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1926. The Ashes of Our Lives

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... boat with nets, we are to practice Christ's teachings and share the gospel with others, drawing those around us to him. When we read about these two sets of brothers in the book of Matthew, we are told that Peter, Andrew, James, and John became Jesus' first disciples. When Jesus called them the first time, they knew what kind of man he was and were willing to follow him. So what happened between their first encounter and the second? Why do we see in Luke's gospel that they had gone back to fishing? It could ...

1927. Holy Ground

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... at least for a few minutes, a bowl of ice cream. Most people are planning to go to Easter services, if they are going at all. They are considering what they will wear, how they will be seen, and what others will think. I'm sure the disciples wondered what others would think if they stumbled on the upper room and saw the great teacher Jesus washing the feet of his pupils. We have received an invitation to intimacy with the eternal, a brand new relationship. God calls us into a new relationship and there's ...

1928. Simple Enough?

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... come' " (v. 33). If these words puzzled them they did not say. Then Jesus continued: I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. — John 13:34-35 We might ask, how is this a new commandment? Leviticus 19 is known as the holiness code. "Holy" is a word that means "separate or different." In that passage God tells the people, "You shall love your ...

1929. The End of The Beginning

Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... as to the world. This activity is blessed with a deadline to make us take it seriously, for sooner or later Jesus is returning. Christians believe that if Jesus ascended into heaven it was with the intent to return. Even as Jesus prepares to vacate the scene the disciples ask the obvious question: "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6). His reply is that "It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority" (Acts 1:7). Nothing ...

1930. How Many of Us Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... radiator was a part of the holy tradition. That church has now gained the name, “The Church of the Holy Radiator.” (2) The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus one day and saw some of his disciples eating food without washing their hands. This wasn’t a question of hygiene, but of tradition. The Jews had a ritual for washing hands as well as for the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles. I say it wasn’t a matter of hygiene, but it would be ...

1931. Is It True?

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... arrived. Now, in the early morning hours, the grim task would resume. Each of the gospels has different details but they all agree that the women who arrived first at the tomb were startled to find it empty and heard, "He is risen." They dashed back to tell the disciples. Peter and John come back to the garden in response and find that the women's report was accurate. No one is quite sure what to make of all this at the moment, but we know the rest. Yupper-dee-doodle! Of course, there have been times when ...

1932. The Truth about Warren Buffet's Secretary

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... so weighted down by the collection he misses the last train.” (7) This is all to say that the way we regard our possessions is a basic spiritual issue. This is why Jesus talked more about money than any other single issue. It wasn’t because he and his disciples were trying to raise big offerings. Jesus had no need of offerings, but he saw what money could do to people. “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God,” (Matthew 19 ...

1933. Prelude To A Sacrament

Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... . It was designed to be "a day of remembrance for you," God told them. "You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance." So it was that over 1,000 years later, Jesus and his disciples sat down at the table together to celebrate the Passover meal: A remembrance of how God had saved his people from their slavery in Egypt. On that night, Jesus reinterpreted two of the elements of the meal. They now symbolized his body and his blood ...

1934. Prayer-Conditioning Your Life

Luke 2:29-32

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ? He spent the night in prayer (Luke 6:12-13). The greatest decision Jesus made for the sake of the gospel was made after he spent “the night in prayer to God.” (Luke 12:12) Only after that extended time in prayer did Jesus chose his disciples. Before you make important decisions in your life, do you pray? I know you do all sorts of social and fiscal and psychological reconnaissance. We check out paper trails and personality quirks, credit checks, and long-term assets. But do we pray? Do we ask for God ...

1935. Can you Hear “The Voice?”

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... singers to find their own voice. To make the song they are singing their OWN song, no matter who wrote it, no matter what its style. Coaching voices to find and claim ownership of a single song is catnip to a TV audience. Coaching every new generation of Christ’s disciples to hear Jesus’ voice in every activity and attitude of our lives, to hear Jesus in every song we sing, is an ongoing transforming reality. Hearing “the Voice,” the voice of God as proclaimed by the voice of Jesus, is what makes us ...

1936. Acts 2: 1-21

Acts 2:1-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... with the Holy Spirit” and as a result they each began to “speak in other languages.” Here is the fulfillment of Jesus’ promise in Acts 1:8. For the gift of this Holy Spirit and the linguistic miracle it immediately offers makes it possible for the disciples to be “witnesses” to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to all the nations of the world. Luke may not specify exactly what was being said (at least until Peter begins speaking solo in v.14). But it seems self-evident that this was a multi-lingual ...

