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101. The Gospel in Miniature

John 3:16

Sermon

King Duncan

... full of selfishness and pettiness and prejudice—to God’s holy, sacrificial, unending love, we can see immediately that human love is often a counterfeit love: half of it is a pretty darn good reproduction, the rest is a fraud. How do we measure what real love is? John 3:16 is what real love is all about. “For God so loved the world . . .” The verse begins by announcing that God loved us, all of us, even before we loved Him. It would be nice if it said that we first loved God. The truth of the matter ...

102. A Man Who Wanted to Burn a City

Luke 9:46-50

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R. Blaine Detrick

... For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). Only by John. All of this, with numerous additional examples that could he cited, constitutes a remarkable bundle of Christian Scripture that we would not possess - if John had not put it down in writing. Son of Thunder John’s personality was in conflict with itself; he was a strange mixture of qualities. Most people are the same way: sometimes one thing ...

103. Translucent Grace

Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36, Revelation 1:9-20, Revelation 2:12-17

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Lori Wagner

... ! Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word ... of God) with every follower who becomes part of that community of light and truth.^^ *See for exp. Gen 30:32-40; Daniel 7:9; Exod 16:31; Levit 13; Eccles 9:8; Zech 1:8, 6:3, 6:6; Isaiah 40:4; Jer 17:9; Hosea 6:8 Song 5:10; Isaiah ...

104. God So Loved the World

John 3:1-21

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Richard A. Jensen

... told Nicodemus that a person must be born anew or born again in order to see the kingdom of God. "How can one be born when one is old?" Nicodemus wondered aloud. Jesus proceeds to answer Nicodemus’ question. The verses from John 3:14-21 are part of Jesus’ answer to Nicodemus. Let us look first at John 3:14-16: And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son ...

105. The Lacking Christian?

Matthew 14:13-21

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Dennis Kastens

... . Besides physical impoverishment, other trials likewise have come to believers over the years. We read of Joseph being sold by his brethren (Genesis 37:27-28); of Sarah’s being barren (Genesis 16:1); of Mary and Martha saddened by their brother’s death (John 11:19); of Peter being imprisoned (Acts 12:3-4); of Paul and Silas scourged (Acts 16:22-24); and of Paul saddened by Demas’s return to the world (2 Timothy 4:10). If we turn to church history, we note similar experiences. Monica’s heart was ...

106. God's Christmas List

John 3:16

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James Merritt

... you are or what you have done. It doesn't matter how many times you have turned your back on God, walked away from God, disobeyed God, denied God or forsaken God. God loves you. In fact, God can't help Himself. The Bible says in I John 4:16, "God is love." (I John 4:16, NASB) Look at that carefully. It doesn't say that God loves. It says He is love. The reason you are alive, the reason your heart is beating, the reason your lungs are breathing right now is because God loves you and God made you to in ...

107. No Greater Love

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... lay down our lives for one another. How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action" (1 John 3:16-18). The early Jerusalem church put it into practice: "All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need" (Acts 2:44-45). You and I are called to make this ...

108. The Dishonest Manager

Luke 16:1-13

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Richard Hasler

... of money, whereas the second part is a view of money that is spiritually fatal.[2] Luke had much to say about wealth and poverty in his gospel. For example in the following passages: the song of Mary (1:46-55), the sermons of John the Baptist (3:10-14), the prophecy of Isaiah (61:1-2) (4:16-30), blessings and woes (6:20-25), the parable of the rich fool (12;1-21), warnings against anxiety 12:22-31), advice to guests and hosts (14:7-14), and the two parables in chapter one. At the conclusion of this parable ...

109. This Spirit Is Not Spooky

John 14:15-21

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire" (Luke 3:16). The presence of only one article before "Holy Spirit" and "fire" in the Greek text in this passage suggests that John means the description to speak of only one baptism. The Holy Spirit comes like fire, the symbol of purification that sanctifies us and makes us fit for heaven. On Pentecost Day, we see the Holy Spirit likened ...

