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3801. Messengers of Christ
Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:35-38
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... 's light wherever we go. Leader: And this day let our voices join together in song and praise to God. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, Sustainer of the Universe, there are so many in the world today who have not heard of the salvation Christ offers. Send us, O Lord, to spread the Good News for all to hear. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have known Your grace and mercy but we have not shared it. And too often we have received Your accepting love and yet we ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... Luke 1:52-53) A second thing the shepherds teach us is this: The first description of the Messiah is "Saviour." The angel’s good news to the shepherds was this: "For to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." (Luke 2:11) Matthew tells us that when father Joseph was visited by an angel, he was given this message concerning Mary: "...she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." Jesus has lots of titles: wonderful ...
3803. Serving Christ
Matthew 10:1-42
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... understand that the greatest gift we can give is love. Give us the ears to truly hear Your word. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often when faced with all the needs around us we have let ourselves feel hopeless and wanting to give up. Too often we would compare what we can give to the gifts of others, only to feel ours seem so small. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to know in our hearts that every kindness and gift when given with love are precious in Your sight. In Christ we pray. Amen ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... people, one on one, and they had made commitments to Christ. The total number came to 140. But then, said carter, "The Lord must have been looking over my shoulder because immediately I remembered my 1966 political campaign when Rosalynn and I had traveled the ... Jesus. In verse 35 we read that John the Baptist introduced two of his disciples to Jesus. They spent the day with our Lord. Then one of them, Andrew, went to find his brother, Simon. Then in all probability, Simon and Andrew directed Jesus to a fellow ...
3805. We Are More Than Laborers - Labor Day
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15, Ecclesiastes 5:8--6:12
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... . You work for yourself and your God. If you can wax a floor well, the shine on that floor declares the glory of God and puts in a good word for you, too. How good it is if we can put our heads on the pillow most nights, saying prayerfully, “Lord, with your help, I gave a pretty good account of myself today; I did my work with a touch of class.” Some of us are in management positions. The way we manage and advertise and compete reflects on our God. The Bible is slanted toward the poor is suspicious of ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... eat straw like the oxen. A little child will reach down into a cobra's den and not be harmed. That's what the world will be like one day, according to Isaiah the prophet. At some future time the earth will be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the oceans are with water; then no creature shall harm any other creature if all of God's earth. This vision strains my imagination because for 13 years I owned a German Shepherd dog which was at least 50 percent wolf. Sometimes when there was a full moon, my ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... son Bill? When I saved him, he promised that he would meet me here regularly and faithfully. I miss him. " I recall a little ditty that goes like this: "Whenever I pass the village church I stop to pay a visit; For fear that when I'm carried in, The Lord will ask, 'Who is it?'" The second reason to be here is this: Each of us is growing or straying spiritually, never standing still. I worship helps us grow. Luke 4:l6 tells us that it was Jesus' custom to attend synagogue on the Sabbath day. If Jesus needed ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... to do your job really well, your child will at some point be able to do just fine without you. HERE IS THE SECOND QUESTION: HAVE YOU PERSONALLY INTRODUCED YOUR CHILD TO GOD? Abraham did. In verse 8, when Abraham answered Isaac’s question by saying, “The Lord will provide,” Isaac had no further questions. He had been introduced to God when he was a toddler. On a daily basis his parents talked about and with God. Have you shared with your child how and when you first entered into a personal relationship ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... escort you to city hall. Jesus Christ offers us a personal escort to heaven. To commit oneself to Christ and to follow him as Lord is to be on the road to heaven. And when each of us approaches heaven's doors, Jesus Christ will announce to the throngs ... not you're on the way to heaven, just ask this question--"Am I in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, my Savior and Lord?" If the answer is yes, you're on track. HERE IS THE FOURTH AND FINAL THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HEAVEN: THE ATMOSPHERE ...
3810. Judgment Day is Coming (Adapted)
Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... repent and to believe the good news that "God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." If you repent of your sin and trust in this Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord, you will by-pass judgment and heaven will be God's gift to you. Pastor James W. Moore of Houston tells a story about a minister who had a strange dream. He dreamt that he had died and was trying to get into heaven. When he approached the pearly gates ...
3811. Children of God by Faith
Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:1-20
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... ! Collect O God, in Christ You call each who has the ears to hear to become a part of Your loving family. Even though we were in sin You loved us and called us home. We praise You, O Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we seem to forget we are welcome in Your family because You first loved us and not because we were sinless or worthy of Your love. So often in our pride we tend to forget You are the Good Shepherd and we Your sheep who have each gone ...
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... of love be true. Leader: Then let us lift our voices in song and praise for God's grace. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, into such mortal vessels You have poured awesome responsibility and authority, yet You have promised that when we will seek Your Help You will be there. Guide us, O Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often when the conflicts in life have come we have dealt with them so poorly and sometimes even hurtfully. When we could have worked toward ...
