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976. Jesus and Judgment

Romans 2:11-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is part of God's created order. Because God is righteous, judgment is the divine reaction to sin. In Romans 1:18, St. Paul declared, "God's wrath (or judgment) is revealed from heaven against all human wickedness." In most United Methodist churches ... to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.” The role of Jesus in that judgment is even more explicit in John 5:22: “The Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son." Jesus as judge! That's hard for us to visualize ...

977. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

"Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip?" (John 14:9). So Jesus responded to Philip’s question about wanting to know and sense the presence of God. It ... wrongly positioned in our family, but surely these little things couldn’t separate one from God? Several years ago the country was caught up in the drama of an 18-month-old girl trapped in a deep and narrow abandoned well. For three days the country watched and waited as television crews in pictures and words reported this race ...

978. Wheel Within The Wheel

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... wear yourself out, both you and these people with you. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone. Now listen to me. I will give you counsel ..." (Exodus 18:13-27) His counsel was to get help and to get organized so that the burden of ministry might not only be shared, but be done more effectively. Moses listened and appointed and organized ... the Spirit, remains, the "wheel within the wheel." Amen. 1. Richard O. Hutcheson Jr., Wheel Within The Wheel, John Knox, 1979, p. 16. 2. Ibid., p. 1.

979. Martin Luther: the Shape of Grace

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... Eisleben, Germany. He had been taken there from St. Andrew’s church across the street where he preached his last sermon. On February 18, 1546, he died. From the window of that little East German bedroom you can see St. Anne’s church, where he was baptized ... held in my hands the Bible from the desk Luther used to teach and preach. I turned that book’s old brittle pages to John’s Gospel, chapter 8:31 and read the words again: "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." In large letters ...

980. Jesus, the Suffering Messiah

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... me, one who is eating with me!" They began to be sorrowful, and to say to him one after another, "Is it I?" (Mark 14:18-19). Not one of them was above suspicion! After the supper, Jesus went with his disciples to the Mount of Olives. "And Jesus said to them ... struggled. The disciples slept. When Jesus had finished praying, he came to his disciples. They were asleep. Peter and James and John, the leaders of the twelve, were asleep. "Could you not watch one hour?" Jesus said to them. Obviously they could not ...

981. I Am The Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... not known by others, in a way that satisfies our human longing. "I am the good shepherd." Those were Jesus’ words in our reading from John’s gospel text for this sermon. "I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me ..." These words come gently to ... . That old word from the book of Genesis remains true for us today. "It is not good that we should be alone ..." (Genesis 2:18). It is not good to be unknown people. It is not good to be merely a number in someone else’s counting process. "I have ...

982. All-Out Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... interpretation is that the soul represents the whole person. Man does not have a soul; he is a soul. On December 25, 1747, John Wesley strongly urged the Methodists to renew their covenant with God. His first covenant service was held on August 11, 1755. The ... law." (The Interpreter’s Bible [New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1951] , Vol. 7, p. 847.) "In its original context [Leviticus 19:18] has to do with a man’s fellow Jew. It would not have included the Gentile, whom it was quite permissible to ...

983. What Makes People Great?

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child’ " (Matthew 18:2-4, TEV). Sir Isaac Newton, the British scientist and mathematician, lived from 1642 to 1727. He gave the world three things: a new mathematics; a new insight into the nature 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).

984. Where Can We Find Wisdom?

Proverbs 2:1-22

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... ‘Good master [answered Zacchaeus] - I saw - mirrored in your eyes - the face of the Zacchaeus I was meant to be!’ " John Oxenham has written about this dimensions of God grant us wisdom in these coming days, And eyes unsealed, that we clear ... present. This is the wisdom which looks beyond, "not on things which are seen, but on things that are unseen" (2 Corinthians 4:18, TEV). In one of his stories, "The Higher Pragmatism," the American writer O’Henry faced the question we are facing today: "Where Can ...

985. A Way Back In

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... was being tried by the authorities for adultery Jesus challenged the one who was without sin to cast the first stone. Then he asked a famous question "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" (John 8:10). The woman was given a way back in. All the disciples, with the exception of Judas who sawed off his own limb, were given a way back in as a result of Jesus’ ... back in. ... the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (Proverbs 4:18)

986. What Do We Do Now That We’re Happy?

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... we want at one grand event does not sustain the demands reality puts upon human existence to make dreams come true. * Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windemere’s Fan" Act III, quoted in John Bartlett Familiar Quotations 18th Ed. (Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1980), p. 675. Not to get what we want is equally as tragic. We all know people who longed for love, success, ... justice until at last, ... the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (Proverbs 4:18)

987. Commanded By Example

John 13:31-38

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... night of his earthly life. His instructions were so important that all four Gospels report them at some length. One-fourth of the Gospel of John is devoted to that eventful night in the Upper Room. You can read it in chapters 13 through 17. Among the first words Jesus said ... what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge" (Ephesians 3:18-19). Look at the BREADTH of Jesus’ love. It is as the sea. People set narrow limits for their love - limits ...

988. The Technicolor Sign

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Larry Powell

... him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. (John 3:16) The bow is still in the clouds, and the Cross yet hangs above the altar as God’s signature upon his irrevocable covenant. If ... Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me" (Luke 18:22). Unwilling to give up his reserves and affix his signature to the covenant, "he went away sad." What do you hold in ...

989. How To Be Used By God

1 Samuel 16:14-23

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... 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 study ... 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 ...

