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151. General William Booth

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... the hungry, clothed the naked, ministered to prisoners, gave water to the thirsty, and welcomed strangers. In so doing, they who had met the Master, enabled others to meet the same Master. Early in General Booth’s ministry, throngs protesting the evangelistic involvement of the Salvation Army often took to the streets in such numbers that the streets were rendered impassable by the angry mobs. When William Booth died, streets were once more made impassable, but the crowds were friendly, and the outpouring ...

152. What Form of Church Does God Want for the Furture?

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... almost invariably they cause churches and denominations to split or to end in schism. The great need of the church of our day is for the church to be the church. The church was never intended to be focused upon any one preacher, or any one evangelist, or any one gift, but only upon Jesus Christ. The church has a uniqueness as a spiritual organization only when Jesus Christ is exalted as Savior and Lord, and when it seeks to reveal his kingdom of peace, love, righteousness, and justice. People need something ...

153. Holy Tares!

Matthew 13:24-30

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John R. Brokhoff

... the pastor, "If you don’t stop running after my wife, I’m going to thrash you." A pastor running after another man’s wife? In St. Petersburg, Florida, self-appointed evangelist, John Cook, was arrested twice in one month, once for drunken driving and the other time for strong-arm robbery. A drunken, stealing evangelist? Soon after the Episcopal church approved women for the ministry, a bishop ordained a lesbian. A minister a lesbian? A minister murders his wife and child in Florida. Can a Christian ...

154. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

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Leonard Mann

... diadem, And crown him Lord of all. Let me tell you a story which dramatically illustrates the power of this name. Half a century ago there was in our country a singing evangelist named Luther B. Bridgers. His home was at the village of Wilmore, Kentucky. He was away from his home most of the time doing his evangelistic work wherever he was needed. Returning from one of his trips, Luther Bridgers discovered that the family home had been destroyed by fire. In that fire his wife and four children had died ...

155. Abraham and the Meaning of Consecration

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Don Yocom

... 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 accept Christ, among the others who came forward was a young man of the Quaker faith. He accepted Christ and began to have a vision of peace in our world. This is one of ...

156. Consecrate That Trumpet to God

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

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Barbara Brokhoff

... pianist, but neither of them knew the first thing about Christian music. One day the young man was invited by a friend to play his trumpet at a huge Billy Sunday evangelistic crusade. He did it, and then, at the close of the service, as he stood there watching Billy Sunday pray with those who had responded to the call, the great evangelist looked up, saw him, came over to him, and said, "Young man, have you consecrated that trumpet to God?" "I had no idea what he was talking about -- consecrate. So when ...

157. A Man With Lips on Fire

Isaiah 6:1-13

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R. Blaine Detrick

... the book of Isaiah. Some of our best loved hymns have their basis in the words of Isaiah: "Holy, Holy, Holy" (6:3) or "How Firm a Foundation" (41:10; 43:1, 2) or "Watchman, Tell Us of the Night" (21:11, 12). The great Baptist preacher and evangelist of the city of London, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, was saved because he heard a text from Isaiah: "Look unto me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth" (Isaiah 45:22). And Spurgeon proclaimed the Gospel to multitudes of people because he did what Isaiah suggested ...

158. A Man With a Scalpel and a Pen

Acts 16:6-10

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R. Blaine Detrick

... party stayed in the home of a woman named _________, who was a seller of _________ and had come from the city of _________. (Acts 16:14, 15) 15-17. On their way to Jerusalem, Luke and Paul came to ________ where they visited with _________, the evangelist, who had four ______. (Acts 21:8, 9) 18-21. Luke accompanied Paul, by ship, on a journey to _______; a centurion named _________ was in charge of prisoners; the ship was wrecked on the island of _________; but all those on board, numbering __________, were ...

159. Inevitabilities and the Last Days

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... to use in defense of our faith. Some young Christians saw that promise come true in a town on the ocean shore. In the 1960s, the community was troubled each year by hordes of college youth on a summer spree. A team of young missionary-evangelists was commissioned, by their denomination, to establish an outpost of the church in a house at the center of the turbulence. The town fathers opposed the undertaking. The leaders of the team requested, and were granted, a meeting with an unsympathetic mayor and an ...

160. You Don't Need Jesus

John 1:19-28

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John R. Brokhoff

... explained, "There's a party in there for handicapped children -- and I can't go in because there's nothing the matter with me." You may kid yourself about not having any sin but not only God knows better but all the rest of us do. In response to an evangelist's sermon, a man got up and confessed, "I've been a sinner, a contemptible sinner. And I've been one for years, but I never knew it before tonight." A deacon in the aisle whispered to him, "Sit down, brother, the rest of us have known it all the ...

161. The Fruit of One's Doing

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

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Harry N. Huxhold

... of our salvation comes to its climax in the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. For him the tree planted by water became the tree of the cross. So it was that the Evangelist John reports that when they pierced Christ’s side, blood and water flowed from him. Obviously, it is the evangelist’s attempt to help us understand that Jesus truly became the Living Water for us through all that he achieved by his life, death, and resurrection. Tragically, those who fail to trust God are the ...

162. Salvation

Psalm 118:1-29

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David E. Leininger

... we are saved FROM is Hell and FOR is heaven. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). We are SAVED by grace through our faith in Jesus. "Are you saved?" is still the question of the TV preachers and tent-meeting evangelists. Salvation. Heaven. It is our destiny... something Christians can count on as surely as the sun in the morning and the moon at night. "Jesus and I, bye and bye, in the sky, when I die." A little self-centered, perhaps, but... Case closed! Not exactly. By ...

