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4776. Dirty Feet

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... us a way of compassion love and servanthood; a way of life that is rooted in giving oneself for others. This is why it is so significant that on this night Jesus takes off his robe and grabs a towel and begins to wash the feet of his disciples. Tonight, as we engage in this ancient ritual of foot washing, let us remember several things. As we come, let us remember dirty feet. Not the soiled toes of childhood romps in the woods but the filthy feet of weary travelers. Let us conjure up feet that are stained ...

4777. Jesus Meets Our Needs

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... it. You have saved the best for last” (Keefer translation). Let me show you. Jesus took the time to show the servants where the large containers were and gave the specific directions on what to do. If we want people to follow in our steps as disciples we need to become mentors to them. That includes family and friends in the broader sense of mentoring as well. People will feel like part of a team, relationships, or job from the start as they are mentored. Work together. Mary, Jesus, and the servants tag ...

4778. Rejecting The Message — Rejecting The Person

Luke 4:21-30

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... hands of Jesus from healing to the raising of the dead. His words encouraged people to see themselves for who they really were such as the woman at the well in Samaria (Luke 4:4-42). His disciples followed his example (Acts 3:1-10; Acts 4:32-37; Acts 5:12-16). Modern day disciples need to be aware of kindness opportunities that God gives them. Find opportunities to give compliments. Everyone needs an encouraging word from the youngest to the oldest of people. At family reunions, church events, team sporting ...

4779. Beware! Angels

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , ready to be of service in the work of God." Which was a wonderful, faithful thing for Mary to say, which is why the church always regarded Mary as the very first of all the disciples, the first person in the gospel to be called by God and to say 'Yes,' to that call. And Joseph was the second of the disciples. Yet, after the angel got through with him, Joseph was so dumbfounded he didn't say anything. He just obeyed. Angels appear in scripture to bring someone a message from God. And the message is usually ...

4780. I Saw the Light

Luke 9:28-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... right about noon, a bright light flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard the voice of the Lord, the voice of Jesus challenging his mission. At the time, Paul was blinded by that light, only to have his vision restored and healed by Christian disciple Ananias. From there, Paul’s life was changed. Paul went on to become the greatest missionary in the history of Christianity. In the time of the Exodus,we learn that Moses’ face shone with the light of God as he returned from Mount Sinai with the ...

4781. Fertilize Your Faith

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... barren edifice, a life-depleting monster. Now it’s the 21st century, and it seems, we’ve come full circle. Western Christian denominational discipleship has become stagnant, its roots shriveled, and its soul depleted. Our buildings are still intact, but our disciples are failing to thrive. We are failing to reproduce. What looks like a church and acts like a church, is struggling to survive. As massive denominational structures cling to life, barren of fruit and seed, their churches gasp for Holy Spirit ...

4782. The Sweet Scent of Death

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... them with her hair, an extremely intimate gesture, Jesus sees her as preparing his body for death. In doing so, she is honoring him beyond measure, but also demonstrating the depth of her faith and commitment to him and his mission. Throughout Jesus’ ministry, his disciples continually thwart his plan to journey to his death. They do not fully understand his plan of resurrection, nor do they want to think about the end of the mission as they know it. Their minds are always on Plan B. No matter how many ...

4783. Don’t Look for the Living Among the Dead

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the mission, everything they believed in and had fought for, had spent three years excited about, had died along with their teacher and rabbi, Jesus. Talk about decline! His following, once thousands and thousands, had dwindled to a mere few, close disciples of his inner circle. Most had given up, sure that this was just another failed uprising. Many had returned to their homes or were hiding from the Romans. Only the women ventured out to the tomb, as no one would question them being there. They witnessed ...

4784. Death Shall Be No More

John 13:31-35 · Revelation 21:1-6

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... this scripture gains clarity when viewed through the lens of this passage from the gospel of John. “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you should also love another. By this everyone will know that you are disciples, if you have love for one another.” I know that this doesn’t sound particularly apocalyptic does it? In fact, we know this routine. We know the drill. Sure, Jesus said we are to love one another. He wants us, in other words, to play nice. But ...

4785. The Call

Matthew 16:13-20, Mark 1:14-20, Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Will Willimon

... from the world's words for you, they will call you crazy, they will label you a lunatic, tell you that you are in danger of becoming unbalanced, codependent, irrational, a fanatic. All because you have it in your head that Jesus was right when he called you, “disciple.” It all comes down to what you believe to be reasonable. If you lay down your life for God, they call you a ''fanatic," a ''Moslem extremist." If you lay down your life for a political cause, they call you a ''hero." It all comes down to ...

4786. Lamb and Wolves

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... . He met hundreds of people, taught most of them, and healed many. He did this by moving from village to village, and town to town. We don’t talk about it much, but this isn’t something he did in a helter-skelter manner. It appears that, after his disciples and followers had received a fair amount of preparation from him, he began to send them out ahead of him. From what we can tell in scripture, Jesus would send them out as advance men of sorts to the towns and villages to which he was about to travel ...

4787. Seeing A Familiar Friend All Over Again For The First Time

John 13:1-17 · Philippians 2:5-11 · 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... of Jesus think when they saw him do this? They'd been with him for some years, sharing laughter as well as sorrows. Now he takes off his clothing, girds himself with a towel, and washes the feet of the disciples. Did they see him for the first time as he really was? Was it like vacation, wrenching them from their comfortable postures, and giving them an appreciation of their Lord and master? Did they see themselves differently as well? We are what we are. That's how we're made. ...

