Date: 29 Feb 2000
Time: 12:05:45
As I am beginning to prepare for this sermon, the question that I would like to discuss is, Why did Jesus have to suffer? PastorWalt
Date: 29 Feb 2000
Time: 23:14:41
These spirits in prison, can they be compared to modern day spirits that harm us. Don't we have to go through some sort of spiritual death in order to free ourselves from these spirits? As in a marriage, don't we have to die to "self" in order to become alive to the spirit of "coupleness" within the marriage. As Jesus suffered and died and went to Hades and rescued these souls and brought them up into heaven, doesn't our suffering for righteousness sake cause a cleansing of the evil spirits, a deadening of the desire for the evil spirits so that out souls can someday be rescued and indeed sit at the throne of God. bdj in wisc.
Date: 06 Mar 2000
Time: 00:12:00
testing, testing
Date: 08 Mar 2000
Time: 00:21:38
I am tryring to bring I Peter and Genesis together in a sermon dealing with what appeals to God? I Peter 3:21 " ..but as an appeal to God"
What appeals to God? or What does God find appealing?
A people who come throught the floods of life and start new.
A people who by His promise and our acceptance of that promise through our baptism. Find new life.
As this is the Lenten season I will attempt to place all of this in the context of our understanding of the cross and resurrection.
Date: 08 Mar 2000
Time: 00:21:56
I am tryring to bring I Peter and Genesis together in a sermon dealing with what appeals to God? I Peter 3:21 " ..but as an appeal to God"
What appeals to God? or What does God find appealing?
A people who come throught the floods of life and start new.
A people who by His promise and our acceptance of that promise through our baptism. Find new life.
As this is the Lenten season I will attempt to place all of this in the context of our understanding of the cross and resurrection.
Date: 08 Mar 2000
Time: 19:32:23
I too am working with Genesis and the epistle, but am taking a bit different approach. God's covenant promise to Noah was to never again destroy the earth by flood. But Noah, (who it must be remembered was saved along with his family because he was the only righteouss man around) couldn't wait to get off the ark to start sinning. (Read the rest of the story in Genesis) No matter how good we appear to be, we can never not sin again. The New covenant in Christ by the power of the resurrection is the only way God can say "never again." It is truly by the grace of God and not our own efforts that we are saved. RevEv in Kansas
Date: 09 Mar 2000
Time: 20:39:30
As I prepare for this sermon, there is a prevailing theme that is moving through not only this one, but all of this week's lectionary texts: Blood & Water. In fact, that is the title for my sermon this week. In our day, those images of blood and water carry with them the most dire of images. Blood: violence, death, shootings. Water: floods in Mozambique, Hurricanes. But God takes these elements of death and destruction and transforms them into images of redemption and eternal life.
Jerry in College Station
Date: 10 Mar 2000
Time: 21:38:30
"What appeals to God? or What does God find appealing?"
Amos 5:24 "Let justice roll down like waters and righreiusness like an everflowing stream."
Isaiah 58:6 "Is this not the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustiec, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?"
Micah 5:14 "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord requre of you but to do justice and to love kindness, and to wolk humbly with your God."
Just to name a few .....
peace,
DWR
Date: 11 Mar 2000
Time: 17:51:07
The title I'm using for my sermon is "The Extent of God's Love." I believe that is what the text is trying to communicate. That in Christ, God works reconciliation and redemption.
It is through the blood of Christ that we recieve salavtion (1 Peter 1:18). His sufferings, the just for the unjust, were endured that he might bring us to God.
No expense was to great. No sacrifice to large. God's love knows no boundaries!
Date: 3/3/2003
Time: 7:39:42 AM
I plan to use both Genesis and Epistle reading, preaching on the topic, "Safe from Destruction." In general, I want to explore the guarantees we have when living in a covenant relationship with God. Covenant does not grant use insurance from harm from the forces of nature or fire insurance in this life. It is insurance from the fires of Hell. TN Mack
Date: 3/4/2003
Time: 7:36:30 AM
Errata: The sentence should read "grant us insurance." TN Mack
Date: 3/7/2003
Time: 7:39:49 AM
I like the emphasis on "in order to bring you to God". I don't want to get into the technicalities of how Jesus brings us to God, but focus on the point. The story of God's covenant with Noah, and the story of Jesus' baptism and beginning his ministry share the same point: the bring us to God. It is not just the pastor's job to be close to God. Everyone has that possibility in Jesus Christ.
DGinNYC