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1251. The Cost of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and then beheaded Matthew was slain by the sword Peter was crucified upside down Thaddeus was shot to death with arrows Philip was hanged Only John made it through alive but he was exiled to a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The demands that Jesus makes upon ... is spent. Listen to these surprising numbers: Sleep.................23 years.........32.9% Work.................16 years..........22.8% TV.....................8 years..........11.4% Eating................6 years...........8.6% ...

1252. Repairing Your Broken Dreams

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... . To believe in the power of your own life through God. That's the first step in repairing a broken dream. 1. As used by Charles L. Allen in The Miracle of Hope (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1983), pp. 16-17. 2. See John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus (Grand Rapids, Minnesota: William B. Eerdmans, 1972), p. 61. 3. Ernest A. Fitzgerald, How To Be A Successful Failure (New York: Atheneum, 1978), pp. 6-8. 4. As told by Bruce McLeon, City Sermons (Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Welch ...

1253. The Emperor’s Son-in-law

Luke 12:35-48

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... . Paul says, "We are the children of God; if children, then heirs - heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ." (Romans 8:16-17) In 1 Peter 2:9 we are told, "You are a royal priesthood, God’s own people, that you may declare ... carpenter.’ One night when I was at the church serving refreshments to the Men’s Brotherhood I got a phone call from our national headquarters. ‘John, we want you to take your wife and two children to the mission field in Africa for three years.’ My wife and I talked it ...

1254. The Sermon in the Supper

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... the east wall. They did not know that it was an emblem of the future from which "the bright Star of Dawn" (Revelation 22:16, NEB) would appear. Because they had lost this sense of the forward look, they made the cross exclusively a memorial of Christ’s ... the Lord’s Supper tells us the message: "I shall come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am you may be also." (John 14:3, NEB) The Lord’s Supper is an acted sermon in which the message of Christ’s death is retold as it is commemorated. ...

1255. The Ministry of Refreshing

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Various Authors

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains ... (v. 16) Meet Onesiphorus. Onesiphorus was a friend of Saint Paul’s. We ought to think about him. We ought to imitate him. Saint Paul writes about Onesiphorus in his second letter to Timothy. Paul’s ... gave me drink." "Lord, when saw we thee thirsty and gave thee drink?" "Inasmuch as you did it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." - Robert John Versteeg

1256. Red, the Color of Sacrifice

Genesis 22:1-19

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... this meaning of sacrifice, and I’d like to look at fourteen verses of the 22nd chapter of Genesis, followed by just two verses, verses 16-18 of Matthew’s second chapter. Read the text! In the Genesis story I just read, we see old Abraham, now well past one ... born to set thy people free!" It’s interesting to note that in reality we know precious little about the birth of Christ. John and Mark mention it not at all. Matthew has a scant seven verses dealing with Jesus’ birth. The rest we learn from ...

1257. "Good Friday People In An Easter World"

Mark 15:37-47, Mark 16:1-6

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... to see in order to believe. Grant us the faith of those who believed even before the resurrection. Amen. Scripture: Mark 15:37-47 and 16:1-6 Hymn: [Tune: Sine Nomine, often sung as "For All The Saints") 1. Sing to the Lord, on resurrection day; From cross to tomb ... we now call good. Who stood by Jesus through the darkness of the cross? His disciples? Most likely his disciples, Peter and John and the rest? Yes? ... NO! Mark’s gospel is very definite in telling the tale when Mark says: all the disciples drank ...

1258. From Beast to Believer

Daniel 4:28-37, Daniel 4:19-27, Daniel 4:1-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... God and he will come near to you." (James 4:8) Jesus himself promised, "They that come to me I will in no way reject." (John 6:37) Our Lord receives with open arms anyone who comes with this attitude: "Nothing in my hands I bring, only to thy cross I ... Jesus Christ? A man named Ben Vallick died and was buried in Tyler, Texas. On his tombstone are these words: "Born January 16, 1938; born again September, 1958, at U.S. Naval Base, San Francisco, California." The fourth question is this: What difference has ...

