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Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
Living in a world that grows increasingly out of step with the Gospel, Christ followers are salt and light because of the One they follow.
This message is an edited version of a sermon given at Loving God Fellowship. Copyright © 2008 Loving God Fellowship, Inc. http://www.LovingGodFellowship.org . Click to have messages emailed to you as they are made available. You are encouraged to share this message with those you know that are ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Salt of the earth. That means we help our world attain its end, its goal at the end of the world.
Fifth Sunday in Course 2023 As a chemist, I find occasional use for those skills when reading the Sacred Scriptures. Today Jesus gives us a confusing chemical statement while He makes an important biblical statement. Neglect the chemistry for a moment. Everybody knows that sodium chloride is a ...read more
Scripture: Matthew 5:13-16, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, Psalm 112:4-9, Isaiah 58:7-10
Denomination: Catholic
Challenge believers to live out their faith authentically, making a positive impact in the world as the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
Good morning, church family! Today, we're going to dive into a portion of Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount, found in Matthew 5. In these verses, Jesus calls his followers to be both "the salt of the earth" and "the light of the world." He's challenging us to live out our faith in such a way that ...read more
Topics: Christian Living
This sermon explores our Christian calling to be influential as salt and light in the world, and the consequences of failing to live up to this mission.
Good morning, dear brothers and sisters in Christ. It's a joy to gather with you today, as we continue to bask in the unfathomable grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We come to this place, not as mere spectators, but as partakers of the divine mystery of faith. We are not here by accident, ...read more
Topics: Light, Shine, Others
Explores our Christian calling to be transformative agents in the world, preserving and enhancing life as salt, and guiding others as light.
Beloved friends, as we gather together in the warmth of God's embrace, let us turn our hearts and minds toward the sacred teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. We find ourselves today at the foot of the Sermon on the Mount, a sermon that is as much an invitation as it is a declaration, a call to ...read more
Topics: Flavor, Light
Jesus, using Salt and Light as an illustration, taught his disciples that we must be a different influence to others. Not as the world has seen, but a difference!
INTRODUCTION ILLUSTRATION: A Peanuts cartoon showed Peppermint Patty talking to Charlie Brown in which she said, “Guess what, Chuck? The first day of school, and I got sent to the principal’s office. It was your fault, Chuck.” Charlie Brown responds, “My fault? How could it be my fault? Why do ...read more
Denomination: Baptist
What does it mean to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth? How can we faithfully represent Jesus in our world today?
Commander Hansen had no idea how or why his outpost was being attacked. The outpost where he was stationed was suddenly up against a very powerful enemy... one he had never encountered before. Oh, he had heard of them, sure, but he never expected that he would meet them head on. They had been at ...read more
Denomination: Wesleyan
Message discusses what this practice is about and who is invited to the Lord’s Table, particularly from a Weslyean perspective.
(Thanks to Bob Hostetler for ideas for this message. I’ve added a Methodist twist to the message. Powerpoint and audience outline available). A little girl asked her mother, “Mommy, why do you cut the ends off the meat before you cook it?” The girl’s mother told her that she thought it added ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-29, 1 Corinthians 11:1-52
Denomination: Methodist
A meditation on the promise of Christ’s return and the hope that we draw from contemplating this truth at the Lord’s Table.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:26 UNTIL HE COMES “As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” For almost two thousand years, followers of Christ, the Risen Son of God, have gathered in assembly to instruct one another in righteousness, to build one another ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:26
We are both physical and spiritual, and our calling is to be good stewards of both. The Lord's Table ably symbolizes this.
Calverton Baptist Church, Silver Spring, MD June 5, 1983 No matter how sophisticated we may become, something in us reaches out for the soil, reaches out for our roots and stirs within us to claim a simpler, more basic way of life. I would just about bet that most of us here do not think of ...read more
Scripture: Genesis 1:26-31
What does the Apostle Paul mean when he says we can come to the communion table "unworthily"?
Normally when I minister the first question I ask is “How is the blessed of the Lord?” I’m not going to do that today. I am going to make a declaration. You are the blessed of the Lord. You are the son and the daughter of God Almighty. Everything in heaven is available to you. You are healed. Your ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:27-30, 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 1 Corinthians 3:1-8, 1 Corinthians 4:18-19, 1 Corinthians 5:1-7, 1 Corinthians 6:1-8, Deuteronomy 25:1-3, Isaiah 53:3-5 (view more) (view less)
If we dishonour Christ by treating the Lord's Table with disdain, we can anticipate His discipline.
“Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.” [1] “Whatever was he thinking?” That is the question that was no doubt on the minds of many Canadians when they first read of the fall of Colin ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:27
Greetings In The Holy Name Of Jesus Yahshuah, My sisters and brothers, we pray the crumbs from your table ...
THE CRUMBS FROM THE PLATE OF JESUS HEALED A DAUGHTER by Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (December 4, 2019)) “But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall ...read more
Scripture: Revelation 10:1-11, Matthew 15:26-28, Matthew 8:8, John 8:44
Denomination: Friends
The woman approached Jesus while he was reclining at the table and touched, washed, wiped, kissed, and anointed his feet.
The Bible tells that certain people had the privilege to silently touch Jesus. Without Jesus’ knowledge, a woman who had been sick for 12 years silently touched his garment as he passed through the crowd (Luke 8:43). In Luke 7:36, a sinful woman approached Jesus from behind and touched His ...read more
Scripture: Luke 7:37
God changes us through our devotion to the apostles’ teaching so that the church can awe and bless the world.
Scripture Introduction At a previous pastorate, one of our church member applied to teach at the local Christian school. He interviewed for the job and they accepted him. Then they gave him a statement of faith to sign. Much was what you would expect: do you affirm the virgin birth, the deity of ...read more
Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
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