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1626. The Fashioning of Christians

Ezekiel 36:1-38

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... , and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness, and from all your idols, I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:24-28) Traditionally, the church has interpreted this as a prophecy foreshadowing baptism. How does baptism give you a new heart and a ...

1627. Salvation: Authentic and Powerful

Amos 5:18-27

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King Duncan

... Prayerbook, we read, "Kindle in us a passion for righteousness. Grant us the vision to see that only justice can endure, and that only in being just to one another can we make our lives acceptable to you." In the same book, we also read, "May He whose spirit is with us in every righteous deed, be with all men and women who spend themselves for the good of humanity and bear the burdens of others who give bread to the hungry, clothe the naked, and take the friendless into their homes." A scholar in the Jewish ...

1628. A House Divided

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Drama

... That’s just the way the writer lined things up. 2: Oh, no. It’s saying that we have to be careful. That a divided kingdom will fall; but Satan’s kingdom is not divided. 1: Where do you get that from? 2: It says so. The evil spirit unites with seven other evil spirits! 1: But that’s just symbolic. 2: Satan’s kingdom is united and strong; if ours is divided ... 1: "Our" what? 2: Kingdom! The Kingdom of God - in us! 1: In whom? 2: The Children of Light. 1: [Looks at the candle] We are the Children of ...

1629. A Brass Cross and a Barometer

Luke 6:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... the man and thus break Sabbath law. If he did, they were ready to pounce on him. Talk about coming to church with the wrong attitude! Oh, but I've done something similar and I'm ashamed of it. I have come to worship services with a critical spirit. Have you? Sometimes on vacation I will visit a church of another denomination. If it's Presbyterian I am on guard lest the preacher talk about predestination. If it's Baptist, I'm a bit defensive lest the preacher say a negative word about my baptism. Have you ...

1630. A King Worth Having

Zechariah 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... can live in peace with others. Christ came to bring peace to the world. The secret to peace is that all must have the spirit of love. Peace is not possible on a unilateral basis. For this reason, there can be no guarantee of lasting peace if only one ... having to do the impossible of keeping the Law in every detail. Now we can live according to our consciences and by the leadership of the Spirit. We are free from having to say, "I’ve got to do better, I’ve got to shape up, or I’ll never get to heaven ...

1631. As Good As God

Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... are the people of God and in whom God dwells. To be holy is to have God, the Holy One, in you by possessing the Holy Spirit. In other words, a holy person is one who has the mind of Christ, who thinks and reasons like Christ. When Alexander the Great set off to ... God is, there is holy ground. Why are we to be and do good? Because our God is good. To be a Christian is to have God the Spirit in our hearts. With God in us, we can be as good as God. This is God’s dream for us, his children. He wants us to be ...

1632. The Church’s Fear and Comfort

Acts 9:19b-31

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Richard F. Bansemer

The sermon today is based upon the 31st verse of the ninth chapter of Acts: "So the church throughout all of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied." Imagine yourself, for a moment, as the employee of a large corporation. Let’s take the company out of the United States, for what we are about to demonstrate is harder to believe in one’s home country. Pretend, if you will, that you are located ...

1633. Who Keeps Getting in My Way?

Matthew 5:1-12

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Wallace H. Kirby

... come closer to understanding this first Beatitude if we were to substitute the word "ego" in its earlier meaning for the word "spirit." Blessed are those who are poor in ego. Ego means self in the sense of too much emphasis on self: self-satisfaction ... I compare myself to you, I am in desperate need. Have mercy on me." He had gotten himself out of his way. To be poor in spirit is to get rid of self as the determining factor in life and to issue not a declaration of independence from God, but a declaration of ...

1634. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

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Robert G. Tuttle

... . We can now look at the basic roots of the birthing kingdom. Paul pointed it out, "Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by God’s renewing of your mind." The Kingdom of God is composed of individuals who are being transformed by the spirit of Christ. Jesus went to the point with Nicodemus. "Nicodemus, you must be born again." You must be delivered from the womb of death unto the life of God. But Nicodemus was comfortable in his unstretched life, and he said, "It’s too late, Master, I am ...

