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651. The Saint Who Played Second Fiddle

John 1:35-42

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Donald B. Strobe

... , the word evangelism has come into disrepute as one televangelist after another has gotten into trouble or created a scandal. It is said that modern parents don’t worry about their children playing doctor, they are afraid that they might play television evangelist! That’s a shame, because evangelism is a good word, a word which we must not lose. It means, simply “Good News.” D. T. Niles has a famous definition of evangelism: “One beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.” Once one ...

652. An Unpopular Profession

Matthew 9:9-13

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Donald B. Strobe

... “unlearned” men. No less a New Testament scholar than the great Edgar J. Goodspeed, in his book on the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew, came to the conclusion that Matthew the Apostle was, indeed, its author. (Edgar J. Goodspeed, MATTHEW—APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST (Phila.: John C. Winston Co., 1959). There are many reasons for this conclusion. Since Matthew was a tax collector, he would have known a good deal about writing things down. That was his stock in trade. The Gospel according to Matthew was ...

653. Philip the First

John 1:43-51

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Donald B. Strobe

... !” A few years ago there was a campaign which plastered bumper stickers on cars with the caption, “Have you found it?” I assume that they were referring to salvation—or to God. But God is not an “it.” God is personal. The often used evangelistic query, “Have you found Christ?” prompts the somewhat incredulous reply, “I didn’t know He was lost!” According to the Bible, God isn’t lost. We are. And the whole Biblical story from the Garden of Eden to the Garden of Gethsemane is the great ...

654. Jesus and the Baptists

Mark 1:1-8

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Donald B. Strobe

... spent his early years in the carpenter’s shop, and then took up the task of being an itinerant rabbi. John, we are told, spent his early years in the wilderness, living the life of a hermit, and then burst upon the scene as a fire-breathing evangelist. What John did during his years in the wilderness, we do not know. But there has been much speculation...especially since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, and the excavations at Qumran, on the Western shore of the Dead Sea. You may have heard ...

655. Family Reunion

Mark 3:31-35

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Donald B. Strobe

... hath bidden all mankind.” (Number 102) III. JESUS WIDENED THE FAMILY CIRCLE. In the Church we are thrown together with all sorts of people, many of whom we would never come in contact with were it not for the Church. As Methodist evangelist E. Stanley Jones never tired of saying: “Everyone who belongs to Christ belongs to everyone who belongs to Christ.” Frederick Buechner uses the analogy of a wedding to describe the Church: where all sorts of different people are thrown together willy-nilly because ...

656. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

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Donald B. Strobe

... Lord. He says that Jesus knew the disciples’ need for rest. He knew that we cannot be everlastingly at it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Jesus knew that, and so, immediately after He sent forth His disciples on that first evangelistic mission, (a mission which was crowned with success); we read that “The apostles returned to Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught.” (6:30) But as result of their doing and teaching, the crowds pressed in on them so closely that “they ...

657. Radical Surgery

Mark 9:42-50

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Donald B. Strobe

... in their place didst enter in Thyself, sweeter than all pleasure.” (Augustine: “Confessions” ix.I) For such treasure who would not willingly abandon every lesser good? The name of E. Stanley Jones is familiar to most long-time Methodists. He was a missionary-evangelist who traveled around the world for many, many years, especially in India, proclaiming the good news of God’s love in Jesus Christ. Stanley Jones lived a life of joy and peace which came from his faith. In the ninth decade of his life ...

658. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

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Donald B. Strobe

... an officer when he deserted, was caught, was whipped publicly, and put in irons. Before long, he found himself on a slave ship, almost a slave himself. Eventually he became captain of a slave ship. But then he came under the influence of English evangelist George Whitefield, and finally became a clergyman in the Church of England. He wrote his own epitaph, and to this day his tombstone reads: “John Newton, Clerk, once an infidel and libertine, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour, JESUS CHRIST ...

