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3826. Luke 24:36b-48

Luke 24:36b-48

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Leonard Sweet

... , is the fulfillment of God's plan and promise. The first verse claims a unique pedigree shared by only a small number of other texts in Luke's works. Luke 24:36, along with Luke 24:40, are among nine verses that until fairly recently had been thought to be "short versions" in their most original Greek form. First elaborated in 1881 by B.F. Westcott and F.J.A. Hort in their two-volume work The New Testament in the Original Greek, their judgment influenced biblical translations for decades to come. Only in ...

3827. Mark 7:24-37

Mark 7:24-37

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Leonard Sweet

... , the toucher, the sigher, the speaker. Why, we ask, if Jesus can exorcize demons long-distance with a simple word, does it take such extreme physical measures to cure this man's deafness and give him the gift of speech? Our hygienic aesthetics are offended at the thought of Jesus' using spit to effect a cure. The text doesn't make it clear whether Jesus spat on the ground, spat on his fingers, or spat directly onto the man's tongue. Whatever. None of the options are very appealing. But the results are what ...

3828. John 18:33-38

John 18:33-38

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Leonard Sweet

... purely a cognitive function, an intellectual proposition. For Pilate, rooted in Greek intellectualism and Roman pragmatism, truth was something one thought. Jesus declares himself born "to testify to the truth," and claims as his own those who "belong to the truth." "Truth" for Jesus ... is not merely something that is thought; truth is felt, truth is acted out and enacted in life. In Hebraic culture, there is no such thing as a ...

3829. Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)

Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)

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Leonard Sweet

... going. Jeremy had lived a rough life with lots of low spots. He had first started coming to church with a friend in his mid-30s. Things started to go better. Jesus became a good luck charm that warded off bad experiences. Bill was on a high he thought would last forever. But it didn't. His wife and daughter were killed in a car accident. He dropped out of church, bitterly deciding that Jesus had abandoned him. So as Jesus ministered to his grief through the love and support of a church family, he didn't ...

3830. Refusing to Quit

2 Timothy 4:5-8

Sermon

James McCormick

... called you to do it, it’s important. So, don’t quit! Let me pull it all together and say it one more time. It happened in one of the towns in Alabama – I want to say Anniston. They had a good track team – so good, in fact, that they thought they had a chance to win the state high school track championship. The rules specified that they had to enter a certain number of events at the state track meet in order to qualify. And since their school was not one of the larger schools, they were preparing for ...

3831. John 10:11-18

John 10:11-18

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Leonard Sweet

... well-being. But more than that, Jesus emphasizes that a face-to-face "knowing" between the shepherd and the sheep has been established. As the Good Shepherd Jesus declares, "I know my own and my own know me." This knowledge should not be thought of in the Greek sense of a kind of intellectual contemplation or curriculum vitae. This kind of "knowing" by resume, references, research could never invite the kind of sacrificial act Jesus mandates for the good shepherd. The "knowing" Jesus speaks of here is ...

3832. Philippians 4:4-7

Philippians 4:4-7

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Leonard Sweet

... is coming soon. In this temporal meaning the imminence of the coming kingdom provides the impetus for gentleness. The weight of early church tradition rests on this second, temporal meaning, for the conviction that the Lord was soon to return was central to the thought of Paul and other early Christian leaders. It may help to recall at this point that Paul's letter to the Philippians was written from a prison cell. His greatest desire, to continue traveling and preaching the gospel in new and distant places ...

3833. Anyone You Recognize?

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Richard Gribble

... was the only decent one of the lot. Nobody did the parish census; Nobody joined the parish council. One day there was a call in the bulletin for people to apply for a position as a teacher in the religious education program. Everybody thought Anybody would apply; Anybody thought Somebody would apply. So, guess who applied? You are right - Nobody! My friends, let's not be an everybody, somebody, or anybody. Rather, let us truly strive to be a nobody. In such a way we empty ourselves so we can be filled ...

