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2851. Called To Be In Mission

Matthew 4:12-17, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:23-25

Bulletin Aid

... world. Pastor: Our mission is an all inclusive mission to share Christ with our world. People: We have good news to tell! We pray that we will miss no one as we share Christ's message. Collect Most holy God, whose Son began a ministry with disciples, and continues that ministry today with responsive followers: Make us quick to give of ourselves to be in mission as your church today, that the good news of Christ may bring wholeness in all parts of our world. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession ...

2852. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... encourages us: "You are the children of the Third Day - created by the Resurrection, empowered through Pentecost, the first fruits of that new humanity which will inherit a New Heaven and a New Earth."5 In the shocking act of washing the feet of the disciples, Jesus, the Messiah, was saying to them, "It is not by power or by might, but by love and by serving that my Kingdom comes!" Muggeridge, reacting to this, writes: "One of Jesus’ greatest gifts was to release a tidal wave of humility, flowing through ...

2853. DIPS IN DISCIPLESHIP

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John H. Krahn

... evil in God. God is not the author of the dips. Crying out to God, "Why are you doing this to my life?" is dumping your garbage at the wrong doorstep. Rather, curse the Devil, the devisor of dips. Evil causes mental, physical, and spiritual sickness. When we become a disciple of Christ, we can almost guarantee that old evil foe is not going to sit on his thumbs but will put a few dips in the way of our lives. Although God does not lead us into valleys of despair, he is even present in those valleys. As the ...

2854. JUNK FOR JESUS

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John H. Krahn

... that they would all desert him. Not much later, Peter denies the Lord three times in the courtyard, swearing the third time that he never knew the man. After his resurrection Jesus appears to some of his disciples. They have some breakfast together, then Jesus turns to Peter and says, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others?" Peter replies, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." Jesus says to him, "Feed my lambs." A second and a third time Jesus questions Peter’ ...

2855. The Guy With The Donkey

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... things like this: How did you get to know Jesus? Did he tell you in advance that he might need your donkey? When those two disciples took the halters of your donkey and its colt and said, "The Lord needs them," were those the code words agreed upon earlier? Did you ... a platform from which to speak to that throng. There was a boat close by, right at water's edge. One of Jesus' disciples probably approached the owner of the boat and asked, "Would it be alright if Jesus sits in your boat while he addresses these ...

2856. Don't Be Afraid of the Future

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of the outcome. But on Easter morning Jesus emerged as the undisputed Victor! Don’t be afraid of tomorrow! The Lamb has won! The second message of Jesus, backed up by the Angel, is this: Jesus Will Be Our Road Guide! Jesus told the women to inform the disciples that he was going ahead of them to Galilee and would meet them there. Jesus is always out in front of his followers, paving the way, filtering our future. Our challenge is to note where he is at work and join him! Just a week earlier, Jesus had ...

2857. Sinner to Saint

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ " It is not enough to be confronted by Christ; we must be called by Christ. We often talk about being called to be Christians. Pastors are supposed to be called to preach. The Disciples were called to follow Jesus. What do we mean when we say "call"? Often we use the word, "call," when we refer to sleep. When we are in a hotel or motel and need to catch a plane or keep an appointment, we usually, before retiring, call the ...

2858. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... ourselves? Jesus said that we must hate ourselves as a condition of being a follower of his. "If anyone comes to me and does not hate ... even his own life he cannot be my disciple." At another time, Jesus taught that a disciple must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow him - if he wanted to be a disciple. It is denying self, not affirming, exalting, confirming self but saying "no" to self. That doesn’t sound very modern, does it? The greatest Christians have all had a very low opinion of their ...

2859. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... these thirty years. MB: I wish I could be that accepting. Oh, Mary, how terrible. How awful for him - for us - but especially for you! [Her voice is shaky; she, too, is near the breaking point during the rest of her speech.] I - I am going to talk with the disciples to see what we can do. I just cannot sit by and watch ... [Her voice trails off. There is a long pause. MB sighs, looks up, suddenly aware of the hour.] Oh, dear, it’s almost time for the evening meal and if I am not there when it’s ...

2860. The Bible, Your Mirror? by Dr. Lawrence L. Lacour

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... on that first Easter night are an example. How often we find ourselves, with them, "behind closed doors for fear ..." With them, we have been commissioned to "Go and make disciples." How often we are tempted to quit on the spot. But we have the record of what happened to the disciples when they obeyed the Lord’s "Wait for the promise of the Father." Filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, their craven hearts became strong. After that, the apostles set the pace by providing another model of what ...

2861. Knowing Who You Are

John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Easter? It has been almost 2,000 years since Jesus was resurrected from the dead and still men never get tired of telling the story of Easter. A long time ago, about a week or so after the day that Jesus was resurrected from the grave, the disciples got together and talked about the things that had happened. They were thrilled to hear each other tell about the good news. All were happy except one. His name was Thomas. Although Thomas was a good man and someone whom everyone liked, he just could not believe ...

2862. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... that if Caesar’s picture is on the coin, it is his, and so give it to him. "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s." So here is a great principle laid down by Jesus. A Christian, a disciple of Jesus, is a person with double citizenship. We are citizens of the country and world in which we live, and we are fortunate to live here! Earl Warren said, "I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the ...

