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Philippians 2:19-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... to complete the journey to Rome, but he knew that his friends in Philippi would be anxious about him and may well have blamed himself for causing them anxiety. In spite of being distressed over this, he was eager to stay with Paul and be of service to him, as he had been instructed to do. But Paul knew that the sooner Epaphroditus returned to Philippi, the happier Epaphroditus himself and his friends there would be, so he sent him back, exonerating him in their eyes from all responsibility for returning so ...

2. Gift

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... his commission as apostle to the nations, for he would be fulfilling the eschatological expectation of restoring Jerusalem’s fortunes through the nations. The nations that have come to share in the Jerusalemites’ restoration (“their spiritual blessings”) ought also to be of service to them in material blessings (cf. Rom. 15:26–27). For Paul, the collection was part of the OT motif of the eschatological pilgrimage of Israel and the other nations to Jerusalem (cf. 2 Cor. 9:9–10, citing Isa. 55:10 ...

3. Proper 15 & Pentecost 13

Isaiah 56:1-8, Psalm 67:1-7, Psalm 78:1-72, Exodus 16:1-36, Romans 11:11-24, Romans 11:25-32, Matthew 15:21-28

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... , who kept begging Jesus to heal her daughter because she had faith in him as one who had come from God and had power to heal. That miracle - faith - is one of the good gifts that God has given us so that we might live confidently in the world and be of service to God and other human beings. Faith - great faith - is the long-distance miracle that God gives to the world. Receive it and exercise it, in the name of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 56:1, 5-7 (R); 56:1 (2-5), 6-7 (E); 56:1, 6-8 (L) - "For All ...

4. All Keyed Up

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... In the first two weeks of Advent, just a month away now, we are going to have a Talent Fair in Linder Hall. All of the keys will have booths there. There will be hundreds of opportunities for you to sign up according to your talent and interest, to be of service to the body, or to the city, to spread the word of the gospel through your words and through your service. That is another thing we learn about the Church from the New Testament. The mission of the body is two-fold: First, it is to build-up the body ...

5. Professional Angel

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Ronald Love

... Curie persevered because she was a doer; she felt held to her work by a thousand bonds. Christian, you are bound to the gospel a thousand times, called to be a faithful doer of the word. Marie Curie was “held by a thousand bonds” to be of service to others. She employed her talents to heal people. She employed her talents to make society better. She employed her talents to offer people hope. This is the calling of a Christian, which is to be “held by a thousand bonds” to offer others a ministry ...

6. Proper 4

2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, Mark 2:23-3:6

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John R. Brokhoff

... (11-20) 1. Boy (vv. 1, 8). By this time Samuel was a big boy. When Hannah, his mother, brought him to Eli for full-time and life-time service to God, he was a small boy. By this time he was, according to Josephus, 12 years old. Boys can be of service to God and can have an experience with God. 2. The lamp of God (v. 3). The reference is to the golden lampstand which was opposite the table of the bread of the presence in the holy place. The lamp burned during the night and by morning it was burned out ...

7. Isaiah 50:4-9a

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... , the Pope has been given the greatest title that can ever be given anyone: "Servant of the Servants of God," patterned after Jesus' saying, "If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all" (Mark 9:35). In one way we are all to be of service to the servants of God. Servus Ser vorum Dei.

8. Isaiah 50:4-9a

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

9. Our Scheduled Appointments with God

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the cost of the place. Then when summer is overt it is so hard to return to a faithful attendance pattern. Or let’s suppose that one's elderly mother in Little Rock is not doing well. For several months you go over each weekend to be of service to her. But when her health improves, it is difficult to return to a faithful pattern of church participation. I am describing the drift, inspired by the devil, which is ever so gradual but spiritually lethal. On a typical weekend at Christ Church, only 36 percent ...

10. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... western city bears this motto: Service is the rent we pay for the space we occupy. Archbishop Nathan Soderblom used to say, "Doctrine divides, but service unites." The friends of Louis Pasteur reported the scientist as often saying, "In what way can I be of service to humanity? My time and energy belong to mankind." Jesus ended his parable with these familiar words, "So those who are last shall be first, and those who are first will be last" (Matthew 20:16b). The person who goes about serving with no regard ...

11. Light to Serve

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... he represented. No one person he knew would be worthy of the experience he just had in viewing the King. The presence of the Holy One revealed his unworthiness and sinfulness. There was no way God would have anything to do with him, or that Isaiah could be of service to God. The Unworthiness Of Isaiah The reluctance of Isaiah to respond to the presence of the King was not a polite gesture on his part. Isaiah was not indulging in the kind of false modesty most of us resort to when we really want to be coaxed ...

12. Lighten Up

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to be asking something else of you. Many of you are doing wonderful things in this community already. Some through volunteering in organizations, such as we heard this morning, others just in your vocation. You entered your vocation out of a desire to be of service to this world in the name of Christ. In those roles you are changing lives. I think especially of those in healing professions, and those in education. There are hundreds and hundreds of you in this congregation, and daily you touch the lives of ...

13. Celebrating the Marvel of Growth

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

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... withstand the dry weather and hot sun? I know the water helps, but I also know there is something beyond my control that makes the plants really grow. The same process works in the Christian life. We practice daily prayer and Bible reading. We find ways to be of service to others. We pledge money and time to the church and charitable purposes. We join the people of God at the altar regularly. These are some of the seeds that God uses to mold and shape our lives in love, peace and hope. But it happens at God ...

