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476. Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany

Sermon

Russell F. Anderson

... maintains that he and other apostles are only servants of God. God alone is worthy of our adulation and praise. Lesson 2: 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 (RC); 1 Corinthians 2:6-13 (L) Paul shows that the gospel is indeed wisdom, but not of the world. Only through the Spirit of God can one discern this wisdom and interpret its truths. Gospel: Matthew 5:21-37 (C); Matthew 5:17-37 (RC); Matthew 5:20-37 (L); Matthew 5:21-24, 27-30, 33-37 (E) Verse 17 contains the unitive thread for this entire passage, in fact, for the ...

477. Are You Convinced?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... the Lord, that which we should seek after, is the promised reward to all those who persevere, and confirmed by the Holy Spirit to others by and through Christian witnesses. Secret Of Patience Dr. J. Kenneth Shamblin, in his book, Life Comes As Choice, tells ... they do not strive to live to the best they could be. You seem to especially stand by those who are weak in body and spirit who could be doing better." The doctor replied: "Kenneth, I'll have to tell you how much I've been forgiven. If you know what ...

478. Ascension

Acts 1:1-11, Mark 16:1-20, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

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John R. Brokhoff

... not a condition of God's forgiveness. As a God of love and grace, he is always willing to forgive. But, repentance makes one want to be forgiven and able to receive forgiveness. Promise (v. 49). In Luke there is no record that Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit. We have to go to John 16 for it. Here Luke is probably referring to Joel 2:28-29. The promise was fulfilled on Pentecost. Bethany (v. 50). Bethany is a village near the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:12) which is two miles from Jerusalem. The Mount of ...

479. Heart To Heart

Ezekiel 18:1-32

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... dirty to a clean heart. Through Ezekiel, God calls us to go from heart to heart! Get A New Heart! "Get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit," says God in our text. What a challenge, but why should we want a new heart? What is wrong with the one we have? One reason for ... this. A new heart is a gift of God. Hear again the second part of the text: "A new heart I will give you and a new spirit I will put in you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." No human can ...

480. He Ought to Stick Out!

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... the causes of God’s good in this world. Life is not to be self-centered, but God-centered. Life will only be so as his spirit finds a home in us. Legend tells of a conversation between a pig and a cow. The pig was complaining to the cow. "Why is ... Because I care for you in the little so personally, so are you to care for others," is his message. "I will live inside you, in spirit, to show you how it’s done." And our life becomes a merger with the very life of God. The unknown God becomes our knowable ...

481. Who Are You?

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... for him to enter the Kingdom of God, he would need to be born again. He would need to enter a new reality, a new dimension of living. Or, as Jesus expressed it, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit." There is an old story about a husband who came home from work one day. He asked his wife, "Did anything happen today?" To which she answered, "Well, our minister came by, and he asked me a question. He asked, `Does Jesus Christ live here?'" The husband asked ...

482. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... mind and money, for he employs the later for what he should.” 10 And for every blessing there is the implied curse, which is the opposite of the blessing. The hidden dark side of verses 3 through 6 might read something like this: “Cursed are the rich in spirit; they are full of themselves and have no need of God. Cursed are the ones who are always laughing; they have made a cruel joke out of a badly broken world. Cursed are the pushy and demanding; in the end they will drive away their friends, even God ...

483. 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... with one in particular: the spiritual gifts phenomenon. New Christians encounter within the faith community varieties of spiritual gifts. Part of the difficulty with the Corinthian Christians was their inability to see the substantive differences between living as a Spirit-based Christ-body community and living as part of one of the dozens of other pagan cultic communities which also claimed to give their members a deity-directed existence. From their previous experience with other ecstatic cults (such as ...

484. Acts 19:1-7

Acts 19:1-7

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... . After a remedial theological briefing, Paul re-baptizes these followers "in the name of the Lord Jesus" (v.5). As "proof" that this second baptism has "taken," the men immediately begin to speak in tongues and to prophesy clear signs that the Holy Spirit has come upon them. John Calvin hated this story. Although forced to agree that Luke and Paul both apparently identify this band of men as "Christians" (v.1), Calvin disliked how the story was being used. The Reformer's problem was that the Anabaptists ...

485. Don’t Get Into Things!

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... through prayer and the casting of lots. Casting lots to determine important decisions was traditional in Israel. The rationale? God’s decision was already made and was simply made known to others through this human activity. In other words, without the gift of the Holy Spirit to guide them, the disciples rely on the methods of the Old Israel to determine the newest member of a group that was to represent the New Israel. The redeemed community of faith was the New Israel, and it was this community that was ...

486. Breaking Loose

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... made it possible for Mary to regain a sense of her own identity. Christ came, St. Paul tells us, and he sent his Holy Spirit to us, to help us know who we are: we are God’s adopted children. When Steve Jobs died last year much was made ... our circumstances, not under them. Don’t let life break you down. You are God’s own child. You have not been given a spirit of fear but a spirit of sonship . . . or of daughtership, if I may coin a word. Take the chains off of your brain and your heart. You are free ...

487. You Have a Friend (Memorial Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . (4) You say, that’s what it means to be a friend. Yes, but that’s also what it means to be a follower of Jesus. We are called to come alongside people we don’t even know. Why? Because that is what Christ in the person of the Holy Spirit has done for us. Jesus promised his followers he would not leave them as orphans. He promised that he would send them an advocate, a counselor, a comforter, a companion, a friend. If God has ever been any of these things to you, what is your response? Some of you ...

