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Michael Stark • Sermon • • 26 views
“Jesus said…, ‘I am … the truth… No one comes to the Father except through me.’”[1] Seldom do we separate the triad of affirmations recorded in our text. The more usual approach is to consider them as a unit. The Master testified, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” We intuitively understand…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 2,780 views
“Jesus again said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 23 views
“My brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.”[1] "Love one another with brotherly affection,” wrote the Apostle. “Outdo…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 60 views
John 8:48-58 Jesus, the Great “I Am”: The Eternal God “The Jews answered [Jesus], ‘Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?’ Jesus answered, ‘I do not have a demon, but I honour my Father, and you dishonour me. Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 554 views
”Again Jesus spoke to [the Jewish leaders], saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’ So the Pharisees said to him, ‘You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.’ Jesus answered, ‘Even if I do bear witness…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 55 views
“Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, ‘Take, eat; this is my body.’ And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink of it, all of you, for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 32 views
“As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body.’”[1] The Body of Christ,” mumbles the priest as he places a wafer on the tongue of each worshipper. Those participating in that ritual are told that they are eating…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 75 views
“Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 10 views
Corinthians 10:20-22 Picking a Fight we cannot Win “What pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Shall we provoke…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 9 views
“Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.”[1] "Whatever was he thinking?” That is the question on the minds of many people who read of the fall of Eliot Spitzer the disgraced former governor of New…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 19 views
“I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ‘This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying,…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 94 views
“As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”[1] For almost two thousand years, followers of Christ, the Risen Son of God, have gathered in assembly to instruct one another in righteousness, to build one another in the Faith, and to worship the Lord…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 15 views
“As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, ‘Take, eat; this is my body.’ And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 14 views
“When you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 1,840 views
1 Corinthians 11:17-22 An Invitation to the Lord’s Table “In the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe…
Michael Stark • Sermon • • 35 views
“If we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. When we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.”[1] No doubt the title of the message appears strange to some people. How can discipline be merciful? And if there appears a general contradiction…