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1. Hope From the Grave

Illustration

Warren W. Wiersbe

While waiting in a cemetery to conduct a funeral service, Charles Simeon walked among the graves, looking at the epitaphs. He found one that arrested him. When from the dust ... mother was dying of asthma, and two little children, very dirty, were trying to warm themselves by a small fire. Simeon prayed with the family, visited them again, and found assistance for them. Later, the young woman told Simeon that she had been in the cemetery five hours and was contemplating suicide when he called her to read the ...

2. Into God's Arms

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Staff

On his deathbed, British preacher Charles Simeon smiled brightly and asked the people gathered in his room, "What do you think especially gives me comfort at this time?" When they all remained silent, he exclaimed, "The creation! I ask myself, 'Did Jehovah create the world or did I?' He did! Now if He made the world and ...

3. Christmas Is On Top Of A Steep Hill

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is said in the law of the Lord. A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons. Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him ... t know anyone who perceives and probes the world of children and garners from it such great truth and wisdom as Charles Schulz in his Peanut cartoons. One year during the Christmas season, he put into drawing and dialogue one of those ...

4. Don't Forget the Best!

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... in our economy, a personal sickness, maybe a divorce in the family, a death, the loss of a job, etc. The late Charles Kauralt once observed, “There are three kinds of memories—good, bad and convenient.” He’s right, of course. We don’t want ... that we cannot surmount if that be true? God is with us in the Christ child of Bethlehem. A righteous and devout Jew named Simeon recognized at once who he was. According to the Law of Moses, Mary and Joseph brought their newborn son to dedicate him to the ...

5. Why Did Jesus Come?

Luke 2:21-52

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... that moment of thanksgiving his search for the promised messiah had ended. He had now seen for himself the light of the world. Simeon prophesied that Mary’s heart would break because her son would be rejected. But the rejection would cause humanity to see with honest ... him. Christ’s death is an eternal life with God. We have truly come to the at-one-ment with God through Christ! Charles Swindoll told the story of a bazaar held in a village in India. People brought their wares to be sold and traded. One ...

6. Making Christmas Last

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of the divine purpose and plan for him from the first, and very early we have a hint of the cross in the words of the aged Simeon to the mother of our Lord: "A sword shall pierce through thine own heart also." While there certainly is cause to be joyful at Christmas and the ... ; Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1925 The Scopes Monkey Trial is held in Dayton, Tennessee *1927 Charles Lindbergh flies the "Spirit of St. Louis" from New York to Paris *1934 Adolf Hitler is elected Fuhrer 1936 ...

7. Trying To Grasp The Meaning Of It All

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... , too, recognized that she was in the presence of the Messiah--and she broadcast that news to everyone she encountered. The stories of Simeon and Anna call to mind Jesus' own words in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5: 1-12): "Blessed are those who hunger ... the Love of God incarnated in the manger of Bethlehem that we become persons whose heads and hearts are right. Each Christmas season, Charles Krieg, a pastor in New Jersey, takes his mother into New York City to look at all the decorations and to visit ...

8. Back to the Real World

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.” Then Simeon turned to Mary and said, “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign ... good to know. Indeed, it’s the best Good News in the world. 1. Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley 2. Charles Kuralt with Peter Freundlich, American Moments (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), pp. 70-71. 3. David Cameron, “Artificial Muscles Gain Strength ...

9. A Song, A Dance, A Savior

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... is brought to the Temple by his parents is the fulfillment of Israel's hope and the answer of God to the lostness of humankind. Simeon reminds us that God cares and is concerned for his people because God's great promise has come true. Emmanuel, "God with us," has come in Jesus Christ who shows us how much God cares. He is our Savior. In Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," it is the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" that deeply disturbs Ebenezer Scrooge. Dickens describes the scene: The Ghost of Christmas ...

10. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... us that the birth narratives of Jesus are filled with the songs of angels and shepherds, Mary and Elizabeth, Zachariah and Simeon. Like a Rogers and Hammerstein spectacular, everyone just seems to burst into song at any given moment. The Last Supper ends ... majestic is thy name in all the earth! In the words of Charles Wesley's great hymn, we find ourselves "lost in wonder, love and praise." [2] Several years ago, I came across a book by Charles Dickens which I had never read before. Called Hard Times, it was ...