2863. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... not open the door to the kingdom of God, and it may even keep one from entering that kingdom, because of its tendency to produce attitudes that reject the reign of God in a person’s life. But this does not have to be the case. When Jesus’ disciples, in wonder at his preposterous statement about a rich man having as much difficulty entering the kingdom of heaven as a camel does going through the eye of a needle, asked, "Who then can be saved?" Jesus replied: "With men this is impossible, but with God all ...

2864. Cheering Stones

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... is often irritated. Then Eva dies, and Marie pities herself in her grief. Mrs. Stowe writes: "Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession."1 Without a doubt, Jesus’ disciples saw him in a clearer light after he was crucified and resurrected. But some of them knew already that day when he rode a donkey into Jerusalem that it was no ordinary man they were following. And they tried to say so with shouts of ...

2865. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... Spirit of Life, in this New Dawn. I mentioned the prayer with which the hymn concludes: Give us thy vision, eyes that see, Beyond the dark, the dawn and Thee. I think this prayer has the approval of Jesus, and I base this on something he said to his disciples long ago. He had walked with them for many months, teaching them. He had exposed them to dimensions of life they hadn’t known before; he had opened up for them ranges and reaches of life they hadn’t known were there; he had disclosed vistas of the ...

2866. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... t get the message from God, and they couldn’t get messages to one another. Nobody could understand anybody else; they were unable to work together; and the tower they started was never finished. Once, in the teaching career of Jesus, he had led his disciples into the presence of truth they had never encountered before. He had led them like pilgrims to the pioneer edge of things. There, perplexed and puzzled, half believing and half disbelieving, they looked at one another in awed wonder. And it is written ...

2867. The Master at Prayer

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... pray. He sometimes prayed all night. In this same 22nd chapter of Luke, Jesus says to Simon Peter, "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have been praying for you..." This suggests that Jesus prayed for each of his disciples by name each day. Why do so many of us stop praying regularly and fervently? We get busy and distracted. The average American watches TV 25 times more than he or she prays. Some people ask this question: Why can't I just share something with God ...

2868. How to do Extraordinary Things

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... started whining about what they did not have. Sounds just like us. We make far too many statements that begin with the words "If only." If only I had more talent...If only I had more money...If only my parents had reared me differently... The disciples said to Jesus, "It would take $10,000 or $20,000 to feed this mob. Counting women and children, there must be l0,000 people on this hillside. There is no catering service in the Middle East that can handle such a crowd. Lord, why do you ask us to ...

2869. We Are All Brothers in Christ

John 20:10-18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... any recall the words or even suggest some ideas) That's very good, but let me refresh your memory with one of the things he said that I like the most. He said, "Go find my brothers." Do you know who he meant when he said brothers? He meant his disciples. What does brother mean? What do you think of when you hear the word brother? (Someone who lives in the same house, goes to the same school) How many of you have a brother? Do any of you have something that belongs to your brother? Do you have it with ...

2870. Jesus Is Here Today!

John 16:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... when we put everything together. I guess we found out something pretty important. We found out that we needed everthing put together to make one whole pie. When Jesus lived here on earth, the disciples wanted him to stay here just with them. But Jesus said something like you just learned. He said he had to go and be with his Father. The disciples were very sad and said that they just wanted him. But Jesus told them that they would know more and be much happier if he went back to his Father, for then they ...

2871. A Kudzu-Kind of Kingdom

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... stink." with that he jumped back on his horse and rode away. The buffalo turned to his neighbor and said, "You know, I think I just heard a discouraging word." All of us have to deal with discouragement from time to time. So did Jesus' disciples. When Jesus sensed that their morale was down, he told three parables that are recorded in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew. Those parables tell us that the Kingdom of God has something in common with kudzu, the unofficial state flower of Mississippi. In fact, some ...

2872. Half-Price Crosses

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... here on this grassy slope. I need to have a heart--to-heart talk with you. Jesus says, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." I can imagine that people's eyes opened wide and they whispered to each other, "Did he say what I think he said?" You need to understand at this point that it was the custom of teachers in the first century to overstate in order to make a point. For ...

2873. Who Do You Say I Am? - Sermon Starter

Matthew 16:13-20

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Brett Blair

... a God himself. You might say that the world religions were on display in this town. It was with this scene in the background that Jesus chose to ask the most crucial questions of his ministry. He looked at his disciples and in a moment of reflection said: "Who do men say that I am?" The disciples begin sharing with Jesus what they have heard from the people who have been following Jesus: Some say that you are Elijah; others say John the Baptist, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. It's always been ...

2874. Faith and Power

Mark 4:35-41

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Larry Powell

... of Jesus as being a succession of "mighty works," indicative of his Sonship. Actually, the stilling of the storm is only the beginning of a series of incidents portraying the power of Christ. After the storm experience on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus and the disciples came to the other side of the sea into the country of the Gerasenes. Here they encountered a man who lived among the tombs, crying out in travail both day and night, inflicting injury upon himself and striking fear into the hearts of all who ...

2875. The Last Meal

Luke 22:1-6

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Larry Powell

... How much more intense it must have been for Judas, and we can but wonder where his eyes were fixed when Jesus uttered those terrible words. "He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me, will betray me" (Matthew 26:23). So far as the disciples were concerned, they had gathered, as they had done since childhood, to partake of the traditional Passover meal. The streets of Jerusalem were crowded with pious Jews who had come into the city for this express purpose. The ritual was always the same: while at the ...

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