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4676. A Glory Revealed in the Cross

John 8:12-30

Sermon

... is He? Here He is - He is hanging here on this gallows...." That night the soup tasted of corpses.8 In our suffering we, too, often ask, "Where is God now?" Then the Spirit enables us to look one more time at Jesus "lifted up" on his cross, slowly dying, looking perhaps like the sad-eyed angel boy. Then the Spirit whispers to us, "Where is God? Where is He now? Here He is - He is hanging here on this cross, without beauty or attractiveness, deprived of justice, humiliated, without glory or power." It is ...

4677. My God, My God, ... Why?

Mark 15:33-41

Drama

... you? (Joseph turns toward the cross) Please believe me, Rabbi. I mean no disrespect. But does it not seem ironic, even tragic, that the one who had many of us believing that the age of miracles had returned, did not save himself? And where is the Spirit of prophecy now? The kingdom seems invisible again. (Joseph turns toward the cross) On the other hand, if Jesus is the true messenger of the kingdom of God, or more, its Messiah, then this cross spells the end of many of our ways of thinking about life ...

4678. The Sent Sitter

Acts 2:1-21

Children's Sermon

... . And they’ve left you the sitter, too, to be sure you are cared for. So when Jesus left, he left his disciples, the church, the water of baptism, the bread and wine of his supper, the words he taught, and even a "sitter," that sitter we call the Holy Spirit, or the Comforter. Jesus is gone away to God. But in all these ways, by the sitter he sent, the Holy ...

4679. Respect: Lesson for Victorious Living

Ruth 4:1-12

Sermon

... then found just in time for the King James Bible to be written. "Universality" is not an easy term for us to bring into our vocabularies and then make a part of our religious perspectives. It is remarkable and surely a work of the Holy Spirit that the Holy Synod of the Church of Constantinople, in 1919, provided the key for the ecumenical movement as we know it today. The Orthodox churches are known for their nationalistic tendencies. This synod "officially decided to take steps to issue an invitation to ...

4680. Sovereignty: God’s Domain

Zephaniah 1:4-13

Sermon

... frequent tendency to place God here and there and to tell him he can like it because that is the way it is! THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD comes glowingly alive for the church in Saint Paul’s Letter to the Ephesisans. He tells us: "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all." (4:4-6) Christian unity does not forsake this message of hopeful truth ...

4681. From Beast to Believer

Daniel 4:28-37, Daniel 4:19-27, Daniel 4:1-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... that his astrologers were clueless but that Daniel’s God was a revealer of dreams. Probably because Neb was still unconverted and wanted desperately for his pagan advisors to succeed. Continuing with verse 9—"I said, ‘Belteshzzar (or Daniel), chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream; interpret it for me. These are the visions I saw while lying in my bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle ...

4682. Celebrating with Jesus

Luke 5:33-39

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... greatest Kingdom in history? One of the most common words in the Bible is "rejoice." It appears 39 times in the book of Psalms alone. But our joy is disciplined and channeled rather than chaotic. St. Paul tells us in Galatians 5:23 that one of the fruits of the Spirit is self-control. Sometimes I think that the kindest thing a parent can do for a child is to teach him or her to accept the answer "no." If you don’t learn that early, you might end up with five or six credit cards maxed out, up to your ...

4683. If You Are A Disciple of Jesus Christ

Luke 6:17-26, Luke 6:12-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... I are certainly not apostles, we are committed to being disciples of Jesus. What does that mean? What are the implications? Let me suggest three. First, To Be a Disciple Means That Someone Is Praying for You, and His Name is Jesus! I don't know how the living Christ-Spirit manages to pray over his millions of disciples but he is not limited by time and space as we are. How do I know that he prays for us? The Bible says so, in I John 2:01. "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous ...

4684. All The More Reason To Give Thanks

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

Brett Blair

... met for whom God was real and always near... On Sunday, April 8, 1945, Pastor Bonhoeffer conducted a little service of worship and spoke to us in a way that went to the heart of all of us. He found just the right words to express the spirit of our imprisonment, and the thoughts and resolutions it had brought us. He had hardly ended his last prayer when the door opened and two civilians entered. They said, "Prisoner Bonhoeffer, come with us." That had only one meaning for all prisoners--the gallows. We said ...

4685. Paul’s Midnight Ride

Acts 22:30--23:11

Sermon Aid

... "true Israel," the only group that clung faithfully to the entire promise of God to his people. The rejection of such teachings by the Sadducees, on the other hand, was to be expected because they were materialists who "say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit." (23:8) For the second time in two days, Paul had been rescued by the Romans from a menacing mob of his own people. Back in the barracks and once again in confinement, he could only wonder and worry about what was to come next. Obviously ...

4686. Prodigal Sons

Illustration

John T. Seamands

In his parable of the prodigal son or, more correctly, the prodigal sons, Jesus again brings out the two-fold nature of sin. The younger son stands for the sins of the flesh, the sins of transgression. He was guilty of gluttony, drunkenness, licentiousness, and adultery. The elder son stands for the sins of the spirit, the sins of the disposition. He exhibited the inner attitudes of jealousy, self-righteousness, anger, unconcern, and an unforgiving spirit.

4687. Which Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

... don’t you? You have to grab for all the gusto you can get - in Jesus’ name, of course - don’t you? You need to be a soldier in the army of the Lord, don’t you? And that requires a good offense, a ready arsenal, clenched fists, an uncompromising spirit, zeal, inflexibility. The history of the human race, a great historian has told us sadly, is the history of our wars. What do we learn from our attempts to muscle one another into doing what we know they ought to? What is gained by shaming members of a ...

