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226. Adam And Eve And God

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... four-legged crouching figure. It springs to life, a green reptilian leaper. "How about 'frog' for that one?" Adam asks. "Why not?" God replies. As God touches each of His new creations and it comes to life, Adam pulls a name out of the air. One creature is quite large and gray. Heavy, too. Its legs are as big around as Adam's whole body. Its tail is tiny. So are its ears. Its huge barrel-shaped body looks monstrous. God leads it over into a pond where its heaviness no longer causes it trouble. It moves ...

227. Proper 14

Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 19:9-18, Jonah 2:1-10, Matthew 14:22-36, Romans 9:1-5; 10:5-15

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... while most of us have desired, perhaps for an instant, the destruction of one who vies for what we cherish. Old Testament: 1 Kings 19:9-18 Knowing when to throw in the towel. When does a person quit? When do you say, "Enough!"? Elijah was going to quit out of fear. That's the wrong time to throw in the towel. A person should quit when the job is completed or when others are in place to take over where he left off. God reminded Elijah of the jobs he needed to complete (vv. 15-16). If God has given us a ...

228. Proper 19

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... . He seems to suggest that there are many ways to serve and worship the Lord. He counsels to be convinced in your own mind (v. 5). That what you're doing is right for you, without judging the neighbor who approaches God differently. In theology he is quite-focused, but in practice he is very broad. The assumption underlying Paul's advice is that our relationship with Christ is not a matter of externals; it is an affair of the heart. Outline: 1. The church is often preoccupied with externals in Paul's day ...

229. The Righteous

Sermon

John A. Terry

... desire to join. "My dear man," said the pastor, with more than a touch of superiority, "I do not think you would be happy here, though I appreciate your good intentions. Really, you would be most uncomfortable amongst my people and I am afraid it would be quite embarrassing to you and perhaps to them. I suggest you think it over and pray and meditate and see if God does not give you some direction." A week later, Spike met the pastor on the street, stopped him, and said, "Reverend, I took your advice and ...

230. Kindness In Action: Evangelism

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... , perhaps having to do with his infirmity and some discouragement about his future? Is it possible he was trying to find answers in the faith he'd seen other people practice, that he was a newcomer to religion, ready for a change in his life, yet not quite able to know how to proceed? We can't know these things, of course. But it seems apparent the poor man was facing some type of difficulty for which he seemed to think religious faith might be an answer. And clearly, the scriptures were unfamiliar to him ...

231. Wonderful Story

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... we must sympathize with this hundred-year-old man, no doubt long since settled into quiet old age, suddenly informed that he and his ninety-year-old wife were to have a baby, and that they were to actually become parents of a new race of people. Quite a shock, one must think; especially to Sarah, I would guess. This is a rather complicated bit of Bible teaching to our twentieth century, western-world minds. Before we ask ourselves what word it speaks to us, maybe we'd better examine the passage itself. Some ...

232. Reach Out And Touch Someone

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Brett Blair

... time for peace and a time for war, a time to touch and a time to refrain from touching. A sage person will appreciate the difference. When I was in seminary, there was on the teaching staff a psychologist by the name of Dr. Charles Gurkin. He was quite renowned within his field, having written several books. When I was at Emory you were required to take a course under Dr. Gerkin, which amounted to small group psychotherapy. (I told my wife this one day and with a puzzled look on her face she asked: Did you ...

233. The Wisemen

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... proper place for a new king to be found. King David, our ancestral predecessor, came from there and the mystics of old say another will come from there one day." "How do you mathematicians do it?" Melchior queried. And the three men laughed heartily. The king did not quite get the drift of their humor and waited until they composed themselves. "Duties of state require that we stay, but please go, find this new king you say is coming, and let us know where he is so we can go and meet him." The Wisemen gladly ...

234. Prayer And Bumblebees

2 Corinthians 4:18

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... sitting at the edge of some woods listening for God. I had already done my talking. I had asked God to help me with something I had to do that seemed absolutely impossible. Now I was sitting there listening. The sun was setting and everything was quite still. Then suddenly two giant black and yellow bumblebees flew into the weeds in front of me. "How many of you have ever seen a bumblebee?" I ask. Several children raise their hands. Others look uncertain, so I hold up the picture I have brought. "This is ...

235. The Righteous

Psalm 107:1-43

Sermon

John A. Terry

236. John the Baptist Beheaded

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... of answers that were being given to the question of Jesus' identity. Some thought John the Baptist had risen from the dead (6:14). Others thought he was like one of the prophets, Elijah perhaps (6:15). Interestingly enough, the characters in Mark's story never do seem to quite "get it" with Jesus' identity. God declares who Jesus is (1:11; 9:7). The demons know who he is (1:24-25, 34; 3:11-12; 5:7). But very few humans get it. The disciples surely don't get it. Neither do the hometown folk. Neither does ...

237. Come Out!

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... propose for this sermon is to take the story of Lazarus and put it alongside this lecture. “Did Jesus really raise Lazarus from the dead?” Instead of tackling this question head on, I suggest a secondary one, “Has Jesus quit calling people from the dead?” Has he quit instructing his disciples to unbind those who are in graveclothes and let their hands, feet, and faces be free? Testimonies abound of people saved from death’s door, called back with a loud “Come out!” either by surgery, medicine ...

238. A Sleeping Bag God

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... truncated sense of who women were and what they could do. In the not-so-distant past it was not uncommon for people to make derogatory comments about females in the pulpit, for example. However, more and more people are coming to realize that women clergy can be quite effective in the pulpit, as well as in other pastoral roles. Inversely, we have also tried to pigeonhole males. There is no good reason why a man cannot be as at home in the kitchen as a woman. To hold that women are better at changing diapers ...

