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1126. The Bedrock of Faith

Mark 13:1-8 · Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Brett Blair

... hands. Reiner: So when did you start worshiping the Lord? Brooks: Well, one day a big thunderstorm came up, and a lightning bolt hit Phil. We gathered around and saw that he was dead. Then we said to one another, "There's somthin' bigger than Phil!" The disciples are told in verse 5: “Watch out, that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name claiming, “I am he,’ and will deceive many.” My friends there are a lot of false messiahs out there claiming to have the answers, deranged people trying to ...

1127. The Danger of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Jesus. You could have slept late - lots of people do. You could have gone to the lake or played golf; its a good day for that. But perhaps you are here in worship because you are trying, in your own little corner of the world, to follow Jesus, be a disciple. And it is my job to help you do just that...primarily by exposing you to God's instructive word in scripture. But wait until you hear today's gospel lesson! Read Luke 14:25-33 Hmm. Not exactly a "church growth" text, is it? I can imagine your Pastor ...

1128. Jesus' Object Lesson

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... for them, in loving them, in sacrificing for them we not only learn with our heads, we mature with our hearts. WE BECOME GREATER PERSONS SPIRITUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY AS WE LAY DOWN OUR LIVES FOR THE SMALLEST OF GOD'S CHILDREN. This is why Jesus was saying to his disciples that if they wanted to learn greatness they would need to learn to receive a little child: to be responsible for, to encourage, to cradle in one's arms in the midst of life's hurts. I don't want to get too nostalgic with regard to this ...

1129. Lesson From A Blind Man

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... crying out, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me." Many of the people in the crowd started to rebuke him and tell him not to make a scene, but he cried out all the more, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me." Jesus stopped and said to his disciples, "Call him." They called Bartimaeus saying, "Take heart. Arise, He is calling for you." Look what Bartimaeus did next. He threw off his mantle and sprang up and came to Jesus. Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to Him ...

1130. Hey! I Want To Believe!

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... HIM. That is the promise of the Scripture. He will not forever hide Himself from us. "If with all your heart you truly seek Me, you shall surely find Me." (Jeremiah 29:13) Thus says our God. Thomas did. Eight days later he was in a room with the other disciples. The doors were shut and yet Christ appeared to them. "Peace be with you," he said. Then he turned to Thomas and said, "Put your fingers here and see my hands; and put out your hand and place it in my side. Do not be faithless, but believing." Thomas ...

1131. How Do We Choose?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's womb will be with us and will take our decision and use it to our best good and the best good of those we love. For, you see, this text is not about decision making at all, but about trust. God probably smiled and shook His head when the disciples cast lots. But they were His people and He wasn't going to let their decision turn out bad, regardless of how they made it. And so it is with us. Father Thomas Merton was going through a time of personal depression. He wrote in his journal: "My Lord God ...

1132. A New Kind Of Faith

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... to become his voice, his hands, legs. Then Jesus breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit." This is significant. John, the author of the gospel bearing his name, wanted his readers to know that Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit into the disciples in the same way God breathed life into Adam, the first human. For some unknown reason, however, one of the apostles, Thomas, was missing that first Easter evening. Thomas had not seen the risen Lord like the others had. The apostles told Thomas, "We ...

1133. Why Are You Troubled?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... bitterness in a manner that has since become a family legend. She said: "I know the Lord won't send me more trouble than I have strength to bear, but I do wish He didn't have quite such a good opinion of me!" (2) That's exactly where the disciples were. Things looked pretty bleak. What could the future hold for them? Can you relate to that? If you can, I have some good news for you. It's a discovery that Sue Monk Kidd shared in Guideposts sometime back. When Sue's husband was seriously ill and undergoing ...

1134. Flies On The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... us that poor Peter does not know what he was saying. In the third painting a cloud has appeared and enveloped these men. The disciples, hidden by the cloud, are afraid. A voice is coming from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to ... For the Christian, however, there is a more pressing issue. Death has been defeated! There on the Mount of Transfiguration the disciples see Jesus and Moses and Elijah. How long had Moses and Elijah been dead? Five hundred years, a thousand? No matter ...

1135. He Is Who He Says He Is

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... up her husband's policy and discovered it was worth several hundred thousands of dollars. This poor lady was wealthy, but she had no idea. No one had ever explained to her how life insurance works. Perhaps no one has ever explained to you that as a disciple of Jesus Christ, you too are rich. He is available to you ” his love, his power, his joy. You can experience his presence in you life beginning this moment. Why? Because he is who he says he is. He is our Savior, Redeemer, and Lord. 1. Rep. David ...

1136. Convinced Beyond A Doubt

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... encounter him in the Scriptures. In John 14: 1ff, we read one of the most famous passages in the New Testament. Jesus says to his disciples, "Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were ... by their experience of the risen Christ. Among those was Thomas himself. The next time we meet Thomas he is with the other disciples in a fishing boat. The risen Christ says to them, "Cast your nets on the other side." My guess is that Thomas was ...

1137. Counterfeit Christianity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... dollar bill--because this was the most widely counterfeited bill. This new twenty contained a few new wrinkles that made it almost impossible to reproduce. In today's lesson, Jesus warned his disciples about counterfeit Christianity. "Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven," Jesus tells his disciples, "but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven." It appears from Jesus' teaching that it is possible to know all the right phrases, maintain a pious expression ...

1138. Something To Die For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared." James and John would serve their master ably, but first they would need some rough edges removed from their discipleship. About this time the other disciples were eager to help remove some of those edges. They were angry with James and John for making such a presumptuous request to sit at the Lord's left hand and his right. After all, they might be the ones chosen to sit by Christ's side. It was then ...

1139. What Love Looks Like

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... effective way to express his feelings. (2) Love doesn't have to be conventional, does it? We know it when we see it or when we feel it. We all have our unique ways of giving and receiving love. In our Bible passage today, Jesus has a message for the disciples, and he can't afford for them to miss it. It says in John 13 verse 1 that Jesus would soon be returning to his Father. If he was ever going to imprint his message on their hearts and minds, the time had come. What exactly was that message? Here ...

1140. Like A Tornado

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... voyage. Some saints do that, and they have their reward. Our calling, though, is to reach out to the world. When the disciples bore witness to their faith, they spoke in languages that everyday passersby could comprehend. This was a sign to us--we are ... . It scatters things far and wide. You and I are 2,000 years and many thousands of miles removed from the room where the disciples met that first Pentecost, but this violent wind, this Spirit of the Living God, has blown its way from that room into our lives ...

1141. Jesus and the Divorced Evangelist

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ; and let us also remember that St. Paul’s first European convert on European soil was a woman! (Acts 16) It was Christ who lifted women up to equality with men...even though it has taken some branches of His Church centuries to wake up to the fact! The disciples of Jesus were shocked to find Him talking to a woman at Jacob’s well. But the shock ran even deeper: not only was He talking to a woman, but to a Samaritan woman at that! That compounded the shock. As I said, for centuries bad blood had flowed ...

1142. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... need was for action, not discussion. This poor father had an “only child” (Luke 9:38) who was subject to seizures, which sounds to those who read the words carefully as an almost clinical description of epilepsy. The poor father brought his son to the disciples, hoping that they could do something about the problem. But “they were not able.” How many times that has been true down through the ages...the world comes to the doorstep of the church, and we are powerless to help. People are ground down by ...

1143. What Is Your Response to the Resurrection?

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... resurrection was God''s response, but the first human response to God''s response was that of fear. Yes, we are almost shocked as we read the Word of God from Mark''s gospel today and discover that it tells that the first response of the women and the disciples was that of silence and fear. To begin with, the most unlikely of witnesses discovered the tomb to be empty. One is a woman who had a lousy reputation and who was once filled with seven evil spirits. We know by the question they asked, "Who will roll ...

1144. King Forever!

John 6:56-69

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... the right hand of God the Father Almighty. The ascension means that Christ is on the forgiving side of God! It means that one day when you as a Christian stand to be judged, the Lord will intercede for you. He will say, "This is one of my faithful disciples. Calvary was for him. Justice is done." And you will be acquitted. Lift up thine eyes to the ascension! What do you see? It is an affirmation and an acquittal. But it is also a sign of authority. Authority Let me ask you an interesting question. What is ...

1145. The Reality of the Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... joy? What parts of it are just too good to be true? Let me share a couple of things that are amazing to me. I. First, the reality of the resurrection amazes me. We are told by the scriptures that when Jesus walked into the room where the disciples had gathered and said, “Peace be with you” it startled them. They were frightened. It was a ghost. What else could it be? They were not the kind of men who were easily convinced. These were men of common sense, so they doubted. What else could they do? And ...

1146. Playing A Role Or Being A Truth

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... place and radical talk about a new king of the Jews, he set up another cross between these two criminals who were being crucified and he left it empty. But on that empty cross he put up a huge sign, reserved for the king of the Jews. Jesus and his disciples went out to see that sign on the day of execution, the son was hot, the thieves were dying, flies were buzzing around their broken legs, it was almost unbearable to Jesus, it broke his heart to see that suffering. He drew nearer and read the sign on the ...

1147. The Discipleship Question: Do You Wish To Go Away?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... "Hearers of the Call." His rationale is that this would be the image of one who has heard, and keeps hearing, a persistent summons to belief and action. "Hearers of the Call!" Whether we agree with Purdy or not, that reality is the key to our faithfulness as disciples. The same author goes on to describe how, as a child, he would be outside playing hide and seek with his friends. Inevitably, his front door would open and his mother's voice would call, "John, time to come in!" But Purdy said, "I would go on ...

1148. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... clean and crisp; we breathe freely again for the first time. In Jesus, and through the Holy Spirit that enlivened him, God has come to show the truth and make things right. To live in his light and walk in his path is what it means to be a Christian disciple. In Christ we risk seeing the world as it is and ourselves for who we are. We learn that our world, and we ourselves in it, are worse than we thought, and that God is more fierce and loving than we ever imagined. I believe that before he offers a ...

1149. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... incantation or a touch by a holy man can bring salvation. It is the faith of a parent or a loved one that says, I will bring this child to Jesus in baptism, in prayer, as I hold him, as I rear him. The Picture Holds Lessons for Disciples. The disciples did not have a theology of childhood to sustain them in this time. Once again, Jesus is going to use this time to teach them a lesson. The issue is about the value of a child in relationship to God. If God is only ascertained through reading, through debating ...

1150. Plant It and Stand Back!

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... is there simply to remind them that they owe their whole life to God. God saved them. God created them. God has sustained them. To have faith means to trust that God can do that again. It is in that same understanding of faith, that Jesus says to the disciples, "God is still dong these wonderful things in the world. You can order this sycamine tree to be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it will obey you, if you had faith the size of a mustard seed." This is the message. The problem is not that ...

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