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3826. The Cross Way of Life

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... came to hear him. When his mother asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he replied, "I want to be a returned missionary!" So many of us would be willing to be a returned missionary, for we want to bless, not to bleed, to be good disciples but not to take discipline. How much does the average person really sacrifice for the good of others or for Christ? For some it may be a sacrifice to tithe one’s income. It may be like the bumper sticker that said, "If you love Jesus, tithe. Anyone can honk ...

3827. Men of Distinction

Acts 11:19-30

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... earns the title and lives up to it. That is how it all began in the first place. In the book of Acts (11:26 KJV) we find a sentence which tells us something about the heritage of the name we bear. It reads: "The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." Antioch was as unpromising a spot as the world could afford for anything Christian to happen. It was a negative spot, even for the Roman Empire. In this super-sophisticated, pleasure-conscious, sin-saturated, immoral metropolis, Paul and Barnabas ...

3828. Humility Gate

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... you for the remission of sins ... this do in remembrance of me." Here is the acted parable. It is the same gate of humility through which all of us must enter in order that we might know the full meaning of our Christian faith. In the last conversation with his disciples around the lowly, common table, he said to them, "I am the way and the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me." He who came in by the back door of the world went from that little supper meeting in the Upper Room to ...

3829. To Be Perfectly One

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... was the Lordship of Jesus Christ. All barriers of color, history, background, and nationality fell away. Our highest allegiance was beyond any natural or artificial division. It seems to me that this is what Christ was asking for when he prayed in the Upper Room, first for his disciples and then for the church of the future, the whole company of the faithful who both believe and act. He prays: "And the glory which thou hast given me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and ...

3830. An Invitation

John 2:1-11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... remembers about the wedding in Cana. I would like to tell you about another part that I think is pretty important. When the people who were getting married had sent out the invitations, they not only invited Jesus but they also invited his friends, the disciples. Do you know why I think that this is important? I think that it is important because some people think that they can have Jesus all by himself without having his friends. Some people think that they can worship and love God all by themselves ...

3831. On Top of the Mountain

Matthew 17:1-13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... change shape. He was transfigured in a different way. When the apostles looked at Jesus, they knew that he had changed because his clothes and his body were filled with light. No man had ever looked so bright as Jesus did. The light was so bright that the disciples fell to the ground and covered their eyes. There were other things that were changed that day, such as the voice they heard from heaven that belonged to God. Usually you can’t hear God’s voice with your ears, but they heard it that day. God ...

3832. Save It!

John 6:1-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... feed a crowd of 5,000 people. Yes, he did! He fed 5,000 people with the food that a little boy gave to him. And that isn’t all. There was enough left to fill twelve baskets. We know that there was that much left because Jesus told the disciples to gather up what was left over, and there was enough to fill twelve baskets. Jesus did not waste anything, for he knew that everything was a gift of God and any gift should be used the way that it was intended. Some boys and girls think that they only ...

3833. Is Jesus a Road Map?

Mark 8:1-13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... , and Jesus was worried about them. Have you heard what he did for them? He sat them down on the hillside and took a few fish that were given to him and some bread and after he blessed them by giving thanks to God, he gave the food to the disciples and told them to pass it out to all of the people. No one thought that those few fish and the couple of loaves of bread would feed 4,000 people, but it did. Jesus made a miracle, and the tired, hungry people praised God for sending Jesus to themn ...

3834. An Overflowing Heart

Luke 7:11-17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... it run off into the basin. Now there is a good reason for my doing this. I want to tell you about something else that overflowed that was even more important. The Bible tells us about the time that Jesus was walking from one village to another with his disciples. The village that they were going toward was Nain. While they were walking, they saw a group of people coming toward them looking very sad. It didn’t take them long to see that this was a funeral passing them, and the person who had died was the ...

3835. Dirty Dishes and Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... have to wash the dishes? [Let them answer.] As often as they are dirty? Do you mean I must wash them every time they get dirty? Oh, me! If I want to eat off a clean dish, I must wash the dirty ones. That DOES make sense. One of the disciples asked Jesus this question: "How often should I forgive a brother who sins against me?" Do you understand the question? If someone does something to me more than once or twice or three or four times, how many times must I forgive him? Do you know what Jesus answered? Do ...

3836. The Poor - With Us Always?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... wastefulness. Jesus dispelled the grumbling by saying that he would be here only a short while longer while the poor would remain. The reply of Jesus was not a comment on the permanence of poverty. Instead, it contrasted the narrow conventional attitudes of the disciples with the inspired offering of the woman. She did the only thing available in her power, and Jesus commended it. When I hear people holding up the statement, "the poor will be with us" as an excuse for neglecting benevolent concerns, I am ...

3837. Hooray for Humility!

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... began to shake with sobs, and tears ran down his face - and they remembered a prayer: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem - how oft would I have gathered you - but you would not, you would not!" And not many days later he is stooping down to wash his disciples feet - and now - now Paul comes to the grand climax of a life of humiliation: DEATH ON A CROSS! This would be intensely moving to the Philippians. They were Romans, citizens of a Roman colony with special Roman rights. Neither Paul, nor the Philippians, could ...

3838. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... grudges against each other. The Scripture for today says that we must never tolerate any situation in which there is a breach of personal relationship between us and another member of the Christian community. In this eighteenth chapter of Matthew Jesus admits that disciples are going to have conflicts; but they are to resolve them. It is very true today that the behavior of us church members on this very issue makes Christianity to the outside world either repulsive or attractive. It isn’t a matter that ...

