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1. The Clone Zone: The Bible and Cloning

Genesis 1:26-28

Sermon

James Merritt

... me why anybody would want to clone a rabbit I cannot figure out. So the cloning question is really two questions: The first question: May we grow that un-differentiated cell all the way into a cloned baby or a copy of you? That is called reproductive cloning. The second question is this: May we grow that un-differentiated cell just in the embryonic stage and then mine it for parts called stem cells that we could use for other parts of the body? That is called research cloning. Now most everyone is against ...

2. Be Careful What You Call Me

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... ,'" we could just as easily say, "They love to be called Dr.,'" or they love to be called "Reverend." PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. PRIDE IS PRIDE. There was once a scientist who discovered the art of cloning himself so perfectly that it was impossible to tell the reproduction from the original. One day, he learned that the Angel of Death was searching for him, so he produced a dozen copies of himself. The angel was at a loss to know which of the thirteen specimens before him was the scientist, so he left them all ...

3. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

1 Peter 3:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... takes place at conception, not at birth. Pro-lifers do not oppose the right to reproduce. What they oppose is the right to kill a child after reproduction has taken place. "Abortion rights" are not reproductive rights, they are child-killing rights.11 4. Abortion Is Guaranteed As A Right To Privacy Therefore It Should Be A Decision Between Her And Her Doctor a. The Constitution says nothing about the right to privacy. There is nothing constitutional about the right to privacy, and for two hundred ...

4. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

Proverbs 24:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

5. Rainbows and Roses

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... tell. They are simply and solely the gift of a loving and gracious God. They are the best evidence we have of God’s love. An unknown man tells about a reproduction he once saw a reproduction of the Constitution of the United States. This reproduction had been skillfully engraved on a copper plate. At first glance this reproduction seemed to be nothing more than a piece of noble writing. However, if you looked at it from the proper perspective, you could discern the portrait of our first President George ...

6. Jesus Begins His Ministry to Israel

Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... a dress or a suit, thus creating a pattern that allows the maker or others to duplicate this unique piece. But suppose someone chose to try to replicate this designer’s dress without a pattern. Suppose this person obtained one of the reproductions and then crafted the dress by looking at the copy without using the pattern itself. It is very likely that the reproduction would fall short of the dress as it was first created. Following the pattern of the original is a much better way of creating the closest ...

7. The Lonesome George Church

Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit” (28:19). Or in a more accurate translation of what we call “The Great Commission:” “As you are going make disciples of all cultures.” Reproduction has always been the strength of the church. Each one who discovers the transforming power of Christ for their life has been called to pass on that transforming power to yet another generation. We are all disciples. And all disciples are called by Jesus ...

8. God's Gift Of Life

Psalm 139:1-24

Sermon

Erskine White

... freedom," but this is a complete misnomer. No one is arguing about our freedom to reproduce! The question is: are we free to kill the unborn child who is the living fruit of our reproductive freedom? The old expression is true: a pregnant woman truly is "with child," and our own experience tells us that. When a mother who wants her child is four months pregnant and visits her doctor, the doctor examining her says, "How is your baby today?" If that same four-month- ...

9. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... be a stormy gale; for life has some of both. But your Christ is the Master of the raging winds, and he is Lord, and they are not. There is at least one very important difference between a painting and a photograph. The photograph is an actual reproduction of a scene; the painting is the artist’s interpretation or impression of it. The photograph is a record of what is actually there; the painting is what the artist sees as being there. Of course we have no technique by which we can photograph the future ...

10. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Young sing the Lord's song -- but more pressing, how do we? The case of frozen embryoes may be easy compared to the question of abortion which is going to occupy our nation at pitch-heat level now that the Supreme Court made its ruling in the Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services case that was just decided. And that's not the end of it. The pill that is being perfected in France that enables a woman to take it after intercourse to get rid of egg and sperm and never know whether she's had an abortion or ...

11. Paul's Labor for the Church

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... of Christ’s sufferings in Paul’s person is complete. Paul rejoices because in all that he is suffering on behalf of the Colossians he is reducing his unpaid balance, he is making the reproduction a little more like the perfect original” (pp. 87–88). Paul’s Proclamation of the Mystery 1:25 In this verse Paul continues to affirm his personal role in the events that he is describing: first, “I” became a servant of the gospel (1:23); then “I” am happy about ...

12. The Lord Speaks

Job 38:1--41:34

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... behemoth” as an herbivore who feeds on grass like an ox would seem to fit the hippopotamus better than the crocodile. 40:16–18 What strength . . . what power! These verses marvel over the strength of behemoth. While the loins may be the center of reproduction, here the reference seems to be to the physical strength of the beast the poet is considering. The hippopotamus is quite powerful, able to propel itself underwater by kicking its legs and even to run along the bottom of rivers or lakes! His tail ...

13. The Gospel in Miniature

John 3:16

Sermon

King Duncan

... she still looks great. It’s not by accident. Cher likes to make fun of her many plastic surgeries and beauty treatments. She says, “I’m the female equivalent of a counterfeit twenty‑dollar bill. Half of what you see is a pretty darn good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.” (2) When we compare human love—full of selfishness and pettiness and prejudice—to God’s holy, sacrificial, unending love, we can see immediately that human love is often a counterfeit love: half of it is a pretty darn good ...