4688. Repent Your Way To A Merry Christmas

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to purchase a chain for his pocket watch. The thrust of the story is obvious. It is not what you give that is important, but the sharing spirit of love in which it is given. One of the messages of Advent is that we are called to be a sharing people. Not just at one ... tears, Francke asked her to wait while he went to his room to pray. After seeking God's guidance, he felt that the Holy Spirit wanted him to change his mind. So, trusting the Lord to meet his own needs, he gave her the money. Two mornings later, ...

4689. Mary's Revolutionary Song (Sermon Series No. 3)

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Messiah. Gabriel told Mary that her aunt Elizabeth, well past the childbearing age, had become pregnant. Immediately Mary went to visit Elizabeth. Under the influence of the Holy Spirit, both women sensed that God had chosen them for special tasks and would do great things through their children. Mary was then given by the Holy Spirit insights far too profound for a simple teenager to originate. She declared the impact that her son would have upon the world. She announced three distinct revolutions, which ...

4690. For He Shall Save His People

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Staff

... to run and hide more that it makes want to sing Jingle Bells. Look at our text in Matthew 1:21. The same strange thing occurs. The angel tells Joseph, Don’t be afraid to take Mary as you wife because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus…” Sounds like the Christmas we all know. But then there’s the matter of another unfinished verse which ends, “You are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from ...

4691. Bitter-Sweet Recollections

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... of sin," he sneered. "I feel none. How heavy is the burden? Eighty pounds? Ten pounds?" The preacher answered, "Tell me, if you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?" "No, because it’s dead," replied the youth. The preacher replied, "That spirit, too, is dead which feels no load of sin." It is bitter, bitter gall as we stand around his cross, by faith re-living his time on earth with us. Maybe we say, as we do when other loved ones die, "He was so young." "He was struck ...

4692. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... us of God. Those who heard his beatitudes, his parables, his words of wisdom and power, finally had to say, "Never man spake like this man." You can think of Christ as an ancient teacher, and he was. But he is likewise of today and tomorrow. His Spirit, his words, his teachings, are as modern as the six o’clock news. His teachings belonged to his time, but not more than to ours. Jesus’ teachings are at home in all centuries. Hear him, and you cry, "I have listened to the world’s greatest Teacher ...

4693. If You Had But One Request

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... the personification of truth and the very Son of God. To have truth is to have wisdom. Daily we should pray, "Come into my mind, Lord Jesus. Come into my mind to stay." Another way to acquire wisdom is to receive the Holy Spirit. He is God who abides in us. Jesus taught that the Holy Spirit will guide us into truth. He is the one who will enlighten us so that we will have good judgment and common sense. Stupidity is being in the dark. Wisdom is being in the light of truth. Every person’s problem is stated ...

4694. Your Money and Your Life

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... or ‘This is a community.’ This is a good question for us. What is the meaning of our city? Is it meant merely to be an arena for merciless competition? Or is it intended for something more than that? Is our city meant to enjoy a spirit of merciful cooperation? Modernity seems to have one answer to this question while the Gospel has another. As Jesus puts it, it is the difference between laying up treasures on earth and laying up treasures in heaven. We cannot have it both ways. "You cannot serve God ...

4695. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... life and destiny. God means for us to be free, truly free, because faith can be real only where faithlessness is a possibility. Faith can be real, then, only in a world of temptations. This is why in our lesson Matthew emphasizes it was the Spirit of God himself which led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted. Centuries earlier, in a similar way, God led his people Israel into temptation. We read in Deuteronomy: "The Lord your God led you forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing ...

4696. Out of the Barnyard

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... , taking on the British force singlehandedly as he did. Sometimes, when it looks at the forces of darkness in this world, the Church must surely feel as he did, nearly overwhelmed. But I do believe that if we could muster something of Dr. Daggett’s indomitable spirit, we could give those forces quite a beating. To be sure, we find in our world, as the Israelites found in ancient Canaan, "giants" whom we detest and fear. The majority report will always be: We cannot defeat them, let us turn back. But the ...

4697. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... as to what Jesus has in mind. The publican’s prayer appropriates the opening words of Psalm 51: "Have mercy on me, O God." As Joachim Jeremias observes, we find in that same psalm a verse which reads: "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." Here, Jesus suggests, is what God is like. God greets the hopeless sinner, but he rejects the self-confident and the self-righteous. As Pascal wrote: There are only two kinds of men: the righteous ...

4698. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... 12 which says: "They shall look on him whom they have pierced." As Raymond Brown observes, what is interesting is that just before this verse we read these words of Yahweh: "I shall pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion." Jesus’ wounding, then, is actually the beginning of life. From Jesus’ side flows that living water which is the source of life. On the cross Jesus fulfills his own words: "And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must ...

4699. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

George Bass

... on the third day rise?" Today we remember that it was a single angel - Gabriel - who announced the conception of Christ and his impending birth to Mary - and, subsequently, to the world. And we celebrate what that event means to all of us, hopeful that the Holy Spirit will give us the kind of vision and understanding of the promise of the Messiah that he gave to Daniel (8:16, 9:21) centuries before Christ was born. God Is About to Change the World Gabriel’s announcement was much more than a message of a ...

4700. Born to Play Second Fiddle

Luke 1:57-66

Sermon

George Bass

... little. But Zechariah, his father, was visited by the angel Gabriel, just as six months later Mary, the mother of Jesus, was visited by the same angel and told that she was chosen of God to be the earthly parent of a son to be conceived by the Holy Spirit. Zechariah was struck speechless during the encounter; it was too much. He and his wife were old and childless and he believed it would take a miracle from God for them to become parents at their advanced age. And to have a son with such a special mission ...

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