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901. Like A Potato

Ephesians 4:11

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... the card stock with the scripture reference and verse printed on it.) Paul, who wrote much of the New Testament, gives us some ideas, too. In Ephesians 4:11, he wrote, “The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers.” These are just some of the ways that Paul says we can serve God. They’re all different and they all ultimately serve God. Now, how are people different than potatoes? (Let the children offer some answers.) Very good! Those ...

902. Help Me, I'm Lost

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... lost sheep, we are the lost coin, we are Herman struggling in the waves as the Kon-Tiki moves farther and farther away if we are still keeping Christ at arm’s distance and have never opened ourselves fully to him. Don’t worry I’m not a backwoods evangelist softening you up for an altar call. I am burdened, however, that so many people who drop in at church from time to time are so casual about their faith. They’ve never made it central to their lives. And so, when Gallup does his polls, he discovers ...

903. 1 Timothy 2:1-7

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... , the message that “God our Savior . . . desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (v.4). The prayers that are to be offered “for everyone,” a life lived in “godliness and dignity,” are means to an evangelistic end — bringing the good news to all so that all may be saved. That missional mandate is further revealed by the theological and Christological summary statements found in vv.5-6. The first assertion, “there is one God,” separates the church from all ...

904. Earn, Save, and Give

Lk 16:1-15

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King Duncan

Eighteenth century evangelist John Wesley understood the spiritual struggle many people have with the place of money in their lives. Here was the irony of his ministry. The Wesleyan revivals were turning people, many of whom had serious drinking problems, into sober-minded, hardworking, responsible individuals. In fact, some of Wesley's converts ...

905. Living The Faith For Dummies

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... be late. So, still mouthing excuses, she got back in the car and left him there. She didn't even offer to call anyone. Still dejected the young man just sat back in his car. About an hour later, he saw another cloud of dust and watched as a traveling evangelist drove up in a car with a "Honk if you love Jesus" bumper sticker on the back. The preacher couldn't help either. He was on his way to a preach a 5 day revival. He was already running late because the Lord had told him to help someone on ...

906. Remember: Live Worthy of the Calling

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? [10] He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.) [11] The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, [12] to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, [13] until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the ...

907. We Are Blessed, Adopted and Sealed

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... (v. 11). We are truly blessed. Sometimes all we have to do is look a little deeper like the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion. Sometimes we just have to look deeper and remember. Billy Graham's daughter Anne Graham Lotz is both an author and an evangelist. Her house was broken into a few years ago. The robbers took almost everything of value. The night after the break-in, Ms. Lotz lay awake while fear filled her heart and mind. Not only had all of her valuable possessions been stolen away and so had ...

908. I Doubt It

John 20:19-31, Act 4:32-37

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... of faith is discouragement. Doubt doesn't tear at the heart, discouragement does. Doubt doesn't tear down the spirit or the soul, discouragement does. Living BEYOND A DOUBT means living as encouragers. In Acts 4:32-37 we met one of the New Testament evangelists. He was a traveling partner with Paul. And he went on his own missionary journeys. His name was Barnabas. Actually, his name was Joseph and he was Levite. But he had such an encouraging spirit and personality, that the disciples and members of the ...

909. 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... discontented with or dismissive of the truth of the gospel. These unfounded, unsound doctrines are dismissed by Paul as mere “myth.” Despite disappointments and desertions, Paul concludes by encouraging Timothy to remain fully focused (“always be sober”), unswervingly steadfast (“endure suffering”), and committed to his call (“the work of an evangelist”), so that he might “fully” serve Christ in his ministry.

910. What Kind of Sinners Can Be Members

Luke 18:9-14

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Larry R. Kalajainen

Samuel Colgate, the founder of the Colgate business empire, was a devout Christian, and he told of an incident that took place in the church he attended. During an evangelistic service, an invitation was given at the close of the sermon for all those who wished to turn their lives over to Christ and be forgiven. One of the first persons to walk down the aisle and kneel at the altar was a well-known prostitute. She knelt in very ...

911. When the Church Becomes a Culture of Complainers and Crusaders, What To Do?

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . Friendly fire is the deadliest. In today’s epistle text Paul’s defense is not thrown up because of the attacks of pagans or synagogue-protecting Jews. Paul is defending himself from assaults lobbed at him from the church. Just as the most enthusiastic evangelists seem to always come from converts, so the most nasty nay-sayers seem to come from the most deeply devoted members of the community. Look up any Christian preacher or a particular church ministry. It won’t take but a moment of Googling to ...

912. Counting Our Spiritual Blessings

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... and it’s not cars or houses or clothes or even a turkey at Thanksgiving. What’s important are those people you love. What’s important is our relationship with them and with God. A few years ago, someone broke into the home of Christian author and evangelist Anne Graham Lotz. The robber or robbers took everything of value in the home and left Anne with a deep sense of fear and instability. The night after the break-in, Anne lay awake and contemplated her many fears. But then, she recalled a verse of ...

913. Erasing All Incriminating Evidence

Luke 23:33-43

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King Duncan

Evangelist Tony Campolo says that in his teenage years he was terrified by a visiting pastor's depiction of Judgment Day. This pastor claimed that one day God would show us a movie of every single sinful thought, word, or action we ever committed. And he ended his lurid description with ...

914. Adopted! Thank God!

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... sense, he had been blind, but now he could see. Some of us, on the other hand, just don’t get it. We’ve been in church all our lives. The Christian life is just a synonym for respectability, decency, fitting in. We don’t quite get it when British evangelist, Michael Green says, “Jesus did not come to make bad men good, but to make dead men live.” We don’t think of ourselves as dead in our sins. And yet, if Christ does not live in our hearts, that is exactly what we are. Jesus called us white ...

915. Aha! An Epiphany!

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... was for the man for whom the Nobel peace prize was named. There are some Biblical scholars who contend that our Scripture lesson for today contains a moment of realization an epiphany in the life of Jesus. He had gone out to hear the fiery evangelist John the Baptist preach in the wilderness. When the invitation was given for baptism, Jesus stepped forward. We don’t know what that baptism represented in Jesus’ mind. Obviously it was not a cleansing from sin. Perhaps it was an act of identification with ...

916. St. Andrew Christians

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and the “un-named” disciple (whom biblical tradition has held was John the Beloved disciple) tag along after him. They trusted their former teacher enough to believe he knew what he was talking about. Andrew was Jesus’ first follower. Andrew was Jesus’ first evangelist. Andrew was Jesus’ first missionary. Andrew was Jesus’ first disciple to spread the word and invite and even urge others to come and join him in the discovery of Jesus the Messiah. Andrew’s first act as a disciple is to go, get ...

917. Cheap Talk about an All Powerful God

John 1:29-42

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Shirley Guthrie

... there is so much poverty, suffering, and injustice is obscene. All self-confident talk about a powerful church that has the mandate and the ability to change society with this or that conservative or liberal social/political agenda or with this or that evangelistic program is increasingly absurd in a disintegrating church that cannot solve its own problems, much less the problems of the world. The only gospel that makes sense and can help… is the good news of a God who loves enough to suffer with and ...

918. The Great Physician

Matthew 4:23-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... could undoubtedly share with me stories of people you know whom doctors had given up on, but somehow people prayed, and the doctors were proved wrong. It does happen. Not always not even most of the time but it does happen. Sociologist and respected evangelist Tony Campolo tells of being at a Midwest church-related liberal arts college, and being in the chapel on a particular evening. As he was delivering his lecture, a woman walked down the aisle, accompanied by a young boy whose legs were in braces. She ...

919. The Evidence of Life Is Growth

Mt 4:12-23, 2 Pet 3:18

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King Duncan

... , Your Erroneous Zones, "How do you distinguish between a flower that is alive and one that is dead? The one that is growing is alive. The only evidence of life is growth." So it is with the life of the spirit. One prominent evangelist has complained that despite the burgeoning statistics, the church today is not growing. It is merely getting fat. That is, persons are coming into the church but they are remaining spiritual babes. They are not growing. "We are simply multiplying spiritual babies," he charges ...

920. K.I.S.S.

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... early years of our country’s history, there were two different approaches to evangelism by two of our great denominations. The Methodist Church felt the West was expanding so fast that there wasn’t time to thoroughly equip and train preachers and lay evangelists. They sent out anyone who had the call, and the West was evangelized by Methodist circuit riders. The Presbyterians on the other hand felt the gospel was so important it could be entrusted only to seminary graduates with a background in Greek ...

921. John 20:19-31

John 20:19-23

Sweet

... any responses made by the disciples themselves in their first post-resurrection encounter with Jesus, technically called a “christophany.” In this first meeting Jesus does all the talking and takes all the actions. Not surprising in the most intentionally evangelistic of the four gospels, in John’s narration Jesus’ first message to his disciples appears to be missional. Yet perhaps this first directive is less focused on the missional activities the first disciples will begin and more on their new ...

922. An Invitation to Tired Souls

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Imagine then how effective our lives could be if we worked in tandem with the One who is the source of all ideas, the source of all energy, the source of all that has ever been created. The English theologian F. B. Meyer once visited the American evangelist Dwight L. Moody in Northfield, Massachusetts. Moody, showing Meyer a team of oxen, said that whenever one of those oxen was being yoked in, the other, which might be on the far side of the farmyard, would come trotting up and stand beside the other one ...

923. The Receptive Heart

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... does the rocky ground refer to? How about the complacent church member with one foot inside the church and one foot out? More concerned with respectability than with righteousness, this is the half-hearted saint who never makes a full commitment to Christ and his kingdom. Evangelist Donald Grey Barnhouse told a story for years about a man who bought a bottle of perfume in Paris at a very good price and brought it home. It was very expensive perfume in a very beautiful bottle. His wife was proud of it, and ...

924. Jesus Christ, Superstar

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... his Father's hands he commends his spirit. His body is taken to a tomb. Curtain. Yes, the faithful complain about leaving the story there, just as when they see Mel Gibson's 2004 movie, The Passion Of The Christ. If this were touted as an evangelistic tool, the complaint would be legitimate, but it is not — this is a secular production that seeks to entertain ... and it does. Some of the music is wonderful and found great success in record sales. My particular favorite is "King Herod's Song" done up in ...

925. Where Would We Be Without...?

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... difference in his life — Johann Von Staupitz. Here is another who made a big difference — William Farel, the fiery forerunner of John Calvin during the sixteenth-century Reformation of Geneva. Historian John McNeill calls Farel, "The venturesome, big-voiced, red-bearded little evangelist." Later, looking back at his career, Calvin noted, "Being by nature a bit shy, I always loved retirement. But God has so whirled me around by various events that he has never let me rest anywhere, but has thrust me into ...

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