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

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Forward With Hope. We talked about how Hope is based on Trust and Trust is based on Faith and the implications that has in our daily lives and in the life and future of the Church. Today the Joshua Principle I want to look at is "Joshua People Obey and Serve." I think this falls right in step with where we left off last week. You see Faith in God builds Trust which builds Hope. When we Trust God and are Faithful, then God is Faithful too and that deepens our Hope. When we Trust God and are Faithful, then we ...

2. Driven To Serve

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... evoked genuine sympathy: "If in my childhood I had been paid one percent of the attention I am now getting," he said, "I wouldn't be going to the chair." Children. Those are our first customers. But Christ has other customers equally as important. WE ARE ALSO HERE TO SERVE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED. Those are our customers, too ” anyone who is in need. Jesus said, "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me . . ." (Mt. 25:35) Now, you and I ...

3. Serving Hands

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

... himself the priest who offers the sacrifice and he is also the sacrificial lamb that is offered, of which you and I become partakers. This is one of the great deeds of which the Psalmist speaks, the deeds that make you and me glad. Jesus Christ comes to serve our needs out of his compassion for us as his people. II Our joyous response to the Lord's service should be in full recognition of all that we receive Honored guests - that's what we are! How else can we consider ourselves, for certainly we have not ...

4. Spiderman: Saved To Serve

Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... that we are at cross purposes with God. That was certainly the case in the life of the Apostle Paul. And that's what the Superhero we're focusing on today had to find out as well. Paul and Spiderman both had to find out that they were Saved To Serve. Introduction When I was a teenager two events happened, not too far apart either, both of which were catastrophic to everything I held near and dear. My allowance at the time was $3.00 a week. Not a whole lot, I know, but the median income in 1965 was only ...

5. Wounded, In Pain. Serving Still

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... remorse that makes your voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as much as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In love's service, only the wounded soldiers can serve." (1) Paul Engle wrote a poem addressed to the enemies of Christ. "You say you buried God . . . but you have left us bodies bright with flame. And buried God no deeper than our hearts." (2) I address a similar poem to our enemy. "You say you ...

6. Spiderman: Saved To Serve

Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 's in here, the heart and how our heart guides all that we do so that the love of God in Christ emanates through everything we do. We aren't saved so we can feel good about ourselves. Just like Paul and Peter Parker, we're "Saved To Serve." You see, it really is like Uncle Ben told Peter, "With great power comes great responsibility." Sermons.com editorial note: Uncle Ben didn't say this, though it is commonly thought he did. It actually comes from the last panel of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearnce ...

7. How's Your Serve?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... their reward. Servants are people who don't use people to get the work done, but who use work to help people grow. Being a servant isn't easy, but is absolutely essential to our faith. Jesus says, "Look at me, I didn't come to be served, I came to serve. I serve God. I serve you by ransoming my life for your sake. I'm your best example, and my secret is service. Wrap your heart and your mind around that and follow me" Develop A SERVANT'S MIND. III. A Servant's Eyes We also need A SERVANT'S EYES. People ...

8. Only the Wounded Can Serve

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... an hour ... my daughter since her child has died sits in the shadow. She will not listen to us ..." (as told by John M. Krumm in, The Art of Being A Sinner.) And so the physician learns the profound truth that "In Love’s service, only the wounded can serve." It is a truth to ponder. So often it can be overlooked and passed by in the anguish of self-pity. Yet, it is one of the inexorable laws of life. When Helen Keller said about her blindness and deafness, "I thank God for my handicaps for through them I ...

9. Called To Serve

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Phyllis Faaborg Wolk

... to you each day to make the seed of faith that has been planted in you grow into a beautiful expression of love and service. Jesus continues to invite you to come to him and enjoy the benefits of eating his banquet and living in his kingdom. Each day Jesus serves you in love, ready to meet all your physical and spiritual needs. Jesus, the only one who has the power to judge, judges you to be a precious child of God and he frees you to see in all people the possibility that God has judged them as forgiven ...

10. Cook Food. Serve Love.

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... used to put it, “eating good food with bad people.” There is a truck stop diner in South Dakota that also keeps it simple, and it too gets the gospel just right. As diners walk in they are confronted with a big sign that reads simply: “Cook food. Serve love.” Hospitality is at the heart of the gospel. Jesus knew that we cannot open our hearts until we first open our doors. And too many of our doors today have too many passwords for people to enter. Even when we say “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open ...

11. Which Kingdom Do We Serve?

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

David Coffin

... simply live in fear? The good news is God gives us many second chances, even if we fail like the disciples did in Mark’s gospel. The other good news is that the Herodias’ and King Herod’s need not have the last word in our lives if we serve the kingdom of God that John and Jesus preached. In modern terms being told, “You’re fired!” need not be the final chapter in our lives. Mark’s gospel allows us to write our own endings to the book in our lives. The fired person in the opening illustration ...

12. Improving Your Serve

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... and yours is still ahead of you. You take the last parachute." "Don't need to," shrugged the youth. "There are two parachutes left. The smartest politician in the world jumped with my knapsack!" Servants are people of God to serve and to give. God wants to build into our lives the same serving and giving qualities that characterized the earthly life and ministry of our Lord. To me, it is always inspiring when someone in the public spotlight remembers this basic call of God to be a servant. Many of you will ...

