Sermon Nuggets

Fred R. Zimmerman

doi:10.5771/9780761864158

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Sermon Nuggets is a collection of ninety-one topics treated in hundreds of Fred R. Zimmerman’s sermons delivered over the span of six decades to a wide-ranging number of Protestant congregations, mostly in Ohio. Three hundred and twenty-six excerpts on these sermon topics are selectively chosen and titled to reflect the biblical, theological, and pastoral concerns. Sermon Nuggets provides insight into a variety of topics helpful to ministers in their own concerns and sermon preparations as well as to seminary students and teachers of religion.

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Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6414-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6415-8
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 302
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
1. As an Altar Builder No access
2. As Pilgrim in the Faith No access
3. God’s Call to Sacrifice Isaac No access
4. In a Pilgrimage of Obedience No access
1. As Challenge to Listen No access
2. As Hope in God’s Love No access
3. As Preparation for the Day of the Lord No access
4. Its Challenge of Worship No access
5. Its Subject of Hope No access
1. Of Water and the Spirit No access
1. Our Doubt About No access
1. An Almost Nameless Hamlet No access
2. Where the Shepherds — and We — Must Go No access
1. As the Written Word of the Living God No access
2. How to Understand and Come to It No access
3. Its Meaning Taught by God No access
4. Trademark of Comfort out of Deep Tribulation No access
5. What It Really Is No access
1. As Being a Dutiful Servant of All No access
2. As Being Alive to God No access
3. As Being Dead to Sin No access
4. As Being in Christ No access
5. As Being Salt of the Earth No access
6. As Running in a Race No access
7. In Serving Christ as Lord No access
8. In Living Religiously in the World No access
1. As Disciples Of No access
2. As Encountered by Us No access
3. As Friend of the Lost No access
4. As the Master Gardener of Our Life No access
5. As the WAY No access
6. Experience of Faith In No access
7. His Diagnosis of the Human Situation No access
8. How He Is Learned No access
9. Loving and Caring In No access
10. Our Existence In No access
11. Our Legacy of New Life In No access
12. Rejected by His Own People No access
13. The Secret of Being In No access
1. As Fulfillment of God’s Promise No access
2. As Glory and Honor of God No access
3. As Gospel of God No access
4. As Time Fulfilled No access
5. Story Of No access
1. As Body of Christ No access
2. As Confessing Community No access
3. As God’s Own People— No access
4. As Reality of Jesus Christ No access
5. As True Only by Being in Christ No access
6. Disorder in the Churches No access
7. How It Was Created No access
8. Image of the American Church in the 1950s No access
9. Its One and Only Proper Invitation No access
10. When Coming Into No access
1. Authentic Only in Christ Jesus No access
2. Gospel, Divided between Personal and Social No access
3. Relevance Of No access
1. As Indictment of Our Self-sufficiency No access
2. As Pathway to Victory No access
3. As Price of God’s Forgiveness No access
4. What It Represents No access
1. Definition Of No access
1. As Bearing Our Own Cross in His Name No access
2. As Participation in the Body of Christ No access
3. Calls for a Radical Decision No access
4. Commitment as the Key No access
5. Entails the Giving of Self No access
1. As God’s Urgent Invitation No access
2. As the Present Moment No access
3. Hearken unto the Voice No access
1. As Sin in Cosmic Dimensions No access
1. As Tested by Faith No access
2. Of Discouragement No access
1. As Fruit of God’s Victory in Christ No access
2. As Mystery No access
3. As Victory OVER the World, Not OF the World No access
4. Forces Us to Face Our Doubts No access
5. Its Message after the Fact No access
6. Not To Be Taken for Granted No access
7. Problem and Challenge Of No access
8. Waits upon Pentecost No access
1. As a Grain of Mustard Seed No access
2. As a Shield in the Armor of God No access
3. As Certainty, but Only in Him No access
4. As Idolatry No access
5. As OUR Commitment to Jesus No access
6. As Shield against Arrows of Evil No access
7. As Tested by Experience No access
8. As Transposing of Worry No access
1. As Essential Healing of Soul No access
2. Having It by Living It No access
1. As Experience of Prayer No access
