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701. Witnesses

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

... was able to stop him, not even the guards at the tomb. Nothing was able to stop him, not even locked doors. Jesus appeared to Cephas and the disciples; then, to a large gathering of more than 500 believers; then, to James and all the other apostles. He even appeared to the prime persecutor and marauder of the Christian church, Saul, who later became known as Paul, the principle preacher and missionary of the faith. Let's not forget Mary, from whom Jesus had cast out seven demons, who gospel writers Mark and ...

702. The Gospel Of Our Calling

Romans 4:1-25

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Mark J. Molldrem

... needed to be present, like going to church, mealtime, bedtime. So, they blew a whistle to call him home from the other side of the block. God also calls, not with a whistle, but with his Word. Martin Luther in his Small Catechism explains the Third Article of the Apostles' Creed in this way: "I believe that I cannot by my own understanding or effort believe in Jesus Christ my Lord or come to him, but the Holy Spirit calls me through the gospel...." The Gospel of our calling! It is so easy for us to get all ...

703. Wedding: Looking Outward Together

1 John 1:1-4

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Warren Gregory Martin

... I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death." The apostle Paul said: "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it ... can plainly see, that which we celebrate today, the love you (__________) hold in your hearts for one another is many things. Poets and apostles and of course the Son of God have each spoken of the significance of love that is much more than an infatuation, or a ...

704. A Seeking Savior

Luke 10:1-24

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W. Robert McClelland

... God seeks out sinners and takes full responsibility for their salvation did not originate with him. Thomas Aquinas writes of the doctrine. Indeed, long before Calvin was a gleam in his father's eye, Augustine spoke of our election to salvation, as did also the apostle Paul. The doctrine, has of course, raised many questions for logically thinking believers. Yet to deny it, is to deny the biblical God who seeks us out and rescues us from slavery, sin and death. The Negro spiritual has it right, "He's got the ...

705. Beware! Caution! Danger!

Acts 14:8-20

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Barbara Brokhoff

... had a lot of gods there and there was always room for one more (in this case, two more). Paul and Barnabas wondered what they could do. How could they proclaim the truth of the one, true, living God when these Lystrans were so mistaken? The apostles tore their garments - not a very godlike thing to do, when you think about it - but it was a radical Hebrew way of expressing horror and dismay over such a sacrilege. They had to help these men of Lystra realize that they were badly mistaken. They protested ...

706. Preaching The Miracles

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John R. Brokhoff

... hired as servants to do kingdom work.B. We need to renew our estranged relationship with Christ.C. We need to be recalled as apostles. Invitation to Breakfast with Jesus (21:1-1 4). To have breakfast with Jesus is far better than to have breakfast at Tiffany's ... Return (21:1-1 4). Jesus came to the fishing men to get them to come back to him and resume their role as apostles. Things were not the same any more. They were after fish rather than "men." They were separated from him by their sin of faithlessness. ...

707. Breakfast Miracle

John 21:1-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... name; the popular name was Galilee. It received the name from the town of Tiberias located on the lake, founded about 20 A.D. and from a Roman emperor. Again (v. 1) - Jesus revealed himself "again" to the disciples. This was the third time he came to the apostles. Each time it seems to have been for a purpose. The first time was to assure the men that he was alive. The second time was to convince Thomas that he was real. The third time was to reenlist the disciples, particularly Peter, in the leadership of ...

708. The Gift Of Encouragement

Acts 11:19-30

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Erskine White

... the gospels, Barnabas ranks as one of the three or four most important people in the whole New Testament. We first meet him in Acts, chapter four, where we learn that Barnabas wasn't his real name at all. His real name is Joseph, but the apostles renamed him Barnabas, which means, "Son of encouragement" (Acts 4:36). That's the clue to what is really important about this man: his name means "Son of encouragement." Barnabas was able to give to others the priceless gift of encouragement, just as we are called ...

