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201. The Catch

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25, Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is sometimes not about whom you go TO on your journey, but who goes WITH you in your journey. May your metaphors light your way, so that Jesus, through you, may light the ways of others! *See Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20; and Luke 5:2-11; now John 21. **Replica of a first century fishing boat from Jesus’ time at the Sea of Galilee. ***National Geographic Magazine online. “Can the Blue Revolution Solve the World’s Food Puzzle?” Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Jesus’ Seaside Appearance and ...

202. A Messianic King

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... proper place in society (v. 4). The messiah will not be swayed by earthly standards and judgment, not by outward evidences (cf. John 2:25; 7:24). Rather, he will judge in righteousness and equity, making that straight in society that has been crooked, restoring ... shall come, a note reminiscent of John 12:32. Verse 10 has been added as a transition to give the passage a universal note, but that is already found in the preceding verses. Verses 10-11 form a transition to verses 12-16. What we finally have in our ...

203. They Lied and They Died

Acts 5:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... six things that God hates, two of them involve lying: one is "a lying tongue", the other is a "false witness who speaks lies." (Pr. 6:16, 19) Every time you tell a lie, or every time you hear a lie, or every time you see a lie, just remember somewhere in ... of hypocrites in your church." The pastor shot back, and said, "John, you're right, we do have a lot of hypocrites in the church." Then he paused and put his hand on the man's shoulders and said, "But John, there's always room for one more." The fact of the ...

204. Gentle On My Mind (Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness)

Galatians 5:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... a man who is not. Henry Moorhead was an evangelist who lived over a hundred years ago. He was a contemporary of Dwight L. Moody. He became famous not so much for his sermons, but for his text because the only text usually he would ever preach on was John 3:16. Henry Moorhead was preaching in a Welsh mining town among some of the roughest, toughest, meanest men in all of Wales. God was moving in a mighty way. There was a man named Ike Miller who lived in that town. Ike Miller was a drunkard, a blasphemer, a ...

205. That The World May Believe

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... all those gentled people and said, “You know, a fool would have swallowed that.” We come today in our preaching through John’s GospeI to the 17th chapter. It is one of the most majestic utterances of Jesus. A farewell discourse, coming just ... are in the world as living reminders of Christ’s presence. II INTEGRITY But there’s more to Jesus’ instructions. Let’s read again verse 16: “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” Now, go on with verses 17, 18, and 19: “Sanctify ...

206. The Bramble King

John 15:1-17, John 15:18--16:4, John 16:5-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , and reconfirm your faith in him. Just come forward now, and kneel at the altar to reaffirm your faith in the One and Only Son, with the words, “I choose you, Jesus. I choose you.” Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Jesus the True Vine (John 15 and 16) Minor Text Thorns Out of Paradise (Genesis 3) Joseph is Betrayed By His Brothers for 20 Shekels of Silver (Genesis 37) The Three-Score and 10 Pieces of Silver for Abimelech’s Murders and Jotham’s Parable of the Trees and Bramble (Judges 9:1-14 ...

207. Preparing For A Royal Visit

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... to create a need, then filled it. That is precisely what God did through the thousands of years preceding the appearance of John the Baptist in the wilderness. God had been building the need for a Savior in human beings, making the need for the ... Ironman triathlon consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run. Chris completed the race in 16 hours, 46 minutes, and 9 seconds 1. Chris’s father, Nik Nikic, was his biggest supporter throughout the race. Nik ran alongside Chris for the ...

208. Real Solutions To Real Problems

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Lee Griess

... , neck." "Wait a minute," the man said. "I don't wear a 16. I've always worn a size 14 shirt, and that's what I want now." "But if you wear a size 14," the tailor said, "you're apt to experience terrible neck pains, throbbing headaches, and recurring dizzy spells." Without knowing it the tailor had unmasked the man's real problem. And that's the title for the sermon this morning -- Real Solutions To Real Problems. In some ways, this last chapter of John's gospel presents us with a problem. As we read it, it ...

209. Harnessed Power

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Richard L. Thulin

... Jesus did (14:12). This is the One that will prophetically encounter and convince a non-believing world (16:8-11). Nothing here, however, looks or sounds like power. Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, "Receive the ... teach the tradition until we drop from exhaustion. To be told simply to forgive sins seems much too limited, much too passive, and much too lacking in power. John's story of Pentecost is not the one we are used to hearing or the one we have come to expect. It may be disappointing for us ...

210. One Bad Apple

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... God responsible for sin and evil. That, I cannot accept. I believe that Judas had as many possibilities for greatness as did Peter, James or John. He could have chosen the high road instead of the low one. He chose the low. Why? I don’t know why. Why do ... that Judas’ lot in life was predetermined. Later on, Jesus said even stronger words to Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” He said. (Matthew 16:23) It can be argued that Peter’s sin of denying his Lord not once, but three times was just as bad as Judas ...

211. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ' body, a woman who is presented as a model disciple. Mark ends with more women anointing Jesus' dead body for burial (16:1). Picture the scene. The disciples are reclining on the floor, probably on mats, around a low table, eating from a ... ) and poured out all the costly perfume. The magic of nard, and the pleasure of this perfume, is made clear in this phrase from John 12:3 – "And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment." Spikenard was the favorite perfume of antiquity. It got its name ...

212. The Dark Side Confronted

Hebrews 12:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... dark side that God will just take his life? Why do you think verse 9 says this - "Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?" (Hebrews 12:9, NASB) The Apostle John said in I John 5:16 something very interesting. He said, "If you see any Christian sinning in a way that does not lead to death". (I John 5:16, NLT) The clear implication is that a child of God can sin to a point where God just takes his life. In the church at Corinth, there was a man who was living in an adulterous ...

