Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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The kingdom of God is a kingdom of love; and love is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 8, 2002
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Scholar Gary North observes:
“The kingdom of God is like leaven. Christianity is the yeast, and it has a leavening effect on pagan, satanic cultures around it. It permeates the whole culture, causing it to rise. The bread which is produced by this leaven is the preferred bread. In ancient
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 27, 2002
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FINDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
"In ’A Confession,’ Leo Tolstoy relates how the drive toward goodness that moved him as a boy was erased by his experiences in society. Later in life, after overwhelming success as a writer, he nevertheless sank into a psychological paralysis brought on by his vision of
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THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS LIKE A HOME
The father and son never could get along. The boy was constantly in trouble and the father was harsh in his attempts to correct him.
F: What have you done this time?
S: What difference does it make? You always take the other side no matter what I say.
F: If you
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Mennonite
Contributed by Howard Gunter on Mar 28, 2017
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All human beings are equally created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). God loved the world so much that He sent Jesus to lay down His life for us (John 3:16). The “world” obviously includes all ethnic groups.
I like to use the following illustration which works as well with
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Scott Sutton on Aug 16, 2022
In the days of the circuit riders, a minister was out riding one afternoon and came upon a man out working in his field.
“Fine day isn’t it?” the minister called out.
“It's fine for you”, the man replied, “All you have to do is ride around on that horse thinking about God all day long, while
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Baptist
Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Feb 11, 2019
Try to imagine this. It is the year 1944 and Germany is at war with England.
Now suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in Germany. How will you be treated?
Conversely, suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in
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Nazarene
Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jul 22, 2001
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: In his marvelous book, The Kingdom of God is a Party, Tony Campolo tells a story that illustrates how I believe the church must begin to live out our witness in the new millennium. Campolo was attending a Christian conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Since there was a six-hour time differential
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and to enter it, there is just one condition to be accepted.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
The kingdom of God does not exist because of your effort or mine. It exists because God reigns. Our part is to enter this kingdom and bring
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 8, 2009
In its broadest connotation “the kingdom of God” indicates God’s kingship, rule, or sovereignty recognized in the hearts and operative in the lives of His people, and effecting their complete salvation, their constitution as a church, and ultimately a redeemed universe (William
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Other
Contributed by Timothy Darling on Mar 26, 2009
The kingdom of God is like a VW Beetle. It is one of the smallest cars you will ever see. It is not very comfortable or powerful. It is not very stylish or practical. It is very cheap and not impressive in any way. There is no status with owning one.
And yet, it is one of the most recognizable cars
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Mennonite
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 9, 2011
KINGDOM INFRASTRUCTURE
America’s economic health is partly dependent upon infrastructure: speedy roads, bridges, trains, electrical capacity, usable water, high speed internet, trained or skilled workers, etc.
Healthy churches are foundational to getting God’s work done: they support the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Wherever a believer is, there is the Kingdom there is the witness to Christ there is the influence of Christ. The Kingdom of God is hidden in business, industry, the professions,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
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John Hess Yoder writes in Leadership magazine:
While serving as a missionary in Laos, I discovered an illustration of the kingdom of God. Before the colonialists imposed national boundaries, the kings of Laos and Vietnam reached an agreement on taxation in the border areas. Those who ate
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 22, 2007
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WORK IN GOD’S KINGDOM
John Stott tells a joke against his vocation: a clefgyman is the last person in the world to write about work. For, as everybody knows, he has not done an honest day’s work in his life. As the old saying goes, he is ‘six days invisible and one day incomprehensible!’
The
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Baptist
Don’t expect the Kingdom of this World to respect the Kingdom of God. Far from it, citizens of God’s Kingdom have always been --- and will always be criticized and misunderstood and (as we see in this case) even DEMONIZED.
I think of a man like Jerry Falwell --- who died recently. He was most
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Christian/Church Of Christ