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Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:33-37, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... the temple which is the people of the church. The Spirit makes and sanctifies the temple. Now Paul returns to the subject of wisdom which he began to discuss in the first chapter. The problem in the Corinthian church was their having human ... is good - "I the Lord your God am holy" (v. 2). 2. How To Get Along With Your Neighbor (19:17-18). Need: Here is a subject that will affect every listener. We are social beings. We live in a society, a community, a family, a church. Every day, unless we are recluses, we ...

452. Palm Sunday

Isaiah 50:1-11, Matthew 27:11-54, Philippians 2:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... How to be God's suffering servant a. The silent sufferer - Gospel. b. The willing sufferer - Lesson 1. c. The humble sufferer - Lesson 2. Gospel: Matthew 27:11-54 In this long pericope, we have many opportunities to choose a text and subject. What one chooses depends upon the Spirit's guidance and the local church needs. Text Subject 27:11 Are you the king of the Jews? 27:12-13 The silence of Jesus 27:19 The voice of conscience 27:21 The people's choice 27:22 What to do with Jesus 27:24, 25 Who killed Jesus ...

453. Proper 4

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Deuteronomy 11:1-32, Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29, Romans 3:21-31

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John R. Brokhoff

... solution to the problem is to preach grace to such an extent and in such a manner that obedience would naturally follow as a by-product. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Three Lessons: Genesis 6:9-22; Romans 3:21-28; Matthew 7:21-29 1. In Obedience School. Need: The subject of obedience needs to be put in perspective through the three Lessons. It is helpful to know what, why, and whom to obey. Since sin is disobedience, we need to enter God's obedience school. We do not by nature obey God, and we need to learn to ...

454. Proper 17

Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Exodus 3:1-22

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John R. Brokhoff

... be the victims of oppression and persecution. The darkness hates the light. Evil aims to get rid of good, just as the good strives to overcome evil. There can be no compromise, no peace between the two forces. Christians, as exponents of truth and goodness, are subject to persecution. This was the case with Jeremiah as seen in the text. If this is so, why are today's Christians having such a good time with the world? Outline: The troubles Christians have. a. Undeserved - vv. 16-17. b. Persecuting - v. 15. c ...

455. The Rest of the Story

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

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Susan R. Andrews

... us - weeping and dreaming and trusting, returning to life as usual but with a hope that is unusual - returning to the way things really are, but with the courage to redeem this Time Being from insignificance. Years ago King George V sent this New Year's blessing to his British subjects: I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year Give me a light that I might go safely out into the darkness. And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be more to you ...

456. As Long As It Is Day!

Matthew 18:21-35

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Stephen M. Crotts

... matter of forgiveness. Everybody's In Debt! In the text, Jesus tells us of a king who decides to settle accounts with his servants. One man is brought before him who owes 10,000 talents. The modern equivalent would be about ten million dollars! So this subject was hopelessly enslaved to debt! Yet another fellow in the text is mentioned as owing a hundred denarii, which today equals nearly twenty dollars. So everybody in the text is in debt. Some owe a lot. Some are indebted a little. But all owe somebody ...

457. Christianity's First Sermon

Luke 23:26-43

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Leonard Sweet

... the truth and the truth will make you free.” What is the truth that we must know to be free? It’s not the truth of some doctrine, or some body of knowledge. The truth is Jesus himself. The uniqueness of Christianity’s understanding of truth is the subject of Christianity’s first sermon. When I say the word “Truth,” what comes to your mind? Let’s try it right now. Close your eyes. I say “truth.” What immediately pops into your mind’s eye? I guarantee you that for most of you what comes to ...

458. Building Bridges While Getting Shot at from Both Shores

Revelation 22:1-6

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Leonard Sweet

... creative attention to local context." Only the individual, the tribal, Jensen insists, can insure true humanity. "To love this particular tree, that particular person, this glint of sunlight off this dragonfly wing, and, insofar as is possible, to perceive each of those around us as subjects. This isn't a simple plea for us to all just get along. I'm not suggesting we replace abstract hate with a love just as abstract . . . Nor am I suggesting we simply step way from violence. I'm suggesting that there's a ...

