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1301. To the Church in Ephesus

Revelation 2:1-7

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... 14:15–31; 1 John 4:1–6). The Paraclete’s role within the community of Christ’s disciples is to remind them of God’s love and truth in order to convict them of their sin and to bring about their repentance in the light of God’s truth (cf. John 16 ... God’s original paradise we find the first tree of life; there, like the Ephesian congregation, Adam and Eve forsook their first love and paid for the consequences of their sin. Not only does the triumph of God’s reign through Jesus Christ anticipate ...

1302. The Ten Commandments

Deuteronomy 5:1-33

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... 1 Sam. 25), in Wisdom’s portrait of murderous greed (Prov. 1:10–19), and in the penetrating law of Leviticus 19:17f., “Do not hate your brother in your heart . . . Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.” It was an authentic extension of this OT perception that led Jesus to condemn anger as the moral root of murder (Matt. 5:21f.). The Seventh Commandment 5:18 You shall not commit adultery. The fifth commandment protected parental authority ...

1303. A Law Written On Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... is written on the Christian’s heart. However, few of us can be said to live that law out fully. R. Kent Hughes in his book The Sermon on the Mount tells a story about a woman, a friend of his wife, who committed herself to that kind of love. This woman’s family had come home from the mission field “. . . and had rented a rather nice townhouse--at least it was very nice compared to what they’d had on the mission field.” His wife’s friend is a very creative person, Hughes says, and did a wonderful ...

1304. What Does the Kingdom of God Have to Do With Anything Today?

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... God doesn't rule over us like some eastern potentate who conquers us to make us his slaves. No, God wants to rule over us with love for our own good. We aren't who we were intended to be until we come under the one who created us. When the great rebellion ... Israel, and as such you know a lot, but there is more to know. As a teacher of Israel, you must learn something more. 'God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall have eternal life.' That's who I am. That's ...

1305. Shockwaves of Joy

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... life for all those who put their trust in him is the very heart of Christianity. That’s why we can say “Hallelujah!” today and every day. Hallelujah! He arose and lives for evermore! Praise the Lord! We can say hallelujah, first of all, to the victory of love over hate. The world turned against Jesus in the last week of his life. Why didn’t he give up on humanity right then and there? In those last, lonely hours of his arrest and torture and crucifixion, why didn’t he put a stop to it all? Why ...

1306. Sim Lev!

Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37, Matthew 24:1-35, Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... care. You just need to “pay attention.” Jesus tried his best to remind his disciples that they were not alone, would not be alone in the times to come. But by following him, they were guaranteed a different kind of life, an assured future, in which they would be loved and cared for. “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.” said God through the prophet Ezekiel. “I am with you to the end of the age,” Jesus promised. Dorothy, in the Wizard of Oz, had a dream. She dreamt that good ...

1307. Therefore Go

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” He sends us out to create a universal Church that shares a universal sacrament—baptism—and lives by a universal ethic—love. And he would not send us out to do his work unless he equipped us with the power of his Spirit. So we can trust the promise he gave his disciples then and he gives to us now: “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of ...

1308. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jonah on the futility of running away from God. As someone has said, "You can't ever run that far!" Of course, they are right. Most of you already know that the primary purpose of this most famous of all fish stories is to reveal the greatness of God's love for all people, Jew and Gentile alike. The last words of the book are some of the most beautiful in all the Scriptures. Jonah wants God to destroy the people of Nineveh but God says to Jonah, "You have pity on a gourd which you did not plant, which grew ...

1309. Beloved Just As You Are

Mark 1:9-15

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... pierced the air “You are my Son the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” So before he performed a miracle, he was loved. Before Jesus even taught the crowds he was loved. Before Jesus healed anybody he was God’s beloved. So it is with you and me. We are loved just as we are. At your baptism into the life, death and resurrection of Jesus you are loved. After you and I know we are loved, then we joyfully do good things for others and for God. Next time you are asked to do something, you do it, because ...

1310. God's Fullness Within Us

Ephesians 3:14-21

Eulogy

George Reed

... their lives but on the riches of God’s glory. And his prayer is direct. He is praying for these folks to be strengthened in their inner beings with power through the Spirit. That strength will allow Christ to dwell in their hearts and to ground them in love. It is a wonderful prayer for the church at Ephesus but it is not just for them. This letter is included in our scriptures because it contains the power of God that reaches far beyond the time and place of Paul’s writing of it. It extends throughout ...

1311. Witnesses For The Lord

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... Spirit. We too can do good things and preach a message of good news and peace. A colleague shared an experience that shaped him early in his ministry. He was young and he served a church in which one of the elders often told him, "I love you." During his ministry at that church there would be occasional flare-ups that needed to be addressed. Some of the incidents carried with them a measure of disappointment and heartache. For a young minister, it can be a difficult, albeit a growing, experience to come ...

1312. Troubled By A Talking Whirlwind

Job 38:1-7 · Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... it all. Job and the Palm Sunday crowd stand on such a common ground that it's amazing to compare the two. Job replied to that talking whirlwind, "I have spoken foolishly. I've said more than I should have." The Palm Sunday crowd sang, "Christ, you know I love you. Did you see, I waved? Hosanna to the Son of God." We often ask too many questions, seek too many answers, want too much explanation. When Moses saw the burning bush, he didn't ask, "Is this one of the seven wonders of the Sinai peninsula?" No, he ...

1313. Wedding Ceremony

Bulletin Aid

Derl G. Keefer

... spend the rest of my life discovering more about you. I will endeavor to make your life fulfilled. I will always be here for you. Pastor: (Bride), please repeat after me. Pastor (Bride Repeats): I, (Bride), take you, (Groom), for my husband. I marry you today because I love you. I marry you today because you bring me joy. I marry you today because I want to spend the rest of my life discovering more about you. I will endeavor to make your life fulfilled. I will always be here for you. Special Music: "I Will ...

