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Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... who one day was stunned to find out that he had ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. For years he was tenderly cared for by his wife. I used to visit them almost weekly and watch ... pay back. We want our "pound of flesh." The same crowd that had cheered on Sunday praising Jesus was cheering again on Friday. But this time they were cheering for blood ... the carpenter's son. This is the Son of God! This is the second person of the Trinity! This is the Son of the creator of the cosmos! We are playing with fire here. We ...

77. How Unexpected Can Christmas Be?

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... reasons that dismissing this passage would be an easy task. Yet, the church includes this lesson or one like it on the first Sunday of Advent of every year. It isn't just Matthew who thinks these are timely and important words. By including this as a lectionary text the church has ... . 1. Fred Craddock, et al., Preaching Through the Christian Year A (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992), p. 9. 2. Paul J. Achtemeier, General Editor, Harper's Bible Dictionary (San Francisco: Harper, 1985), p. 630.

78. Cut Down Lifted Up

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sayers had one of the simplest and most helpful explanations of the puzzling doctrine of the Trinity I know of. She uses the example of a book. She notes that at first the ... God..." That is who he is. We need to focus on who Christ is this Palm Sunday. WE ALSO NEED TO CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS DONE IN OUR BEHALF. St. Paul tells us he ... of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Lasorda accepted a fee to wear a certain shoe a few years back when the Dodgers were in the World Series. Then another manufacturer made a similar offer, ...

79. The Vastness of Relationships

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

John N. Brittain

At this time of year, the Christmas and Epiphany seasons, various preachers, teachers, and Sunday school lessons remind us that we sometimes overdo things in our Christmas pageants and Christmas cards by mixing distinct ... help us. Paul (or the later disciple of his who penned this letter) has so much to say about God, the relationship of the various members of the Trinity to one another and to us, and our relationship to God and the vastness of the Creator's work that it just all spills out. It is about the ...

80. Commanded By Example

John 13:31-38

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... each other. They actually seem ready to kill." Several years ago a former member of our church came to me with ill-will in his heart and said: "I have never heard you ‘bawl out’ people on Sunday mornings. You need to get some hellfire and ... make good Christians. We love him because we want to love him. After hearing my answer the man left, saying he would not be back in Trinity church again. My heart was sad, because I felt that I had failed. The words of Dean Swift came to mind "We have just enough ...

81. Greed or the Gospel?

Acts 8:9-13, 18-24

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... for a long time with his magic. He had quite a reputation, wouldn’t you say? I remember as an eighteen-year-old kid preaching to six people on Sunday morning. An old gentleman in that congregation told me every week he would rather listen to me preach than Billy ... church in America. The Trinity Broadcast Network, owned and operated by Paul and Jan Crouch, collects $170 million dollars a year, mostly from contributions in amounts of $50 or less. Paul and Jan receive over $750,000 a year in annual salary, ...

82. Receive The Holy Spirit

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Larry Powell

... paragraph packaging the sum-total of the Third Person of the Trinity, form and function described in detail. The really distressing thing would ... know how many other congregations are of the "get-out-of-my-way" mentality following worship on Sunday mornings, but there is at least one and when a new member or a new Christian is ... was because Joey invited my wife and our five children that we are here. Joey's 75-year-old grandfather and his dear wife are also here tonight and we want to do whatever is necessary ...

83. Stay in the City

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . Those two holy days teach the major doctrines of our faith: the Incarnation, and the Crucifixion-Resurrection. But there are others, such as Ascension, Pentecost, and Trinity, which come in rapid succession this time of year, one right after another. Each one celebrates an important and distinctive feature of the Christian faith. This Sunday is Ascension Sunday, so we will look at that doctrine using the gospel lesson for this morning, Luke's description of that event. According to Luke, Jesus appeared to ...

