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826. Proper 22

Job 2:1-10, Psalm 26:1-12, Mark 10:2-16, Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12

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B. David Hostetter

... of all creation, the psalms of your people, the music of the birds, the sounds of all living things. Hear us wherever we gather to praise you name. Amen PRAYER OF DEDICATION God of the gospel, we, along with pastors and elders, evangelists and teachers, healers and nurses, share the responsibility of spreading the good news, identifying with all sorts and conditions of people in order to communicate the word of your grace in Jesus Christ. Amen PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION AND COMMEMORATION God for all ...

827. Lent 3

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:1-14, John 2:13-22, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

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B. David Hostetter

... seasonal commitment to humility before you. In renewing our covenant relationship with you, may the church be as aware of the needs of today as your people were in the forty years of their wandering and the giving of the Old Covenant at Sinai. Bless all evangelists and teachers who proclaim that covenant and the new covenant that Jesus sealed with the blood of his cross. With the good news of your grace in Jesus Christ, order the lives of your people in the spirit of the Risen Christ who taught the perfect ...

828. Lent 1

Deuteronomy 26:1-15, Psalm 91:1-16, Luke 4:1-13, Romans 10:8b-13

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B. David Hostetter

... the vision of all your servants. Grant certainty to those who waver in their faith, and loyalty to those who are not fully committed to serve you. So may the work of your church advance from day to day. Bless all whom you have called to be evangelists and missionaries, that your saving word may reach those who still sit in darkness and despair. We pray for our country and our leaders that we may live wisely, justly, and peaceably. Give us genuine concern for the needs of all, that none may go hungry or ...

829. Proper 25

Psalm 65:1-13, Joel 2:23-32, Luke 18:9-14, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18

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B. David Hostetter

... and extend this structure through us like living stones, being built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to you through Jesus Christ. Make us your prophets, speaking your word of judgment, and evangelists also proclaiming the Good News of salvation to all people who will hear. Sovereign God, overrule the conflict of nations. Grant to the United Nations the ability to bring reconciliation between warring factions. Deliver the world from angry racism that ...

830. First Sunday after the Epiphany (Baptism of Our Lord)

Psalm 29:1-11, Isaiah 42:1-9, Matthew 3:13-17, Acts 10:34-43

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B. David Hostetter

... the whole loaf of our political life, that righteousness may be raised to higher levels and virtue pervade more of our public affairs. As the Magi came seeking the King of the Jews, so may King David's greater Son continue to commission able evangelists and teachers and healers to the distant places of the earth to bring peace, good will to all nations. Save our nation from the hidden power and open shame of gross national sins. Deliver us from unbridled greed and the exploitation of the poor Emancipate ...

831. First Sunday in Lent

Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7, Psalm 32:1-11, Matthew 4:1-11, Romans 5:12-19

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B. David Hostetter

... those who have not truly seen your grace and truth in Jesus Christ, that seeing they may believe and turning to him be forgiven their sins and converted to live anew in the companionship of the church. Bless those whom you have called as evangelists, who leave home and kindred and travel and witness as apostles of Christ. Grant them health, strength, and safety, and graciously use them to lead the lost to Christ. We pray for our country and our leaders, both civil and religious. Direct our counsels, rebuke ...

832. Epiphany 2

Psalm 40:1-17, Isaiah 49:1-7, John 1:29-42, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

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B. David Hostetter

... , as is the habit of some. Gather your people to encourage one another in the faith, and all the more as we see the Day approaching. Revive our congregation and the whole church that nothing may be left undone that we ought to do. We pray for evangelists and missionaries that your Spirit may be upon them anointing them to preach good tidings to the poor, bind up the broken hearted, giving sight to the blind in spirit, and freedom to those enslaved by sin. May your kingdom come, and your will be done on ...

833. Fish Bait

Mark 1:17, 1 Corinthians 15:2-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... for people, because everybody is going to spend eternity some where, but that is not the same thing as receiving eternal life. I was reading the other day about two students at a Baptist seminary in Alabama. They decided they would spend their summer doing evangelistic work in a rural area around Montgomery. One hot summer day they stopped their car in front of a farmhouse and walked up the path through a gauntlet of screaming children and barking dogs. When they knocked on the screen door, they could see ...

834. The Message That WILL Save Your Life

1 Corinthians 15:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... calls simply - The Gospel. Unfortunately, even here in the buckle of the Bible belt, there are a growing number of people who have never heard the Gospel. Even more than that there are many people who have never understood what the Gospel is. One of the greatest evangelists who ever lived in the history of the church once said, "I do not think there is a word in the English language so little understood than the word, 'Gospel' ". When I went to the dictionary on-line and looked up the word "gospel" I became ...

835. Being a Woman of God

Acts 16:11-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... word of encouragement. "And when we had finished our voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, greeted the brethren, and stayed with them one day. On the next day we who were Paul's companions departed and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. And as we stayed many days, a certain prophet name Agabus came down from Judea. When he had come to us, he took Paul's belt, bound his ...

836. The Climb

Joshua 14:6-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... Proverbs 23:26, NJKV) God does not want half a heart. He wants all of it. Jesus himself said, "The greatest commandment of all is to love the Lord your God with all of your heart." One of my heroes is Dwight L. Moody, who was one of the greatest evangelists who ever lived. He was the Billy Graham of his day. His whole life turned in 1872 when he made a visit to England. While he was there, he heard a man preach by the name of Henry Varley. During his message, Henry Varley said something that stuck like glue ...