3834. Are You Better at Wearing or Bearing Crosses?

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... other divine quality. Israel was God’s first kingdom, but in an eschatological future all the nations would recognize God’s ruling status and bow down before him. So when Jesus spoke of the “kingdom of God’ his audience, especially the Torah-learned Jews, thought they knew what he was talking about. Surprise. They didn’t. Jesus was not talking about establishing a place with borders, a kind of divine fiefdom. The kingdom of God wasn’t a political polis or an eschatological, pie-in-the-sky, far ...

3835. Etched in Stone

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... are the minimal requirement for a godly life. Of course, we sometime don’t even meet the minimum requirement. We covet what others have. We lust. We steal time from our employers. We abuse the Sabbath rest. We say we serve God, but God is rarely in our thoughts, unless, of course, we find ourselves in a tight place, or we use God’s name in swearing. And that’s why there must be grace. Even though keeping the Ten Commandments is a minimal requirement for a godly life, that’s more than we achieve. So ...

3836. God's Workmanship

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... he was wrestling with a tiger in there. The construction crew suspended work temporarily, their gazes drawn to the spectacle of the port‑a‑john. The guy seemed to stay inside forever. Every man on the site wondered how he could stand it and thought of how quickly they would have raced in and out just to escape the stink. After a while the crew noticed something radically different. An inviting smell drifted across the yard. Then the good‑natured tattooed man finally emerged with his smile still intact ...

3837. Eight Days until Eternity

Mark 11:1-11

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King Duncan

... do something?” Tim’ tears mingled with hers. His heart was broken. He felt nauseated. Because he loved her, he was allowing her to go through the most agonizing experience of her life, and he could hardly stand it. In the middle of that spinal tap, his thoughts went to the cross of Christ. What unspeakable pain both the Son and the Father went through, says Tim Miller. (5) And it’s true. We see Christ’s courage. And we see the Father’s amazing love poured out. And here is the most astounding thing ...

3838. All Our Strength

Matthew 11:25-30

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Donald M. Tuttle

The story is told of a little boy and his father. They were walking along a road when they came across a large stone. The boy looked at the stone and thought about it a little. Then he asked his father, "Do you think if I use all my strength, I can move that rock?" The father thought for a moment and said, "I think that if you use all your strength, you can do it." That was all the little boy needed. He ran over to the rock and began to push on it. He pushed and he pushed, so hard did ...

3839. God Loses, So We Can Win

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... Esau. There’s a good bit of research literature out today about how we are genetically hardwired for certain personality traits and behavioral propensities. As we get to know Esau and Jacob it’s like each of them was hardwired for the status the other got. Jacob thought he should be No. 1. He spent his life seeking to rectify the injustice. He spent his life seeking to be blessed – as he defined it. What does being blessed mean to you? In a few Sundays I’m going to preach a series on the Beatitudes ...

3840. Jesus' Good News of a New World · Part 3

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... worship, because it comes naturally. We do what we do, because Jesus is the Master Teacher and we are his apprentices. If what we do in worship came naturally, there would be nothing left for us to learn from Jesus. And so for an hour we practice acting as thought the world doesn’t revolve around us. That there is a way better than our ways. We don’t “Pass the peace of Christ,” because we feel like it. We Pass the Peace because he told us that that’s what the children of God do. Some have pointed ...

3841. The Darkness We Create

Luke 15:11-32

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Mike Ripski

... Jew coming out of the synagogue and a bum leaning against a building. Each asked Moses to ask if God thinks of him. Moses asked God and then reported to each God’s response. God told the Jew that God thought of him often and that there was a reserved place for him in heaven. He told the bum that, while God thought of him, he didn’t see much of him in worship, so there was a place in hell reserved for him. After both men had died, Moses asked God about them. God told him the bum was sitting next ...

3842. A Haunting Moment

Mark 9:2-13

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John Killinger

... sitting in the chancel of a church, waiting to deliver the guest sermon. A beautiful woman was playing a violin solo. Her lovely hands worked continuously at the frets and the bow, evoking the most soulful music I thought I had ever heard. There was a rose pinned in her exquisitely coiffed hair. I was transported. "Then a dark thought crossed my mind, as if it had been a cloud passing between me and the sun. In a few years the woman would become old. The rose in her hair would die. Her soft hands would be ...