84. Abba! Father!

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

Ron Love

... a poem of hope for Christmas Day, which was titled Silent Night, Holy Night. Two years later Mohr asked his friend, organist and teacher Franz Xaver Gruber, to set the poem ... . It was during the Civil War that John Freeman Young, a priest serving Trinity Episcopal Church on Wall Street in New York City, wrote the English translation for ... the peoples of this world….” This is Paul’s message for us this first Sunday after Christmas. Jesus’ loving embrace of the world has conquered the evil that surrounds ...

85. Aha! An Epiphany!

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Buckminster Fuller realized he existed to serve humanity. This is the first Sunday in the church season of Epiphany. This should be a time of ... we are unable to control. Dick Emmons wrote a humorous but somewhat plaintive little poem that was published years ago in Golf Digest. It went like this: I bought a set of brand-new clubs And rushed ... epiphany. He writes, “That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in and admitted God was God, and knelt and prayed.” C ...

86. Wrinkled Wrappings

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... , "We will not be having much, just some Christmas leftovers." On the first Sunday after Christmas that is just about the way it is in various ways. ... not have him, we are not sure how to get him. The Spirit is the third person of the Trinity; he is God, for God is Spirit. He comes to us through the Word of God and the ... Bible in a trash can ready to be burned. Americans throw away millions of tons of garbage a year, but now cities are finding they can turn garbage into profits. Out of every ton of garbage ...

87. Torn Curtain

Luke 23:44-49, Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... that was rent in two on that cross 2,000 years ago. It was the curtain that veiled death--the curtain that separates us from those who have gone before us. We’ll talk more about that next Sunday, Easter Sunday. Do you recall the name Lee Iacocca? Iacocca is still ... sermons from 250 years of American Protestant preaching, 1740-1990 (Richmond, VA: Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1990). Cited at http://www.preachtext.com/SRRSample/Sample.html. 6. Rev. Adrian Dieleman, Trinity Christian Reformed Church, ...

88. When Christ Is King

Colossians 1:11-20

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... is the most important matter, the one with the most power for us, personally. On Christ the King Sunday this is a great day to see what this means — whether we like the language of king or ... in God and Spirit. Here we are using the word Christ, aware that the Trinity is also being invoked. Tillich said that people filled with the Spirit are ... ... and show off some of their toys ... one year it came to be my turn and I had nothing to offer ... It had been a difficult year and my parents were not able to buy ...

89. Elvis and the King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... the two men: Jesus said: “Love thy neighbor.” . . . Elvis said: “Don’t be cruel.” Jesus is part of the Trinity; Elvis’ first band was a trio. Jesus is the Lord’s shepherd; Elvis dated Cybil Sheppard, etc . . . You will find many ... , Elvis fans proudly proclaim the message of the King.” (1) Welcome on this last Sunday of the Christian year. In some churches today is celebrated as “Christ the King” Sunday. In others it is celebrated simply as the Reign of Christ. And the simple question ...

90. Fish Bait

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Don't be afraid; from now on you will catch people." Or in the words of the old Sunday School ditty that comes from this story, "I will make you fishers of men, fishers of men..." ... This past week I read a fascinating book that has been on my list for a couple of years but I just now got around to it. It was written by a magazine columnist and author, ... Windows, (Hiawatha, IO: Parsons Technology, 1994) 2. Pastor Bill Mains, Trinity Lutheran Church, South Milwaukee, WI, sermon entitled, "Fishin'", via Ecunet, ...

91. One to Take the Place of Jesus

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... presence and power of the Holy Spirit. So, on this Pentecost Sunday, let’s do that. Let’s concentrate on the third person of the Trinity. Let’s forget all the theological arguments. Let’s not ... us of what Jesus has said. Fred Morris was one of our United Methodist missionaries who was seized and tortured by the Brazilian military two or three years ago. He was shocked into unconsciousness time after time, and yet, his faith brought him through. And a very personal faith it was. He said: “I did ...

