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3476. Episode III: Birth of the Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... it smolder and eventually go out. The man looked at moody and said, "I see." One sure way NOT to experience the power of the Holy Spirit is to isolate ourselves. Hundreds of years ago, a church leader said, "There is no salvation outside the church." I understand what he is saying. You could say this in a number of ways. There is no Christianity without communion. There is no love without family. There is no power without Pentecost. 3. We Must Have a Purpose. If we are to reach people for Christ we need ...

3477. Thy Kingdom Come

Luke 17:20-37

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to hedge his bets. Thirty-five years ago Billy Graham predicted that the end of time would come within ten years. Of course, that did not happen. Dr. Graham stopped making that kind of prediction. Jesus responded to the Pharisees' question by saying: You don't understand what the Kingdom of God is like; therefore, you cannot recognize it when it comes. Now, look at the last sentence in verse 21: "FOR. IN FACT. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AMONG YOU." The Greek there can be translated several ways: The Kingdom of ...

3478. Half-Price Crosses

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... 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 example, Jesus also said, "If your eye causes you to sin, yank it out.” Also, please note that in the Aramaic language which Jesus spoke ...

3479. The Greatest Story Ever Told

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... same one who will grin from ear to ear each time she says "Da Da", the same guy who will come quickly if she screams. She also notices that if she raises an arm, the good- looking baby in the mirror will do likewise. Suddenly, with a flash of understanding, she gets it. The kid in the mirror is I. The classic story of the Prodigal Son is like a mirror. You may think you are listening to an ancient parable that has little or no relevance for you, but then, suddenly, you see yourself in the story. Sometimes ...

3480. The Witness of the Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the witness of the Spirit makes. We have a sure hope for the future. We are "...heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ." Back during the worst part of the Great Depression, a distraught lady walked into the office of a major insurance company. She did not understand how life insurance worked. Very sadly she said to the clerk, "I'm afraid I can't continue to pay the premiums on my husband's life insurance policy. He has been dead for six months now, and I just can't afford it." The amazed clerk called ...

3481. Marriage: God's Idea

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... In this culture, increasingly divorced from any biblical or spiritual underpinnings, it is essential that someone stand up for that institution which God invented-- marriage. Our children and our culture desperately need good marriage models. My purpose today is to help us understand marriage better and live it out more effectively. Let's return to our roots. Genesis, chapter two, tells us that the first wedding took place in the paradise of the Garden of Eden. God introduced Adam and Eve to each other. You ...

3482. The Snake: A Slick Salesman

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... physically, and spiritually in this world, and send us to hell forever. God's attitude toward sin is similar to the attitude of parents toward the cocaine that some pusher tries to sell to their seventh grade child as he comes home from school. In order to better understand our enemy, the Evil One, let's go back to the entrance of sin into our world. Look with me at the third chapter of Genesis. Note verse one: "NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE SUBTLE THAN ANY OTHER WILD CREATURE THAT THE LORD GOD HAD MADE. HE SAID ...

3483. When God Is Silent

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... ; if God has been for you as slow as butter in a new frigidaire; do some self-analysis as you come to the Table of Holy Communion. Do you have a broken heart? Are you grieving? Turn that grief or broken heart over to the Master. Jesus understands. The Bible describes Him as "a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief." Perhaps the reason for God's silence is your sin. Is there anything in your lifestyle that scripture and conscience tell you is wrong? Are you willing to confess it and change it, with God ...

3484. What Is Heaven Like?

Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... it grows into a very large bush. Large enough for birds to build their nest among its branches. What is Jesus saying? He is saying, “God is at work, even though our human eyes often fail to perceive what is happening.”1 As Christians we understand that imperceptible things have real influence, but we live in a society that is enamored with bigness. We have gone beyond big churches to mega-churches. We are over whelmed with and bedazzled by huge social problems such as world hunger and children in crises ...

3485. Our Lord's Abundant Table

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... many occasions when the disciples respond as any of us would. We have here only five loaves of Bread and two fish. But Jesus offered opportunities for the twelve to see God at work, to see something other than the world they had come to know and understand. He asked for the food, blessed it, broke it, and broke it again, and again. The food went out like a peace of paper folded many times and now being unfolded, a geometric progression of growth. And then the people thought they understood. This is one of ...

3486. Fear

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Brett Blair

... I would remind you that of the 500,000 bomb shelters built in the US not one of them was ever used. Harness your imagination don’t let it harness you. II. So first we must confront our fears, walk out of the boat to Christ. And second, we must understand that too much doubt can sink us. Charles Kettering, the one time research head of General Motors, said when he wanted a problem solved, he’d place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: Leave slide rules here. If I didn't do that, I'd find ...

3487. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... re lost. John: Worse than that! With him gone, who will be the world’s redeemer? (Gloomy silence until Magdalena rushes in.) Magdalena: Peter! Peter! Peter: What? Magdalena: We’ve been to the tomb, and ... and ... Joseph: And what, Magdalena? Calm down. We can’t understand a word you’re saying. Magdalena: They’ve taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know what they’ve done with him! Nicodemus: What?! The guards? The soldiers? Thomas: I knew they were going to give us trouble. I ...

3488. Who Do You Say I Am?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of our Lord. He was at the end of his ministry and it was high time that he get alone with his disciples far from the watchful eyes of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and other religious authorities and assess the last three years of ministry. Did they now understand who he was? Were all his efforts fruitful or had it all been in vain? It was a critical moment and critical moments call for critical questions: Who do men say that I am? The disciples responded, some say that you are Elijah. Now why would people ...