1635. The True Nature of Happiness

Luke 6:17-26

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Brett Blair

... man out of the Kingdom of God. It is pride. Jesus is saying that the first step to personal happiness, the first step in our pilgrimage in coming to God, is to get rid of pride. Pride is the root of all sin. Blessed are the poor in spirit means that we must decrease, so that he might increase. In Copenhagen in Denmark there is an unusual statue of Christ. After the bronze had been cast to that statue something happened. Because of either temperature or poor casting, the head of the statue bent forward. Yet ...

1636. Camping Life

Romans 8:6

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... , point to the Bible, we are made alive in our souls. If I didn’t have the Bible, which is the written word of God inspired by the Spirit, then I would be dead inside, just like a flashlight without batteries. The things that we read in the Bible are things of the Spirit. And we need them wherever we are so that we might be alive inside as well as on the outside. Always read your Bible and you will find life in its words. Let’s Pray: Help us, O Lord, to faithfully read our Bibles so that our souls will ...

1637. Incalculable Riches by Bishop Roy C. Nichols

Ephesians 3:1-13

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Leonard Mann

... of the darkness of this world." Then Paul gives us a competitive concept of Christianity. Put on the helmet of salvation; have your loins girded with the gospel of truth; the shield of faith; the breastplate of righteousness; and in your hand, the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And then, as an addenda, Paul adds, "And watch and pray with perseverence, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood." Most of us can remember a verse from our Sunday School years, "Be ye not overcome by evil, but ...

1638. To Hoist a Sail

Acts 2:1-13

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Allan J. Weenink

... is life in the soul. To the sailor it means lifting a piece of canvas to catch the power of the indescribable miracle. To the Christian, it is the set of the soul ... the waiting expectancy ... the open-heartedness that says, "Come, Creator Spirit." A divine inspiration motivated some mundane and mediocre people. Into that little room, where a small group had gathered, flowed the greatest power the world has ever known. That force created the church. That force creates new lives. And that force nurtures the ...

1639. The Unexplainable Reality

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Allan J. Weenink

... cursed, reviled, and crucified. He died and was buried. On the third day he rose again from the dead. He appeared to his followers as he had promised. In one appearance, after the Resurrection, he told the faithful company: "wait ... and you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth." That one man, in a remote, small land, less than the size of the state of New Jersey, said to a handful of ...

1640. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... proclaim" (1 Corinthians 15:3-11). Hunter lists seven basic elements in what was once called "Paulinism" but which actually stem from those who were "in Christ" before him: (1) the apostolic kerygma, (2) the confession of Jesus as Messiah, (3) the doctrine of the Holy Spirit as the divine dynamic of the new life, (4) the conception of the church as the new Israel, (5) the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, (6) the "words of the Lord" which Paul quotes or echoes in his letters, and (7) the hope ...

1641. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

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Kent Moorehead

... we cannot persuade you by the inherent reasonableness of the ideas we propound, then you have a right, nay a duty, to discount the things we say and discredit them and deny them. This pulpit, if it is decently aware of the traditions of this church and of its spirit, must recognize that it speaks with only the authority of the truth. If the preacher does not utter the truth, it is not to be taken. And the one test above every other test that we must insist upon is this: Is the thing that is said from this ...

1642. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

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Kent Moorehead

... or compromise. If a preacher really loves his people hard enough, they will know it - and they will not only allow him to utter his deepest convictions, they will virtually compel him to do so by the urgency of their expectation. Lastly, I deliberately immerse myself in the spirit of my own earthly father, who has been my ideal of all that a minister should be. Very seldom do I enter the pulpit without standing a brief while before his picture in my study. He died when I was only a lad, but I remember him ...