1314. Lust - To Discipline The Eye And The Heart

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... that day. His father had been married to his mother for over forty years. Taking him to the side, his father said, "Todd, your mother is beautiful to me no matter what she looks like on the outside."6 You see, there is a vast difference between love and lust. Love is the real thing that lasts and makes life possible, while lust is fleeting, shallow, having no true substance. Finally, what you can do to overcome lust is to confess it to God. "Lord, look at me. This is how I feel, these are my thoughts and ...

1315. Adam’s Prime Rib

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... a rib to indicate that the woman would stand beside the man as an equal. The rib is well protected behind the defense of the arms. The symbolism says that the man will want to protect the woman. The rib is closest to the heart. The man will want to love the woman tenderly, she being made from material closest to his heart. What other bone in the body could symbolize so much? In anesthetizing the man into a deep sleep and then covering up with flesh the place from which he had taken the rib, God acted as a ...

1316. Learning The Basics

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... to let someone, who is totally benign, teach you the basics." And the same holds true with marriage. If you are to learn about the commitment of marriage, you're going to have to surrender your own judgment long enough to let our Lord teach you the basics. Genuine love is being committed to each other no matter how we might feel about one another at the moment. There are those days when I don't like my wife, and there are many more days when she doesn't like me! Because of something one of us did. But ...

1317. Proper 12

John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, 2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Lord. This passage is a poetic prayer and praise to God that the Christians, to whom Paul is writing, might be firmly rooted in the love of Christ and filled with the Spirit of God. Lesson 2: Ephesians 4:1-6 (RC); Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-16 (E) (See Proper ... importance of a wide plate. Such a plate can be heaped with good food. This passage attempts to express the exceeding magnitude of God's love, grace and fullness, which he has heaped on our life's plate in Jesus Christ. Gospel: John 6:1-21 The Lord's Supper (v ...

1318. Epiphany 8

Hosea 2:2-23, Mark 2:18-22, 2 Corinthians 3:1-6

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... hope. God can enable us to wring hope from the driest times. Outline: 1. The Israelites were facing national extinction (explain the historical situation). 2. Hosea gives hope that the relationship of God and his people will be restored through the Lord's everlasting love. 3. When God is with us no situation is hopeless. 4. Godly hope can free us from the prison of despair.__________ The Shawshank Redemption is a movie that holds high the banner of hope. Andy, a bank vice president, is wrongly convicted of ...

1319. Christmas 2

Jn 1:1-18 · Lk 2:41-51 · Eph 1:3-18 · Jer 31:7-14 · Ps 147

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... God? Epistle: Ephesians 1:3-14 Sermon Title: The Original Big Spender. Sermon Angle: Some people get carried away with their Christmas shopping, even to the extent of spending lavishly. I suppose that's all right if they can afford it and they are doing it out of love. God is the original big spender. He freely bestowed upon us his grace through Christ (v. 6) or, as verse 8 expresses it, "lavished upon us" (RSV). God gave himself to us, even yielding up the life of his Son at the hands of sinful humans. The ...

1320. He Preached Good News

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Garrett

... of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” Teilhard de Chardin once wrote: “Someday, after we have mastered the winds and the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.” The Christ is coming. What shall we do? Deep within our beings we know...we know...go and bear fruits that benefit a citizen of the kingdom. And you too ...

1321. The One-Handed Clock

Matthew 22:36-40

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . That was one commandment and it was very important. The other commandment, that is just as important, is to love your neighbors as much as you love yourself. You can't love God without loving people and you can't love people without loving God. All of our laws depend on these two commandments from God. If you love God you will honor him, respect him, and worship him. If you love people like you love yourself, then you will not cheat them, steal from them, murder them, or harm them in any way. People ...

1322. The Road To Capernaum

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... place a piece of paper in a knothole in a tree. When the girl went back into her cabin the lady went out to the tree to find out what was on the paper. She took it out of the knothole and read these words, "To whoever finds this, I love you." God sent his Son with those words written across his life. The Son sent his disciples with those words written across their lives. If you are a disciple then you must have those words written across your life. Then think about this. III Jesus took people to a higher ...

1323. For a Man in His Sixties

Philippians 4:2-9

Eulogy

Louis M. Pratt

... what happens to those around us, we will find that neither death nor life nor anything else will be able to separate us from the love of God. We will find the strength to face any situation, even so tragic a loss as this one that we find so hard ... the manner of his life. While we must grieve over our loss - for L. T.'s death leaves a grievous wound in the hearts of his loved ones - let us cherish what we have gained for having known him. John Henry Newman once wrote: "Fear not that your life shall come to an ...

1324. The Women

John 20:1-9

Drama

William Grimbol

... this outcast as the Messah because a few people claim to be cured. What about the thousands of people who still die. Didn't he love them? Didn't he forgive them? Were they too evil? I want a Messiah, not a magician! NANCY: Amen! SHIRLEE: Before I'd take my ... so deeply the need for a dramatic change in my life. I have never been so sure that the Law does not make us more loving. KAREN: We are obsessed with the Law. It has become a net that traps us in detail after detail. NANCY: If rabbi could hear this. ...

1325. Counsel for Discouraged Disciples

Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

... counsel is found in these guidelines and emphases! Where is the therapist who could speak more directly and helpfully to our spiritual need? How shall we, his latter-day disciples, respond to this counsel? Shall we assess the quality of our faith, the extent of our love, the depth of our concerns, the sincerity of our commitment, the degree of our courage, the validity of our prayer life? Shall we check up on ourselves to make sure we are involved with God in his agenda, rather than trying to go it alone in ...

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