1259. The Touch of the Master's Hand

Luke 5:12-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the news of this miracle even faster than the Internet. Now more sick people than ever came to Jesus. Notice in verse 16 how Jesus replenished his power supply. "He often withdrew to lonely places and prayed." This is one of seven passages peculiar ... through the touch of the faith community. JESUS TOUCHED A THIRD CATEGORY OF PERSONS—THE TERRIFIED. One day Jesus took Peter, James and John up on a mountain. There they saw Moses and Elijah, returned from the dead, and they heard God’s voice. They fell ...

1260. Do It For the Joy of It!

Matthew 22:34-40

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... good student of Jewish law could have done. He lifted up an ancient formula all Jewish children learned from early on and which was memorized and recited, complete with visual aids. The "Shema," or "Listen, Israel" recitation was as basic to the Jew as John 3:16 is to any Christian. Without a doubt, the Shema is a marvelous, succinct summation of all Christian life and work: Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind. And, second (or, you could say, "as a logical extension of that"): Love your neighbor ...

1261. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

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George Bass

... , hopeful that the Holy Spirit will give us the kind of vision and understanding of the promise of the Messiah that he gave to Daniel (8:16, 9:21) centuries before Christ was born. God Is About to Change the World Gabriel’s announcement was much more than a message of a birth ... which novels are made. But all of that changed in a matter of fourteen years from the time archeologist John Yellen and Alison Brooks, his American wife, first visited the Kalahari desert to the present day. Except for metal cooking ...

1262. Christ My Light

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... less, is his guarantee today, when he declares, "All who put their trust in me will no longer wander in the darkness." (John 12:46, The Living Bible) For this light to be your rescue and redemption, believe him, welcome him into your heart, trust ... truth, the pinnacle of all promises, the highest pledge for eternal happiness: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved." (Acts 16:31 RSV) Stake your hope then on this promise which he extends to you! For here he offers himself, the Light, to remove ...

1263. A Thinking Person’s Thankful Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... must I do to be saved?" Paul told him, and the Scripture says that "he was baptized at once, with all of his family" (Acts 16:33). Such were the people who made up the church at Philippi: a wealthy Jewish woman and her family, an unknown slave girl, and a ... Jesus Christ can make us like him. It was Jesus himself who said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3 KJV) - and that is still the church’s primary reason for being: to be a womb of love wherein we may be born again ...

1264. How Fares Your Christian Sight?

Is 6:8-10

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... is united to Christ, there is a new world; the old order has gone, and a new order has already begun. (2 Corinthians 5:16-17, NEB) It would be easy to make a case for the thought that the ministry of Jesus was in total a ministry of ... treat God’s children, so too do we treat God. "He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me." (John 13:20, GNB) He opened people’s eyes to the real essence of greatness, reminding them that such greatness is resident not in the ability to ...

1265. The Circus and My Faith

Ps 139 · Mt 22:37

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Robert Noblett

... wanted her sons to have eternal places of glory. Said Salome one day to Jesus - "Command that these two sons of mine (James and John) may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom." (Matthew 20:21) Jesus saw Salome for what she ... forged the faith that today we celebrate. 1. Gerald R. Cragg, "On Loving God With Our Whole Minds," Andover Newton Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 3, p. 208. 2. McPhee, op. cit., p. 93. 3. Martin, op. cit., p. 74. 4. Alvin Lindgren, Foundations for Purposeful ...

1266. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

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Robert Noblett

... and suffer many things from the elders and chief priest and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised." (Matthew 16:21) If one is not persistent, then she is pliant or yielding or spineless or vacillating or wavery, and those characteristics do not ... God’s will and God’s power made perfect in our weakness. 1. William Wordsworth, quoted in Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett (Boston: Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1955), p. 406. 2. Keen, op. cit., pp. 123-24. 3. Ernest Hemingway, ...

