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1. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... the darkest pits of hell – if you believe that Christ can do that for persons, then you will do the work of an evangelist. There is an old story about a church in Ystad, Sweden. Back in 1716, King Charles XII announced to that little town ... all centered in that core doctrine of our Methodist way – grace. We must be gracious and graceful people if we would do the work of an evangelist. And we must lead our churches to being places of hospitality. I love to think of the Church as the home of grace. As the ...

2. The Work of An Evangelist

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... about evangelism. If you believe like Carlos Velasquez that Jesus can transform any life – that he can save to the uttermost – and redeem from the darkest pits of hell – if you believe that Christ can do that for persons then you will do the work of an evangelist. There is an old story about a church in Ystad, Sweden. Back in 1716, King Charles XII of Sweden announced to that little town that he was going to come and visit them, and that he would worship in the village church. The pastor of the church ...

3. The Real Tragedy Of The Tv Evangelists

Mark 6:7-13

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King Duncan

... to the source of our lives to be purified, refreshed, renewed. Evangelism deals with the cause of our hurt rather than its symptoms. This brings us to the third thing to be said: EVANGELISM IS THE WORK OF EVERY CHRISTIAN. You may be embarrassed to be called an evangelist under present circumstance, but that it what you are. Your call as you leave this place this morning is to go out and lead the world to repentance, to cast out demons and to heal the sick. That is a pretty big order, isn't it? Any place ...

4. The Evangelist Has a Shady Past

John 4:1-26

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King Duncan

... big sister, or do you want to go to the lake of fire to be with the Devil and bank robbers?” David thought a moment, then replied, “I want to stay right here.” (1) Sounds like a smart little fellow. Maybe little Debbie was not the ideal evangelist. But her heart was in the right place. It’s a wonderful thing to help people find Jesus. The highly esteemed theologian Karl Barth had a painting of the crucifixion on the wall of his study that was painted by the artist Matthias Grunewald. In the painting ...

5. A Most Unlikely Evangelist

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... a feminine ruse. When she returns, she will be able to use this as a pretext: "I forgot my waterjar."(5) But here is something that is even more striking: This Samaritan woman ” this Samaritan woman who had fouled up her life in so many ways ” turns into an evangelist: "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did," she tells her friends in the village. "Can this be the Christ?" At her urging the people from the village come out to the well. Perhaps one or another of her five or six husbands is among ...

6. Unexpected Evangelists

John 4:1-26

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David E. Leininger

... , come out to the well and, in their words to her, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world." Who woulda thunk it? What an unexpected evangelist! I love the way she went about it. No theologizing. She simply told her story. "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did." Even her questions. "Could this be the Christ?" For those who wonder whether or not they could ever be an effective Christian ...

7. An Unexpected Evangelist

John 4:1-26, 39-42

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David E. Leininger

... each Lord's Day following. I will not by choice miss services again. Sincerely... P.S. Would you please tell your secretary that there is only one `T' in dirty and no `C' in Skunk." Ah, those unexpected evangelists. To this day, that nameless Samaritan woman, the first unexpected evangelist, is revered in many cultures. In southern Mexico, La Samaritana is remembered on the fourth Friday in Lent, when specially-flavored water is given to commemorate her gift of water to Jesus. The Orthodox know her as St ...

8. Song of an Evangelist

Psalm 103:1-22

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Gordon Pratt Baker

The author of the One hundred and third Psalm is an evangelist who cannot refrain from telling the world of God’s goodness to him. Indeed, he is fairly bursting with joy at the very thought of witnessing to what the Lord has done. He is so filled with the spirit of praise and thanksgiving, in fact, that his song flows from ...

9. Jesus and the Divorced Evangelist

John 4:1-26

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Donald B. Strobe

... street corners passing out tracts. Such actions may actually do more harm than good. It is one person showing by his or her life what the Lord can do in terms of a changed life. Thus, this five times divorced woman from Samaria became the first Christian evangelist. She had a rather checkered past, but Jesus did not seem to be as much concerned about her past as her future. Somewhere in my reading I came across a phrase, taken from the world of business and stock markets, “dealing in futures.” Now, my ...

10. The Unknowing Evangelist

Luke 16:1-13

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Lori Wagner

When I was young, I often tried to get out of practicing the piano. I had been taking lessons for a while and was slipping by each week with minimal practice time. My mother, trying to somehow nudge me into a better daily commitment, said more than once, “If this is what you can do without practicing, imagine what you could do if you did!” Unfortunately, her valiant entreaty did not work at the time. A few years later, however, I grew to love playing so much that the constant noise in the house drove her ...

11. On Getting the Gospel Out

Mark 6:7-13

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Donald B. Strobe

... sing lustily,” as Wesley commanded us, or use our tongues to invite others to experience the joys of the Christian Faith. “There are no proofs for the existence of God; there are only witnesses.” III. LIKE IT OR NOT, WE ARE ALL CALLED TO BE “EVANGELISTS” MESSENGERS OF THE “GOOD NEWS.” It is clear from the New Testament that evangelism is the first business of the church. According to Mark’s Gospel, Jesus first called the disciples to be with Him. Then he sent them out, two by two, to spread ...

12. The Law and the Promise

Galatians 3:15-25, Galatians 3:1-14

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... 9). 3:25 Paul brings this part of his argument to a climax by repeating that faith has come (cf. 3:23). Since this is so, the law’s function of supervision is ended. Such a claim on Paul’s part was a powerful retort to the rival evangelists’ position that law observance was the appropriate completion to faith in Christ. Rather than law observance being the sign of fully becoming part of the people of God, Paul argues, it is a sign that one is still a minor and so incapable of inheriting the promise to ...

13. Faith or Observance of the Law

Galatians 3:1-14, Galatians 3:15-25

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

14. No Telltale Clues

Matthew 9:9-13

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... even if he wanted to be. Jesus chose Matthew. And he chose him to follow and to enter the joy of God's kingdom. What our evangelist wants us to see is the fact that Jesus has the right to call followers. He also wants us to see that Jesus uses that right ... what he came to do and exactly what his ministry was all about. When Jesus defends his actions to the Pharisees and when the evangelist writes about it for our instruction, it becomes clear that you and I are to do what Jesus did. That is to say, we ...

15. Unity in the Body of Christ

Ephesians 4:1-16

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... on the special gifts that Christ has given to the church (4:7). From his rendering of the psalm, he repeats—as if to reemphasize—that Christ is the giver: It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers. Although this verse may look relatively simple on the surface, there are a number of issues that make its meaning difficult and even ambiguous: First, within the canon of the NT there is often an overlapping of functions attributed ...

16. Paul Opposes Peter

Galatians 2:11-21

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... go on to claim that since Christ’s death the law’s role of guiding toward righteousness has ceased. Therefore, the problem is not that Paul is setting aside the grace of God by disregarding the law as a means to righteousness. Rather, the problem is that the rival evangelists do not understand that the grace of God is now manifested in the death of Christ. Faith in Christ allows one to be joined to Christ, to live in Christ, and to have Christ live in oneself—to be as Christ and so to live out of the ...

17. Hagar and Sally

Galatians 4:21-31

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... is a covenant that does not require circumcision. For Jews the word covenant was almost synonymous with circumcision (see particularly Gen. 17:10). 4:26 The name and symbol of Jerusalem appear to have had a strategic position in the rhetoric of the rival evangelists and of Paul (see esp. 1:13–2:21). The troublemakers were no doubt claiming that the authority of the Jerusalem church stood behind their gospel. Paul is willing to concede that his opponents may have the present Jerusalem on their side, but he ...

18. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... structure in verse 18 also suggests that the Galatians regarded themselves as those who knew the Spirit. The consequence of this fact is that they are then not under law. The subtext is Paul’s assertion that they do not need to accept the rival evangelists’ offer of law in order to live well. The plain sense is that there are two contrasting and mutually exclusive ways of approaching the ethical choices in life: through the guidance of the Spirit or through the guidance of the law. Additional Notes 5:13 ...

19. Peter Disowns Jesus

Luke 22:47-53

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... 24) has Peter first deny Jesus at the house of Annas, a former high priest and father-in-law of Caiaphas, and then deny Jesus the other two times at the house of Caiaphas (18:25–27). This discrepancy is not serious, for it reads as though the evangelist John has digressed after mentioning Caiaphas in 18:14. In all likelihood the fire by which Peter stood warming himself in 18:25–27, where he denied Jesus a second and third time, is the same fire mentioned earlier in 18:18, at which time Peter had denied ...

20. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... of the world. He had refused sedation before entering that struggle with Satan, death, and hell. Now that it was over, he could be indulged. So the best that the lady or gentleman could offer was a few sips of sour wine. It Was Accepted Three of the evangelists agree that Jesus took this second attempt at sedation, though Mark indicates that the one who offered it called out that the people should wait to see if Elijah would come to take Jesus down from the cross. No one can tell if that was said in the ...

21. Hate Evil

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... prefer to live in the bondage to their own desires rather than to live for the sake of others. In the Dark Another condition which is the same as that of the time of the children of Israel in the desert is that the world is in the dark. The evangelist says, "The people loved darkness rather than light." That was the same way in which the Israelites said they preferred the days of slavery in Egypt to the freedom under God in the desert. In the same way the world is in the dark today. There is all kind of ...

22. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 14:1--15:47

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

23. Clean House

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... the greatest excitement had to do with the preparations so that the commerce had to be at its height. Into that busy crowd Jesus rushed with a homemade whip of cords and struck out wildly at people and animals to put them into a rout. The reason that the Evangelist John includes this story at the very beginning of his gospel is because he wants to show throughout his gospel that Jesus gave new shape and meaning to the worship life of the people of God. In this very early story John is able to set the stage ...

24. The God You Worship

Acts 17:16-34

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... who do not live here and do not know our culture or our people. What would you think they might preach when they come? Do they come because they see that Dallas is a good religious market for traveling preachers? How do they know what to say? Suppose the evangelists landed at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and took one of our major freeways into the heart of the city. What would they see, which would help them get some insight into who we are and to what we are committed? Would they get some idea of the God or ...

25. The Promising Child

1 Samuel 2:12-26

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Harry N. Huxhold

... . The song goes on to praise God for the manner in which God reverses the fortunes of the poor and lowly and humbles the proud. The song, which became a model for the “Magnificat,” the song of Mary at the time of the Visitation recorded by the Evangelist Luke, celebrates God’s control over all of life. The Blessed Mother In the First Lesson appointed for today we read that Hannah faithfully made the annual visit to the temple at Shiloh to worship. As she did so she also visited with her son Samuel and ...

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