163. Last Words

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... are the two messages Jesus means for his church to proclaim to the world, "Turn around" and "You are forgiven. The past is past. This is a new day." According to writer Jamie Buckingham, the day after Jimmy Swaggart, one of the nation's best-known TV evangelists, went on public television to confess his sin of immorality and ask the nation's forgiveness, a friend of Jamie's called him on the phone. "Do you want to know what God thinks of Jimmy Swaggart?" the friend asked. Jamie told him since everyone else ...

164. Driven To Serve

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... ” people who did not know what he knew. Christ does not expect us to comb the beaches as Mark did telling people that God loves them, though there are young Christians who do that every summer. Most of us have not been called to be that kind of evangelist. But we are called to live out the love of Christ in our families, in the workplace and in our community and never to be apologetic about the difference Christ makes in our lives. So, our question for the day is, how well are we serving our customers ...

165. God Of Compassion

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... our paying for our mistakes. As someone noted, "Many of us pray that somehow 2+2 won't make 4 this time." It does. But God longs to see us get our lives together. Bishop Stephen Neill told once of hearing an Indian village evangelist telling the story of the prodigal son. The evangelist went beyond the text yet did not stray from the heart of the matter. He explained that the prodigal's real change of heart did not come about when he decided to return to his father. It did not come about when, to his ...

166. Fans or Followers

Matthew 4:18-22

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King Duncan

... between a flower that is alive and one that is dead?” Then he answers his own question: “The one that is growing is alive.” He adds, “The only evidence of life is growth.” So it is with the life of the spirit. One prominent evangelist complained during the 1950s when churches were bursting at the seams that the church really wasn’t growing; it was merely getting fat. That is, persons were coming into the church but they were remaining spiritual infants. They were not growing in understanding and ...

167. One Word Changed Everything

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... knew the masses of people are quite fickle and easily led astray. There was a glaring example of this not too long ago on television. The ABC television network carried a program titled "Pray TV." Actor John Ritter played the role of an evangelist. Incredibly, some 22,000 people called local television stations wanting to pledge financial contributions to Ritter's work. These figures were verified by various telephone companies who had monitored and logged the incoming calls. Just after a scene in which the ...

168. Would You Mind Rescuing Me?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... mission of the church is to witness to the grace of Jesus Christ. It is to call our nation to righteousness, both personal and social, and to proclaim the good news that we are forgiven, accepted, made right by the cross of Calvary. Our chief task then is evangelistic. We are a community in the rescue business. We will never be the church Christ means for us to be until we center in on that reality. This doesn't mean that we are to go out and harass people into the kingdom. A wife asked her husband ...

169. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... out, in a heavy masculine scrawl, were these words: "In case of accident, remember, Honey, it's you I love, not the car." (6) Those are God's words to us. It is we He loves. And because He loves us, He has taken away our sins forever. Evangelist Leighton Ford once told about a man who owned a Rolls Royce. While traveling on vacation, there was a mechanical failure. The man called the company from which he had bought the car, and they flew in a mechanic from England to repair it. After waiting a number ...

170. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

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King Duncan

... Yahweh now worship Mammon. It is happening all around us. I like the story about the wealthy television evangelist who was dying in his mansion, and his flock gathered round to ask him for his last wish. "Before I die," he said, "I would like to take a ... ride." And they asked the wealthy evangelist what he required for that final ride before entering the kingdom of heaven. And he said, "I would like a very small camel and ...

171. Crossing The Desert Or Protecting Our Vehicle?

Acts 17:16-34

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King Duncan

... with the people of Athens. WHEN WE START WHERE PEOPLE ARE WE HAVE THE GREATEST CHANCE OF WINNING THEM OVER TO CHRIST. In a Peanuts comic strip, Linus listens attentively as his little sister tells him about her potential as an evangelist. She says to Linus: "I would have made a good evangelist. Do you know that kid who sits behind me at school? I convinced him that my religion is better than his religion." "How did you do that?" Linus asks. "I hit him with my lunch box!" Lucy replies. The Apostle Paul ...

172. Power Praying

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... churchman, who shared the men's concern for revival. Particularly was he burdened for one of his own children, William, a teenage boy who needed to come to grips with God. Out of these repeated times of prayer, the men felt led to sponsor an evangelistic meeting in the city. In the summer of 1933, they purchased a small tent and set it up for gospel services. This effort was so encouraging that the men decided to undertake a much larger crusade the following year. The Reverend Mordecai Ham was invited ...

173. Birdbaths and Flagpoles

Matthew 13:1-23

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King Duncan

... only a week after the crusade, when Pastor Beukema visited some of these people, he discovered that many of them had already lost their enthusiasm. A single mother, overwhelmed by her family's needs, had quickly lost the joy she'd found during the evangelistic services. A teenager decided against becoming a Christian because he feared his friends' ridicule. A businessman decided that he wasn't ready to let his faith change his life. He retreated back to his old comfort zone.(4) That happens. We live in a ...

174. The Good Son

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... our time as we see with too much regularity that those who should be people of character are not. A 1980 calendar recently showed up as a gag gift. This calendar depicted "a typical year" in the life of a certain famous television evangelist. Each month the evangelist and his family were shown partaking in some wholesome activity. Since this televangelist had a dramatic fall from grace in the mid-1980's, this calendar now stands as a witness to hypocrisy instead of virtue. It's not only televangelists who ...

175. Nothing Is Impossible With God

Luke 1:26-38

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King Duncan

... with the Lord. Once he surrendered his life entirely to God, his joy and faith returned. David Wilkerson became a successful evangelist, the founder of Teen Challenge, and the author of the best-selling book The Cross and the Switchblade. (5) IN THIS ... , she accepted the promise, and she was included in God's plans. That could be the story of every person who seeks to follow Jesus. Evangelist Alan Walker once told about a girl who had a rich and lovely voice. She was singing in the choir of a church in East ...

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