14. Save The Tokens For Uncle Sam

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... later. In some ways Sal's last two years were the richest of his life. Though he lived in considerable pain and though he was encased in a full body cast (because of multiple bone fractures), Sal found great meaning in life by being of service to many young people. Sal toured high schools in the area counseling teenagers on the hazards of drug abuse. He used his cancer and his visibly deteriorating body as powerful leverage in his mission. He was extraordinarily effective: the whole auditorium trembled when ...

15. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... , Thomas Gradgrind is instructing his children's new teacher in his duties: "Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else. Nothing else will ever be of service to them. Stick to the facts, sir." [3] In chapter 8, however, his own daughter Louisa begins to move in what he considers a dangerous direction. Dickens writes: When she was half-a-dozen years young, Louisa had been heard to begin a conversation ...

16. A Miracle of Grace

Philemon 1:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus. I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment. “I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you. I wanted to keep him with me, so that he might be of service to me in your place during my imprisonment for the gospel; but I preferred to do nothing without your consent, in order that your good deed might be voluntary and not something forced. Perhaps this is the reason he was separated from you for a while, so that ...

17. Philemon 1-21

Philemon 1-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... , but reluctantly. In Onesimus, Paul has found a spirit and a heart that encourage him and love him just as Philemon himself does. Onesimus is apparently much like Philemon. Paul confesses to Philemon that he wants to keep Onesimus with him so that Onesimus might "be of service to me in your place." Both men are Paul's "encouragers." The only mention of Onesimus as "a slave" comes in verse 16 where Paul suggests that by being parted from Onesimus for a while that is, during the time he has spent with Paul ...

18. Who's The Neighbor

Luke 10:25-37

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: Being of service to others no matter who they are. Summary: A modern retelling of the Good Samaritan parable in the form of a game show. Playing Time: 10 minutes Setting: A TV studio Props: Scripts Signs -- "Cheer" ;"Hello Milton" ; "The End"; "Applause", Road map Masks Raiment First aid kit Bandage Costumes: Costume pieces ...

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Ayn Rand

20. A Great Light (Sermon for Candlelight Service)

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Brett Blair

The Christmas story begins in darkness. There was the darkness of oppression, for God's people were a conquered people. They were a beaten and a defeated people. There was the darkness of persecution. Indeed, it was a despised universal taxation that brought the participants in the story together on that fateful night. There was the darkness of disillusionment. There was an ever-increasing number who felt that violence, not faith, was the most effective path. Yes, on that first Christmas, the mood was one ...

21. Christmas: A Family Service

Drama

Ruthanne Cochran

Setting: A large Christmas Lrce is placed in the chancel, or on one side of the front of the sanctuary, with wrapped gifts placed beneath it. A large manger is placed in front of the altar, or communion table, with a large candle placed nearby or on the altar. The portion of the service presented by the family takes place around the tree. Participants: A family, or six selected persons to portray: A mother A father An older son An older daughter A sniall girl (aged 9 or 10) A small boy (aged 8 or 9) Youth ...

22. In the Service

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Anyone here remember what they used to call places where you put gas in your car? They weren’t called “gas stations,” or “fueling centers,” but “service stations.” When you pulled in, someone (or sometimes even more than one) raced out to greet you, ask what you needed, and proceeded to fill your gas tank with fuel. While you sat, warm and comfy in your car, the “service station” attendant washed your windows, checked your oil, even checked your tire pressure. After filling up the tank they took your ...

23. True Service

Illustration

Richard Foster

Richard Foster in Celebration of Discipline outlines the difference between self-righteous service and selfless service. It can be hard sometimes to see the difference in others so let this be a means to examine our own motives: Self-righteous service comes through human effort. True service comes from a relationship with the divine Other deep inside. Self-righteous service is impressed with the "big deal." True service finds it almost impossible to distinguish the small from the large service. Self- ...

24. One in Faith and One in Service

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Lee Griess

A few choice words — that's what Jesus gives us this morning — a few choice words about our lives and faith. Just hours before being arrested, just hours before being tried and condemned, Jesus gathered his disciples around him and in all sincerity bowed his head and prayed for them and for us. These words from John 17 are part of a great discourse recorded by the gospel writer John, part of a great priestly prayer that Jesus offered up to his heavenly Father. These are words that unite us to God. And in ...

25. One’s Proper Service

Isaiah 58:1-14

Illustration

Larry Powell

I read that a member of a United Methodist church in North Carolina was once convicted in court for disrupting church services because of his atrocious singing. It was in 1873 that William Linkhaw was hauled into county court in Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C., by fellow Methodists who charged that Linkhaw’s singing repeatedly created havoc during worship services. Not only was his voice offensive to the ear, but he was given to singing long after the rest of the congregation had stopped. Things had become ...

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1. Timothy and Epaphroditus

Philippians 2:19-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

2. Gift

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

3. Proper 15 & Pentecost 13

Isaiah 56:1-8, Psalm 67:1-7, Psalm 78:1-72, Exodus 16:1-36, Romans 11:11-24, Romans 11:25-32, Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon Aid

4. All Keyed Up

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

5. Professional Angel

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Ronald Love

6. Proper 4

2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

7. Isaiah 50:4-9a

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

8. Isaiah 50:4-9a

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

9. Our Scheduled Appointments with God

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

10. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

11. Light to Serve

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

12. Lighten Up

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

13. Celebrating the Marvel of Growth

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

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

14. Save The Tokens For Uncle Sam

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

15. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

16. A Miracle of Grace

Philemon 1:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

17. Philemon 1-21

Philemon 1-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

18. Who's The Neighbor

Luke 10:25-37

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Ayn Rand

20. A Great Light (Sermon for Candlelight Service)

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Brett Blair

21. Christmas: A Family Service

Drama

Ruthanne Cochran

22. In the Service

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet