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1. Proclaimers Of The Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... how in the past two years, the Christian life had taken on deep meaning, and had sustained him through a recent, very sickness crisis. The witness was clear, and Hans received it. Now there was no conversion in the car that day, so far as I know. But the gospel was proclaimed, not by this preacher, but by a layperson who had experienced new life and was willing to share it. John got me to my airline, assured me he had time to check in the car and help Hans find a plane to the right Bloomington. We quickly ...

2. An Uncomplicated Gospel

Galatians 1:1-10

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April Yamasaki

... grace in his life. For John Newton, it was not God's grace-and-anything-else, but "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!" We may not all experience a dramatic conversion like Paul or like John Newton. But God's grace and the uncomplicated gospel of Christ Jesus are still at the heart of our faith. At times we may be tempted to add to it, as if God's grace is not enough. At times we may be tempted to take it for granted, too pre-occupied with ourselves and other things to notice ...

3. Proclaiming The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... , and are much more bold to speak the word of God without fear." Do you get the point? -- we can proclaim the Gospel anywhere. There's a story about the old evangelist, Billy Sunday, which illustrates this. He was in New York City preaching a revival ... crisis. The witness was clear, and Hans received it. There was no conversion in the car that day -- so far as I know -- but the Gospel was proclaimed -- not by this preacher, but by a lay person who had experience new life and was willing to share it. John got ...

4. Participants In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel thus about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent and may be pure and blameless for ...

5. Gospel Through The Person

Philippians 1:12-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... concluding section - verses 21-26. The linchpin verse of this series is verse 21. In fact, this verse tells Paul’s life story. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. So that’s the title of this section, and the climatic word about the gospel through the person. To live is Christ. These verses 21-26 form one of those marvelous passages that you come upon in Paul’s writings now and then, in which he opens the door of his most innermost self, and invites us in for a visit. Though addressing his ...

6. Ashamed Of The Gospel

Romans 1:1-17

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Erskine White

... there and he has collected a special offering to help the Jerusalem church, which is very poor. After Jerusalem, he wants to carry the gospel to Spain and to stop in at Rome on the way. Paul finally did get to Rome, shortly after he wrote his letter to the ... which has come to Rome from the four corners of the earth. But Paul is not ashamed to go to the "Eternal City" and preach a gospel which is just fifty years old. He is not ashamed to preach in underground caves, if that's where he has to preach. Most of ...

7. Gospel Partners

Philippians 1:3-5

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James Merritt

... " transformed my life. I hereby make a heart-filled request in the name of the Lord. Please send me the message and any other material that the Lord will lay in your heart to sow in Kenya and Africa. Any material you send will be used to propagate the gospel in Africa. It is a worthwhile seed. Thank you for allowing God to use you to reach Africa also through this means. God bless. Yours in His vineyard, Pastor Elias Ndeda Now how can you be a partner in this ministry, and why should you be a partner? Well ...

8. Partners In the Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... and asked, “What audience are we missing? Who is out there that no church is paying attention to?” This is not the sermon -- I just throw it in as an extra -- let it lodge solidly in your mind. Those you think the most unlikely prospects for hearing the gospel may be waiting for you to share it. Back to the main stream of the story. When the city fathers discovered that they had flogged and thrown a Roman citizen into jail, they were not only embarrassed, they were afraid of what Paul might do to them ...

9. Go ... Be the Church ... Do the Gospel

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... learning. 2) During the week, the church isn’t here; the aisles of the building have become the sidewalks where you and I go about our vocations. The aisles of the church building lead to the streets where the church as the scattered people of God DO the Gospel. 3) The Gospel needs hands and feet, says the Apostle Paul. The good news of Jesus needs to be put into action. Faith without action is as good as no faith at all, warns James in his letter. 4) How our Lutheran ancestors urged us to be DOers of the ...

10. Are You on the Gospel Side?

Colossians 3:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... phrase he heard when growing up that was uttered when "someone filled your coffee cup or ice tea glass to the rim, loaded your plate with food or served you a heaping dish of fresh fruit or homemade ice cream." The phrase was: "Now that's what I call gospel measure." Shelby remembers "wondering as a small boy how people could use the Bible to measure or weigh such things, and then I learned how the phrase came from Jesus' promise in Luke 6:38: 'Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down ...

11. The Gospel According To Pronouns

Acts 10:34-43

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David J. Kalas

... believer named Ananias there in Damascus — in order for God's whole will to be done in Paul's life. Here, in our story, Peter was the person selected for the assignment. He arrives at the home of Cornelius in order to share with him and his household the gospel of Jesus Christ. And we heard Peter's words in the scripture reading from the New Testament book of Acts. As we listen to Peter's message, we are struck again by how very personal it is. That is to say, it is a message filled with people and ...

12. Is The Gospel Only For Women?

Luke 6:17-26

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... is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:27-28) We still have a long ways to go in making that come true to the fullest, but the Gospel is like yeast at work to permeate the whole lump of society. The present women’s movement in America can trace its ferment to this yeast. The first women’s rights leaders - starting in the last century - women such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, and Angelina ...

13. The Gospel According to Christ’s Enemies

John 11:1-16

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Richard Hoefler

... has loved you deeply and always welcomed you into his home with warm hospitality." In direct contrast to this natural and expected plea is the message from the family at Bethany. The sisters did not say, "He loves you," but, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." This is the gospel in a nutshell. Not our love of God, but his love for us. So we should remember whenever we approach God that the basis of our requests is not our love for him, but his love for us. Our love is frail and faltering, but his love is a ...

