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226. The Men

Drama

William Grimbol

... . He doesn't want a centered faith in God's will. He wants faith in him. He wants faith centered in his will. ARNOLD: He does claim to be the Messiah. That sure goes beyond being a prophet. REED: I don't defend that. I don't know. JOHN: Do you mean he ... ? For curing the blind, the deaf, the lame? BILL: No, for advocating that God is ignorant. REED: What?! BILL: You heard me. For claiming God is a fool. Yahweh made a mistake in granting blessings. He was wrong in punishing the sinner. He just got fouled up, ...

227. Names, Not Numbers

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

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Carl Hoefler

... . They lived in Egypt as slaves. Now, they are about to possess a rich new land, to build a great nation, and to establish a royal lineage of mighty kings. Why? Is it because they are wise, or strong and brave, or faithful? No. Rather, it was because God had claimed them and had called them. He had chosen them to be his people - his beloved children. This is the focal point of our text, and it is also the focal point of the Book of Deuteronomy. In fact, it is the focal point of the whole of both the Old ...

228. Proper 6

Lk 7:36--8:3 · Gal 2:11-21 · 1 Ki 19:1-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... him die. 2 Samuel 11:26--12:10, 13-15 Nathan makes David aware of his sin with Bathsheba. Galatians 2:11-21 Justification is not by works of the law but by faith in Christ. Justification is the subject of this pericope. Justification means being right with God. Paul claims that a right relationship with God is a matter of grace received by faith and not by works of the Law. A Christian is one who died to the Law and now lives with Christ in newness of life. If one were able to get right with God by good ...

229. The Transfiguration of Our Lord

Lk 9:28-36 · 2 Cor 3:12--4:6 · Ex 34:29-35 · Deut 34:1-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... , Moses is shown the promised land. 2 Corinthians 3:12--4:2 With unveiled faces we behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus. Paul is writing with Lesson 1 (Exodus 34:29-35) in mind. He writes in opposition to those in the Corinthian church who claim they alone have the Spirit who enables them, like Moses, to see the glory of God and reflect his presence. In contrast, Paul argues that the veil is used to prevent the Israelites from realizing that the glory of God on the face of Moses was fading. The veil ...

230. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

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Barbara Brokhoff

... the Healer. There is only one God. There is no chance, then, of their making an appeal to a second deity against the righteous claims of the one, nor is there need for such an appeal. There is also a clear recognition of guilt here, and an awareness of ... ’t want to be charged any interest. The friend said he didn’t think their friendship was close and binding enough to justify such a claim upon it, and so he refused to make the loan. "But, John," the man said, "how can you say that, how can you refuse me ...

231. Separation of God and State?

Isaiah 44:24--45:25

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John R. Brokhoff

... continue to find refuge in the American Embassy in Moscow. Indeed, God is superior to the state because he is the creator of the universe. This is his world and his people are gathered in nations. God is over all and controls everything. In our text, God claims credit for everything that happens: "I form light and I create darkness, I make weal and create woe." Later in Isaiah, God is given credit even for our disobedience! "O Lord, why dost thou make us err from thy ways and harden our hearts, so that we ...

232. The Waters of Your Baptism

Colossians 2:6-23

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Bill Bouknight

... Methodists have only two sacraments--baptism and The Lord's Supper. Infant baptism is a sacrament but an unfinished sacrament. It looks forward to a time of completion when a child will be old enough to take his own vows of faith and thus endorse the claim we made earlier on his behalf. Let's compare infant baptism to a check one might write. The baptismal check is truly wonderful. It promises for the child forgiveness of sin, a place in heaven, membership in the church family, and the power of the Holy ...

233. Resurrection: From Slave to Child

Galatians 3:26--4:7

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Leonard H. Budd

... back to where the pressure was less, and the pain absent, back to where the comfort could enslave him. Paul did not take the easy way of doing his rituals within the increasing confines of an introspective Judaism and an oppressive Rome. He already knew that slavery. He claimed sonship. Rosa Parks did not give up her bus seat to a white man because her skin was black and his was white. Rosa Parks was a daughter of God. Nor did the 2,000 marchers on Pettus Bridge choose to stay home that Sunday afternoon and ...

234. A Dreadful Declaration

Mark 8:31--9:1

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George Bass

... . For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life?" The gospel doesn’t allow us to go through Lent simply as interested onlookers. If we follow Jesus to the cross, claiming that we love him, he expects us to become his disciples - without any reservations. If we call Jesus our Lord and Savior, we are to pick up his cross and carry it faithfully, telling the world the good news, and serving God and humanity with love and compassion ...

