What Christ Has Done For Us

As I was getting ready for and praying over this Easter Sunday, my mind kept coming to a tract I was introduced to in the 1970s written by a man named Bill Bright for the Campus Crusade for Christ titled The Four Spiritual Laws. In reflecting on the lectionary texts I kept seeing how the points Bright made in that tract appropriately fit in with the theme of this year’s Easter service of the Resurrection of the Lord.

The sermon is titled, What Christ Has Done For Us, and I am making it available for you in the following formats...

• As a Web Page (HTML)
• As a PDF file (good for printing)
• As an MP3 file you can download
• Archive.org Audio Page for Listening
• The Outline is also available in PDF format

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Internet Archive: Have This Mind (Sermon Posted)

Internet Archive: Details: Have This Mind: "In the second chapter of Philippians, the Apostle Paul calls upon the early Christians to imitate Jesus. He asks this to have the same mind as Christ, who is the very model of humility in that he emptied himself, taking human form to share in our humanity that we may share in his divinity - that is, his glory."

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The Faithful Life (Sermon)

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The Third Sunday in Lent

Texts: Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-11; John 4:5-42

On his way to Jerusalem from Galilee, Jesus decides to take the disciples straight through Samaria. On the way he stops by the town of Sychar where he has the encounter the Samaritan woman by the well. In the change that takes place in her life, she goes on to bring transformation to an entire village.

What follows is the outline I used to preach from.

Act 1 — Jolene
    Life in a small town
        scandal, gossip
    Avoiding others / A life of Exclusion
Act 2 — Messiah
    Encounter
    Living Water (of Puns and Metaphors)
    “Sir, I perceive you are a prophet”
    Arrival of the 12
Act 3 — Harvest
    Testimony of Jolene
        from avoiding to confronting
        A life of Inclusion
    Invitation to stay 2 days
    Faith through another / Faith personally
        [[ Baptism / Confirmation ]]
    “Savior of the World”
    The fields are white and ready

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Most Popular Sermon

I was looking at the statistics on archive.org (where I store my sermons) and the most popular sermon (the one most listened to) is "We Have a Faith that Works" from September 24, 2006. You can listen to it here.

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Control-Alt-Delete

Ephesians 2:8-10 (English Standard Version)

⁸For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, ⁹not a result of works, so that no one may boast. ¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Have you ever really messed up and wanted a do-over? You golfers call it a mulligan. When you make a real mess of things you might just want to quit your job, sell your house, pack up and move to a part of the country where nobody as ever heard of you. In computers you might have a misbehaving application that just locks up your system to the point where you have to do a reboot by pressing those three magical keys: control-alt-delete. On especially frustrating days you might have to do it repeatedly. Somebody has created an image of a keyboard joke at Microsoft's expense called the new Microsoft keyboard. It has only three keys which are - you guessed it: control-alt-delete!

God gives us the greatest do-ever we can imagine. It comes out of his tremendous love for us. In this sermon I explore what that means.

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