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2601. Building An Understanding Of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of encountering young men in uniform, so Jesus took away humanity's fear of God. Much of humanity has always looked at the spirit world as capricious at best and malevolent at worst, but Jesus taught us that God is love. More than that, Jesus showed us ... testimony of Scripture that there is a power in this universe that can help us live more victorious lives. This is what the Holy Spirit does for those willing to receive it. It does not cause us to jerk, and dance about and speak in strange languages. It is ...

2602. Love Of Life

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... to open your graves and bring you up from them . . . Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord . . . I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and ... line for Zoe Koplowitz. The two women also speak at various city schools, where they teach the children a valuable lesson about the winning spirit. (7) Do you know who's waiting at the finish line for you? The same one who has sustained you all your life--the ...

2603. Time For A New Vision

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Angela Akers

... who makes a great sacrifice for, or even dies for, their faith. Of the twelve men who were closest to Jesus, almost all suffered and died for their faith. (7) The power of the Holy Spirit is also the power to face death if necessary for the cause of Christ. Only the tremendous power of the Holy Spirit can give us the courage to stand firm under any circumstances and preach the message of Jesus. In 1939, the Nazi forces invaded Poland. They began a campaign of terror against Polish Jews, killing hundreds ...

2604. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... lift my hand," she thought to herself. "I can do that much." As their hands met it was as if warmth and healing broke forth with tears and joy."I forgive you, brother, with all my heart," she said. Later Corrie testified that "it was the power of the Holy Spirit" who had poured the love of God into her heart that day. (8) I don't know any other way true forgiveness can take place. We turn our hurt over to God. We ask God for the ability to forgive. Peter thought that he was big-hearted: "How often should ...

2605. Leaving The City of Regret

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... scarlet your sins, you are forgiven. And that brings us to the last thing to be said: ONE OF THE KEYS TO EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH IS A COMMITMENT OF YOUR LIFE TO JESUS. This is what salvation is--it is wholeness--wholeness of mind, body and spirit. It is a new beginning--a new beginning without the guilt, without the despair, without the complications of a life of sin. Many of you know the story of retail genius, J. C. Penney. In the early years of the Great Depression Penney lost a large part ...

2606. I Can Make It By Myself . . .

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... and redeem a broken creation. And the only way we are ever going to accomplish that task is to rely on God's Spirit and one another's talents to make a difference in the world. A woman tells about attending a jazz concert in New Orleans. ... another random group of strangers? What keeps us from being another social club? It is our equality, our unity, and our charity through the Holy Spirit that marks us as the Church, as the body of Christ. It is the fact that God brought us together and arranged us, just as ...

2607. What Love Looks Like

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... , so the young girl explained. "God is love, and love can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb, or a verb." (3) What a powerful concept! Love isn't just a vague feeling. It is an action, an attitude, a spirit, and a character trait. Since Jesus was filled with the Spirit of God, his every attitude, thought, word, and deed was motivated by love. He was motivated completely and without reservation by love. Whatever is most integral to our identity will be expressed in our actions, for it is almost impossible ...

2608. Do Not Disturb

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... this Second Sunday of Advent comes the prophet Isaiah--with words to both encourage and to disturb. He writes, "A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The spirit of the LORD shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. His delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear; but with righteousness he ...

2609. Streams Of Living Waters

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth." You need not visit a certain mountain or a certain temple to experience God's presence. God is spirit. He is like the air we breathe. He is in us, through us, all about us. There is nowhere that He is not. Could it be that ...

2610. A Church Fueled By Prayer

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... is happening as I commune with my Father. But that was the hardest audience I ever faced. However, as I stood there I had no doubts. I stepped to the curve of the piano and stood there with my head up and my eyes closed letting the Spirit do its work and waiting for that hissing to die down. Two minutes, three, four, five, on into an interminable ten minutes, the hissing continued. I waited for silence. Would it ever come? Ten minutes passed, and the hissing and stamping of feet stopped abruptly. "I spoke ...

2611. God Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to take charge, to rule, to put all things under his feet." Deus Ascendit. God has ascended. (1) The setting is the Mount of Olives. Jesus has broken bread with his disciples. He has announced to them that soon they will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and when the Holy Spirit has come upon them, they will be given power to be witnesses for him, not only in Jerusalem, not only throughout Judea, not only in Samaria, but to the very ends of the earth. When he had spoken these words, he was lifted up before ...

2612. Mud Below, Stars Above

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... and said, "He should be all right now. You see, he is an Indian elephant and understands only one language. He was merely homesick for someone who could understand him." The man's name was Rudyard Kipling. (8) Now the language of heaven is spoken only by the spirit of the living God. If we are going to be citizens of heaven, we must be able to hear that language, which is our native tongue. E. M. Bounds in Power Through Prayer says, "Men are looking for better methods, God is looking for better men." We can ...

2613. A Man Of Character And Generosity

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... of you," he says to his brothers. "It was not you who sent me here, but God." Joseph interpreted his life in the belief God was with him. This was what allowed him to be a man of character. This was what allowed him to have a generous and forgiving spirit. He believed that God was leading his life. Even in times of great uncertainty, in times of questioning and in times of struggle, God's hand can be felt in our lives. It was a moment of faith and maturity for Joseph when he told his brothers, "God sent me ...

