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3076. Gifts: Standing on the Promises

Malachi 4:10

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John E. Harnish

... the difference between "sponge evangelism" and "octopus evangelism." For the most part, we are pretty good about sponge evangelism—soaking up folks who come by, get close, walk in the door. But octopus evangelism is something else. It means reaching, stretching, finding, touching, drawing in those who are in need of the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ and may not have even realized it yet. Are we actively reaching, actively inviting, and actively gathering all into the body of Christ? A recent study ...

3077. Will The Real Saints Please Stand Up

Esther 4:1-17

Sermon

John E. Harnish

3078. Gathered In, Sent Out

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

John E. Harnish

3079. Growing Up

1 Corinthians 13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... the difference between "sponge evangelism" and "octopus evangelism." For the most part, we are pretty good about sponge evangelism-soaking up folks who come by, get close, walk in the door. But octopus evangelism is something else. It means reaching, stretching, finding, touching, drawing in those who are in need of the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ and may not have even realized it yet. Are we actively reaching, actively inviting, and actively gathering all into the body of Christ? A recent study of ...

3080. Called to be a Christian Community: Cracked Pots and Clay Jars

2 Corinthians 4: 1-18

Sermon

John E. Harnish

3081. Grasshopper Religion

Numbers 13:25-33, 14:1-10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

3082. Praising God on an Oatmeal Box

2 Samuel 6:12-23

Sermon

John E. Harnish

3083. When Religion Becomes a Laughing Matter

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... The Psalmist says: "Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning." Well, the story ends with Sarah's final word of witness: "God has brought me joy and laughter. Everyone who hears about it will laugh with me." And as a fitting final touch, the Genesis writer says they named their son Isaac, meaning "God laughs" —which is at least to say that God giggles, God smiles, God slaps his thigh, God shares the joy, and God himself laughed all the way to the delivery room. Listen. Can you hear it ...

3084. Whose Side Are You On?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... have some things to teach us about how to raise young people. Jesus and his disciples were at Caesarea Philippi. Their ministry to this point had been a stunning success. Crowds pressed in on them everywhere they went. People eagerly reached out to touch this attractive young teacher from Nazareth. The disciples themselves were caught up in the excitement of it all. Jesus asked them, “Who do you say I am?” and Simon Peter answered enthusiastically, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!” It ...

3085. The Lure of the Easy Way - Sermon Starter

Matthew 16:21-28

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Brett Blair

... ?" We want to deal this morning with the lure of the easy way. Jesus and His disciples were at Caesarea Philippi. Their ministry to this point had been a stunning success. Crowds pressed in on them everywhere they went. People eagerly reached out to touch this attractive young teacher from Nazareth. The disciples themselves were caught up in the excitement of it all. Jesus asked them, "Who do you say I am?" and Simon Peter answered enthusiastically, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!" It was ...

3086. Secret Revealed

Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... deeply enriched by accepting and believing the revealed secret is for all of humankind. While it is "my gospel," as the apostle says, it is also a universal and one-of-a-kind happening that he simply attests to. But we would be impoverished without his special touch. His words are heavily freighted in a brilliantly cast look into what God the Father had finally decided to do. It is not just a prayerful affirmation. It is a theological gem that says so much so quickly we can be caught off balance. Of course ...

3087. Deep Calling to Deep

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... provides a thrilling time of study that makes us forget all about the light-weight stuff we have been reading in popular devotionals! With heart and mind perfectly attuned to the Holy Spirit our labors become more and more fruitful. We are brought in touch with understandings — indeed wisdom — that enable us to celebrate Christmas on a daily basis, recognizing in joy our greatest gift is the Christ. The challenge to the pastors and key laity in our time is much what it always has been. We are to ...

3088. Getting It Straight

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... God's power is available. 4. Our bodies need our ongoing and loving attention. It would be a mistake to spiritualize Paul's understanding of our bodies into making them ghostlike and non-biological in function. He is instructing us about what we can see and touch. Our arms, heads, hands, lungs, livers, feet, and all parts are his consideration. We are made in the image of God and therefore are to be stewards of what God, not ourselves, have created. To accept Christ as Savior and Lord does not mean we ...

3089. Plea for Discipline

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... life with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is an old/new teaching to whom all Christians for twenty centuries can relate. It is couched in terms both familiar and relevant. For you and me, now early in the twenty-first century, it keeps us in touch with sublime revelation that remains at once practical and dependent on faith. As one ponders the brevity of one's life, the truth shines in all its splendor. This brief period of living on planet earth is but a dressing room for the main event. God's ...