110. God So Loved

John 3:16-17

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Will Willimon

... work of human sin gets sidetracked into glorious divine redemption. The prophet is sent not to scold but to save. The preacher has come to lift up, not to tear down. Look at the cross, the Lenten preacher says, see what you did to Jesus! Look at the cross, John 3:16 says, see what God does for you. A parable I heard years ago: Once there was a mean, old rancher. He was a tough man, who didn't take nothing off nobody. One of his cowhands rustled a cow. When they finally caught the cowhand, they dragged him ...

111. Prescription on a Pole

John 3:1-21

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David J. Kalas

... to be just a strange little incident in the desert, and it becomes a grand foreshadowing of the grandest event of all. Now, as Jesus connects the dots for us in John 3, that peculiar pole becomes the cross. And, more remarkable still, Jesus becomes the bronze serpent. The familiar passage moves beyond the reference to the serpent on a pole. Verses 16 and 17 state marvelously the motive and purpose of God. It is surely an essential part of the proclamation of the gospel to report not only what God did but ...

112. Competition In The Kingdom?

Matthew 20:17-19

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Mark Ellingsen

... at the top of the list (Matthew 10:1-4; Mark 3:14-19; Luke 6:13-16). Along with Peter, James and John were the three disciples whom Jesus wanted with him when he struggled with his anxieties in prayer at the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:37; Mark 14-33). Some believe, at least according to John's own version of the gospel, that John was the beloved disciple to whom Jesus actually entrusted his mother as he was dying (John 19:25-27). No doubt about it, these two sons of Zebedee were truly devoted to Jesus ...

113. The Empty Tomb

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

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Mark Ellingsen

... When the story of the empty tomb is proclaimed, the usual reaction is disbelief, confusion or apathy. In some cases, the hearers decide to keep the news as a secret (Mark 16:8; cf. John 20:10). Or, as in our gospel lesson for today, Jesus' followers fail to understand (John 20:9), react apathetically (John 20:10), or despair (John 20:11). It is only when Jesus' followers experience the Risen Lord, only in the appearance tradition stories, is the certainty of belief in the resurrection (without fear) assured ...

114. Good Works Will Not Save You!

John 14:15-31

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Mark Ellingsen

... still to be obligated to fulfill God's law, and we are powerless to do what the law of God commands. Thank God, though, that things have changed because of Easter. Jesus talks about the gift of the Holy Spirit that he is giving his followers (John 14:16-18). But what good will that do us? How has the gift of the Holy Spirit made us different from the old selfish sinners we have always been? Besides, where is the Holy Spirit? We have no extraordinary manifestations of the Spirit, no miracles happening, in ...

115. Jesus or Niccolo?

Matthew 4:1-11

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... from the Father but from the world. And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live for ever. (1 John 2:15-17) Remember, too, Saint Paul's anguish from his words in the second half of Romans 7, when he says among other things, "I find ... of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches -- comes not from the Father but from the world" (1 John 2:16). Think about this: "The desire of the flesh" is an ungodly inward call to satisfy the things of the body. For Jesus ...

116. Where's God?

John 16:12-15

Sermon

David Coffin

... which is often called the gospel in a nutshell, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16 RSV). The promise to the person who is now unemployed is: God does not want any of God’s creation to perish and does want them to have eternal life. Later in John 10:10, this God in the flesh named Jesus would say he wants us to have life and have it abundantly. This God promises both a length of life and quality of life ...

117. Love Sender

John 3:1-21

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James Merritt

... the why of Christmas and he tells us the one key word that even makes Christmas possible and that is the word “love.” “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16, ESV) Everything flows from three words in that verse, “God so loved.” The love that God has given us at Christmas is a love we are to give to others. Key Take Away: Love is giving to the living. Let’s learn today from the greatest lover of ...

