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One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Jesus and his disciples move to a nearby olive grove called Gethsemane (26:36–46), where Jesus prays repeatedly that the necessity of his impending death be removed (26:39, 42, 44; for cup language, see 20:22), though he submits to his Father’s will (for obedience to God’s will in Matthew, see 7:21; 12:48–50). The disciples, whom Jesus asks to keep watch as he prays, fall asleep at each turn. Alth...

4252. Gethsemane

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

The Final Evening: The Passion narrative is the account of the suffering and death of Jesus. It normally includes all the events beginning with the garden scene in Gethsemane and finishing with the burial. The centrality of the cross in early Christian preaching is reflected in the major emphasis given to it in each of the four Gospels. Matthew 26 records the events of Wednesday and Thursday of th...

4253. First Sunday of Advent

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter - Psalm 122 First Lesson—The prophet foresees the days to come when the nations stream to the mountain of the house of the Eternal for learning and judgment. Isaiah 2:1-5 Second Lesson—Paul admonishes sobriety and alertness since the day of salvation is near. Romans 13:11-14 Gospel—Just as Noah watched for the approaching flood, Jesus calls for alertness in waiting for the day of ...

4254. The Tragedy of Caiaphas

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” (Matthew 26:64) “I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” (John 10:16) Greek theatre became an art f...

4255. Screaming For A Reason Why

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

There are three rooms in the city of Raleigh, and though they are different in size and shape, they have one thing in common. The three rooms are located in three hospitals. They are intensive care waiting rooms. Let me describe one of these rooms. It is on the second floor of the Wake Medical Center. Surrounding it are three units: cardiac care, surgical intensive care, maximum intensive care. A...

4256. Step Eleven - Spirituality

Sermon

John A. Terry

This past week I had a new adventure. I did some plumbing work I had never done before. But I got out my handy homeowner's guide, and followed along step by step. It took longer than I thought it would. But at last it was almost complete. Close to the very end came the time when I put on the nuts and bolts that held it all together. As we reach toward the end of this series, we are approaching th...

4257. Jesus Arrested

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

4258. Six Nails of the Cross II: The Nail of Infidelity

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Friendship is an ancient virtue, highly valued among believers. The writer of Proverbs said, "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born of adversity." The desire of everyone is to make each friend a brother or sister, and, while there is little hope of attaining this ideal, the failure to make an attempt is wastefulness and shame. To call someone our brother or sister is to put into words...

4259. One Bad Apple

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

At Saratoga, on a battlefield that once was covered with British and American blood, there stands a monument, 155 feet high. The monument is there to commemorate that decisive struggle in which the British made their last stand over two centuries ago. Around the base of this monument are four deep niches, and in each niche appears the name of one of the American generals who commanded there. Ab...

4260. What A Friend He Had In Judas

Sermon

Thomas Long

Tourists who travel to faraway places will often attempt to learn a few useful phrases in the language of the land where they are going. They will practice typical traveler's lingo like "My name is Sarah. What's your name?" or "I am from St. Louis in the United States" or "Waiter, would you please bring our check?" or "Excuse me. I'm lost ... can you show me the way to the Hotel Pierre?" or "Thank...

4261. Never Cry Uncle - Malchus

Drama

Thomas Blowers

Dramatic Monologue My name is Malchus and I'm but one of the many slaves owned by the high priest. Someone once asked me how many of us there were all told and I couldn't even make a guess, so I answered "Oh about enough to populate a small city." Could have been that many, too, counting everybody: men, women, and children. We cleaned, cooked, took care of the stables, guarded the Palace -- in f...

4262. Coming on the Clouds of Glory

Drama

Joe Barone

"Then the high priest tore his robes, and said, 'He has uttered blasphemy. Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy.' " That's what the scripture says. Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to be the high priest Caiaphas, the one to whom Jesus was brought from the Garden of Gethsemane? Here's one way he might have seen these events. Dramatic Monologue: The Hi...