3839. Forgiveness Unlimited

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... over and over - we will not be forgiven unless we forgive our fellow persons. We can’t hope for God’s forgiveness unless we forgive. "Happy are those who are merciful to others; God will be merciful to them" (Matthew 5:7). And in the great disciples’ prayer, Jesus taught them: "If you forgive others the wrongs they have done you, your father in heaven will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive the wrongs of others, then your father in heaven will not forgive the wrongs you have done" (Matthew ...

3840. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... One race, or one denomination, or one nationality is not more important to God than another. Let’s put that on the billboards of our lives. There is no single franchise on God’s grace. These two things Jesus must have wanted to say to the Jews and the disciples in his day when he told the story. But, when we study the Scripture, we must do more than discover its setting and its rationale back then; we must also ask ourselves, "What does this parable say to us now?" Here we learn a lot about our God, and ...

3841. For Those in Church: Joy and Service

Matthew 23:1-39

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... especially for those who come to church - those of us who consider ourselves the faithful. Jesus spoke these words to his disciples. They are about the pillars of the church in his day - the scribes and Pharisees. Rather then spend our time today ... depresses us, scares us, worries us, haunts us, it probably is not true Christian religion. The religion that Jesus presented to the disciples was one of support and comfort, peace and love, forgiveness and joy. "It is this that made the future of Christianity," ...

3842. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... ’m always forced to ask myself: "What do I know for sure?" and the answer always seems to be a kind of mocking echo in my mind: "Not much, and that’s for sure!" Look in God’s Word for sureness, and you find a typical example. Some of the disciples were turning away from the hard sayings of Christ, and he spoke to the chosen twelve, asking, "Will you also leave me?" And Peter, as was customary, replied, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, for we know and we are sure that you ...

3843. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... of the law. The divine love which freely pours itself upon the undeserving shines in its full glory from the cross, where the innocent Sufferer prays for his crucifiers and with his pierced hand opens the door to paradise to a dying criminal. After the disciples had experienced the reality of the resurrection of their Lord, reflection upon the whole drama of the cross could not fail to disclose new depths of meaning in the words he had spoken earlier, "The Son of man came ... to give his life as a ransom ...

3844. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... and turns them into level ground. The occasion in Matthew’s Gospel of Jesus’ words about faith and mountain-moving was an instance of failure on the part of his disciples. They had been unable to help an epileptic boy who had been brought to them by his father. Jesus, when he arrived on the scene, healed the boy immediately. Later the disciples came to him privately and asked him why they had not been able to heal him. Jesus answered, "Because of your little faith." They should have had more faith than ...

3845. To Receive or Worship?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... , at the top of our priority list, those things which deserve to enjoy first place, or are they on the bottom? It was said of the early disciples that they turned the world upside down. They were simply restoring spiritual and moral values to their rightful priority. On the basis of this judgment, are we, too, disciples of Christ? 2. The triumphant Christ [Matthew 21:9] Roman generals, returning from highly successful campaigns of military conquest, were given enthusiastic welcome by the large crowds who ...

3846. The Wonderful "T" Word

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... does not say that the primary purpose of tithing is to support the church. The primary beneficiary of tithing is the individual who is tithing. There is no way we can grow as disciples of Jesus Christ without giving systematically, joyously, gratefully, and sacrificially. Tithing keeps us on track as growing disciples. Our scripture lesson for today is about that wonderful "T" word--tithing. In order to properly appreciate this classic prophetic text, let me set the scene for you. The time is about 450 ...

3847. The Secret of the Power

John 20:19-31

Illustration

Brett Blair

... ends: "There laid they Jesus and rolled a great stone at the mouth of the sepulcher and departed." It is very easy to rewrite history. To say, "that did not happen." But the story remains that the disciples were witnesses to these events. Thomas Jefferson is in essence calling the disciples liars and that they continued throughout the first century, for 70 years, to propagate those lies. Furthermore, Jefferson's Bible has been robbed of its power. I am convinced that the church does not accomplish 2000 ...

3848. Straight Talk With A Young Adult

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... not commanding that all of us get rid of our possessions and embrace poverty. Nor did he mean to suggest that money in and of itself is bad. Jesus did mean that we must subject every other value and loyalty to the high and holy privilege of being a Christian disciple. That is the key to the good life. If my life doesn't glorify Christ, it is a failure, even if I become a millionaire and am elected governor of the state. I am a success only if my life throws a spotlight on Christ, if I attract people to ...

3849. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... There is no middle ground. The statement that got Jesus executed was this response to the High Priest: "I am the Anointed, the Son of the uncreated God, and you shall see me appearing at the end of all history as the Judge of the Universe." When Jesus' disciples asked to see God the Father, Jesus replied, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father." He said, "Before Abraham was, I am." Those words "I am" were the traditional Hebrew name for God. Other teachers had said, "This is the way you should live ...

3850. The Sabbath - Delightfully Different

Exodus 20:1-21, Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... camera to take a picture. Suddenly this woman was on him like a duck on a June bug. "No photograph allowed on the Sabbath," she shouted as she wagged a finger in his face. Suddenly I understood exactly the kind of legalism that Jesus and the disciples confronted long ago in a cornfield. Jesus responded by taking his critics back to the original intent of the Sabbath. He said, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." Today our problem with the Sabbath is not too much strictness. The pendulum ...

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