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576. Get the Garbage Out!

Matthew 3:1-12

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King Duncan

... .” Search it out for yourself. Repent was the first word of John the Baptist’s gospel (Matthew 3:1-2). Repent was the first word of Jesus’ gospel (Matthew 4:14, Mark 1:14-15). Repent was the first word in the preaching ministry of the twelve disciples (Mark 6:12). Repent was the first word in the preaching instructions Jesus gave to his disciples after his resurrection (Luke 24:46-47). Repent was the first word of exhortation in the first Christian sermon (Acts 2:38). Repent was the first word in ...

577. A Brass Cross and a Barometer

Luke 6:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... rules got in the way of the Big Two, he broke them. (1) We Methodists are compulsive rule makers. I love our denomination deeply and fully subscribe to her doctrine, but we are obsessive-compulsive about rules. If we had been around when Jesus selected the twelve apostles, we would have insisted that they could not serve until they had been approved by Charge Conference vote. We would have also insisted that half of the disciples be women and that 2/3rds of them come from outside Galilee. Ah, we Methodists ...

578. "Sneak Up On ‘Em!"

Acts 17:16-34

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Barbara Brokhoff

... any witness to be lost. Nothing we do for him is in vain. "But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them." Eusebius, the historian, tells us that Dionysius was one of the twelve judges of the Areopagus, and, after becoming a Christian, later became a bishop of the church at Athens and died a martyr for the Christian faith. Damaris was an aristocratic woman of Athens. The "others" probably became strong members of the church at Athens ...

579. Peter’s Second Sermon

Acts 3:11-26

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... that puts God back into the center of our lives. As you heard during the Lenten season, this is no quibble about trifles. Jesus’ theme song throughout the gospels is, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." When Jesus sent forth the twelve, it was not enough to cast out demons and heal the sick. They also preached that people should repent. Next to the resurrection, repentance is the most frequent theme in the book of Acts. Repentance was Peter’s message in every important situation. But ...

580. When Lazarus Leaped and Laughed

John 11:1-45

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... done another miracle than to raise Lazarus, he would stand apart from all the other people who ever walked on earth. What gives Jesus the right to make such an assertion? Consider what the Bible says about him: He raised other dead people. People like the twelve-year-old daughter of the synagogue leader Jairus. The record says that Jesus "took her by the hand and said to her, 'Talitha cum,' which means, 'Little girl, get up!' And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about" (Mark 5:41-42). There ...

581. The Marked Man

Sermon

George Bass

“Then taking the Twelve aside he said to them, ‘Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man is to come true. For he will be handed over to the pagans and will be mocked, maltreated and spat on, and when they have ...

582. Why Are You Here?

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... , why are you here?’” (vs. 50). (1) You remember the setting for this question. Jesus was with his disciples at a place called Gethsemane. He had gone there to pray. Afterward he had a word with his disciples. While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Judas had arranged a signal with them: “The one I kiss is the man; arrest him.” Going at once to Jesus, Judas said ...

583. Tomb for Sale

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

George Bass

... perspective, start appreciating stuff more. This thing is draining me little by little." John seems to have gained a new lease on life when he was reunited with his brother - the photo reveals - as his son, Steven, looked on. But suddenly the reunion was shattered when the twelve-year-old son collapsed and died. Awful as Steven’s death was, John’s son-in-law said, "Maybe somehow the rest of the family will hear about this, and they will all come together. Maybe this is the way God meant it to be." At ...

584. Mud Below, Stars Above

Genesis 15:1-18

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King Duncan

... more than clay. We need not allow our bodily desires to be our god, because we are citizens of heaven. 1. George Mikes. How to Be Decadent. (Andre Deutsch, London). 2. J.W.V. Goethe. Faust. Part One, 1808. 3. Author Unknown. 4. Woodrow W. Smith. The Twelve Who Walked in Galilee. (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell Co). 5. Robert Schuller. Living Positively One Day at a Time. (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revel Co, 1980). 6. Heinrich Borkamm. The Heart of Reformation Faith. (New York: Harper & Row, 1965). 7 ...

