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2251. Christmas 1

1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26, Psalm 148:1-14, Luke 2:41-52, Colossians 3:12-17

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... and journey until God meets us in stables and on streets, in our backyards, and at computers. The Holy meets our humanity in the commotion of birth and birthday parties. The Christ shines like a star to bless and guide our wanderings. Holy Spirit lives through us as masculine and feminine gestures manifesting a bit of heaven here on earth. All nature announces the imagination of the Creating God! Hallelujah! Offertory Statement (Leader) With our tithes and offerings, with our talents and money, we honor God ...

2252. Born at Bethlehem — Hope

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... vantage point. The ocean stretched out before her, and she could see the waves rolling to the shore. The wind tore at her clothes and the sun warmed her head and filled her with wild, joyful singing! “I felt as though I could fly, as though the Holy Spirit were in the strong gusts, ready to lift me off my feet into heaven.” Ellyn continues, “I stayed there as long as I dared. Knowing that my family would be waiting impatiently, I went down the spiral stairs at last. But inside my heart, I felt as ...

2253. Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)

Luke 1:39-45

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... %80%99s‑songs‑of‑deliverance. The first half of Mary’s hymn is more personally focused on what God has done in her life and how God has so peculiarly blessed her. Mary’s immediate response is one of great joy, her soul, her spirit “rejoices” and affirms that God is her “Savior.” God has delivered her from a position of “lowliness” — she was an insignificant young Jewish woman, outside any discernible circle of power or prestige or pedigree, a member of a downtrodden people in a land ...

2254. When We Are Tempted

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. You go off to a church retreat. You have a spiritual mountaintop experience. You’re feeling closer to God and closer to others than you have ever felt before. Beware! That is the time when you may be the most vulnerable to temptation. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. Here, too he was vulnerable. A physical need needed to be met. And so the devil said to him, “If ...

2255. Surprise in a Graveyard

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... creation and who can interact with his Creator a being created in the image of God. Now I ask you, if the universe is so constructed that no form of energy is ever lost, does it not make sense that nature’s greatest creation, the human spirit, with its ability to think and love and will, will also be preserved? When the evolutionary process reaches its apex does it suddenly reverse itself and begin to destroy that for which it was engineered in the first place? The answer is, no! The universe conserves ...

2256. Two Sinners

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... needed. There were several children in the family. They obviously were on welfare. Their home showed much neglect both inside and out. The young pastor tried in every way to show the love of Christ to this family, to show acceptance and to epitomize the Christmas spirit. But just before he and his layman left this home, the layman showed how he really felt about this family by walking over to the television set and drawing his finger across the top of that set and displaying to all in the home the layer ...

2257. Stargazing, Naval Gazing, and Other Waiting Games

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Tony Everett

... moving forward. “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven?” (Acts 1:11). It’s time to get busy. Stop star gazing and naval gazing. It’s time to get busy. Jesus left the apostles with a specific promise of power from the Holy Spirit and a precise mission to witness for Jesus to the ends of the earth. Jesus gives us the same promise and the same mission. How does the Lord get your attention? How does the Lord move you from feeling religious emotions to doing faithful deeds? What do ...

2258. Appetites and Desires

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... thing I hate.” This is almost a direct quote from the Latin poet Ovid (43BC-17/18AD), where he admits “The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not I do.” It was both a personal apologetic and a profound confession of the human spirit. Paul’s contorted confession in Romans 7:15-25 is one of the most vulnerable, open moment that Paul offers to his readers, as from 2 Corinthians 11, where he lifts up his toga and shows his scars. Is there anyone who has not wished he had not said some ...

2259. The Knot: Frayed (Part 1)

1 Peter 3:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... from a fat lady.” The point is the physical does wear off. The sexual sparks don’t fly as often, but that is not where real beauty is anyway. “But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.” (1 Peter 3:4, ESV) There is a beauty that never fades. There is a beauty that never grows old and is never tarnished by gray hair, false teeth, or a wrinkled face. Weather doesn’t decay it and time doesn ...

