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351. “Zeal for Your House Consumes Me”

Psalm 69:1-36

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... Prayer (“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven”), we will not be far from the kingdom concept of the Old Testament as well as the New. God’s kingdom is both now and not yet. The conflict that is carried on to bring about the kingdom is like a civil war, where certain regions have fallen into kingdom hands, yet the battle still goes on until all enemy forces have surrendered unconditionally. It may be helpful to distinguish briefly between the church and the kingdom—they are ...

352. Recalling, Remembering, And Rejoicing

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

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Robert S. Crilley

... on with the journey. There are people here who need your concern and compassion. There's a community out there which needs to be nourished by the good news of the gospels. There's a world in need of your prayers and the promise of our Savior Jesus Christ. So carry on ... live simply, love generously, speak truthfully, serve faithfully, pray daily ... and leave the rest to God. For the same One who has led us this far, leads us still. Remember that. Above all, remember that!

353. Baptism of Our Lord

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 43:1-13, Isaiah 42:1-9, Acts 8:9-25, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... . In this First Lesson we have a servant song about Israel as God's servant who will be anointed with the Spirit to bring justice and light to the nations. The preacher can see the fulfillment of the prophecy in Jesus, and then the church as God's servant carrying on the work of Jesus in the world. Here is a much needed conception of the church as God's servant. To be this the church needs to be anointed by the Spirit. (v. 1) As servant, the church will not use force but the compassion of love to attain ...

354. The Lion, The Lamb And Herod’s Rage

Matthew 2:1-12

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Erskine White

... "good news and great joy for all people," and that peace and goodwill would finally prevail over all the earth, or at least for a little while during the Christmas season. But there is a darker side to the world, even at Christmas time. The world carries on with its evil and bloodshed - it’s been that way for thousands of years. Indeed, our text in Matthew tells us that this is how it was even at the very first Christmas. The massacre which took place in Bethlehem shortly after Jesus’ birth was ordered ...

355. Can You Dig It?

Genesis 26:1-35

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and tribulations of a Bedouin people. Trouble stalked them. Hardship assailed them, and they wondered if God had abandoned them in their quest for human wholeness and spiritual restoration. As Abraham lay on his deathbed, he got Isaac's assurance that he would carry on this great legacy by trusting God and holding on to God's unchanging hand. Isaac went to King Abimelech of the Philistines, who were some of the most powerful people on earth. People feared them, for their armies marched by day and night ...

356. Jesus Meets Buddha and Confucius

Luke 24:36-49

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Carl Jech

... 's hands, such criticism in no way implies that non-Christian religions are worthless and false. The criticism is intended only to foster dialogue. We haven't said much about the religions of the Far East, but it is also important to carry on a dialogue between Jesus and Confucius. The Chinese concept of the Tao provides us with many valuable insights. It reminds us eloquently that our efforts to define God are necessarily inadequate. It recognizes the paradoxical nature of life - especially the paradox of ...

357. The Battle For Control

Romans 7:7-25

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King Duncan

... to read that the French writer, Victor Hugo, author of the book on which the Broadway hit LES MISERABLES is based, had a habit of asking his servant to steal his clothes every morning. This meant Hugo could not go outside, and so was forced to carry on with his writing. Battling for control. Trochilus, a disciple of Plato, was on a ship that sank at sea. Somehow Trochilus survived. When he reached home, he ordered his servants to wall up the two windows of his home which looked out upon the sea. He ...

358. In the Darkness of Anxiety, There Is the Light of Peace

Luke 2:8-20

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... walk on water. But the voice insisted, so she stepped out to the end of the plank and another plank appeared. Each time she reached the end of one plank, another was there. When she woke up, she accepted this dream as a promise from God. She was able to carry on because of that promise.2 That promise has been made to you. Accept the promise of God’s peace. Then, third, finally turn to this: III Put yourself in the place of God’s peace. In a world like ours, we have no other choice. When the angels went ...

359. Assurance: The Privilage of All Believers

Romans 8:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... serious business. Wesley made the point clearly by asking the question: “But can Christ be in the same heart where sin is?” He responded: “Undoubtedly he can; otherwise it never could be saved therefrom.” Where the sickness is, there is the physician. “Carrying on his work within, striving until he cast out sin.” “Christ indeed cannot reign where sin reigns; neither will He dwell where any sin is allowed. But He is and does dwell in the heart of every believer, who is fighting against all sin ...

360. You Provoke Me...and That's Good

Hebrews 10:1-18

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King Duncan

... I mean, how is it that you run such a huge religious institution, serve the most desperate people, travel constantly, and yet touch so many people?” “Jesus,” she said again, with a big smile. “No, I’m asking how you do it,” he continued. “How do you carry on with this difficult, extraordinary life, how do you speak to millions, how do you win the respect of the world, how do you manage to be one of the greatest people in the world and in the history of the world?” Mother Theresa looked up at ...

361. A Call to Persevere

Jude 1:17-25

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... the men (translating the contemptuous single Greek word houtoi once more) who divide (apodiorizein). The Greek verb occurs in the NT only here and rarely elsewhere, and means “to mark out boundaries in order to separate.” By the way these men are carrying on, they are in effect drawing a circle around themselves with the purpose of shutting out other people, whereas such a circle should be drawn to include others. Their false teaching is tending to split up the church membership into those who follow ...

362. Jesus Appears to Thomas

John 20:24-31

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... quarters in Jerusalem (cf. 19:27; 20:10); now (despite what two of them had seen in vv. 3–9) they were living in fear as fugitives. Only the presence of Jesus and the Spirit could transform them again into a missionary community ready to carry on their Lord’s work (cf. 17:9–19). Yet a week later, after receiving the Spirit, they were still in hiding, gathered probably in the same place, with the doors locked (v. 26)! The only possible explanation is that their reunion with Jesus and their reception ...

363. Lord To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:56-69

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David Coffin

... listening to teachings and intellectually assenting to what Jesus says. It is partaking and being active in living out visible symbols such as a bread and wine. John 6 is an example of Jesus putting his best effort into the ministry the Father sent him to carry on in our midst. Jesus is actually God in the flesh John 1:14 (RSV). He had fed five thousand people. He had taught them. In this text, he reminded the listeners that partaking in this meal of Thanksgiving (Eucharist) points to the body and blood he ...

364. The Baptism of Our Lord

Lk 3:15-17, 21-22 · Acts 8:14-17; 10:34-38 · Isa 42:1-7; 61:1-4

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... . In the first Lesson we have a servant song about Israel as God's servant who will be anointed with the Spirit to bring justice and light to the nations. The preacher can see the fulfillment of the prophecy in Jesus, and then the church as God's servant carrying on the work of Jesus in the world. Here is a much needed conception of the church as God's servant. To be this the church needs to be anointed by the Spirit. (v. 1) As servant, the church will not use force but the compassion of love to attain ...

365. When Tradition Gets in the Way

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

Do you remember the opening soliloquy which begins the musical “Fiddler on the Roof?” Tevye, the dairyman who is always carrying on lengthy conversations with God, says to the audience: “A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn’ ...

366. In the House of the Lord

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and blind us to the light of God’s presence. Certainly we will pass through the Valley of the shadow of death. Yet, the knowledge of belonging to the family being within the Lord’s household forever more will provide us the bracing and energizing power to carry on. Because we have entered into the Household by the way of the Good Shepherd, we know we are saved and we can rise every morning and be off to find pasture. “There seems to have been a sense in which David enjoyed heaven before he got there ...

367. Peace and Quiet in an Upside-Down World

Isaiah 50:1-11

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Tony Everett

... Who are the oppressed and despised? Who are the sick and suffering? Who are the humiliated and ashamed? Perhaps you consider yourself described here as well. So, then how can you sustain these folks when you are also losing your own strength to carry on? What possible word can sustain you yourself, let alone others? In the language of the Old Testament, dabar, or “word,” also means “force” or “thing.” The spoken word contains a tangible power within it. We have all heard the childhood retort to ...

368. Don't Give Up Now!

2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:2

Sermon

... special.” Valvano’s memorable ESPY acceptance speech became legendary. He closed by saying: “Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever. I thank you and God bless you all.” (5) He could have been rephrasing St. Paul’s words, “Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day . . . For we know that if the earthly tent we live ...

369. Crossing Over

Luke 10:25-37, Genesis 48:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... firstborn). And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.” When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move ...

370. The Gospel Of Our Calling

Romans 4:1-25

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Mark J. Molldrem

... forgiveness of sins. When Paul was in prison, he wrote a letter to his Christian friends in Philippi. In this letter he made the statement that "living is Christ and dying is gain." He went on to explain that although he needed to remain alive in order to carry on his ministry, he would prefer "to depart and be with Christ," as he put it, "for that is far better." Then, later he says, "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus." Notice the direction of this call ...

371. After A Lost Election, Field Of Dreams

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

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James Angell

... as if you will have to give account for every soul on the day of the Lord Jesus. Every day commit all these human souls from the worst and weakest of hands, namely your own, into the best and strongest of hands. Then you will be able to carry on your ministry not only without care but also with joy overflowing and joyful hope.- Friedreich von Bodelschwingh There are many among my best memories of that first parish. In a church school class the Bible reading was the story of the Good Samaritan, and about the ...

372. Jesus: The Life of the Party

John 2:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... . (Cf. Luke 2:7) One wonders where Joseph was in all of this. Another legend says that he had already died by this time, and that may be the reason why Jesus stayed at home so long - perhaps until He was thirty years of age or so - carrying on the family business, fulfilling the responsibility of the first-born Son. So it might have been the wedding of one of Jesus' brothers or sisters. The most radical suggestion about the wedding at Cana comes from a Presbyterian writer named William Phipps who asks us to ...

373. Is Suffering Punishment for Sin?

John 9:1-12

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Donald B. Strobe

... in the Old testament book of that name had little patience either with his smug friends who had their theology all wrapped up in a neat little package (sin equals suffering), or with God. I find Job, like Tevye the dairyman in “Fiddler on the Roof”, carrying on a dialogue with God protesting his innocence to the end. But it was a popular belief in ancient times that human suffering was the direct result of sin. As one of Job’s so-called “comforters” put it, “Think now, who that was innocent ever ...

374. When We Are Uncertain about The Future

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

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King Duncan

... human condition to go through at any time in history. But for people in the ancient world, childlessness was particularly difficult. This was an agrarian society. Children were needed many times to help gather crops or tend animals. Children were the means of carrying on the family line and preserving the family inheritance. Even more important, not having children made people very vulnerable in their old age with no one to care for them. And there would be no one to look after the funeral rites when you ...

375. Keep On Moving

Luke 9:51-62

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Lori Wagner

... off the course! But the chicken….the chicken keeps on moving! Now, I don’t know if that’s really true, but the jokes have lasted for decades! And like all good jokes, they contain a small kernel of wisdom. It’s the same wisdom Jesus imparts as he carries on a mission that requires all of his focus and strength. He can let nothing detract him from what he needs to do and the goal he needs to fulfill. And he makes that crystal clear! Luke chapter nine is a pivotal chapter in the story of Jesus’ life ...

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