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26. Smart As A Goat

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to bring Christ's light to others? Isn't that the whole ball of wax, the whole nine yards? The church cannot reach its full power and potential without all members using their gifts for the common good. You remember our friend, Demos? The man who arranged evangelistic meetings? Here's the rest of his story: Sure enough, on the night of the meeting, no one showed up. There were Demos, a few of his friends, and four arena custodians. Demos was so discouraged that he couldn't bring himself to speak. But among ...

27. Preach the World and Reach the World

2 Timothy 4:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... , than the un-Christian, uncouth strategy of attempting to make people aware of their lost and sinful condition."1 There is a good old fashion word for that—heresy. We've been told that whatever we do we should never hurt people's feelings. The old evangelist, Sam Jones, said, "When I started preaching I thought I would hurt somebody's feelings. Now I'm afraid I won't." Peter Cartwright was a circuit riding Methodist preacher back in the 19th Century. On one occasion as he was getting ready to preach to ...

28. On to Jerusalem

Acts 21:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... with him for a number of days. Philip was last heard of in 8:40 as having come to Caesarea some twenty years earlier. He had apparently made the city his home ever since (see Didache 13 for the “settling” of an itinerant minister). His title, the evangelist, may have been given to distinguish him from the apostle (though they still tended to be confused; see Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.31.3 and 5.17.3). But it was no empty title. Philip could just as well have been known as “one of the Seven ...

29. Identification and a Wish for Grace and Peace

Galatians 1:1-10

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... that they have received as true his gospel, thereby underscoring first that to turn to a different gospel is to turn away from what they have already accepted and second that if they already know his to be true, it is self-evident that the rival evangelists’ gospel cannot be combined with the one they accepted from him. 1:10 Paul continues in verse 10 by defending himself against what is likely a charge against him—that he is a people pleaser. Those who have come into his churches to teach that ...

30. A Ransom Paid

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... ," rather than "God loves you." Her neighbor caught the error and passed on the original message: "God loves you. Pass it on." But two people later, a man again said to his neighbor, "Jesus loves you. Pass it on." And so the message continued back to the evangelist. This visiting preacher had a point to make, however, so with an expression and demeanor of all seriousness, she said to the congregation, "You have made an error, and it is a common one, but one that needs to be corrected. We find it easy to say ...

31. Evangelism and the How Book

Matthew 10:1-42

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... love into the world with Jesus, and all of the things that the love of Jesus did and is still doing. Jesus' Church needs evangelists who know how. Would you like to be a special messenger with a special message about God's love? You would! Then you need ... a book like that? (Wait for the reply - the Bible.) The Bible, did you say the Bible? Will the Bible teach you and me to be evangelists? It will! Then let's read it. You said that you wanted to be a messenger with a special message. You want to bring your ...

32. An Almost Anonymous Apostle

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

George Bass

... Holy Spirit - drove them out to the boundaries of their world to tell this very amazing and joyful story. It is not too much to imagine Matthias, one of these eyewitnesses of the resurrection, entering a small town, gathering a crowd around him, much as the street corner evangelists do, and saying, "I want to tell you a wonderful story about a man named Jesus, who was executed on a cross but rose from the dead on the third day after his death. I knew him well ... I saw him die and I saw him buried in the ...

33. Fulfill Your Ministry

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... said, “your vocation is not to serve lepers – your vocation is to love Jesus.” If we could remember that – if we could burn and groan with the love of Jesus – those whom we serve would hear and see the Gospel and we would do the work of an evangelist and fulfill our ministry. I close with this. Back in 1716, King Charles the Twelfth of Sweden announced to the little town of Ystad that he was going to come and visit them and that he would worship in the village church. The pastor of the church got ...

34. Show and Listen

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... all the answers and he didn't presume he knew the needs, wants, desires, of the stranger in the chariot. For all Philip knew at this point, the Spirit could have brought him to the Ethiopian so that the stranger could teach him! What makes Philip a true evangelist is that he waits for the Spirit of God to make the first move, and that he is better at listening than talking. The Ethiopian, the one to be evangelized, is the first to offer any sort of invitation in today's story. His long quest for spiritual ...