2614. ENRAPTURED OR INSANE?

Drama

Angela Akers

... a commotion this morning. I have to charge you with disturbing the peace." Leader: (raising his voice) "Good! Good! Then we are guilty as charged! I should certainly hope we were disturbing the peace. When the Almighty God transforms you with His Holy Spirit, then it would be more of a crime to NOT disturb the peace. That was no crime; it was a revelation. When God moves, He usually does disturb the peace." Judge: "So you admit your guilt." All 3 men: "Yes, absolutely." Judge: "Since ...

2615. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... tricks to get us to dismiss him out of hand. The Devil we meet in the Bible is much more subtle. St. Paul spoke of the devil and the sinister powers operative in this world in nearly every letter he wrote. He spoke of “elemental spirits” which hold our world in bondage; the “god of this age” who has blinded people’s minds to reality. He wrote: “For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present ...

2616. Men Like Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... RESTORED, AND SAW EVERYTHING CLEARLY.” (8:25) John and Charles Wesley understood that “second touch.” That is why Charles wrote about it in the very important hymn: “Love Divine. All loves Excelling.” The 1935 hymnal said: “Breathe, O breathe Thy loving Spirit/Into every troubled breast! Let us all in Thee inherit/ Let us find the promised rest.” The present hymnal restored Wesley’s original words; “Let us all in Thee inherit/ Let us find that second rest.” What “second rest?” The ...

2617. The Lord's Prayer: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... their behalf for no further violence or vengeance to take place. We had opened the shelter to be a lighthouse to those in need, not to further contribute to the darkness and violence of the world. It was a powerful witness to the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. I have never forgotten it. Hilda, like the family members of the young man from Korea, knew that by God''s power there was a "witness" that could be made in the face of evil itself. I had the privilege of reading a printed sermon that Dr. Earl ...

2618. What Is Your Response toe the Resurrection?

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... some setbacks along the way. It happens. Why it happens will not be answered until, as Paul wrote, "we shall see face to face." But there is a way to live until then. Look to God! Keep the faith! Run the race! Reach for the finish line! Allow God''s spirit to transform you from a frightened, scared bystander to a winsome witness for our Lord and his Kingdom. You see, it is not true that this world and its people are doomed to die and be lost. This is true: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His ...

2619. The Tenth Commandment: How Zacchaeus Got His Groove Back

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... became poor that he might pay the ransom for our souls. Jesus was offered all the kingdoms of this world by Satan, but he passed on the deal. Jesus taught us, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you." A covetous spirit listens to others for advice and contentment--a believer turns to God. This is why we are here today! Taylor Caldwell in her book, The Listener, puts it this way: Man does not need to go to the moon or to other solar systems. He does not require bigger ...

2620. The Powerful Fragrance of Sharing and Caring

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... in verses 20-23, Paul brings this letter to a close. In church circles we call it an Epistle. As we have studied and preached through this letter, we have discovered that it is certainly the most joyful and upbeat of all the letters the Holy Spirit inspired him to write to guide and nurture the Christian faith. I can almost see Paul signing off with a heartfelt smile and handing the letter (which was probably a scroll) to Epaphroditus to take back to a congregation that had surrounded him with a powerful ...

2621. Missing the Point

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... to be "magnificent." The cross and tomb are none of these. Rather, they are the marks of a suffering servant who gave his life as a ransom for humankind. Let me make a long story short. It wasn't until Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit that Peter and the disciples finally "got the point." But when they did, the purpose of their lives took on a new dimension. They started doing the things that Jesus did when he was with them -- teaching, healing, forgiving. They even did some of the miracles that ...

2622. The Dark Didn't Catch Me!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... to the Galatians. And in Psalm 66:16 David says, "Come and hear ... and I will tell what he has done for me." So in that spirit today I want to share with you my testimony. In the text Jesus promised, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall ... He thinks you're worth dying for and rising for! He thinks you're worth choosing for his team! You're worth the filling of his Spirit! It is customary in this part of the nation to greet someone with the question, "How's it going?" And you can fairly ask that of ...

2623. A Landmark Event!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... my Body; this is my Blood." Not was. Not shall be. But is. Now! John Calvin used to remind the saints that there is no miracle in the bread and wine. The miracle is in us! When we commune with repentant and faithful hearts, the Holy Spirit moves among us and in us, bringing life, growth, bonding, reassurance, comfort, insight, love, strength, and whatever else is necessary to keep us on our feet. After the resurrection, Jesus showed up at every mealtime. When Peter denied the Lord, it was at breakfast the ...

2624. The Story behind the Glory

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... the one who "walks with us, and talks with and tells us we are his own." He is not just a fact of history but an ever-present factor in the living of these lives of ours. As Lord Tennyson put it, "Speak to him, thou, for he hears, and Spirit to Spirit can meet; closer is he than breathing, nearer than hands and feet." Perhaps it was thoughts like these that inspired Harry Farrington to write: I know not how that Bethlehem's babe Could in the Godhead be I only know the Manger-Child Has brought God's Life to ...

2625. The Joy of Shared Truth

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... able to cross the great chasm, take the leap of faith, and dare to lean on the everlasting arms, the real, present Holy Spirit of God. Saint Paul wrote in his letter to the Philippians, "... complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same ... But it does mean that we will be a fellowship that stands joyfully and faithfully under the guidance and love and challenge of the Holy Spirit, ready and eager to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, as best we know how. That, my friends, is the Church at its best. ...

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