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926. Silence and Darkness

John 18:1-19:42

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John Smylie

... will find a glimpse of God's grace from your past or in this moment as well. The first profound experience of the depth and meaning of Good Friday came to me in 1979. At the time, I was living with the monks of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. By the time Good Friday came around, I had been living with the brothers for most of the year. My job while living with the brothers was to take care of Father Williams. He had been the superior of the order for almost 25 years but ...

927. Busy with a Purpose

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

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Scott Suskovic

... a time to make your request known to God with great details. Certainly there is a time to sing at the top of your lungs. Certainly, there is time to be busy, doing the work of the Lord, but there is also a time to be still. In Mark, the evangelist wrote, "In the morning, while it was still very dark, [Jesus] got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed" (Mark 1:35). Jesus was a very busy man but he was not running aimlessly. To keep centered, he needed to be still. There is an ...

928. A Four Word Memoir

Philippians 1:12-30

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King Duncan

... abound on account of me.” St. Paul couldn’t lose. If he lived, he could continue sharing his faith in Christ, If he died, he knew he would be going home to be with Christ win/win. It’s like a story that is told about the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody. Moody was traveling by boat on one of the Great Lakes when a really bad storm developed. The other passengers on the boat cowered in fear. They even started an impromptu prayer meeting asking God to deliver them from the storm. Moody didn’t join in ...

929. The Need for Transformation

Jonah 3:1-5, 10

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Richard Gribble

The Bishop of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was known to be a great evangelist and preacher who would reach out to unbelievers, scoffers, and cynics. He liked to tell the story of a young man who, many years earlier, stood outside the cathedral and almost on a daily basis would shout derogatory slogans at people entering the church to worship. He would call them ...

930. Commissioned for Christ

2 Kings 2:1-12

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Richard Gribble

... was actually a post-resurrection story that was placed at this point in the synoptic gospels for effect. The fact that all three synoptic writers, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, narrate this event — one of the few so mentioned by all three evangelists — is clear evidence of its significance. What happened on that mountain? Jesus was, for a short period of time, transformed in his external appearance. The scene must have been quite surreal. More importantly, however, what happened to Peter, James, and John ...

931. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

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William J. Carl, III

... little Methodist church in Keswick in the lake district, Southey Street Methodist Church, named after the poet, Robert Southey. But, I also saw this enthusiasm for the gospel in other places. One of the bishops told us about Ian Paisley, that great Presbyterian evangelist in Belfast who preached regularly to huge crowds. One night, as he was just getting started, he said, "Tonight there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth." A woman jumped up from the front row and yelled, "But I got no teeth!" and Paisley ...

932. An Answer Out of the Whirlwind

Job 38:1-7 (34-41)

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Robert A. Hausman

... ?" (v. 2). It takes a secular age like ours to be blasé about the voice of God — to think of an audience with God as some unambiguously good thing. Once God becomes a kindly old grandfather, you get pious politicians pronouncing God's truth and arrogant evangelists assuring us that they talk regularly to God. Job suggests that when God speaks, you had better run for cover. Job had demanded answers, God comes with questions. "Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you!" (v. 3). With a kind of ...

933. Speaking for the Lord

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James Packer

... . He speaks not in his own name but on behalf of the ruler whose deputy he is, and his whole duty and responsibility is to interpret that ruler's mind faithfully to those to whom he is sent. Paul used this "ambassador" image twice both in connection with his evangelistic work. Pray for me, he wrote from prison, "that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak" (Eph. 6:18 ...

934. How to Reach the Masses

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... . Moody asked him to stand on a box and sing. Once a crowd had gathered, Moody spoke briefly and then invited the people to follow him to the nearby convention hall. Soon the auditorium was filled with spiritually hungry people, and the great evangelist preached the gospel to them. Then the convention delegates began to arrive. Moody stopped preaching and said, "Now we must close, as the brethren of the convention wish to come and discuss the topic, 'How to reach the masses.'" Moody graphically illustrated ...

935. The Wonders of the Word

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A man in Kansas City was severely injured in an explosion. Evangelist Robert L. Sumner tells about him in his book The Wonders of the Word of God. The victim's face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight as well as both hands. He was just a new Christian, and one of his greatest disappointments was that he could no ...

936. The Precious Cleanser

Luke 10:25-37

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When evangelist John Wesley (1703-1791) was returning home from a service one night, he was robbed. The thief, however, found his victim to have only a little money and some Christian literature. As the bandit was leaving, Wesley called out, "Stop! I have something more to give you." The surprised robber ...

937. Two Schools of Thought

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While witnessing for Christ on the streets of a city in California, evangelist H.A. Ironside and his associates were often interrupted by questions from the crowd. "There are hundreds of religions in this country, and the followers of each sect think they're right. How can poor plain people like us find out what really is the truth?" Ironside and his friends ...

938. Focus on Your Path

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Warren Wiersbe

It 1873, D.L. Moody first heard British evangelist Henry Varley utter these life changing words: "The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him." It was after an all-night prayer meeting in Dublin, at the home of Henry Bewley. ...

939. Please God Before Man

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English evangelist George Whitefield (1714-1770) learned that it was more important to please God than to please men. Knowing that he was doing what was honoring to the Lord kept him from discouragement when he was falsely accused by his enemies. At one point in his ministry, Whitefield received a vicious ...

940. The Devil Made Me Do It

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Michael Horton

... 's return. Evidently, personal responsibility for sin can be dismissed by blaming it on an external force. Yet Flip Wilson's famous quip, "The devil made me do it" is hardly comedy when we're talking about the biblical view of sin. For these metaphysical evangelists, even personal sins can be attributed to the bad god, since he is, after all, sovereign over this earthly realm as the good god is relatively in charge of the spiritual domain. Here again, then, is the echo of the Gnostics of old. When that ...

941. Healing a Broken Heart

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One night while conducting an evangelistic meeting in the Salvation Army Citadel in Chicago, Booth Tucker preached on the sympathy of Jesus. After his message a man approached him and said, "If your wife had just died, like mine has, and your babies were crying for their mother, who would never come back, you wouldn't ...

942. The Song That Saved a Soldier

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K Hughes

It was Christmas Eve 1875 and Ira Sankey was traveling on a Delaware River steamboat when he was recognized by some of the passengers. His picture had been in the newspaper because he was the song leader for the famous evangelist D.L. Moody. They asked him to sing one of his own hymns, but Sankey demurred, saying that he preferred to sing William B. Bradbury's hymn, "Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us." As he sang, one of the stanzas began, "We are Thine; do Thou befriend us. Be the ...

943. A Telegram From Heaven

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Evangelist Paul Rader had many a talk with a banker in New York. The banker would reply that he was too busy for religion. Time passed and the banker, seriously overworked, was sent to a sanatorium for complete rest. One day God spoke to Paul Rader; the message was clear: "Go ...

944. Tools of Inspection

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Evangelist Fred Brown used three images to describe the purpose of the law. First he likened it to a dentist's little mirror, which he sticks into the patient's mouth. With the mirror he can detect any cavities. But he doesn't drill with it or use it to pull ...

945. A Decision Over the Atlantic

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Warren Wiersbe

It was in 1873, in Dublin that D.L. Moody heard British evangelist Henry Varley utter those life changing words: "The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him." It was after an all-night prayer meeting in Dublin, at the home of Henry Bewley. ...

946. Unfinished Business

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The great evangelist George Whitefield was relating the difficulties of the gospel ministry to some friends. He said that he was weary of the burdens and was glad that his work would soon be over and that he would depart this earthly scene to be with Christ. The others admitted having similar feelings-- ...

947. Will You Accept It?

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An item in the May 2, 1985, Kansas City Times reminds us of a story you may be able to use in an evangelistic message. The item had to do with the attempt by some fans of O. Henry, the short-story writer, to get a pardon for their hero, who was convicted in 1898 of embezzling $784.08 from the bank where he was employed. But you cannot give a pardon to a ...

948. Commit to Christ

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Despite the efforts of evangelists, parachurch ministries, and local churches, the percentage of American adults who are born again Christians is no different now than in 1982, according to a study by the Barna Research Group. The study found that 34% of all Americans can be identified as born again, that is, they have made ...

949. The Triangle Rock

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A famous evangelist told the following incident: I have a friend who in a time of business recession lost his job, a sizable fortune, and his beautiful home. To add to his sorrow, his precious wife died. Yet he tenaciously held to his faith, the only thing he had left. One day when ...

950. Take the Free Gift

John 10:28

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Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, evangelist and founder of Dallas Theological Seminary, told a simple story from his life. It seems that one day Dr. Chafer was walking along the street when he encountered a flagman sitting in a little house at a railroad crossing. He noticed that the man was reading a large family Bible. ...

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Showing 926 to 950 of 1225 results

926. Silence and Darkness

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

John Smylie

927. Busy with a Purpose

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

928. A Four Word Memoir

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

King Duncan

929. The Need for Transformation

Jonah 3:1-5, 10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

930. Commissioned for Christ

2 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

931. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

932. An Answer Out of the Whirlwind

Job 38:1-7 (34-41)

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

933. Speaking for the Lord

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James Packer

934. How to Reach the Masses

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Staff

935. The Wonders of the Word

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936. The Precious Cleanser

Luke 10:25-37

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Staff

937. Two Schools of Thought

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938. Focus on Your Path

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Warren Wiersbe

939. Please God Before Man

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940. The Devil Made Me Do It

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Michael Horton

941. Healing a Broken Heart

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Staff

942. The Song That Saved a Soldier

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K Hughes

943. A Telegram From Heaven

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Staff

944. Tools of Inspection

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945. A Decision Over the Atlantic

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Warren Wiersbe

946. Unfinished Business

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947. Will You Accept It?

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948. Commit to Christ

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949. The Triangle Rock

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950. Take the Free Gift

John 10:28

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