35. It’s All about Jesus

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... his name” (Acts 10:43). Clearly, these passages mean that Peter and the apostles (and the prophets before them) were witnesses. In addition, all Christians are called to be witnesses for Christ. Not all are evangelists, but all are witnesses. The word “evangelist” comes from the New Testament word, euangelizzomai. It means “someone who announces and declares the gospel.” The word “witness” comes from the New Testament word marturein. It means “someone who shares the gospel.” Not all ...

36. Lord of All!

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... sins through his name" (Acts 10:43). Clearly, these passages mean that Peter and the apostles (and the prophets before them) were witnesses. In addition, all Christians are called to be witnesses for Christ. Not all are evangelists, but all are witnesses. The word "evangelist" comes from the New Testament word, euangelizzomai. It means "someone who announces and declares the gospel." The word "witness" comes from the New Testament word marturein. It means "someone who shares the gospel." Not all Christians ...

37. A Message in Sync with Action

Matthew 22:15-22

Illustration

Keith Wagner

... about judgment because he was walking back and forth, pointing his finger." Another said, "By the scowl on his face I thought he was confronting his audience about their sins." I then rewound the tape and turned on the audio. The evangelist was talking about love. The evangelist's non-verbal behavior did not match his message. On the one hand he was speaking about love, but on the other hand his body language showed anger and condemnation. In counseling, non-verbal behavior gives us information about the ...

38. Paul's Concern for the Galatians

Galatians 4:8-20

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... had a good and devoted relationship and now a rival is making promises that in the lover’s eyes can only damage his beloved. Paul sees his opponents as malicious troublemakers who will lead the Galatians to damnation. 4:18 It is not the rival evangelists’ zealousness for the Galatians that Paul thinks is wrong. The problem is that their zealousness is not for a purpose that is good. Paul subtly encourages the Galatians to recognize that through his letter he too is making much of them for a good purpose ...

39. Not Circumcision but a New Creation

Galatians 6:11-18

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... no longer be troubled by this situation. Paul knows himself to be one who bears the marks of Jesus on his body. He is certain of his own integrity and that his position will win the day. And, in terms of the outcome of the struggle between the rival evangelists and himself, he was right. 6:18 Paul ends with a grace benediction and an Amen. The final word closes the letter on a strong note. Given its character as a word of response, it is also Paul’s final invitation for his readers fully to accept his ...

40. Doing What is Good

Titus 3:1-11

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... are much less those of the false teachers and much more those of human fallenness in general (cf. Rom. 1:29–31; Gal. 5:19–21; and esp. 1 Cor. 6:9–11; this latter passage has several interesting parallels to vv. 3–7 in both form and content). The evangelistic intent emerges in the we too were like them. One should note that whenever Paul is moved to speak about the gospel he takes up the personal self-identification of we too (cf. 2:11–14; 2 Tim. 1:9–10; Gal. 1:4; etc.). What we too were—and ...

41. The Resurrection

Luke 24:1-12

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... he saw the strips of linen grave clothes lying by themselves (cf. John 20:3–6). Even this sight, however, did not produce faith. He was only puzzled and left wondering, so he went home (cf. John 20:10). In telling his story this way the evangelist Luke has placed his readers ahead of the apostles themselves. The reader knows that Jesus has been raised, but the apostles do not. It will take “many convincing proofs” (Acts 1:3) before they will be persuaded. Some of these proofs Luke will provide in the ...

42. The Spice of Death

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... what has been done for the deceased is how much love has been poured into the arrangements. The dollars do not make all the difference. It is the love that mounts up in what is accomplished. For that reason it is important for us to note that the evangelists took the pains to report our Lord's burial in some detail. We do have accounts of how members of the inner circle of Jesus' followers attended to the proper funeral rites for the corpse of our Lord. What they did is worth examination. A Virtuous Act To ...

