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1176. The Howling
Acts 2:1-13, John 7:25-44
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ” we read about in Acts 2 today, likewise, as a celebration. God’s primal “voice” howls through the disciples’ upper room and beyond, filling all present to saturation with the joy and freedom of the Holy Spirit. God not only is celebrating Jesus’ evangelistic mission cry and God’s victory over all the earth, but the resilience and natural bonding of the human spirit, the primal love and communal nature of the true disciples’ soul. In that instant when the Holy Spirit’s howl touched down ...
The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
Billy Graham
1178. All You Can Do is Laugh
Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 21:1-7
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... , in the sprouting of Aaron’s rod and the power of Moses’ staff, in the parting of the Red Sea and the Jordan River, in the miracles of Jesus, even in the unsure Peter as the “rock” of God’s Church, and the persecutor Paul as the evangelist of God’s kingdom! But the most divinely absurd action of God in history culminates with the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb, as God laughs in the face of death, because God reigns over death. In the face of COVID-19, rubber bullets and tear gas, looting ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... so loving, so committed, that people grow in their commitment to Christ and to one another. We want a church where people are built up, not cast out. But the question I want to ask this morning is, why was Jesus so committed to unity in the church? Evangelist Kenneth Copeland, on his website, lists 20 scriptures urging unity in the church. It was one of Christ’s most important themes. But why did it occupy so much of Christ’s teachings? I believe it’s because the church meets a need in society that no ...
1180. Welcome, Inc.
Matthew 10:1-42
Sermon
R. Kevin Mohr
... experience, not because I've worked as a waiter, but because I am ashamed to admit I have been one of those grumpy customers! Mormon missionaries and Jehovah’s Witnesses are, in contrast, usually polite and pleasant. Still, few of us are thrilled when they, or any evangelists, come knocking, as we hear in the following story: Two church members were going door to door. They knocked on the door of a home where the woman who opened it was not happy to see them. She told them in no uncertain terms that she ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Soon people will be making it in their own homes and passing it on to their own group of friends. The Truth of God needs no convincing. Just “taste and see that the Lord is good.” Those who taste it for themselves will become the best “truth” evangelists. Step Four: Allow it to shine all on its own. Once people start spreading a good recipe, it will come to the attention of the experts. And every good store will want to sell it. Jesus tells this parable not of someone who stumbles upon the “truth ...
1182. Giving Comfort
Isaiah 40:1-31
Sermon
King Duncan
... Crusoe knew instantly that he was not alone. Someone else was on that island.” Someone else was with him. (3) That was the message of Isaiah to the people of Israel. Immanuel was coming. God had not forgotten them. They were not alone. In one of his books, evangelist Billy Graham told about a time in his life when he was going through a dark period. He said he prayed long and earnestly, but there was no answer. He said he felt as though God was indifferent and that he was all alone with his problem. It ...
Humor
Somewhere I read about an evangelist who promised, "We're gonna fill you so full of the Holy Spirit that if a mosquito bites you, he's gonna fly away singing, 'There's Power in the Blood.''"
Sermon
King Duncan
... Son of Man had risen from the dead.” The time would come when they would tell everyone, but the time wasn’t right yet. Jesus and the disciples still had work to do. That’s why they couldn’t stay on the mountain. Dwight L. Moody was an American evangelist in the 1800s, and he wrote about meeting a man at one of his meetings who testified that he had “lived on the Mount of Transfiguration” for 5 years. I suppose by that that he meant he had lived in the presence of Jesus for that long. So Moody ...
Sermon
Ron Love
... a great oration from street corner soap box; but, in casual conversation we will be standing at the crosswalk with the opportunity to make a difference in the life of another individual. Our places of employment do prevent us from being bombastic outspoken evangelists. But, there will be a time when talking to a colleague and sharing the gospel message would be appropriate and willingly listened to. The same would be true for our neighbors, and those with whom we socialize with at clubs and other activities ...
1186. Be Reconciled with the Lord
2 Corinthians 5:20b--6:10
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... with God. The apostle to the Gentiles certainly knew about reconciliation from his own experience. We must recall that he was transformed by the power of Christ from one who with great fervor and zeal sought to wipe out Christianity, into the evangelist who would bring Christ’s message of love and peace to Gentile peoples throughout the Eastern Mediterranean world. As Paul himself wrote, he considered himself “the least of the apostles,” one as he speaks “born abnormally” (1 Corinthians 15:8-9 ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... faith should there be another approach or standard we use? Contemporary life, especially in the Western first-world environment in which we live, exalts ideas and promotes actions and ways of thinking that violate the basic precepts of Jesus as outlined by the gospel evangelists and the other New Testament authors. It is easy to follow the path of the majority to walk the easy, unencumbered trouble-free path. But as Jesus reminds us in his Sermon on the Mount: “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, before we can reach the greatest event of our salvation, we must walk the road with Jesus that begins today with his triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem. From the perspective of the synoptic evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, this is the one and only time that Jesus comes to Jerusalem, and he does so for the sole purpose of sacrificing his life so that humanity, God’s greatest creation, could have the possibility of eternal life. It ...
