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501. Manufactured Christianity: Jesus Sells, Jesus Sells!

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Christian faith is not defined in terms of splendor, or power, or the ability to manufacture and sell Jesus, or in numbers attracted. Were that to be the case, Christianity would be second to Adolph Hitler. How can even the most successful of evangelists or churches rival the choreography of the Nuremburg spectacular, produced by Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect? How can you rival Zeppelin field in 1934, with 130 searchlight beams forming a vast cathedral of light whose watts were 25,000 feet high ...

502. What Gives You Away?

Judges 12:1-7

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... your children, your family, your friends all know if your business, your family, your church, or anything else is ahead of God in your life. You give yourself away. A beautiful, true story is told of an incident in the life of Billy Sunday, the flaming evangelist of another generation. He met a man in one of his meetings, liked the man, found him to be a truly dedicated Christian, and some months later wanted to contact him, only to realize he had forgotten the man’s name. Billy Sunday remembered only the ...

503. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... as our spiritual well-being. The worst danger is when we try to do a little of each. If we ever, as a Family of God, took seriously loving God with our whole self, we would be something to behold! Everyone in the congregation would be an evangelist - we’d be receiving hundreds into this congregation’s membership each couple of months. Everyone would be tithing - we’d have so much in the offering that we would have to put on extra counters to tabulate it, and find new ways to share it. All decisions ...

504. In The Nick of Time

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... today and every day - for the few days we have left in life - is "Who will be my God?" And "What shall I give him?" We all resent men’s manufactured exploitation of our obligation to God. We don’t have to walk down the sawdust trail just when the evangelist says so in order to prove we’re Christian. Every man can make his gift to God in his own way in his own good time. That is between him and God. The Every Member Canvass should be a help, but it is not intended to be pressure. Anyone who ...

505. No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... sacrifice. Most of us ride the gravy train. Few of us have missed any meals lately except as a dieting exercise. I'm ashamed to talk about sacrifice when I'm aware of what some Christians are facing in other parts of the world. The evangelist Matta Boush is in a Sudanese prison serving a thirty- year sentence for evangelizing. In some Islamic countries today you can receive the death penalty if you convert someone to Christianity. In China, Xie Moshan has spent 26 years in prison for illegal preaching. All ...

506. A Vital Night Call

John 3:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... to answer, "I don't know." The mystery of the Cross is too big for me to get my mind around. But, thanks be to God, I can get my heart around it. I believe that through that Cross my sin was cancelled and my soul saved. Years ago the evangelist Gipsy Smith expressed it this way: "I am not afraid of the cross. I know that men used to come there to die, but since He died, they come there to live." But we must go one step further. It is not enough to call Jesus our Savior; we must ...

507. Like Buoys In The River

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Fletcher produced a book entitled "Situation Ethics." His basis thesis was that nothing is universally right or wrong. Ethics are governed by each particular situation. Our secular culture has embraced that outlook with enthusiasm. TV and movie producers are the primary evangelists of this amoral philosophy. Fifty years ago there was a moral consensus in America. It had its blind spots, particularly in the areas of race, women's rights, and stewardship of the earth's resources. But that moral consensus was ...

508. Derailed Dreams

Genesis 37:12-36, 50:15-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Sooner or later, you need to talk about important things, so Paul talked about Jesus. And the guards couldn't get away until their shift was over. Not only that. While in that dungeon, Paul wrote much of the New Testament. God knew that old Type-A, compulsive evangelist Paul would never take the time to write unless he was forced to. He would rather be out preaching and organizing churches. So, the Lord used that jail time as good time for Paul to put pen to parchment and create for us the sacred words that ...

509. The Master at Prayer

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... THE SAME ENDING. After Jesus pleaded with God to spare him the cross, he added, in verse 42, “Yet, not my will, but yours be done.” All valid prayers are based on this conviction: God’s way is the best and that’s what I want. The great evangelist Dwight L. Moody said, "The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me." At the end of every prayer add this Plea: Lord, you have heard my concerns and requests and preferences, but your thoughts are as far above mine ...

510. Naaman, the Leper

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Don Yocom

The Old Testament gives us many illustrations for evangelistic purposes. The story of Naaman is an excellent analogy for us. Leprosy in his day was considered incurable and we can compare it to sin. Leprosy was not confined just to the poorer class of people either. Both Naaman of the Old Testament and a man known as Simon the ...

511. Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Don Yocom

... afterward! There was no focal point other than the pulpit in that building. But, revival did come, and forty souls were committed to the Lord. They purchased a beautiful altar setting and have maintained it ever since. Another church asked us to hold evangelistic services for them. While I was there, they realized that they had no altar either, just a rickety old table used for Holy Communion. Someone made this suggestion: Every family was to contribute a piece of wood from around their homes. A skilled ...

512. Parts Working Smoothly

1 Corinthians 12:12-21, 26-27

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the whole church run right. God gives us the power to run but we must use the power to make sure that all of us are doing the things that we do best if the church is to run like a smooth-running car. The church needs teachers, preachers, evangelists [people who tell others about Jesus) and generous givers of money. It needs people who care about our health, people to take care of the lonely and many others. When something happens to the people who do these things and they break down, they need to be fixed ...

513. PROPHET

Hebrews 11:32

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... of the prophets is proof of that. Prophecy, as such, had long disappeared by New Testament times, although we find the use of the term in connection with New Testament men (and women, too). But in the New Testament, it refers to preachers and evangelists; they were Christian teachers to whom the Spirit, at times, made special direct communication and who interpreted God’s will to man. Today, of course, the pastor or preacher or minister of a congregation fulfills the role of the prophet. In fact, this is ...