2260. Waiting in Life's Waiting Rooms

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... John is witnessing to and waiting for his arrival with joy. Every time we look at the presents accumulating under our tree we should think, not of elves, but of John the Baptizer. John is the one who is sitting in expectation, waiting with a whetted spirit and a vetted mission, for the “next big thing.” And yet this week’s epistle text also tells us how we should spend our time in this “waiting room” of Advent. As Paul concludes his first message to the new and struggling Thessalonian community of ...

2261. Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin

Acts 4:1-22

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... least, about them. But now it was borne in upon them how like Jesus they were. When Pilate had condemned Jesus, they had thought that they had heard the last of him (Why else put him to death?). But they had reckoned without the power of the Spirit (cf. Luke 21:15), and in these Spirit-filled men Jesus in a sense stood before them again. Would they never be rid of him? 4:14 As for the healing, there were two grounds only on which Peter and John could justly be punished: The first was if it were a hoax—but ...

2262. The Apostles Persecuted

Acts 5:17-42

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... brings this witness home to the people’s hearts, convincing them that the apostolic testimony is true (cf. 15:28; Rom. 8:16). Notice, too, the connection in the verse before us between obedience and the gift of the Spirit, which would “seem to be in substantial conceptual agreement with John 14:15–16, which teaches that if a man keeps Christ’s commandments, the Father will give him ‘another Counselor’ who will remain with him forever” (F. L. Cribbs, Perspectives, p. 50; cf. v. 29, and see ...

2263. Paul's Labor for the Church

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... ; Phil. 1:17). The “rejoicing” does not come because Paul is undergoing trial or persecution. Paul is happy because his sufferings are for the believers at Colossae. In this, as well as in passages such as Romans 5:3, 8:38ff., the apostle captures the spirit of Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:10–12, where happiness and persecution are linked together (cf. 1 Pet. 4:13). In other passages, Paul indicates that his afflictions can be understood in a number of ways: They are a consequence of the Christian life ...

2264. The Son Superior to Angels

Hebrews 1:1-14

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... of the Son’s completed ministry, serves as one of the basic weapons in our author’s arsenal of arguments concerning the superiority of the person and work of the Son. 1:14 What then is a realistic estimate of angels and their function? They are ministering spirits; but, as has been shown, they have a subordinate role of serving God. God’s concern is not with angels, but with us, and he accordingly sends them to bring help to those who will inherit salvation. God and the Son are the source of our ...

2265. Warning Against Falling Away

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... and the disciples of Jesus. Christian baptism thus could well be classified as one, if not indeed the culminating, rite of purification. The laying on of hands is yet another Jewish custom taken up by the Christian church, often as a symbol for the imparting of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 8:17; 9:17; 19:6), but also in connection with healing (Acts 9:12; 28:8) and, as in the OT and rabbinic Judaism, special commissionings (Acts 6:6; cf. 1 Tim. 5:22; 2 Tim. 1:6). The last two items, the resurrection of the ...

2266. Living for God

1 Peter 4:1-11

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... . It must be said straight away that no fully satisfactory explanation of this verse has ever been given. We can but seek to sense the drift of Peter’s meaning. Although Peter has previously referred to the preaching to some who were no longer on earth (the “spirits in prison,” 3:19), we should not assume that the preaching here in 4:6 harks back to exactly the same topic. In 3:19, the Greek verb for “preach” is kēryssein, to proclaim; here in 4:6 it is euangelizesthai, to evangelize, preach good ...

2267. Samson's Vengeance on the Philistines

Judges 15:1-20

Understanding Series

Cheryl A. Brown

... Judahites took Samson captive and led him to the Philistines camping nearby at Lehi, which means “jawbone.” As the contingent neared the Philistine camp, these rushed toward Samson, shouting a war cry, not unlike the lion (14:5). Also not unlike the lion episode, the Spirit of the LORD came upon Samson in power and the ropes fell off his arms like charred flax (v. 14). He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey and with it struck down a thousand men. Several aspects of this episode are unusual. To begin with ...

