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526. Time to Light the Fire

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... our daily lives, dependent on its power but unworried about its threat. It’s easy to have faith when you’re controlling the outcomes, isn’t it? In fact, in many ways, we have more faith in science than we do in God, because when it comes to Holy Spirit fire –something that lies far out of our control –we the Church back away, sure we’re about to get burned. Why are we so afraid of the source that fuels our faith, empowers our mission, lights up our lives, and sets our hearts on fire? Why in our ...

527. The Advocate

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... believe that you are going to be a great pastor and leader some day. You just need to listen more to the guidance of the Holy Spirit." Glen was one of God's advocates and guides in my ministry. When he died of cancer before he was fifty, I lost a true ... I was planning to do. God gives us wise and astute advocates in life. These advocates guide us through the power of the Holy Spirit. Let me close with another spiritual exercise. For this one, you can keep your eyes open. Think back on your life. Think of the ...

528. The Voice From Heaven

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... baptism by water. Could it be that the Creator also is pleased with the creation of me? Would that be presumptuous on my part? Could it be that baptism does not make me holy but acknowledges my holiness? Asker: Then you do have a sense of the Holy Spirit. Woman: Perhaps, perhaps. Do we need to be baptized or anointed or consecrated or ordained or any of those acts to know that we are special or are set aside for a singular life? I wonder about symbolic happenings in our lives. They say to us and to others ...

529. Pentecost Sunday

Acts 2:1-21

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... receive them, enrich them, and invest them according to your divine will. Amen. Benediction What Jesus said to his disciples, he also says to us: "Peace be with you, as the Father has sent me, even so I send you ... Receive the Holy Spirit." Amen. Pastoral Prayer Holy Spirit of God, who at Pentecost descended with power upon Christ's disciples and sent them out to preach the gospel and to found the Church, inspire us also to sustain what they began. O Most High, mean to us what you meant to them: the grace ...

530. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

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Rolland R. Reece

... hurt us deliberately and now behold him or her without bitterness; to look at someone with whom we have shared a great sorrow and now realize that the sun is about to burst over the horizon -- what joy! What hope! What glory! We pray in the name of the Holy Spirit. Amen. When we are young, Our Creator, we simply don't think of death. It doesn't seem to apply to us. When we come to our middle years we become aware of death, but we do our best to ignore it. It's frightening. Slowly we realize that some ...

531. Baptism of The Lord

Mt 3:13-17 ·Acts 10:34-48 · Is 42:1-9

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... , so that all people might see and know God's gracious will. In doing this, they are not to assume that God has completely withheld the light of his presence. They are to gently fan the dimly burning wick into full flame by the breath of God's Spirit. Through the gut-wrenching ordeal of captivity in a strange land, the Hebrews' horizons were lifted to a higher purpose, from survival to mission. Years ago I saw a sign in front of a downtown church: "Serving, not just surviving." It is a danger for any church ...

532. Christians Die Well

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... now have become the betrayers and murderers, who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it." When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" During World War II, the greatest Norwegian Lutheran churchman of ...

533. The Baptism of Our Lord

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Acts 19:1-22, Mark 1:1-8, Mark 1:9-13

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... act. Even when we begin to sense our sinfulness, we tend to rely on the human force of our own repentance, rather than upon the divine power of your forgiving grace. Forgive us our faithlessness, O God; teach us to trust you and your Holy Spirit, without which all our words and deeds are hollow and meaningless. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Gospel: Mark 1:4-11 Theme: The subjectivity and secrecy of the first epiphany Exegetical note Unlike the descriptions of Jesus’ baptism delivered by Matthew and Luke ...

534. The Holy Trinity

John 16:5-16

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... . I use this analogy. Water comes in three forms. It is a liquid, but it may also be congealed matter, as in ice, or a vapor, as in steam. Still it is the same substance. So it is with the God whom we know as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." I had to reply, "You mean well, but you are guilty of what the early church called ‘the modalistic heresy,’ dealing with the three persons as mere modes or appearances behind which must be some unknown fourth reality of which they are modes." The same applies to other ...