2. As Price of Obedience to God’s Will No access
3. Where Jesus Keeps Us in Company with Him No access
1. As a Jealous God No access
2. As First and Only Priority No access
3. As “Fountain of Living Waters”—Jeremiah 2:13 No access
4. As One in Whom We Live and Have Our Being No access
5. As “Our Help in Ages Past” No access
6. As Our Only Refuge No access
7. As Proclaimed by Old Testament Prophets No access
8. As the Beginning No access
9. As the Great Reality No access
10. His Life-giving Providence No access
11. His Purpose for You and Me No access
12. His Purpose Glorified No access
13. His Purpose Manifested Only in Christ No access
14. Our Own Experience Of No access
15. Proclaimed as Savior by the Old Testament Prophets No access
1. As Eternal Lord No access
2. For the OT Prophets No access
3. In Jesus Christ No access
4. In Our Experience No access
5. In the Bible and in Our Life No access
6. To Adam and Eve No access
1. As the God Who Truly Cares No access
1. Acknowledged as “Our Father . . . in Heaven” No access
2. Revealed in the Cross of Jesus Christ No access
1. As an Accounting of Our Stewardship No access
2. As Both Good News and Bad News No access
3. As Never Vindictive but Always Redemptive No access
4. Included in the Lord’s Prayer No access
1. As the Affirming of His Love No access
2. As Pronounced at Calvary No access
God, Law of No access Pages 105 - 106
1. As He Makes Himself Known No access
1. In Every Human Life No access
2. In the Power of Jesus Christ No access
3. Testimony of Our Own Experience No access
1. As Faithful to Himself No access
2. As His Own People No access
3. As Recorded in the Bible No access
1. As God’s Unveiled Secret No access
2. As the Great Paradox No access
3. For Today’s Youth No access
4. Manifest as God’s Care for Us No access
1. As Doctrine of God No access
2. As God’s Power Made Perfect in Weakness No access
3. As Gospel of God’s Love No access
4. Bears Fruit of Love and Forgiveness No access
5. Given-ness Of No access
6. God’s Promise Of No access
7. Sufficiency Of No access
1. As Failure to Achieve Status No access
2. As Imposed by Society No access
1. Found in Accepting What God Has Given No access
2. Price of True No access
1. As Fountainhead of Sin No access
2. To Be Pure in Heart No access
1. As Being Blameless before God No access
1. As Sacrament No access
2. As Sign and Seal of Jesus’ Presence No access
3. As the Most Solemn Experience No access
4. For Profitable Self-examination No access
5. God’s Action upon Us in Christ No access
6. Summons Of No access
7. Where Christ Abides in Us No access
1. Being Filled With No access
2. Never Leads Away from Obvious Duty No access
3. Pentecostal Movements a Sign Of No access
1. In God’s Glory No access
1. As Emptying of Self No access
2. As Handmaiden of Grace No access
3. Begins and Ends Only in God No access
Jerusalem No access Pages 145 - 146
1. As a Growing Child No access
2. Ascended into Heaven No access
3. As Good Shepherd and Lamb of God No access
4. As Human Like Us No access
5. As Obedient Son of God No access
6. As Son of Man No access
7. Authority of God in His Teaching No access
8. Essential Mission and Message No access
9. Fulfills the Reality of Psalm 23 No access
10. His Identity with Us No access
11. His Insight No access
12. His Legacy of Peace No access
13. His Upper Room Intimacy No access
14. Holistic Mission Of No access
15. How He Learned Obedience No access
16. Knowing Him as Christ No access
17. Mystery of His Birth No access
18. Public Response to Ministry No access
19. Purpose of Ministry No access
20. Whom We Would See No access
1. As Authentic Witness of Christ No access
2. As Messenger Readily Ignored No access
3. His Baptism Not Sufficient No access
4. His Call to Repentance No access
5. Rejected by the Righteous Pharisees No access
1. Readiness to Receive No access
1. As Obligation of Christians in Their Society No access
2. No Peace Without No access
1. Ability to See No access
2. As End of All Religion No access
3. Prepare for Its Coming in Joy No access
1. As Divine in Christ Jesus No access
2. As Human in Christ Jesus No access
3. Its Enlargement in Christ No access
1. As God’s Way with Us No access
1. As Fruit of the Spirit No access
2. As Holy No access
3. As of God in Christ Jesus—Romans 8:39 No access
4. Discipline of God’s No access
5. Is of God, Not of Men No access
6. Is What God Is No access
Martha of Bethany No access Pages 181 - 182
1. As Handmaid of the Lord—St. Luke 1:38 No access
2. In Search of Jesus No access
