Sermons on Healing
John 4:46-54; 5:1-9; 9:1-7
SERIES: The Gospel of John The Great Physician SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: The healing miracles of Jesus fascinate us, but at the same time they frequently frustrate us. The reason can best be stated this way: Jesus healed all manner of disease and sickness; Jesus is alive in the Church today; Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever; Therefore, we ought to see the same kinds of healing miracles today! But we don’t! Why? Is it because the church has drifted…
John 5:1-18
SERIES: The Gospel of John Do You Want to Get Well? SPEAKER: Brad Harper Introduction: With the opening of chapter five of John’s Gospel, we enter a new phase in the ministry of Jesus. For the next few chapters John will focus on the growing opposition to Jesus and his work by a group of people he simply calls “the Jews.” Now this is not meant to be an ethnic slur, for John himself is a Jew. It is John’s term…
Matthew 4:12-25, 5:13-16
A Light Has Dawned Introduction: One of my special memories as a child is open air evangelism meetings at Creve Coeur Lake in the late 40’s. My father pastored a little church in Maryland Heights. From time to time in the summer, the church family would gather out at Creve Coeur Lake on a Sunday night and my father would preach out in the open to anyone who would stop to listen. But what I remember most was the singing. Someone in the church had…
Matthew 8:1-17
Can God Heal Today? Does He? Introduction: Have you ever wondered, if Jesus performed great miracles and healed people at will (which He did), and if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever (which He is), and if Jesus said when He sent the Holy Spirit, “greater works than these will you do,” (which He did indeed say), then why don’t we see more signs and wonders in the church today? So persuasive is this argument to some that a whole branch of the…
Acts 3:1-26
The Powerful Name of Jesus Introduction: Acts 3 is linked to Acts 2 not only in their proximity to one another. They are also linked inseparably in regard to content. The gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church, as witnessed so powerfully in the second chapter, is intended, in turn, to offer Spirit-filled people as a gift to the world, a world full of lame, paralyzed, hurting people. The evidence of the Spirit’s filling will never be confined to the believer’s personal life,…
Acts 9:32-43
The Healing Power of God Introduction: In our journey through the Book of Acts we come today to a text where we find the Apostle Peter in an itinerant ministry in the areas lying outside the city of Jerusalem. He preaches the Gospel and performs two remarkable miracles: in Lydda he heals a man who had been paralyzed for eight years, and in Joppa he raises a woman from the dead. We are going to look briefly at both of these miracles, but rather than…
Acts 9, 32-43 B
When God Does Not Heal Introduction: Several years ago, a middle-aged woman stood up in a church service and gave her testimony as to how she had been afflicted with back pain during the preceding week. It interfered with her work and her sleep and made her life generally miserable. She made the problem a matter of prayer and the pain disappeared. The Lord had wonderfully healed her. In the same congregation another woman, a little younger, had been troubled for years with her back. As she…
Acts 14:8-20
Is the Medium the Message? Introduction: Marshall McLuhan is viewed as a sort of prophet of the Electronic Age. A Canadian communications theorist who died in 1980, he is perhaps best known for coining the slogan, “the medium is the message.” By that he intended to convey (if I as a communications layman understand him at all) that the way in which information comes to us—whether radio, T.V. movies, books, or a live speaker—the way it comes to us so shapes our environment…
James 5:13-20
Handle With Prayer Today we will conclude our study of the Book of James as we turn our attention to chapter 5:13-20. Good, decent, and godly scholars differ greatly in their interpretation of these verses, and that always makes it a bit disconcerting when one tries to deliver a clear and unambiguous message from God. But let’s study it together and see what we can learn. Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing…