Sermons About Saints
Saints leading saints as stewards
The aim of this text in our lives is to insist that we be faithful stewards of God’s word because we are saints by the faithfulness of Jesus. If we believe that, then we will refuse to judge the motives of our leaders, each other or ourselves. We can leave that job to God. Your leaders are saints leading saints as stewards of God's word.
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Arise, shine!
Now is the time for us to go as God's redeemed saints, sharing with the darkened world the light that we have in Christ
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Begin with the End in Mind
This is the sermon from our All Saints' Day service. The focus is on looking at our lives with what we want to be like at the end of our lives. Then based on those desires, live and work toward a life like that.
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Gather to Me My Saints, My Faithful Ones
Someone has commented that for Catholics a saint is someone who has performed 7 verifiable miracles--but for Presbyterians, a saint is someone who’s brief! Researchers James Patterson and Peter Kim learned that 70% of Americans believed that America has no living heroes. About the same number say that our children have no meaningful role models. Ninety-six% say that they, and nobody else, determine what is and what isn’t moral in their lives; instead, they base their decisions on their own experience—even on their daily whims. Those numbers baffle me, since they must include a lot of folks who call themselves Christians! We Christians need good role models for our children - and for ourselves. It’s time we reclaim the notion of sainthood—drag it out from the bottom of the box up in the attic—dust it off—and make it part of our lives. Saints aren’t folks who’ve been dead hundreds of years, and sainthood didn’t go out with the Protestant Reformation. Sainthood, like faith, is contagious. We catch it from those around us. You demonstrate your faith-in-action as God’s own when you make an offering, when you write a note of sympathy or congratulations, when you call to encourage someone, when you teach Sunday School or serve on a committee, when you make a dish for a bereavement meal. You also become a model of faith when you present a cheerful face to your family or co-workers, when you practice patience with people who irritate you (even if they live in the same house with you), when you observe someone in trouble and offer compassion rather than judgment, when you face adversity with the trust that God will help you through it.
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You must be a real saint!!
What makes a Saint? The difference between righteousness and self righteousness?
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Saints leading saints as saints
The people of Corinth were forgetting that they were saints by calling because of the cross of Jesus and the power of the Spirit opening their eyes to the foolish preaching of the cross. This was evident in the fact that they were dividing over men. We tend to do this too. If we are elders in the church, we deceive ourselves with our arrogance to think we are wiser than we are. We are sometimes deceived into boasting in men, especially when those men boast in themselves. But you are already rich in Jesus, by the cross and Spirit, it would be foolish to settle for boasting in man.
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Saints leading saints by serving
We are saints by calling on the way to heaven, by faith in the cross and the power Spirit. We go together, there no such thing as alone in Christianity, alone is foolishness. Together, therefore organization is necessary and there are parts to play so that the organization of the church matches the mission and the message. There are leaders in the church of equals. Real leaders and really equal because we have a common identity and a common mission. Your leaders are saints leading saints by serving.
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We are...Saints by the Cross of Jesus
We spent last week honestly seeking to reveal our quarrels... Now, pastor, how are we to be healed? Know the cross and become saints. The cross is foolish according to Paul. Now note, the cross is foolish. Not we who believe it. The cross is only foolish to those who are perishing, but we know better.
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We are...Sanctified Fools
The story of the cross is foolishness...unless you are being saved by it. But even then, we who are saved by it don't always live the true blessing of being knit together by the preaching of the cross. Paul teaches here that the jealousy and quarrels in Corinth were signs that the people were still fools...in at least one of three ways. But what kind of fools are we?
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