3090. No-fault Religion

2 Corinthians 5:6-10 (11-13), 14-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... Saint Paul nineteen centuries before Peck. Anyone who has experienced the renewing grace of Christ is a new creation, a new being. The old has passed away. All has become new. It was the grace former slave trader, John Newton, experienced when Christ touched him, and he gave up his terrible work, and wrote the familiar hymn, "Amazing Grace." No-fault religion is not morally ambiguous or ethically indifferent, nor is it without rules and standards and principles. Rather, it is a religion that says that it ...

3091. A Time for Us

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , the most noble and heroic, the most beautiful and powerful and brilliant are subject to judgment and death. "The tragedies," said theologian Paul Tillich, "reveal the tragic situation before the divine. Even the tragic hero who becomes great and proud and tries to touch the Divine sphere, comes to despair and destruction."3 Thus the tragic heroes in our day rise and fall. Jack Kennedy, a symbol of a new jet-setting nobility, who presumably knew how to handle power, was assassinated. Martin Luther King, Jr ...

3092. God Our Protector and Shield

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... writing editorials and columns, and traveling the lecture circuit makes an industrious worker today appear as a moderate activist. James Gillis' faith was manifest in his fear of God; it was his shield and protector. His views were at some points out of touch with time and reason, as in his inability to grasp that World Wars I and II had changed America's international role and his refusal to recognize the outrageous tactics of Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade. Additionally, Gillis possessed a rigid ...

3093. Strength through Diversity

James 2:1-17

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... also their uncleanliness according to the Hebrew Law, were rejected by all, but not by Jesus. Saint Mark reports: "A leper came to him begging him and kneeling he said to him, ‘If you choose, you can make me clean.' Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!' Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean" (Mark 1:40-42). We all recall the popular story (Luke 17:11-19) of the ten lepers who came to Jesus and were cured, yet only ...

3094. Prayer: A Way of Life

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... of the day and creation, and even the challenges that come our way. Lastly, we must also pray for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus specifically calls for this in the Lord's Prayer and so does James today. We are all sinners and thus in need of God's healing touch. We should never be too proud to admit that we are wrong and have failed. We must not forget how Jesus exalted the publican who could not raise his eyes to God, but had the courage to beat his breast and say, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" (Luke ...

3095. Dots on a Screen

Hebrews 9:24-28

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... a bigger, richer reality that is far away and out of sight. Nevertheless, such dramas played a vital role in the shaping of the people's minds and spirits. Like the plays, television, and motion pictures of our own day, people's lives were touched and "cleansed." The Greeks called it catharsis, a kind of emotional purification. The audience of worshipers could be drawn closer to God as they watched and participated. And yet, like the veil in the temple, the barrier between divine and human reality remained ...

3096. Believing Thomas

John 20:19-31

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... and wonders, unless we see a hand writing on the wall, unless we see arks being built, unless we see donkeys talking and seas dividing and rocks flowing with water and manna dropping and the dead rising and loaves with fishes multiplying, unless we see his wounds so we can touch with our own fingers, we will not believe. Two: Signs and wonders? We believe, our Lord and our God! We believe! Amen. Hymns Love Divine, All Loves Excelling Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine

3097. That’ll Show Us

Acts 10:44-48

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... things have been done, whether we know it or not. One family, one God, one people, one Lord. With songs of grateful praise we thank you for this bounty! Who'd have guessed? Who would have dared guess that our Lord is so merciful he will touch all lives! Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Thanks a lot, Lord God Almighty. Sending your Spirit where you want, among the Gentiles, and raising up all sorts of problems. This was a fine church when you limited it to just your people, by ...

3098. The True Gate Of Heaven

Acts 2:1-21

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Listen: Once long ago, the Tower of Babel reached up to touch heaven, but it all came to nothing but babble. Babylon claimed to be the true gate of heaven, but that all proved to be nothing but babble. You can't put down deep roots and claim to control God. The Spirit speaks with clarity through God's people, so that ...

3099. Nothing, Absolutely Nothing, Like Him

Psalm 26:8, 11-12, Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-12

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... as we are able, not that we might glory in the accomplishment, but so we might better adore you and serve others. Amen. Prayer Of Confession We don't know all the answers, we don't see all the angles, we can't hear all the doubters, we don't touch the heights and the depths, we never recover the time that is lost, we aren't always sure of a clever response. But we do see Jesus, and we proclaim that Jesus to the world and beyond. Amen. Hymns Fairest Lord Jesus At The Name Of Jesus Lord, You Sometimes ...

3100. I Think You Said You Wanted An Answer

Job 38:1-7 (34-41)

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... breath, they die and return to their dust. When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground. One: May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works — who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke. All: I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the Lord. (Psalm 104:24-34) Collect The hunter is rising ...

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