3489. When Towers Fall and People Perish

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... big picture and it says nothing of the tens of thousands of people here and abroad whose lives were changed. Try to calculate the human toll emotionally and spiritually and you cannot. Only God can weigh such matters. But we try in feeble ways to understand. Events like these raise fundamental questions. Why is there so much evil in the world? Why do innocent people suffer? I even saw an article in the secular press titled: Where was God on September 11, 2001? I am struck by how universal these questions ...

3490. Forgive Us Our Debts

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and tell you that during the span of my lifetime, I have sinned against God more than 490 times. I mean, I am 40 years old, twice as old as some of you and half as old as others but old enough to have been around a while. Once we understand the depth of our own sin, then we will forever be motivated to get involved in the process of forgiveness. In Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables, Jean Valjean served a 19 year sentence for stealing a loaf of bread in order to feed his sister's family. Finally, he ...

3491. Eternally Interceding

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Illustration

Larry Powell

... Moses’ God, they manufactured their own god to enable them to focus their celebration upon something. I believe the observation is correct inasmuch as we see latter-day versions of similar behavior, i.e., persons who want to celebrate life but are unable to understand the God of Christianity take unto themselves golden calves in some form or another. There are different causes of a stiff neck. Some are caused by sleeping in a draft, some are congenital, others due to injury or disease, and still others by ...

3492. Song of a Churchgoer

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... night, to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad by thy work; at the words of thy hands I sing for joy. (Psalm 92:1-4) To be sure, the Almighty’s ways are past understanding. But their intent is clear. And, because the singer knows this, he can trust the Lord for what lies ahead, confident that God wills only the best for those who believe. So he can bow before the Eternal in reliant adoration. Others might be struggling to find or to hold ...

3493. The Richest Hill On Earth

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... to us every day that are the direct result of our free choices ... our ignorance ... or our stupidity. Perhaps a more mature understanding of the power of God is revealed in the Cross of Calvary. The Apostle Paul, living in a world that equated ... out to him. But, instead it is God reaching out to us and letting us know very simply that he loves us! We may not completely understand how Calvary reveals God’s power, but it is God’s plan for salvation. And I don’t think God has another plan. Seeing Jesus on ...

3494. The Easter Event - After The Resurrection

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Robert Allen

... figment of their imaginations; it was a reality - Jesus was alive! This is a story that is simple, yet profound. I don’t completely understand it, but I believe it with everything in my being. I really don’t know what I would preach if I didn’t ... to be as kind to you as you were years ago to me. This is the joyful hope of the Easter Event. I do not completely understand the mystery of the Resurrection. I have no answer for "why" and "how" he walked out of that tomb alive. But, I believe that he did ...

3495. Five Minutes After Death

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... with which he held on to my hands. In a voice that tembled with emotion, he said: "There are so many things we don’t understand. I don’t know why the Lord lets us suffer like this, but I know I won’t be suffering much longer. I know that everything ... same with the presence of God. We can’t see his Divine Presence, but it is real. There is a lot which we do not understand about death and eternal life. But when death comes, why should death sever that tie binding our spirits to God? It doesn’t! Death ...

3496. Blessed among Women

Luke 1:39-45, 1 Samuel 2:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... that the example she set inspire our own virtues, helping us to rise above the world’s worship of self to follow Mary’s higher path of humility, obedience and self-giving service. Most of all, dear God, we ask that You put within our hearts a clear understanding of the service You desire from each one of us. While we are aware of our weaknesses, do not let that awareness excuse us from allowing Your divine strength to work through us. Make us more eager to say yes to Your will, that like Mary, we may ...

3497. It Isn't Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... not getting through to them. They didn't have the foggiest notion what she was talking about. So she took a deep breath and tried again: "Look boys, grace is the break you get when you don't deserve it. That's the simple explanation. But you won't really understand it till you experience it." But God’s grace is not based upon what is fair, but rather what helps. It wasn’t fair that the laborers who worked only an hour receive a full day’s wages, but look who they were. All day they had been in the ...

3498. A Prophet Like Me

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... lifted her up." That is an important aspect of prophetic ministry that we must always keep in mind. Our prophetic words will be effective only if we keep in mind that we must always uplift people. Performing the prophetic role must also assume a willingness to understand the Word in the scriptures, and apply its wisdom to contemporary life. The word of God is not something drawn out of the blue. It is put in our mouths as a result of study, and prayer, and reflection, and discussion. Being a prophet is work ...

3499. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... is power to change the direction of our lives. Here is power to grow in faith. The history of the people of God and our own history warns us not to underestimate the power of sin in our lives. In Matthew’s gospel the warning is given so all can understand it, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." My life will follow that which I believe to be the most important. This warning needs to be heeded, but it would be even more disastrous to push God out of our history and our lives and ...

3500. The Ten Commandments - Part 2

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to the 11:00 worship service, then we in our own way attempt to do the same thing. The ultimate attempt to control God was to put his son Jesus in a tomb. The tomb is like the ultimate graven image. But the tomb cannot confine God. When attempting to understand what God is like, Christians do not need to rely upon images. We simply look to the person of Jesus. That is what God is like. John Wesley died on March 2, 1791 at the age of eighty-four. His last words were: “The best of all, God is with ...

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