709. Is It God's Will?

Hebrews 2:5-18

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Erskine White

... come and the woman tries to believe, but nothing happens. She still lies there in pain, and paralyzed. Does this mean her faith is weak? Does God not care about her? Paul was never healed of his affliction, either; does this mean that Paul, God's greatest apostle, lacked faith? The Bible says, "Think of all who suffer, as if you shared their pain" (Hebrews 13:3). The problem with many faith healing Christians is that they don't share anyone's pain. They deal with suffering by denying it, and they send the ...

710. Epiphany 5

Psalm 138:1-8, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Judges 6:1-40, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

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George Bass

... long forgotten, were it not for the fact that he not only died, but was resurrected from the grave on the third day. Paul ties his call to the appearance of the risen Lord to him (on the road to Damascus, Luke tells us in Acts). Paul became an apostle because the risen Lord visited him and called him to his service! That's why this reading was selected for this Sunday in Epiphany by most of the churches. A theology of the cross would not be complete, if there were no resurrection of the Lord. And the faith ...

711. Small Church Communion

Acts 2:42-47

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Steven Burt

... has given us a descirption of the Sunday service at his small church in Rome around A.D. 150. On the day which is called Sunday, all who live in the cities or in the countryside gather together in one place. And the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets [scripture] are read as long as there is time. Then, when the reader has finished, the president [preacher], in a discourse [sermon], admonishes and invites the people to practice these examples of virtue. Then we all stand up together and ...

712. A Word For All Reasons

John 20:19-23

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John M. Braaten

... furthermore, if Jesus had returned, his words certainly would not have been kind, not after the way they had behaved. They deserved judgment and Thomas knew it. Perhaps that is one reason why he remained unconvinced in spite of the united testimony of the other apostles. In any case Thomas also suffered from fear and a sense of failure. He knew the same guilt and shame which had plagued the other disciples, and his rejection of the so called "resurrection" only added to his anguish. His friends seemed to be ...

713. Act III, Scene 2

John 21:1-14

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John M. Braaten

... . Or consider the gospel for today. Some disciples go fishing. They fish all night, catching nothing. Then a man appears on the shore instructing them to cast the nets to the other side. Suddenly their nets are full of fish. It is then that the apostle John realizes that this is Jesus risen from the dead and he cries out, "It is the Lord!" Impulsively and with joy Peter jumps into the water and swims for shore. Soon the other disciples arrive, they join in breakfast and have a wonderful time together ...

714. Marked In An Empty Tomb -- The Cross Is Still There

Sermon

George Bass

... of behavior. God simply said to Mollie, ‘I am going to be your God. I am going to hold you close to my heart, and nothing, nothing will ever change that.’ God is not into going back on his promises. He makes them and they stick. The apostle says it so well in this lesson (Romans 8:31-39), ‘I am sure… that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities , nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us ...

715. Playing By A Different Set Of Rules

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

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Larry Goodpaster

... , we work the work of God. And like a small mustard seed, and a pinch of yeast, the small beginning affects the whole. One of the things that impresses me a great deal about the story of the work and ministry of the apostles recorded in the Acts of the Apostles is the way they went about their labors. Peter, James, John, Paul and the others did not go around smashing idols in public view, throwing over the statues of bronze and gold, and ripping up the hymnals of the synagogues. They did not organize ...

716. Illusion Or Reality?

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Harold Warlick

... had what he considered to be a "flaw." The biblical record announces with absolute clarity that it is not always the fittest who reach the Kingdom. If the unfit public does not survive, then we are all doomed. We are all a part of that unfit public. The apostle Paul tried to grasp and articulate the essence of Jesus' life in these words: "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). "There is none righteous, no, not one" (Romans 3:10). To return to my situation in a church-related ...

