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3176. The Unclean Palate

Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... them, and the more he realizes, they are just as devout, if not more, than he is. Who in your life do you know who is radically different in some way than you are? Are you friends? Why or why not? Jesus tells us, as does Paul and the other apostles of the early church, that the way you treat people bears witness to the way Christ’s Spirit is living and working in and through you. Or in other words, your ability to be in relationship with people who seem different than you are has much more to do with ...

3177. Serpentine Soul

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is for All Those Who are Faithful (Isaiah 56) Jesus Calls Matthew (Matthew 9:9-13; Mark 2:13-17; Luke 5:27-32) The Letter to the Hebrews (Most Likely Written by Paul) On the New Covenant (8) The First Letter of John (Most Likely Written by John the Apostle) on Knowing and loving God and Others

3178. A Supernatural Leap

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... His miracles in and through us. This advent season, allow yourselves to feel the physical and real movement of the Holy Spirit within you, within your church, within your home, within your communities. God is at work in real and physical ways. And you are His apostles! You are His proclaimers of the miracle of Jesus. Allow Him now to liberate you from your doubt, your complacency, and your fear. Allow Him to instill in you a power kick of faith that will change you and catapult you into a new and exciting ...

3179. Immersed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is our home, and the gateway to our hearts must be “washed” in the blood of the Lamb, so that we too can cross over into a new and vital life in Him. The mark of the Messiah is the mark of our mission too, as His disciples and apostles, His loyal followers and proclaimers of His message and identity as Lamb of God, Gateway to God. We just celebrated the day of Pentecost. But Pentecost now continues as we revel and cleanse ourselves in our Holy Spirit baptism, as we wash ourselves in the blood of Jesus ...

3180. The Scariest Job Interview

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven. Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and ...

3181. Why I Believe In The Resurrection

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... But not all twelve. They were not men who had a death wish. They knew what they had seen. They believed in it so passionately that they were willing to put their lives on the line in their efforts to tell the story to others. They were resurrection people. The Apostle Paul wrote: I have died to sin and have been raised with him. This is what I am talking about. The resurrection is an historical event, but it must become more than that to us. It is quite apart from the Battle of Waterloo and man's landing on ...

3182. The Howling

Acts 2:1-13, John 7:25-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... message of God to all people. You are a beloved son or daughter of God, blessed in Jesus’ name and invited to participate in His mission. You are a member of the soul of humanity, united in the Holy Spirit, anointed as a disciple and apostle. Today, I encourage you to join in your own communal howl – an utterance of joy and victory, of happiness, love, friendship, and freedom, acknowledging that no matter what happens on this earth, the human spirit can never be quenched, because the Holy Spirit is our ...

3183. Worship, Doubt, and the Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... either! Hear these words of affirmation and promise from God’s word attesting to God’s desire to use us in his rescue mission of the world: No matter how spiritually dysfunctional we may feel at any given moment as individuals or as a congregation, the apostle Paul’s words to the church at Corinth still apply, “Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it” (1 Corinthians 12:27). In Christ we are a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:16); we are God’s masterpieces, “created in Christ ...

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Abu Bakr

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth, Health and Power.

Charles Caleb Colton

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

James Russell Lowell

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Og Mandino

I am not what I might be, I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be. But I thank God I am not what I once was, and I can say with the great apostle, "By the grace of God I am what I am.

John Newton

3190. God's Hands and Feet

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Ronald Reagan

... , "I wish you could have seen this place when the Lord was doing it by himself." God bestows upon us grace and salvation, but without any input from us, God's mission on earth could not be fulfilled. We are God's hands and feet in the world, disciples and apostles commissioned for evangelism and mission.

3191. The First and Last Things

Luke 23:26-43

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Brett Blair

H.G. Wells had the reputation as the apostle of scientific materialism and the deadly foe of organized faith. So it's surprising that in one of his most successful but least known novels Mr. Britling Sees It Through, he made a rather startlingly confession, or at least it appears to be a confession. It is generally thought that ...

