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501. Pentecost Communion Meditation: Monologue Of A Saint

Acts 2:42-47, Acts 2:14-41

Drama

Dr. Raymond Bailey

... are going to marry some day." Ed never stood a chance. That's how these two saints, Ed and Eldora, got together. Now -- don't you go worrying about that word "saint" again. Don't let it scare you. Ed, especially, isn't always saintly, but then God -- the Holy Spirit, and his wife are still working on him. The number of saints out there are as many as the sands of the sea. Here you are, saints, here in Florida farm country. You, too, will have the opportunity to sand off some of Ed's rough edges. All this ...

502. Sermon Opener - New Wine

Acts 2:1-13

Illustration

Barbara Brokhoff

... , "They have had too much wine!" "Not so!" said Peter. "It is only nine in the morning -- far too early to be fixed. They are not drunk, but rather filled with the new wine of the Spirit. This is what Joel the prophet foretold many years ago." In other words, the Holy Spirit is New Wine and it cannot make you drunk. The Spirit will not cloud your mind, it won't cause you to talk stupidly, it won't make you an unsafe driver, and it won't give you a hangover. The disciples were not inebriated, but rather ...

503. The Day of Pentecost

Isaiah 44:1-5, Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41, John 20:19-23

Bulletin Aid

... redeem. Only God can judge our sins. Pastor: There is none other to whom we will pray; in whom we will put our trust; and with whom we shall live forever! People: Glory be to God our Father, who has shared his Son to be our Savior and his Spirit to be our Companion! Collect Eternal God, who alone possesses the power of our Creator, the love of our Redeemer, and the wisdom of our final Judge: Defend us against all temptation to yield to the influence of any feeling that would hinder our devotion to you; that ...

504. Harnessed Power

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Richard L. Thulin

... in at least a couple of ways. Nonetheless, it is this story that the Church puts in front of us today and asks us to listen to. Perhaps in its differences there lie some things we need to hear. It is with a single motion that Jesus gives the Spirit to the disciples and tells them to forgive sins. There is no pause in the story between the giving of the gift and the giving of the task. With one and the same breath Jesus both empowers the disciples and commissions them. This single motion, this single breath ...

505. Defeating Giants

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... I'm feeling so many opposite emotions...happy, sad, scared, excited...you get the picture. I'm a basket case!! But I know God is in control and using everything for good..." Who gives her that confidence in the midst of stress? The Holy Spirit residing within her. Claim that same Holy Spirit day by day in 1997 and be protected from terror or despair. NOTICE A SECOND STRATEGY OF DAVID: USE WHAT YOU HAVE. King Saul tried to arm David with that heavy metal gear, but it wasn't comfortable for the boy. He took ...

506. The Gift of Fire

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , not even a leaf rustled. As they looked around to see what was happening, they noticed that above each head was what appeared to be a FLAME...FIRE that simply sat there...the FIRE that would be Christ's first gift to his church...the FIRE that was the Holy Spirit. A gift of fire. I wonder if the disciples had any more idea what to do with a gift like that than we do. I doubt it. But to their eternal credit, and to our undying benefit, they did not think of possessing the gift; they let that gift possess ...

507. A Lightning Rod Instead of a Cross

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t it be wonderful if the same thing happened here . . . in our church! I am not certain how we would handle it, if it did. Speaking in tongues has never been looked on with favor in our tradition. To tell the truth, neither has being filled with the Holy Spirit. There is a wonderful story about a very dignified pastor who was visiting a lady in a nursing home. This lady was confined to a wheel chair. As the pastor stood to leave the lady asked him to have a word of prayer. He gently took her hand and in ...

508. Proper 10

Psalm 119:1-176, Romans 8:1-17, Matthew 13:1-23, Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... Christ." In vv. 6-8 the apostle does not lapse into Platonic dualism. Rather he uses the antinomic language of apocalyptic eschatology to contrast spheres of power. Flesh for Paul can, and sometimes does, mean the real physical human self; but when set against Spirit Paul employs the word metaphorically to designate powers other than and often in conflict with the power of God. Paul says to invest your confidence in any power other than God is to choose that which indeed is impotent. It is a bad investment ...

509. Ten Days of Prayer

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... one of the most important days on our church calendar. It is, of course, the Day of Pentecost, the day the Holy Spirit fell upon the church. Pentecost occurs fifty days after Easter. But an important event took place ten days before Pentecost. Ten days ... is one of ours. This boy is part of our family. This one belongs to us.’” (4) And that’s the message that the Spirit whispers to us when it dwells in our hearts. You belong to God. Nothing can defeat you. You can meet every challenge by God’s might. All ...

510. The Home Court Advantage

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... genuine “agape” love gives us. John Wesley said that the most important description of God in the whole Bible is this three word statement: “God is love.” When a community lives out of that reality in all that it does, then there is an unbeatable “team spirit” that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. An elderly Father Ambrose put it like this in a conversation with Jon M. Sweeney: “This is the only real Christian truth: it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. But it is love all ...

511. Getting the Big Picture

Romans 8:14-17

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39) In our scripture text for today, it is "a spirit of adoption" that banishes fear from our lives. On a practical level, when it comes to the thousands of decisions we make each day, we ... make them not out of fear, but out of God's love for us and confident of God's leading. When We Are Led By The Spirit Of God, We Have A New Relationship With God There are many different names for God in the Bible. In the book of Psalms alone, God ...

512. 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... ” referred to lighting a votive candle to the god, a reference that could have made the pronouncement “Jesus anathema” confusion to some. Paul’s declaration is clear. Anyone who utters “Jesus is anathema” is a person outside the Spirit of God. Those who have accepted the One Spirit are moved to make a wholly different declaration: “Jesus is Lord.” That announcement, made at the baptism of new believers, is the sign of commitment to a new life, a new community that is governed and gifted by ...

513. About Getting Drunk

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... be misused, even a great musical instrument, but singing, particularly singing songs we associate with worship, can be a wonderful way of expressing the joy we associate with our experience of Christ. The dominant theme of anyone under the influence of Christ or the Holy Spirit ought to be one of joy. We sing because our hearts are filled with joy and we feel better when we sing. The psalmist writes, “I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through ...

514. Abimelech

Judges 9:1-57

Understanding Series

Cheryl A. Brown

... , many of the items in the list of the “acts of the sinful nature” in Gal. 5:19–21 have to do with interpersonal relationships, and these are contrasted with the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22–23). 9:25 These citizens of Shechem set men on the hilltops: There is a wordplay on the root sym: the evil spirit came between Abimelech and the Shechemites in order to place (lasum) upon them the bloodguilt for the murders (v. 24); the Shechemites placed (wayyasimu) men against him (v. 25). By this the author ...

515. The Impending Departure II

John 16:5-16, John 16:17-33

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... refer to all the philosophical and scientific truth of the universe, but here Jesus focuses specifically on truth that he says is mine. Jesus can speak of his truth as all truth because all that belongs to the Father is mine (v. 15; cf. 17:10). Everything the Spirit reveals comes from the Father and therefore from Jesus. The accent is not on what human beings can learn anyway by rational inquiry or by the use of their five senses but on the much more (v. 12) that Jesus would like to tell the disciples, but ...

516. The Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... this view. While the plural pronoun does acquire fuller meaning in light of the coming of Christ, it did not convey to ancient Israel any idea of God’s being triune. The following two proposals find the most support in Scripture: (g) God took counsel with his Spirit (so D. Clines, “The Image of God in Man,” TynBul 19 [1968], p. 68; cf. v. 2). This theory has the advantage of finding the conversation partner in the text. (h) “We” refers to the heavenly council over whom God rules (1 Kgs. 22:19–22 ...

517. Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... energizing and directing him beyond his weak self. Paul’s ministry was missional: it was for the well-being of others who were in need of the transforming power of God’s salvation. Finally it is instructive to notice that these verses introduce the Spirit into Paul’s correspondence with the Corinthians. Earlier Paul denied that humans are saved by what they know; what they know does not make them who they are. Then, he pointed to his own weakness and to his style of ministry that selflessly conformed ...

518. Sexual Immorality

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... the Corinthians to flee from sexual immorality. Then, he informs the Corinthians that their body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within [them]. He speaks to the entire congregation, bluntly telling them, You are not your own. Paul reminds them that they ... the believer unites with the Lord, they are one body. Rather, when the believer unites with the Lord, the two become one in spirit. Paul labors to say that the relationship between believers and the risen Lord is as real as that which exists between two ...

519. The Disciples' Grief Will Turn to Joy

John 16:17-33, John 16:5-16

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

520. God Gives the Pharisees the Finger!

John 7:25-44, John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’ Discourse on Adultery and Divorce (5:27-28; 19:3-12) Mark’s Witness to Jesus’ Discourse on Adultery and Divorce (10:1-12) Luke’s Witness to Jesus’ Discourse on Divorce (16:18) The Tablet of the Heart and our Witness Written by the Hand of the Spirit of the Lord (2 Corinthians 3) John’s Witness to Jesus’ Encounter With a Woman Accused of Adultery On the last day and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood there and cried out: If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me! Let the man come and ...

521. As I Am A Witness

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... 19:1-3). Just as God’s “self” created the heavens and the earth and called it good, all things living and not living in heaven and on earth are renewed and redeemed by the Son, Jesus, and continued and maintained by the coming Advocate, the Holy Spirit. And you are His witnesses. You too with your life and your experience of Jesus are a witness to the glory and resurrection truth of the Lord of Life. When you allow Jesus into your life, you become part of the great cloud of witnesses who recognize ...

522. Formed by the Potter's Loving Hand

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... awesome God! Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text The Potter and the Clay (Jeremiah 18) Jesus’ Healing of a Man Born Blind with Clay and Saliva (John 8:56-10:21) Minor Text Creation by the Hand of God from Dirt and Water and the Breath of the Holy Spirit (Genesis 1,2) Moses and the Tent of Meeting During the Exodus (Exodus 33) The Hallel Psalms: 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118 Psalm 40: From Out of the Mud Psalm 103: He Remembers, We Are Dust Psalm 139: You Formed Me in the Womb The Potter (Isaiah 29:16 ...

523. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... you are just like that. You want to do it your way instead of waiting for the ‘Wind’–the “Wind of God.” (1) In Acts 1:4-8, before his ascension into heaven Jesus instructed his disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came upon them. The biblical word for Spirit, as you know, is the same word for wind. The disciples were waiting for the wind—the wind of God. In Acts 2 we read, “When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing ...

524. Preachers, All!

Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . As I said, that's got to be one of the main points of Acts 2. Jesus had been raised from the dead, shown to be Lord and Savior, but nobody knew how to talk about it, few possessed the courage to speak of such a thing. Then the Holy Spirit descended, and things were brought to speech. People began to talk to talk to one another, then to talk to people out in the streets. As Peter says in today's scripture, ''All of this was predicted by the Prophet Joel. In former days, God's Word was spoken only ...

525. Moksha

Romans 8:6-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... a life of sin or a life of righteousness. He writes, and I quote, “those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” Flesh here does not mean the human body, but sinful desires. In contrast to that Paul writes, and I quote, “but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.” The Greek word that Paul uses for a man who lives by the human desires does not emanate from actions, but from his underlying attitude. Paul uses the Greek word phronema to contrast a life lived in the flesh or one lived in the ...

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