717. The Heart Of The Gospel

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... today as we come to bury one who was himself a minister. The power of Paul’s ministry came from two things — first of all, the risen Christ and then the people Paul served. “For we know, brethren beloved by God, that God has chosen you ...”, the great apostle says. It’s not that there aren’t problems at Thessalonica, and, in fact, the letter goes on to deal with many of the problems, but through the work of Paul and others the people had turned “to God from idols” and so chosen to “serve a ...

718. The Good Fight

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... even before we were born or were a gleam in our parents’ eyes, and that’s one reason Paul’s words are more a credit to God than they are to Paul. “Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descended from David, as I preached in my gospel ...,” the great apostle wrote. The credit, even for Paul’s will to suffer for the church he loves, is to go to God, Paul says. And I guess that’s one reason I chose these words today. The real issue isn’t how we suffer, it’s for whom we suffer. All kinds ...

719. Where Have All The Visible Miracles Gone?

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... to go to Jerusalem and die on the cross. Peter listened, and then he shouted out, "God forbid Lord! This shall never happen to you (Matthew 16:22)." Of course, Jesus got a little upset with that kind of insubordination, even if it came from the first among his apostles (see Matthew 16:18-19). Of course, it was only natural that Peter got upset. He had just put himself on the line, stuck his neck out, by saying in front of everybody that he believed that Jesus was the Son of God. And then in the next breath ...

720. Good News!

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

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Ron Lavin

... self-centeredness. Captives to sin are set free. Another John, the one for whom Wesley was named, described the good news over 1,700 years before John Wesley got it in terms of restoring God's creation through the redeeming Word. John Translated The Good News John, the apostle, says that we can come home to God, because the God who created us "became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth." In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with ...

721. Death Following Lung Surgery

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Eulogy

Robert Allen

... shown through his life. They list some brief facts, but they are too fragmentary to express the full impact of his life upon yours. All of us realize that life is a gift of God and we somehow vaguely realize that death is a part of living. James, the Apostle, said: "For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away." James was reminding us that life is a fragile thing. The death messenger comes to every person who draws a breath of life in this world. No one ...

722. Bartolome’ de Las Casas Protector Of The Indians

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... “compelled the people to come in,” maintaining that the Spanish crown should force the Indians to become Christians. Las Casas spent five days responding to Sepulveda’s arguments. Among other things, Las Casas argued that it was in dying and not in killing that the apostles had spread the gospel. In the end the view of Las Casas prevailed, and Charles V tightened up the laws against Indian slavery. Las Casas appears to be quite the hero, doesn’t he? And yet he, too, had feet of clay. Early on in ...

723. Thanksgiving

Ephesians 1:1

Sermon

Brett Blair

... God coming to him in the midst of it all and saying in effect, Job, it’s time to count your blessings. Let’s leave that story for a moment and take a look at a second. This one comes from the New Testament, the book of Ephesians. The Apostle Paul now finds himself squarely in the midst of a dingy Roman prison and facing serious charges. Things seem very bad indeed for Paul. But this is only one of a series of mishaps that has occurred during his stormy ministry. He has been shipwrecked, beaten nearly to ...

724. Lifting Hands

1 Timothy 2:8

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... Paul told the church to lift up hands in prayer and not in anger. What do you think he meant by that? Which is better, praying or fighting? (response) Yes, that is right. It is better to pray than to fight. The Apostle Paul knew that if our hands were busy praying, then we couldn't use them to fight. So the next time you are angry and you feel like make a fist hitting somebody, remember instead to do what with your hands? Move your hands into the position of prayer. (response) ...

725. Nothing Difficult Is Ever Easy

Matthew 22:34-40

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Johnny Dean

... , and it’s great if you volunteer to work in various ministries of the church. But above all else, we are to love God and love our neighbor. There is a legend handed down from the early church about John, the beloved disciple of Jesus. Of the twelve original apostles, only John is said to have lived to be a ripe old age. In his later years not only his body but also his eyesight and his mind began to fail him. Eventually, according to the legend, John’s mind had deteriorated to the point that he could ...

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