659. On Being in the Wrong Place

Mark 15:21-32

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Donald B. Strobe

... on Simon of Cyrene that he became a Christian...and his children did, also. He became a disciple, as did his sons Alexander and Rufus. What a good thing came out of an inauspicious beginning. There is a well-known and highly respected Australian Methodist evangelist by the name of Alan Walker. Someone once asked Alan Walker how he happened to become a minister. This was the story he told. Alan Walker’s great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother were sent to Australia as convicts. (We all know the ...

660. Holy Monday

Matthew 21:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... exploited others; and was especially severe against those who did so in the name of religion! Josephus said that chief priests skimmed off the top of the offerings while poorer priests starved. Their kind is not all dead yet! In our day we have seen TV evangelists indicted for bilking poor widows out of millions while they lived in luxury. A popular song a couple of years back (by Chet Atkins and Margaret Archer) said: “Woke up this morning, turned on my TV set/ There in living color was something I can ...

661. Good Friday

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Donald B. Strobe

... pains he had to bear; But we believe it was for us He hung and suffered there. And again: Were the whole realm of nature mine That were any offering far too small; Love so amazing, so divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all. Methodist missionary and evangelist E. Stanley Jones once told a story about a custom of the people on the island of Formosa (now Taiwan). Hundreds of years ago it was their custom to offer human sacrifices. A kindly emperor by the name of Goho tried to change all of that. According to ...

662. The Lord's Prayer: A Surplus of Meaning

Matthew 6:5-15

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Eric Ritz

... and its people from the moment it was shared by Jesus. I have always been impressed that the request from the disciples to teach and instruct them how to pray was the only such request in the word of God. They never asked how to conduct an evangelistic mission. They never asked how to conduct an every member canvas. They never asked how to conduct a stewardship campaign. They never asked how to conduct a meeting. But their deepest desire was to learn how to pray like Jesus. They had spent much time with him ...

663. Secrets Shared for the Journey of Life

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Roman soldiers provided round-the-clock security to prevent Paul from escaping, they saw the authentic witness of a man who refused to allow his imprisonment to have the last and deciding word. We know Paul''s witness and work in this unlikely place of evangelistic opportunities led various Roman citizens to share, "If following Jesus makes you this contented and provides you a life of such great purpose and power, we want to be followers of Him, too." Yes, faith must be used in order to make a difference ...

664. The Temptation to Talk Transformation

James 2:14-26

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... and trust IN God. You see Demons can recite scriptures and be awestruck, but Demons are not saved. There is no partnership or relationship between their godly beliefs and their behavior. They know ABOUT being transformed, but they are not transformed. As the evangelist, Luis Palau, writes, "Just reading the Bible doesn''t mean you are a Christian. When Karl Marx was seventeen-years-old, he wrote a fantastic explanation of part of John''s Gospel. Great theologians agree with much of what he said, but Karl ...

665. God's Timing or Our Timing -The Tension of Time

James 4:13-17

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Eric Ritz

... , their host invited them to attend a youth rally at a nearby Christian conference center. The regular song leader was ill that night so Cliff was asked if he might take charge of the music service. He consented and led the music before a young evangelist named Billy stepped up to preach. Cliff Barrows met Billy Graham that night and formed a ministry team that has preached the Gospel throughout the world for nearly 50 years. (3) Yes, Christ deals with us according to His timing. Christ possesses an acute ...

666. Placard Faith, Complex World

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... truth are utterly moving. On the other hand, if you are new to -- or inquiring about -- the faith, this is a good place to begin. It is a text that Luther deemed "the gospel in miniature." While people who utilize the Gospel of John for preaching and evangelistic purposes often see its focus on Jesus, the action of this Gospel is really on God. Whatever Jesus says and does through this Gospel is to be seen as an expression of who God is. When we ask John questions about God's disposition, his enthusiastic ...

667. Time Out!

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... peace then stayed with them all day. The best time for prayer, Catherine concluded, isn’t found. It’s made. (4) Did you catch that? You will never find time for prayer and reflection, you have to make time. The Coffeepot Experiment sounds like a great idea. Missionary evangelist and best-selling author E. Stanley Jones put it like this: “In the pure, strong hours of the morning when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of the Lord and look into His face, and get orders for the ...

668. The Impossible Option

Mark 10:17-31

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Cathy A. Ammlung

... they have to show for it? And sometimes we're just not in synch with the sweeping nature of Jesus' command or his invitation. Sell everything and give all the proceeds to the poor? Follow Jesus? How? Are we supposed to drop everything to become a missionary or evangelist? Our minds boggle. "You've got the wrong person, Jesus!" we protest. "I'm no great saint or preacher or anything, I'm just little old me, trying to muddle through the best I can." No easier is it for us to put ourselves in Jesus' picture ...

669. Grace in the Midst of Weakness

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... repulsed when a reporter maneuvers to become bigger than the story he's relating, or a hostess postures herself as an incomparably brighter star than any celebrity she might interview. Paul says that God's person must never go there. We instinctively flinch when evangelists or authors or the guy who lives just down the street somehow imply that the good news is all about them. Look at verse 5: "For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus' sake ...

670. Grace in the Midst of Suffering

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Glenn McDonald

... God promise? God never promises supernatural deliverance from hardship. From time to time God does indeed provide remarkable rescues. But history, on the whole, informs us that Christians die from accidents and diseases at almost the same rate as non-Christians. Enthusiastic evangelists who say otherwise are dangerously off the mark. They either fail to understand the Bible or reality or both. In fact, some preachers are so eager to get God off the hook when it comes to suffering that they are willing to ...

671. Who Needs a Doctor?

Mark 2:13-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... I. Sweet, "Bibelot", 1990, Vol. 5, No. 3 - 6). Amy Grant was making herself available to be the Word of God that comes to us wherever we are. But there is another side to this coin. Not only does the Word of God come to us where we are, the Evangelistic task of the church is to go where the people are -- and the witnessing task of the Christian is wherever the Christian is. That's what Amy Grant was saying. But there's another thing to note here that is easy to miss. In our standing with Jesus in His ...

672. The Preacher Was Caught by Surprise

Acts 10:23b-48

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King Duncan

... that day comes when every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God. This is our task. That is our reason for being. We have no other. 1. Holy Thursday (Year A), St. Mark the Evangelist Anglican Church, Ottawa, ON (March 28, 2002 L.http://www.bloomquist.ca/publications/Church%20materials/holy%20thursday%20year%20a%202002.html 2. Charlotte Ann Russell, "Summer Prayer," preached at First Congregational Church of Berkeley on July 26, 1998. Dr. Gregory Knox Jones. http ...

673. Replacing a Fallen Comrade

Acts 1:12-26

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King Duncan

... . This allowed them to maintain the credibility of their witness. The people who led them would not be testifying to something they had learned secondhand. The ones selected had been there to see firsthand all that befell our Lord. To paraphrase a famous TV evangelist, "They knew that they knew that they knew." It is important that those who lead the church have a vital faith in Christ. Being the church of Jesus Christ is important business, the most important business in the world. Leaders who do not have ...

674. What If God Is Dependent Upon Our Praying?

2 Chronicles 7:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... abide in me and my words abide in you” - those are the conditions. If we meet those conditions, then, says Jesus, “You can ask what you will, and it will be so.” There’s also the witness from history. John Armott, the great missionary evangelist, who really was responsible for launching the modern missionary era of the church, testified that for years it was his practice as he traveled among the nations of the world to try to study and ferret out the sources of spiritual movements which were doing ...

675. Proclaimers Of The Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... other Christians in Rome were much more bold to proclaim the word without fear. That’s what it says in verse 14. They were much more bold to proclaim the word without fear. So we can proclaim the gospel anywhere. There’s a story about the old evangelist, Billy Sunday, which illustrates this. He was in New York City preaching a revival and he had a day off, so he thought he’d see the sights. He went down to the EmpireStateBuilding, and got on the crowded elevator taking sightseers to the roof. They all ...

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