1937. Mary AND Martha, Heart AND Home

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... company, “BMB” is the new Black Plague. It is being spread by word of mouth by all who feel its effects. In this week’s gospel text Martha is suffering from a serious case of “BMB.” After voluntarily opening her home to Jesus and his disciples, after willingly taking on the responsibilities of providing proper hospitality to her visitors, she begins to lose her focus. Martha no longer can see that she has in her midst a great prophet and preacher with a word from God to present to all who will ...

1938. Credible Witnesses

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... of his majesty.” Peter knew what he was talking about. He was present at all the critical moments in Jesus’ earthly ministry. He was there when Jesus was led off to die on the cross, and he was present when the risen Lord appeared to the disciples. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ was not a fairy tale, a made-up story, or “cleverly devised myth” but was the truth. Peter was there as it happened. Now years later after growing in his faith and relationship with the Lord Jesus, Peter ...

1939. A Faith to Move Mountains

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... was no fast food place where he could run through a drive-through. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but he found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered. When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?” they asked. Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain ...

1940. When Fishermen Don't Fish

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... interested in casting our nets or doing the really hard work it takes to pull them in. We would do well to listen to Max Lucado’s warning: when fishermen don’t fish problems arise. You know the original story of the call of Jesus’ earliest disciples: As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, Matthew tells us, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out ...

1941. The Path of Joy

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... had ever ridden. They brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road. When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen. And here is what they said, “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd were ...

1942. Prelude to the Passion

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... would be subjected, the crucifixion and his subsequent resurrection. It was truly the week that changed history. Yet it started out so routinely. They were making their way to Jerusalem when they came to a place named Bethphage on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two disciples on ahead, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and . . . you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he ...

1943. Remember the Rooster

John 18:25-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... Peter replied, “I am not.” That’s once. John tells us the night was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself. They asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” Peter denied it, saying, “I am not.” That’s twice. One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him, “Didn’t I see you with him in the garden?” Again Peter denied it ...

1944. A Global Celebration

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s resurrection. Here is the Apostle John’s account: Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from its entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and another disciple, who seems to be the Apostle John, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” So Peter and John started for the tomb. Both were running, but John outran Peter and reached the tomb first ...

1945. A Prayer for Persecuted Christians Everywhere

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of what we know today as the Church. But on Passover, before the crucifixion, they were still just “duh!” … still just “clueless.” Yet Jesus, knowing what he had to face in the next few days, knowing what torture was before him, looked out at his disciples and proclaimed them to be the fulfillment of his mission and the future of God’s mission. It was like Jesus was looking out at a table full of Edsel’s and declaring that Detroit was golden. Jesus’ confidence came from his seat of power. He ...

1946. All In: Betting the Ranch

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... that you had on that particular hand. Today it is known as “going all in.” For those of you who like challenges, you are going to love this series. We are calling it, “All In.” We are going to be giving you the same challenge that Jesus gave to His disciples two-thousand years ago to go all in to following Him, to go all in in being committed to the church, to go all in in giving Him everything that you have, so that in return He can give you the biggest reward and the biggest return on the life ...

1947. The Question that Will Change Your Life

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The people were wrong in what they were saying about him, but it is evident that Jesus had captured their attention John the Baptist, they said, Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the prophets. Then Jesus zeroed in on the heart of his question. He turned to his disciples and asked, “But what about you? Who do you say I am?” That’s the question that matters, isn’t it? Who is Jesus to you? Some of you may remember a country music singer named Waylon Jennings. He had several hit tunes beginning in the 1970s ...

1948. Why He Did It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... as the anticipation that it was going to happen. Can you relate to that? Maybe not to the whuppin’, but to the terrible dread when you anticipate that something really awful is going to happen? In today’s lesson from Mark’s Gospel Jesus breaks it to his disciples that he will soon suffer and be put to death. We read, beginning with verse 31, “He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that ...

1949. When You Drop the Ball, What Next?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Confronted with this utter rejection, Jesus “could do no deed of power there.” Jesus failed to heal facing a home-town crowd. Face to face with the unpredictability of the human species, Jesus could only be “amazed at their unbelief” (v.6). Jesus’ disciples, his followers, must have also felt the sting of this defeat. They had been riding the wave of success and popularity along with Jesus up until this encounter. Now, suddenly, they had their first real taste of the bitterness of failure and the ...

1950. The Big "W"

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... God’s presence in our everyday lives. That is the reason we come every week and seek out God’s transforming presence in our lives. God sent Jesus to be a Messiah-in-our-midst because God always wants to be near to us. When we act as Jesus’ disciples, when we follow his way of laying down the self and taking up the cross, the way that so unsettled Peter, we open ourselves to God’s living presence in our lives. When we truly “worship” God we draw near to the divine and are genuinely available to ...

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