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Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... 24:49) That power would be the Holy Spirit at work in their lives. For example, on the Day of Pentecost Simon Peter preached and 3,000 souls were added to the church. But that’s not all. In a relatively brief period of ... Kingdom of God and do acts of mercy and justice and healing that show the world the love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 1. Source: Tim Davis. 2. “Awkward Silences: 4 Seconds Is All It Takes to Feel Rejected” by Maia Szalavitz, Time Magazine, Dec. 30, 2010 https://healthland ...

1527. Giving Our Best

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... gymnast who went on to become an actress. You may not remember her as an actress, but she starred in a production of Peter Pan which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. She also appeared in the 2012 movie McKenna Shoots ... , we will be enabled to give more than we ever thought possible. He can help. He will help if that is our desire. 1. Speaker’s Sourcebook II Quotes, Stories, & Anecdotes for Every Occasion (Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1994), p. 142. 2. H. B. London ...

1528. For Us

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... sing. This is not about that. Things in this world are good, as they are. God created this world and called all of it “good'” (Gen. 1). We don't need to say some prayer over it and make it holy. It already is a miracle of God's goodness. What we lack ... that ''Jesus died for my sins," or ''God is in his heaven and all is right with the world'' in the manner of Tinkerbell in Peter Pan. You don't have to do anything. All God asks is your empty, outstretched hands to receive a gift. Tonight, this is all about ...

1529. Do You See Lazarus On Your Doorstep?

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... of the Bible is healing and restoration. God judges in order to discipline, correct, and eventually restore. We don’t want to give up on the Lazarus on our doorstep or anyone else. God’s compassionate grace continually seeks us. Amen. [1]. Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske, Howard Hughes: The Untold Story (New York: A Dutton Book, Penguin Group, 1996), 339. [2]. Keith Nickel, Preaching the Gospel of Luke: Proclaiming God’ Royal Rule (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), 169-170 ...

1530. Leaving an Empty Chair

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... of human resources. She thought this exercise was the best way to test how the employees handled conflict as a team. (1) Google the term “team-building” or “teamwork,” and you’ll find that thousands of studies have been done on the subject ... people from every nation--were in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. And by the power of the Holy Spirit and the preaching of Peter, more than 3,000 of them were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ and joined this new community of Jesus-followers. But God ...

1531. The Loaves

John 6:1-21

Sermon

David Coffin

... ?” John 6:5 (RSV). John was unique to other gospels in that he featured the disciples Andrew and Philip in his stories, rather than Peter, James, and John in the synoptic gospels. Lesser known names do have a place in the kingdom in John’s gospel. There was an unnamed ... ’s gospel, Jesus is God in the flesh. Jesus was the organizing principle of the universe, also called the “logos.” John 1:1-14 is a bold in-breaking beginning or prologue of the gospel. We can have confidence that God has a plan for ...

1532. Do You Think That I Have Come To Bring Peace?

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Will Willimon

... in the highest, and on earth peace...." (Luke 2:14). Do you think that I have come to bring peace? Was G.K Chesterton reading Luke 28:1-9 when he noted, “The Christ of the Gospels might seem actually more strange and terrible than the Christ of the Church”? Christ in the clutch of ... Seminary, was preaching from this pulpit. And John was preaching on Jesus' calling of his disciples, the calling of Peter and Andrew, to be exact, how they left their father fishing and went off and followed Jesus. And John ...

1533. Flatliners

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... He wrote a column that said, "I can just see Jesus speaking to them on the plains, speaking to them on the levee, and Peter speaks first, 'Are we supposed to write this down, Jesus?' James says, 'Will we have a test?' And Philip says, 'I don't have ... people to look through the lens of heaven. And then, for those kinds of people, it may be said, like a paraphrase I read of Psalm 1: Blessed are the man and the woman, the young person, the child.Blessed are they who have grown beyond their greed and put an end to ...

1534. The Peace That Invades

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... you the truth, one of you is going to betray me." "My friends, I shall not be with you very much longer." And to Peter, the rock, he said: "Before the rooster crows you will say three times that you do not know me." Those disciples sat in stunned ... his spirit was flooded with peace. He recalled the words of Jesus, "When things are at their worst, look up, for your salvation is at hand."(1) That kind of peace the world can neither give nor promise. It is a peace that can come only from the One who gave his ...

1535. No Shortcut To Glory

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

William L. Self

... have to polish the silver!). We would like to bask in the glory of a religious experience comparable to that which Peter, James, and John enjoyed at the transfiguration of Jesus. They witnessed Jesus talking to Moses and Elijah and saw that ... , and while there anoint Elisha, son of Shaphat, to succeed him as prophet. Elijah did this by throwing his cloak over Elisha's shoulders (1 Kings 19:19). This act denoted God's intention to bestow the prophetic powers upon him as the successor to the great Elijah. Our ...

1536. Permission To Daydream

Joel 2:28-32, Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... are important because, in the words of Eugene Peterson, "they organize the present and direct its energies to future fulfillments."1 No one ever becomes president without first dreaming of being president. No one ever goes to medical school without first ... the Lord will be saved. This has been a significant text in understanding the story of Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. Peter seems to have understood that with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the prophecy of Joel was fulfilled. On that ...

1537. Make A Choice

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... gave to the Hebrew people: ''Choose you this day whom you will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!'' 1. Those Who Rejected Jesus Christ Let's consider those who on that first Palm/Passion Sunday chose not to accept Jesus as the Christ. For ... their desire for recognition and power. There was a woman named Mary who had mishandled the gift of her sexuality. There was Peter who in a moment of weakness betrayed his best friend. What actually happened to change their lives? You might say in ...

1538. Behold The Man Who Taught By The Sea

Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... like to stay in the first grade forever, but I've been promoted. Boy, I wish you knew enough to teach me in the second grade."1 So many people who are successful are able to look back at a person who first turned on a light inside the mind, who quickened ... , courage, joy and life he is speaking to us where we live. And we know we need his words in order to live. As Simon Peter confessed, "Lord, to whom shall we go? Only you have the words of life." In 1942 W. A. Smart, a theology professor at Emory University ...

1539. The Christian Journey I: The Path

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... Jesus said to them, 'Follow me and I will make you fish for people.' And immediately they left their nets and followed him" (Mark 1:18). There are times in our lives when Jesus dramatically beckons us to stop what we are doing for the moment and to ... the misimpressions we may sometimes get. Indeed, if scripture is to be believed, the way often becomes more challenging as we become stronger. Peter, who so readily left his nets that day by the lake, later publicly denied Jesus, and at the hour of our Lord's ...

1540. Table Manners

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... of "nervous" I once heard. Do you know what "nervous" is? "Nervous" is standing in line at the Pearly Gates behind Mother Teresa, and hearing Saint Peter say to Mother Teresa, "I'm sorry, dear, you haven't done enough!" A good story! But with a truth. As we come to the Lord' ... welcome each other. The Apostle Paul advises us to "examine ourselves" before we receive Communion (1 Corinthians 11:28). Have we received God's invitation with joy? Do we recognize ourselves in our neediness? Are we open ...

1541. Just In Time

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... waited and in God's time in the fullness of time, just in time, Jesus was born. Just in time for Paul, just in time for Peter and James and John, just in time for Mary Magdelene and Zacchaeus, just in time for Nicodemus, Mary and Martha and Lazarus, just in time for ... Colonel Creaton Abrams' Thirty-Seventh Tank Battalion breaks through bringing relief to the One Hundred and First -- just in time.1 Or consider a space mission attempting to land on the moon. Two astronauts in a lunar lander thirteen hundred feet ...

1542. Five Thousand For Lunch In Galilee

Luke 9:10-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... It is the idea of economic futility -- not capitalistic growth -- that gives license to the culture of hedonism and sensuality."[1] It is the loss of hope, the succumbing to despair, that creates a people resigned to eating, drinking, and being ... of the poorer classes of people give much more per capita than churches of the wealthier classes of people. Nevertheless, the poor might say as Peter and John said to the cripple at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple: "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, ...

1543. Tenders Of The Sacred Fire

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... city streets, these people were transformed by the coming of the Holy Spirit into fearless preachers willing to sacrifice their lives. Peter, the apostle who denied he even knew Jesus on the night of the Master's arrest, took his stand on the curb ... good is like the building of cathedrals. Only through faith can those who lay foundation stones hear bells ringing in unraised steeples." 1. William McNeill, Plagues And People, (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1976), p. 108. 2. On the chapel wall of Country ...

1544. The Man From Galilee VII: The Triumph Of His Defeat

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... refers to a statement made by actor Woody Allen, who said, "I don't want immortality through my work. I want immortality through not dying."1 I read that book with great interest. Then I learned that Bishop Underwood died not long after I had read his book, and I went ... may lose our way, when there is no fishing. Not long after the resurrection the disciples went back up to Galilee. Simon Peter said, "I am going fishing." The other disciples went with him. They fished all night and there was no fishing. They ...

1545. The Man From Galilee V: The Test Of His Courage

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... ethical act in which man affirms his own being in spite of those elements of his existence which conflict with his essential self-affirmation."1 Courage means we know who we are in spite of everything which seems to be against us, and because of our courage we can ... to be married late in life, but before the wedding they died in a traffic accident. When they got to Heaven they asked Saint Peter if they could still get married. He said, "Let me see what I can do." They waited for about a year. Finally, he told ...

1546. Room For Questions

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... images of people and block other images of the same people. We do that to biblical characters. We remember Peter's denial of Jesus, but forget his powerful preaching recorded in the book of Acts. Or, we remember how women ... with my soul. He treated me with dignity. I felt a large roominess in his company -- a spiritual roominess, room to move around, room to be free."1 Questions aren't bad, but not allowing them to be asked is. Questions are a way of loving God with our minds. Through questions we reach ...

1547. Essential Personnel!

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... away, he let the woman go, too. "Neither do I condemn you, so go your way and sin no more." At the most crucial moment Peter denied knowing and following Jesus, so what did Jesus have to say to him later? "Follow me!" And he did! The temptation is to think ... round table in itself emphasizes connection, for when we gather around we are connected, in an association or relationship with one another."1 When the church is a round table, all are welcome and all have a place. More than that, seating in the round ...

1548. Here Is Where It Happens

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... first two chapters of Luke's gospel with the first three chapters of 1 Samuel. Note the similarity of focus of hearth and altar, family and institution. Only in the first three chapters of 1 Samuel it is not Mary and Joseph that we meet, but Hannah ... accountable. We need to know more than computer jargon and be familiar with more than the internet. What about the eternity network? Didn't Peter sense this in his own way when he exclaimed, "Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life" (John 6: ...

1549. A Taste Of Life

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Maundy Thursday. It is such a dark and gloomy night, with all of that talk about thirty pieces of silver, the garden of Gethsemane, and Peter's denial. I know the story is in the Bible, but I don't think we need to honor it with a worship service. Why ... upon you? It is my treason, Lord, that has undone You. 'Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied You; I crucified You.1 A minister friend once told me about the biting criticism he received from an austere member of his congregation. The member said, "Reverend, ...

1550. Holy Arithmetic

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little. "One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, "There is a lad here who had five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so ... consecrated to him." All these put what they had in the hands of God and he multiplied their gift. "There is a lad here ..." 1. For us in our day, there lies here, first of all, the secret of our redemption. God takes, we said, what we can offer and ...

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