14. Is The Social Gospel Out Of Date?

Matthew 6:25-34

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Kent Moorehead

... explode whenever the trigger-term "social" is used. To the fear-conditioned conservative, "social" smacks of socialism. And what could be more dangerous than communism which, they’ve carefully taught, is nothing but socialism in a hurry? To these people the phrase "social gospel" has become a hate term, a scapegoat slogan into which they can put all their resentments at any suggestion of change in the status quo. Second, it is charged with a derogatory implication by the use of the words "out of date." To ...

15. The Gospel

Colossians 1:3-6

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Maxie Dunnam

... the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the church at Colossi. In the services this morning I am going to be talking about the gospel. Tonight I am going to talk about the church. At 11:00 am tomorrow my theme is “Call to Finish What is Finished,” and then ... Paul thought and communicated – the theme will be “Alive in Christ.” So, let’s begin – at the beginning -- with the gospel. There is a story which Rosalind Russell, the actress, tells on herself. She was taking a cruise, and was walking on ...

16. The Intimate Gospel: The Word became Flesh

John 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... into the picture. Moses, the one whom God had raised up to lead the people out of Egyptian bondage; and, of Moses the gospel writer said, for the law was given through him, through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ, this ... of thinking that all religious roads lead to God, and that one path of faith is as good as another. That’s not what the gospels say. That’s not what Jesus said. Listen to him – I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man comes to the Father ...

17. The Gospel Through the Person

Galatians 4:8-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... pain when our thorn in the flesh is not removed. Christianity comes on the Jericho road where we have been beaten down or when we identify with and lend our hearing ear and helping hand in love to a bleeding stranger. The truth of the gospel is always personal, but not private. So that’s the first lesson – the power of the person and the personal. Now the second. II As already indicated, we do not know what Paul’s affliction was, whether malaria, epilepsy, eye trouble, migraine or some other malady ...

18. The Incredibility of the Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... be no victory over death, no promise of eternal life. But God didn’t stay at home. He walked down the stairway of heaven with a little baby in His arms – incredible – the incarnation: The Word became flesh. If we don’t get this in our understanding of the Gospel, we won’t get the rest. If we don’t begin here, there is no place to go. There will be no renewal of the Church, no revival of faith among us, no witnessing to the world, unless and until we lodge this truth solidly in our minds and ...

19. This Gospel Is for Our Children

Mark 10:13-16

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... ; and, second, they do not understand the importance of the need for children to come to the Savior. To discourage people who bring others to Jesus runs counter to Christ's whole plan for the church and its ministry of evangelism for all time. The fact is this gospel that is entrusted to us exists on the edge of extinction. It is always just one generation away from disappearing from the face of the earth. To kill the message of Jesus in your family, all you have to do is simply not tell it to your children ...

20. The Christian Gospel in a Nutshell

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (II Cor. 4:6 KJV) I don’t know another text that gathers up the wholeness of the Gospel as that one does. It is the Gospel in a nutshell. There’s only one word for this text: Incredible. Listen to this: The radiant glory of God shines in the face of Jesus Christ - this is the incredibility of the incarnation. The radiant glory of God, shining in the face of Jesus Christ ...

21. The Gospel In Miniature

John 3:1-21

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Robert Allen

... is some kind of vengeful God who is going to punish us when we step out of line. But the tremendous thing about this Gospel in miniature is that it affirms that God loves us simply because we are his children. More years ago than I like to remember, ... through Jesus Christ. Emmanuel is God’s gift in a nutshell. Emmanuel is Hebrew for "God with us." In the first chapter of the Gospel of John, there is a phrase which says: "The World became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth." God’s gift ...

22. The Gospel for Labor Day

Matthew 20:1-16

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T. A. Kantonen

... on remaining heathen in our everyday life, the kingdom of God will not work. Systems as well as souls must be changed if we are to be Christians both in our work and our worship. Rudyard Kipling was not a theologian but he captured something of the spirit of the gospel for Labor Day when he described the final goal of our labors in the familiar lines: "And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame, And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of ...

23. The Gospel of Marah

Exodus 15:22-27

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Maxie Dunnam

... I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord your healer.” There it is - the big point: “I am the Lord, your Healer.” Don’t lose the big point. God will come to us in Marah. “There is a gospel of Marah, and the gospel is in the word of God: “I am the Lord, your healer.” What a gospel! We could talk about it in sermon after sermon. The Lord is our ultimate healer. We go to a lot of different places for healing, and give ourselves to all sorts of would-be “healers”. - Yet it is the Lord who ...

24. The Gospel According to Johan

Jonah 3:1-10

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Curtis Lewis

... Nineveh would be like going to Baghdad in modern Iraq for you and me. For Jonah, the thought of preaching in Nineveh was out of the question. There was no way Jonah was going to preach to that gang of cutthroats. You can bet Jonah didn't sing the old gospel song which states: "Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, than to trust and obey." Jonah surely wouldn't have written a song like that, nor would he sing it. As Jonah sat on the beach, stewing in his own juice, God called ...

25. The Gospel Is Unchained

2 Timothy 2:8-13

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Donna Schaper

... and a cracker and a bottle of jelly any more? I am in chains by the number of choices that I have! They keep me too busy to pray and too busy to praise and too busy to focus. How can I break my chains on behalf of the unchained gospel? By letting less meet more and fewer meet finer. According to Barry Schwartz in The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less, there are two kinds of people: the satisficers and the maximizers. A satisficer is the one who is willing to live with the good enough rather than insisting ...

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