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Magi and Herod - Worship God in Sincerity (3 of 4)
by Steve Jones
INTRODUCTION: Cammi Jones runs an emergency veterinarian clinic in Jacksonville, Fl. A man brought in a dog that had been badly injured in an accident. Cammi examined the dog, which would need extensive surgery to survive. She informed the owner and gave him the estimate for how much it would cost. The owner told Cammi: "Look, just put the dog to sleep. He's really my wife's dog and I don't want to spend that kind of money to keep it alive." He left the dog with Cammi. After he left, Cammi decided to go ahead and do the life-saving surgery for no charge out of the goodness of her heart. She saved the dog's life and put in....
The Death of a Conscience (15 of 37)
by Stan Coffey
Now if you have your Bible this morning I want you to turn to the Gospel of Mark Chapter 6. For those of you who are new to us, we have been studying the Gospel of Mark this year and we are looking today at Mark 6 beginning with Verse 14. I want to speak today on this subject ''The Death of a Conscience''. This is a study that revolves around the character of the man called Herod and about John the Baptist. So I want you to notice beginning in Verse 14, ''AND KING HEROD HEARD OF HIM; (FOR HIS NAME WAS SPREAD ABROAD) AND HE SAID, THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND...
A King Is Born: Herod's Story
by Roger Thomas
Setting: This is King Herod's view of the Christmas events. By all estimates, Herod was a shrewd and cunning politician who ruled his country for thirty-six years with intimidation and fear. He was also a very insecure king. Herod reigned at the pleasure of the Roman Empire that had occupied Israel over fifty years earlier. Our scene is imaginary. The facts are true. The place: Herod's palace. The time: sometime after Jesus' birth. The occasion: reports have recently spread through the streets of Jerusalem of unbelievable atrocities committed by Herod's personal guard in Bethlehem, a small village south of the city. These reports...
Cause and Effect of a Bad Decision (27 of 70)
by Jerry Watts
The words of Eleanor Roosevelt ring true: One's philosophy is not best expressed in words. It is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. To put it another way, "Life is result of our choices." It may be true that there are two sides to every question, but it is also true that there are two sides to a sheet of flypaper, and it makes a big difference to the fly which side he chooses. In the matter of decisions, I was reading this week at story in Reader's Digest which I think hits all of us at some...
The Man to Whom Jesus Said Nothing (12 of 14)
by Jerry Vines
For a number of weeks I have been pursuing a series of studies about People Jesus met. Along the way the Lord Jesus Christ came in contact with many interesting people. Jesus had a great deal to say to these individuals. It seem that Jesus always had a word for those who needed it. Sometimes it would be a tender word of forgiveness. At other times it would be a stern word of rebuke. Jesus traveled on many journeys to speak a word. And o, how Jesus could speak. So, often He did. I guess that's why it so surprising to me when I come to this particular passage to find that here is a man to whom Jesus said not a single word...
Mortal Error, Immortal Truth - Herod the Great (3 of 12)
by Clarence E. Macartney
When Herod was dead!'' Literally, ''When Herod was ended.'' That is the only good thing about bad men- finally, they die; they are ended. The Bible is a book of powerful contrasts. Its characters stand up against one another in overwhelming comparison: Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Pharaoh and Moses, Elijah and Jezebel, John the Baptist and Herod Antipas, Judas and John, Paul and Nero; and here, the two kings of the Jews-Herod the Great and Jesus. Whatever else Herod was great at, he was certainly great at murder. Few have surpassed him in that art. He murdered three of his sons, Alexander, Aristobulus and...
Peter's Imprisonment and the Power of Prayer (1 of 26)
by Daniel Rodgers
INTRODUCTION: In our last lesson, we saw how, following the death of Stephen and the continued persecution of believers, the saints were scattered throughout different parts of the region-some to Phoenicia, some to Antioch and some to the island of Cyprus, an island located in the Mediterranean Sea. Because of this dispersion, many people who lived in these areas, who otherwise would not have heard the gospel, did hear and were saved. It says in Acts 11:20-21, ''And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. [21] And the hand....
John and Herod
by Charles H. Spurgeon
For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly (Mark 6:20). John sought no honor among men. It was his delight to say concerning our Lord Jesus, ''He must increase, but I must decrease'' (John 3:30). Yet, though John sought no honor of men, he had honor. For it is written, Herod feared John. Herod was a great monarch; John was but a poor preacher whose garment and diet were of the coarsest kind-but Herod feared John. John was more royal than royal Herod. His character made him the true king, and the nominal king trembled before...
