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126. 2025 Lent Sermon Series

Sermon

Various Authors

... Acts 10:34-43 But! by Steven E. Albertin 1. Show Me Your Credentials – 2 Corinthians 6:3-13 2. Did God Really Say…? – Romans 10:8-13 3. Enemies of the Cross - Philippians 3:17 - 4:1 4. Passing the Test – 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 5. A New Point of View – 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 6. Running the Race - Philippians 3:4-11 · 2 Timothy 4:7 7. A Bloody Cheer! – Philippians 2:5-11 8. Meal of Death – 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 9. A Bloody Sacrifice – Hebrews 10:16-25 10. But…! – 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 At ...

127. Get Out of the Jungle!

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... up in a work environment with so much diversity that he soon had to confront his own world view. Few of his colleagues shared it. In time, he began to think differently. He realized that some of those who became his best friends had points of view completely different from his. And yet, they liked him, respected his opinions, and even taught him to laugh at himself once in a while. Then the inevitable happened. The twins came home for Thanksgiving dinner at their parents’ home. Quickly it became obvious ...

128. The End Times

Daniel 12:1-13

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... p. 399). Another interpretation is that this verse refers to the time after Daniel’s apocalypse is opened: many will go here and there and knowledge will indeed increase, because people will have access to this vital source of truth. This is a more upbeat point of view that actually clashes with the harsh judgment of Amos (Seow, Daniel, pp. 189–90). The above two explanations are based on the MT as it stands, and both make excellent sense. There is one final reading of the text, which involves a textual ...

129. Trinity Sunday

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Matthew 28:16-20, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Psalm 8:1-9

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... of later Christian reflection in the biblical waters of this passage. Matthew 28:16-20 - "The Who, What, and How of Discipleship" Setting. Matthew tells the story of Jesus' Passion in a manner similar to the other Gospels, but there is a distinctive point of view on the events, and there is additional information found only in Matthew's story. The Resurrection account is similar to the stories found in Luke and John, but here there is a high percentage of material found only in Matthew. The ending of ...

130. Wisdom from the Spirit

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... verses form something of an excursus on the wisdom of God and the spiritual discernment of Christians, although the discussion is symmetrically similar to 1:18–25. In these verses, however, Paul seems to be describing reality from God’s point of view. To avoid misunderstanding Paul’s thought in these lines one must recall that he designated his message “the word of the cross.” Paul would tell about the cross, and he would explicate its meaning. Clearly, Paul interprets the saving significance ...

131. The Blind Guiding The Blind

Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 6:46-49, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Isaiah 55:1-13, Luke 6:37-42

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... healing. He did not begin with condemnation and punishments. He invited people to a better life rather than rejecting them. The second is to hold ourselves against the pattern of Jesus' life. We must jump outside our figurative skins and see ourselves from his point of view. In so doing we can see ourselves as others see us. 2. Blind Spots. All people are formed in part by the family and society in which they have grown to adulthood. The culture influences our customs, habits, and values. It is difficult to ...

132. A Truly Universal Operating System

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Larry Lange

... encouraged when in chapters 3 and 5 the presbyter read that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," but that all are made right with God "by his grace, as a gift" (Romans 3:23-24). This seemed to support Billius' point of view that the observance of dietary laws of any kind were not necessary for salvation. In chapter 8, Billius was reassured that nothing could separate him from the love of God, not even his inevitable participation in a global economy that universally demanded some form of ...

133. Advent 1

Romans 13:8-14, Isaiah 2:1-5, Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... tied to the concept of God as Judge. "He shall judge between nations" (Isaiah 2:4a). There is a lesson for us here. Conflict results when we insist on judging things from our narrow perspective but peace and harmony flow from God's penetrating point of view. Epistle: Romans 13:8-14 Paul's images of light/darkness and night/day must be viewed against the backdrop of the expectation of Christ's imminent second return. God's new day was about to dawn, revealing all the sordid works of darkness. Spiritually ...