3192. Welcome, Inc.

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... He would not be a hypocrite and just cover up the dirt and tell people what they wanted to hear. Being incorporated into God’s people does not mean business as usual. Being welcomed by God and becoming welcome-able to others results in changed lives. The apostle Paul makes that clear in Romans 6. The most authentic witness to the good news of God’s love occurs when, according to Paul, we present ourselves to God and no longer continue to habitually live in sin. In other words, through faith in what God ...

3193. Prisoners of Hope

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... truth for most of us most of the time, and for all of us at some time or other is that when we say we are “fine” it often really means we are, Frazzled, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional. Sooner or later we all have to admit the truth of the apostle Paul’s great insight into human nature: we just can’t hack it because the good that we would do, we can’t; and the evil we don’t want to do is exactly what we end up doing over and over again! (Romans 7:15-25). What scripture describes ...

3194. Dealing with T-A-R-E-ists

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... is saying to us here that we can relax. We don’t have to be in the judging business or in the business of destroying that which works against God. The owner of the “farm,” God himself, will make it all come out right in the end, as the apostle Paul reminds us in Romans, chapter 8, “we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.” We can trust in that promise because in the cross and the resurrection Jesus Christ died and lived out the ...

3195. A Working God

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... had the blasphemous audacity to pretend to be one of us and claim the name of Christ as his Lord, and, in fact, was a member of a congregation of my own church denomination! How do we come to terms with tragedies like that and these words of the apostle Paul in Romans 8: “We know that all things work together for good [or as it can be translated, we know that in all things God works together for good] for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose”? Out of our silence, struck dumb by ...

3196. Don't Get Stuck!

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... ), then you’re on the wrong road. It’s time to turn onto a better one. Because, otherwise, both you and that person will surely be diminished, and God’s heart will be grieved. All four of the gospel writers, and also the apostle Paul, talk about repentance — turning, changing direction, getting on a better road. The gospel of Luke does it more consistently and more forcefully than any of the other writers. But Mark was written before Luke, and this first surviving New Testament gospel writer lifts ...

3197. Blessed to Be Among the Company of Mourners

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... matter for many people. Yet, to this privatization of religion, the New Testament offers a stern challenge: “Love one another,” said Jesus. “Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another” (John 13:34). “Bear one another’s burdens,” wrote the apostle Paul, “and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,” wrote Paul, “who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may console those who are in ...

3198. Horsing Around

Humor

Vance Havner writes about people who come to church to be entertained. In his own inimitable way, he tells about a church that brought in a performing horse. They asked the horse how many commandments, and he stomped ten times. How many apostles, and he stomped twelve times. Some nitwit in the crowd asked how many hypocrites there are in this church, and he went into a dance on all fours.

3199. Are You Ready to Wait?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... come on earth as it is in heaven, as we pray in the words of the Lord’s Prayer. When we celebrate Holy Communion we say that we proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes again… and we are waiting for that day to come. When we say the Apostles’ Creed we affirm our belief in the one who will come to judge the quick and the dead. Much of our waiting, therefore, is waiting for Christ to return to earth, something that the church calls the second coming. In one of his books, Marcus Borg points out that ...

3200. The Judge of the Living and the Dead

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... toward the poor man. Of all the Bible’s words about judgment, there are none more striking than those from this morning’s second lesson: the parable of Jesus often called the Great Judgment, or the Final Judgment. More than likely, it’s what the writers’ of the Apostles’ Creed had in mind with the words that Jesus will come to judge the quick (by which we mean the living) and the dead. Speaking of himself as the Son of Man, Jesus said that he would sit on his throne and judge all the nations of ...

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3176. The Unclean Palate

Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

3177. Serpentine Soul

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

3178. A Supernatural Leap

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

3179. Immersed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

3180. The Scariest Job Interview

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

3181. Why I Believe In The Resurrection

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

3182. The Howling

Acts 2:1-13, John 7:25-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

3183. Worship, Doubt, and the Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

Abu Bakr

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth, Health and Power.

Charles Caleb Colton

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

James Russell Lowell

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Og Mandino

John Newton

3190. God's Hands and Feet

Illustration

Ronald Reagan

3191. The First and Last Things