514. A Kudzu-Kind of Kingdom

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... seeds. The kingdom of God when first planted here or there looks tiny and vulnerable; but it grows like kudzu. Some years ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, the ministerial association decided not to support a city-wide revival because the invited evangelist, in the opinion of the pastors, was lacking in sophistication. But a Presbyterian Sunday School teacher ignored the ministerial association and encouraged his students to attend. In response, the lanky son of a dairy farmer attended the revival. There he ...

515. At The Manger By Invitation

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... can't help but tell others about Him. Luke tells us that after the shepherds saw Jesus "...they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child; and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them." Imagine that! The first evangelists on earth were those lowly, foul-smelling shepherds. They were the very first to say: "We have seen the Lord!" I saw this good advice on a church sign somewhere: "Keep the faith, but not to yourself." The next time someone asks, "What do you know ...

516. Getting on the Active List

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... John 1, the witness was often just one sentence: We have found the Messiah, the one that we Jews have been looking for so long. The two organizations which have reached more people with the Gospel than any others have been the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Campus Crusade for Christ. Every person who goes through Campus Crusade training is asked to write out, polish and memorize a three-minute testimony. It is to cover three basic points: (1) What your life was like before you received Christ; (2 ...

517. A Large Fish Story

Jonah 1:1-17, Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... were met and all four of the children were educated. Dorothy said to me with a smile, "God took lots better care of us than the police department ever did." Someone approached me after the early service today who knew Tank well and sometimes accompanied him on his evangelistic forays. He shared with me one of Tank's favorite bits of advice. He would say, "When you pray, get on your knees; then when you get up, hustle!" Don't you love it?! When we step out in faith, God dazzles us! One of the great passages ...

518. The Best Way to Help Someone

Colossians 4:7-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... doesn't stop in Rosedale on Fridays." Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, we are not as helpful as we would like to be. In our scripture lesson for today, the Apostle Paul gives us the best strategy for helping another person. He uses his friend and associate evangelist, Apaphras, as a model. Let me set the scene for you. St. Paul is in a Roman prison, sometime between 59 and 63 A.D. He is writing to the Christians in the city of Colossae, an area which is now part of Turkey. Though Paul had never ...

519. Mr. Eternity

Matthew 10:1-42

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Dennis Kastens

... you have heard of the man known as Mr. Eternity who lived in Australia a few years ago. Early in life he was an alcoholic derelict who before reaching middle age was converted through a rescue mission and later himself became a street-corner evangelist, Shortly after his conversion, he heard a sermon entitled "Echoes of Eternity." He was so captivated by the importance of the word "eternity" that he began using his free time to spread the one-word message across Sidney. "Eternity went ringing through my ...

520. Decisive Battles With Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Allen

... scene. But, his plot failed and his ministry is at an end. The soap opera saga of Jim Bakker and Jessica Hahn had just about run its course when the news of Jimmy Swaggart burst into the headlines. Jimmy Swaggart was the Baton Rouge television evangelist who sought to destroy Jim Bakker for losing a battle with temptation. He ranted and raved about excising the malignant cancer from the church of those who give in to temptation while, according to the news reports, he had been giving in to temptation for ...

521. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... who are in search of excitement. Contrary to the enjoyable fiction perpetuated in films from "Going My Way" to "Sister Act," excitement is not something that is "produced," as though it were a function of the songs we sing, nor by an evangelistic style of preaching, or decoration of churches with banners, or hand-pumping or hugging friendliness. Those may all have their place. The assumption underlying the question seems to be that whenever we worship together it ought to be highly charged with emotion ...

522. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... a small amount, hardly worth bothering about. Besides, I did have the extra work and responsibility as treasurer for the group and I had given up a lot to follow Jesus. As I think about it now, I suppose that’s exactly what the devil wanted me to think. The evangelists, Luke and John, both tell you that the devil entered into me. But I can’t pass the blame on to Satan. Oh, he was working on me, all right. But what good does it do to say, "The devil made me do it"? Don’t ever think that you ...

523. Whatever Happened To Sanctification?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... adultery" (Exodus 20:14) receives much attention in our time, but obedience to it is another question. Some are so obsessed with sex that they want to make it the focus of all sin. In recent years we have had popular television evangelists proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ while living in luxurious surroundings and following a materialistic lifestyle far removed from the example of Christ. Yet this kind of gracious living seemed to enhance their popularity. Only when some of them got caught violating ...

524. Stewards and Our Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... that we offer our gifts and abilities here to God’s glory in his church, it is much more crucial to discover what God has given us and how we might use that gift and skill out in the world. For preachers, health professionals, social workers, and evangelists, it’s obvious. They are the so-called helping professions. But, to be caretakers of all God’s creation, including his people, means that we do what God has enabled us to do, and we do it as worship to him by offering ourselves in ministry to ...

525. A Man Who Lost His Head

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... the nucleus of the Christian Gospel. And wherever this is presented, we have God’s eternal truth: whether at the high altar of a large cathedral or in a store-front chapel ... whether in the largest cities of the world or in the distant jungles of Africa ... whether an evangelist at an open-air meeting or a mother by the bedside of her child. Wherever the story of the Lamb of God, who gave his life for the sin of the world, wherever that story is told, the essence of the Gospel is present. All of us are ...

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