134. Close Calls

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... and earth. That is what brought peace of mind and soul to them. That is what can bring peace of mind and soul to us today. When Saint Paul wrote, "From now on... we regard no one from a human point of view" (2 Corinthians 5:16), he was making this same point. The human point of view of people and situations is too limited. Saint Paul had discovered the ability to get up high, high enough to see from a heavenly perspective what most people miss -- God's perspective on how things really are. That's what ...

135. No Intimidation

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... doormats for a good reason. If your superior wants you to rethink your style and, perhaps, crawl back to the parsonage or rectory in submission, simply point to Jesus' precedent. In a way, it is somewhat out of character for our Lord. From one point of view, it looks like Herod is being unnecessarily baited, even negatively provoked, but that may be a way of backing away from a style that causes great discomfort. Some will quickly say that people have enough frustration in this world and why cause them any ...

136. House of God

1 Kings 8:22-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... and cry on Sunday, "I saw the Lord, High and lifted up. If heaven, even the highest heaven cannot contain God… And yet there is another side to the coin—the danger that in our attempts to grow, in our good liberal willingness to be open to other points of view, to keep our faith flexible and to avoid limiting God, we should build no house of God. This is the weakness of all pantheism. If God is like oxygen, always surrounding us, then soon we become dulled to the presence. If God is in every rock, tree ...

137. A Samaritan Took Care of Him

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... church! But "a Samaritan" is just the one Jesus centers his story around to show us what we ought to do in these half dead, ambiguous situations that life continually confronts us with. What's simply amazing, when you look at it from the Samaritan's point of view, is that he would have been brought up to be just as prejudiced as the priest and Levite and the young lawyer. The Samaritan also would have been trained in the law. He also would have known how to use the same scriptures to justify his position ...

138. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

... out to you -- even when we are not certain of the direction. Remind us that you are forever, while our darkness and confusion are limited in time. Help us to see life open-mindedly, that we may be spared the imprisonment of habits that imprison us to one point of view. As the sun breaks across the landscape at dawn, so does your spirit light up our minds to a new day in which we find truth once more. We pledge to be at your side in a hope -- sure and certain -- that you will faithfully open our eyes ...

139. Thanksgiving and Prayer

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... . Primarily, the Jerusalem church is meant by “the church of God” in Paul’s references to his persecution of the church in 1 Corinthians 15:9; Galatians 1:13; cf. Philippians 3:6. But now other “churches of God” existed, especially, from Paul’s point of view, “the churches of the Gentiles” (Rom. 16:4). Thus, for example, the believers in Corinth constituted “the church of God in Corinth” (1 Cor. 1:2; 2 Cor. 1:1; cf. 1 Cor. 10:32; 11:22). The sum of such local churches constitutes ...

140. Easter 4

Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23:1-6, 1 Peter 2:13-25, John 10:1-21

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... to the immediate experience of it—he did not counter oppression by threatening, rather he trusted in God. Third, the combination of the first two actions of Jesus resulted in his bearing our sins, which frees us also to view suffering from the point of view of grace. This is a difficult text to preach, especially with the history of race relations in North America, not to mention the Middle East or other oppressive regions. The intended audience and their situation is important in the proclamation of this ...

141. Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... both Paul and Silas would have been familiar. The word rendered “sexual immorality” is porneia, which regularly means to have dealings with a prostitute (pornē), but it was also used of any form of illicit sex—illicit from the Jewish/Christian point of view—that is, of any sexual relationship outside of marriage and sometimes of those marriage relationships forbidden by Jewish law. It may have been to the latter especially that the apostolic decree was referring (cf. also Matt. 5:32; 19:9; 1 Cor ...