92. The Best Little Harlot's House in Jericho

Hebrews 11:31

Sermon

Will Willimon

... disobedient, because she had given friendly welcome to the spies.” (Hebrews 11:31) Oh, I can hear it now. Arnold Jones, Trinity College 1938, accosts me at the door of the Chapel after the service. “Is it not enough that I come to ... of sainthood. But I submit that any person who is capable of running a third grade Sunday School class without receiving or administering bodily injury and still is able to convert a few eight year old pagans along the way has got more to commend her for God's work than ...

93. A Breeze In The Dark

John 3:1-21

Sermon

William G. Carter

... of Bible stories and theological doctrines. Guinness says Holy Trinity Church in Eastbourne was crammed with confirmation candidates, their parents ... haunts me for another reason, namely, that it sounds surprisingly familiar. On a bright Sunday morning, it is easy to affirm what we believe. As the familiar verse we' ... ." At the age of 41, Guinness returned to the church. He does not have much to say about the years in between. Once in a while he read a religious book, or visited a worship service, or spent the ...

94. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... escape by trying harder or being better; it is our world. This event from fifty years ago is a picture of the spiritual world into which Jesus came. A malevolent, deadly ... Christian church. Jesus is the human face of God and the second person of the Holy Trinity standing sweaty and lean in front of us, asking for us to pay attention. Where Jesus ... in the place where God is experienced as absent. You may be bored in church one Sunday and the person next to you be in the midst of some spiritual rapture which defies ...

95. No Partiality

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... only a few hours per week at my laptop, I'll be earning six figures a year doing something — I'm not exactly sure what. If I was serious about all this, ... the Son; a message of how God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit (all three persons of the Trinity!), how God raised Jesus, and how God chose the witnesses to Jesus, among whom Peter finds himself. Compare ... but beats up on his opponents (not in the gospels) like Billy Sunday and advocates of twentieth-century "muscular Christianity." There is the totally ...

96. Ignite: Fire Extinguishers

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... without a piano and an organ? You mean you don’t sing “Amazing Grace” every Sunday at exactly 11:13am? Understand, there is nothing wrong with tradition. Tradition can be a ... alligator to a fire-hydrant in Detroit. In Maui County, Hawaii, children must be 12 years old to play on a busy highway. In Kern County, California, it is illegal ... that right now. There are some issues we should be willing to die for – The Trinity, the Deity of Jesus, His atoning death, and salvation by grace through faith and the ...

97. Sola Fide

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... affirms the Trinity that God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit were together at the beginning of creation and are equal representatives of God. I hope that when we come to worship this first Sunday after our great Easter celebration, and for every Sunday in the ... may best be under- stood by how he died. Peter was in Rome when Emperor Nero began persecuting the church in the year 64. Peter was arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced to death by crucifixion. Peter demanded that he be crucified upside down for he did ...

98. God, The Son

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... . He said, "Of course I'll help." I asked if he wanted to see the text before Sunday, and he said, "No." That was okay with me and I think it went well without practice. ... get to me until during the last hymn! The first sermon in this series on the Trinity is set after Jesus has begun his ministry (see the sermon after next) and the third ... ? Marshall: I kept using him in my conscience to measure how I was doing. Over the years, I found his teachings, his actions, and his attitudes to be right on target. Once in ...

99. Yada, Yada, Yada

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... only the sound of thunder. Dr. James B. Lemler was preaching one time about the Trinity. He told about a couple of parents who had gone home from his church and during Sunday lunch were talking about his sermon. In the midst of their conversation, their second-grade ... of God in human affairs. Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine . . .” Many of us were moved a few years back when the story came out about how the D.C. snipers were apprehended. Do you remember in October 2002 when those ...

100. Angels Announce His Coming

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... the loud playing band and the flag-draped platform; right past the ladies and gentlemen in their Sunday best. For Lincoln had just come to visit and say thank you to an eight-year-old girl. (1) Somehow that seems like a Christmas story to me. It is children who ... authored the hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem." In 1869 Brooks became rector of Trinity Church in Boston, where he remained for 22 years. During those years, that massive church was filled by large congregations who flocked to hear Brooks preach. ...

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