459. Innercizing Your Shopping List

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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Leonard Sweet

... your faults and being right." ("Wanted: Fanatical Moderates," The New York Times, 16 November 2003, WK 13.) In an end-of-the-term self evaluation, our third grader Soren wrote with more enthusiasm than spelling ability that she lacked school and lacked all the subjects she had been studying this fall. Very clearly what she liked was also what she still lacked all the learning she could get!!! Although an impromptu tutorial session now insures that Soren will never again spell the word "like" as l-a-c-k ...

460. The Whole Shebang in Six Words

John 11:38-44

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Leonard Sweet

... and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. The idea of a soul, distinct from the body and not subject to our own scientific laws, is a myth" (The Astonishing Hypothesis [Touchstone Books, 1995]}. Other scientists have discovered two small knots of neuronal tissue above each ear they have nicknamed "god spots." These knots seem to mediate peak experiences in religion, creativity ...

461. John 1:43-51

John 1:43-51

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Leonard Sweet

... his first definitive self-revelation. As potentially revealing as is verse 51, however, this fourth day begins with significantly less clarity. While most translations read "The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee" (verse 43), the text itself offers no specific subject to the verb ethelesen ("he decided"). Some scholars suggest that the "he" may have been Andrew or even Simon Peter. By making the "he" who decides to go to Galilee and who finds Philip someone other than Jesus, the pattern of disciples ...

462. Such a Transformation!

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... by suffering. He was weak and parched, like a plant growing up out of dry ground. He had no beauty about him, because beauty signifies blessing from God, and the servant did not seem to be blessed. No one regarded him as important (v. 2). He was a man subjected to blows and scorned, humiliated and isolated and sorrowing (v. 3). As a result, the unknown speakers continue, we all thought he was rejected also by God. Yet, now we realize that the servant suffered because he was bearing our sins and that God was ...

463. Ash Wednesday

Mt 6:1-6, 16-21 · 2 Cor 5:20b--6:10 · Ps 51:1-17 · Jl 2:1-2, 12-17

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... with this text or these texts in the context of Ash Wednesday may be to work with one or more of three crucial issues raised explicitly or implicitly by this passage when it is read in its liturgical context. First, these verses are wrestling with the subject of our ultimate concerns. What really matters to us as humans, as people who profess Christian faith? (And, on Ash Wednesday we can assume we are working with a group of professing believers.) As we come before God on Ash Wednesday, why have we come ...

464. Proper 21

Exodus 17:1-7, Matthew 21:23-27, Matthew 21:28-32, Philippians 2:1-11, Psalm 78:1-72

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... have free will? To be frank, Paul would not understand the idea of a totally free human will. Paul understood that humans were creatures and that they were fully subject in every way to their Creator. Yet notice that Paul does not go to the other extreme. He does not cast humans as puppets on strings. Humans are both responsible and subject to God's involvement at every level. This theology and this anthropology are out of keeping with our modern thinking, but they are scriptural, and they should not really ...

465. Proper 28

Judges 4:1-24, Matthew 25:14-30, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, Psalm 123:1-4

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... with what she had. The epistle offers the intriguing option of presenting Christ the Thief. This is not one of the standard images of Christ, not one we ordinarily think of, but it occurs more than once in the New Testament. Read Paul Minear on the subject of Christ as thief. The New Testament writers . . . did not hesitate to speak of Christ as a robber, for they recognized that the Messiah takes from men treasure in which they have trusted, and he does this before they are aware of their loss. . . . One ...

466. The Lost and Found Celebration

Luke 15:15-24

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James W. Moore

... . Ever since the book and movie, The Exorcist, came out years ago, I have been asked if I believe we are the helpless victims of evil spirits. My answer to that is an emphatic NO! I do not believe God, our Father, would subject us to anything that would leave us powerless or cut us off from the abundant life Jesus came to share with us. - We have free will, freedom to choose… and the truth is sometimes we choose poorly. Then we try to cover with excuses and scapegoats. III. THIRD AND FINALLY, ...