585. Never Let Them See You Sweat (Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control)

Galatians 5:23

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James Merritt

... play, Terrence McNally, has won three Tony Awards, and the play is to be put on by the Manhattan Theatre Club, one of New York's most important off-Broadway venues. What is wrong with this play you ask? It depicts Jesus as a homosexual with the twelve disciples as his traveling lovers. A group of homosexual men begins the play by drawing lots for the different roles they will play. One plays "Joshua" the Hebrew version of "Jesus," while the others adopt the role of the various disciples and the Virgin Mary ...

586. Sermon on the Mount: Allegiance and Trust

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:25-34

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... measure within a lifespan.5 6:30 you of little faith. This brief characterization of the disciples, the primary audience of the Sermon on the Mount, will be repeated on the lips of Jesus four more times in Matthew (8:26; 14:31; 16:8; 17:20). The twelve disciples are portrayed as having little faith, as distinct from those in Matthew who lack faith (the Jewish leaders and Jesus’ hometown) and those who seek healing from Jesus and who show exemplary faith and even great faith (e.g., 8:10; 9:2, 22, 29; 15 ...

587. In It for the Long Haul

John 6:60-69

Sermon

King Duncan

... , they drifted away. Even some of his closest followers seemed to be losing their enthusiasm. This was alarming. John writes, “From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him . . .” “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the twelve disciples who had been with him from the beginning. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” Who could have ...

588. When Imagination Replaces Memory

Isaiah 42:18-25

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Harold Warlick

... , and we are told by the historians that nearly as many Americans fought for Britain as fought against Britain.1 And consider our wonderful memories of Christopher Columbus. When he arrived in the New World he frequently hanged thirteen Indians at a time in honor of the twelve apostles and Jesus. Every male over fourteen years of age had to bring a quota of gold every three months to the conquistadors. Those who could not pay this had their hands cut off "as a lesson." Half the 250,000 Indians on Haiti had ...

589. Well, What's for Sure?

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Louis H. Valbracht

... s for sure." Look in God’s Word for sureness, and you find a typical example. Some of the disciples were turning away from our Lord and no longer walking with Him, because of some of the things that He had said about himself, and so He finally asked the twelve: "Will you also leave me?" Typically, Peter answered: "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. For we KNOW AND ARE SURE" - WE KNOW AND ARE SURE - "that you are the Christ, the Son of God." Sounds great, doesn’t it? Here is a ...

590. The Discipline of Discipleship

Mark 10:17-31

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David E. Leininger

... consideration. But I think there is something deeper here. The story provides us a model for Christian discipleship...learners, a model for Christian teachers of those learners, and finally, a model for FAILURE. Look what goes on. Jesus and some of his followers (the twelve and who knows how many more) were walking along the road. Suddenly, a young man came running up. He had heard about this remarkable teacher from Nazareth; he had been told of the miracles; he had seen how people were marveling at such ...

591. Good Christian Men Rejoice

2 Corinthians 8:9

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James Merritt

... a babe in a manger, He was a King on a throne. Before the Lord Jesus was born He lived in a place where they paved their streets with gold. The towering walls of His city were made of jasper. The gates were made of solid pearl. The twelve foundations of those gates glistened with priceless gems. Before He came to planet earth He sat in splendor on a great white throne, while shining seraphim hung upon every word. Legions of angels waited anxiously to do whatever he wanted them to do. He not only controlled ...

592. Stand by Me

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the waves; no one calms the weather, except the one who created them all, the Lord God, the Creator of the universe. Because Jesus could keep climates in the palm of his hand, he had no fear of the forces of nature. Among the twelve disciples there were four professional fishermen. Everyone else had grown up and lived alongside the Sea of Galilee. Yet here they were, all fearful of the deep, unknown, the uncontainable force of the periodically wild wind and water that defined their world. Fishers, those ...