3843. Worship on the Mountaintop...And Everywhere Else

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... others exist, even God exists, to cater to our desires. Other voices tell us that suffering is to be avoided at all costs and self-denial is anathema. Other voices tell us to take the cross down and hide it, because it reminds people of unpleasant thoughts. C. Being terrified. Christian worship is about being terrified. It is about seeing and hearing what shakes the foundations of our world to the point that it feels like our world is coming apart. It feels like we are dying. In worship we see that our ...

3844. From Me to We

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... ll be told what to do.” I was totally disoriented. I couldn’t see. And what I heard was the voice of one who had been crucified. Dead people stay dead, don’t they? All of my previous assumptions about what I thought was right and of God were being challenged. I couldn’t avoid the thought: “Have I been wrong?” To answer Yes would mean that I’d given my life to the wrong “way.” Could there be a better “Way”? Though I was blind, I began to see what I could not see before. Like Jonah, who ...

3845. Looking at the World through the Eyes of God

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... ahead. The age of enlightenment promised through science, medicine, industry to usher mankind into a utopian society. Indeed it looked like it might actually happen and then WWI slipped in to dash these hopes. Nationalism reared its ugly head and brought man's head down in shame. The thought then after the war was that it was the war to end all wars. One last final dying breath of man's inhumanity to man. We had gotten it out of our soul. We had washed our hands of the dirty business of war. Now we were set ...

3846. Easter 6

Acts 10:23b-48, 1 John 4:1-6, John 15:1-17, 1 John 5:1-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... v. 15. 3. We know something you don't know! (15:15). Need: Do you know something I do not know? If so, I'd like to know it! Christians, according to Jesus in this text, know something the world does not know. Jesus shared his innermost thoughts and feelings with the disciples as with bosom friends. It is this secret, personal, precious knowledge that we proclaim for the good of all who would like to know. Outline: Confidence Jesus shares with us – a. The true nature of God: love. b. The truth about Jesus ...

3847. Lent 2

Mark 8:31--9:1, Romans 4:1-25, Genesis 17:1-27

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John R. Brokhoff

... and to have a perpetual rose garden of life. Peter had the wrong conception of Christ. When Jesus announced his intention to go to Jerusalem to suffer and die, Peter rebuked him. He claimed that this was no way for the Messiah, the Son of God, to act. He thought of Christ in terms of glory, not in terms of a cross. In like manner, many think of a Christian as one who has good luck and easy times because one believes in God. Outline: Are you disappointed – a. In Jesus as a suffering servant vv. 31-33. b ...

3848. Proper 10

2 Samuel 6:1-23, Ephesians 1:1-14, Mark 6:14-29

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John R. Brokhoff

... ' power and popularity by saying that Jesus was John the Baptist, whom he beheaded, risen from he dead. By killing John, he thought he was rid of John forever. Now he sees John in Jesus and his preaching. Herod was a superstitious man. 2. Grudge ( ... It is not so much that we should "choose Christ," but that we should accept God's choice of us. 2. Blood (v. 7). In Hebrew thought, blood was life. Paul says we have redemption through the blood of Christ. It means out of love Christ gave his life that we might be ...

3849. I Really Am Alive!

Luke 24:36b-48

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Bruce Larson

... the airwaves. In the middle of the night, the judge came to. He realized where he was, and rushed over to alert the night watchman, who promptly ran off, terrified. His first thought was to phone his wife and reassure her. But he got no further than, "Darling, it's me," when she screamed and fainted. He tried calling a couple of the neighbors but they all thought it was some sort of sick prank. He even went so far as to go to the homes of several friends but they were all sure he was a ghost. Finally, he ...

3850. Victory over Ourselves

Luke 24:36-49

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King Duncan

... it." Finally, after many futile suggestions, Moody picked up a pitcher and filled the glass with water. "There," he said, "all the air is now removed." He then explained that victory for the child of God does not come by working hard to eliminate destructive thoughts and habits, but rather by allowing the Holy Spirit to take full possession. So what are you troubled about? The future? God has it under His control. The past? Our sins have been thrown into the deepest regions of the sea by the death of ...

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