13. When Others Serve Your Head on a Platter

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... now, I want you to consider one more aspect to the story. Think of how Jesus must have felt when he heard what happened to John? In almost every way, as we saw in the exegesis, this story is a prelude story and mirror account of Jesus’ own head being served up on a platter by one close to him. How did Jesus deal with this sneak peek into his own future? Well, we know how we felt about Herod: “That fox!” When Jesus called Herod that name (Luke 12:32), he wasn’t calling Herod beautiful (“foxy”) or ...

14. Serving With Water: The Washing

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... a suffering servant, just as the prophet Isaiah had predicted. Not only did Jesus dress like a slave, he acted like a slave and served like a slave. He took a basin of water and began to wash their feet. As Jesus went from disciple to disciple, it was ... it's true of those tiny sips of wine and those tiny wisps of bread: they remind us again and again that, as Jesus served, we must serve; as he was obedient unto death, we ought at least be obedient in life. Thus these tiny symbols remind us again and again of ...

15. Light to Serve

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... liturgical worship and the worship place for the Hebrews was that the priest would enter the holy of holies to act and serve on behalf of the people. The purpose of this arrangement was to assure the people that as the priest made a tryst ... that, whatever mundane task we are doing lights up in a new way. In what we are doing we hear God calling out to us to serve our neighbor by doing God’s bidding for that task. The Answer The answer Isaiah gave is not a part of the appointed reading for today. However ...

16. Whom Shall You Serve?

Joshua 24:1-27

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... our words wisely, for God truly knows our hearts. People: Yes, we have each sinned and we have each one gone our own way. Leader: Then let us lay our sins before the Cross and serve God forever! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You know even the thoughts in our souls, and this day we would choose to serve You. Walk with us, Lord, and show us Your holy ways that others might believe and come to You. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, so often we have spoken the right ...

17. Choosing to Serve God

Luke 11:14-28

Children's Sermon

... running into the room to watch TV and they both made a dive for Sam Stool. You guessed it. [Hit the stool or grab it and it will fall apart.] Old Sam was done for, at least until the glue man came to fix Sam up. Here he tried to serve both sides, Sally and Mike, and instead he couldn't help anyone, for he had collapsed. Two sides when they are divided against themselves cannot stand, but instead they just collapse. The reason that I tell you this story about my friend Sam Stool is that it helps me to ...

18. We Serve a Risen [and Rising] Savior

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the loving witness to the “rising Christ.” Confessing and celebrating the resurrection means confessing and celebrating a continually rising Christ — a Christ who is always revealing God’s saving, freeing activity in this world. We serve not just a risen Savior. We serve a rising Savior. We serve a continually rising Lord. And only a rising Lord enables all who embrace resurrection to rise to every occasion. If Jesus had only defeated death’s power in a cave-tomb in first century Jerusalem, how ...

19. Serving the King of Kings

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.” Our lesson from the Gospel is from the Epistle of John in which we read of Christ’s appearance before Pontius Pilate. Pilate is inside his palace. He summons Jesus and asks him, “Are you ...

20. You Cannot Serve Two Masters

Luke 16:1-15

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... been faithful stewards. Greed, the desire for power, and the wish to control others have caused us to create problems rather than solve them. May this time of worship enable us to see once again our responsibility as your stewards, and to realize that we cannot serve both God and money. Amen. Prayer Of Confession God of mercy, we come to you with penitent hearts seeking forgiveness. We have been quick to learn the ways of the world: to seek power over others, always to be on the lookout for self, to make ...

21. What a Serve!

Acts 6:1-7

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... they would focus on the evangelistic role, isn't it? This is, after all, the first proclamation of the faith, the first preaching of the good news. They had to get the word out, to rally the people, before they could do much of anything about serving the widows and feeding the hungry, right? It's easy to understand why the preaching ministry would take precedence. After all, Jesus' last command to the disciples was to go and preach the word to all nations, to be his witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria ...

22. Can You Be Popular and Serve Jesus?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... his or her inner voice of right and wrong and not the outer voice of the crowd or the culture. William Willimon in his book On a Wild and Windy Mountain describes a woman whom he calls a saint. She was the lay leader at a church he served in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Her name was Peggy. In many ways, he notes, Peggy would hardly have qualified for the popular definition of “saint.” For one thing, her language was often sprinkled with words not often heard in church. But somewhere along the way, she had ...

23. Honor by Serving

Revelation 14:6-13

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... to honor our Lord, or ___________, or anyone else we've loved on earth and lost (for a while) to death.Dead man's talk cannot bear to hear what you will hear now, the one way left to honor the dead: We honor the dead by serving the living. We honor the dead by serving the living Lor4. That's what Jesus said when he told his disciples, his bereavea disciples on the seashore: "Do not be amazed. Yes, I'm alive again. Here, let me eat some fish with you. Now, Go! Baptize! Teach! Feed! In other words, get the ...

24. Serving Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let all who seek to serve the Lord come together this day! People: Let those with many gifts and those with few, worship the Lord. Leader: For truly I tell you, it is not how many gifts that matters, People: But it is ... seem so small. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to know in our hearts that every kindness and gift when given with love are precious in Your sight. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "All Who Love And Serve Your City" "The Voice Of God Is Calling" "Forth In Thy Name, O Lord"

25. A Willingness to Serve

Illustration

Staff

... are, you'll be looking at that door over there and knowing that practically everybody who walks through it wants something out of you. You'll learn what a lonely job this is, and you'll discover the need for somebody like Harry Hopkins, who asks for nothing except to serve you." Winston Churchill rated Hopkins as one of the half-dozen most powerful men in the world in the early 1940s. And the sole source of Hopkins's power was his willingness to ...

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