837. RSVP—By Invitation Only

Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... land; the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind usually were not given in marriage because no one would have them, and these were people who would be happy to come and dine at the Master's banquet. That leads me to say something about our evangelistic emphasis that we are trying to share with you. I want you to know I firmly believe in relational evangelism, and we must begin to build relationships with all the people that we can around us in order to bring them to Jesus Christ. But I also believe ...

838. Minority Report

Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... , even though we had already had close to 70 people saved that night, he was the only one who came forward on that last stanza. He gave his life to Christ and joined our church. I baptized him, and can you believe this—he became a full-time evangelist for Christ. His wife told me when I called her that even though he was dying of lung cancer and could only breathe sixty seconds without an oxygen mask, that on the Monday before he died, he led his nurse to Jesus Christ. God took a stubborn heart, moved ...

839. Daily Homework

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... a disciple or a disciple maker. These verses are known to those of you who may not be familiar with the New Testament as "The Great Commission". This Commission was intended for the entire church, not just pastors, missionaries, seminary graduates or evangelists. It was given to all of us. We are to make disciples of "all nations." That means the Jews, the Gentiles, the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Humanists, the Socialists, the Communists, the Democrat, and the Republican. There is one single ...

840. In God We Trust

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... you many reasons why you ought to trust God, but let me just give this one to think about. When we trust God, God guides us. God doesn't make Xerox copies or clones. He only makes originals. Whether you are a plumber or a preacher, an electrician or an evangelist, a mechanic or a missionary, God has a plan for you. God wants to guide every step of your life. The passage we are going to look at today is one of the greatest passages and one of the most practical passages and helpful passages in all of the ...

841. The Thick Darkness

1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10-11) 22-30, 41-43

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... finished." If my mortal mind could grasp all that God is, then he would be not much more than I am. Fortunately, that is not the case, and therefore God may still have some surprises in store for us. Once, when I was a teenager, I attended an evangelistic meeting where an invitation to "come forward" was issued. While we sang "Just As I Am" or something similar, a young man came up beside me and said, "I think God wants you to go forward." "How do you know that?" I asked. "Otherwise, God wouldn't have told ...

842. The Fellowship of the Bearers of Cold Water

Mark 9:38-41

Illustration

King Duncan

An old man named Calvin had lived a good life as a farmer for years. One day an evangelist came to the community, and, in the course of his stay, visited Calvin and asked him what denomination he was. Calvin answered the question like this: "When my grain gets ready for selling, after I've harvested it and packaged it, I can take it to town by any one ...

843. A Growing Surprise

Mark 9:38-41

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Donald B. Strobe

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 he set pen to paper and ...

844. Mary’s Magnificat

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... 8. He began to read the very thing of which Mary sang. Down through the ages, those who would become influential servants of God have told their stories over and over again. I recall the story of the Baptist preacher, D. L. Moody. He said: "I heard an evangelist one night: This century has yet to see what God could do with one person wholly committed to his will." Moody said in his heart of hearts, "By the grace of God, I'll be that person." He emerged from the obscurity of selling shoes into an influence ...

845. Called by a New Name

Isaiah 62:1-5

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... accomplish specific tasks and has blessed in the process. In the Greek language, the name Paul means "small." Paul exchanged the name of Saul, the first Hebrew king, a name associated with power, to a less important Gentile name. Paul then became an evangelist to the Gentiles with a more appropriate name for his calling, a name the Greeks could easily identify with. Mary George is named after her mother and her grandfather. She would have greatly preferred to be named Claudia, after her father, Claude. For ...

846. Essentials

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... primitive slide projection machine made the rest of the world come alive. Suddenly those people in other countries became real, as he showed their faces and told stories about them. They saw real suffering and anguish, a need for teachers, doctors, nurses, evangelists — caring for people of all stripes. They saw a need, a hunger for the gospel. The young people grew excited. A few bearded elders cautioned the rest, but soon Dunker youths were traveling to India, Africa, and China, baptizing people in the ...

847. Choosing to Believe

1 Kings 18:20-39

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... , or something else. And there are also those spectacular failures among Christians that you can point to and say, "See, Christianity must not be real." Some time ago, a Catholic bishop in Arizona was arrested for a hit-and-run accident. Certain television evangelists have been exposed as money-grabbing frauds. Some pastors have abused children. The list goes on. We can always find reasons not to believe if we want to. So Abraham is exactly right when he tells Dives that sending someone to his brothers ...

848. The Sign of God

Amos 7:7-17

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Stan Purdum

... the townspeople, the will of the faculty, and we believe it is the will of God for you to teach in this college." But at the same time, he had a letter from a friend that said, "I believe it is the will of God for you to go into evangelistic work here in America." He also received a letter from the Methodist Board of Missions saying, "It is our will to send you to India." And at the same time, he had the notion that God's will for him was to go as a missionary to Africa. He describes ...

849. Let Us Show Thanks in Our Example

Matthew 28:16-20

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Brett Blair

... and probably because of a little frustration with the proceedings a young woman from East Africa arose and said, "In my country when we hear that a pagan village is ready to accept the Gospel we don't send books, videos, a Bible or even an evangelist. Rather we send the best Christian family we can find because we have found that the example of a good family speaks louder and more clearly than all the books, speeches, and videos in the world." The truly important things in life are generally the intangibles ...

850. What Pilate Believes

John 18:28-40

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Brian Stoffregen

... ." With that statement is Jesus again putting Pilate on trial: "You have said it, but is it what you believe?" Here is a story that illustrates what is going on in this dialogue between Jesus and Pilate: An Amish man was once asked by an enthusiastic young evangelist whether he had been saved, and whether he had accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior? The gentleman replied, "Why do you ask me such a thing? I could tell you anything. Here are the names of my banker, my grocer, and my farm hands. Ask ...

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