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76. Fish Miracle

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... to get Moses to lead God's people out of slavery. It took a miracle of a great catch of fish to get Peter to surrender all and follow Christ. Do we need a miracle other than the incarnation, the atonement or the resurrection? In this miracle we see to what ... way in following Christ, we cannot be lukewarm. It is all or nothing, hot or cold. Christ calls for nothing less than total surrender, dedication and commitment. Is that asking too much? Sermon Structures 1. The Miracle of a Changed Life (5:1-11). It may ...

77. Beyond Denominationalism

John 13:31-38

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Thomas Slavens

... God.” How can the commandment of the Christ, “Love one another, even as I have loved you,” be applied to the problem of denominationalism? If we seek to love all Christians, we will need to try to understand other denominations. Without surrendering our essential convictions, we can face the differences between other Christians and ourselves intelligently. We who seek to love other Christians should cooperate in service with them. A few years ago a group of ministers to youth were involved in trying ...

78. Enter God

Mark 9:33-37

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Thomas Peterson

... . In recognition of his majesty, justice, and mercy, I stand before his judgment. God is present, and when God is present God is in control. I wait. I wait for him to receive me. Subject to him, I have no further stubborn insistence on my own control. I surrender to him, in petition for his love, knowing that it will come with forgiveness and acceptance. When I receive Jesus into my life, I may feel more comfortable with him, but a meeting with Jesus always works its way back to judgment. I know that I can ...

79. No One Enters The Kingdom… Save With Empty Hands

2 Samuel 5:1-5

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Richard Hasler

... has arrived. We may remember a thrilling moment of decision when we first responded to the awakening of God’s love for us. But, we cannot live in the past no matter how nostalgic that moment might be for us. Our present task is daily surrender, a constant re-commitment of our lives. We never know in advance where submission to the kingship of Christ will lead us. Are we over-burdened today? Do other commitments, legitimate as they may be, crowd out our paramount commitment to Christ? Are we holding back ...

80. God, The Enemy

Luke 12:1-12

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... . The same God who knows the hair-count of our heads and who cares for lowly sparrows wants our allegiance and our love, for we are of more value than many sparrows, Jesus says. Jesus tells us that God does not want to be our enemy, but until we have surrendered first place to him, the outlook for inner peace is bleak. Christ wants us to be able to say, "God is the master of my faith, the captain of my soul." That affirmation has a great bearing on this life, but where that may count most is in the life ...

81. Proper 5

Matthew 9:9-13, Romans 4:1-25, Genesis 22:1-19

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... day God proves himself worthy of our trust. Pastor: Each day God asks that we put him first in our lives, and give him our full surrender. People: We trust God to be all that he promises. May we be all that he asks of us. Collect O Lord, our great Provider, you ... let go and let you be our God. But life has such a grip on us that we find it difficult to come in full surrender to you. Forgive our shallow commitment when we give you only lip service. Give us the strength, courage, and will to live by faith, and ...

82. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Romans 1:1-17, Matthew 1:18-25, Psalm 24:1-10

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CSS

... , or injured pride, tells them to live as they think to be best for them. (The Gospel Lesson) 4. Few people will become prophets after the order of Isaiah, and fewer will become actual martyrs, but all of us can express our sainthood, as did Joseph, in full and complete surrender to God of all we have, all we are, and all we hope to be in life and in death. Isaiah 7:10-14 (15-17) - "Immanuel - God's Word to the World" 1. The word God spoke to Ahaz - Immanuel - has been heard, not by Ahaz alone, but all ...

83. The Excitement of Meaningful Living

John 10:10 · Matthew 6:33 · Ephesians 3:20

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Robert G. Tuttle

... to pain and to fear, he probably would have died; but responding to the Lord, the healing calm continued and took over. He said to himself, "Lord, I belong to you. If you want me to die, that will be your business and I will surrender to you, but I am not going to surrender to death."3 He knew that he could have chosen death that morning; instead he chose to live in Christ. And he did. Do not let the negative, the destructive, the fearful capture your heart. If you do, you are a goner. No matter what ...

84. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

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Raymond Gibson

... we are sinners, who need to confess and repent. We are limited while God is unlimited. When we become aware of these differences, as did Job and Paul - then we discover that we can never repay God for his goodness to us. All we can do is confess and surrender to him in adoration. That is how it always ought to be when we worship. We enter our church, the visible house of the living God, as creatures who know we are coming before our Creator. We remember, as did the psalmist, that "it is he that hath made ...

85. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

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Tom Eberle

... truth. Son: Naturally, why should anyone want to be sacrificed? Mother: I know it will sound like I am talking in circles. But they don’t see that by making this sacrifice they become open to life. Son: But why must I crawl up on this altar and surrender my childhood - surrender my not wanting to know pain and hurt - in order to experience life? Mother: I can’t tell you why it is so. I can only tell you that it is. It is like that escalator, until you risk passing through its mouth, you will not know ...

86. Naaman, the Leper

2 Kings 5:1-27

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Don Yocom

... things that no one but I can see." "Then, if that is true, I must go," was the Master’s reply. "If I stay in your home, you must trust Me. Every room, every drawer, every box must be open to my inspection." The lady awakened from her dream and surrendered all her life to God. We can learn from her dream. You may need to recommit your life to Him. When Queen Victoria first came to the British throne many years ago, the whole of India was not yet under English control. The Punjab was brought in and, to show ...

87. Called into Friendship

John 15:1-17

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O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... after hour and hating myself for it. Do you doubt that life can change? It can happen to you, Tom, here and now." Dick went on to tell about his long fellowship with Alcoholics Anonymous, and how it all began when he bared his soul before Christ and surrendered his pride and admitted his helplessness. Then he added, "Every day I throw myself upon the love of God. Without him to sustain me and to strengthen me daily, I would still be walking in your shoes. Truly he is my closest friend." We can all learn a ...

88. A New Perspective

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

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Gregory J. Johanson

... are caught up in a new experience. I want to use this kind of experience as a symbol to describe some other things about living. Perhaps the most obvious is the experience of being in love. When you are in love with someone, you really do surrender your frame of reference to that person. Your whole orientation to life is captured by that person, and suddenly everything else is different. The world centers around him or her, and your normal ways of thinking about things and feeling about things just don’t ...

89. You're Going To Have A Baby!

Luke 1:26-38

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John R. Brokhoff

... life. Mary shows us that you can be a "nobody" and still be mightily used by God. Dwight L. Moody once said, "The world is still waiting to see what God can do with one totally surrendered life." Grenfell heard him say that and he decided to let God do something with his life. Look what God did with one surrendered peasant girl's life about 2,000 years ago. Something good can happen to you when you turn over your life to God's service. God can do miracles with a life totally dedicated to the Lord ...

90. The Path To Real Success

Mark 8:31--9:1

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King Duncan

... the march and ordered the rest of the men back to his side. They responded without any sign of fear, relief, or panic. When the residents of the great walled city saw the loyalty that Alexander commanded, they realized that defeat was inevitable and they surrendered. (5) In one sense that is a horrible story. God is not going to ask us to do anything that is deliberately self destructive. Nevertheless, imagine what would happen if enough of us out of this ME generation would learn what it means to deny ...

91. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

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King Duncan

... seek it out in the wrong places. We need to tell them there is hope in this world. There is help. There is deliverance. It is found in the person of Jesus. He has authority! This brings us to the final thing to be said from this text. SURRENDER IS ESSENTIAL. We are not lemmings. We are not slaves to some primordial instinct that drives us to inevitable destruction. We are free moral agents. We can choose, but choose we must. If we want the healing of Christ, we must open ourselves to the Spirit of Christ ...

92. When You Are Uncertain About Your Salvation

1 Kings 3:1-15

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King Duncan

... something: Jake's friend was wrong. The One who knows us best loves us most. As E. Stanley Jones once put it, "When you surrender to Christ, all self-hate, all self- loathing, all self-rejection drop away. How can you hate what He loves? How can you reject ... whom Christ died." Now I think that if Christ died for me, there must be something in me worth dying for. When you surrender yourself to Christ, you will be saved, on the one hand, from self-assertion, always wanting to occupy the center of attention; ...

