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4901. All Mine To Give!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... giving. But they never wear out the subject by overusing any one word. In fact, there are at least ten different words they used for financial offerings. And each word is ripe with insight into the experience of giving. Loggia In Matthew 5:47 Jesus asks his disciples, "What more are you doing than others?" The Greek word for "doing more than others" is loggia and it means "an extra collection." It is the opposite of a tax which one has to pay. It is an offering beyond all obligation. It is something one ...

4902. When The Fat Lady Sings

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... to you and me. Whether the cosmos or just our personal lives go up in flames, it doesn't make any difference. The point is this: we are afraid that we won't be ready when the fat lady sings. It should come as no surprise then that Jesus' disciples and friends are constantly questioning him about when that time will arrive. They want to know when the fat lady will sing. But Jesus steadfastly resists giving them any kind of timetable. When he does speak of the signs of the end, the signs are so vague and ...

4903. Telling The Truth

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... interest in him. But he gives it to them with both barrels. He accuses them not only of not telling the truth but also of refusing to recognize the truth when it is right before their eyes. Jesus says, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free." In other words, Jesus was saying to these Jews, who were proud of their ethnic heritage, their religion, and their grasp of the truth, that they don't know the truth. And because they don't ...

4904. Miracle Three: Healing A Leper

Mark 1:40-45

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Harold H. Lentz

... There is considerable variety to the miracles performed by Christ. One was performed in a synagogue (curing the demoniac), another in a home (healing Peter's mother-in-law), and this one he performed on a public thoroughfare. While Jesus and his disciples were walking, a man afflicted with the terrible disease of leprosy approached them. Fear of leprosy was so great that strict laws had been passed concerning the actions of one so afflicted. The law demanded that lepers should isolate themselves from ...

4905. Miracle Four: Healing A Paralytic

Mark 2:1-12

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Harold H. Lentz

... it seems strange to us today to hear Jesus say this as a cure for the unfortunate man. But to the people of Christ's day there was a direct connection between sin and sickness. If someone was suffering, it was believed that he must have sinned. Even the disciples once asked Jesus, concerning a man blind from his birth whom they met along the way, whether it was the sin of this man or the sin of his father that had caused the blindness. Jesus answered that in this case the blindness was not the result of sin ...

4906. Miracle Five: Healing A Withered Hand

Mark 3:1-6

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Harold H. Lentz

Background Material Jesus and his disciples traveled about on foot. They would naturally take advantage of shortcuts. So this day they walked across some farmland that had been planted with wheat. As they were hungry, they reached out and plucked some of the kernels of wheat to satisfy their hunger. But they were seen doing so ...

4907. Praying With Bloody Knuckles

Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

William L. Self

... 's glory as he had promised. To him, God appears stuck concerning his promise, so the prophet constantly reminds him. Jesus praised importunity and intercession in prayer, but we have neglected both. He prayed for the children (Matthew 19:13), the sick (Mark 7:34), the disciples (Luke 22:31), and his enemies (Luke 23:34). He also prayed for laborers (Luke 10:2) and for all of those who follow him (John 17:20). As Charles Spurgeon reminds us, "Some mercies are not given to us except in answer to importunate ...

4908. The Man With Two Umbrellas

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

William L. Self

... understands his call and the power of influence and focuses it properly. Anyone can be a one-umbrella Christian. A one-umbrella Christian is a consumer of religion; he just picks and chooses and consumes it. But a two-umbrella Christian is a disciple of Jesus Christ. A one-umbrella Christian says, "My needs first." A two-umbrella Christian says, "The kingdom of God first." A one-umbrella Christian says, "What meets my convenience comes first." But the two-umbrella Christian says, "What reaches people for ...

4909. Famous Last Words

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

William L. Self

... God's will and purpose. Christ was a mediator of the covenant and leader of the people. Jesus had a job to do and he got it done. He directed the activities of that band of followers. He did not begin the day by asking the disciples each morning, "Where shall we go today?" He was in charge. The modern church leader (pastor) has been too influenced by the miracle of dialogue, group dynamics, clinical pastoral education, and congregational democracy. He/she preaches "from the back of the heels rather than the ...

4910. Forever Plaid

Isaiah 42:18-25

Sermon

William L. Self

... rest of the world go to hell, literally. The Jerusalem church was plagued with these Judaizers who insisted on the old paradigm even while the new paradigm was right before them. The opposite of this was the church at Antioch. As you know, the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch and the church in that city was the cradle of Christianity and the Christian missionary movement. This church, by virtue of accepting and acting on the new paradigm, has become the model for all time of witnessing and ...

4911. Shameless Passion

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... , Jeremiah who made excuses, or Jonah who ran away. There was no rebellion or apostasy or hesitation on Jesus' part at all. He set his face like flint -- hard, unchanging, unbendable -- towards Jerusalem. Nothing would stop him from finishing his task. Even if the disciples had risen up, it wouldn't deter him. Remember that he didn't even let an unattached ear cause a diversion and escape. Rather he reattached it. At the hardest moment of all, in the Garden of Gethsemane, his submitting words were, "Not my ...

4912. Held In His Arms

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... involved in the formation of each embryo in the womb (and even before that in his mind), so imagine the joy God received seeing the arms and legs of his Son grow inside Mary. It is God who first gave Jesus physical arms with which to hold the children the disciples had shooed away and the arms that made the mud which he put on the blind man's eyes. Second, the arm of the Lord struck the Son (v. 4). Though through the 33 years of his life, God was delighted to watch Jesus grow in wisdom and stature, now ...