1267. Joseph

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... prime years. I see Joseph as a man of strength, a proud descendant of King David by a double lineage (Matthew 1:1-16 and Luke 3:23-38), taking the hand of Mary. Word reached Joseph that his intended was expecting "... before they came together ... 55-56) Joseph was a true father for the growing Jesus - the only one he ever knew, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph ...?" (John 6:42) And again, "Is not this Joseph’s son?" (Luke 4:22) FATHER How much the word father means. What would Jesus’ early years have ...

1268. Only the Wounded Can Serve

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... lifted his mood. Only an hour ... my daughter since her child has died sits in the shadow. She will not listen to us ..." (as told by John M. Krumm in, The Art of Being A Sinner.) And so the physician learns the profound truth that "In Love’s service, only the wounded can serve ... confidence, that we may receive mercy for our failures and grace to help in the hour of need." (Hebrews 4:15-16, J. B. Phillips) That powerful verse offers great insight into our understanding of the love of God for his children. ...

1269. For Those in Church: Joy and Service

Matthew 23:1-39

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... chancel back of the pulpit there are three panels. The first is for the law, and the inscription on it is "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God" (Matthew 22:37). The second is for the gospel and the inscription upon it is the great verse from John (3:16): "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The third panel is for the Psalm, and the verse written upon it is that from Psalm 118 (14): "The Lord is my strength ...

1270. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... little place. They don’t seem very eternal, do they? "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?" [Mark 16:3] This is a wonderful life except for the stone of death staring us in the face. There are other stones. Each man seems to ... below us, then rising to seal off the mouth of the room where we sat. "Looks like we're going to be here for a while, men," John Moore said, and I’m sure that more than one of us had the temptation to say, "Maybe forever." But we didn’t say it - not aloud ...

1271. The Unknown Hero

Mark 10:46-52

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Bill Bouknight

... to do three things in regard to those persons. First, pray for them regularly. Secondly, invite them to church on Easter, April 16. Third, if a natural opportunity arises in the course of conversation to say a brief word about your faith or Jesus Christ, ... a gift for you. Will you read this as a favor to me?" Then he gives that person a paperback copy of the Gospel of John. What if a businessperson were brave enough to ask at each lunch meeting, whether with one or twenty persons, "Would it be okay if I ...

1272. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

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Bill Bouknight

... God himself became a human being, died an atoning death, and rose triumphant from the grave. When our Methodist founder John Wesley dispatched the first preachers to America in the mid-Eighteenth Century, his last direction to them was simply this: " ... A second affirmation about our Lord is this: Jesus Christ Is Creator, Sustainer, And the Completion of All Creation. Notice again verses 16 an 17: "...for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible...He himself is before ...

1273. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of the trumpet of God" (1 Thessalonians 4:16). In the meantime we wait ... and work ... and play ... and glorify God. But just as the people before that first ... seminary professors at Luther Theological Seminary recently decided to go back into the parish. In an interview published in The Lutheran Standard, Dr. John V. Halvorson was asked, "How did you decide to switch from seminary teaching to the parish ministry again?" His answer was: "I felt ...

1274. God Is a Giver

Sermon

James Bjorge

... sequences of creation and stand off and look it all over and then say, "That is good." Yes, it certainly was. But then God gave it to man. That was and is his nature ... to give. "For God so loved the world that he gave ... his only begotten Son ..." (John 3:16). And Paul says, "Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift" (2 Corinthians 9:15). God is a giver of gifts. Any man who has gotten to know God is very aware of this truth. We could even go so far as to say that God is more eager to ...

1275. Chapter IV

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... for Christians because on that day Jesus was raised from the dead. "Very early on the first day of the week ..." (Mark 16:1) the disciples found that the tomb was empty. Because the resurrection of their Lord became the center of their faith, the day ... are appreciating more than ever how delicate an organism we really are. At a series of lectures in which I participated at Johns Hopkins University, one of their researchers made that point so vividly. She was doing research in a cancer project and was focusing ...

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