93. Trusting the Truth

James 1:1-18

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Eric Ritz

... all to the superior wisdom of God. As Duffy Robbins has said: God has a plan, Man has a problem. The choice is up to you! The choice is whether or not to surrender all to God''s perfect plan. When we do surrender, we have the mind of God and not a double-mind fighting and quarreling with itself. The Bible--God''s guidebook--helps us to make the right choice, to encounter the truth of God. We also are given a great teacher to help us in that pursuit--the Holy Spirit. ...

94. The Tenacity of Trouble

James 4:1-12

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Eric Ritz

... man bumped into each other. A few moments later, the young man had occasion to reach for his wallet and it was not in his pocket. He ran back and found the young man who had bumped into him. He demanded his wallet. The other young man was scared and surrendered a wallet. The other young man felt good; he had stood up for himself. When he got home, the first thing he saw was his own wallet on the work bench. (4) We must be careful how we address rights and wrongs in the church. Mercy is always better than ...

95. Faith Working In Love

James 2:14-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... rather whether faith without works can save. II. So, let's press for clarity by putting the issue into some bold affirmations. One, there is no salvation without discipleship. What do I mean by that? I mean we can't claim Jesus as Savior without a willingness to surrender to Him as Lord. Two, an emphasis on faith that does not include fidelity to Christ's call to walk in newness of life is a distortion of the Gospel. What do I mean by that? I mean what James was saying in our scripture lesson. Faith that ...

96. A Longer Stride and a Larger Embrace

Galatians 2:11-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... Rapids, Michigan, Sovereign Grace Publishers, 1971, pages 5, 12). The crux of our heart-work towards holiness is our will surrendered to Christ so that God can take possession of it. The apostle Paul expressed it autobiographically in our New ... I live in faith by the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:19-21). Holiness requires the full surrender of our independent self-will in order that God can eradicate our self-orientation. Let me tell you about one of our graduates who is ...

97. Let Not Thy Will Roar, When Thy Power Can But Whisper

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... on jogging pants and running shoes. And five thousand people broke out into laughter. And the dream ended. That’s serious. I went to my study that morning and to my time of prayer after that dream having received a message from the Lord – a message to surrender. To let go. Let me tell you what was going on in my life when I dreamed it and you would know why I dreamed it, perhaps. I was chair of World Evangelism for the World Methodist Council. The wall had fallen, the Soviet Union was crumbling, eastern ...

98. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

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Phil Thrailkill

... God, I encourage you to start today and to start at this altar. I want to live in the kingdom and be so inwardly changed that the impossible becomes the normal. Yes, this is hard, but what else is really worth doing? 1. Edited from “To Illustrate: Surrender,” Leadership, Summer 1992, 47. 2. Matthew 4:12-25. 3. The following litany is a summary of Mt. 5:20-48. 4. Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1998), 183. 5. PreachingToday.com search under Mt. 5:43-48. 6. Idem. 7 ...

99. Proper 17

Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Exodus 3:1-22

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John R. Brokhoff

... , for a child to drown in a pool? Every specific instance must be considered on its own merits. The will of God may change according to the circumstances. For Isaiah the will of God was to resist the Assyrian invaders. For Jeremiah the will of God was to surrender to the Babylonians. And yet, both were right. How can one find out what the will of God is? Paul says when we are transformed by the renewing of our minds, we shall know what is the will of God. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Matthew 16:21-28 1 ...

100. God, the Enemy

Matthew 10:24-39

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Stephen M. Crotts

... . The same God who knows the hair count of our heads and who cares for lowly sparrows wants our allegiance and our love, for we are of more value than many sparrows, Jesus says. Jesus tells us that God does not want to be our enemy, but until we have surrendered first place to him, the outlook for inner peace is bleak. Christ wants us to be able to say, "God is the master of my faith, the captain of my soul." That affirmation has a great bearing on this life, but where that may count most is in the life ...

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