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901. So Close ... But Yet So Far

Luke 9:10-17

Sermon

Larry Powell

... had been with Jesus and the 12 for better part of the day. Jesus had spoken to them about the kingdom of God and healed those who had need of healing. Now, the sun was low in the sky and it was time to think of physical provisions. The disciples are to be commended for approaching Jesus on behalf of the faithful who had stayed for the duration, rather than referring to their own fatigue and hunger, "And the 12 came and said to him, 'Send the crowd away, to go into the villages and country round about, to ...

902. The Shouting Stones

Luke 19:40

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... very biggest days in our church year. Can you imagine how excited you would have been if you had been one of Jesus' disciples and walked beside him, while he rode a small donkey into the great city of Jerusalem? The crowds were cheering, and waving ... want you to have one of these stones, so that you will remember Palm Sunday as the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem and his disciples made a great chorus, proclaiming Jesus as "the King who came in the name of the Lord." It will also help you to remember that ...

903. Death Of A Dream - Birth Of A Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... of "the mighty acts of God." The end result of the Spirit's descent upon those waiting people in the upper room was the birth of the church. The centripetal power, just opposite of the Tower of Babel again, of the Spirit was to gather, unite, and bring disciples and new believers into a community of faith with Christ (not self) at the center. Death of a dream or the birth of the church? The dream was to glorify self, the Spirit was to glorify God. The dream died on the plain of Shinar. The promise became ...

904. Who Do You say He Is?

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

Erskine White

... . He especially failed on the night Jesus was arrested, when he denied three times that he knew his Lord and ran away to save his own skin. Even so, you have to like Peter because he is very much like any of us - an ordinary person trying to be a disciple, who happens to fall short many times. But Peter falls short so often because he is willing to stretch his reach beyond his grasp. He is willing to learn, to grow, to be challenged; he is willing to take risks in faith. That's what we see happening in our ...

905. Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17, Psalm 116:1-19, Exodus 12:1-30, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, Mark 14:12-26, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 10:19-39, Luke 22:7-38

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George Bass

... 's death on the cross as an act that gains forgiveness of sins and reunion with God for all repentant sinners. John 13:1-15 (RC, E) John's account of the last supper portrays Jesus as the servant who is about to suffer; Christ washes the feet of the disciples so that they will understand that he came into the world as the servant who, alone, is able to deliver humanity from sin and death. To Peter's objection, "You shall never wash my feet," Jesus replies, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me ...

906. The Problem With Miracles In Our Time

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

William J. Carl

... of Jesus. I don’t know how these things happen. I just know they do and only the eyes of faith can see them. I don’t know if the waters parted for Moses the way they did for Charlton Heston or what exactly happened by that boat with the disciples that day, but I can tell you this -- you’ll never convince them that God wasn’t there. Whatever happened, God intervened and saved them. And it still happens today, in our world, in our time. I know it’s not easy to believe in miracles in our time. The ...

907. Good News From A Graveyard

John 20:1-9

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... are going to understand the power that is embedded in the very heart of Easter, we need to come to terms with the disciples' strange reaction of bewilderment and fear. That is hard to do because Easter comes as no surprise to us. We've been waiting ... joy she ran to him pell-mell so she might be embraced by him. He had sought her out in love and compassion; he came to the disciples in the same way ... and he still comes to you and you and to me, lovingly, compassionately. That ought to mean a great deal to us ...

908. Don’t Be Alarmed

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... space. It is a home, and its heart is not something the scientists are always looking for -- the source of life -- the heart of it is someone. It is the breathtaking news that the risen and living Lord is here and alive. Here are our life and faith as his disciples. We don’t gather today to gaze into an empty tomb. We don’t pass by a casket to view the remains. Rather, we gather to hear again that messenger say to our lives -- don’t be alarmed; he is risen. He has risen -- not to heaven but to be ...

909. Here Comes The King

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

George Bass

... of death and witnessed his compassionate healing of the sick and infirmed. It had to be that way, just as the silence of the Ethiopian Jews, who were airlifted to Jerusalem, was - and had to be - broken by a young boy with a flute. Jesus says that if the disciples had not heralded his advent into Jerusalem, the "very stones would cry out" and declare "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord" because it was for this that he came into the world. Jesus was born to be King, the anointed of God ...

910. Lent

Sermon

Betty Lynn Schwab

... to them saying, 'Take this, this is my body given for you.' " Bread was a sign of sacrifice. Reader 2: Bread was also a sign of betrayal. Psalm 41:9 says "Even my bosom friend ... who ate of my bread" has betrayed me. After Jesus told the disciples about his betrayal, he dipped a piece of bread and gave it to Judas Iscariot. After eating this bread, Judas went out and betrayed Jesus to the religious authority of his day. Bread was a sign of betrayal. Reader 1: The ancient Festival of Shavuot teaches us an ...

911. The Meaning of Life

John 17:6-19

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Brett Blair

... by an expert in the law, "What is the greatest commandment in all the law?" Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and all your mind." And on the evening before his crucifixion, Jesus prays. He prays that the disciples will come to know God in a personal way. Actually Jesus is simply echoing those words of Moses. He is restating the lines in a brief phrase: "That they may know you, the only true God." Jesus isn’t talking about knowing God like you know your ABC ...

912. The Benefit of the Doubt

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ’ll tell you. We have to face the facts – He’s dead and it’s over! We lost!" When Jesus does appear to the ten disciples gathered behind closed doors in Jerusalem, he doesn’t deny the fact of his death. He doesn’t say, "Hey, look at me! They never ... them the nail holes in his hands and feet and the spear wound in his side, the birth marks of his new life. And the disciples knew that he had done exactly as he said. All except Thomas, that is. Poor Thomas. Even though he was not the only doubter in ...

913. Practicing and Preaching

Acts 7:54--8:1a

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... Stephen wasn't expected to be preaching Christ at all. His job was as an administrator, not a pastor. Of more significance than how Stephen died was how he lived. For this man was a crucial member of the early church, although he had no credentials as disciple, apostle, or cleric. What was important about Stephen - and significant for us today - is told as a story earlier in the book of Acts. It's a watershed event in the life of the church. Imagine the scene. So rapidly had the church in Jerusalem been ...

914. The Promise and the Task

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... coming of the Holy Spirit, the promise of our Lord’s being with his own, the promise of his coming again in a way that would be visible and glorious. Now, no more seeing and nothing to go on with but his word, they were to make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching as Jesus commissioned them. As we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus, let this promise be at the center of our whole sense of the event and its meaning for us. We have no interest in cosmology, levitation, angels, and other diversions ...

915. Second Lesson

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

... " or detract from it in the eyes of people whom they met and to whom they preached. Christian freedom doesn’t mean believers can live any way they want to, do anything that pleases them; that is the way of the world, not the way of God. Jesus told the disciples, "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them." He did that by his perfect obedience to the law of God, which cost him his life on the cross, and by giving new meaning to ...

916. Follow the Leader

Mark 1:14-20

Children's Sermon

... I am talking about is to say Jesus wanted them to "mirror his reflection." He wanted them to look like him, and to have his love in their hearts. That is what Jesus wants us to do today also. I want to show you a picture of a modern-day disciple - a person who can be just like Jesus, and reflect his love to other people. Look at this mirror, each one of you. Do you see that person? It is you, isn’t it? Isn’t that a beautiful person in that mirror? That person you are looking at is ...

917. A Glory Revealed in Grace and Love

John 13:1-17

Sermon

... before the foundation of the world, Lord of lords and King of kings, the one through whom and by whom and for whom are all things - here we see him remove his outer garments, put on a towel, and then, one by one, do the work of slaves for his disciples. Can you imagine how that must have felt? Can you conceive the turmoil Jesus’ simple acts created in the hearts of the twelve? "Lord Jesus, you’ve got it all mixed up! I should wash your feet. I am the servant, you are the Lord. Why are you turning the ...

918. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

Sermon

George Bass

... couldn’t have penetrated the gloom of that grave at that hour of the new day. To her, it meant one thing: Jesus’ body had been stolen by his enemies. It could only have been the enemies of Christ who would do such a thing because she knew where the disciples had been that night. So Mary turned and ran to them as fast as she could and told Peter what must have been her first thought when she saw that the stone had been removed from the mouth of the tomb, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb ...

919. Nag, Nag, Nag!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... even converted my wife. Until she started going among Methodists, she had such a tongue! And now she is quiet as a lamb." The judge shouted, "Let them go! Let them all go and convert all the nagging wives in town!" In today’s Gospel lesson Jesus and the disciples were confronted with a nagging woman. They came to Jesus with the demand, "Get that woman off our backs!" In the words of the text, they said, "Send her away, for she is crying after us." Is nagging a good thing? Should men take it up to get what ...

920. The Time of Our Visitation

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... of the drama in its fullness until we have viewed act three. The scene is set in the garden where is located the new tomb which belongs to Joseph of Arimathea, the tomb in which no body has ever been laid - not until last Friday evening when the disciples of Jesus had removed the body of Jesus from the cross and brought it here. Now, on Sunday morning, a huge stone bars the entry-way, the, security seal of the Roman Empire is on it, and armed soldiers stand guard nearby. And here this morning something ...

921. A Haven For Troubled Hearts

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Brett Blair

... me first and no servant is greater than his master. - Next he is honest. He tells them they will grieve when he leaves. But one day… Oh, one day, he tells the, your grief will turn to joy! - And finally he prays. He prays for himself. He prays for his disciples. And then he prays for you. (Respectively: 14:26, 14:27, 15:5, 15:9, 15:18, 16:20, 17:1, 6, 20) Isn’t that a remarkable after dinner conversation? The gospel of John has 21 chapters and five of them record the events of Thursday night around the ...

922. Choosing Fruit

1 Timothy 2:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... pieces, then you can proceed as outlined.] Now that you have made your choice and we know what your choice is, I am going to give you what you have chosen. Choosing what you want is important, and it was certainly important to God when he chose his disciples. Paul was one of the disciples and he knew that he had been chosen by God. There were a lot of men available when God chose Paul, but God wanted Paul to be his minister and missionary. It is with God the same way that it is with you. All of the fruit ...

923. Igniting the Church

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . If we just want to raise money, we could hold raffles and give door prizes. But if we want to make disciples, mature disciples, and mobilize disciples, if we want to be the church, it will require the power of God. It is through prayer alone that such power is ... greatly embarrassed and the crowd became angry. Jesus arrived in the nick of time. He healed the boy. Later, when the disciples were alone with Jesus, they asked him, "Why did we fail?" Jesus replied, in the words of the Living Bible translation, " ...

924. Never Underestimate The Power of a Cup of Cold Water

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Cup of Water is a Sign that Christ is Welcome. I cannot begin to tell you the reward that is waiting for everyone of us who believe. Not even the smallest kindness will be missed by a Father who is ever watching. And while it is true that as a disciples of Christ we must live a life of peace; we must be ever vigilant that that peace can also be a dagger. Commitment to Christ can separate us form those we love. Jesus brings peace but it’s peace between God and man. There is no guarantee that that peace ...

925. Who Do You Say I Am?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the first of these three questions he did so in his first and only trip outside of Palestine. It was a critical moment in the life of our Lord. He was at the end of his ministry and it was high time that he get alone with his disciples far from the watchful eyes of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and other religious authorities and assess the last three years of ministry. Did they now understand who he was? Were all his efforts fruitful or had it all been in vain? It was a critical moment and critical moments ...

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