593. The Divine Plan of Salvation

Romans 11:33-36

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... . 11:1–10). In that diagram, the Old Testament story narrowed from the creation of the world, to the calling out of Israel, to the faithful few who followed Yahweh, to the prophetic expectation of the Messiah and then expanded the plan of God from the twelve disciples, to the church, to the world. Third, Christ is the knowledge of God, the ultimate revelation of his mysterious ways, according to 11:33–35. In Colossians Paul says that Christ is the fullness of the knowledge of God (1:27), and Paul goes ...

594. Sunday's Coming

Mark 11:1-11

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David E. Leininger

... deepest hope would have been for Jesus not to upset their apple cart. No chance. According to Mark's gospel, the day after the parade, Jesus came to the Temple and made a wreck of things. Of course, near the end of the week, Jesus gathered with the Twelve in the Upper Room to celebrate the Passover. One would think that these who had traveled with him and known him so intimately surely would never lose hope - they had seen him give sight to the blind, heal withered limbs, even restore the dead to life. They ...

595. The Parable of the Tenants

Luke 20:9-19

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... that the parable may teach that the kingdom will be taken from the Jews and will be given to the Gentiles. This is not likely. It is only “an attack on the religious bureaucracy” (Talbert, p. 189) that warns that the new religious authorities will be the Twelve (see Luke 22:28–30; Acts 1:15–26). 20:17 Some have suggested that Ps. 118:22 was related to the Parable of the Wicked Tenants because of a word play involving “son” and “stone.” In Hebrew the expression “the son” and “the stone ...

596. The Master Has Come - And Is Calling For You

John 11:38-44

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... time with them. Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. It seems strange that Jesus did not leave immediately for Bethany to be with them in this time of illness. John tells us plainly that Jesus decided to wait until Lazarus died before going to see them. He said to the twelve, "Lazarus is dead; and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." By the time they arrived Lazarus had been dead several days. When Martha heard Jesus was on the way, she went out to ...

597. The Miracle Comes at the Breaking

Luke 24:13-35

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Various Authors

... men were reminded of what happened in the upper room, when Jesus instituted the sacrament of Holy Communion. But then we realize that this can’t be the explanation, because these two men weren’t present in the upper room, since they weren’t part of the twelve. Some have suggested that the two men were present when Jesus fed the multitude with the few loaves and fish. Thus they would remember the awesome moment when Jesus took a boy’s luncheon loaf in hand, looked to his Father in prayer, and began ...

598. A Pentecostal Church

Acts 2:1-13

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King Duncan

... an act of God, we need to see some of the very important implications. FIRST OF ALL, PENTECOST SERVES TO REMIND US THAT THE CHURCH IS THE CREATION OF GOD. We are unlike any other institution in that respect. Beginning with Christ's selection of the twelve disciples and continuing through his crucifixion, his resurrection, his ascension and climaxing on the Day of Pentecost, the church was born in the mind of God long before anyone was ever baptized or the first Lord's Supper was served. Note the scene at ...

599. The Master Has Come - To Face Jerusalem

Mark 11:1-11

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... for Jesus. It was a moment of truth for the Master. Of course, he had really been making that decision all along. He made it the day he left the carpenter’s shop. He made it in the wilderness during those forty days. He made it the day he and the twelve, up there in Galilee, took that branch of the highway at the fork in the road which led down toward Jerusalem. As he paused out there on the edge of the city, he must have known there was still time to change his mind. He could still have waited a ...

600. Ephphatha...Be Opened

Mark 7:31-37

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David E. Leininger

... and says HANDLE IT! Can we "rescue" Jesus here, find some way of explicating this conversation that will put him in a bit more flattering light? The commentators have tried to explain. Some have said that Jesus was just having a bad day - he and the twelve had gone north, out of Galilee (the only time the Gospels have Jesus leaving his native land) for some R & R. But instead of rest and relaxation, he is discovered and confronted by this insistent mother, admittedly, a most uppity woman who was violating ...

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