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2001. The Power of God

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Rick Brand

... with good and evil, about the final outcome of history, because they will become more aware of the power of God: the power of God's love, the power of God's goodness to change. The power of God's grace to transform life for the better, the power of God to ... Jesus, who was despised and rejected by humanity, and has now installed him as Lord over all creation. The power of God's love took one who had reached the ultimate bottom and spun the whole wheel of history and established the one who was on the bottom ...

2002. Stirring Things Up

Mark 13:1-8, Hebrews 10:11-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... don't have to make daily sacrifices for your sins. Christ died for you. He died for you so that you would know God's love and forgiveness in your heart. You should know that God wants you to be free, to enjoy the life that God has created you for. ... It really isn't easy being a Christian. That's what might happen to you if you get "stirred up" to do good works and to love your neighbor. Jesus warned us about it. It's in the Beatitudes. "Blessed are you when they revile you and say all manner of evil against ...

2003. Trinity

John 3:22-36, Matthew 28:16-20, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, Exodus 34:1-28, Genesis 1:1-2:3

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John R. Brokhoff

... and respond to the fullness of God as represented in the Trinity. In a threefold way God is always working in our behalf, for he loves us. Outline: What the triune God does for us. a. God the Father created us - Lesson 1. b. God the Son commissions us - Gospel. ... we finally need to hear. a. God the Son died for us - "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ." b. God the Father loves us - "the love of God." c. God the Spirit is with us - "the fellowship of the Holy Spirit." WORSHIP RESOURCES Psalm of the Day: Psalm ...

2004. Lessons for Year A Proper 27

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Matthew 25:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... . Our labors are over and we rest at peace. When we sleep, we are not dead but alive. We shall awaken out of sleep. We fall asleep on earth to awaken in heaven for a fuller, better life with Christ. 2. Grieve (v. 13). We grieve over the loss of loved ones, but not as those who have no hope of heaven. In Paul's day, people were grieving because they were worried lest the departed miss out on the return of Christ. They wanted the dead to share in his victory, to see the destruction of Satanic powers, and to ...

2005. God Never Gives Up on Anyone

John 14:15-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Robert Stroud was scheduled to be executed in the electric chair. Although it seemed Stroud's fate was sealed, God had a plan for this man which necessitated that he be alive and, thus, an intercessor arose in the form of Stroud's mother. Like any loving parent, Mrs. Stroud did not want to see her son die, especially such an ignoble death as execution in the electric chair. Since the only person who could commute Stroud's sentence was the president of the United States, she journeyed to Washington, D.C., to ...

2006. The Oneness of Twoness

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to find a place in the choir. I have a South African friend named Chris Peppler who is President of South African Theological Seminary and a gifted theologian. One day he was reading Psalm 85:10-11 (NLT), where it says, “Unfailing love and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed! Truth springs up from the earth, and righteousness smiles down from heaven.” Suddenly it hit Peppler that this is a profound, almost scientific description of lightning, which brings together the two poles ...

2007. Under New Leadership

John 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... in some areas of our lives can mask deep problems in other areas. True success can only be measured by how who we are compares with the kind of man or woman God created us to be. To be truly successful we are to serve as Christ served. Love as Christ loved. Forgive as Christ forgave. We can live as Christ lived only when we have the same spirit Christ had. Let us yield ourselves to him this day. 1. (New York: Ivy Books, 1991), pp. 155-160. 2. http://www.chapel.duke.edu/worship/Sunday/viewsermon.aspx?id=1 ...

2008. What Christmas Gives to Us

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... broadly and holding a soft brown puppy in his arms. Sometimes I think we use the wrong approach… we go about it all wrong. We react too much and respond too little. We think of ourselves too much and of others too little. We trust power too much and love too little. We think too much about what others will do for us and too little about what we can do for others. I used to know a woman who was an insult-collector. Some people collect stamps or rocks or match-boxes… but she collected insults. She always ...

2009. When Mountains Are Not Moved

Mark 11:20-25 (26)

Sermon

James McCormick

... lamp which we rub to get what we want. Too many people have a vending machine view of it. You insert a prayer, and out comes whatever we have prayed for. No, that understanding is a great many sizes too small. We are invited to make requests, and as a loving Father, God will grant those requests if they are possible and if they are consistent with His good will for us. But we must be careful not to change Jesus’ prayer and make it “Not Thy will, but mine be done”. Did you hear what I just said? I said ...

2010. Body Building at Its Best

1 Corinthians 12:13-27, Ephesians 4:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... the maturity of becoming like the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul said in Eph. 4:13, "We all should come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Where love is the proof of maturity in the body, likeness is the purpose of maturity in the body. The ultimate test of my ministry is not how many people we have in Sunday School, not how much money we take up on a given Sunday, not how many buildings we build ...

2011. The Pride Is Right

Jeremiah 9:23-24

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James Merritt

... in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth, for in these I delight,' says the Lord." (Jere. 9:23-24) This verse is not ... pride if we conceive God. We should take pride if we believe God. If you really do know God, you know the God who "exercises loving kindness, judgment, and righteous-ness in the earth. There are a lot of people who draw up their own picture of God, say they ...

2012. No Place Like Home

Psalm 128:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... The word is very plain on how to have a happy home. First of all, happiness comes to the home when that home finds the Lord. The happiest home, I believe, is when the entire family is saved; when the father and the mother and the children all know and love the Lord Jesus Christ. But happiness also comes when the home fears the Lord. Now it may sound contradictory, but fear and happiness go hand in hand. In fact, when a man fears the Lord, he can be happy in knowing he doesn’t have to fear anyone else. He ...