43. Brainstorms

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... Mary, and by all means, James and John, the "Sons of Thunder." The accent should be on the ambivalence which marks and mars the relationship. You might conclude with a special intercession for brothers and sisters with whom we are at war -- or just out of touch. Evangelist Par Excellence. In John's Gospel there are three scenes in which Andrew plays a major part. In each of them he is bringing someone to Jesus. In John 1:35-42 it is his big brother, Simon, whom Jesus will rename Cephas or Peter, "Rock." In ...

44. Proper 6

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42, Genesis 18:1-15, Exodus 19:1-25, Romans 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... . If we make strong those pillars, the success of the Church's mission is assured. Sermon Title: Itinerant Evangelists. Sermon Angle: Jesus commissioned his apostles to be itinerant evangelists, to take the gospel to the people, by word and deed. In our day, itinerant evangelists have gotten some bad press, with scandals, affairs and the like. Actually though, the church is a society of itinerant evangelists. The good news of Jesus is not to be hermetically sealed in the church structure, but proclaimed in ...

45. Advent 3

Zephaniah 3:1-20, Philippians 4:2-9, Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 12:1-6

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... Luke 3:7-18 (E, L, C); 3:10-18 (RC) - "The Sermon That John Preached." Now the story of John the Baptist's advent is fleshed out as Luke gives a synopsis of John's sermon(s) to the people who went to hear him and be baptized. The evangelist claims that John "with many other exhortations, ... preached good news to the people." Does his message sound like good news? There is no offer of forgiveness in it: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? ... Even now the axe is laid to the ...

46. Remember That You Are Not Alone

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... finally pulled over to the curb and consulted a street map. As he sat there in his car with a lost and bewildered expression on his face, an elderly lady approached him and asked, "Young man, are you lost?" Thinking that she was some kind of sidewalk evangelist, he immediately snapped back, "No ma'am, I'm a Southern Baptist!" This incident raises a critical question: What would you say if someone came up to you and in a very matter-of-fact way asked, "have you been saved?" What would you say in a situation ...

47. Epiphany 2

Psalm 40:1-17, John 1:29-34, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon Aid

CSS

... churches who have no connections with, or need of, the rest of the holy catholic church. The Holy Gospel, John 1:29-41 Here is additional evidence that the child born at Christmas, who was baptized as an adult by John the Baptizer, is the Messiah. John the Evangelist gives no details about the baptism of Jesus, any more than he does about the birth of Christ, but he does supply more of a narrative as he shows John the Baptizer as a witness to the coming of Christ to the world and to his identification as ...

48. Telling the Right Story

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

George Bass

... own year, as well as his own day, which is set aside to be observed as the day of his birth into eternal life through, according to tradition, his death as a martyr. The famous square in Venice and its cathedral have been named for the martyr-evangelist whose body, according to another tradition, is said to have been placed in it in the ninth century after it was brought back from Egypt where he was supposedly martyred in A.D. 64. It doesn’t really matter whether his body resides in Rome or Venice, nor ...

49. Call Him a Story Teller

Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

George Bass

... whole world would hear the good news about what God accomplished in reconciling people to himself through repentance and the forgiveness of sins in Jesus’ suffering, death, and resurrection. Luke’s Untold Story Luke’s feast day is celebrated as that of one of the four evangelists and also as a martyr’s day; the color for the day is red. It would be nice if there were some spectacular story to tell about his death and martyrdom. If there ever were such a story that might have made Luke into the sort ...

50. BELONGING TO GOD

Luke 12:22-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... is someone who takes a special message about God's love and delivers it to people so that they can hear it amid know how God feels about them. I hope that we have helped you become evangelists during the last couple of weeks. Today I want to introduce you to this special book. It doesn't look special, does it? It has a cover, some pages and a story, but it is special for one reason. Can anyone guess what makes this book special from other books? ( ...

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