118. Second Sunday In Advent

Sermon

David M. Oliver

... light for others. Amen. *SHALOMRoger N. Deschner *BLESSING ONE ANOTHER and POSTLUDE "O Magnify the Lord"Dick and Melodie Tunney *All who are able please stand John 8:12, 9:1-11; Matthew 5:14-16 Let Your Light Shine On this, the second Sunday of Advent, our worship is centered around the theme of light. The Gospel of John is filled with references to light. In the prologue of the Gospel, John 1:1-5, we encounter these words: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He ...

119. The Importance of Believing

Matthew 16:13-20

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... . And when it comes down to the matter of what we believe concerning Jesus Christ the Savior, then the importance of our believing rises to a level which strains the imagination and confounds the mind. As we read in John 3:16, "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son ..." But, as we also read in John 3:16, it is by believing in him that we have the everlasting life he comes to offer. As we think about that, it may seem at first that too much turns upon too little, that a great result depends upon ...

120. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... Bible depicts as light coming into darkness and life into death. New Testament scholar D. A. Carson writes: “When we read...in John 3:16 that ‘God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,’ we are not to think that God's ... at the speed of walking and talking and took his cues from on high. The right time for Jesus to withdraw was when he heard that John had been arrested, and when the time to begin preaching the kingdom arrived, he knew it, verse 17: from that time Jesus began to preach.... ...

121. The Lonesome George Church

Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 's oikos (in the book of Acts). Here are examples of the gospel infected a whole household/oikos as a result of making one disciple: . . . Cornelius (Acts 10:2; 11:13-15). . . Lydia (Acts 16:15). . . The Philippian jailer (Acts 16:31-34). . . Crispus, the leader of the Synagogue in Corinth (Acts 18:7-9) Jesus practiced what he preached. His own cousin (John the Baptist) introduced Jesus to Andrew who then brought his brother Simon (later called Peter) to Jesus. Peter was instrumental in bringing James and ...

122. Why Did Jesus Have To Die?

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Mark Ellingsen

... not take our sin as seriously as we should. The church certainly has a knotty problem on its hands. However, our Good Friday story from the Gospel of John, and to some extent our second lesson (Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9), may have a better way.4 The Jesus of John's gospel always has to be understood in the context of the famous prologue of the gospel (John 1:1-8). (In the second lesson, the author of Hebrews designates Jesus as both a "high priest [Hebrews 4:14-15]," who presumably offers a sacrifice through ...

123. The Loaves

John 6:1-21

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David Coffin

... event celebrated the nation of Israel being delivered from the Egyptians by escaping through the parting of the waters of the Red Sea, and then they were sustained in the desert by eating manna and quail provided by God (Exodus 16; Numbers 11). Jesus’ loaves of bread sign “upped the ante” in John 6 in terms of him being more than a Moses prophetic figure. After observing the large crowds who were hungry, he knew what he was going to do, but decided to test his disciples by asking, “Where are we to ...

124. Lord To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:56-69

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David Coffin

... had to deal with bitter legal and embittered ex-spouse opposition. Jesus dealt with opposition which led to his death after he healed Lazarus. Jesus stayed on mission. His hour (John 2) had not arrived yet. In our lesson today, the bread and wine symbolize and represent the new life Jesus provided when his hour of crucifixion would arrive John 3:16; John 18-19 (RSV). His death would not be the final word, there was new life indeed. On this day, Jesus announced he was the Bread of Life. He invited listeners ...

125. Sermons

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John R. Bodo

... ready to take Jesus at his word with the relative unconcern of people who had never clashed with death head-on and been left bruised and bleeding, Thomas showed a more perceptive, a more heroic courage. "Let us also go," he said, "that we may die with him" (John 11:16). Thomas was ready to die with Jesus, because he would not live without him. Having half-died in the death of his beloved twin brother, he did not wish to outlive the One who had more than taken his brother's place. But Jesus kept turning the ...

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