235. Your Sins Are Remembered No More! You Are Free!

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Mark Ellingsen

... not have to do anything to earn this kind of forgiveness. It is a free gift of God! I could just end the sermon at this point, and let you reflect on the goodness of God, and how his love for you has set you free from all the old claims that have enslaved you. But Jeremiah did not stop at that point, and so I will not either. Besides proclaiming that God would no longer remember the Hebrews’ and our sin in God’s Name, Jeremiah also proclaimed that the new covenant made by Yahweh would be one in which ...

236. Like A Mighty Army

John 17:20-26

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King Duncan

... a mortal. The Lord on the throne said to the Angel of the Book, "Who is this that you have brought, and what are his claims?" The Angel looked in the Book and said, "O King, this man was a great inventor, and shed light on the pathway of man through ... the Angel of the Book brought another before the throne. The King looked on him and said, "Who is this, and what are his claims?" The angel looked in the book and said, "This man was a great philosopher, a thinker, who thought great thoughts about Thee." The Lord ...

237. The Dangerous Truth

John 18:28-40

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Cathy A. Ammlung

... ? What's truth got to do with it?" Truth and a kingdom not from this world aren't easy to visualize. They don't reduce to sound bites or Kodak moments. There's nothing to grab hold of. For concrete thinkers, such words are frustrating. To see how Jesus claims kingship through his testimony to the truth, here at the end of his earthly life, let's look at what Jesus says about truth elsewhere in John's Gospel. In the beginning, we read: "And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory ...

238. He Is Not Here He Is Risen

Mark 16:1-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... in Adam, all die; so in Christ shall all be made alive.” That’s the truth which sets us wishing for it. D. L. Moody claimed it as can we. “Some morning you will read in the papers,” said Moody once to a group of friends, “that D. L. Moody is ... war of escape from eternal death and hell. “He that believeth on the son hath everlasting life.” That’s present tense. You can claim it now – and when you die you’ll simply be ushered by God’s angels into another realm, a higher realm of reality ...

239. Walk By Faith Not By Sight

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to we, 'cause us don't belong to she!" To test our faithfulness, we have to keep asking, "Do our actions reflect the one to whom we belong -- the one who has given himself in faithfulness to us. That's the way we need to approach our pledge to Claiming the Promise. But, more, that's the way we need to approach all of life. Ellsworth Kalas, my friend who works with us in the World Methodist Council, closed a sermon on one occasion with these words:"When the scores of life are totaled, and God's troops report ...

240. Overcoming The Destructive Dont's That Have Shaped Our Lives

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to show for it." That woman was asserting herself, but maybe in a self-serving way. People today are groping for a new life style to fit our age. "They're encouraged to be self assertive, to stand on their own two feet, to sound their own horn, to claim their rightful place in the sun...So we have today a rash of what are called "liberation" movements and a spate of looks which summon people to look out for number one, to get our piece of the action while the getting is good. One such book was boldly ...

241. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not dependent enough on the power of Christ. Listen to him: “Not that I have already attained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own”. We may be hesitant to make claims about where we are in our spiritual growth – but there should be no hesitance in our unshakable conviction and confidence that Christ Jesus has made us His own. We recognize who and where we are. II. Now, a second learning from our text – it is an obvious one ...

242. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not dependent enough on the power of Christ. Listen to him: “Not that I have already attained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own”. We may be hesitant to make claims about where we are in our spiritual growth – but there should be no hesitance in our unshakable conviction and confidence that Christ Jesus has made us His own. We recognize who and where we are. (II) Now, a second learning from our text – it is an obvious one ...

243. We Who Are Many Are One Body

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... which Moody replied, “You have certainly saved the Lord a grave responsibility.” It is the Lord who made us, and the Lord remakes us. What a challenge as we come together! Our unity is fragile, not because of Christ – His gift is complete, and totally sufficient. We must claim it and live in it for our sanctification. As Jesus looked past the demon and saw a person, whole and healthy, He looks at us and we can look now at each other, and see each other for who we are; we can look past all divisions to ...

244. A Name Not Taken in Vain

2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

... is why I have come to believe that true pastoral care is more than a mere soul massage, and more like an invitation to claim God's presence and purpose for the world. Our prevailing North American culture has become far too insulated and self-absorbed for its own ... life of a human community. The Word takes flesh, we say, and the all-too-human church is the Body of Christ. The claims of the gospel must be embodied in a gathering of people, or else the gospel remains an abstract idea, high above everybody's ...