142. Elijah and Obadiah

1 Kings 18:1-15

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... ., attending to bodily functions, relieving himself), much less having a lunchtime snooze. The humor is keen, if basic. 18:29 Their frantic prophesying: The kind of condition apparently in view is also well-attested outside Palestine. The most interesting example from the point of view of this passage is given by the Egyptian traveller Wen-Amon (around 1100 B.C.), who has left us an account of a violent prophetic frenzy in the midst of a sacrificial temple ritual in Byblos, a city on the Phoenician coast to ...

143. Elijah on Mount Carmel

1 Kings 18:16-46

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

144. Crossing the Jordan

Joshua 3:1-4:24

Understanding Series

J. Gordon Harris

... drama that would be used for instruction of the young. The fords of the Jordan River and then Gilgal, the camp after Israel crossed the river, become the central locations for the narrative and the events to follow. The Israelite narrator’s point of view dominates the two chapters. Officers, Joshua, the Lord, and finally Joshua again give commands. Then the tribes cross the Jordan as a result of their obedience and God’s miracle. 3:1–4 Crossing the Jordan is tied to the preparation period by ...

145. Queen Vashti Deposed

Esther 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Timothy S. Laniak

... vast wealth of his kingdom: In Esther, as in wisdom literature, wealth and power are suspect when arrogantly accumulated, trusted, and displayed excessively (Ps. 49:6–7, 13; Eccl. 2:1–11; compare Esth. 5:11). The hubris of ANE kings is, from a biblical point of view, an invitation for humiliation (see also Dan. 3 and 5). See further Levenson, Esther, p. 45. 1:6 Hangings of white and blue linen . . . on marble pillars. The king’s banquets were held in his winter palace on the ten-acre citadel in Susa ...

146. A Special Child Promised

Luke 1:5-25

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... word (1:38), and it is severely punished. God expects his people to take him at his word. But as well as punishment, Zechariah’s loss of speech serves as the “sign” of God’s miraculous power that he has requested (1:18). From a literary point of view, Zechariah’s loss of speech provides the basis for the striking scenes of the people’s recognition of his “vision” (1:21–22), of his dramatic intervention in the naming of his son (1:59–63), and of the fluent outpouring of praise as soon as ...

147. Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-two

Luke 10:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... 14; cf. also Deut. 2:36; 3:5 [“no city too high for us”] with Luke 10:15: Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will be thrown down to the depths). 10:17–20 In startling contrast to the essentially negative and judgmental point of view of the previous verses, the seventy-two returned to Jesus with joy. What is even more odd is that their report has nothing to do with the success (or lack of success) of their preaching, but has to do with their authority over the demons (see note below ...

148. So, You Want to Get Well?

Mark 5:21-43

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Ron Lavin

... issues. It may be that I come with hurts that are mental -- resentments that I feel I have a right to feel because I have been so badly treated by someone. O Lamb of God, I come sincerely giving up my self-pity and resentments. From a human point of view, I may have a right to them, but self-pity and resentments keep me sick. I may have a human "right" to them, but they are "rights" which are wrong for my own health and wellness. Resentments, like arteries, harden and have the same deadly result. A cousin ...

149. Freedom and Slavery

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... is righteousness. We are at a crossroads. We have a choice as to which road to take. We can go down the road to sin or we can go down the road to God. This point of view assumes that sin is breaking the rules or commandments. Sin is making bad choices. Sin is doing "naughty" things. To that point of view Paul would shout a resounding "No!" "Naughty" actions, breaking the rules, making bad choices are only the symptoms, only the consequences, only the fruits of a condition that is far worse. For Paul, sin is ...

150. The One Thing That Would Make The Biggest Difference

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... . The truth is, conflict is inevitable. Each of us stands in a different spot and our perspective is different. No one sees the world exactly the same as anyone else. Furthermore, if we are honest with ourselves, we not only see things from our own point of view, but also from the perspective of our own self-interest. When an employer looks at the stub of a paycheck, he or she sees the gross amount and quickly adds in a percentage for health care, vacation time and other benefits. When an employee looks ...

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