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The Passion of the Christ: The Rest of the Story
by James Merritt
1. The number one question asked in this country for the last six weeks is - ‘‘Have you seen ‘The Passion’?’’ If the answer is ‘‘No’’ the next question is ‘‘Are you going to see it?’’ If the answer is ‘‘Yes’’ the next question is - ‘‘What did you think about it?’’ 2. There is no question that Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ, is as the Spanish put it, en fuego - it is on fire! In Hollywood parlance it is a blockbuster. Geologists would give it a ‘‘10’’ on the Richter scale. Motown would say, ‘‘It is off the charts.’’ 3. The Passion - - Had the best February opening for a new release in movie history, making $83.8 million dollars its first weekend. - It had...
Why the Passion over the Passion? (4 of 7)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ has created quite a sensation. Some of it is good. Some of the discussion may leave us wondering what the fuss is all about. Today I want to explore this passion over The Passion. In the first week of its release The Passion took in over $150 million. Its first day’s take of $23.5 million put it in the top tier of all time movie openings. It joins the ranks of such record setting films as Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. America’s best-known movie critics, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave it two thumbs up. Roeper called The Passion, ‘‘the most powerful, important and by...
From the Passion to Pentecost
by Doug Tegner
Happy Pentecost Sunday! Did you get your Pentecost Card from Hallmark? One of the great days in the life of the Church worldwide. The 3 significant Christian celebrations...The Advent of Christ The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ The Coming of the Holy Spirit A lot of confusion on the meaning of Pentecost.Many fear talking about Pentecost or have erroneous assumptions Why is this day so significant in the life of the Church? The Spirit of God came to indwell all believers on this day. Pentecost Past...- Pentecost was already celebrated by Jews worldwide. - The word Pentecost from Greek for ''fifty'' 50th day after the...
Despised Deliver (1 of 4)
by Stephen Whitney
Our word telephone comes from the Greek word meaning far voice as a persons voice is transmitted over a long distance on a wire. On March, 10, 1876 the first successful telephone transmission of clear speech using a liquid transmitter when Alexander Graham Bell spoke into his device, ‘‘Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.’’ and Watson heard each word distinctly. He was the one awarded a patent for the electric telephone. Early telephones were operated by a hand-cranked generator. They had a ringer made of two bells, a bell coil, an induction coil, a battery, a magneto, a hand crank, a receiver and a transformer. They...
The Rejection of Jesus (1 of 4)
by Jonathan McLeod
1 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground;he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.3 He was despised and rejected by mania man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. And as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. THE IDENTITY OF THE SERVANT This week I caught a few minutes of Oprah's Favorite Things episode. You have probably seen one of these episodes. Oprah reveals all...
Glimpses of the Cross: Crucifixion
by Rex Yancey
Psalm 22 is one of the great messianic psalms. Those who deny the inspiration of the Bible or the deity of Christ try hard to rob this psalm of its prophetic character. Some say it is only an expression of some kind of suffering that David experienced. But we have no record that David ever endured this kind of rejection, scorn, and violence. David was the author of this psalm and according to Acts 2:29-30 he was a prophet. ''Men and brethren let me freely speak to you of the patriarch David that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day. Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn...
The Suffering Servant (10 of 12)
by Jerry Vines
Chapter 52, verse 13, says, ''Behold, my servant.'' This is one of a series of servant songs, which God revealed to Isaiah. We briefly talked about the matter of these servant songs last Wednesday night in our study and pointed out the fact that ultimately all of these servant songs find their fulfillment in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's certainly the way the New Testament views it. There are many New Testament passages which refer these servant songs of Isaiah to the Lord Jesus Christ. What Isaiah is writing here was ultimately fulfilled in the life and work of Jesus. Keep in mind that he was writing 700 years before Jesus came into....
The Crucifixion of Jesus
by Zach Terry
Opening Illustration: There is little town in Alabama that I have preached in a few times where the major livelihood used to be raising cotton. One year, when everyone thought they were going to have a bumper crop, a little insect called the ‘‘boll weevil’’ invaded, devastated the crop, and destroyed the economy of that little town. But there were some farmers there who were determined not just to sit back and move into the poor house. One man got the idea that he could plant peanuts instead, because boll weevils don’t like peanuts. Another farmer decided to plant peanuts and others followed suite and before long, bumper...
The Brutality of the Crucifixion (3 of 4)
by Jerry Vines
We are in a series of messages on the passion. This morning I speak on the brutality of the crucifixion. Luke 23:33 says, ‘‘And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him and the malefactors (thieves), one on the right hand and the other on the left.’’ In Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ, the crucifixion is portrayed so graphically and so brutally it stunned the entire world. When you turn to the New Testament you are surprised to find how very little description there is of the crucifixion of Jesus. In fact, Luke’s account we have just read. Luke is a physician. He spent more time than...
Jesus and His Passion (3 of 13)
by Donald Cantrell
Jesus was nailed to a cross with heavy, square wrought-iron nails through His wrists and through His feet. He hung there for several hours. When His body slumped, excruciating, fiery pain would shoot along the fingers and up the arms to explode in the brain - the nails in the wrists were putting pressure on the median nerves. As he pushed himself upward to avoid this stretching torment, he placed the full weight on the nail through his feet. Again he felt the searing agony of the nail tearing through the nerves between the bones of the feet. As the arms fatigue, cramps sweep through the muscles, knotting them in deep...
The Passion For Pleasure
by Jerry Vines
One thing about the book of James. He just deals with life as it is. He's just bringing up all of these areas where Christians struggle and deals with them. While I think about that for the next four Sundays I'm going to bring a brief series of messages which I'm going to call Escape From Doubting Castle. I'm going to talk about doubt in the life of a believer. Where doubt comes from-sometimes Christians doubt their salvation and wonder if they are saved. I'm going to talk about doubt, salvation, security-how to know that you are secure in the Lord. Then I'll talk about assurance and where we get our assurance to know we are saved and be...
God's Passion for You (4 of 10)
by Stan Coffey
Today we are talking about ''Renewing Your Passion For Life.'' But today we want to turn a little bit and talk about ''God's Passion For You.'' God has a passion for people. He always has. And you know you define passion as a fervent devotion to a cause. And God's cause is people. I heard the other day about a preacher who said that the main thing was not God's love for people, but I want to tell you, that is wrong. It is, God's main passion is people. God's main passion is that people come to know Him. And passion is a great devotion, an intense conviction which rules or motivates you toward a compelling action. The compelling action...
