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Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... deacon. There is a real strength and comfort to be found in presence. No one wants to face the anxieties and the uncertainties of life alone. Jesus' disciples were empowered and sustained by the promise that Jesus would continue to be with them through the imparting of the Holy Spirit. God's Power The second thing we discover in this text is the willingness of the early Church to rely on the power of God. Their futility without their leader and mentor and their anxiety regarding the future put them right ...

2. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

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Michael Milton

... a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (1 Corinthians 2:6-8). Then Paul said, And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them ...

3. When Wisdom Cries Out

Proverbs 8:1-36

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... are." "I'm not saying you are better than they are," said the father. "I'm saying that you have a better opportunity to make something out of your life." This young man never forgot this lesson and that his father would often take the time to impart such wisdom. Moreover, prayer was an important element in family life. The family took time to pray and to ask God's guidance in all things. Wisdom cries out for families to teach each other and to pray for one another. One recent study said approximately ninety ...

4. Grace Is What Christ Has Done

Acts 15:1-21

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Barbara Brokhoff

... one, and without it his life would now be extinct. After gazing for a long moment at the old heart, the grateful patient looked up at the doctor and said, "I'm glad that I don't have that old heart anymore." This is the new life that Christ imparts to every person who is justified by faith and experiences the new birth. All of us desperately need a conversion that shatters the old life and makes all things new! That is why it is imperative that we know it is always an inside job. Cosmetic surgery will never ...

5. The Therapy of Song

1 Samuel 16:14-23, Exodus 15:1-21, Psalm 5:1-12

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Robert Noblett

... the wife of one of our seminary presidents died, he terminated her funeral service with the singing of the Hallelujah Chorus. Allowing the memory of the last few chords of that great work to come back into our minds, we can sense its power and the courage it imparts to the listener. How fitting a way to bring worship to a climax at such a time. The horror of war is yet another experience whose impact goes far beyond the expressive scope of verbage. It is often music which rises up in indignation, and in the ...

6. Let’s Climb a Mountain

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... hunger and thirst for it. III. There is still one more formation to be surveyed. Focus your binoculars and you will see how strong and sturdy they stand. Their sheer cliffs make them appear like fortresses immune to the onslaughts of time. They impart strength to the beholder. They project peace to the peacemaker, and to all who put faith into practice in difficult places and threatening situations. For example, there is a certain counselor in a mental health facility connected to a large hospital. She is ...

7. The Source Of Joy

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . Our real inner beauty of joy is also discovered when life exerts pressure and attempts to rob us of joy. When the storms of life are raging, joy is far more valuable than a full bank account. Joy is only discovered in the richness of faith that Jesus Christ imparts to those who are filled with him. Perhaps Saint Francis of Assisi said it best, "Let us leave sadness to the devil and his angels. As for us Christians, what can we be but rejoicing and glad." Like John, for our joy to be complete and full, we ...

8. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... to receive. But what about you and me? What is to be said of us? I want to close with a verse out of the hymn, “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” by Phillips Brooks. It goes like this: “How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given. So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heav’n. No ear may hear His coming, but in this world of sin, where meek souls will receive Him still, the dear Christ enters in.” Did you catch that last line? “Where meek souls will receive Him still, the dear ...

9. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... you joy in the journey. Pe Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them. The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments. Turn to me and be gracious to ... by-grace. Obedience Flows from Knowing God’s Word and Is Available to All The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple (Psalm 119:130). This is the great news of the gospel. The Bible, which gives light and ...

10. Is Your Christmas Spirit a Controlled Substance?

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... “We have to go out. We don’t have to come back.” That is the real Christmas spirit. Not reckless. But selfless. Not focused on making it. Focused on making a difference. The spirit that the gift of Christ imparts is not of shallow sappiness. The spirit that the gift of Christ imparts is of sublime strength. The Christmas spirit may have been best captured by Hudson Taylor when he described the attitude of Christ this way: First it is impossible, Then it is difficult, Then it is done! (A Passion for ...

11. The Curse of the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 2:14-26, Psalm 34:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... be. In fact, some have even said that being afflicted could be a blessed state, revealing one’s nature as a lethal disease. Only after this recognition could one be truly healed. In the parashat metzora (healing of the leper), it was often thought that God imparted the spiritual disease of tzaraat to “remind” us of our sin and need for atonement. The purification ritual was meant therefore to illustrate our need for spiritual rebirth. Certainly in the scripture of Jesus’ healing of the leper, Jesus ...

12. Show Us the Father

John 14:8-17, 25-27

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... experience (or the first spike through his wrist). They needed one more thing. They needed to see the Father. They needed reassurance. They needed guidance. They needed… As it turned out, they had everything they needed — at least for the time being. Jesus had imparted every bit of knowledge that would be necessary for them to make the next leg of their earthly journey. Their new pilgrimage had begun, and they were about to turn a corner. The rest of their trek would be without the physical presence of ...

13. Holy Wisdom From On High!

Proverbs 8:1-36

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Barbara Brokhoff

... our lives. From somewhere beyond ourselves he pours music from our broken lives and lets a fallen world see what God can do with nothing when it is given to him and to his control. Such then, is the Wisdom of Proverbs -- a "holy Wisdom from on high." May God impart its wondrous beauty to each of our lives that our own personal needs may be met and that we may be empowered to serve the world that Christ died to save."

14. A Double Dose

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... for the fight. A friend related a story to me about how his mother would keep him in church all day Sunday. This friend had come to loathe church because it took too much of his time. But as he had grown older, he realized the value of the lessons imparted to him as a youngster. "My mother stayed in church all day because she realized what she needed to fight the enemy and raise seven children alone. My mother stayed in church so she could get as much of the Holy Spirit as she could to raise us right and ...

15. Taking The Good With The Bad

Job 1:1-5

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John A. Stroman

... always had appreciation for Leslie Wheatherhead's insightful statement suggesting that after we have had a painful human experience we ought to get from that experience everything it has to teach us, because we have paid such a high price for the wisdom it seeks to impart. Job has just had a very painful experience, beyond anything most of us could imagine. What was his immediate response? Simply, that we need to take the good days along with the bad. It is a remarkable response for a man who has lost so ...

16. The Channel Between The Buoys

Proverbs 1:20-33

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... the simple, the scoffer, and the fools of every town wisdom "cries," "raises her voice" (v. 20), "speaks" (v. 21), "reproves," pours out her thoughts (v. 22). She stretches out her hands (v. 24), and she laughs and mocks (v. 26). Do you sense her urgency in imparting wisdom for life? Wisdom knows if she is "ignored" (v. 25) people will fall into "calamity" (v. 26), panic will strike like a storm (v. 27), and people will "eat the fruit of their way" (v. 31). She even mentions untimely death (v. 32). Ah, but ...

17. What Are You Looking At?

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... them looking for what else these two men with such great power could do. "Don't look at us," said Peter, "we didn't do anything!" Later on in Acts, Simon the sorcerer did the same thing after he became a Christian. He thought he could buy the ability to impart the Holy Spirit to people. Peter had to tell him, "Don't look at us -- it is a gift from God!" And Paul encountered the same human adoration when he and Barnabas also healed a crippled man. The priest of the pagan temple honoring Zeus was all set to ...

18. A Blessing Behind Locked Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... disciples on the day of his resurrection. Nothing could be more human or more holy. Nothing could better express the ethical demand of the gospel. According to the Gospel of John, Jesus gave his peace to people as he blew his spirit upon them. He did not impart the kind of peace that offers an absence of hassle or disturbance. Neither did he imply that his peace provides a quiet weekend away from the troubles of daily life. If anything, the peace of Christ is a gift of assurance in the thick of difficulty ...

19. David and the Devil

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... and Religion, p. 91) Second, the Devil is a strange bird. Speak up to him, say “no,” and you’ll be surprised how recessive he becomes. This happens when we help our children develop a healthy sense of conscience and when we impart positive values. Recent research indicates that concern for others begins much earlier than we once thought. Studies show that almost at birth babies respond empathetically to the cries of another infant. Therefore it would seem that there is almost a kind of predisposition ...

20. The Compassionate Highway

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... peace to sinners, set the captives free, And eased the sufferers' pain. We would see Jesus, yet not him alone But see ourselves as in our Maker's plan; And in the beauty of the Son of Man See man upon his throne. We would see Jesus, and let him impart The truth he came among us to reveal, Till in the gracious message we should feel The beating of God's heart. Amen. - W. J. Suckow

21. When God Is Silent

Psalm 35:1-28

Sermon

Erskine White

... ." I offer in closing these words of silence. As you read them, you might hear in your minds the melody of a favorite Christmas carol, for this is a verse from "O Little Town of Bethlehem:" How silently, how silently, the wondrous gift is given!So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heaven.No ear may hear His coming, but in this world of sin;Where meek souls will receive Him still,the dear Christ enters in.(Rev. Phillips Brooks) Amen Pastoral Prayer: O God, who speaks in the thunder of great ...

22. Pie in The Sky

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... where eternity lies. Religion is more than the world we live in and life is more than the ditches we fall into along the way. No, what I mean to say is pretty well expressed in the much-loved hymn, "My Faith Looks Up To Thee": May thy rich grace impart Strength to my fainting heart, My zeal inspire ...While life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread,Be thou my guide.O let me from this day Be wholly thine.(Ray Palmer) Yes, my faith looks up to Thee. He gives strength to my fainting heart. He ...

23. Refuse To Be A Victim

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

James Garrett

... into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth -- that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which one can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: the salvation of man is through love and in love. The final summary is the “golden rule” given by Jesus. It covers all cases: “And as you wish that people would do to you, do so to them.”

24. Paradoxes Of The Christian Faith

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... . More power than the Trilateral Commission. His name is Jesus! He'll turn your losses into gains and make you a new person. Just trust him. Just invest in him and your returns will be marvelous! Because of our faith and the power imparted by Jesus, we are able to take situations that would ordinarily devastate and decimate and turn them into victorious possibilities. This has much to do with attitude, prayer, and a deepening and abiding spirituality whose practice both strengthens and guides us through the ...

25. Take Off The Grave Clothes!

John 11:38-44

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and hopelessness which places them among the living dead. All this week Ed Love of WDET celebrated the life of the late, great Dizzy Gillespie who died on January 6. One thing about Diz, besides being a great musician, was his zing for life. He imparted joy through his personality and music. He had zest for life, rivaled by none. Contrast, if you will, the vim and vigor of a Dizzy Gillespie and the morose, maudlin melancholy of Miles Davis. Both were great musicians and geniuses. But Diz had that particular ...

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