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2626. Jesus Out of Character

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , but don’t try to tell me that Jesus ever rejected anyone who sincerely sought for His help. That’s not the Christ I know. As the hymn says: “God never yet forsook at need/The soul that trusted Him indeed.” Not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Christ whom I love and serve opens wide His arms unto all the world, saying, “Come unto me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28) Whatever He says in our Scripture passage for the morning, ultimately ...

2627. The Day Jesus Asked the Question: The Fourth Word

Matthew 27:45-46

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... why have you not forsaken me?" As Charles Wesley put it: "And can it be that I should gain An interest in the Saviour''s blood, Died he for me, who caused his pain? For me, who him to death pursued? Amazing love! How can it be, that thou my Lord, shouldst die for me?" III One more thing that we must see is that Christ transforms human suffering into something of value and service to God. Jesus uses suffering as a service to God. In the same way, your suffering can lead you to cynicism, or you can offer it ...

2628. I THIRST: The Fifth Word

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of the mighty deep. "He said, `I thirst,'' and yet in him was a well of water springing up to eternal life! "Yes, he who guided every river in its course and watered all the fields with grateful showers--he it was, the King of kings and Lord of lords, before whom hell trembles and the earth is filled with dismay, he whom heaven adores and all eternity worships--he it was who said, `I thirst!'' "Matchless condescension--from the infinity of God to the weakness of a thirsting, dying man! "And this was for you ...

2629. Your Faith: Winning or Whining?

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... in Christ; you want to begin your journey. I believe I can safely say that everyone here has had that moment when we have cried, Lord, INCREASE MY FAITH. I recently heard a story about a man who owned a small restaurant in Northern New Jersey. It was a fine place ... . Blinded and barely hanging onto life itself, he wrote to that general: "Semper Fidelis--Always Faithful." We must say to our Lord, "Lord, we do not care about the cost. Always faithful--right to the very end!" (2) You know your faith is growing ...

2630. Saintly Citizenship - Earthly Responsibilities

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... clipping of an obituary and follow-up story about a grand Christian woman named Clara Hale. She is better known to many as "Mother Hale." It seems at the age of 62, when some folks are retiring, she got "re-fired up" to do a great work for the Lord. She offered to God her main talent, which was that of a mother. She began to care for babies born of parents who used cocaine and crack. This ministry eventually included children born with the HIV virus. When they held the service of celebration for her life at ...

2631. A Landmark Event!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... forever in a loving relationship like we've been longing for. "In this hope we were saved," the Bible says. Such hope makes the Lord's Supper an appetizer. It is but a foretaste of the marriage supper of the Lamb mentioned in Revelation 19. Robert Frost's poem, " ... it's a tradition! Because of our traditions everyone knows who he is and what God expects him to do." So it is that the Lord's Supper is a tradition, a landmark in our lives. Jesus wills us to remember him, to come often, to sit and look to our ...

2632. Bedlam or Bethleham?

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... went along with the shepherds. He looked on in a prosaic way. He was in Bethlehem, but the meaning of Bethlehem was not in him. Today's text urges us to behold the reason for the season, the reason behind the mere tapestry of Christmas. He, the Lord of heaven, appeared to provide salvation and wholeness for all who have eyes to see. Surely there is no bedlam in this understanding of Bethlehem. We move on to the second of our ABC's. We remove bedlam from Bethlehem when we perceive the behavior the Christmas ...

2633. Grace in the Midst of Weakness

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... me, please kill me." Who prayed that prayer? Moses. Here's a paraphrased cry of the heart from 1 Kings 19: "I have had enough, Lord ... I'm the only one left who really cares about you, I've done everything that you asked me, and what do I get for ... time we "score" in ministry it's by grace, not by skill. Those called to bring about God's work aren't so much partners with the Lord as servants who are awaiting their next command. The ministry belongs to God. As Paul puts it in verse 1, "Since it is by God's ...

2634. The Highest Bidder

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... women of radically different convictions? How am I going to gain sufficient trust to cross all those bridges -- from my various levels of phony tolerance to authentic new experiences of partnership? There's only one way. I will need to realize that Jesus Christ is Lord over their hearts and Lord over my heart at the same time. The walls that I have erected in my mind and the walls I have put up in my relationships are insufficient to keep the Son of God at bay. Paul, pondering the two groups of people who ...

2635. Humility

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... .” Should we have a foot washing service this evening? We could. Some churches do, but it’s not required. What Jesus is asking of his disciples is not an outward act, but an inner attitude--an attitude of humility and love and service. “Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.” TV pastor Robert Schuller tells about the time Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen spoke at the ...

2636. Have We Kept Our Contract with God?

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... with the sacraments as moments of God's grace and special presence in our lives. We have the wonderful gift of the community's proximity in our lives, supporting, assisting, and, yes, at times challenging us to be all we can be in the eyes of the Lord. God and the community of the faithful have met their commitments to us; have we been as faithful to God and the church? The Christian life gives us many privileges, but there are significant responsibilities that we must meet in order to uphold our end of the ...

2637. Dying And Rising With Christ

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... second thing. The power which raised Jesus from the dead is also our power. Paul breaks into singing prayer as he writes to the Christians in Ephesus, reminding them of these benefits and privileges that are ours as Christians. He said, ‘I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the all glorious Father may give you the spiritual powers of wisdom and vision by which there comes the knowledge of him. I pray also that you’re inward eyes may be illumined so that you may know what is the hope to which he ...