Responding to God
by Christopher Harbin
''You are not responsible for someone else's decisions.'' I had been counseling one struggling with some serious abuse and contemplating taking her life. What she faced bore down on me, and I struggled under the weight of her decisions. The school counselor knew the situation, and he told me I was not responsible for someone else's decisions. Oppressive weight fell from my shoulders. I cannot assume responsibility for the decisions and choices of another. We can only bear the responsibility for our own actions, choices, and decisions. We cannot bear another's responsibility before God. Each must carry our...
The Road to Christmas - Slaughter of the Innocents (3 of 5)
by Steve Jones
INTRODUCTION: Let's begin today by playing ''Name That Tune.'' I'm going to play some instrumental snippets of traditional Christmas songs and you see how soon you can guess the tune: Jingle Bells, Rudolph, Frosty, Silver Bells, Silent Night...Theme from Jaws. Now what is that last song doing in there? Christmas songs, by definition, are supposed to be upbeat, joyful and happy because that's the nature of the Christmas story. We don't typically associate songs with a connotation of danger/pain/death with Christmas. But maybe we should for those elements ARE in the Biblical story of Christmas. I'm in a...
Christmas (4 of 4)
by Rich Wooten
White elephant gifts. Fun moments! There is a story of gifts in the Bible that we all know from the story of Christmas. We are going to look at these gifts, and hopefully be challenged in what Christmas is really about! Matthew 2:1-12 (HCSB) After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived unexpectedly in Jerusalem, saying, ''Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.'' When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes...
The Nazarene
by Jerry Vines
These verses complete Matthew's Christmas journey. We have gone from the Far East, to the city of Jerusalem, down to the little village of Bethlehem, into the land of Egypt and now to the village of Nazareth. We have also completed a Journey in the Old Testament because we have gone from gone from Micah 5 to Hosea 11 to Jeremiah 31 and now the prediction that the newborn King will be called a Nazarene. There are many titles that were given to the Lord Jesus at His birth. Some of them seemed to stick while others didn't seem to lay hold. For instance, back in the first chapter of Matthew we are told in verse 23 that His...
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2 of 4)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: (I sat on a stool on stage, reading the following from "How The Grinch Stole Christmas." I taped my sermon into the pages of the book and used the book as both prop and way to hide my sermon notes). Every Who down in Who-ville liked a Christmas a lot…But the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville did NOT! The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small...
The Gifts of Christmas (4 of 4)
by Stan Coffey
I was reading some of the children's letters to Santa, and there were two or three of them that struck me. One of the said, ''Dear Santa, You didn't bring me anything good last year. In fact, you didn't bring me anything good the year before that either. This is your last chance. (Signed) Albert.'' I really like this one. It said, ''Dear Santa, There are three little boys who live at our house. There's Jeffrey, who's two, and David, who's four, and there's Norman, who's seven. Jeffrey is good some of the time, David is good most of the time, and Norman is good all of the time. I am Norman.'' The truth is none of us are good all the time. In fact, the...
The Spirits of Christmas
by Ernest Easley
For you Christmas Scrooge's, it may take the annual candlelight Christmas Eve service to trigger the Christmas spirit. The closer we get to Christmas Day we catch the Christmas spirit. Some people never get it; they simply endure it. Well, we're going to find those same reactions taking place the first Christmas. Let me show you what I mean. Take God's word and turn with me to Matthew 2. It's here in the first twelve verses of Matthew 2 three different reactions, to the birth of Jesus. We're going to read how people reacted to that first Christmas are some of the same reactions we find taking place today to Christmas today...
Star Trek - The Ultimate Journey (2 of 3)
by Rick White
These words, first spoken on television on September 8, 1966, gave the world its first glimpse of Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. Since that day (nearly) thirty years ago, STAR TREK has become the most incredible collaborative effort ever seen in motion pictures, television, and publishing-a phenomenon that has inspired seven movies, four television series, and a line of best-selling books. STAR TREK's popularity is astounding; nearly fifty percent of the American public proudly proclaim themselves to be STAR TREK fans. The stars and the planets have always been a mystery to man, long before there were trekies....
Home by Another Way
by Terry J. Hallock
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him." When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written: 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of...
