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1376. Spiritual Binoculars

John 16:5-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . They would not understand why he had to die on the cross for all of us. Jesus told the disciples that after he was gone, God would send down the Holy Spirit to help them understand. The Holy Spirit is like spiritual binoculars. When the Holy Spirit is with us, we are able to see things more clearly. The Holy Spirit helps us all understand God's word. The Holy Spirit was God's gift to all of us, so that we could know what God wanted us to do. Every one of us has a pair of spiritual binoculars -- to help ...

1377. Truth - How Do You Know It When You Hear It?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... comes he will guide you into all truth.” Thank about those words of Jesus. All Truth. He will “lead us into all truth.” How do you ever find firm ground to stand on an issue? I First, you find through the Spirit who, Jesus says, is the Spirit of Truth. Ths is the job of the Holy Spirit to point to the Truth, to guide us to truth. A pastor by the name of Stephey Belynskyj, starts each confirmation class with a jar full of beans. He asks his students to guess how many beans are in the jar, and on a ...

1378. A Tsunami Appeal

Sermon

Eric Hudson

... or some material want, we may lose sight of more important things. In our imperfect world we may even lose sight of the human spirit which is fundamentally good. “For some it is here that, by turning to God for the first time, he is found. I hope you ... isn't giving. Do it, if you possible can, in grateful response to what has been done for you. Do it with a spirit of generosity, a spirit of love, the Spirit of God. And if you haven’t done it yet, will you do it today, as soon as you get home? Lift the ...

1379. Beating Babel

Acts 2:1-13, Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... make a good martyr; he was so dry he would surely burn well." If the Gospel is the Good News we say it is, we should positively radiate. But we don't. The miracle of Pentecost was not simply the coming of the Holy Spirit. Scripture makes clear that the Spirit was active in human affairs from the beginning of time. The real miracle was that the divisions of Babel were overcome. Real communication took place, and the result was an exponential growth of the church. The opportunities for us are very real. In a ...

1380. Power

Mark 1:9-13, Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... is no question there is LOTS to get us down. The message of Jesus' baptism, and yours and mine as well, is we HAVE the power. It is the generous gift of a gracious and loving God. We are God's people, empowered in our baptism by the Holy Spirit to think more clearly, to feel more deeply, to love more generously, to speak more truthfully, to serve more faithfully, to give more lavishly, to live more fully. We HAVE the power to both BE different and MAKE a difference...in the name of the Father, and of the ...

1381. Getting Rid Of Fear

2 Timonty 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of selfdiscipline. So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. ... s words when he says that being timid is not God's will for us. God wants to vanquish our timidity by giving us the spirit of power, love, and selfdiscipline. Let's examine each of these attributes for a few moments and see if we can't become bold and ...

1382. Yes!!!

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's grace, he found peace and comfort. Out of this tragic experience he wrote the familiar hymn that has brought consolation to millions of aching hearts: "What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!" (4) Joseph Scriven came to see that through the Holy Spirit God had made a deposit on his heart. One day he, too, would share in the grandeur of God's promises. He, too, had come to know Christ as God's "œyes!" to his life. What a discovery that would be for each of us to make this day. Oh ...

1383. Letters Straight From The Heart

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Sermon

King Duncan

... by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." (NIV) Have you ever thought of yourself as ... lives of the Corinthian believers as his living letters of commendation. He didn't need ink for this writing it was done by the Spirit “writing" its message in their hearts. I would like to think that each one of us is a living letter of commendation for this ...

1384. Building A Faith

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... a time of waiting or a time of venturing forth to do great things for God. As the writer of Hebrews says, "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen" (11:1). Jesus told his disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came upon them. You and I need to learn to wait on God and to learn to trust that God's silence is not God's absence. 1. THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC 1998 (Dublin, NH: Yankee Publishing, Inc., 1997). 2. Daniel Butler and Alan Ray, WANTED DUMB OR ALIVE ...

1385. Sons And Daughters Of God

Romans 8:18-27, Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Scriptures as words of loving advice and wisdom written especially for you? Well it is written especially for us. We are God's children. (4) And we have a great inheritance. That's the second thing that it means to be children of God. Paul writes, "The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory." (16-17, NIV) A 6th grade ...

1386. Above All--god

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... , to call Him "Father." This is the intimate side of God's nature. In order to fully grasp His nature, we must consider both His intimacy and His ultimacy. (4) God reached out to us in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, and through the power of the Holy Spirit, He dwells with us today. What an awesome reality that is! A TV movie once told the story of a young man named Eric. Eric was struggling through a bout of despair caused by cancer. There was a touching moment when Eric stood with his father on the beach ...

1387. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... . The fourth word is just plain lawlessness. It is that hard-hearted, self-centered, deliberate and steady desire and effort to do wrong. It is that high-handed sin the Bible talks about in the Old Testament. God talks about people committing high-handed sin, deliberate and mean-spirited, with a hard-hearted attitude that proclaims, "I''m going to do what I want when I want it, and nobody can stop me." Then there''s that fifth word for sin which means a debt or a duty which we owe to God or to others. Sin ...

1388. Food for the Fed-up

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to meet us. And our meeting with Him here is a sign and symbol of the fact that we can meet Him anywhere that we break bread together, anywhere that we share bread with the needy in His name, anywhere that we act in His love and in His spirit. Years ago a Presbyterian teacher of preaching named James T. Cleland wrote of a childhood remembrance of the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion. As a small child he said that he always looked forward to it with a sense of keen expectation and hope. This hope had been ...

1389. Sealed with a Prayer: The Seventh Word

Luke 23:44-49

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... every Jewish mother taught her child to say last thing at night. Just as we were taught, maybe, to say, `This night I lay me down to sleep,'' so the Jewish mother taught her child to say, before the threatening dark came down, `Into thy hands I commit my spirit.'' Jesus made it even more lovely, for he began it with the word Father. Even on a cross Jesus died like a child falling asleep in his father''s arms." (2) So often, we dismiss or think unimportant what we have learned as children in Sunday School or ...

1390. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... as God's children was predestined (vv. 5, 11). This fabulous change in our identity happened "so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory" (v. 12). On top of it all we have received the Holy Spirit as "the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people" (vv. 13, 14). Grace doesn't say, "Oh, look, you're not so bad. Here! I've found some hidden personal assets that you overlooked deep in your heart." God, with his eyes wide open, says ...

1391. How to Recognize a Prophet

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... In our sophisticated age without the prophetic voice, how can we be assured that God still speaks? What means does God use to reveal himself to us today? Just as God spoke through his Word in the time of Moses, God speaks today by the Holy Spirit through the scriptures. The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God to reveal to us the things of God. God not only speaks today through his Word (scripture), but God also speaks to us through prayer. Prayer is a relationship which is a two-way street. We speak to God and ...

1392. Confession And Supplication

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Later when the family had gone, Tim went into the room where the 18 year old boy lay in death. He was overwhelmed with grief, and his heart was wrenched by the words of the boy’s aunt that he had died without knowing Christ. In sorrow of spirit that is rare, Tim began to search himself. Who failed, that a young person such as this should die without Christ? The moving and challenging and judging thing came as Tim told me the story, then asked, almost pleading, “Dr. Dunham, what can we do that that sort ...

1393. The Family: A Place For Persons

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... here. I don't know what it is -- but I'm voting with the crowd." The man in the greasy apron said, "All right. All right. All right. All right. She can stay." Everybody sat down and he brought the woman a bowl of soup. Everybody was quiet -- a new spirit spread over the crowd. Fred asked the person sitting nearby who she was. The fellow had never seen her before. The place grew quiet. You could hear the sipping of that awful soup throughout the room. Fred said, "I'm going to try it again." He put the spoon ...

1394. Smart Living

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... has promised us a comforter, an encourager, someone who will fill us with new excitement about our lives so that we may more easily translate our good intentions into positive actions. Paul tells us to use our head. He tells us to open our hearts to God's Spirit so that we will have power for the living of our lives. FINALLY HE SAYS, "GIVE THANKS TO GOD." He writes, "Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the ...

1395. When God Comes with a Blessing

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... of us are gathered here today because someone shared God's good news with us. Perhaps it was parents or Christian teachers. Maybe it was a friend. But someone brought God's good news to us and our lives are richly different because of it. As we bask in the spirit of joy that accompanies this wonderful day it is good to ask ourselves, "Who do I know that is in need of God's good news today?" As Mary's heart turned to her cousin Elizabeth when she received the news, so the most natural thing in the world is ...

1396. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of power, which keeps us going and growing as God’s people. One of the most astonishing promises of Scripture is recorded in John’s Gospel, chapter 14. Jesus is talking about His coming death and resurrection. He assures His disciples that he will send the Holy Spirit to comfort, guide, and empower them. Then He gives this astonishing promise: “Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the ...

1397. My Prayer For You: Barefoot Days of the Soul

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... claim that for which Paul prays. Listen to the prayer again: “For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ ...

1398. Equipping the Whole People of God: Penultimate Questions

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1399. The Baptism Of Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... us, and when we have ignored it, we have failed you and ourselves. Keep us ever mindful of our own responsibilities as your children, and strengthen us in our resolve to keep your commandment to make disciples -- baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Offertory Prayer O God, you have established your church as the Body of Christ, with instructions to go into all the world to make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy ...

1400. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the truth, and the life. And if you want to know the Father, hang around the Son and watch for the activity of the Spirit. Whatever we think of Jesus’ teaching, remember that it’s for all his followers, not just the advanced, whoever they are? We can’t ... by sin, and evil had no place to attach to him; he was free to obey the Father and full to the brim with the Holy Spirit. Jesus did not have to try hard to pray as he died, “Father, forgive them; look how ignorant they are; they don’t know what they ...

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