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501. Which End Is Up?

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ’t getting as big a share as she felt she deserved. How do we live with the possibility of murderers in our midst. If such evil can be nurtured around our own dinners tables, how can we know “which end is up?” Christmastide, the twelve days of Christmas leading up to Epiphany, celebrates three different divine revelations. You might call them God-bearing, gift-bearing, grace-bearing. Triangulate the three revelations of God-bearing, gift-bearing and grace-bearing, and you will know “which end is up ...

502. No Doubt about It

John 20:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... to persuade Thomas that they had seen Jesus and that He was alive, Thomas doubted. He was the only one that doubted, but there was a reason for his doubt. Verse 24 holds the key to understanding what really happened with Thomas. "But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came." (John 20:24, NASB) In the verses immediately preceding this, we read where Jesus had appeared to the disciples and shown Himself to them and spoken to them, but Thomas wasn't there. He had missed the ...

503. Jesus Is Anointed and Celebrates the Passover with His Disciples

Matthew 26:1-5, Matthew 26:6-13, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 26:17-30

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Jeannine K. Brown

... the plot against Jesus by the Jewish leaders (26:3–5; also 12:14; 21:45–46). The woman who anoints Jesus (26:6–13) is the first of a number of women highlighted in the Passion Narrative who display discipleship qualities or remain with Jesus when the Twelve desert him (27:19, 55–56, 61; 28:1–10). The scene in which Jesus shares the Passover with his disciples (26:17–30) highlights Judas’s betrayal (26:23–25; see 26:14–16, 47–50) and Jesus’ sacrifice and death “for the forgiveness of ...

504. Towns for the Levites

Numbers 35:1-5

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... or did they occupy just part of the settlement? Answers to these questions are not at hand. In the book of Numbers, the Levites are a kind of in-between group, like the Transjordan tribes. The Levites are clergy but not priests, a tribe but not one of the twelve tribes, given provision in the land but not a tribal allotment of land. In the arrangement of the camp in the first part of Numbers the Levites were also in between the sanctuary and the other tribes. Perhaps they are still serving the same function ...

505. Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:6-34

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

506. Five Ways to be "Holy" During Holy Week

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Jesus to the foot of the cross this week, stay there. For it is at the foot of the cross where we realize that God loves us, even in the midst of our betrayal. Just as Jesus ate his last meal with his betrayer Judas, and with his betrayers, The Twelve, so we live and die in the midst of our betrayals and betrayings with a God who loves in spite of ourselves, the betrayers and the betrayed. Perhaps the most beloved Isaac Watts hymn is called “At The Cross.” We all know the refrain: At the cross, at the ...

507. When All Is Said And Done

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Many people live with potential destruction every day of their lives. Yet when all is said and done, the church believes that this is not how the world is going to end. One day Jesus and his disciples came out of the Temple in Jerusalem. One of the twelve turned around, looked up at the high towers and the massive blocks of stone, and, with the tone of a small town hick on his first trip to Manhattan, said, "Golly, Jesus! That's an amazing building." Jesus replied, "Do you see these great buildings? One day ...

508. When All Is Said And Done

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

William G. Carter

509. Jesus Out of Character

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... these words were used as arguments against receiving Gentiles into full Christian fellowship. At a slightly later date these words were used as an argument against admitting unbelievers to the Lord’s Supper. In a writing called the “Didache” (or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) a manual of Syrian Christianity dated around the year 100, it says: “Let none eat or drink of your Eucharist except those who have been baptized in the name of the Lord. It was concerning this that the Lord said, ‘Do ...

510. Ignite: Burning Love

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

James Merritt

... . He is ruining everything. The very man they had crucified just two months earlier is more popular today than He has ever been. This Jesus is driving them nuts! Killing the Master didn’t work, so now they decide to incarcerate the messengers. Every one of the twelve apostles are arrested and thrown in jail. Bad news! The bad news brings good news. “But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, ‘Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all ...

511. Mandatum

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... today you were performing a liturgical act? But on this day of reconciliation, we are to clean ourselves of all sin and be brightened by the coming thought of Easter. Foot washing is an important observance on Maundy Thursday. Jesus washed the feet of the twelve disciples as a sign of humility and service. The significance of this ritual is far reaching as it is considered by the early church as the act that instituted the priesthood of his disciples. With this act of humility the disciples were consecrated ...

512. Robert Paul, You Were Right!

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... Carey, Mary Slessor and David Livingstone; Puritans -- Thomas Hooker, John Cotton and Thomas Shepard; Reformers -- Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer and Menno Simons; Medieval saints -- Thomas Aquinas and Francis of Assisi; Church fathers -- Ignatius, Irenaeus and Augustine; Jesus, the Twelve and Paul; Daniel, the Prophets, Moses and Abraham and Sarah. These people are our saints, too. They steer us to the faithfulness of God. They lead us away from our own little world and fix our attention on the ...

513. The Trifocal Festival

Matthew 5:1-12

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... sea and plotted against her brother Moses’ life; II: For David, God’s annointed and Israel’s beloved king, Bathsheba’s adulterous lover and Uriah’s scheming murderer; I: For Peter who boldly acknowledged Jesus as the Christ and then thrice denied him; II: For the Twelve who followed their Lord but fled at the first sign of danger; I: For those of every time and every place who have known the paradox of sin and grace, the tension between what is and what will be, the conflict between the Old Adam ...

514. Jesus Transfigured as a Foreshadowing of Future Glory

Matthew 17:1-13

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Jeannine K. Brown

... three disciples are portrayed as the closest of Jesus’ followers. Peter, James, and John are three of the four disciples first called by Jesus in Matthew (4:18–22). James and John also receive special focus in 20:20–23. Peter is the most prominent of the twelve disciples in Matthew (e.g., 14:28; 15:15; 16:16; 17:4, 24; 19:27; 26:33). 17:2 There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun. Jesus’ transfiguration has storied evocations with Moses at the giving of the Torah. Moses ...

515. The Great Inescapable Question of Eternity

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... the Lord's name in its title but its beliefs about Jesus are fatally flawed. A basic compendium of the Mormon gospel is titled Mormon Doctrine. It was written by apostle Bruce Redd McConkie, an influential Mormon theologian and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for many years. According to McConkie, Mormons believe that "Lucifer, the son of the morning, is our elder brother, and the brother of Jesus."3 The Journal of Discourses, a 26-volume Mormon ...

516. The Lamb

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Argile Smith

... in the book of Revelation. The story in that grand Bible centers on the Lamb. The story of the Lamb intersects the story of Polycarp. And their stories intersect our stories as we worship the Lamb ourselves. Most scholars say that John was the last of the twelve original apostles to die. His life came to an end at about the same time that the first century AD came to a close. Somewhere along the way, perhaps in his last years, he met Polycarp and discipled him in the Christian faith. Apparently he mentored ...

517. Count Me In!

Isaiah 56:1-8

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John R. Brokhoff

... more than the Samaritans, they were despised as traitors for working for the Roman conquerors by collecting taxes for them and by over-charging for the taxes to amass a fortune. How did Jesus treat them? He called one of them, Matthew, to be one of the Twelve. He applauded the prayer of a publican, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." When he saw a tax collector, Zacchaeus, up a tree, he invited himself to dinner in his house. As a result, salvation came to Zacchaeus and his family. And there were special ...

518. A Tale to be Told

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

George Bass

... a damper on the joyous festivities of Christmas, doesn’t it? It just may be that two of the three festivals that fall right after Christmas - St. Stephen on December 26 and Holy Innocents Day on December 28 - are responsible for de-emphasizing the twelve-day celebration of Christmas. Who wants to think about martyrdom and the callous murder of innocent children that was ordered by Herod? But they are stories that need to be told, and both were in the Christian calendar before Christmas was separated from ...

519. A Call to Repentance

Joel 1:13-20

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the profane, between the clean and the unclean; and they were to teach the Israelites all the decrees the Lord had given them through Moses (Lev. 10:10–11). Thus in Exodus the priests are commanded to wear on their breastplates the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, symbolically bearing them into worship before the Lord (Exod. 28:21, 29–30, 38). So Joel turns to the priests in his preaching of repentance and points again to his primary concern: The means of communion with God through the sacrifices ...

520. Lessons on Devotion and Prayer

Luke 11:1-13, Luke 10:38-42

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R.T. France

... the end point of the journey that began in 9:51 and ends in chap. 19), he has placed this incident here, out of chronological order, for its contribution to the overall portrayal of discipleship. 10:39 Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet, listening. The Twelve were males, but here is a woman who fully fits the pattern of a disciple. Jewish society would not expect a woman to be so privileged, and neither did Martha! 10:40 Lord, don’t you care? This displays the natural frustration of a busy woman ...

521. Christ Is King

John 12:12-19

Sermon

... to meet him and to hail him as the king. We like that kind of king. Then John adds the usual commentary, "His disciples did not understand this at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered." I think we can be sympathetic toward the twelve disciples, for it can be said of us as well, "His disciples did not understand at first." How little we understand. But is it necessary that we understand? It is more important to believe, even though we cannot understand. The nightly news in those days ...

522. The Resurrected Jesus Is Vindicated by God and Given All Authority

Matthew 28:1-10, Matthew 28:11-15, Matthew 28:16-20

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Jeannine K. Brown

... and teaching, since it is Jesus himself who will be with them in mission. “Jesus’ effective presence . . . is the final assurance that his teaching will be both preserved and spread to all the nations.”[5] Jesus has spoken of the authority that the Twelve and the church will receive (16:19; 18:18). In this commissioning scene it becomes clear that their authority is a derivative one. Jesus, who has been given all authority, goes with them, so that they participate in his authority only as they ...

523. On Being the Greatest

Mark 9:33-37

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Donald B. Strobe

... any leader is to lead, not merely to say, “Which way is the parade going? I am supposed to be leading it!” Our age is an age that desperately demands leadership, and not just more “me-too-ism.” II. WE READ: “AND JESUS SAT DOWN AND CALLED THE TWELVE, AND HE SAID.....”(Mark 9:35) We might miss the significance of this, if we do not know that in every synagogue there was a stone bench called “the seat of Moses.” Whenever the rabbi would teach an authoritative teaching, he sat down to do it. We ...

524. Proper 11

Ephesians 2:11-22, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Mark 6:45-56, Mark 6:30-44

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... , where we can rest, reflect and pray. 2. Sermon Title: Apostolic Assembly Apostolic Action. Sermon Angle: Verse 30 is the only instance in the Gospel of Mark where the word apostle appears. They are generally referred to in the first two gospels as The Twelve. At any rate, this verse informs us that the apostles gathered around Jesus an apostolic assembly. In the strict sense of the word, an apostle was one who had witnessed our Lord's entire ministry, beginning with his baptism and concluding with his ...

525. At Table With The Lord

Drama

... God's annointed, the Son of God, but my baby, my Babe of Bethlehem. Oh, how gentle was his touch, how smooth his skin, how soft his cheek. Hymn: "Away In a Manger" (Women exit or take seats. Men enter.) Narrator: When the evening was come, Jesus sat down with the twelve disciples. And, as they ate, Jesus said, "I am the living bread which comes from heaven. If any man eat of this bread he shall live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Judas: But ...

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