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1226. Go

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... worshiped him; but some doubted. [18] And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. [19] Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age." I think you can see why I think this passage is about the "E" word, can't you. There's that little imperative word: "GO ...

1227. Characteristics of the Church, Part 2

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... should be destroyed, but I cannot take his life without your permission.” The student said to Dr. Beck, “Do you know what it’s like to take the life of a loyal member of your family?” Then the student concluded - “That dog was more in the Spirit of Jesus Christ than I am.” You see that’s what was bothering the young man. He had seen a vision of selfless love which challenged him. That was the magnetisism of the Church of Pentecost: a people saw themselves and their church, not as possessions ...

1228. Jesus' Baptism: Affirmed by God

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... he saw Jesus coming to him the next day, he said, “That’s Him - that’s the one I’ve been telling you about - the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. I baptize you with water to repentance; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” And yet this, “Lamb of God who takes away the sun of the world,” seeks John’s baptism. Why? Who can probe the mystery of that? Yet this is certain: Jesus’ personal commitment was not only to God but also to us. In his baptism, Jesus ...

1229. Ezekiel: The Problem of Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... seeing visions, and old men dreaming dreams. The Church was born not on what was, but what can be when the Holy Spirit fills the hearts of the faithful. Maybe it is still true that dreams and visions more than facts and functions shape the ... Ezekiel, a vision of hope for people in the valley of despair. Verses 1-3—The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord, and set me in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a ...

1230. Acquired Taste

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... acquire a taste for love over hate when goodness is at stake? Can you acquire a taste for compassion over collusion when beauty is at stake? You grow your faith by stretching it, by acquiring new tastes. You grow your soul by flexing the power of the Holy Spirit in your life. You grow as a disciple of Jesus by acquiring a taste for faith that can withstand the pressures of complacency, the lure of acceptance, the ease of going along. Every person you meet is an acquired taste. Look at the person next to you ...

1231. When the Service was Interrupted

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and over nature, and even over death. This brings us to something obvious we need to affirm about Jesus: he was unique. There was no one quite like him. There were other fine teachers in Galilee, but they could not cast out impure spirits, or turn water into wine or heal the leper or multiply the fishes and the loaves or forgive sins. There was something about Jesus which could not be said about his contemporaries. He had authority—physical authority, spiritual authority, moral authority. Even after ...

1232. How Can I Keep From Singing?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Edwards conceived a theological notion he called “remanations” — the human response to an encounter with a divine “emanation,” the presence of the divine in our midst. According to Edwards, when a human encounters the emanation of the divine, the human spirit responds with its own reflection, its own kind of bounce-back echo, of that divinity. Of course, the emanation Edwards meant was the person and presence of Jesus Christ. Each human being who encounters the Christ, who is transformed in the ...

1233. Pentecost

Psalm 104:24-34, 35b, John 14:8-17, (25-27), Acts 2:1-21, Romans 8:14-17

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... respond with generosity to Holy Generosity so that tangible goodness continues in this place. Doxology "The Lone, Wild Bird" The ends of earth are in God’s hand, The sea’s dark deep and far-off land. And I am yours! I rest in you. Great Spirit, come, and rest in me. Prayer Of Thanksgiving God of Babel and Pentecost — we are grateful for the ways you are among us, blessing us with multiple gifts. Thank you for this money and for the talents gathered here. Amen. Intercessory Prayers God of Words — in ...

1234. Proper 4

1 Kings 18:20-21 (22-29) 30-39, Psalm 96:1-13, Luke 7:1-10, Galatians 1:1-12

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... . Let us celebrate our similarities and revel in the good times we share. Thank you for the women and men who maintain this building and our programs so we may have a satisfying life together. Thank you for the prayers and tenderness that hold us together. Singing Spirit — even silence has a sound as the stars and planets move about space. Our silence is full of sighs and hmmms as we consider how our time is spent. Sing to us of new ways to think; sing of sustainable lifestyles so we can banish poverty ...