2268. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... way” at this present time. 1:11 The fruit of righteousness that Paul desires to see reproduced in the Philippians’ lives is essentially identical with those graces which, according to Galatians 5:22, 23, make up the “fruit (or ‘harvest’) of the Spirit.” These qualities are the spontaneous product of the new life implanted within them, a life based on “the righteousness that comes from God” (3:9). It is because of their union with him by faith that they will display the fruit of righteousness ...

2269. Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness

Matthew 4:1-11

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... . Hillary and Norgay had blazed the trail, allowing others to imagine that they might succeed and so to walk in their footsteps. Jesus has paved the way of victory over temptation by living as the one true human being in covenant loyalty to God empowered by the Spirit. He invites us to follow him. The challenge is still great, but the way has been charted by the Messiah, who not only walked that path but also walks with us. Allegiance to the one true God is the basis for all covenant loyalty. Quote: The ...

2270. Jesus Turns to His New Family

Mark 3:31-35, Mark 3:20-30

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... pointing to authoritative dominical assertions. The statement here is based on the amazing mercy of God (see Isa. 1:18; 43:25), who forgives both sins (offenses against others) and blasphemies (“slander,” offenses against God). 3:29 whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. In Jewish circles this unpardonable sin was sin “with a high hand” (Num. 15:30–31), especially profaning the name of God (m. Sanh.7:5, building on Lev. 24:15–16). Jesus here narrows this sin down ...

2271. More Parables of the Kingdom

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:21-25

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... s reign has arrived but in a completely unexpected way and with totally unexpected beginnings. It has begun with obscurity and rejection. The hosts of heaven have not come, and the trumpets have not sounded. The power of its beginning is a power of the Spirit, not of military might. It “is not some massive juggernaut that mows down everything in its path. . . . That is why so many will overlook its presence, underestimate its power, and shrug off its claim on their lives.”3The kingdom is the lowly Jesus ...

2272. Jesus Is Tested in Gethsemane

Mark 14:32-42

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... God’s will. In Jesus’s Gethsemane prayer we discover the true meaning of all intercession. As Paul says in Romans 8:26–28, we do not know the actual will of God when we pray. Yet we must realize that as we groan, the Spirit groans with us more deeply than we do, and the Spirit knows the mind of God. So when we ask for healing, the removal of trial situations, and so on, we can, like Jesus, throw ourselves on God’s mercy in the sure knowledge that the situation will work out for the best. Our place ...

2273. Testing in the Wilderness

Luke 4:1-13

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... shares the general Jewish belief in a personal devil, whom he elsewhere generally calls “Satan,” as the leader of opposition to God’s purposes for his world. Under Satan’s control are the demonic forces most frequently met in the Gospel as evil spirits possessing people (11:17–18). There is an ambivalence in the biblical view of Satan, who is regarded not only as a real and powerful force determined to destroy God’s work but also as operating under the overall sovereignty of God. This tension ...

2274. Sabbath in Capernaum

Luke 4:38-44, Luke 4:31-37

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... of synagogue worship on the Sabbath, see “Understanding the Text” on 4:14–30. The invitation to teach after the readings from the Scriptures would indicate that Jesus must already have gained some reputation in his adopted home. 4:33 a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out. As usual in an exorcism account, the words are attributed not to the “host” whose voice is used but rather to the possessing demon, and Jesus’s response will be specifically to the demon. 4:34 Have you come to destroy ...

2275. The Death of Jesus

Luke 23:44-49, Luke 23:26-43

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... worldwide on a continuing basis and has been instrumental in thousands of conversions. Much more restrained than the more recent and acclaimed Passion of the Christ (2004, directed by Mel Gibson), the clips of the crucifixion in this film are truer to the spirit of Luke than many other films. It is available online for full viewing. The compassion of Jesus under great suffering is an inspiration for reflection on our own suffering as something that can be used to bless others. Christian Living: A Passion ...

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