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126. Come On Baby, Light My Fire

Matthew 3:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... spirit is a neuter word. So they translated this as "Itself." But we know the Holy Spirit is a person. First of all, we know the Holy Spirit must be a person because both God the Father and God the Son are persons. Jesus told the disciples in John 14:16, "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever." The word He uses there for "another" is extremely important. There are two Greek words for the English word "another." One Greek word is the word heteros ...

127. Don't Just Stand There! - Get Involved!

Luke 3:1-20, Matthew 6:19-24

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Dr. John Thompson Peters

... ? There is an urgent need to draw the distinction between mere morality and Christianity. One of the best ways to bring this difference into focus is in a contrast between John the Baptist and Jesus. In Luke 3:15,16, we read that: "As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ, John answered them all, 'I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will ...

128. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... with our world. We are the people who belong to Jesus Christ. Don’t ever underestimate the power of a committed minority. 1. For historic sermons on this text, see John Wesley, “Upon our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount,” Discourse IV: Matthew 5:13-16, in Albert C. Outler & Richard D. Heitzenrater, editors, John Wesley’s Sermons: An Anthology (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1991), 193-206; Martin Niemoller, “Christians Must Be A Light To The World,” www.abcog.org/niemoll.html. 2. James Hannabam, Vibe ...

129. Mission Possible!

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... to die and go to hell if they didn’t know Jesus. All Shane could think about doing was jumping on a box beside him and yelling at the top of his lungs, “God is not a monster!” We are fond of quoting John 3:16, “For God so loved the world…” But the Bible also says in John 3:17 that God did not send Jesus to condemn the world but to save it! It is high time Christians start believing it and, more importantly, living like it! The more I read the Bible and the teachings of Jesus the more I ...

130. Lazarus Rising

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57, John 12:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... 11:3; 11:5; 18:15-17; John 19:27-29; John 20:3-8; John 21:23. **David Mourns Absalom (2 Samuel 18:19-19:1-23; Death of Moses (Deuteronomy 31-34); Death of Abraham (Genesis 25:7-11); Death of Rachel and Isaac (Genesis 35); Jacob’s Last Words and Death and Joseph’s Death (Genesis 49 and 50); David Mourns Saul and Jonathan (2 Samuel 1-2:7); the Death of Aaron (Numbers 20:22-29); the Death of Joshua and Eliezer, son of Aaron (Joshua 24:29-33), Death of Judith (16); Death and Mourning of Stephen (Acts 7:50 ...

131. Which Kingdom Do We Serve?

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

David Coffin

... his half-brother’s wife Herodias. This was forbidden in Leviticus 18:16. Since he was the monarch over Judah and should have been a role model for living out the Torah, John the Baptist called the king out on this indiscretion. Herod realized that John was probably correct, and also knew the crowds admired John the Baptist. He feared revolution if he took too aggressive a stance in retaliating against John. The crowds realized that John the Baptist was probably the voice in the wilderness spoken of in ...

132. A Man With a Scalpel and a Pen

Acts 16:6-10

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... the first place we meet Luke (although his name is not used) is when Paul was on his second missionary journey (Acts 16). Paul wasn’t quite able to make up his mind which direction to carry the Gospel. He started in one direction, then said ... stories would be lost if Luke had not included them. If we had only three records of the Gospel - according to Matthew, Mark, and John - much that we simply take for granted would be missing. For example, only Luke tells about the trip of Jesus to the temple when ...

133. Get Real

John 15:1-11, 16

Sermon

James Merritt

... branch that bears fruit that would remain or last. "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. (John 5:16, NASB) God wants for every one of us to not only live a life of significance, but a life of increasing significance. God wants your life to be significant to the max. He does that the same way a gardener does it with a vine by pruning it. Listen ...

134. Bread and Call

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

David Coffin

... Jesus more than fulfilled the meaning of a particular festival such as Passover. His calling was to die for the sins of humanity so that we might have eternal life. John 3:16 summarized this calling, “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). John’s gospel challenges us to explore what calling we have, one which we are willing to die for, that also points us beyond this life. This is a Pentecost question ...

135. If It Had Been a Snake

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... houses. The angel of death will pass by any house that is covered by the blood of a perfect lamb. And in Leviticus 16, God establishes a yearly sacred festival, the Day of Atonement. On this day animal sacrifices are made to remind the people of sin’ ... simply healing our separation from God and restoring us to the fullness of God’s presence and love. John saw that Jesus is our path to peace with God. And finally, John sees that Jesus shows us the sacrificial love of God. I was very moved by a story I ...

136. The Rebirth

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... Jesus said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him" (John 3:16-17). Jesus did not say, "God so loved the church," but, "God so loved the world." The task of taking the gospel to the world is given to Spirit-filled witnesses. Rebirth means that our lives are renewed by the Holy Spirit so that the whole world hears the ...

137. A Complicated Disciple

John 18:15-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’” (Mark 16:6-7). Here we find the angel specifically telling the women that Jesus not only wants to see his disciples, but that he ... Spirit, and three thousand souls were added to the church (Acts 2). His name pops up all through the book of Acts. Peter was with John when they prayed for the lame man at the gate called Beautiful in Acts 3. Peter was in the midst of the great Samaritan revival ...

138. Sparkle

Luke 4:31-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , or jealous, or envious, or mean. We know that when we look at the story of Saul. When Saul becomes jealous of David in I Samuel 16, the scriptures tell us, a bad or evil spirit came upon him, and he began to plot to kill David. He felt envious and mean and ... . In Jesus’ ministry, not once do we see him spending time in either of those places. He clearly is avoiding Herod, and unlike John who directly challenged the testy tetrarch, Jesus does not seem to come onto his radar, so much so, that at the time of ...

139. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... of thought and feeling. But too much we make prisoners of ourselves, as though we had tethered ourselves to a stake somewhere with a very short rope. Would you like to be somebody special? Well, you are. Each of us is - somebody special to God. Read John 3:16 again: "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." See yourself in the light of that; put yourself in that picture; think of yourself as a part of that world ...

140. Touched

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Christ, which is the church, witnesses to the world through the impartation and implantation of Jesus’ gift to the disciples of the Holy Spirit. But according to John’s narrative, someone misses this moment. Someone important to the story misses this miraculous, mission‑making moment. Thomas, who had previously been singled out by John in 11:16 and 4:5, is absent from the locked room when Jesus makes his appearance. When Thomas returns he becomes the first missionizing moment for this new Christbody ...

141. A Jiffy for Eternity

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life" (John 3:16). It is short but not shallow. Perhaps no version translates this eternally powerful sentence any better than the old King James Version, ... is a world apart from either of those loves. It is motivated by God's desire to love us because "God is love" (1 John 4:16). God's love says, "I love you simply because I love you." The truth is that we possess nothing and control nothing that God ...

142. Father Damien

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... as resulting from leprosy. With this background, I was led further along my path of conjecture to ask other questions: "Why did the word ‘lazar’ have to come from Luke 16; why couldn’t it have come from John 11, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead?" An equally strong case could be made for John 11 as for Luke 16. As we’ve already noted in the study of Father Damien, lepers were regarded as "living dead." Is it possible, then, that the resurrection of Lazarus, brother of Mary and ...

143. An Unnerving Experience

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... if you take up mountain climbing. It obviously has great risks as well as great rewards. Jesus once asked his closest disciples Peter, James and John to join him on a hike up a mountain. We have no evidence that it was a harrowing climb it was no Everest but what happened ... ignore the Bible’s teachings on forgiveness and compassion. Instead he focused his attention on verses such as Exodus 21:16 which reads like this: “Anyone who kidnaps another and either sells him or still has him when he is caught ...

144. A Song for Tomorrow

Psalm 1:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... about it. For some of us, reading our Bible is just another thing we check off of our to do list and we walk away from it and never really think about what we just read. Let me give you a very easy example – take John 3:16. Have you ever really thought about John 3:16? Took time to work through it? "For God so loved the world." Wait a minute - that means God loves me! It not only means God loves me, but it means God loves everyone else, regardless of who they are. Regardless of whether they believe in ...

145. Singing Along The Way

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ) or as the Jerusalem Bible puts it, "a feeling of expectancy had grown that John might be the Messiah ...." "Me?" John asked. "I'm not even worthy to untie the shoelace of the Messiah (Paraphrase of Luke 3:16)." What does this have to do with our text from Zephaniah? Like John, Zephaniah was a prophet who told the truth with power, even though this message flew in the face of secular and religious authorities. Like John's message, the message of Zephaniah began to make some peoples' hopes and expectations ...

146. What Happens When We Can't Believe It?

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... you as it did to me. It was a real spiritual high. For what was happening last Sunday, what with everybody happy and enjoying each other, was a lot like what was happening for the very first Christians when they actually encountered the Risen Lord (John 20:18; Luke 20:52-53; Mark 16:20; Matthew 28:9). I know that is the way I felt last Sunday. With all of my brothers and sisters worshiping, not just because it was Easter and the thing to do, but here because you all believe in Jesus Christ, the experience ...

147. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not leave you as orphans; I will come to you…All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” (John 14:16,18,25-26, NIV). Can you imagine a more radical possibility?… “you will do greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” Note the phrase “going to the Father.” What did Jesus say He would do when he went to the Father? One of ...

148. Right in Front of Our Eyes

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns” (Matthew 16:16-23). One moment he’s the rock, the next Peter is Satan! Now, a week later, he’s up on a mountain offering to ... in our lives. “We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). But we are sinners. We love him, but in the time of testing, we have each denied him. We are grateful to be recipients ...

149. As I Am A Witness

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God –eternal life.” (1 John 5:20) Because of the witness of Jesus’ disciples, all people could be called to redemption in Jesus the Christ. Jesus may have dared to rise ... Before You as Given to You by the Lord Your God (Deuteronomy 29-30) Psalm 2: The Sovereignty of the Lord’s Son Psalm 16: The Path of Life Psalm 19: The Witness of the Universe to God’s Sovereignty and Glory Isaiah’s Song of Praise and ...

150. The Dangers of Being Religious

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... it! Just give me a few weeks! I can measure up! 14. Do you bring division or lasting works? Mark 2:16 tells of Christ's meal with the ignorant, harlots, tax gatherers, outcasts, misfits, and lawbreakers. The Pharisees wouldn't join him; ... dialogue between two people who love each other -- Father God and a child of faith. 18. Do you believe you are on the cutting edge? John 7:47-48 tells of the crowds flocking to see Jesus. The Pharisees are jealous. When someone asks their opinion, they huff, "None of us ...

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