990. Even The Demons Believe!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... demons know that Jesus is the Son of God who was manifested for this very purpose, "that he might destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8). The deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus is made manifest to us not only by virtue of the fact that the demons recognized ... of tragedy this demon can cause to happen. Plano lived through the nightmare of multiple suicides. Six young people, aged 14 to 18, took their lives, leaving that community wondering what in the world was going on. A boy and a girl, both 17, killed ...

991. Overcoming Loneliness

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ago: "And the Lord said, It is not good that man should be alone. I will make a helpmate for him" (Genesis 2:18). There is an old Swedish proverb: "Shared joy is a double joy. Shared sorrow is half a sorrow." The wisdom of Paul ... out of isolation." Some people take a devilish joy in not liking people. In his book, How to Live 365 Days a Year, Dr. John A. Schindler says, "Some people dislike everybody: They dislike practically everyone from the President, whom they have never met, to their next-door neighbor ...

992. As We Remember - Memorial Day

1 Chronicles 11:10-25

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... life on earth. Death is real, but the believer relies on the word of his Lord, "If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life" (John 11:25, New English Bible). The life to which he comes is to be with Christ and to be "changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another" (2 Corinthians 3:18). But heaven in its eternal fullness, the God-relationship in its perfection, awaits the final triumph of Christ and the resurrection of all the dead. Then God’s purpose for his whole ...

993. Christian Thanksgiving

Philippians 1:1-7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... standard of living, our opportunity to make the most of our capacities. In the 1962 Thanksgiving Day proclamation, President John F. Kennedy summarized well the meaning of Thanksgiving both for our nation’s past and for its future: "Over ... radiates into the world. We do not give thanks in the spirit of the Pharisee, "I thank thee that I am not like other men" (Luke 18:11). Franklin D. Elmer in a little poem "On Giving Thanks" expresses the true spirit: "Shall I thank God For bread, And for the safety Of ...

994. Hated, Excluded, Reviled, Defamed — And Leaping For Joy

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

William G. Carter

... has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free” (Luke 4:18). Jesus stood and said, “This is the day! God will win over poverty, captivity, blindness, and oppression.” So as he heals here in chapter ... anonymous. But according to Jesus Christ, the future belongs to them. 1. Fred B. Craddock, Luke (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1990), p. 87. 2. Thomas G. Long, “Preaching God’s Future: The Eschatological Context of Christian ...

995. A Secret Is Finally Revealed

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and for me. 1. Leonard Griffith, Ephesians: A Positive Affirmation (Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1975), p. 15. 2. Fred Anderson, “Discovering Your Destiny,” The Madison Avenue Pulpit, 4 January, 1998. 3. David Buttrick, Preaching the New and the Now (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998), p. 18. 4. As told by C. A. McClain in Good News for Off Seasons (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979), pp. 23-24, 31-32. 5. Ibid. * If you are to this point in your quest for authenticity, you will note that in the ...

996. When Life Gets Hard, Christian, Rebel!

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity. — 2:18-23 All life is unjust, the Preacher of Ecclesiastes laments. But it is especially unjust for the oppressed: Again I saw all the oppressions ... life will not prevail! 1. Martin Luther, Christ’s Resurrection and Its Benefits (n.d.), in Sermons of Martin Luther, ed. John Nicholas Lenker (8 vols.; reprint ed.; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1988), Vol. II, p. 224. 2. Albert Camus, The ...

997. Good Friday: The Three Crosses

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... placed at the top of the cross (Euseb., "Hist. Eccl", V, 1; Suet., Caligula", xxxviii and "Domit." x; Matt., xxvii, 37; John, xix, 19). Slaves were crucified outside of Rome in a place called Sessorium, beyond the Esquiline Gate; their execution was entrusted ... Eccl.", I, viii; Schol. Juvenal., XIV, 78; Niceph., VII, 46; Cassiod., "Hist. Trip.", I, 9; Codex Theod., IX, 5, 18). Thereafter, this punishment was very rarely inflicted (Eus., "Hist. Eccl.", IV, xxxv; Pacat., "Paneg.", xliv). Towards the fifth ...

998. A Tsunami Appeal

Sermon

Eric Hudson

Jeremiah 31:7-16 Ephesians 1:3-14 St John 1:10-18 A few days ago, in the middle of the week, I had come to the conclusion that I would have nothing to say to you this morning. I felt drained. The developing news of what was happening in south east Asia was just too much. What can you say in ...

999. But God...

Genesis 50:15-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... well, why bother? Roll the dice and take your chances. There are several stories in scripture that sound like they fit right in with that mindset. In Joshua 18, land distribution is determined by casting lots; in Nehemiah 11, they cast lots to see who would be the first settlers in Jerusalem after the exile; then there ... Sources, 1979), 134 in Homiletics, J/S, 94, p. 5 2. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 1995 3. Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall, 1981 4. Genesis 45:5-8a 5. Acts 2:22-24 6. Romans 8:28

1000. Sunday Dinner

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Jesus' commandment to "Love your neighbor as yourself." It is worth our attention. Listen to a portion of it. Leviticus 19:1-18 Solid teaching, not only for ancient Israel, but for any society that would be truly moral and just. In the midst of ... for family, for assurance that we are not alone in this world is surely fed. How does it happen? No one can explain it. As John Calvin said, "I rather experience it than understand it." Once when a preacher was marrying a young couple, he put the usual question: "Do ...

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