535. From Timid To Terrific

2 Timothy 1:6-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... give in to fear or timidity or shyness, we are, in effect denying our faith in God. Pardon me if I seem somewhat harsh at this point, but God needs mighty men and women for the facing of this hour. And he will give us the power to overcome the spirit of fear if we will allow him. Have you ever watched lightning strike a tree? I hope you have never been that close. They tell us, though, that it is an illusion that lightning comes down from the sky to strike a tree. Actually only a tiny "leader bolt" comes ...

536. A Vision and a Voice

Mark 1:9-13

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Paul E. Flesner

... Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth." "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." "We welcome you into the Lord's family...." There are also significant actions that are part of a baptism: the splashing of water ... Song of Isaiah 42 which told of the mission and purpose of the life of the one to whom they were spoken: "I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations." It is no easy task to bring forth justice in the world, or to work for ...

537. What Goes on When He Comes in?

Acts 19:1-22

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... you just as you are -- even if you are in despair of yourself, even if you have forfeited the love of those nearest and dearest to you. Such is God's love for you. Never, never forget it! And when that love is "poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit" and we surrender to it, some amazing things begin to happen. We begin to realize that love is the only power that is able to save this world of ours. We've tried other means only to be disillusioned time and time again because every other method has been ...

538. Epiphany 6

Matthew 5:17-37, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16; 3:1-23, Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Psalm 119

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John R. Brokhoff

... God, mercifully receive the prayers of your people. Help us to see and understand the things we ought to do, and give us grace and power to do them." Hymn of the Day: "Lord Jesus, Think On Me" Theme of the Day: Living By The Law Gospel - Live by the spirit of the Law - Matthew 5:17-26 Lesson 1 - Live by obeying the Law - Deuteronomy 30:15-20 The overall theme of this Sunday seems to be life in the light of the Law. Jesus takes up the Law, emphasizes the Christian's obligation to obey it, and re-interprets ...

539. Mark 1:9-15

Mark 1:9-15

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... discuss. First, Mark's Greek clearly reads katabainon eis auton "descending into him (not epi "upon" as is Matthew 3:16 and Luke 3:22). There are numerous other biblical precedents for both upon and into as descriptions of spiritual possession (both by God and by evil spirits) see Numbers 23:5; Judges 3:10; 1 Samuel 19:9; Isaiah 37:7; 63:11. While the vast majority of translations have chosen (perhaps out of a sense of synoptic unity?) to here translate Mark's eis as "upon," there may indeed be good reason ...

540. Mark 1:21-28

Mark 1:21-28

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... a wonderful play on words between “Jesus of Nazareth” and “the Holy One of God.” In Hebrew “nazir” means “consecrated,” “holy”— as were Nazirites such as Samson (Judges 16:17). But there is more to Jesus’ identity than his geographic roots. The unclean spirit next declares him to be “the Holy One of God” (v.24). This unusual title is found only here in Mark, and in Luke 4:34, and in John 6:69. In Mark’s abbreviated introduction of Jesus there is only the revealed relationship ...

541. Easter 4

1 John 3:11-24, Acts 4:1-22, John 10:1-21

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... be healed is to be made whole; to be saved is to be made whole with God. The person is a unity of body and spirit, and one is related to the other. Health of the body means that every part of the body is performing its functions. To be saved ... because one will be saved in and by it. Peter would have no part of this kind of thinking. He proclaimed under the influence of the Spirit that there is no salvation apart from Christ. This position is a logical conclusion to the fact that Jesus is the only Son of God ...

542. Christmas 1

Isaiah 61:10–62:3, Luke 2:21-40, Galatians 3:26–4:7

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John R. Brokhoff

... , the Son of God, the Savior? What does one have to have to recognize the Christ in the child Jesus? Outline: To recognize the Christ in Jesus – a. Look for him in hope v. 25. b. Live close to God "righteous and devout" v. 25. c. Be led by the Spirit v. 27. 2. What an old man saw in a baby (2:25-35). Need: One sign of growing old is failing eyesight. At a certain age eyeglasses are needed. Bifocals go with seniority in age. Simeon was old and next to death. Yet, his spiritual eyesight was excellent. He ...

543. Pentecost

Numbers 11:24-30, Psalm 104:1-35, John 7:37-39, Acts 2:1-21, 1 Corinthians 12:3-13

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... Jesus Christ be with you all. People: And also with you. Leader: Sing to the Eternal One as long as you live. People: We will praise our God while we have any breath. INVOCATION God our Creator, without air we could not breathe or speak. Without your Spirit we could not pray. While we live and breathe, we will sing our praise to you and invoke your name in our prayers; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PRAYER OF CONFESSION Creator God, personal God, Giver of life, your works of nature are countless, your ...

544. Acts 8:14-17

Acts 8:9-25

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... they are the logical ones to oversee the spread of faith into a new region. Samaria had been specifically identified by the risen Christ as part of the world that was to be missionized by the disciples once they themselves had received the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8). Samaritans held a unique place in the relationship between Jews and Gentiles. The Samaritans were not Gentiles. But their practice of the more ancient form of Israel’s religion kept them out of the Jerusalem’s temple-oriented hierarchy. In many ...

545. When God Is Like a Mother

John 14:15-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... something I caused to happen. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The wind blows wherever it wills, you hear the sounds it makes, but you do not know where it comes from nor where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit. Birth from above is not manipulated into being. It is a free gift of God. David Tyree, a receiver for the New York Giants, made a fabulous catch from Eli Manning that helped the Giants win the Super Bowl 17-14 over the Patriots last winter. David became an ...

546. They Said 'Yes!'

Ephesians 1:11-23

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit; [14] this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people, to the praise of his glory. [15] I have ... I remember you in my prayers. [17] I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, [18] so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is ...

547. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , “And there ain’t nothing …” she stops, breaks down, and cries tears of joy because there is somebody in this world who knows her the way she is and loves her. Isn’t that what ought to be happening in the church? Within the fellowship of the spirit, Koinoia, people experience that - the joy of knowing that along with Christ there are other human beings who know us the way we are and still love us. Yet, there is another side of this coin of love and acceptance in Koinoia. It is the whole matter of ...

548. Romans 8:12-17

Romans 8:1-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... It is a term a grown adult would use to address a parent or respected elder, not an uninformed, infantile expression of connection. To address the Divine God as “Abba, Father” requires the connection that only the living presence of the Spirit can make real. That Spirit, Paul continues, is what makes it possible for all believers to claim they are “children of God” (v.16). Adoption, in Roman and Greek law, was a carefully adjudicated concept. The one who was “adopted” received all the rights and ...

549. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Ephesians 1:15-23

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... of their call from God (cf. 4:4) and the assurance that their life in Christ and sealing with the Holy Spirit brings. A second request is that they will know the riches of his glorious inheritance. One way to understand this phrase ... 1:1; Col. 2:12; 1 Pet. 1:21). The early church also believed that he was very much alive in their midst through the Holy Spirit. Although it is common to think of resurrection and exaltation as two separate events, it is helpful to consider them as two different ways of ...

550. The Glory Departs

Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... inner shrine to its place above the cherubim in the court and so departs, pausing on the way by the entrance to the east gate of the LORD’s house (v. 19). 11:1–12 The final chapter in this second vision complex begins and ends with the spirit transporting Ezekiel, as at the vision’s opening (vv. 1, 24; compare 8:3). The chapter falls into three sections. In the first, verses 1–12, the Lord responds to the arrogant claims of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, which the Lord relates to Ezekiel in verses 1 ...

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