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1. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... to a mother’s promise and his own openness to the voice of God. Of course, we are interested in what the story of Samuel means for our lives. First of all, it reminds us of the importance of listening…listening to God and listening to one another. Most ... the story of a brother and sister who were playing in the cow pasture when suddenly the old milk cow lost her temper and dashed for the two children. Because she was older and bigger, the sister was able to climb the nearest tree, but Johnny ran for the ...

2. When God Almighty Speaks ... Listen!

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... was mistaken about who was calling him. Every time the Lord calls, the boy dashes in and wakes up the old priest. But Eli knows the ways of the Lord. He instructs Samuel to lie down again; but if the call recurs, Samuel is to answer, "Speak Lord, for thy servant hears." So the stage is set for this encounter between Samuel and the Lord. And the Lord came and stood forth, calling as at other times, "Samuel," "Samuel." And Samuel responded as Eli had instructed, "Speak Lord, for thy servant hears." The call ...

3. An Invitation To Know God

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... feet had touched the bottom. He didn't have enough strength left to climb up again, and to let go and drop would seemingly dash him to pieces in the unseen depths below. He held on until his strength was utterly exhausted, and then dropped, as he thought, to ... that. Now obviously acts of love, service, and commitment don't always have a five-to-one payoff. Sometimes it is much, much more. Samuel had a heart of faith. He had a listening ear, and he had obedient hands. And he became one of the greatest of the ...

4. Hey, What’s that Sound?

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Tony Everett

... . At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Wilma Rudolph didn’t just run, she sprinted her way to three Olympic gold medals: for the 100 and 200 meter dashes and as anchor in the 400 meter relay. “The Lord does not see what mortals see… the Lord looks on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). So, where is the Lord’s power and presence located? The Lord knew where and sent Samuel there in today’s text. The Lord knows where and sends you there in your own life journey. First, scripture reminds us that God’s power is ...

5. The Triumphal Entry

Luke 19:28-44

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... Jerusalem and the first temple (see notes below). Jerusalem, the city of peace, will be besieged by enemies who will dash it to the ground, not leaving one stone on another. The reason for this catastrophe, for this inability to ... Judah by giving them a good harvest. Finally, in 1 Sam. 1:19–21 the Lord visits Hannah, enabling her to conceive and give birth to Samuel. The same idea is seen in Luke’s Gospel as well. After the birth of John the Baptist, his father Zechariah prophesies: “Praise be to the ...

6. God Sometimes Changes His Mind

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... like the story of a brother and sister who were playing in the cow pasture when suddenly the old milk cow lost her temper and dashed for the two children. Because she was older and bigger, the sister was able to climb the nearest tree, but Johnny ran for the ... be the first king of Israel but soon God realized that Saul was not worthy of such responsibility. God changed his mind and had Samuel the prophet anoint David to be the new king of Israel. The God of the Old Testament was not afraid to mark out a ...

7. The Burnt Offering

Leviticus 1:1-17

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... dove (or turtledove [ESV]) and the young pigeon are snared and caged. Birds are not “slaughtered” with blood collected in bowls to be dashed on the altar, but their necks are wrung and their blood directly drained onto the altar. Removal of the bird’s crop ... bestowing favor. Several examples show how the burnt offering was used to entreat God for favor and appeasement. In 1 Samuel 7:9 Samuel uses the burnt offering to seek favor for a fearful Israelite army about to face the Philistines. God answers ...

8. The Promise of Prayer

Luke 1:5-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... around them start to sag. “The Blabber” and “The Sour Puss” are the original “grinches” of Christmas! And their doubts and dashes cut through everyone else’s joy like ice. Don’t you just want to say “No” to all that negativity?” ... cleft of a rock. It is said that Zechariah was killed refusing to reveal where his wife and baby were hidden. Whether (like Samuel), John was given to the Essenes to raise. Or whether Elizabeth and John found solace and protection in the wilderness, we don’t ...

