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2301. Easter 4

Psalm 23:1-6, John 10:11-18, Acts 4:5-12, 1 John 3:16-24

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... Lesson—John writes of love made real in truth and in action. 1 John 3:16-24 Gospel—Jesus identifies himself as a good shepherd who gives his life for the salvation of his flock. John 10:11-18 CALL TO WORSHIP Leader: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. People: And also with you. Leader: Approach God with confidence. People: We will do what God approves and ask what we will. INVOCATION Risk-taking God, you have given us a measure of freedom so that we may worship you without coercion ...

2302. Proper 6

Genesis 18:1-15, Psalm 116:1-19, Matthew 9:25-10:23, Romans 5:1-11

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... restoration that you announced long ago through your holy prophets. So also we pray that times of refreshing may come from your presence and that the Spirit's presence in the church may be more manifest in the world to the glory of the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. As in heaven the prayers of the saints are brought before you as golden bowls full of incense, so may your church encircle with a golden chain of prayer the world you love and for which you gave your Son Jesus in poverty and death. Grant zeal to ...

2303. The Spin Zone

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD." (II Samuel 11:26-27, NASB) God had seen the whole thing. In the world we live in we know now the capacity of computers to record and retrieve the most personal details of our lives. We now have video cameras when we check into motels, DNA to identify anywhere ...

2304. Until He Comes

2 Timothy 4:7-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... eschatology; I have friends who are post-tribulational; I have friends who are mid-tribulational. But there is one thing all of them have in common. Every one of them loves His appearing. Every one of them believes in the literal, physical, visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ. A real Christian is someone who from the moment he is saved, looks for, lives for, and longs for His coming, and that is all that matters. Southern Baptists, we will not all agree on everything, but we agree on far more than we ...

2305. Choose Life

Exodus 20:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... is why murder is so wrong, because it denies the sovereignty of God. It usurps a right that only God has, because there is only one being in this universe that has the right to control both life and death and that is God. I Samuel 2:6 says, "The LORD brings both death and life; He brings some down to the grave but raises others up." (I Samuel 2:6, NLT) You don't have the right to control the life or the death of any other individual including yourself. That authority and that right belongs to God alone. If ...

2306. Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Genesis 5:21-24, Hebrews 11:5

Sermon

James Merritt

... everyone to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth which is exactly what we are told in II Peter 3:9. "The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come ... Jesus comes back to this planet. The big deal about Enoch was not how he was taken, but where he went. He went to be with the Lord. I want to tell you today if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, it doesn't matter whether you go through the grave or you ...

2307. It’s All About Him

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... be worshiped? Well Jesus was talking about his own Heavenly Father. Now what I am about to say is going to sound extremely intolerant, and it is definitely going to be politically incorrect. But if the god that you worship is not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, you are not worshiping God. You are neither a true worshiper nor is your worship true. Jesus said to this woman in verse 22, "You worship what you do not know." That statement is true of so many so-called worshipers around the world. A ...

2308. Here I Am To Worship

John 4:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... , God wants your love. That is the first reason God put you on this Earth - to get to know Him and to love Him back. That ought to be the primary goal of your life. Jesus even said it is the greatest commandment in all the Bible, "To love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37, NJKV) Let me tell you something about God that most people go through life and never understand. God doesn't want ritual. God doesn't want religion. God doesn't want rules ...

2309. Joseph – The Promise Believed

Matthew 1:18-25; 2:13-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... your life and you are living in complete obedience to Him, you can trust God's promise. There is one final lesson we can learn from this great man called Joseph. III. Trust God's Promise in the Middle Of Difficulty "But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said, 'Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child's life are dead.' So Joseph got up, took the Child and His mother, and came into the land ...

2310. RSVP—By Invitation Only

Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... your name, and all you have to do is accept the gift that I offer to you. Astonished, I fell at his feet and said, "Please Lord Jesus, please clean up my life; please change me and sit me at your table and give me this new life." Immediately, I heard Him say ... Then Jesus cleaned me up. I walked out a brand new man robed in white, with His righteousness. So I will keep my promise to my Lord. I will go; I will spread the word; I will share the gospel; I will hand out the invitations. In fact, I'm going to start ...

2311. Mary Magdalene’s Day

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... brief; at least, that's what the record indicates. As we extend our thoughts, we discover a woman, perhaps in the grips of hysteria, who wants with all her heart to know where they have laid him. She wants to see him and probably touch him. He was her Lord. The price had been paid for our salvation and she was not about to run away. She knew firsthand what that salvation was. It was embodied in Jesus of Nazareth. Alive or dead, she wanted to know where they had laid him. Maybe it could be a sacred moment ...

2312. So, Are You The Messiah?

John 10:22-30

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... are trying to be somebody with little or no proof. The most hectic moment must have been at the instant he told them they didn't belong to his sheep! Let's face it, you and I miss the signs, too. To celebrate and confess Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is a powerfully inspiring statement. To be open to what the Holy Spirit is saying next may find us unsure and even faithless. Is what is coming across the screen a part of his messiahship? We thought we had this down pat and now we are confused by being urged ...