1235. Proper 5

1 Kings 17:8-24, Psalm 30:1-12; 146:1-10, Luke 7:11-17, Galatians 1:11-24

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... the land and our own souls. We also recognize the pain and loss of people whose homes and crops have been destroyed by the violence of storms. Awaken in all of us the wisdom to cooperate with the earth’s systems and with your resuscitation for our spirits day by day. God of Thinkers — we read the stories of return to life and wish that death only came to all creatures when it was “appropriate.” Like men and women before us, we long for security, health, and peace. We want wars to cease and sons ...

1236. Proper 13

Psalm 107:1-9, 43, Hosea 11:1-11, Luke 12:13-21, Colossians 3:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... or television or computer games. We want to receive your healing and your radiance. Reveal to us whatever blocks your flow to us; we want to let it go. Let us tune in to your rhythms so we are aware of a myriad ways to enjoy living. Desert Spirit — brighten our interior landscapes; let us be colorful like the Grand Canyon; let us find images that open us to adventure with Great Mystery. Flow in and out of us to a world choking on obsolete symbols and perceptions of another era. Lift our faith from the ...

1237. Proper 14

Psalm 33:12-22, Isaiah 1:1, 10-20, Luke 12:32-40, Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... the next generation. We take a few minutes to pass baskets to receive your investment for today. Doxology "The Lone, Wild Bird" The ends of earth are in God’s hand, The sea’s dark deep and far-off land. And I am yours! I rest in you. Great Spirit, come, and rest in me. Prayer Of Thanksgiving Investing God — we thank you for making your home, your investment in us and in the Universe. We want to be loyal in the use of our riches — money, time, and talent. Multiply what we have to share so that others ...

1238. The Baptism of Jesus

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... as a sign of God’s grace and he wants his followers to be baptized as a sign of that grace as well. There’s nothing special about the water; nothing special about the ceremony, but it can be the most important event in our life as the Holy Spirit works in our life following that simple ceremony. Max Lucado, in his book, Six Hours One Friday, tells the story of a missionary in Brazil who discovered a tribe of Indians in a remote part of the jungle. They lived near a large river. The tribe was in need ...

1239. Kintsugi Vessels

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... who love, know the price of love — a broken heart. If you love, your heart will break. But the promise of the gospel is that those broken cracks, in all of us bruised, battered, broken people, are the places where the true power of the Spirit is released through the gold of grace. Larry Crabb once said that he believed brokenness was “the most underrated virtue in the Christian community today.” In fact, the great heroes of the faith were kintsugi Christians. Read Hebrews 11. Abraham was a liar (Gen ...

1240. What the Trinity Does

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... an exciting time. I hope each of you got what you wanted for Trinity Sunday. This is the last day we will sing all the Trinity carols that we have been enjoying for the past month. Some of you are already saying, “Why we can’t we keep the Trinity spirit around all year long.” Oh, you didn’t give Trinity presents this year? You didn’t decorate your home? What do you mean you didn’t even know it was Trinity Sunday until you looked at the bulletin this morning? O. K., I’ll have to accept the fact ...

1241. What If Joseph Were the Patron Saint of 2014?

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... or sigh, even. He’s only a man of action. He does. And what he does is trust God. Joseph so trusted the Spirit, and the Spirit’s speaking through God’s forgotten language of dreams, that he drops everything and reverses course on a dream, which he received ... do? Here’s what he did: Joseph read the signs and believed. Joseph trusted God, and trusted personalized messages of the Spirit. Joseph was not fearful of embracing the unknown. Joseph moved into a direction he did not want to go — a homecoming ...