9. Plucked from the Blaze

Zechariah 3:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... escaped through the building, she realized, little Jacky wasn’t with her. The fire was blazing now, and smoke filling the house. Samuel and Susanna prayed fervently for God to save their little son. Just then, neighbors saw the five-year-old poking his head ... an experience related to that photograph has been engraved upon our soul, it serves as a deep remembering and re-membering (that dash in the re-member deepens the meaning of the word “remember”). And we are propelled to act. That’s who we are ...

10. Civil War Isn't!

2 Samuel 18:1-18, 19--19:8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of his public career and, at the same time, the beginning of the end of his relationship with his father David. There was something dashing about Absalom that had remarkable appeal. Perhaps it was that magnificent head of hair of his. Once a year he would have it trimmed ... children, and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us." Amen! 1. See II Samuel 3:3 2. Read the story in II Samuel 13 3. II Samuel 14:28 4. Colorado Springs, CO : NavPress, 2002 5. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997 quoted on "The Immediate ...

11. No One Enters The Kingdom… Save With Empty Hands

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... the Games. Jesse Owens was not only present, but he went on to win four gold medals in the 100-meter-dash, the 200-meter-dash, the broad jump and the 400-meter relay race. He demolished Hitler’s claim that the Aryan race was superior ... danger of being seduced by an evil power such as Hitler, but we may not be clear on the authority to whom we give allegiance. In 2 Samuel 5:1-5 we have a glimpse into the historic occasion when David and the elders of the tribes of Israel entered into a solemn covenant. By ...

12. David and Jonathan

1 Samuel 20:1-42

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... and make special provision for his crippled son Mephibosheth (2 Sam. 9:7). All hope that Saul might be reconciled to David is dashed by what takes place at the New Moon festival (20:34–42). Saul assumes on the first day that David has a ... and the throne. In utter frustration, Saul hurls his spear across the table at Jonathan. He has clearly never been able to accept Samuel’s announcement that his kingdom will not endure, and in his obsession to kill David, Saul manages to alienate his own son as well ...

13. Everything Except God

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... upon the ladder. To Jacob, this place was none other than “The House of God,” and “The Gate of Heaven.” Later Samuel would judge the people in the same place. After King Solomon died and the kingdom was divided, Bethel became one of ... 1736. John Wesley’s two-year stay in America was not a happy period in his life, in fact it was for him a time of dashed hopes. If he had died at age 34, he would have been remembered as a good, conscientious man, nonetheless a failure. After leaving Georgia on ...

14. Praying With Tears in Your Eyes

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... the Lord, and wept bitterly." With tears, she poured out her soul for a child. God saw her tears, and in due time Hannah had Samuel. Our lives, too, may be barren and unproductive. If so, we have reason to pray with tears for loves that are fertile with good works. There ... t we, that people without Christ are lost? My Barbara tells of a childhood experience. After school it was her custom to dash into the house and bellow, "Mother, I'm home!" One day she decided to surprise her mother by sneaking into the house ...

15. Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

... it is necessary they begin three days before the actual event to get ready. (That's a far cry from our thirty-five-minute-dash out of bed, into the shower, hurried dress in whatever clothes are handiest, drive madly to the church, grab a bulletin from an ... they were giving in their worship, and the Holy Spirit struck them dead. When David was bringing the ark of God from Baalejudah to Jerusalem, (2 Samuel 6:1-15) it was placed on a cart, and when the ark began to slip on the cart, Uzzah put out his hand to ...

16. The Time of Our Visitation

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... the traveler meet us? And what will he do; what impact will he have? There is a remarkable French drama by Samuel Becket titled Waiting for Goudot. The entire plot is that two pathetic characters are waiting for someone to come. He is ... over it, saying: "The days shall come upon you when your enemies shall cast a bank about you, and hem you in on every side, and dash you to the ground - you and your children within you - and they shall not leave one stone upon another - because you did not know the time ...

17. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... on its truth, the other thing happens. People often will exceed my positive estimations of what they are and will do! Dr. Samuel Shoemaker, the late great pastor of Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, once told me about a conversation he had with ... past. He did make it to the room. He dropped Becky into her chair, and ran back down the stairs to get her crutches. As he dashed down that hall I saw him with a new pair of eyes. There, in Grundy, was a boy I never knew had existed. You see, I ...

18. A Maverick Son

2 Samuel 15:13-37

Illustration

Larry Powell

... pitiful laments in all the Scriptures: "O my son Absalom, my son Absalom! Would that I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!" (2 Samuel 18:33). There is a love which transcends all circumstances. It is not always within the scope of human rationality. The love of a parent for a child ... God and the world treated me the way it treats God, I would dash the wretched thing to pieces." A rational conclusion. However, there is a love which operates beyond rationality and we are thankful to God for it.

19. Super Sunday

Deuteronomy 5:1-33

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... The worshipers frequently mimicked the practice outside the sanctuary with their own cars, running them at high speeds until they dashed themselves to bits against other cars or stationary objects. Many, particularly after one of their religious services, would enter ... 2. Embellished from a story by Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1954, pp. 49-51 3.1 Samuel 21:1-6 4. James Sanders quoted by Will Willimon in "Lord of the Sabbath," The Christian Century, 5/8/91, p. 515 5 ...

20. Death: A Way of Life

Isaiah 52:13—53:12

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... that Copernicus was right to say the earth moves around the sun. The wanted to string up Alexander Graham Bell (instead of stringing up wire) for saying that you could send the sound of a voice over wire, when everybody knew that Samuel Morse only barely succeeded in getting dots and dashes through one. And everybody wanted to nail up Jesus. Why? He's only saying what the prophets have said before him: Repent and believe and God will be with you to work salvation in your life and bring you his kingdom ...

21. No Excuses

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which gives us true freedom - freedom to love Jesus and to love the neighbor. (Recall this week's epistle text, Galatians 5:13-25.) Jesus dashes the dreams of his first inquirer for a secure place in Jesus' ministry by pointing out that the whole strength of his mission is built on the apparently shifting sands ... When you hear the voice of Jesus calling, will your response be "Excuse me, Lord" or will you spring up like the boy Samuel and eagerly proclaim, "Here I am, Lord"?

22. The Genealogy of David

Ruth 4:13-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... posits a rather involved political scenario to support this hypothesis: David’s enemies—the family of Saul, or the “circles supporting the traditions of Samuel”—want to see him defamed as a “foreigner.” The author of Ruth, a staunch supporter of David, writes in “conscious reaction to the smear campaign” against David, dashing out this piece of art somewhat like Mozart’s famous composition Eine kleine Nachtmusik—never imagining, with Mozart, that such an off-the-cuff composition ...

23. The Fellowship Offering

Leviticus 3:1-17

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... the ark. splash the blood against the sides of the altar. Aaron’s sons the priests complete the ritual by “splashing” (or “dashing”) the blood against the sides of the altar as with the burnt offering (Lev. 1:5, 11), thereby giving it to ... mean eating meat without draining the blood thoroughly. But all meat has some blood in it, even if the rules of kosher are followed. In 1 Samuel 14:31–35 we have clarification about what it means to eat meat with blood. Here, the wrong way to get meat is to just ...

24. “Taste and See That the Lord Is Good”

Psalm 34:1-22

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... will to deliver the righteous (34:21–22) Historical and Cultural Background The title alludes to an event recorded in 1 Samuel 21:10–15, when David feigned madness before Achish, king of Gath. The name Abimelek (“my father is king”), rather ... cannot countermand such harsh rhetoric as we find in Psalm 137:9, “Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.”[4] While trying to understand these perplexing poems and their caustic prayers for vengeance on the psalmists’ ...

25. The Power of the Wilderness

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ] wrestles with God) Deuteronomy 4 - 6 Psalm 91 Psalm 3 Proverbs 11 The Book of Job Hannah’s Prayer (I Samuel 2) Matthew’s Witness to Jesus’ Temptations in the Wilderness Mark’s Witness to Jesus’ Temptations in the Wilderness Paul’ ... , ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’” Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.” When satan had ...

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