1643. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

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Leonard Mann

... you that if we are going to be pioneers and pilgrims on the frontier of our time, we must replace fear with faith. There’s no doubt that faith helped the pioneers on that other frontier; but on this frontier, where battles are fought out in the mind and spirit of man, faith is essential. Those earlier pioneers did a pretty good job against the wilderness with axe and rifle and plow. I’m not sure we are doing as well. Perhaps our struggle is not as simple as theirs. We need help; and with all my heart I ...

1644. Abraham and the Meaning of Consecration

Genesis 22:1-19

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Don Yocom

... over the human mind and renews it. We become new creations of God in Christ Jesus. We can have the same experience with God that Abraham had. If we have faith in Him, obey Him, and surrender to Him, we can know the redeeming power of His Spirit in our lives. Years ago, at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, a student named Paul Rader found God and adopted the motto: Let Go and Let God. He traveled across America holding evangelistic services. In California one night when he gave an invitation for people to ...

1645. Broken and Beautiful

Luke 18:9-14, Psalm 51:1-19

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Bill Bouknight

... the preacher too. When we write the sin list, we usually include the sins of others and omit our own. But God knows all of our dirty linen. The closer we get to God, the more broken we will be. Only the broken folks can be filled with God's Spirit and used for his purposes. God can fill only that person who has some available space. If we want revival to break out in Christ Church and all over Memphis, we must be beautifully broken for Jesus. The Chaplain to the U.S. Senate, Lloyd J. Ogilvie, recalls a ...

1646. Surrender

Luke 23:44-49

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Burton F. Blair

... wife. She asks him, "Was he suffering much?" "No, lady," he replied, "he wasn’t a strong man. The scourging must have nearly killed him. I thought he was dead at noon, and then suddenly he began to sing in a loud, clear voice that he was giving back his spirit to God. I looked to see God come to take him. He died singing."1 No truer words could be written about Jesus. He died singing to his God. He sang words right out of his traditional hymn book, the Psalms. In his last moment, he sang unto his God ...

1647. The Covenant Of Amazing Grace

Genesis 9:1-17

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... fruit of the growing evil of humanity. But equally important, God demonstrates mercy by delivering a remnant with whom a new beginning is made. It is important to note that God’s judgment comes from a heart of sorrow and not from a vindictive, revengeful spirit. The ultimate aim of God’s wrath is repentance and restoration, never revenge and destruction. This hope-filled purpose of God is shared in the promise of our text, "I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by ...

1648. Great Grace Was Upon Them!

Acts 4:32-37

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... remarkable document is the second volume of a two-volume work by a Gentile physician named Luke. In his first book, we have beautiful stories such as the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son. But in "the Acts of the Apostles" or "Acts of the Holy Spirit" or maybe an even more understandable title would be, "Acts of the Risen Jesus," we have important information about the beginning of the church. A New Testament scholar describes it in this fashion: No one before Luke and no one after him took this daring ...

1649. Stewards and Our Bodies

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... Corinthians: You know that your bodies are parts of the body of Christ don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit ... you do not belong to yourselves but to God ... so use your bodies for God’s glory" (1 Corinthians 6:15, 19-20). These are ideas ... LCA Social Statement "Sex, Marriage & Family," 1970) Body Abuse If we believe that our bodies are a gift from God where his spirit lives, then to abuse our bodies is a matter of being a lousy caretaker of God’s gift. It is being ...

1650. The Kingdom of God Is At Hand

Mark 1:9-13

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Richard A. Jensen

... man. Jesus had a word for all victims of demonic oppression. "Be silent, and come out of him!" Jesus said to the unclean spirit. And the unclean spirit came out. A victim was set free. That is a sign that the kingdom of God is at hand. (See Mark 1:21-29 ... of satanic presence in every form of oppression, in every power that blocks the full expression of human life. Unclean spirits, disease, social ostracism, and prejudicial judgments over people’s lives are obstacles to the fullness of human life that we ...

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