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1. The Majesty And The Misery

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... says to Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you...." What an awesome statement. Awesome in its philosophical, theological and even moral implications. But also awesome in its implications for our daily lives. Here the misery is transformed to majesty. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you...." Most of us remember the name Leon Spinks. In the cruel world of professional boxing, Spinks was once the world heavyweight champion. Sometime back, Spinks was quoted as saying this: "People were ...

2. The Majesty Of God's Love

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... us. Jesus wants his followers to be one, like he and the Father are one. This notion of the Father and Son being one, especially at this time in the church year when we celebrate the ascension, is bound to lead us to consider God in all his glory and majesty (the Triune God). Not just the Father and the Son, but along with the Holy Spirit, the three make one. How can these three make one? Jesus says it is in the same way that all of us believers are one. How can that be the case? Making one out ...

3. The Majesty Of God's Love

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... of his ascension into heaven. After all, he spoke to the disciples in a way as if he were saying good-bye to them - giving them directives concerning their future mission (Matthew 28:19-20). In addition, he also seemed to refer to the heavenly glory and majesty that he shares with the Father, as he referred to the Trinity (to baptism in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) (Matthew 28:19). Yes, there are all sorts of indications that we should understand today's gospel lesson in light of how we ...

4. Called! Cleansed! Sent

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... up a sacrifice, as if to control God. Forgiveness comes to him from above. God freely rescues him. This is not just a God of majesty, but also of mercy. Isaiah is purified not just for his own sake or for his own bliss, but that salvation might go forth into ... a place for faith. That there may be a place for faith! In other words, there is a pastoral reason for acknowledging the majesty of God, God's dreadful holiness, the wholly otherness of God. It is not to make God unapproachable, but to keep God truly ...

5. Behold The Lamb

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... my example inspire you to do your best?” he said. “And besides I am right here beside you if you should need any help.” That is Christ’s message to us. “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.” See him in his majesty. See him in his mercy. See him in his ministry to the world, a ministry he calls you and me to complete. May his example inspire us and his presence empower us until all the world knows that the victory has been won. 1. Contributed. Source unknown. 2. Rodney L ...

6. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... for that. And certainly don't allow the science book to become your Bible. Let science do its work without fear, since all truth is ultimately God's truth and all the facts are God's facts. But also, make room for the song of mystery and wonder at the majesty of God's creation: "O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth." "And when I consider the heavens, the works of thy hands, the moon and stars which thou hast made…what is man that thou art mindful of him?" The greatest mystery of all ...

7. The Ascension Announces a Triumph

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... really matter as long as we are ready for his appearing. He walked among us as the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world, but his next return will reveal him as the conquering Lion of Judah as he comes in majesty and glory. Charles Wesley had this glorious triumph in mind when he wrote: Lo, he comes with clouds descending,Once for favored sinners slain,Thousand, thousand saints attendingSwell the triumph of his train:Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!God appears on earth to reign,God appears on ...

8. Cha-cha-cha Christians: The Dance that Advances

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... else. Through the “Cha” of “Charge” Peter has a new understanding of this transfiguration moment. Arguing against the nay-sayers who scoffed at the idea of Jesus returning for the parousia, a day of judgment, 2 Peter sees the transfiguration as proof of the power and majesty of Jesus, of the divinity he shared with the one who called him “my Son, my Beloved.” The Cha-Cha-Cha of Challenge, the need for a new paradigm by which to see life, is also part of 2 Peter’s dance. Those arguing against ...

9. What Ever Happened to Wisdom?

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... . We are simply dumbstruck with awe in the presence of such a divine being of radiant glory. He is light years above us in purity and love, in faithfulness and pardon. Wisdom is to fall to our knees with our face to the ground in the presence of such majesty. He is above all things and in control of all things and gathering all things toward his eternal purpose for creation. But there’s another side to this wisdom. True, “the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,” but then the words of Job go on to say ...

10. The Nearness Of A Faraway God

Isaiah 40:12-18

Sermon

Erskine White

... count on God to pay attention to our problem and see us through. But do not be deceived by the culture and religion of the times. Do not be misled by the purveyors of popular piety, who have re-made God in human image and lost the God of majesty and awesome wonder, who have trivialized God and reduced Him to a mere good luck charm in the hip pocket of worldly faith. Keep a faithful balance in your understanding of God - do not make God too close or too distant. Let God be God, both familiar and unfathomable ...

11. Aha! An Epiphany!

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... this old mule and me!” Anyone who is sensitive to the beauty of nature sees God daily. When was it that you first realized the majesty of God? Perhaps it was at the birth of your first child. What greater miracle in all of creation is there than this the birth of ... In order for a person to be changed, he or she must have a changed heart. When was it that you first realized the majesty of God? When was it that you first realized your own personal inadequacy to deal with the critical issues of life that you ...

12. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To Make Sense Out Of My Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... in a LEADERSHIP Magazine column shares an observation from an interview with Jack Hayford, author of the popular Gospel hymn, "Majesty." Hayford tells of visiting Sir Winston Churchill's boyhood home in Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. He describes the ... in Him, then we all could become more aware of His purpose in us." (2) That would be the ideal, wouldn't it? To feel the majesty of God in such a way that our own lives are ennobled. To design a worship service that so lifts up God that we as God's ...

13. Above All--god

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... . But they are looking for more than a surface relationship with "the Man Upstairs." Instead, they want to recover the awe and majesty of God; a sense of the Divine Other. Perhaps there has never been a time in our history when there has been such ... a hunger to touch God. And so we come to our reading from the book of Revelation, chapter 21. [In order to help us experience the majesty of these words, I would like for you to stand as I read.] Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven ...

14. God's Design and Our Destiny

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... all that’s evil from the heart of not just a few, but all of humanity without robbing that same humanity of its freedom? There was only one way. God did it with the babe of Bethlehem. No one could accuse God of overwhelming humanity with His power and His majesty. He gave all that up. Neither did he dangle us over a fiery pit in order to get us to repent of our sins, though some preachers have tried to do that very thing. No, God entered our world in the helpless babe lying in a stable, and God showed ...

15. A Stand-in for Royalty

John 18:33-37; Revelation 1:4b-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s excitement leap off the page when you read those words. And yet Pilate stood in Jesus’ presence and . . . missed it. Let’s not forget that our response to Jesus does not change the truth of who he is. Peter and the disciples stood in awe of his majesty. Pilate stood in contempt of his message. And whether we accept him or reject him today, neither response changes the truth that Jesus is who he says he is—the King of the world. What does it mean to say that Christ is King of this world? Doesn’t ...

16. The Glory of God

Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... have brought with you, even the ones you may hear from this pulpit, are limited. No matter how sure you are, there is always some majesty left over, some surplus of otherness or God wouldn't be God. A few years ago, a mother asked me to talk to her ... faith, practice always precedes theory. Sing it before you think about it. Just be here, in this great church, with all its majesty, complexity, and mystery, surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses to the greatness of God, join with others who know and don ...

17. I Saw a New Heaven

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... very close and heard the inventor whisper, “It’s very beautiful over there.” Those were his last words. Those could be a person’s first words in Heaven: “It’s very beautiful here.” The Heart of Heaven Central among all the glories of Heaven will be the majesty of God who is seated on the throne. He is the heart of Heaven. It was not just a voice, but a loud voice that came from Heaven’s throne, saying this very thing: “Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and ...

18. Bringing Love Close

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... reconcile in His Person all things whether on earth or in heaven." Here is a God before whom we bow down and whom we can worship; a God so enormous, so all-pervading, so present, that the mind feels as if it will explode as we are caught by this majesty, and try to absorb it. Here is a God, and presence active in all things, all processes in the wondrous division of a cell; in the awesome, silent wheeling of the galaxies; in the small snail that no eye sees inching across the bottom of the sea; in the ...

19. The Glance of God

Isaiah 9:1-7

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... as we feel the fading begin. Pope Leo the Great, who stood outside Rome in the 300s of our era to confront Attila the Hun and send that ravager back to the Danube, preached the first great Christmas sermon. He said, "The Word of God became flesh ... Majesty took on humility; strength, weakness; and eternity took on mortality." (Sermon 21, 2) When that Child was born in Bethlehem, he was weak as we all are weak, but the strength of God rested in his flesh. Death knocked at the door of the manger, yet the ...

20. Out of the Barnyard

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... We are well able to overcome." We need to fly out of our comfortable barnyard with the boldness of Dr. Daggett. With Christ at our head, we need not fear the earth’s hostile powers any more than the venerable divinity professor feared His Majesty’s soldiers. In Eugene O’Neill’s play, Lazarus Laughed, the resurrected Lazarus laughs at the Roman emperor Tiberius when he threatens to put him to death. Lazarus laughs because he knows no one can destroy an immortal soul. So, too, the congregation which ...

21. Our Three-Faced God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... birth of the Spirit in the hearts of all men. After considering the greatness and transcendence of God, do we not come to the same conclusion as Paul did in Romans? When we think of the goodness and power and holiness of God, we are overwhelmed with his majesty. With Paul we sing a doxology: "O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable are his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord; or who has been his counselor? Or who has given ...

22. Song of a Stargazer

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

The author of the Eighth Psalm is a nature lover who has spent many hours drinking in the beauty of God’s handiwork. The stars hold special fascination for him with their witness to the Lord’s majesty and might; and, like many another poet across the centuries, he cannot refrain from singing of their twinkling host. Two things stand out regarding this singer in the night. In the first place, he is one of Palestine’s profoundest thinkers; for his song is the overflow of long and ...

23. Dressed For The Wedding

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... One time, as Frederick William was pounding down the street, a citizen spied him but too late, and his attempt to slide quietly into a doorway proved a failure. "You," called out Frederick William, "where are you going?" "Into the house, Your Majesty," said the citizen, trembling violently. "Into the house?" asked the emperor. "Your house?" "No," replied the poor man. "Why are you entering it, then," asked Frederick. And the poor citizen, fearing he might be accused of burglary, finally decided on the truth ...

24. The Fountain of Truth

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... who simply tells what he has seen, what he has heard, and Peter was a faithful witness. He gives his testimony: "For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.' And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the ...

25. The Ultimate Mountain Top Experience

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... splendor,” talking with him. Finally a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.” Are you listening to him? Do you sense his presence? Can you feel his glory, his majesty, his holiness? The impoverished people of Mexico City did not ask for food, medicine, or clothing from the nuns who had come to minister to them. Instead, they said to them, “Sisters, talk to us about God.” Are we as wise as they? Is that the ...

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