4913. The Chain Of Command

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... tell you one way or the other. "I figured that the best way to get to Jesus was to go through some of the temple and synagogue leaders. They're divided on how they respond to Jesus, but they all have at least a grudging respect for him and his disciples. If anyone was going to be able to speak to Jesus about Gaius, I assumed that they would. "I've always had a good relationship with the Jewish religious leaders here in Judea. I am well aware of the fact that most of the Legion thinks of this area as ...

4914. The Demons Within

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... how Jesus deals with something that makes us feel uncomfortable and to see how we might learn from this story. I think if we can translate some of what is in this text, we just might gain some useful tools in dealing with our world. Jesus and his disciples had sailed across the Sea of Galilee to the territory of Gerasa. Gerasa was on the non-Jewish side of Galilee, where many Jews resided as strangers in a strange land. The first person he meets is an individual who is possessed by demons, a man who lives ...

4915. There's More To Thanksgiving

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... 16:9). Since it was celebrated on the 50th day after the beginning of the harvest, it was later given the name "Pentecost," since the Greek word pentacosta means 50. It is the same harvest festival that was taking place when the Holy Spirit came to the disciples and others in the second chapter of the book of Acts. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. The story with which I began this sermon is a story about people attending this "feast of the first fruits." Liz, Sam and Joe are just nicknames I gave ...

4916. All The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... to change familiar but self-destructive patterns in our lives, to see our lives as truly worthy of joy and purpose. It's not easy to let go of the past until you can take hold of the future. Easter brings that future to us. The disciples were prepared to live in cherished yesterday. They would have remembered their teacher's words, and when they saw one another they would have recalled old times and recounted the dear and favorite stories with laughter and poignancy and tears. They'd have honored his memory ...

4917. Adjusting To The Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... . (From Context, February 1, 1992) It's a marvelous mystery, isn't it, that on the one hand God works in spite of us, and on the other hand we are central to the plan God has of bringing salvation and wholeness to our world. Jesus didn't call his disciples to go with him by saying, "Come with me so we can stand around and watch God do mighty things." No, Jesus said, "Come with me and we'll go fishing, only now we'll fish for people instead of food for the tummy." Jesus made it clear that there ...

4918. The Christmas Cactus

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... more than they needed to return bodily. Is it not true that we are not far from being such a people? We are wanderers in a land that cares little for the holy and worships the idols of wealth and power. We are people who have been baptized as disciples of Jesus, one who came to live before us the radical new life which puts God before money and power, and others before ourselves. It's no wonder King Herod tried to kill the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. He was going to ruin everything! I heard recently about a ...

4919. Be A Wise Christian

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... them answer.) I guess the young man thought it was too hard to do because he went away very sad. But there are many Christians who have given away all of their money and other good things just so they could follow Jesus. The Apostles and other disciples did that. Many people probably thought that they were pretty dumb for giving up their homes and other belongings, but sometimes that is what it means to be a Christian. Paul tells us today that Christians don't always seem too smart (wise) to other people ...

4920. In The Eyes of God

Isaiah 20:1-5

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... as he began his gentle reign he did not see people as other people saw them; his eyes, like the eyes of God, looked into their hearts. These are the eyes which spotted a curious tax collector in a sycamore, noticed disappointed little children behind his disciples' robes; eyes which pierced Peter's heart in the firelight of a courtyard; eyes which had compassion on his mother even from the cross. It goes beyond a keen sense of observation. It was a matter of seeing what nobody else, looking upon the same ...

4921. Our Champion Rides Into Battle

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... opposition which waited for him there. This is the one who rides into the city ready to do battle. The servant song of Isaiah may not have been spoken that day, but its fulfilled prophecy is woven into the shouts of the crowd, the excitement of the disciples, the wariness of the authorities, the beat of the donkey's hooves and the profound silence of the solitary rider. "Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me." Who is his adversary? Enemies were not ...

4922. Focus On The Son

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... not placed in a concept or in an ideology but rather in a person who actually lived. Jesus, as he explained to the Roman Christians, is "descended from David according to the flesh." After Paul's conversion he consulted with Peter and other disciples and he undoubtedly heard the marvelous facts of Jesus' birth, early life, and teachings. Noteworthy is the fact that many of Paul's letters, including this one to the Romans (written sometime between A.D. 54-58), were written earlier than the earliest gospel ...

4923. Faith Of Our Fathers

Psalm 33:12

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... whose God is the Lord. Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever sung the hymn "Faith of our Fathers"? (Or, This morning we sang together the hymn "Faith of our Fathers.") Do you know who our fathers are? (Responses -- prior generations, grandparents, apostles, disciples, people who have lived before us, founders of our nation, and so forth.) Well, I'm thinking this morning of a particular group of people who came to America in a little ship. Anybody want to have a guess? Yes, they were the Pilgrims ...

4924. Live Together In Harmony

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... today? All by yourself? Still holding grudges from a distant feud? Or have you learned that God has called you into a community composed of a new humanity, not a homogenized group of people but believers with rich diversity. God calls you to live together in harmony with other Christian disciples bonded together with a common Lord

4925. The Power Of God For Us

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... never wavered, never hesitated to say what she had seen, despite the disbelief of others and their dismissal of what she said. It was not immediately clear to anyone, even his closest friends, that Jesus' resurrection is also a promise of our own resurrection. The disciples hardly knew what to make of it. They had to compare stories, recall what Jesus had said to them when he was in the flesh, so they could eventually remember that he had promised that they would no longer be his students, but his friends ...

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