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926. Readying the Twelve for Mission

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... and are directed to do something about it. Remember that soul-wrenching night in the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus agonized in prayer over the choice of the Cross. There came the moment when he had prayed the matter through, and then he arose and said to the disciples, "Arise, let us be going ..." (Matthew 26:46 RSV). That is the kind of prayer we must recover, so that as we rise from our knees, the direction is clear and the decision then is ours. And, as we move outward and onward, ours will be the ...

927. Ascension Day

Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Mark 16:1-20

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... knew that the one they had mourned was alive. People: LET US DO AS THEY DID: BLESS GOD JOYFULLY FOR THE LIFE AND PROMISE WE HAVE IN THE RISEN AND ASCENDED CHRIST! Collect Wonderful God, who raised and exalted Jesus to the blessedness of his disciples, make us feel again their first-hand experience; that we, too, may return to our everyday lives with a sense of joy and an attitude of blessing toward you. In the name of the ascended Christ we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession All-compassionate God, we confess ...

928. Crowned With Victory

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... Jesus Christ from the dead. People to this day have never been able to deny or disprove this amazing event. There is no other fact in the entire Christian faith which is more widely accepted than Christ’s Resurrection on that first Easter morning. When the disciples met to choose a successor to Judas, the basis for their choice was first of all - he had to be an eyewitness to the Resurrection. No second rate opinion or hearsay was accepted. He had to know from his own personal experience. G. K. Chesterton ...

929. The Passing of the Peace

John 20:24-31

Sermon

George Bass

... resurrected Lord strictly at face value and by faith alone. And when, through the grace of God, we have faith enough to cry out, "My Lord and my God," as Thomas did, perhaps we, too, will take the mission of the church just as seriously as did Thomas and the disciples after they had seen the Lord. Do you think they were able to blot out from their minds their weaknesses and sins in the memories of those last days before his death? I doubt very much if any of them ever forgot, and they must have lived in the ...

930. Man Of Sorrows

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Larry Powell

... his soul to death" (Isaiah 53:12). In the garden he had said, "My betrayer comes, arise and let us go" (Mark 14:42). Observe that he did not say, "Let us go the other way," but rather, "Let us go to meet him." At his arrest, one of the disciples drew a sword and was ready to do battle, but Jesus calmly said, "Put your sword away; I could summon twelve legions of angels to be at my disposal, but it must happen this way." Without a struggle, he accompanied his captors. It is Friday of the last week. Attention ...

931. A Mountain Of Meaning

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... culmination of the ages, this was the hopes and fears of all the years, this was God’s Son. II This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to Him! There is a mountain of meaning in these words. Let’s look at the second idea: Whom I love. The disciples were hearing from heaven itself. This is my Son, whom I love. I suppose you could say there were many whom God loved: Adam he loved but Adam disappointed him. Abraham believed God that he would have son and he offered up his son as a sacrifice but even Abraham ...

932. Worthwhile Arguments

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Richard Patt

... , if you’re going to argue with your wife about whether to paint the bedroom blue or yellow, realize the limits built in to such an exchange. Flip a coin and have it over with, before someone gets hurt on the inside. Notice how Jesus dealt with the disciples’ arguing here. He didn’t become indignant and join them, although he had a right to. He didn’t blast in on them with words that burned. He didn’t chastise them. He didn’t overtly claim to be the greatest himself (even though in his supreme ...

933. The Lure Of The Easy Way

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - fight to the very end." Can you imagine General Booth writing a book entitled Looking Out For Number One? What has happened to us? "If any man or worman would be my disciple," Jesus says to us, "Let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." That is the word we desperately need to hear. It is a call, as M. Scott Peck would phrase it to "a road less travelled." In Zig Ziglar's analogy it is the lonely ...

934. Idle Tale Or Eternal Truth?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... to heroic, from doubting to death defying, the radical change that took place in the lives of those who followed Jesus is not the kind of change one will find among persons who are perpetuating a fraud. One does not die defending a fairy tale. The disciples were witness to an event that divides all of human history into before and after. Jesus Christ had risen from the dead! There has been much interest of late in the subject of life after death. Researchers have found that reports of persons who have been ...

935. Eating Cold Grits

John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... bear, and a candy apple. I learned a valuable lesson that day: Being lost is terrible...being found is wonderful!" (3) Jesus wanted his disciples to know that even though he would no longer be with them he would not let them get lost. He would be with them ... not respond to such a sacrifice? Who would not follow such an example? WHO WOULD NOT WELCOME HAVING A FRIEND LIKE JESUS? The disciples were still confused. It was Philip who asked, "Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied." There is a hint of frustration ...

936. Wrong About Christ

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... several times what was going happen to him once they reached Jerusalem. "The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again." But even though they heard it regularly, the disciples did not fully comprehend what it was that Jesus was trying to tell them. Maybe they thought he was telling them another parable ” one which they still hadn't grasped the meaning of. Maybe they were too frightened to think of the implications of what ...

937. If You Really Want To Be Helpful

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, as we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. The disciples discovered that through prayer, God gave them great power to help others. For example, after Jesus had risen from the dead and ascended to the Father, Peter, the leader of the early church, was taken prisoner by King Herod. Herod intended to kill Peter. The ...