488. Faith’s First Impressions

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... testimony was that “our message of the gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction” (v.5). Just as first impressions are less about what people say than what we “feel” about what they ... that became an action. These actions took three forms: 1) The focused power of faith; 2) the moving presence of the Holy Spirit; 3) the passion of conviction, living and working out of a foundation of a faith that is unshakeable even when shaken. These ...

489. Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... . ex eritheias, in antithesis to ex agapēs, from love, in v. 16). For eritheia, cf. 2:3. The word originally meant doing something for hire or wages, but came to denote a mercenary attitude, and in the NT is always used in a bad sense, of party spirit and the contention to which it leads. R. Jewett links the people referred to here with those described in 2:21 as concerned only with their own affairs; he thinks they were missionaries who held up the “divine man” (theios anēr) as an ideal and felt that ...

490. Many Parts, One Body

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... with 6:15–16, where the allusions to Genesis 2:24 are unmistakable, the quality of this union almost carries a sense of corporeality in Paul’s thinking. Analogous to a husband, who joins his wife and becomes one flesh with her, believers, who are joined by the Spirit, become one body—Christ’s body (cf. Eph. 5:28–30). 12:14–20 the body is not made up of one part but of many. Contrary to a surface reading of this text, and what certainly would be attractive in a (post)modern setting, Paul does ...

491. The Mighty Wind of God

Acts 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... had what the church had on the Day of Pentecost, we would have a sense of caring for one another, and we would enjoy fellowship in Christ that was so strong people would be attracted to us. Those are two things that would surely happen to us if the Holy Spirit fell on our congregation today. We would have new sense of excitement and we would be enabled to care more about each other. I suspect a third thing would happen. We would be empowered to do what we already know God has called us to do. The truth of ...

492. Deliverance

Isaiah 49:8-26, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... be a boat that clings to the shore?] It’s easier for us to trust a stranger on the highway than to trust the Holy Spirit to move us forward and take us to places where we’ve never been. The wallaby is an interesting marsupial. Before it can be born ... . The church was not created to keep us safe from the world. The church was created to exist as a living force of the Holy Spirit active within and in the midst of the world, a world God loves dearly. only God knows where our next destination will be. Even if ...

493. The Sign of Noah

Mark 1:4-11 · Song of Songs 6:9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your own memories of Baptism, as you renew your own baptismal vows and reaffirm in whatever ways your own covenant with God as a person and as a people, I invite you to remember the sacrificial gift of your Creator God, who in the power of the Holy Spirit has also blessed you in covenant for eternal the loving redemption. In Jesus, God has sacrificed God’s own self, so that you can live. May your heart give thanks, and may you be ever grateful for God’s atoning and beloved Son. [1] See doveline.com. [2 ...

494. Soul Soup

John 2:13-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... upon which every soul must find its footing. Today, we as disciples must continue to allow Jesus to nourish our souls with His healing and powerful presence. To do this, we must create our own “soul soup” –we must find the things that help nourish our spirits and keep them faithful and hopeful. Whether stories and witnesses to God’s love, beautiful songs that speak to us in personal and real ways, books or movies that move us and help our faith, rituals that help us to feel God’s presence around ...

495. It's Worth the Wait

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... language and culture and color gather in churches all over the world to worship and work in the name of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit was drawing the circle of our family as large as possible to include the whole world. Can you and I visualize what it ... the needs of persons within the sphere of influence of this congregation if we were all God calls us to be? Because the Holy Spirit is given to enlarge our vision to go and do ministry. To get outside our church walls and outside our community to find those ...

496. Walking with God

Acts 2:1-21 · John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... them that an advocate would come, who would walk beside them just as he had, we too are granted that same advocate. Jesus knows, we are no good alone. Without him we can do nothing. With him, we can do anything (John 15:5; Philippians 4:13). The Holy Spirit enriches our lives, leads us when we are feeling lost, enlightens us when we can’t see the truth, guides us in the right paths, and comforts us when things go awry. For like a “Seeing Eye Dog,” Jesus did not just send us a helper but a relationship ...

497. Show Us the Father

John 14:8-17, 25-27

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” (John 14:27). He does not give as the world gives. He gives the Holy Spirit — the best gift of all. Because the Holy Spirit now resides within the church (never to depart), we have that peace which passes all understanding. We can heed the words of Christ when he admonishes us not to be afraid. Our hearts don’t have to be troubled because we have the assurance of ...

498. The Howling

Acts 2:1-21 · John 14:8-17, 25-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that room would go out prophesying and proclaiming the mission and vision of God to everyone who will listen. What happened to them that day in that house in Jerusalem? We may never know for sure. But it had to do with a Spirit, not any spirit, but the very Spirit of Christ, who touched them, filled them, changed them, and sent them to do the will of God in ways not yet imagined. Dynamic ways. Spectacular ways. From then on, they would heal, preach, raise the dead, found churches, form communities, break ...

499. Sharing God's Vision

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... helped me sort out my problems and my life became a testimony for people going through depression.” (6) At Pentecost, God sent the Holy Spirit on a group of believers to fill them with the mind of God and enabled them to share the truth of God with grace ... He wants to accomplish through ordinary people like us. And the only way God will turn those dreams into reality is by pouring out His Holy Spirit on us. God has promised us this gift. Are we willing to pray for it? Are we ready to let God use us for His ...

500. Outlook Determines Outcome

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... . It's a book about church growth. It's a book about witnessing. It's a historical book; it's a theological book; it's a book about attitudes, outlooks, and outcomes. The book of Acts begins with the outpouring of God's promised Holy Spirit and how that spirit empowered the disciples to spread the message of Christ's life, death, and resurrection. In this book we see a distinctive shift in the outlook of the followers of Jesus. The book begins with a statement of purpose. Clearly the writer wants us to know ...

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