2013. Won't You Come Home, George Bailey?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

... said: "I believe that there is no God and that the Virgin Mary is his mother." So what is the message? Is it that love comes down ... that God breaks in ... that light trumps the dark ... that holy things and common things can meet somewhere out back and coexist ... , so can we. Albeit differently than we have done so far. Because we've got a baby to take care of now. Whose name is Love. And it would be shame to drop it or walk away from it ... having seen what it looks like ... and having felt what it feels ...

2014. The Song of an Awe-Filled Life

Psalm 138:1-8

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... . Yet, having come through the valley of sorrow, he could still sing: Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, in whom this world rejoices; Who from our mothers' arms hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. [5] That's gratitude—to be able to sing God's praises even in the darkest hours; to sing the song of an awe-filled life, a song of gratitude for the goodness of God. I give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast ...

2015. From the Tomb

John 20:1-18

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... approaching, and with it the start of the Sabbath when no work could be done. Quickly, they rolled his body in linen, then watched as the great stone—like a sliding door in its groove—was placed across the entrance and marked with a royal seal. And Mary's love followed him all the way to the grave. So the sunset came, and with it the Sabbath calm, passing through what I am sure was a sleepless night and a day of reclusive mourning. You've been there, haven't you? Been there with a family and circle of ...

2016. Are You Ready for the Journey?

Mark 8:27-9:1

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John E. Harnish

... wasn't a priest, but I was his chaplain, and as I leaned down to that young man, he began to motion the sign of the cross...and he died. I don't know what that soldier was going to tell me, but I believe in that moment that a loving, forgiving God heard the prayer of a young man whose soul was going home. Bernie says he remembers riding in the Huey helicopters going into combat with six or eight of those young soldiers, utterly silent. And one or two of those young men would look over at him, recognizing ...

2017. Worship Like A Wesley

Philippians 4:4-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... Methodists: Went down to camp meeting just the other afternoon just to hear 'em shout and sing; for to tell each other how they love one another and to make the hallelujahs ring. Well, they all got there just to have a big time and to eat their grub ... I remember an old man in my first church who was proud of his long string of pins for thirty years of perfect attendance. That love of the fellowship, that commitment to the gathering, the promise to be there is part of what it means to worship like a Wesley. My ...

2018. It’s About God

John 3:14-21

Sermon

David T. Ball

... see that the point of this play on words was to emphasize the significance of Christ’s resurrection, as exaltation. Not all parts of this passage are so tricky to grasp. Perhaps the most familiar single verse in the entire Bible — “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life” — this verse has the verb “gave,” which translates quite precisely into English. Different Greek words are used frequently in the New ...

2019. The Dawn's Early Light

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Hebrews and settled them in Israel. While this week's text denies David the honor of building a permanent "residence" for the formerly nomadic Yahweh, it does reveal that God had decided to pitch his tent among these people for all time. Daring to love and serve both God and country with integrity was a risk lawyer/poet Francis Scott Key was willing to take. The author of the words to our difficult-to-sing and imperfectly-memorized national anthem took seriously his responsibilities as both a Christian and ...

2020. No Green Without Red

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... million adults, two million of whom watch without children. It is not just our children who have fallen theologically in love with a Sesame Street spirituality. Who doesn't like Cookie Monster or Big Bird? What is the motto of the ... we were growing up, we learned a poem that was an indictment and mockery of this kind of selfishness: I like me, I love me, My self I do adore; And every day, in every way, I love me more and more. Today our kids learn the song Big Bird sings: I can do whatever I want to do I ...

2021. Fan the Flames

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 's continued presence with us acts like a bellows to the flames we tend in our hearts. If we ignore the presence of this "spirit of power," cut ourselves off from the possibility of a living spirit within us, we shut down our own air supply. 2. Love-Perfect Living: It is not enough simply to fan the flames of faithfulness within ourselves. Until we open ourselves up to others and let the warmth of this fire spread though our family, our friends, our church, our community, it is bound to gradually die out ...

2022. Hebrews 13:1-8

Hebrews 13:1-8

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... , then they all belong to each other. Christian phil¡a is the celebration of the equitable adoption of all into the body of Christ. We all are truly brothers and sisters and as such we must love each other. Verse 2 promotes a kind of logical outgrowth of this commitment to familial mutual love. Christian phil¡a is to be extended even to those who are not members of their own particular Christian community. By recalling angels entertained unawares, the author's language reminds the community of its Old ...

2023. John 21:1-19

John 21:1-19

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... , they are seemingly content to go about "business as usual." Note how it is only after Jesus appears on shore and gives them new directions that even this fishing activity becomes fruitful, filling their nets to capacity. While it is the "disciple whom Jesus loved" that first identifies Jesus, Peter is again the active leader in the response. In the rather odd and awkward phraseology of verse 7b, Peter hastily pulls on some clothing, or perhaps "tucks up" that which he already has on, and springs into the ...

2024. John 13:31-35

John 13:31-35

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Jesus imparts to his remaining disciples. It is at this moment that Jesus offers the disciples a "new commandment" what might be thought of as a guiding principle to keep them in line and on track as Jesus leaves them. At first glance, the command to "love one another" (especially as Jesus elaborates that this love should be "as I have loved you") seems to offer a comforting thought to the disciples. Even though Jesus is about to leave them physically, they are left with a firm assurance of his abiding ...

2025. Hebrews 13:1-8

Hebrews 13:1-8

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

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