2313. Welcome, Rich and Poor

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... in the next life. If anything, those who have many possessions may find it hard to accept the basic premise of faith, that Jesus is Lord and Savior. The rich often try to find salvation elsewhere. Jesus said that it is as hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom ... is not ‘Is there a God, but is there a Fred?' You will never be fully Fred until you return to your Maker with faith in the Lord. You don't need a miracle; you have the Word of God. That's all any of us need." He spoke in the spirit of Luke 16: ...

2314. Jesus, The Light of the World

Revelation 21:10, 21:22-22:5

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... not remain in darkness" (John 12:46). The scriptural references to Jesus as the light of the world, described by John in Revelation as the New Jerusalem, speak in eschatological terms of Jesus' Second Coming. When this great event happens we will, as Paul says, "meet the Lord in the air, and so will be with him forever" (1 Thessalonians 4:17b). This will be the time of Jesus' final and total reclamation of all that belongs to him. It will be the time when darkness is forever vanquished as only the power of ...

2315. I Am the Alpha and the Omega

Revelation 1:1-3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and the end. The one who is, who was, and who is to come. Our scripture lesson says that John was in the spirit on the Lord’s Day when he had that vision. And the more that he was in the spirit, the clearer that vision came, until he saw in all ... goat, by which you are judged whether you will go to the left hand or the right hand? Whether you’ll receive the glory of the Lord or be cast into outer darkness, and that criteria is stated very clearly. I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you ...

2316. Joshua People Obey and Serve

Joshua 1:6-8, 24:14-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord." [16] Then the people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods; The choice Joshua put before the children of Israel is the choice every generation has to make. If we truly want to Serve God, then as we move into the future, we have to have Faith, we ...

2317. Where There’s Hope, There’s Life

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... not permanently locked in our various predicaments. Hope stems from confidence in God. Isaiah 2:3: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths. There is no ... today that God will be exalted in all that we do and all that we say. Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and there learn to worship with all of our being. Let him fill our hearts and minds and souls with hope because hope alone lies in ...

2318. The Blood Shall Be a Token

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of our text. Listen to that verse again: “Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lentil and the two door posts with the blood. This, suggests Pink, “is a marvelous picture of the suffering of our blessed Lord upon the cross.” The picture is marred a bit by the weak translation of the Hebrew word for basin. The word rendered “basin” is sap which is really an old Egyptian word for the step before a door, or the threshold of a house. That’s the way the ...

2319. Fresh Every Morning - A Test

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to use it. This man is not wealthy. He tithes to the church, and this was over and above, probably equal to his tithe. It was his way of expressing his gratitude, his way of saying that what he has is a gift; that he, too, is dependent upon the Lord. So, that’s one big lesson as we look at the miracle of manna as a test. It teaches us about habitual dependence. II There’s another lesson in this test. It is the vivid reminder that there are some things that we can not store up for tomorrow. Yesterday ...

2320. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... world that He gave His Son for it expects the church to likewise love the world and give itself for it. The words of the Lord’s Supper commission us body my blood The Spirit of Christ is given to us to enable us to love with His love, to die in ... that he was severed from the physical world. He continued to live in the present world and used its good things for the service of the Lord. But the best and the worst of this world which led to trust in self instead of God had no pulling power; he was crucified ...

2321. Facing Our Fears with Faith

Matthew 10: 27-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... say to you today, let us face our fears with faith: “Surely, it is God who saves us. Let us trust in Him and not be afraid." “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for God is with me." “The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?" “Fear not, for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people." “There is no fear in love because perfect love casts out fear." “God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There ...

2322. Hearing the Questions of Children

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... tempted to sacrifice your children on the altar of greed, in the pit of some passion, or in the service of some lesser God. In the moment of great trial, God calls you by name. Look up and listen to that voice—He is calling for you. The Lord will provide. He will provide faith for the journey. He will provide insights in the critical moments of life. He will provide blessings for all time. Verses 17-18 say, “I will surely bless you and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed.” Isn ...

2323. Engaging the Master Designer

Psalm 139: 1-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... So if you want to build a life that really matters, it makes common sense to engage the Master Designer, our Maker, our Lover, our Lord, our Friend. That’s what I invite you to do today. Let God take charge of your life! I. WE ARE GOD-DREAMED. Before ... a part of? You love this world. You loved the world to life. You have hopes and dreams beyond my imagination. Make me a blessing, Lord. Make me a blessing to someone today!” God’s plans are for our good. “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.” God ...

2324. What Would Jesus Say About War?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... people have looked at war in varieties of ways. There has historically been what is called a Holy War Tradition. It is the belief that God uses war to accomplish His will. Deuteronomy 20 contains the children of Israel’s instructions for war: In the cities that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them. Otherwise they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the ...

2325. What Would Jesus Say About the Marginalized?

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Martin the cobbler is Leo Tolstoy's story about a lonely shoemaker who in a dream one night is promised a visit from the Lord. The shoemaker rose early, got his shop ready for his special guest. Then sat down to wait. The only visitor in the morning ... wandered by. Martin left his shop and took the kid home, afraid all the time he would miss the Christ. That night Martin asked the Lord: 'why didn't you come.' Here is the answer he heard from Christ. “Three times I came to your friendly door Three times my ...

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