1189. How Faithful Are We?
1 Corinthians 11:23-25
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... family and work, but most especially to God. Saint Paul’s account of the events of the Last Supper precede by some ten years, we are told by biblical exegetes, the more detailed account described in the Gospel of Mark, chronologically the first of the evangelists. Thus, what Paul says is indeed important and should be recognized and appreciated by us. We are told that Jesus broke bread and offered wine as a perpetual sign of his presence with us. Moreover, we are told that we must continue this ritual, as ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... uniquely Christian commandment from the lips of the Lord himself, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Evangelist James Robinson once told of seeing a television interview with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang. He was impressed by their creed. He says, “Do you know what they kept holding up as their great supreme virtue? They kept saying: ‘We’re a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... 17 when he tried to commit suicide by swallowing poison. Not long before this sad event, Ravi attended a Christian youth conference. At that conference he came forward to give his life to Jesus, but he still struggled with questions and doubts. An evangelist from the youth conference visited Ravi in the hospital. He listened to Ravi’s questions, counseled him, prayed with him. When Ravi left the hospital, he dedicated his life to bringing others to the faith. He became an author and speaker and traveled ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... life on the road. He drank and partied and picked up various girlfriends. And he was more miserable than ever. So he made plans to kill himself. On the night before his suicide attempt, Richard was flipping through the TV channels when he came across a television evangelist preaching about Jesus on the cross. Richard says, “Placing my hands on the TV set and crying, I asked Jesus to forgive me for all my sins and receive me as his child. It sounds like a cliché, but I felt a great weight lifting from my ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... to go away?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God (6:67-69).” We’re so used to the way the other evangelists refer to the twelve apostles we may not notice that in John’s gospel this is his first reference to “the twelve.” Why is that? Perhaps because until they were tested, until they had this crisis of faith, until other disciples, facing the same difficulty, turned and left ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... Jesus. The psalms and the book of Lamentations call into question God’s actions or inaction. When we talk back to God we show we take God personally, as we should a personal God. Far from being satisfied with things as they were, the evangelist Mark seemed to encourage his readers to question situations of injustice. Again and again outsiders recognize Jesus’ healing presence while his own people miss the point entirely. It’s a consistent theme in Mark and the other gospels. Insiders don’t get it ...
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
... Mary, Joseph, and the focus of their search, Jesus. The Bible says that after they had seen the child, they spread the word concerning what had been told them…and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.” They were truly the first evangelists of the gospel of Jesus! That is our job once we have encountered this Jesus…incarnate God…Savior…we are to share with others the good news that we are loved by God. He has given his Son to us for our salvation! They went back to the ...
1196. Public Sex
Mark 10:2-16
Sermon
Will Willimon
... growth toward integration." My own denomination (United Methodist) has spoken of the purpose of sex as part of '' the fullness of our humanity." Not much help in the back seat of a Chevrolet. I knew that TV evangelism was in big trouble when a TV evangelist confessed to having ''a sexual encounter." Whatever happened to ''fornication?'' Now there's a good word: Fornication. You don't know what it is, but you know it's wrong! What is sex for? And why should we be talking about it on Sunday, in public ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... Yet Jesus asked her for a drink of water, demonstrating that whatever barriers his society put up against the two of them conversing he was willing to ignore. Jesus offered her the living water, which would sustain her spiritually. And this woman became the evangelist that brought her whole village into the fold. The truth is, just like that marriage contract I referred to at the beginning of this message, God’s people had worked out over the centuries equitable ways to protect people in marriage, and to ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... , because he was impressed by Jesus’ answers to questions of controversy, and figured this guy really knew his stuff. Why not just ask Jesus the question of the day — which law is the greatest? What are we to think since three different evangelists told this story in three different ways? I think we should remember that this question was probably asked several times first because this question was such an intriguing one, and secondly since the motivations of those who spoke was different, the response ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... , who was acclaimed the son of a god and the savior of the world, seemed to be the one on trial — by religious authorities, political schemers, and even Jesus himself. John’s gospel often presents a very different picture from the other three evangelists, but all four gospels have Pilate asking the crucial question — “Are you the king of the Jews?” Consider Pilate’s confusion — he seemed to be out of his depth. He already had Barabbas in custody, a wild revolutionary, a guerrilla who sought to ...
1200. A New Beginning
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... of Democracy (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1995) esp. pp.6-7,29-30,40-41. [3] Rudolf Bultmann, Jesus Christ and Mythology (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958), pp.39-40. [4] John Calvin, “Commentary On a Harmony of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke” (1555), in Calvin’s Commentaries, Vol. XVI/2, trans. James Anderson (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2005), p. 347. [5] Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, Vol.IV/1, trams. G. W. Bromiley (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956), p.597. [6] Martin ...
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