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... , You are so merciful and gracious to us as You extend to us the offer to enter Your Kingdom whether we come to You early or late in the day. Help us to share Your Love, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often in our competitive world we would also try to rank ourselves in Your Kingdom as well. Too often, Lord, we take pride in the titles and privileges we extend to ourselves, so it is a shock to hear You will rank us not by our worldly achievements but only on how well we truly ...
Sermon
Gordon Pratt Baker
... duty to see that only those enter the sanctuary who measure up in both respects. A Demanding Faith The author of the Fifteenth Psalm is not being Pharisaic here. He knows only too well that people fashion themselves after their concept of God. As they believe the Lord to be so they become. Let them think of the Almighty as lax and they are lax in both their daily and devotional lives. Let them think of him as exclusive and they will never broaden their vision. Moreover, he realizes, too - to quote a modern ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... all of their lives. However, when they began following Jesus, they saw what prayer meant to him. The Gospel of Luke describes the scene this way: It came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, that when He ceased, one of His disciples said unto Him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples. Evidently, they had been observing what prayer meant in his life. He went into prayer in one mood and came out in another. Praying for Jesus was not just a form, but a force, a power. Prayer ...
3816. Blessed among Women
Luke 1:39-45, 1 Samuel 2:1-11
Sermon
Erskine White
... us! God doesn’t need the strength of our flesh but the willingness of our spirit. God is so great and His power so glorious that all He needs is for average, everyday people like you and me to submit our wills to His. Mary’s soul magnified the Lord as she received God’s Son and brought Him into the world, and she is venerated by Christians around the world because of it. In some branches of the church, it is even said that Mary, like Jesus Himself, was born sinlessly and ascended bodily up to heaven ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... our own struggles we may have felt alone, and even that God is remote from us. That is the very feeling of those who sat amidst Jerusalem’s ruins. But the prophetic word of hope to them suggests another prayer, "O that you would rend the heavens and come down!" Lord, do it all again! Mark’s gospel for the first Sunday in Advent records Jesus telling his followers to be alert and watchful for the coming of the Son of Man. "It will be like a man who goes away from home on a trip and leaves his servants in ...
3818. Break Through
2 Samuel 7:1-17
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... would be mistaken as a residing place of God, as in some of the other indigenous religions of the area. Then after reminding David of his call from being a shepherd boy to become a great king and rule over a people, there is a little play on words. "The Lord will make you a house." But the meaning of "house" has shifted. David spoke only of making a structure to house the ark of the covenant - to protect it from the weather and give it a more dignified and honorable place to be than in a dusty wind-blown ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... , O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, Lift it up, do not fear; Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!" See, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; His reward is with him, and his recompense before him. He will feed the ... is sad but true that many of the people who are captive to feelings of hopelessness are young people. "My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God." That’s a way of saying, "Nobody knows and nobody cares about me, least of all God ...
Sermon
Frederick C. Edwards
... taking Gomer as his wife in the first place, let alone buying her at the slave market and taking her as his wife a second time. Perhaps in their eyes what they saw as Hosea’s apparent foolishness and poor judgment would even disqualify him as a prophet of the Lord. Hosea was sure the match was one, if not made in heaven, at least still bound by a sacred covenant, and more than that by his love for Gomer. Surely it was after the full force of his marital troubles struck him that he began to see in it how ...
Sermon
Carl E. Zahrte
... week later? "Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed." You see, believing is more than seeing. That’s what the Lord’s Apostle Paul says, too. "Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ" (Romans 10:17 ... the message again. And I do urge you to be sure to hear it again and again. You need that word of the Living Lord, if you hope to have a living faith in him. You need that instruction which is offered through the message that is proclaimed in ...
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... ! People: For God was in Christ, who came that we might know God's word. Leader: Let us hear the message of Christ: to love God and to love each other. People: And let us lift our hearts to the Lord that all might be forgiven. Leader: And let us lift up our songs and praise before Almighty God! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, in Your mercy and grace You are calling us to help carry Your call to repentance and Your message of forgiveness and love throughout the world. Help us hear You, O ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... PEOPLE ON OUR DOORSTEP. When Jesus declared his mission statement in Luke 4, his first words concerned the poor: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor." The world perceives us as pious and self- ... the ranks of the marchers and, with hand upraised, replied, "In the name of His Majesty, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, I command you to step aside." There was a tense moment of silence. Then the troops stepped aside, and the Salvation Army marched ...
Sermon
Joseph M. Freeman
... wise bridesmaids can't believe enough for the five unwise ones. No, they must believe deeply enough for themselves. When it comes to the endtime, to Christ's Second Coming, we cannot enter his kingdom with him if we don't truly believe. "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven" (Matthew 7:21). I'm more eager to obey God, the more I believe in and love Him. I know this to be true for myself. Is it applicable to ...
Drama
William Grimbol
... the frightening child that lurks within that tough and together exterior. Our neighbors are not to be trusted. They might steal our piece of the pie. They might get a higher rank on the success ladder. They might wear more designer labels. Loving our neighbors, well, Lord, once again You prove how out of touch and unaware You are of reality ... the real world. READER 3 When it comes to loving the world, You just expect too much ... way, way too much. You were such an idealist; I mean, You loved anybody and ...
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