11. Praying With Bloody Knuckles

Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

William L. Self

... that can be seen as clearly as a bright and burning torch. He is an insistent soul. Like the fifth century ascetic Simeon Stylites, he wants to "batter the gates of heaven with storms of prayer." He is frustrated by God's delay in rebuilding ... enemies (Luke 23:34). He also prayed for laborers (Luke 10:2) and for all of those who follow him (John 17:20). As Charles Spurgeon reminds us, "Some mercies are not given to us except in answer to importunate prayer. There are blessings which, like ripe fruit, drop ...

12. Repentance: The No That Is A Yes

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... called holy, the Son of God" (1:35). It struck again when she took her baby Jesus to the temple to be blessed. The old priest, Simeon, blessed them and said to Mary: "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is ... ! None of us are guiltless children of God. We are deceived when we fool ourselves in this fashion. There is a character among Charles Schulz's personalities that speaks to us here. He is the little boy they call "Pig-pen." He is always dirty-- as dirty ...

13. The Law and the Promise

Galatians 3:15-25, Galatians 3:1-14

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... conferred upon him as gift by God’s free grace alone” (Theology of the New Testament [trans. K. Grobel; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1955], p. 285). In a somewhat similar vein D. P. Fuller suggests that the phrase “represents an all ... , along with other Jews, could refer to Scripture speaking or acting. In the Mishnah (Kerithoth 6:9) it reads: “R. Simeon says: Everywhere Scripture speaks of sheep before goats.… Everywhere Scripture speaks of the father before the mother” (trans. Danby, p ...

14. A Blind Beggar and a Rich Scoundrel

Luke 19:1-10, Luke 18:35-43

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... a change that it can be understood as the sort of “repentance” that causes joy in heaven according to 15:7, 10. Zechariah and Simeon sang of God’s “salvation” coming to the people as a whole (1:69, 71, 77; 2:30), but now it is brought down ... to heal the blind man, Jesus shows his concern for the lowly and outcast. Christian Fiction: In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?, by Charles Monroe Sheldon. Among the top-selling books of all time, this novel (1897) is set in a small railroad town and has as its ...

15. Setting Forth with God

Numbers 10:11-36

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... (Judah, Issachar, Zebulun) (vv. 14–16) 2. “Tabernacle” Levites (Gershonites, Merarites) (v. 17) 3. Southern tribes (Reuben, Simeon, Gad) (vv. 18–20) 4. “Holy things” Levites (Kohathites) (v. 21) 5. Western tribes (Ephraim, Manasseh, Benjamin) ( ... of God’s family was a key part of that journey. This could be done live or on video. God protects his people. History: Charles Spurgeon, a great preacher in the nineteenth century, points out that Psalm 68:1–2, a text based on Numbers 10:35, was used ...

16. Faith or Observance of the Law

Galatians 3:1-14, Galatians 3:15-25

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

17. Simeon

Drama

Charles L. Koester

INTRODUCTION: [This portion is read from the lecturn by the introducer or narrator.] Though Romans troops and unscrupulous tax collectors caused many peole in Palestine to despair, there were those who waited patiently for the deliverance they were sure God would accomplish. Among their number was an old and saintly man named Simeon. Simeon looked to God’s promise of a Messiah as His source of personal comfort, and the only hope of Israel. He kept the faith. He sang through the storm and trials of life. ...

18. Joseph

Drama

Charles L. Koester

INTRODUCTION: [This portion is read from the lecturn by the introducer or narrator.] Of all the persons involved and related to the Advent, the coming, of Christ, there is one who is the "forgotten man" of the Nativity. Even the great artists of the world, many of whom have lavished their imagination upon the scene of the Nativity, have been content to make him part of the dark backgrounds of their paintings. Yet, this man was much more than just a piece of fleshly furniture. As his wife, Mary, was chosen ...

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