467. The Road to Emmaus - Sermon Starter

Luke 24:13-35

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Brett Blair

... and his brilliant decisions. The fourth person presented was an elderly woman. Everyone was quite surprised to see her there, because her manner was quite humble, as was her dress. She hardly looked the part of someone who would be honored as the greatest subject in the kingdom. What chance could she possibly have, when compared to the other three, who had accomplished so much? Even so, there was something about her the look of love in her face, the understanding in her eyes, her quiet confidence. The king ...

468. The 3 Rs of a Holy Life

2 Corinthians 13:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... is the bleak worlds where pestilence hunts its prey. The Flesh: This is not the Adam-flesh created in the Garden of Eden by the God of Genesis. This is the “flesh” that now knows disease and death and decay. This “flesh” is fragile, subject to infection, physical fodder for plagues and pandemics. This “flesh” breaks down, breaks apart, and breaks our hearts and spirits with its decay. The Devil: There is no Devil, no antithesis to God’s creative power in the first creation story (Genesis 1:1 ...

469. A Not So Simple Story of Demons and Pigs

Luke 8:26-39

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... psychotherapeutic worlds. He is the author of The Road Less Traveled and its sequel, Further Along the Road Less Traveled. He is also the author of a little book on the subject of evil, bearing the intriguing title, People of the Lie. It is hard going, but worth the effort. In its pages, Peck sets out to study subjects of demonic possession. Peck believes it is possible to be possessed. Rare ... but possible. He suggests that demonic possession ... if it occurs at all ... is the culmination of a long, slow ...

470. What to Do When Life Is the Pits

1 Peter 5:5-11

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James Merritt

... among anyone who lived in the town. When Dale Carnegie set out to research his best selling book, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, he could not find a single book in the library on the subject of worry. When he went to the card catalogue, the subjects jumped straight from "worms" to "worship" without one entry at "worry." But things have greatly changed. Albert Camus, the French existentialist philosopher, called the Twentieth Century, "the century of fear." People today are anxious and anxiety ...

471. Will the Real God Please Stand Up?

2 Corinthians 13:14

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James Merritt

... can be denied. I call them: "Trinity truths." There is one God—eternal and indivisible. This one God is three persons—each distinct from the other. Each person is fully God—co-equal, co-existent, and co-eternal. Admittedly, this is obviously a deep subject that calls for serious thought and contemplation. But it is well worth it, for as Charles Haddon Spurgeon once said: "Nothing will so enlarge the intellect and magnify the whole soul of man as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the whole ...

472. Once Save - Always Saved

John 10:27-29

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James Merritt

... your salvation, then you did not have eternal life, you had five-year life. But Jesus didn't promise us five-year, ten-year, one hundred-year, or even one thousand-year life, He promised us eternal life. One of the great verses in the Bible concerning this subject is Heb. 10:14, "For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified." When you are saved, sanctified, and set apart by God to be in His family, it is for "all time." If you have ever bought anything expensive, such as a new ...

473. Till Death Do Us Part

Matthew 19:1-9

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James Merritt

... to a problem marriage," and 45% stated that the children produced by unhappy marriage partners should not serve to keep the family intact.7 Well, as a Christian only one thing should matter about any subject, and that is, what does God's Word say? The Lord Jesus faced some fire-breathing Pharisees and dealt with this subject by asking that very question. I. What the Legalists Asked "The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any ...

474. Nothing but the Blood

1 John 1:7

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James Merritt

... Century undoubtedly was Dwight L. Moody. Both shared a common trait. They were criticized because of a particular subject they preached about. When Billy Graham was getting started, a professor from Cornell University wrote him a letter ... like a little boy I heard about who hated to take a bath; just despised soap and water. One day his mother, trying desperately to approach the subject from a more successful angle, said, "Son, you do want to be a nice clean little boy don't you?" Her little boy said, "Yes ma' ...

475. Bitterness: How to Overcome What You Undergo

Hebrews 12:14-15

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James Merritt

... two neighbors that killed three Hatfields, seven McCoys, and two outsiders. What was the feud over—a hog! Bitterness over one hog stole twelve years and twelve lives. I'm going to talk to you today about a subject that I believe probably afflicts everyone at some time in their life, and it is the subject of bitterness. Many people who are hearing this message today are slaves in bondage to the master of bitterness. Some of you are bitter toward God because of a tragedy that happened in your life for which ...

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