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1. Behold The Man Who Took The Victory

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... food here?' " Still they did not believe, but now it was because of their joy that such a thing could be true. They marveled. They must have thought it too good to be true. Then we read, "So, they gave Jesus a piece of fish and some honeycomb, and he took it and ate it in their presence." He was there with them just as he had promised. Read on a little further and you will find Jesus promising he would always be with them and because of that they would be his witnesses. The message is clear. God is greater ...

2. A Samaritan Took Care of Him

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... ways die hard sometimes. The young man still cannot quite bring himself to say outright, "The Samaritan is the neighbor, for he's the one who took care of him." I can see that word "S-a-m-a-r-i-tan" stuck there, right about where his Adam's apple would ... from really being changed by not giving the credit to where credit was truly due. Make no mistake about it, it was a Samaritan who took care of him. So, I think the words of Jesus, "Go and do likewise" (Luke 10:37b), must have stung the young man's ears, ...

3. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

Sermon

Russell Conwell

... down into the clear water of the garden brook Al Hafed's successor noticed a curious flash of light from the sands of the shallow stream, and reaching in he pulled out a black stone having an eye of light that reflected all the colors of the rainbow, and he took that curious pebble into the house and left it on the mantel, then went on his way and forgot all about it. A few days after that, this same old priest who told Al Hafed how diamonds were made, came in to visit his successor, when he saw that flash ...

4. When God Gets Excited

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... Jesus right in the middle of His sermon, but none of these things mattered to those men. They saw their chance and by faith they took it believing that Jesus would take care of their friend. I will be honest with you. I love these guys. They get on top of ... begin to believe this - God can use you to bring other people to Jesus. By the way, did you notice it was a team approach? It took four men to bring him to Jesus. So often that is how it is. Most people are not brought to Jesus simply by one person, it ...

5. Jesus, Where Are You?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... chamber" of his spirit ask, "In which of these faces would a pipe look good?" He knew his pipes had to go but not right away. He took them with him when his wife and he were on vacation on a lake in the Ozarks. He told the Lord, "I really have quit, you ... chamber" of his spirit ask, "In which of these faces would a pipe look good?" He knew his pipes had to go ” but not right away. He took them with him when his wife and he were on vacation on a lake in the Ozarks. He told the Lord, "I really have quit, you ...

6. The Deeper Meaning Of Christmas

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... . For many persons Christmas is the loneliest and saddest season of all. It is always helpful to persons who hurt to remember that Jesus knew what it was to hurt as well. "What a friend we have in Jesus . . . " He has been here. He has walked where we walk. He took on our sufferings. The deeper meaning of Christmas is that there was a plan to it all. There was a reason for his descent into the world of humanity. HE CAME DOWN TO WHERE WE ARE THAT ULTIMATELY WE MIGHT BE LIFTED UP TO DWELL WITH HIM. A story I ...

7. Why He Came

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Mark tells us that Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever. When they told Jesus about her, he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them. Poor lady. No opportunity to recuperate. No opportunity ... the door . . ." Like Simon's mother-in law, there was no down time for Jesus. BUT, HERE'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT--JESUS STILL TOOK TIME TO PRAY. We read, "The whole town gathered at the door, and Jesus healed many who had various diseases . . ." And then Mark ...

8. Just Know Him in His Victorious Resurrection

Acts 13:29-39

Sermon

James Merritt

... rose from the dead. The very first point of Paul's message is this: "Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb. But God raised Him from the dead." (Acts 13:29-30) Every other religion ... Him away while we slept.' And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will appease him and make you secure. So they took the money and did as they were instructed; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day." (Mt. 28:12- ...

9. A Table Like No Others

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... 11:27. This verse, which follows our lesson from the Epistle, reads like this: “So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.” Evidently this young woman took Paul’s words as an admonition directed at her that somehow she was unworthy to take the bread and the cup. As the Communion plate with its small pieces of bread was passed to the crying woman sitting in front of young Tony and his parents, she ...

10. Jesus Replaced Someone At Calvary

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , Barabbas was not unique. You and I were as good as dead people in our sins, without any way of curing our spiritual sickness. Left to our own devices, we were headed for a life of inner discord and dysfunctional relationships, and an eternity in hell. Then, Jesus took our place. What he did on Calvary's cross is as potent in 1999 as in 0033. My friends, the doctrine of atonement is under attack today across the world. But that is nothing new. St. Paul noted that even in the First Century, the preaching of ...

11. Don't Get Too Big For Your Spiritual Britches

Judges 16:20

Sermon

James Merritt

... told in v.19, "Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave the changes of clothing to those who had explained the riddle. So his anger was aroused, and he went back up ... the problem was not that he was not supposed to eat honey. The problem was not what he ate, but where he got it. He took that honey from the body of a dead lion. But he had specifically promised that he would never go near a dead body. Then he ...

12. By Faith Living

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... that first step away from Pharaoh's family and joined his own people and claimed God's promise. The rest was commentary. Where was the victory for Joshua? When he took that first step on his march around Jericho's walls and blew the first blast of air into that trumpet. The rest was commentary. Where was the victory for Nehemiah? When he took that first step and laid down the first new stone on Jerusalem's walls and claimed God's promise. The rest was commentary. Where was the victory for Esther? When she ...

13. The Dream Work of Teamwork

Nehemiah 3:1-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... finance committee came together and decided to hold a special meeting to talk about this with the pastor. They said, "We see you have hired a gardener." The pastor said, "That's right and he is doing a great job." They said, "Perhaps you were unaware that our previous pastor took care of the grounds himself." The pastor said, "Oh, yes I knew that and I called him, but he doesn't want to do it anymore." Leaders delegate what they don't need to do, so they can do what only they can do. What you delegate is as ...

14. What Did Jesus Do?

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... people. But what was God providing for His people this particular night? It was Christ himself. “. . . when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.’” The provision that God was making for the people was the broken body and shed blood of His Son. The bread represents the body of ...

15. The Greatest Gift

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... us. God clothed himself in human flesh. That’s the first thing we need to understand about Christmas. Here’s the second. God took upon himself our limitations. God became as we are. Artists of the Middle Ages painted a halo, a golden circle of light, ... to affirm the teaching of the church fathers that Jesus was fully God, yet at the same time he was fully human. God took upon himself human flesh. He took on our limitations. He knew what it is to hurt, even as we hurt. It is helpful to persons who hurt to ...

16. God's Bag of Cookies

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... , where things don’t end the way we’d like them to end, where we’re forced to trust a God who sometimes doesn’t deal with the world the way we think the world ought to be handled. Listen to a modern parable: One afternoon a church office assistant took a well deserved coffee break. She stopped by the vending machine and bought a bag of cookies, which she slipped into her purse. The she waited in line for a cup of coffee. After she got her coffee, she found a vacant chair at a table in the break room ...

17. Lent 1

Sermon

Betty Lynn Schwab

... of Booths marked the end of harvest and it recalled the fragile existence of God's People during their 40 years in the wilderness after the Exodus. Youth: In the Bible it says, "The great crowd who had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming ... So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him ..." (John 12:12-13). Reader 2: When a family built their booth, branches of leafy trees were used to cover the walls and roof. On the first day of the festival, a lulav was also made. The lulav ...

18. What Is Truly Important

Matthew 6:25-34, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... all was fine at home. Misty - my outside cat - greeted us with many whimpers of displeasure at our departure. She is so sweet and so vocal but not a cat that I can bring indoors as she tends to "spray" when she is being territorial, so not motel material. I took some time to put all my pictures back on the walls and tried to unpack a bit... Thank you all for remembering me in your prayers and all of us faced with the threat of this latest hurricane. All in all it was quite an experience and important in a ...

19. Responding Instead Of Reacting

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

Dr. B. Bruce Humphrey

... to write an opera and to rehearse it with the singers and to get everything ready that by the time it was finally performed, he was deeply in debt. His income from each opera went to pay back the debts he had incurred during the composing and rehearsals. It took him about 2 months to get an opera ready. The opera would run for 3 or 6 nights; sometimes a really well-received opera would run for 11 nights. He would pay his bills and then immediately he needed to start on another opera. For 20 years his life ...

20. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... he not done that, then he would not have experienced the newness of life, the new direction, the new beginning of life that the Lord gave to him. But he put his faith in the Lord. Genesis tells us, "So Abram went as the Lord had told him." His life took off in a new direction, and God blessed him and he became a blessing to the world. Faith, is hoping against hope that what God says is true. What Abraham found we find too. God never lies. God always keeps his promises. God is the faithful one--even if the ...

21. Castaway

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... holy God. There is a great gulf between man and God; it's called the river of sin. When Jesus Christ died for our sins, He took our sin and gave us His righteousness. At the moment we accept Him as our Lord and Savior, the cross becomes a bridge that enables us ... happened on the cross of Calvary. At the moment Jesus died God made Him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us. That is, He took our place; He died in our behalf so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Now let me add just one other great ...

22. What Excites God

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... easy to say for Jesus was the hardest thing to do. Providing this man with health only took one word from Jesus. But to provide this man with Heaven took his life. To heal that man's body took a simple command; to forgive that man's sins took Jesus' blood. The first was done in the house of friends; the second was done on a hill with thieves. One took a word, the other took His body; one took a moment, the other took His life. That is why God gets excited over a forgiveness that saves, because of what it ...

23. Joseph – The Promise Believed

Matthew 1:18-25; 2:13-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... is as man and wife. Now Joseph has a real problem on his hands. He has a young teenager who is pregnant, but it is not his child, so what was he to do? According to the law, if a young lady was found to be unfaithful before her marriage took place, one of three things could happen. She could be stoned to death, or the husband-to-be could make a public disgrace of her and a public spectacle of her and publicly announce her unfaithfulness, or he could put her away privately. In other words, he could take her ...

24. Bethlehem: Where Extremes Meet

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... slept, and this was obviously a poor place for something like a birth to occur. Dr. Hull suggests that our familiar verse ought to read: "There was no appropriate place for them in the inn," and further suggests that the innkeeper must have realized this fact and took it on himself to scout out a cave that shepherds used in the winter months to house their sheep. At this time, of course, the shepherds were "out in the fields with their flocks," so an unused cave or stable would be a place of privacy where ...

25. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Exalted"

Luke 19:28-40, John 19:14-30

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. [26] When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son." [27] Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. [28] After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty." [29] A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch ...

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