4263. The Crowd That Betrayed Him

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Thirty pieces of silver [new coins from the bank] Today we are going to talk about being a different kind of crowd from any crowd you have ever imagined. Remember you have been part of a crowd that loved Jesus and part of a crowd that feared Jesus, but today you are going to be a very different kind of crowd. You may not like yourselves very much today but it is a part of our story and we...

4264. Encounters With Christ VI: Jesus and Caiaphas

Sermon

James W. Moore

Rev. James W . Moore tells a story about his six-year-old granddaughter Sarah who was visiting some friends of the family. He says: These friends are a wonderful couple who have been happily married for over 40 years. They have just moved into their dream retirement home. They love each other very much, but on this particular day when Sarah was there for her visit with our friends, they were sti...

4265. Jesus on Trial

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

26:57–27:10 · Upon arrest, Jesus is brought before the Sanhedrin, the Jewish ruling council that, according to Matthew, comprised chief priests, Jewish elders, and some teachers of the law (26:57–68)—in other words, the Jerusalem elite. The high priest Caiaphas (whose tenure spanned AD 18–36) leads the proceedings, which consist of a search for and examination of testimony against Jesus by others ...

4266. Before the Sanhedrin

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

4267. Passion Sunday

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Notes Matthew follows his source Mark very closely here, especially in preserving the drama of Jesus' anguished quotation of Psalm 22 in v. 27:46 as his last word and the climax of the Passion account. Although some interpreters would argue that that Psalm, taken in its entirety, bespeaks faith rather than a feeling of abandonment, the single phrase "cried" from the cross clearly suggests o...

4268. The Christian's Tears of Failure

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, "Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly. (Matthew 26:75)"You win some and you lose some." This popular saying is a way of admitting that life has its failures. You can't win all the time. A serious failure is often accompanied with tears. One night two men went bowling. One of them was an excellent bowler. H...

4269. Peter Disowns Jesus

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

4270. Faces of Failure: Peter

Sermon

Don Tuttle

On the counter above our kitchen sink, my wife keeps a little flip calendar. It’s called, “If You Want Breakfast in Bed, Sleep in the Kitchen,” and each day it offers a bit of pithy wisdom. Things like—“We all get heavier as we get older because there’s more information in our head,” or “Confidence is the feeling you have before you really understand the situation.” One saying this week seemed ...

4271. The Grace of Disillusionment

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

And he went out and wept bitterly.- Matthew 26:75b In his famous autobiography, Henry Adams wrote of his chronic irritability. He thought it was the result of knowing too much about his neighbors and thinking too much of himself. We have in Luke’s parable of the Pharisee and the publican a man who, like the early Henry Adams, combines a low opinion of his neighbors with a high estimate of his own...

4272. Reuben:The Rooster With a Reminder

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: None How many boys and girls know what I mean when I talk about reminders? Can anyone think of something which we might call a reminder? (Let the children give you some things which they think of as reminders.) That's pretty good. When I think of a reminder I can't help but think of a string that my mother used to tie around my finger so that I would not forget about the time that I was s...

4273. Yearning For A Loyal Friend

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

Do you ever find yourself in the Bible? When you read one of the biblical stories, do you ever identify with the character or characters? Do you ever say to yourself after reading an incident, "That describes me and my situation"? Sometimes that identity can boost the ego. Sometimes it may have the opposite effect, bringing to reality some of the things about our lives that we need to correct. Ev...

4274. Step Four - Courage

Sermon

John A. Terry

Step four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. The psalmist talks of the God before whom such a searching and fearless moral inventory is both possible and necessary. Ours is a God who, in traditional language, is omniscience and omnipresent, a God who knows all and is everywhere. This Psalm is sometimes called the Psalm of the unavoidable God. We believe that before our ...

4275. The Clanking of Coins

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

Suppose that I tingled a batch of coins in my pocket or dropped some quarters on a marble floor. If you were to close your eyes and listen to the sound that money makes, what would it remind you of?... A bank teller spilling out a deposit for counting?... A child shaking a piggy bank in hopes that a coin will slip through the slot?... A clerk dropping the money from your purchase into a register?....

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