Pentecost (71)
  1. Your job on this celebration of the Reformation is to proclaim the promise of God in Christ which justifies, and to help your hearers live like they believe it.
  2. God has all authority. He is the Creator. He is in charge. We are completely at His mercy.
  3. Instead of allowing people to slowly fade, Jesus leads us to take the first step toward bringing them back home.
  4. None have done our duty of forgiving perfectly. We need help, and we do well to ask the One who sent us.
  5. From the beginning of the biblical narrative to the end, God is a God of conversation and community. He speaks and He gathers. That is what God does. That is who God is.
  6. As good as it is to follow the example Jesus, it is even better to listen to the words of Jesus.
  7. Jesus sends all His people, according to their various vocations, to proclaim His praises and to bring comfort and forgiveness to the people around them.
  8. The faithful who gather for worship have heard and believed this promise, and they too are saved. But they need to hear it again.
  9. If Jesus can rise from the dead, then a camel can go through the eye of needle, a rich man can find a place in the reign of God, you and I can be forgiven.
  10. Jesus looks into our hearts. He sees our hang-ups. He sees the temptations that keep us from following him. He sees our shortcomings, our sin, and our self-inflation. He does not turn His eyes away from us.
  11. The big thing is God’s grand design, His good creation He has come to restore and redeem, the Kingdom of Heaven Jesus proclaimed in His life and embodied in His death and resurrection.
  12. It would be appropriate in your sermon to emphasize this woman’s suffering. But even more important will be to emphasize Jesus’ gracious response to her.
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