1. As a Fearful Calling No access
2. Office of Christian No access
1. As Necessary in Geography of Soul No access
2. Calvary, the Mountain of God’s Forgiveness No access
3. Mt. Sinai, the Mountain of God’s Righteousness No access
1. Where Christ Is Rejected No access
1. St. John 3:1-15 No access
2. His Most Zealous Question to Jesus No access
3. Our Most Anxious Question Also No access
4. Represents Our Religious Wisdom No access
1. As Allowing Christ to Work in Us No access
2. As Being Loyal to God No access
3. As Being True to God’s Purpose No access
4. As More Than Keeping the Ten Commandments No access
5. As Renunciation of SELF No access
6. Biography Of No access
1. Their Proclamations of God No access
1. As the Crowning of Doom and Defeat No access
1. As Part of Jesus’ Campaign against Evil No access
2. The “Prodigal Son” as a Reflection of Ourselves No access
3. The “Elder Brother” as the Prodigal at Home No access
1. As Fellowship Now with Jesus No access
1. As More than Conqueror No access
2. Challenges the Loss of Our Own Bithynia No access
3. Guided by the Spirit of Jesus No access
4. His Adaptation to Circumstances No access
5. His Assessment of Conversion Experience No access
6. His Consciousness of God’s Grace No access
7. His Ephesian Letter No access
8. His Holy Ambition No access
9. His Inward Battle No access
10. His Insistence on God’s Reality No access
11. His Many Troubles No access
12. His Relationship with Christ and the World No access
13. His Understanding of Christian Behavior No access
14. Our Need to Be Instructed by Him No access
1. As Gift of Christ’s Presence No access
2. As Price of God’s Free Gift No access
3. Dynamic Character of Godly No access
1. As Custodians of God’s Law No access
2. As the Custodians of Truth No access
3. As Depicted in Jesus’ Parables No access
4. As Don Quixote—Fighting against the Wrong Thing No access
5. Jesus Seen as Scandalous No access
1. As Struggle for Self-identity in God No access
2. Its Dynamics of Soul No access
3. Letting God Be the Subject No access
4. Priority Of No access
5. Summoned by God’s Promise No access
1. As Those Who Re-present Christ No access
2. Their Responsible Calling No access
3. Their Sin of Pride No access
1. As Different from Catholicism No access
1. Acknowledgment of God No access
2. Bearing Witness to God’s Own Character No access
3. Sensitivity to God No access
1. As False in Being Man-centered No access
2. As the Kingdom of God within You No access
3. Practiced in Achievement or as Escape No access
4. The Sin Of No access
5. Used by Satan No access
1. As Necessary in Receiving the Gospel No access
2. As Turning Around and Going Home No access
3. Initiated by Remembrance of the Father’s House No access
4. Our Image of Biblical No access
1. Of Our Bodies No access
1. As an Armor from God No access
2. As Measured by God No access
3. As Measured by Moral Man No access
4. As Prescribed by Jesus No access
5. Of God Manifested in Jesus No access
1. As acceptable to God No access
1. As Being Limited to “Jesus Saves” No access
2. As Being Saved from Ourselves No access
3. As Presented in the Old Testament No access
4. As the Joy of Being “in Christ” No access
1. As Indwelling Work of God No access
2. As Our Preparation for the Workings of God’s Wonders No access
3. How God Sanctifies Us No access
1. As Faithful Commitment to God No access
1. As Confessed by David No access
2. Threefold Definition Of No access
1. A Biblical Word and Concept, Luke 16:2 No access
2. As God’s Claim of Redeeming Love No access
3. As Practiced in Our Work No access
1. As a Spiritual Discipline No access
1. As the Dreadful Possibility No access
1. As Based on Faith Rather than Experience No access
1. In Everything No access
2. In Response to God as Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer No access
1. How to Redeem It No access
1. Earthly or Heavenly No access
1. As Heavenly Music from God No access
2. As Jesus Declared Himself to Be No access
3. Putting Away Falsehood No access
1. As an Old Testament Message No access
2. As Essential to Christian Existence No access
1. As Living in Terms of God’s Purpose No access
2. As Promised by Jesus to Disciples No access
1. Be Not Conformed to the [Romans 12:2] No access
2. Wisdom and Folly of The No access
1. Devil’s Argument Against No access
2. No Compromising With No access
3. Warning Against No access
1. As Self-offering to God No access
2. The Focus of True No access
1. Astonished by Jesus’ Invitation No access
2. Became a “New Man in Christ” No access