1242. Still Surprised After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... the beauty and celebration of Palm Sunday comes the pain and blood of Good Friday. Meanwhile, we do not have an account of Anna’s words recorded, but her appearance seems to echo much of what we had seen in Simeon. As a prophet, we presume that it is the Spirit working in her that enables her to know something about this child. She, too, seems to perceive that God’s work is embodied in a baby. And then she goes a step further than we see Simeon go: “speak(ing) about the child to all who were looking ...

1243. An Unforgettable Baptism

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... ; with you I am well pleased.’” Wow! Wouldn’t you love to have been there that day? I’m glad that people who were there thought to record the day for our hearing. “Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’” This event of Christ’s baptism is important to Christians for several reasons. It reminds us, first of all, of ...

1244. The Believers’ Prayer

Acts 4:23-31

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... stretch out the hand,” also Exod. 3:20; 13:3; 15:6; etc.) and one that in this book is closely associated with the Spirit of God. In sum, the message of this verse is a “comfortable word” to all Christians. There may be incidents in the Christian life hard ... 18; Ps. 114:7; Isa. 6:4; Ezek. 38:19; Joel 3:16; Amos 9:5; Hag. 2:6)—and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. In that power they spoke the word of God boldly. We need not suppose that the preaching took place there and then. The force of the ...

1245. Ananias and Sapphira

Acts 5:1-11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... . And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? (v. 4). There was no constraint on them to sell. No one was obliged to give to the fund, much less to give all that they had. It was not what they gave that mattered, but the spirit in which they made the gift, and in this Ananias and Sapphira had erred. They had wanted to appear more generous than they were while remaining better off than they seemed to be (were they hoping now to draw on the fund themselves?), though they could not have held ...

1246. Gift

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... . 125:5). Paul partakes of the wisdom tradition when he states in Galatians 6:7–8: “A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Likewise in the present context, Paul applies the wisdom principle to the matter of giving generously to the collection for Jerusalem (cf. Prov. 11:24). 9:7 With this principle in mind, Paul exhorts the Achaians to give. Paul does ...

1247. Overseers and Deacons

1 Timothy 3:1-16

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... (cf. 2 Cor. 6:16) indicate that Paul’s common image of the church as God’s temple is in view (cf. 1 Cor. 3:16–17; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21). Just as the living God dwelt in the sanctuary of Israel, so now by the Spirit, God indwells his new temple, the church, and as such they are to “uphold the truth and keep it safe” (JB). With these two images, family and temple, Paul expresses the two urgencies of this letter: his concern over proper behavior among believers vis-à-vis the false teachers, and ...

1248. A Call to Build the House of the Lord

Haggai 1:1-15

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... . To say that Yahweh is with the people, taking action, is to put this declaration into effect, because this is what a presidential aide is in a position to do. Haggai s declares the LORD underlines the point. So the LORD stirred up the spirit of the community’s leaders and the community itself (v. 14); this perhaps then simply restates the point, as it is the declaration “I am with you” that accomplishes this. But the restatement indicates a recognition that something needed to happen to the people ...

1249. The First Two Days: John the Baptist’s Message

John 1:19-28, John 1:29-34

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... not only “coming down” on Jesus but “remaining” on him (vv. 32, 33) suggest that John the Baptist may have had weeks or even months to get to know Jesus as a man full of the Spirit (cf. 1:16; 3:34) before publicly revealing him to Israel. Whether this means that Jesus was himself one of John’s disciples is a question of interest to historians, but apparently not to the Gospel writer. Looking back on the association two chapters later, John’s disciples refer to ...

1250. Jesus’ Love and the World’s Hatred

John 15:1-17

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... synoptic Gospels: to enable the disciples to stand firm under hostile questioning and to testify faithfully about Jesus to their persecutors (vv. 26–27; cf. Mark 13:11; Matt. 10:19; Luke 12:11–12). Though this is the main import of the promise of the Spirit in its historical and literary context, it is likely that the first readers of the Gospel (like many readers today) regarded it as the conferral of authority in a more general sense on those who had been with Jesus from the beginning (v. 27; cf. 1 ...

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