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301. Christian Thanksgiving

Philippians 1:1-7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... Christ and you will be saved." It is for this "good news" of grace that we are eternally grateful. Paul states the second reason for Christian thanksgiving in the words: "I am thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now." The Apostle recalls that first day when he arrived in the imperial city of Philippi in Macedonia, now part of Greece. In response to a vision in which a voice called out to him, "Come to Macedonia and help us," he had abandoned his original travel plans and ...

302. A Secret Is Finally Revealed

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... adopt them through Christ. This great affirmation was especially welcomed news to that entire group of churches. No group needed an everlasting identity more than did those new Asian Christians. The first apostles tried to lend their names and their reputations to the churches in the Holy Land. They created apostolic churches. To be a bonafide apostle you had to have been with Jesus when he had lived on the earth. The Asians, on the other hand, possessed none of the big names and reputations. Jesus had not ...

303. Obeying God Rather Than Men

Acts 5:17-42

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and “No” to those men and powers who wanted to mute their allegiance to Christ with their veiled threats of terror and death. We can see them in the church of Liebzig, the church of Russia and the other communist societies that threatened death for being Christian. The apostle Paul in his letter to the Galatians proclaims in chapter one, verse ten, “Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of ...

304. Power

Mark 1:9-13, Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... understanding of something powerful at work that is more to be experienced that explained. Do you remember the movie, "The Apostle(1)?" It came out not too many years ago. Robert Duvall, in a masterful performance, played a Pentecostal preacher from ... IS something powerful in baptism. This is why Sonny Dewey would baptize himself, come out of the water with a new name - the Apostle E. F., he called himself - and begin to preach again - first on a local radio station, then on the streets, and, finally, ...

305. Set Free

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... back we would get a stiff neck. The possibilities of the future call us to look forward. The good news for us at the beginning of this new year is that God has set us free ” free from the bones of the past. How does such freedom come? The Apostle Paul tells us. First of all, we are set free when we realize that we have been chosen! Paul writes to the Ephesians, reminding them God has blessed them "with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of ...

306. Stranglers Or Wranglers?

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

King Duncan

... all right if I make a mistake, because I’m in church." Stranglers or Wranglers? Our lesson from the Acts of the Apostles gives us a glimpse of a church filled with Wranglers. A sense of excitement, love and purpose permeated every meeting. They ate ... need a point of reference; a sense of direction. (3) The Bible is the point of reference for the Christian. We can’t listen to the Apostles teach in the flesh, but we can hear them teach as we listen to the Word of God being read. As we listen we, too, will ...

307. I Am Unworthy

Jeremiah 1:1-19, Jeremiah 6:1-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... will go for us?" And Isaiah said, "Here am I; send me!" What did Jesus say to Simon Peter after he declared himself unworthy? "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people." What happened to St. Paul--the self-professed "least of all the apostles"? He was responsible for touching more lives with the good news of Christ than anyone who has ever lived, except the Master himself. Part of that rich, full life to which we are called is to be emissaries of Christ in the world. Unworthy? Yes, but NO ...

308. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... you and me. You and I can be new persons as we put our faith in him as our Savior and as we turn to him daily for those renewing powers he pours into our souls. "If any person be in Christ, he is a new creation," says the apostle Paul. "The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." Paul is talking about that fresh newness, that fresh vitality we discover in Christ. The experiences of Abraham and Nicodemus, as we find them here in these passages, help us to understand this newness of life that Christ ...

309. Believing Isn’t Easy

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track Toiling up new Calvaries ever, With the cross that turns not back. The Apostles well knew all of the arguments against faith. But they believed in spite of themselves. Why? I hope to talk more ... , I am saying that I know his character well enough that I trust him and am willing to commit myself to him. (Idea from THE APOSTLES CREED by Gardiner M. Day, New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1963 p. 21) Similarly, when I say, I believe in God... I am not saying ...

310. Who Is Jesus Christ?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... that that sentence contains the essence of the Christian Faith. It is through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we come to know the love of God, in the fellowship (or community) of the Holy Spirit: the Church. As I began this series of sermons on the Apostles’ Creed, I said that I really wish that the Creed had started with Jesus Christ and worked its way to God, rather than the other way around. For that is the way in which I came to faith. A small boy was busily making a sketch with his crayons ...

311. To Hell and Back

Luke 15:1-7

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Donald B. Strobe

... am with you always, Jesus promised (Matthew 28:30). And St. Paul, counting on that promise, said that “nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39) In a little book titled The Apostles Creed for Everyman, that great Scots Biblical commentator William Barclay said: “Whatever other world there is and whatever life there is, surely belong to God; the whole universe in time and eternity, here and hereafter is the Lords. In this doctrine we may at least ...

312. It Costs to Belong

Mark 10:35-45

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Donald B. Strobe

... it was found in the ninth century and taken by King Alphonso to Compostella, where, it is said, it still lies. Indeed, the name Compostella is a corruption of either the Latin phrase “Ad Sanctum Jacobum Apostolum,” or the Spanish phrase “Giacomo Postolo,” James the Apostle. (Barclay, op. cit., p. 102 and Kraeling, op. cit., p. 126) All of that sounds rather fanciful and far-away to modern ears, but let me bring the whole story of James a bit closer to home. A few miles outside of Paris, Kentucky, in ...

313. Philip the First

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... :45-46) Christ is not found at the end of an argument, but in personal experience. The best we can do in our day is what John Wesley said he did in the 18th century: “I offered them Christ.” The rest is up to them—and to God. The word “apostle” means “someone sent with a message to deliver.” And that is the mission not only of the Twelve, but of all of us. All of us, by virtue of our baptism, are ministers of Christ, called to minister to one another in Christ’s name—not just the clergy in ...