14. Grounds for Blessing

Matthew 13:1-23, Luke 8:1-15, Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... soil.” But helping to maintain good soil is also suggested. Their fruit will provide additional seed for years to come. Seeds are interesting metaphor, since each seed has in itself the “secrets” of life and reproduction. When God takes root in your heart, everything changes, and you also receive that gift of life and reproduction of God’s gift in others. Soil, the adamah, is the human heart. The seed is Jesus. The question is –what kind of heart have you to receive the Lord and Savior? The phrase ...

15. The Sound of Joy

Genesis 17:1-27, Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 18:16-33, Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... not die out but will carry on the worship of God throughout generations to come. A covenant is cut. Abraham and God take part in a “cutting of covenant” between them. Likewise, each male is circumcised (cut) as a reminder of that covenant. The cutting of the reproductive organ is no mistake. It is the cutting of the fruit…..the reminder of the promise of God, and the promise of a people to love God only. It is also a promise to live in joy and laughter. When God circumcizes our hearts, we experience ...

16. A New Command

Sermon

Lee Griess

... -Abraham, head resident of the American Cryogenics Society, told an audience in Washington, D.C., that several high-ranking Roman Catholic church leaders had privately told him that despite the church's public stance against research in genetics and gene reproduction and experimentation in artificial life production, they personally supported his way-out research. According to Ben-Abraham, those church leaders hope to reproduce Jesus Christ from DNA fibers found on the Shroud of Turin. If Dr. Ben-Abraham is ...

17. Christmas 2

Matthew 25:31-46

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... go to the public library to secure a picture of Albrecht Durer's woodcut of "Christ Disputing with the Doctors." See Durer: The Complete Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, by Karl Adolf Knape (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1965) for a reproduction. This person can then sketch (or trace) Durer's wonderful interpretation portraying the wide variety of responses to the youthful Jesus. Other intrepretations have been portrayed by various artists, including Rembrandt. This sketch or tracing can be used for a ...

18. A New Command

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Lee Griess

19. Proper 27

Mark 12:41-44, Mark 12:35-40, Psalm 127:1-5

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... the full use of all that we are and have in the saving name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen. Prayer of Thanksgiving Creator, Redeemer, Renewer, we give thanks for the fruitfulness of our vineyards and orchards, the productivity of our fields, and the reproduction of our cattle and poultry. We praise your name for sunshine and rain. We will give thanks also by our work, reclaiming over-used lands, irrigating dry land, purifying polluted streams and lakes. We will be faithful managers of your lands and seas ...

20. Bringing Love Close

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... geometric patterns in the coloring of a serpent; in the man who remains a good man despite more than enough temptations and suffering to fill three lives; a God whose purposes encompass all things, quakes and gamma rays, and the meditations of a Buddhist monk; in reproduction; and even in the rebellion of an atheist. A God who embraces and supports all, to whom all things owe their being, in whom all things are held together. Such a God we can worship and hold in awe. "Hear O Israel, The Lord our God ...

21. Liking the New and Improving the Old

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... of men who worked in the army in military intelligence. This work often required long, typed reports. One day, the soldiers were dismayed to find only one sheet of typing paper on the base, and it was a weekend. In desperation, they went to the base reproduction and printing facility and asked the soldier on duty there for some of the paper used in the copying machine. He told them it was against regulations to give out any copy paper; regulations stated that all he could do for them was to make copies ...

22. Proper 27

Psalm 17:1-15, Psalm 9:1-20, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17, Zechariah 7:1-14, 1 Chronicles 29:10-20, Job 19:1-29, Luke 20:27-40

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... Sadducees rejected the resurrection, but he answered their question about the woman who had been widowed seven times, "whose wife will the woman be?" He said two things about the resurrection: First, that there will be no family life, no need for reproduction in heaven, because those who are resurrected will never die; they will live in an entirely new dimension forever. Resurrection is not the continuation of this life; rather, it is an entirely new life that is given to believers by God himself. Second ...

23. A Parent’s Debt

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... is important. Parents more than anyone else can give children this feeling. Parents owe their children encouragement to develop their minds. They owe their children frank, honest sex education. When questions are asked, they should be answered truthfully and naturally. Reproduction is understood in the Christian home as an experience of love which represents the common bond of the family. Parents owe their children some good books in their home. Parents owe their children freedom. All parents must learn to ...

24. Endorsing The Future

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... by ultraviolet rays, and not so deep that too little light was available for photosynthesis, an amazing thing happened. The daughter cells of one-celled organisms did not separate and go their individual ways. Instead, they remained attached, and after many reproductions generated an irregular mass. If they had spread out thinly, all would have died. But clustered together the cells in the middle were shielded from the deadly radiation. Thus life was possible because of the principle of life itself: some ...

25. How To Bring Tears To Jesus' Eyes

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... says, "Would that even today you knew the things that make for peace!" The people of his day and country caused tears to come to his eyes not only because they rejected him but because they refused his gift of peace. At Cape Canaveral there is a reproduction of Appollo's lunar module with the plaque carrying a message signed by President Richard Nixon and the Astronauts who went to the moon: "We came in peace for all men." Jesus came from heaven to earth and specifically to his nation in peace to give peace ...

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