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Mark 1:35-39

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Thomas Long

... all seek such places, guard them, and cherish them. "And in the morning a great while before day, Jesus rose and went out to a lonely place, and there he prayed." Occasionally, in my preaching classes, I ask my students to preach a sermon from any text of their choice from the first chapter of Mark. There are many rich passages to be found there: the preaching of John the Baptizer, the baptism of Jesus, the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, the first call of the disciples, the healing of a leper. All of these ...

2. Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Psalm 102:6-7

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James Merritt

... . “Jesus answered them, ‘Do you now believe? Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.’” (John 16:31-32) If you are a child of God today you may be lonely, but it’s not because you’re alone. As a child of God you enjoy the permanent company of God the Father who said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Heb. 13:5) You enjoy unbroken fellowship with God the ...

3. Proper 13

Mt 14:13-21 · Rom 8:31-39 · Ex 12:1-14 · Ps 143

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... which filled 12 baskets. Five thousand men were miraculously fed. The number of women and children who also ate is not known. The Setting 1. The Occasion. What was the reason for Jesus' going to a lonely place in a desert to be alone? The gospels give different answers. According to Matthew, Jesus heard of John the Baptist's murder by Herod and wanted to get away to be alone to consider the tragedy. Mark and Luke report that the disciples returned from their preaching-healing mission upon which Jesus had ...

4. An Unforgettable Baptism

Luke 3:21-22

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King Duncan

... an act of courageous obedience to the will of God. He was baptized not because he was a sinful person, not because he was swayed by John’s preaching, not because he was a sinner. Indeed, the Bible teaches us he knew no sin. He was baptized because of his obedience to his ... episode was about Silver being brought under the control of the Lone Ranger. Silver would throw him off; the Lone Ranger would get back on, only to be thrown off again. The Lone Ranger rode Silver until Silver got the message that he was ...

5. Good Friday

John 18:1-11, Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Genesis 22:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16, Hebrews 10:1-18, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, John 19:17-27

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Russell F. Anderson

... must always be in control, always on top. Many men don't feel they can afford the luxury of being vulnerable. That's a really lonely spot to be in. Epistle: Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 1. Sermon Title: Under Orders. Sermon Angle: The writer of Hebrews maintains that ... is stand under the cross and claim the salvation that it has brought. Outline: 1. How painful it was for the three Marys and John to stand under the cross they felt our Lord's pain they struggled to comprehend its meaning they died with him 2. We must ...

6. He Lights Up My Life!

Exodus 33:12-23

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... , but it's not enough. Sometimes on a Monday or Tuesday of the week's mission I am in, the pastor will hand me a "love-card" John has sent to me, in care of the local church. That helps a lot, but it also lacks a lot. And then, there are the phone calls ( ... why the Scripture says to "Grieve not the Holy Spirit"?) There is no worse feeling in the whole wide world than to be lonely for God. It is, without doubt, the emptiest feeling a mortal can know. We get so accustomed to having that gracious, tender, gentle ...

7. Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God, or your faith, or the things in life that make you feel alive and well, God is always there to restore your soul. John Wesley had a question he asked the people around him every time they met for their weekly meetings. “How is your soul?” Are you ... of us, it reminds of the western church, in many ways sold-out to the surrounding culture, to a spiritless world, to a lonely existence in a doubting people. “Son of Adam, these bones are the people of Israel.” We might say too, “These bones are the ...

8. The Other Side of Worship

1 John 1:1-4

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James Merritt

... is that which we have heard and still hear." Did you know that it is possible today to hear the Lord Jesus Christ? Jesus said in John 10:27, "My sheep hear My voice." He said again in Rev. 3:20, "I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice ... we can enjoy fellowship with one another. One of the wonderful things of being a Christian is that a Christian life never has to be a lonely life. As a matter of fact, the picture of the church in the New Testament is always one of a life that is lived in ...

9. I Knew You’d Come

John 6:16-24

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Richard Hoefler

... to save us - and that is our only hope. A Pool in My Savior’s Hand Of the three accounts of this story in our Gospels, John has the shortest - only four verses (6:16-20). Here the bare facts are presented. It is night. The disciples are in a boat. Jesus ... men and all the king’s horses cannot put us back together again. Our only hope is outside ourselves. Our only hope is a lonely cross on a hill where a young man died - a tomb standing empty in a garden - the flames of the spirit descending from above ...

10. Partners With the Eternal

Matthew 14:13-21

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... . He wanted to use this occasion as a teaching opportunity. By means of it, he wanted to provide his disciples an important insight, to give them a deeper understanding, a greater hope. Now note carefully what happened there in that "lonely place" that day. As news of John's death spread among the villages, the people from the whole surrounding country also came to that Galilean hillside where Jesus was. And in the evening of that day, feeding that multitude of people, Jesus revealed to his disciples one ...

11. Overcoming Loneliness

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Robert G. Tuttle

... prayer is sometimes a sigh. A sigh can say more than could be contained in many words." With a yearning, a hunger, a cry, the lonely soul reaches out to God and finds comfort. Why do we insist on doing it by ourselves and stumble inadequately? Things go wrong. We struggle ... Some people take a devilish joy in not liking people. In his book, How to Live 365 Days a Year, Dr. John A. Schindler says, "Some people dislike everybody: They dislike practically everyone from the President, whom they have never met, to ...

12. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

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Donald B. Strobe

... if He had become irritated. I probably would have. Here was a chance to get away for a rest...they even went to a lonely, deserted place to get away from the crowds...but when they arrived, the crowds had beaten them to it! Jesus might have become irritated ... in the top of my head - all from trying NOT to care.” New York: Crown Publishers, Best American Plays, Sixth Series, 1963-1967, John Gassner and Clive Barnes, ed.,1971, p. 250) There are a lot of self-help books these days telling us how to care for ...

13. Candle Lighting · all five services

Matthew 3:1-12, Psalm 119:1-176, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, 1 Peter 1:1-12

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J. B. Quisenberry

... us to reach out to them. Leader: The light calls us to befriend the lonely, and to comfort the frightened. People: It calls us to feed the hungry, and to accept the unwanted. Leader: The light calls us to love others as God loves us. People: In so doing, we will spread the light of God's love into our dark world. Leader: Love is a gift. God gives it to us so that we can give it to others. People: Thanks be to God! Scripture Reading: John 15:12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have ...

14. One Life-Changing Word

Isaiah 9:2-7 · Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... Why would Mr. Scrooge lose his sense and do something like this?” Tiny Tim replies with one word, “Christmas.” (2) That one word says it all. Christmas. John the Baptist knew the truth of that word even if never in his whole life did he utter it once. Christmas explains how stingy people can become generous, tired people can become energized, lonely people can feel loved. That is why we look forward to this beautiful time of the year with such anticipation. Christmas. It is a word that carries with ...

15. No Longer Home Alone

John 15:13-17

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Arley K. Fadness

... was driving a borrowed pickup recently and six or seven miles south of Belle Plaine on Highway 169 I ran out of gas. It's a lonely feeling. But a young teenager who happened to be at home gave me some gas. I worried as I approached the farmhouse on foot that she ... The Living Bible says, "A true friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need." Jesus said in John 15, "I no longer call you servants, I call you friend." Jesus redeemed us for friendship with him and for one another. 3. Where ...

16. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

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Raymond Gibson

... to be dying fast enough." St. Paul speaks boldly from the pages of the New Testament to Mrs. Riesart and to all the rest of us lonely people to remind us that Christians belong first of all to Jesus Christ. As long as we live, Paul says, we belong to Jesus. "None of ... , ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!’ " (Revelation 7:9-10). This is part of John’s vision in which he authenticates Paul’s words from our text and Jesus’ promises. The dead in Christ are not in the ...

17. Watching The Eyes

Matthew 3:13-17

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John Jamison

... all right, because when I read it I never get all the way to the end, anyway. My mind starts to wander back there when John first looks up and recognizes who Jesus was. That part I understand, and it haunts me. It haunts me every time I perform a ... hours, I look into her eyes. "Who are you?" Are you some spoiled rich girl who is just pulling our chain, or are you a lonely child, wondering if anyone really cares? Are you a blossoming juvenile delinquent taking us all for a ride? Or, could you be the Christ? I ...

18. The King Born in a Manger

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

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King Duncan

... commissioner decided that it was inappropriate and required them to pack up and leave. But before they left, a thin, pale girl, the daughter of an itinerate evangelist, got up and sang a song that John Jacob Niles had never heard before. “I wonder as I wander out under the sky, why Jesus our Savior did come forth to die for poor, lonely people like you and like I. I wonder as I wander out under the sky.” Since he was a collector of folk songs, Niles went to her and said, “Where did you hear that song ...

19. God Really Cares

Matthew 27:46

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James Merritt

... . But there were eleven left after Judas went out. Then only three were with Him as He prayed in the garden of Gethsemane. Only two, Peter and John, followed Him to the courtyard. Peter denied Him, leaving only John, and then John, too, was gone. At this moment, Jesus became the only person in all of history to be totally alone. It is one thing to be lonely; it is another thing to be alone. Has it ever occurred to you that no one except Jesus has ever been totally alone? David certainly battled loneliness ...

20. Why Am I So Lonely? (Series: Real Faith For Real People)

Acts 2:42-47

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J. Howard Olds

... am living in NYC. I miss my family really bad. My boyfriend dumped me. I lost my job. I am feeling very, very lonely tonight - lonely enough to Google loneliness.” Loneliness is increasing in America. IN 1985, 10% of Americans said they had no close friends. By 2004, ... could wow the crowds. The problem was they scattered as quickly as they gathered. Addressing the problem, methodical John Wesley organized Methodist societies, class meetings and bands. The groupings of fifty, twelve, and seven or so became ...

21. A Voice to be Heard

John 1:19-28

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Maurice A. Fetty

... over nineteen centuries ago, his voice resounds across history to this very moment, to this very place. In his time, Tiberius Caesar was issuing official proclamations to be spread throughout the world by official couriers of power and authority. But John -- the lonely, uncompromised John of the wilderness -- shouted from the hillside, and his voice is still the voice that should be heard and is heard, this very day, by thousands of couriers in thousands of churches announcing the Lord's Advent. "Who are ...

22. I Saw a New Heaven

Revelation 21:1-27

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John R. Brokhoff

... on our eating oat bran.” If you’re going to Heaven, the earlier the better, but let God appoint the time. There’s a barbershop quartet song that has these words, “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” The aged apostle John, in lonely exile on the little Mediterranean island of Patmos, was given a vision of Heaven, as reported to us toward the very end of the Bible. (Each year its glories come to us in the First Lesson for All Saints’ Sunday.) Wonders Beyond Description Four ...

23. Jesus In Gethsemane"Jesus -- Misunderstood And Alone"

Psalm 49:1-20, Mark 14:32-42

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

... asked of his three friends was their watchful presence with him. He needed to know that they were nearby while he struggled with his lonely decision-making. The way before him seemed an obvious one,-- and it was certain to lead to his death. And so he prayed ... that in our day the greatest responsibility rests on those of us who belong to his band of disciples. You are like James and John, and I am like Peter in that we have given publicly lifetime pledges of loyalty and commitment to Christ. He has found us ...

24. Why Prophets Get Under Our Skin

Luke 3:1-20

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Maurice A. Fetty

... six centuries before Christ, because he never says anything good about me. But that's because there was nothing good to say. These prophets, these brave, lonely, powerful, penetrating prophets. We have a strange, reluctant admiration for them, even if we do ignore them, ostracize them, persecute them, even kill them. Yet we have to deal with them, especially John the Baptist, because they are always getting under our skin. Why is that? I For one thing, they criticize our background. In 1970, my wife and ...

25. A Shocking Revelation

Revelation 1:9-20

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Wayne Brouwer

... ? And who can keep a child in safety? And who can take the sting out of tragedy? Too often we’ve sung along with that lonely voice on the radio, "Is that all there is?" Is that all there is? Think of Gamaliel Bradford. He was a writer who captured the ... pen. These are the words in his diary, "Who will tell me something of God?" he said. "Who will tell me something of God?" It’s John who’ll tell us something of God, isn’t it? He was a man of warmth and sensitivity. He was a man who needed people, ...

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