walk in His way.” In fact, one of the most prominent ... John (Mark’s Witness) Jesus Begins His Ministry in Galilee (Luke’s Witness) Jesus Calls His First Disciples from Those of John the Baptizer: Andrew and Simon Peter; Jesus returns to Galilee (Bethsaida) and calls Philip and Nathanael (John’s Witness) The Acts of the Apostles (Chapter 5: 12-42 ...

95. Christ's Grand Entrance Song

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... Then, turning to the man sitting next to her, she asked, “How many is a Brazilian?” (4) No one is sure how many angels make up a heavenly army, but I’d say it ... and repent in dust and ashes.” (Job 42:5, 6). When God appeared to Isaiah, Isaiah cried out, “Woe is me for I am undone!” (Isaiah 6:5). When God appeared to Daniel with visions ... 5:8). When Christ appeared to John as recorded in the Book of the Revelation, he said, “When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead” (Revelation 1:17). (5) The ...

96. Nobody’s Too Good To Repent

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... -Fortress Press, 1955ff.), p.291. [3] Dean Hamer, The God Gene, pp.72ff.; Anthony Walsh, The Science of Love. [4] John Calvin, “Commentary On the Book of the Prophet Isaiah” (1550), in Calvin’s Commentaries, Vol. VIII/2, trans. James Anderson ( ... p.156. [5] Clement of Alexandria, “The Stomata” (194), in Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol.2, eds. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (2nd print.; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1995), p.353. [6] Benedict XVI, God Is Love (Vatican: Ignatius Press, 2006), pp.42-43. [7 ...

97. Praying With Bloody Knuckles

Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

William L. Self

... ), and his enemies (Luke 23:34). He also prayed for laborers (Luke 10:2) and for all of those who follow him (John 17:20). As Charles Spurgeon reminds us, "Some mercies are not given to us except in answer to importunate prayer. There are ... spiritual energy caught in these words. After Job prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous again (Job 42:10). Paul reminds us to pray without ceasing. The writer's love for Jerusalem and for his God ... . 4. Foster, p. 197. 5. Fosdick, p. 190. 6. Fosdick, p. 191.

98. How's Your Serve?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared." [41] When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. [42] So Jesus called them and said to them, "You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. [ ... Pastor's Story File (Saratoga Press, P.O. Box 8, Platteville, CO, 80651; 970-785-2990), Jun, 1984 4. Author Unknown 5. Homiletics, October 19, 03A, Volume 10, Number ...

99. Big Boys Do Cry

Joel 2:1-2,12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... times when it is particularly appropriate to cry. First of all, it’s all right to cry over the state of our nation. In Luke 19:41-42 we read, “As [Jesus] approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day what ... . Cited in Dr. Kevin Leman, Keeping Your Family (Colorado Springs, Colorado: Focus on the Family, 1993). 4. Contributed. Source unknown. 5. John W. James and Frank Cherry, The Grief Recovery Handbook (New York: Harper & Row), pp. 44-45. ...

100. Our Magnificent, Mysterious, Mischievous God

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the greatest theologian of the Reformation. It was William Carey, a humble shoemaker who became the father of modern missionary enterprise when he took the gospel to India. There was John R. Mott, a businessman at the turn of this century who was convinced that Christian churches would present a better witness to the world if we could only begin to ... from our magnificent, mysterious, even mischievous God. Amen! 1. 1 Kings 11:23-25 2. II Kings 2:19-22 3. II Kings 4:1-7 4. II Kings 4:8-37 5. II Kings 4:42-44

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