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Fifth Sermon in the 2009 Lenten Series, ‘The Body of Christ,’ and the communion meditation for Sunday, April 5, 2009
I begin this morning with this question: (Slide 1) How is your heart this morning? How many here think that when you hear that question, immediately think of your physical heart? How many of your ‘inner’ heart? We can interpret this question in two ways. The first way has to do with the state of ...read more
Scripture: Mark 7:21
Denomination: Church Of God
This sermon encourages self-examination and reaffirmation of faith during the Lenten season, drawing strength and guidance from Jesus Christ's love and grace.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we gather here today, not as disparate souls, but as a unified body, bound by the love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We are here, not because we are compelled by ritual or tradition, but because we are drawn by the irresistible pull of His divine grace. ...read more
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:5
Topics: Lent
How to keep our ways pure.
TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES. Psalm 119:9-16. The question is posed: “How shall a young man keep His way pure?” (Psalm 119:9a). Before we look at the answer, we might consider who this young man is? The Psalmist seems to be putting himself, and us, in the position of the son (i.e. student) in Proverbs ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 119:9-16
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Staking a claim in the land of Canaan.
THE CALL OF ABRAHAM. Genesis 12:1-9. Our history begins in Ur of the Chaldees, in what is now Southern Iraq, a predominantly pagan city of about 250,000 people, with a central temple to the moon god Sin. Here Abram’s father Terah was thought to have been a craftsman within the moon cult. At a ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9
The globalisation of the Gospel.
JESUS LIFTED UP ON THE CROSS. John 12:20-36. When Jesus made His last entry into Jerusalem prior to His crucifixion He was met, we are told, by an excited crowd waving palm branches and shouting “Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord” (John 12:13). John makes the sober comment that ...read more
Scripture: John 12:20-36
"I AM the resurrection and the life. Do you believe this?" asks Jesus.
THE RAISING OF LAZARUS. John 11:14-46. The family of Lazarus, Martha and Mary of Bethany were especially loved by Jesus (John 11:3). Yet the sovereign Lord, for wise reasons of His own, did not rush to the bedside of His sick friend. It was no doubt as with the man born blind, “that the works of ...read more
Scripture: John 11:14-46
Lent 2C - A look at Psalm 27 & Philippians 3:17-4:1. With a reminder that God loves us no matter what. And a challenge to be examples of Christ, no matter what.
No Matter What Philippians 3:17-4:1 & Psalm 27 (Lent 2C - 2010) Rev. Beth Garrod-Logsdon Wilmore Presbyterian Church On Thursday, I took the opportunity to go to Asbury Seminary’s chapel service to experience the preaching of one of the top preachers of our time. Dr. Tom Long is Professor ...read more
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
Calvin Coolidge was Vice President of the United States between 1921-1923, under President Warren Harding.
He was not a very active vice president, but he took great pleasure in presiding over the Senate. One day, as he was presiding, one senator angrily told another senator to go, “straight to hell.” The offended Senator openly complained to Coolidge as the presiding officer. Coolidge was ...read more
Scripture: Ezekiel 33:1-9
Denomination: Baptist
John 5:1-5
John 5:1-5 Are you born of God? Do you understand what it mean to be born of God? 1a Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: 1b and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. Now birth to me as a man isn't necessarily my strong point ...read more
Scripture: John 5:1-5
Denomination: Bible Church
But the keys are fasting and prayer. A desperate situation demands desperate measures of intensity, earnestness, and authority for prayer with fasting. Fasting breaks the bondage of sin and loosens the hold of bad habits and their rulership over your life.
Theme: Perfect the Good Work Text: Philippians 1:1-11 Introduction to Lent: The word 'lent' refers to Springtime or spring. Christians observe 40 days as Lent from Ash Wednesday to Easter, excluding the Sundays. Lent means give up and have self-denial for all that you love to do in your ...read more
Scripture: Philippians 1:1-11
Denomination: Methodist
Let us always be open to that grace, and to the daily manifestation of it in our own lives, and in the lives of others.
RECEIVE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN. 2 Corinthians 6:1-10. With the once-and-forever experience of a true conversion to God-in-Christ, there continues to be the on-going necessity of being sanctified. Have we not, at times, failed God, and found it incumbent upon ourselves to repent, and to ...read more
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
His right hand upholds us.
FOLLOWING HARD AFTER GOD, EVEN IN THE MIDST OF TROUBLE. Psalm 63:1-11. As we enter into Psalm 63, there is both an intimacy with God, and a yearning after God. It was as if David was saying, ‘I know thee, but would know thee more.’ The Psalmist is not just on the fringes of faith, like the ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 63:1-11
Righteousness by law versus righteousness by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
CHRIST THE END OF THE LAW. Romans 10:5-15. Jesus is the fulfilment of all that the law signified, and met all its righteous demands against ourselves. He is the end of the law as a possible means of our becoming righteousness. In Romans 10:4, the Apostle Paul says (literally): ‘For the end of ...read more
Scripture: Romans 10:5-15
The pilgrimage of life may - or even must - lead by the way of the Cross: but the destination is assured.
A SONG FOR THE JOURNEY. Psalm 121. This is a “song of ascent” - quite possibly sung by pilgrims on their way up to Jerusalem for one of the festivals. It would be an appropriate Psalm for returning exiles, too, when faced with the dangers of a thousand mile journey back across the wilderness from ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 121:1-8
Following Jesus in keeping the new commandment of love.
THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. John 13:31-14:11. The sixth significant “I am” saying of Jesus in John’s Gospel is “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father but by me” (John 14:6). Before we come to look more closely at the content of this remarkable verse, let us ...read more
Scripture: John 14:1-11, John 13:31-38
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