213. Faithquest: Directions For The Journey Of Life

1 John 3:16-24

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... God has to say to us through Scripture and Prayer is very important. And today John, in his first letter, gives us two simple Directions For This Journey Of Life. 1 John 3:16-24 (NRSV) [16] We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us and we ... abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us. John reminds us of two things. He says we are called to Love and Believe. Those are the two essential ingredients of our Faith Journey Of Life ...

214. Whosoever Will

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life." In other words, God excludes no one from his invitation to come to him. Some may exclude themselves, but God does not do that. John 3:16, by the way, inspired a hymn, one that I remember from my childhood, called "Whosoever Will." The whole hymn was based on this one theme, that God is for everybody. Each verse and the chorus end with the line, "Whosoever will, may come." Another thing that ...

215. Can Teach, Can Do

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Robert J. Elder

... , lots of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century people became involved in this issue on one side or the other, each claiming authority for their position. But this was John Woolman's method: he did not launch a protest movement or organize a political party or seek to force others to his way of thinking through legislation. ... Peter's lips: "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!" (Matthew 16:16). Amen. 1. See Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press: 1977), pp. 29-30.

216. Joey and Nicky at Skull Mountain

Mark 15:42-47

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... :6-24) Ezra Sees a Vision of the Son of God and Palms (2 Esdras 2:42-48) The Stories of the Secrets of the Sanhedrin: Secret Disciples Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus Anoint Jesus for Burial (Matthew 27:27-61; Mark 15:16-47; Luke 23:26-56; John 19:17-42) James, Brother of John is Killed With a Sword, and Peter is Arrested (Acts 12:1-5) Image Exegesis: Secret Disciples When I first read this scripture again for this sermon, I found it odd that Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea (Joey and Nicky), two members ...

217. Bringing in the Sheaves

Ruth 1:1-22, Ruth 2:1-23, Ruth 3:1-18, Ruth 4:1-12, Ruth 4:13-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... from the margins, and the edges, those who have been left behind, and we bring them to the Lord. Last week, we saw a film about John Wesley. Wesley wasn’t interested so much in just reaping the harvest he could easily see in the pews and churches of England. Wesley was interested ... 8:31-33; 9:3-32; 10:32-24; Luke 9:18-22; 9:44-45; 12:49-50; 18:31-34; John 7:12-24; 12:20-36; 13:31-14:7; 16:16) Jesus the Son of God (Acts of the Apostles 13) Christ’s Suffering (1 Peter 2) The Resurrection of the Son and ...

218. The Triune God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... works, Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves." (John 14:8-11) (RSV) Many people, like the blind men with the elephant, claim to know God, but in reality they do not know the ... arch-demon - for as the Bible says, Satan himself can be transformed into an "angel of light." (2 Corinthians 11:14) In 1 Chronicles 16:26 we read: "For all gods of the peoples are idols." To the Israelites who were surrounded by the small and great gods of the ...

219. The Ultimate Question

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... died with supreme dignity. This is our picture. Yes, we want to say more than the ancient gossip about his being another John the Baptist or Elijah or Jeremiah or some other prophet. But those childish images are generally sufficient, even if they end up ... p. 86 3. http://www.hollywoodjesus.com 4. Shorter Catechism, Q.21 5. Matthew 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25 6. Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23 7. G. K. Chesterton 8. Quoted by Charles Jacobs, "Life's Most Important Question," sermon, in 88 Evangelistic Sermons (New York: Harper & ...

220. The View from the Mountaintop

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... was one! True, there would be a time to come back from the mountain. Life is lived in the valley. But for Peter, James and John, life in the valley would never be the same again. For despite the fights and the fears and the failures, all the things that would ... Lincoln and The Second American Revolution, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 68 2. ibid., p. 88 3. ibid., p. 16 4. ibid., p. 75 5. Clifton Fadiman, Gen. Ed., The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1985), p. ...

221. The Seven Delightful Blessings of the Word of God in the Believer's Life

Psalm 119:169-176

Sermon

Michael Milton

... . Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). This is a great blessing of the Word. The Word of Christ brings help in your time of need. The Word Brings Salvation in Our Seasons of Longing ... you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name (John 20:31). The Word, which brought a world out of nothing, can bring a new life out of an old dead soul. God’ ...

222. Serpents and Other Signs

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... on a pole and lift it high above the people; and when anyone is bitten, he or she can look at it and be healed.'" Now go to the New Testament lesson. It is one of the most familiar and favorite of all the scriptures for Christians, John 3:16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. You heard it sung too in two wonderful anthems this morning, especially the popular and beautiful "God So Loved the World," interpreted ...

223. Are You Turned On to Christ?

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... companions realized, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking?" (Luke 24:32)Their hearts were turned-on. · Mary Magdelene turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni", which means Teacher (John 20:16). Mary's hope was turned on. · "Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord." (John 20:20) For these ten, their joy was turned on. · "While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering." (Luke 24:41). The disciples' minds were turned on. · "Thomas answered him, My Lord ...

224. All in the Family

1 Timothy 3:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole Body is healthy and growing and full of love." (Ephesians 4:16, NLT) Let me just stop and ask you a question right now. If you are a "part" of Cross Pointe, are you ... , which is fellowship. In fact, fellowship is so important that Jesus said, "Your strong love for each other will prove to the world that you are My disciples." (John 13:35, LB) I don't know what God is going to do through Cross Pointe in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years if He tarries, but ...

225. Envision: The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

James Merritt

... your own way, with your own giftedness, and your own personality, you will share that story with others. IV. We Love God With Our Treasure One of the greatest ways that you show God that you love Him is by giving to Him. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son.” (John 3:16) It has been said many times that you can give without loving, but you can love without giving. One of the ways that you know your love for God is really getting to where it needs to be is when you start ...

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