245. Proper 15

Genesis 45:1-28, Isaiah 56:1-8, Romans 11:11-24, Romans 11:25-32, Matthew 15:1-20, Matthew 15:21-28

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John R. Brokhoff

... Gospel. b. God's grace is for all who accept the gospel - Lesson 2. 2. Universality, Not Universalism. Need: Universalism is a heresy that claims God will not allow anyone ultimately to go to hell. According to this view, it does not matter if a person is a ... ! Outline: This mother – a. Had no right to nag. 1. She was a woman with no rights - vv. 21, 22. 2. She was a Gentile with no claim on a Jew - v. 26. 3. She was a pagan, a devotee of a false religion - v. 22. b. Had reason to nag. 1. She had a ...

246. The Great Divide

Matthew 16:13-20

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King Duncan

... believe about Christ that makes it impossible for us to live sordid and bigoted lives? First of all, we believe Christ is the earthly manifestation of the Most High God. He is God in human form. God come down to earth. It is an extraordinary claim, really quite breathtaking. Some would say, absolutely incredible. The God who created the billions of stars and planets and moons and everything that exists and ever has existed throughout eternity has come to us, met us where we are, reached out and touched us ...

247. From Father Failure to Divine Father

Romans 8:12-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... people, and so on. Abnormal independency proceeds to distorted pride, to the classic hubris, to the elevation of the self, and the claim that we need no one at all. We can do everything by ourselves, thank you. This attitude often leads, as it did ... be weaned spiritually and that we grow out of spiritual adolescence, it is foolhardy to deny we have no spiritual ancestors or to claim we came into the spiritual or material world by ourselves. We are, in fact, dependent on countless people even though we may be ...

248. God's Eminent Domain

Jeremiah 18:1-11

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... , but in today's scripture lesson, the prophet Jeremiah reminds his nation about a greater and higher eminent dominion that must be recognized, even by the Supreme Court. To quote the psalmist, "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." To assert God's claim to eminent domain Jeremiah uses a story from his own everyday experience, a kind of living parable. Perhaps we can walk with him a while as he journeys to the potter's workshop. Take a moment to look around to see the various bowls and pitchers ...

249. Mark 13:1-8

Mark 13:1-31

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... against nation, kingdom against kingdom) and ecological (earthquakes and famines) — are merely the first signs, the earliest “birth pangs” of a far greater transformation that is yet to come. All the predicted events prophets, seers and hand-wringers claim as definitive evidence of an apocalyptic end Jesus dismisses as mere preliminaries the “beginning of the birth pangs.” The final divine ending is far removed from human inference and insight. At the conclusion of his apocalyptic announcements ...

250. I Am the Ressurection and the Life

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... leap of joy or a Snoopy happy hop. But go from this place today thrilled because this is our day, this is the Christian’s triumphant day - for Christ is risen. Our sermon is the continuation of this series on the great claims of Jesus. And we come today for one of his boldest claims – I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me though he be dead, yet shall he live, and whoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. We need to get that scripture in perspective as we continue our ...

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226. The Men

Drama

William Grimbol

227. Names, Not Numbers

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

228. Proper 6

Lk 7:36--8:3 · Gal 2:11-21 · 1 Ki 19:1-8

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

229. The Transfiguration of Our Lord

Lk 9:28-36 · 2 Cor 3:12--4:6 · Ex 34:29-35 · Deut 34:1-12

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

230. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

231. Separation of God and State?

Isaiah 44:24--45:25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

232. The Waters of Your Baptism

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

233. Resurrection: From Slave to Child

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

234. A Dreadful Declaration

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George Bass

235. Your Sins Are Remembered No More! You Are Free!

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

236. Like A Mighty Army

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

237. The Dangerous Truth

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

238. He Is Not Here He Is Risen

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

239. Walk By Faith Not By Sight

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

240. Overcoming The Destructive Dont's That Have Shaped Our Lives

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

241. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

242. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not dependent enough on the power of Christ. Listen to him: “Not that I have already attained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own”. We may be hesitant to make claims about where we are in our spiritual growth – but there should be no hesitance in our unshakable conviction and confidence that Christ Jesus has made us His own. We recognize who and where we are. (II) Now, a second learning from our text – it is an obvious one ...

243. We Who Are Many Are One Body

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

244. A Name Not Taken in Vain

2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

245. Proper 15

Genesis 45:1-28, Isaiah 56:1-8, Romans 11:11-24, Romans 11:25-32, Matthew 15:1-20, Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff