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  • The Most Important Decoration Of Them All

    Contributed by Don Schultz on Dec 5, 2001
    based on 395 ratings
     | 17,130 views

    Let’s decorate our hearts and lives with real and true repentance this Advent season.

    Matthew 3:1-12: The Most Important Decoration of them All. This past week, it didn’t feel like December – the temperature almost reached 70 degrees on Wednesday! Quite a change from last year at this time! But if you have any doubt that it really is December, then go to the mall, and you’ll ...read more

  • Fact Or Fiction Series

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 6, 2001
    based on 36 ratings
     | 3,843 views

    The significance of John’s call to repentance today

    Swanton Novers 9-12-01 Fact or Fiction Mt. 3:1-12 On a cold Christmas Eve in 1818 Father Joseph Mohr (1792-1848) walked the three kilometres from his home -in the Austrian village of Oberndorf bei Salzburg - to visit his friend Franz Gruber (1787-1863) in the ...read more

  • 2 Advent A

    Contributed by Roger Haugen on Dec 6, 2001
    based on 420 ratings
     | 19,574 views

    John the Baptist calls us to repentance which calls us to live differently, as the body of Christ

    2 Advent A Matthew 3:1-12 9 December 2001 Rev. Roger Haugen Once there was a man who was a bit of a bum. Talented and successful, he neglected his wife and his children, his work and his friends, his community and his colleagues. He drank too much, lost his temper too often, was cruel too many ...read more

  • U-Turns Mandatory Series

    Contributed by Bradley Boydston on Dec 9, 2001
    based on 31 ratings
     | 5,070 views

    Rrepentance is essential if we are going to be prepared for the coming of Christ and his kingdom (Advent, year A, Sunday 2, 9 Dec 01)

     John the Baptist was a truly strange fellow. I can imagine his performance review from the board of clergy examiners. - - - - - - - - - Dear John ben Zechariah: The board of examiners completed their visit and frankly were concerned about several matters pertaining to your person ...read more

  • Live In True Repentance!

    Contributed by Jason Zahn on Dec 12, 2001
    based on 15 ratings
     | 3,108 views

    The voice of John the Baptist still calls people forth to repentance today as we prepare to meet our Lord at his Second Coming!

    “The issue at hand is a great one, the chief doctrine of the Gospel, the forgiveness of sins” (Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Tappert, 184.10). That’s how Philip Melancthon, a contemporary of Luther, sized up the subject of repentance when he wrote the Apology (or Defense) of the Augsburg ...read more

  • Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

    Contributed by Joe Harding on Dec 17, 2001
    based on 17 ratings
     | 7,426 views

    Getting ready for Santa is turning from misbehaving to right behaving (in Christian understanding, this is called repentance).

    SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN MATTHEW 3: 1-12 DECEMBER 9, 2001 INTRODUCTION: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town: J. Fred Coots, Henry Gillespie (c) 1934 You better watch out You better not cry Better not pout I’m telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town He’s making a list, And checking it ...read more

  • Listen To The Advent Voice Of John

    Contributed by Christopher Raiford on Jan 2, 2002
    based on 106 ratings
     | 12,524 views

    Preparing for the season of Advent

    2nd Sunday in Advent December 9, 2001 Sermon Text: Matthew 3:1-12 Listen to the Advent Voice of John 1. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near 2. Produce fruit in keeping with repentance Matthew 3:1-12 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea 2 and saying, ...read more

  • The World's Only Way Out--Repent

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jan 11, 2002
    based on 30 ratings
     | 6,534 views

    Second Sunday in Advent

    2nd Sunday in Advent Matthew 3:1-12   "The World’s Only Way Out Repent"   There is a purely American art form that has been lost to the American scene over the last 20 to 15 years. It is the Circus Poster. Some of you can remember those colorful posters that were hung about a month before the ...read more

  • A Church On Fire

    Contributed by Alton Coleman on Jan 16, 2002
    based on 340 ratings
     | 66,751 views

    What does it take to be a church on fire for God?

    A Church On Fire Scripture Reading: 2 Chronicles 7:1-3 Scripture Text: Matthew 3:11 “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:” ...read more

  • A Voice In The Wilderness Series

    Contributed by Guy Caley on Jan 20, 2002
    based on 87 ratings
     | 14,520 views

    As predicted by the prophets, John the Baptist came to tell the world to prepare the way for Jesus. Emphasis on faith & repentance, Salvation message.

    A Voice in the Wilderness Text: Matthew 3 Introduction At an intersection, the green light changes to yellow. At the theater the house lights flash In the Battalion Tactical Operations Center a WARNO comes down from Brigade At the airport terminal the boarding call comes over the intercom At ...read more

  • Flashpoint: Ignite Or Fizzle

    Contributed by Donovan Burkett on Sep 7, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 8,661 views

    This sermon will challenge believers and seekers to make a very important decision at flashpoint moments in their lives! Fizzle or Burn? Which will you choose?

    Flash Point: Ignite or Fizzle Matt 3:11 11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: I. Introduction Alvin Toffler once said, Change is not merely ...read more

  • Summer Vacation: Where Are You Going? Series

    Contributed by Lance Bane on Oct 1, 2002
    based on 81 ratings
     | 20,543 views

    This is the first of a four part series encouraging students to take advantage of the summer break and draw closer to God.

    Text: This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: "A voice of one calling in the desert, ’Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’” Matt. 3.3 John the Baptist was commissioned by the Lord to prepare the way for the coming of Christ. He spent his life in the ...read more

  • Baptism Of The Holy Spirit

    Contributed by Johnny Small on Oct 17, 2002
    based on 121 ratings
     | 7,628 views

    What does it mean to be baptized with the Holy Spirit and can you be a Christian without it?

    Baptism of the Holy Spirit Why is it that we seldom hear a sermon on the Holy Spirit in some of our churches today? Is it that we are afraid of the actions of our members if they do let the Holy Spirit lead them in worship? I believe to be a true Christian we must be baptized with the Holy ...read more

  • Advent - God's Judder Bar.

    Contributed by John Gullick on Dec 18, 2002
    based on 50 ratings
     | 4,391 views

    A sermon that considers how Advent is a time of preparation for the Christian.

    There is a tarsealed road at East Gore that leads to the river. Along this road are a series of deliberately built bumps like judder bars. They have been put there to restrain the young people who like to race along that road. The concern is to slow them down and to prepare them for entering East ...read more

  • Water Baptism

    Contributed by James May on Aug 8, 2001
    based on 200 ratings
     | 32,457 views

    Teaching of the meaning and method of water baptism prior to a baptismal service for new converts.

    WATER BAPTISM By Pastor James May Matthew 3:4-6, "And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in ...read more