314. Little Jimmy

Mark 3:13-19

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Donald B. Strobe

... But now, “Little Jimmy” is bigger than “Big Jim,” and has a son of his own named Little Jimmy, and so the whole thing gets rather confusing. I have no idea what they do at family reunions. Their family is sort of like that group of Twelve apostles. I. THERE ARE AT LEAST FIVE MEN NAMED “JAMES” IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. It would help if the Bible gave them designations, as does my “Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible:” James I, II, III, IV, V, sort of like Kings of England! In all four lists ...

315. The Unfinished Story

Mark 16:1-20

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Donald B. Strobe

... obey God, rather than men.” (Acts 5:29) Clarence Jordan, of “Cotton Patch Gospels” fame calls it “the doin’s.” Not bad. At least, the title of the fifth book of the New Testament is not “The Resolutions of the Apostles.” It is “The Acts of the Apostles.” The great Scots Biblical commentator William Barclay, while admitting that it is not necessary to accept everything literally that appears in the editorial addition at the end of Mark, says that it is important for us to note what this ...

316. A New You in a New Year (Part X)

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... corner of a farmer''s barn. The bloodhound had begun the hunt chasing a prized male deer for his master and wound up barking at a tiny mouse. It is a rare human being who can do three or four different things at a time, moving in different directions. The Apostle Paul knew his number-one priority was to live his life to the honor and glory of God by preaching the Gospel. However, we know that Paul was not in a plush hotel room but in prison. He received a report that all was not well at the Church in ...

317. Titles, Credentials, or Resurrection Power

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Brooks, once shared, "There are two things to be aware of in life: A timid surgeon and a timid preacher of the gospel. Neither of them will do you much good in life''s journey." As we open our scripture lesson for today, we see that the Apostle Paul is hardly a timid preacher and he certainly performs major surgery on the religious thinking that under-girded the setting of life of this passage. Paul begins in verse one with an exhortation to rejoice in our relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is not ...

318. The Power of a God-Shaped Attitude

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... that we are to seek and discover "the mind of Christ." In Christ, we become fully alive. One of the primary reasons that the Apostle Paul wrote to the Christian fellowship at Philippi was to remind them of the great joy we have in Christ and to keep ... much we are bombarded by radio, TV and print media on how to think and act. It is very hard not to be influenced. The Apostle Paul boldly declares, "Do not let the world around you squeeze you into its mold." Our existence is no longer defined by the world but ...

319. A New You or a New Year

Philippians 3:1-11

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Eric Ritz

... to God''s word for insights and instructions on how each of us can be "A New You in a New Year." I believe the Apostle Paul, writing to the church at Philippi gives a time-honored principle that worked in 63 A.D. or today. First, if you want to ... at a tiny mouse. It is a rare human being who can do three or four different things at a time--moving in different directions. The Apostle Paul knew his number one priority in life was to live his life to the honor and glory of God by preaching the Gospel. However, ...

320. Teammates in the Cause of the Lord

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... generated. It was a way of life that marked who they were and thus became a source of the witness that was necessary for the community to recruit new members and to be visible in the midst of a non-believing society. The community life which the apostles and other disciples of Jesus led was marked by four basic elements. First, Luke tells us that the members were in unity of mind and heart. This element was most basic; it was the ideal from which all the others flowed. Next, the community members shared all ...

321. Martyrs, Monsters, and Miracles

Acts 9:19b-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... young man who died giving his witness for Christ. They blamed Saul for his death. They remembered how Saul dragged Christians out of their homes and hauled them off to prison. They remembered how he stirred up mobs against them. Most of the Jerusalem church, except the apostles, had been dispersed to other towns in order to avoid Saul's wrath. What was this monster up to now? Was this a trick? It's hard to live down a bad reputation, isn't it? You may be familiar with the story of a prosecuting attorney ...

322. The Conversion of Saul

Acts 9:1-19a

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... to exalt the importance of the Jerusalem church. Despite these differences, both Luke and Paul himself record that in the vicinity of Damascus, Paul underwent a life-transforming experience, which changed him from Saul, the persecutor of the early Christians, to Paul, the Christian apostle to the Gentile world. The story in Luke stands in the middle of a series of conversion accounts of the Samaritans and of the Ethiopian eunuch in chapter 8 and of those converted by Peter in 9:32-42. The Spirit is moving ...

323. Remembering Jesus

2 Peter 1:16-21

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James L. Killen

... we now have it. Things were happening that put stress upon the life of the church, and lots of people were falling into confusion. At that time, an unknown church leader undertook to call the church back to the faith that was taught by Peter and Paul and the other apostles. He wrote a letter to the churches in the name of Peter to say to the churches the things that he knew Peter would want them to hear. That was a widely used and perfectly accepted thing to do in those days. The book from which we read our ...

324. Which End Is Up?

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Ephesians (1:10, 3:2,9), it is always associated with providential design. Paul’s unique stewardship, his unique commission, is a part of God’s peculiar design for the Gentiles. How Paul accomplishes this mission is by gifts of grace. But while the apostle is the recipient of this “grace,” it is given for the benefit of “you,” that is, the Ephesian Gentiles. The close relationship between the Colossian and Ephesian letters is evident in this section of the text. Strong echos of Colossian 1:23-29 ...

325. Epiphany 6

Mt 5:21-37 · 1 Cor 3:1-9 · Ps 119 · Dt 30:15-20

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... the Corinthians, because it is not his manner of writing in the other epistles. He turns the words against those who claim such status. As we see in the whole letter, the Corinthians value "spiritual things" like wisdom, freedom, and perfection. But the apostle refutes their claims by saying that they could not even eat a solid Christian diet. Paul's proof of the Corinthians' immaturity is their infantile tendency toward self-centered bragging. Paul says that the Corinthians are all too human and all too ...

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