2638. Reconciliation: Our Gift And Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... meeting hall. They stood spontaneously as we entered, an act of honor that humbled us. We sang and prayed together, then we took the Lord’s Supper. I watched those people, many of them old, as they waited for the bread and the wine, and I wish I could ... to be invited to the table in a moment, to receive a tiny morsel of bread, dipped into the symbolic blood of our crucified and risen Lord. I want you to know this. I want you to know it as you’ve never known it before. In the very depths of your being, ...

2639. Curiosity Or Consecration

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... unto God, who is your spiritual worship. And be not conformed to the world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may prove what is the will of God. What is good and acceptable and perfect.” And hear the angel speaking for the Lord to Gideon – “I meant for you to love me, but you were only curious.” With a challenge of Paul as a kind of vision toward which we move, and the probing word of the playwright as a possible assessment of our lives, I want to ask a big question ...

2640. Why I Believe In Tithing

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... therein. All is his. And in our tithing, we are simply returning that which already belongs to him, and the pinnacle of it was set when it was cast into the Jewish law and Leviticus 27:32 recorded that in this fashion, ‘the tithe is Holy unto the Lord.’ Now when you come to the New Testament, you find a fuller and a clearer teaching regarding our relationship to money and to property. Jesus had more to say about money than he had to say about repentance and regeneration. He had more to say about money ...

2641. Participants In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the bishop and the deacons. Got to get the bishop and the deacons in. Grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I think my God in all of my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all, making my prayer ... from Christ and from God the Father is ours to receive. See it there. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you see what this means? We have not simply taken on a new religion, with a new belief system, we have been ...

2642. Christ Signs The Letter Of The Church

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Doesn't that say it? We are a Resurrection community as the Church -- and whether we live or whether we die – we are the Lord's. He signs the letter of the Church. He is our dynamic life.> III. And that leads to this final word. The Church is ... Heaven" to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is a cosmic mission. I wonder if we have ever even begun to grasp the greatness of the Lord Jesus Christ. He who is the head over the Church, is to become head over everything else. And the church is to play a role ...

2643. A Sovereign God With A Shepherd's Heart

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and that for obvious reasons. To claim to be the Messiah was to claim to be the son of David, an heir to the covenant and the promises made by God with David. So, in the Annunciation Gabriel describes the destined role of Mary's child as follows: "....and the Lord God give to him the throne of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end" (1: 32, 33). Likewise, Zachariah and his prophecy speaks of Jesus as a horn of salvation raised up by God ...

2644. A Pattern For Giving And Living

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... almost weekly, in this congregation. As seemingly well-positioned as we are -- blessed in so many different ways -- we are not without suffering. And the witness comes over and over. From a person who has been without work for six months: "I know now what it means to trust the Lord. Though I'm not on the brink of poverty, I have a faint taste of what people must feel who have to scratch out a living day in and day out. From a young man whose wife died, leaving him with a 7-year-old child to rear alone: "Her ...

2645. Reflections On A Calling (ten-year Anniversary Sermon)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us...for we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus' sake. Let me confess that one of the ways that I stay alive in ministry, ... indwelling presence, and what He is seeking to do through my life. My greatest source of guilt is not spending the time alone with the Lord that I should spend. I try to be disciplined in that way-- but the spirit is willing and the flesh is weak -- and often times ...

2646. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... deposited the little boy right at the feet of the grandmother, and she was so relieved to get him back. What did she do? She turned her eyes toward heaven, as all of us would have done, in a prayer of thanksgiving. But was it prayer? "You know what, Lord?" she said, "He also had a hat!" It's a bazaar expression of ingratitude, but it also suggests a deadly perspective on life: get all you can...guard what you have, and secure yourself for the future. It is a turned-in approach to life that results in death ...

2647. God's Messenger

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... neighbor? Have we obeyed his commands and shown mercy to the poor and helpless and been faithful in our trust, even when we were suffering or in difficulty, or better still, even when everything was going right with us? Have we had no other gods beside the Lord? Or have we tried to be our own gods and goddesses and attempted to run our own lives, forgetful of our Creator and Redeemer? Almighty God comes to judge the earth, proclaims Malachi along with the Psalmists (cf. Psalm 96:13; 98:9, et al) and other ...

2648. We Must Obey God

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... people, all wanting to be healed, so many in fact that the streets are crowded with the beds and pallets of the lame and diseased (Acts 5:12-16). This time, the Sanhedrin doesn't hesitate. It throws the disciples into prison, only to find that an angel of the Lord opens the prison doors and sets them free, commanding them to go and stand in the temple and to speak to the people all the words of life (vv. 17-20). Once again the apostles are brought before the council, and that brings us to our text for the ...

2649. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... with us always—to the end of the age. Not only are the charter and the commission of the Kingdom centered in the Holy Spirit, Jesus’ commitment to provide us power is Spirit-centered. Listen to Acts 1:6-8: So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and ...

2650. Constantly Abiding

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... know what has happened to the stock market. We’ve lost about $3 million a year in income, so we’re struggling. I believe the Lord is testing us: He’s pruning us that we might bear more fruit. Though I recognize this, the past year has been one of the ... terms of my ministry. Yet I think I’ve grown as much spiritually during this time as any other. I’ve learned to be dependent on the Lord and to trust Him. I’m a Type A, do-it-yourself sort of person. I’ve had a marked level of what the world would ...

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