938. The Servant-king

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Angela Akers

... , is the key to understanding all of Jesus' past words and actions. What is he saying here? "My love for you knows no end. You are precious to me, so precious that no sacrifice is too great for you." As you picture Jesus kneeling in front of his disciples, remember this: He knew that within a matter of hours, all of these men would desert him. At his hour of greatest need, they would fail him. Judas was already plotting against him. Peter would soon deny him. What did Jesus think he was doing? That's easy ...

939. Excited, Motivated, Changed!

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... like an alligator or a dragon. He had heard the minister read about it from the Bible. Using a concordance, she read him those passages containing the word zeal until suddenly, very excited, he told her to stop. The line was from John, 2:17, "And his disciples remembered that it was written, `The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.'" Young Teddy wanted nothing to do with this zeal that could eat people up. There are people today who are scared to death of the zeal of the Lord. They associate excitement or ...

940. Are We Able?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... and wobbly and wavering in our faith. Let us not point the finger unless and until we are willing to take the road they eventually took - the road of costly discipleship. David Read says: “The more I ponder it the more sure I am that these two disciples were right in their response and that our inclination to dismiss them as a couple of brash, boastful young men derives from our own unwillingness to commit ourselves, from the lack of nerve that has been paralyzing the Church today. Aren’t most of us so ...

941. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 2:29). "I must preach the Kingdom" (Luke 4:43). "I must walk today and tomorrow" (Luke 13: 33). Over and over again, He told his disciples how He must go to the Cross. Jesus was one who knew that He had a divine destiny to fulfill. God's Will was His Will ... s a telling commentary upon us, isn't it? For Christians, it boils down to this. First and foremost, we must remember that we are disciples if we are going to sustain a long obedience in the same direction. III. But, not only must we know who we are, and ...

942. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... over with fish. But, if you were to ask any of them later if this made them successful, they would have said no. Their hungry souls yearned for more than full nets. The something more is what this story is really about. When their fishing was done, the disciples came to shore and communed with Christ. Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Jesus took some bread and gave it to them, and did the same with some of the fish. It was somewhat like the meal they shared with him at the last supper. This ...

943. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Utterly amazed, they asked: “Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native tongue?” Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” Some, however, made fun of the disciples and said, “They have had too much wine.” At this point Simon Peter addresses the crowd. “These men are not drunk, as you suppose,” he says. “It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘In the ...

944. Have You Heard?

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... meditating, or whatever it is that you are doing up here in this cave, and get to work." Which is just like the call to the disciples. "Follow me. I've got something for you to do. I will make you fishers of men." Jesus didn't say, "Follow me, and I will ... mean? So we look at what comes next. It is the last verse in this text. Matthew says that Jesus, after he called the disciples, began "preaching the good news and bringing healing to all the people." So if we are to follow Jesus, I would imagine that is ...

945. The Things That Make for Peace

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... shouting. Of course, like all the writers, Luke agrees they were shouting something like, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" which identifies Jesus as the Messiah. But Luke adds one other cheer as well. No one else has this. Luke says that the disciples said, "Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" It sounds like what the angels sang at his birth, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace!" This is one of the last scenes in his story. It is reminiscent of one of the first scenes ...

946. What's The Use?

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that in the lesson that was read to us this morning from the Gospel of John. It is the famous scene of Thomas, who was called "Thomas the Doubter," seeing with his own eyes the evidence of Jesus' Resurrection. Thomas was not present the first time Jesus appeared to the disciples in the Upper Room. And because he hadn't been there, when they told him about it, he doubted it. He said, "I won't believe until I can see the print of the nails in his hands, and put my hand on them." In our lesson for this morning ...

947. Proper 14

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 19:9-18, Jonah 2:1-10, Romans 9:1-29, Romans 9:30--10:21, Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... -33 1. Faith During Troubled Times. 14:22-33. Need: It is easy to have faith when all goes well. It is not much of a test of faith when we sit in comfort and prosperity during church services. Faith is seen like a lamp when night comes. The disciples had a night experience on the sea when their faith was challenged. The sermon is needed to encourage people to develop their faith in good times that their faith fail not in times of crises. Outline: A faith for troubled times. a. Faith of obedience - v. 22. b ...

948. The True Definition of a Sanctuary

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... has already triumphed? The true definition of a sanctuary isn't a safe place from risks. A true definition of a sanctuary is a safe place to take risks. When is it that the church became such a risk-free-at-any-cost zone? Where is it Jesus called his disciples to follow him and he would lead them into a risk-free-at-any-cost life? After one of my sermons, a brother came up to me and said: "You shined my shoes really good this morning." I had no idea what he was talking about until I asked someone ...

949. Jedi Christians

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... lets his feet take him where his heart knows Jesus is calling him to be. As long as Peter looks to Jesus and is wholly focused on following him, his feet stay dry and his future is secure. But, typical of Peter, even as he's the first of the disciples to grasp the power and freedom that are his when he follows Jesus, so Peter is also the first to draw back, retreat, and to put the brakes on his faith journey. How did it happen. How did this believer cease to be a follower? Peter noticed the strong wind ...

950. What's Left Is Right

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... exposed as foolish and flawed. Their quarrel over who would be the greatest and get heaven's glory seat is dismissed by the looming reality of Jesus' inglorious death. But Jesus doesn't just dash ashes on the classist ice-cream hopes of his disciples. Jesus shows them, gently at first but more firmly as he goes along, how they must learn to redefine greatness, how radically they must realign their concept of success and achievement, how totally they must rid themselves of ideas of class. Jesus turned upside ...

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