239. Mary: After The Angel

Drama

Arlys M. Winkler

... as MARY enters.) MARY: (Softly) Joseph. JOSEPH: (Looks up and comes to embrace her) Mary, what a pleasant surprise. But, it's so late. Is something wrong? (He pulls a stool near his and they sit holding hands.) MARY: Oh, Joseph, something has happened and I don't quite know how to tell you. JOSEPH: Mary, we have been engaged for almost a year now. You know you can tell me anything. (MARY hesitates. JOSEPH lifts her chin with his fingers and says gently) Is it that bad, Mary? MARY: (Nods) I'm going to have a ...

240. Epiphany 7

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, Isaiah 43:14-28, Mark 2:1-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... was forgiven (v. 5). 4. Jesus has the power to convey God's forgiveness (vv. 9-10). 5. He entrusts his church with the power to free others from the paralysis of sin through Christ's forgiveness and grace. 3. Sermon Title: A Faith That Won't Quit. Sermon Angle: The faith of those who carried the paralyzed man comprises a compelling part of this story. They wouldn't take "No" for an answer; they wouldn't let any obstacle stop them. They had passion and determination! They must have really believed that Jesus ...

241. Number One Mother

Genesis 2:4-25

Drama

Dr. Raymond Bailey

... we put our heads together, and came up with the idea to sew some fig leaves together. We put them on. "How's that?" I asked. "Not quite good enough," she said. "It won't keep me warm. It doesn't really cover me. It's all one color. It won't last. "On and ... my wife and she loves me. One day, I went out on a hunting trip. When I came back, Eve had a new creature. I didn't quite know what it was. I had named all the animals, and I hadn't seen anything like this. It made weird noises -- some of them downright ugly ...

242. Surprised By Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

... , the landowner offered work to those who wanted it. Now the problem arose when the time came to pay up. The landowner directed his assistant to pay each of the workers the same wage -- which was one denarius, again, a generous pay for one day's work. This was quite a surprise, to say the least. The men who had worked all day, from sunrise to sunset, began to grumble. They felt it was unjust that the men who had worked just one hour would receive the same pay as those who had worked 12 long and hard hours ...

243. The TV Revolution

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... write their sermons out. But as a form of oral communication, simply reading a well-crafted essay doesn't work in the pulpit anymore. Maybe it never did work as well as we would like to think! The problem is that the standards of good writing are quite different from the norms of oral communication or television communication. A sermon might look splendid on paper, and it may be a superb sermon when one reads it silently, but it may not work at all from the pulpit. Too many fine sermons from a theological ...

244. I Am The Bread Of Life

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... man replies: "It was good as usual, but I see you are back to serving only two slices of bread!" Well, sometime this week you will make a trip to the grocery store to get a loaf of bread. It will be readily available on the shelf. There will be quite a variety to choose from. You will pay little attention to the price, not realizing that the packaging that the bread is wrapped in actually costs more than the wheat that is in the bread. All in all, you will think it a very uneventful trip, but you will be ...

245. Are You Convinced?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... for other people in such an unselfish manner that Dr. Shamblin admired him greatly. One day, he said to the doctor, "I would like to know the secret of your patience and how it is that you have so much understanding for the burdens people carry. You never seem to quit a person because they do not strive to live to the best they could be. You seem to especially stand by those who are weak in body and spirit who could be doing better." The doctor replied: "Kenneth, I'll have to tell you how much I've been ...

246. Receive The Holy Spirit

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Larry Powell

... sometimes embarrassing the way he would stand against me and wait until the last person had gone before he would say goodbye," Rodeheaver admitted. One evening a man came to speak to him and made it a point to thank him for being so kind to Joey. "He isn't quite right," the man said, "but he has never enjoyed anything so much as coming here and singing in the choir. He has worked hard through the day in order to be ready to come here at night, and it was because Joey invited my wife and our five children ...

247. Bringing Love Close

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... hear some speak, you would think that the only place in this world where God is active and has any real authority is "my little world." Quite like many ancient Jews who seemed to feel that God's only concern on this earth was with the nation to Israel, that he was ... undeniable that there is in the history, certainly, and in the faith of both Judaism and Christianity, a fundamental exclusivism. Quite basic to both our faiths is the assertion that God has spoken in a particular way through our own particular ...

248. Confusion Over a Questioned Book

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... security of ours cause us to lose sight of the fact that we live in a world where the push of one button could blow us all up and render the entire planet as dead as the moon. It wouldn't take an evil person, just a normal, quite sincere, patriotic, well-meaning fool. And both sides are well supplied with those. I still cannot believe the foolishness that was seriously proposed by certain of our government officials, who came to our city a year ago to advise us on civil defense measures should buttons be ...

249. Sing A New Song

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Erskine White

... pastor received a call from their leader, informing him that they could no longer celebrate communion every month - they would have to cut back. "There aren't enough of us left to do the work" she said; "we're getting old and tired." "Well," the pastor said, "we've had quite a few new and younger people joining the church recently, and several of them have expressed an interest in communion - would you like me to find some help for you?" Her answer was, "If you do that, we'll ...

250. The Faith of the Cannanite Woman

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... even understand our problems? There is the barrier of pride. Am I willing to get beyond myself and admit that I cannot handle every situation that comes up in life Are we able to cross the barrier that says: I don't need you Jesus. I am doing quite well by myself. It seems clear that when this lady turned to Christ for help she knew little of him. She first addressed him by simply saying, Sir. Then, unsure if she had given the proper title, she added, Son of David. Undoubtedly she had heard of the great ...

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