4788. I Need

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... . (Please, don’t tell my daughter I admitted that.) In today’s passage, we find a situation full of needs. Jesus is out on the road. He and his disciples are traveling from village to village, teaching and preaching. It was customary for the traveling teacher to find shelter with one of the villagers. Since Jesus was traveling with his disciples, they had a pretty good-sized group to be entertained. I’m guessing hospitality had its limits — even in those days and in that culture. So, I would suppose ...

4789. High Anxiety

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... doing? The Greek text says, she sat by the feet of Jesus and heard his Word. The Greek text reveals some interesting things that we need to pay attention to. First of all, serving is good! Martha is in a role of doing exactly what we believe a disciple of Jesus should do! Serve! The Greek word for “serve” here is the same word used for “ministry.” All of you women who serve in the kitchens of the church, hear this! Food service in the name of Jesus is a ministry! An important and vital ministry! But ...

4790. Stay Awake

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... summed up in two words: wake up! Jesus spoke these words in Matthew 24 just a few days before his arrest and crucifixion. He knew he wouldn’t be with his disciples much longer. And even though this passage sounds like one long warning, it is also a message of tremendous hope. In the verses before our Bible passage, Jesus has just told his disciples that a day is coming when he will return as the Son of Man, the Messiah. And though there may be false prophets and false messiahs and frightening world events ...

4791. The Potter's Secret

Luke 14:25-33

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... will. God will find a way. God can work with anyone God chooses. And God does. What does that have to do with our gospel for today? Jesus knows that his discipleship path is rough. He knows that it’s not going to be an easy ride. He needs his disciples to think seriously about what they are taking on. For they can’t go back. Jesus’ mission would get nowhere if he had chosen people who gave up at the first sign of trouble or people who would balk at every turn. He needed them to know what was coming ...

4792. Lesson from a Prosthetic Toe

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... is the same word from which we get the word prosthetic, as in prosthetic leg or arm. A prosthetic leg or arm is not a natural appendage. A prosthetic is a manufactured piece added to the body to replace the natural limb which was lost. (Essentially) the disciples are asking for a crutch.” (3) In essence, Jesus’ followers are saying, “We can’t do this on our own. We don’t have enough faith. We need you to give us something more, something supernatural in its power, if we are going to live the way ...

4793. Do You See Lazarus On Your Doorstep?

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters… Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state.” The story isn’t over for Sodom and Gomorrah. Also, in the New Testament we read in Matthew 10:15 speaking of the town the disciples may be visiting: “Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.” Bell went on to say: “More bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah?” He told highly committed, pious, religious people that it ...

4794. Small Beginnings, Great Endings

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... faith. Jesus showed the seriousness of this dying by giving a rather vivid picture of the offender having a millstone around his neck and then being tossed into the sea. The second saying involves forgiveness. Even within the people of faith it is possible for disciples to sin. If this happens there is need for forgiveness on the part of the one offended, even if this happens seven times. There should be no limit to the forgiveness. The third saying is on faith, the heart of this particular sermon. We will ...

4795. God IS

Luke 20:27-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... surrounding church communities or acknowledge those who have founded our denominations, religions, churches, and faiths, the celebration of this day is so much more than a simple “remembrance.” When Jesus met with his disciples in the upper room that evening of his impending arrest, he initiated with his disciples a ritual and asked that every time they would partake of food or drink together that they would do it sacramentally to acknowledge his upcoming sacrifice and his identity as Son of God, savior ...

4796. If It Had Been a Snake

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... world!” Nothing has changed in Jesus’ appearance or his circumstances. He still looks like an average Joe. He’s still a carpenter from Nazareth. But suddenly, John looks past his biases and distractions and sees Jesus for who he really is. And two of John’s disciples see it too. They immediately leave John and begin following Jesus. What did John see? And how would it change our lives if we could see Jesus for who he really is? The first thing John saw was that Jesus is the hope of the world. Let ...

4797. Rule Breakers

Matthew 5:21-37

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... me to our central question today: what does perfection look like to God? Is it all about keeping a list of rules? Or is it something deeper? To understand today’s Bible passage, we have to understand its context. In the previous passage, Jesus tells his disciples that he didn’t come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; he came to fulfill them. He says that those who practice and teach the commandments will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. And then he says something that must have made their ...

4798. Imagine This

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

John Jamison

... changes. That story says that as Saul traveled past the mountain, there was a huge flash of light and Saul fell from his horse. He heard a voice from heaven saying “Saul, why are you persecuting me?” The result was that Saul, the Pharisee, became Paul, the disciple. I’m not trying to deny that story, but back in that world of my imagination, I wonder if God might have taken a different approach. I wonder if God had kept Saul lying awake over the past few nights trying to make sense of what Gamaliel ...

4799. In the Wilderness

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... was. He was alone in the wilderness with the devil. He was alone with the angels to serve him only when the trial was over. He was alone in rebuking the Pharisees and Sadducees, and he was alone in the garden as he struggled in prayer, while his disciples gave into temptation and fell asleep (Mark 14:32-42). At least Much- Afraid had Sorrow and Suffering to keep her company and help her on the way. At least we, as fellow travelers, can encourage one another and share the load. As Much-Afraid continues her ...

4800. Transformed

John 4:5-42

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... . Like the woman at the well, we too can receive living water; we can learn to ask new questions, we can grow in faith. We might not evangelize our whole town or die a martyr’s death, but we too can share what we know. Dear Jesus, when the disciples saw you talking with the Samaritan woman, they hardly knew what to say. And when she turned out to be such an effective witness for you, they must have been more astonished still. They had gone to the town in search of food. She had returned to the town ...

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