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1. Standing and Understanding with the Apostles

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... in his master's eyes by firelight. This same Peter now aggressively preaches to thousands on the streets of Jerusalem, and with the eleven gives witness to his faith. Our pews are full of such Peters, and Peters in progress. When we seek to deepen our understanding of our concerns and troubles, we don't seek out those who seem to live their lives with ease. Rather, we seek out those who have sunk and survived, or were rebuked and reconciled, or who doubted or denied and now proclaim with their lips and ...

2. Easter Understanding

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... be able to trust that our God forgives us in the Lord Jesus Christ. The point is that God has reconciled us to himself through his Son, our Lord, that God forgives us and that he will also raise us from the dead. That is why we can understand the Scriptures. We can understand them if we begin with that faith and trust in God, who is the Lord of life and death. You Are Witnesses Jesus knew that the disciples did not catch on fully as yet. He said that the movement to get this word out about the gracious God ...

3. More Fully Understanding Christ

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... . He has also led numerous mission trips to Zimbabwe, and his church congregations in the U.S. have helped to build a church and a well in Dzobo’s village there. (9, 10) His life is a testament to the impact that one person can have when they understand and live out Jesus’ message of the kingdom. It’s a sad truth: a person can spend their whole life in church and never be fruitful. Notice that only one-fourth of the seeds in Jesus’ parable ever bore fruit. The rest were lost, wasted on those who ...

4. The More I Understand, The Less I Know

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... manages to mumble, "You don’t know what those words meant to me, preacher." And his wife is right behind him, and she says, "Preacher, I’m going in the hospital Tuesday for some surgery. After that sermon, I’m ready for anything that happens." The more I understand, the less I know. And I know less about preaching today than I did five years ago, MUCH less than I knew ten years ago. And yet… There was an article in a magazine I read some time ago. The writer had asked a group of committed Christian ...

5. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... can one be born again?" The truth is Nicodemus would have been pleased if Jesus had given him a list -- things to do, ways to act, laws to keep. That's what he was about -- that's the way the Pharisees understood a proper relationship with God. Nicodemus didn't understand grace. So he asked, "How can it happen?" And Jesus responded, "The wind blows where it wills, and you can't see it, but you feel it and you see the sign of it, so is the person who is born of the Spirit." The new birth is not something ...

6. When Your Parents Don't Understand

Luke 2:41-52

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King Duncan

... God’s love. Jesus’ family was bound together by mutual love and respect. We can tell that by how the story ends. “Why were you searching for me?” Jesus asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he was saying to them. Then, says Luke’s Gospel, “He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” Jesus ...

7. The Grace Question: “Are You a Teacher…and Yet Do Not Understand These Things?”

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... one be born again?” The truth is Nicodemus would have been pleased if Jesus had given him a list—things to do, ways to act, laws to keep. That’s what he was about; that’s the way the Pharisees understood a proper relationship with God. Nicodemus didn’t understand grace. So he asked, “How can it happen?” And Jesus responded, “The wind blows where it wills, and you can’t see it, but you feel it and you see the sign of it, so is the person who is born of the Spirit.” The new birth is not ...

8. Building An Understanding Of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... are not the master of the universe. There is only One Master of the Universe. There is only One who is the Creator of all that lives and moves and has its being. There is only One who is greater than our minds can even imagine. When we seek to understand God, we begin with God as the creative Power behind our universe. But such a God is remote from us, unreachable, unknowable--and so God became one of us. In a manger in a stable in Bethlehem of Judea, a baby was born, and the world would never again be ...

9. Understanding Outrageous Grace

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of pants. And if you really want it, I can give you a vest out of this, too.” The coach was dumbfounded. “I don’t understand,” he said. “My tailor in Knoxville told me he couldn’t even make one suit out of this bolt of cloth.” The tailor said, “Coach ... them to know that, when we compare ourselves to others, we turn religion into a competition. Jesus wanted his hearers to understand that they were wasting their lives and missing out on the truth of God by looking down on others because of ...

10. Understanding What God Expects of Us

Acts 9:1-6, (7-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... a misunderstanding he had at his local library when he requested copies of two books by author Deborah Tannen. Tannen is a communication researcher. One of her most popular books is titled That’s Not What I Meant. Another is titled You Just Don’t Understand. Williams went to the library and asked the clerk to check the availability of these two books by Deborah Tannen. “What’s the first book?” the librarian asked. “That’s Not What I Meant,” he said. “Well, what did you mean?” she asked ...

11. God Communicates in Humanly Understandable Terms

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Richard D. Campbell

... God! But, other than one moment, we have no reason to suspect Jesus had other than a normal boyhood. This is the greatness of God. He communicated to us by entering into the life of a boy who grew up like many other boys. God also communicated in humanly understandable terms when he chose to have his special Son raised in a home like many others. He did not grow up in a wealthy home. We can tell Mary and Joseph were persons of small means by the humble thank-offering they brought to the Temple -- i.e., "a ...

12. Understanding Bible Prophecy

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... so-called "experts" and a challenge to virtually everyone else. Anytime I ask a group what they might like to do for a Bible study, the hands-down request winner is Revelation. The truth is the book of Revelation is not that difficult to understand if you have some basic background. It is written in a unique style called "apocalyptic" which is unfamiliar in our day, but was much better known during the period between the Old and New Testaments. Apocalyptic writing, with all its wild imagery — ten-horned ...

13. What Part of “You Shall Not” Don’t You Understand?

Exodus 20:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... they are so much a part of our fallen nature. While our culture tends to downplay the sinfulness of these twin motivators, there is much evidence that these twins lurk in the minds of all of us. The Lord asks, "What part of ‘You shall not' don't you understand?" On judgment day we all must answer his question. We do well to pay attention before we come to that day when we have no choice but to pay attention. The Ten Commandments are clear. We are guilty before them. Yes, but what of grace? What about the ...

14. Make Room for Mystery

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... his head firmly in his hands while he said, “Truth! Yes, I could tell you. But could this hold it? Not this little box of brains. You haven’t things to hold it with inside this.” It’s true, isn’t it? There is much in life that we can understand. But there is much that we can’t. Mystery. Isn’t it true that at the deepest levels of our human experience we are always out of the reach of satisfactory explanations? We can’t explain how we are moved to tears by a great play or a magnificent piece ...

15. If You Had But One Request

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is able to govern this thy great people?" It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you." Imagine it is your birthday. With your family and ...

16. The Knot: Frayed (Part 2)

1 Peter 3:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... underneath the bed and fight like a man?” Peter is not in any way denying the equality of men and women in many ways. Intellectually, men and women are equal. Frankly, spiritually speaking oftentimes it is the woman that is more mature than the man. I don’t even understand why we call women the weaker sex. Women outlive men by seven years and they are the ones that bear the babies and do most of the housework. I can assure you there are a lot of areas where my wife is a lot stronger than I am. Peter is ...

17. It Takes Two to Preach!

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... on? It is obvious that the television set is no good unless it is turned on to receive the telecast. That is easy enough to understand, isn’t it? The same applies to preaching. It is not enough for you to be physically present in church to hear the Word. ... lecture on astrophysics. He is there and he is listening, but it is all "Greek" to him. He does not have the background to understand what is being said. When God’s Word is proclaimed, for those without the Spirit, the Word is only man’s opinions. He ...

18. Professor Of Paradox

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... mud in the bowl, yet without thinking about gold nuggets. The people who find the treasure are not the ones who grow tired of looking and lose interest; nor the ones who are already satisfied with life; nor those who are so discouraged that they give up. Do you understand this? Of course you do. When you are hungry, you see signs for food everywhere. When you are lonely, you look into your mailbox and if there is a personal letter there, you will see it even under all the junk mail and the bills! You don't ...

19. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... ll have to go farther, and see. We’ll have to see his virgin life, hear his vital word, behold his vicarious death, and understand his victorious resurrection, For we can know the meaning of what happens at Bethlehem only if we can see it in the light ... him ride with me; and from that time on those mules never understood one word I said." Apparently the language he had taught them to understand was not an all-purpose one. When he had to trim from it what he didn’t want the preacher to hear, it didn’t ...

20. A Pair of Ducks and Abundant Life

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We can quickly see that, when it comes to our children, it truly is more blessed to give than to receive. If we could only know ourselves to be related to all other persons on this earth in this same kind of family relationship so that we would understand that always what we give ultimately is restored to us. We were made for sharing! We certainly ought to know that in the church. The story is told about a giant bridge that was being built across a portion of New York’s Harbor. Engineers were searching ...

21. Of Seeing and Hearing

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... does not add up there may be a cipher in our own minds and hearts. The closer we come to what we can perceive as truth, the more effectively we can speak so that others see meaning in and through us. Let Jesus touch my ear, and I hear with understanding the order God has set to work in the world. Let Jesus touch your tongue, and you will speak more clearly than you ever did before about God’s meaning in the world. Others will then look upon us and see God’s purposes in the world. Look upon the ...

22. Step One - Honesty

Luke 8:26-39 · Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

John A. Terry

... And again, "... this law of sin which was present in the members of even the great apostles is forgiven in baptism, but it does not come to an end." The cry, "Who will deliver me from this body of death?" is part of the human condition. God understood and understands. The gift of faith is to be able to say with Paul, "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord." He was talking about the experience of turning his life over to the power of Christ. Paul talks about our struggle, but he is not talking about ...

23. The Mystery of God's Mercy

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... Of course you have. All of us have. And, when we find out what hurt or harm our actions have caused, we say, "I didn't understand. I didn't know." We are sorry. We regret it; but, it is too late. A revealing scar is left. It is like driving a nail ... . From the cross, Jesus himself, said to God concerning the people, "... they know not what they do." The people did not know or understand what they were doing because their ears were deafened and their eyes were blinded by sin. The power of sin held the people in ...

24. The Lord Is My Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Robert Allen

... them. He is looking out for their welfare. He is interested in them. It is the same with God. He knows our needs. He knows the problems we face. He knows the fears which leave us trembling like little children. He is our shepherd and he understands everything about us. I read a story recently about the conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony who was noted for being brilliant. He was also noted for being a stern taskmaster. If any member of the Symphony missed a cue or hit a sour note, he would know ...

25. Adopted! Thank God!

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... you with all my heart.” “I love you too, dear,” she replied, “but tell me more about Jerome.” (3) Each time Bruce Larson was chosen, he found it to be a mixed blessing. Being chosen by God can be a mixed blessing, too, for those who go into it without understanding what God desires of us. The prophets tried to remind Israel that God chose it to be blessed, but also that God chose it to be a blessing to others. That is why God chose us as well. God has blessed us; we are to be a blessing to others ...

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