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Luke 6:17-26

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Theodore F. Schneider

... faithfulness, and for whom a continuing hymn of thanksgiving was appropriate. The ancient Te Deum Laudamus hymn, dating from this same period, continues to be a much-loved hymn across the church today. Though doubted by many scholars today, tradition has attributed this hymn to Saints Ambrose and Augustine on the occasion of Augustine's baptism in 387 C.E. In fact, some of the lines appear in a hymn of Cyprian dated in 272 C.E.1 Either way, the hymn presents us with a solid eschatological view of the church ...

2. The Sign in the Subway

Luke 11:1-13

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Carveth Mitchell

... not allow him to go to Italy. She did all she could to prevent it, even so far as to follow him on the early part of the journey, until he tricked her and went on with the journey. It was in Milan that he came under the influence of Saint Ambrose and put his reluctant feet on the first step of the ladder that led to baptism, to Holy Orders and to sainthood. His mother’s ultimate prayers for him were answered in the very place that her present prayers asked God never to allow him to go. About the turn ...

3. Not Always A Saint

Luke 24:13-35

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Brett Blair

... every lust and pleasure. But Augustine had one great quality that saved his pitiful life—a praying mother. She never gave up on him until one day he stopped long enough to listen to the voices around him. Augustine had just heard a sermon by Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. We are told in public speaking and preaching classes not to read long quotes but I'm going to do it anyway and read something that Augustine wrote. These two paragraphs shaped the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people ...

4. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

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Brett Blair

... every lust and pleasure. But Augustine had one great quality that saved his pitiful life—a praying mother. She never gave up on him until one day he stopped long enough to listen to the voices around him. Augustine had just heard a sermon by Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. We are told in public speaking and preaching classes not to read long quotes but I’m going to do it anyway and read something that Augustine wrote. These two paragraphs shaped the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people ...

5. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-35

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T. A. Kantonen

... only as an example of consecrated living and as a teacher of eternal truth but as our Savior. The purpose of the Lenten season is to teach us to know him better and to draw us closer to him. Our discipleship becomes genuine when we learn with Saint Ambrose, "In Christ, then, are all things. Christ is everything to us. If thou hast wounds to be healed, he is thy physician. If fever scorches thee, he is a fountain. Wouldst thou punish evil-doing? He is justice. Dost thou need help? He is strength. Dost thou ...

6. Ancient Christian References To Feetwashing

1 Corinthians 11:17-34, John 13:1-17

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Brett Blair

... the example of such great forbearance, but do not imitate it even slightly, and who, on the contrary, adopt the opposite attitude: both magnifying ourselves unduly and not rendering to others what we ought? -- Saint John Chrystostom, Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist, Homilies 44-88. Homilies on John 71, p. 130 Ambrose I, then, wish also myself to wash the feet of my brethren, I wish to fulfill the commandment of my Lord, I will not be ashamed in myself, nor disdain what He Himself did ...

7. Augustine, Defender of the Faith

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... the grace of God. We are going to do that over the next weeks in this series of sermons we have chosen to name "Saints Who Shaped the Church." The people we will consider convey something of the breadth of Christian history. They are a rich assortment of young ... Rome and taught rhetoric. From there, he traveled to Milan, where he was influenced by St. Ambrose. In fact, he was baptized into the Christian faith by St. Ambrose at the Easter Vigil in 387, after finding the Scripture verse, Romans 13:13-14: Let ...

8. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

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George Bass

... in conjunction with Christ and his continuing mission in the world. Mary is a model for all of the saints of God. Someone once said: "A saint is simply a person to whom God has given strength to take his basic commandment (to love God and ... unharmed. The order was given to the executioner to plunge a sword into her throat, and she went to her death "more cheerfully," says Ambrose, "than others going to a wedding." On St. Agnes’ feast day, January 21, two lambs are lightly bound with red and blue ribbons ...

9. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

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Warren Thomas Smith

... ? Where are those who are committed to Jesus Christ? We need saints. We need them as examples and for inspiration. We need Mary the mother of Jesus; Simon Peter and John Mark; Aquila and Priscilla; Phoebe and Lydia; Barnabas and Timothy. We could not get along without them. We must also have Thecla and Perpetua; Athanasius and Ambrose; Benedict and Thomas Aquinas; Theresa of Avila and Katherine Zell; Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin; Ann Hutchinson and Madam Guyon. Harry Hosier’s Story One of the remarkable ...

10. Castaway

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

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James Merritt

... of the island of sin by His love. Because of that we can have reconciliation with God. III. God Delegates Reconciliation To His Saints Three times in this passage Paul talks about the fact that we have been given the responsibility of reconciling others to God. In ... represents what some engineers to this day call perhaps the greatest engineering accomplishment in the history of the world. Steven Ambrose wrote about this engineering feat in a great book entitled Nothing Like it in the World. If you like good ...

11. You Will Never Walk Alone

Luke 24:13-20, 25-26, 28-35

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Mark Trotter

... Oregon. He is called Gus, but his real name is Augustine. He is named for St. Augustine, the famous saint of the Church who wrote perhaps one of the most famous books in all western civilization, The Confessions of St. Augustine. In The ... even though he doesn't know it. One night he is talking to an old friend, another fisherman named Nick, whom he respects. Nick becomes for Gus what Ambrose was for Augustine. He leads him to God. It is an amazing story that Nick tells him. When he was a young man fishing on a boat ...

12. If You Had Been Here

John 11:17-37

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Louis H. Valbracht

... fall into wicked ways and never become a Christian. But Monica didn’t know what God knew. In Rome, Augustine came under the spell of Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, and was radiantly converted and became a great Christian leader. God denied the request of Augustine’s mother, but, in the denial, gave something infinitely better, in that Augustine became a saint of the church. In other words, through His silence, God speaks. The main building of the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan was the ...

13. Not Far From the Kingdom

Mark 12:28-34

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Warren Thomas Smith

... the world all he thought and did. Monica, his mother, continued to pray for her wayward son, and the great Ambrose gave direction from the lofty pulpit in Milan. It was traumatic wrestling, wrestling with his guilt-ridden, debased being. ... s power; it means the spiritual acoustics are better in some places than others). 4. What then should I do? Do what the saints of all the ages have done. Cultivate those holy habits of private prayer, Bible reading, attendance at worship, participation in the fellowship of ...

14. Grace in the Midst of Unanswered Prayer

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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Glenn McDonald

... might find and serve you!" Her prayers went unanswered. Augustine sailed away unhindered ... only to come under the influence of Ambrose, bishop of Milan, who mentored him into a spiritual life that would bless and transform the history of the Church ... see the awesomeness of God. In chapter 3, verse 18, he writes, "I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ...." In the midst of the confusion and ...

15. When God Says "Go"

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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... of faithfully serving him. "Our hearts are restless," Augustine said, "until they rest in thee." For others, the choice is seemingly accidental. No one else was willing to be bishop of late fourth century Milan, so a stunned layman named Ambrose is tabbed and becomes a famous saint in the process. When a teacher fails to show up for Sunday school one week, you're pressed into service; a generation later, you're still teaching. What the world calls an accident, the faithful call God's providence. Not only ...

16. Those Kissing Christians

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Leonard Sweet

... with a holy kiss; and Peter, with a kiss of charity.” (Catechetical Lecture, XXIII, 3. From The Catechetical Lectures of Saint Cyril [Oxford, 1839], 273-74. See PG 33, 1112.) Jesus inaugurated a “kissing culture.” He accepted kisses and touches ... scornful, sinful earth was the gift of Jesus. To kiss back was the way back to a restored, redeemed relationship with God. For Ambrose, to receive the Spirit was to kiss Christ, an interpretation he based on Psalm 118:131 – “I opened my mouth and drew in ...

17. Hope Lifted Up

Numbers 21:4-9

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Ken Lentz

... lived a life of hedonism and abandon until, alone in a garden in Milan, prompted by a soft voice, he began to read the letter of Saint Paul to the Romans. His eyes fell upon the words, "let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in ... Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires" (Romans 13:13-14). Further inspired by Ambrose, the bishop of Milan, the young man gave up his concubine and became the Bishop of Hippo, perhaps the greatest Christian ...

18. In the Wilderness with the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

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King Duncan

... handled exactly according to the desires of our hearts, but God is faithful in answering our prayers. St. Augustine, before he became a saint, had a real problem with temptation. But he had a mother named Monica who prayed for him daily. On one occasion Monica prayed ... was in Italy that God worked a great miracle in Augustine’s life. He fell under the influence of a mighty preacher named Ambrose and became a Christian--in the very place that his mother was praying he would not go. We have to be careful in ...

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1. The Glorious Company

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

2. The Sign in the Subway

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

3. Not Always A Saint

Luke 24:13-35

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Brett Blair

4. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

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Brett Blair

... every lust and pleasure. But Augustine had one great quality that saved his pitiful life—a praying mother. She never gave up on him until one day he stopped long enough to listen to the voices around him. Augustine had just heard a sermon by Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. We are told in public speaking and preaching classes not to read long quotes but I’m going to do it anyway and read something that Augustine wrote. These two paragraphs shaped the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people ...

5. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

6. Ancient Christian References To Feetwashing

1 Corinthians 11:17-34, John 13:1-17

Sermon Aid

Brett Blair

7. Augustine, Defender of the Faith

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

8. Gabriel Speaks to Mary